Patricia Sagastume

Therapists, Patients Find Stress Relief On Skateboards

Patricia Sagastume — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:24:29 +0000

Move over, Freud. Your couch is being replaced by a piece of wood on wheels.

On the shady slopes of pavement in Greynolds Park in North Miami Beach, a therapy counseling session is in progress.

Where To Hear Live Music: More Than 40 Bands Play Grassroots Festival At Key Biscayne

Patricia Sagastume — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:08:19 +0000

This weekend, music lovers have a special treat with the second annual Virginia Key Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance at Key Biscayne. This four-day event of live music, includes camping, a sustainability fair, along with great food, meditation and yoga.

Reporter Patricia Sagastume tells us why the event is coming back despite last year’s rough start:

How Organics And Imports Are Impacting Florida's Once-Dominant Tomato Market

Patricia Sagastume — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:00:00 +0000

How Baby Quails Are Helping Baby Humans Before Returning To The Wild

Patricia Sagastume — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0000

One day more than seven years ago, Debbie Brunson woke up to an unfamiliar sound. She and her husband were camping on their land in the Redlands farming area. The sound she heard was that of an adult male Bob White quail.

It shocked her because she hadn't heard that bird call for over a decade.

"In Florida, there use to be quail everywhere. But because of farming and pesticides and buildings, they’ve disappeared," Brunson said.

A Poetic Journey After The Quake: HIV/AIDs In Haiti

Patricia Sagastume — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000

The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti demolished the country's health care system along with everything else.

But from the ruins came Voices of Haiti -- an odyssey in verse that grew out of a commission from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to document HIV/AIDS after the quake. The multimedia project, which came to the University of Miami this year, blends Haitian voices to conjure up images of strength, hope and faith.

Everglades Violent Past Remembered

Patricia Sagastume — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:00:47 +0000

In the late 1800's, the Everglades was a place for Native Americans, newly-freed slaves, naturalists, poachers, settlers and expansionists.

But by the end of the century, a massive influx of settlers were flocking to the Everglades for one thing: to kill birds for their feathers.

It has been said that Marie Antoinette started the trend of using plumes to adorn her royal head - before she lost hers.

How One Woman Lives At Sea: Inside The Life Of A Florida Keys Lobster Catcher

Patricia Sagastume — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:36:01 +0000

It’s past sunset as 28-year old Captain Kelly Nichols Bourne and her crew return from a day of hauling lobsters traps. When she joined her father’s business a decade ago, she was the youngest female commercial captain in the Keys. She still is. Now she and her father drop about 7,600 lobster and 8,000 crab traps from the Gulf to the Atlantic.

Fort Lauderdale Native Premieres Film At FLIFF

Patricia Sagastume — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Methamphetamine addiction came into the spotlight recently with the TV show, Breaking Bad. Now, a Fort Lauderdale native is returning to his hometown to premiere his first film about the subject.

The movie, Junction, premieres at Cinema Paradiso, as part of the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. It’s a gritty portrayal of methamphetamine addicts who unravel before our eyes.

Proposed Windfarm Becomes A Debate Over Creating Jobs And Protecting Wildlife

Patricia Sagastume — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:54:45 +0000

When it comes to clean energy projects like wind farms, where people stand on a proposal sometimes depends on where they sit. Take the case of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, certainly a champion of green causes — until someone proposed building a wind farm off Cape Cod, where the liberal lion liked to do his sailing.

He fought the wind farm until he died.

How Dozens Of Tires Went From Being At The Bottom Of The Ocean To The Center Of An Art Show

Patricia Sagastume — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:58:25 +0000

The whitewall rubber tires, which until recently had been on the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Broward County, now look like deflated, salt-encrusted life preservers, and reek of the decayed smell of barnacles mixed with sea spray.