HAPPY HOLIDAYS: A collection of some of our classic festive stories for your holiday reading
Festive Favorites: Black cake, a piquant feature of Caribbean holidays in South Florida
The heavenly, rum-soaked fruit confection called black cake is arguably the most important food fixture of any Caribbean Christmas celebration.
Festive Favorites: Forget the caja china, Miami — give hallacas a try this Nochebuena
The Venezuelan Christmas favorite hallaca, a tawny tamal swaddled in smoked banana leaves, is a tropical Yuletide epiphany for the taste buds, writes WLRN's Americas Editor Tim Padgett.
Festive Favorites: Why buñuelos are an inconic Navidad tradition
The buñuelo is one of the most popular Christmas foods not just for Colombians but a number of Latin American cultures. And yet outside the Latino community – even in South Florida – it’s generally unknown.
Festive Favorites: How making Jell-O 'broken window' connected me to my grandmother
When a hug and kiss from grandma is too far away, sometimes a platter of Jell-O will do the trick. WLRN multimedia producer Alyssa Ramos shares a family recipe — and family tradition — with us.
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Tom HudsonEvery weekday William Botsch leaves his home around sunrise for an hour long trip on two trains to arrive at the Miami immigration court. He isn't a lawyer. He doesn't have a family member due to appear. He watches and takes notes. What has he learned from observing hundreds of immigration hearings? -
City of Miami SpringsGlenn Curtiss was a pioneer aviator, the fastest man on earth, and the founder of Miami Springs. The city wants to honor the man who performed the first public airplane flight for its centennial in 2026.
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At last month's Human Rights in the Americas Symposium at the University of Miami, panelists argued that homelessness should be addressed as a pressing human rights issue. Florida, they noted, is leading the way in criminalizing being without a place to sleep. -
The 2025 Kwanzaa Community Celebration, titled “Africa Rising: Celebrating Heritage, Building Futures” will be held Saturday, Dec. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. -
For Florida Grand Opera, a new era is underway as artistic director Maria Todaro vows to keep her promise that she’s not presenting “your grandmother’s opera” with the upcoming reimagining of “Die Fledermaus.”
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