Carlos Frías
Carlos Frías is a bilingual writer, a journalist of more than 25 years and the author of an award-winning memoir published by Simon & Schuster.
He voted for Greg Maddux for the Baseball Hall of Fame, fed croquetas to José Andrés, dodged Cuban soldiers on the island, and held a mother’s hand at her daughter’s last birthday party.
He’s a two-time James Beard Award winner and author of the memoir Take Me With You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba. Miami is his hometown and his bottomless source for endless stories.
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SundialDawn Atkins is a principal dancer with Miami City Ballet. She tells us about her career, MCB’s 2023-2024 season and her performance as the lead roles of Dew Drop and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker this month.
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Calle 13's Eduardo Cabra is no longer just producing behind the scenes: he’s collaborating, singing, rapping. He tells WLRN what’s new — and what’s next for him.
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SundialEduardo Cabra who produced the sound for the three-time Grammy-winning Puerto Rican band, Calle 13, is showing us the sound of his voice.
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SundialCarlos Frías is joined by director Gladys Ramírez. She’s the executive director of City Theatre in Miami where she's directing the Miami debut of the play "La Gringa" at the Adrienne Arsht Center.
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SundialAll the things Chris Renois suffered helped make him a better comic. He is a stand-up comedian and actor from South Florida. He recently starred in the indie film “Mountains.” It won a special award at the Tribeca Film Festival — and Chris’ acting is a big reason why.
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SundialBaby B Strings is a quartet that performs classical and pop music in unconventional spaces. They take the Beatles to the concert hall and bring Bach to the beach. They join Sundial host Carlos Frías us for a jam session.
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WLRN environmental editor Jenny Staletovich and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Patrick Farrell talk about what it was like to wade through the muck of the Everglades to check on the decades-long battle to make the River of Grass work as nature intended.
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SundialWe listen to the part of the first episode of Bright Lit Place, a new WLRN podcast distributed by the NPR Network. It was reported by WLRN's environment editor Jenny Staletovich. We also hear behind-the-scenes stories from Jenny and Patrick Farrell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who worked on the project.
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Sundial host, Carlos Frías, spoke with author Carl Hiaasen before a live audience at the Miami Book Fair. They talked about his new book, "Wrecker," and growing up in Florida.
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SundialSundial host, Carlos Frías, spoke with author Carl Hiaasen before a live audience at the Miami Book Fair over the weekend. They talked about his new book, "Wrecker," and growing up in Florida.
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SundialArlo Haskell is an author, historian and the executive director of the Key West Literary Seminar, which is happening from January 11 to the 14.
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SundialLuis Alberto Urrea is a Mexican-American poet, novelist and essayist. He’ll be at the Miami Book Fair on Sunday on a panel about powerful historical fiction–– presenting his latest book 'Good Night, Irene.'