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June 11, 2023 Michael Stock interviews Mitch Greenhill about his new book "Raised By Musical Mavericks - Recalling life lessons from Pete Seeger, Lighnin' Hopkins, Doc Watson and Rev. Gary Davis".

The outgoing president and CEO of Oolite Arts joins us. Dennis Scholl is retiring after six years at Oolite to pursue his art and filmmaking full-time. He was previously the vice president for arts at the Knight Foundation.

Herrera, the first Latino U.S. poet laureate, is in town for a summer institute hosted by O, Miami and the Poetry Foundation. He's helping teachers from around the country build lesson plans for their classrooms.

Sri Prabha went to art school, worked as a therapist and then went back to art full-time. He tells us how his work in clinical psychology is connected to his new exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

Author and syndicated columnist, Ana Veciana-Suarez, joins us to discuss her latest book, Dulcinea, a feminist retelling of Don Quixote. She talked to Carlos Frías about how writing this book made her fall in love with historical fiction and how she found her writing community here in Miami.

Marshall Davis Sr. is the director of the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center that is currently poised for renovation, so he can continue to foster a cultural rich community.

Saliha Nelson is the CEO of Urgent Inc, a youth center in Overtown whose mission is to educate the next generation of creative leaders in Miami. Their annual youth film festival is being held on Thursday and Friday at Miami Dade College North Campus.

Sociolinguist Phillip M. Carter tells us about his research on language diversity and how he’s become an authority on the Miami dialect.

This week on The South Florida Roundup, we discussed Citizens Insurance's rate hikes for homeowners and their efforts to transfer policy holders to private providers (01:00), took a look back on the community impact made by Danny Agnew (19:24), and talked about the relationship between Cuba and the Roman Catholic Church (35:30).

We're joined by Miami-Dade College's first woman president Madeline Pumariega. The once student-athlete at the Kendall Campus now leads one of the largest community colleges in the country.

May 14, 2023 Martin Friedman's spirit animal was there all the time.

Walshy Fire, a Jamaican-American music producer and MC who grew up in South Florida, is the subject of a new PBS short documentary called Walshy Fire: Pulling Up.

Miami Waterkeeper, a nonprofit that advocates for clean water in South Florida, recently received a $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation. Rachel Silverstein, the executive director of the organization, tells us about their work and what this grant can do.

Leila Cobo has been watching Latin stars — Shakira, Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin and Jenni Rivera, among others — break into the U.S. market for more than two decades.

Hundreds of thousands of Floridians have lost their Medicaid coverage; a federal court blocks Florida’s ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care; how Florida plans to protect its environmentally sensitive lands.

We look at why inflation remains high in Florida and what citizens are doing to grapple with rising costs of living. Plus, the threat that warming waters cause to coral reefs.

A discussion with the new Broward schools superintendent following his first week on the job, a look into the rise in inflation and home insurance in South Florida (19:33) and looking at the Tequesta archaeological site and the back and forth on its preservation (35:03).

We’re joined by the director of the film South Beach Shark Club, Robert Requejo Ramos. He grew up in Miami Beach and was inspired to make the film after hearing family lore about a group of Cuban exiles and shark fishermen in the 1970s.

This week’s episode discusses Hialeah’s troubled 911 emergency call dispatch system, new revelations about Miami-Dade County’s Guardianship program (18:32) and whether Guatemala’s presidential election is reason for hope (36:08).

The Florida Roundup discusses a few key laws that will go into effect Saturday, including immigration reform, permitless carry and parental rights. Plus, what are local officials doing to mitigate the risks of rising temperatures?