Group of adult women ‘complete the circle’ with bat mitzvahs
Growing up in a Conservative Jewish community, Ruth Stern was not given the chance to have a bat mitzvah.But her twin brother was allowed to have his bar mitzvah. "Women didn't count in those times,"...
View ArticleKendall residents oppose giant FPL power lines
Kendall residents don’t want 100-foot-tall high-voltage power lines running through their backyards.But if it happens, they want the lines underground.About 75 residents attended an informational...
View ArticleCatherine Russell, masterful interpreter of vintage jazz and blues, opens...
Vocalist Catherine Russell grew up with jazz as a second language. Her dad, Panamanian-born bandleader and composer Luis Russell, was a lifelong friend and colleague of Louis Armstrong. Her mother,...
View ArticleLocal DJ involved in crash that killed two in Coral Gables
A local DJ is under investigation in connection with a car crash that killed two people early Sunday morning in Coral Gables, police said.A vehicle driven by Ervens Prudent, 26, described in a local...
View ArticleMajor Coral Gables shopping center’s main entrance will be on Ponce
After three hours of contentious debate, Coral Gables commissioners voted Tuesday to allow the developer of the Gables Station shopping center to put his main entrance on Ponce de Leon Boulevard,...
View ArticleLocal photographer’s images show Afghanistan in happier times
Years of occupation and civil war have turned Afghanistan into a place synonymous with chaos and danger, but Coral Gables resident Joseph Hoyt is set on showing a different side of the country.Hoyt is...
View ArticleFor UM debate coach, teaching means helping students learn on their own
At the start of every semester, David Steinberg tells his classes more or less the same thing.Most of you, he’ll say, are going to look back on this class and find that you learned really valuable...
View ArticleCastaways Against Cancer set to kayak for a cure
For Luis De La Aguilera, embarking on a seven-day kayaking journey from Key Biscayne to Key West wasn’t on his bucket list like running with the bulls in Spain was. But after being introduced to Steve...
View ArticleDeveloper: Bike safety is important to our firm
The recent article Gables Station entrance approved (Neighbors, June 13) quoted bicycling activist John Hopkins as saying that “Berkowitz, unlike other developers, appeared interested in listening to...
View ArticleSouth Florida DJ arrested on DUI manslaughter charges
Coral Gables Police have arrested a North Miami DJ they say was driving drunk when his car slammed into a vehicle stopped at a Coral Gables traffic light last Sunday, killing both people inside.Ervens...
View ArticleCoral Gables school celebrates 90th birthday
It’s not every day that the first and oldest public school in Coral Gables celebrates its 90th Anniversary.Coral Gables Preparatory Academy, however, is doing just that. Built in three-phases starting...
View ArticleVixen Workout gets heart pumping in South Florida
When Neyleen Calejo works out, she puts on makeup and heels. “I have two kids and I kind of lost my mojo,” Calejo said. “This is my club experience and me time.” Calejo, 24, is a regular at the Vixen...
View ArticleCollection of Florida postcards offers a window to another time
Sometimes whimsical, often colorful and usually the bearer of happy tidings, the postcard offers a window to a time and place that is often remembered in a nostalgic haze. That’s why Liz Coursen began...
View ArticleUM student in deadly DUI crash may get stiffer sentence
A problem has arisen for a 21-year-old University of Miami student who turned herself in on Tuesday to begin a prison sentence for a deadly drunk driving accident. Ivanna Villanueva, along with her...
View ArticleCoral Gables police arrest ‘apartment burglar’
Coral Gables police arrested convicted felon Mark Lodigensky in connection with a number of apartment burglaries in the city.Lodigensky, 59, faces a series of charges, including numerous counts of...
View ArticleCelebrated University of Miami architecture dean, champion of traditional...
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the prominent planner and architect under whose leadership the University of Miami’s fledgling architecture school gained a national reputation as an iconoclastically...
View ArticleFormer UM student begins 3-year sentence in DUI death
A 21-year-old former University of Miami student began serving a three-year sentence Wednesday for DUI manslaughter and vehicle manslaughter.Ivanna Villanueva turned herself in to Miami-Dade...
View ArticleCancer survivor, 74, gets a lift from kiteboarding
Cancer survivor Louis Gomez will be turning 75 next month, but instead of letting age and a dozen surgeries slow him down, the Pinecrest resident’s life is becoming adventurous. The Cuban-born Gomez...
View ArticleLearn to swim programs grow in Miami-Dade as teams strive for past glories
In a region known for its beaches and year-round bikini season, it’s surprising to discover Miami-Dade County doesn’t thrive in the one activity synonymous with tropical living: swimming. “Miami used...
View ArticleMLB in talks to buy Miami whistleblowers stash of drug records
His name is Porter Fischer, and six months ago, few people had ever heard of him.But Fischer, who lives in a sprawling house in Pinecrest, just might one day be remembered as the man who blew up Major...
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