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Each week, journalists and newsmakers from South Florida analyze and debate some of the most topical issues from across the region.
Sundial is the featured midday show on WLRN 91.3 FM, South Florida's NPR affiliate. We aim for rich, in-depth conversations with guests who help tell the story of South Florida life and culture.Sundial highlights the personalities behind the story — authors, filmmakers, trailblazers and newsmakers, in conversation with host Carlos Frías, a South Florida native and journalist of more than 25 years.Stay in touch with us by emailing us at sundial@wlrnnews.org.Sundial’s staff is:Carlos Frías, Ho ...
A Podcast About Imagination
Joseph Cooper and Bonnie Berman share the microphone with a wide range of guests including community leaders, artists, scientists, historians, political thinkers and more who bring issues of interest to South Floridians.
Each week Melissa Ross of WJCT and interim host Matthew Peddie, based in Tampa, along with a panel of journalists from around the state, discuss the week in Florida news on the Florida Roundup. Ways To ConnectTwitter: @FloridaRoundup(305) - 995-1800Subscribe to the podcastiTunesStitcher
Join veteran reporter and WLRN's Americas Editor Tim Padgett in an exploration of how what happens in Latin America and the Caribbean has a profound effect on South Florida.
Each Friday from Sept. 9 through Nov. 11 between 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. ET, Decision Florida will bring the candidates, their political operatives and the top political journalists to discuss live the 2016 election and to hear from you, the Florida voter.
The Sunshine Economy, takes a fresh look at the key industries transforming South Florida into a regional powerhouse. From investments in health care, storm preparedness, international trade, real estate and technology based start-ups, tune in to learn more about one of the worlds most vibrant and diverse economies.
As recently as 1955 there were virtually no immigrants held in detention in the U.S. Today, the federal government holds tens of thousands each day, in 130 facilities across the country. But the story of how we got here did not start at the U.S.-Mexico border - it started on Florida’s shores, 50 years ago. Through personal histories and meticulously compiled archival materials, Detention By Design will tell how the arrival of Haitian and Cuban migrants by boat in the 1970s and 1980s - and th ...
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Real Estate Survival Guide with Terry Story
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Terry Story’s Real Estate Survival Guide podcast includes her weekly round-up on NPR's "The Steve Pomeranz Show," WLRN and affiliates. The show provides expert advice in all aspects of the real estate transaction from listing to negotiations; to sales and purchase and everything in between.
A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami’s public radio station, introduces us to “climate gentrification,” reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may seriously intensify the affordable housing crisis in many cities. In many parts of the US, black communities were pushed to low-lying flood prone areas. As Nadege Green reports, in Miami, the opposite is true. Black communities were built on high elevation ...
Feminist news programming that seeks to provide the unique and under-represented voices of girls and women with a national and international venue to break the sound barrier.
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UNGUARDED: The Guardianship Program of Dade sells properties of ‘incapacitated’ people to a Miami realtor, who reaps big gains
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A WLRN investigation found the nonprofit sold homes of clients to Express Homes — owned by Carlos Morales, husband of Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez — which resold several properties within days.By WLRN News
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Florida Roundup
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Florida lawmakers look to ease gun regulations while restricting abortion rights
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A bill to allow gun owners to carry without permits heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis. Meanwhile, Florida’s six-week abortion ban nears a final vote.By Bridget O'Brien
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Sundial: Are we living in a simulation? This filmmaker explores that mind-bending question
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Filmmaker Rodney Ascher join WLRN's Carlos Frías to discuss his documentary film "A Glitch in The Matrix." The film explores the simulation theory from the perspective of experts and "eyewitnesses" who fear—or hope—that we world we're living in is not actually real.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: Vodou and mangroves — how two immigrant artists make sense of Miami
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Artists John William Bailly and Edouard Duval-Carrié join WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about their individual artwork that explores history, culture and mythology. Their work is displayed at the Center for Visual Communication in Wynwood.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: Writer Hanif Abdurraqib on the poetry of sneakers, music and home cooking
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Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist and journalist. His writing reflects on music, culture, sneakers, and prayer. He joins Carlos Frías to talk about the daily rituals he revels in and the music that formed him as the youngest of four siblings.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: How childhood roasts on the jitney made Aurin Squire a writer
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Aurin Squire's play "Defacing Michael Jackson" is about hero worship and belonging, told through a group of kids in 1980s Opa-Locka. Playwright Aurin Squire joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about the personal and public heroes in his life that inspired his work.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Spring break violence, an anti-illegal immigrant bill in the legislature, and the ongoing gang violence in Haiti.
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On this episode of the South Florida Roundup, we spoke about spring break violence in South Beach and possible solutions (01:03), a bill targeting illegal immigrants that's making its way through the Florida legislature (21:31), and the continuously worsening gang violence in Haiti (39:11).By Helen Acevedo
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Restricting ‘period talk’ in schools; new trend in foreclosures; what to know about Candida auris
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Florida lawmakers consider a bill to restrict "period talk" in schools; foreclosures as code enforcement; Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus spreading in Florida.By Bridget O'Brien
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Sundial: How this pioneering Black Miami journalist cultivated her writing dreams
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Bea Hines' dream of becoming a writer wasn't encouraged by her friends and family when she was growing up. But she tells WLRN's Wilkine Brutus how she proved everyone wrong when she was the first Black female journalist hired at the Miami Herald.By Wilkine Brutus, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Global warming; ‘Nurse Unseen’; National Agriculture Week; flower show; San Marco Beer Fest
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Governments haven’t done nearly enough to deal with climate change, according to a major new report; the new documentary “Nurse Unseen” explores how Filipino nurses are the backbone of the health care system; it’s National Agriculture Week; the Late Bloomers Garden Club is putting on a free public flower show; and the second annual San Marco Beer F…
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Sundial: Guerrilla poetry set to appear on billboards, ice cream and parking tickets in Miami
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It’s almost April. And that means it’s time for poetry to pop up in unexpected places throughout Miami-Dade County — thanks to O, Miami. The poetry foundation floods the county with guerrilla poetry all month where you least expect it. Carlos Frías sits down with founder P. Scott Cunningham to talk about what's coming up this April.…
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Sundial: Why this radio anchor ran away to the circus as 'Jacques Ze Whipper'
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Jack Lepiarz grew up in the circus. He eventually got a serious job at Boston's NPR member station, but never stopped performing the whip tricks his dad taught him. Lepiarz recently said goodbye to radio and is traveling around the country performing his act.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: Puerto Rican artist iLe on exploring feminine power through music
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Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ileana Mercedes Cabra, also known as iLe, is set to play in Fort Lauderdale this week as part of her U.S. tour. She began her career as a teenager singing for the alternative hip-hop band, Calle 13 with her brothers. iLe joined WLRN's Caitie Muñoz to talk about her solo career and the inspiration behind her music.…
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The South Florida Roundup
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Marching for labor rights, ending a 400-year sentence, and the effects of a bank's collapse on South Florida
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On this episode of the South Florida Roundup, we spoke about the march across Palm Beach County for labor rights, the exoneration of a man who had been handed a 400-year sentence in Fort Lauderdale (8:59), and the impact Silicon Valley Bank's collapse had on South Florida (21:59).By Natu Tweh
A new rule clamps down on who can demonstrate at the Florida Capitol — and what they can say. Plus: The "Live Local Act" is getting bipartisan support in Tallahassee, and spring breakers are smiling despite red tide.By Bridget O'Brien
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Best Of: National museum curator Joanne Hyppolite and talking films with Rene Rodriguez
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Joanne Hyppolite made a career out of helping tell the important ways in which Black people influenced all aspects of American culture as a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. She tells us about why she calls Miami home. We also hear from Rene Rodriguez, the manager of the Cosford Cinema. He tel…
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Best Of: Filmmaker Nancy Spielberg and Haiti expert Jacqueline Charles
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Filmmaker Nancy Spielberg on how she uses her movie-making differently than her older brother — Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. We also speak to Miami Herald journalist Jacqueline Charles. She tells us why President Bill Clinton called her Haiti's ambassador to the world.
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Best Of: Local author Jonathan Escoffery, FIU founding professor retires, activist and Parkland survivor Aalayah Eastmond
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Author Jonathan Escoffery, who is a finalist for a PEN/Faulkner award for best American fiction, talks about his first book, "If I Survive You." We also hear from one of FIU's founding professors, who just recently retired after serving the university for over 50 years. Finally, activist and Parkland survivor Aalayah Eastmond joins us on the five-y…
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Broward's municipal elections, lack of meetings in North Miami Beach, and 10 years since the death of Chávez
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On this episode of the South Florida Roundup, we looked at the ballot for Broward's municipal elections and the reasons behind absenteeism among North Miami Beach Commissioners (14:15). We also spoke to a journalist about Venezuela and its diaspora 10 years after the death of president Hugo Chávez (32:36).…
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Legislators consider 6-week abortion ban; both parties have new leaders
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Florida’s 2023 legislative session kicked off this week, and the first measures include bills to further restrict the state’s abortion ban from 15 weeks after pregnancy to 6. We also talked with the new Democratic and Republican party chairs.By Bridget O'Brien
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Best Of: Marching with Martin Luther King Jr. and reading with Miami's biggest book nerds
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Dorothy Jenkins Fields, founder of the Black Archives, tells us about preserving Miami's Black history and the early experiences that led her to this work, like the time she marched with Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a college student in Atlanta. We also hear from two of Miami's biggest book nerds, Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books and Connie …
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Best Of: humor writer Dave Barry, environment reporter Jenny Staletovich
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A battle over the soul of Miami Beach: Will developers destroy or save Art Deco?
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Miami Beach is known for its colorful Art Deco buildings. But more and more, only real estate developers are willing to spend the money it takes to preserve them — if they can build a tall, high-end residential tower on the property. This strategy saves at least part of the old buildings but changes the skyline forever. Preservationists fear this w…
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Sundial: WLRN's latest investigation into a program selling ‘incapacitated’ people's homes to a Miami realtor reaping big gains
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WLRN's investigative team joins host Carlos Frías to discuss their latest report, which looks into a government-funded nonprofit that was put in place to help care for people who can’t take care of themselves. And sometimes sell their homes to cover the cost of their care. Reporters Joshua Ceballos and Danny Rivero found blurred lines in the progra…
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FL legislative session, UF West Palm Beach campus on hold, and the new city of Miami District 2 commissioner-elect
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On the South Florida Roundup, we discussed some of the bills headed into the Florida legislative session (1:06), the stalemate between the University of Florida and a key developer over naming rights (26:37), and spoke with Sabina Covo, the city of Miami’s new District 2 commissioner-elect (39:28).By Helen Acevedo
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Sundial: From 'Miami Vice' to Marvel, this 84-year-old South Florida actor is at his peak
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South Florida's Ruben Rabasa has been acting for over 50 years, but he finally feels like he's arrived — in his 80s. He talks to host Carlos Frías about his early life as an actor after migrating to the United States from Cuba and all the jobs he's had as a character actor from Miami Vice to Marvel.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Can the Democratic Party regain strength in Florida?
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This is the first time in over a century there’s not a single Democrat in statewide elected office. Also: the 2023 legislative session is coming, and the state may preempt local control over water quality, pollution and wetlands.By Bridget O'Brien
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Edition 83: Women's Self-Defense with Adelaide Meadow, Serendipity Day & Sekhmet SheOwl
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This month, Jenna DiQuarto worked double duty and both interviewed our wonderful guests and produced the show. Thank you for your dedication and work, Jenna! First, hear Jenna delivering the greeting for the show before diving into a short snippet of the interview Liz Miller did with Ann Menasche about her recent dismissal from a job she had for 20…
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Sundial: This 'Python Huntress' loves the snakes she has to kill
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Donna Kalil, a Python Elimination Specialist with the South Florida Water Management District, is at the center of the documentary "Python Huntress" being featured in this year's Miami Film Festival.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: Miami Film Festival highlights beloved flea market, explores making love scenes hot but safe
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Filmmaker Jose Navas joins Carlos Frías to talk about his new film, "Awake Before Dawn," which is set at the Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market and is premiering at the Miami Film Festival. Plus, imagine having your first kiss on stage — in front of a live audience. That moment led Nicole Perry to become an intimacy coordinator. She joins to tell us abo…
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Sundial: Picking up trash and praying to the god Pachango — this author's "Miami Creation Myth"
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Writer Andrew Otazo joins Carlos Frías to talk about his irreverant new book, "The Miami Creation Myth." In it, he fashions gods of gossip and pachangas to make fun of Miami's absurdity. Otazo is also a local environmentalist who has cleaned up more than 10 tons of trash from Miami mangroves.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: How Miami's Black diaspora inspired this Smithsonian museum curator
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Joanne Hyppolite made a career out of helping tell the important ways in which Black people influenced all aspects of American culture as a curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. She joins host Carlos Frías to talk about why she calls Miami home.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Doral incinerator fire, Student walkouts across Florida, and the U.S.'s relationship with Nicaragua.
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On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked into the fire that started at the Covanta waste incinerator plant in Doral two weeks ago and the county’s trash problem (01:10), the walkout that college students in South Florida staged to protest Gov. DeSantis’ plans to block race and diversity programs (20:07), and U.S.’s relationship with …
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Students walk out over diversity and inclusion; also, Florida executes a killer
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Students protested the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion programs until the policies of Gov. Ron DeSantis.By Heather Schatz
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Sundial: How a little Lantana restaurant got this husband and wife nominated for a big award
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Cindy and Jeremy Bearman stopped working for big name chefs in New York to open their own restaurant: Oceano Kitchen in Lantana. Now they are nominated for a James Beard Award.By Carlos Frías, Elisa Baena, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson
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Sundial: Rescuing excess food in South Florida - and getting it to those who need it
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Ellen Bowen, the site director of Food Rescue South Florida, joins host Carlos Frías to talk about what works in eliminating food waste and distributing unused food to those who need it most.By Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena
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Sundial: Two of the best emerging chefs in the country are in Miami
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Two of the best emerging chefs in the country are in Miami. Akino West is the chef and owner of Rosie's in Little River and Cleophus Hethington is the chef de cuisine at Zak the Baker in Wynwood. They join host Carlos Frías in the studio after they were both nominated for the same James Beard Award, one year apart.…
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The best of Sundial: author Patricia Engel, playwright Nilo Cruz and chef Niven Patel
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We revisit some of our favorite Sundial conversations, starting with Miami-based author Patricia Engel, who has a new story collection called "The Faraway World." Then, we hear from Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz and his play "Anna in the Tropics." (15:22) Finally, chef Niven Patel was named a finalist for a national James Beard Award last mon…
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Arrests over Moïse assassination, fears for Little Haiti Cultural Center, and municipal elections in Palm Beach County
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On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked into the four arrests that were made in South Florida in connection to the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 (01:03), the unsafe structure violations that the Caribbean Marketplace at the Little Haiti Cultural Center received (18:37), and Palm Beach County’s upcoming mun…
