Alicia Zuckerman

Puerto Rico's Murder Problem

Alicia Zuckerman — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Fifteen thousand people are leaving Puerto Rico every year, and half of them are coming Florida. Many are leaving because of an explosion of violence on the island. Over the last several years, the murder rate has been between five and seven times the national average.

End Of The Line: Artists Transform Your Old Prom Dress Into A Tree

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:33:44 +0000

If you’ve ever donated an old coat or a dress, or even pair of socks, to a thrift store, there’s a chance it ended up in the Saatchi Collection in London. That’s because the Miami-based duo, Guerra de la Paz, makes thrift store throwaways into art.

Alicia Zuckerman went with them to their “art supply store,” as they call it, so they could show her how come up with their creations.

“Her Own Little Paris In Miami”

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:28:52 +0000

Ruth Greenfield was a music teacher and a maverick. In the segregated 1950s and 60s, she ran a Miami arts school that included students and teachers from all racial backgrounds–even if she had to teach in a Masonic lodge or in a funeral home. She came from a privileged background and was able to study music in Paris, where people of all kinds interacted more freely.

Alternative Spring Break

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:32:57 +0000

It’s a time-honored tradition. Spring breakers descend on Miami from across the nation this time of year to guzzle beer, work on their tanlines and hit the clubs.

Or there’s Alternative Spring Break, where you sit in a windowless room, guzzle coffee, and fill out reams of immigration paperwork. You can compile proof of residence, and file for fee waivers. Sound appealing?

Episode 4: Second(hand) Chances

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:29:27 +0000

Give Good Works, a Wynwood thrift store and charity, gives your old and gently used items a second chance. However, the point is to give people a second chance. Jennifer Rousseau, who works at the store, transformed her life with the help of the shop’s founder Heather Klinker.

“A lot of people would have given up on us girls,” said Rousseau. “Heather didn’t. She kept going. She’s a hero to me. I love her.”

The People Robert Frank Saw

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:23:10 +0000

This photo of a forlorn, slightly bored young hotel elevator operator was taken on the beach in 1955, at the Sherry Frontenac Hotel (65th and Collins). It has become one of Frank’s most famous photographs and the face of the exhibition, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s the Americans” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It runs through Jan. 3.

Young Poets

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:44:25 +0000

Host Alicia Zuckerman was intensely curious about how young poets graduating with Masters of Fine Arts degrees expect to make money. Since the average poetry journal pays just $20 for a poem, it’s not exactly a way to make a living. Sure, writing by candlelight because you can’t pay FPL has a certain romance to it, but what happens when you run out of matches? So how do poets expect to pay their bills?

"Imagined Anthology of Flight and Escape"

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:41:31 +0000

Author and former Miami Herald columnist Ana Menendez, who has been living in Amsterdam, is returning to South Florida for the Miami Book Fair International, the eight-day literary party beginning Nov. 13. Ana has a new book titled Adios, Happy Homeland and will be speaking about it during The Writer’s Voice panel at the fair Sunday, Nov. 20.

Poet Richard Blanco Reads Tonight In Miami

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:30:36 +0000

When Richard Blanco got the call that he'd been chosen to write a poem for President Obama's second inauguration, at first he thought it was a prank. He still has no idea how he ended up on the President's radar.

Miami Guitarist Aaron Lebos: Don't Use The F Word

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0000

When Miami native Aaron Lebos was a kid, his parents told him to choose between violin and piano. "I chose piano," he says, "obviously." But his big brother played electric guitar, and he wanted to too. He thought it was "cooler." Eventually, he got his hands on a guitar of his own and made his way through jazz studies programs at Miami Dade College, University of Miami and FIU.

Get On The Bus: How Miami Is Like L.A.

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Several times a week, Miami reminds me of Los Angeles. For better and worse. We're both the land of sunshine, palm trees (theirs are taller) and beautiful beaches (ours are nicer based on ocean temperature and clarity, but we're missing out on the mountains). And both places have much beneath the surface of our beautiful things. Extreme wealth and poverty pressed up against each other, but rarely mixing -- largely because both places are so deeply devoted to the automobile.

How Fine Art Meets Internet Culture In Wynwood During Art Basel

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:30:00 +0000

Remember those unsettling dancing babies? The ones that got passed around the Internet in the days before social media and eventually made their way onto the Fox TV show, Ally McBeal? Those were GIFs.

GIF stands for graphics interchange format. It's a series of still images, looped -- and last month, after 25 years of existence, it was named the Oxford English Dictionary 2012 American word of the year.

Composer/Architect Discusses Airport Installation At Art Basel

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Christopher Janney's sound and light installation for Miami International Airport was unveiled during last year's Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, he's back to discuss the piece on a panel during Design Miami, today (Friday, Dec. 7) at noon.

Pretty In Pink Redux In Miami

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:30:00 +0000

At long last, brat pack heartthrobs Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy will cross paths again. They're both appearing at the Miami Book Fair International on the same day, in the same room ... but not, sadly, at the same time. They'll be separated by five hours. Ohhhhhhh.

Vonnegut Takes Miami

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:30:00 +0000

Kurt Vonnegut fans have a lot to look forward to over the next couple of weekends. First, a performance of a chamber music piece with a libretto by the iconoclastic author, and then a discussion of a new book of his letters at the Miami Book Fair International.

How Miami's Classical Music Scene Has Changed In 40 Years

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:38:54 +0000

The bassoonist Luciano Magnanini has been a fixture of South Florida's classical music scene for the past four decades. He has played around the world and performed under the conductors Leonard Bertstein and Zubin Mehta. In 1972, after arriving from Italy via Peru and Mexico, Magnanini began a 40-year teaching career at the University of Miami. He’s retiring in May, and this Sunday he performs a chamber concert celebrating his career.

Green Card Stories

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:52:30 +0000

Taking The plunge

Alicia Zuckerman — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:00:36 +0000

Momentum Dance Company performs water ballet in two pools at the National Hotel tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public. It should last about half an hour. The event is part of the Miami Dance Festival.

"Her Own Little Paris In Miami"

Alicia Zuckerman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:03:24 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU--wnfHuZI&feature=player_embedded

"Her Own Little Paris In Miami"

Alicia Zuckerman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:03:24 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU--wnfHuZI&feature=player_embedded

"Her Own Little Paris In Miami"

Alicia Zuckerman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:03:24 +0000

Finding Solace, A New Life In Miami

Alicia Zuckerman — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:46:33 +0000

On September 11, 2001, Tanya Villanueva Tepper’s fiancé, Sergio Villanueva, was one of the 343 New York City firefighters who didn’t make it out of the World Trade Center.

The World According To Sound

Alicia Zuckerman — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:56:37 +0000

When you stop and listen to your surroundings, what do you hear? We take sound for granted because it’s around us all the time. But when you are forced to listen in a different way, you hear a different story.

Confessions Of A Refugee Boy

Dan Grech and Alicia Zuckerman — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:11:05 +0000

Learning to Die in Miami is author Carlos Eire’s follow-up to his 2003 memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana. In his first book, Eire wrote about his childhood in Cuba before and during the Castro revolution.

Flip The Script: The Past And Present Of North Miami Senior High School

Ted Grossman, Alicia Zuckerman and Trina Sargalski — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:24:14 +0000

Fifty years ago, North Miami Senior High School students lived in neighborhoods where most kept their doors unlocked at night. They say they felt safe riding their bicycles throughout town – some streets weren’t even paved. Today, many students at the school say they don’t feel safe in their school or their neighborhoods.

North Miami Senior High’s demographics have also changed. In 1960, the segregated school was all white. Today, most students are of Haitian descent. According to the school, 31 out of 2,700 students are white.

TPS: The Long And Winding Road

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:59:55 +0000

A few days after the earthquake, the U.S.

Taste A Miracle

Alicia Zuckerman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:32:54 +0000

A tiny berry called a “miracle fruit” transforms your taste buds for about two hours. The fruit is from a tree originally grown in West Africa. The grower who ships them across the U.S. is based here in South Florida. His name is Curtis Mozie and he calls himself the Miracle Fruit Man. Alicia Zuckerman went to the Fort Lauderdale farm for a tasting.