“The treasures of wild Florida — landscapes, waterways, flora, and fauna — will soon disappear without drastic efforts to save them.”
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Kristen Arnett on Taxidermy, Memory, and “Mostly Dead Things”
“What’s considered high art? What’s lowbrow? What are those things? That’s something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I’m extremely interested in.”
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Banished
After passing a series of restrictive housing laws, Miami-Dade County faces an odd predicament: bands of nomadic sex offenders and a cat-and-mouse game to move them.
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Florida, White Privilege, and Racism
My origin story—as a son, and later a father and a husband; as a citizen, a racist— has always begun in a crumpled car at the side of the highway. May 30, 1982.
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Inside the Belly of the Beast: How the Burmese Python is Decimating Bird and Small Mammal Populations in Florida
If you live in Florida, you better keep tabs on your cat, lest it fall prey to the invasive, 18-ft long Burmese python hiding under your bushes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
The Town That Camp Built
“Key West’s brand of camp reflects Wolkowsky’s understanding — never on the nose, always sideways, a place where anonymity feels like an innate right.”
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How the Lani Kai Island Resort Thrives Under a Never-Ending Spring Break
At the Lani Kai Island Resort, owner Bob Conidaris even provides “a cheap all-you-can-eat brunch, because the kids ‘do not eat! They mostly want to drink. I want them to get at least one good meal.'”
Posted inArts & Culture, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
Living That Early Bird Life, But Differently
Why is the iconic early bird special disappearing in Florida’s retirement communties?
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The Life of One of the South’s Greatest Folklorists
Ernest Matthew Mickler wrote the best-selling White Trash Cookbook, but he was actually a skilled Southern folklorist, not a cook.