This Sunday evening, recording artist Farah Juste will be at Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant on South Beach for "a CD signing and celebration". Ms. Juste's career as a passionate singer of Haitian folk songs took off with her debut solo album in 1977, and since then she has performed from Paris to Switzerland to Carnegie Hall. The Port-Au-Prince native moved to Miami in 1983, and has been a community activist championing immigration-rights issues; her day care center, "Farah's Angels", provides early
GOP Cuts Everything, Saves Sweet, Sweet TobaccoAs I sit here puffing on my Camel Wide with the filter broken off, my lungs blackening like beach tar, I'm thanking the state's Republicans. Because it is the GOP lawmakers who fought off attempts in Tallahassee to increase cigarette taxes in order to cover a crazy huge $2.3 billion budget deficit. I've never been able to do fancy smoke rings, so instead I'll just exhale in appreciation, knowing that instead of paying more per pack, we'll see just a
John LinnChef Ron in the kitchen at Whole Foods' Lifestyle Center.He was running a few minutes late, but once Chef Ron Duprat arrived at Whole Foods' Lifestyle Center on Saturday night, he got right to business. Scuttling through the door in his bright red Birkenstocks, Duprat introduced himself and apologized for being late. "I'm on Haiti time," he said with a grin. Then he hit the kitchen immediately, prepping whole filets of Chilean sea bass for a dish of jerk sea bass with vanilla rum but
