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  Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys Imagines Life Inside Florida's Infamous Dozier School

  July 11 at 12:04 p.m.

  Elwood Curtis watches the news coming out of Florida from his adopted home of New York City. As articles in Tampa Bay, Miami, and even international newspapers are reporting that dozens of skeletons are being unearthed on the grounds of a boys’ ostensible “reform” school, Curtis remembers. He is one of the "Nickel Boys," those who survived inhumane conditions and continued their route to an adulthood haunted by harrowing memories.

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  Cecile Richards on 2020 Elections and Florida: "This Is Not a Static State"

  March 21 at 2:06 p.m.

  Everywhere Cecile Richards goes, women ask her one question: "What should I do?" The organizer, women's health advocate, and self-described troublemaker recently spoke at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. There, she recalls, "The number one question, no matter what the topic of conversation, the question on every...

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  Four Authors to Watch at Broward's 2019 Literary Feast

  March 1 at 9:27 a.m.

  Broward Public Library Foundation's Literary Feast 2019 welcomes authors inspired by the stories of the Sunshine State.

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  Photojournalist Ian Witlen Documents the #NeverAgain Movement at His Parkland Alma Mater

  Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 12:09 p.m.

  Photographer Ian Witlen got a call from New Times' art director just after 2:30 p.m. on Valentine's Day. She had heard reports that there was an active shooter on the campus of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. Witlen had graduated from the school in 2001. "I immediately thought it was just another...

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  The Cure and Vanilla Fudge Drummers Visit Radio-Active Records for Book Signings

  Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.

  The Cure gave its fans a reason to wear black in June last year when the English rock band made a tour stop in Miami. Now the group’s founding drummer, Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, is giving fans a reason to read. This Friday, February 24, Tolhurst will wrap up his book tour promoting...

• Amid Art Basel 2015, Erick Lyle's Streetopia Offers Another Angle

  Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8:30 a.m.

  Mr. Entertainment is a South Florida musician and herald of the local scene since the 19-somethings and serves as the unofficial Musical Mayor of Hollywood. I have just finished reading the newly released Streetopia, published by Brooklyn Imprint. It's a photographic and verbal documentary of a massive anti-gentrification art festival that took...