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Racial Healing Book Club Aims to Make People “Be Less Stupid About Race”

By Tyler Francischine
Feb 1, 2021

South Florida People of Color hosts a Racial Healing Book Club.
Six Online Book Clubs to Keep You Reading IRL

By Jackie De Freitas
Nov 9, 2020

Check out these book clubs riding the wave of online connection.
First Amendment Children’s Book Teaches a New Generation About Freedom of Speech

By Carolina Del Busto
Oct 26, 2020

Your Voice Is Your Superpower teaches children about their most valuable weapon: their voice.
In His New Photobook, Daniel Duncan Captures Rare Glimpse of Cuba

By Carolina Del Busto
Aug 12, 2020

Portraits of Cuba is not your standard photobook.
Get Back Into Reading During the Coronavirus Shutdown

By April Dobbins
Mar 26, 2020

If you're returning to the world of reading after a long hiatus, it may be daunting to start.
Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys Imagines Life Inside Florida's Infamous Dozier School

By Lorraine Berry
Jul 11, 2019

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

By Ciara LaVelle
Mar 21, 2019

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...
Four Authors to Watch at Broward's 2019 Literary Feast

By Juliana Accioly
Mar 1, 2019

Broward Public Library Foundation's Literary Feast 2019 welcomes authors inspired by the stories of the Sunshine State.
Photojournalist Ian Witlen Documents the #NeverAgain Movement at His Parkland Alma Mater

By Liz Tracy
Aug 7, 2018

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

By Emily Bloch
Feb 22, 2017

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

By Mr. Entertainment
Dec 4, 2015

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...
Rosston Meyer Crafts Pop Up Books as Art

By Abel Folgar
Jan 12, 2015

Rosston Meyer is an artist of a high order; a craftsman, a warrior in the age of digital incursions. And anything related with true craftsmanship is hard to come by in this day and age. He is one, if not the only artist, making a real stab in a oft-ignored...
Amy Fiddler, Former Indie Record Label Entrepreneur Publishes Debut Novel About "the Ultimate Music Fan"

By Abel Folgar
Nov 14, 2014

Amy Fleisher Madden, better known to South Florida's punk scene as Amy Fiddler, began a strange journey into self-publication and independent record label operating at the tender age of 16. Her fanzine, Fiddler Jones was indicative of the pop punk '90s with a Cometbus-styled bend that balanced band interviews, reviews,...
John Wayne Biographer, Former Palm Beach Post Writer Scott Eyman Talks About "The Duke"

By Fire Ant
Oct 6, 2014

Scott Eyman's retirement from the Palm Beach Post was a great loss to the paper. He was far and away its most sophisticated writer on cultural matters, serving as film critic, then books editor and art critic. In his spare time, he turned out 13 books, most notably a series...
Learn Your Music History with The Front: The Band That Time Forgot, "a No Budget Punk Film"

By David Von Bader
Sep 18, 2014

With the way the current generation of garage rockers ape and fetishize the new wave of punk, the fact that a band like South Florida's the Front never really made it seems just a bit more heartbreaking in 2014. There are currently labels that fill their rosters with new artists...
From Bon Jovi to Katy Perry, Bluewater Productions Cranks Out Rock Star Comic Books

By David Rolland
May 9, 2014

Who is your favorite comic book character? Spider-man? Batman? Groo the Wanderer? Darren Davis publisher of Bluewater Productions would like it to be Jon Bon Jovi, Freddy Mercury, or Kurt Cobain as his company has published biographical comics of each of these rock stars this month. "In 2008, we noticed...
Alex Segura of the Faulkner Detectives on Writing First Novel Silent City and Working With Kiss

By Abel Folgar
Apr 21, 2014

We first met Miami native Alex Segura when reviewing his band the Faulkner Detectives's EP (Livid Records) The Modern Handshake back in 2012. Since then, his career in journalism and comics publishing has kept him bouncing between South Florida and New York City. His most recent, nonmusical musical endeavor: He...
Bunny Yeager to Attend Her Sexy Pinup Show in Palm Beach

By Fire Ant
Apr 18, 2014

An American original on both sides of the lens, Miami's own Bunny Yeager mixes it up tomorrow among the swells of Palm Beach. How high the risqué have risen! The '50s pin-up girl, who went on to a long career as a photographer, is in town for an exhibition of...
Phillip Crandall's Andrew W.K. I Get Wet 33 1/3 Book Release Brings "Party" to Radio-Active Records

By Liz Tracy
Feb 12, 2014

The first time Phillip Crandall saw Andrew W.K. live, he was just out of college but still living in Gainesville. Crandall described the experience in his new 33 1/3 book on W.K.'s I Get Wet: "Afterwards, I couldn't remember a single between-song sentiment Andrew shared with us, only the added...
Luna Rex's Novelist, Guitarist J. Lee Glassman on Key West, Bioluminescence and the Written Word

By Abel Folgar
Dec 3, 2013

J. Lee Glassman is a South Florida poet, musician and novelist. He's also a man of two worlds; those disparate entities being Palm Beach and Key West. While he might be better known to our readers as Luna Rex's rhythm guitarist, Glassman is also the author of a 2008 collection...

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