February 2012
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With a musical history that dates back to the late 18th century, the group has revitalized a long-lost culture through music performed largely a cappella and entirely in Haitian Creole. Watch The Creole Choir of Cuba mash up Cuban and Haitian cultures in this spirited set at the NPR Music offices.
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Alan Lomax: The Global Jukebox →
You heard the Rolling Stones covers and the Moby samples. Alan Lomax heard it first.
January 2012
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“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck (via thatkindofwoman)
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WatchFictional documentary. A really lovely, elegant mood board (for when your mood is sadness, despair, longing, “at least my house looks nice,” etc.).
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WatchThe New York Times takes a look at how complicated the US Census can be for Caribbean-Americans. For example, the Garifunas, who are part African, part Caribbean and part Central American, don’t fit into any box.
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WatchWhat Art Basel Left Behind: Graffiti Bike Tour 2011
(Individual photos are in my Miami set on Flickr.)
December 2011
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WatchSnakes in a pool! (Filed under Things in Florida That Can Kill You.)
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WatchEarlier this year I took a trip to Martinique, the Caribbean birthplace of the Empress Josephine:
If she returned to Martinique today, she would find a sophisticated French-influenced culture enhanced by the flavors and rhythms of the non-Europeans who have lived here for centuries. … Off the island’s Atlantic coast are the “baths of Josephine,” shallow turquoise...
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Flash: How AP's Washington bureau reported the... →
In which we learn the importance of sandwiches. Seriously. Don’t forget to feed the reporters.
Also, another example of how news always breaks on Sundays when you’re the only one working and you’re hungry.
November 2011
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At Miami book fair, Caribbean writers will reflect... →
The Miami Book Fair International opens Sunday, and among the many readings and presentations will be a handful of events focusing on a half-century of independence in the English-speaking Caribbean. Novelists, poets and researchers from Jamaica plus Trinidad and Tobago, and other islands, will consider whether their nations’ independence has lived up to its potential or changed the...
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Video of the governor of Florida DJing, dancing on... →
Presented without comment.
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“What a front page of the Harrisburg Patriot News this AM (via @Matt_Maisel...”
– Darren Rovell’s photo “What a front page of the Harr…”
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October 2011
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“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
– Steve Jobs’s final words. (via newsweek)
He was never embarrassed about working hard, even if the results were failures. If someone as smart as Steve wasn’t ashamed to admit trying, maybe I didn’t have to be.
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WatchThe gang rape of a Haitian woman and her 12-year-old son in a South Florida housing project is still one of the worst stories I’ve ever covered. Now one of the four teens arrested after the attack is speaking out about the case, saying his 30-year prison sentence isn’t fair. WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach also spoke with one of the jurors who convicted one of the other three defendents....
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