May 2013
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Watch(there used to be a button that just started the slideshow automatically, but now I think you have to roll the mouse to the right or to the left to see the slideshow in full after you click the play button. maybe. I used to find Vuvox slideshows to be really easy, but maybe now there’s a better way of doing these.)
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WatchDonna Karan has been working with Haitian artisans through her Urban Zen Foundation since the 2010 earthquake. The video above was produced for urbanzen.com.
Karan was in Miami this week to talk about her work in Haiti, coinciding with the opening of the Discover Haiti Exhibition at the Little Haiti Cultural Center.
“What we have to do is give them the tools to produce a product that is...
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April 2013
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“There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one...”
– Opening and closing lines of “The Everglades: River of Grass.” All the lines in between comprise one of the more remarkable books I’ve ever read. I put off reading it for years, and now I can’t stop talking about it.
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Testimony from the victims of a 2005 massacre at... →
Last month I reported that a Haitian attorney wants a human rights commission to hold Haiti’s government accountable for failing to provide reparations to the victims of a 2005 massacre at a soccer stadium and related attacks in a neighboring slum the following summer.
Evel Fanfan and attorneys from the Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Social Justice filed a petition in...
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Love at Imogene + Willie →
Road trip, part deux:
Imogene + Willie was a mandatory stop for these ramblin’ women. I scored a pair of Imogene Slims while Tiffany Napper and Megan Victoria talked business and boots.
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Ramblin' Women →
I recently took a little road trip across the South with Tiffany Napper and Megan Victoria, two women I’m lucky to know and call friends. I took some pictures and Tiffany put together some words about our adventure. Our travel essentials: a grandfather’s ukelele, an assortment of cameras, Milk Duds, an iPod, a flask, handcrafted jewels, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.
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Sandy criticism prompts change in storm warnings →
MIAMI (AP) — Responding to criticism after Superstorm Sandy, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday it would change the way it warns people about tropical storms that morph into something else.
At the height of Sandy, as the hurricane knocked on the Northeast coast, forecasters at the center stopped issuing advisories and warnings because the storm merged with two cold-weather systems,...
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March 2013
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Local News is Hard to Do
Especially when it comes to swimming cats.
H/T: Mashable.
ok, I just lost it over this swimming cat, too. It’s a cat in a life jacket! In a pool! Look at its paws!
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February 2013
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US hopes toxic mice bombs help Guam deal with... →
Think invasive snakes, such as Florida’s Burmese pythons, aren’t that big a deal? Brown tree snakes in Guam have decimated wildlife, bitten residents, knocked out power and tarnished the Pacific island’s tourism industry.
The U.S. government’s plan to deal with the brown tree snake: toxic mice bombs. That is, dead mice laced with painkillers that are toxic to the snakes....
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Reporter's notebook: Quotes I didn't use from...
A woman hunting snakes for the first time:
“It’s such a long drive out here to the Everglades. It got so boring, we busted out the chewing tobacco.”
A man who led military veterans on several python hunts:
“You can hear the chest hair growing when they’re jumping on those snakes.”
Roughly 1,600 people from 38 states and Canada signed up for the python...
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That AWESOME moment when you realize that your...
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January 2013
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