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This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach – Smithsonian Magazine
This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach – The 20-foot-tall installation, titled “Library of Us,” featured titles that hold personal meaning for British artist Es Devlin—who invited visitors to sit on nearby benches and read By Ella Feldman – Daily Correspondent, December 8, 2025 A glowing…
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New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism – PEN America
New Florida Curriculum on Communism is a “Dangerous Recasting” of McCarthyism Education Should Champion Diverse Perspectives, Not Impose a Rigid Set of Beliefs Educational Censorship U.S. Free Expression November 17, 2025 (MIAMI)— PEN America today criticized Florida’s new social studies standards that established a unit on “The History of Communism” for grades 6-12, calling it a…
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Mojitos at La Concha Hotel – A Key West Adventure, Part 1 – The Hemingway Society
The Hemingway Society About Membership Resources Conferences Mojitos at La Concha Hotel: A Key West Adventure, Part 1 By John Hargrove and Sharon Hamilton “There it is!” John said, pointing excitedly out across the water. Rising seven stories tall, from an island along the horizon slowly growing more visible in size as we approached, was…
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Retirement the Margaritaville Way | The New Yorker
At the active-living community for Jimmy Buffett enthusiasts, it’s five o’clock everywhere. Letter from Daytona Beach… By Nick Paumgarten, March 21, 2022 The first person I met at the Bar & Chill was a bald guy in a black T-shirt, black drawstring shorts, and flip-flops, with a Harley-Davidson tattoo on his right arm and a…
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Archive of Ernest Hemingway Writings, Photos Opens to the Public for the First Time | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Privately owned for decades, the materials include a short story featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald, personal effects and rough drafts By Molly Enking, Daily Correspondent, September 26, 2022 3:13 p.m. A veritable treasure trove of papers, artifacts and photos linked to Ernest Hemingway is now accessible to scholars and the public for the first time. As…
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EXCLUSIVE: Now the far right is coming for college too — with taxpayer-funded “classical education” | Salon.com
Republicans are channeling tax dollars to right-wing institutes at colleges across the nation. What’s the endgame? By Kathryn Joyce, Published May 31, 2022 6:00AM (EDT) Last fall, when professors at Flagler College, a private liberal arts school in St. Augustine, Florida, gathered for a faculty senate meeting, they learned that the college administration had worked…
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Book banning is one step away from book burning | Editorial – Sun Sentinel
By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:52 pm The book-burning began only 100 days after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. Torchlight parades in 34 university towns led to bonfires where more than 25,000 volumes went up in flames for being “un-German.” Among them were the works of Germans Thomas…
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Retirement the Margaritaville Way | The New Yorker
By Nick Paumgarten, March 21, 2022 The first person I met at the Bar & Chill was a bald guy in a black T-shirt, black drawstring shorts, and flip-flops, with a Harley-Davidson tattoo on his right arm and a claddagh ring on his left hand. He was drinking and laughing with a few friends. He…
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Florida: “New Web Portal Documents and Catalogues the Black Experience in Tampa Bay”
From the University of South Florida: Source: USF The USF Institute on Black Life (IBL) has created a new web portal to better document Tampa Bay’s historic and contemporary African American communities. The African American Neighborhood Project portal offers a multitude of resources accessible to the community, including oral histories, heritage sites, archival photographs and…
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Baby Boomer Migration Tilts Toward Las Vegas, Tampa And Phoenix
Editors’ Pick | Apr 28, 2021,03:23pm EDT | 517 views Brenda Richardson, Senior Contributor, Real Estate, I cover residential real estate, including buying, selling and trends. Baby Boomers are the wealthiest generation of Americans alive today, and while some may no longer be active in the housing market, plenty are still looking to buy homes.…
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John D. MacDonald’s Mission to Save Florida | CrimeReads
“Last fall, as part of the annual Bouchercon celebration of mysteries and their authors, one panel was devoted to discussing a writer who’s been dead for three decades and a character who last appeared in a book when Reagan was in the White House. One of the panelists, Ace Atkins (The Sinners) showed up in…
