I spent another nine months in custody of the immigration system, which was only a good story for those who benefited ...

Harry Gamez Hernandez is a former Miamian currently living in Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia, where he owns a little store.

We along with her friend made the long and arduous journey to see Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) ...

Poem for a Winn-Dixie Bagboy is the newest poem by beloved South Florida writer, translator, and journalist, Abel Folgar.

In March 2021, Ben Childs and Hector Diaz had the idea to start the 561 Music Podcast to spotlight diverse local music. Five ...

If you are publishing a book, building a speaker brand, upgrading your LinkedIn profile, or trying to look like the person your ideas say you are, a headshot is not a detail. It is the image that ...

Some songs take years to arrive where they’re meant to be. Not because they weren’t written or recorded, but because life intervened somewhere between the moment the tape started rolling and the ...

It’s the age-old question, as a band loses its original members, at what point does it become simply a tribute band. We all know how important original singer and songwriter Pete Shelley was to the ...

“…The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of ‘benign neglect.’” – Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to President Richard ...

In the 1960s, when cockfighting was still legal in the United States, Charles Willeford (Little Rock, Arkansas, 1919 – Miami, Florida, 1988)—a writer whose literature consistently exposed the harsher ...

Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ guitarist/co-writer Mike Campbell recently published his memoir, Heartbreaker, which debuted at No. 9 on The New York Times’ best-seller list. There are a few ...

Come spend another evening on the couch with MLE and Mr. E (me) and listen as we talk about making our new album Don’t I Know You From Somewhere? (available here). You can listen to our conversation ...