# 85 File radio story

Radio is pure storytelling. Or the theater of the mind, as a great professor once told me.

This piece was so fun to report for radio. (The Miami Herald and WLRN have a partnership, which rocks.)

The piece is about a group of artists and writers in South Florida - the Foryoucansee collective. They're trying to break Latin stereotypes and celebrate the Miami they know – 17 syllables at a time.

So, here’s some Hialeah Haiku to go with your rice and beans.

(This aired on Aug. 4 on WLRN-Miami Herald News. I created the video in order to post online.)

#73 Get on A1

I had two stories on the front page this week. One very inspiring. One very tragic.

Read about Hialeah High's pipeline to the Ivy Leagues. The story is about kids who are smart and work hard - and also the school's network of alumni who help younger students make it.

Then there's the Hialeah massacre. A distraught husband goes to the Cuban restaurant where his wife just got a job - part of her attempt to leave him.

He kills her, three other female employees and wounds three other women. He shoots himself in the head a few blocks away. So many lives shattered.