Linette Garcia | Staff Writer The weather app promised a frigid day but when I stepped outside, I was hit with hot and humid air— the complete opposite of the weather I anticipated for this holiday season. Rather than chillier weather for the holidays, we have scathing heat and if we’re lucky, a bit of […]
Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer In Miami, light pollution can be a silent yet deadly problem in our glowing cityscapes. The health and safety issues that are in the shadows of these artificial lights can make the truth less glamorous. On May 23, Miami commissioners voted to keep electronic billboards up but regulate their hours […]
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief Its barbeque has been lauded by the Miami Herald and PBS’s Check, Please!. Now, this local restaurant run by FIU alumni has reached national acclaim. Couple Harry and Michelle Coleman made the New York Times’s 2023 Restaurant List, with their barbeque and empanada spot ranking among the top 50 restaurants in […]
Nicole Rodil | Staff Writer The Miami scene creates a perfect atmosphere for director Marvin Samel’s newest film– iMorecai. As of February 24th, director Marvin Samel’s debut film iMordecai has been released in theaters. A film based on Samels true life experiences, where his father Mordecai– an immigrant and holocaust survivor, is given his first […]
Andres Rivera | Contributing Writer Imagine knights and archers running full force from the front. You and another soldier are the last line of defense between victory and defeat. Do you run or do you fight? This is the type of intensity seen while LARPing amongst The Duchy of the Shifting Tides. Larping or live-action […]
Alba Rosa | Assistant Opinion Director As we approach King Tide and hurricane season, Miami will be subject to terrible flooding in our streets and unpredictable weather. It’s undeniable that climate change has played a part in this. Also known as sunny-day flooding, King Tides, according to the official City of Miami website, are “higher-than-normal […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer I was born in sunny Miami, the bustling U.S. city that most Latin Americans dream of migrating to in their search for an improved quality of life abroad. My beautiful cosmopolitan, a petulant child of the ever-expanding globalized world, is just as diverse and varied as the people who call it their […]
Irina Barneda / Staff Writer It’s no secret that Miami has a unique style of spoken English. One FIU linguistics professor has been studying what makes the culturally rich dialect so distinctive. “We know from our research that a lot of times, people aren’t aware that they speak a unique variety of English or that […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer As Floridians, many of us thought we would be going back to our lives soon. Now, we are back at point one. After months of being on lockdown, we’re right back at the peak. It seems that Florida will be the next New York City. Florida could be the epicenter of Coronavirus […]
Julia Gomez/Staff Writer Many people don’t realize how unique Miami truly is. We live in a liberal city that is predominantly Latinx. But, just because the non-black Latinx community doesn’t experience racism here, doesn’t make it obsolete. Latinxs still harbor prejudice and can be just as racist towards the Black community as non-Hispanic white people. […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer We’ve all been longing to sunbathe at the beach, have movie nights at the cinema and visit our loved ones since quarantine began. Remember what it was like to hang out with friends? On May 18, Miami-Dade and Broward County entered phase one of reopening businesses after being on lockdown since March. […]
Gustavo Contreras/Staff Writer With the ethnic diversity that makes up Florida’s population, a candidate associating themselves with socialism would cost their party votes. Principally, both Latino and non-Hispanic American voters alike are not in good taste with anything deemed socialist—regardless of policy. Americans are strongly opposed to socialism, and this hatred of the philosophy is […]
