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Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 12, 2015

Hiya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, February 8, 2015

Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday is celebrated by comedian Robert Klein. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 5, 2015

Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday is keyboard player Al Kooper. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Johnny “Guitar” Watson. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, February 1, 2015

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Isaac Donald “Don” Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 29, 2015

Hi, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy: W. C. Fields, who climbed to the top of Broadway, movies, and radio after starting as a lowly, mute vaudeville juggler. Here are some other ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Elmore James, slide guitarist and Blues singer. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1302 – Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician is ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 25, 2015

Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Etta James, who died just 2 years ago. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear: 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 22, 2015

Hiya, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Gospel and Soul singer Sam Cooke, who died tragically in a shooting that made the Headlines Du Jour. Here are some more headlines from ...

Me and Jim Kale ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

More than once I’ve been called the Zelig of the innertubes, popping up to witness pivotal moments in history. A night I spent with Jim Kale, of The Guess Who ...

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to comedian George Burns, who lived through 100 years of Headlines Du Jour. Here are some other headlines from yesteryear: 1265 – The first English parliament ...

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