Unpacking

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 ...

The Latest Play on the Coconut Grove Playhouse

Click to enlarge One of my sources sent me the following document. This appears to be the memorandum that will be voted upon during the Miami-Dade Commission meeting on Thursday, March ...

A Playhouse Trojan Horse Update

These are the arrows in Question 3. I’m not sure why they were blocked off this way yesterday. Last week I received a call from the executive assistant of Art Noriega, ...

Raking Muck in the Big Miami ► Unpacking The Writer

An app that allows me to pretend I’m being sketched on the beach. Hold on, dear readers! It’s that time of the month when I pull back the curtain like Toto ...

When Miami Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff Lied To My Face

Just like on Batman, the lair of the criminals is crooked. Mea culpa. I should have written this up in December, when it happened, but that would make me merely another ...

The Coconut Grove Playhouse Trojan Horse; Part II

Gate left open for the valet parking allowing traffic to go out onto William and Thomas Avenues. Note the arrow on the ground directing traffic out onto Charles Avenue. Part ...

The Coconut Grove Playhouse Trojan Horse; Part I

Some of the parking lots described in this post. Background: Looking south towards the E.W.F. Stirrup House, dwarfed by The Monstrosity, aka ...

Jammed For Time ► Unpacking The Writer

Lately, it seems, I’ve spent more time in the car than writing. Welcome, dear readers. Returnees know this as the regular post pulling back the curtain — AUNTY EM!!! AUNTY EM!!! ...

Packing Up 2014 ► Unpacking The Writer

A billboard erected in my honour will look nothing like this. Howdy to new readers. Old readers know Unpacking The Writer as the monthly post where I pull back the curtain ...

It’s All Nothing But Words ► Unpacking the Writer

Hello again, dear readers. For newbies: Unpacking the Writer is the monthly series in which I expose some of the wrinkles of being a Writer for Hire. I’m excited about a ...

Finding An Old Friend ► Unpacking My Detroit

EMAIL TO: Pastor Kenny SUBJECT: Long Time No See Dear Pastor Kenny: Lately my life is in turmoil. I am in need of something pastoral. Tag. You’re it. I think back to the last ...

Marc D. Sarnoff ► Everything Old Is New Again

I’ve managed (mainly) to avoid writing about corrupt Miami Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff, except as it related to Trolleygate. However, that doesn’t mean Sarnoff was totally off my radar. ...

Another Charles Avenue Bad Neighbour Update

The empty residential lots are immediately behind the Charles Avenue Historic Marker. One of the things the folks who live along Charles Avenue were promised was the valet parking at The ...

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