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 ...

Aries Development: Bad Neighbour Or Worst Neighbour Ever?

Gino Falsetto, the Anti-Midas I’ve written so many times here about Gino Falsetto, that I should rename this joint The Falsetto Voice. Gino, who ran away from a string of bankrupted ...

Shocker!!! E.W.F. Stirrup House Plans Are Finally On File

CLICK TO ENLARGE: This is the overall plan for the E.W.F. Stirrup House and Property. Charles Avenue runs along the top and Main Highway is the angled street at the right. The ...

Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins ► Chapter Three

CLICK to enlarge: Red lines represent streets never built, despite being on original planning maps. I’ve written about Marler Avenue previously (Read Part Two of Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins). ...

The Accidental Tour Guide ► Unpacking The Writer

This will be a short Unpacking The Writer this month. For the uninitiated, Unpacking the Writer is the monthly feature in which I pull back the curtain and share some ...

A Writer’s Biography

Renovations continue behind the scenes at the Not Now Silly Newsroom. To that end I have been prepping several thingies to be posted on the back end of the site. ...

Unpacking The Writer ► Packing Up the Newsroom

Welcome to another exciting episode of Unpacking the Writer, the monthly column in which I pull back the curtain — Wizard of Oz-like — and expose some of the inner-workings ...

A Tribute to Don Knotts ► Morgantown’s Favourite Son

DATELINE: Morgantown, West Virginia – As part of the 2nd Annual Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research, the Not Now Silly Newsroom sent ace investigative reporter Headly Westerfield to ...

Unpacking The Writer ► Master of My Own Domain

Nothing up my sleeve! Welcome to another exciting edition of Unpacking The Writer, the monthly series in which I pull back the curtain and reveal the inner-workings of the Not Now ...

Fighting Blight In Coconut Grove

The most recent notice on The Bicycle Shop, citing the owner, Coconut Grove Playhouse LLC., with “First Year failure to register a Blighted, unsecured, or abandoned structure.” My recent trip ...

While Detroit Crumbled, Gilchrist Street Hung On

The little house I used to live in. Pops bought it for around $3,000 in 1957. I left Detroit in 1971, but my parents stayed in the little house I used ...

Unpacking the Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research

Panorama of the 8 Mile Wall, behind the houses on Birwood in Dcetroit, Michigan The 2nd Annual Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research was full of surprises. Surprises are the ...

A Note From The Road

I’m now on the return trip, stopping the night in Elyria, Ohio. This sign is at a rest stop on the information highway, aka I-75. I didn’t update Not Now Silly ...

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