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 ...

A Note From The Road

Spent yesterday at the Ann Arbor Art Fair. That’s where I encountered this Foxite. It was tempting to jump into the shot, but then I remembered guarding David Onley on ...

A Note From The Road

Apologies for not keeping Not Now Silly updated on this pilgrim’s progress as promised. The only app that allows me to post has intermittent connectivity troubles. While trying to solve ...

Packing for the Road Trip ► Unpacking The Writer

I’m writing and posting this month’s Unpacking The Writer a little early to get it posted before I leave on Monday for the 2nd Annual Sunrise to Canton Road Trip ...

A Series of Tubes ► Unpacking the Writer

He went that away!!! Welcome back, dear readers. For the uninitiated, Unpacking the Writer is the monthly series in which I pull back the curtain, just like Toto did in the ...

The 2nd Annual Sunrise to Canton Road Trip For Research

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Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins ► Chapter Two

Our next destination in Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins. This path runs along another section of The Colour Line in Coconut Grove. Note the fence. We’ll get back to ...

A Different Drummer ► Unpacking the Writer

A funny thing happened at the 32nd Annual King Mango Strut Back in December, when I covered the 32nd Annual King Mango Strut, I could have hardly imagined it would be ...

A Grand Day For Grand Avenue ► Gibson Plaza Groundbreaking

Artist rendering: Grand Avenue and Gibson Plaza A gala day on Grand in The Grove, for the Gibson groundbreaking. This mixed-use, residential-educational building is the first all-new affordable housing built in ...

Unpacking The Writer ► April 2014

Welcome readers both new and old. Once a month, on an irregular schedule, I drop a blog post under the rubric Unpacking the Writer, where I pull back the curtain ...

Who Fixed the Charles Avenue Historical Marker? ► A Coconut Grove Mystery

The condition of the historic marker on April 21, 2014. It was just a week ago I posted Surprises on the Latest Visit to Charles Avenue, a summing up of the ...

Surprises on the Latest Visit to Charles Avenue

The Charles Avenue Historical Marker is across the street from the E.W.F. Stirrup House. Once called Evangelist Street, Charles is one of the oldest streets in Miami, which is why ...

Unpacking the Writer ► Closing Out Another Year

Crazy angles. Just like Batman. Long-time readers of Not Now Silly know that Unpacking The Writer is a monthly feature, in which I pull back the curtain and reveal the man ...

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