Kelley Mitchell
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Exclusive Borscht Premiere: "Waiting For Berta"
If your feet still haven't recovered from all that walking during Art Basel and Miami Art Week, we have the perfect suggestion for you: sit down, relax and → Read More
Hear Why Investigators Think They Found Part Of Amelia Earhart's Plane
Have you ever wondered why there is an Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah near Opa-locka Executive Airport? The missing pilot's last stop in the continental → Read More
Canine Cancer: When A Dog Receives Chemotherapy
Editor's note: This post follows WLRN's Kelley Mitchell's experience of taking her dog to the animal oncologist. Read the first post, When Cancer Comes → Read More
When Cancer Comes Calling: The Canine Kind
I'm not sure I really "battled" breast cancer back in 2002, as much as it battled me. But after a year of two chemotherapies, radiation and surgery, cancer → Read More
Latin Music Fest Spans Generations
When music crosses generations, then you know it’s a serious sound. That’s what’s fueling the first-ever Siempre Fresco music series, taking place Oct. 16 → Read More
Look Up! It's Turkey Vulture Time In South Florida
We may not get the brilliant reds and yellows of leaves changing to signal a switch of season in South Florida, but there is, without question, a definite → Read More
Reporting On Duvalier: Diary Of A Dictator
There can come a time when reporters and photographers spend so much of their working lives immersed in covering one issue, one person or one country, → Read More
An FIU Doctor's Experience With The Ebola Outbreak
It wasn’t Dr. Aileen Marty’s first trip to West Africa and it likely won’t be her last. The Florida International University professor of infectious → Read More
How Miami Vice Made Miami Nice
It was a magical mix of mood and music. But when it all came together back in 1984, there were legitimate concerns that an edgy, sexy television show → Read More
Telemundo News Anchor José Diaz-Balart Gets A New Show On MSNBC
José Diaz-Balart says he doesn’t think of his new daily English-language show on MSNBC as South Florida being ready for the national spotlight – he thinks → Read More
Why The Lionfish Really Is The Terminator
Central Casting could call on Arnold Schwartzenegger should there ever be a movie made titled "The Lionfish." That's how efficient a predator the invasive → Read More
Why Zoo Miami Kept Donors Of Millions Secret
Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill is an expert in animal behavior. But it was the behavior of two humans that has had a profound effect on his → Read More
Mosquitoes In Miami: Is It Safe To Spray?
Miami-Dade's Mosquito Control operation is the oldest in Florida. Operations manager Chalmers Vasquez says it started in 1935. "There are two reasons that → Read More
Taxpayers Saddled With Miami-Dade Police Settlement For Botched Sting
Miami-Dade County taxpayers are most likely on the hook for settlement payments in a county police sting operation where three alleged home invasion → Read More
Remember That Proposed City Center For Pembroke Pines?
City Center was supposed to be the start of a new way of life for residents of Pembroke Pines. A downtown of sorts with shopping, restaurants and even a → Read More
Miami Honors NPR Host Michel Martin
Don't be surprised if you see Michel Martin tearing up a bit on Thursday, May 8, when she visits Miami to receive this year's Hank Meyer Headliner Award -- → Read More
Why Rep. Katie Edwards Supports Medical Marjiuana
Before there was a constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana in Florida on this coming November ballot, there was West Broward Representative Katie → Read More
Meet The New Leader Of Gay Advocacy Group SAVE
It's the largest advocacy group for gay rights in South Florida and it's once again known as SAVE -- Safeguarding American Values for Everyone. Twenty-one → Read More
Teens Can Find Time To Rhyme During National Poetry Month
It was the Everglades that brought out the poet in Coral Gables High School student James Lachterman. And in under 20 lines of rhyme, the then 15-year-old → Read More
Why An Orlando Attorney Supports Medical Marijuana
On Nov. 4, state voters will decide whether to make medical marijuana legal. The proposed constitutional amendment got enough petition signatures to make → Read More