Father, entrepreneur, dresses most of Little Havana. I can’t express how happy it makes me to be able to tell the story of this special Father/Calle Ocho business owner...
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Two Early East Little Havana Neighborhoods South of Today’s Calle Ocho In previous installments of this column, we learned that part of today’s Little Havana lying north...
If you're like most people following most media, you probably missed something really special that made its way into law out of Miami City Hall a few weeks back. The...
In this edition of Calle Ocho News, we would like to highlight another “Calle Ocho” icon that visitors come to meet daily. Because he is a staple of the neighborhood, we...
Life House Little Havana Combines New-Age Hospitality with the Culture, Community, and Cuisine of Miami’s Historic Neighborhood Photo Credit: Life House Life House opens...
Early Riverside took a great leap forward in the 1920s amid Greater Miami’s real estate boom, which transformed a frontier town into an emerging metropolitan area. In...
Before there was a Little Havana there was a Riverside. In fact, my first eight years on the planet were spent in an apartment at 1235 S.W. 4th Street, north of Calle...
Saving Little Havana’s Trees When a friend told me about the city’s plans to chop down Little Havana Trees trees in Domino Plaza, next to the Tower Theater, I was...
Over croquetas and cafecito Kiko Suarez shares the memories of his father’s cooking. Gesturing with his hands as he speaks, Kiko describes the Cuban tradition of...
The first newspaper that appeared in America was in Boston in the year 1690 with the name The Publick Occurrences. Since then, and through the course of history, the...