DOC: “Street Punk! Banda Aceh,” where punk rock refuses to die!
WATCH IT IN FULL HERE!! Film Synopsis: Eleven years ago, a massive undersea earthquake triggered an Indian Ocean tsunami, killing 167,000 people in Indonesia’s Aceh Province. Since…
Michael Brun delivers a message from Haiti — one summer block party at a time
Michael Brun’s Bayo Block Party takes a celebration of Haiti’s spirit on the road, and he is bringing his friends with him too. By Maria…
Forever CELIA, Fifteen Years After Her Death
By: Maria Bakkalapulo for Songlines Magazine Visiting the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in 1990, Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso walked down the…
The American Dream Miami mall could be an urban planning nightmare for residents
by Maria Bakkalapulo for Marketplace. Click here to hear the Marketplace story American Dream Miami, a $4 billion retail and entertainment complex, won final zoning approval…
Miami’s Little Haiti Fights to Survive
Michael Brun holds his microphone out to the crowd that fills the courtyard of Miami’s Little Haiti Cultural Complex for the Bayo Block Party. The New…
The Florida Everglades: Nature’s Shock Absorber
By Maria Bakkalapulo for Sierra Club Everyone knows the Everglades as a wet place, but there can be too much of a good thing, and excess…
ÌFÉ Communes with the Orishas for Musical Inspiration
ÌFÉ’s song “Umbo (Come Down)” has deep lyrics – a cry out to Olokun, the Orisha that lives at the bottom of the sea. “The song…
Legendary Cuban Jazz Percussionist Igancio Berroa
Ignacio Berroa is living the dream. “I don’t know if you can imagine, being from an island in the Caribbean where the political system wouldn’t even…
