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Jason Katz

3 months

I went to the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference and wrote about it for @parisreview The piece is full of conspiracy theory ideation, paranormal activity, rubbery chicken, and Ocala, Florida shit. I'm really really excited to share it. Read and enjoy 👽

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At the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference - The Paris Review

“I was on an airboat near Turner River Road in the Glades and I saw it there.”

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Jason Katz

4 months

Back when municipal documents went hard

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@BillyCorben @profjaffar Goddamn the Guy Fieri sunglass placement reveal at the end

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2 years

Ok coconut grove cul de sac

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2 months

Of course, we find ourselves in a Florida where the governor is trying to put golf courses on protected state park land... NO WAY DUDE NO THANKS Poster by Russell Beans

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3 years

hi I’m new to town and I simply love the energy of Miami’s up and coming Windwood neighborhood you just don’t see this in Williamsburg anymore a place which I am tired of thankfully Miami’s so new and fresh

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Jason Katz

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My Miami research Moby Dick is this apartment building in Little Havana at 559 SW 3rd Street -- it's made of coral and was built in 1911. There probably aren't too many buildings this old in the city yet I run into dead ends trying to find out its history.

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There are many recurring Miami characters to see on the road: thong bicyclist guy, afilador, etc -- but lore states that if you see this really shiny MDT truck, you'll be granted 7 years of good cocaine

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6 months

40 years ago the Miami Metrorail began service with this goofy as hell ad

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3 years

I try not to be a cynical person but I'd like to make a thread of the worst "out of towner parachutes into Miami" articles. I'll start with this one:

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4 years

@nytimes he was out here worrying about the wrong wall the whole time

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3 years

VANATEE PLATE: ORDERED

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3 years

I’m hopeful but it’s become clear Surfside will be the most significant loss of life in Miami-Dade history since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. A nearly once-in-a-century tragedy. People seem to be moving on without processing that this will change us forever.

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3 years

In case there was any question about how toxic this would get

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5 months

The white whale has been somewhat conquered thanks to a very generous archivist at the City of Coral Gables who follows @IslandiaJournal on instagram. This home was handbuilt by its original owner, George T. Booker... See clipping below for more detail and context.

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Jason Katz

5 months

My Miami research Moby Dick is this apartment building in Little Havana at 559 SW 3rd Street -- it's made of coral and was built in 1911. There probably aren't too many buildings this old in the city yet I run into dead ends trying to find out its history.

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2 years

just an unmarked mangrove restoration island at bill baggs state park on key biscayne?

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5 months

Behold, WIDE FLORIDA

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4 years

@IraHeatBeat This oughta make the situation better

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Jason Katz

3 years

Finally, a miami business with an eye towards the future

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Jason Katz

2 months

Presenting: a Florida metaphor. The pool at Rio Pinar Country Club in Orlando was huge and Florida-shaped. They eventually filled it in and let it become part of the golf course...

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4 months

miami river magazine (1987)

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2 years

South Miami, The City of Peasant Living

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2 years

When they ask me where I live

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2 years

THE RULES AT MARLINS BALLPARK

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2 months

“The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future—Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, MIAMIFICATION” Tagline gives me chills bro

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4 years

It's the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues this year. A tip of the cap to @nlbmprez from Miami's Dorsey Park, former home of the Miami Giants and Ethiopian Clowns.

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3 months

Fifteen years ago today, my band (no I am not telling you the name) filled Churchills for our only ever performance. I have no memory of it. I'd just gotten my wisdom teeth removed and was on painkillers. Within two years our guitarist was deported, our drummer in the army, etc..

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2 years

More of these billboards on turnpike instead of *those* billboards

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4 years

@Kristen_Arnett I believe this is what Bill Murray calls every bar he shows up to

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@KentWascom when the cocaine dollars went directly towards art departments -- that's when Miami was best

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3 years

Today years old when I learned FIU’s mascot was once a vague and amorphous solar body just like Burnie

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8 months

People really underestimate the creative juice that was flowing in Miami in the 1960s and 70s. Look at these covers of the Village Post, a Coconut Grove literary and arts pubs.. Look at em!

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Jason Katz

6 months

Not sure I’ve seen a clearer sign of end times

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CBS News Miami

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US Navy: Nuclear sub to be named USS Miami, Gloria Estefan to be the sponsor

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Jason Katz

10 months

Winning the toddler gift holidays with a die cast @IRideMDT 60’ articulated flying xcelsior. Building our own #betterbusnetwork

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2 years

Miami, I am looking for a galaxy spray paint artist who performs live like this is cocowalk in 1999. Please advise. Jason

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3 months

One of my favorite details which arose while writing this piece was that one of the best known Bigfoot believers was Peter Matthiessen, who helped found the Paris Review... his spirit is alive in this

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The Paris Review

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“Bigfooters abound on all sides of the political spectrum, and our ranks include Peter Matthiessen, a left-wing political activist, environmental champion, and founding editor of The Paris Review.” @jaylandia_ at the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference.

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Jason Katz

3 years

Hear ye, millennials. Come one, come all to the theater your dreams are made of.

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8 months

You learn this answer in Miami pre-k

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Nature is Amazing ☘️

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What would you do if an Alligator chases you?🐊

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Jason Katz

3 months

Miami UFO Center logo (1987?)

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Jason Katz

3 years

I've been on cloud nine this week: Paternity leave, a Knight grant, and now this: @oolitearts and @BurnawayGA have partnered to hire me as the Miami editor of the latter's Atlanta based digital publication. Send me your Miami art review/essay pitches via email or dm!!

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Jason Katz

3 years

Wowowowow somebody tell my high school teachers I did a thing! Thank you @MiamiNewTimes for the love! @IslandiaJournal is just getting started

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4 years

How it started: How it’s going:

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4 years

Pretty damn cool that my first piece for the @MiamiNewTimes is also my first cover story. Here it is once more: an abbreviated history of Negro Leagues baseball in Miami. A tip of the cap again to those keeping this history alive, @nlbmprez @NegroLeagueMan @Marlins

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1 year

This is chaos

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Jason Katz

3 months

South Beach Stories is one of the most significant Miami publications ever… for all its historical faux pas (✌️out Seaquarium) and also its beauty and storytelling(1/)

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7 months

@OfficialJoelF My sister has been on key Biscayne with her 2 year old in the car for almost three hours so far with no explanation. Wild stuff.

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Jason Katz

1 year

Perhaps you needed Frank Zappa gracefully diving into Biscayne Bay today Miami Vice Season 2 Ep. 19 "Payback"

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5 months

It's a real pick yourself up by the bootstraps story, see... Booker excavated the coral rock from the land, built the home, fertilized the rest, and then became a Miami champion vegetable farmer. Just from a stand outside his house alone he made a living.

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2 years

Making my family proud today

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Jason Katz

4 months

We made the @miaminewtimes "Best of" list this year and I'm kvelling. First time we made it was after the launch of Issue 1 and here we are at 10. 🥹 Thank you @theliz4eva and the good peeps doing journalisms over there for lifting the community up. We're in awesome company.

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We're back on the @miaminewtimes "Best of" list! Feeling honored and humbled. We're part of a brave community always up against $$, politics, and frauds. A kind of ironic phrase to use in context of Miami's *issues* but: 𝕒 𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕓𝕠𝕒𝕥𝕤

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3 years

Yes, Miami is pedestrian-friendly

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3 years

Follow @IslandiaJournal grab a copy of issue 2 we’ve got poetry essays myth folklore cryptids and art. Stay away from Windwood.

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3 years

Imagine unfollowing a national park’s Instagram account because they are abiding by cdc mask guidelines

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2 years

🐊Everglades!🌎 #EarthDay For Earth Day I'm sharing the intro to a short-lived yet notable early 1960s tv show called Everglades! Actor Ron Hayes starred as Lincoln Vail, the affable patrolman who defended both the Everglades and integrity of those who lived amongst them.

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3 years

And add in @JoshCeb article in the New Times as a reference

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3 years

New bike lane bumpers on the Venetian. Not perfect but a good start. Now do the rest of Miami.

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2 years

Cat’s out of the bag! Thanks to @gabriellecalise for inviting me in on this tome of Floridiana :) I contributed to the So Fla and Keys chapters. Of all the subjects covered, it was the freedom to define certain aspects of driving, including “The Miami Hello” 🖕I liked best

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Welcome to FLORIDA! A 547-page hyper-local guide to the greatest/strangest (and our most favorite) state in America 🐊🧜‍♀️🌴🏖🐠

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Jason Katz

4 years

Miami tech week has begun

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Jason Katz

3 years

Stoked to have my elegy / future vision of Snowden’s Dam, the quintessential Miami kid bridge jumping spot in @omiamifestival ’s gorgeous Waterproof anthology (The book is wrapped in plastic. It can survive minor spills.)

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7 months

Lol this guy resurfacing in Miami with a "vertical kibbutz" product was foreseeable

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7 months

Adam Neumann's back with Flow, his new multi-family community concept after WeWork. This "vertical kibbutz" in Miami might just redefine living spaces. #Flow #Miami #Reinvention #wecrashed #cre @MasaSonCap

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2 years

I AM MIAMI

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Booker declares "there is no good reason why any average man cannot get ahead here in south Florida, no matter how small his capital..." THIS MAN WAS A PLANT

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3 years

@David_Quinones At the least victim was wearing a mask?

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4 years

Good morning, but especially to San Francisco's Castro District and this unflappable @mobydickenergy

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3 years

The question in 1973 was “Turtle Steaks” or “Broiled Turtle Steaks” — thankfully @CoralMorph here to protect all manner of tropical fauna

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4 months

This billboard is one of my favorite images in the @FLMemory collection

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Florida Memory

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Four 20th century billboards from the Florida Photographic Collection.✨ 1. Young women posing by Paradise Park sign, 1950. 2. Centel ad for call forwarding in Tallahassee, 1984. 3. Billboard about protecting manatees, 1980s. 4. Governors' Grove billboard, Clermont, 1958.

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4 years

@Kristen_Arnett the pop category the only category of the night for grampas

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2 years

Peacocks wandering coral gables in a malaise today, soaking wet

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4 months

TROPIC MAGAZINE COVERS 1967-1998

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#OnThisDay 32 years ago, Hurricane Andrew split some palms and relocated some boats

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4 years

wait WHAT is this mural in wynwood?! Lolll looks like Mayor Francis Suarez (airpods) interviewed by developer Moishe Mana (forearms)

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3 years

Miami, meet your Hemingway. I interviewed Leicester's daughters & spelunked archives to learn more about Ernest's brother. From liveaboard sailboats in the Grove to their Venetian Islands home, he & his family were a hub of supernatural activity.

In Miami, Ernest's Brother Les Hemingway Founded a Micronation, Hosted Séances, and Hunted Nazis

In Miami, Ernest's brother Leicester "Les" Hemingway founded a micronation, hunted Nazi submarines, and dipped his feet in mythical healing waters. By JASON KATZ

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4 months

Pegasus and dragon at the horse racing place in Hallandale no question

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4 months

The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue is coming to kill you. Choose one (1) other world monument as your champion to defend you

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3 years

Reading from @omiamifestival ’s Waterproof tonight alongside a bunch of Miami superstars! My piece is about Snowden’s Dam, the jumping bridge on Old Cutler and 173rd. Here’s me and the boys in 2006, chancletas on.

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4 months

@ndrichardson lol nailed it i literally set this image to Glenn Frey's You Belong to the City on ig

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4 years

@michellelegro This is more likely the explanation of his death than what we've been told - that he was a drunk and a madman. The drunken madman narrative was originally woven by his nemesis: Rufus Griswold

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Jason Katz

5 months

This is our art museum

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PAMM’s new billboard featuring tequila and soccer in downtown Miami.

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Jason Katz

2 years

Friends, I have a secret: I have not completed my MFA yet and I have zero regrets. Islandia is a finalist for an awesome literary magazine award :)

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2 years

Ahhhh Islandia is a finalist for a @CLMPorg Firecracker Award. Best Debut Magazine!!! Honored to be in the company of other wonderful publications.

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Jason Katz

4 years

Will never forget driving past this exit in Montana years ago. Got such a kick. Now, thanks to @chaddundas and his epic Death in the West podcast, I realize this exit isn't so much absurd as it is a jumping off point into the story of American labor. A must listen.

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Jason Katz

2 years

(1/5) CALL FOR PITCHES Miami folks, the Islandia substack is live. We're publishing hidden histories and short book reviews related to Miami/Florida/Caribbean. Please message me here or email islandiajournal at gmail dot com to pitch ideas!

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Islandia | Substack

Hidden Histories, Book Reviews, Stories, Poems, and other bits of from Islandia, Miami, and Florida. Click to read Islandia, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

islandia.substack.com

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Jason Katz

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Been down a rabbit hole of Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine, a Sunday magazine of culture with multiple pulitzers to its name. Herald stopped it in 1998. A little known, sordid piece of Tropic history was when, in 1989, Tropic shared locations of Miami-area abortion clinics...

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Jason Katz

2 years

I collect and digitize documents related to South Florida ecology so you don't have to. Simply enjoy.

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Islandia Journal

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2 years

Would you like to read firsthand accounts of life as a hermit in the ten thousand islands in 1980? Visit the currently under construction but somewhat revamped... ISLANDIA DIGITAL LIBRARY

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3 years

Really excited to share the forthcoming publication of my little love letter to a very special place in Miami: Snowden’s Dam in O, Miami’s Waterproof Anthology Written for everybody born n raised here who ever made the.. wise.. decision to canal dive

Waterproof – OMiami

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Jason Katz

4 years

Sometimes you just gotta make your own damn lit journal

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@BillyCorben Will never forget the pride with which early Wynwood booster proclaimed "no national chains like CVS" would ever destroy the character the of the neighborhood. Newsflash, buddy. Lotta other ways to break something nice.

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3 years

Iconic Miami Vice scene from s4 ep “Evan” in front of Art Deco w Flagler service plaza. An all time favorite.

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4 years

@AoDespair

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11 months

Issue 9 of my precious little Miami journal of art and writing is here. And friends… it is really really kitschy. Big love to all contributors and the Islandia staff. It’s been a 2023 full of trials and tribulations.

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Issue 9, our latest, our kitschiest, is up for preorder now! We've got bar poems, food truck interviews, brazilian butt lift fiction, and sooooo much more...

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7 years

Brickell as seen in Miami Vice episode "Definitely Miami" - 1/10/84

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3 years

Ok one more of these posts and we’re going to need an investigation I’m convinced these are mayor Francis burners

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2 years

Key west has entire gift shops themed around us1 mile marker 0 I’m thinking this is a missed opportunity for miami

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3 years

Might have to retire from the vanity plate game after this one

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4 years

I saw like 5 cop drones flying over the miami protests worth about $5k - money better spent on literacy, community

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6 months

Islandia / Miami / Florida writers in Los Angeles for AWP 2025? Putting together a panel and possibly an event too. Let's mob it.

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Any Florida writers going to AWP 25 in Los Angeles? Trying to put a thang together…

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3 years

Massive thanks to @knightfdn for having faith in Islandia to spread the gospel of Miami arts far and wide! I’m honored to be in the company of such distinguished local creatives. And I’m pumped to bring you more of what I love in 2022 :)

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3 years

So stoked to announce that Islandia is a winner of this year’s Knight Arts Challenge! With grant funding, we’ll be able to expand our publishing reach and add more paid opportunities to Miami’s community of arts and letters. Stay tuned…

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4 years

Why does this huge field in the middle of Edgewater, Wynwood, and the Omni sit empty and locked most days? Most ppl aren't even aware of "Biscayne Park". I went to a meeting a year or two ago where a redevelopment plan was discussed but it's been crickets since. Anybody know?

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3 years

There’s iconic and then there’s me 2 mos after Hurricane Andrew wearing Jordan 7s, dressed as a rocket penguin from Batman Returns (1992)

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Jason Katz

2 years

In honor of the closing of @omiamifestival here's a clip from MV Season 2 Ep. 21 "Free Verse"

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