Sting, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are among those lending both their high profiles and their voices to "This is Haiti." Launched by actor Fisher Stevens and Green Family Foundation president Kimberly Green, the initiative consists of a series of radio-broadcast Public Service Announcements that flip the script a bit...

The Host of NPR's "Fresh Air" on the Art of the Interview

There may be no better interviewer working today than Fresh Air host Terry Gross. Not even Errol Morris, who concentrates on a single subject, or Ira Glass, who most concerns himself with the unknown, can boast Gross's alacrity...

Like all good Americans, I pay my taxes. Well, at least I try to anyway. When you work as I do for a dozen different publications, sometimes things run awry.

Such was the case in '07 when I'd forgotten to file on a W9. I didn't know I'd forgotten, of...

It's one of those nights I'll never forget. Mike and I had been dreaming about it for years, through all the play-acting and the lip-syncing and the record-buying and the cartoons. We would hope and we would pray: What if one day we could see the Jackson 5?

Then it...

A Miami Man Tries to Right His Life, Only to Have it Stolen Away by the Government

Imagine waking one morning and logging on to your bank's site to see if one of the companies you work for has finally come through with a long overdue payment, only...

MIAMI--Pulling up to the North Dade Regional Library in the inner city suburb of Miami Gardens for one of Florida's numerous early voter rallies, the first thing that strikes you is the line of early voters itself. Not just any line, mind you, but a line that begins at the...

MIAMI --- George, er, Jason isn't joking around -- Jason Alexander, that is, the funny man who will forever be mostly known as George Costanza. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Hell, how many other folks do you know who have become universally recognized characters? Still an actor's supposed...

Pity that poor Marie Antoinette's subjects didn't have the same sweet tooth as folks in Miami, because then the reply to her suggestion that they "eat cake" would not have been the lopping off of her head, but, perhaps, a much more civilized: "We want pie! We want...

MIAMI --- Julie (not her real name) swore she wasn't being the least bit ironic:

"I'm actually going to vote this year, and I'm going to vote for The Big O!"

But were you even old enough to vote in the last election?

"No, but still."

It had to happen....

MIAMI-- "Why watch it? McCain's already lost the election."

So spoke a "nominally" Republican woman last night as she was taking a smoke break outside of The Lakes Cafe here in suburban Miami Lakes, the town built by the (Governor Bob) Graham family.

The relatively affluent...

MIAMI: Duos don't get much more dynamic than Academy Award nominee Rosie Perez and New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez.

Alone, each is a formidable force - Perez and her nearly two decades on stage and screen; Velazquez and her 15 years serving New York's 12th Congressional District in the...

MIAMI -- The Obama campaign couldn't have planned it better. At the exact moment Air Force One was touching down here to deliver the president to a fundraiser for what The Miami Herald called "imperiled members of his party" (read: Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and the brothers Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart),...

If the presidential election had been held during Tuesday night's debate watching party at Miami's stunning Cesar Pelli-designed Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, McCain not only would've lost -- he'd have gotten trounced. Actually, trounced might be too soft a word for the hard fact that someone received...

"I'm not telling you who to vote for; I'm telling you who I'm voting for: Barack Obama!"

So said Jay-Z near the beginning of the first of two "Last Chance for Change" concerts here at Miami's Bayfront Park Amphitheatre. And if there was one person amid the crowd...

South Beach, Florida could hardly be considered a hotbed of political activity, what with its sun-drenched days and liquor-soaked nights, politics are generally about the last thing on anybody's mind. But you've gotta hand it to Sarah Palin, she sure can galvanize a crowd - especially when it consists of...

Florida -- the Rules Are Different Here. That may have been how tourism officials chose to market our state way back in '86, but things haven't changed much, especially in politics. We still have folks like former Representative Mark Foley recently escaping criminal charges (congressional privilege sure must be nice)...