MAKING WISHES HAPPEN
WINGS FOR WISHES took place on Saturday, March 9, 2019 behind Sports Grill South Miami. The 5th Annual Wings For Wishes raised $250,000 to help sponsor wishes through Make-A-Wish® Southern Florida. Wings For Wishes, presented by AirSouth Mechanical, and co-hosted by Make-A-Wish Champions Gal Bensaadon and Brian Exelbert and Sports Grill South Miami, is a family-friendly ... Read more
ARTS IN SOMI
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS AT THE U Transport yourself into the roaring 1920’s with this exciting and exhilarating musical based on the Joseph Moncure poem of the same name. With a tuneful and pulsating score by Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family), The Wild Party follows Vaudeville performers Queenie and Burrs as they navigate their tumultuous relationship ... Read more
DR. JORGE BLANCO IMAGES DENTISTRY
Dr. Jorge Blanco is celebrating two milestones this year: a practitioner of general dentistry for 30 years and the tenth year in his South Miami office on Red Road. Practically a native Floridian (his parents moved to Miami when he was two), Dr. Blanco attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, Loyola University (Bachelor of Science) and the University of Tennessee ... Read more
PUBLISHERS – READERS COMMENTS
INTO THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER… heard the phrase “the dog days of summer;” well it seems we’ve got a kennel full of those dogs! With record days of high temperatures, it’s been brutal so far! We just have to “weather through it” until mid-October, although that start time is gotten pushed back in the past ... Read more
AN OASIS OF DISCOVERY -THE MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER
On a steamy sidewalk in Miami’s financial district, experiencing a kind of awestruck claustrophobia from towering condos and offices, it is easy to become disconnected from the garden. Yet in South Florida we are surrounded by lush gardens, both natural and manmade. From the 1.5 million acres that comprise the Everglades to the hundreds of ... Read more
WHAT’S NEW IN TOWN – August/September 2018
NOW THAT’S ITALIAN! Hailing from Staten Island, New York, Michael D’Andrea is bringing the family’s culinary tradition to his new location on Sunset Drive in SOMI. Michael was raised in the New York borough, where his parents owned and operated The RoadHouse restaurant for forty-five years, opening in 1971. He was schooled in the culinary ... Read more
THE UNDERLINE – Miami-Dade County Pedestrian Bicycle Crashes ’05-’13
SOMI MAGAZINE UPDATE WITH MEG DALY THE UNDERLINE IS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE PROJECT TO CREATE A 10-MILE URBAN TRAIL AND LINEAR PARK FROM THE MIAMI RIVER TO DADELAND SOUTH. Friends of The Underline a 501(c)(3) non-profit advocating to transform the underutilized land below Miami’s Metrorail into a 10-mile linear park, urban trail and canvas for ... Read more
L’ATLELIER SCHOOL OPENS THE CENTER FOR THE CULTURE OF CREATIVITY
Simonetta Cittadini, founder of the L’Atelier School in the City of South Miami opened the Center for the Culture of Creativity (CCC) on the 21st of August. The first such center in the city, the CCC sponsors “Ateliers” (artist studios or workshops) “that empower the intelligences through participation, connections, relationships, aesthetics and innovation.” The center ... Read more
THE CHEF’S TABLE – Salade Nicoise
RECIPES OF SIGNATURE DISHES PREPARED BY OUR AREA CHEFS. CHEFS Veronique & Ahmed Youbi RESTAURANT Café BonJour FACTS A popular eatery for over ten years, the couple started in SOMI at La Crepe Bistro on Red Road where they were for seven years, and then opened Café Bonjour on US1 & 62 Ave. Veronique is from ... Read more