Miami Now: a generation ñ podcast
by bill teck
Miami Now features interviews with the people at work on making Miami awesome, exciting, innovative and worth celebrating. From the arts to sports, to community energy and local excitement - Miami Now goes in-depth , to talk to the South Floridians fostering the positive, provocative, impactful ideas that boost our area - it's about the Miami you need to know about, and is hosted/created by Bill Teck, founder of generation ñ and lifelong Miamian and 305 alumni.
Episodes
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Gus Cabrera - former president of the LBA, on its history, it's role and being a product of this community.
Our guest on the 1st ep of the new season of the generation ñ / Miami Now podcast is Gus Cabrera who is the immediate past president of the LBA. We talked about their role in the community, spoke about growin' up down here, and (Gus is one of the best read guys i know) even talked his top 5…
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Nite Owl Theater: The Radical Moviegoing Experience that Miami Deserves
Part abandoned amusement park, part roadside haunted house, part Sid & Marty Kroft Supershow , part working video store and palace of wonders - there's no moviegoing experience in America quite like what Nayib Estefan is doing with the Nite Owl Theater (which is really a cinema) - but theater…
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Que Pasa USA Today Part 1
As ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A.? Today rolls up to it's 2nd (and final) weekend at the Adrienne Arsht Center's Sanford & Dolores Ziff Operahouse it's a celebration of all that our Cuban community in South Florida is and has been. Gen ñ founder Bill Teck spoke to fantastic actresses Martha Picanes and Vivian...
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John Leland: Happiness Is a Choice You Make
John Leland is an acclaimed writer for the New York Times who's new book, Happiness is a Choice You Make: A Year Among the Oldest Old is a New York Times Bestseller. In a series of profiles with a diverse group of older Americans Leland shares what he's learned about living from this fine group…
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Melissa Carcache and Hialeah, the series
Melissa Carcache is an actress and producer who co-created the new Hialeah series and most recently started on Nickelodeon's Every Witch Way. We spoke about her new comedy series based in the city she grew up in, LA, showbiz, being driven, the difficulties of creating and producing your own show...
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John Capouya , Florida Soul music and Sunshine State R & B
In Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, John Capouya shows that Florida made valuable contributions to soul, on par with notable soul capitals Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia. On this ep of Miami Now i spoke with this wonderful author about his invaluable book…
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Frankie Marcos, Clouds and the Miami Sound
Frankie Marcos & Clouds are some the architects of the 'Miami Sound' that began in the 305 in the late 70s and early 80s. This blend of styles set trends across countless musical boundaries and in anticipation of his celebration concert on November 11th, at Dade County Auditorium, gen ñ founder...
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Luis Bofill on Arsenio Rodriguez
Luis Bofill, one of the great talents of Cuban music today, talks to gen ñ editor Bill Teck about his great new CD paying tribute to Arsenio Rodriguez, one of the all time giants of Cuban music. Luis talks about interpreting the tracks , creating the record, his collaborator and producer Orlando...
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DJ Le Spam Andrew Yeomanson on Spam All Stars, Analog, Record Collecting, City of Progress and Miami
On this ep of Miami Now, a generation ñ podcast - our guest is Andrew Yeomanson, aka DJ Le Spam - we talked about Spam All-Stars, their new album TransOceanic, Record Collecting, his analog (and amazing) recording studio City of Progress, preserving the legacy of Henry Stone, soundtrack recording…
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Miami Now: Give Miami Day and The Miami Foundation with Javier Alberto Soto
On this episode of Miami Now: a generation ñ podcast, we talk with Javier Soto of The Miami Foundation about Give Miami Day, a philanthropic event that last year raised $7 million dollars for 600 charities in Dade County. We spoke about growing up in Miami, a life in the public sector, the role…
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Miami Now: Miami Book Fair with Lissette Mendez
On this episode of Miami Now: a generation ñ podcast we sit down with Lissette Mendez of Miami Book Fair International to get the 411 on how they create , pull off, populate and dream up the largest and most successful event of it's kind in the nation. Lissette was nice enough to speak to us in…
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About this show
Miami Now features interviews with the people at work on making Miami awesome, exciting, innovative and worth celebrating. From the arts to sports, to community energy and local excitement - Miami Now goes in-depth , to talk to the South Floridians fostering the positive, provocative, impactful ideas that boost our area - it's about the Miami you need to know about, and is hosted/created by Bill Teck, founder of generation ñ and lifelong Miamian and 305 alumni.
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