Sundial

Kyle Sielaff is the Miami Marlins’ new play-by-play host on Marlins Radio. He narrated the excitement of the Marlins making the MLB playoffs this season.

Jamar Roberts is a choreographer and former professional dancer. He has a new work premiering with Miami City Ballet. He tells us about the women who mentored him and his complicated relationship with his hometown of Miami.

Singer Becky G talks with Alt. Latino after her Tiny Desk performance. Then, Alt. Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre join host Carlos Frías to talk about their "El Tiny" concert series.

Monica Sorelle is a Haitian-American filmmaker from Miami. Her first feature film, Mountains, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. It follows a construction worker whose job is to demolish homes in his own neighborhood, Little Haiti.

Ashlee K. Thomas, a local playwright, tells us about her musical The Busy Bees’ Great Adventure playing at the Arsht Center. It's about a group of bees on a quest to learn about the environmental crisis. Public schools worked together to build a whole curriculum around the show

Stéphane Denève is the artistic director of the New World Symphony. His journey there started with hiding in the back of a chapel. He tells us his story and what we can expect from the orchestra this season.

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Jason Seife's first solo show, “Coming to Fruition," is at the Perez Art Museum Miami. His style honors his Cuban and Syrian parents.

Laura McDermott Matheric, Coconut Creek’s first poet laureate, talks about being inspired by her community of 'Creekers' and how several learning disorders changed her life's trajectory from business to the arts.

Yvonne Lee Odom has had a 45-year teaching career in Delray Beach, she desegregated Palm Beach County schools as a 15-year-old high school sophomore and is tennis star Coco Gauff’s grandmother.

Harry and Michelle Coleman went from journalists to the kitchen. Their new smokehouse doesn't make your usual barbecue, they've created Miami barbecue. They tell us about their brisket rubbed with ground espresso, ribs glazed with guava-chili sauce and the smoked flan.

Comedian Gadiel del Orbe got his start making viral videos for Buzzfeed. He focused on the Latino community, specifically making comedy para sus domincanos. He tells us how he went from being the funny guy on a Navy aircraft carrier to being that funny guy on YouTube.

South Florida native Kenneth A. Jessell is the president of Florida International University. He tells us how he went from being the first in his family to go to college to leading FIU.

The search for his mother brought Jessie Wooden to the Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Brownsville. It’s an all-Black cemetery built at a time when South Florida was segregated in life and death.

Siham Inshassi is a recipient of this year’s Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Miami Book Fair. She's writing her first novel and she joins us to talk about how she’s honing her voice in Miami.

Comedian and actor Dale Elliott Jr. has a big following on social media for his comedy sketches and stories that depict Caribbean families and culture.

The Miami Herald's new executive editor, Alex Mena, started working at the paper when he was 19 years old. He's now the first immigrant in his position.

Winsome Bingham's new book The Walk tells the story of a woman taking her granddaughter to knock on doors in their neighborhood to get out the vote. Her children's books teach kids important lessons about family, community and civic action.

Xavier Cortada, Miami-Dade County’s first artist in residence, wants to tackle the big issues that affect his home in South Florida with his art.

Justin Eggen is an award-winning poet and U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran studying war poetry at Florida Atlantic University. He joins us to talk about using poetry to unravel his war experience.

When Precious Symonette became a creative writing teacher at Miami Norland Senior High, she brought in the principles of the Freedom Writers — a movement started in California in the 1990s to teach students to write through their troubles. She started the Viking Freedom Writers, named for the high school’s mascot. She’s now taught more than 3,000 students these principles. Some have gone on to bec...