Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
What began in 1996 as an annual one-day food-and-wine "extravaganza" hosted at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus has morphed into a four-day culinary power summit overlooking the ocean. The man behind the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is founder and director Lee Sch...
Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
... said Sholom Neistein, who as president of the Student Government Association at the Biscayne Bay campus represents 15,000 of the school's nearly 39,000 students. ``We already had a 15 percent tuition increase, a 3.5 percent textbook hike and another 3.5 percent more for the activities fee. We don't think this is right. The cost of commencement should be included in all that we're...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Local author Edwidge Danticat, a recent MacArthur ``Genius Award'' winner, will speak at a Florida International University event next week.<p/> The Haitian-born author, who last week received the prestigious award that comes with a prize of $500,000, will speak at an event of the Honors College at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Mary Ann Wolfe Theater on the Biscayne Bay Campus, 3000...
