Fiction

A teenager loses her family after a nuclear meltdown in Chris Bohjalian’s new novel

What are you reading now?

Memoir

Therapist uses humor to describe the world of wounded soldiers

Fiction

The emotional turmoil of entering a new, American life

The travel troubleshooter

What to do when things go ‘awry’ with your Hotwire booking

Q: I recently used Hotwire for the first time to book a hotel in Honolulu. I downloaded the Hotwire app, b...

Southern Cross Stargazer for July 13-19, 2014

By nightfall, eastbound Mars snuggles 1.3 degrees with the star Spica in Virgo in the west-southwest. Great...

Cruises

Carnival is rockin’ the boat with shipboard concerts

More cruise lines are adding brand-name entertainment to their ships.

Georgia

Antebellum Trail meanders through towns that Gen. Sherman spared

I am a Southerner, through and through. If it’s fried, I eat it. If it’s a one-syllable word,...

Chew on This

Food-based therapies becoming mainstream

Morning television can educate and infuriate.

Skin Deep

A Closer Look at Melasma

Skin discoloration, or hyperpigmentation, is usually a sign of sun damage that begins to worsen as years of...

The Edgy Veggie

Taste-testing the new wave of veggie burgers

The first wave of commercial veggie burgers had issues.

Strokes on rise among teenagers and young adults

After a fun night out with her girlfriends late last year, Bianca Cooper arrived home with a “killer...

JOCK DOC

How Miami Heat players prepare during the off-season

Q. Now that the Miami Heat season has ended what do you do with the players in the off-season?

Aging

Drum and sing-along class livens the social life of residents at The Palace in Coral Gables

Addictions

Women face gender-specific challenges in fighting addiction and alcoholism

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, trumpeted a popular book in the 1990s.

Ask Nancy

Ask Nancy: What you should know about hospice care

Q. My mother has been referred to hospice care for end-stage COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). ...

The pilgrim experience: walking the 500 miles along Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela

500 miles along Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Travelwise

More nonstop flights from South Florida

Summer is vacation time, and South Florida’s two big airports are providing more nonstop destination...

Texas: Phil Collins donates revolution artifacts to Alamo

Remembering the Alamo

The travel troubleshooter

What to do when things go ‘awry’ with your Hotwire booking

Q: I recently used Hotwire for the first time to book a hotel in Honolulu. I downloaded the Hotwire app, b...

Italy

Bringing history alive at a storied Tuscany estate

Iris Origo was a 22-year-old newlywed Anglo-American heiress — as rich, brilliant and innocent as a ...

5 free things: Alabama

Fun on a budget in Birmingham

Gay tourism

Gay tourism: Pursuit of the ‘Pink Dollar’ accelerates

In the 1970s, gay tours took men rafting in the Grand Canyon and to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival. Gay hotels...

Showtime: London

Matisse’s colorful cutouts go on display at Tate Modern

A huge new Henri Matisse show in London is many things – bold, colorful, exuberant. It’s also...

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Reading habits (and media) are a’changing

OK, so I am biased. I’m partial to the rhythm and melody of language, to the thrill of a well-turned...

Tiffany & Co. opens at Aventura Mall

Cardio health

Hispanic, black women bear the brunt of cardiovascular disease

Though African-American and Hispanic women have a higher incidence of risk factors than non-Hispanic white ...

Coral Gables

TV contest victory is milestone for Coral Gables fashion designer

Oscar Lopez of Coral Gables won $100,000 on the TV series Project Runway: Under the Gunn.

Rag & Bone opens boutique at Bal Harbour Shops

Rag & Bone, the fashion brand known for melding classic tailoring with a modern, edgy New York aesthetic, h...

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Think before you dial, text, FaceTime, Skype, chat

One of the great wonders of the modern era is the fact that we can pretty much reach anyone at any time, re...

Mannequin makeover

Retailers are adding thicker waists, saggier breasts and back fat to mimic shoppers’ actual shapes

Television

‘Downton’ costumers transform Lady Edith

Wine

Like drinking wine, interacting with a sommelier should be stress-free

Cook’s Corner

Mango-chipotle chicken is a smoky-sweet way to use fresh Florida mangoes

It’s peak mango season in South Florida, so when I got my first batch from a friend’s yard, I...

Restaurants

Lionfish, the savory menace, swims its way onto restaurant menus

North Miami’s Fish Fish is one of several South Florida restaurants serving invasive lionfish.

Food

Restaurants have fallen hard for soft openings

“Soft opening. Grand opening. When they opened The Flamingo, one day it was closed, the next it was ...

BY THE BOOK

‘Real Food’ cookbook reveres veggies and organic ingredients

Experienced cooks who don’t shy from the expense of farm-fresh foods and organic ingredients will li...

The Edgy Veggie

Taste-testing the new wave of veggie burgers

The first wave of commercial veggie burgers had issues.

Dinner in minutes

Buffalo chicken legs kick up the heat in this fast recipe

Celebrate the Fourth with fiery Buffalo-style chicken legs. The heat level is up to you.

Cook’s Corner

Easy-to-make Nutella pie is sure to take the cake

Miami’s gardens of distinction

A Coral Gables group is collecting photos of unique and photogenic landscaping for a book on Miami-Dade gar...

Fairchild’s tropical garden column

Going exotic in summer vegetable garden

Just because the tomatoes stopped producing and the cilantro went to seed long ago doesn’t mean we c...

Washington Report

A tracker for housing-price trends

New tool aims to be a weather forecaster for local property values.

Condo Line

Can a developer take back my condo?

Q: In 2006 we purchased a condominium conversion. Our unit was only 25 of the remaining 250 units that were...

Treasures

‘Red cut to clear’ glass appeals to many collectors

Q: I have a beautiful glass bowl that measures 93/8 by 6 inches across and 33/4 inches deep. There are no s...

Living smart

When a tree needs an arborist’s care

Trees add beauty, shade and value to your property, but they don’t live forever. Sources of damage o...

Ask a plumber

New high efficiency toilet can flush away your frustrations

Q: I enjoy reading your column and need advice on what to do with my present slow-flushing toilet. It was o...

Interiors

Make your bathroom safer

Did you know that approximately 70 percent of all home accidents occur in the bathroom? According to the Na...

Animal Island: Rug-pulling cat needs his own carpet to claw

Q: My 14-year-old male cat keeps pulling up threads on new carpet on my previously wood stairs. Please help...

Owner, pitbull helped each other heal before saying goodbye

It's not often that I get to experience a story from its beginning to its end. The exception is the rags-to...

10 next-gen tech tools for dogs

We all know the stereotype of the obsessive pet owner. It used to be the person who calls home 14 times a d...

Pet Vet: Ear canal issues prevalent problem for pups

Alice is a 4-year-old golden retriever who lives with Karen, her caretaker. Alice has had a very good life,...

Miami Beach

Miami Beach tentatively approves dog beach

Dogs may soon be allowed on the sand in a designated area of North Beach.

Miami Beach

Miami Beach may start weekly off-leash dog beach

The proposed dog beach would be between 80th and 81st streets in North Beach.

Palmetto Bay

Palmetto Bay may change barking-dog law

Current rules say a police officer must witness violations, although the police chief said a videotape also...

South Miami-Dade

Humane Society could lose contract to run spay-neuter clinic

The county is considering at least one other provider to operate the South Dade clinic in Cutler Bay.

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: I’m stressed out, but so is everyone else

My jaw has been hurting lately. The pain is occasional and there’s no physical explanation for it. S...

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Kids’ birthday parties have gotten fancier, and that’s a good thing for grandparents

When the last of my children hit their middle school years, I figured my time as a birthday party host ...

Aging

Drum and sing-along class livens the social life of residents at The Palace in Coral Gables

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Reading habits (and media) are a’changing

OK, so I am biased. I’m partial to the rhythm and melody of language, to the thrill of a well-turned...

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Handwritten letters — file under ‘obsolete’

One of the pleasures of life is walking to the edge of my front yard, opening the hinged jaw of the black m...

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Student loan debt is Millenials’ biggest economic threat

Those of us who have managed to see our children graduate from college without student loans should conside...

In My Opinion

AnaVeciana-Suarez: Ah, the freedom of summer

Surely no season ushers in insouciance so completely as summer. Not spring, with its profusion of violent c...

In My Opinion

Ana Veciana-Suarez: Work is less stressful than home

I might not have written this column last week, when I was pounding furiously on the keyboard instead of me...