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Writer, reader, eater, sleeper. 2x James Beard. Previous @miamiherald , Sundial radio host. Author “Take Me With You” @simonandschuster On 🧵 at carlos_frias_305
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My dad still gets these scare-tactic mailers from the
@NRA
— even though he was murdered last year at age 92 by a man with a semiautomatic handgun.
Reform gun laws now.
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He was told as a boy he'd have to go to a deaf school—but he grew up to help
@Lin_Manuel
make the music to
#Hamilton
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The second amendment wasn’t handed down from Mt. Sinai, as a Catholic cardinal recently said. We fixed the broken constitution to grant women the right to vote. We abolished slavery. And in my lifetime we will see an amendment to fix the broken and abused second amendment.
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A reminder that the “right to bear arms” for personal use wasn’t the interpretation in all of US history until 2008. It’s a political football. Bury this lie once and for all, along with all the victims of gun violence like my dad.
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@OgleConnie
@gigilehman
@JillHikes
@hannahbsampson
@infamouskidd
@MarlowNYC
@Lin_Manuel
@reneeelisegolds
Full vid:
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This is crazy to write: After six amazing years at the
@MiamiHerald
, I’m leaving for a fantastic, unexpected opportunity. I’ll be the new host of
@WLRNSundial
on WLRN 91.3 FM, our NPR station.
My goal: to keep telling the stories that make Miami wonderful and weird.
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The most frustrating thing about
#SOSCuba
is hearing critics simplify it as, "it's the damn embargo." My dad was jailed for 2 years and had to work 2 years in an agricultural camp so he could get his exit visa (then Cuba canceled his passport).
It's not the embargo.
#CubaLibre
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Haiti is being held hostage by a warlord named Barbecue.
His gang's blockade has left Haiti without gasoline, diesel and propane as Haitians were already seeing food prices rise more than 50%.
A JFC story from
@Jacquiecharles
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Police have shut down the block in front of
@VersaillesMiami
as Little Havana celebrates
#FidelCastro
's death
@MiamiHerald
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Gentrification may be in full swing in Little Haiti, but Pack Supermaret is still the realest. Five pieces of the crispiest chicken you’ve ever had, thick fried bannann, a beef pate and all the pikliz your heart desires: $6.
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Miami has lost an icon — Felipe Valls, founder of arguably the world's most famous Cuban restaurant, Versailles, inventor of Cuban coffee ventanitas, and the most important restaurateur in Miami history. Deepest condolences to his family. HT
@HowardCohen
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@Lin_Manuel
Please let folks know we have a plethora of FREE info, news, and hurricane tips at . No paywall.
#BeSafe
Miami.
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Two years today since my dad was shot to death by a man in a random act of violence. We also thought "it would never happen to us." It did. Demand better gun laws in this country.
I celebrate your life, viejo, and I grieve its absence.
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Who's ready for some good news?
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How long are all these people going to be here? (Asking for all of Miami)
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Calle ocho is closed entirely from the crowd in front of
@VersaillesMiami
bc
#FidelCastro
's death
@MiamiHerald
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In case you were wondering whether there would be protests at the Miami restaurant over
#SaltBae
hosting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in Turkey, here’s your answer.
@MiamiHerald
@MiamiHeraldFood
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Value of UM’s Turnover Chain: at least $43,000.
Showing my work:
Reportedly weighs 2500 grams and is 41.6 percent gold (10k is is 41.6 percent pure of 24k). Price of gold today is $41.70 per ounce. Total: $43,368 (not counting relatively inexpensive orange and green sapphires.)
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Guy who got kicked off a plane for wearing a thong as a mask compared himself to Rosa Parks, and that’s why we need to teach active anti-racism in schools.
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A newspaper is not a place; it's a contract that says when the world is going sideways, reporters are out doing their best work.
Our
@MiamiHerald
offices are mostly empty. But our reporters are in our many little home bureaus, bringing you the news.
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"Get out, you stupid bitch!"
Heartbreaking to see a place that was an oasis for an oppressed people tolerate this kind of hate.
I was just thrown out of the Versailles bakery in Miami for asking President Trump if he was ready to go to jail. A man screamed ‘stupid bitch’ in my face while others said I was a ‘traitor’
#TrumpArraignment
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I’m speechless and emotional at winning a second James Beard award and I wish my father could be here to celebrate with me.
Let’s love our families more than our guns so we can celebrate these moments with our loved ones who should still be here.
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WLRN abruptly cancelled Sundial and let our whole team go.
It’s my first time out of work since I was 19. If you’re looking for a journalist with 30 years experience, 2 James Beards, a share of a Pulitzer, experienced in all media, please DM. I'm eager to work again soon.
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These mean streets of Kendall, dodging through shady alleys from Dandy Bear to Hungry Bear.
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FPL is trying to monopolize renewable energy, by charging customers to build its car charging network, meanwhile fighting homeowner rights to add solar. Now it’s paying top social influencers to post about its network in sponsored ads (not disclosed). 🧵
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Moved to tears by the love and support this week from family, friends and my colleagues at the Herald
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There it is, the world’s first Haden mango tree. It was cloned to give rise to the commercial mango industry in the western hemisphere. The tree in your yard is probably its clone. The original thrives on Klebba Lane in Coconut Grove.
Nerd out here➡️
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Local restaurants are delivering their own food because
@UberEats
,
@Postmates
are still charging them 30% for each order. If you don't see a restaurant you love on the app, don't assume they're closed. CALL THEM.
Again, here's a list of my Miami favorites
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Visited my dad’s grave today and it felt odd to bring him flowers. So I brought him a beautiful, ripe mango. Fruits were his love language. Miss you every day, viejo.
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Of course, Versailles is open. All windows shuttered except "la ventanita" serving coffee before
#HurricaneMatthew
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Crying into my cafecito, thinking about this guy and how proud he was, how proud he'd be.
The emotion of everything we all lived through the last two years, losing him senselessly to gun violence days before the pandemic began — it just hit me all at once.
Pa' ti, mi viejo.
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Speechless right now. Thank you to the judges for recognizing my work at
@MiamiHerald
.
Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award:
@Carlos_Frias
for
@MiamiHeraldFood
;
@CynthiaGreenlee
for
@TheCounter
and
@oxfordamerican
; and
@monaeatsLA
for
@EaterLA
#jbfa
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When people DM me and ask me for a list of places I actually eat, this is the list I send them. This is my personal list that my editor wrested from my notebook.
We made it searchable by location, cuisine and even price. Check it out: 🧵
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The rapper Yotuel (of the group the Orishas), who helped create the song “Patria y Vida” that has represented the spirit of the new Cuban liberation movement on the island, leads the crowd on Calle Ocho in a rendition.
#CubaLibre
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Good thing Florida doesn’t have other needs for this spending, like unaffordable housing, skyrocketing property insurance or an unprecedented climate crisis
BREAKING: DeSantis to send troops, soldiers to Texas border in lead-up to presidential run
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Pero, like, can you understand me with my Miami accent?
Phillip M. Carter studied the way Miamians speak. And what he found was more than Spanglish. More than an accent. He found Miami has developed its own dialect.
🎧 on
@WLRNSundial
:
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I went to Cuba as a journalist when Fidel Castro underwent surgery and the world wondered whether we'd see the kinds of actions we're seeing with
#SOSCuba
.
Every person I spoke with for my book was afraid to speak openly about the quest for freedom. They are no longer afraid.
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Why is Miami so packed? I just met two Brooklyn tourists who paid $46 for a RT ticket to Miami. New York is closed and sad so they decided to get out of town for the week. Ya tu sabes.
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It's the kind of story you hope never to have to write. Yet my
@miamiherald
colleagues jumped into action hours before dawn to cover one of the great tragedies in Miami's history. Today we remember the families of 98 people who forever mourn.
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In Miami, the guy who tinted your car windows might also offer to do your taxes.
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Thank you, all, for your outpouring of support. I don’t know what’s next but I know this:
I’ve dedicated my life to storytelling. I know that’s where my next project is. Not sure how or where. But it is my lighthouse.
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The kid in me still can’t believe I get to be on the front page of the paper I grew up reading. In back to back weeks? Don’t pinch me, I don’t want to wake up.
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I’m so glad y’all liked the story of Miami’s first ventanita. I know my dad would have loved to have seen his picture in the story. That one was for you, viejo.
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Spend a few minutes with The Bard of Hialeah.
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Overnight, one Miami restaurant group went form 460 employees to six. Six.
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The Miami Herald will be sold in bankruptcy.
Who do you want owning the newspaper that has served Miami for 117 years — a vulture hedge fund or a group of local owners?
Your voice matters.
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Ask your parents everything, if you’re lucky enough to still have them alive. How they met. Stories about who their grandparents were. No one else will know these answers when they’re gone.
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@CynthiaGreenlee
It gets a nickname or gets verbally annexed to the next-closest already-gentrified neighborhood.
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@SoleCedro
@MiamiHerald
@FrancisSuarez
This is exactly the example you’d use to teach Journalism 101: go directly to the source, knock on doors. This is how readers know they’re getting the truth — they go to the source rather than relying on a PR flack.
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The way to warm a journalist’s heart is through his stomach. Thank you to the anonymous
@MiamiHerald
subscriber who bought 50 breakfasts at El Bagel for our writers, editors, copyeditors, designers — anyone who has worked on the Surfside story.
We’re grateful to be of service.
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It’s hard not to be emotional watching Cuban culture in Miami celebrated on
@hulu
’s Taste the Nation, debuting the day my dad would have turned 94. Thank you
@PadmaLakshmi
for highlighting our nochebuena.
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We demand better for a newsroom that should represent all of Miami.
I’ve never felt more ashamed to work for the Herald as I am today. If we can’t condemn racism within our own ranks, how can the public expect us to do so in the communities in which we cover? I’m hurt, angry and disgusted by my colleague’s words.
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And btw, it's the Cuban government that's been blocking aid, not the U.S. embargo. Read:
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My dad’s life may have been cut short, but he never squandered a day of it. He drank his cup down to the mead.
Espero que adonde estés, que estés bailando, mi viejo.
celebrates the life of one of our favorite seniors, Fernando Frías, father of our Food Editor Carlos Frías, who passed last week. He was our only senior who saw the fun in Ultra Music Festival. He was living his best 92-year-old life. May he rest in peace.
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A year ago today (technically Feb. 29) we lost my 92-year-old dad, Fernando Frías, to gun violence. It shouldn’t be like this. We should be determined to change our society so we don’t lose our loved ones this way.
In memoriam of a truly wonderful guy 🧵:
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You know when The Clevelander closes its bar, that’s like Waffle House closing when a hurricane approaches.
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@OurRev305
@EnswellJones
Or that Dave Wannstead's sole offensive game plan was to rush Ricky an average of 24 times a game and destroy his body before its time (necessitating the pain relief).
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So 3 hours, 35 minutes later, I received my J&J covid-19 vaccine in Florida City. Almost a year since we went into lockdown. The things this world can do. Holy shit. My insides are shaking.
🚨 FEMA rep *just said* there are some requirements to get the vax here and that “a state senator on Facebook can’t overrule the governor of Florida.” Let’s see if this still means anyone over 18 and state resident can get it.
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My father was killed by gun violence in 2020. The emotion of losing him overwhelmed me as I accepted the
@beardfoundation
medal.
I beg you: When you find yourself with an opportunity to choose a world with fewer guns, take it. It can start today. It can start with you.
#jbfa
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Miami-Dade County has remarkable
#BlackOwned
restaurants.
Over the years, while covering food for the Miami Herald, I have been fortunate enough to meet the owners behind some of them. Here are some of my favorite spots:
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A litany of lef chants against
#SaltBae
, including “Ignorant chef, you support a fraud.”
@MiamiHerald
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My dad’s first business in America was owning an ice cream truck he dubbed “Mr. Cool.” His favorite kids were from an elementary school in Carol City. And he was their favorite ice cream man. All these years later, he treasured these pix they took & signs they made for him.
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Apropos of nothing, here's a photo of the original Domino Park — a table, four chairs and dedicated Cubans on a dusty lot where today's park stands. You can see the Tower Theater on the left and Farmacia Navarro where Azucar Ice Cream now stands (National Geographic, July 1973)
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You have not experienced obsolete technology until you’ve worked at a newspaper.
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The crowd on Calle Ocho breaks out in the Cuban national anthem, La Bayamesa.
#CubaLibre
Calle Ocho, between
@VersaillesMiami
and
@LaCarretaCuban
, for years the heart of the Cuban exile community in Miami, looks exactly as you think it would as Cubans on the island March for freedom.
#CubaLibre
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Tobacco and alcohol can’t market to kids but gun makers can?
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Miami has so many great places to eat and drink. I grew up here but I'm still eating my way though them. Here are some of my favorites (updated):
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In defense of brown food: Brown food means time was spent in the kitchen. It means care was expended. It means it was cooked with intention — with love. My food of love is my dad’s Cuban carne con papa recipe that I’m lucky to be able to make for my girls.
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It’s not housing that’s missing; it’s *affordable* housing and commensurate wages to make rents and homeownership attainable.
This guy clearly wasn’t here when the bubble burst and all those downtown high rises were ghost buildings.
21 new towers going up in Miami. The mirror opposite housing policy of SF— change works, growing the pie works, building the future works, empowering people & entrepreneurs works. This shouldn’t even be partisan.
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It's official: Miami-Dade will reopen restaurant interior dining rooms at 50 percent capacity starting Aug. 31.
@MayorGimenez
just told a group of restaurant owners in an ongoing video meeting.
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How it started/How it’s going
Five years writing about food at
@MiamiHerald
and I’ve only scratched the surface. Let’s see what the next five years bring.
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“We have no room for war. We are with the people of Ukraine,”
@chefjoseandres
who is hosting
@SOBEWFF
Burger Bash says from the stage before winners are announced.
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My dad would have been 93 today. This was taken in January at the Three Kings Day parade on Calle Ocho, when the viejos snuck me in to play with them at Domino Park. A month later, he was shot and killed by an emotionally unstable man with a legally purchased gun.
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Paola, you have to understand: Our work is not free. Your work as a real estate agent is not free.
It costs
@MiamiHerald
to pay reporters. And I need that money to take care of my family. You pay for music, food, Netflix. Why wouldn't you expect to pay for news?
@ndahlberg
@Carlos_Frias
@MiamiHerald
Is there anyway to read an article in twitter from
@MiamiHerald
that does not ask you for subscription? No news can be read from them if not paying a monthly payment. Have to search for the news every time to read it from another source. 🤷♀️
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s plenty cool enough for churros and chocolate caliente.
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Everything is trash so go have a drink. Maybe at the darkest bar in Miami.
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Feeling like a kid on my first day at school — excited, nervous — as we prepare to relaunch
@WLRNSundial
later this month with me as the new on-air host.
Today I learned where the ‘dump’ button is in case someone curses because we know how you roll, Miami.
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Proud to have contributed to
@MiamiHerald
’s indefatigable reporting and honored to share in the
@PulitzerPrizes
.
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Thank you again to the
@beardfoundation
for honoring me with the 2022 Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award. It was my pleasure to write about the people behind the places where Miami loves to eat, for six years at
@MiamiHerald
.
(Now join me
@WLRNSundial
, where we talk food, too)
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So this just happened! Thank you to the
@beardfoundation
, the
@MiamiHerald
and my family for their support in telling Miami’s food stories. I rise for the
#305
.
#jbfa
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These are the first words I’m able to write about my father since the day I learned he was shot to death.
The shooting of 19 kids and their two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, tore them from me.
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Calle Ocho, between
@VersaillesMiami
and
@LaCarretaCuban
, for years the heart of the Cuban exile community in Miami, looks exactly as you think it would as Cubans on the island March for freedom.
#CubaLibre
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