It’s hard to believe now, but from the time South Florida began to grow in the 1890s through World War I in the 1910s, the land boom of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, and World War II in the 1940s, the LGBTQ population lived in relative obscurity.
According to Move for Hunger, approximately 13.1 million children in the U.S. are food insecure. In Delaware, 12.6% of the state’s population — 125,370 people — were food insecure in 2022. And in Florida, 2,935,330 people are facing hunger, including 819,940 children. This is higher than the share of people facing hunger nationwide. (Feeding America.) In a country with 813 billionaires, these numbers are astonishing.
A national repository for historic medical information has added the website of a San Francisco health clinic focused on transgender patients to its collection. It is part of the newly created Sexual and Gender Minority Health web archive that is gathering LGBTQ health resources to preserve them in perpetuity.
Addison Mizner was not a regular architect. He never went to school for it, and the state of New York and California, where he came from, never officially recognized him as such.
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On Sept. 20, 1973, in their so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in the Houston Astrodome. It was the first time a woman had played against a man in such a venue, and it was an historic event with much media hype and an astounding amount of betting in Las Vegas with the odds in Riggs’s favor.
You leave town for a few days and the entire restaurant scene changes I came home to discover that the Fort Lauderdale landmark riverfront restaurant, The Downtowner and its next-door venue, Maxwell Room, will close on Sunday, Oct. 6 after 30 years.
Boy, you leave town for two weeks, and you somehow have six weeks of mail and emails accumulated when you return. There were so many goodies that I couldn’t include them all in my last column, so I’ll catch you up. But I promise to dine out and give you a review soon!
Recently The New York Times released its annual list “Restaurant List” of “Our 50 Favorite Places in America,” and two Miami spots made the list for Florida.
After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for developing the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. Fearon, recently deceased, was then a 21-year-old seminary student in Canada who hoped to call attention to a mistranslation he’d discovered.
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