Miami New Times | Terence Cantarella

Is the Body of a Girl Buried Under Miami’s Hottest New Restaurant? [Miami New Times]

Published on July 25th, 2017 in the Miami New Times: Under a canopy of twisted oaks and fluttering palms, an old coral-rock structure stands just off Biscayne Boulevard on the Upper Eastside of Miami. On a recent balmy Sunday, a small crowd gathered in the terraced backyard for brunch. They dined at café tables scattered amid tropical flora. In the middle of the yard, a mini-waterfall cascaded gently from a two-tiered pond carved out of the limestone, gurgling serenely under […]

Categories: Articles • Tags: Bayshore Pump House, Cafe Roval, Eileen Adams, Miami New Times, Morningside, Robert Bowman

Miami’s Oldest Security Guard Is a 90-Year-Old WWII Vet Searching for His Long-Lost Brother [Miami New Times]

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Published on October 25th, 2016 in the Miami New Times: Julius Woods still remembers the Japanese fighter pilot who insulted him. It was 1943, the height of WWII, and Woods and his fellow sailors on the USS Van Valkenburgh had just shot down several Japanese fighter planes over the South Pacific. Some of the enemy pilots survived and were floating in the shark-infested water, but they refused to grab the lifebuoys that the Americans threw to them. They preferred to […]

Categories: Articles • Tags: Belle Meade, Julius Woods, Marvin Woods, Miami New Times

Brickell’s Last Holdout Fights Developers to Preserve Native American History [Miami New Times]

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Published on April 7th, 2015 in the Miami New Times. This first-look, exclusive spawned stories in the Miami Herald, The Daily Mail, The Independent, Yahoo News, and elsewhere. It also became the Miami New Times’ top three most read stories of 2015 and won a first place Florida Press Association award.: Just a few paces from busy Brickell Avenue, Ishmael Bermudez crouches behind his little clapboard house and drinks serenely from a hose lowered into the ancient bedrock. Skyscrapers drape his property in […]

Categories: Articles • Tags: 87 SW 11th Street, Brickell, Brickell's Last Holdout, Burke Keogh, Golden Eagle, Ishmael Bermudez, Ismael Bermudez, Miami New Times, Tequesta, Well of Ancient Mysteries

Terence Cantarella

Writer | Miami, Florida

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Is the Body of a Girl Buried Under Miami’s Hottest New Restaurant? [Miami New Times]

Miami’s Oldest Security Guard Is a 90-Year-Old WWII Vet Searching for His Long-Lost Brother [Miami New Times]

Brickell’s Last Holdout Fights Developers to Preserve Native American History [Miami New Times]