Howard Cohen

1 week ago | arcamax.com | Howard Cohen

MIAMI — Coral Gables just may be holy ground for a double shot of Taylor Swift this spring and fall. No, the superstar isn’t retooling the Eras Tour for a Miami concert reprise. But Swift’s spirit, her messages and her brand are going to be felt within a few miles of one another in the City Beautiful — the first set inside a church and the next in the higher education halls of academia. Think of it as food for your soul and for your brain, Swiftie style.

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Howard Cohen |Vinod Sreeharsha

By Howard Cohen and Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald Canadian tourist Jacqueline Robert smiles and clutches her shoulders in a warm embrace in the courtyard of Richard's Motel in Hollywood. She looks a visitor in the eye and exclaims, "The sun!"And on a toasty 80-degree morning in late March, in the courtyard of the Canadian-themed universe Richard Clavet has built for the French-Canadian community from Quebec, a glorious "The sun!" says it all.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Howard Cohen

At 15, Pat Metheny, a prodigious guitarist, spent more time on Kansas City stages in his hometown than inside his high school classrooms. So when the University of Miami’s former music dean, the late Bill Lee, approached the teenager at a Kansas club with a scholarship offer to attend the Coral Gables campus in 1972, Metheny was gobsmacked. Within a week at UM, Metheny told Lee that music had left him little time for academic study. Classes at the U? Too tough.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Howard Cohen

The Forbes annual list of more than 3,000 global billionaires includes 50 people from South Florida. Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties each can boast bragging rights of having the most billionaires — 23 apiece — while Broward notches four on the 2025 list released in April. The edge?

3 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Howard Cohen |Vinod Sreeharsha

Canadian tourist Jacqueline Robert smiles and clutches her shoulders in a warm embrace in the courtyard of Richard’s Motel in Hollywood. She looks a visitor in the eye and exclaims, “The sun!”And on a toasty 80-degree morning in late March, in the courtyard of the Canadian-themed universe Richard Clavet has built for the French-Canadian community from Quebec, a glorious “The sun!” says it all.