Linda Robertson

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Linda Robertson

Interior demolition work on the iconic, long-closed Coconut Grove Playhouse has been stopped after a contractor’s error caused a partial collapse and “severely compromised” the historic structure’s roof, city of Miami officials said Friday. The streets in front of the 1927 theater’s wing-shaped front building have been closed while the building is stabilized, including Main Highway through the Grove village center from Franklin Avenue to McFarlane Road, the city said.

1 month ago | newsminer.com | Linda Robertson

To the editor: I bet you all are tired of having old geezers telling you what you should or should not be doing. However, this should be important to all of us and our children’s children. I live in a small neighborhood out in Goldstream. For many years, I have been one of the few people around who plant an insanely ridiculous number of flowers and a few veggies. There are now two houses in the area, one on either side of the neighborhood that each post signs saying they spray for mosquitoes.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Linda Robertson

After a dozen years of trying to save our “grand old lady of theater,” the Coconut Grove Playhouse is coming down. Ninety-eight years of history will soon be rubbish and debris. The space where such stage and screen icons as Maureen Stapleton, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Eve Arden, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Liza Minnelli, Linda Lavin, Bea Arthur, George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, Ethel Merman, Denzel Washington, David Letterman and so many more performed will be a memory.

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Grethel Aguila |Linda Robertson

In the year leading up to her murder, Mary Gingles confided in friends, relatives and the police her fear that she was destined to be killed by her estranged husband. She lived in terror, convinced he would carry out a longstanding threat. “If you ever try to leave me, I’ll kill you,” Nathan Gingles told her throughout her tormented marriage to him. Nathan told their 4-year-old daughter Seraphine that he planned to kill Mary.

Jan 26, 2025 | thederrick.com | Carol Miller |Linda Robertson

The killing of a mentally ill West Kendall man by a Miami-Dade police officer — as his horrified mother watched him bleed out on her kitchen floor — has elicited a pledge of reform by county leaders eager to lessen the danger of encounters between police and people in crisis.