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Philip Cardella

Philip Cardella

Miami, FL

Wanna be historian and photographer. Father to two kids, a dog and two cats. Partner to the best person on Earth.

The legacy of MLK Jr in South Florida--the week ending January 23, 2026

The legacy of MLK Jr in South Florida--the week ending January 23, 2026

Editor's Note: there are many pictures this week, including several of yummy local food. That is causing this email to be a little larger than usual and may generate a "view entire message" button that cuts off much of the message. Please hit the "view

Buy Local! A New Section of TWIFL

Buy Local! A New Section of TWIFL

By Philip Cardella January 21, 2026 Miami, FL I wanted to try something new with TWIFL. I genuinely want this thing, the whole website, to be mostly positive and yet most weeks that seems like a bit of a stretch. I've long wanted to write about food–particularly

Special Coverage TPS for Haitians ending February 3

Special Coverage TPS for Haitians ending February 3

By Philip Cardella January 19, 2026 Liberty City, Miami, Florida The 49th Martin Luther King Jr. parade, one of the oldest parades in honor of the slain civil rights leader, marched down NW 54th Street, a road Dr. King travelled several times during his life. As usual, the Service Employees

Prayer vigils, fear and birds in Florida: the week ending January 16, 2026

Prayer vigils, fear and birds in Florida: the week ending January 16, 2026

Prayer vigils are often motivated by despair and fear but founded on hope and hope in community. Floridians are scared, so scared that when a top employee of the Miami Herald wrote a piece about Floridans being scared other McClatchy papers picked it up but the Herald did not. I

Special Coverage of the 24th Weekly Sunday Prayer Vigil at Alligator Alcatraz

Special Coverage of the 24th Weekly Sunday Prayer Vigil at Alligator Alcatraz

By Philip Cardella 15 January 2026 US 41 Mile Marker 48 Say its Name Say its name, so long as you remind people of why its name matters: Alligator Alcatraz. The name is a century old racist joke about violence against people of color. Remembering that matters when people talk

Special Coverage of the Interfaith Vigil for Justice in Coral Gables

Special Coverage of the Interfaith Vigil for Justice in Coral Gables

By Philip Cardella 13 January 2026 Coral Gables, Florida When others thought of how to bring protests to South Florida during the Indivisible phone call in response to the murder of Renee Nicole Good on Thursday, January 8, that saw over 35,000 people listen in, Cindy Lerner thought of

Week ending January 9, 2026

Week ending January 9, 2026

I started writing this post for December 19, 2025. Then family came to visit, then we boarded a plane and flew to California for a week to visit family, then we boarded a plane and flew to Miami and, well, I never finished the December 19th post. But it had