MWR eNews 3 Feb 2016

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

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TICKETS AT LEISURE TRAVEL SERVICES 305.437.1595 | Leisure Travel Services HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS CIRQUE DU SOLEIL TORUK MIAMI DOLPHINS, MIAMI HURRICANES, FLORIDA PANTHERS MIAMI HEAT, MIAMI MARLINS K1 SPEED TICKETS BLUE MAN GROUP at Universal Studios DISNEY WORLD MILITARY SPECIALS ATTRACTIONS, CRUISES AND MORE!

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BOSS - Monthly meetings to discuss all BOSS matters and to plan for future programs and events are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1400 in the Food Court.

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Sports & Fitness Fitness Center Class Schedule http://miami.armymwr.com/us/miami/programs/fitness-center/ Monday 0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1100-1300 Self-Defense Fundamentals with Jason - Free 1600-1800 Functional Fitness Tuesday 0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1130-1230 Indoor Cycling 1600-1800 Functional Fitness Friday 1100-1300 Self-Defense Fundamentals with Jason – Free 1215-1315 - Yoga

Wednesday 0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1130-1230 Indoor Cycling 1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1215-1315 Yoga 1500-1600 Zumba 1600-1800 Functional Fitness Thursday 0600-0700 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1100-1300 Self-Defense Fundamentals with Jason - Free 1130-1230 Functional Fitness with Frank – Free 1130-1230 Indoor Cycling 1600-1800 Functional Fitness

All SOUTHCOM/USAG-MIAMI employees may use the Miami Dade Public Safety Training Institute Aquatic Center 9601 NW 58th Street, Miami, FL 33178. M-F, 0600-1800. Call for details: 305.715.5000. No guests allowed.

Hours of Operation Monday - Thursday: 0500 – 2100, Friday: 0500 - 2000 Saturday and Sunday: 1000 – 1700, Closed on holidays Open to Active Duty, Reserve, Retired Military & their Dependents 305.437.0123/0124

Schedule is Subject to Change $3 per Class or $25 for 10 Classes Pay with cash, check or credit card Please arrive on time for class First Come – First Served

USSOUTHCOM/USAG-MIAMI - RELATED FACEBOOK PAGES U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) - https://www.facebook.com/southcom?fref=ts USAG - MIAMI Family Support Center - https://www.facebook.com/USAGMiamiFamilySupportCenter USAG-MIAMI FMWR - https://www.facebook.com/miamifmwr SOUTHERN COMMAND SPOUSES - https://www.facebook.com/groups/131929440155922/?fref=ts USSOUTHCOM PARENT SUPPORT GROUP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/121356728011135/ MILITARY SPOUSE RECIPE SWAP - https://www.facebook.com/groups/102922893243498/ Southern Command On-line Yard Sales - https://www.facebook.com/groups/567364979982480/ Miami-Dade Zip Code Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/MiamiDadeZCG/?fref=ts Homestead Zip Code Group - www.facebook.com/groups/HomesteadMilitaryWives SOCSOUTH SPOUSES GROUP - www.facebook.com/groups/socsouthredfam (private page for FRG members only) Conference Center of the Americas (CCA) - https://www.facebook.com/USSOUTHCOMCCA Army Substance Abuse Program USAG-Miami - https://www.facebook.com/ArmySubstanceAbuseProgramMiami J9's Public Private Cooperation division - https://www.facebook.com/southcomppc US SOUTHCOM Health Clinic: https://www.facebook.com/ArmyHealthClinicSouthcom USAG-Miami Joint Education Services: https://www.facebook.com/usagmiamijointeducationservices/

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UPCOMING CLASSES – Mark Your Calendars How to Create an Effective Civilian Resume, Feb 10, 1-4, POC: joe.pagan1.civ@mail.mil Lactation Education/Support, Feb 17, 11:45-1:30: POC: joe.n.walker.civ@mail.mil Interview Techniques, Feb 22, 9-12, POC: joe.pagan1.civ@mail.mil Newcomer Orientation, Feb 23, 8:30-4, POC: victoria.t.dubois.civ@mail.mil Budgeting 101, Feb 24, 1-2, POC: richard.c.zimmelman.civ@mail.mil Raise Credit Score and Liquidate Debt, Feb 25, 1-2:30, POC: richard.c.zimmelman.civ@mail.mil Miami Tour, Feb 26, 9-4, POC: victoria.t.dubois.civ@mail.mil Real World Retirement Planning, Feb 26, 1-2:30, POC: richard.c.zimmelman.civ@mail.mil Lactation Education/Support, March 16, 11:45-1:30: POC: joe.n.walker.civ@mail.mil Newcomer Orientation, March 22, 8:30-4, POC: victoria.t.dubois.civ@mail.mil First Term Finance/Financial Survival, March 24, 8-4, POC: richard.c.zimmelman.civ@mail.mil

Volunteer VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION - Volunteer Management Information System (VMIS) 1. Using Internet Explorer, go to www.myarmyonesource.com. If you are not already registered on this site, click on Register at the top right. Click on the Join Now button in the middle of that page on the right. Complete the registration form and select USAG-Miami in the Military Community Affiliation drop-box under HQ IMCOM. 2. Once registered, you can log in. Click on the Volunteer Tools tab located in the upper right hand corner of the webpage. 3. Click on Volunteer Profile. Complete all requested information in the volunteer profile. Be sure to enter the last four digits only of your social security number and save the page. This will ensure you are a registered volunteer. 4. You can use the Volunteer Opportunities tab to locate volunteer opportunities on the installation. If you want to volunteer off the installation, click on the Army Community Service link provides a generic volunteer position description – Special Projects Volunteer – for all off-post volunteer opportunities. 5. Once you locate a volunteer opportunity, click on the position of interest. This will supply you with a detailed outline of the position including the organization contact person. If you want to apply for the position, click on the Apply button on the top right of the position description. 6. Questions or concerns, contact Mary Ortiz, Volunteer Coordinator at 305.437.2665 or 305.437.2667 mary.e.ortiz.civ@mail.mil.

CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP - Make a real difference in the lives of people who have fallen on hard times. Volunteers are needed for: Meal Services Program, Breakfast (5:30-7:30am,) Lunch (11am-1pm,) Dinner (5-7pm.) After School Programming in our Family Resource Center (M-F 2-5:30pm and 6:30-7:30pm; Saturday 9-11:30am.) Warehouse and Maintenance Operations (M-F, 8am-5pm.) Holiday Assistance, Special Events. All volunteers must complete the volunteer registration paperwork along with a color picture ID. Chapman Partnership has two locations: one in Downtown Miami and one in Homestead. POC: Grace Ugalde-Wolpert, Community Outreach Manager, Chapman Partnership. 1550 North Miami Avenue, Miami, 33136, 305.329.3081, gugalde@chapmanpartnership.org. For more information, visit www.chapmanpartnership.org.

KRISTI HOUSE Volunteers needed at the Kristi House clinic: You must be over age 18 and a high school graduate for this program. Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm: Waiting Room Ambassadors (you can color with the children, read books, make bracelets etc.) Peak hours are afterschool 2-5:30pm. The clinic needs people to play with the children while they are waiting for therapy and/or when their parent is being interviewed by a State Attorney. The need is during the day and on weekdays Other volunteer activities include: public speaking, fundraising, special events and in-kind donation drives. Thank you for your support of these sexually abused children and their families. POC: Kristi House Volunteer Coordinator Abegail De La Fuente at o. 305.547.6823 c. 786.203.6758 f. 305.250.9161. AFuente@kristihouse.org.

THE ARTS - http://www.artsbizmiami.org/CampaignProcess.aspx?A=View&Data=AHWWLp%2fPUVM30eGwruBkKg%3d%3d MILITARY HOSPITALITY LOUNGE in Miami International Airport (MIA.) Applicants select shifts but must work at least twice per month. Most volunteers work once a week. Shifts are from 9am-1pm, 1-5pm, and 5-9pm. Volunteers will receive passes for employee parking at MIA. Must have some computer knowledge and work well with traveling military and their families with IDs. Sign up online at www.militaryloungemiami.com/?page_id=8 or call 305.587.0046. http://www.miami-airport.com/armed_forces.asp.

DIVERS, VOLUNTEER with Veterans Ocean Adventures and share the undersea world with the disabled community and disabled veterans. Once certified as a Buddy Diver by the Handicapped SCUBA Association, join us as we give back to the community supporting adaptive diving. Volunteers receive free air and free passage on scheduled boat dives. For more information, email info@veteransoceanadventures.org.

CHARLEE OF DADE COUNTY, INC. provides for the needs of abused, abandoned, neglected, and at-risk children in Miami-Dade County. To volunteer, call 305.779.9706.

MIAMI-DADE ANIMAL SERVICES - email Volunteer Coordinator at volunteerasd@miamidade.gov or visit http://www.miamidade.gov/animals/volunteer.asp

BROWARD: http://www.handsonbroward.org/ MIAMI-DADE: http://www.handsonmiami.org/ JROTC DRILL MEET JUDGES WANTED. The cadets and cadre of the following Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) high schools are seeking military members of all ranks as services to judge the schools' annual JRTOT color guard and drill team meets Sat 13 Feb, Miami Northwestern SHS Drill Meet, Sat 12 Mar, Miami-Dade State Qualifier Drill Meet at North Miami Beach SHS. Each drill meet requires 20 to 30 volunteer judges (normally 10 competition boxes with one head judge and three field judges per box.) More than 500 cadets from around 20 Miami-Dade and Broward Counties' JROTC schools compete in these drill meets. Uniform is the ACU/BDU equivalent IAW each service regulation. The reporting time is 0645 at the respective school’s JROTC office. Parking is available within school grounds. Volunteers are provided lunch at no cost. You may bring your family. Drill meets normally end by 1430. Please volunteer via email to Mercedes Miranda at maria.m.miranda8.civ@mail.mil.

Discounts MIAMI-DADE DEFENSE ALLIANCE COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE AND DISCOUNT DIRECTORY - http://www.beaconcouncil.com/miami-dade-defense-alliancecommunity-resource-guide

MILITARY DISCOUNTS - http://www.bradsdeals.com/blog/military-discounts MIAMI OPEN CITY TOUR free hop on - hop off transportation to active duty and veterans as well as $19 (50% discount) to spouse and children (I.D. required).

Journey begins at Bayside from 9am with the last departure at 4:30pm. Buses are equipped with: Retractable roof (for all weather), Wi-Fi, 7 language audio presentation, Air conditioning on lower deck, handicap essentials. www.miamiopencitytour.com/en/

DIVING MUSEUM All active duty military are free. Museum dedicated to collecting, preserving, displaying and interpreting artifacts, antiques, books, documents, photographs and oral history relative to the History of Diving and celebrates the special role that South Florida and the Florida Keys played in this untold story.

Mile Marker 83 on US-1 in Islamorada on the Bay Side. www.divingmuseum.org/

PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132, Active U.S. Military free with ID, http://www.pamm.org/ BIGSTAR MOVIES offers active and veteran service men and women a discounted rate - a one year membership, all access pass, for five dollars. $5 membership ($34.99 regular rate) for an entire year provides access to worldwide cinema. No matter where you are deployed, you can have access as long as you have an internet connection. BIGSTAR Movies- go to the secure link HTTPS://www.bigstar.tv/?promo=usaf and fill in the information.

MILLER'S DORAL ALE HOUSE Service members in uniform - 25% discount on meals, 3271 NW 87 Ave, Doral, www.millersalehouse.com/location/doral-ale-house.

FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN offers active duty military personnel with ID free admission. Admission for spouses is $20 and children $10 (with ID). www.fairchildgarden.org/

RUNNER’S CO 10365 NW 41 Street, Doral, FL 33178 305.599.9972, www.runnersco.com, offers all USSOUTHCOM employees a 10% discount with ID. MIAMI SEAQUARIUM free entry for all service members with ID. 4400 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149.

BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP COMPANY offers a 10% discount with military ID for up to 8 people. www.bubbagump.com/locations/miami/ MCDONALD REALTY Home Purchases, Sales, Rentals and Property Management for Miami-Dade and Broward. 15% off standard commission rates for homes and all purchases for military personnel, gov. civilians and their families. Veteran-owned, Certified Florida Military Specialist. Col David R. McDonald, Jr., USA ret, Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist, Florida Military Specialist Broker/Owner, McDonald Realty, 954.443.6705 (o) 954.632.9105 (c)

PARK ‘N FLY Military Discount - 30% off posted rates for all Military. Show your Military ID Card and Save. The rates for Military in Miami is $7 outside and $9 inside both valet parking included. View Quick Presentation - https://www.dropbox.com/s/mho5g3xwey0iuin/Miami%20ParkNFly%20Preso.pdf. http://www.pnf.com/

AIRPORT FAST PARK If you are a federal employee, military or civilian, send an email to southcom.miami.sc.mbx-usag-mwr@mailmil for discount information.

This discount is only for federal employees.

YOUNG AT ART MUSEUM All men and women currently serving in the military, veterans and their - $11 per person, honored at the Young At Art admissions desk.

Please present a military ID to receive the discount. 751 SW 121 Ave. Davie. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-5pm; Friday and Saturday, 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am6pm. Admission - $14 per person; $12 for Broward County residents, seniors and children over age 1 and $11 for military members and their immediate families.

954.424.0085 or www.YoungAtArtMuseum.org.

SAFARI EDVENTURE Hands-on nature and wildlife presentations. 23700 SW 142 Ave, Miami, Fl. 33170, (About 3 miles south of Cutler Ridge – or – 7 miles north of Homestead.) Active U.S. military families, (Active personnel, spouse, & their children entering with them): $2 off each. http://safariedventure.com/

FLORIDA STATE PARKS Military discount - https://www.floridastateparks.org/content/annual-pass-information#discountsforveterans HOLISTIC HEALTH AND WELLNESS WITH YOKO To support you in managing your stress, emotions, exercise, well being and nutritional needs through Crystal Therapies, Counseling and Nutrition from Integrative Quantum Medicine. 15% discount to all Military and their families. Email yoko.bagnariol@gmail.com or call Yoko at 305.728.9022 for appointments Monday to Saturday. http://www.MiamiHolisticHealth.com.

Discounts continued ACTORS' PLAYHOUSE - 15% military discount. You may order your tickets (up to four - 4 per order,) based on availability. Their system will provide sales WednesdayFriday and Sunday matinees unless availability for discount tickets change based on limited inventory. Not valid with other promotions. Please present current Military ID at will call when you pick up your tickets! http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/

Candy Yeung has joined RE/MAX as a Realtor and she continues to promote community care in her Real Estates business. 10% to 25% CASH BACK to veterans, active Military & Military Civilians when you buy/sell with Candy. www.BestFloridaHouses.com/militaryfamilies.

GABLESTAGE welcomes U.S. Military Personnel, Spouses and Children as well as U.S. Veterans. They have a long-standing commitment to the military personnel in our community and we welcome you to their theatre. They offer 10% off tickets and eliminate the convenience charge (excluding Saturday evenings) for military personnel and their immediate families. Please visit their season calendar www.gablestage.org/current-season/ to find out what’s playing and then contact their Box Office at 305.445.1119, and identify yourself as military personnel wanting to utilize the Blue Star program (or use CODE: BLUE to purchase online.) Discounted tickets are based on availability and available at the Will Call one hour prior to show time. Additional discounts may be offered throughout the season on special events as they become available. www.gablestage.org/plan-your-visit/blue-star-theatre/

PLANET BEACH SPRAY & SPA DORAL offers all military personnel (and one immediate family member) 45% discount with its $49 Military Unlimited Use Program ($89 regular rate.) Allows unlimited use of 12 state-of-the-art spa treatments, including: massages, facials, hydration & detox treatments, teeth whitening, guided meditation, oxygen therapy, spray tans, weight loss & anti-aging treatments. Treatments are also available by individual session and through specially priced packages and offers.

Current Military I.D. required. http://planetbeachdoral.com/

In the Community NAS KEY WEST MWR - To be placed on the e-mail distribution list: cathy.robinson1@navy.mil – please provide your name & command. LIKE their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/NAS-Key-West-MWR/127937197261693. Web page: www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/nas_key_west/ffr/things-to-do.html MILITARY HOSPITALITY LOUNGE at Miami International Airport for traveling military personnel and their families. Appropriate military identification and airline tickets or boarding passes are required. Concourse E (in the Central Terminal,) level 2 (Departures and Gates.) Enter hallway to the right of and outside the Security Check-in point. Look for signage directing you to restrooms and the Military Hospitality Lounge. For additional guidance on access to the lounge please check with the nearest Airport Information Counter.

BOOKS & BOOKS EVENTS: Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, Florida 33134. For more details on these and many other author events www.booksandbooks.com/event/selector. Sign up for emails from Books & Books, www.booksandbooks.com/. Many of their events are live streamed. Check the website for further information.

CORAL GABLES GALLERY NIGHT OPENING: EDUARDO DEL VALLE "CHILDHOOD MEMORIES FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WATER“ Friday, February 5, 2016 7:00pm. These beautiful, evocative and sometimes painful photographs lead us through a different land in a different time. Or do they? Our first impression is that they take us through Eduardo del Valle’s childhood in Cuba where we know he suffered horrific trauma and betrayal. But we also see great beauty in these photographs. How can that be? You see Eduardo’s story is a very human one. All humans suffer, most have felt shame and alone, and we long for well-being, love and happiness. But for most of us who have experienced sexual abuse as children, we don’t have words to express our feelings. That’s because there are no words adequate to express the feelings a young person might have when they are being abused and humiliated. There are just unfelt emotions shrouded in shame. Most children who experience trauma remember the event, but bury the emotions. Eduardo has carried this history for fifty years. For him, these emotions are very much alive. That’s because all buried emotions are buried alive, aching to have a voice. Over time, this shame and secrecy add more suffering to the original abuse. And shame is like mold, it grows in darkness. Sunlight kills mold. And when we expose our history to sunlight, as Eduardo has done for us, this shame dissipates.

Eduardo has the courage to share his tender heart with the world. I’ve no doubt that his shame has dissipated in the process. And what happens in the wake of that? We can begin to experience love for others and from others. And as Eduardo del Valle knows, sometimes that love pours forth from the scar tissue in our hearts.

In the Community Friday, Feb 5, 8pm

ROBIN LIPPINCOTT - BLUE TERRITORY - A MEDITATION ON THE LIFE AND ART OF JOAN MITCHELL , Sunday, February 7, 2016 - 4:00pm. Blue Territory is a poetic immersion into the life and art of Joan Mitchell, the great American abstract expressionist painter. A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning, she is not as well known as her male counterparts because she was a woman and also because she spent most of her working life in France. Still, in 2013, Bloomsburg Business listed Mitchell as the bestselling female artist of all time. When asked to talk about her paintings, Joan Mitchell often responded, “If I could say it in words, I’d write a book.” Here is her book. At once unique and universal, Blue Territory is at its core an exploration of love and life, and what it means to love - and live - what you do. Meticulously researched and lyrically written, it will appeal to anyone interested in passionate engagement with the world. The book eschews images so as to allow the words to form them, thereby freeing the reader to imagine the paintings, much as Mitchell would have to do before picking up her brush. About the Author: Born and raised in the South, Robin is also the author of the novels IN THE MEANTIME, OUR ARCADIA, and MR. DALLOWAY, as well as the short story collection, THE 'I' REJECTED, now available on Kindle. IN THE MEANTIME and MR. DALLOWAY are also available as e-books. Lippincott's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in over thirty journals, including "The Paris Review," "Fence," "American Short Fiction," "Bloom," "Memorious," "The New York Times Book Review," The Literary Review," "Provincetown Arts," "The Louisville Review," and many others, and also in the anthologies M2M: NEW LITERARY FICTION, REBEL YELL and REBEL YELL 2. Robin's fiction has been nominated for the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the American Library Association Roundtable Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He is a multiple Yaddo fellow as well as a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He teaches in the low-residency MFA Writing Program at Spalding University, and lives in the Boston area.

In the Community GAIL POOL - LOST ALONG THE BAINING - Monday, February 8, 2016 - 8:00pm. In the late sixties, Gail Pool and her husband set off for an adventure in New Guinea. He was a graduate student in anthropology; she was an aspiring writer. They prepared, as academics do, by reading, practicing with language tapes, consulting with the nearest thing to experts, and then, excited and optimistic, off they went. But all their research could not prepare them for the reality of life in the jungle. As they warded off gargantuan insects, slogged through seemingly endless mud, and turned on each other in fatigue and frustration, they struggled to somehow connect with their enigmatic hosts, the Baining—a people who showed no desire to be studied.

Sixteen months later they returned home. Despite months of trying, they had not been able to make sense of the Baining’s culture. Worse yet, their lives no longer seemed to make sense. Pool put her journals away. Her husband abandoned the study of anthropology. Decades later, Pool returned to her journals and found in her jumbled notes the understanding that had eluded her twenty-three–year-old self. Finally, she and her husband returned to New Guinea for a shorter visit and a warm reunion with the tribe that challenged them on so many levels and, Pool now realized, made their journey and lives deeper and richer. About the Author: I was born in New York City, attended Little Red School House and Hunter College High School, and concentrated in Classics at Harvard. After marrying in college, my husband and I lived in London, New Guinea, and San Francisco before settling in the Boston area with our son. These days we live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Sanibel, Florida. For more than thirty years, I've been involved primarily in literary journalism, with a focus on criticism, the culture of magazines, and travel. I was editor of Boston Review, books editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly, a book columnist/reviewer for many publications, and a writing instructor at the Radcliffe Seminars. My three books are: Lost Among the Baining: Adventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork, Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, and Other People's Mail: An Anthology of Letter Stories, all published by the University of Missouri Press. In writing Lost Among the Baining, I've returned to the world of travel I wrote about in reviews for the Christian Science Monitor and in travel essays for the New York Times. In fact, the book was inspired partly by a Times essay that I wrote about a fiasco of a field trip I took to New Guinea with my husband. My memoir looks back with wry humor on our sixteen months living in the bush with a people whose very different culture seemed to undermine our own, and our redemptive return to the village nearly forty years later. For those who share my love of travel literature, I've started a blog called TraveLit, which reviews travel classics. These books--mostly little-known, and all worth knowing--cover travel is all its forms, from exploration to tourism. Along with reviews, TraveLit brings together provocative or entertaining quotations and reader recommendations.

TIM DORSEY - COCONUT COWBOY - Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 6:30pm - Channeling his inner Easy Rider, Serge Storms saddles up for his most epic, lethal, and hilarious road trip ever as he revvs off to find the lost American Dream . . . starting in the Florida Panhandle. Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, encyclopedic Floridaphile, lovable serial killer, and movie buff extraordinaire Serge A. Storms devises his wildest plan yet: finish the journey begun by his freewheeling heroes, Captain America and Billy, tragically cut short by some shotgun-wielding rednecks. Setting a course for the Florida panhandle, Captain Serge—with Coleman literally riding shotgun—mounts his classic motorcycle and hits the highway in search of the real America: the apple-pie-eating, freedom-swilling moms and pops of Main Street USA. But the America he finds in the rural burgs dotting the neck of the peninsula is a little bit different . . . and a whole lot weirder than anything Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper encountered. In a state where criminal politicians are more common than gators, Serge and Coleman discover one particular speed-trap locale so aggressively inept at corruption that investigators are baffled where to start. Expect nothing less than madness, mayhem, ingenious homicides, and mind-altering pharmaceuticals when Serge and Coleman’s path intersects with the Sunshine State’s hyper-dysfunctional rusticity. Where’s Jack Nicholson when you need him? About the Author: Tim Dorsey was born in Indiana, moved to Florida at the age of 1, and grew up in Riviera Beach in Palm Beach County. He graduated from Auburn University in 1983 with a B.S. in Transportation. While at Auburn, he was editor of the student newspaper, The Plainsman. From 1983 to 1987, he was a police and courts reporter for The Alabama Journal, the now-defunct evening newspaper in Montgomery.

He joined The Tampa Tribune in 1987 as a general assignment reporter. He also worked as a political reporter in the Tribune's Tallahassee bureau and a copy desk editor. From 1994 to 1999, he was the Tribune's night metro editor and night news coordinator. He left the paper in August 1999 and has since had eighteen novels published in several languages: Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, The Stingray Shuffle, Cadillac Beach, Torpedo Juice, The Big Bamboo, Hurricane Punch, Atomic Lobster, Nuclear Jellyfish, Gator A-Go-Go, Electric Barracuda, When Elves Attack, Pineapple Grenade, The Rip-Tide Ultra Glide, Tiger Shrimp Tango and Shark Skin Suite. He lives in Tampa with his family.

FABIENNE JOSAPHAT - DANCING IN THE BARON'S SHADOW - Friday, February 12, 2016 - 8:00pm. Haiti, 1965. Francois Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, is the impoverished island nation's brutal dictator. Relentless curfews, and Papa Doc's terrifying Tonton Macoutes militia, have made life in Port-auPrince increasingly difficult for struggling taxi driver Raymond L'Eveillé. But it is Raymond's brother, Nicolas, a wealthy professor at the local university, who is stirring up trouble. A secret manifesto penned by Nicolas is rallying opposition to Papa Doc. After a tip-off from a disgruntled student, Nicolas' home is raided and the manifesto discovered, landing him in Fort Dimanche, a notorious, disease-ridden prison many enter but few ever leave. Meanwhile, Raymond's wife leaves him, taking their children and escaping the island. With his family gone, Raymond gets himself arrested as part of a death-defying plan to break his brother out of jail. Fabienne Josaphat's electric prose brings to life a horrifying and not so distant time in Haiti's past while exploring the best and worst of humanity. The novel examines power's tendency to corrupt, the impulse of nationalistic pride, and, above all, the human desire to survive, while describing in rigorous detail the shocking realities of life in the Baron's shadow. Fabienne Josaphat received her M.F.A. in creative writing from Florida International University. Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow is her first novel. She lives in Miami.

In the Community BENJAMIN BECK - THIRTEEN GOLD MONKEYS - Monday, February 15, 2016 - 6:30pm, A story of hope, love, and unspeakable death in a disappearing Brazilian rainforest.

A team of dogged conservationists tries to save a beautiful monkey species, the golden lion tamarin, from certain extinction by reinforcing their numbers with tamarins born in zoos. Will these immigrants learn to find enough to eat, find secure places to sleep, avoid predators, and survive attacks by wild tamarins? Will they find mates and make babies? The technique, known as reintroduction, is new, and the conservationists struggle to find the best method. Can they train the tamarins in zoos to meet the challenges of the wild? Once the monkeys are released in the forest, should the people give them food, shoo away predators, rescue them if they get lost, and treat them if they are injured? Or should they be hands-off, letting the monkeys fend for themselves and become wild as quickly as possible? Beck describes the reintroduction of the first 13 tamarins, capturing their fierce determination to survive, their loves and conflicts, their nurturant families, adorable babies, hidden language, sometimes hilarious attempts to solve the problems of adapting, and the agonizing deaths of those who don't make it. He describes the power and beauty of the rainforest, and the loves, loyalties, conflicts, and sometimes hilarious bumbling by their human caretakers. Challenging their betterknown bosses, two women, a zookeeper and a Brazilian field assistant, discover the right way to reintroduce the monkeys. But a well-known Rio citizen almost destroys the program in a callous act of vanity. The story is vivid and authentic; Beck was there and has studied animal thinking and monkey and ape conservation for more than 40 years. About the Author: Benjamin Beck, a scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, is an expert on reintroducing captive-born and orphaned primates to the wild, having coordinated the highly successful reintroduction of golden lion tamarin monkeys to the Atlantic Coastal Forest of Brazil and having been senior author of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Best Practice Guidelines for the Re-introduction of Great Apes. Beck has published dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles and books, but has more recently turned to novels to bring the lessons of his scientific and conservation work to a wider audience. Presented in collaboration with the DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests

New World Symphony WALLCAST™ concerts allow you to experience select events throughout the season at SoundScape Park through a striking use of visual and audio technology on the soaring, 7,000-square-foot projection wall of the New World Center. Bring a blanket, share a picnic dinner and enjoy the sights and sounds of the New World Symphony with friends and family! Each WALLCAST™ concert is free to the public and does not require a ticket.

Saturday, February 20 at 7:30 PM. Concerto Showcase - Beethoven : Overture to Fidelio, Mozart : Violin Concerto No. 5, "Turkish,“ Nielsen : Clarinet Concerto, Schumann : Cello Concerto. Pre-Concert Chats There will be a pre-concert chat in the SunTrust Pavilion for each of the WALLCAST™ concerts, presented by Citi®, this season. These will take place one hour before each WALLCAST™ concert and will be available to all ticketholders and WALLCAST™ concert attendees. Space is limited, so attendance will be on a first-come, first-served basis. 500 17th Street Miami Beach, FL 33139. http://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/wallcast-concerts-and-park-events/

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