Your Evening Sift

What a brisk, beautiful South Florida day. It makes me want to put it in a big bottle that I can uncork in the middle of August.

I have just a few thing for you tonight, but first...

New Blog Alert!

Generation Miami: Giancarlo Sopo is a Democratic activist based in South Florida. Sopo carries a fairly heavy resume...

In 2008, President Barack Obama’s campaign appointed Sopo to serve on the Democratic Party’s National Platform Drafting Committee, alongside key national leaders, such as Secretary of Homelad Security, Janet Napolitano, Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachussetts and Dr. Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Sopo has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time, The New York Times Magazine, CNN and Univision.

Sopo is presently studying Government at Harvard University and is a weekly political commentator on a Spanish-language FM radio station in Miami, FL.

So you can pretty much guess what we can expect from Generation Miami: decidedly left-leaning political commentary and discussion on both national and local issues. From GM's 1st post on January 17th...

We can no longer afford to have state legislators that spend millions in tax-payer dollars trying to conduct foreign policy from Tallahassee, instead of fully funding our schools. We cannot afford to have a local newspaper that spends its limited resources on revitalizing painful episodes from the past and fabricating controversies.

So, I’ve started this blog to create what I hope will be meaningful discussions about current events; to hold the local media accountable, and, most importantly, to change the tone of the political discourse in Miami — even if it’s just in the confines of this blog.

Welcome, Generation Miami!

SFDB readers will find Generation Miami in the Florida Politics blogroll located in the right sidebar.

Now on to your early evening Sift...

A- Random Pixels updates his controversial "Where is Carlos Alvarez, Jr.?" post after an anonymous commenter leaves some interesting information.

B- The Cleveland Orchestra is in the house, says South Florida Classical Review.

The Cleveland Orchestra opened their 2009 Miami season unseen but definitely heard as the gold-plated pit band for Miami City Ballet’s Balanchine performances Thursday night at the Ziff Ballet Opera House.

On Friday the celebrated ensemble moved across Biscayne Boulevard and, led by Franz Welser-Most, was highly visible and imposingly audible under the Knight Concert Hall lights in music of Wagner and Shostakovich.

C- Miami Condos Investments has confirmed a rumor that an Israeli corporation is preparing to purchase 100 condos at Quantum on the Bay.

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