Your Evening Sift

It was a strange kind of day here in South Florida. I was home and running chores but I couldn't help but notice the thick cloud cover virtually all day that reminded of my years in the Northeast. I would like to say it felt noticeably cooler, but, well, no such luck. Enjoy your Hump Day evening Sift...

A- Sweat Records provides some info on the new Black Umbrella Book Club's inaugural meeting and says that copies of Jennine Capó Crucet's "How To Leave Hialeah" will be available.

B- Miami Metblogs notes the autumn-type weather today in SoFla.

As I rode my bike to synagogue this morning, I thought I felt a slight, very slight, coolness in the air. As I got to top of the drawbridge and looked at the sky, I knew it wasn’t a tactile hallucination: there’s a cold front going through!

C- Anybody wanna buy an Italian bike frame? See South Florida Fixed.

D- Random Pixels says that the newest issue of the Miami New Times might cause some hoopla on the streets of Little Havana.

A new issue of New Times has hit the streets.

Staff writer Tim Elfrink along with Vanessa Grisalez has crafted an interesting piece on the migration of Cuba's black market economy into cyber-space

But it's not the story that may upset some in Miami.

It's the cover.

E- Discourse elaborates on Rep. Alan Grayson's comments from yesterday that I highlighted earlier today.

That said, Grayson's remarks can be called inaccurate in one respect — there really isn't a Republican health proposal on the table at all, just a bunch of bills each with a small number of sponsors, none endorsed by the Republican leadership.

To those who would attack Rep. Grayson for his unusually blunt talk, I would ask, “Do any of the leading Republican plans ensure basic health care for all Americans?” And, where were you when Republicans were using similarly hot rhetoric?

F- AshAndBurn posts a few interesting photos from around town.

G- Urban Environment League's photos from this past weekend's Virginia Key workshop sure show some serious folks.

.