We’ve got a triple threat of our favorite conversations. First, we’ll hear from Ruben Rabasa. He’d been acting for more than 50 years when he got famous overnight. Then, we’ll talk to the Puerto Rican singer iLe, who got her start with Calle 13. Finally, we roll it back to 1984 with playwright Aurin Squire.

Miami Herald reporter Nicholas Nehamas has won awards and recognition for his work investigating the Panama Papers and South American gold mining's connection to international crimes. He's moving on to the New York Times to cover the campaign and Governor Ron DeSantis. He joined WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about his career in South Florida and what's next for him.

“Give Them Their Flowers” is a local exhibit paying homage to Miami's Black queer history and community. Loni Johnson is one of the participating artists. Her work focuses on honoring the people it was too late to honor in life, inviting us to remember and show love. She joined WLRN's Carlos Frías.

Writer Alexandra T. Vazquez joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about her book "The Florida Room" — she uses it as a metaphor, as a place that’s in-between spaces. She discusses how culture and music mix in Florida, and specifically, Miami.

Frost Science's Cary Woodruff joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to share how he's building the museum's paleontology program. As their inaugural curator, Woodruff is traveling around the world to research and dig for fossils that will make up the Frost's own dinosaur exhibit.

Filmmaker Rodney Ascher join WLRN's Carlos Frías to discuss his documentary film "A Glitch in The Matrix." The film explores the simulation theory from the perspective of experts and "eyewitnesses" who fear—or hope—that we world we're living in is not actually real.

Artists John William Bailly and Edouard Duval-Carrié join WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about their individual artwork that explores history, culture and mythology. Their work is displayed at the Center for Visual Communication in Wynwood.

Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist and journalist. His writing reflects on music, culture, sneakers, and prayer. He joins Carlos Frías to talk about the daily rituals he revels in and the music that formed him as the youngest of four siblings.

Aurin Squire's play "Defacing Michael Jackson" is about hero worship and belonging, told through a group of kids in 1980s Opa-Locka. Playwright Aurin Squire joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about the personal and public heroes in his life that inspired his work.

Bea Hines' dream of becoming a writer wasn't encouraged by her friends and family when she was growing up. But she tells WLRN's Wilkine Brutus how she proved everyone wrong when she was the first Black female journalist hired at the Miami Herald.