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Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking-show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's luck does not improve. Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law puts her in charge of the Women's Club annual gala. While making plans at the country club, they hear a volatile argument between the new head chef and the club's manager. Not long after, the chef swan dives to his death at the bottom of the grand staircase.

The Trans Wiki Project and Signal Found Productions presents The Goddess Recordings—an audio/spoken word series chronicling the life, legacy, and myth of Raquel Reyes, the pioneering trans model, artist, and early-internet icon who redefined beauty in the digital age. Once the world’s most downloaded transsexual model and author of the 2005 cult-classic memoir Goddess, Reyes is now regarded as a foundational figure in digital self-creation—her work anticipating the influencer that would later dominate social media. Two decades after her digital disappearance, this series explores her ...

Food anthropologist Miriam Quiñones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon, a socialite sitting at her table suddenly falls face-first into the chicken salad, never to nibble again.

Un poco de ciencia e historia.