“This performance has been many, many years in the making,” exclaims renowned Cuban choreographer and dancer Marianela Boan in reference to her one-woman piece Blanche, based on the wilting magnolia of a woman from Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. Decades ago Boan read the work and was drawn…
Whether playing Argentine tango, Appalachian folk songs, Brazilian bossa nova, or Bach concertos, Yo-Yo Ma, the soft-spoken classical cellist, has proved himself a true world musician, or better said a true citizen of the world. Born of Chinese parents in Paris and raised in New York, Ma embarked on a…
THU 1/8 Utter the word “aperture” and the amateur photographer might merely think about the opening on a 35 mm camera’s lens. A more schooled photo fan will envision Aperture, the venerated quarterly magazine, created by the New York-based nonprofit arts institution of the same name devoted to advancing photography…
WED 1/14 South Florida shutterbug Claudine Laabs is headed up the Amazon again, with a paddle, a crew, and a camera. In the past 20 years she’s been to the region a dozen times, leading trips for West Palm Beach’s Audubon Society of the Everglades. But before her upcoming May…
THU 1/8 Two days ago marked the beginning of ARTS Week, when the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) program awards cash and college scholarships to worthy teens. One hundred dancers, musicians, writers, actors, filmmakers, visual artists, and vocalists from 30 states will…
SUN 1/11 Freedom isn’t free. It requires vigilance 24/7. SAVE Dade, queer Miami’s political front, will be hosting its annual fundraising Lambda Showcase with an array of homegrown talent. Singing group the Rough Riders will perform a madcap version of Moulin Rouge. Rocker mama Bev McLellan will be jamming and…
THU 1/8 Country roads that disappear through Carolina tobacco fields, silos looming over a prairie, tractors kicking up dust on a hot summer day. This is the world evoked in the songs of folksinger Dana Robinson, the West Coast native who homesteaded in Vermont before settling down in the heart…
Thursday 1/8 Wood block prints of a city in flux made in the 1930s by artist Koizumi Kishio, currently on display in the exhibition “Tokyo: The Imperial Capital” at the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), are the subject of a chat titled “Koizumi’s Tokyo: Idealized Views of Radical Change”…
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of GableStage’s current production, Joe Orton’s silly, sexually provocative farce, What The Butler Saw, is the cultural change that has occurred since Joe Orton’s cheeky sex farce was a scandalous coup de theatre in its Sixties premiere. Orton, a gay writer with a penchant for…
“Haunted” is a group show installation put together by José-Carlos Diaz at the Worm-Hole Laboratory, a small apartment-turned-exhibition space off Biscayne Boulevard. Diaz’s idea is to bring together lesser-known artists as well as themes that may slide under the radar of more established alternative spaces. Each artist is given a…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year — which often seems advantageous — you may have noticed that there’s a pugnacious air of defiance among today’s young women. Far be it from a film critic to attempt an essay on gender studies, but hey, look around:…
Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Roman Catholic priest, social activist, Haitian president, now considered a dictator by many. He’s in. He’s out. He’s back in thanks to the U.S. military and an eventual election. He’s good. He’s bad. His people support him. His people struggle against him. In present-day Haiti, a climate of…
NOW 24/7 When Victor Leong began building his sandcastle along the seawall at Lummus Park more than 11 years ago, his creation was seen as a funky, one-of-a-kind attraction. Leong would perform with buckets of sand, building elaborate spires and fragile bridges and Gothic moats. His effort quickly drew crowds,…
THU 1/1 We’re not happy about it either, Jeb. Alas the Bowl Championship Series computer oracle has spoken: The Canes, who beat the Seminoles in an October slosh-fest, must face the team again on New Year’s Day. Any real Floridian prefers a Buckeye-Cane Orange Bowl matchup. And Cane fans, like…
THU 1/1 The holidays in South Florida can get weird. A longing for sleigh bells can burn a melancholy pang into your sun-tanning bliss. What’s Christmas without snow? Young folks who crave respite from the interminable warmth can find it at the Miami Seaquarium’s Winter Kids’ Fest. The event offers…
SAT 1/3 It’s hellishly cold in Germany right now, and downright frigid underground. But for a taste of both in the comfort of Miami’s temperate climes, one need only traipse over to the upstairs lounge of Edelweiss Gasthaus for a weekly gathering of the best in the local underground scene…
SAT 1/3 You never know what you’ll hear at a show by Tammerlin, a husband-and-wife musical duo composed of singer-songwriter-percussionist Lee Hunter (left) and guitarist Arvid Smith. They call their unusual sound “folklectic.” And they’re not kidding. The Jacksonville, Florida-based couple plays multiple instruments and boasts a varied repertoire of…
To hear Mike Lefebre tell it, these are desperate times for full-time horseplayers. In the not-too-distant past, he explains from his residence in West Palm Beach, “Out of nine or ten [daily] races at Gulfstream, I would bet seven of them. Now, maybe I bet two or three.” As a…
Thursday 1/1 The story of the Samimy family of Miami is also the story of the Zargar family, Jews who originally resided in Persia (known as Iran since 1935) as jewelers to the shah in the 1880s, then fled owing to anti-Semitism to Turkmenistan in the early 1900s, then returned…
Anthony Minghella’s magnificent film version of the Civil War epic Cold Mountain has much more going for it than Hollywood grandeur. Beyond its striking set-pieces and gruesome battle scenes populated with thousands of extras, in addition to its movie-star glamour — Jude Law and Nicole Kidman are like beautiful pieces…
The dispute at the heart of House of Sand and Fog concerns the occupancy of a rundown little bungalow near the northern California coast. It’s not much of a place, really. And to get a glimpse of the Pacific you’d have to climb up to the roof and stand on…
The ringed planet is at its brightest; check it out
No planet is cooler than the sixth one from the sun. Not Mars. Not Venus. Not even your cute little Uranus. No other rock orbiting the sun has those groovy rings like the hula hoops around Saturn’s waist. It’s funky and hip and there’s a car named after it. This…
