Thursday 4/17 Snarling defensive types cloaked in leather, vicious growling dogs, a tiny flower breaking through a concrete sidewalk. Just another day in the life of New York-based (and part-time Miami resident) photographer and filmmaker Katrina Del Mar, whose multimedia “Ruff Trade” exhibition is currently at the Miami Light Project…
There’s never been a shortage of Cole Porter (1891-1964) tunes on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional shows around the country, but choreographer Karen Stewart’s Black Door Dance Ensemble may put the most innovative spin on Porter yet: an all-minority cast dancing to Porter’s work en pointe. Black Door Dance…
Monday 4/21 Going deep with self-hypnosis So you’ve tried yoga, capoeira, plastic surgery, and shopping therapy but still, life stresses you out. Trust Martha Stewart on this one, tension is not a good thing. The Women’s Institute of Total Health In Nature (WITHIN), a nonprofit alternative health center in South…
Wed 4/23 The joys of stalking owls in a dark park Flashlights are optional. Your eyes slowly adjust to the moonlight as you step gingerly through a path of silhouetted oak trees in Greynolds Park (17530 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami Beach). It’s a leisurely hike with a name as…
Monday 4/21 Sweet dreams are made of this, indeed Imagine paying the mortgage by eating ice cream. That’s exactly how John Harrison, the official ice cream taster for Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, keeps a roof over his head. Harrison has not only sampled every flavor in the universe, he also…
Thur 4/17 Revisit the Golden Age of Havana Exiles lost in a reverie of what once was may protest vigorously, but Cuba never looked as good as it does right now on the fifth floor of Miami Beach’s Wolfsonian-FIU museum. Nestled in a small room, part of the larger area…
Sat 4/19 Drill teams bang out da funk They stomp and sway to a battery of drums and cymbals. They pound the floor in construction boots and brag in sassy rhymes. While dueling onstage they hex each other by throwing threatening glares and crossing their drumsticks. They go by the…
There’s never been a shortage of Cole Porter (1891-1964) tunes on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional shows around the country, but choreographer Karen Stewart’s Black Door Dance Ensemble may put the most innovative spin on Porter yet: an all-minority cast dancing to Porter’s work en pointe. Black Door Dance…
Hunting of Man was originally titled Last Night in Miami, which tells you a little about the local connections of this film, screening as part of the Miami Latin Film Festival. The writer/director Joe Menendez is a Hialeah boy, and others involved in the production also hail from here. But…
Relentless cataloguing of images is one of the hallmarks of recent history. The Florida Moving Image Archive’s contribution to this year’s aviation-themed Dade Heritage Days is a study in the historical value of images never intended for the history books. Comprising mainly home movies and television and movie advertisements, the…
“When people go to someone’s house for the first time, they want to look through the medicine cabinet and the CD collection,” reasons Rhythm Foundation director Laura Quinlan. The Rhythm Foundation’s Curated Listening series, held as part of Miami Beach’s Second Thursdays arts night, reveals what the music fanatics in…
Thursday, April 10 Modern photography, with advances in computerized wizardry, is as agile and varied as the zillion bits of information transmitted through the human brain upon processing just one image. University of Miami history professor Tomas Lopez explains how technology has altered the photographic arts and rendered your grandma’s…
Mark Mothersbaugh wants to get into your house. It’s not as if he hasn’t been there before. He was once the frontman for Devo, the geek-chic rock quintet from Akron, Ohio, popular in the Eighties for its spastic delivery and highly art-directed image and record covers. What Eighties New Waver…
Well-known for its owner/developers — the dairy-farming Graham family (as in Sen. Bob Graham) — Miami Lakes also enjoyed a long-time reputation as a haven for cows. Drivers zooming along Main Street were often treated to the sight of Holsteins placidly grazing in fenced-off areas. The bovine bunch was removed…
Saturday 4/12 South Florida racing aficionados know: Life is the pits. At least it is during stock car racing season, when the mean machines burn up the track at Hialeah Speedway (3300 Okeechobee Rd.). Not quite as famous as that other Florida race course — the Daytona International Speedway –…
Thursday 4/10 It’s just not groovy to live in grime, baby. Shag-alicious hipsters don’t do the shabby, get my drift? In The Secret Adventures of R.E. Cycle, outta-sight secret agent R.E. Cycle soils his radical duds cleaning up the environment after he is freed from a bottle of Tab. The…
Four artists in search of a drama A television set rises out of a huge flower bud in the middle of a room. On its screen, an opera singer warbles and emotes as 16mm film projections of women and water are cast over its surface. In a nearby corner a…
We’d venture that “new” is not the word that immediately comes to mind when you think of classical music. The New Music Miami ISCM Festival will change that perception. Presented by the FIU School of Music in association with the International Society for Contemporary Music, the event brings together some…
Ever heard of someone by the name of Ida B. Wells? She is the largely unknown but fascinating subject of Constant Star, a beautifully produced study of determination and courage now playing at the Florida Stage in Manalapan. Wells was an American original. Born a black slave in the Civil…
Performance art is not for everyone. Even as symbolic movements, seeing the artist’s body intimate acts of self-inflicted violence, humiliation, or sex are always challenging — even for the willing observer. But one thing is certain: Since the 1960s the artist’s body has functioned as a physical resistance to power…
Maybe all you want out of your pop music is a few minutes of escape, a radio-friendly respite from the heavy humdrum of your workaday existence. Maybe you likes to hang with 50 Cent, who survived a few gunshots (and doesn’t let you forget it) to party another day; or…
The story of the Cuban vocal group Los Zafiros is decidedly cinematic. Four handsome lads from Havana’s working-class Cayo Hueso neighborhood formed the group in 1962. Accompanied by a guitarist, the singers perfected a swinging synthesis of American doo-wop and Cuban rumba. Los Zafiros shot to fame on the island,…
