The much anticipated opening of the TM Sisters installation/performance piece Whirl, Crash, GO! at Locust Projects drew a huge and creative crowd — so creative that the line outside made for a more interesting show than the performance inside. The jockeying for position was cut-throat as would-be patrons fought for the pink wrist bands that [...]
Print advertising and radio may seem unlikely compatriots. Jason Hughes of Classical Music South Florida (89.7 FM) argues otherwise in this exploration of the station’s most “It’s Alive” advertising campaign…
Summer’s almost over, which means it’s time for a new art season to kick off. And who better to ring in the new season than local art duo and Hilger Artist Project Award winners, the TM Sisters. For the past two months, sisters Tasha and Monica Lopez De Victoria have been assembling what may be [...]
Amherst College junior and former Knight Foundation intern Lee Oglesby spent her summer interning at the City of Miami Beach Department of Tourism and Cultural Development. Her boss Gary Farmer, cultural affairs program manager, asked Lee to describe her experience with the “convoluted juggling” of the 300 artists participating in this year’s Sleepless Night, scheduled [...]
Ever since I first saw the poster for The Harder They Come outside the Arsht Center early this summer, I’ve been eager to see what happens when Broadway meets reggae (well, okay, when reggae meets London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East). Could the ultimate slack of Jimmy Cliff’s performance in the 1972 movie survive the cheery lights [...]
Pianist Yuja Wang. Few things are as much fun, or as contentious, as arguing about which singer, which conductor, or which performer on a certain instrument, is the best. As a fellow who started playing the piano when I was a little boy, I’ve always enjoyed talking about great pianists of the past and the [...]
Manny Prieres has been a mainstay in the Miami art scene for over ten years now, with a good portion of that time dedicated to having founded and run the early and influential alternative art space, The BOX, alongside Jose Reyes and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. His latest solo show, which opens this Saturday at Spinello [...]
Miami’s favorite punk star Iggy Pop Iggy Pop agreed to let Sweat Records offer up limited edition t-shirts bearing his rugged mug at a benefit concert to get the store a new air conditioner.
There’s a new art space now open in Miami’s Design District, Swampspace to be exact. Run by local artist Oliver Sanchez, out of his own art studio, right around the corner from Locust Projects’ and Spinello Gallery’s new locales. Perhaps you remember last December when Sanchez transformed his studio into a makeshift bodega across [...]
Blame it on my self-loathing. When I read about the Gusman’s Flickin’ Summer film series, I thought how could Fame, Flashdance, and The Wiz be projected on the same screen where I’ve enjoyed classics like The Sound of Music and Casablanca? What business do these frothy 80s flicks have in that august hall with the [...]
