Except for the closing credits of It’s a Wonderful Life, you don’t hear the old drinking song Auld Lang Syne much anymore, even at New Year’s. Most of the national televised celebrations drown it out, but there was a time when people really knew this song, understood its message of loss and conviviality, and sand [...]
Biscayne Boulevard is lined with countless sleazy motels, where cheap rooms go for hourly rates and bringing a black-light is probably a good precaution. These places are notorious for prostitution and other seedy underworld transpiring, but it’s the last place in the world you’d expect to see an art show. Well…..what if?
Special Holiday Guest Blog written by Mia Leonin. Thank you, Mia! In addition to the long lines of testy shoppers and mall parking lot homicides, something wintery is finally happening in South Florida. On Sunday, the Florida Dance Association’s WinterFest kicked off with “Florida Dances/Miami Dances” – six Florida-based choreographers dabbling in all things dance [...]
A contemporary drawing of Zimmerman’s Coffee House in Leipzig. This is the time of year when almost any gathering of people anywhere turns festive: offices become temporary holiday kitchens, customers in coffee shops extend the best wishes of the season to each other, shoppers share tips as they pick over the last items in a [...]
Something to look forward to for 2010: Theory Night, Miami’s own series of salon-like gatherings and discussions, which has been on hiatus for some months now, will soon make a return this coming January with a discussion of the late- David Foster Wallace’s E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction, from his A Supposedly Fun [...]
New Year’s Eve: so much hype, so much opportunity for disappointment. For an Auld Lang Syne you’ll want to remember, ring in the new year with Gablestage. This year Joe Adler’s company serves up a champagne supper at the Biltmore along with the southeastern premiere of Beau Willimon’s political thriller Farragut North. The playwright draws [...]
If you haven’t checked out the newly opened de la Cruz Collection in Miami’s Design District, do yourself a favor and give them a visit. Today’s post deals with only a small fragment of the work you’ll find in the 30,000 square foot space. On a third floor, situated in an unassuming section of the [...]
Duet for mature dancers with Rahel VonMoos (left) and Wally Cardona. Photo: Christian Glaus Miami arts enthusiasts are creatures of habit. We know that November is for books; December, visual arts; February, film; March means music; and summer means theater and dance, right? Last year, though, the Florida Dance Association shook up the local arts [...]
Davie’s Young at Art Children’s Museum recently celebrated its fourth annual eco-friendly fashion show. The museum’s director of development Melissa Wagner Telford checks in with an update of the extremely successful evening…
Jupiter and its moon Io, from The Planets–An HD Odyssey. Late next month, two South Florida venues will be on the first tour of a multimedia event that should be fascinating to see, and perhaps may point classical music concerts in a new direction. The Houston Symphony, under its music director Hans Graf, will be [...]
