Macon’s musical heritage is the city’s claim to fame. Otis Redding refers to it in his hit “Dock of the Bay” when he sings, “I left my home in Georgia headed for the Frisco Bay.” Capricorn Records was founded in Macon. The Allman Brothers Band formed here, and a museum dedicated to the group is [...]
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Minnesota History Center’s annual vintage dress-up party, RetroRama, is this week. This year’s shindig isn’t themed on a specific time period, but rather “classic” fashion: “a perfect pair of jeans, an heirloom hand knit sweater, a gorgeous belt burnished with age, or vintage khakis. …your grandmother’s little black cocktail dress, or [for him]… a great [...]
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If you go to see Coach House Theatre’s latest farce, Ken Ludwig’s “The Fox on the Fairway,” hang in there. Stay through the second act, cause that’s where most of the fun is. Farces aren’t great brainteasers, although in this case, you may have to ponder how three couples (two already or formerly married and [...]
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Karen Rifas and Kerry Phillips have more in common than the first letter of their first names, although at first it might not seem so. Rifas’s work should be familiar to many – in particular her linear, site-specific installations that involve optical illusion and delicate interventions. Her pieces can be found at MAM, MOCA and, [...]
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The highly anticipated “Mobile Homestead” by artist Mike Kelley opened on Saturday, becoming the first permanent exhibit at the MOCAD (a Knight Arts grantee). The project was conceived in 2010, and executed as a scale replica of Kelley’s childhood home in the suburbs of the Detroit Metro area. The homestead includes a detachable façade room, [...]
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Two artists at the 3rd Street Gallery approach their (mostly) fiber-based artworks with similarly heavy-handed topics that are poignant and at times quite emotionally charged. Carol Wisker and Melissa Maddonni Haims split the space and fill the interior with textile creations which, although loosely related, address concepts that are not so easily put into words. [...]
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I arrived at the Miami Theater Center about 20 minutes before the yellow buses arrived. I wanted a good seat for the 10 a.m. performance of “Inanna and the Huluppu Tree.” I entered the empty theater space, and it was cold. I decided to sit in the fifth row,
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History Theatre’s musical take on the troubled marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise,” is well-timed to take advantage of the renewed interest in this 1920s and ’30s “it” couple ginned up by Baz Luhrman’s extravagant new silver-screen adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.” Like the movie, the play revels in Jazz [...]
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The success of television shows like CBS’s ‘The Big Bang Theory” are no accident. The nerds have taken over entertainment, and their stories are being told on screen and on stage. Macon Little Theatre must have caught on to the phenomenon, because their current production is a situational comedy aptly titled “The Nerd.” Written in [...]
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Today, I’m excited to present the 66 finalists in the Miami Knight Arts Challenge. Our goal is to make it so that everywhere you go in South Florida, you have an encounter with art. In that vein, one of the things that excites us most about this group is their geographic diversity. They don’t just [...]
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