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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The old joke goes like this: A tourist stops a New Yorker on the street and asks “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The local pauses for a minute and then replies “practice, practice, practice…” Well, the world class Detroit Symphony Orchestra must have been practicing. They were in Carnegie Hall last night with [...]
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This Saturday, May 11, promises to be an extravaganza of household objects made art, as Public Pool hosts the closing of “Able Objects,” sculpture by Real OK Design (a.k.a. artist Aaron Blendowski), with an interactive appearance by Blendowski to demonstrate his candle-making skills, accompanied by live music performed by Behind the Times featuring Benjamin Teague. Attendees [...]
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Just because National Poetry Month and the O, Miami Poetry Festival are over, it doesn’t mean the world will come to an end—at least
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Patrick Barlow went for the gusto when he decided to script a play based on the famous Alfred Hitchcock film “The 39 Steps,” which was itself taken from an earlier novel. The result is a frantic, fun, zany spoof that Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, plays fully for the many laughs the plot [...]
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This Sunday, the 20th incarnation of South Florida’s Mainly Mozart Festival launches at the Coral Gables Museum, and will last over the next six weekends. As the festival’s title suggests, the music of Mozart is a central focus, and will be featured in each of the concerts. But there will also be a good deal [...]
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