SUN 1/18 Wearing puffy shirts and eyepatches, hoisting the Jolly Roger, walking the plank. It all screams pirates to us. But in the kooky world of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, dreamed up in England during the height of the Victorian era, pirates do more than just parade around in…
FRI 1/16 Some wimp requests information about John Waters’s film Pink Flamingos on an Internet bulletin board. “I want to see this movie but I want to know what I should watch out for, how gross it is … please help!” A reply is posted: “You’ll see the following: Divine…
NOW 24/7 Being a good sailor is simple when you have major bucks to spend on a fancy boat, club membership fees, and what seems like endless maritime maintenance. Never mind actually devoting some money toward learning how to handle a vessel. Now you’re broke and suddenly feeling just a…
SAT 1/17 Big-mouth baseball players: You’re on notice. It’s time to put up or shut up. The Global Scouting Bureau (GSB) is rolling into town, rattling your very own keys to the planet, during a 2-day Professional Baseball Tryout. Since 1998 GSB has signed 1200 players to scores of leagues…
NOW 24/7 In a world where celebrity sells, having your likeness reproduced in the form of a bobblehead doll may very well be the highest measure of an athlete’s worth. Whether it’s through raw athleticism or magnetic theatricality, a bobblehead doll means you are a somebody in your respective arena…
Does anyone know more about South Florida history than Paul George? Now we’ll finally find out for sure. Recognized for the numerous tours he’s conducted over the past twenty years in or around places like the Miami City Cemetery, the Miami River, Hollywood, Coral Gables, Stiltsville, and Morningside, the local…
Thursday 1/8 Wood block prints of a city in flux made in the 1930s by artist Koizumi Kishio, currently on display in the exhibition “Tokyo: The Imperial Capital” at the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), are the subject of a chat titled “Koizumi’s Tokyo: Idealized Views of Radical Change”…
THU 1/8 Country roads that disappear through Carolina tobacco fields, silos looming over a prairie, tractors kicking up dust on a hot summer day. This is the world evoked in the songs of folksinger Dana Robinson, the West Coast native who homesteaded in Vermont before settling down in the heart…
SUN 1/11 Freedom isn’t free. It requires vigilance 24/7. SAVE Dade, queer Miami’s political front, will be hosting its annual fundraising Lambda Showcase with an array of homegrown talent. Singing group the Rough Riders will perform a madcap version of Moulin Rouge. Rocker mama Bev McLellan will be jamming and…
THU 1/8 Two days ago marked the beginning of ARTS Week, when the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) program awards cash and college scholarships to worthy teens. One hundred dancers, musicians, writers, actors, filmmakers, visual artists, and vocalists from 30 states will…
WED 1/14 South Florida shutterbug Claudine Laabs is headed up the Amazon again, with a paddle, a crew, and a camera. In the past 20 years she’s been to the region a dozen times, leading trips for West Palm Beach’s Audubon Society of the Everglades. But before her upcoming May…
THU 1/8 Utter the word “aperture” and the amateur photographer might merely think about the opening on a 35 mm camera’s lens. A more schooled photo fan will envision Aperture, the venerated quarterly magazine, created by the New York-based nonprofit arts institution of the same name devoted to advancing photography…
Whether playing Argentine tango, Appalachian folk songs, Brazilian bossa nova, or Bach concertos, Yo-Yo Ma, the soft-spoken classical cellist, has proved himself a true world musician, or better said a true citizen of the world. Born of Chinese parents in Paris and raised in New York, Ma embarked on a…
Thursday 1/1 The story of the Samimy family of Miami is also the story of the Zargar family, Jews who originally resided in Persia (known as Iran since 1935) as jewelers to the shah in the 1880s, then fled owing to anti-Semitism to Turkmenistan in the early 1900s, then returned…
SAT 1/3 You never know what you’ll hear at a show by Tammerlin, a husband-and-wife musical duo composed of singer-songwriter-percussionist Lee Hunter (left) and guitarist Arvid Smith. They call their unusual sound “folklectic.” And they’re not kidding. The Jacksonville, Florida-based couple plays multiple instruments and boasts a varied repertoire of…
SAT 1/3 It’s hellishly cold in Germany right now, and downright frigid underground. But for a taste of both in the comfort of Miami’s temperate climes, one need only traipse over to the upstairs lounge of Edelweiss Gasthaus for a weekly gathering of the best in the local underground scene…
NOW 24/7 When Victor Leong began building his sandcastle along the seawall at Lummus Park more than 11 years ago, his creation was seen as a funky, one-of-a-kind attraction. Leong would perform with buckets of sand, building elaborate spires and fragile bridges and Gothic moats. His effort quickly drew crowds,…
Thursday 12/25 Beware of cantors from the Great Smoky Mountains: They come bearing guitars and singing funky Jewish folk tunes. Cantor David Shneyer is one such dude. Founder of the Jewish Folk Arts Society and the Fabrangen Fiddlers klezmer band, Shneyer is a singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. Trekking to South…
WED 12/31 The thrill is definitely still there when it comes to 78-year-old master blues guitarist B.B. King. In a career that spans 6 decades over worlds from the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s to South Beach today, blues music’s regal ambassador has accomplished more than just about any other…
WED 12/31 The philosophical roots of Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, run deep. More than just a mixer of sounds, beats, and words, Miller describes his art as a new evolution of music. He uses the word jazz to describe what he does, but don’t expect horns…
SAT 12/27 “Uh, you know, we’re really, uh, just like getting, the, uh, like, you know, the, uh, kids together, like it’s really cool that there’s, uh, so many kids in the, uh, city, who, you know, like, uh …” What Matt Cantor, creator of Control Skate Park, is trying…
NOW 24/7 You walk down the beach, searching for seashells, but as far as the eye can see there are none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Gone. When the powers-that-once-were manufactured the Miami Beach coastline, were shells not part of the equation? Or is nature just holding out on us? Probably not…
