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2003 Stories by John Anderson

• World Beats

  published December 25, 2003

  WED 12/31 The philosophical roots of Paul Miller, AKA DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, run deep. More than just a mixer of... More >>

• Royal Blues

  published December 25, 2003

  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... More >>

• Moving Movie

  published December 18, 2003

  THU 12/18 If you'd rather not be bombarded by electro music at a club, you can watch it on TV. Well, it's more like a little big screen... More >>

• No Whining

  published December 18, 2003

  THU 12/18 Venevision International Theater's production of Kvetch: The Art of Complaining calls for an end to whining.... More >>

• Road Less Traveled

  published December 11, 2003

  There's no easy formula for building a music career. Except for the fortunate few, it's a bumpy ride fraught with twists and turns, peaks and... More >>

• Rose Max

  published December 11, 2003

  With all the Brazilians living in South Florida, you'd think the local music scene would be teeming with the sounds of samba, tropicalia, bossa... More >>

• Sailing On

  published December 11, 2003

  FRI 12/12 "I'll sleep when I'm dead." Famous last words from Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), symbolic of how the prolific... More >>

• A Sweet Suite

  published December 11, 2003

  FRI 12/12 Well, of course you've seen it before. Onstage. On TV. On ice even. Mushrooms dance to its music in Fantasia. Barbie... More >>

• Video Eye For Basel

  published December 4, 2003

  A: Three minutes. Q: How much time is spent viewing a work of art, on average? For a gallery hopper plied with wine and small talk and... More >>

• Punk Pop Pharmacy

  published December 4, 2003

  Indie music veteran Ted Leo may be too hip for his own good. The East Coast rocker was retro before it was cool, leading the mod/punk band Chisel... More >>

• Plaid Prance

  published December 4, 2003

  SAT 12/6 While Scottish actor Billy Connolly is busy frittering his talent away on that Crichtonian cow of a flick, Timeline,... More >>

• Radio Days

  published December 4, 2003

  FRI 12/5 About the only people up before 5:00 a.m. are insomniacs and truck drivers, which is what you'll have to be to catch the... More >>

• Street Theater

  published November 27, 2003

  It was the best of times; the streets seething with idealists, organizers, stinky dreadlocked youth, real-live Communists, and Montanans. It was... More >>

• Intimate Appraisal

  published November 27, 2003

  SAT 11/29 Hail the Big Art Openings for the Big Art Event. Miami's galleries and museums are hanging up their top guns for the arrival... More >>

• Happy Jack

  published November 27, 2003

  SAT 11/29 If amiable, silver-haired folkie Jack Williams ever ends up at your house as a guest, you may want to keep him away... More >>

• Various Artists

  published November 20, 2003

  As is often the case with dance music, what sounds so great on Saturday night when pumped through a megawatt sound system, surrounded by dancing... More >>

• Second Act

  published November 20, 2003

  Where have all the jazz singers gone? To the big smoky lounge in the sky -- the great ones anyway -- leaving fans of the sultry-throated diva to... More >>

• French Tickler

  published November 20, 2003

  SUN 11/23 No, that's not the live version of the Paris Hilton sex video you're watching. Just a run-of-the-mill performance by French... More >>

• In the Son

  published November 20, 2003

  FRI 11/21 Talk about pedigree. With a grandfather like Francisco Formell, arranger extraordinaire for Ernesto Lecuona's Cuban Boys, and... More >>

• On Edge

  published November 13, 2003

  "We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers." So said civil rights activist, Gandhi disciple, and all-around troublemaker... More >>

• Talking Dead

  published November 13, 2003

  SAT 11/15 Walking through the tropical hammock of Pinewood Cemetery in Coral Gables, a serene 4-acre site filled with native gumbo... More >>

• Beach Heads

  published November 6, 2003

  SUN 11/9 "So castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually." Maybe so, Jimi Hendrix, but that's no reason not to have another... More >>

• City of Rockers

  published November 6, 2003

  SAT 11/8 Hialeah Rocks! Really. What other municipality in Miami-Dade can boast of its very own festival at the rock and roll holy... More >>

• Pest-o Pesto

  published October 30, 2003

  It's Halloween! Time for trendsetters to be wondering: Whatever can we serve at our "Creepy Creature Feature" parties that, in terms of hideous... More >>

• Favorable Developments

  published October 30, 2003

  FRI 10/31 With all those swanky condos on Miami Beach, it's hard to believe the million-dollar sandbar can offer an affordable place to... More >>