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Monday June 30
Even if you don’t have golden tresses you can still be a blonde today on National Blonde Day. According to the Blonde Legal Defense Club, an advocacy group that fights discrimination and stereotypes, a sunny disposition combined with go-getter ambition and a supremely positive outlook defines what makes a blonde. Hair color is secondary. While Marcia Brady or Marilyn Monroe typify the cheerful and sultry prototypes, we would like to recognize the darker roots of blonde-dom. Bubbling into our top list of blond bombshells is golden girl Martha Stewart and sunny boy Jeffrey Dahmer. Remember, people, you can’t judge a book by its cover. As the domestic diva and cunning cannibal exhibit, not all blondes are the same. — By Juan Carlos Rodriguez
Friday June 27
Summer Snaps
“Wish You Were Here,” the perennial closing line on many a postcard and the name of a great old Pink Floyd song. Also the title of Diaspora Vibe Gallery’s (139 NE 39th St.) first exhibition in its sixth annual summer-long Caribbean Crossroads series, which showcases emerging artists from the Caribbean and Latin American basin. In this case, “Wish You Were Here: Images from Life” offers an eclectic array of photographs by a young and creative quartet: Jennifer Gonzalez, Chantal James, Christopher Litt, and Noelle Theord. The show runs through Thursday, July 17. Admission is free. Call 305-759-1110. — Nina Korman
Sunday June 29
Oy Vey!
Take the secular path to Judaism
You love everything about being Jewish except going to temple during the high holidays, fasting, lighting candles, keeping kosher, and not driving your car, answering the phone, or doing any work on Saturdays. That and the fact that your Protestant wife is pooh-poohed upon by your rigid relatives. In your “real” world, being Jewish is about appreciating Jewish culture and history, not about going through the motions of rituals you consider devoid of meaning. You, my friend, belong with the Secular Jewish Humanists. Luckily a local group of them meets each Sunday of the month in an undisclosed location. They dish about various topics — this time it’s the recent Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations — and share potluck dishes. Everyone is welcome. Just bring enough food to serve 6. Call 305-931-2614 for the locale.–By Nina Korman
Saturday June 28
Camp Cacophony
Sound off during the summer
Wanna make noise like the big boys? Then it’s off to summer school for the digitally inclined. The 6 classes offered by the Sound Arts Workshop, beginning Saturday, June 28, and running through August, teach the latest techniques in audio and video production by Miami’s maestro of new and experimental music — Gustavo Matamoros. There are no lecture halls here, just hands-on lab work, with the basics of digital audio recording for musicians. You’ll complete your own mini-project while learning the various tools of recording, editing and processing, and multichannel mixing and mastering. Follow that up with Creative Digital Audio for Musicians, and learn how to digitize most any sound, techniques of nonlinear and deconstructive editing, and problem-solving for the budding engineer in you. A basic digital audio course is geared to artists who want to learn techniques for their multimedia, performance, and installation projects, and a follow-up course will take them even further into the process. Video artists can learn the secrets of experimental artist Charles Recher and take in a second video workshop by videographer Rodolfo Matamoros. — By John Anderson
The classes take place at Sound Arts Workshop, 12355 NE 13th Ave, #206. Each class ranges from $50 to $100, with enrollment limited to 10 students. Call 305-981-0600.
Saturday June 28
Jazzin’ It Up
Terrific trio raises spirits
Until the fall of 2001, jazz saxophone legend Houston Person and his closest collaborator, vocalist/wife Etta Jones, made beautiful music together, often gracing the stages of Miami auditoriums. That year complications from cancer sadly ended Jones’s life. A true trouper, Person has persevered, and wherever Jones may be, she is sure to be smiling. For a Heart of the City Cultural Arts Series concert honoring Black Music Month, Person returns to regale us with his soulful tenor stylings along with Miami’s favorite jazz diva, Alice Day, and local fave pianist/singer Mel Dancy. Showtime is 8:00 p.m. at the Joseph Caleb Auditorium, 5400 NW 22nd Ave. Tickets range from $15 for general admission to $20 for preferred seating. Call 305-636-2350. — By Nina Korman