The musical dynamic of Ed Matus’ Struggle was once described by a fan as “a train coming, then all of a sudden someone pours fudge on top of it.” The Miami quartet — comprising lead guitarist/songwriter Juan Montoya, singer/guitarist Scott Nixon, drummer Robert Lecusay, and recently acquired bassist LeRoy Talcott…
thursday june 5 New York Philharmonic: Music director Kurt Masur makes his Miami debut as he conducts the legendary New York Philharmonic tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach). The orchestra comes to South Florida for the first time…
Take four people from widely varying ethnic and personal backgrounds, put them in a potentially intense situation, then wait for the sparks to fly. It may sound like the formula for some “real life” MTV show or the premise of the next “Must-See TV” program, but it’s actually the secret…
thursday may 29 Subtropics 9: The Subtropics 9 New Music Festival wraps up this week with three performances at Miami-Dade Community College’s Wolfson campus (300 NE Second Ave., Breezeway Room). Tonight at 8:00 p.m. LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams offer the surrealist performance Transduo. Tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. the Shaking…
thursday may 22 KRS-One: In a little more than ten years, Lawrence Krsna Parker has risen out of utter poverty to become one of the most respected and prolific rap artists around. His ninth album in eleven years, I Got Next, was released a couple of days ago, the latest…
It’s good to be known as the queen of something — especially something widely and wildly influential — even if that something is long gone. Donna Summer doesn’t mind being called the Queen of Disco, but she wants to be known for more than her classic dance-floor anthems of the…
thursday may 15 Happy Birthday, ArtCenter-South Florida: The ArtCenter-South Florida celebrates a dozen years of providing a haven for local and national artists on Lincoln Road with a new name (it used to be called the South Florida Art Center), a new look (the galleries have been revamped), and a…
thursday may 8 Celebrity Golf Challenge: A bevy of celebrities, including Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Dawnn Lewis, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Drew Bledsoe, and Barry Sanders, will take a swing at sickle cell anemia at this weekend’s Celebrity Golf Challenge. Among the events taking place this weekend are a celebrity bash at…
thursday may 1 New World Symphony: Artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the New World Symphony in a season finale weekend of concerts. The music begins tonight at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts (174 E. Flagler St.) with a “Baton Night.” Conductor Felipe Iscaray leads a preconcert conducting…
thursday april 24 Chris Smither: As both a rough-voiced singer of his own evocative songs and an interpreter of others’ works, Chris Smither makes the A-list of traveling troubadours currently finding an audience among disenfranchised rockers and country fans looking for something a little more complex than the garden-variety Nashville…
“We are not into biases or limitations,” says Michael Roderick as he sits in a dimly lit studio at the 54th Street Music House in Hialeah. “There are no boundaries, there are no lines — that is the full intention of music, of communication. The only thing that creates a…
thursday april 17 Arturo Sandoval/FIU Jazz Festival: Trumpet great Arturo Sandoval teams up with the FIU Jazz Band tonight at 8:00 p.m. to perform an evening of jazz classics benefiting the Fellowship House for the mentally ill. Tickets cost $35 and $100. The event kicks off the seventh annual FIU…
Al’s Not Well Glitter (Panacea) Most bands, even the great ones, have about three songs on which all their tunes are modeled. Just listen to the entire Nirvana catalogue. Some bands work with even less: The Ramones have two songs — a fast one, and a faster one. During the…
thursday april 10 The Maroon Experience: The Historical Museum of Southern Florida (101 W. Flagler St.) continues its Thursday night lecture series in conjunction with its current exhibition, “A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie,” tonight at 6:00 p.m. with a screening of Sergio Giral’s Maluala. Giral,…
thursday april 3 Madcap Martini Party: Join the heppest cats in town for the grooviest martini party since Sammy, Dino, and Frank ruled the roost. Tara “Queen of the Night” Solomon and Micky Wolfson host this fundraiser for the exhibitions fund of the Wolfsonian (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), complete…
thursday march 27 Carmen: Miami City Ballet celebrates the premiere of resident choreographer Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros’s lavish ballet version of Georges Bizet’s Carmen with a gala evening, also featuring a concert by Cuban diva Albita, tonight at 7:00 p.m. at the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts…
thursday march 20 The Lipton Championships: Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi return to defend their championship titles against 30 challenging tennis stars at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park (7300 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne). Other players hitting the courts at the Lipton include Pete Sampras, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, and…
thursday march 13 Dade County Fair and Exposition: They’ve got daredevils who’ll take your breath away. They’ve got plants and animals from forests and farms. They’ve got food, games, magic shows, art exhibitions, vendors, and loads of live music. But let’s face it: Those super-loud, ultra-illuminated, fabulous puke-inducing rides are…
Everything works out for the best when you just go with the flow, contends Muse vocalist Paul Isaac. A year after leaving Miami for Los Angeles to record its major label debut, Muse is finally prepared to meet the world with an album recorded in Atlanta. Titled Arcana, the disc…
thursday march 6 Julia Alvarez: It’s no secret that when writers write what they know, they usually end up writing about people they know. And sometimes those people may not be thrilled by what’s been written about them. In her latest book AYo! (no, the title has nothing to do…
thursday february 27 The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged): Playwrights Jesse Borgeson, Adam Long, and Daniel Singer have done the unthinkable: They’ve compressed the works of the Bard into a wild, 97-minute romp. Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) features Hamlet performed backwards, Titus Andronicus as a cooking show, and a Nineties…
thursday february 20 The Colored Museum: Florida International University’s theater department presents George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum as part of the school’s Black History Month celebration. The award-winning play, which premiered in 1986, is a double-edged spoof of black and white America. Tickets cost ten dollars. Performances run today…
