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 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…
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…
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…
THU 12/18 Venevision International Theater’s production of Kvetch: The Art of Complaining calls for an end to whining. The play gets a Spanish translation, which turns it into El Arte De Quejarse. Either way it is a sharp-tongued comedy, written by British actor and playwright Stephen Berkhoff, whose mastery of…
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 at the Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way, Miami Beach), where at 8:30 p.m. local filmmaker and music enthusiast Iris Cegarra will…
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 pays homage in a ballet costume (and an animated video, in case you were curious). But you decorate the tree every year too. Does that ever get…
FRI 12/12 “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Famous last words from Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), symbolic of how the prolific filmmaker and leader of New German Cinema lived, pumping out more than 30 features in his 37 years of life. Always the iconoclast, Fassbinder attempted to film the unfilmable in…
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 nova, and rock em portugues. But while heavyweights like Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso occasionally pass through our territory, the only local Brazilian act of note…
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 valleys. And then there’s that little thing called “life” that doesn’t always cooperate with one’s aspirations. For Steven Franz, life’s wandering path led to a…
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 Tom Joyner Sky Show at the Miami Arena (721 NW 1st Ave.) featuring DJ Tom Joyner, the morning jock heard on Hot 105 (WHQT-FM). But…
SAT 12/6 While Scottish actor Billy Connolly is busy frittering his talent away on that Crichtonian cow of a flick, Timeline, Florida Scots will be making their own, more enlightened, noise at the St. Andrew’s Pipe Band of Miami’s Annual Christmas Dance. When the pipers stop pipin’ hot, musical duties…
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 from 1990-1997 and paving the way for the rise of newcomers Mooney Suzuki and Delta 72. His next band, the hard-rocking Sin…
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 distracted by the scene, logic suggests those minutes are even fewer. And one can only guess at the attention span of a viewer…
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 from the guitars. Don’t worry: He’s not going to play rock star and smash your collection of Precious Moments figurines to bits with your Fender Strat…
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 of Art Basel — and for the Museum of Contemporary Art that means a solo show from William Cordova: “No More Lonely Nights.” He’s known…
It was the best of times; the streets seething with idealists, organizers, stinky dreadlocked youth, real-live Communists, and Montanans. It was the worst of times; rows of little men and women swaddled in riot gear playing “superhero.” It was a dangerous circus of the absurd, a fabulous spectacle that eclipsed…
FRI 11/21 Talk about pedigree. With a grandfather like Francisco Formell, arranger extraordinaire for Ernesto Lecuona’s Cuban Boys, and father Juan Formell, the founder/leader of Los Van Van, the musical gods were bound to smile on the talented Juan-Carlos Formell. But it wasn’t until the native Cubano found himself in…
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 underground artist/musician Jean-Louis Costes. Currently trekking through 22 cities of this vibrant, tolerant country, he’ll bring his Holy Virgin Cult Tour to Churchill’s (5501 NE 2nd Ave.). It’s…
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 look for the next heir to the throne. Enter René Marie. The 48-year-old veteran’s career is only now picking up steam after…
