thursday february 26 New York, New York: You may be far from New York City, but you can still help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the unification of Gotham’s boroughs by gazing at photographs up close. Classic images abound by Alfred Stieglitz, Andre Kertesz, Berenice Abbott, and others. Stieglitz, the…
thursday february 19 AfterDark Concert Series: Are you beside yourself with the thought that very soon Seinfeld will no longer keep you glued to the tube on Thursday night? Here’s an alternative: In an attempt to lure you to downtown midweek, the people at Bayfront Park (301 Biscayne Blvd.) created…
thursday february 12 David Copperfield: As tempted as we are to tear into David Copperfield, he denies us the pleasure by continuing to do it himself, over and over again. The oh-so-serious illusionist is now slicing himself in half with a laser beam. Don’t, however, expect to see gallons of…
thursday february 5 Miami Festival of Discovery: An international passel of hot young pianists will dazzle you with their digits for three days at what sounds like an event dedicated to Christopher Columbus but is actually an exploration of musical virtuosity. Today and tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Edna Golandsky, of…
thursday january 29 Public Works Film Series: See for yourself how bad times really were during the Depression by checking out the adjuncts to the exhibition “Public Works” at the Wolfsonian-FIU (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach). In addition to a series of lectures and performances commencing next week, the museum…
thursday january 22 Miami Modernism: Have you developed a passion for collecting items from the Twentieth Century and want to expand your hunting grounds beyond garage sales and thrift stores? Miami Modernism is the ticket. For the next four days at the Ramada Resort Deauville (6701 Collins Ave., Miami Beach),…
thursday january 15 New World Symphony: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas spends a lot of time away, but whenever he and the New World Symphony get together some marvelous music is the result. Tonight the orchestra inaugurates its Music from America Festival, a ten-day exploration of compositions written by or orchestrated…
thursday january 8 Florida Philharmonic with Cachao and Nestor Torres: The Florida Philharmonic goes Latin tonight with a program titled Serie Latina de Mœsica Pop Miami. That mouthful means Latin Pop Music Series Miami. And while we don’t exactly know what songs will be performed, we do know who will…
thursday december 25 Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships: Athletes never rest. That’s why they rake in millions of dollars for playing (yes, playing) a sport every day, while you just scrape by on your meager wages. That’s why they are in superb shape as they bounce around parks and arenas…
thursday december 18 Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos Alfonzo’s turbulent, mystical abstractions evoke Afro-Cuban symbols, European icons, violence, sex, the specter of death, and the tropics (his mural in the Santa Clara Metrorail station, The Mystery of the Tropics, typifies his grand scale). One of Miami’s most celebrated and beloved…
thursday december 11 It’s Only Rock and Roll: Neil Young was right: Rock and roll will never die. Apparently the Lowe Art Museum (1301 Stanford Dr., Coral Gables) believes in the longevity of every parent’s least favorite form of music too, as it presents this traveling exhibition showing the effects…
The loudest band in South Florida has quietly been crisscrossing the country on tour, releasing a slew of material, collaborating with fellow underground phenoms, and buying more amps. Although all four members of Cavity grew up in Dade, the group doesn’t have much of a local following. That, however, hasn’t…
thursday december 4 Elba Ramalho: A superstar in her native Brazil, Ramalho has been called the Queen of the Lambada and likened to Tina Turner. She certainly has a mop of hair, manic energy, shapely legs, and a powerful voice. But don’t be fooled: Just because she’s Brazilian doesn’t mean…
thursday november 27 Santa’s Enchanted Forest: Okay, so the seasons don’t really change so much in Miami. Locals spend winter holidays baking themselves on the beach; it did snow once, but don’t count on a white Christmas. How to capture the holiday spirit? You have two options: Go shopping tomorrow…
thursday november 20 Rose’s Rock On Anniversary IV: Everything is new at Rose’s Bar & Music Lounge — stage, sound system, lighting, decor, lower drink prices, cover charge — except for one thing: Rose’s itself. On fickle South Beach for four years, the club provides a rare forum for local,…
Info: Calendar for the week By Larry Boytano, Judy Cantor, Nina Korman, and Jennifer Osorio thursday november 6 House of Blues Tour: The blues comes to Broward in a big way tonight at 8:00 and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. when the House of Blues presents Dr. John, Charlie Musselwhite, and…
thursday october 30 Naomi Wolf: Naomi Wolf sure knows how to piss people off. A controversial figure among the feminist elite, she discusses her latest book Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, today at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Jewish Book Fair’s Women’s Day Luncheon. A Rhodes Scholar and…
thursday october 23 Writers Harvest National Reading: Like a good book? Like it even better when the author reads it to you? Then you’ll love this. Tonight is Writers Harvest, the nation’s largest literary benefit. At 600 bookstores nationwide, 2000 of your favorite authors read from their works simultaneously. Attend…
It’s 8:30 on a sultry Thursday evening and Rose’s Bar & Music Lounge looks, well, strange. Usually at this hour there are just a few hard-core sots sucking down two-for-one happy hour drinks. But tonight there are plenty of people — and hardly any of them are drinking. A liberally…
thursday october 16 Guitar Greats: The rock guitar pantheon brings its traveling exhibition of flying fret virtuosity to the Sunrise Musical Theater (5555 95th Ave., Sunrise) for a four-hour rock and blues bash. The promoters of the G-3 Tour, whose uninspired title presumably translates into “three guitarists,” need to check…
thursday october 9 Celluloid Vampires: This lecture sucks — blood, that is. With Halloween just around the corner, the Wolfsonian (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) has gotten a bit ghoulish and invited a professor (no, not Van Helsing, Dracula’s nemesis) to talk about vampire films tonight at 6:30. Bill Rothman,…
thursday october 2 Maluala: Oh, what a paradise the Cuba of yore seemed. Except for one thing (no, not Castro): slavery. Yes, Cuba was not always so libre; plenty of Africans were oppressed there too. Regarded by some as the father of black Cuban cinema, Sergio Giral, now a resident…
