During good times, it seems only fitting that we remind ourselves how bad times once were and could become again. This weekend academics from all over the country will flock to Miami to discuss just that — the good and bad old days — at Perspectives on New Deal America:…
Thursday March 26 Thomas Lynch often walks among the dead. He’s not a zombie. He’s an undertaker and a writer. Lynch, who works as a funeral director in Michigan, has had poems and essays published in The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Paris Review, and Harper’s. He’s…
“I love the sound of breaking glass” goes the refrain to the 1978 pop song of the same name written and sung by British rocker Nick Lowe. The tune climbed into the Top 10 in England but didn’t receive much airplay in North America. That could account for why you’re…
Thursday March 19 An evening of sizzling song and dazzling dance awaits those who attend tonight’s Spanish Spectacular, presented by the Miami City Ballet. Topping the bill is Spain’s leading stage and recording star Paloma San Basilio, who, since launching her career in 1975, has starred in several television shows,…
In the male-dominated sport of sailing, women were once viewed as the weaker vessel, docile and helpless — not aggressive enough to take on an opponent on the high seas, not strong enough to manage basic tasks such as hoisting sails and trimming sheets. Men frowned on using women as…
thursday march 12 Subtropics 10 New Music Festival: Its different. It’s innovative. It’s that stuff you don’t hear on the radio very much, stuff you probably don’t have in your CD collection but think is incredibly cool nonetheless. We refer to experimental or new music. And the Subtropics festival is…
thursday march 5 Doral-Ryder Open: We have to admit that ever since Gerald Ford stopped missing the green and hitting the spectators with his errant drives, golf has lost a bit of its action-packed appeal. But the Doral-Ryder Open (in its 37th year, the longest-running PGA Tour event in the…
While some would argue that there are many jackasses in contemporary music, there’s only one elephant butt — or so I believed for more than three years. In 1994 at the now-defunct Stephen Talkhouse in Miami Beach, completely by accident I saw and heard a quartet of Russian musicians with…
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…
Who do you think of when you hear the song “Dude (Looks like a Lady)”? Regrettably enough, you probably think of Steven Tyler, the scrawny, fat-lipped lead singer of Aerosmith. If someone asked you who wrote the song, you’d probably assume Tyler. One thing’s for sure: The name Desmond Child…
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…
Tucked away in a courtyard off Lincoln Road, between Euclid and Pennsylvania avenues, the Bee Hive Lounge has the look and feel of a comfy dungeon. Lit mostly by candles perched on shaky iron stands, the small room features a row of large windows shielded by white gauzy curtains. Two…
thursday january 1 West Side Star-crossed love and gang warfare supply the backdrop for West Side Story, one of American theater’s most revered musicals. In 1957 a quartet of creative minds — composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, librettist Arthur Laurents, and director-choreographer Jerome Robbins — conceived this spirited takeoff…
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…
