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The Reel Africa

MAC has the reins on African cinema

By Nirmala Nataraj
Feb 16, 2006

Even foreign film aficionados might not be able to reel off a list of classic African cinema or tell you why artists such as Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène are said to be creating some of today’s most relevant works. But contrary to popular knowledge, Africa has been composing some of...
Cat Power

The Greatest (Matador)

By Nirmala Nataraj
Feb 2, 2006

Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, is indie rock’s homespun gadfly — a mopey bundle of disconsolate lullabies whose uneven live performances threaten to eclipse her quiet genius. Cat Power’s seventh album, The Greatest, offers something beyond the cavernous longing her fans have come to expect. This time Marshall teams up...
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy | Richard Cheese

The Bold and the Brave (Overcoat) | Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese (Surfdog Ada)

By Nirmala Nataraj
Jan 26, 2006

Cover albums are generally the province of self-indulgence and creative ennui, wherein the revisionists attempt to relive a childhood fantasy or merely leech off other people's ideas because they have nothing of import to say. The Bold and the Brave — the recent collaboration between gloomy alt-rockster Will Oldham (under...
Dance Dance Extravaganza

Miami City Ballet provides effortless pleasure

By Nirmala Nataraj
Jan 26, 2006

Big ideas about the human condition are constantly finding a resting place in the gravity defying kinetics of the body -- but for every piece about resistance or oppression are likely two about the unassuming charms of, say, twilight or zero gravity. The Miami City Ballet’s latest show melds breathtaking...
The Gospel According to McKeever

A South Florida scribe contemplates faith, hope, and miracles

By Nirmala Nataraj
Jan 19, 2006

Michael McKeever is a raconteur of small miracles, dispelling the myth you can't create a self-contained, highly nuanced world of performance in the space of two hours. Miami's own prolific playwright can deliver walloping polemic, drawing-room comedy, and satire roiling in a stew of symbolism — usually in the course...

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