In the ongoing competition for most annoyingly catchy song, “Try to Remember,” from the Sixties-era Broadway production The Fantasticks, holds fast at number two. Retaining its lead by a wide margin is “American Pie,” the magnum opus of Don McLean, or as they call him on the state fair concert…
Chicago, May of 1945. Two people, ages 27 and 21, are getting married. They are also deaf, as are most of their guests. The camera recording them has no sound, but we can see them signing to one another. At the reception, because no one can hear the music, couples…
While developers continue to litter Miami’s airspace with overpriced piles of pseudo-Modernist garbage, the rest of us have realized we’re living in the age of renewal. Property owners with a gift for smart renovation are the ones who will be maximizing profits and bringing Miami back to the forefront of…
VOID’s Website (www.void.tv) describes the band as “without a doubt one of the hottest groups in contemporary Australian jazz.” Who can disagree? The Necks? Blaine Whittaker’s Groove Bag? Certainly not Galapagos Duck. Although Australia can boast of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Midnight Oil, Nick Cave, and Wolfmother, the land…
One disadvantage to living in New York is its overwhelming excess of “new American plays.” How do you know which ones are worth seeing and which ones are merely “new”? But in order for a small theater company in Miami to produce a contemporary play, it must be certain the…
When he arrived in Key West on a steamship in 1928, Ernest Hemingway had written two small novels — The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women — but was more like the Turtle of the Expatriate Entourage. By the time he ran off to Havana in 1939, he was…
According to the lore behind Inland Empire, director David Lynch turned to his producer one morning during shooting and demanded a one-legged woman, a monkey, and a lumberjack by 3:15 p.m. All three made it into the film, but as to what else Inland Empire is about is anybody’s guess…
What if Jurassic Park had been set in China? Imagine swarms of human-rights protestors picketing outside the electric fences; knock-off velociraptors running free in Moscow; and the Dalai Lama sharing a pen with a brontosaurus. As incongruous as it might sound, some of the finest dinosaur fossils in the world…
While we disagree wholeheartedly with hypocritical doctrine, missionaries, and the entire existence of post-Braveheart Mel Gibson, we also firmly believe that American music would be a wasteland without gospel. Take away Son House, the Carter Family, and Mahalia Jackson, and we’d all be listening to Clay Aiken blow into a…
How to explain the combination of Anton Chekhov and Pina Bausch in Sayda Trujillo’s Three Sisters: Awake? It’s like My Dinner with André remade by Baz Lurhmann. Dazed and Confused directed by Quentin Tarantino. Remembrance of Things Past adapted by Sid Vicious. Chekhov’s meditation on human longing has been removed…
In terms of artistic interest, the battle between heaven and hell has been more one-sided than the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals. What’s the best book in the New Testament? Revelation. The best character in Paradise Lost? Satan. And does anyone even remember Dante’s Paradiso? The world-famous choreography team…
