Far from the knockoff Downtown Abbeys located off the banks of Ludlum Road in our beloved Pinecrest lie the maddening crowds on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. All of us, at one time or another feel compelled to make the journey to the beach, and especially if we have visiting relatives in town, inevitably, we [...]
Thank goodness for grants. Though this may apply to Ulysses, Cary, my old friend Mr. Miller and W.T.’s five-and-dime store, here I speak about the non repayable funds disbursed by one party, often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. For example, [...]
O, what’s in a name? A poetry festival by any other name would recite just as lovingly, rhythmically, thoughtfully, profoundly, funkily, or – well, I think you get the message. O, Miami has been sweet. Whether you realize it or not, poetry is simmering on a front burner these days. Poem in Your Pocket Day [...]
Obviously, I’m slipping, failing, negligent, remiss, slipshod, slapdash and haphazard; I failed to write about In the Heights which has been running at Coral Gables’ Miracle. Moreover, I also neglected to cover Fela at the Arsht. These are two shows I was lucky and wise enough to catch in NYC a few years ago, but [...]
ULTRA has come and gone, and though the tinnitus may still be keeping you company, it may be time to sit down and have a long talk with yourself. If I were you, I would light the fire, pull up a chair, don the slippers, brew the chamomile tea and spin a record on the [...]
As I write this, I await the beginning of the 2013 Academy Awards telecast. I will forego the predictions, yet I have read all the predictions. I have seen The Life of Pi, Silver Linings Playbook and Les Misérables in places where UA, Regal and AMC rule, and salty popcorn, bathtub-sized soft drinks and GMO [...]
For a while now, I have been thinking that the end is near. Since there is no such profession as an actual “future of the neighborhood” fact checker, the question remains — is the end of Wynwood near? Let’s say that a little perspective is in order. First, it is entirely fair dinkum to assume [...]
I have become a better friend of Google than I want to be. I spent an hour or more trying unsuccessfully to find out what’s going on in the arts in Miami during February. So, I decided to compile my own list. No, I’m not dumb and consider myself computer literate. I visited all the [...]
As our beloved Miami enters 2013 — 12/12/12 gone forever and the Mayan Calendar thing having fallen through — I have created a list that future historians and Googlers will be able to use to find out what happened in 2012 as they search for meaning in a life buried between habitual texts and tweets. [...]
There aren’t that many opportunities to use future perfect tense any more, but by the time you read this column, I will have seen Talib Kweli’s concert Live at the Knight at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami- Dade County. I had hoped that I might have the chance to interview [...]
Once again, Miami’s ultimate event is upon us – Art Basel! Sorry Super Bowl lovers and other deniers, but had Sinead O’Connor been sunbathing instead of Irish, she would have sung Nothing Compares 2 Basel. The primary and official venue for this event is the Miami Beach Convention Center. Public show days are Thursday, Dec. [...]
From Saturday, Nov. 24, until Saturday, Dec. 1, the Miami short Film Festival (they make the “s” in short lower case) will screen its latest entries in Miami. The festival was founded in 2002 by William Vela, who (with some friends) scraped together 17 movies and 50 chairs for an opening night. What happened was [...]
I owe some of my friends an apology. They have warned me that with the way that things have been going, I shouldn’t be surprised if people end up in bread lines again. I try to argue with them, reasoning that things will not deteriorate so badly, but alas, I must admit that they seem [...]
The intersection of many of my favorites things occurs during the last Friday of the month’s Critical Mass. There may be no raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but there are a few thousand people, a couple of hours of exercise, fleeting neighborhood visitations and a number of baddass bikes to accompany the newly [...]
