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Your cultural event guide
Read our editors' weekly picks for things to do in Miami. Or find more events, updated daily, on Flavorpill.com. |
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IN THIS ISSUE
May 6-12, 2008
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Nowadays, culture is pushed through 3G/broadband/fiber-optic/Internet2 super pipes at a beeping, bleeping, breakneck pace. The need for speed is outpaced only by our ability to forget what the hell we were just looking at, listening to, and immersed in. God bless, then, keepers of the flame like Laramie Dean. The man — who toured with surf-rock deity Dick Dale — unleashes the kind of brass-injected, barreling, '60s guitar rock that presupposed psychedelia and got Gidget in a family way. His Friday set at Churchill's is proof that, sometimes, the old ways really are the best ways. Woo woo.
- Brett O'Bourke, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Artkrush Image Gallery
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Our sister publication Artkrush is proud to unveil its brand-new Image Gallery. Featuring larger images, additional content, and new navigation, the gallery premiered with the latest issue, spotlighting the Berlin Biennial. Along with event coverage, the issue also features a look at Polish artist Paulina Olowska and an interview with Mexico City's Daniel Guzmán.
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A.M. Homes
The Mistress's Daughter author speaks to Boldtype about her first work of nonfiction.
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READING
Arianna Huffington: Right Is Wrong
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Tuesday May 6 (7:30pm)
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Coral Gables Congregational Church (3010 De Soto Blvd, 305.448.7421)
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Arianna Huffington's The Huffington Post has had its teeth sunk deep into the Republicans' backsides from the get-go. But its relentless attention to knee-jerk misdeeds hasn't overlooked the Democrats, either — the party that stood by as its elephantine counterparts trampled our freedoms — or the mainstream media that coddles both sides of the aisle. Huffington reads tonight from her Right Is Wrong, which fingers everyone complicit in the great unraveling, and pins them to the mat. Let's just hope they stay down for the count.
- John Hood
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Damn Son!
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Tuesday May 6 (10pm)
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Jazid (1342 Washington Ave, 305.673.9372)
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Scenesters rarely mind packing into tiny spaces like tinned sardines — as long as the liquor is flowing and the DJs are tight — and Jazid's upstairs is case in point. Over the last year, a handful of weekday parties have lured clued-in sybarites to the South Beach lair; none have lasted more than a few months, but since the only real change between regimes seems to be the moniker, the glammy indie crowd has remained loyal. This time around, DJs Mike Deuce and DS363 run the show, with a rotation of local mix masters keeping things fresh.
- Tiffany Rainey
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READING
Lunchtime Reads feat. Nick Flynn w/ T. Cooper, Connie May Fowler, and Kevin Young
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Wednesday May 7 (12:30–1:30pm)
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Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus (300 NE 2nd Ave, 305.237.3000)
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Each spring, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts unveils its increasingly ambitious Writer's Institute, which allows a select few aspiring scribes to workshop with some of the world's wisest wordslingers. Although the workshops themselves sold out almost the minute they were announced, the lunchtime readings are still free and open to all. Today's event features Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City), T. Cooper (Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes), Kevin Young (For the Confederate Dead), and Connie May Fowler (The Problem with Murmur Lee). The latter's Northern Florida works are the best thing to come down the pike since fried green tomatoes. Just ask Ellen Barkin.
- John Hood
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READING
Max Rameau: Take Back the Land
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Wednesday May 7 (6pm)
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Books & Books - Coral Gables (265 Aragon Ave, 305.442.4408)
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It's been almost two years since Max Rameau led his band of rabble-rousers to build Umoja Village on a vacant strip of Liberty City land, and more than a year since the shantytown burned to the ground. Yet, despite the fact that almost-affordable housing can finally be found on Biscayne or Brickell, Rameau's dedication to finding a safe place for all people to live, regardless of socioeconomic standing, perseveres. In Take Back the Land, he tells how he and his confederates fought the good fight — and how the good fight still needs to be fought. Lest things get bloody at tonight's reading, the ACLU is on hand to referee.
- John Hood
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FILM: Documentary
The Ballad of Peter LaFarge
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Thursday May 8 (8:30pm)
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Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way, 305.673.4567)
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Peter LaFarge could've been one of those unsung souls that people write sad tunes about. Instead, he wrote the songs himself. Among them was "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," which Johnny Cash rode all the way up to number three in 1964. Cash was pals with LaFarge — as were Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, all of whom swung alongside the half-Indian cowboy crooner throughout the early part of NY's folk heyday. Yet unlike his cohorts, LaFarge never made it out; he was found dead in his apartment at 34. Here, director Sandra Schulman assembles the arcana of a tragic life.
- John Hood
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Jacob Jeffries Band w/ Rachel Goodrich
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Thursday May 8 (11pm–1am)
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Transit Lounge (729 SW 1st Ave, 305.377.4628)
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Subdued singer/songwriters Jacob Jeffries and Rachel Goodrich both write whimsical, clever tunes that have won them dedicated fanbases in a music fixated by the bigger, louder, and sexier. Fort Lauderdale's Jeffries (formerly known as Jacob Groten) plays jaunty, driving piano jams, while Miami's own Goodrich and her band favor swinging gypsy-jazz and folk-rock numbers steered by a ukulele, a kazoo, and her magical voice. Either one of these musicians could pack Transit on any given evening, so tonight has the makings of a mighty get-down.
- Jason Jeffers
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FILM
Jellyfish
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Friday May 9 (7:30 & 9:15pm)
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Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 Española Way, 305.673.4567)
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Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's no wonder that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses the matter-of-fact combination of the magical and the ordinary that kids take for granted. Batya encounters a lost child who mysteriously emerges from the sea; aging Malka grouses helplessly at her Filipina aide, Joy; and newlyweds Michael and Keren's new bond threatens to unravel after a seemingly minor series of events. And through it all weaves the sea, whose power contrasts wildly with the lack of control these characters exert over their own lives. For an Israeli film, this is no small parable.
- Lisa Rosman
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Low: Meditations Trilogy, Part One
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Friday May 9 (8pm)
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Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (1300 Biscayne Blvd, 305.949.6722)
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Rha Goddess is one of the finest voices to have emerged from New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Lower East Side performance space that birthed some of the most strident, original artists in the world of slam and spoken-word poetry. Tonight, Rha Goddess uses her carefully crafted monologues alongside live video projection and film clips to explore the inner world of a young, female artist slipping into insanity. It's an aching spectacle that is poetic, political, intimate, and intense all at once.
- Jason Jeffers
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MUSIC
Jamnesty
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Saturday May 10 (1–8pm)
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Bayfront Park (301 N Biscayne Blvd, 305.358.7550)
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Human-rights organization Amnesty International is going to impressive lengths to end the mistreatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Starting in Miami, the Amnesty folks will be touring the country with a life-size replica of a Guantánamo Bay cell, complete with actors in prison outfits. They'll also give lectures and show videos during the four days that the cell is on display. This afternoon might be the best time to go, as Jamnesty brings a motley crew of Miami musicians, including socially conscious MC Brimstone127, to condemn the prison's continued operation.
- Jason Jeffers
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MUSIC
Fourth Dimension CD Release Party
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Saturday May 10 (11pm)
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Transit Lounge (729 SW 1st Ave, 305.377.4628)
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Repping their Caribbean and South American roots, Miami's Fourth Dimension have been playing fiery, spirited reggae for almost a decade now. All that practice has whipped the band into a super-tight machine that can routinely blast out jams like they used to be played. Tonight, it takes its mission one step further with the release of its sophomore album, Invazion — produced by legendary engineer Karl Pitterson, who worked the boards on Bob Marley's Exodus. Fourth Dimension perform alongside reggae icon Mutabaruka, the man standing at the epicenter of the dub-poetry movement.
- Jason Jeffers
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FILM
My Blueberry Nights
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Sunday May 11
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Regal Cinemas 18 (1120 Lincoln Rd, 305.674.6766)
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Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves no US coming-of-age travelogue cliché unturned, and its protagonist, first-time actress Norah Jones (yes, the singer), doesn't settle comfortably into her role as a lovelorn waitress. What saves this film is an emotional intensity and its supporting performances: Jude Law as a Bronx diner manager channels his best ruefulness with none of his standard preening; Rachel Weisz startles as the tarty wife of an alcoholic cop (the always-amazing David Strathairn); and even Natalie Portman rises above her normal brattiness as a professional card shark whose dad treats her like a mark.
- Lisa Rosman
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MORE FLAVOR: City Gem
The Art of Food
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Monday May 12 (11am–8pm)
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The Art of Food (3404 N Miami Ave, 305.438.0004)
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Raw meals aren't for everyone, but there's no denying that a diet free from processed, over-salted, and over-sweetened food is a healthy alternative to many people's daily regimen. For the more adventurous among us, a new Wynwood café offers an opportunity to sample sandwiches, smoothies, and even herbal marTEAnis, made from raw and organic vegetables. And if the food isn't to your liking, the adjoining art gallery, the funky Co-Op Miami, offers an alternate feast for the eyes and ears.
- Jason Jeffers
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ART: Architecture
Lawrence Murray Dixon: Art Deco Master
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Tuesday May 6 (10am–5pm)
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Bass Museum of Art (2121 Park Ave, 305.673.7530)
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Back in the '30s, well-heeled New Yorkers migrated to the Florida tropics as a getaway from the cold, often staying in the art-deco hotels designed by Lawrence Murray Dixon, Miami Beach's most prolific architect at the time. He designed 42 iconic hotels, including the Raleigh, the Tides, and the Marlin, in what is now the historic Art Deco District. Compiling resources from the Bass' Lawrence Murray Dixon Archives, the museum is currently displaying rare architectural renderings and vintage, sepia-toned photographs that shed much light on the visionary's oeuvre.
- Omar Sommereyns
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ART: Design
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
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Wednesday May 7 (11am–7pm)
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Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale (1 E Las Olas Blvd, 954.525.5500)
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An illustrious American interior decorator from the Jazz Age through the '60s, Dorothy Draper lived to bedazzle, with a bold, unabashed style and an almost baroque extravagance. Over the years, she became a hotel-makeover queen, enlisted to redo (or "Draperize," as it were), New York's Carlyle, DC's Mayflower, and Hollywood's Arrowhead Springs Hotel. Fitted into multihued galleries inspired by Draper's over-the-top sensibility, her retrospective at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale has sundry gems for your viewing pleasure: rare drawings, furnishings, vintage photographs, sample books, and products featured in some of her better-known projects, including the Drake Hotel in Chicago and the Greenbrier in West Virginia.
- Omar Sommereyns
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