Swans near end of US tour with 3 Florida dates; Leader...
So today Swans arrive in Florida for three dates before continuing on with its world tour. Starting with a show at the Social in Orlando (Buy tickets), the...
From the Archives: Mike Garson goes from jazz to Bowie (Part...
As already established in my earlier posts culled from several interviews with Mike Garson for an unpublished piece regarding his contribution to the music of...
Alan White of ‘Yes’ talks ‘Cruise to the Edge’ and early...
While giant music festivals continue to bring in huge crowds to cities like Chicago (Lollapalooza) and even right here in my hometown of Miami...
Brilliant ‘No’ premieres in Miami at MIFF Day 5, plus other...
This morning most of my Miami International Film Festival coverage will be found on the “Miami New Times” blog “Cultist.” As I noted yesterday,...
Watch the Sundance-selected, Miami-made short “The Sun Like a Big Dark...
It's been a while since I first saw the short film "El sol como un gran animal oscuro" or "The Sun Like a Big...
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Look of Silence, talks influences, follow-up...
For his follow-up to 2012's The Act of Killing, documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returned to Indonesia to once again explore the late 1960s massacres of innocents that...
Nu Deco Ensemble to play Radiohead and The Project Trio joins...
Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble, a chamber orchestra of 24 musicians, that we introduced readers to in an earlier post (Nu Deco Ensemble tests the...
My profile on actor Edgar Ramirez for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ in...
When I got the assignment to interview Édgar Ramírez for his small but key role in Zero Dark Thirty, I jumped at the chance. I respected...
The Musical Box returns to South Florida with 'Selling England' tour
Miracles! Despite being flipped off at the end of their epic recreation of Genesis’ 1974 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway show by an...
Filmmaker/Activist Jose Antonio Vargas talks about hesitation to bare his soul...
About a week ago, filmmaker/activist Jose Antonio Vargas was buzzing about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introducing his film Documented, which focuses on his life...