Sunny Days in the Park With Victoria
Pancho Kohner, the independent producer, has created a film to remain on the walls of the soul. Victoria, made in Norway, captures the perfect tone, the aura and vision of two children in love. The...
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CultureZohn: Picasso Threeway, Part III, Off the C(H)uff With Paloma Picasso
There was a bit of serendipity on my visit to the uptown Pace Gallery. I was lucky enough to run into Paloma Picasso also viewing the show for the first time herself. "Most of the work in the show I...
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Albuquerque's Opera Southwest Beams Up Long Lost Hamlet Opera By Verdi's...
One explanation for the fact that the first production since 1865 of a major historical Italian opera based on Shakespeare'e Hamlet was presented in Albuquerque, New Mexico could be that Albuquerque is...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Frederick Douglass, Simon Wiesenthal and Mat Smart's...
Phil Darius Wallace, with director and co-creator Melania Levitsky, has given himself a plum role in Self Made Man: The Frederick Douglass Story, at the Arclight. Perhaps he noticed one day that if he...
View ArticleBlack Lives and Black Stories Matter
Black lives matter. Despite what we're seeing in media headlines, the actions of our courts and legal system and police departments everywhere -- black lives matter and black stories help shed light on...
View ArticleSerial: Why Is It So Popular?
Serial is the hottest new podcast that's working everybody up into a lather. It's the number one podcast not only in the United States, but also Australia, and the United Kingdom. If you haven't...
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Xavier Cortada's Art: Inspired by Science, and Uniquely Miami
It had all the trappings of a typical Miami funeral. The eulogists, stifling their tears. The aria, Handel's mournful Piangero la Sorte Mia. The loud lamentations of the black laced lloradera. In the...
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Narong Tintamusik Paints Porn, and No One Can Believe the Result (NSFW IMAGES)
WARNING: This post contains sexually explicit images and language. Please read on at your own discretion. Every time I show a friend or a past interviewee Narong Tintamusik's work, I get the same...
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Marianne Faithfull Personifies the Eternal Return in Berlin and Takes a Stand...
Marianne Faithfull's triumphant concert at the Tempodrom Berlin was a night of healing the past and sounding the alarm for the world's future. The female icon of the eternal return on her 50th tour...
View ArticleDon't Let Others' Expectations Limit You!
On Sunday last week, after a wonderful screening of Back on Board: Greg Louganis, I had an opportunity to indulge my other passion, acting! We had a wonderful backers' reading of Spring at the...
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Miami Spice
Cecilia Paredes, Corinthians Blue, 2014, acid free photographic print, 51 ¼ x 51 ¼ in. (130.18 x 130.18 cm), ed: 1/7. Courtesy Diana Lowenstein Gallery. As the infamous "Black Friday" shopping...
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Attention: Sports Fans!
I've never been much of a sports fan. Over the years, however, I've noticed that in films and plays about athletes, the dramatic conflict usually falls into one of three categories: The first is the...
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The Female Farmer Project: A Pictorial
The Female Farmer Project was published earlier this month. This pictorial depicts some of the stories that Audra and I felt also needed to be shared. All Images Copyright Audra Gaines Mulkern Liz of...
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Learning from Bayard Rustin in Harlem and Beyond: An Interview with Filmmaker...
We are all one, and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way. - Bayard Rustin A few days have passed since the Ferguson non-indictment, making clear how much past is not even past. I think...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: 'Tamburlaine Parts I and II,' 'Tristan & Yseult' Blood Spillage
Late in the Kneehigh production of Tristan & Yseult, at St. Ann's Warehouse, a character says, "It's hard to keep things white." She's referring to how easily white apparel can be soiled, often by...
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Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Launches in Los Angeles
Performing arts organizations are complicated enterprises to run. Keeping them afloat prompts ever-new experiments. One of the latest is the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, formed by clarinetist cum...
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For Art Basel Miami Beach, Insider Tips to Maximize Fun and Minimize Crowds
That super-nova of the cultural world, Art Basel Miami Beach is running December 4- 7. This year's Florida event will draw nearly 100k buyers, gawkers, and hangers-on, showing off and showing modern...
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A Carol for Our Times: The Melrose Quartet Perform 'Sing John Ball' (VIDEO)
As a music journalist it may seem out of place to bring up the socio-political issues of the day. But in the music that I have recently covered at the English Folk Expo, I found this song whose words...
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It's Not Over: An Illustrated Analysis of Op-Ferguson (Pt. 2)
It is now almost a week after the grand jury decision was released in the case of police officer Darren Wilson's murder of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Over the pass few months life has been full of...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: The Bedlam Company Shoots and Wounds Chekhov's 'Seagull'
Before I get to the many reasons for my strongly objecting to the Bedlam company's attack on Anton Chekhov's great play, The Seagull, I want strongly to recommend their Sense & Sensibility...
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