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June 20, 2008 Issue # 65

Book Passage
Cruise through new releases by local authors

By Tina Koenig

Carl Hiaasen riffs on golf as only he can in The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport, one of the summer reading-ready books by local authors
Carl Hiaasen riffs on golf as only he can in The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport, one of the summer reading-ready books by local authors

With gas prices over $4 a gallon, there’s certainly motivation to give your tires a rest. But that’s no excuse for intellectual idling. What more economical way to escape than between the pages of a good book?

We’re serving up fresh ink by local writers. Whether you prefer reading with your elbows buried in the sand, feet propped up on a cooler, or listening at home while snuggled to your favorite electronic device, there’s reading covering myriad interests.

Fiction readers who appreciate intelligent writing will enjoy unraveling what is and what isn’t in John Dufresne’s fictionalized version of his childhood. Summer thrills and sleuthing are courtesy Barbara Parker, Neil Plakcy and Elaine Viets. Nonfiction choices include more high jinks from Carl Hiaasen, the collected works of a love pollster, and several books on local and U.S. history. And because poetry gets scant attention except in April, we hope you’ll consider (modifying a phrase from Milton) “how your light is spent” and read one or two.


Putting the Art in Party
At the monthly Art Party events, artists do what they love

By Verena Faden

Daleena Segui and Robert Arbela, founders of Art Party
Daleena Segui and Robert Arbela, founders of Art Party


In November of 2007 a woman dropped her purse at a Navarro drug store. The man who helped her pick it up came across the business card of comedian and actress Daleena Segui. As a result of the connection, Segui began doing stand up nights at the Literary Café, a diamond in the rough spot in North Miami looking to draw a larger crowd.

Segui felt that the café would be an ideal place to launch her brainchild, Art Party, an event where artists of all kinds are given a night once a month to showcase and celebrate their work. The first Art Party was held December 8, 2007, organized by Daleena Segui and Robert Arbelo, an artist and musician who plays with the band, Nothing Left.

Art Party has been successfully packing in the Literary Café for seven consecutive months. Its audience is very apropos, as they are there specifically for the art and its creators above anything else.

 

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Him Against The World
Miamian brings rapper back to life in one man show

By Kevin Johnson

Summer FreebiesSummer Freebies
Enjoy the arts for free across South Florida
By Mary Damiano
Manny About TownManny About Town
Dig That New World Beat:Jazz greats perform with student musicians

By Manny Meland

View of the Future Through the Eyes of the PastView of the Future Through the Eyes of the Past
Interama exhibition shows vision of Miami
By Kevin Wynn


Arts Opportunities

Arts Opportunities
Local organizations seek performers, paid staff and volunteers

Artist SpotlightArtist Spotlight
Robert Tabor


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Henry Perez
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July 18, 2008

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