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The Klezmatics/photo courtesy of Lloyd Wolff

Miami Jewish Film Festival Presents

the Klezmatics: On Holy Ground

Never heard of the band, The Klezmatics? If you're a world music fan then you should check out the film Klezmatics: On Holy Ground, which is one of the many films scheduled during the Miami Jewish Film Festival. In 2006, The Klezmatics won the Best World Music Grammy for...

BALÉ FOLCLÓRICO DA BAHIA at Arsht Center

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Balé Folclórico da Bahia photo by Mariza Viana

BALÉ FOLCLÓRICO DA BAHIA at Arsht Center

Balé Folclórico Da Bahia, a breathtaking Brazilian carnival of music and dance, is coming to the Arsht Center as part of the 2010-11 World Music Series. Balé Folclórico de Bahia brings their 38-member Brazilian troupe of dancers, musicians and singers for a spectacular display of color, movement and music in a thrilling program of Bahian folkloric dances of African origin, including slave dances, capoeira, samba, and Carnival celebrations. Balé Folclórico Da Bahia, the only professional folkloric dance company in Brazil, are celebrating 22 years of explosive...

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Lainie Kazan and John Lloyd Young in Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!

OY VEY! MY SON IS GAY! Opens in South Florida

Oy Vey! My Son is Gay! opens Friday, January 7 at select theatres throughout South Florida. The film has enjoyed critical acclaim on the film festival circuit and stars Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek, John Lloyd Young, Jai Rodriguez, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Vilanch and Carmen Electra. Lainie Kazan's hilarious portrayal of the Jewish mother steals the film. While the film has been labeled a coming out film, it's really a film about acceptance and what it means to be a family. The film is filled with many comic moments but is quite...

A Taffeta Wedding

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A Taffeta Wedding

Wedding Bells Are Ringing at the Stage Door

If you're a fan of 50s & 60s music then A Taffeta Wedding is the show for you. At the Broward Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs it's 1964 and wedding bells are ringing for that popular sisters singing group known as The Taffetas. They're in love and getting married to the guys from another popular singing group called The Cardigans. Both groups swoon and sway to some of the favorite songs from the 50s and 60s including nostalgic hits like “Who's Sorry Now” and “Sincerely.” A Taffeta Wedding was written by Rick Lewis who also created the musicals The Taffetas and A Taffeta Christmas. A Taffeta Wedding runs at the Broward Stage Door Theatre thru January 24. The Broward Stage Door Theatre is located at 8036 W. Sample Rd. in Coral Springs. For info call 954.344.7765 or visit www.stagedoorfl.org.

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Flipper

KidFlix Festival Presents Films for Kids

KidFlix Festival offers films and activities for kids home from school during the holidays. KidFlix Festival, an international film, television & new media festival just for children ages 3-13, and their families, strives to inspire, engage, and inform children through the power of cinematic art. KidFlix Festival presents “Holiday Happenings!” which runs Monday-Friday, December 27-31 with matinee screenings everyday at the Wolfsonian...

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Kings of Pastry

Delicious “Kings of Pastry” Opens at the Coral Gables Art Cinema


Acclaimed verité documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' Kings of Pastry has its South Florida Premiere at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, from Friday, December 10 for a seven-days-a-week run through December 16. It's documentary-as-art meets down-and-dirty French pastry chefs in the foodie competition of a lifetime. Imagine a scene never before witnessed: Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes...

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Undertow

Gay Ghost Story Undertow at the Coral Gables Art Cinema

Everyone loves a ghost story but Undertow, Peru’s submission for this year’s Foreign Oscar, is a lyrical ghost story of love and loss that explores the triangle between a married man, his wife and the man's male lover. Undertow (Contracorriente), a film in Spanish with English subtitles, opens Friday, December 17 for its exclusive Florida theatrical release at the Coral Gables Art Cinema, and runs seven-days-a-week run through December 23. The Village Voice says that "Undertow is sublime....less a coming-out tale than a...

DASH and Las Tias Offer a Fresh Spin on Old Tales during Art Basel

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DASH and Las Tias Offer a Fresh Spin on Old Tales during Art Basel

It seems all of Miami is participating in Art Basel with events and exhibitions. The Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH) is creating a series of dynamic site-specific multi-media installations including a combination of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and performance arts all with a Grimm fairy tales theme. These creations, that will include depictions of fairy tales including Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Tom Thumb, and Rapunzel, will be exhibited in the display windows of Las Tias, an upscale resale and consignment shop and gallery. The exhibit “Meet Grim at Las Tias, a New Time for Old Tales” allows students to move legendary literary...

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Emilie Clark, Untitled, BBG-6 from My Garden Pets/smART Exhibition

Miami Dade College Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Miami Dade College Celebrates its 50th Anniversary with a Major Art Exhibition and Sale at its Historic Freedom Tower. 86 artists and 32 renowned galleries, representing 8 countries, will participate in the special event benefitting the American Dream Scholarship Fund. The event called smART is a major exhibition and art sale with works from a select roster of top contemporary and emerging Latin American artists. All of the 131 pieces are available for sale, with proceeds going to the MDC American Dream Scholarship Fund, which helps the college...

La Yuma Boxes Her Way From Managua to the Coral Gables Art Cinema

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La Yuma

by Robert Rosenberg

A determined group of filmmakers and actors in Nicaragua have completed that country's first feature in more than two decades - La Yuma. It tells the story of a strong-willed and rebellious young woman from a poor neighborhood of Managua who dreams of being a boxer, and is simultaneously a realistic and lyrical work that provides insight into today's Central American reality. La Yuma paints a portrait of the heroine's violent family and community, along with her "band-of-outsider" friends, while at the same time following her affair with a university student who is from "the other side of the tracks." Although it has played at many...

Jennifer Koh Plays with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra

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Jennifer Koh

Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh joins the Moscow Stage Symphony for a one-night only performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The Washington Post called Jennifer Koh “a confident, highly physical player.” When asked if she thought the statement true, Jennifer commented, “I am usually immersed in the music when I play and I hope I channel what the composer has written so if it's a wild, jazzy piece, I hope it sounds wild and jazzy!” The New York Times says “Jennifer Koh's violin recitals are consistently pleasing, not only because she is in command of a strong technique and a rich arsenal of tone, but also because she builds her programs thoughtfully, with a sensible balance of contemporary works and standard...

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Replica

Miami Premiere of Replica at Arsht Center

Replica, a special collaborative performance piece that examines memory loss pattern recognition and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body, will make its Miami premiere this Friday evening at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. Replica explores the overlapping disciplines of choreography and design through the eyes of Daniel Arsham, an internationally acclaimed visual artist and set designer, Jonah Bokaer, an award-winning choreographer and media artist; and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, an accomplished dancer and choreographer. The performance features...

Israeli Film Eyes Wide Open Has Exclusive Run at the Coral Gables Art Cinema

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Eyes Wide Open

The acclaimed Israeli film Eyes Wide Open makes its exclusive South Florida theatrical premiere on Friday November 5 at the Coral Gables Art Cinema and runs for a full week. In the film, Aaron, a respectable butcher who lives in Jerusalem’s closed, ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka, and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he crosses paths with Ezri, a darkly handsome and enigmatic twenty-two year old yeshiva student, and soon begins a torrid, secret and forbidden affair with him. Aaron is torn between the family and social obligations that bind him, and a love and passion that illuminate his life. Ezri is the wild card, the outsider, and yet he too is deeply rooted in...

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Rocky Horror Picture Show

Rocky Horror Picture Show at Gusman Center

Celebrate Halloween a night early with this special Halloween screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts on October 30. Dress up as one of the characters from the movie and get in line for the Time Warp. The evening starts at 8 p.m. with complimentary cocktails, a themed photo booth and a goody bag (everyone likes goody bags). Audience participation will be led by a troupe of actors. Ticket includes free admission to the official after-party at Grand Central nightclub where...

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FUNKSHION Runway Show-Fashions by Samy Gicherman/Photo by James Cubby

FUNKSHION: Fashion Week Miami Beach

FUNKSHION: Fashion Week Miami Beach celebrates its 15th season next week. This year the runways will be at the Setai Hotel and the Bass Museum of Art, both venues will feature two unique spaces. FUNKSION: Fashion Week Miami Beach fuses music, art and fashion in five days of events with over 20 designers showcasing their new Spring/Summer 2011 collections. Designers shows include Richie Rich, Krel: Flora & Fauna, Alfonso Couture, Ibellav by Izabella Sienkiewicz, Paul Sinclaire, with special shows...

Comedy Stew at Cinema Paradiso

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Anna Collins

Our own Anna Collins, who writes the A View From A Broad column, will be appearing this weekend in a comedy show that is running concurrently with the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival(FLiFF) at Cinema Paradiso on October 9 at 8 p.m. The New York Comedy Club is presenting an evening of humor that includes Michele Mink (New York Comedy Club winner of “Fresh Faces of Comedy”), Randy Singer, Anna Collins (VH1 Standup Spotlight, Lifetime Channel) who will be appearing with the national touring headliner, Terry Crowley (60 National commercials, Bad Boys II). Comedy Stew is described as “A delicious plate served with laughter and a side of hysterical side splitting humor, seen through the eyes of four very different comedians, guaranteeing...

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Miam Beach - The Musical

Miami Beach – the Musical opens October 1

Miami Beach – the Musical has been a year-long multi-mediproject from the Arts at St. Johns. The concept of a Miami Beach history musical came from two long-time Beach residents: artist Deborah Weed and ASJ's Artistic Director, David Kingery. The musical will be filled with interesting stories from people who have lived, worked, or played on Miami Beach. The Musical runs October 1, 2, & 3 at St. John's on the Lake, 4750 Pinetree Dr., Miami Beach. For more information call 305.613.2325 or visit www.artsatstjohns.com.

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Bran Nue Dae

WIN PASSES TO THE ADVANCE SCREENING OF BRAN NUE DAE

Win passes to the advance screening of Bran Nue Dae and sing-a-long with the charming new Australian-based, music-driven road movie/romantic comedy that literally bursts onto the screen with unbridled energy and fun. Starring Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and loosely based on one of Australia's most beloved and popular musicals, Bran Nue Dae is a foot stomping tour-de-force centering on the romantic adventures of a young aboriginal couple set against the spectacularly beautiful Australian landscape. The advance screening will be held September 21 at Regal South Beach. The first 10 people to email...

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Hand-crafted movies projected into foliage and trees!

Elusive Landscape at MB Botanical Garden

Elusive Garden, a video installation by artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, will be projected on the Great Lawn at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden for one night only. Elusive Garden has been producing art installations at various parks all over Miami this summer. The work consists of multiple hand-crafted 16mm films depicting the forms and colors of natural landscapes projected directly into the landscapes themselves. Unique soundscapes have been specially designed for each site by composer and sound designer Ricardo Lastre. This project won...