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Miami International Film Festival

Festival of 115 Films Runs March 5-14

by James Cubby on March 03, 2010

Miami International Film Festival Poster

Miami International Film Festival, a 10-day festival that showcases 115 films from 45 countries, opens on March 5. This year's Festival includes five world premieres, 22 North American premieres and 14 U.S. premieres with competition categories that include Ibero-American, World, DOX, Cutting the Edge, and Shorts. Films screening this year include the dramas City Island, starring Miami favorite Andy Garcia, his daughter Dominki Garcia-Lorido and Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife); Please Give, starring Amanda Peet, Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt; documentary films, including the international film festival circuit premiere of The Beatles on Record by Bob Smeaton and the U.S. premiere of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Brigitte Berman.

This year the Festival will...more

Honeyboy Edwards

The Last of the Mississippi Delta Bluesmen

by Manny Meland on February 16, 2010

He’s ninety-four years old and still strumming! David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards is one of the last of the original Delta Bluesmen. He will take the stage at the Colony Theatre on Saturday, February 20th.

Born in Shaw, Mississippi in 1915 to a sharecropper, Honeyboy picked cotton while picking at his guitar. He bosked around the Delta with a harmonica playing friend for nickels and dimes. Then he met Big Joe Williams and together they rode the rails to thirteen states playing all the juke joints. He met and became friends with Robert Leroy Johnson, who was probably the earliest and most influential of the Delta bluesman. In the early 50s, at the age of 17, Johnson took Honeyboy to Chicago. Honeyboy was present when Johnson died from drinking bad moonshine.

Johnson had claimed that he wrote the blues...more