Miami International Film Festival
Festival of 115 Films Runs March 5-14
by James Cubby on March 03, 2010
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
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MAZ Arts Calendar
March 3 - March 18
Theatre, art exhibitions, music, dance, and events for the weeks of March 3 to 18.
Posted on March 02, 2010

Arts Reviews
What’s the Pointe?
South Pointe Towers on the tip of Miami Beach has kicked it up a notch with their revitalized Gallery at South Pointe.
Posted on March 02, 2010

Manny About Town
Felipe Lamoglia and his Afro-Cuban Clave Beat
I caught saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia’s act at the Van Dyke Cafe (on Lincoln Road in South Beach) the other night. You have to check out his clave sound. He is HOT!
Posted on March 02, 2010
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MAZ Arts Blog
Other Among Others
Last night was the World Premiere of Other Among Others, a documentary on gay Jewish men in Argentina and the struggles they've had to go through to not only find acceptance in society, but within their religion and families.
Posted on March 11, 2010

Theatre Reviews
A Full English Breakfast
Fifty years on from its premier production in London, Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter still amuses, puzzles and ultimately shocks, or perhaps not, in its latest reincarnation at the Promethean Theatre.
Posted on March 10, 2010

Artist Spotlight
Artist Spotlight: Yves Lanthier
This week's Artist Spotlight is on painter Yves Lanthier.
Posted on March 02, 2010

A View From a Broad
Norman, I Hardly Knew You
In terms of my favorite artists, individuals I considered cool, hip and worth knowing, Norman Rockwell was not on my list.
Posted on March 02, 2010

MAZ Interview
WICKED Star Richard Blake
Wicked, the smash Broadway hit that's the musical tale about what happened in Oz before Dorothy landed, returns once again to the Arsht Center of Performing Arts.
Posted on March 03, 2010

Editor's Picks
Editor's Picks
Miami Light Project's Here & Now celebrates its 11th year, Orchestra Miami Presents 75th Anniversary Production of Porgy & Bess, and Arts Activist Rhoda Levitt Honored with “Champion of the Arts” Award.
Posted on March 03, 2010






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