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Bari Newport to Helm GableStage
By Christine Dolen
For more than two decades, GableStage and producing artistic director Joseph Adler were intertwined, forming the celebrated Coral Gables theater’s DNA. Starting April 1, the new leader at the helm of GableStage will be Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Co. in Bangor, Maine.
read moreMiami New Drama’s “Seven Deadly Sins” Finds a Way Back to Live Theater
By Christine Dolen
Now, nine months into the country’s battle against COVID-19, Miami New Drama and its boundlessly imaginative artistic director, Michel Hausmann, have figured out a way to turn vice into virtue, exploring the seven deadly sins in an ambitious return to live theater through January 3.
read moreNew World Symphony takes its WALLCAST to the Drive-In
The NEW WORLD SYMPHONY opened its 33rd season on October 17th with a special WALLCAST Concert at North Miami’s Dezerland Park Drive-In Theater.
read moreA Tribute Concert to Latin Music Ambassador Tito Puente
In 1971, Carlos Santana’s rock version of “Oye Como Va” made its author, TITO PUENTE, an international star. Yet when Puente wrote the original cha-cha-chá version, released by Tico Records on the 1963 album, “El Rey Bravo,” the recording barely registered on the charts.
read moreIf It Works, It’s Good
After beating three types of advanced cancer throughout his life and living well beyond dire medical prognoses, filmmaker ALAN METTER, who came into prominence directing Rodney Dangerfield in the l986 comedy classic, Back to School, called it a wrap. He was 77.
read moreAbdiel Acosta: Invasion of Habitat
ABDIEL ACOSTA was born in Colon, Matanzas, Cuba in 1974. He was raised in Miami, Florida where he attended the New World School of the Arts. He received a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, Maryland.
read more“Imagine Visions of Hope,” A New Project from Carl-Philippe Juste
By Elisa Turner
Prize-winning photojournalist CARL-PHILIPPE JUSTE knows when it’s time for heavy lifting. As the pandemic devastated Italy in February, Juste initiated the heavy lifting for a bold project — “Imagine Visions of Hope,” an online photo gallery that will eventually become traveling exhibits around the world.
read moreDunk Tank Clowns
DAVID SIMMONS, who goes by the name PATCHES, works as an insult clown in the dunk tank at carnivals. He wears a wetsuit and waterproof face paint and tries to entice fairgoers to buy a bucket of balls to throw at him
read more39 Weeks Pregnant During a Pandemic — TODAY (41 weeks) IT’S A BOY !!
With all of the potential fears that I considered throughout my pregnancy, a global pandemic wasn’t on my radar.
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