I’m loath to bring her up again (no, I really am not), but you know Madame X…ahem…Madonna? She recently got to collaborate with another lady from Miami who’s killing it right now: American DJ/producer Tracy Young. As you may or may not know, Miami’s favorite DJ has a long history with the Queen of Pop, […]
Please, please, please, give peace a chance. The impeached orange hemorrhoid of a president with which we find ourselves stuck at the edge of the end of the world (or democracy – whichever tumbles first, I’m sure, his master would be pleased), is not America. He is not America, and we do not want war. […]
“At the end of the day,” he said, “no one’s prettier than rent control in San Francisco.”
Bay Area! This weekend brings the second annual Coven Film Festival, three days of film, Q&A sessions, and networking opportunities showcasing the work of women and non-binary filmmakers. The festival, which will be held at the landmark Roxie Theater in the Mission Jan. 10-12, recognizes that not everyone is young, white, middle-class, cisgender, or able-bodied. […]
This was such fun, heart-warming news to learn: Hedy Goldsmith, one of the Miami’s most beloved pastry chefs, has taken over Verde, the restaurant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). I met and interviewed and celebrated the Philadelphia native on numerous occasions during the aughts, when we both lived in the Magic City, for […]
I suppose, perhaps, if I still lived in Miami, where I know this name will resonate among people I know and who are actually into football, then I’d be more…excited – I know, I know, that’s hardly the right word – about Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, which is coming to Netflix in […]
Another year over. A new one just begun. Say no to war. Let peace will be.
It is gonna be Chappelle o’clock this weekend at The Chapel on Valencia, San Francisco, when, you know him from A Star Is Born, Dave Chappelle, the Emmy-, Grammy-, and 2019 Mark Twain Prize for America Humor-winning writer, producer, and performer takes to the stage for three shows at the venue, all of which were […]
Coming this month to Amazon Prime Video is Troop Zero, a 2019 Sundance Film Festival title inspired by Beasts of the Southern Wild screenwriter Lucy Alibar’s 2010 play, Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower. Picture it: Rural, trailer-park-y Georgia, 1977. Christmas Flint, a young girl (Gifted’s Mckenna Grace), wants to enter a national competition […]
Coming this spring to Netflix, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer will star as Madam C. J. Walker on Self Made, a four-part period piece based on the biography by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, about the woman, the legend, the philanthropist and sociopolitical activist and, whaddya know (or don’t), America’s first female self-made millionaire. Bet they […]
