Editor’s Note: Every Thursday is dedicated to visual artists who inspire writers. by Melanie Feliciano I found the artwork of Tara McPherson at Tate’s Comics in Ft. Lauderdale some time last summer. She had converted her illustrations of broken-hearted characters, sci-fi water creatures and comic book story lines into a coloring book for adults – …
Editor’s Note: Every Friday is dedicated to video blogging on www.BiscayneWriters.com. ORLANDO – There’s really not much to do in suburbia except watch old films with Dad, the original storyteller in my family. This week, we watched The Many Loves of Carmen (1948). “She’s always hungry, that girl,” says an old battle axe to Carmen …
March 28, 2009 It’s already 1:30am when I finally arrive at the O.H.W.O.W. space in Little Haiti for the U Don’t Like Me, I Don’t Like You multimedia extravaganza. It is going off with Dubstep beats and it feels like a proper warehouse party…finally after the cheese of South Beach, here we are in one …
March 27, 2009 Words and photos download by Virtual Gypsy & Femmebot MIAMI – In the center of Little Haiti, where rude B-O-Ys are known to thrash about in a pub called Churchills, I stand in a corner observing and scanning tonight’s headliners as if it’s possible to remain unaffected by the rowdy scene, although …
Thursday, March 26, 2009 MIAMI BEACH – Winter Music Conference 2009 has officially begun, and the Scion party at the Gansevoort Hotel on 24th and Collins is the first event I’ve RSVP’d for…I’m a bit late… hoping I haven’t missed the entire party…I walk in as DJ Erol Aitken is winding up video game beats. …
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 MIAMI BEACH – We drink a couple of $9 cocktails on Collins Avenue, then at the dive bar Deuce on 14th Street, and pile into the pick-up truck to the other side of the Causeway, 1306 North Miami Avenue, where the Plastician is dropping heavy beats into the pit of my …
SAN FRANCISCO – On the corner of Polk Street and Washington Avenue, It’s a Grind Cafe hosts a monthly word and music series every second Monday. I happened to find out about it while waiting for the 19 MUNI going northbound on Larkin Street. A bald black guy was telling another chic that he would …
The Moscone Center was full of comic book fans this weekend. Young, old, male, female – everyone loves superheroes. It was interesting to see a photo of Jesus Christ on one of the tables…the ultimate superhero, right? He walks on water. He heals the sick. He doesn’t judge others. Villains can’t wait to kill him. …
by Sean Scott Maguire I went to see Start Trek VI, the Undiscovered Country, a few weekends ago. I dragged my wife along, but I got away with it this time, because it was my birthday weekend. I mean, come on, right? They were having a screening of Trek VI, and that’s how I want …
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