Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire announces 2014-15 season

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Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire announces 2014-15 season

Published July 25, 2014 by Roger Durbin

Apollo's Fire, orchestra. Photo from Apollo's Fire. Apollo’s Fire (a Knight arts grantee) has been in the business of making Baroque music for 23 years now, with 20 of those years featuring performance in the Akron area. Now it's set to launch another big musical season....

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A night of comedy with Brian Posehn and local comic Brad Wenzel at the Magic Bag Theater

Published July 25, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

Wenzel with plant. All photos and video courtesy of the artist. Self-deprecation is a prime tool in the stand-up comedy arsenal, and it provides a strong counterpoint to the practice of making fun at the expense of others. However, comic Brian Posehn (best known for his...

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The Swamp at Miami Book Fair International 2014

Published July 25, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

CALL FOR PROPOSALS The love child of Jimbo’s and the Delano Hotel, The Swamp will be a pop-up lounge featuring Florida stories and writers, music, and other arts. The Fair will invite literary and arts groups in Miami and other parts of the state to curate individual nights, assuring that...

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Talk about the true surfaces of artist Lynne Golob Gelfman

Published July 25, 2014 by Anne Tschida

Detail from canvas by Lynne Golob Gelfman. The abstract paintings of Miami-based Lynne Golob Gelfman are all about surface. Surfaces that seem to shimmer and move, sometimes looking like waves rippling on the beach, or the shifting sand beneath them. At other times they can be...

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Daniel Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc: Everglades reverberations

Published July 25, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Daniel Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc, AIRIE We came from the north. As we approached Miami, the pilot said something about the weather while swerving to miss storm cells. A few hours later, after we had landed, the downpour started in earnest. The rain was heavy, the sky black. It...

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Inside Shine a Light’s project to light up Detroit’s dark areas

Published July 24, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jerrard Wheeler and Hannah Redigan, Public Ally Metro Detroit When venturing into Highland Park, there is a sense that nature has returned to reclaim its territory. Away from the hustle and bustle of Woodward Ave., there is a gradual transition as residential streets transform into rolling fields, as found...

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A menagerie of images from abstract to informative at Print Center

Published July 24, 2014 by CSchwartz

The upstairs of The Print Center is a vibrant place this summer with a pair of exhibits that delve into the illustrative and the abstract, as well as history, transportation and nature. In one half of the gallery, artist Allison Bianco displays over 30 prints in her solo show, “The...

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A bright and bold show at Projective Eye

Published July 24, 2014 by Katherine Balcerek

Through Sept. 24 the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte’s Center City building has on display a bright and bold show featuring the artworks of Linda Luise Brown, Marge Loudon Moody and Greg Scott. The exhibition, “CHROMA: Lyrical Lines and Compulsive Color,” is enticing for the vibrant colors that leap...

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Actor Matthew Glass on the talent and aspirations of South Florida’s theater scene

Published July 24, 2014 by Neil de la Flor

Matthew Glass It's not easy being an actor in South Florida and Matthew Glass isn't afraid to do something about it. His love of acting and theater sparked an idea in him that may, just may, revitalize the community. He plans to host a weekly Michael...

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Michael Tilson Thomas: A West Side Story for the ages

Published July 23, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer Just like the Romeo and Juliet on which it is based, a good performance of West Side Story should trigger a healthy cry-fest or at least some tearing up from the outset. As in the case of its illustrious elder sisters,...

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Huffington Post writer Eduardo Diaz explores Latino culture in the South

Published July 23, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Emily Zimmern, Levine Museum of the New South As participants in the inaugural Innovation Lab for Museums sponsored by AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums and EmcArts, Levine Museum of the New South, Atlanta History Center and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute joined forces to launch the Latino New...

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Back-to-school concert and fun day attracts family and youth

Published July 23, 2014 by Y-O Latimore

Al Tillman Unity-N-Community Sponge-Bob & Celebrity Friends event. A back-to-school concert and fun day on Saturday, July 26, will mark the unofficial end of summer vacation for local youth, with the first day of class for Bibb County schools fast approaching on Aug. 1. The event,...

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Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival launches with outstanding Ballet Hispanico

Published July 23, 2014 by Roger Durbin

The Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, a Knight arts grantee, began with a flourish as Ballet Hispanico, a New York-based dance troupe, kicked off the eighth annual (and the city of Akron’s 41st annual) dancing-in-the-park happening. Ballet Hispanico, led by Eduardo Vilaro, sets as its focus Latino cultures. But as...

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ARTshare venture may turn around fortunes of Southern Theater in Minneapolis

Published July 23, 2014 by Susannah Schouweiler

Photo courtesy of Live Action Set, one of ARTshare's 15 resident companies Just a few years ago, Minneapolis’ Southern Theater was at the brink of bankruptcy, but after years as a venue-for-rent, the Southern just might have found a way to turn its fortunes around permanently....

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Drop-in workshops at Ladybug Studios in Detroit, for the love of clay

Published July 22, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

The hand-modeling table, featuring an eclectic range of workers and works-in-progress. Ladybug Studios hosted their monthly drop-in workshops on Saturday. The event takes place on the third Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and invites community members, novicesand potters of all experience...