Friday January 4, 2008
St. Stephen's weekend
Tonight
- Holy crap, The Circus is in town! (All weekend and next.)
- Ephniko at the Wallflower.
- Sweeney Todd at Carnival Center, all weekend.
- Florida Ghost Team Meetup. All the fun happens in Ft. Lauderdale.
- Suitably trashy: a weekly 80’s themed ‘ladies’ night’ at Studio A.
Saturday
- Hoodstock, supposedly a two-day festival showcase of local hip-hop talent with significant national acts thrown in, and all they have is a lame MySpace, an outdated website, and this which comes the closest to having a clue. Good luck.
- A program of French orchestral music at New World Symphony, tonight and Sunday.
Sunday
- Kickoff event of the Jewish Museum’s Jewish History Month events: a panel on the Jewish contributions to Florida politics.
- The Wren Boys and fiddler James Kelly will perform traditional Irish songs to celebrate St. Stephen’s Day. At John Martin’s in Coral Gables. To not miss? (For historical accuracy I note that St. Stephen’s may fall on December 26 or 27, or January 9, but not really on January 6, but we’ll let them slide, right?)
- Lin Arison discusses her book, “Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists,” at Books and Books, 6 pm.
- Vizcaya: Deering’s Dream on the Bay, a discussion by Charlyne Smith, at the HMSF.
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Saw Sweeney Todd at the Carnival Center last night and was disappointed. A very “minimalist” production that threw out most of the storyline and concentrated on the music. If you don’t already know the plot you will be completely lost. Any dialog kept and plot details in the lyrics were lost by the actor’s mumbling or garbled speech (possibly just bad acoustics except that I could understand “Mrs Lovett” quite well…). The music, played by the actor’s themselves on instruments they carted around the stage, was nice – sounded different from other productions but interesting and well performed.
Hmm, I just got back from a performance, and came away with a better impression. There were a remarkable number of audio glitches — the sound engineer seemed to be incapable of tracking the actors, particularly Johanna — but the performances were quite good. I think I still prefer the Grand Guignol of the original 1979 production to this post-modern deconstruction, but as John says, the new orchestrations were interesting. And frankly, any opportunity to hear a performance of one of the masterpieces of musical theater is worth taking.
hoodstock is a movement to promote hiv prevention.
and peace in the hood. If you took the time to check the history of hoodstock , maybe you would’nt be so quick to critic something you know nothing about. I think what your doing is kind of lame.
Hey, I’m not criticizing the event — i’m criticizing the lame web presence, which makes it difficult for anybody to find out what the fuck the event is all about. If you care about “hiv prevention. and peace in the hood”, why wouldn’t you want to make it easier for people to find out about?
I found out that Hoodstock is a non profit event that raises money to help educate neighborhood kids on hiv prevention. Maybe they dont have the funds or people who care enough to provide such services. my e-mail is wino@yahoo.com if you guys need help with web or my space layouts let me know. I would love to get involved. Alesh i dont think that type of language can help anyone.
there is bad criticizem and good criticizem, you can be part of the problem or part of the solution.
Wino~
If you want to communicate something, and you have an absolute dearth of skill, you can resort to myspace and put together a perfectly readable myspace page that presents clear information. I can assure you that it won’t cost more money than to do one that’s impossible to read and locks what little information it has into jpg fliers.
As for the website, they purchased the URL, and either forgot the password, or couldn’t be bothered to log in and even ENTER THE DATE of the 2008 event.