MIA in NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/arts/music/30mcdo.html?ref=music)
NY Times article on Churchill's Pub and Miami's rock scene: "In South Florida, Tropical Bohemia in the Making."

Miami Jewish Film Festival

The 12th Annual Miami Jewish Film Festival runs from January 24 to February 1 in venues around MIA. Films include The Fire Within: Jews in the Amazonian Rainforest by Lorry Salcedo Mitrani. The film documents the tiny Jewish community of Iquitos, Peru and the descendants of Jewish and non-Jewish Peruvians in the Amazon who choose to convert, At Home in Utopia by Michael Goldman on the mostly Jewish working class Bronx Co-ops, and Mushon Samona's Vasermil, about 3 Jewish teen-age football players in Be'er Sheva.

spank zine

The folks at homo art zine Spank are putting out a "down & dirty" old school b&w zine and looking for contributors. Their post on Facebook:

"We may not have told ya but when we were printing our last issue we got turned down by not one but two printers who couldn’t handle our homo art content. It was pretty disappointing and frustrating considering how freakin mild the SEX factor was. No penetration and hardly any full-frontal exposure. We’re putting the big middle finger to the man this month and putting out and old school down-and-dirty black and white homo zine with all the dirty stories, filthy photos, and erotic art we can find. So, send us your art, you’re stories and anything else that’s giving you a woodie right now. Email us at spankparty@gmail.com by Jan 31. Will distribute the zine at our Spank SEX party (aka Smell My Finger) at The Hose in Feb."
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49129290372

happy MLK day

Bayard Rustin: American civil rights leader.

Angela Davis: American civil rights leader.
For volunteer opportunities in the MIA go to http://www.handsonmiami.org/

Alice O'Malley

Alice O'Malley's work can be seen on Isis Gallery's website http://www.isisgallery.org/ Including her book "Community of Elsewheres" with photos of downtown Manhattan artists and performers from the 1990s such as Antony, Page, Dean Johnson, Kenny Kenny and friends of the photographers.

GB Jones "Lollipop Generation"

K.C. Klass and Jena von Brücker in "The Lollipop Generation", photo taken onset by Johnny Noxzema
http://www.youtube.com/user/GBJonesTown
For a glimpse of the trailer to Toronto-based artist, filmmaker and musician G.B. Jones's epic underground film The Lollipop Generation, which will be showing on Saturday, January 24th at 8 PM at Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY. For more information:http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts.html

The film took around 15 years to make and stars Jena von Brucker, Mark Ewert, Jane Danger, Vaginal Davis, Calvin Johnson, Joel Gibb and many others. Music includes The Hidden Cameras. GB Jones used to play in Fifth Column and founded queer punk zine J.D. with Bruce LaBruce. Her art work was recently featured in an exhibition with Joel Gibb at Exile Gallery in Berlin.

Sweat Records

After moving to Miami six months ago I finally went to check out Sweat Records and was glad I did. I don't know what took me this long. It is a record store, coffee shop and community center in one. I bought two old 45's from Team Dresch and Fifth Column and two zines. They have a good selection of vinyl, CD's, books and music and art zines you can find nowhere else in Miami. And, a welcome relief, they are really nice and the store is located on the edge of Little Haiti, a neighborhood that could not be further from South Beach and, in fact, feels like...Haiti. It makes a great Saturday day outing, or any day. Their website is http://www.sweatrecordsmiami.com/ and it is a good way to stay abreast of local happenings.