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Miami GEMS Festival Shines
Last year the prestigious Miami International Film Festival celebrating its 31st edition launched “GEMS” a second festival to its annual activities, a 4-day event to present the “jewels” of the fall season. The Event was such a success that is now a permanent fixture in MIFF’s calendar. Held at the iconic Tower Theater on 8th Street in…
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We’ll Vote for President Panti
We are patting ourselves on the back in the U.S. for the fact that we are most definitely going to elect the first Female President who will take over from the country’s first ever African/American President, but Ireland may go just one step more. In an interview with Irish Central today Drag queen Panti Bliss discussed the…
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The brilliant Kenny Everett as Cupid Stunt
Kenny Everett was an extraordinary comic genius who started his professional life as the enfant terrible in early days of British pop radio in the 1960’s and after being constantly fired, ended up with his own outrageous TV Shows, the best of which was The Kenny Everett Video Show in 1978. They were all done,…
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Andy Sweet : Images of 1970’s Miami Beach
In the 1970’s photographer Andy Sweet was obsessed with capturing images of the elderly Jewish population of Miami Beach who resided mainly in small hotels and apartment buildings on Ocean Drive. His work so perfectly captured the essence of this colorful and vibrant community who had retired here in the ‘sunshine State’ after living their…
