In the years that I lived in Manhattan, I pretty much never made it to Brooklyn. And I left just before places like Prospect Park and Williamsburg were starting to get really cool (as far as I know). My brother Brett’s lived in Brooklyn for over a year now and it only took me three visits to New York before I made a point to have a Brooklyn day. Along with my sister Kristy, we took a taxi from the […]
Posts categorized: Culture
Aug 20
2013
2013
New York, New York: A Tale of 3 Theaters
The Benowitzes are a pretty theatrical bunch. Starting with my mother who pursued acting and modeling in L.A. in the ’70s, and studied theater at University of California, Irvine with the likes of Jon Lovitz. My brother Brett lives in New York now and is an emerging actor and musician, and I was once a drama major at the University of Georgia (although I lost interest in pursuing acting as a career long before graduation). Even my dad, the straight-laced businessman, […]
May 23
2013
2013
Daily Dose: Tropic Cinema, Key West
There’s something kind of magical about living on a small island and riding your bike to a tiny, uncrowded movie theater in the middle of the day to watch a movie you’ve never heard of all by yourself. I come from a moviegoing family, and sitting down in a dark theater to watch a story unfold on a big screen has always made me happy. The Tropic Cinema is a great art house cinema dedicated to independent, foreign, documentary, and […]
May 22
2013
2013
Daily Dose: Books & Books, Miami
I love perusing the shelves of a nice independent bookstore. In a world where they’re becoming increasingly harder to find, we’re lucky to have Books & Books in Miami. With its original location founded in Coral Gables in 1982, there are also outposts in South Beach on Lincoln Road, inside Bal Harbour Shops, and at Miami International Airport, as well as locations in Fort Lauderdale, Grand Cayman, and Westhampton Beach. It’s so much more than a bookstore. It’s an intellectual gathering […]
May 21
2013
2013
Daily Dose: The Station Inn, Nashville
They don’t call Nashville Music City for nothing, and you’d be remiss to skip out on a chance to hear some great live music while you’re here. There are many ways to do this in Nashville, from the boisterous bars on Broadway to the more staid listening rooms around town. One of those renowned listening rooms is The Station Inn, located in the trendy neighborhood, The Gulch. While every night is different with a variety of singer/songwriters performing, The Station […]
May 10
2013
2013
Anthony Lister, ‘Do As Thou Wilt’
Inside Robert Fontaine Gallery’s pristine white showroom in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, ballerinas are twirling and leaping around the walls. Their diaphanous tutus are saturated with color splashing like splattered paint and dripping from their bodies. They’re dressed in red, yellow, purple, blue, black, and pink. Their skeletons are sometimes exposed, like an x-ray, offering a peek at the fine-tuning and muscular mechanics behind their fluid motion. These are the works of Australian street artist Anthony Lister, a man who […]
Apr 30
2013
2013
‘The art of losing isn’t hard to master’
Today is the last day of April and National Poetry Month. I meant to blog about my love for poetry and I meant to tweet the poem in my pocket on April 18. I forgot to do both. Earlier this month, I thought I lost something very dear to me. Turns out, I found it. Nevertheless, this is one of my very favorite poems. It’s by Elizabeth Bishop, a woman who traveled the world, charted her own course, and happened […]
Apr 23
2013
2013
A Miamian’s Guide To Key West
Thanks to an invitation from Robert Fontaine of the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, I spent last weekend in Key West. Along with a group of about 20 people, we were there to celebrate the opening of Nick Gentry’s solo show XCHANGE–running now through May 4. Having lived in Key West for about four years before moving to Miami, it was sort of like two worlds colliding. We spent much of the long, leisurely weekend relaxing around […]
Apr 22
2013
2013
Nick Gentry’s XCHANGE: Man or Machine?
Studying one of Nick Gentry’s portraits, a pair of steely eyes look back at you with a stoic, unsmiling, sometimes stunned, expression. The face is decidedly beautiful–almost too beautiful–with perfect proportions and symmetry, hair smooth and sleek, often slicked away from the face to further show off large, luscious lips, an attractive jawline, a delicate collarbone. The London-based artist paints these large scale portraits onto a canvas of used floppy disks. His newest works are light box portraits composed of […]
One of my favorite things to do when I travel, especially when I travel alone, especially when I travel through Europe, is to visit the world’s great museums, and The Centre Georges Pompidou is one of my absolute favorites. Home to a permanent collection of some of the most impressive contemporary and modern works, the museum’s unusual architecture is also a draw. Completed in 1977, the skeleton of the building is exposed and made up of colorfully painted pipes. The […]
