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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015
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THIS JUST IN:
Group Book Signing at Smokin’
Tuna Saturday
The Key West Writers Bloc will hold its second annual Group Book Signing from 2 to 5
p.m. Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Smokin’
Tuna Saloon, 5 Charles St., off the 200 block
of Duval. The literary event will feature some
25 Key West and South Florida authors, meeting with fans and signing books. The Writers
Bloc was formed about two years ago by
Michael Haskins, author of the Mick Murphy
mystery series, and Shirrel Rhoades, publisher
of Absolutely Amazing eBooks. Their goal is
still stimulate readers by exposing them to
entertaining books by local and South Florida
writers.
Featured author at the Group Book Signing
is Heather Graham, a New York Times bestselling writer known for her romances and mysteries, including her Florida series. Her Bone
Island Trilogy is set in Key West.
Other participating writers include, Laura
Burke, Jonathan Woods, Ben Harrison, Robert
Coburn, Jane Dawkins, Robert Stave, Joe Mc
Kay, Terry Schmida, and Barbara Fox, among
other notables.
ings, give aways, some awards will be handed
out, too, and who knows what else. Bring your
friends, the more the merrier!
Monthly “Jump Up Social” Tuesday
To kick off the new season, join the party
from 6 to 8 p.m. today as celebrated artist
Scott Gruppe’s newest original paintings are
unveiled at Debra Butler Design Studio, 612
Fleming St. There will be plenty of color and
energy as well as refreshments served. To RSVP
call 305-393-2942.
Join the The Southernmost Coconut
Castaways, the OFFICIAL “friend Club” of
Howard Livingston and the MM24 Band from
6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Mangrove Mama’s, Mile
Marker 20, 19991 Overseas Highway, Sugarloaf
Key, as they kick off 2015 with a big party and
welcome back all of the “seasonal” Castaways.
This Jump Up is always a lot of fun and this
time we have some awesome entertainment
for you. We’re pleased to announce that we’ll
have Deb Hudson and Soul City, so wear your
dancin’ flip flops! If you’ve not seen them play
before you are in for a treat. There will be food
and drink specials, as well. A few raffles, draw-
Meet Scott Gruppe today
Key West Writers Guild meets
The Key West Writers Guild will meet from 9
a.m. to noon Saturday the conference room in
the condominiums at 2601 S. Roosevelt Blvd.
Enter through the gate just to the left of the
flagpoles. Free parking is located across the
street on South Roosevelt Boulevard.
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Mike Rooney artist demonstration
at the Key West Art Center
t 3:30 p.m. Friday
the Key West Art
Center will host its
first Membership
Meeting of 2015. Directly
following the meeting
there will be an artist’s
demonstration by the
talented plein air painter
Mike Rooney at 4 p.m.
Rooney shows in several galleries from Cape
Cod to Key West. Here
in town his work may
be viewed at Gallery on
Greene. He just returned
from painting in Cuba,
and can share some stories from his travels. This
A
artist demonstration
will be sure to entertain
and educate, as Mike
has a great presentation
style, and a wonderful
talent in painting. This
demonstration is free
and open to the public.
Refreshments will be
served.
The Key West Art
Center is a non-profit
community art gallery
located at 301 Front
Street and open every
day from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. For information,
“Solo en la Calle” by Mike Rooney
call 305-294-1241, or go
to keywestartcenter.com.
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Gildea Contemporary Gallery‘s
first show held over
he public now has another week
to enjoy Gildea Contemporary
Gallery’s premier show.
Offering the work of 12 Key West,
Miami and New York- based artists,
Paul Gildea has put together a wow
of a first show, now running through
“Spring Chicken,”
Jan. 17. As a 15-year resident of Key
Richard Buckheim,
West, Gildea and his wife, the realtor
oil on canvas
Cory Held, understand the range of
artistic options many homeowners want
as they settle into Keys living.
Dick Buckheim’s large bold abstracts happily greet you as
you walk into the sparkling gallery space at 522 Southard.
Don’t miss Elizabeth Chamberlain’s smaller contemporary
oils and Pamale Kostmayer’s earth-toned collages.
This gallery is already home for some of Key West’s best
artists, with a few more notable local painters and sculptors about to join Gildea’s special circle.
The gallery is located at 522 Southard Street and is open
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
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Michael A. Palmer to open exhibition Monday at Gingerbread Square Gallery
nce again, Gingerbread
Square Gallery, located
at 1207 Duval St., is
pleased to welcome the work
of Michael A. Palmer in an
exhibit of his latest collection
of acrylic and ink paintings
on canvas. The show will
open with a reception from
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday.
However, the show will be
available for early viewing beginning on Sunday.
This exhibition of works by
Palmer continues through
Jan. 19.
Palmer is not new to Key
West as he has lived and
worked here for the last 33
years spending summers
in Maine. He has exhibited
professionally for 51 years
and his work is well collected
both here and abroad. For
a number of years he has
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“Viewing an Imminent Departure.” 36” x 48” acrylic and ink
on canvas by Michael A. Palmer
continued his focus on life in
the African-American community of Key West.
His work has recently
concentrated more and
more on an investigation of
the architectural/geometric
mazes of favelas such as
those above Rio de Janeiro.
Defined as slums or ghettos,
favelas are tightly thrown
together communities of
the poor with any type of
structure, from large build-
ings to lean-tos jammed into
areas surrounding major
cities. Geographically they
go by many names, but they
are all places where a large
segment of a population
scrapes together livings in
the shadow of more affluent
metropolises. This is wonderfully depicted in several
new works.
The collections of works
shown in Key West at
Gingerbread Square Gallery
are unique in their tropical
flavor and are only exhibited
here. In this latest collection viewers familiar with
Palmer’s work will find many
friendly subjects from past
exhibits such as his insightful
representations of African/
Americans “Surf Runners”
“Tower Maker” and “Jorge’s.”
In his other Caribbean
inspired landscapes, there
is evidenced Palmer’s strong
architectural bent running
through most of his work
most evident in “Viewing an
Imminent Departure” and
“Putting in at St. George.”
“I guess my work in this
show is somewhat regional
since I rarely exhibit tropical
or figurative inspired work
anywhere else since Key
West and its residents hold
a special place in my heart
that I can’t keep from influencing my work here,” said
Palmer.
Palmer’s works are an
abstract combining of line
and tone and form that
makes them fascinating. He
starts with a blank canvas
and creates as he paints,
eventually with a recognizable shape emerging - a
figure, object, landscape,
structure...more often of
late a geometric design.
Palmer says, “I’ve been
drawn to the geometric,
linear approach the late
Richard Deibenkorn had to
his work with landscape/
urbanscapes. That whole
Bay Area school displays a
strong sense of the design of
things rather than the literal
‘look’.” Palmer uses color
selectively, in very subtle
ways to convey a feeling,
almost a physical feeling.
Palmer’s recent works
have received much praise
and serious attention by collectors and critics alike.
The gallery is open daily 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. For information, call 305-296-8900, or go
to GingerbreadSquareGallery.
com.
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SOUTHERNMOST
MAGNOLIA
Southernmost Magnolia,
the Key West version of the
renowned New England
band Magnolia, plays a
unique blend of Cajun,
country, and bluegrass
music. Led by singer and
guitarist Maggie Moniz,
with local fixtures Steve
Gibson on mandolin
and Chief Billy or Cindy
Jefferson on bass, and
world-famous Chuck
HOG’S BREATH
SALOON
“Drum-Driven World Beat”
Sun Soundcheck 5:30pm
Fri • Jan 9 • 5:30pm
The Rejuvinators
Saturday
Michael McCloud
12 to 5 p.m.
Magic of Frank Everhart
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Doerfels
the Hog’s Breath Saloon,
Monday through Jan. 18 ,
5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Mike Willis
Entrain
Michael McCloud
12 to 5 p.m.
Magic of Frank Everhart
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Danny and Tim Carter play the Hog’s Breath Jan, 12 - 18.
400 Front St.
Thu • Jan 8 • 9pm
Fri • Jan 9 • 10pm
Friday
Sherman on pedal steel.
They will be making sure
everyone can let the good
times roll at B.O.’s Fish
Wagon every Thursday
from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Also,
with the currently relaxed
security status, you can see
them (and a great view of
the sunset over the water)
every Wednesday from 6 to
9 p.m. at Sunset Lounge on
Sigsbee Navy Base.
Mike Willis is a singersongwriter based in
Nashville, Tenn. and
originally from Decatur,
Ga. Willis, has played in
a range of venues across
United States, England, and
China; now he’s playing at
Carter Brothers
an eclectic sound to the
Hog, including rock, folk,
blues, country, and bluegrass.
SCHOONER WHARF
Danny and Tim Carter
202 William St.
return to their late night
spot, from 10 p.m. to 2
Today
a.m., on the outdoor stage Michael McCloud
Monday through Jan. 18.
12 to 5 p.m.
The Carter Brothers bring
Deb Hudson and Friends will
be at Schooner’s Wharf from
7 to 11 p.m. Wednesday.
Joining Deb will be Alfonse
Subarski, Carter Cash and
Lee Venters.
Taylor and Clayton
7 to 11 p.m.
Magic of Frank Everhart
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Sunday
“Entrain’s Tribute to The Meters”
Sat • Jan 10 • 10pm
World Famous T-Shirts • Raw Bar • Restaurant
Happy Hour Daily • 5-7 pm
Entertainment from 1pm til 2am
Caffeine Carl &
The Buzz
“Blues/Rock”
Sat Soundcheck 5:30pm
1pm Sunday Jazz Showcase
7pm Monday Night BINGO
Mon • Jan 12 • 10pm
THURSDAY
January 8
Good Company
“Community Building Jam Session”
Tues, Wed • Jan 13,14 • 9pm
KEY WEST
FRIDAY
January 9
SATURDAY
January 10
SUNDAY
January 11
Kung Fu
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January 13
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“Funk Fusion Dance Party”
Green Parrot
MONDAY
January 12
Remember:
Hog’s Breath is better than no breath at all!
Friday and Saturday,
7 p.m. to midnight
Growing up in a musical
family these five brothers
were playing instruments
from the time they could
walk. Although they started
out playing bluegrass they
have branched out into
other genres, blending contemporary and classic rock,
country, pop and alternative music.
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Michael McCloud
12 to 5 p.m.
That Hippie Band
6:30 to 11 p.m.
Magic of Frank Everhart
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Monday
Raven Cooper
12 to 5 p.m.
Marty Stonely and Chris
Toler
7 to 11 p.m.
Tuesday
Gary Hempsy
12 to 5 p.m.
Raven Cooper
7 to 11 p.m.
Wednesday
Michael McCloud
12 to 5 p.m.
Deb Hudson and Friends
7 and 11 p.m.
Magic of Frank Everhart
9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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Caffeine Carl and The Buzz
perform at the Green Parrot
Saturday.
90 MILE LOUNGE
Photo courtesy of Carol Tedesco
300 Front St.
All shows start at 8:30 p.m.
Today: Woody Jenkins
Project
Friday: Woody Jenkins
Project
Saturday: Woody Jenkins
Project
Sunday: Larry Baeder
Monday: Ericson Holt
Tuesday: Ericson Holt
Wednesday: Woody Jenkins
Project
VIRGILIO’S
524 Duval St.
Pro-Magnum Quartet
Always a rollicking
success, whenever they
appear, Skipper’s weekly
“Tuesday League of Crafty
Musician” series at Virgilio’s
proudly presents that funky
dance band, Pro-Magnum
Quartet, at 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Good Company will continue their Monday jam sessions with
special guests, funk/fusion rockers Kung Fu.
to The Green Parrot with
shows at 9 p.m. today, 10
p.m. Friday and 5:30 p.m.
Sunday.
The Rejuvinators
Caffeine Carl
Caffeine Carl and The
Buzz bring their brand of
blues/rock to the Green
Parrot with shows at 5:30
and 10 p.m. Saturday.
Tom Majors of Entrain
leads his latest incarnation, Good Company
The Rejuvinators, a tribute
to the seminal New Orleans
Beginning at 10 p.m.
funk band, The Meters,
Monday, Good Company
to the stage at 5:30 p.m.
will continue their series of
Friday.
community building latenight Monday jam sessions
with special guests, funk/
fusion rockers Kung Fu.
Fronted by founder Mike
The Love Lane Gang will be playing regular gigs at
McConnell’s Irish Pub at 8:30 p.m. on Fridays, at Saluté On
The Beach at 5 p.m on Sundays and Sunset Pier at 4 p.m. on
Wednesdays at 4 p.m.
Willis, Good Company is
backed by a dynamic band
featuring veteran music
industry performers and
songwriters.
Kung Fu
Flying the flag of the
new funk movement Kung
Fu brings their brand of
70’s funk fusion for two
big nights at the Green
Parrot with shows beginning at 9 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday. They will ask
appear as special guests
of The Good Company
Company Community
Building Jam Session on
Monday.
THE GARDENS
526 Angela St.
THE GREEN PARROT
601 Whitehead St.
Entrain
Entrain, the drum-driven
World-Pop sensation from
Martha’s Vineyard, makes
Entrain returns to The Green Parrot with shows at 9 p.m. on
its long-awaited return
Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
Cabaret
Today: 5 to 7 p.m., Jimmy
Olson at the piano.
Friday: 5 to 7 p.m., Michael
Robinson at the piano.
Saturday: 5 to 7 p.m., Will
Johnson at the piano.
Jazz In The Gardens
Sunday, 5 to 7:30 p.m.,
Peter Diamond and friends.
THE LOVE LANE GANG
The Love Lane Gang is
a homegrown band that
charms and thrills both
locals and visitors . With
an age range among the
members of over 30 years,
they bring a wide variety
of experience and musical
tastes to bear and appeal
to music lovers of all ages.
They will be playing regular
gigs at McConnell’s Irish
Pub Fridays at 8:30 p.m.,
Saluté On The Beach
Sundays at 5 p.m., and
Sunset Pier Wednesdays at
4 p.m.
Deb Hudson and Soul City will
perform at Mangrove Mama’s
in Sugarloaf Key on Tuesday,
Jan. 13 from 6-10 p.m. The
event is for the monthly
“Jump up” Social, sponsored
by The Coconut Castaways,
the official “friend club” of
Howard Livingston and the
MM24 Band.
Rogers and Hart, Irving
Berlin, Cole Porter, etc.,
Nesbitt will be assisted
by the small, but mighty
“back up orchestra” of
Skippo, on drums.
Key West’s
Only Beach Bar with
LIVE MUSIC DAILY
*DAILY DRINK SPECIALS*
ALL DAY FOOD MENU
Thur 1/8
12-3 pm Brian Roberts
4-7 pm
Fri 1/9
Amandah Jantzen
12-3 pm Chris Toler
4-7 pm
Joel Nelson
Sat 1/10 12-3 pm Rob DiStaci
4-7 pm
Amandah Jantzen
Sun 1/11 12-3 pm Amandah Jantzen
BOBBY NESBITT
AND SKIPPO
Mon 1/12 12-3 pm Rob DiStaci
Join Bobby and skippo,
performing at Salute restaurant every Thursday
from 4 to 6:30 p.m. for
“Showtunes on the
Beach.” Playing the timeless melodies of Gershwin,
Wed 1/14 12-3 pm Rob DiStaci
Tues 1/13 12-3 pm Chris Toler
4-7 pm
4-7 pm
Rob DiStaci
Chris Toler
1 Duval Street | Key West
305-296-4600 398982
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Miles Frieden and Key West Art and Historical Society opens
Hemingway exhibit with an eco-historic twist
Bob Schmitt at
Harrison Gallery
CONTRIBUTED
iles Frieden and Bob Schmitt,
friends and collaborators for
three decades, dive within to
provide striking visual metaphors for
how the light gets in.
Student and teacher of Chinese
brush painting, Schmitt depicts nine
gates of a spiritual journey, transforming the aesthetic of traditional
Chinese scrolls into digital internal
landscapes. Frieden’s sculptures
expose a multitude of stories, usually embedded in relationship. These
ennobled and enabled shards, rising
out of imperfection, bring delight,
beauty, and healing.
This exhibit is in conjunction with
the 2015 Key West Literary Seminar,
“How the Light Gets In: Literature
of the Spirit.” It also commemorates
Miles Frieden’s retirement as executive director of the KWLS after 20
years.
Come see the gallery from 6 to 9
p.m. Jan. 15 for Walk on White for the
first exhibition in 2015.
M
t 6 p.m. Friday, the
Key West Art and
Historical Society will
present its latest exhibit
in the Bryan Gallery of the
Custom House Museum,
Following the Fish:
Hemingway in Key West.
The exhibit will explore
Hemingway’s fishing
exploits and showcase
antique fishing tackle
utilized during the period
of his fishing heyday here
in the Florida Keys. It will
also expose Hemingway
as a preservationist with
an awareness for the
conservation for the local
environment.
“His footprint in this
sphere, aside from writing, is quite substantial,”
said Cori Convertito,
KWAHS curator since
2012. “The exhibit will
focus a good deal on his
appreciation of nature
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and his scientific awareness and responsibility to
it versus his traditionally
perceived machismo and
persona.”
The exhibit reveals
Hemingway’s field
notes and fishing logs,
extremely detailed catalogues of what he caught
and where and associated weather patterns,
all to better help him
understand the science
of fishing and become a
better angler. It also aims
to interact with visitors,
getting them to learn in
a more hands-on way.
Participants have the
opportunity to experience what it’s like to fish
for a Marlin or Sailfish
here in the Florida Keys,
utilizing the exhibit’s fish
simulator, complete with
digital read-out of angling
skills.
“It really shows you the
power of the animal,” said
Convertito. “We are hoping that the simulator will
help people have a greater appreciation of the
animal and how majestic
they are, and maybe why
Hemingway had such an
affection for fishing.”
Key West Art and
Historical Society offers
this eco-historic exhibit
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Baby Boomers, Relax! Yoga class
class will open your eyes to a way of living
with more peace, less anxiety and stress,
and more presence in the moment, which
non-strenuous approach to yoga for
students of all ages has arrived in Key allows you a new appreciation of your
life.”
West
“This class is perfect
Key West’s Denis Hyland, dance and
for students of all ages, at
yoga instructor at theCoffeeMill Dance
every level of ability. It’s a
Studio, has developed a new blend of
non-strenuous regimen
classic techniques to make the benefits
of yoga available to everyone, not just the that allows each student
to participate at his or her comfort level.
young or the already-fit.
Everyone will improve from where they
“The benefits of yoga start from your
begin, whatever their level of experience
very first pose,” saysHyland, who trained
to teach Yoga in New York City at the pres- or physical condition. I emphasize this
to baby boomers because there is a belief
tigious World Yoga Center. He has been
teaching yoga for 17 years. “Whatever your out there that yoga is only for young
people who are already fit, not for people
age or physical fitness, taking one yoga
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over fifty who may be coping with health
issues.”
Hyland says confidently, “Anyone, everyone can benefit from practicing yoga. This
is a class where everyone can come knowing they will succeed.”
Hyland also says that
all students attain a level
ofspiritual and emotional
transformation through
yoga. “Whatever the initial motivation for
taking Yoga, the benefits of quieting the
mind and spirit while developing bodies
that glow with health and fitness promote
a peaceful approach to life.
“You will learn to step back from stressful situations in your life and watch your
responses in a way that allows you to
respond with poise, in the moment. It creates win-win opportunities for everyone.”
Hyland’s previous work experience
includes a position at the Little Palm
Island Resort where he made private
yoga and meditation lessons available to
guests at the SpaTerre. He also worked
at the Casa Marina, where he provided
private lessons to guests at the Spa al
Mare. He now offers private lessons at the
CoffeeMill Dance Studio.
Hyland’s Baby Boomers, Relax! classes
are held at theCoffeeMill Dance Studio,
916 Pohalski Street, on Fridays at noon.
Call the studio at 305-296-9982 for price
details.
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What’s up at the Tropic — Friday, Jan. 9 thru Thursday, Jan. 15
“Selma”
This film chronicles the
tumultuous three-month
period in 1965, when Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. led
a dangerous campaign to
secure equal voting rights
in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from
Selma to Montgomery
culminated in President
Johnson (Tom Wilkinson)
signing the Voting Rights
Act of 1965. Director Ava
DuVernay’s SELMA tells
the real story of how the
revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. (David Oyelowo) and
his brothers and sisters in
the movement prompted
change that forever altered
history. 4 Golden Globe
Nominations including
Best Picture!
Rated R
Laura Dern, Reese Weatherspoon in “Wild.”
adventure to the screen.
After the destruction
of her marriage and a
heroin addiction, Strayed
(Witherspoon) sets out to
hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific
Crest Trail alone, with no
experience and haunted
by memories of her mother (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern). Wild
powerfully reveals her
terrors and pleasures—as
she forges a journey that
maddens, strengthens
and ultimately heals her.
Golden Globe Nominated,
Best Actress!
Rated R
SPECIAL EVENTS
under nail-biting pressure
Globe Nominated, Best
THIS WEEK
helped to shorten the war
Actor and Actress and Best
and, in turn, save thouOriginal Song!
sands of lives. Nominated
Rated PG-13
“Who’s Afraid Of Virginia
for 5 Golden Globes includWoolf?” (1966)
ing Best Picture!
Monday, 6:30 p.m.,
“Wild”
Rated PG-13
Classic Movie Series:
Married couple George
Director Jean-Marc
and
Martha know just how
Vallée
(Dallas
Buyers
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Club) and Academy Award to push each other’s but“The Imitation
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Big Eyes, from direceach other, George and
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bestselling author Cheryl Martha invite newcomWonderland, Ed Wood,
ers to join in the invective.
Strayed’s extraordinary
Edward Scissorhands), is
Alan Turing (Benedict
based on the true story of
Cumberbatch, The Fifth
Walter Keane (Christoph
Estate, Star Trek Into
Darkness, TV’s “Sherlock”), Waltz, Oscar winner for
Django Unchained and
leading a motley crew,
Inglourious Basterds), who
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cially successful painters of
Germany’s World War II
the 1950s and early 1960s.
Enigma Machine, a seemingly impossible code that The truth would eventually be discovered though:
changed daily, and in the
Keane’s art was not actually
process became a pioneer
of modern-day computing. created by him at all, but
Keira Knightley co-stars. An by his wife, Margaret (Amy
intense and haunting por- Adams, Oscar nominee
trayal of a brilliant, compli- for American Hustle, The
Master, The Fighter, Doubt
cated man, The Imitation
Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams in “Big Eyes.”
Game follows a genius who and Junebug). Golden
ous and bold life of Ernest
Hemingway in Havana – and
includes his adventures with
baseball, Ava Gardner, his
famous Havana haunt, La
Floridita, German U-Boats
and more. First performed
on a restaurant rooftop in
Hemingway’s “HOT
Havana in 2005, Sinclair
Havana” - On the Carper
has traveled the world
Theater Stage
with “HOT Havana” and
Jan. 15 at 7:30
performed from Tromso,
Champagne Reception
Norway to Stratford-Upon8 to 9:30 p.m.
Avon.
Play
Lorian Hemingway called
7:30 to 8 p.m.
Director and master story- the show “brilliant.” You
teller, Brian Gordon Sinclair will believe Hemingway is
performs his one-man show alive and well – and in Key
West where he belongs.
“HOT Havana” on Tropic
Ticket $20 non-members,
Cinema’s Carper Theater
$18 members, to benefit
stage. “HOT Havana” tells
Tropic Cinema.
stories from the boisterAfter an evening of sadistic
“fun and games,” the truth
about the couple’s son
comes to light.
Hosted by Craig Wanous.
Tickets $10, Members $7
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PETE ARNOW/Special to Paradise
Rebecca Tomlinson and Babs Wade came out
on New Year’s Eve to support the revitalized
La Te Da.
aparazzi’ is a photo-driven entertainment
feature compiled by Citizen staffers from
in-house and contributed shots. Snaps of
social events, arts and entertainment-related activities and other “wild art” will be welcomed as submissions to these pages. Send invitations to cover events to
[email protected], and we’ll do our best to get a
photographer to the event. If we can’t make it, send your
photos and information of your shindig and we’ll try to
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Angie Garcia, president of Key West Body Scrubs, presents her all natural
Sea Salt Body Scrubs at the Key West Artisan Market.
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Rev. Steve Torrence, center, offers a bit of levity early Tuesday morning with an
inside joke for Aaron Huntsman, left, and Lee Jones, right. The couple was the
first same-sex couple to be wed in Monroe County.
In the midst of a full-on ‘media scrum’ early Tuesday morning, Lee Jones
removes his “shackle of inequality” he has worn throughout the fight
for marriage equality in Florida. Jones and his partner, Aaron Huntsman,
were married Tuesday on the courthouse steps.
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PETE ARNOW/Special to Paradise
Nancy and Barry Campbell joined Georgia Chase to celebrate
the New Year at La Te Da.
Tania Keller of “You’ll Love It” displays her soy candles and Vegan Handcrafted Soap at the Key West
Artisan’s Market. She crafts all of her products at
home.
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PETE ARNOW/Special to Paradise
Rev Steve Torrence, second from right, of the Metropolitan Community Church, conducted the first
pre-marital course for same sex couples, in advance of same sex marriage becoming legal on Jan 6.
2015. Any resident Florida couple wishing to be married is required by the State to take a pre-marital
course, or face a three day waiting period for their marriage license.
Rev. Steve Torrence, left, chats with Neil McMichael, center, and Michael Roth
of MARC House before conducting a same sex marriage pre-marital course. The
couple has been together for 15 years and plans to marry now that same sex marriage is legal in Florida.
ROB O’NEAL/Paradise
Aaron Huntsman and Lee Jones head to Aqua Night Club early
Tuesday morning after being married on the steps of the Monroe
County Courthouse.
PETE ARNOW/Special to Paradise
David Meadors, Darian Childers and Scott Pridgen looked
forward to 2015 by celebrating at La Te Da on New Year’s
Eve.
PETE ARNOW/Special to Paradise
The large home made Kaleidoscope is always a big hit
with the kids at the monthly Key West Artisan Market.
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Movie installments: Is third time a charm for ‘Taken 3?’
AT THE MOVIES
Cooke Communications Film Review
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ith the graying
of America, as
movie audiences
get older, we like
having older action heroes.
I’ve long subscribed to the
lyrics of that Willie Nelson
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song that says, “Old age
and treachery, always overcomes youth and skill.”
Sylvester Stallone
understands this. He’s
made three increasingly
bad movies called “The
Expendables,” featuring all those over-thehill action stars (Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Bruce
Willis, Harrison Ford, Mel
Gibson, Wesley Snipes, Jet
Li, Chuck Norris, Dolph
Lundgren, et al.).
Irish-born actor Liam
Neeson is following the
same trend, but in his case
he’s become a latter-day
action hero, in his 60s starring in such butt-kickers as
“Non Stop,” “Unknown,”
“Walk Among the
Tombstones,” and those
two “Taken” movies.
Now here he comes
again in “Taken 3.” It’s currently causing havoc with
on-screen bad guys at the
Regal Cinema 6.
In the first movie in that
series Neeson plays Byron
Mills, an ex-CIA agent
who sets out to rescue his
daughter (Maggie Grace)
when she’s kidnapped during a trip to Paris. Dead
bodies pile up pretty fast.
In the sequel, Mills and
his wife (Framke Janssen)
are taken hostage in
Istanbul as retribution for
his killing the son of a gang
lord. Yep, bodies pile up
here too.
Now in the third outing,
he’s accused of murdering
his wife (no spoiler alert
because you learn this in
the movie’s previews) and
must go on the run from
the FBI and CIA. He must
use his “particular set of
skills” to track down the
real killers. More dead bodies, of course.
“It all ends here,” Byron
Mills declares in “Taken 3.”
We’ll see about that. If
the box office holds up, I
won’t be surprised to see
“Taken 4” find its way into
movie theaters.
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Liam Neeson in “Taken 3.”
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An article in the New York Times about the dearth of great movie lines in current films got my
movie pal Susan Server to thinking. So she came up with a list of favorite dialogues that always
make her stop and listen to again and again. This is not a list of the greatest lines one usually cites...
like “Round up the usual suspects” and “Make my day” but sly remarks that are as deathless as the
famous films in which they appear.
10.) “To Have and Have Not” (1944) — Bacall to Bogie, “It’s even better when you help.”
9.) “The Departed” (2006) — Jack Nicholson asks a colleague how his sick mother is doing and
in answer to “She’s on her way out,” he says: “We all are, act accordingly.”
8.) “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) — Bogie to Mary Astor, “You killed Miles and you’re going over
for it.”
7.) “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) — Peter O’Toole states, “My name is for my friends.” A very useful line in life!
6.) “Annie Hall” (1977) — After being stopped in the street by Woody Allen, the beautiful Shelley
Hack (uncredited) replies, “I’m very shallow and empty and I have no ideas and nothing interesting
to say.”
5.) “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) — Jessica Chastain to James Gandolfini (portraying the head of the
CIA), “I’m the M******F***** who found this place.”
4.) “Out of Africa” (1985) — As Meryl Streep is about to depart, she is at last invited into the
Men Only bar to give this farewell toast: “To rose-lipped maidens and light-foot lads.” I sob every
time!
3.) “Notorious “ (1946) — Leopoldine Konstatin gets two delicious goodies. To her son (Claude
Rains), “We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity” and earlier in her heavy accent she
hisses at Ingrid Bergman, “You did not testify at your father’s trial.”
2.) “To Catch a Thief” (1955) — When Brigitte Auber, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are all at a raft
in the Mediterranean and Grant says to Auber that she is but a child, Auber (later revealed as the villain), taunts, “Shall we stand in shallower water?”
1.) “Casablanca” (1942) — Of course, every line in this film is perfection and forever quotable,
but I always love it when Bogie gives his advice to the young bride being pressured seductively by
Claude Rains, “Go back to Bulgaria.”
Wow! This encourages me to compile my own list of favorite, but lesser-known movie lines. What
are some of yours?
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Oscar-contender ‘Selma’ toes the line with dramatization
ith Academy
Awards season
coming up, cinematic contenders are starting to campaign for an Oscar nod.
And that brings out the
detractors who want to
sink the competition.
It often exhibits itself
as a challenge to a film’s
accuracy. You saw it with
“Hurricane,” “A Beautiful
Mind,” “Zero Dark Thirty,”
and “The Butler.” This
year the gun-sights are
on “Selma” and “The
Imitation Game.”
Each of the above
films were vulnerable to
attack – justified or not
– because they are biopics
based on real events.
In the case of “Selma,”
the story of the 1965 civil
rights marches that Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. led
in Selma, Alabama, the
claim is that the film does
not give President Lyndon
Baines Johnson enough
credit for supporting
King’s efforts. After all,
Johnson had made great
strides by passing the
Civil Rights Act, right?
“Selma” – now playing
at the Tropic Cinema –
depicts LBJ as something
of an obstructionist to Dr.
King’s historic protest.
Mark Updegrove, director of the LBJ Library,
objects to the film’s characterization of the 36th
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view, not LBJ’s.
The film’s director Ava
DuVernay is the first
black woman to win a
Best Director nomination
from the Golden Globes.
“The notion that Selma
was LBJ’s idea is jaw
dropping and offensive
to SNCC, SCLC and black
citizens who made it so,”
she responds.
Sometimes history is a
matter of interpretation.
This is the first movie
ever to feature Dr. King as
the subject of a lead role
in a theatrical film.
One must also decide
just how accurate a movie
should be. After all, this is
a biopic, not a documentary.
What’s the difference,
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Carmen Ejogo as
you
might ask, between
Coretta Scott King in “Selma.”
the two? A biopic is a
to the portrait painted by biographical film that
President of the United
‘Selma,’ Lyndon Johnson dramatizes the life of an
States. “Why does the
actual person or people.
and Martin Luther King
film’s mis-characterizaA documentary is a movie
Jr. were partners in this
tion matter?” he posed
that provides a factual
effort. Johnson was
the question. “Because
enthusiastic about voting record or report.
at a time when racial
Dramatizes is the key
rights and the President
tension is once again
urged King to find a place word here.
high, from Ferguson to
Take a closer look at
Brooklyn, it does no good like Selma and lead a
some the classic biopics:
major demonstration.”
to bastardize one of the
The Story of Alexander
Not all of LBJ’s former
most hallowed chapGraham Bell” (1939) with
colleagues agree. For
ters in the Civil Rights
Don Ameche played it
Movement by suggesting example, Bill Moyers,
fast and loose with historthat the President himself who was Johnson’s press
stood in the way of prog- secretary in the mid ‘60s, ical details. And “Young
remembers it differently. Tom Edison” (1940) with
ress.”
Mickey Rooney took its
Paramount, the studio
This backlash was
share of liberties with the
that’s releasing “Selma,”
echoed by Joseph A
is trying to be diplomatic. facts. So did “Edison, The
Califano, Jr., Johnson’s
top assistant for domestic They point out that this is Man” (1940) with Spencer
a movie told from Martin Tracy.
affairs from 1965-1969.
Oliver Stone’s “JFK”
Luther King’s point of
Califano says, “Contrary
(1991) altered details and
combined characters for
storytelling purposes.
Stone described it as a
“counter-myth” to offset
the Warren Commission’s
“fictional-myth.”
Whatever you position on
this, the film “JFK” undeniably had a great social
impact. It brought about
the formation of the U.S.
Assassination Records
Review Board.
This kind of film is
sometimes referred to as
a pseudo-documentary, a
film that looks something
like a documentary but
isn’t.
So how should you
react to “Selma”? Go
see it. This is a powerful
movie that reminds us
about a seminal moment
in American history.
It’s sure to provoke differing viewpoints, but
nobody can deny that
the three 1965 Selma to
Montgomery voting right
marches affected the
course of US history.
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Tropic Cinema Leader Project to announce top student entries for 2015
were more than a dozen entries, each vying
for such accolades as Best in Show, Best
Cinematography, Best Editing, and Most
or the third year in a row Florida Keys Original Concept.
The project was overseen by Michael
students have turned into mini-filmMarrero, a member of the Tropic board,
makers, creating leaders that introand Ed Smith, technology/digital media
duce the movies at Tropic Cinema.
Leaders are those short announcements teacher at Key West High School.
Back in November a panel that included
before a film starts advising you to not talk
during the movie, turn off your cell phones, representatives from the Tropic Cinema,
along with other rules of etiquette to make Florida Council of the Arts, and the Key
your moviegoing experience more pleasur- West Citizen (myself) were given presentations by participating students as to their
able.
For the 2014-2015 Tropic Cinema Leader concept, with the panel offering helpful
tweaks. Then last week the finished oneProject, the Tropic has joined with the
minute videos were shown to the panel
Florida Council of the Arts to have film
students at Key West High School come up for judging. All the entries were considwith leaders in this new competition. There ered winners but the best of the best were
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selected, with the announcement of the top
leaders being made this coming Sunday
at a special presentation at the Tropic. All
entries will be shown in front of the Tropic’s
scheduled film presentations during 2015.
“We were impressed how good these
entries were,” commented Liz Young,
executive director of the Florida Council of
the Arts after the judging. “None of them
disappointed.”
“These were even better that last year’s
batch,” agreed Matthew Helmerich, executive director of Tropic Cinema. “We’re going
to be proud to introduce our screenings
with such creative leaders.”
The leaders showed an impressive mastery of the medium, ranging from animation to live action, sophisticated special
effects to clever editing, funny to serious
“storylines.”
Back again was our favorite blonde in
Marilyn 2.0, along with an animated curmudgeon named Mr. Bill, Ninja warriors
presented comic book-style, ray guns that
zapped offending patrons, on-site television newscasters, rampaging zombies,
and a cute animated gecko, among other
concepts.
This Sunday’s presentations for Best of
Show in the Tropic Cinema Leader Project
will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Tropic
Cinema, following a reception for student
filmmakers. All entries will be shown (so
you don’t have to wait to see them movieby-movie).
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Dynamic Concert Season in the
Works at The Studios of Key West
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ver the years, music
lovers have learned
that The Studios of Key
West is the place to experience America’s great singersongwriters. The Studios’
2015 concert lineup follows suit, featuring such
music heavyweights as Jon
McEuen, one of the founding members of the Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band performing on February 27, and
Ronny Cox, superbly talented actor and folk music
charmer performing on
March 6.
This month, the music
kicks off with two of the
most acclaimed females
on the folk music scene
playing two unique Key
West venues. On Jan. 23,
virtuoso guitar player and
mood-shaper Patty Larkin
takes the stage at the Eaton
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Susan Werner
Street Theater, and on Jan.
30, Susan Werner, “one of
the most innovative songwriters working today”
(Chicago Tribune), plays
the San Carlos Institute.
Patty Larkin redefines the
boundaries of folk-urban
pop music with her inventive guitar wizardry and
uncompromising vocals
and lyrics. Acoustic Guitar
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Ukulele event in Marathon Sunday
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Ukulele instructor Jim D’Ville
Hemingway
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tinue to affect it in the future,” said
Convertito.
Following the Fish will run
with the support and collaboration of through the end of July until
NOAA’s Florida Keys National Marine Hemingway Days and will feature
ongoing supporting programming
Sanctuary and Mote Marine, helpincluding Distinguished Speakers
ing ensure the material presented is
John Hemingway and Brewster
environmentally accurate to better
underscore the “understanding of our Chamberlain (author of The Key
fishing legacy and how it has affected West Hemingway). It will also provide
our environment and how it will con- opportunities for the organization’s
new education initiative for Monroe
County students.
The exhibit opens to the general
public at 6 p.m., with a suggested
donation of $10 for attendees, with a
members-only VIP access from 5:30
to 6 p.m. John Hemingway, Ernest’s
grandson, will be on hand, talking
with the evening’s guests. For information, call Cori Convertito at 2956616 ext. 112, or go to kwahs.org.
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ing 305-296-0458 or visiting tskw.
org. Members of The Studios may
purchase $25 advance tickets. The
Eaton Street Theatre is located at
522 Eaton Street and The San Carlos
Institute is located at 516 Duval
Street.
Details about the full performance season, including a show
by ImprovBoston on Feb. 4, a onewoman show written and performed
by Diana Nyad from February 19-22,
and may others can be found at
tskw.org.
hails her “soundscape experiments” while Rolling Stone praises
her “evocative and sonic shading”.
She has been described as “riveting” (Chicago Tribune), “hypnotic”
(Entertainment Weekly), and a
“drop-dead brilliant” performer
(Performing Songwriter).
Susan Werner composes skillful
songs that effortlessly slide between
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Ready to get moving?
ow will you choose
to move forward into
the present, leaving the past behind?
From 2 to 4:30 Saturday,
Shakti Yoga, 1114 White
St., will offer “Coming
Home to Ourselves: The
Art of Intention” with Jill
McFadgen.
Our earliest experiences
matter. Stress or trauma
in our early lives create
imprints in our bodies and
psyches that can influence
the directions we take or
don’t take in our lives. It
can also have a profound
affect on our ability to connect with others. Can we
discover and reconnect
with our own original blueprint and intentions for
ourselves? What does this
mean?
Simply put, the more
connected we are to ourselves and our intentions,
the easier it becomes to
“find our way” and connect
to others.
This workshop will
offer: Principles that help
us create a safe container
for communication and
connection in our relationships, skills that support
orienting to ourselves and
our relationships through
our bodies, a safe place
for movement, contact
and sharing, opportunities to explore the support
we need to develop and
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nternationally recognized ukulele instructor Jim
D’Ville will present his unique approach to learning
to play music on the ukulele at two workshops at the
Marathon Community Theater at 1 p.m.Sunday. D’Ville
has taught his Play Ukulele By Ear approach to tens of
thousands of people in the United States, Canada and
Australia. He is currently on a one-year teaching tour of
the USA and Canada in his Airstream trailer.
Two one-hour workshops will be offered; StrumStrum-Strum-A-Lum, which is an all-levels introduction
to various strumming techniques for the instrument
and Play Ukulele By Ear: Learning To Listen, a workshop
which teaches how to hear the emotional value of the
chords used in popular music including pop, rock, folk,
country and blues.
Canadian ukulele master James Hill calls D’Ville’s Play
Ukulele By Ear workshop “a high-energy roller coaster of
learning and laughs.”
Cost for the workshops are $20 each per person or
both for $35.
Children 14 and under can take one workshop for $10
or both for $15. For more information email D’Ville at
[email protected] or call 503-200-9584.
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sassy wit and classic Midwestern
charm. Direct Current says, “Werner
has quietly risen to the elite of modern songwriters”. Throughout her
expansive career, boundless versatility has emerged as a hallmark of
Werner’s talent, and has proven to
be a quintessential ingredient of
her engrossing musical persona. All
Music Guide says, “Werner is… in
such complete command of her gifts
that it’s almost scary.”
Tickets for both January concerts
are $30 and are available by call-
Jill McFadgen
nurture our intentions and
resources to support integration and staying connected.
This is the first in a
monthly series that will
explore embodiment and
connection. Each segment
stands alone, although
moving through them in a
sequence is beneficial and
recommended.
Jill McFadgen. LMT, is
a somatic therapist who
has been practicing in
Key West for 17 years. She
specializes in craniosacral
work and the resolution
of early stress/trauma.
Jill works with people of
all ages including adults,
babies, children and families. She loves supporting
them to discover their
innate potential to be in
connection.
Coming Home to
Ourselves: The Art of
Intention workshop cost is
$65. For information, go to
shakitkeywest.com, or call
305-393-4102.
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New York’s ‘Skivvies’ set to heat up Last Chance for Fringe’s ‘The Price’
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e’ve all sung in
the shower. And
many of us have
hummed a tune
while padding around
the house in our undies.
But none of us probably
thought, “Hey, if I do this
on Broadway, I’ll become
the hottest cabaret act in
New York.”
Well, Nick Cearley and
Lauren Molina did just that.
And have become just that.
Known as The Skivvies,
Perez Hilton said they’re
“…the best thing to happen
to NYC nightlife in years…”,
and the New York Times
reports they’ve become “…
so popular that Broadway
stars like Lin ManuelMiranda and Lauren
Benanti (now starring in
ABC’s “Nashville”) regularly
join them on stage.”
Cearley and Molina will
be bringing their red-hot
Skivvies show to the Red
Barn Theatre in Key West
for a very special four-night
event, Wednesday through
Saturday, January 21-24,
with shows each night at
8 pm. Tickets are in short
supply already, and can
be had by calling 305-2969911, or by checking out
the Red Barn website at
redbarntheatre.com.
“This is a real coup for
us,” said Red Barn artistic director Joy Hawkins.
“They’re skyrocketing right
now, heading into a television series, touring, and
have been solidly booked.
It’s amazing we both had
these dates open. It’s going
ith used furniture, you cannot
be emotional.”
Don’t miss the final weekend
of the Fringe’s presentation of Arthur
Miller’s, “The Price” in the garret (attic)
of the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum.
Fringe Theater Key West, where you
expect the Un-expected, is performing
this classic play in a space that has never
been open to the public. This architecture marvel contains historic furniture
and other treasures.
“The immersion seating style with the
audience seated among the museum
pieces, serves as the play’s set,” says
Artistic Director, Monnie King.
The story follows estranged brothers
Victor (Michael McCabe) and Walter
(Bob Bowersox) coming together for the
first time in sixteen years to sell their
family’s remaining belongings. With
the unwelcome advice of an ancient
furniture dealer (Peter King) and a disillusioned wife (Melody Moore) will they
be able to make their peace?
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Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley perform in their skivvies.
to be a very funny and
entertaining four nights.”
And as a special bonus,
Key West’s own Randy
Roberts will be joining The
Skivvies onstage for several numbers each night
(except Friday, when he has
his own show to do at La
Te Da).
“You can imagine how
much fun that’s going to
be,” Hawkins said. “I wonder what he’ll wear.”
While the Skivvies show
has made them stars, it
was a complete accident it
ever happened, according
to Molina. Both she and
Cearley trained in musical theatre – she at the
University of Michigan, he
at the Boston Conservatory.
Both are consummate,
multi-instrumental musicians – everything from
ukulele and xylophone to
melodica and cello. They
met up in 2003 when both
signed on to a national tour
of a children’s show based
on Rudyard Kipling’s “Just
So Stories”. They became
best friends travelling the
country, constantly listening to pop radio (the only
thing they had), and writing
songs and parodies of the
songs they were hearing to
pass the endless hours on
the road.
“We were hanging out
one day,” Molina said,
“and I suggested we do a
YouTube video of one of
our song parodies – “We
Found Love” by Rhianna.
I was walking around the
house in my bra and panties at the time.”
Cearley chimed in (they
often finish each other’s
sentences, as will be evidenced during the show),
“…And I said, since we’re
stripping the song down as
a parody, why don’t you just
wear what you have on for
the shoot? It fits the concept of what we’re doing.”
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Michael McCabe as Victor Franz, Peter King
as Gregory Solomon
The Price, directed by Murphy Davis,
begins its last weekend run tonight
through Sunday. All shows at 8 p.m. in
the Garret of the Mel Fisher Maritime
Museum, 200 Greene St.
Complimentary Parking will be provided by the Westin Key West Resort.
Tickets are available at keystix.com, or
by calling 305-295-7676, or by going to
fringetheater.org.
Catch ‘Noises Off’
before it’s gone
nly a few performances remain
of “Noises Off” at the Waterfront
Playhouse, which ends Saturday.
Sold-out houses have been convulsed with laughter over this rollicking
comedy.
Called the funniest farce ever written,
Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” presents a
cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop
called “Nothing On.” The play within
a play goes from the blundering final
rehearsal to spectacularly bad performances. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, feuding actors, forgotten
cues and errant plates of sardines all
figure in the plot of this hilarious and
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Photo courtesy of Larry Blackburn
Carolyn Cooper, David Black Matt Hollis
Hulsey.
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the artsthe artsthe artsthe artsthe artsthe artsthe arts the arts
Basic Acrylic Painting Classes, 1
p.m.
Maggie Ruley, Island Inspirations,
933B Fleming St. 304-1013.
maggieruley.com.
Call or drop in to register.
Mondays: Argentine Tango Practica 292-3595. keyslibraries.com.
at 8:15.
Tuesdays
Key West Country Western
Dancers, 6:30 p.m.
Free line dancing lessons with
Key West Art Center:
Marvin, plus Texas 2-step, swing,
Friday - Artist Presentation with waltz, cha cha, etc. Cowboy Bill’s,
Mike Rooney, 4 p.m.
618 Duval St. 724-333-4137.
Saturday - Oil Painting Class
with Priscilla Coote, How to Paint FILM
Key West
Water, 10 a.m.
The Tropic Cinema:
301 Front St. 294-1241. keyweMonday Classic Movie Series:
Happenings
startcenter.com.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
ARTISTS RECEPTIONS AND
(1966), 6:30 p.m. 416 Eaton St.
EXHIBITIONS
Tuesdays through March 31
877-761-3456. tropiccinema.
Friday
Finding Your Voice in Watercolor
com.
Following the Fish, Ernest
Classes, 10 a.m.
Hemingway in Key West Opening
Key West Art Center, 301 Front St. LECTURE
Reception, 6 p.m.
To register: 517-6806 or karenThursday
The Custom House Museum, 281
beausartstudio.com.
Key West Garden Club Front St. 295-6616. kwahs.org..
Bring own supplies, list available
Educational Lecture Series: The
On exhibit thru January 13:
at beausartstudio.com.
Story of Grimal Grove, 1:30 p.m.
The History of the Waterfront
West Martello Tower, 1100 Atlantic
Playhouse: A Collection of
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Blvd. 294-3210. keywestgardenTheatrical Memorabilia.
Key West Still Life and Drawing
club.com.
Workshop, 11 a.m.
Lincoln Perry and Mariette
Tuesdays: San Carlos Institute,
Tuesdays
Rooderburg, Light Sensitive Gala
516 Duval St.
FKCC - Sanctuary Seminar: Reef
Reception, 6:30 p.m.
Thursdays: FKCC, 5224 College
Beacons: Navigation Through
Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene
Rd. 609-884-3474 or 809-3185. Time, 6:30 p.m. Florida Keys
St.294-3973.luckystreetgallery.
Eco-Discovery Center, 33 East
com..
The Studios of Key West
Quay Rd. 809-3185. floridakeys.
Tuesdays:
noaa.gov.
Monday
A Fusion: Paint and Other
Anna Galassini Opening
Materials w/ Roberta Marks, 9
Wednesday
Reception, 5 p.m.
a.m.
Lunchtime Lectures - The Curators
Gildea Contemporary Gallery, 522
Painting Boot Camp w/Rick Worth, Voice w/Cori Convertito, 12:30
Southard St. 797-6485.
2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
p.m. KWAHS, The Custom House,
Wednesdays:
281 Front St. 295-6616. kwahs.
Michael A. Palmer Opening
Pick Up Your Pencil with Mike
org.
Reception, 5:30 p.m.
Rooney, 9 a.m.
Gingerbread Square Gallery, 1207
Watercolor Wednesdays with Sean LITERARY
Duval St. 296-8900. gingerbreadCallahan, 2 p.m.
Thursday-Sunday
squaregallery.com.
The Eaton Street Theater, 522
Key West Literary Seminar 33rd
Eaton Street. 296-0458. tskw.org. Annual: How the Light Gets In.
Tuesday
San Carlos Institute, 516 Duval
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum:
St. kwls.org.
DANCE
Celebrating 30 Years of Treasure,
Fridays and Wednesdays
5:30 p.m.
Salsa (maybe a little Rueda too) Saturday
200 Greene St. 294-2633.
Key West Writer’s Guild, 9 a.m.
Dance Classes, 7 p.m.
mfmm.org..
Key West by the Sea, 2601 S.
Paradise Health and Fitness
Open House, Reception, New
Dance Studio, 1706 N Roosevelt Roosevelt Blvd. (Community
Exhibits.
Room) keywestwritersguild.org.
Blvd. 296-6348. Lucy@
DanceKeyWest.com.
Daily through January
Friends of the Key West Library Martha dePoo, Featured Artist
Book Sale, 9:30 a.m. Library Palm
Sundays
Show Exhibit, 10 a.m.
Garden, 700 Fleming St.
Ballroom and Latin Dance
Key West Art Center, 301 Front St.
Evening, 7 p.m.
294-1241. keywestartcenter.com.
Dance Factory, 906C Kennedy Dr. Wednesday
304-8184. dancefactorykeywest. Book Bites - Gold Finch, 5 p.m.
Classes and Workshops
Key West Library, 700 Fleming St.
com.
Thursdays
MUSIC
Thursdays
Bobby Nesbitt and skippo, 4 p.m.
Salute! 1000 Atlantic Blvd. 2921117.
Antonia’s Dinner Concert, 6:30
p.m. 615 Duval St. Reservations:
771-0280. Classical guitar concert performed by Mateo during
dinner.
Fridays
Love Lane Gang, 8:30 p.m.
McConnell’s Irish Pub and Grill,
900 Duval St.
Saturday-Tuesday
Living Room Series - Pico and
Chown Back in Town, 8 p.m.
Truman Little White House, 111
Front St. 294-9911. keystix.com.
Sunday
Paradise Big Band, 8 p.m.
Tennessee Williams Cabaret
Theatre, 5224 College Rd. 2957676. keystix.com.
Monday
Kim Gordon in Concert: Isn’t
It Romantic, 8 p.m. Red Barn
Theatre, 319 Duval St. Rear. 2969911. redbarntheatre.com.
Wednesday
The Key West / Boston Jazz
Collective, 8 p.m. St. Peter’s
Episcopal Church, 800 Center St.
Tickets at the door.
A 10-member musical collaboration between top local jazz
musicians and all-star seasonal
visitors.
Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval St.
296-9911. redbarntheatre.com.
Monday
The Connections Project III:
Mosaic of the Keys – Free
Thursday-Saturday thru Jan. 10
Workshop, 1 p.m. Private Home.
Noises Off, 8 p.m.
MUST RSVP, 731-8683. keysarts.
Waterfront Playhouse, 310 Wall St. com. Free instruction with profes294-5015. waterfrontplayhouse.
sional artist Ann M. Lynch, to creorg.
ate a 6x6 canvas to be included
A delirious romp of slamming
in the 2015 Exhibit.
doors, bickering actors, pretty girls
in their underwear, mayhem and
DANCE
errant sardines.
Theo and Ganine’s Dance Center
Ballroom and Latin Dance
Instruction. 5800 Overseas Hwy.,
Middle Keys
Suite 40, Marathon. 766-3428.
keysdancecenter.com.
Happenings
American and International styles,
ARTIST RECEPTIONS AND
wedding dance, swing, salsa.
EXHIBITIONS
Beginner’s welcome, no partner
Daily through Jan. 31.
required.
Nancy Henning, Gabrielle Wilson
and Sunshine Rug Hookers
FESTIVALS AND FUNDRAISERS
Exhibits, 10 a.m.
Friday and Saturday
Winn Dixie Shopping Plaza, Big
Florida Keys Celtic Festival, 10
Pine Key. 872-1828. artistsina.m. Marathon Community Park,
paradise.com.
MM 49, Oceanside. celticheritageproductions.com./keys.htm.
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
Thursdays
Plein Air Painting Classes w/Jim
Salem, 9:30 a.m.
Sugarloaf. 744-9880.
[email protected].
Tuesday
Southernmost Coconut Castaways
“Jump Up” Social, 6 p.m.
Mangrove Mama’s, MM 20,
Bayside. 619-4414. southernmostcoconutcastaways.com.
You’re in Key West to be on the Water
Think Zero Duval Street
THEATER
Friday through Sunday, through
Jan. 11
The Price, 8 p.m.
Fringe Theatre Key West, Garret of
the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum,
200 Greene St. 295-7676. keystix.com.
Serving Waterfront Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Hot Tin Roof Dinner & Brunch Reservations Recommended
Tuesdays-Saturdays through Jan.
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo, 8 p.m.
The time is 1939, when the most
important thing in young Lala
Levy’s life is the Atlanta premiere
of Gone With the Wind.
Live Entertainment DAILY
305-296-7701
398981
Florida Keys
Council of the
Arts Cultural
Calendar
Thursday,
Jan. 8 through Wednesday, Jan.
14
Visit keysarts.com., Cultural
Calendar for more listings and
events throughout the Keys.
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Noises Off
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classically comic play.
Directing the non-stop,
high-energy production is
the Waterfront’s Managing
Artistic Director, Danny
Weathers. He has assembled a remarkable cast
that includes David Black,
Brandon Beach, Carolyn
Cooper, Matt Hollis
Hulsey, Tony Konrath,
Erin McKenna, J. B.
McLendon, Joan O’Dowd
and Susannah Wells. Each
of them deliver a tourde-force performance.
KEY TV is the sponsor of
“Noises Off.”
“Noises Off” manages
to serve as both a sendup of the modern farce
and a valentine to the
form, mocking its triviality while simultaneously
delivering an extremely
well-crafted example of
the genre.
It has been a hit on
Broadway and the West
End – twice. It’s also been
translated into dozens
of languages and revived
throughout the world,
making it one of the most
produced plays in the
repertory.
The impressive
two-level set has
been designed by the
Waterfront’s resident
set designer, Michael
Boyer. Watching the set
rotate 180 degrees during intermission is part of
the evening’s brilliance.
David Bird has designed
the lights and Carmen
Rodriguez designed the
costumes and props. Trish
Manley acts as stage manager and sardine patrol.
Call 305-294-5015, or go
to WaterfrontPlayhouse.
org for the online ticketing service. Tickets are $40
for regular performances.
There are discounts for
students, military and
seniors, as well as the
Friday night special of 2
tickets for a total of $60.
CONTINUOUS THE
CRESCENDO WANNA BEATLES
Christopher Taylor
Piano
British Invasion
Favorite Beatles
Songs Performing
with the
South Florida
Symphony Orchestra
394647
Soldier’s Ride comes to Key West
Photo by Mike Hentz/Paradise
Skivvies
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strip it down, analyze its
chordal progressions,
filter its lyrics, and reconstruct it all by mashing it
net. The next thing they
together with other songs
knew, people were asking
to make a hilarious parody
them to perform. And not
just anywhere – but the top sequence. And then to
clubs in New York. So, they make that entertaining
theatrically. But they do it,
put together a show. This
and they do it extremely
was in 2012. They haven’t
well.
stopped since.
“It’s amazing how inane
“It just takes someone to
notice you, I guess,” Molina pop lyrics are when you
really look at them,” Molina
said. “We’ll be the first to
said. “But it’s wild how
tell you doing a cabaret
funny they become when
show almost nude was a
you play around with
gimmick, but frankly, you
several sets of them. And
have to have the chops to
we love to take the hooks
back it up when opportufrom songs and mash them
nity knocks.”
together, playing on the
And they do have the
themes – take a highly elecchops, both musically
tronic house beat and put
and theatrically. It’s one
it to cello or ukulele, bring
thing to play a song. It’s
it into another reality. It’s
another altogether to
refreshing, creative, silly,
whimsical.”
Absolute fun, in other
words. Watching the show,
it’s almost like listening
to a strange radio station – “Skivvies radio,”
Molina laughed. “As an
example, we take Paul
Simon’s “Feelin’ Groovy”
and mash it together with
Delite’s “Groove Is In The
Heart” and Phil Collins’
“Groovy Kind of Love”, and
Peaches and Herb’s “Shake
Your Groove Thing”, using
“groove” as the thread. Add
what we’re doing visually,
and you get the idea.”
Expect a very funny,
sometimes titillating,
always entertaining musical evening. It is an adult
show, make no mistake, but
it’s not offensive.
The wounded warriors
will leave Boca Chica Naval
Air Station at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday and the public is
encouraged to welcome and
thank them along U.S. 1
South to Palm Avenue route.
For the exact cheering route,
call Phil Goodman 305-6008441. The public is also
invited to the Truman Annex
Mole Pier at 11 a.m. for the
Welcome Ceremony and to
ride along with the warriors
through Key West at 12:30
p.m. during the Community
Ride-Along. To pre-register,
go to Soldierride.org/keywest. For information, call
Jerry Hughes at 305-2401136, or Cathy Crane at 305797-8578.
“We like to toe the line,”
Cearley said. “We don’t
go vulgar. There’s sexual
innuendo, but it’s not ugly.
Our arrangements are very
adult, yes, but honestly, it’s
almost childlike, more than
anything else.”
Actually what the
Skivvies do is a lot like
what Jimmy Fallon is doing
musically on the Tonight
Show these days, playing
with music and lyrics. “He
stole our stuff,” Cearley
laughed, half-seriously.
People Magazine calls
the Skivvies the “Most
Playful Performers in the
Most Talked-about Bodies
of 2014”. Call the Red Barn
for tickets at 302-296-9911
and come see what the
buzz is all about. What you
wear is up to you.