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If you didn’t already know, my wife Madelyn passed away this past September due to complications from surgery to remove a tumor in her brain. My daughter and I decided we didn’t want to spend Christmas home alone on what was my wife’s favorite holiday so I came up with this trip to Spain. Actually, […]
Some of you already know that my wife Madelyn passed away this past September due to complications from surgery to remove a brain tumor. My daughter and I have been dealing with her loss one day at a time, one holiday at a time. We got through Thanksgiving by traveling to NYC to spend it […]
By now, some of you may know that my wife passed away this past September due to complications from surgery to remove a brain tumor. It’s been a tough few months for my daughter and I since then but we had a 20 year marriage filled with love and plenty of laughter. I was lucky […]
Flamenco performance at Arte y Sabores de Córdoba, located in the heart of the Jewish Quarter in Córdoba Spain. The venue is truly special: within the Arab baths of Santa María dating over one thousand years. The former sauna room of the baths has been carefully restored to hold the flamenco performances. We stumbled upon […]
When in Spain, I’m doing the Flamenco thing. Love the drama, passion and melancholy of it all. Flamenco is an artistic expression fusing song (cante), dance (baile) and musicianship (toque) and has been recognized by UNESCO as an ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’. And there are few places in Spain where this artform is better […]
One of my favorite places to snap photographs is at VACC Camp, a free week-long overnight camp hosted by Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami for ventilation assisted children. It has become my favorite place to be for Spring Break during the past seven years; documenting this remarkable camp through video and photography. That said, I’m […]
Art Prevails Project presents “Saturday Sessions” in Fort Lauderdale
Saturday Sessions is a community event held at The Megaphone, an outdoor area in Northwest Gardens in Fort Lauderdale. The event goes down every first Saturday of the month and brings together up and coming artists for an afternoon of music and spoken word performances. The event features an open mic session as well as […]
Akokán is a Yoruba word used by Cubans to mean “from the heart” or “soul”, so it was no surprise that Cuba’s Orquesta Akokán lit up the stage at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge a couple of weeks ago with a blazing presentation of deeply soulful mambo reminiscent of Benny Moré and banda gigante of the […]
Waxahatchee, an indie music project formed in 2010 by American singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, performing live at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street in New York City. With country/folk singer/songwriter Anna St. Louis on bass and Justin Sullivan’s (of dreamy lo-fi pop outfit Night Stop) on drums. I first stumbled upon Waxahatchee (named after a creek […]
No, I don’t have any tattoos on my body. Just wanted to put that out there before I go any further. Why? Well, I’m just way too indecisive to settle on an image that I would want on a part of my body for the rest of my life. First of all, I would spend […]
