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Since I last wrote, I’ve been all over the place – literally. This column will be a tribute to being all over the place.
The pandemic is virtually over, even if it isn’t. We’ve grown tired of it. We are bored. We fly.
Masks have been retired. Enough already with the arguments about vaxxing. Schools are open, restaurants buzzing, and traffic as mad as ever. It remains the middle of hurricane season, and like with guns, we continue to pray that any activity strikes someone else whom we do not know or care about. Can I get an Amen?
Prices are high. Rent is particularly brutal, houses are astronomical, and basic staples are expensive. Jobs though are plentiful, if they pay a living wage AND if anyone wants them.
Young people speak about work-life balance, quiet quitting, and lying flat. Boomers lecture millennials about sticking it out as young people in any setting sip relentlessly from water bottles. Marco Rubio says to pay your debt like he did with a book contract and Norman Braman. Ted Cruz says baristas are slackers. Dark Brandon says everything is looking up.
Political discourse remains so crude and cruel that reasonable people want to scream.
Therefore, the question remains this: in autumn 2022, is the glass half full, half empty, or as canceled Woody Allen said, half full, but with poison. There’s always Wordle to distract, entertain, and cheer people up, but then what? Here are a few good things.
Everything old is new again. Make a list. FADE, a story about friendship, opportunity, assumptions, ambition, culture and betrayal, is running at GableStage from August 19 until September 18. Written by Tanya Saracho and directed by Teo Castellanos, it stars two A listers: Alexandra Acosta and Alex Alvarez. Castellanos, a 2021 Doris Duke Artist in the theater category, is a beloved deeply respected local director, actor and writer who has his own thing coming to Miami Light Project’s Light Box from October 3-8. F.Punk Junkies is a woman-centered, Black and Brown ensemble-driven dance theater piece with contributions from Keshia Abraham and choreography by MDC’s Michelle Grant Murray and former Guggenheim fellow Augusto Soledade. Check out their colorful, riveting video about skinheads and punks on the Light Project’s website.
Next, if you missed September 3 and its $3 movie tickets, don’t fret. Films in theaters are back. Everything Everywhere All at Once opened in very few theaters; a close friend in Berlin went to see it THREE times. This is a multiverse picture; believe it or not, there is more than just Miami. After we gave up on the pandemic, naturally everyone everywhere all at once felt the need to go out again, but till recently, film has been slow to recover.
However, this movie became a summer hit, mostly from word of mouth. In it, a laundromat owner in parallel worlds must save the universe. Post pandemic, anything suggesting infinite possibilities might be a hit. We must save the world.
So here we are near autumn 2022, desperately seeking new experiences which will remind us of the old experiences which we enjoyed before Wuhan, Moderna, Fauci, and working from home sent so many of us spiraling into loneliness and depression. Hopefully, things are beginning to look up.
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