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Wood Kinnard, chairman of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, on Sunday hosted a preview of the upcoming 15th annual event, which runs April 26-May 5, 2013.
The preview party was held at Nina Torres Fine Art at 1800 N. Bayshore Dr., Miami.
Celebrities at this year's film festival include actor James Franco, who will receive an Ally Award on April 28. His new film "Interior. Leather Bar" will be screened during the festival.
Other festival films include "G.B.F.," "Breaking Through," "I Do," "Submerge," "Hot Guys With Guns" and "TWO: The story of Roman & Nyro" by Heather Winters about songwriter Desmond Child, his lifelong partner Curtis Shaw and their two sons.
Click here to view more pictures from the preview party. Video and photos by STEVE ROTHAUS / Miami Herald Staff.
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com
Il Volo, the classically influenced teenage Italian pop stars who last fall toured North America with Barbra Streisand, wish everyone happy holidays.
Not Easter or Passover. Merry Christmas.
“Only Il Volo can sing Christmas songs in March,” says tenor Ignazio Boschetto, 18, who with fellow tenor Piero Barone, 19, and baritone Gianluca Ginoble, 18, perform two concerts (including a 2013 Christmas special) to be recorded for PBS on Tuesday and Wednesday at The Fillmore Miami Beach theater.
“We feel very Christmas-y in March,” says Richard Jay-Alexander of Miami Beach, their concert director who also guided them on the Streisand tour.
The young men say they’re excited about working again with RJA.
“We are really lucky because we have another grandpa,” jokes Barone. “We didn’t know that. A big grandpa — Richard Jay-Alexander.”
“Very funny,” deadpans Jay-Alexander, 59, during a concert rehearsal at WLRN-TV studios in Miami.
“These guys are so talented, I was dying for this opportunity to work with just them,” says the concert director, who works closely with Streisand and Broadway stars Kristin Chenoweth and Bernadette Peters. “The thing that’s going to make these shows very different, quite honestly, is that this show doesn’t exist yet. I’m building it with these young guys and we’re going to bring it to the people and their fans.”
The Il Volo teens began their show business association three years ago in Italy and already have released several albums including their current CD, We Are Love. They just finished recording a second Christmas album, to be released later this year.
Boschetto says Il Volo fans might not recognize the trio these days.
“We are so excited because on our first PBS show, we were so different. We’ve really changed. I’m different. I lost a lot of weight,” he says. “We are mature now.”
“We are mature? What do you mean mature?” says Barone, still clowning.
One subject the teens treat with reverence: Streisand.
“She’s a legend,” Barone says.
“She’s amazing. She’s a monument. She’s the biggest star in the world,” says Boschetto.
“She’s a teacher of music and life,” Ginoble says. “When I met her for the first time, I was crying. To sing with her was a dream.”
And even though Funny Girl is about to turn 71 in April, the teens wouldn’t dare call her “grandma.”
“She was so nice with us,” Boschetto says. “She was really like an aunt for us.”
Click here for more photos from the Il Volo rehearsal in Miami.
Il Volo performs two concerts 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (‘We Are Love’) and Wednesday (Christmas) for PBS at The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach. Tickets range from $62.50 to $96. concerts. Visit concerts.livenation.com.
Some gay-oriented events for Winter Music Conference from George Coronado:
SAN FRANCISCO -- Alternative folk and rock singer Michelle Shocked has had several shows canceled after making an anti-gay slur at a San Francisco concert.
Yoshi's San Francisco Director of Marketing Lisa Bautista told The Associated Press that Shocked had just begun her second set Sunday night when she made comments that included the slur.
The venue muted her microphone, dimmed the lights and announced the show was over.
Bautista said Tuesday she was told people in the audience asked Shocked to stop and walked out.
Shocked was scheduled to perform at the Hopmonk Tavern in Novato, but the Marin Independent Journal reports the March 29 show was canceled.
At least four other shows also have been canceled, including one in Boulder, Colo., in May for the radio show eTown.
Request for comment emailed to Shocked and her manager were not immediately returned.
From Tony Lima:
National Voices for Equality, Education, and Enlightenment (NVEEE), a South Florida based anti-bullying organization, will welcome back celebrities, elected officials, young artists, and educators, to their 2nd Annual “Voices of Leadership” Reception and Miami Launch Party for Tony Award-Winning Musical FELA!
This reception will be held Monday, March 18, 2013 from 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. at Briza on the Bay, 1717 N. Bayshore Drive Miami, FL 32132. Tickets are $30 for General Admission and $50 for VIP Admission. To purchase tickets visit http://tinyurl.com/a747olu. All proceeds from this event will help support NVEEE’s mission to prevent bullying, violence and suicide among youth families and communities through direct service, mentoring and prevention education.
Spokesperson Michelle Williams, along with cast members of Fela! will attend NVEEE’s Reception and the Miami Launch of the Broadway Musical. “Fela is delighted to be affiliated with NVEEE. Fela is about having each others back, self esteem and the fight for human dignity. Fela’s struggle and the struggle of the children who NVEEE serves have much in common - believe in yourself, stand up for who you are, have no fear, and you can change the world. That is why the musical Fela! exists and what NVEEE teaches everyday,” said Lead Producer Stephen Hendel.
"It's a first. Kissing a woman that is." ANDERSON COOPER, receiving GLAAD's Vito Russo award from Madonna in New York City on Saturday.
Posted by GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation:
http://glaad.org/mediawards - Madonna discusses the Boy Scouts ban on gay members and presents the Vito Russo Award to Madonna. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. Learn more at http://glaad.org/mediawards - For more information about GLAAD's work, please visit http://www.glaad.org, http://facebook.com/glaad, and http://twitter.com/glaad.
Performance artist Pioneer Winter debuted his new autobiographical show, Pie Solo, Friday night at Miami Theater Center in Miami Shores.
The 55-minute multimedia program, presented as part of the theater's Sandbox Series, breezes through Winter's 25 years. He tells the story of his life through talk, dance and music.
Pie Solo, conceived and written by Winter, is performed 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through March 30. Tickets are $20 each. Click here to purchase.
Click here to view more pictures from Friday's opening. Photos by STEVE ROTHAUS / Miami Herald Staff.
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