RESPECTABLE STREET: Dead on a Sunday, Haunt Me, Nite, Violet Silhouette
THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Acceleration Band
11/7
RESPECTABLE STREET: Fight From Within, Saving Vice, Royal Hearts, Spirit Leaves
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Laura Laune – Glory Alleluia
REVOLUTION LIVE: Gawvi
CLEMATIS BY NIGHT: Roots Shakedown
THE PEACH: Previously Loved: Creative Fashion Up-cycling
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Sgt Splendor
11/8
REVOLUTION LIVE: Charli Parti
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Fet Gede ft RAM + Tafa Mi Soleil
ARTS GARAGE: CeCe Teneal: A tribute to Aretha
MIAMI SOUND BAR: Medley & Yawar
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Jaded & Shake It Up
11/9
MAD ARTS: SPF ’24 Small Press Fair: Prints! Books! Zines!
THE PEACH: “Women Who Rock” ft Ellinad, Sandman Sleeps, Pocket of Lollipops, Ex-Monarch, Tess Grey
REVOLUTION LIVE: The Devil Wears Prada, Silent Planet, Like Moths to Flames, Greyhaven
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Ana Barbara
GUANABANAS: Americanabanas ft Brett Staska & the Souvenirs, Dead Bronco, Tall Walker, Nick County & Los Mosquitoes, Conchy Tonkers, Bethany Lynn
PROPAGANDA: Killed by Florida, Goat Rope, Shakers ARTS GARAGE: CeCe Teneal: A tribute to Aretha MTN SPACE GALLERY: Monica Lopez De Victoria CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Girlfriend Material
11/9-1/2
RESOURCE DEPOT: ReThink Retail Holiday ReSale
11/10
MAD ARTS: SPF ’24 Small Press Fair: Prints! Books! Zines!
RESPECTABLE STREET: Madball 30 years of “Set It Off” MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Fall for Dance NOW! ARTS GARAGE: Halie Loren
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Sunday Latin Moods
11/11
REVOLUTION LIVE: Coco & Clair Clair, Sadboi THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class
11/12
REVOLUTION LIVE: Local Natives, Krooked Kings THE PEACH: Alterations 101, Come Paint With Me 11/13
THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Dizgo
11/14
RESPECTABLE STREET: Lylvc, Living Dead Girl, Kazha THE PEACH: Previously Loved: Creative Fashion Up-cycling CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Eliza Neals
11/15
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NORTHWOOD WAREHOUSE: Habitat for Humanity House Party
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Subliminal Doubt
11/15-12/1
LAKE WORTH PLAYHOUSE: Brighton Beach Memoirs
11/16
REVOLUTION LIVE: Blues Traveler
RESPECTABLE STREET: Bridge City Sinners, Holy Locust
ARTS WAREHOUSE: Warehouse Market
KILL YOUR IDOL: Skatenigs, Mutiny Act, Medicine Room, Vember
CANYON AMP: Fabulons
ARTS GARAGE: Ranky Tanky
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Led Zep Live
11/17
HARD ROCK LIVE: Avett Brothers
ARTS GARAGE: Delray Stories: All the Colors in the Rainbow CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Pretty Tied Up
11/18
THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing Acrylics Class
11/19
THE PEACH: Alterations 101, Come Paint With Me
11/20
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Los Autenticos Decandentes
THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Billy Joel Tribute w Andrew Klein
11/21
FACTORY TOWN: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, King Stingray
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Salsa de Ahora
THE PEACH: Previously Loved Remix: Creative Fashion Up-cycling
11/22
REVOLUTION LIVE: Streetlight Manifesto, New Junk City MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Badfish
THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing Acrylics Class
11/26
REVOLUTION LIVE: Ky-Mani Marley
THE PEACH: Alterations 101, Come Paint With Me
11/27
THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Fat Spliffs
11/29
REVOLUTION LIVE: Hot to Go
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Thanksgiving Roller Disco
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Unlimited Devotion
11/30
MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Infinity Machine
ARTS GARAGE: The Bruce Tribute
THE PEACH: Oddities Market
CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Tand
SPF24
by tim moffatt
At the turn of the century, a hive mind of experts infused with cultural edification determined that the Gutenberg Press may be humanity’s greatest invention. This straightforward machine with movable type, born circa 1440, enabled the mass production of previously hand-written materials and the spread of knowledge and ideas at a geometric scale. With access to an abundance of books and literature, the populace became more literate, seizing the means of instruction from prelates and kings, standardizing language, grammar, and spelling in a march towards the breakthroughs of the Renaissance.
Nothing humans have ever produced has been so integral to our growth as a species. So, there’s a rich irony to reading think pieces declaring print dead. However, when talking heads proclaim a technological demise, they are simply missing the rich underground of artisans who have adopted “antiquated” technology to achieve something more significant than publishing at the speed of 5G.
The SPF “Small Press Fair” has become a robust part of South Florida’s cultural landscape since its inception in 2016 by Sarah Michelle Rupert and Ingrid Schindall. The home base was nestled initially in Fort Lauderdale’s FATVillage Arts District and in 2022 relocated to MAD Arts in Dania Beach. MAD is CEO Marc Aptakin’s endto-end creative agency, museum and studio with production and manufacturing resources. Its mission is to support artists who may have been unable to stretch their creative muscles without outside assistance. MAD and SPF have partnered with the Broward County Cultural Division, a government agency providing financial, technical and marketing assistance for artists and arts organizations. The trio work together to elevate South Florida’s arts and cultural landscape, making Broward a destination for visitors and residents alike, and a home for creative entrepreneurs.
Schindall says the goal of SPF is to “build a home and a platform for exchange of this centuries-old, hand-crafted creative industry for Fort Lauderdale and South Florida.” Says Rupert: “We’ve watched Fort Lauderdale’s art scene go through a huge growth spurt and want to keep pushing for innovative and inclusive creative programming.”
SPF ’24 will be an ambitious two-day endeavor featuring live print demonstrations, creation stations with various art activities, a steamroller event, an open market, food trucks, and beer tastings. Workshops will walk participants through printmaking and zine publishing techniques, giving insight into the motivations and creative process of regional artists, printers, publishers, authors, poets, designers, and cultural workers who make up this collective.
Exhibitors this year include faculty and students of the NSU Art and Design department; IS Projects, a public access and print-making studio based in Miami; Radiator Comics, a truly DIY small press with over 200 self-published comics; handmade fine art prints and books from Joseph Velasquez; various hand made relief prints, retro comics and woodcut style carvings from Sydney Kaye; and local Florida publisher Indie Earth Publishing who will facilitate on-the -spot-poetry during the festivities. In addition, Sweat Records will sell records and screenprinted accouterments to eager audiophiles and collectors of ephemera.
This year, SPF will be split into two sections to accommodate the interests of all attendees but, as always, partners in their overall mission. If the standard fare is your go-to, the Beach Front section will have space for larger tables in independent publishing, presses, university material, museums, and special collections. For those who crave the grittiness of zines and outsider-ish art, the Zine Dunes will feature independent artists, musicians, designers, printers, tattoo artists, and various creative collectives to ensure a diverse crosssection of the community.
Live demonstrations will include a Steamroller Station that makes use of construction materials on an epic scale for larger-than-life screen printing, a Letterpress Station illustrating relief printing techniques, and a Screen-printing Station sponsored by NSU, where the fairgoers can purchase tote bags screened on the spot! Finally, there is the Custom MinPoster Station, where lucky visitors can design their mini-poster using a vintage Write-aSign press that will print on demand.
Maybe the powers in publishing see print as a thing of the past, but print isn’t done with the present. And wherever artists exist, expression is necessary, no matter the canvas.
SPF ’24 runs noon-6pm Sat-Sun, Nov. 9 and 10, at MAD Arts in Dania Beach. spf-ftl.com
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WOMEN WHO ROCK
by olivia feldman
For the past seven years, South Florida photographer Roberto Badillo has made live music his primary subject, encapsulating artists’ raw power and emotion as it spills off the stage and onto his camera roll with the click of a button. But earlier this year, Badillo felt something was lacking. Noticing all the talented female musicians working in the region, he felt they (and lady rockers in general) weren’t getting enough attention. “So I said, let me focus on the ones down here,” Badillo tells PureHoney. “Let me print them up and put them in a space where they can be seen, and you can see them in real life and experience them, and see who these women really are.”
With the blessing of Subculture Group restaurateur Vaughn Dugan and local mixed media artist Craig McInnis, Badillo got to work. The result is Women Who Rock, a photo portraiture series debuting at The Peach in West Palm Beach of 15 local badass women in music. In a departure from his concert work, Badillo opted for composed studio pictures to portray their artistry and personality. But he still followed their cues: The stars of Women Who Rock appear in outfits they picked, hair they styled and makeup they applied.
The collection features musicians from up and down South Florida that Badillo has photographed often in concert. There’s Dani Sinatra of Elleinad; Tess Grey; Cassie Ortiz of The Flirt; Nic Huey; sisters Cristina and Alex Peck of Sandman Sleeps; Leah Simmons; Deja Elyze of Saint Lyra, Raquel Lily of Buko Boys; Niuvis Martin of Amenorrhea; Monica McGivern; Maitejosune Urrechaga of Pocket of Lollipops; Kenny Moe; Amanda Pasler of Ex Monarch; and Adi Elcida of Modern Mimes
Badillo wants viewers to remember these artists indelibly and recognize them as the rock queens they are. “People are so used to seeing pictures on their phone or tablets, and it’s a quick swipe and it’s done with,” Badillo says. “We’ll see these beautiful women and see how they rock, you know?”
“Women Who Rock” opens 5pm Saturday November 9 with live musical performances by Ellinad, Sandman Sleeps, Pocket of Lollipops, Ex-Monarch, Tess Grey at The Peach in West Palm Beach. Admission is free. thepeachwpb.com
INFINITY MACHINE
Munir Hossn & Elas: album release concert
Nanpa Básico
Arts in the Parks: Afro Blue
Laura Laune - Glory Alleluia
Fèt Gede: RAM + Tafa Mi Soleil
Ana Bárbara
Fall For Dance
Nu Deco Ensemble ft. Ledisi
Los Auténticos Decadentes
North Beach Social: Salsa de Ahora
Badfish - a Tribute to Sublime
Thanksgiving Roller Disco
Infinity Machine
DFA Records’ Juan MacLean and Gee Dee wield the power of psychedelic sound as a ritualistic, communal love letter to the Earth.
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
by david rolland
It’s a shock, honestly, that Googling the word “prolific” doesn’t return a picture of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard to help illustrate the concept. Since its founding in 2010 in Melbourne, Australia, this highly industrious six-piece band has released 26 studio albums. Twenty. Six. And that’s not even counting their 39 live albums, four demo compilations, and three EP’s. The psych rock band churns out so much music they even gave one record away: 2017’s Polygondwanaland, hurled into the public domain with no strings attached, meaning any label or individual anywhere could legally sell and distribute copies without paying the band an Aussie cent.
When I spoke with bassist Lucas Harwood back in 2022, he was nonplussed about the prodigious output: “A lot of songwriters write as much as we do. They just don’t release everything. [King Gizzard bandmates] Stu Mackenzie, Joe Walker and Ambrose KennySmith follow through with every idea that they have to the point that it becomes a song. In some bands, people think a song might be too personal to share with the others. In our group, there’s no shame. We encourage each other no matter what, and that’s creatively freeing.”
The interview was shortly before their first ever show in Miami, where a sold-out crowd on a hot summer night at Space Park experienced every strain of “KGLW” there is, from thrash to jam to psychedelia to awkward raps. If you were there, and you’re seeing them again on their first trip back, expect a completely different set and not just because they’ve put out four more albums in between.
King Gizzard do not like to repeat themselves. Harwood told me the band had 90 songs in its live repertoire and, before each show, Mackenzie stresses over the set list. “He’ll look at what songs we’ve played in a city before, then he tries to change it completely,” Harwood said. The only hitch? ”Someone might say, ‘I don’t remember how to play that song because we haven’t played it in five years.’”
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and King Stingray play 7pm Thursday, November 21 at Factory Town in Miami. kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com
On a mission to transform lives, four eccentric Broadway stars aim to bring attention to a small-town prom. Joining forces with a courageous girl and the town’s citizens, the result is love that brings them all together. Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical, THE PROM expertly captures all the humor and heart of a classic musical comedy with a message that resonates with audiences now more than ever.
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DRAB MAJESTY
by abel folgar
The world will never forget the musical genius of David Bowie and the shape-shifting personas that he inhabited through almost every facet of his career.
But that form — reinventive, gender-bending music with a corresponding visual power — needs reinventing itself and new advocacy to thrive. Thank goodness, then, for Andrew Clinco, better known as Deb Demure of the dark wave duo Drab Majesty, who are headlining the Respectable Street 37th Anniversary FREE Block Party.
While drumming in the early 2010s for hard-edged L.A. rockers Marriages, Clinco created Drab Majesty as a project of his own Deb Demure as their Majesty’s sole inhabitant. Keyboardist and vocalist Mona D (Alex Nicolaou) joined a few years later. Fans of post-punk, ambient, shoegaze and dream pop have embraced Drab Majesty for their blend of ethereal synths, reverb-heavy guitars and haunting vocals, and an androgynous theatricality in concert that adds a surreal element to the duo’s mystique.
Their three studio albums, Careless, The Demonstration, and 2019’s Modern Mirror, have explored themes of alienation, introspection and human connection while drawing from a well of science fiction and mythology. Clinco has at times referred to a sense of “divine intervention” as a primary influence in the duo’s process, and to themselves as tabula rasa for a collective unconscious imparting Drab Majesty’s music. Coupled with a continuous effort to preserve a sense of atmosphere and setting, their songwriting evokes sacredness and the joy of discovery.
In concert, their androgyne stage personas convey a kind of universality in which the defined self disappears and all forms of being are reflected back. The Modern Mirror album offers a musical analogy, with its thematic explorations of love, identity and technology channeled through the ancient tale of the doomed hunter Narcissus. Songs like “Ellipsis” and “Oxytocin” shine a gothic lens on humanity’s desire to connect in the digital age.
Drab Majesty’s most recent effort, 2023’s collection of singles packaged as the EP An Object in Motion, marks a sonic shift towards acoustic sound, and an affirmation of Clinco’s stated belief that all their songs are folk songs at heart. It came about after Clinco sought isolation away from cell towers and internet service in a cabin overlooking the Oregonian coast. The four tracks — three in the five to six-minute range, and “Yield to Force” clocking in over 15 minutes — are stripped to let the natural beauty of the 12-string guitar at the music’s foundation shine through
On their most recent tours, Drab Majesty have adopted costuming that enhances the performance’s ritualistic overtones and a physical immobility that compels audience focus on Deb Demure and Mona D less as musicians and more as vessels — a visual approach that Demure has described as a deliberate removal of “Clinco” and “Nicolaou” from the proceedings.
Co-headlining the event will be South Florida’s long-running darlings, the Jacuzzi Boys. Some might say that their ideological beginnings can be traced to back patio hijinks at Miami’s Vagabond – a former Sub-Culture Group nightclub in Miami’s Park West neighborhood – and they wouldn’t be wrong. Their raucous performance at said venue with King Khan and the Shrines certainly supports the claim. Since, the trio has built their reputation on a solid mix of garage punkinformed psychedelics and a busier-than-others schedule of recording and releasing music while touring across the globe.
Respectable Street, West Palm’s seminal music venue (and part of the SubCulture family) will celebrate its 37th anniversary with a huge block party that will remind the Palm Beach cognoscenti who put Clematis Street on the map in the first place. Opened in 1987 by Rodney Mayo inside a former Salvation Army outpost, back when downtown was not the vibrant place it is today, Respectable’s quickly established itself as a hub for underground and alternative music – and a breeding ground for local talent.
Hosting thousands of performances and featuring artists from various genres across the decades, the block party will be an accurate reflection of its lifespan with six stages featuring the likes of Ben Katzman’s Degreaser, Moon Destroys, Donzii, Palomino Blond and 30 more bands. Free pizza, rain or shine.
Respectable Street’s FREE 37th Anniversary Block Party features Drab Majesty, Jacuzzi Boys and more, 8pm Saturday, November 2 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. drabmajesty.bandcamp.com
IN THE DARK ANGELA YANG
by kelli bodle
An artist’s hair sewn into fabric. A towering painting of a skeleton. An old-fashioned steamer trunk, balanced on a mannequin in place of a head, projecting vintage cartoon and movie clips onto a wall. Through these tableaus and others, artist and curator Angela Yang is beckoning us into the place we call “darkness” to consider its presence in our own lives — in memories, dreams, nature and everyday existence. Yang’s group exhibition, In the Dark, at Fort Lauderdale’s 1310 Gallery, explores what she identifies as “the many attributes associated with ‘darkness’ and how it shapes life in our world.”
This month’s PureHoney featured artist says the idea for In the Dark came to her “out of the dreams I’ve been having for about a year that have aspects of extreme darkness, but also light.” Yang recruited 23 of her peers to add variations on the theme, her criteria being “originality, imagination, and the cleverness used to convey their vision.” A survey of some of the contributors and their works, Yang’s included, offers a feel for how In the Dark approaches its forbidding-yet-fascinating subject.
Maricel Ruiz of Port Saint Lucie is an art teacher and Miami-born CubanAmerican working in different media: acrylic, pastel, watercolor, fiber and more: Strands of her own hair are hand-sewn into frayed textiles in word-art compositions that pose questions about race and identity. “Ruiz works with the theme of mixed races which appeals to me, given my origins,” says Yang, the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a Taiwanese father.
Niko Yulis of Fort Lauderdale is an American multidisciplinary artist of Greek and Argentinian descent who teaches ceramics at Broward College. “His paintings and sculptures are always thought-provoking and whimsical,” says Yang. Yulis has multiple pieces in the show, from his striking skeleton painting to sculptures newly created for In the Dark. Yulis says of his varied output, “The effort is the string that connects my work, not a style, theme, nor medium.”
Diana Garcia of Miami was born in Campeche, Mexico. Her charcoal drawings are based on photographers her parents took before she was born. Garcia says she asks herself, “How do we fit into a world of memories we weren’t part of and how do we emotionally develop our interpretations of these photographs?” Some of her images for In the Dark feature figures posing together with their faces blurred away. “Garcia’s charcoal works are my favorite series [of hers],” says Yang. “They are extremely dark and invoke a deep sense of longing and nostalgia.”
Yang’s own work could be described similarly, particularly her In the Dark installation, Pandora’s Box. A dark-robed mannequin stands draped in a Grecian-style robe, with that valise for a head emanating black-and-white cartoons interspersed with clips from strange silent-era films such as Metropolis, Faust and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The work references “the Greek myth of Pandora releasing chaos into the world,” says Yang.
“The foreboding black-and-white projections are mashed up with cartoons because some things such as death and illness hold so much sorrow and confusion that all you can do is laugh, or dissociate from it and become a viewer,” she says. “The video is a descent into madness that can no longer be hidden but is considered normal.”
Yang’s mother passed away in 2020 and “because I was trying to be as stoic as possible, I never really allowed myself to grieve,” she says. “That delay has come full circle and I’m dealing with it now.”
Taken as a whole, she says, “In the Dark sheds light on the literal and figurative darkness we create, utilize, and exist within.” Yang’s personal listening likewise leans dark, towards Slowdive, PJ Harvey, Pulp and Nick Cave. Primarily an artist, Yang has also been on a curatorial tear, mounting several exhibitions this year. Her advice to young artists is to “make art for yourself, because you want to, and need to, and were born to. In the end, it is merely an expression that came from inside of you. Feel good because you expressed what was in your heart and mind and if other people get something from it, consider that a cherry on top.”
In the Dark, presented by Angela Yang and Sailboat Bend Artists, is at 1310 Gallery in Fort Lauderdale. Opening reception 7pm Friday, October 25. Closing reception 6pm Friday, November 15. sailboatbendartists.com, blindaviator.com
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