The PRCA (Pro Rodeo Cowboy Association) sanctioned rodeo will include saddle bronco riding, steer wrestling, bull riding, barrel race, calf roping, bareback riding, mutton busting, wild horse race and calf scramble; performances last approximately two hours. Saturday and Sunday activities include a two-day arts & crafts festival and fish fry each day starting at 11:30 a.m.
Sundays can be a drag, and at Bill’s Filling Station in Wilton Manors, that’s a good thing. Trannie Palace, which features Misty Eyez and DJ Scott Mann, put on a fabulous show. The party includes oversized Long Island iced teas for $3 and beer buckets for no more than $13.
During August and September, Miami’s top restaurants offer three-course meals (Lunch $23, Dinner $36) featuring signature dishes created by world-renowned chefs.
Southeastern Premiere of a play by New Yorker writer George Packer. In early 2007, George Packer published an article in The New Yorker about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, with little or no U.S. protection or security. Betrayed, based on Mr. Packer's interviews in Baghdad, tells the story of three young Iraqis - two men and one woman - motivated to risk everything by America's promise of freedom. The play explores the complex relationships among the Iraqis themselves, and with their American supervisor, struggling to find purpose while a country collapses around them.
New York Times Critic's Pick!
"An extraordinary achievement!" - The New Yorker
"More than merely a very fine play; it is a challenge to all Americans to become human beings. Every American should see it at least once; if involved in government, at least twice! It would melt a heart of stone; perhaps even a stone without a heart!" -John Simon, Bloomberg News
Through September 14 Thurs-Sat 8 p.m. Sunday 2 and 7 p.m.
GableStage Biltmore Hotel 1200 Anastasia Avenue Coral Gables 305-445-1119 Directions
A novel by the author of the Eric Hoffer Award and Montaigne Medal finalist novel "Marwan: The Autobiography of a 9/11 Terrorist."
When Teddy Kagan finds a pure red heifer on the ranch of a Florida televangelist, he knows - because he knows Scripture - that he has found the key to a plan to speed up the bloody End of Days and the Second Coming of Christ, which could lead to a world-wide Holy War.
And it's Teddy's job to stop it.
The Tenth Cow picks up the story with events which have actually happened, and takes it to the limits of what could yet happen through a brilliant cast of characters in Israel and America. Add in polo, Kabbala, the American president and some strange relationships and you get a rich stew of romance, satire and suspense - and a scary look at what could become the most important event of our time.
"The Tenth Cow" is now in print and available online at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, or ask your bookstore to carry it. The book is also available for e-book download at Mobipocket.com and other e-book sellers.
Listeners comments:
"I am really enjoying the story ... Mr. Schefrin does a great job of explaining to the reader the theology involved ... Again, another winner for Aram Schefrin. Please keep 'em coming!" -George, Ft. Worth, Tx; www.thepublicdomainiac.com
"Really amazing story. Mr. Schefrin has an amazing knowledge of all things Israeli and Jewish. The details about the city and the history really drew me in. I feel like I learned so much about Israel after finishing this book." Billy C
"Great ending, and I won't spoil it for you here. Suffice it to say that I, too was worried about rapture occurring before Mr. Schefrin got out the last chapter, and not being around to enjoy it.... Thanks again for a GREAT book, and now I'll head back to Consider the Elephant!" George, Fort Worth, Texas
"I am loving your novel and am impressed with the production and style of writing equally. I have downloaded "Marwan" and "The Tenth Cow" because I now am a Schefrin fan. Please keep releasing more of the same. This stuff is fantastic!" Mark
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The common wisdom is that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was a madman and a failure as an actor.
But the truth is that Wilkes was the matinee idol of his time – and the attack on Lincoln was not the act of a maniac, but a part of a plan developed at the highest levels of the Confederacy.
In “Consider the Elephant,” the story of Wilkes’ life and death is told by his brother, Edwin, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his age. Soaked in the ambiance of life in the American theater in the mid nineteenth century, the novel by Aram Schefrin lays out in detail the path Wilkes took to the top of the celebrity heap, his rivalry with his brother and the development in Richmond of the plot to kidnap – later assassinate – the Union President.
You can read the entire novel, or listen to it, for free - at ConsiderTheElephant.com. This is one of the first novels with hyperlinks built in - if you're reading along and are puzzled or curious, click on the links to fund much more information on the facts on which the book is based.
If you prefer not to read the book on your computer screen, copy and print out the chapters. Or get it for your PDA or cell phone at mobipocket.com. Or for your Amazon Kindle. Or you can download the audio at iTunes, Amazon.com or Audible.com.
OKAY, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS LIST?
Aram Schefrin is the author of four novels. A student of Stephen Sondheim and Carlos Montoya, he co-founded and was the lyricist and guitarist for the jazz/rock group Ten Wheel Drive, which had its standing ovations in the late '60's and early seventies. After five years on the road, he retired to the studio where he produced several early disco hits. A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, he returned to the practice of law in 1977. He now practices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Florida, and lives in Wellington, Florida with his wife, two dogs, four cats and three polo ponies. You can learn about him at aramschefrin.com and reach him at arslaw@comcast.net. Right now, he's writing an opera.
Aram has exquisite taste, if he does say so himself. He trusts his choices, and so should you.
