What’s your favorite Billy Joel song? To welcome the Piano Man, our new neighbor, as we await his upcoming appearances at Hard Rock Live, we’ve asked some notable friends in this month’s issue of City & Shore PRIME to tell us theirs.
“Emanating from a range of personal touchpoints, the 19 selections named by 24 respondents reveal an abiding, often heartfelt, appreciation of Billy Joel’s music,’’ Greg Carannante writes. “A few of the fans were unable to choose only one. And, of course, there are a couple of surprises — the biggest being that Piano Man did not take the cake.
“Which do you think did,” Greg asks? “Maybe open a bottle of red or white and read on.”
Our annual Arts Issue also includes our critics list of the best music, theater, art and film of the upcoming season, and where to see them. We’ll talk with Maria Todaro, the newly appointed director of the Florida Grand Opera; and to Ty Sutton, the new Broward Center CEO about goals for the arts and education.
We’ll look back at The Mai-Kai, which shook up South Florida’s supperclub scene when it opened nearly 70 years ago. Fresh from $15 million in renovation and repair, it’s doing it again.
We’ll also settle into three home theaters with all the special effects of a movie theater – without leaving home; tour collections of fine art in unexpected locations, including wineries throughout the world.
All this and much more in the Arts Issue of City & Shore PRIME, now in popular print, online and digital formats, https://www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publication/?i=831539
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