LATIN GRAMMY AWARDS

Juanes dominates with 5 trophies

Colombian rocker Juanes won all five of the Latin Grammy Awards for which he was nominated.

MUSIC

Latin Grammys have new, decidedly feminine touch

The ninth annual Latin Grammy Awards, which take place Thursday night in Houston, are looking like Ladies Night, though not in the usual sense. Instead, this year's nominations feature an unprecedented number of non-traditional and powerful women, several of them in the top categories.

MIAMI SCIENCE MUSEUM

New exhibit aims to mix arts, sciences

Miami Science Museum's newest exhibit Music, Música is really two: It combines telling the story of Latino music with a look at music from a cultural and scientific perspective.

Jaguares postponed

The concert by Mexican rock band Jaguares scheduled for Friday night at the Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater has been postponed. The new date is March 14, 2009; tickets already purchased will be honored for the new date.

LATIN MUSIC

'45' looks like a winner for Jaguares

Saul Hernandez, lead singer of the Mexican rock band Jaguares, always has been somewhat of a philosopher. ''There's an old saying,'' Hernandez said in a phone interview. ``The past doesn't exist, the future is unknown, but the present is a gift, and we have to take advantage of it.''

Bajofondo brings its global tango sound to South Florida

Argentine composer and producer Gustavo Santaolalla is a boundary-leaping kind of guy in just about every way you could (and some you couldn't) imagine. But taking his global tango group Bajofondo to South Korea and Japan is a cultural stretch even for this groundbreaking Latin rock producer (Juanes, Julieta Venegas, Café Tacuba) and Oscar-winning film composer (Brokeback Mountain, Babel).

JAZZ CONCERT

Horn player trumpeting some 'serious fun'

American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once lamented, ``Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.''

LOOKING AHEAD

Nestor Torres plays free at Viva Broward!

Latin Grammy-winning musician Nestor Torres will play a free concert at 4 p.m. Oct. 19 as part of Viva Broward! weekend in Pompano Beach. The event will also feature the bands Havana Soul and Corazon Colombiano, plus Latin food and drink, capoeria dancers, free salsa lessons, folkloric shows and arts and crafts and more. All events are free, from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Oct. 18 and noon-6 p.m. Oct. 19 at Pompano Citi Centre, 1955 N. Federal Hwy., Pompano Beach.

MUSIC

Colombian musicians mix up a classical gas

Mixing high and low, folk and fine art sounds appealing -- bring the energy and empathy of pop culture to the depth and formal beauty of classicism. And Vallenato Sinfonica, the union of popular vallenato act Jorge Celedón and Jimmy Zambrano with a classical ensemble, presented Friday night at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, sounded like a particularly intriguing version of this mix.

POP MUSIC

A double tribute to bossa nova

Paulo Jobim's early memories sway side to side. He was 8 when he attended one of the first recording sessions of his father, the legendary composer and musician Antonio Carlos ''Tom'' Jobim, and singer and guitarist Joao Gilberto -- the fathers of bossa nova.

BAND OF THE HOUR

A hot blend of Caribbean, Latin sounds

What do leafcutter ants found in the Amazon rain forest have in common with a hot six-member Latin alternative reggae band from Miami? Let's just say it's all in the nabe. Venezuelan Indians use the ant to create a picante or hot sauce. Bachaco (BAH-SHA-KO) like to consider themselves a musical picante comprised of hard-working members.

LATIN GRAMMYS

Café Tacuba from Mexico leads with six nominations

Café Tacuba, a Mexican alternative band, as well as Juanes and Gloria Estefan, received multiple Latin Grammy nominations. Winners will be announced Nov. 13.

LUNCH WITH LYDIA

With help of a little magic, former understudy morphs into Celia on the stage

Anyone lucky enough to have watched Celia Cruz perform live can attest to her magical, infectious force. There was no way to take your eyes off a woman with an energy that was almost supernatural and a voice that thundered with Afro-Cuban soul.

We want you: Election rocks to a new Latin beat

They're not just rocking the vote -- they're salseando, perreando and mariachi-ando it. Latino musicians, actors and celebrities are getting involved in the U.S. presidential campaign to an unprecedented degree this year, from voter-registration campaigns to online music videos for Barack Obama, the candidate drawing the most support from young Latinos.

LITTLE HAVANA

Rare Havana-fusion concert on July 17

Roberto Carcassés, one of the driving forces in a new style of fusion dominating the Havana music scene, will perform in a Miami concert.

NICARAGUA

Facebook is new face of young people's protests

Following examples in Venezuela and Colombia, youths in Nicaragua have used the Internet as an outlet for opposition to President Daniel Ortega.

MUSICAL

Tribute attempts to do right by a Cuban icon

There she is, Celia Cruz, her irrepressible smile looming almost as large over Biscayne Boulevard as she does in the consciousness of Cuban Miami.

Sandoval may open jazz club at Arsht Center

Live jazz music may become a regular event in Miami once again if famed Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval finalizes an agreement to lend his name and curatorial expertise to a new club inside the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Changing the norm one song at a time

When you start by having your dreams dashed, it tends to make you cautious about trusting them again. Which is why Mexican songwriter Mario Domm is not as euphoric as you might expect about the success of his band Camila, one of the biggest acts to come out in Latin pop music recently.