Dance

Dance takes new leaps this season in S. Florida

A wealth of new pieces, companies, venues and events is on tap for this season’s dance offerings. From big to small, local to international, popularly renowned to daringly experimental, there are ample opportunities to see and experience dance that has never been presented in South Florida, is being created just this season, or that will otherwise stretch your expectations.

Manu Chao unleashes musical storm in Miami

Alternative icon Manu Chao rocked a packed Bayfront Amphitheater on Friday night

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TV anchor Belkys Nerey in skirmish over houses

Two of three properties that waifish WSVN-Channel 7 star anchor Belkys Nerey co-owns with a gal pal are in foreclosure.

Cuban Music

Controversy over Milanés concert is déjà vu with a few fresh twists

For anyone who has followed the tumultuous politics of Cuban music in Miami over the past 15 years, Cuban singer Pablo Milanés’ concert Saturday night at AmericanAirlines Arena brings on a powerful sense of déjà vu.

BALLET

Miami City Ballet's Fanfare showy but shallow

The big fanfare at Miami City Ballet's opening night on Friday was just that - ‘‘Fanfare'', a showy but shallow Jerome Robbins ballet staged to celebrate the return of the orchestra and the launch of the company's 25th anniversary. But the real sense of triumph came later, as the dancers flew into Balanchine's "Theme and Variations'', moving with a verve and musicality and unified energy that brought the ballet and the stage of the Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center vividly alive.

Review l Taylor Mac and Sara Felder's wedding angst inaugurate Out in the Tropics

At the Colony Theater Saturday night for the inaugural Out in the Tropics festival, Taylor Mac worked in a circle of white light with a pile of motley-fabulous costumes (ratty wigs, red crinoline, faux leopard muumuu), a gorgeous mask of glittery makeup and a ukulele. But by the time he had finished his two-hour show ``The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac,'' he had covered the expanse of human fear and longing, from theories of Armageddon and the war on terror to sex, birth, love and dandyism.

THEATER

Gay themes lead to universal truths at the Out in the Tropics festival

In January 1995, well before what she calls the ''Will and Grace-ing'' of America, the Jewish lesbian theater and circus artist Sara Felder debuted her solo piece June Bride in Anchorage, Alaska.

CUBAN EXILE COMMUNITY

Pop singer Juanes sparks furor in Cuban exile community with plans for Havana concert

Colombian pop singer Juanes is sparking a controversy in the Cuban exile community with plans for a concert in Havana.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Bygone days: The sweet music of Miami's Overtown

For a place that once pulsed with music, Overtown is eerily quiet. There are more vacant lots than buildings on the stretch of Northwest Second Avenue that gleamed with lights and life when it was Miami's Little Broadway 50 years ago.