LATIN GRAMMY AWARDS

Juanes dominates with 5 trophies

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

DANCE

Tere O'Connor Dance troupe builds on a theme

If dance is the most evanescent of the arts, evaporating into memory the instant it's completed, then architecture is arguably the most concrete, creating the solid structures of our lives that can last for centuries. Other than the fact that dance is usually done in buildings, most people wouldn't see much else that they have in common.

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.

Jazz series not just for aficionados

For a music that many believe is the United States' greatest contribution to culture, jazz doesn't get as much recognition as perhaps it should. Academic and cultural cred, yes -- jazz music and artists receive awards, doctorates, retrospectives. But pop cred, the everyday presence in people's lives as the music that fills their consciousness, their dancing and downtime? That's another question.

MUSIC

Rappers set adventurous new course

Calle 13 moves on to more provocative themes and challenging music with its newest album.

Kid rock: '80s rocker Dan Zanes finds new beat playing for children, families

In some ways, nothing has changed for Dan Zanes since he was leading roots rock band the Del Fuegos in the 1980s. He's still hitting the road with his group in a van, still playing shows where the audience fills up an enthusiastically bouncing mosh pit.

DANCE REVIEW

Miami City Ballet opens with triple slam

Miami City Ballet kicked off its season Friday night at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts with a triple slam of major pieces in three major genres of ballet. There was classical (Balanchine's version of Act II of Swan Lake), neo-classical (his mid-20th century masterpiece The Four Temperaments) and contemporary (Twyla Tharp's exhilarating In The Upper Room), as if to say ''we can do it all.'' You could call it bravado, except that they can.

BALLET

Miami City Ballet stars find love, purpose a long way from home

Miami City Ballet dancers come from a dizzying array of places: Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Australia, Japan -- as well as from Maine to Miami to California. But none have traveled farther, geographically or culturally, than Haiyan Wu and Yang Zou, two Chinese dancers who have found a home in Miami in dance and with each other.

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).

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.

CONCERT REVIEW

Enrique Iglesias right at home on Miami stage

Enrique Iglesias turned a sold-out AmericanAirlines Arena into his living room on Saturday night. All it took was some couches onstage, four beyond-hysterical fans invited up to sit and Iglesias' gift for uniting pop heroics with boy-next-door charm. ''C'mon, you're in my house,'' Iglesias kept saying. He even brought them drinks before launching into his early hit Experiencia Religiosa, sending the most rabid onstage guest, a man named Roberto, into the kind of rapture that only happens when you've...

A festival of ballet on vivid display

The XIII International Ballet Festival of Miami's centerpiece performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Saturday night displayed everything that makes the festival wonderful and frustrating. Dancers from across the globe showed off stunning technical prowess and cringe-inducing mediocrity. There were vivid performances of fine modern pieces from key choreographers and uninspired renditions of overdone classics.

Latin Grammy nod fuels free-spirited singer Concha Buika

Success in pop music can do strange things to people, as anyone who has watched the breakdown of stars from Britney to Alejando Sanz can testify. But for Concha Buika, the Spanish singer with the spine-tingling soul who ravished a Little Havana audience in her U.S. debut last October, success has only made her more confident in her music and her resolutely free-spirited self.

You'll see classics, contemporary -- and even the Hawaiian hula

A world's worth of innovative contemporary troupes and the return of two classic modern-dance companies highlight this dance season.

From comebacks (Gloria) to newcomers (Mariza)

Most big Latin pop shows (much less smaller club events) aren't announced far in advance. Among the few we can look forward to are hometown heroine Gloria Estefan at the Hard Rock Live on Oct. 23-24; Vicente Fernandez, the emblem of old-school Mexico, Oct. 18 at AmericanAirlines Arena, and balladeer Luis Miguel on Nov. 7, also at the Triple-A.

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.

BALLET REVIEW

Young dancers get Ballet Festival off to rousing start

The XIII International Ballet Festival of Miami may celebrate classical dance, but it got off to a contemporary start last weekend, with glimpses of the next generation of dance talent and the current one in Latin America.

BALLET

Festival offers adventurous, ambitious bill

Thirteen is not usually a lucky number. But the 13th edition of the International Ballet Festival of Miami, which starts this week and runs through Sept. 14, looks like it will be a good one, with performances in two major new venues, an enticing range of contemporary and classical pieces by an international cast of dance companies, a show by teen winners of top international ballet competitions, a film series and more.

GROOVING TO SPAM

Miami band finds a wider audience for its quirky yet infectious sound

DJ Le Spam & Spam Allstars started as the quintessential Miami band, rolled out to the rest of the country, and now they're poised to go global.