MARGARET ATWOOD

Leading ladies of the book fair: Novelist, poet kick off Book Fair

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

Inauguration opened a new world for poet

Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day, the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into ...

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Indulging her passions for artists and politics

Barbara Kingsolver jokes that whenever she publishes a novel she apparently turns into a railway station be...

JEANNETTE WALLS

Looking inside herself for a 'true-life' story

Journalists are never the story. They look instead to the world at large, interviewing, researching and see...

ORHAN PAMUK

Laureate: Fiction's lessons will save us

Orhan Pamuk is a man in love. So is Kemal, the narrator of Pamuk's shimmering, brimming new novel The Museu...

BRAD GOOCH

Admiration grew for his contradictory subject

If most biographers start out in love with their subjects and end up hating them, Brad Gooch did things bac...

SPANISH LANGUAGE

There's some bilingual mingling going on

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Big Bang hits Miami

Review | A lightweight New World performance of some light works by Mozart

The excellent musicians of the New World Symphony put on a sub-par performance Sunday, as they left behind ...

CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW

At Festival Miami, sweet sound of jazz fills the air

Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilt...

CONCERTS

Cultures collide, form musical trio

Banjoist Béla Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer both have countless colleagues who would sell body parts and fi...

Coral Ridge Presbyterian cancels 2009-2010 concert series

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has canceled its 2009-2010 concert series, following the departure of its o...

Cellist writes music just for monkeys

David Teie, a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra who also composes, is getting widespread attenti...

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Quartet aims to bring Baroque to 21st century

Maybe those enormous wigs that sit atop the unsmiling faces and fussy court dress in portrait after portrai...

MIAMI CITY BALLET

Miami City Ballet opens season with a return to its roots

Miami City Ballet opened its season Friday night with Allegro Brillante, the same piece that opened the com...

Miami City Ballet, in season's first program, goes back to its roots

Miami City Ballet opened its season Friday night with Allegro Brillante, the same piece that opened the com...

DANCE

Trimmed-down ballet set for a lean season

Like much of the rest of the world, Miami City Ballet has been on a financial and professional roller coast...

DANCE

No limitations for the disabled

Choreographer Karen Peterson has been making pieces for disabled dancers, people whose ability to move has ...

Dance fever: International Ballet Festival offers a mix of youth and experience

The 14th International Ballet Festival of Miami, presented by the Miami Hispanic Ballet, opens this weekend...

MERCE CUNNINGHAM, 90

His artistic vision changed modern dance

Merce Cunningham, the endlessly inquisitive choreographer who revolutionized modern dance and helped change...

Brazilian kids fulfill a dream at Miami City Ballet School

When 13-year-old Gabrielle Verissimo talks about her neighborhood of Gardenia Azul, in Rio de Janeiro, her ...

STAGE PICK

'The Voysey Inheritance' at the Caldwell

THEATER REVIEW

Review | Amusing turns terrifying in 'The Walworth Farce'

For all that most American theater fans know, playwright Martin McDonagh is in a league of his own when it ...

THEATER

Get your Irish up in 'Walworth Farce'

At first, The Walworth Farce looks like a routine the Three Stooges might have dreamed up -- if Larry, Curl...

STAGE PICK

'The Walworth Farce' at Carnival Studio Theater

If Quentin Tarantino wrote a play for the Three Stooges, the result might look a lot like Enda Walsh's The ...

THEATER

Review | 'The Color Purple' worth the wait -- and you may have to

The Color Purple took its time -- 27 years, to be exact -- making the journey from the pages of Alice Walke...

THEATER

Review | A few gems, but 'Naked Women Fully Clothed' comes up short

THEATER REVIEW

Review | `Reasons To Be Pretty' a wild ride

The battle between Neil LaBute's boy-men and the women who put up with them rages on in Reasons To Be Prett...

Art loves New York: From the Norton's collection, a world emerging amid pilings and steel

MIAMI ART MUSEUM

Miami Art Museum chief steps down, leaves unfinished business

With designs for a new Miami Art Museum in place, its director has decided to step down and return to archi...

MOCA acquisitions highlight pivotal works in artists' careers

VISUAL ARTS

Artist puts 'Everything' into Miami exhibition

ENTERTAINMENT

Philly museum presents a smorgasbord of monsters

No that the new, live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak's durable children's classic Where the Wild Thing...

Provocative exhibit speaks to those who commit, permit domestic violence

Amid the stacks of books and the students on the computers, amid the hushed buzz of learning at the Miami-D...

'Hope Blossoms': About 30 artists will assemble to sing, dance, paint, drum -- and help women and children in need

Art doesn't just happen, but in the right environment, creativity can blossom in many forms -- painting, sc...