THEATER REVIEW | THE HATE U GAVE: THE TUPAC SHAKUR STORY
Tupac Shakur's 25 short years of life were a study in extremes. On the one hand, as a prodigiously talented teenager of modest means, he attended a performing arts high school and appeared in everything from Shakespeare to The Nutcracker. Though he dropped out of school, he was a voracious reader, a young man with wide-ranging intellectual curiosity and a poet.
The hit Hannah Montana movie will be nearly inescapable on television this month in every dimension. Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert will come to Starz in standard- and high-definition starting 9 p.m. July 26.
THEATER REVIEW | MID LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL
Each summer, Actors' Playhouse bridges the past season and the new one with what its artistic team hopes will be a sparkling musical revue.
CELEBRITY Q&A
The phrase ''passion project'' gets thrown around a lot in Hollywood, but in television, where even the brightest ideas can lose luster in the grind of a weekly series, passion like Holly Hunter's can be hard to sustain.
TELEVISION
Actor Benjamin Bratt remembers first hearing the concept for The Cleaner. It grabbed him, ``however unbelievable I found it to be.''
Even before shooting had wrapped on The Dark Knight last year, the movie already seemed destined to become the defining film of the 2008 summer season. Anticipation was building for director Christopher Nolan's sequel to his well-received Batman Begins, which had salvaged the durable Batman saga from the pop-culture junkyard of passé camp and made Gotham City hip and menacing.
A window washer dressed as Spiderman scales a building. A nanny clad as Cat Woman attends to children. A pizza delivery man wearing Superman garb rides a bike with pies in the basket.
ART
The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff and valued it at just $3,100. But the British buyer who paid about 1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing.
Overcast skies and sporadic showers were no match for resilient punk-rock fans Saturday at downtown Miami's Bicentennial Park, where the Vans Warped Tour made its annual stop.
ARTS BRIEFS
Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote such classics as Annabel Lee and The Bells in a cottage in the Bronx. Long a tourist attraction, the small five-room building will soon give fans an even better sense of Poe's final years with a planned renovation and the construction of a visitors center.
Choral instructor Gary Keating keeps a rainbow with the words ''safe space'' on the front of his office door at Dr. Michael M. Krop High in Northeast Miami-Dade.
VANS WARPED TOUR
Heading to the Vans Warped Tour? Try to catch Coral Springs rockers A Dream of Reality, who recently scored a slot on the tour. We can't tell you what time they're performing Saturday at downtown Miami's Bicentennial Park because even the bands don't know until the morning of the show. But the group's energetic stage presence and melodic ''screamo/emo'' sound is well worth checking out (watch their videos for After Dark and Let Me Be the One on YouTube.com).
Modern-rock fans are no doubt pumped up to see most of the main acts on the Vans Warped Tour -- Angels & Airwaves, Relient K, As I Lay Dying, Every Time I Die, Mayday Parade, to name a few. But no one is more thrilled to be at the concert than one of the bands: A Dream of Reality.
THEATER
The Sopranos was never quite like this: Baroness Vladka (rhymes with vodka, for reasons that will soon be apparent) von Loudenstimme has had a long career on the opera stage but for how much longer is anyone's guess. She's still got the pipes but she likes to soak them in booze whenever she can -- as in during every performance. So she hires the younger Southern belle Gwendoline Josephine Bellevoix Bouvier, who fancies herself French and cultured but who grew up in Boar Tush, La., to sing for the...
Q: When I was around 5 back in 1951 or thereabouts, I watched a serialized TV show starring Gene Autry involving robots and a secret cave. The show went on for weeks and captivated my imagination, but I have never seen nor heard from it since. Do you have any information?
The XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival is up and running through the end of July at the Carnival Studio Theater in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Prometeo's space on Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus and several other locations throughout Miami-Dade County.
In Claire Chafee's Why We Have a Body, Erynn Dalton, left, plays a private investigator whose specialty is catching cheating husbands. But her most ardent mission is to capture the attention and heart of Monica Garcia's Renee, right, a paleontologist who is, rather inconveniently, married. With its run extended to Aug. 9, the poetic and funny play is packing 'em in at the Sol Theatre Project, 1140 N. Flagler Dr., Fort Lauderdale. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, with tickets priced...
TELEVISION REVIEW
Flashpoint, 10-11 p.m. Friday, WFOR-CBS 4 From the rouge -- a mysterious and possibly sinister kicking play they added to U.S. football -- to poutin -- a barbarous dish made from french fries, cheese curd and gravy -- Canadians have always been a puzzle to their American neighbors. And Flashpoint, the new CBS cop drama from north of the border, doesn't really clarify anything.
The death in April of actor Stanley Kamel, who portrayed the longtime therapist for eclectic detective Adrian Monk, left the series with a sad and delicate situation entering its seventh season on USA.
TELEVISION
Big Brother 10 is returning to its roots. The claustrophobic CBS reality show is sealing 13 actual strangers -- no ex-lovers, secret twins or long-lost siblings this time -- inside a makeshift house on a Studio City, Calif., soundstage for the chance to be the last houseguest standing and take home the $500,000 grand prize.
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