FOURTH OF JULY

Start your weekend off with a bang with our holiday events guide

Fourth of July is approaching so gather up your beach towels, picnic blankets, lawn-chairs, and bug spray. ...

MOVIES

Review | 12 (PG-13) ***

An American classic, Russian style

MOVIES

Movie review | Goodbye Solo (unrated) ***½

Cabbie gets the ride of his life

Miami homeboy KC takes a look back

BACKSTAGE PASS

Mutemath coming to Fort Lauderdale

DINNER & A MOVIE

Dinner & a movie: One Sumo and 'Black Rain'

GO & DO

On the Cheap | Films for kids, art exhibits, camp classics

Not into firecrackers, parades or blackened hot dogs from an outdoor grill? We don't call that unAmerican. ...

LOCAL TALENT

You got the look?

Calling all models. (Even the ones whose agency may have closed during the recession.) The search is on for...

CELEBRITY ROUNDUP

One Jonas brother down, two to go

Sorry, tweens. Kevin Jonas is engaged. The oldest J brother popped the question to his girlfriend Danielle ...

Shooting the stars

Director Michael Bay talked shop with actor Ramon Rodriguez at the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Miam...

Celebrity birthdays on July 3

Movie director Ken Russell is 82. Actor Kurtwood Smith (That '70s Show) is 66. Actor Michael Cole (The Mod ...

The calendar for July 3

All active-duty service members, reservists and veterans receive free admission to July Fourth festivities ...

CELEBRITY ROUNDUP

Michael Jackson ticket holders to get refund

LA VIDA LOCAL

Get your Joaquin Phoenix meltdown video on the big screen

MOVIES

Review | 12 (PG-13) ***

An American classic, Russian style

MOVIES

Movie review | Goodbye Solo (unrated) ***½

Cabbie gets the ride of his life

THE OSCARS

Host Jackman now a voter, too

Actors Hugh Jackman, Seth Rogen and Anne Hathaway and director Danny Boyle (Slugdog Millionaire) have been ...

MOVIES

Review | Public Enemies (R) *** ½

Mann's killer Dillinger picture offers a big reward

MOVIES

Review | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG) **

The 3D's cool, but the story's only tepid

DVD SCANS

Lee's 'Right Thing' plus 20; fickle Phoenix at his best

Like people at a class reunion everyone actually wants to attend, the cast and crew members Spike Lee inter...

MOVIES

Loss of father was big lesson for actress Diaz

From the window of the sunlit suite where Cameron Diaz sits, there is a beautiful view of the Santa Monica ...

Miami homeboy KC takes a look back

BACKSTAGE PASS

Mutemath coming to Fort Lauderdale

ALBUMS

Reviews | Michael Johns, Incubus, Regina Spektor and more

MICHAEL JOHNS Hold Back My Heart Downtown/Fontana Aussie Michael Johns couldn't parlay his photogenic stage...

CELEBRITY Q&A

Swift's 'Fearless' about stardom

Now that Taylor Swift has entered the realm of superstardom, life is changing around her. A trip to the mal...

Michael Jackson fans reflect on the music, madness

Autopsy planned after Jackson's sudden death

Authorities are seeking to clear up the mystery surrounding Michael Jackson's death, including whether pres...

ALBUMS

Reviews | Al B. Sure!, Chickenfoot, Steve Martin and more

R & B AL B. SURE! Honey I'm Home Hidden Beach Recordings ½ Al B. Sure!, who found success with his f...

THEATER

Review | 'Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown' a riot of L.A. characters

THEATER

Review | Third wheel undermines 'I Just Stopped By to See the Man'

Watching M Ensemble's new production of Stephen Jeffreys' I Just Stopped By to See the Man is both stirring...

THEATER

Staging their lives: A theater family returns with a new company

John Rodaz and Maria Banda-Rodaz ''met cute'' (as they say in the movie biz) two decades ago. He was tidyin...

NEW GALLERY

An artful gift to the South Florida landscape

THEATER

Hot Broadway star tackling Shakespeare

Raúl Esparza is one of the hottest leading men on Broadway, slipping effortlessly between musicals and play...

VISUAL ARTS

New Rivera exhibit explores his Cubist phase

A new exhibit on Diego Rivera explores a not-often-seen aspect of the Mexican artist's work -- the portrait...

AUTHOR

Novelist Gibbons still battling her inner demons

On a spring day in 2006, as the sun set on the Duke University campus, novelist Kaye Gibbons strode across ...

DINNER & A MOVIE

Dinner & a movie: One Sumo and 'Black Rain'

Miami Ice: A world of frozen tropical treats

MIAMI-DADE DINING

Review | Family-run Revales is a charming revelation

''Revales'' may not mean anything in Italian, or any other language that I know, but it clearly speaks to M...

BROWARD DINING

Review | 'Pizza' to lassi, Udipe wows your taste buds

Lots of restaurants host birthday celebrations, baby showers and anniversary parties. But Udipe adds dosai ...

A FORK ON THE ROAD

Argentine sells grass-fed beef from Uruguay

Pablo Liberato is the exclusive U.S. importer of grass-fed Gaucho Ranch beef from Uruguay. The tall Argenti...

CLINK!

A star (fruit) spangled salute

FIRST LOOK

130 beer varieties at the Yard House

Beer lovers rejoice: The Yard House, a shrine to all things sudsy and of-the-keg, has landed in Coral Gable...

TELEVISION

'Top Chef Masters' presents a familiar menu, but it works

TELEVISION REVIEW

Hard times demand a . . . oh, never mind

For all HBO's coy promos, Hung is not really a show about sex; it's got less coupling than any random 15 mi...

SCREEN GEMS

A look ahead at the week in TV and movies

BIG SCREEN OPENING WEDNESDAY Public Enemies (R) -- Johnny Depp is the notorious bank robber John Dillinger,...

TELEVISION

Sci-fi battles odds but survives, flourishes

Star Trek was canceled after just three seasons, then grew into one of the most popular and influential fra...

Soap opera updates

ALL MY CHILDREN: Believing that his hand surgery was a failure, Frankie pushed everyone away but was surpri...

'Charlie's Angel' Farrah Fawcett dies at 62

Farrah Fawcett, a 1970s sex symbol and TV star of "Charlie's Angels," spent almost three years in private f...

TELEVISION

Review | 'Virtuality': Some great ideas get lost in space

''I'm asking if you know fantasy from reality,'' the starship commander demands of one of his officers, and...

GAME REVIEWS

Blockbuster films translate into some tepid video games

The video-game store looks more like a multiplex during the summer months, with just about every blockbuste...

New Wii lets you sweat off the blubber

The Nintendo Wii has already done what video game naysayers said couldn't be done -- get children and adult...

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Characters, city come alive in Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is all about the American Dream. An immigrant comes to this country with dreams of esca...

Halo 3 is worth the wait, worth the hype

The gamers stood in line for hours, from Los Angeles to Miami. Three years without a Halo fix and the day f...

Games releasing week of Sept. 24

The week belongs to Halo 3. Does it really matter what else is out in stores? For those few gamers without ...

Games releasing week of Sept. 17

This week the Sims franchise comes to the Wii, street racing gets Juiced and composer Frederic Chopin stars...

Games releasing week of Sept. 10

Gamers are in for a tough choice this week: competing NHL titles, a promising action-adventure game for the...

Powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home

The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday ...

ABBA's Andersson shoots down London reunion talk

Forget those reports that Swedish supergroup ABBA will be reuniting to cover Michael Jackson's sold-out con...

Essence Fest celebrates black music, culture

TV One to begin Sunday show aimed at blacks

Roland Martin will anchor a new Sunday public affairs show aimed at a black audience that will debut in Sep...

Madonna to pay tribute to Jackson in concert

South Africa holds Jackson moonwalk tribute

Several hundred South Africans gathered on Friday for a moonwalking tribute to the King of Pop that reflect...

Country singer Ferlin Husky hospitalized in Tenn.

A spokesman for country star Ferlin Husky says the singer has been hospitalized in Tennessee.