‘Voces: Rebel.’ 10-11 p.m. Friday. WPBT-PBS 2.

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The popular television show has helped solve Miami homicides, but critics say the cameras can be a distraction to investigators and the show seems to focus more on African-American communities.

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74.

Legendary choreographer George Balanchine once said, “ballet is woman,” and that seems to be the case, considering the scarcity of boys aspiring to become ballet dancers compared to the legions of girls. But of the girls who grow up to become top dancers, few have actually graduated into the upper levels of leadership.

New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez debuts the second play in his ‘Island Trilogy’

An imagination-fueled British hit has a young man’s male and female lovers squaring off.

Legendary choreographer George Balanchine once said, “ballet is woman,” and that seems to be the case, considering the scarcity of boys aspiring to become ballet dancers compared to the legions of girls. But of the girls who grow up to become top dancers, few have actually graduated into the upper levels of leadership.

Another day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards.

Cannonball Miami is bringing L.A. artists here to create work and waves

The reviews are in and Star Trek Into Darkness, the second big screen adventure helmed by J.J. Abrams, has joined his 2009 reboot with critics’ phasers set on stunning.

At dinner-party-like ‘atelier nights,’ Copperbox chef Gabriela Machado is wowing diners with her artful food

Bill Hader is leaving "Saturday Night Live" after an eight-year run.

In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie's body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as "Billy Bob."

Falling in love means taking a risk, and Rudi Goblen takes plenty of risks in his new solo theater piece, PET.

Actress Barbara Barrie is 82. Actress Joan Collins is 80. Actor Charles Kimbrough (“Murphy Brown”) is 77. Actress Lauren Chapin (“Father Knows Best”) is 68. Comedian Drew Carey is 55. Actor Linden Ashby (“Melrose Place”) is 53. Actress-model Karen Duffy is 52. Drummer Matt Flynn of Maroon 5 is 43. Singer Lorenzo is 41. Country singer Brian McComas is 41. Singer Maxwell is 40. Singer Jewel is 39.

Derek Hough may have won the 16th edition of Dancing With the Stars Tuesday, but the victory almost didn’t happen: Hough almost didn’t return to the ABC show this season.

Four years ago, Bradley Cooper had built a solid reputation as a scene-stealing supporting player. Ed Helms was best known for his sweet but buffoonish Andy on The Office. And few, besides comedy-club bookers and his own family members, could wrap their mouths around the last name of Zach Galifianakis.

Academy Award winner Michael Douglas got teary at the Cannes Film Festival while thanking director Steven Soderbergh for casting him as Liberace in Behind The Candelabra.

Romantics, whet your appetites for reality matchmaking at its finest. The Bachelorette is back in action 9 p.m. Monday on ABC. The lucky (some would say) lady is Desiree Hartsock, a fan favorite from Bachelor Sean Lowe’s past season.

Actor Michael Constantine (“Room 222”) is 86. Actor-director Richard Benjamin is 75. Actress Barbara Parkins (“Valley of the Dolls”) is 71. Songwriter Bernie Taupin is 63. Singer Morrissey is 54. Actress Ann Cusack (“A League of Their Own”) is 52. Actor Mark Christopher Lawrence (“Chuck”) is 49. Model Naomi Campbell is 43. Actress Anna Belknap (“CSI: NY”) is 41. Singer Donell Jones is 40. Actor Sean Gunn (”Gilmore Girls”) is 39. Actress Ginnifer Goodwin is 35.

It’s looking permanent this time. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are on a break again. Apparently, the Twilight costars couldn’t get past Stewart’s affair with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders last summer.That fling may be ongoing. In April, the Web was aflutter with pictures of her and the soon to be divorced Sanders in a car together.

Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72. Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals is 70. Actor Richard Hatch (“Battlestar Galactica”) is 68. Singer Leo Sayer is 65. Comedian-turned-U.S. Senator Al Franken is 62. Actor Mr. T is 61. Actor Judge Reinhold is 56. Actress Lisa Edelstein (“House”) of 47. Actress Fairuza Balk (“The Waterboy”) is 39. Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 39. Actress Ashlie Brillault (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 26. Actress Sarah Ramos (“American Dreams”) is 22.

Thought Bad Girls Club: Miami was over the top? Steel yourselves for another spinoff, Bad Girls All Star Battle, which takes the rivalry out of the mansion and onto the playing field in L.A. Fourteen of the franchise’s most notorious cast members compete for $100,000 and the title of “Baddest Bad Girl of All Time.” Can’t beat that on the obituary. We talked to Ray J, host of the show, which debuts 9 p.m. Tuesday on the Oxygen Network.

Burn Notice may be over, but we can still get our fix with The Glades. The South Florida-shot A&E cop “comedrama” picks up again Memorial Day, and one of its stars, Jordan Wall, is making the rounds Monday. The actor, who plays Daniel Green, the resident nerd in the medical examiner’s office, will appear at an event for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America 7-10 p.m. at Cafe Iguana in Pembroke Pines. Up for grabs will be an auctioned walk-on role on The Glades.

WD 555 might sound like the name of a Star Wars robot, but it’s actually a welcoming wine shop and bistro off the beaten track on South Beach.

Temaris or ball sushi — warm mounds of rice with thin-sliced toppings drizzled in spicy sauces — was almost impossible to find in South Florida until Temaris opened on Brickell.

You may have been advised to dine out less often if you want to weigh less. That’s like telling people to leave their cars in the garage if they want to avoid getting into an automobile accident.

A gunshot to the head is the state’s recommended method for disposing of invasive Burmese pythons, whose swelling population threatens the Everglades. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission offers no guidance, however, on how to cook the slithery creatures.

What you put on a hot dog reflects where you come from, and for Colombians, it is lots of sauces and potato chips.

When Frances Alfonso was a little girl in Miami’s Little Havana she loved going with her parents to eat a Cuban’s version of the American hamburger, known as a frita.

The cuisine of Uzbekistan reflects the cultures that passed through Central Asia in caravans on the transcontinental Silk Road, and you can sample it at Chayhana Oasis in Sunny Isles Beach.

Sushi master Nobu Matsuhisa operates 31 restaurants on five continents — in Beijing, Budapest, Cape Town, London, Melbourne, Moscow and more. He has published five cookbooks and acted in movies such as 1995’s Casino, 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember and 2005’s Memoirs of a Geisha.

When you pry a piece of corn silk out of your teeth, you’re yanking out a fallopian tube. Good sake should never, ever be served hot. And though you might shudder to hear it, some brewers in Brussels are quite happy when bugs fall into open vats of yeast, because they churn it up, thus becoming “unwitting accomplices in the dance between sugar and yeast.”

The logo at Cecci Italian Peruvian Kitchen is a fish eating a slice of pizza, symbolizing the union of sea and land here. There are pies, pastas and tiraditos, ceviches and saltados (stir-fries) plus creations like pizza a lo macho topped with seafood cream, octopus, shrimp and calamari, and fettuccine in ají amarillo-spiked huancaina cheese sauce served with steak.

A competition by Krups has five Miami coffee spots in contention for top prize

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During a brief encounter with Pope Francis, Gloria Estefan asked him to keep the plight of Cubans in mind

South Florida lends itself to people stripping down. Celebs, residents and tourists do it all the time. Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is no exception.

Celebrating its 15th year, music festival brings together Haitian fans and top entertainers to celebrate Haiti’s culture, and Flag Day.

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A documentary details how Miami composer Desmond Child and partner Curtis Shaw became parents of twin boys.

Gustavo Alberto Noguera Delgado believed he was prenatally programmed to love Ludwig van Beethoven.

Natalie Cole looked and sang like a diva at the inaugural Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame gala at the New World Symphony on Tuesday night, delivering a lovely rendition of Acercate Mas (Get Closer) in a “Unforgettable” style duet with video of her father Nat King Cole. “It’s not easy being first, and Dad was a first in so many ways,” Cole told the audience at the New World Center on Miami Beach, as she accepted the Premio Pionero Desi Arnaz on behalf of her father, who was friends with the famous Cuban actor and singer. Nat King Cole was revered in Cuba for recording three albums of Latin American songs. “I can only imagine Desi and my Dad are looking down on us.”

Viewers of Thursday night’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, broadcast live from Coral Gables on Telemundo, might get a strong feeling of déjà vu. On stage will be longtime salsa-pop favorite Marc Anthony (that was him, too, in 2012, 2011 and 2010), pop diva Paulina Rubio (a repeat from 2012 and 2010) and reggaeton star Don Omar and veteran Mexican pop-rockers Mana (both appearing for the third year in a row).

Jazz had Dukes and Counts. Latin music had one King. And hype aside, by the time of his death in 2000 at age 77, Tito Puente was an icon.

The debate over immigration is highly political, but for the Los Angeles-based group La Santa Cecelia, the issue is painfully personal. Lead singer Marisol Hernandez’s parents came to L.A. from Mexico without papers, and accordionist Jose “Pepe” Carlos is undocumented.

Kemal Gekic made his South Florida debut at the Miami International Piano Festival in 1999, and in the intervening years has become a familiar presence on the local concert scene. His Sunday afternoon recital on the concluding day of this year’s festival, however, was one of his most impressive solo performances to date.

An imagination-fueled British hit has a young man’s male and female lovers squaring off.

New Theatre’s Ricky J. Martinez debuts the second play in his ‘Island Trilogy’

Japanese sisters Ayaka and Yuka Yamamoto, who have been performing together for four years as Duo Yamamoto, won the gold medal and $25,000 top prize Thursday night at the 12th Dranoff International 2 Piano Competition in Coral Gables. The pair triumphed with their interpretation of Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor.

Twenty-year old Russian pianist Nikolay Khozyainov demonstrated substance over style in the opening concert of the Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery series, delivering a compelling evening of masterworks that revealed a young artist more concerned with music than notes.

Russian baritone Alexey Lavrov offered a generous sampling of Russian and Italian opera arias and songs by German, French, Russian and Italian composers in a terrific recital that closed the Friends of Chamber Music season Wednesday night.

At dinner-party-like ‘atelier nights,’ Copperbox chef Gabriela Machado is wowing diners with her artful food

Falling in love means taking a risk, and Rudi Goblen takes plenty of risks in his new solo theater piece, PET.

At the opening concert of the Mainly Mozart Festival, the most interesting work was not by Mozart. It was by the Hungarian composer Ernõ Dohnányi, whose long life took him from the rich musical world of late 19th century Budapest to a grave in Tallahassee, where he died in 1960 after several years at Florida State University. Although Dohnányi’s reputation has faded somewhat, his works are still played, and on Sunday the Amernet String Quartet gave an intense, committed performance of his String Quartet No. 2.

Miami choreographer, performer, producer and teacher Octavio Campos, who has mentored countless South Florida artists, begins a two-week residency on Monday at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Legendary founder Mikhail Baryshnikov was so struck by Campos’ performances with the Rosie Herrera Dance Theater that he invited Campos to start creating a work at BAC.

When the Spanish came to the Americas, artistic expressions of the two cultures became entertwined — much like the peoples themselves

At the opening for Miami artist Jillian Mayer’s exhibition “Precipice/PostModem” at Locust Projects in the Design District, visitors were asked to do something that is never asked of them in traditional museums and galleries: Touch and interact with the art. For example, in the piece Swing Space, guests are invited to take a ride on one of four swings hanging from the roof of the gallery while they watch a projection of digitally manipulated cloud imagery in front of them. This came as a pleasant surprise to many of the art patrons who passed through the gallery’s doors, including freelance photographer Tesoro Carolina.

An anonymous donor has given $12 million in cash and more than $3 million worth of art to the future Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Cannonball Miami is bringing L.A. artists here to create work and waves

An artwork by secretive graffiti artist Banksy that sparked controversy when it disappeared from the side of a north London store has been put up for sale in the U.K., months after it was yanked from the block in Miami.

Only 38, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has amassed a portfolio and recognition at a pace that set him apart.

Celebrated Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who is competing to remake Miami Beach’s dated convention center, has been hailed and scrutinized for his mastery of large-scale design and his provocative writings.

“Thomas A. Spain: A Retrospective” features drawings and paintings by a longtime University of Miami architecture professor.

Hollywood leaders aren’t so happy with the creative piece a well-known muralist created for downtown.

A pair of Miami exhibitions link art with urban life.

‘Voces: Rebel.’ 10-11 p.m. Friday. WPBT-PBS 2.

‘Save Me.’ 8:30 p.m. Thursday. NBC.

‘The Ghost Army.’ 8 p.m. Tuesday. WPBT-PBS 2.

Bill Hader is leaving "Saturday Night Live" after an eight-year run.

As a child in Puerto Rico, Ismael Cruz was delighted by the colorful characters on Sesame Street, who not only entertained and educated him, but helped him learn “ingls.” He could not have imagined that two decades later, he would be joining them in front of the cameras.

‘10 Buildings That Changed America.’ 10 p.m. Sunday. WPBT-PBS 2.

When Doctor Who calls, Neil Gaiman listens. At least, when producer Steven Moffat calls with irresistible bait.

The third book in Rick Atkinson’s World War II trilogy is grim, depressing and a terrific read.

Khaled Hosseini writes a meandering, yet complex and compelling novel about generations connected by a Kabul villa

A historian explores the country, looking for important spots that our nation has mostly forgotten.

Debut novel from Laura Lee Smith explores a fractured family living in a fictional small town on the cusp of change.

John le Carré entertains with his lyrical style in his intriguing suspense novel.

A gutsy Paul Theroux endures a solo trip to the place he explored decades ago.

“I just read a first novel by Holly Goddard Jones, The Next Time You See Me and Jamie Quattro’s first short story collection I Want To Show You More. They’re both young writers, and I think both are so fresh. They just have striking voices.”

South Florida lends itself to people stripping down. Celebs, residents and tourists do it all the time. Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is no exception.

A journalist finds quirky people and entertaining tales on the back roads of the Sunshine State

Stephen King’s sons offer moving and satisfying novels, one about a cruel world, the other about a thwarted filmmaker.

Jennifer Gilmore turns her own experiences with the dehumanizing adoption process into a novel.

“The Best of Us by Sarah Pekkanen. It’s a fun summer read about girlfriends. I’m always drawn to stories about friendship. And I’m looking forward to reading Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings.”

You may not recognize Robert Taylor as anyone other than the title character he plays on the crime drama "Longmire." But he's no newcomer.

Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty."

Darius Rucker is a fan of Old Crow Medicine Show, but says he didn't really get what was so infectious about the string band's signature hit "Wagon Wheel" at first.

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

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