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Rapper Eve is 31. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/top-story/story/1323762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/top-story/story/1323762.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday night at Miami Dade College with novelist Margaret Atwood, poet Elizabeth Alexander and a fingers-crossed hope that troublesome Topical Storm Ida keeps heading north. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/top-story/story/1320494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/top-story/story/1320494.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The inspiration for the upcoming A Very Wolfsonian Weekend Gala -- which includes visits to classic-car museums, a talk by renowned car designer Chris Bangle and Mitchell ``Micky'' Wolfson's 70th birthday party -- began, of course, with the art of design at the Wolfsonian-FIU on Miami Beach, founded by Wolfson. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/top-story/story/1320507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/top-story/story/1320507.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Barbara Kingsolver jokes that whenever she publishes a novel she apparently turns into a railway station because, according to reviewers, ''I only do departures.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/107689.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/107689.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Lydia Martin dishes with the famous and infamous http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/696932.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/696932.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Author lectures, book signings and more Nov. 8-15 http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700320.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700320.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:04 EDT Looking inside herself for a 'true-life' story http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700319.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700319.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:04 EDT The Men Who Stare at Goats (R) ** | Super soldiers in Iraq have nothing to do http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700312.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700312.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Sultry song inspired Benny Moré bio http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/775074.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/775074.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Fine, fairly priced food in an upscale setting at Satoro http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700321.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1002/story/700321.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:04 EDT Joan Rivers brings laughs to Arsht http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/698391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/698391.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:07 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687183.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687183.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:13 EDT All your favorites http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687182.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687182.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:12 EDT Crossword, Sudoku, Jumble & more http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687181.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687181.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:10 EDT Today's winning numbers http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687180.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/687180.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:08 EDT Know before you go out today. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/698263.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/inside/story/698263.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:51 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324945.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324945.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There was a time when no one was allowed to laugh about breast cancer -- much less wax sarcastic or cynical, ironic or arch about it -- because breast cancer usually meant disfigurement and often meant death. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324960.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324960.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Becky Gulsvig has been awash in pink, onstage anyway, since she began playing various roles in the cast of the musical Legally Blonde during its Broadway run from mid-2007 until the fall of 2008. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324941.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324941.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST American films have been wallowing in erotic voyeurism for, oh, about 103 years, since Thomas Edison's film The Kiss. (Edison's own review of his 47-second film: ``They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.'') http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1325319.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1325319.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Barbara Kingsolver would like to thank you, Miami.<p/> As part of what she calls ``evangelizing for literature,'' the author of the beloved novels The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible told a full house Monday night at Miami Book Fair International that ``the real beating heart of democracy is the place people love books. I salute you for your love of reading.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324937.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324937.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST After reading Madison Smartt Bell's new novel, one can see why Mrs. Gump named her slow-witted boy after Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Like the Haitian liberator Toussaint L'ouverture, another historical figure Bell has written about, Forrest was a self-taught military genius. Irregular tactics and hellish courage made him one of the most successful and colorful leaders of the Civil War. His casus belli was not only the noble-sounding notion of states' rights. A millionaire slave trader, he had literal skin in the game. Still, readers may have trouble disliking him. Bell has imbued this controversial hero with qualities that offset his sins. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324962.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1324962.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST These days, when literature springs from mere experience and memoirs are justified by a change in eating habits, it seems fitting to remark on the heritage of Lydia Davis. Her father, Robert Gorham Davis, was a literary critic and author. He taught literature at Harvard (where he urged Norman Mailer to submit his first short story to Story magazine), Smith (where he taught Sylvia Plath) and Columbia. He died in 1998. Davis' mother was also a writer, an active feminist and communist. She died in 2004. Davis was married to Paul Auster. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323762.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday night at Miami Dade College with novelist Margaret Atwood, poet Elizabeth Alexander and a fingers-crossed hope that troublesome Topical Storm Ida keeps heading north. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323761.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323761.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The New World Symphony's Sounds of the Times series delved into the New York state of mind with a sampling of contemporary scores by members of the Bang on a Can collective conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky Saturday night at the Lincoln Theater. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323703.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323703.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Broadway legend Bernadette Peters seems the perfect choice to entertain 400 society types in an overnight arts fundraiser aboard a brand new luxury liner. Perfect, except that Peters hates the water ``like Natalie Wood,'' according to close friend and stage director Richard Jay-Alexander. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323763.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1323763.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Here are Monday's events at Miami Book Fair International at Miami Dade College, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami. Tickets for ``Evenings With . . .'' events can be downloaded at www.miamibookfair.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1320493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/story/1320493.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''God gave unto the Animals / A wisdom past our power to see,'' goes a hymn sung by God's Gardeners, the ecologically minded, deeply spiritual but eminently practical religious cult in Margaret Atwood's fire-breathing new novel, The Year of the Flood. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325219.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325219.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Actor Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island) is 85. Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer is 62. Actress-dancer Ann Reinking is 60. Actor Jack Scalia is 59. Comedian Sinbad is 53. Actress Mackenzie Phillips is 50. Comedian Tommy Davidson (In Living Color) is 46. Actor Michael Jai White is 45. Comedian Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) is 41. Actress Ellen Pompeo is 40. Actress Brittany Murphy is 32. Rapper Eve is 31. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325229.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325229.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Just a day after performing at the Latin Grammy Awards in Sin City, singer David Bisbal was spotted walking the red carpet at the Spain-United States Chamber of Commerce's 30th annual gala at the Biltmore on Friday night. The singer attended with pregnant girlfriend Elena Tablada. Bisbal, who received the Universal Spaniard Award, gave a surprise performance to an enthralled crowd. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325226.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325226.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The wait is over. Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom shared their wedding with viewers Sunday night on the two-hour season opener of E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325238.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325238.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST DINNER<p/>6 p.m.<p/>Bourbon Steak offers a four-course dinner created specially by executive Chef Gabriel Fenton and paired with fine wines hand-selected by sommelier Matthew Turner. The cost is $75 per person. 19999 W. Country Club Dr., Aventura, 786-279-6600. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325228.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1325228.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Pop singer Alejandro Sanz's last record, El Tren de los Momentos, came out three years ago amid a slew of troubles for the Spanish heartthrob: his father died; he divorced his wife, Mexican model Jaydy Michel, mother of his daughter Manuela; a couple who worked at Sanz's Miami Beach home were accused of blackmailing him with information that he had a son in an affair; and Sanz had a nervous breakdown that forced a months-long hiatus in a concert tour. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323703.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323703.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Broadway legend Bernadette Peters seems the perfect choice to entertain 400 society types in an overnight arts fundraiser aboard a brand new luxury liner. Perfect, except that Peters hates the water ``like Natalie Wood,'' according to close friend and stage director Richard Jay-Alexander. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323704.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323704.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Jim Carrey's Scrooge collected holiday donations from movie fans with his new take on A Christmas Carol, which took in $31 million to open as the weekend's top movie. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323700.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323700.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST TRY Heidi (no last name necessary) is hot. The supermodel, who just gave birth to daughter Lou, is the driving force behind her own line of makeup, the Heidi Collection: Exotic Jewels for Victoria's Secret Beauty. The Project Runway host says she was inspired by her travels to India, where she renewed her vows with rocker Seal. The colors are gorgeous as is the gold embellished packaging. We like the Luminous Face Powder Gems, little spheres to give you her new mom's glow. $22 at victoriassecret.com. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323694.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323694.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Actor Charlie Robinson (Night Court) is 64. Actor Robert David Hall (CSI) is 61. Actor Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) is 58. Rapper Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa is 40. Musician Susan Tedeschi is 39. Actor Eric Dane (Grey's Anatomy) is 37. Singer Nick Lachey is 36. Singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 31. Actress Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) is 21. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323710.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1323710.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST VETERANS 9 a.m. The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a traveling multimedia recording studio, is calling on citizens to honor veterans by sharing memories to be used to create a documentary reflecting the sacrifice made by Miami Beach soldiers in honor of Veteran's Day. The bus will be parked in front of the The Betsy Hotel at 1440 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, until 6 p.m. lennonbus.org/veterans. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1322569.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/1322569.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Her face has, hmmm, changed over the years, but the way she talks is vintage Joan Rivers. ''Someone told me -- and I hate the term -- stars have very distinct voices. You know Cher, immediately. You know Liza, immediately,'' says Rivers, who performs Wednesday night in Miami. ''When I was a little girl, I picked up the phone and someone said, 'Little boy, put your mother on.' I almost died. Now, Chastity Bono would have loved that!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1320508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1320508.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BIG SCREEN 2012 (PG-13) -- Disaster magnet Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) returns to destroy our planet -- again. John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Amanda Peet are among the humans trying to make sense of the impending apocalypse. Remember when Irwin Allen made those star-studded disaster flicks in the 1970s? Those were awesome. Emmerich's, not so much. But they sure look awesome. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317463.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317463.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival: The 24th annual event moves into its final week of new features, documentaries and shorts from around the globe plus parties, seminars and films for kids. Filmmakers are featured at many of the events; through Nov. 11; Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale (unless otherwise noted); $10, $8 seniors and students, $6 FLIFF members (unless otherwise noted) A $25 donation is suggested at some of the screenings and is tax deductible. See website for details and to confirm schedule. 954-525-3456 or www.fliff.com: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317462.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317462.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST No one can definitely say 1959's North By Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock's best movie -- how to choose? -- but from first frame to last, it may well be his most entertaining. The first of Hitchcock's pictures to appear on the Blu-ray format (Warner Home Video, $35), the film has been given a $1 million restoration, and to say it looks utterly fantastic on high-definition -- one of the most astounding Blu-ray transfers to date -- is probably an understatement. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1315608.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1315608.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead -- came not on the page, but on TV. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317455.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317455.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''More of this is true than you would believe,'' warns a title card at the start of The Men Who Stare at Goats, although the ever-reliable ''I know this sounds crazy, but . . .'' would have worked just as well. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1318141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1318141.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Could there possibly be anything left to gain from yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale about crabby old Ebenezer Scrooge and his life-changing encounter with three ghosts on Christmas Eve? In the case of Disney's A Christmas Carol, the answer is a surprising, resounding yes -- at least so far as the IMAX 3D version goes. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317458.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317458.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST How do you pad out a six-page short story that strives to be nothing more than a clever little morality tale into a feature-length film? By throwing in lots and lots of stuff -- practically everything but zombies. Check that: We've got two hours to fill here. Bring on the zombies, too! http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317454.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317454.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST You've heard about close encounters of the third kind, of course, the extraterrestrial meetings that involve contact, presumably of a benign nature. The fourth kind involves a more invasive sort of contact: alien abduction, possibly including those uncomfortable probes about which the true UFO believers are always so nervous. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317461.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1317461.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The name Moritz Bleibtreu means little to American moviegoers, so imagine the volcanic early Jack Nicholson. Bleibtreu plays Andreas Baader, a volatile West German thug who led a terrorist gang called the Red Army Faction. His struggles to smash the state seem like the temper tantrums of a gun-slinging infant. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1312746.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1312746.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When it came to making movies quickly and cheaply, it was hard to beat Roger Corman, who once joked that he could make a film about the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush. He directed 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors in two days. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1308412.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies/news/story/1308412.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Everything about An Education, the story of a 16-year-old girl's affair with a 30-year-old man in London in 1962, comes together in a way that gives the movie the feel of an instant classic. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1323703.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1323703.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Broadway legend Bernadette Peters seems the perfect choice to entertain 400 society types in an overnight arts fundraiser aboard a brand new luxury liner. Perfect, except that Peters hates the water ``like Natalie Wood,'' according to close friend and stage director Richard Jay-Alexander. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1319556.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1319556.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST John Radanovich is obsessive about jazz, so much so that he moved from one great jazz town to another, just to immerse himself in it. Chicago. New York. New Orleans. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1319391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1319391.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:02 EST Subversive reggaetoneros Calle 13 were the big winners at the 10th Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night, while elderly Cuban diva Omara Portuondo made history by not only being the first Cuban artist from the island to appear on the telecast, but the first to win an award on the air. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1319554.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1319554.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The contemporary-music scene of New York comes south this weekend, as the New World Symphony adds an electric guitar to its roster for a performance of works by three of the city's most prominent living composers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1317456.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1317456.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Nonpoint: On sale from 10 a.m. Saturday; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 26; REV; $17-$19. Taylor Swift: On sale from Friday; 7 p.m. March 7; BAC; $27.75-$62.25. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1317310.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1317310.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The ''gay positive'' band BETTY performs on the edge, making its three performers the perfect headliners for Robbie Rosenberg's new festival project, Out in the Tropics. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1317543.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1317543.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:46 EST With nominations in five categories including album of the year, the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is a favorite to win a Latin Grammy in Las Vegas - which might have producers of the international awards ceremony on edge. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1313583.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1313583.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Omara Portuondo could be any Cuban grandmother, if that grandmother were a world-famous singer with tales to tell (and keep) about 60 years of music and celebrity and separation. Sequestered in a downtown Miami hotel, this legend of Cuban music, elegant and consummately professional at 79, wears a spangled black headscarf for photographs on a rare day of interviews. Her feet, however, are nestled into white athletic socks and flat, cork-soled sandals. When she sings -- and she sings several times -- the room seems to vibrate with the emotion in her voice. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1314871.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1314871.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00 EST When the Latin Grammy Awards are presented for the 10th time on Thursday, there will be plenty of cause for celebration.<p/> The awards, which honor the top musical artists throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, are extremely popular. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1311576.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1311576.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There will be nothing fancy about Jewel's Tuesday concert at the Fillmore. That's not the way she rolls. ''It's just me and my guitar,'' says the country-folk-pop singer from Durham, N.C., a stop on her tour. ''I don't do set lists. Every show is different.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1307963.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/music/story/1307963.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Just in time for Halloween, Anthony Daniels is taking off the costume. You may have a hard time recognizing the actor, but then you hear that unmistakable voice . . . It's C-3PO. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1323762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1323762.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday night at Miami Dade College with novelist Margaret Atwood, poet Elizabeth Alexander and a fingers-crossed hope that troublesome Topical Storm Ida keeps heading north. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320493.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320493.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST ''God gave unto the Animals / A wisdom past our power to see,'' goes a hymn sung by God's Gardeners, the ecologically minded, deeply spiritual but eminently practical religious cult in Margaret Atwood's fire-breathing new novel, The Year of the Flood. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320496.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320496.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day, the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into office, was in the making for almost half a century, surely for three generations: The grandmother who sang lullabies, poetry set to music. The parents who took their 1-year-old daughter to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. The husband who emptied the house of the two boys, because, more than anything, Alexander needed hushed space to muster words and thoughts, then distill them into something beautiful, powerful, memorable. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320503.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320503.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Journalists are never the story. They look instead to the world at large, interviewing, researching and seeking objective truth. Jeannette Walls knows this approach well, having worked for 20 years as a journalist in New York City -- including a stint as a gossip columnist -- before her first nonfiction book, The Glass Castle, was released in 2005. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320494.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320494.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The inspiration for the upcoming A Very Wolfsonian Weekend Gala -- which includes visits to classic-car museums, a talk by renowned car designer Chris Bangle and Mitchell ``Micky'' Wolfson's 70th birthday party -- began, of course, with the art of design at the Wolfsonian-FIU on Miami Beach, founded by Wolfson. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320507.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320507.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Barbara Kingsolver jokes that whenever she publishes a novel she apparently turns into a railway station because, according to reviewers, ''I only do departures.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320501.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320501.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Orhan Pamuk is a man in love. So is Kemal, the narrator of Pamuk's shimmering, brimming new novel The Museum of Innocence (Knopf, $28.95). http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320498.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320498.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If most biographers start out in love with their subjects and end up hating them, Brad Gooch did things backward as he researched his highly regarded biography of southern writer Flannery O'Connor. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320509.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320509.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Every year, Miami Book Fair International generates high expectations among Spanish-language readers who enthusiastically greet authors from throughout the Hispanic world. But the fair also gives writers from the United States, Canada and Miami the opportunity to present their books in Spanish and to mingle with their English-language colleagues. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320497.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320497.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST If President Bill Clinton hadn't challenged House Speaker Newt Gingrich's penny-pinching, tax-relieving budget proposals in 1995, allowing the federal government to shut down several times, there might have been no Monica Lewinsky scandal. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320499.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/story/1320499.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST President Obama has appointed Ricky Arriola, chairman of the Performing Arts Center Trust board of directors, to his 25-member President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Arriola, whose independent board manages the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, will serve with an A-list panel that includes actors Sara Jessica Parker, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, Kerry Washington and Alfre Woodard, plus Teresa Heinz Kerry, Victoria Kennedy, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, dancer Damian Woetzel, playwright/director George C. Wolfe, film producer Liz Manne and fashion-publishing legend Anna Wintour. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1319567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1319567.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Nearly three weeks after food-world royalty Ruth Reichl got the staggering news that Gourmet, the venerated culinary magazine she ushered into the 21st century, was shutting down after a 68-year run, she was still at a loss as to what she might do next. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1317457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1317457.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Rule No. 1 when opening a restaurant: Give potential diners clear directions as to where it is. Let us save you some trouble. Obba Sushi is tucked inside the lobby of the Brickell Harbour Condo. Not that the menu, which was dropped off at my office, tells you that. If it had, it probably would have saved 30 minutes of my life. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315731.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315731.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A voluptuous young woman greets patrons with a welcoming smile at the door of Satoro Restaurant & Lounge. Step inside, and the place is as sultry as the hostess -- clubby and urban with soft lighting, white leather seats and warm orange accents. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315261.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Charlotte Bistro is a sassy little flirt. From the moment you catch a glimpse inside the tight-fitting dining room on Miracle Mile where swirly mirrors and framed prints compete for attention, you know this girl has got ambition. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315258.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315258.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Persian food is as complex as those intricate flying carpets of legend, mingling threads from the Middle East and India. I first encountered it at Southern Illinois University at parties hosted by Iranian students who would serve up platters of saffron rice and sweet and sour stews in mysterious sauces. Years later, on a trip to India, I renewed my acquaintance at Irani restaurants in Mumbai. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315549.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1315549.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST THURSDAY Archie's Lunch Special: Get the lunch menu for $6.95 with purchase of any drink. Choose from a soup and salad combo or from a selection of pizzas, calzones, salads and pastas; noon-3 p.m. everyday; Archie's Gourmet Pizza, 166 Giralda Ave., Coral Gables. 305-444-1447. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1305911.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1305911.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT EAT: My husband and I walked into an Asian noodle bar named Wagamama in London 12 years ago and fell in love. Sure, we were on our honeymoon, but I'm talking about the noodles and the atmosphere: strangers shoulder-to-shoulder on benches at cafeteria-style tables, slurping steaming bowls of ramen, udon and soba noodles. We returned to Miami Wagamama-less. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1304261.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1304261.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Is it safe to host a get-together when H1N1 flu threatens to crash your party? It's a question many people may be asking this year as the fall party season coincides with an anxiety-provoking flu season. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1304207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1304207.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Dadeland Plaza Mall on South Dixie Highway in Pinecrest looks like the usual jumble of strip shops. But tucked between For Eyes and Muscle Max is a world of restaurants stretching from Asia (Japan and Vietnam) to Brooklyn (Roasters 'n Toasters). We opted for three European menus and found ourselves transported -- without the flight or exchange rate. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1303692.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1303692.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT When it opened in 1989, Bimini Boatyard became the hot place to go on Fort Lauderdale's 17th Street Causeway. Fancy cars filled the parking lots, mega yachts docked out back and people-watching was over the top. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1303690.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/story/1303690.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The homey Central American dishes at Café La Union attract a mixed crowd, from construction workers to artists, who grab stools at the long counter in back for a meal or snack or drop by in the evening to have a few beers, shoot pool and watch sports or play tunes on the jukebox. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1324941.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1324941.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST American films have been wallowing in erotic voyeurism for, oh, about 103 years, since Thomas Edison's film The Kiss. (Edison's own review of his 47-second film: ``They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.'') http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1324939.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1324939.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When Maura Buete arrived home after a meeting one Monday evening, she wasn't surprised to see the television tuned to Nickelodeon. She lets her four children, ages 11 and under, watch SpongeBob Squarepants. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1322569.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1322569.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Her face has, hmmm, changed over the years, but the way she talks is vintage Joan Rivers. ''Someone told me -- and I hate the term -- stars have very distinct voices. You know Cher, immediately. You know Liza, immediately,'' says Rivers, who performs Wednesday night in Miami. ''When I was a little girl, I picked up the phone and someone said, 'Little boy, put your mother on.' I almost died. Now, Chastity Bono would have loved that!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1320508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1320508.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BIG SCREEN 2012 (PG-13) -- Disaster magnet Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) returns to destroy our planet -- again. John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Amanda Peet are among the humans trying to make sense of the impending apocalypse. Remember when Irwin Allen made those star-studded disaster flicks in the 1970s? Those were awesome. Emmerich's, not so much. But they sure look awesome. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1311682.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1311682.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Call the Chamber of Commerce Police. Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled is an egregious insult to our community, a vicious slight of our importance to the state and our role in making Florida a source of national dumbfoundment. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1308421.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1308421.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1308424.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1308424.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN The Box (PG-13): -- After the spectacular failure of his ambitious second film Southland Tales, writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box. Push its button, and you become instantly wealthy -- but someone, somewhere, drops dead. Would you do it? Come on, you know you would. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1307797.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1307797.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Q: Will Chuck with Zachary Levi ever return to NBC? It was totally campy and fun. A: The network renewed the series for a third season, thanks especially to a sponsorship deal with the Subway sandwich chain. The network plans to bring it back in March, after Winter Olympics coverage. When NBC dumped Southland before that drama began its second season, there was some hope Chuck would return sooner, but there's been nothing official on that. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1303694.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1303694.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Let's be clear here: I am not saying FX's new sitcom The League isn't funny. I'm just saying it's not for everybody. If you're sensitive about deviant sex, for instance -- or even normal sex, if it's had in restaurant restrooms -- you might want to give the show a pass. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1296956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1296956.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Michael Jackson: This Is It (PG) -- High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, who was collaborating with the singer on a series of London concerts, culls a concert film and cinematic memorial (with some sequences in 3D) from the hundreds of hours of footage taped during Jackson's rehearsals for the shows. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1296341.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/tv/story/1296341.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Q: I have watched every episode of Sons of Anarchy. However, I still do not understand where the name ''Sam Crow'' came from. What did I miss? Why do they refer to themselves as Sam Crow? http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/1071234.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/1071234.html Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01 EDT The video-game store looks more like a multiplex during the summer months, with just about every blockbuster action movie getting an interactive tie-in. More than half of the films on last week's box-office top 10 list have related games. Next weekend, you'll be able to watch Pixar's Up on the big screen, then grab the game on your way home. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/540387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/540387.html Tue, 20 May 2008 16:29 EDT The Nintendo Wii has already done what video game naysayers said couldn't be done -- get children and adults off the couch with active games such as Wii Sports. The innovative Wii Fit takes it a step farther by creating a virtual gym in your living room that helps families incorporate fitness, as well as the escapist fun of video games, into their daily routine. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/516647.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/516647.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT Grand Theft Auto IV is all about the American Dream. An immigrant comes to this country with dreams of escaping his past and building his fortunes. But instead of finding streets paved in gold, he finds a city where hookers and hustlers work the streets and crime is a way of life and the only way to survive. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/249801.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/249801.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:05 EDT The gamers stood in line for hours, from Los Angeles to Miami. Three years without a Halo fix and the day finally arrived. At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, thousands of fans rushed inside stores across the nation to reach the holy grail of video games - a copy of Halo 3. Was it worth the wait? http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/248649.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/248649.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:00 EDT The week belongs to Halo 3. Does it really matter what else is out in stores? For those few gamers without the Halo fever, CSI 4: Hard Evidence is also debuting. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/241194.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/241194.html Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:10 EDT This week the Sims franchise comes to the Wii, street racing gets Juiced and composer Frederic Chopin stars in Eternal Sonata. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/232885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/232885.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:35 EDT Gamers are in for a tough choice this week: competing NHL titles, a promising action-adventure game for the Playstation 3 and a skateboarding simulator. Decisions, decisions, decisions. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325535.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325535.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:32 EST Action star Donnie Yen says he signed on to play an ancient Chinese secret service agent in his new film - even though it was another kung fu epic - because he wanted to tackle the role of a villain who discovers his humanity. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325487.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325487.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12 EST A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing David Letterman plans to ask a judge to dismiss an extortion case that prompted the late-night comic to acknowledge affairs with staffers. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325408.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325408.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:07 EST On the eve of a hearing in the Michael Jackson estate, a lawyer for the singer's father filed a 60-page motion Monday that intensifies a bid to get money from his son's estate by making accusations of fraud against the administrators of his will. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325346.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325346.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:32 EST Even for a venue as grand as New York's Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year awards. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325212.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325212.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:22 EST Mya is tops on "Dancing With the Stars." http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325066.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1325066.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:52 EST Another executive at The Walt Disney Co.'s movie studio is exiting hurriedly as the company's troubles continue at the box office with a weak opening for "A Christmas Carol." http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324968.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324968.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12 EST Mutual of Omaha may have had its own "aha moment." The insurance company has decided to settle its lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey's production company over rights to the phrase. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324916.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:52 EST A judge on Monday ordered a woman to stay away from Justin Timberlake for the next three years. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324909.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:47 EST A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded after a 200-pound chimpanzee attacked her in February is set to appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324798.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:27 EST Jennifer Lopez won a court order Monday barring her first husband from making their sex life public - at least for a day. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324738.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/1324738.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:07 EST It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr. Fox" offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/weekend-planner/story/1294375.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/weekend-planner/story/1294375.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Take-no-prisoners playwright Neil LaBute skewers modern relationships yet again, with Time magazine declaring his new work ``the best new Broadway play of the season.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/weekend-planner/story/770133.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/weekend-planner/story/770133.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:01 EST See Michael Paul Levin as George Gershwin in The Soul of Gershwin: The Musical Journey of an American Klezmer, a 23-song theatrical concert.