Physically ripped and emotionally expansive, the Haitian dance troupe Ayikodans returned to Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday evening. The swell of emotion that surrounded the troupe’s performance there a year ago, as community leaders gathered to support a company on the verge of collapse after the Haitian earthquake, has leveled off somewhat. And that made it easier to look at the troupe and its work.

The last time <span class="bold">Kathy Griffin</span> played South Florida, she stayed on Star Island with pal <span class="bold">Gloria Estefan</span>, who dared the bawdy comedienne to toss her bikini top.

Hatfields & McCoys. 9-11 p.m. Monday. History Channel.

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Ellen DeGeneres, who got her start as a stand-up comic, has been selected to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. When the announcement was made, she wondered, given the honorees of years past, why she had not been tapped sooner.

Taschen launches a limited edition photo book on The Beatles that features iconic pictures by Harry Benson.

Taschen launches a limited edition photo book on The Beatles that features iconic pictures by Harry Benson.

Nathan Lieberman considers a particularly tasteless photo op and wonders aloud: “Would André Balazs do this?”

After Sunday’s dramatic downpour inside the Arsht Center, authorities decided the repairs are far enough along to reopen Tuesday for ‘The Lion King’

A year after a triumphant Miami performance, Jeanguy Saintus and his Ayikodans dance troupe still struggle against formidable odds.

Robin Gibb, one of the Bee Gees, loses his battle with pneumonia and dies at age 62 in England.

A group of evangelical Christians traveled to this weekend’s Exxxotica in Miami Beach to share the gospel and help porn addicts.

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One hundred years ago, Arthur Murray began dancing, and now his legacy lives on from the corporate headquarters in Coral Gables and around the world.

If this were an episode of <span class="italic">CSI : Miami</span>, David Caruso would look grimly into the camera. “The only thing dead around here,” he’d say, pausing a beat to whip off his omnipresent sunglasses, “is <span class="italic">my show</span>!” Then the TV screen would fade to black with the news that <span class="italic">CSI: Miami</span> has been canceled after 10 seasons.

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Actor <span class="bold">Christopher Lee</span> is 90. Actress <span class="bold"> Lee Meriwether</span> is 77. Actor <span class="bold">Louis Gossett Jr. </span>is 76. Actor <span class="bold">Bruce Weitz</span> is 69. Singer <span class="bold"> Bruce Cockburn </span>is 67. Actor <span class="bold">Richard Schiff</span> (“The West Wing”) is 57. Singer <span class="bold">Siouxsie Sioux</span> of Siouxsie and the Banshees is 55. Actress <span class="bold"> Peri Gilpin</span> (“Frasier”) is 51. Comedian <span class="bold">Adam Carolla </span>is 48. Actor <span class="bold">Todd Bridges </span>(“Diff’rent Strokes”) is 47. Actor <span class="bold">Paul Bettany</span> (“A Beautiful Mind”) is 41. Rapper <span class="bold">Andre 3000</span> of Outkast is 37. Actor <span class="bold">Chris Colfer</span> (“Glee”) is 22. Actor <span class="bold"> Ethan Dampf </span>(“American Dreams”) is 18.

Drumme <span class="bold">r Garry Peterson</span> of The Guess Who is 67. Singer <span class="bold">Stevie Nicks </span>is 64. Actor <span class="bold"> Philip Michael Thomas </span>(“Miami Vice”) is 63. Actress <span class="bold">Pam Grier</span> is 63. Country singer <span class="bold">Hank Williams Jr.</span> is 63. Actress <span class="bold">Genie Francis</span> is 50. Comedian <span class="bold">Bobcat Goldthwait </span>is 50. Singer <span class="bold"> Lenny Kravitz </span>is 48. Actress <span class="bold"> Helena Bonham Carter</span> is 46. Actor <span class="bold">Joseph Fiennes</span> (“Shakespeare in Love”) is 42. Singer <span class="bold"> Joey Kibble</span> of Take 6 is 41. “South Park” co-creator <span class="bold">Matt Stone</span> is 41. Bassist <span class="bold">Nathan Cochran </span>of MercyMe is 34.

Keira Knightley, the glamorous star of <span class="italic">Pirates of the Caribbean</span>, is engaged. The groom to be is James Righton, keyboard player for rock group Klaxons. The couple have been dating since early last year. Previously the <span class="italic">Bend it Like Beckham</span> star, 27, had dated actor Rupert Friend, her costar in <span class="italic">Pride & Prejudice. </span>

The chemistry between Johnny Depp, 48, and Amber Heard, 26, in last year’s <span class="italic">The Rum Diary</span>, about Hunter Thompson’s exploits in Puerto Rico, wasn’t an act, so says the rumor mill. The two former costars have been seen getting more than chummy lately, and she even took a ride aboard the star’s private jet. Depp and his partner of 14 years, Vanessa Paradis, denied rumors of a split in January, but have not been seen together since.

Fifteen years into their relationship, <span class="bold">Will Smith</span> and <span class="bold">Tommy Lee Jones </span>are like an old married couple, intimately familiar with each other’s habits and quirks.

Variety reports that New Line is developing a script “based on the life of famed Miami nightclub owner <span class="bold">Chris Paciello</span>.” A subject we thought was as over as Paciello’s former night club Liquid. But apparently Atlas Entertainment thinks the resurrection of Miami nights past is celluloid-worthy and has tapped Emmy winning writer <span class="bold">Adam Mazer</span>, author of HBO’s acclaimed Kevorkian biopic <span class="italic">You Don’t </span> <span class="italic">Know Jack</span>, to come up with an original screenplay. (Fact checking note to Mazer: Paciello, who did date <span class="italic">Modern Family</span> bombshell <span class="bold">Sofia Vergara</span>, never, ever, dated Madonna).

Donald Trump’s Miss USA pageant is keeping up with the Kardashians. Rob Kardashian will be among the celeb judges at the 61st annual pageant June 3 in Vegas. Ex Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky and pop star Joe Jonas also will help name the next beauty queen. Tireless reality stars Andy Cohen and Giuliana Rancic host.

Tour Little Havana, rock out with salsa dancing and mariachis, visit art galleries, sip a mojito and play dominoes at <span class="bold">Viernes Culturales,</span> the monthly cultural event in the heart of Little Havana. Free. SW Eighth Street. between 14 & 17th avenues, Miami; www.viernesculturales.org.

Juanes’ latest mission: getting kids off the street and tapping into their creative side. The Colombian superstar, 39, sat down for a chat with Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer at Noisematch Studios about the singer’s work with the World Bank to teach music, culture and arts to wayward Latin American kids. “Art and education can save your life and connect you to the world,’’ said Juanes, who releases his highly anticipated Juanes MTV Unplugged album Tuesday. “Don’t be afraid, you can do whatever you want, not just what society tells you.’’ The interview airs 9 p.m. on CNN en Espanol on “Oppenheimer Presenta’’ and is the focus of the editorial writer’s weekly column.

A stylish but cozy Italian spot has opened on the Upper East Side. The food is light and flavorful with Miami touches in dishes like quinoa with black beans, mango and mozzarella and chunky tuna tartare with local avocado and blackberry coulis.

You don’t have to keep kosher to enjoy the large portions of health-oriented food at West Avenue Café.

Italian food from a strip-center pizzeria is made for mobility. It’s hearty, plentiful and can withstand the rigors of a takeout container. But, ho-hum, it’s also dominated by garlic-oil-soaked rolls and circular tins of spaghetti.

With about a half dozen high profile closings, the time has come for restaurants to retool their concepts or throw in the towel.

Cane a Sucre, a Design District favorite done in six years ago by road construction and rent hikes, has been reborn as a gourmet sandwich bar in North Miami.

Reflections on the lost flavors of a Cuban childhood.

Call it Sakaya Kitchen, the sequel. Fans of the 3-year-old Midtown restaurant can now get their fix of yummy Asian-inspired dishes in a new downtown location.

A menu of lichen, pine needles and hay once again has trumped classic cuisines in a ranking of the world’s top restaurants.

South Florida has plenty of hybrid Thai-Japanese places, but glatt kosher Thai Treat in North Miami adds Indian to the mix.

Robin Gibb, one of the Bee Gees, loses his battle with pneumonia and dies at age 62 in England.

Pop’s most successful female songwriter finally opens up about her past.

Donna Summer, whose many hits included the Oscar-winning ‘Last Dance,’ died of cancer in Naples, Fla.

<span class="bold">Adam Lambert</span>, <span class="italic">Trespassing</span> (RCA) ★&nbsp;★&nbsp;1/2

A catchy Brazilian pop song by heartthrob Michel Telo is a worldwide hit that has generated nearly half a billion YouTube hits. Now ‘Ai Se Eu Te Pego’ is beginning to wash over this country.

Not many bands even make it to one decade. But Tabou Combo, the Rolling Stones of Haitian <span class="italic">konpa</span>, have been rocking a deep Caribbean groove for 44 years. They’ve adapted disco, funk and hip-hop to their now-classic <span class="italic">konpa</span> sound, sung out on AIDS, the travails of immigration, the earthquake — and the perpetual appeal of dance and the opposite sex.

The string quartet is a Western music institution. Compact but with broad sonic and expressive range, it has inspired some of the greatest works in the European classical canon.

‘Cafe Brasil’ celebrates 10 years of samba, bossa nova and much more

Van Halen’s new album is called <span class="italic">A Different Kind of Truth,</span> but the inescapable truth is this: Once again, Van Halen has trouble with its lead singer.

The pop-music hit maker revisits his remarkable five-decade career in a Miami concert on Friday.

Her mother may have been born in a trunk, but since Day 1, <a href ="http://www.facebook.com/OfficialLiza" target="_blank">Liza Minnelli</a> has lived life in the glare of a spotlight.

Physically ripped and emotionally expansive, the Haitian dance troupe Ayikodans returned to Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday evening. The swell of emotion that surrounded the troupe’s performance there a year ago, as community leaders gathered to support a company on the verge of collapse after the Haitian earthquake, has leveled off somewhat. And that made it easier to look at the troupe and its work.

In David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Proof,’ a young woman who has inherited her father’s mathematical genius struggles with the idea that she may also share his madness. Katherine Michelle Tanner plays the daughter, Kenneth Kay her dad, and the cast also features Cliff Burgess and Sarah Grace Wilson. William Hayes directs the production at Palm Beach Dramaworks, 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday-Sunday (some 7 p.m. Sunday shows), through June 17. Tickets are $55 (students $10). Call 561-514-4042 or visit www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.

<span class="italic">Embedded: A Photojournalist Captures Conflict and Resistance, </span>a show drawn from 800 images photojournalist <span class="bold">Jim Nickless</span>, of Broward County, shot of CIA-funded Cuban rebels training to overthrow Fidel Castro, will be on view May 24-Aug. 11 at Miami Dade College’s <span class="bold">Freedom Tower Gallery</span>.

Drizzly, dreary weather didn’t prevent an excited audience from turning out to hear Brazilian pianist Fabio Martino make his South Florida debut at the Colony Theater as part of the Miami International Piano Festival.

A year after a triumphant Miami performance, Jeanguy Saintus and his Ayikodans dance troupe still struggle against formidable odds.

Area Stage Company’s Summer Conservatory is an intense theater preparation program designed to build Broadway’s future stars.

They may not be regulars at Cleveland Orchestra concerts, but the 17 middle and high school students who will strut their creative stuff on the stage of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s James L. Knight Concert Hall on Thursday have had a meaningful encounter with classical music.

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Julie Taymor’s vision is on abundant display as a record-setting musical visits Miami.

Young Brazilian pianist Fabio Martino’s face lights up when asked about his program for the Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery Series, which opens Thursday evening and runs through Sunday at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach.

Lang Lang was late for the telephone interview, having been busy at Carnegie Hall preparing for a recital. His mission at the hallowed New York City concert hall: Choosing the right piano.

The odd case of artist Enrique Gomez de Molina, whose Frankenstinian animal mashups (alas, some involving creatures on the endangered list) got him busted.

Haiti-born artist Edouard Duval Carrie’s current works play on light and life.

A Haitian-inspired fashion exhibit will serve as the backdrop for a panel discussion on the state of Haiti’s embattled culture after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

Two exhibitions of painting by Cuban-born artists reach beyond the familiar to enrich understanding of the island’s culture.

Approval from the U.S. Department of the Treasury might be required to see the next exhibit of works from the collection of Ella Fontanal-Cisneros. That’s because the Miami-based collector will be presenting an official exhibition at the 11th Havana Biennial, which runs from May 11 through June 11.

At Wynwood’s Margulies Warehouse, sculpture and images are more than cutting-edge artworks: they are also works of beauty.

“If I met a woman in the street who looked like my paintings, I’d faint.”

Miamian

Andy Royston hits the sand and surf early each morning to capture the scenes that most in South Florida take for granted, and then streams them online.

Peggy Levison Nolan was in her 40s when she was given her first camera. She had dropped out of school, married, had seven children and, then, divorced.

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Hatfields & McCoys. 9-11 p.m. Monday. History Channel.

And one with an interesting history. In 1982, the makers of the big-screen comedy <span class="italic">Airplane!</span> came to television with <span class="italic">Police Squad</span>, a parody of crime shows. Nielsen, who had also starred in <span class="italic">Airplane!</span>, played police detective Frank Drebin in the series. It was not a hit, but in 1988, Nielsen again played Drebin in <span class="italic">The Naked Gun</span>, and it proved a top 10 box-office hit. Sequels followed in 1991 ( <span class="italic">Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear</span>) and 1994 ( <span class="italic">Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult</span> 1994).

Nathan Lieberman considers a particularly tasteless photo op and wonders aloud: “Would André Balazs do this?”

For weeks, he shimmied and swayed his chiseled body to the salsa, the cha-cha-cha and the tango.

All this time I’ve been hate-watching and I never even knew it.

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Now that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are the candidates-apparent for their respective parties in this fall’s presidential election, attention is turning to their running mates. Will another Sarah Palin emerge as in 2008?

It’s been close to 30 years since commercial time in prime-time programs was strictly limited.

It will be painful saying goodbye to <span class="italic">House</span>.

Spanish-language television anchor and producer Frank Cairo is accused of stealing chairs and a carpet from a neighbor.

Inspired by the lives of her own grandparents, who came to America from northern Italy in the early 20th century, Adriana Trigiani’s new book might be considered the ur-story behind her string of heartwarming family sagas. It’s an old-fashioned, romantic tale of two star-tangled lovers, Enza Ravanelli and Ciro Lazzari. Beginning in the Italian Alps, the story travels to New York’s Little Italy, a Hoboken factory, backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota’s Iron Range and the trenches of France. A love story, yes, but also a paean to artisanal work, food, friendship and family.

Sex is everywhere in 1913 Vienna, but the consequences are murky.

Former Secretary of State examine the past from a Czech point of view.

Taschen launches a limited edition photo book on The Beatles that features iconic pictures by Harry Benson.

In the sinewy, dark illustrated memoir <span class="italic">Fun Home</span>, Alison Bechdel combined her own lesbian coming-out story with a blazing portrait of her father, a tyrannical funeral director and obsessive Victorian-house restorer who was also a closeted gay man and possibly a suicide.

With daring humor and compassion, John Irving examines the shifting tides of sexuality.

A Carnival King watches a Caribbean nation come into being.

Reporter examines the ingrained allure of routine.

“I just reread Homer’s <span class="italic">The Iliad</span> because of my book, which really sort of resurrected the Trojan War in my mind. I’ve read parts of it in Greek in my college days, and I wanted to reread it. It is the most stunning description of war ever, with so much relevance to our lives to day, and it’s absolutely beautiful poetry. I love it.”

Pop’s most successful female songwriter finally opens up about her past.

Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.

It's final: Lady Gaga's show in Indonesia won't go on.

Michelle Obama was with the single ladies this weekend: The First Lady attended a Beyonce concert in Atlantic City.

Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson remains in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital after undergoing colon surgery this past week.

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