Brazil’s top contemporary music and art come together in singer Marisa Monte’s cutting-edge show

Shocker of shockers: Charlie Sheen is making waves on Anger Management, reportedly forcing out Selma Blair.

James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate crime boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant center of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.

Jay-Z is teaming up with Samsung to release his new album, unveiling a three-minute commercial during the NBA Finals on Sunday and announcing a deal that will give the music to 1 million users of Galaxy mobile phones.

This year's Miss Universe pageant will be held in Russia's capital Moscow.

If man is indeed a giddy thing — as William Shakespeare suggests in Much Ado About Nothing, insinuating we are impulsive beyond all reason — then Joss Whedon may be the giddiest man of all. After all, he’s the director who decided to make a quick movie in his down time between shooting his first big-budget film and editing it; the screenwriter who dared to adapt a play from the greatest wordsmith in the English language; the optimist who thought: Hey, yeah, let’s shoot a Shakespearean comedy at my house; it’ll be fun.

The week ahead at the movies and on TV

"Days of Our Lives" scored a rare win for best drama series at the Daytime Emmys in a show marked by an envelope mix-up, expletives and the constant din of audience chatter heard during the cable telecast that stretched beyond its time slot.

An Argentine choreographer sets the tango flying in an aerial spectacle coming to the Arsht Center

No, they’re not the Beatles. But One Direction, the British tween/teen heartthrobs who’ve re-ignited the boy-band phenomenon, do have a few similarities to the Fab Four. They’re goofy, charming and effortlessly confident. And as they showed in the opening show of their U.S. tour Thursday night before a screaming, sold-out crowd at Fort Lauderdale’s BB&T Center, the Fab Five wreak havoc on American girls with their British accents, cheeky innocence and bouncy, sweetly harmonizing pop songs.

Justified just finished a typically terrific fourth season that featured the Detroit Mafia invading Kentucky, a marriage proposal from antihero Boyd Crowder to his love Ava and Patton Oswalt playing a constable who takes it (and takes it) on the chin before turning into an unlikely hero and saving the day. In the middle of this chaos, as always, stood Timothy Olyphant’s Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, laid-back and laconic, glaring and growling, one of television’s most fully realized lawmen.

‘Vice.’ 11-11:30 p.m. Friday. HBO.

Which goes further or has more impact – documents leaked online or a song? Famed Calle 13 frontman Residente will give Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a taste of a new kind of subversive communication tonight – music. The outspoken rapper and songwriter will meet with Assange at 10 p.m. London time Thursday to write a song with him. The two men will compose in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange has taken refuge for the past year after being charged by the U.S. government over Wikileaks’ massive release of government documents.

Once a bigoted epithet, “queer” was reclaimed by the gay-rights movement as a proudly defiant self-description. But theater artist Taylor Mac, who will perform in the annual Out in the Tropics festival this week, prefers another definition: “Someone who was ostracized by society at an early age to such a degree they could never ostracize anyone else.”

Todd Allen Durkin emerges as the star of the mixed-bag 18th edition of the popular festival.

A jazz buff from Pennsylvania turned his recording hobby into a thriving South Florida industry

La Santa Cecelia and Jesse & Joy, two captivating Mexican-rooted bands with innovative though very different takes on Latin pop-rock, played Fort Lauderdale Sunday night, and even competing with the NBA finals they attracted several hundred ardent fans to Revolution Live.

Having done his heavy share of drama, Alfred Molina found more laid-back voice work especially appealing in Monsters University.

Mary McDonnell is really in her element. She loves being the head of the pack in TNT’s L.A. police drama Major Crimes, now in its second season. In the spinoff to The Closer, which airs at 9 p.m. Mondays, Captain Sharon Raydor has great storylines (letting a teen murder witness stay at her house comes to mind) — and even better hair.

Singer Tommy DeVito of The Four Seasons is 85. Actress Gena Rowlands is 83. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 65. Singer Ann Wilson of Heart is 63. Actress Kathleen Turner is 59. Singer-dancer-choreographer Paula Abdul is 51. Actor Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) is 41. Actress Robin Tunney is 41. Singer-banjoist Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers is 37. Actress Zoe Saldana (“Avatar”) is 35. Actor Paul Dano (“Little Miss Sunshine”) is 29. Actor Atticus Shaffer (“The Middle”) is 15.

James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate crime boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant center of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90.

Gabrielle Union has a secret. She wasn’t a very nice kid. Dwyane Wade’s main squeeze appears 10 p.m. Sunday night on Oprah’s Next Chapter. The show brings together Union along with three other leading ladies, Viola Davis, Alfre Woodard and Phylicia Rashad, to talk about the challenges of being a black actress in Hollywood.

Nene Leakes has some advice for Miss Utah, who is still smarting from her convoluted answer to the reality star’s question during the Miss USA pageant Sunday night. “She can turn this negative into a positive,” Leakes told People.

Miami rapper Flo Rida and his manager, two of the Heat’s biggest fans, may not be at the game tonight.

Musician Paul McCartney is 71. Actress Linda Thorson (“The Avengers”) is 66. Actress Isabella Rossellini is 61. Actor Brian Benben (“Private Practice”) is 57. Singer Alison Moyet is 52. Keyboardist Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses) is 50. Singer Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men is 42. Rapper Silkk The Shocker is 38. Country singer Blake Shelton is 37. Actor David Giuntoli (“Grimm”) is 33.

Pearline “Miss Pearl” Murray is the queen bee at her nephew Norman’s Jamaican café in Little Haiti. She helps in the kitchen, waits tables and is head of operations.

Mike Hampton and his wife, Christy Samoy, meld New Orleans and Filipino favorites at Hot & Soul, a funky spot with a tiled bar and communal table in a Fort Lauderdale strip mall.

Islas Canarias is one of the few restaurants in Miami where you can still enjoy authentic, from-scratch Cuban cooking

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.

Brazil’s top contemporary music and art come together in singer Marisa Monte’s cutting-edge show

Jay-Z is teaming up with Samsung to release his new album, unveiling a three-minute commercial during the NBA Finals on Sunday and announcing a deal that will give the music to 1 million users of Galaxy mobile phones.

No, they’re not the Beatles. But One Direction, the British tween/teen heartthrobs who’ve re-ignited the boy-band phenomenon, do have a few similarities to the Fab Four. They’re goofy, charming and effortlessly confident. And as they showed in the opening show of their U.S. tour Thursday night before a screaming, sold-out crowd at Fort Lauderdale’s BB&T Center, the Fab Five wreak havoc on American girls with their British accents, cheeky innocence and bouncy, sweetly harmonizing pop songs.

Which goes further or has more impact – documents leaked online or a song? Famed Calle 13 frontman Residente will give Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a taste of a new kind of subversive communication tonight – music. The outspoken rapper and songwriter will meet with Assange at 10 p.m. London time Thursday to write a song with him. The two men will compose in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange has taken refuge for the past year after being charged by the U.S. government over Wikileaks’ massive release of government documents.

Members of Fusik call their style “soul funk,” which includes elements of hip-hop, soul, jazz and funk.

La Santa Cecelia and Jesse & Joy, two captivating Mexican-rooted bands with innovative though very different takes on Latin pop-rock, played Fort Lauderdale Sunday night, and even competing with the NBA finals they attracted several hundred ardent fans to Revolution Live.

Vocalist Catherine Russell grew up with jazz as a second language. Her dad, Panamanian-born bandleader and composer Luis Russell, was a lifelong friend and colleague of Louis Armstrong. Her mother, bassist, guitarist and vocalist Carline Ray, traveled with the pioneering International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

Trying to define jazz singing is asking for trouble. Go one way and you box yourself into an essentialist view riddled with exceptions; go another and you wander into pop territory. Still, to paraphrase a famous dictum, you know great jazz singing when you hear it.

Coral Reef High choral director battles ALS but gets by with a little help from his friends — his award-winning choir students

The seemingly unlikely pairing of Japanese-born keyboardist, composer and producer Keiko Matsui with guitarist-composer Al Di Meola at Miami Beach’s New World Center on Friday may raise some fans’ eyebrows.

GableStage artistic director Joseph Adler has announced the five shows that complete his 2013-14 season, which features the already-announced U.S. premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s set-in-Haiti Antony and Cleopatra.

They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the floor, hidden from view from the mothers watching their daughters in pink leotards in a front room.

An Argentine choreographer sets the tango flying in an aerial spectacle coming to the Arsht Center

Once a bigoted epithet, “queer” was reclaimed by the gay-rights movement as a proudly defiant self-description. But theater artist Taylor Mac, who will perform in the annual Out in the Tropics festival this week, prefers another definition: “Someone who was ostracized by society at an early age to such a degree they could never ostracize anyone else.”

Todd Allen Durkin emerges as the star of the mixed-bag 18th edition of the popular festival.

Change is in the air for the Mainly Mozart Festival, and in many ways, Sunday’s program at the Coral Gables Museum marked the end of an era. The Bergonzi String Quartet, which has been a festival mainstay from its very first outing, was joined by clarinetist Margaret Donaghue Flavin in tribute to the series’ namesake with a warmly sonorous performance of the Clarinet Quintet in A Major.

Playwright Richard Janaro, retired from many years of teaching at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, has re-imagined King Lear as the story of a homeless CEO who has a thing or two to learn in his play Evicted. The script will get a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Monday at GableStage in the Biltmore Hotel, 1200 Anastasia Ave., Coral Gables.

While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last trim before tonight’s Tony Awards. “I just need a trim,” he tells stylist Valjean Guerra, crunching his hair with both hands to show the textured look he hopes to maintain. “I want to keep the same shape.”

Six actors, four directors and a dozen plays make up the festival’s 18th edition.

Neil Simon’s coming-of-age play turns on resonant family relationships.

The collection (and footprint) of the Wolfsonian—Florida International University is growing with a new donation from founder Mitchell “Micky” Wolfson Jr.

Two competing designs for a new Miami Beach Convention Center are sleek, smart and sophisticated. But the visioning process for the project is flawed.

Tattoo guru comes to Miami for the annual TattooLaPalooza

“20 Shades of Grey’’ showcases works by Miami artists of a certain age. No hair dye employed.

Miami still sizzles, but back in the 1980s it was called the Wild Wild West, a Casablanca, and to add to its lore, it became home to the iconic television show Miami Vice.

The oldest of Miami’s private art museums offers a rich glimpse at the many facets of contemporary art — and it’s open in summer.

Art Basel’s new Hong Kong art fair debuted with a more Zen attitude than the Miami Beach crush, but with plenty of attention from collectors including Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Indonesian-Chinese tycoon Budi Tek.

Keys ‘art stewards’ keep pipeline of artworks flowing to new Miami museum — if their parrot doesn’t get to them first

The exhibit includes images of a young Frida Kahlo and her husband, the artist Diego Rivera.

When the TV Land comedy Hot in Cleveland begins a run of new episodes at 10 p.m. Wednesday, it will start with some extra drama. The first episode will air live.

In August, CNN Latino Miami will be available for all viewers on broadcast TV’s Channel 11 and also on basic cable.

Days of Our Lives scored a rare win for best drama series at the Daytime Emmys in a show marked by an envelope mix-up, expletives and the constant din of audience chatter heard during the cable telecast that stretched beyond its time slot.

"Days of Our Lives" scored a rare win for best drama series at the Daytime Emmys in a show marked by an envelope mix-up, expletives and the constant din of audience chatter heard during the cable telecast that stretched beyond its time slot.

A new season began Sunday on History Channel. Hugh “Polar Bear” Rowland is back, but with his own business competing with former employer Polar Industries. Polar has the likes of Alex Debogorski, Darrell Ward and, back in the game, Lisa Kelly. So expect conflict as well as road perils.Q. Has Fairly Legal been canceled?

‘Vice.’ 11-11:30 p.m. Friday. HBO.

The week ahead at the movies and on TV

Mitch Glazer and half a dozen of his buddies were sitting in a booth at Wolfie’s Restaurant in Miami Beach one afternoon in the late 1960s, chattering and laughing and generally being teenage loudmouths, when a waitress walked over to ask them to keep it down. They did, for a moment, but soon the volume dialed back up. The waitress returned. Nodding to a white-haired man a few tables away, she amended her request: “Mr. Lansky would appreciate it if you could be a little quieter.”

Q. What is the status of Magic City?

Since 2006, John Oliver has proved his mettle as a phony journalist on The Daily Show.

‘Graceland.’ 10-11 p.m. Thursday. USA Network.‘In The Flesh.’ 10-11 p.m. Thursday. BBC America.

Khaled Hosseini’s novels about Afghanistan and its people can break your heart. But readers are not the only ones who find themselves deeply moved by the darker elements of his stories.

A journalist’s very personal account of how his home country progressed into a state of drug wars, violence and corruption

Batman Incorporated: Demon Star. Grant Morison and Chris Burnham. DC Comics. 176 pages. $24.99.

Carl Hiaasen’s latest spoof involves an unattached arm, a good cop and a nasty monkey.

A scandal sends a sheltered teenage girl away from home to a mountain camp to ride horses and learn about life.

“Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings. It’s such a fantastic book, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those novels you have on a plane, and you’re excited because you have this book with you, and you’re looking forward to being consumed by it.”

George Packer tracks how rich and poor dealt with the enormous changes wrought in the last 35 years.

The following is an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” which will be released on Tuesday. Another excerpt was published in Sunday’s Tropical Life, and a third will be published Wednesday. You can read them all at MiamiHerald.com.

The following is an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey,” which was released on Tuesday. Additional excerpts were published Sunday and Tuesday. You can read them all at MiamiHerald.com.

National Book Award winner Colum McCann goes back and forth between eras and continents to define lives and history.

If, while reading Jami Attenberg’s latest novel, you find yourself craving a meal — say, for example, the exquisite flavors of lamb-cumin noodles — you are not alone.

James Gandolfini's lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV's indelible characters.

James Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his indelible role as mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's "The Sopranos," died while on vacation in Italy at age 51. While Tony Soprano was a larger-than-life figure, Gandolfini was exceptionally modest and obsessive - he described himself as "a 260-pound Woody Allen." HBO called the actor a "special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone, no matter their title or position, with equal respect."

Some memorable lines spoken by the late James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos":

James Gandolfini's fans and colleagues shared reaction to his death Wednesday:

The death in Italy of James Gandolfini, who played Mafia boss Tony Soprano on the popular HBO show "The Sopranos," was part of an unusual convergence of mob-related news making headlines this week. Here's a look:

James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate crime boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant center of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.

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