Our critics' picks of music, dance, theater, literary and visual arts events
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.
Lesley Abravanel scopes the South Beach scene
Gabe Berman explores the scene in Broward
Bygone days: The sweet music of Miami's Overtown
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.
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.
Subversive reggaetoneros Calle 13 were the big winners at the 10th Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night, w...
Nonpoint: On sale from 10 a.m. Saturday; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 26; REV; $17-$19. Taylor Swift: On sale from Friday...
The ''gay positive'' band BETTY performs on the edge, making its three performers the perfect headliners fo...
With nominations in five categories including album of the year, the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is...
Omara Portuondo could be any Cuban grandmother, if that grandmother were a world-famous singer with tales t...
With nominations in five categories including album of the year, the Puerto Rican reggaeton duo Calle 13 is...
Omara Portuondo could be any Cuban grandmother, if that grandmother were a world-famous singer with tales t...
For one day, Hondurans ignored politics and got behind their soccer team's shot at the World Cup.
Nelly Furtado's musical career has been filled with drastic changes. She started as a funky hip-hop / fusio...
Juan Almeida Bosque was one of just three surviving rebel leaders who still bore the title `Commander of th...
Secret Service officials, working with Peruvian authorities, claimed thatthe millions of fake U.S. dollars ...
The excellent musicians of the New World Symphony put on a sub-par performance Sunday, as they left behind ...
Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilt...
Banjoist Béla Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer both have countless colleagues who would sell body parts and fi...
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has canceled its 2009-2010 concert series, following the departure of its o...
David Teie, a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra who also composes, is getting widespread attenti...
Maybe those enormous wigs that sit atop the unsmiling faces and fussy court dress in portrait after portrai...
Iwas completely off base with my preconceived notions about open mike night at the Improv Comedy Club & Din...
Sleepless nights don't always have to be an unwelcome side effect of anxiety. On Saturday, you can put the ...
If I were king, people would be required to wear costumes every day of the year. But as I'm not in charge (...
This weekend almost every haunt in town -- with the exception of your corner gas station -- is throwing an ...
Halloween's not until next Saturday, but that doesn't mean you have wait to sport that spiffy new Kate Goss...
I thought I was a nightlife know-it-all but realized I was just a novice when I discovered the Florida Ciga...
Itook a few pics with my cellphone cam while sitting at the Lava Tiki Bar & Grille. I sent them to my New Y...
This reissue reintroduces us to percussionist Tito Puente's bestselling recording. The two-disc set from 19...
Keep on Loving You, Reba McEntire's 31st album, isn't altogether unlike the female-centric mainstream count...
Jazz-based hip-hop has been around for more than 20 years. Blitz the Ambassador's Stereotype is out to kill...
One day country radio programmers could realize that George Strait, at 57, doesn't fit their perceived demo...
The title alone would inspire incredulity. Though pre-Castro Cuba had symphony orchestras that recorded sta...
American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry never met a cliché he couldn't steamroll his way over on angst-driven...
MAXWELL BLACKsummers'night Columbia ½ Maxwell's long-anticipated new release contains nine songs -- and one...
The Honolulu Symphony said Friday it's canceling concerts for the rest of the year and filing for bankruptc...
Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was...
Michael Jackson's father is seeking an allowance from his son's estate to help cover expenses that exceed $...
R&B singer Usher's divorce from his wife is final, according to court documents.
Rihanna on Friday described the horror she felt as her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was biting and punching her...
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