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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?
Anytime a film costs $10 million to make and ticket sales approach $100 million, Hollywood pays attention. But jaws really drop when a movie starring actors in their 70s and aimed at people over 50 pulls off that trick.
Fifteen years into their relationship, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are like an old married couple, intimately familiar with each other’s habits and quirks.
Catalina Hotel on South Beach hopes TV reality show ‘monkey business’ leads to actual businessThu, 24 May 2012 21:52 EDT
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’
Jeanguy Saintus and his Ayikodans dance troupe still struggle against formidable oddsSun, 20 May 2012 09:30 EDT
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 weekends Exxxotica in Miami Beach to share the gospel and help porn addicts.
The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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.
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (RCA) 1/2
If this were an episode of CSI : Miami, 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 my show!” Then the TV screen would fade to black with the news that CSI: Miami has been canceled after 10 seasons.
The week ahead at the movies and on TV
Fans and detractors alike will bring the same set of questions to the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie, The Dictator, in which he plays Admiral General Aladeen, the tyrannical, extravagantly bearded leader of the fictional Republic of Wadiya. What fresh outrage have we now from this British comic guerrilla who has managed to annoy the Anti-Defamation League, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the government of Kazakhstan, to name just a few unamused parties? Who exactly is the joke on this time, and will they get it? And what happens when the most aggressive and confrontational satirist in contemporary comedy has to make do without real-life foils and stooges?
The needle’s back in the groove as hipsters, nostalgic baby boomers and a generation of youths raised on digital tunes buy up LPs at a rapid rate.
A four-day celebration of comic-book culture kicks off Thursday at the O Cinema.
Before Art Basel, before the New World Symphony, there was Tigertail Productions, Miami’s tropically flavored, impishly styled but dedicatedly serious avant-garde arts presenter, which hosts its annual fundraiser Saturday night.
Filming in India was an unusual – and welcome – challenge for the all-star cast.
Tour Little Havana, rock out with salsa dancing and mariachis, visit art galleries, sip a mojito and play dominoes at Viernes Culturales, the monthly cultural event in the heart of Little Havana. Free. SW Eighth Street. between 14 & 17th avenues, Miami; www.viernesculturales.org.
Actor Ian McKellen is 73. Actress-singer Leslie Uggams is 69. Director-Muppetteer Frank Oz is 68. Actress Karen Valentine is 65. Singer Klaus Meine of Scorpions is 64. Actress Patti D’Arbanville (“New York Undercover”) is 61. Actress Connie Sellecca is 57. Comedian Mike Myers is 49. Actress Anne Heche is 43. Actor Jamie Kennedy (”Scream”) is 42. Actress Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) is 42. Actor Justin Henry (“Kramer Vs. Kramer”) is 41. Singer Lauryn Hill is 37. Actor Ethan Suplee (“My Name Is Earl”) is 36.
Sharon Stone: employer from hell? A former nanny says yes.
In some circles, Rande Gerber may still be best known as Cindy Crawford’s husband, but his fast growing nightlife empire may someday change all that. Gerber Group runs 22 bars in chic hotels around the world, including Living Room, Wet and Whiskey Blue at W Fort Lauderdale. The former model is now dabbling in rum: He’s launching Caliche, a new brand from Serrallés distillery, a 147-year-old family business that recently went green, at a swanky event Thursday in Miami Beach.
Will Smith told Dave Letterman that when a reporter tried to kiss him on the face at a Men in Black III red carpet in Moscow Friday, it was “just awkward.’’
Brand Nubians, the hugely influential New York alt-hip-hop group from the ’90s featuring Grand Puba, Sadat X and Lord Jamar, performs alongside Blenda, Y-Not and Sounds By Sven. $20-$25. Bardot Miami, 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami; www.bardotmiami.com.
Actor-comedian Tommy Chong is 74. Musician Bob Dylan is 71. Actor Gary Burghoff (“M.A.S.H.”) is 69. Singer Patti LaBelle is 68. Actress Priscilla Presley is 67. Actor Jim Broadbent is 63. Actor Alfred Molina is 59. Singer Rosanne Cash is 57. Actress Kristin Scott Thomas is 52. Actor John C. Reilly is 47. Actor Eric Close (“Without a Trace”) is 45. Guitarist Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) is 43. Actor Billy L. Sullivan (“Something So Right”) is 32. Actor-rapper Big Tyme is 31.
NBA forward Kris Humphries, a.k.a. the
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soon-to-be-ex-husband of reality star Kim Kardashian, turned up solo at the Catalina Hotel Tuesday night in Miami Beach.
Elton John is canceling three Las Vegas performances on doctors' orders after being hospitalized with a respiratory infection.
Final dances/scores on “Dancing with the Stars”: Cha-cha to Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”: 30, freestyle tango to Shakira’s “Objection’’: 29, Salsa to “Oye Mi Guaguanco” : 30
Unlike his classic movie, This is Spinal Tap, this is no joke. Michael McKean remains in stable condition after being struck by a car on a busy intersection on the Upper West Side of NYC. The former Laverne & Shirley star’s rep, Harriet Sternberg, says the actor has a broken leg. Wife Annette O’Toole is at his side.
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.
What’s hot in restaurant food trends?
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.
Tasting and leaving: Reflections on the lost flavors of a Cuban childhood.Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00 EDT
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
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Indian to the mix.
You’re invited to join South Florida chefs including Allen Susser, Paula DaSilva (1500 Degrees), Andre Bienvenu (Joe’s Stone Crab) and Clay Conley (Buccan) from 10 a.m. to noon Monday filling food boxes for the hungry at Feeding South Florida, 2501 SW 32nd Ter., Pembroke Park.
Robin Gibb, one of the Bee Gees, loses his battle with pneumonia and dies at age 62 in England.
Pops 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.
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (RCA) ★ ★ 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.
Tabou Combo, the Rolling Stones of konpa, headline Big Night in Little HaitiFri, 20 Apr 2012 10:16 EDT
Not many bands even make it to one decade. But Tabou Combo, the Rolling Stones of Haitian konpa, have been rocking a deep Caribbean groove for 44 years. They’ve adapted disco, funk and hip-hop to their now-classic konpa 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 A Different Kind of Truth, 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, Liza Minnelli has lived life in the glare of a spotlight.
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.
Photojournalist's show at Freedom Tower features 1960s photos of anti-Castro exilesThu, 24 May 2012 16:00 EDT
Embedded: A Photojournalist Captures Conflict and Resistance, a show drawn from 800 images photojournalist Jim Nickless, of Broward County, shot of CIA-funded Cuban rebels training to overthrow Fidel Castro, will be on view May 24-Aug. 11 at Miami
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Dade Colleges Freedom Tower Gallery.
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.
Area Stage Company’s Summer Conservatory is an intense theater preparation program designed to build Broadway’s future stars.
Jeanguy Saintus and his Ayikodans dance troupe still struggle against formidable oddsSun, 20 May 2012 09:30 EDT
A year after a triumphant Miami performance, Jeanguy Saintus and his Ayikodans dance troupe still struggle against formidable odds.
Julie Taymor’s vision is on abundant display as a record-setting musical visits Miami.
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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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.
Broadway’s highest-earning show is a carefully maintained realization of Julie Taymor’s vision.
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. Thats because the Miami-based collector will be presenting an official exhibition at the 11th Havana Biennial, which runs from May 11 through June 11.
The new $26 million Young at Art Museum in Davie will be opening its doors to the public this Saturday and Sunday. Starting at noon, guests will be able to visit the museum’s four permanent art galleries designed for children and adults.
“If I met a woman in the street who looked like my paintings, I’d faint.”
At Martin Margulies’ Miami art warehouse, beauty is in the eye of both artist and collectorSun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00 EDT
At Wynwood’s Margulies Warehouse, sculpture and images are more than cutting-edge artworks: they are also works of beauty.
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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.
And one with an interesting history. In 1982, the makers of the big-screen comedy Airplane! came to television with Police Squad, a parody of crime shows. Nielsen, who had also starred in Airplane!, played police detective Frank Drebin in the series. It was not a hit, but in 1988, Nielsen again played Drebin in The Naked Gun, and it proved a top 10 box-office hit. Sequels followed in 1991 ( Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear) and 1994 ( Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult 1994).
Catalina Hotel on South Beach hopes TV reality show ‘monkey business’ leads to actual businessThu, 24 May 2012 21:52 EDT
Nathan Lieberman considers a particularly tasteless photo op and wonders aloud: “Would André Balazs do this?”
Cuban-born telenovela star William Levy gets third place on Dancing with the StarsWed, 23 May 2012 15:27 EDT
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.
The week ahead at the movies and on TV
It’s been close to 30 years since commercial time in prime-time programs was strictly limited.
It will be painful saying goodbye to House.
Spanish-language television anchor and producer Frank Cairo is accused of stealing chairs and a carpet from a neighbor.
If this were an episode of CSI : Miami, 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 my show!” Then the TV screen would fade to black with the news that CSI: Miami has been canceled after 10 seasons.
CBS announced Sunday it will cancel popular police procedural CSI: Miami, according to The Los Angeles Times. The show aired more than 200 episodes in its 10-year run.
With daring humor and compassion, John Irving examines the shifting tides of sexuality.
A Carnival King watches a Caribbean nation come into being.
“I just reread Homer’s The Iliad 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.”
Pops most successful female songwriter finally opens up about her past.
Reporter examines the ingrained allure of routine.
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.
Columnist and author Anna Quindlen has been examining the anxieties of her generation for decades, mining her own experiences as what we used to call a “working mother” to make some sort of sense of Baby Boomers’ lives. Theirs was a generation that changed all the rules, as they’re so fond of telling the rest of us.
Jonathan Franzen’s short pieces examine our self-absorption
Journalist explores benefits and overkill of getting healthy.
Havana Requiem. Paul Goldstein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 320 pages. $26.
“I’m just wading into Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis by Cynthia Barnett. Her first book, Mirage, was a devastating look at how Florida squandered its water resources, and this engaging new book takes on our national penchant for wasting H2O.”
Move over, Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman. The Cannes Film Festival's four-legged stars are in the spotlight with the contest for the event's best canine performance.
Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
In the movie "Cosmopolis," director David Cronenberg goes on a visceral day-trip inside the limousine of a tycoon - who cares little for bloody, populist riots taking place outside his car.
A horn section backs up country singer Jerrod Niemann this weekend in south Louisiana's Bayou Country Superfest, a two-day festival that includes Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Jason Aldean, Sara Evans and others.
The deep, croaking-frog rhythm of the talking drums sound out across the stage as canoeists in animal hide row a condemned servant and royal infant into the unknown. The unified voice of a choir rises above the beats, singing in the Yoruba language of Nigeria's southwest at the start of a play that begins in its middle.
The ripples of the Arab Spring are being felt in summery Cannes, where films from Egypt and Syria, as well as a documentary about the overthrow of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, are being screened alongside the latest features from the world's heavyweight directors.
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