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Iron Fork & Miami Spice Kickoff MasterCard Pre-Sale Starts Today

We know that after a day commuting to the office or (gasp) driving around town for work, the last thing you want to do is hop in the car to party down in Miami. But, sometimes, there's an event so awesome, you just have to go. Like Miami Spice, the annual summer event that has dozens of Miami's best ... More >>

B.B. King's New Year's Eve, December 31 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts

South Florida Theater Struggles; Here's Why

Flying With Blue Eyes

SoFla Flow: Local Reggae Bands Join Inner Circle's New "Reggae Wave" Movement

​SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida's wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity -- both the homegrown, heady, local stuff and national acts passing through.​One year ago, the legendary reggae group Inner Circle, alongside local promoter and scene elder Lance-O of Kulcha Shok, called ... More >>

Broward Center's $43 Million Expansion Lacks One Thing: Young People

Provided by the Broward CenterTaxpayers would pay for half of the expansion that would stretch the Broward Center back toward the New River.​Comedian Larry Miller comes to the Broward Center May 26, bringing his brand of one-liners and just slightly offensive jokes. He'll have the largely elderly ... More >>

Dance Revelation

Culture Klatch

Three Cities Cope, or Fail to Cope, With Unsightly Homeless People

​It seems SoFla is taking a page from the Rudy Giuliani playbook, trying every which way to get homeless people off of our streets and out of our sight. To that end, three initiatives have been proposed in three cities in recent weeks.Two weeks ago, Palm Beach County unveiled a plan to dissuade d ... More >>

Questionable Developer Mark Siffin Wants to Build a Times Square in Miami

Chaos Theory

Food Trucks Converge at the Fall for the Arts Festival in Miami

Photos by Paula Niño.​The Fall for the Arts Festival took place Saturday at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, bringing together good tunes, arts activities, and a small street-food festival featuring more than a dozen food trucks from across South Florida. Organized by the Burger ... More >>

Street Food Extravaganza at the Fall for the Arts Festival Will Be Beastly

​Beastly, as in the Burger Beast.That's because Sef Gonzalez, the Burger Beast himself, is behind the gathering of food trucks, carts, and stalls that will accompany the Adrienne Arsht Center's daylong Fall for the Arts Festival. The free event will feature live music, arts and crafts, games, and ... More >>

In "Broadsword" at the Arsht, a Heavy-Metal Band Reunites to Save Its Members From Hell

Music and Lyrics

Vocalese on Down the Road

Tony Bennett Performs at the Arsht Center on Friday

Julian Marley Performs With Brothers Stephen and Damian at the Arsht Center on Sunday

Laugh Me a River

I Dream in The Color Purple

Frankly Swanky

Pairings, Celeb Chefs, and More Upcoming Events

Jane, stop this crazy thing!​Earlier in the week, Riki Altman cooked up beef tenderloin medalions from the new Morton's The Cookbook: 100 Steahkhouse Recipes for Every Kitchen. You sampled the recipe, now you can head to Morton's in Coral Gables on September 23 for a signing by author Tyler Fields ... More >>

You’ll Laugh, You’ll Wine

Lively Up Yourself

Dirty Shorts

Eat (and Watch) My Shorts

If Home Is Where the Heart Is

April Yvette Thompson left hers in Liberty City.

Me Tarzan, You Jane

Level the playing field with Defendiendo al Cavernicola.

New World Symphony to Feature Vladimir Ashkenazy and Joshua Bell this Saturday

If the quantity of photos available online depicting a young violinist next to smiling, modestly dressed girls is any indication of classical music stardom, then Joshua Bell is off the charts. One could argue, too, that the admiration from students of an art that requires hours of practice a day is ... More >>

Wynton Marsalis To Play Two South Florida Dates, Miami on Thurs. and West Palm Next Wed.

On the current southern tour of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the 16-piece band is focusing on the 70th anniversary of the original Blue Note records. The New York-based label founded by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis in 1939 that  became seminal for musicians like Thelonious Monk, John ... More >>

Latin Jazz Greats Pay Homage to Machito, Tito Puente, and Cachao at the Arsht Center, Jan. 16

A family-led operation, the Machito Orchestra was established in 1939 and continues to attract some of the best-known musicians in Latin jazz. The New York-based group comes to town on Thursday, January 15 in a celebratory mood. The show pays homage to three departed legends of the genre: the Machit ... More >>

Flinging in the New Year

MCB kicks off 2009 with a brand-new dance.

Fun, Unneutered

Last Night: Seraphic Fire at the Arsht Center

So I am a sucker for Christmas, and the Seraphic Fire's Friday night concert at the Arsht Center made the season for me. Messiah -- particularly the hallelujah chorus, was sublime. The small orchestra and beautiful voices organized by Notre Dame professor Patrick Quigley and partially funded by the ... More >>

Ebony, Ivory, and Plantain-Crusted Grouper...

  ...is the answer to: What might you find at a Puerto Rican-owned piano bar/café? Merly Velazquez, niece of the late fashion designer David Fernandez, has partnered with Raymond Klein in opening Miami Arts Café across the street from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (255 NE ... More >>

Shakespeare Snipped

37 plays in 97 minutes? You betcha.

God, Gays, and O.J.

One woman and 1,000 Homosexuals

All the Nasty Bits from an Evening with Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali

Elyse Wanshel Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain at the Miami Book Fair International Thursday night. Although former junkie/gutter chef, Anthony Bourdain claims that his life is “all rainbows and unicorns” ever since the birth of his baby daughter, many of his random comments during last night ... More >>

Last Night: Anthony Bourdain at the Arsht Center

This man loves Mac's Club Deuce. (Reason No. 293 why we love this man.) Better Than: Pounding cheap beers between a soul-crushing double on the saute station. The evidence, plainly, is undeniable: the best-selling books, the top-rated Travel Channel Show, the Top Chef judging gigs. Hell, even t ... More >>

David Sedaris: From Elf to Poo Slayer

Last Night: Fito Paez at Knight Concert Hall

The Weekend in Live Music, September 19 - 21

We’re Dreaming of a White Summer

But like one you’ve never known.

(There’s Gonna Be) No Kitsching When They Get Ho-o-o-ome

Twyla Tharp and Elvis Costello team up for ballet

Q&A with Pink Martini, to play Adrienne Arsht Center this Friday

Patty Melt

The Queen of Ozone Park

Broadway Star Christine Andreas Live this Weekend

Letters for May 10, 2007

Merce Is in the House

An exhibition of the dance master's sets and costumes levitates above the MoCA boards