The Ten Best Thanksgiving Weekend Parties in Miami

We’re on the cusp of spending hours chatting with relatives, watching football until our eyelids sag, and snapping our bodies out of ketosis with a full-on assault of carbs. Thanksgiving usually revolves around food, football, and family, but there’s no reason it has to be defined solely by those three.

Alvin Ailey Director Robert Battle Stages a Homecoming With World Premieres

For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director Robert Battle, this week marks a special return, not just to the Arsht Center, where his company performs annually, but also to the city where he grew up. “It’s more personal [performing in Miami]; it reminds me where I come from,” says Battle, a Liberty City native. “My mom [Dessie Williams] still lives in the same house. I used to dance on the marble floor of our front porch. The Arsht Center wasn’t far away.”