thursday june 26 Laura Pausini: Less than four years ago Laura Pausini, a teenage girl from a small town near Ravenna, Italy, won the new-talent competition at the 1993 San Remo Song Festival, propelled by her tender vocal style and sincere, emotive delivery. Within the year Pausini’s career skyrocketed –…
thursday june 12 International Hispanic Theatre Festival: The twelfth annual International Hispanic Theatre Festival concludes this week at Teatro Avante (235 Alcazar Ave., Coral Gables) with five final performances. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m., Uruguay’s Teatro del Escorpion performs Alvaro Angel Malmierca’s Bartleby el Escribiente. Argentina’s Grupo Teatral…
thursday june 5 New York Philharmonic: Music director Kurt Masur makes his Miami debut as he conducts the legendary New York Philharmonic tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts (1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach). The orchestra comes to South Florida for the first time…
thursday may 29 Subtropics 9: The Subtropics 9 New Music Festival wraps up this week with three performances at Miami-Dade Community College’s Wolfson campus (300 NE Second Ave., Breezeway Room). Tonight at 8:00 p.m. LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams offer the surrealist performance Transduo. Tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. the Shaking…
thursday may 22 KRS-One: In a little more than ten years, Lawrence Krsna Parker has risen out of utter poverty to become one of the most respected and prolific rap artists around. His ninth album in eleven years, I Got Next, was released a couple of days ago, the latest…
thursday may 15 Happy Birthday, ArtCenter-South Florida: The ArtCenter-South Florida celebrates a dozen years of providing a haven for local and national artists on Lincoln Road with a new name (it used to be called the South Florida Art Center), a new look (the galleries have been revamped), and a…
thursday may 8 Celebrity Golf Challenge: A bevy of celebrities, including Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Dawnn Lewis, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Drew Bledsoe, and Barry Sanders, will take a swing at sickle cell anemia at this weekend’s Celebrity Golf Challenge. Among the events taking place this weekend are a celebrity bash at…
thursday may 1 New World Symphony: Artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the New World Symphony in a season finale weekend of concerts. The music begins tonight at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts (174 E. Flagler St.) with a “Baton Night.” Conductor Felipe Iscaray leads a preconcert conducting…
thursday april 24 Chris Smither: As both a rough-voiced singer of his own evocative songs and an interpreter of others’ works, Chris Smither makes the A-list of traveling troubadours currently finding an audience among disenfranchised rockers and country fans looking for something a little more complex than the garden-variety Nashville…
thursday april 17 Arturo Sandoval/FIU Jazz Festival: Trumpet great Arturo Sandoval teams up with the FIU Jazz Band tonight at 8:00 p.m. to perform an evening of jazz classics benefiting the Fellowship House for the mentally ill. Tickets cost $35 and $100. The event kicks off the seventh annual FIU…
thursday april 10 The Maroon Experience: The Historical Museum of Southern Florida (101 W. Flagler St.) continues its Thursday night lecture series in conjunction with its current exhibition, “A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie,” tonight at 6:00 p.m. with a screening of Sergio Giral’s Maluala. Giral,…
thursday april 3 Madcap Martini Party: Join the heppest cats in town for the grooviest martini party since Sammy, Dino, and Frank ruled the roost. Tara “Queen of the Night” Solomon and Micky Wolfson host this fundraiser for the exhibitions fund of the Wolfsonian (1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach), complete…
thursday march 27 Carmen: Miami City Ballet celebrates the premiere of resident choreographer Jimmy Gamonet De Los Heros’s lavish ballet version of Georges Bizet’s Carmen with a gala evening, also featuring a concert by Cuban diva Albita, tonight at 7:00 p.m. at the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts…
thursday march 20 The Lipton Championships: Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi return to defend their championship titles against 30 challenging tennis stars at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park (7300 Crandon Blvd., Key Biscayne). Other players hitting the courts at the Lipton include Pete Sampras, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, and…
thursday march 13 Dade County Fair and Exposition: They’ve got daredevils who’ll take your breath away. They’ve got plants and animals from forests and farms. They’ve got food, games, magic shows, art exhibitions, vendors, and loads of live music. But let’s face it: Those super-loud, ultra-illuminated, fabulous puke-inducing rides are…
thursday march 6 Julia Alvarez: It’s no secret that when writers write what they know, they usually end up writing about people they know. And sometimes those people may not be thrilled by what’s been written about them. In her latest book AYo! (no, the title has nothing to do…
thursday february 27 The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged): Playwrights Jesse Borgeson, Adam Long, and Daniel Singer have done the unthinkable: They’ve compressed the works of the Bard into a wild, 97-minute romp. Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) features Hamlet performed backwards, Titus Andronicus as a cooking show, and a Nineties…
