The beautiful songstress Nicole Henry will celebrate the U.S. launch of Set For The Season, her new CD of nine holiday favorites, with a concert on December 1 at the Miami Beach Stage Door. Known to locals for her beautiful jazz renditions, appearing at venues like the Van Dyke Café, the Loews Hotel, and Blue Jean Blues, the singer is also an international favorite appearing at top-notch venues like the Metropolitan Room in New York City, Blues Alley in Washington, D.C, and the Cotton Club in Tokyo where Set For The Season was recorded. Even with a hectic schedule of touring and recording, Nicole Henry found time to chat with miamiartzine about her two new CDs, Embraceable and Set For...

Art Basel Miami Beach will once again transform Miami into the art Mecca of the world for almost a week. It’s hard to believe that this will be the 10^th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Every year Art Basel seems to grow bigger and bigger, taking over a new section of Miami and adding more events and parties. While the schedule of art events, exhibitions, parties, lectures, and performances are too numerous for one person to attend, most will try, rushing to as many events as possible. Some people attend only art events while others just take advantage of the many parties. If you try to do both, you’ll go crazy and I must admit, I’m already a little overwhelmed by Art Basel and it hasn’t even started...

Before we drown in a pool of cultural delirium, let’s review a few basics that may not be squashed on the center lane of the information highway.

The ability to retain swathes of visual information may not be a problem to the ram-crammed of the newly minted brain...but, trust me, as the years pile up on you...there may be a certain amount of garnered info that inexplicably disappears from that personal hard drive resting somewhere over your eyebrows. Luckily it’s 2011 and virtual memory can be quickly borrowed from the gaggle of aids available to the over-stretched gray matter.

“La Collaborazione,” a unique art exhibit envisioned by Italy’s Uberto Gucci and Miami artist Noel, will premiere in a two-part art-inspired evening at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden and the Raleigh Hotel. Noel Suarez, a Cuban-born painter and former dancer, has been a mainstay on the Miami arts scene for many years. In 1993 Noel collaborated in DIFFA's 1993 production of "Acts of Hope” as Artistic Director and Producer and also created the commemorative poster for the event. He was invited to stage the 1996 DIFFA's Production of Collection Rouge for its Miami premier. Noel has donated his time and art to numerous AIDS charities and organizations and was the featured artist for Miami’s White Party...

On November 17, Itzhak Perlman, internationally acclaimed violinist, will share the stage with a showcase of talented young musicians including 21-year old Miami cellist Thomas Mesa. This special evening will be a musical collaboration between Perlman, one of the most extraordinary musicians of this era and nine graduates and gifted protégés from the Perlman Music Program. Thomas Mesa, now studying at The Juilliard School in New York City, took the time to chat with miamiartzine about returning to Miami to perform.

Thomas Mesa, known as Tommy to his friends and family, overflows with excitement, as he talks about performing, working with Itzhak...

Miamiartzine is a celebration of South Florida’s arts community and this week miamiartzine celebrates its six-year anniversary. Dedicated to the arts, miamiartzine.com has been covering South Florida’s arts scene with timely features, interviews, commentaries, humor, fiction, and photo galleries of arts events. Conceived by Harvey J. Burstein and facilitated by Miami Beach Arts Trust, miamiartzine.com published its first issue online on October 13, 2005. Today the online publication offers daily updates of happenings in the arts community while offering in-depth coverage of events such as Sleepless Night and Art Basel Miami Beach.

Launched in 2009, Miami Music Project Honors Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra, will perform Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony this Sunday at the Arsht Center. James Judd, an internationally renowned conductor, will conduct the orchestra which is comprised of talented young musicians ages 13-21. Even with his busy schedule, Judd was able to share a few minutes to chat with miamiartzine about the orchestra, conducting, and working with young talented musicians.

Miami Music Project Honors Orchestra was created to assist in keeping alive the opportunities for young musicians that were in jeopardy of being lost with the discontinued...

Hey, you guys, as they say in the table waiting trade, do you remember Zoetic Stage? Of course you do. They're the fine and talented ladies and gentlemen who brought you Michael McKeever's South Beach Babylon at the Arsht Center almost one year ago. So huzzah for that and huzzah again, because they're coming back to the Arsht with another captivating piece and it's called Captiva. And it's written by Christopher Demos-Brown (the hunky lawyer who won a Carbonell Award for his When The Sun Shone Brighter).

If you're any sort of Floridian you'll know that Captiva is an island off the West Coast that besides being upscale (God, how I...

When was the last time you pulled an all-nighter? If you haven’t had reason to stay up all night in a while then mark your calendar for November 5 as Sleepless Night returns to Miami Beach. Sleepless Night, the year’s largest cultural arts event, presents over 150 unique arts experiences at more than 80 venues. From sundown to sunrise on November 5, the same night that we “fall back” an hour for Daylight Savings Time, Miami Beach will be the site of 13 hours of top quality cultural offerings – all free. Miami Beach joins Paris, Rome, Madrid, Montreal and 11 other major international cities with Sleepless Night events. This incredible night features a variety of events including full-length plays, operas...

The Addams Family, the satirical cartoon created by Charles Addams that first appeared in the The New Yorker in 1938, has been transformed into a devilish delightful musical of the same name. Some may not be familiar with the cartoon but there was also a television series, two animated series and a string of films bearing the name The Addams Family. The characters, Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and The Thing, have become iconic and known for their eccentric and bizarre behavior. What could be a more fitting time to meet the characters of The Addams Family than the week before Halloween? Now on tour across America...