Art Basel Miami Beach returns December 4–6, 2026, and two of its headline projects will be free and open to the public outside the Miami Beach Convention Center. A new outdoor body of work by James Turrell and Public Art Fund’s “Between Tides,” a set of playable, artist-designed ping-pong tables
Art Basel Miami Beach returns December 4–6, 2026, and two of its headline projects will be free and open to the public outside the Miami Beach Convention Center. A new outdoor body of work by James Turrell and Public Art Fund’s “Between Tides,” a set of playable, artist-designed ping-pong tables
By: Marissa Cole Miami knows something about contrasts. It is a city where dazzling sunlight gives way to neon-lit nights, where celebration and heartbreak often occupy the same stretch of sand. That emotional tension makes an especially fitting backdrop for Ashley Puckett, the Pennsylvania country singer-songwriter preparing to release
Billboard Latin Music Week opens Monday, October 19, 2026, at Faena Forum in Miami Beach, running four days through Thursday, October 22. The industry gathering, built this year around the theme “Global Consolidation,” closes with the Billboard Latin Music Awards on its final night, broadcast live on Telemundo and
Billboard Latin Music Week 2026 has finalized its lineup, adding Rubén Blades, Tito Nieves, Baby Rasta & Gringo and Anthony Ramos ahead of its October 19–22 run at Faena Forum Miami Beach. The 37th edition moves to a new venue and a shorter four-day format, closing with the Billboard
Two MTS Management Group artists with meaningful Florida connections are turning personal experiences, cinematic storytelling, and emotional honesty into music that resonates far beyond the Sunshine State. By Melissa Hartwell Florida has long been a destination for musicians, filmmakers, and creative spirits seeking inspiration. From the coastal sophistication of Boca Raton to the sugar-white beaches of the 30A region and Jacksonville’s rich Southern musical heritage, the Sunshine State provides a colorful backdrop for artistic expression. For two independent recording artists, Cathleen Ireland and CattSue, Florida represents more than just another stop on the musical map. It is part of their creative identities. Ireland, an award-winning Pittsburgh singer-songwriter and filmmaker, has frequently incorporated Florida locations into her visual storytelling, including projects connected to Boca Raton and the scenic 30A coastline. CattSue, meanwhile, brings an unmistakable Jacksonville connection to her heartfelt blend of country and contemporary songwriting. Although their musical styles differ
Miami Carnival 2026 closes its October 3 to 11 run with J’ouvert on Saturday, October 10, and the Parade of Bands and Concert on Sunday, October 11. Both events take place at Central Broward Park and Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill, which moves the Sunday finale out of Miami-Dade County this year. Key Takeaways The Parade of Bands and Concert runs Sunday, October 11, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Central Broward Park and Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill. The official J’ouvert starts at 7 a.m. Saturday, October 10, and runs until 3 p.m. at the same Lauderhill site. More than 16 masquerade bands are expected to take part in Sunday’s parade. Sweet Shells, Bozaq TBG, and The Haitian All-Stars are set to perform before the mas bands take the stage on Sunday. Junior Carnival and the Pan Jamboree steelpan event opened the 2026 schedule on October 3 at
Spam Allstars and Tony & The Kings headline Live En La Playa, a free open-air concert at Lummus Park in Miami Beach on Saturday, October 10, from 6 to 11 p.m. The second annual event closes out the City of Miami Beach’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming with Latin funk, Afro-Caribbean jazz, DJ sets and a vinyl record fair. Key Takeaways Live En La Playa takes place at Lummus Park, 6th Street and Ocean Drive, and is free with an RSVP. Spam Allstars, led by DJ Le Spam, perform the “electronic descarga” sound the band has built in Miami since the mid-1990s. Tony & The Kings bring Afro-Caribbean jazz to the bill, with DJ sets curated by Aaron Brown (Mr. Brown), Miami Is an Island and Tiki Tumbao Records. The Miami Is an Island Record Fair sells vinyl from across Latin America and the Hispanic diaspora. Cut and Destroy runs a
Spectrum Miami and Red Dot Miami return to the Mana Wynwood Convention Center from December 2 to 6, 2026, bringing more than 280 exhibitors and about 1,000 artists to Miami Art Week. This year, organizer Redwood Art Group has named Jackson Health Foundation its official nonprofit partner, with ticket proceeds going to Holtz Children’s Hospital. Key Takeaways Spectrum Miami and Red Dot Miami run December 2 to 6, 2026, at Mana Wynwood, 2217 NW Fifth Avenue. Spectrum Miami is in its 16th year and Red Dot Miami in its 21st, with more than 150,000 square feet of indoor exhibition space between them. $10 from each ticket sold to about 75,000 invited households goes directly to Holtz Children’s Hospital. Thursday, December 3, is “Jackson Health Day,” when Holtz Children’s Hospital patients, families, and staff get guided tours and special programming. Discoveries Collections at both fairs offer works under $3,000 at Spectrum
Carnegie Mellon University will open a 35-acre campus in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, funded by a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin. Of that, $2 billion goes to Carnegie Mellon University Miami. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, the first students arrive in 2028, and plans call for eventually serving more than 3,500 students. Key Takeaways The project includes a $1.1 billion purchase of several Wynwood parcels from developer Moishe Mana, who turned the former warehouse district into an arts hub. At full build-out, CMU Miami plans to support nearly 300 faculty and more than 600 staff, pending regulatory approvals. The other $1 billion goes to Pittsburgh. Half of it funds the School of Computer Science, which will be renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science. Carnegie Mellon describes the gift as the largest by an individual in the history of higher education. Griffin
By: Elena Marquez Miami understands songs about temptation. This is a city where desire moves openly through the night, carried by humid air, glowing hotel signs and rhythms spilling from doorways long after midnight. In that setting, Pam Ross’s “Lost in Heaven” feels less like a distant country romance and more like a natural addition to the city’s after-dark soundtrack. Released September 11th, “Lost in Heaven” blends country, Americana and Southern rock into a confident celebration of attraction. Ross begins with the volume rising and the temperature already climbing. She sings about someone who makes her hotter than a late-June day, establishing a mood that Miami listeners will recognize immediately. Here, heat is never merely weather. It is atmosphere, attitude and emotional pressure. The song’s premise is simple: two people find themselves alone beneath the trees, free from observation and increasingly willing to surrender to the moment. Yet Ross gives
Latin GRAMMY-winning Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada performed at the Miami Beach Bandshell on Sunday, September 27, 2026, on her Suaves Lluvias 2026 Tour. The all-ages show set up an October calendar at the North Beach venue that includes Thundercat, Black Country, New Road, Miami Beach Salsa Fest and the ZunZún Children’s Fest. Key Takeaways Silvana Estrada won the Latin GRAMMY for Best New Artist following her debut album, Marchita. Rhythm Foundation and Escala Sonora presented the concert, which started at 8 p.m. with doors at 7 p.m. The Bandshell drew more than 70,000 people to 140+ public concerts, festivals and events last year. October dates include Thundercat on October 2, Black Country, New Road on October 9, Miami Beach Salsa Fest on October 11 and ZunZún Children’s Fest on October 18. Architect Norman Giller designed the Bandshell in 1961, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places
By: Rafael Santiago Miami is a city built on beautiful contradictions. Luxury towers cast shadows over old neighborhoods. Spiritual devotion shares streets with unapologetic excess. The ocean promises tranquility while nightlife runs until sunrise. Everybody seems to be selling a fantasy, but underneath all that glass, neon, and salt air are millions of private lives considerably messier than the postcard. That makes Miami an unexpectedly appropriate place to encounter Cello’s Singing to Serpents. Released March 1, the Pittsburgh artist’s nine-song album runs just under half an hour, moving through “Stay Here,” “Elevate,” “Sucks to Be Used,” “Full Moon,” “So Long,” “Cravings,” “Pray,” “Faith” and “Sleeping.” It is a compact record overflowing with decidedly uncompacted emotions: desire, resentment, ego, insecurity, spirituality, and the nagging suspicion that knowing yourself may not necessarily make living with yourself any easier. Imagine Singing to Serpents beginning around midnight somewhere off Biscayne Boulevard. “Stay Here” is
The Miami-Dade Public Library System opened submissions on September 14 for a Poetry Contest for Teens that asks young writers between 13 and 18 years old to compose a sonnet about freedom inspired by Miami, the United States, or both. Sponsored by Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s office and the library system, the contest runs through October 17 as part of TeenTober, the library’s annual month of programming for young people. All three of Miami-Dade County’s Poet Laureates are involved in the initiative, with 2026 Poet Laureate Nicole Tallman leading workshops and joining her two predecessors as judges for the submitted work. Key Takeaways The Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Poetry Contest for Teens is open to Miami-Dade County residents ages 13 to 18 with a valid library card, with submissions accepted from September 14 through October 17. Contestants are asked to write a sonnet about freedom inspired by Miami, the
The Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical “Buena Vista Social Club” will make its South Florida premiere September 29 through October 4 at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House, opening the 2026–27 Broadway in Miami season with a production written and choreographed by two Miami-raised artists during Hispanic Heritage Month. Key Takeaways “Buena Vista Social Club” runs September 29 through October 4, 2026, at the Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House in Downtown Miami, opening the 2026–27 Broadway in Miami season. The musical features a book by Hialeah-raised Tony nominee Marco Ramirez and Tony-winning choreography by Miami-born Patricia Delgado, alongside co-choreographer Justin Peck. The production received 10 Tony Award nominations in 2025, winning five competitive and special awards, and its cast album won the Grammy Award for Musical Theater Album at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. The South Florida premiere falls during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15) and
The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines opened “Hyphenated Encounters” on September 17, a two-part exhibition that organizers describe as the most comprehensive survey of Cuban American painter Lilian Garcia-Roig’s work ever presented. The show spans more than three decades of Garcia-Roig’s career, pairing historical landscape paintings with newer site-responsive pieces and a short film, and runs through January 17, 2027. A second exhibition, “Discord and Serenity,” opened the same evening in the gallery’s adjacent space. Both shows are free to attend, consistent with The Frank’s policy of offering all exhibitions at no cost to the public. Key Takeaways “Hyphenated Encounters” is a collaborative presentation between The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery and Miami-Dade County’s Deering Estate, running September 17, 2026, through January 17, 2027 The exhibition spans more than 30 years of Garcia-Roig’s career and is described as the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to
The Ocean Drive Promenade Music Series is presenting free outdoor performances in Lummus Park throughout September, with Cuban ensemble Cortadito scheduled for September 13 and Son Gitano following on September 20, placing live Latin music on the South Beach beachfront as Miami enters Hispanic Heritage Month. Key Takeaways Cortadito, a Miami-based Cuban ensemble rooted in traditional son music, performs September 13 at Lummus Park between 14th Street and 14th Place on Ocean Drive. Son Gitano follows on September 20 with a program combining flamenco, salsa, and bolero traditions. Both concerts are free and open to the public, presented by the Ocean Drive Association with support from the City of Miami Beach and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. The performances coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins September 15 and runs through October 15. Separately, the 11th annual Urban Film Festival screened nearly 200 independent films across Historic Overtown
By: Macie Forman First-person narration in YA fiction is one of the more difficult things to get right consistently across the full length of a novel, because it requires a writer to inhabit an adolescent consciousness fully enough to render it accurately without either condescending to it or projecting adult awareness and sophistication onto it in ways that make the narrator feel older than they are supposed to be. Michele Kwasniewski gets it right in Rising Star, and the result is a Dani Truehart who feels genuinely fifteen in all of the ways that matter most. Her self-critical inner voice after performances, her awareness that something is off about some of the arrangements she has entered into without quite being able to name what, her fear that the relationship with Sean is being sacrificed to a career she is not entirely sure she chose, her genuine joy in her own
By: Marcus Ellington After more than three decades in music, DPB could be forgiven for looking backward. Instead, the Cincinnati-based Christian hip-hop artist is thinking about where his music might go next, and the answer may extend well beyond speakers and streaming platforms. DPB, born David Paul Brooks, has spent his career combining hip-hop with messages of faith, perseverance, and personal transformation. From his early years singing with The Brooks Family to his work with the Grammy- and Dove-nominated Christian rap group D.O.C. (Disciples of Christ), he has watched hip-hop evolve from an outsider culture into a global entertainment force. Along the way, he has shared stages with artists including Salt-N-Pepa, TobyMac and Kirk Franklin while developing his own identity as a recording artist, entrepreneur and motivational voice. Now, his latest campaign suggests that DPB may be ready to turn his music into something considerably larger. At the center of
By Julie Waldron As conversations about climate, conservation, and the future of the planet become increasingly urgent, author Barbara Hynak is approaching one of the defining questions of our time from an unexpected direction: fantasy. Her novel, Roars Across the World, transports readers to a place of failing rains, disappearing resources, territorial conflict, and competing claims to power. Humans struggle to survive. Lions struggle to survive. And neither possesses the ability to control the one force upon which they all depend: nature itself. At the center of the story are Atum-Sani, a young human leader carrying the legacy of his ancestors, and Tradent, a majestic white lion known as the Leader of All. Each begins with his own understanding of authority and his place in the natural order. But drought has little respect for titles. As rivers recede and the threat of a devastating Time of No Rains grows, Hynak
Rosalía performs at Kaseya Center on September 14 and September 16, 2026, closing out the North American leg of the LUX Tour with two rescheduled arena shows in Miami. The concerts bring the Catalan singer’s fourth album, a 13-language orchestral project recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, to the city where a significant portion of the record was written. The two-night engagement arrives the same week that Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15. Key Takeaways Rosalía performs at Kaseya Center on Monday, September 14 and Wednesday, September 16, at 8:30 p.m. The dates were rescheduled from the original June 4 and June 6 performances. All tickets from the original dates are honored. The LUX Tour is Rosalía’s largest headlining run to date, spanning 57 arena shows across 17 countries. The tour launched March 16, 2026, in Lyon, France, and the Miami dates close the full itinerary. LUX, released November
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