This morning, the Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud announced during a press conference at the Kaseya Center that its award show, the Latin Grammys, would be hosted at the arena in downtown Miami on November 14, which will also be the show's 25th anniversary. Nominees for the 2024 ceremony will be announced on September 17. This marks the third time the city will host the awards after stints in 2003 and 2020 ..read more

On a Tuesday morning in March, Ann Bommarito welcomes her kindergarten and first-grade students for another day of school. The ten boys gather in the front of the classroom as they do every morning ..read more

Non-alcoholic cocktails have been popping up in restaurants and supermarket shelves for quite a while now, but consumers typically haven't seen cannabis and wine together. However, Miami natives Henry and Gino Santos, cofounders of Premium Blend, a wine-based liquor and liqueur alternatives brand, are out to change that with CannaVinus ..read more

According to music data-tracking firm Luminate, 2023 marked the third consecutive year in which vinyl records outsold CDs and the 18th consecutive year that vinyl album sales grew in the U.S. For all albums sold across digital and physical options in 2023, vinyl albums made up 47.1 percent — and when counting physical sales alone, vinyl makes up 57 percent. This is all to say that vinyl records are popular again, and independent record stores have played a big part in their resurrection ..read more

In recent months, a string of Disney Cruise workers have allegedly been found with hoards of child porn on their devices while their ships were docked in South Florida. Following the arrest of two Disney Cruise crew members in a two-week span on child pornography charges in January, a third worker for the family cruise line was arrested this week for allegedly possessing lewd images of children ..read more

Argentine rapper-singer Nicki Nicole will embark on her first-ever headlining tour of the U.S., stopping at the Fillmore Miami Beach on September 28. The artist announced the Alma Tour alongside her newest single, "Ojos Verdes," the first offering for her upcoming project ..read more

A Miami tech industry consultant claims that after seeing how easily a man can get hooked on "AI girlfriends," he's convinced there is a burgeoning billion-dollar-plus market for synthetic digital companions with a customizable voice, appearance, and demeanor. Local investor and executive Greg Isenberg made waves on X (formerly known as Twitter) this week by suggesting that apps with artificial intelligence-generated dates could grow into a mass-market alternative to traditional dating sites (you know, the ones that offer interaction with living, breathing human beings ..read more

Latin pop superstar Shakira has announced her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, which includes a first string of 17 dates across North America. The Colombian singer will kick things off on November 2 in Palm Desert, California, before making her way down to Miami on November 20 and 21 with a stop at the Kaseya Center ..read more

Walking along Las Olas Boulevard on a bright and sunny day, you may stumble upon a canary yellow store with a large, forest green sign that reads, "Hemp Cafe & Edibles." Although it's not unusual to find a CBD, smoke, or vape shop along the boulevard, it is unusual to stumble upon one that also has a café menu — with freshly baked, THC-infused cookies for sale ..read more

Fuerza Regida, one of the biggest Mexican regional bands, has just announced a show at the Amerant Bank Arena on Sunday, July 28, as part of the Pero No Te Enamores Tour. The U.S. tour was announced Tuesday on frontman Jesus Ortiz Paz's Instagram, where he had been teasing something special for April 12, the date general tickets will be on sale ..read more