Tito Puente

Musikfest has returned Banana Island to the families. For the past few years the Bethlehem music festival switched the tunes to jazz, bluegrass and other “adult” styles of music after dark but this year the venue will remain all kids’...

When your goal is worldwide domination, you gotta do what you gotta do. For Pitbull, hardcore Miami Heat fan, that means getting in bed (figuratively speaking) with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “Yeah, we don’t talk about that,”...

Jose Curbelo, a Latin jazz bandleader, agent and promoter who helped popularize the cha-cha in the United States and made Tito Puente a star, has died. He was 95. A resident of North Miami Beach, Curbelo died Friday of heart failure at a hospital in...

Bob DeSena didn't grow up in a family where Latin jazz was a common presence on the stereo. Instead, it was an instrument that got him hooked to its sound. The bandleader, whose combo will perform this weekend in Huntington Beach, discovered his...

A Grammy Award-winning orchestra will headline the second annual ¡Sabor! Latin Festival, June 22-24 at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, which this year will feature all free entertainment, it was announced Friday. Spanish Harlem Orchestra, known for its...

"Rango"probably has the animated feature Academy Award in the bag, but the film that deserves it? A wonderful Spanish-British co-production called "Chico & Rita," making its Chicago debut for a week's run at the Gene Siskel Film Center. I suppose if...

Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning pianist, composer and arranger who crossed freely from jazz to Latin and pop music, working with such names as Dizzy Gillespie, George Shearing and Natalie Cole as well as Paul McCartney, Prince and Michael Jackson, has...

By Stacey Harrison On The Simpsons, the characters never age and time pretty much stands still. But for Alf Clausen, all he has to do is look at his son to take in the true scope of the passage of time. “The thing that keeps coming back to me is the...

Marc Anthony might not have had luck in his marriages, but Saturday at the grandstand arena he experienced the unconditional love of more than 4,000 fans, who welcomed him with nostalgia and joy. The concert at the Great Allentown Fair......

“A lot of times we tell our parents that they need to be involved but they don’t know how to approach the schools or what that means. It’s helping children with homework, attending parent teacher conferences, going to an open house or atte...