The Portland singer traces her father's roots in Havana through a four-part series at El Centro Milagro and Montavilla Jazz Festival.

For over 30 years, neighbors decorated the recycled-can sculpture themselves. Now artist Paul Kittelson is restoring and donating it for good.

The 65-member orchestra lands a 3,000-seat home at Winthrop's restored Byrnes Auditorium, plus student masterclasses each semester.

Free powwow on DeGraw Street Saturday doubles as a family reunion for Spiderwoman Theater's founders, with matriarch Gloria Miguel turning 100 this year.

All Shook Up runs through August 22 at Theatre in the Square, capping MTC's largest cast yet ahead of its 10th anniversary season.

Two blue steel trees with wind-swayed leaves now thank Miracle Park's donors by name in Rock Hill.

Danny Newman's new app turns the 325-foot Daniels & Fisher Tower into a giant remote-controlled light show downtown.

Goldmark Cultural Center's free two-day fair lets visitors buy art straight from artists whose rent starts at just $175 a month.

The Florence Scala Italian American Museum on Taylor Street targets an October 12 opening, with the 4,500-pound bronze Columbus statue as its centerpiece.

SOUP: The Musical retells the Little Havana eatery's Vietnamese-Cuban story at The Mandelstam Theater through August 23.

Firebox Pottery Studio is bringing 17 wheels and an adaptive ceramics program to Waverley Square this fall.

One Monroe Place, half-demolished in 2008, now hosts 17 designers for the Brooklyn Heights Association's biggest fundraiser.

Painters will race the clock at Pottawatomie Park and set up easels inside the Fabyan Japanese Garden during the Aug. 17-23 competition.