Maria Prado assumed the role of general manager of Dadeland Mall in January 2012. She came to Dadeland after serving as the general manager of another Simon Property Group shopping center, Miami International Mall.
The 102,000-square-foot expansion of the popular Dadeland Mall is nearing completion, Mrs. Prado said. Many retailers have signed on for the new space including Tommy Bahama, Hugo Boss, Microsoft, Stuart Weitzman, Puma, Donald J. Pliner, Porsche Design, Vince Camuto, Free People, Urban Outfitters, Express, Original Penguin, Tesla, Fit2Run, Everything But Water, babycottons, Luggage & More and ALO Diamonds. To join the new retailers is an impressive restaurant line-up including Bobby’s Burger Palace, Aoki Teppanyaki, Earls Kitchen + Bar, Balans and Aroma Espresso Bar. Reporter Laura Stace interviewed Mrs. Prado at her office in Dadeland Mall.
After landing into the hospitality industry “by accident” back in his native England, Simon Pettigrew has risen through the ranks. Today he serves as general manager of the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami.
Mr. Pettigrew has worked for the luxury hotel chain for 25 years. He worked at numerous Four Seasons locations throughout North America before coming to Miami early last year.
“I always love the [city] that I’m in,” he said. “Where ever I go I find the good in every single place, and Miami has just been an incredible destination in my year plus.”
In Miami, he’s encountered an interesting destination, which attracts business travelers and leisure visitors alike. The Four Seasons Brickell location has a resort feel while being in the middle of an urban setting, he said.
Mr. Pettigrew oversaw the completion of the Miami hotel’s first renovation since 2003, which included a redesign of rooms and the launch of a new restaurant, Edge, Steak & Bar. He supervised the renovation of the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver before the 2010 Olympic Games and the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea.
The Brickell hotel might see some more changes in its near future. Mr. Pettigrew said that a design firm has been hired, and the hotel is in the formative stages of giving some of the hotel’s public areas an overhaul.
Aside from overseeing the hotel’s operations, Mr. Pettigrew sits on the board of the Greater Miami & the Beaches Hotel Association.
During his many years in the hotel industry he’s experienced good times and bad. He used his collaborative leadership style during the downturn of the economy to figure out how to react without sacrificing the guests’ experience.
“I think every hotel reacted in a similar way regardless of the location,” he said. “I was in Vancouver during the downturn, but I think everybody had to look at efficiency. How do we do a little bit more with a little bit less? The most important thing was retaining as much of our resources, talent as possible. We’re in the people business, so we have to retain those super stars as a primary goal.”
Mr. Pettigrew discussed his experience in the hospitality industry and the hotel’s recent renovations with Miami Today staff writer Patricia Hoyos at the Four Seasons Hotel.
As a peaceful South Florida neighborhood is rocked by headlines, a local bar owner struggles to keep the peace with his son. But as a storm grows ever closer, the men are forced to come to terms with each other and their long-guarded secrets.
Mosaic Theatre's Artistic and Executive Director, Richard Jay Simon discuss the origins of this Mosaic Theatre's world premiere production which draws it's themes from a true story involving bullying in south Florida, is both challenging and gratifying.
From the 2012 Carbonell Awards held on April 2, 2012 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Best Director of a Play
Joseph Adler, Red, GableStage
Jeffrey D. Holmes, The Pillowman, Infinite Abyss
J. Barry Lewis, All My Sons, Palm Beach Dramaworks
Stuart Meltzer, Captiva, Zoetic Stage
Richard Jay Simon, Side Effects, Mosaic Theatre
Best Director, Musical
Michael Leeds, The Light in the Piazza, Broward Stage Door Theatre
Margaret M. Ledford, Song of the Living Dead, Promethean Theatre
Mark Martino, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Mark Martino, Crazy for You, Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Marc Robin, The Sound of Music, Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Melis Bilen is singing Veda (whose lyrics belongs to her and the music belongs to Antonio Galbiati) in the special episode of New Year’s Night programme in Cyprus Tv.
Melis Bilen is singing Sway in the special episode of New Year’s Night programme in Cyprus Tv.
Melis Bilen is singing Spente le Stelle in the special episode of New Year’s Night programme in Cyprus Tv.
Melis Bilen is singing IQ (whose lyrics belongs to her and the music belongs to Rodney Jerkins) in the special episode of New Year’s Night programme in Cyprus Tv.
Melis Bilen is singing Bla Bla, (whose lyrics belongs to her and the music belongs to Lisa Ekdahl) in the special episode of New Year’s Night programme in Cyprus Tv.
Melis Bilen is singing Autumn Leaves in the special episode of New Year’s Night programme in Cyprus Tv.
Jesus Hidalgo and The Pachamama Project Foundation will present Sistema Dos (System Two), a multi-media project that integrates environmental consciousness with music at Cinema Paradiso on December 21, 2011. This project proposes a parallel relationship between the minutiae of everyday life and a path that connects us to the heart of Mother Earth. The songs demonstrate a solid influence rooted in ancestral, classical and pop genres, and contain a powerful philosophical message designed to raise public consciousness in order to promote societal concern for the protection and preservation of the Planet’s natural resources, along with its flora and fauna, as well as the ancient wisdom of Amazonian indigenous tribes that celebrate internal wisdom, love, life and the possibility of a better world.
Jesus Hidalgo is a Venezuelan artist who comes from a family of musicians and artists. He is a singer, composer and producer who has had the opportunity from a very early age to work with musicians like Placido Domingo, Puerto Rican Power, Bacilos, Oscar de Leon, Simon Diaz, El Cuarteto, Enrique Hidalgo, Irakere, Dyango , Aida Cuevas,Los Del Rio, Rayito, MDO,Rocio Durcal,among others. He has also worked next to famous music producers such as Bebu Silvetti, Emmanuelle Ruffinengo, Rodolfo Castillo, Jose Lugo, Pedro Alfonso and German Ortiz.
As an artist, Jesus Hidalgo, has recorded six albums, three of which were with the successful Venezuelan Latin Pop group URBANDA, and three with LOS HIDALGO. The group LOS HIDALGO was met with great recognition in Puerto Rico, South America, Spain and the United States, as well as been winners of many international awards (1992, 1993 and 1994 Ronda Awards Best Pop Group, Venezuela; 2001 Premios Lo Nuestro, Nominee Best Latin Vocal Group; 2002 Aplausos Awards Best Vocal Group, Puerto Rico).
Jesus Hidalgo has signed an exclusive publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing and as an artist with Warner Music, Lideres Entertainment, Sesac Latina and recently he is working in a new production SistemaDos.
Jesus Hidalgo and The Pachamama Project Foundation will present Sistema Dos (System Two), a multi-media project that integrates environmental consciousness with music at Cinema Paradiso on December 21, 2011. This project proposes a parallel relationship between the minutiae of everyday life and a path that connects us to the heart of Mother Earth. The songs demonstrate a solid influence rooted in ancestral, classical and pop genres, and contain a powerful philosophical message designed to raise public consciousness in order to promote societal concern for the protection and preservation of the Planet’s natural resources, along with its flora and fauna, as well as the ancient wisdom of Amazonian indigenous tribes that celebrate internal wisdom, love, life and the possibility of a better world.
Jesus Hidalgo is a Venezuelan artist who comes from a family of musicians and artists. He is a singer, composer and producer who has had the opportunity from a very early age to work with musicians like Placido Domingo, Puerto Rican Power, Bacilos, Oscar de Leon, Simon Diaz, El Cuarteto, Enrique Hidalgo, Irakere, Dyango , Aida Cuevas,Los Del Rio, Rayito, MDO,Rocio Durcal,among others. He has also worked next to famous music producers such as Bebu Silvetti, Emmanuelle Ruffinengo, Rodolfo Castillo, Jose Lugo, Pedro Alfonso and German Ortiz.
As an artist, Jesus Hidalgo, has recorded six albums, three of which were with the successful Venezuelan Latin Pop group URBANDA, and three with LOS HIDALGO. The group LOS HIDALGO was met with great recognition in Puerto Rico, South America, Spain and the United States, as well as been winners of many international awards (1992, 1993 and 1994 Ronda Awards Best Pop Group, Venezuela; 2001 Premios Lo Nuestro, Nominee Best Latin Vocal Group; 2002 Aplausos Awards Best Vocal Group, Puerto Rico).
Jesus Hidalgo has signed an exclusive publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing and as an artist with Warner Music, Lideres Entertainment, Sesac Latina and recently he is working in a new production SistemaDos.
See Paul Simon and his eight-piece band fill the stage at New York City's historic Webster Hall for an intimate and highly-charged concert that spans songs from his brilliant career. Airing December 2011
Need to Know anchor Scott Simon goes with author David Simon to Baltimore's inner city to talk to young men with little or no work, who often simply hang out on the street. Though they are rarely counted and rarely talked about, they are among America's chronically unemployed. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS.
Watch full episodes of Need to Know on the WPBT2 Video Player: http://video.wpbt2.org/program/1458405365/
Directed by Simon Arthur
A pair of lovers travel from town to town, taking on different identities in each new place. Driven by an insatiable appetite for change and with no regard for consequences, they manipulate, toy with, and forever alter the lives of the strangers they meet
FLIFF 2011 - http://www.fliff.com
Directed by Simon Curtis
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott)
www.fliff.com
Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, talks with host Alison Stewart about how debt on both sides of the Atlantic will shape our economic futures for many years to come. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know athttp://video.pbs.org/program/1458405365/
Following the record-breaking run of The Irish Curse, Award Winning Mosaic Theatre is proud to announce that Stephen Belber's Dusk Rings a Bell will feature a member of "Chicago's Elite 8," Jenny McKnight in the lead role of Molly to star in the first production of this play outside of New York.
"We are incredibly fortunate to bring down the talents of Jenny McKnight," Executive/Artistic Director Richard Jay Simon said. "We are continuing to push the envelope to leverage a national identity. Jenny has worked at major theaters in Chicago and the midwest that are national models including Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Milwaukee Rep, Indiana Rep, and Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre. This is a very exciting time for Mosaic Theatre and all South Florida audiences."
Dusk Rings a Bell runs April 7 - May 1, Thursdays through Saturdays @ 8:00 with a Saturday matinee at 3:00 and a Sunday matinee at 2:00.
Molly and Ray unexpectedly meet 25 years after a one-afternoon adolescent fling. She has a successful media career; he owns a small landscaping business. Both begin to romanticize their chance reunion, but a renewed connection is disrupted when Ray reveals the sordid details of a crime that left him incarcerated for ten years. Their encounter reveals two vastly different paths taken and two lonely souls attempting to reclaim a moment of possibility, when they were young and perhaps at their very best.
Jenny McKnight (Molly) is a Florida native, and is very happy to return to the Sunshine State to work on this lovely play. After earning an MFA at The University of Alabama, Jenny moved to Chicago, where she has been fortunate to appear in Talking Pictures and The Actor at the Goodman Theatre; Pride and Prejudice at Northlight Theatre; Old Times at Remy Bumppo Theatre; Frozen, The Laramie Project and The Incident at Next Theatre; Ariadne's Thread at Victory Gardens Theatre, Three Tall Women at Apple Tree Theatre, multiple shows with Eclipse Theatre, where she was a company member; as well as work with Steppenwolf Theatre, Redmoon Theater, Chicago Dramatists and others. Regionally in the Midwest, Jenny has been seen in Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice, Painting Churches and The Turn of the Screw at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Speaking In Tongues and All My Sons at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; and Liliom at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Thank you for your support of the arts!
Live from the surface of Mars, ñ Life's Melissa Hernandez shares some laughs and catches up with writers Wendy and Simon Wells of Disney's Mars Needs Moms, to talk to them about bringing their characters to life in the new Disney 3D film - While Wingnut, one of the films Martian characters, pops by unannounced to help Mel out with her hosting!
The official music video for Traum Diggs' new single "Come On Over" off the For Colored Girls (& White Chicks Too) mixtape. Shot at Stecchino in NYC. Download or purchase the new mixtape at www.traumdiggs.com
