Travel around Miami

Long before the De Caprio movie, this was the show that broke the traditional Shakespearean mould and rewrote the drama of the star-crossed lovers. Almost 50 years on, Leonard Bernstein’s reworking of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is still fresh. The Sharks and Jets tear apart New York as effectively as the Montagues and Capulets bloodied the streets of Verona. The music and set dance pieces are glorious in this revival that draws on the talents of the visiting Göteborg Opera. In English.

Newly enlarged with the addition of two more partners, Barakat has become the hot shop in the lower French Quarter. Barbara Katz’s eclectic shop has long been a haunt of dedicated shoppers who prize the vintage clothing, handmade hats, unusual jewellery and the always surprising selection of ‘found objects’. Mary Ann Hammett, an avid collector of 1950s’ furniture and New Orleans memorabilia, moved her collection to Barakat when she closed her Dauphine Street shop. They have been joined by Robert Chipman, one of the South’s best-known purveyors of architectural antiques. The shop now carries an impressive selection of Chipman’s 19th and early 20th-century door and window hardware, mantels and even a set of 12-foot fluted Corinthian columns, salvaged from a demolished plantation house.