With an all-star comedic cast, “Death at a Funeral” lives up to its hype and delivers laughs from beginning to end.

The festival kicked off Wednesday with a performance by the Mad Cat Theatre Company at 7:30 p.m. at the Colony Theatre. The South Florida-based theater company presented their classic “Shepherd’s Pie” where a group of Irish hoodlums take on the task of explaining why we really celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

The 26th Annual Miami Book Fair International Street Fair will begin Friday, Nov. 13 and last through Sunday, Nov. 15.

Insomnia will take over Miami Beach when Sleepless Night 2009 consumes the city with the best in the arts. Beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 7 and lasting until 7 a.m. Sunday morning, Sleepless Night 2009 is a 13-hour, arts and entertaining extravaganza featuring 130 events that can all be enjoyed for free.

Foodies rejoice. The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, along with an extensive list of local restaurants, will satisfy the need to divulge in decadent cuisine laced with Miami Spice.

Music critic and New Yorker Editor Ben Greenman takes readers through the psychedelic rise and tragic fall of a 1960s American rock star in his latest novel Please Step Back and will be at Books & Books in the Gables on Saturday to talk about it.

Munchies, crunchies, berries and more-The Cereal Bowl offers all the cereal aisle favorites with an added twist.

Leave the country without losing more than one day with a day cruise to the Bahamas.

University of Miami visiting professor and author Ruth Behar, along with fellow editor Lucía M. Suárez will speak at Books & Books in Coral Gables on Thursday night.

A onetime Miami resident, author Chris Bohjalian returns to South Florida for the paperback release of his novel Skeletons at the Feast.