Do not miss tonight’s television 8:30 pm broadcast of the Casandra Awards, the Dominican equivalent of the Grammy and Emmy Awards named for legendary Dominican performer Casandra Damir?n. The Casandra awards are given to 47 categories of show business by the DR’s Asociaci?n de Cronistas de Arte (Association of Art Reporters — Arcoarte), in a televised ceremony at the National Theater sponsored by Dominican National Brewery (CND), makers of Presidente beer. The awards ceremony normally is held on a Monday night, but this year was changed to Tuesday so that international singing star Gloria Estefan could attend and receive a special tribute and award. Other international stars expected to attend are Venezuela’s Jos? Lu?s Rodr?guez ("El Puma"), Puerto Rico’s new pop sensation Chayanne (who starred in the recent film "Dance with Me" with Vanessa Williams), PR’s Elvis Crespo (a merengue singer nominated this year for a Grammy for his hit "Suavemente"). Voting for the awards was conducted by Arcoarte last Sunday.
