MIAMI -- English transplant Darren Ockert, the indie-pop artist and singer-producer, is likely to hear his remix of "Rain From London" at the hip clubs on the Miami Beach strip.

Ockert, who now calls Miami home, has teamed up with Italian remix guru OutBreak_Music to redo that title track off "Rain From London" (2012). The EP includes "Force Of Gravity," a track that was a finalist in the adult contemporary category in the UK song writing contest in 2012.

LAS VEGAS -- A new print advertising campaign from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is marketing to gay and lesbian travelers with a new twist, promoting that in Sin City, “everyone’s welcome, even straight people.”

The stylish, five-ad series from local ad agency R&R Partners, each feature a “stereotypical” representation of a frumpy straight couple surrounded by “stereotypical” hip, trendy gays and lesbians:

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It’s Tuesday in Highlands, N.J., and I’m taking Frank the contractor to lunch. He’s been such a great guy. He will rebuild my mother’s little house on the Jersey shore that was awash in the waters of Hurricane Sandy last October. Newly gutted, the house reveals the faded layers of lives that once made the place a home, one pattern atop the last, atop the last, atop the last.

That seemingly peaceful, starry night sky is deceptive. It’s the result of cosmic violence, the astronomical force that drive the evolution of the universe. Cosmic violence did the dinosaurs in and made it possible for humans to develop.

“Cosmic Collisions,” a new digital film at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, describes visually what its companion exhibit, “Great Balls of Fire,” illustrates upstairs at the center.

Narrated by Robert Redford, “Cosmic Collisions” describes the effects of the collisions of comets and asteroids on the ever-changing universe.