No, it's not Friday (unfortunately), but I've got some things that really shouldn't wait.

Tony Horwitz, the travel writer with a thing for history, is going to be reading at Books & Books in Coral Gables Friday evening at 8 pm. Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, has a new book, A Journey Long & Strange, in which he goes in search of this continent's early explorers. Horwitz has been writing a blog of his book tour, so if you show up Friday and fling him a question he's never been asked, who knows, you might end up in it.

"Living Among the Artists Workshops" is a program sponsored by Fort Lauderdale's Legacy Art Studio, and takes place June 18-23 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Classes are in sculpture and oil painting ($500 for five). Accommodations at The Gallery Inn are $125 a night. 954-527-5606.

The Fort Lauderdale Historical Society is hosting a reception for a new exhibit, Charles Mills: Portraits in Jazz and Life, May 29th from 6:30-9:00 pm at the New River Inn. Vocalist Nicole Yarling will perform. $25 for Historical Society and Jazz Society members; $35 for everyone else.