Events on Friday, November 9

Blue October w/ Yellowcard and Shiny Toy Guns

Music

Blue October

Friday 11/ 9 @ Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

When Houston-based Blue October's History for Sale came out on Brando in '03 and climbed into the college charts, Universal, who... 

Holy Ghost

Music: DJ

Holy Ghost

Friday 11/ 9 @ BAR

DFA's newest signings, Holy Ghost catch ears with loose funk-drum stutters, classic synth arpeggios, echo effects, and an unbeatable lyric sheet... 

An Evening with Gary Sinise

Special Event

Gary Sinise

Friday 11/ 9 @ Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center

How the folks at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival managed to snag an actor as colorful as Gary Sinise must be... 

 <i>Secret World of Haute Couture</i>

Film: Documentary

Secret World of Haute Couture

Friday 11/ 9 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

Filmmaker Margy Kinmonth takes you behind the seams (sorry, couldn’t resist) into the character-rich world of haute couture, where dresses can... 

Ongoing Events

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: <i>The Killing Machine and Other Stories 1995-2007</i>

Art

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

Friday 11/ 9 @ Miami Art Museum -

The Miami Art Museum's MAC@MAM program launches its first much-anticipated exhibit: 11 installations by husband-and-wife team Janet Cardiff and George Bures... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Friday 11/ 9 @ Sushi Square

Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it... 

<i>Goya: The Complete Etchings</i>

Art

Goya: The Complete Etchings

Friday 11/ 9 @ Freedom Tower

Now under the stewardship of Miami Dade College, the Freedom Tower is finally being put to good use, opening its new... 

<i>California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews</i>

Art

California as Muse

Friday 11/ 9 @ Norton Museum of Art

For many, California embodies a particular Arcadian ideal. The state's rural splendor was the main source of inspiration for early 20th-century... 

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Friday 11/ 9 @ Christine's Roti Shop

Christine's Roti Shop is a North Miami Beach institution. Just after Hurricane Wilma, when the power was out across the city... 

<i>The Cake Eaters</i>

Film

The Cake Eaters

Friday 11/ 9 @ Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center

The unspoken premise of Mary Stuart Masterson's quiet composition is that things go unsaid not because they're unspeakable, but because it... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Friday 11/ 9 @ Tap Tap

Those who've passed a lazy evening in the rocking chairs on Tap Tap's front porch, sipping Miami's best mojitos while listening... 

<em>Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists</em>

Art

Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists

Friday 11/ 9 @ ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries

Asian neo-pop art (encompassing South Korea, Japan, and China) is one of the hottest new trends on the contemporary market —... 

Pip Brant: <i>The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables</i>

Art

Pip Brant

Friday 11/ 9 @ The Frost Art Museum - FIU

Pip Brant, a local, internationally recognized artist and professor at FIU, works in sundry mediums, but one common thread in all... 

Pablo Cano: <i>Viva Vaudeville</i>

Theatre

Pablo Cano

Friday 11/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

A Dadaist sensibility and a refined knowledge of bricolage inform Pablo Cano's inventive, found-object marionettes. For his new production — the... 

<i>Killer of Sheep</i> (1977)

Film

Killer of Sheep

Friday 11/ 9 @ Bill Cosford Cinema - University of Miami

Charles Burnett's classic Killer of Sheep may be the most famous film you've never seen. Set in the mid-'70s in... 

Vickie Pierre: <i>Beautiful Collision</i>

Art

Vickie Pierre

Friday 11/ 9 @ Ingalls & Associates

Miami artist Vickie Pierre's work achieves a delicate, dainty quality that hints at a much deeper psychological landscape, exploring issues of... 

Ronald Morán: <i>Blanco Intenso</i>

Art

Ronald Morán: Blanco Intenso

Friday 11/ 9 @ Kevin Bruk Gallery

Salvadoran artist Ronald Morán looks to quell violence on all levels, infusing his work with symbols and simulacra. His new solo... 

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project: Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Art

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project

Friday 11/ 9 @ Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Visiting the opulent Vizcaya estate is an experience in itself, so hitting it up for the unveiling of a new art... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Friday 11/ 9 @ Spyro

Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the northern end of this fair city, is a complete and utter mess thanks to... 

<i>Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920-1938</i>

Art

Agitated Images

Friday 11/ 9 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium... 

Bruce Conner: <i>Eve Ray Forever</i>

Art

Bruce Conner

Friday 11/ 9 @ Miami Art Museum -

Another good reason to go to the Miami Art Museum (beside the excellent Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller show) is to check... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Friday 11/ 9 @ Garden of Eatin'

With all the tropical flora found in Florida, you'd think the natives would be a bit more appreciative of fruits and... 

<i>Refugee</i>

Theatre

Refugee

Friday 11/ 9 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

The Carnival Center has commissioned local Haitian American playwright Marc Joseph to draw upon his own immigrant experience to write Refugee.... 

Tom Scicluna: <i>Gazebo</i>

Art

Tom Scicluna

Friday 11/ 9 @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

In Tom Scicluna's view, less is more. The noted Miami minimalist doesn't build elaborate structures — instead, he favors a reduced... 

<i>Sculpture: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection</i>

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Friday 11/ 9 @ The Warehouse

The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),... 

Miami Book Fair International

Special Event

Miami Book Fair

Friday 11/ 9 @ Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus

It's hard to know where to begin with the Book Fair's annual congress of authors. Do we go with Walter Isaacson...