Events on Saturday, March 29
International Record Collectors Show
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Beach Resort and Spa
It's a wonder why it took the minds behind WMC so long to figure out that an enormous record sale was...
Academy Award Nominated Short Animation
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
Cinema Paradiso's usual classic and indie films are great, but they're available pretty much anywhere (Netflix, anyone?). It's pretty unlikely, though,...
Saturday 3/29 @ Opium Garden
Aquabooty, quite possibly the only local party still catering to the electronic-dance-music crowd after the WMC promoters close up shop, is...
Saturday 3/29 @ Raleigh Hotel
Hip-hop is for nerds — or so says LA's Stones Throw Records. Founder Peanut Butter Wolf's falsetto electro cuts and obscure...
Saturday 3/29 @ Purdy Lounge
Get all cynical about it if you like, but the folks at Scion have an undeniable ear for underground acts. Aside...
Saturday 3/29 @ White Room
It's hard to say exactly how Scottish singer/swinger Calvin Harris knows just what was "Acceptable in the '80s" — especially since...
A Love Affair with Frankie's Pizza
Saturday 3/29 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
Frankie's Pizza: to know it is to love it. Frankie's has been serving up square slices from the same hovel of...
Saturday 3/29 @ Studio A
Although the initial frenzy over nu-rave may have faded a bit, that won't stop the masses from shaking Studio A's sparkling...
Ongoing Events
Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten
Saturday 3/29 @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Gearing up for the spring season, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin opens two heavy-hitting shows, one by Belgian artist Johan Creten and the...
Saturday 3/29 @ Cinema Paradiso
In this bloody farce, our man Montriveau is warned not to handle the film's namesake weapon, which was used to behead...
Saturday 3/29 @ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...
Saturday 3/29 @ Rubell Family Collection
Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest art star, creating darkly poetic, romanticized works read as chapters in an epic, sometimes mythical, and...
Saturday 3/29 @ Bicentennial Park
2008 marks the tenth year that the Ultra Music Festival has hijacked downtown Miami during the final weekend of the Winter...
Saturday 3/29 @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami
To increase attention to American women in contemporary art, the Lowe's Women Only! show gives props to 20 notable ladies in...
Saturday 3/29 @ Freedom Tower
Miami-Dade College is making good use of its recent Freedom Tower acquisition by hosting an exhibition of modernist works from the...
Saturday 3/29 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art
After art nouveau first emerged in Europe, the trend soon spread stateside, where American designer Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly adept...
Saturday 3/29 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
The Miami City Ballet's Program IV is the latest in a series of amazing presentations for 2008. Easily the most anticipated,...
Saturday 3/29 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale
For centuries now, European and American artisans have used Chinese art and culture as a source of inspiration. Back in June...
Saturday 3/29 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art
During his lifetime, French artist Edgar Degas was best known for his paintings of dancers, bathers, and racehorses. Though the 19th-century...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami
Last year, Miami collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz donated the multimedia project No Ghost Just a Shell to MOCA...
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Art Museum -
Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron have envisioned an ambitious future for the Miami Art Museum's new bay-front home. The...
Saturday 3/29 @ Bass Museum of Art
Back in the '30s, well-heeled New Yorkers migrated to the Florida tropics as a getaway from the cold, often staying in...
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Art Museum -
British-born artist Melanie Smith examines contemporary life in the big city — and injects her work with a dose of turn-of-the-century...
Saturday 3/29 @ Norton Museum of Art
Adding to its already-expansive collection of more than 2,200 photographs (including works by Man Ray, Walker Evans, and Henri Cartier-Bresson), the...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...
The Great Age of American Automobiles
Saturday 3/29 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale
Before American automobile design started becoming more and more homogenized, there was a time when cars actually had real presence, imagination,...
Saturday 3/29 @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Panned by New York critics when it premiered, Wicked has proven its detractors wrong, or at least irrelevant — this hugely...
Saturday 3/29 @ National Hotel
Although South Beach is buzzing with exclusive parties and last-minute performances throughout Winter Music Conference week, the Remix Hotel is the...
Saturday 3/29 @ Captain Jim's Seafood
For years, Captain Jim's has been the fish market of choice for many North Miami residents, but not everyone takes the...
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Art Museum -
This retrospective is the first large-scale Wilfredo Lam exhibition ever organized in a South Florida museum. Arguably the 20th century's most...
Saturday 3/29 @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Evincing a cubist's predilection for deconstruction, Pennsylvania-based photographer Phil Stein also possesses a keen sense for detail. After printing several digital...
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Beach Convention Center
It's never gotten close to the attention of Art Basel, so arteaméricas tried to gin up some buzz this year with...
Saturday 3/29 @ Norton Museum of Art
Throughout his prolific career, American sculptor Alexander Calder created a variety of objects — from inventive children's toys and 1927's miniature...
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Saturday 3/29 @ The Warehouse
The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),...
Saturday 3/29 @ 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...
Saturday 3/29 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale
From his tenure as director of the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris to his current position as Egypt's Minister of Culture,...
Saturday 3/29 @ Bass Museum of Art
Curated by Allan Shulman, one of Miami's most prominent architects, Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami delineates the potential of this...
Saturday 3/29 @ Kevin Bruk Gallery
New York-based artist Gina Ruggeri displays an obsessive interest in accumulated masses, from cloud buildups, rockpiles, and leaves to otherwordly heaps...
Saturday 3/29 @ Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
For 20 years now, the good people at the Rhythm Foundation have brought Miami some of the best Latin and world...
Saturday 3/29 @ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...
Saturday 3/29 @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Drawing from popular advertisements, mainstream comic books, and industrial production techniques, Roy Lichtenstein's primary-colored works are now iconic deconstructions of Americana....
Saturday 3/29 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
Saturday 3/29 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale
An illustrious American interior decorator from the Jazz Age through the '60s, Dorothy Draper lived to bedazzle, with a bold, unabashed...
Saturday 3/29 @ Miami Beach Resort and Spa
For one week in March, the Winter Music Conference turns Miami into the center of the electronic-music world — and it's...
Saturday 3/29 @ Tuna's Garden Grille
The original Tuna's was a charming waterfront eatery where you could sit on a rickety-but-romantic patio with plates of lobsters and...
Saturday 3/29 @ Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Nestled on the far end of Key Biscayne — a world away from the razzle dazzle of South Beach — is...
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Saturday 3/29 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the...
Saturday 3/29 @ Galerie Bertin-Toublanc
As gallery shows pop up all over the country and a new slate of stars makes its way to Miami, there's...
Saturday 3/29 @ David Castillo Gallery
Local artist Wendy Wischer has a gift for re-interpreting nature's uncanny elements, often with the aid of technology. She once projected...
Saturday 3/29 @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery
As one of Snitzer's younger artists, Alex Sweet is poised to create some buzz in the local scene, especially with this...
Saturday 3/29 @ Bin No. 18
Miami's midtown crowd has really caught on to wining, thanks to bars like the much-missed Stop Miami, which closed earlier this...
Saturday 3/29 @ Mac's Club Deuce
Freaks, geeks, drag queens, hipsters, club kids, and straight-up drunks commingle at South Beach's most notorious dive bar. The second-oldest watering...
