Events on Friday, March 7

Carnaval on the Mile Kick Off Concert

Festival: Performing Arts

Carnaval on the Mile

Friday 3/ 7 @ [DELETE] Miracle Mile

Carnaval on the Mile, one of Miami's biggest annual street parties, returns for its tenth year with an impressively diverse lineup:... 

Bayonics

Music: Hip-Hop

Bayonics

Friday 3/ 7 @ Transit Lounge

Bay Area outfit Bayonics fuse the endlessly spooling rhymes of freestyle-minded, left coast hip-hop with the big-band, jam aesthetic of brethren... 

<em>A Zed & Two Noughts</em> (1985)

Film

A Zed & Two Noughts

Friday 3/ 7 @ Miami Beach Cinematheque

Separated Siamese twin biologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce lose their wives in a car wreck and proceed to devote themselves to... 

<em>In the Mouth of Madness </em>(1995)

Film

In the Mouth of Madness

Friday 3/ 7 @ Cinema Paradiso

Few directors do horror like John Carpenter, and hardcore fans esteem In the Mouth of Madness as one of his most... 

Ongoing Events

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Nanking</em>

Film: Documentary

Nanking

Friday 3/ 7 @ Cinema Paradiso

In December of 1937, a million-member branch of the Japanese army invaded Nanking — then the capital of China... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Friday 3/ 7 @ The Room

Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by... 

<i>Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami</i>

Art

Promises of Paradise

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Luis Garcia-Nerey: <em>Babylon</em>

Art

Luis Garcia-Nerey

Friday 3/ 7 @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

Sadly, what begins as a utopia often ends in one hot mess. Such was the case with ancient Mesopotamia's capital city... 

Gina Ruggeri: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Gina Ruggeri

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Friday 3/ 7 @ Moonchine

Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them... 

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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.... 

Mark Mothersbaugh: <em>Beautiful Mutants</em>

Art

Mark Mothersbaugh

Friday 3/ 7 @ Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery

Highly regarded for his scores — most notably for Wes Anderson's films — Mark Mothersbaugh is also an eccentric visual artist.... 

<em>Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures </em>

Art

Degas in Bronze

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

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Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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>Wilfredo Lam in North America</em>

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

<i>Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s</i>

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Friday 3/ 7 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Friday 3/ 7 @ The Warehouse

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

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Farouk Hosni: <em>The Energy of Abstraction</em>

Art

Farouk Hosni

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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,... 

<em>Spamalot</em>

Theatre

Spamalot

Friday 3/ 7 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Spamalot, as most folks know by now, is a musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python's cult-film farce on the King... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Friday 3/ 7 @ Casa Toscana

Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your... 

<i>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>

Art

Work in Progress

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Friday 3/ 7 @ Abbey Brewing Company

There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this... 

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Friday 3/ 7 @ W Wine Bistro

Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of... 

<em>Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection </em>

Art

Tiffany Studios

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>The High Style of Dorothy Draper </em>

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Langerado Music Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Langerado

Friday 3/ 7 @ Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation

Homegrown music fest Langerado seems to double in size and prestige nearly every year — so much so that this year,... 

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Friday 3/ 7 @ Spyro

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

Lawrence Murray Dixon:<em> Art Deco Master</em>

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Enoc Perez

Art

Enoc Perez

Friday 3/ 7 @ The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse

Although primarily a painter, Enoc Perez engages in an assiduous, multi-leveled process involving photographs, color separation, drawing, and pigment transfers to... 

<em>Women Only! In Their Studios</em>

Art

Women Only!

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>The Great Age of American Automobiles</em>

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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,... 

Miami International Film Festival

Film

Miami International Film Festival

Friday 3/ 7 @ Various locations

This annual cinephile powwow may not enjoy the prominence of Cannes or Sundance, but each year the Miami International Film Festival... 

Sushi Square

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Sushi Square

Friday 3/ 7 @ Sushi Square

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

<I>French Kissin' in the U.S.A.</I>

Art

French Kissin' in the U.S.A.

Friday 3/ 7 @ The Moore Space

Taking its title from the 1986 Debbie Harry hit, the Moore Space's new exhibition gathers 18 contemporary French artists, including Adel... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Blackbooks: <em>Ask Us About Our Free Stabbings</em>

Art

Blackbooks

Friday 3/ 7 @ Spinello Gallery

Blackbooks is the the Fort Lauderdale-based artist duo Andy Black and Books IIII. They've already made a name for themselves by... 

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture-makers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>

Art

Inspired by China

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Friday 3/ 7 @ 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...