Events on Tuesday, April 1

WWE presents ECW Smackdown

Special Event

ECW Smackdown

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ American Airlines Arena

If there's a bigger way to spend April Fools' Day, we can't think of it. Not with the ECW's heavy slate,... 

Yundi Li

Music: Classical

Yundi Li

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Yundi Li is all about breaking barriers. The piano prodigy has taken the classical-music world by storm — a rare feat... 

Neil Strauss: <em>Rules of the Game</em>

Books: Reading

Rules of the Game

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Books & Books - Bal Harbour

Since he put his successful music-journalism career on hold to pen the wildly successful how-to guide The Game: Penetrating the Secret... 

Sweat Science Club

Special Event

Sweat Science Club

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Sweat Records2

Geeks rejoice! The inaugural meeting of the Sweat Science Club has finally arrived. Tonight's gathering features Coral Morphologic's Colin Foord and... 

Ongoing Events

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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>Wicked</em>

Performing Arts

Wicked

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Wilfredo Lam in North America</em>

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ The Room

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

Alex Sweet

Art

Alex Sweet

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

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

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Work in Progress

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Shuffle Tuesdays

Party

Shuffle Tuesdays

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Fox's Lounge

Fox's Lounge is giving South Miami a break, offering up unbeatable two-for-ones all night to those unwilling to trek all the... 

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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>Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection </em>

Art

Tiffany Studios

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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>Beyond Borders </em>

Art

Beyond Borders

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Freedom Tower

Miami-Dade College is making good use of its recent Freedom Tower acquisition by hosting an exhibition of modernist works from the... 

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

Art

Degas in Bronze

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Pivot Points I: Defining MOCA's Collection </em>

Art

Pivot Points I

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Casa Toscana

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

Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega:<em> Parres Trilogy</em>

Art

Melanie Smith

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Abbey Brewing Company

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

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Moonchine

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

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Spyro

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

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Wendy Wischer: <em>N-S-E-W</em>

Art

Wendy Wischer

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Jean-Michel Othoniel: <em>Diary of Happiness</em> and Johan Creten: <em>Strange Fruit</em>

Art

Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

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

Art

Promises of Paradise

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ Sushi Square

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

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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... 

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Tuesday 4/ 1 @ 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....