Events on Wednesday, April 2

Jon Clinch: <em>Finn</em>

Books: Reading

Finn

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables

Acclaimed short-story writer Jon Clinch's debut novel doesn't tread lightly on literary history. Clinch takes a short, obscure reference in chapter... 

The Mars Volta

Music

The Mars Volta

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ The Fillmore Miami Beach

The Mars Volta may very well be responsible for some of the most Guitar Hero-worthy tunes out there. This generation's Rush... 

Loose Cannon on the Run

Sports

Loose Cannon on the Run

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ UNIV

Faced with motivating an ambivalent crowd to show up for his Wednesday-night Fingerlickin' party, promoter and former BMX trickster Joel Meinholz... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Wicked</em>

Performing Arts

Wicked

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Sushi Square

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

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

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Alex Sweet

Art

Alex Sweet

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Moonchine

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

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>

Art

Work in Progress

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ The Room

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

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wendy Wischer

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Tiffany Studios

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ The Warehouse

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

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

Art

Degas in Bronze

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Melanie Smith

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ W Wine Bistro

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

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Casa Toscana

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

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Abbey Brewing Company

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

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Farouk Hosni

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Promises of Paradise

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Spyro

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

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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... 

<em>Beyond Borders </em>

Art

Beyond Borders

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ Freedom Tower

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

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Wednesday 4/ 2 @ 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....