Events on Thursday, April 24

<em>The Secret Life of Alban Berg </em>(1992)

Film: Documentary

The Secret Life of Alban Berg

Thursday 4/24 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

  Sure, Berg knocked up a servant girl at 17, studied with Schoenberg for six years, served... 

Bonde do Role w/ the Down Home Southernaires and DJ Mike Deuce

Music

Bonde do Role

Thursday 4/24 @ Studio A

The Brazilian MC crew Bonde do Role have fused Miami's bass-heavy sound with the rhythms of Rio's favelas. The result is... 

Books: Poetry

Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual

Thursday 4/24 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables

A longtime leader in the South Florida arts-and-literature scene, Tigertail Productions has been giving artists of all stripes a place to... 

DJ Elle

Music: DJ

DJ Elle

Thursday 4/24 @ The Vagabond

Nothing about Brooklyn's DJ Elle — her petite frame, her stylish garb, her innocent moniker — suggests that she'd spin such... 

<em>How to Get Ahead in Advertising</em> (1989)

Film

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Thursday 4/24 @ Upper Eastside Garden

Absurd, hilarious, and bitter as all hell, How to Get Ahead in Advertising delves into the life of Denis Bagley, an... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Beyond Borders </em>

Art

Beyond Borders

Thursday 4/24 @ 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>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Thursday 4/24 @ Regal Cinemas 18

Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins... 

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

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Thursday 4/24 @ 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

Thursday 4/24 @ Casa Toscana

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

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Thursday 4/24 @ Moonchine

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

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

Art

Pivot Points I

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Thursday 4/24 @ Spyro

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

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Thursday 4/24 @ 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.... 

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

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Thursday 4/24 @ 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 Band's Visit</em> (2007)

Film

The Band's Visit

Thursday 4/24 @ Cinema Paradiso

An Egyptian police band invited to perform in Israel arrives at the wrong town, much to the dismay of its leader,... 

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

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Thursday 4/24 @ The Warehouse

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

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Thursday 4/24 @ 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

Thursday 4/24 @ Sushi Square

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

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

Art

Melanie Smith

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Thursday 4/24 @ 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>The Great Age of American Automobiles</em>

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Thursday 4/24 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Thursday 4/24 @ The Room

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

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

Art

Tiffany Studios

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Thursday 4/24 @ Abbey Brewing Company

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

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

Art

Degas in Bronze

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Thursday 4/24 @ 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... 

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Thursday 4/24 @ 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>La Boh&egrave;me</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Thursday 4/24 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of North America's most performed operas, second only to his Madama Butterfly — and it's... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Thursday 4/24 @ 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>Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037</em> (2007)

Film: Documentary

Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

Thursday 4/24 @ Cinema Paradiso

Whoever said that they don't make 'em like they used to never got a peek inside the Steinway factory in Queens,... 

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Thursday 4/24 @ 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...