Events on Thursday, April 3

<em>Les Triplettes de Belleville </em>(2003)<em> </em>

Film: Animation

Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

Foregoing a bright color palette and simplistic dialogue in favor of silent film-style exposition, director Sylvain Chomet attains a curious kind... 

Punk Bunny

Music

Punk Bunny

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Studio A

Punk Bunny's gawky lead singer, Luigi — who actually looks like the Super Mario Bros. plumber — boasts of endless carnal... 

<em>Mala Noche </em>(1985)

Film

Mala Noche (1985)

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Upper Eastside Garden

Gay filmmaker Gus van Sant's very first film, released in 1985, and shot on 16mm for only $25k, Mala Noche is... 

Money Shot ReLaunch feat. Blu Jemz

Music: DJ

Blu Jemz

Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Vagabond

As the West Coast face for Turntable Lab, Blu Jemz is quite the discerning record selector. But then there's his rowdy,... 

Sweat Records Local Author Showcase feat. Crissa-Jean Chappell<em> </em>

Special Event

Crissa-Jean Chappell

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Sweat Records2

For Sweat Records' local-author showcase, the store has recruited Crissa-Jean Chappell, whose debut young-adult novel, Total Constant Order, was a bronze-medal... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

[CANCELLED] Owen Benjamin

Comedy

Owen Benjamin

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Miami Improv

Comedian Owen Benjamin has an unusual item on his resume: for a few years, he was one of the straight-faced pranksters... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Spyro

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

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wendy Wischer

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Warehouse

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

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

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

Art

Pivot Points I

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Sushi Square

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

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

Art

Promises of Paradise

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Thursday 4/ 3 @ W Wine Bistro

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

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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.... 

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

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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,... 

<em>Wicked</em>

Performing Arts

Wicked

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Thursday 4/ 3 @ The Room

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

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

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

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

Alex Sweet

Art

Alex Sweet

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>

Art

Work in Progress

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Beyond Borders </em>

Art

Beyond Borders

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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>Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection </em>

Art

Tiffany Studios

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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>Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures </em>

Art

Degas in Bronze

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Casa Toscana

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

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

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Abbey Brewing Company

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

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

Art

Melanie Smith

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Thursday 4/ 3 @ Moonchine

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

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Thursday 4/ 3 @ 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...