Events on Friday, May 2

The Postmarks

Music

The Postmarks

Friday 5/ 2 @ The Vagabond

With haunting, heartsick ballads and rosy pop melodies, the Postmarks evoke a bittersweet nostalgia, like the feeling recalled by unearthing faded... 

Concord Dawn

Music: DJ

Concord Dawn

Friday 5/ 2 @ The Laundry Bar

Though Concord Dawn aren't yet fully known in Miami, Evan Short and Matt Harvey have more than proven their chops on... 

Ongoing Events

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Friday 5/ 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... 

<em>Baby Mama</em>

Film

Baby Mama

Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations

With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team —... 

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

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Friday 5/ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 5/ 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... 

<em>Everything/Everyday</em>

Art: Photography

Everything/Everyday

Friday 5/ 2 @ Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery

Ft. Lauderdale's Bear and Bird continues its string of odd and inventive shows, this time with a photo exhibition by a... 

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Friday 5/ 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... 

<em>Taxi to the Dark Side</em> (2007)

Film: Documentary

Taxi to the Dark Side

Friday 5/ 2 @ Cinema Paradiso

Most folks are more concerned with the plunging necklines at the Academy Awards than they are with the films in the... 

Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Film

Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Friday 5/ 2 @ Various locations

The Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival doesn't feature as many films as its sister festival in Miami, but it... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Friday 5/ 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... 

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

Art

Pivot Points I

Friday 5/ 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... 

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

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Friday 5/ 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... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Friday 5/ 2 @ Casa Toscana

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

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Friday 5/ 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... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Friday 5/ 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... 

<em>My Blueberry Nights</em>

Film

My Blueberry Nights

Friday 5/ 2 @ Regal Cinemas 18

Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Friday 5/ 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... 

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Friday 5/ 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... 

<em>La Boh&egrave;me</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Friday 5/ 2 @ 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... 

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

Art

Melanie Smith

Friday 5/ 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... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Friday 5/ 2 @ Spyro

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

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Friday 5/ 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... 

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

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Friday 5/ 2 @ 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 Great Age of American Automobiles</em>

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Friday 5/ 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,... 

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

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Friday 5/ 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... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Friday 5/ 2 @ Sushi Square

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

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Friday 5/ 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.... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Friday 5/ 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... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Friday 5/ 2 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Friday 5/ 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... 

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Friday 5/ 2 @ 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... 

Paley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts

Art

Paley Pavilion

Friday 5/ 2 @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami

A stellar selection of more than 150 glass masterpieces greets visitors to the new Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Friday 5/ 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... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Friday 5/ 2 @ The Room

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

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Friday 5/ 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...