Events on Friday, May 2
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Postmarks
- @ The Vagabond
- With haunting, heartsick ballads and rosy pop melodies, the Postmarks evoke a bittersweet nostalgia, like the feeling recalled by unearthing faded... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Concord Dawn
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Melanie Smith
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Canela Café
- @ Canela Cafe
- There are tons of Latin-American restaurants to be found around greater Miami, but Canela has this stretch of Biscayne Boulevard on... View details »
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- Christine's Roti Shop
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- My Blueberry Nights
- @ 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... View details »
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- Moonchine
- @ Moonchine
- Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them... View details »
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- Captain Crab's
- @ Captain Crab's Take-Away
- You'd think there'd be more crab shacks like this one all over Miami, but it seems as if California's the only... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Everything/Everyday
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Pivot Points I
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Room
- @ The Room
- Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Taxi to the Dark Side
- @ Cinema Paradiso
- Most folks are more concerned with the plunging necklines at the Academy Awards than they are with the films in the... View details »
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- Captain Jim's Seafood
- @ 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... View details »
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- Abbey Brewing Company
- @ Abbey Brewing Company
- There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Lichtenstein at Fairchild
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film
- The Visitor
- @ 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... View details »
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- W Wine Bistro
- @ W Wine Bistro
- Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of... View details »
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- Bin No. 18
- @ 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... View details »
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- Garden of Eatin'
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Paley Pavilion
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Sushi Square
- @ Sushi Square
- Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it... View details »
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- Spyro
- @ Spyro
- Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the northern end of this fair city, is a complete and utter mess thanks to... View details »
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- Lighthouse Tour
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Wilfredo Lam
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- The Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival doesn't feature as many films as its sister festival in Miami, but it... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Fashioning the Modern French Interior
- @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
- The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the... View details »
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- Mac's Club Deuce
- @ 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... View details »
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- Baby Mama
- @ Various locations
- With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team —... View details »
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- Luminaire X
- @ Luminaire X
- The success of a "pop-up store" is dependent on brands and atmosphere — if the place doesn't deliver on those fronts,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- The High Style of Dorothy Draper
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Bohème
- @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
- Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of North America's most performed operas, second only to his Madama Butterfly — and it's... View details »
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- Art
- Hernan Bas
- @ 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... View details »
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- Casa Toscana
- @ Casa Toscana
- Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lawrence Murray Dixon
- @ 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... View details »
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