Events on Friday, May 9
Friday 5/ 9 @ Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
Famous names Rick Moody and Connie May Fowler may bring the most fans to the MDC quad, but it's a cinch...
Friday 5/ 9 @ Churchill's
Surf-rock star Laramie Dean is a time traveler. Hailing from Hollywood, Florida, Dean's ripping, growling guitar transports anyone within earshot to...
Friday 5/ 9 @ MIA Skatepark
The Elwood Clothing skate team — Kenny Anderson, Anthony Pappalardo, Silas Baxter-Neal, and Dan Drehobl — drops by MIA midway through...
Friday 5/ 9 @ Culture Room
Maxi Priest is reggae's Casanova, a dreadlocked Lothario who has enchanted listeners with nothing more than his raspy, British-Jamaican croon. It's...
Friday 5/ 9 @ The Vagabond
Local band the JeanMarie describe their sound as "grungy guitar, squiggle synth, simmering cymbal, and bass-drum boogie music" — and anyone...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/ 9 @ Abbey Brewing Company
There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this...
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Low: Meditations Trilogy, Part One
Friday 5/ 9 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
Rha Goddess is one of the finest voices to have emerged from New York's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Lower East Side...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ W Wine Bistro
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ Sushi Square
Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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....
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
Handel's Julius Caesar may not be as historically accurate as Shakespeare's version, but it certainly ends better for the titular character:...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Friday 5/ 9 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the...
The Great Age of American Automobiles
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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,...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 5/ 9 @ Casa Toscana
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your...
Friday 5/ 9 @ 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...
