Events on Friday, June 13

The Cure

Music

The Cure

Friday 6/13 @ BankAtlantic Center

Will there ever be a more endearing scary-face than Robert Smith's Joker-esque mug? His band's pre-emo, goth-lite mix of new wave... 

<em>The Strawberry Statement </em>(1970)

Film

The Strawberry Statement

Friday 6/13 @ Cinema Paradiso

Based on the book by James Simon Kunen (who penned it when he was 19) and scripted by Israel Horovitz (Beastie... 

AZ w/ Major League and Apakalypse

Music: Hip-Hop

AZ

Friday 6/13 @ Studio A

Back when the hip-hop world was caught up in claiming a coast and debating Tupac's mortality, AZ rose quietly in the... 

<em>Paranoid Park</em>

Film

Paranoid Park

Friday 6/13 @ Miami Beach Cinematheque

Based on a Blake Nelson novel, Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park tells the story of a quiet... 

Wolf Book Club: Christopher Priest: <em>The Prestige</em>

Special Event

Wolf Book Club

Friday 6/13 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

The "prestige" of Christopher Priest's award-winning work of high-Victorian invention refers to the grand finale of a magician's act; but "prestiges"... 

Mudhoney w/ Birds of Avalon

Music

Mudhoney

Friday 6/13 @ Churchill's

Flannel-driven slackertude attempts a comeback as grunge-metal mainstays Mudhoney hit the stage alongside the pysch-rockers of Birds of Avalon. Signed to... 

Ongoing Events

JonOne: <em>Miami Beat</em>

Art

JonOne

Friday 6/13 @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

We can't think of a better location for a graffiti-inspired show than Carol Jazzar's garage-turned-gallery. Internationally acclaimed artist JonOne has transformed... 

Lee Materazzi

Art

Lee Materazzi

Friday 6/13 @ Spinello Gallery

Next time you feel the urge to play hide and seek, tuck yourself into Spinello Gallery and let Lee Materazzi's photographs... 

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

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Friday 6/13 @ 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

Friday 6/13 @ Sushi Square

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

<em>Shadows, Disappearances, and Illusions</em>

Art

Shadows, Disappearances, and Illusions

Friday 6/13 @ Miami Art Museum -

Miami Art Museum's Shadows, Disappearances, and Illusions shows off a delightfully disorienting selection of contemporary optical art. Artists such as Martin... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Friday 6/13 @ 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>Sympathy for the Devil:  Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967</em>

Art

Sympathy for the Devil

Friday 6/13 @ MOCA North Miami

Sympathy for the Devil is an exhaustive exploration of the intersection between rock 'n roll and contemporary art. The exhibition, which... 

Paley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts

Art

Paley Pavilion

Friday 6/13 @ 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 6/13 @ 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 6/13 @ The Room

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

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Friday 6/13 @ 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>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Friday 6/13 @ Various locations

Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the... 

Bin No. 18

City Gems

Bin No. 18

Friday 6/13 @ 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

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Eddie Izzard

Comedy

Eddie Izzard

Friday 6/13 @ The Fillmore Miami Beach

Only Eddie Izzard could make wearing jeans and loafers an act of subversion. For Stripped, the "executive transvestite" British comic retires... 

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Art

Alexander Calder Jewelry

Friday 6/13 @ 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>Berkeley </em>(2005)

Film

Berkeley

Friday 6/13 @ Cinema Paradiso

If there's a single college campus that represents '60s counterculture, it's Berkeley, site of sit-ins and birthplace of the... 

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Friday 6/13 @ 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... 

Amber Hawk Swanson

Art

Amber Hawk Swanson

Friday 6/13 @ Locust Projects

"Hello, is it me you're looking for?" Amber Hawk Swanson asks her life-sized, silicone-and-steel doppelgänger. Amber Doll may not answer, but... 

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

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Friday 6/13 @ 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,... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 6/13 @ 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

Friday 6/13 @ Casa Toscana

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

Nathan Sawaya: <em>Art of the Brick</em>

Art

Nathan Sawaya

Friday 6/13 @ Art and Culture Center of Hollywood

Nathan Sawaya's Art of the Brick, made of nearly 1 million individual Lego pieces, induces both giggles and awe. The deceivingly... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Friday 6/13 @ 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 6/13 @ 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... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Friday 6/13 @ Moonchine

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

Cary Kwok

Art

Cary Kwok

Friday 6/13 @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

London hairstylist-cum-artist Cary Kwok's exquisite renderings of the human form are expertly executed with a simple ballpoint pen. Informed by a... 

<em>UnderShorts</em>

Theatre

UnderShorts

Friday 6/13 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

City Theatre has already won national acclaim for the one-act comedies and dramas it staged during last year's Summer Shorts festival.... 

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

Art

Melanie Smith

Friday 6/13 @ 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 6/13 @ Spyro

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

The Honey Tree

City Gems

The Honey Tree

Friday 6/13 @ The Honey Tree

Sandwiched between an inexpensive sushi joint and a popular Cuban restaurant, health-food store and vegetarian eatery the Honey Tree appears to...