Calendar of Events in Miami

Sunday, May 19
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  Spring Pedals Bike Tour: Little Italy
  Coral Gables Museum

  If you’re working with a meager budget, your summer plans probably don’t include a trip to Italy. And as much as you’d love to pedal through the streets of Tuscany, ride a gondola through Venice, and eat your weight in pasta in Rome, you’ll probably have to settle for a staycation instead. Luckily, you can say ciao to all things Italian without heading halfway around... Read more about this event >>

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  Attack Attack!
  Culture Room

  Feisty post-hardcore Attack Attack! is best-known for popularizing "crabcore," a microgenre in which guitarists squat and hop while churning out hefty breakdowns. And they're "Back in Action," but not for long. On April 22, the band announced that this will be their final tour. "After six long years of playing in garages, VFW halls, clubs, open air festivals, and everything in-between. We've... Read more about this event >>

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  Backyard Boogie
  Wood Tavern

  Backyard Boogie sounds like one of your grandma’s old-timey euphemisms for sex. (Grandpa is one lucky man.) Now that you’re fully grossed-out, head to Wood Tavern (2531 NW Second Ave., Miami) to cleanse your palate with a good, old-fashioned barbecue, complete with plenty of booze to help you forget that you wouldn’t be alive if Nana and Pops weren’t at least a little... Read more about this event >>

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  Eve Sussman | Rufus Corporation
  Bass Museum of Art

  Eve Sussman first stunned the art world with her film 89 Seconds at Alcázar, which earned critical raves at the 2004 Whitney Biennale. Sussman created her opus under the flag of the Rufus Corporation, a collaborative of artists, performers, musicians, writers, and other creative types she founded as part of a long-term project in 2003. The evocative 12-minute film was based on Diego... Read more about this event >>

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  Sugarcane Brunch
  Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill

  One of Midtown Miami’s sweetest restaurants sweetens its culinary pot with weekend brunch. Whole wheat pumpkin pancakes with housemade vanilla bean ricotta, steak ‘n’ eggs Benedict and waffles with duck confit and mustard maple syrup are just some of the tapas-style brunchables at Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill. There’s a brunch beverage menu too, with everything from... Read more about this event >>

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  The Fox on the Fairway
  Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre

  What’s the only TV station beaming into Hell? The Golf Channel. It’s the only station that absolutely guarantees its inhabitants an eternity of televisual torture. The fact is, there is nothing more boring to watch than poorly dressed, well-postured white guys (OK, and one black man) trying to find the hole. Comedies about golf have fared better, however (Caddyshack, anyone?),... Read more about this event >>

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Monday, May 20
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  Miami Marlins vs. Philadelphia Phillies
  Marlins Park

  Explaining your continued Miami Marlins fandom this season is like explaining why you keep dating that girl who’s clearly wrong for you. “But she’s got the best personality.” “She’s great in a bind.” “She’s always willing to give me a back massage.” Deep down, everyone knows she’s a mess, but focusing on a couple of things that... Read more about this event >>

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  Reflection
  Stephen P. Clark Government Center

  On most days, office drones, students, and thousands of other commuters who take the Metrorail downtown are too busy rushing to work, school, or shopping to stop and notice their surroundings. But at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center, Ivan Toth Depeña’s new, public, light-based art installation, Reflection, is freezing commuters in their tracks at the rail’s main hub... Read more about this event >>

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  Good Monday
  Haven

  Sunday morning rolls around, and you’re recovering from that killer Saturday-night binge. You have a late brunch and park yourself on your couch for the rest of the day, knowing you can’t go into work reeking of alcohol. Sundays are for pulling yourself together for the beginning of another week. But after the week starts, you can resume your regularly scheduled blackouts. After... Read more about this event >>

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  Karaoke Night
  Jazid

  Karaoke. It's your cure to the Mondays. Celebrate the accomplishment of making it through the first day of the work week with your own variation of "Jessie's Girl" and "Dancing Queen," or go upstairs for Mary Jane Mondays where DJ Fiyah Vibez will be playing a mix of funk/soul, classic hip-hop, and reggae. Read more about this event >>

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Tuesday, May 21
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  Board Game Night
  Sweat Records

  It is very hard to play Jenga during Critical Mass. Fortunately, the progressively sexy biking and social justice enthusiasts at Emerge Miami are leaving the spandex at home for the night and opting for a fun evening in with Board Game Night at Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave., Miami). Emerge’s goal with the monthly board-game night is to bring together Miami’s most progressive... Read more about this event >>

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  Comedy Night
  Elwoods Gastro Pub

  For a night of foul language and sexually explicit tales, Elwoods delivers to serious fans of comedy. Local funnyman Forrest Shaw takes the lead on some of South Florida's best comedians. You can get your laughs at Elwoods every first and third Tuesday of the month. Comedy Nights are sponsored by Samuel Adams, which means you can get two beers for $8. Read more about this event >>

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  Teen Miami
  HistoryMiami

  We were all teenagers once. So we can all relate to a time we felt ignored, undervalued, unappreciated — and we can all remember making questionable life decisions. Beginning this Sunday, “Teen Miami,” a new exhibit at HistoryMiami (101 W. Flagler St., Miami) puts teenagers in the spotlight for a change. Exploring teen life and culture in Miami through the decades, the... Read more about this event >>

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  Lapdance Tuesdays
  Cameo

  Welcome to SoBe, a strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it's considered perfectly normal to spend one's life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other "normal" South Beach behavior: auditioning for Internet porn on a street corner, wearing $900 sunglasses at night, and dropping several C-notes for a... Read more about this event >>

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Wednesday, May 22
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  Life of Pi
  Shops at Midtown Miami

  If you didn’t see Life of Pi while it was in theaters last year, you missed out. The epic story of a young man who survives a disaster at sea only to find himself inside a small boat with a Bengal tiger may have been bested in the acting and writing categories at the 2013 Oscars, but its vivid, colorful cinematography and detailed CGI made it worth shelling out $10 for a ticket. You... Read more about this event >>

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  Miami Museum Month
  Miami

  For years the dwellers of other cities ragged on Miami for being uncultured. This town didn’t have the cultural cred of cities like New York, London, or Paris. Then Wynwood exploded, along with all kinds of Art Basel events, and voila! Miami suddenly became the head cheerleader that everyone wants to feel up behind the bleachers. Well, some of us locals know that while we may not have... Read more about this event >>

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  Frames of Reference
  Miami Art Museum

  You won’t have to wait until this fall to discover why the Miami Art Museum (MAM) is being rechristened with a mega-benefactor’s name. “Frames of Reference,” on view at MAM (101 W. Flagler St., Miami), features 45 works of Latin American art from the Jorge M. Pérez collection and marks the museum’s swan song in its current space before reopening at its... Read more about this event >>

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  Humpday Wednesdays
  Wood Tavern

  Benton Galgay may play records, but he's got his own ideas about what it means to be a DJ. First off, there are very few new artists he's into spinning. And when he does wax au courant, it's on behalf of labels such as Sublime Frequencies, Needless Records, or RVNG of the NRDS, Turntable Lab, and Dublab, rather than any individual act. In fact, when Galgay was general manager at WVUM, he... Read more about this event >>

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Thursday, May 23
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  Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio
  Green Room

  Picture this: You're in an elevator, alone, when suddenly, a gentle island ditty starts piping through the speakers. It starts with a guitar, a wave-like rhythm that reminds you of white sand and lapping waves. Then the melody kicks in. It sounds familiar, strangely familiar, and you probe your mind for where you've heard it before. Fragments of lyrics start to assemble in your brain. Your... Read more about this event >>

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  Michelle Bernstein
  Macy's Aventura

  Michelle Bernstein is Miami’s culinary idol. And these days, she’s busier than Ryan Seacrest. In addition to pumping out palate-pleasing eats at Michy’s and Crumb on Parchment, she’s always leading charity efforts, making appearances, and doing almost anything else, both in and out of the kitchen, that you can imagine. She even designed her own custom flip-flops.. One... Read more about this event >>

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  Sizzle Miami
  Miami

  Miami has all kinds of sizzle. From sweat hitting the steamy pavement to steaks on the grill to sinfully hot bods, sizzle is a word that reps our city well. And Sizzle Miami, the Memorial Day weekend tribute to all things hot and flaming, definitely maximizes the caliente factor in the 305. Billed as “America’s most celebrated and anticipated urban gay event,” this is a... Read more about this event >>

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  Latino/U.S. Cotidiano
  Centro Cultural Español

  If you ask Dulce Pinzon to define Gotham’s real superheroes, she’ll tell you they are the undocumented immigrants eking out livings as nannies, taxi drivers, delivery boys, and laundromat attendants. For close to a decade, the Mexican photographer has created color portraits of immigrants going about their daily business in the Big Apple while dressed as the masked and caped... Read more about this event >>

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  Carlos Mencia
  Miami Improv

  In the years since Comedy Central’s Mind of Mencia went off the air, the only ways to get a look into the workings of Carlos Mencia’s brain have been through elaborate schemes of kidnapping and forced CAT scans. Even if you have a cousin who will do the kidnapping for free and have your own CAT scan equipment, the pizza and beer for your helpers would still run you at least $30.... Read more about this event >>

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Friday, May 24
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  Benoit & Sergio
  Eve

  Benoit was once quoted saying, "For me, a good track either has an amazing sound, an amazing groove, or an amazing hook/melody. This goes for any genre." If that's the case, then all of Benoit & Sergio's tracks, which perfectly combine smooth beats, good vibes, and story-telling lyrics, are EDM masterpieces. Read more about this event >>

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  Free Art Fridays
  Miami

  Friday: the end of the workweek, the beginning of debauched fun, the only song for which Rebecca Black will ever be known. But Friday is so much more than all of that. It’s also a chance to score some free original art. Free Art Fridays is a worldwide art movement that’s made its way to Miami, and the city’s local chapter, founded by local artist and promoter Registered... Read more about this event >>

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  Peter London Global Dance
  Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

  Peter London — both the person and the troupe of performers named for him — exemplifies Miami’s dance scene today. London, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, danced with the Martha Graham and José Limón companies and now teaches at the New World School of the Arts. After he planted himself here, he founded the Peter London Global Dance Company, which would... Read more about this event >>

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  Peachfuzz
  The Garret at Grand Central

  Upstairs at Grand Central -- the immense downtown live music venue -- is the Garret, which functions as an independent space. It is the perfect size for smaller shows and weekly parties. Though one-off shows and events have had varied levels of success, the Garret's Friday-night party, Peachfuzz, is a clear winner. As the name implies, the party takes you back to middle school days (if you... Read more about this event >>

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Saturday, May 25
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  Yngwie Malmsteen
  Grand Central

  Yngwie Malmsteen is a six-foot, three-inch guitar monster from Sweden. He left the dark and bitter cold of Stockholm at age 19 and moved to L.A. for a record deal, got famous, and drunkenly crashed a Jaguar E-Type V12 convertible into a tree, breaking the steering wheel with his head. But Malmsteen not only survived. He beat a blood clot on his brain. He remastered the guitar. And then he... Read more about this event >>

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  The Best of the Classical Repertoire Gala
  The Fillmore Miami Beach

  The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami will perform eight dances this Saturday under the headline “The Best of the Classical Repertoire Gala,” which is an appropriate title. Eight works do constitute a gala, and they are indeed classical. The opener, The Bayadere Suite, comes from an 1877 ballet by French choreographer Marius Petipa and was first performed by the Imperial Bolshoi in... Read more about this event >>

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  Luis Bofill
  Casino Miami Jai-Alai

  Luis Bofill got his start in Cuba's Nueva Trova movement of the late '70s with the group Cuba Nueva. From there, he would cut a mean rug as an exciting interpreter of standards and for generating an infectious blend of jazz, rumba, Latin, and Afro-beat. Bofill's shared the stage with Ruben Blades, Mark Anthony, Al Dimeola, Paquito D'Rivera, and Bono. He's been calling Miami his home since... Read more about this event >>

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  ¡Suénalo!
  PAX - Performing Arts eXchange

  Nobody busts la rumba like these dudes. New Times issues you this challenge: Catch them performing live anytime, anywhere you choose. Then try to not let your hips move and your ass shake. Good luck with that one. Suenalo's signature blend — funk, reggae, Latin jazz, hip-hop, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and electronic elements, among others — is the quintessential embodiment of Miami... Read more about this event >>

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  Radioboxer
  Will Call

  It's a myth that all breakups are messy. Just take Hialeah power-pop band Radioboxer, who announced a surprisingly amicable split last month. "We are kind of disappointed to say there is not a scandalous reason for this decision," the four-member outfit admitted in its official goodbye letter to fans and friends. "No internal quarrels, no substance abuse problems, backstabbing, Yoko Onos... Read more about this event >>

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