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Guerrilleros de Nadie Churchill's	Sat., November 7	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Alright, if you're not headed up to FLIFF tonight to catch Radioboxer at Cinema Paradiso, but you are in the mood for a little local rocking this weekend, there's a simple solution. It involves floors covered in a perpetual sheen of freshly spilt beer, a haze of cigarette smoke so thick it... More >>

Mixhell White Room	Sat., November 7	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Last week, we introduced you to Mixhell, the husband-and-wife DJ / remix / production team of Iggor Calavera and Laima Leyton. Metal fans will, of course, recognize Calavera's name instantly -- with his brother, Max, as a teenager he helped found Sepultura, one of the most influential metal... More >>

Ten Under $10 Various locations	Daily from Fri., November 6 until Sun., November 8	Miami / Central Dade	Nightlife
Friday, November 6 Like we recommended earlier today, the Jacobs Ladder EP release party at Churchill's in Miami tonight, where $10 entry also gets you a copy of the band's new disc. And the similarly recommended Astari Nite, plus a million other bands, at White Room in Miami tonight.... More >>

What to Hear in Broward and Palm Beach Various locations	Daily from Fri., November 6 until Sun., November 8	Miami / Central Dade	Nightlife
Tonight: The new jam capital of the world, Broward County, welcomes The Radiators to Culture Room. Peaches, who is probably the polar opposite of every jam band ever, is playing Revolution Live. Surf rockers Cutback are playing a rum fueled show at Mai Kai tonight, and reggae masterminds 4th... More >>

Mixhell White Room	Sat., November 7, 10:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
It's enough to make metalhead purists wail and gnash their teeth. Half of the producer/DJ duo Mixhell is Iggor Cavalera, who co-founded seminal Brazilian groove-metal act Sepultura when he was just 15 years old. For the next 20 years, he toured the world and sold out stadiums as the band's... More >>

Benton Galgay Electric Pickle	Every week Saturday, 10:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Benton Galgay plays records, but he has his own ideas about what it means to be a DJ. First, aside from Wooden Shjips, 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, RVNG of the NRDS,... More >>

Damas Gratis Kukaramakara	Sun., November 8, 7:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
It's entirely possible, unless you reside in Little Buenos Aires (right up there between North and South Beach ... where Las Vacas Gordas throws down!), that you're unfamiliar with Damas Gratis. Hailing from Argentina, the eight-piece band has never been to Miami before. But these guys have... More >>

Miami Book Fair Evenings With... Miami Dade College Wolfson	Daily from Sun., November 8 until Fri., November 13, 5:00pm-10:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Book Events
brave the 85-degree weather and venture out to Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus this week for one of the greatest author combinations Evenings With... schedules the Miami Book Fair has ever assembled. Sunday is poet Elizabeth Alexander and novelist Margaret Atwood at 5 and 7 p.m.,... More >>

Black Death All Stars The Firefly	Sun., November 8, 7:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
And so continues DIY punks' fascination with bluegrass. Among a subset of youth that patches its own pants and enjoys hitchhiking to places such as Pensacola, the fiddle and jug have sparked a frisson of authentic Americanness. This explains why almost every college town has bearded types... More >>

Rainbow Kisses Nocturnal	Every week Sunday, 11:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	LGBT Events Music Nightlife
If you kissed a girl and liked it, you’re probably well aware of Rainbow Kisses at Nocturnal on Sunday nights. The week-old party is only one of a handful of lesbian nights in Miami. Maybe this marks a gayelle renaissance, probably set to the tune of something written by the Indigo Girls.... More >>

Miami Heat vs Washington Wizards American Airlines Arena	Tue., November 10, 7:30pm	Miami / Central Dade	Sports - Spectator
Dwyane Wade and company need to send the guy who came up with the 2009-10 NBA schedule a Christmas card, because the Miami Heat plays eight of its first ten games at home. This Tuesday, they meet the Washington Wizards, a team that has underachieved the past two seasons owing to injuries to... More >>

CSI: Crime Scene Insects Miami Science Museum	Daily from Tue., August 11 until Sun., January 31, 10:00am	Miami / Central Dade	Family Events
Cadavers, maggots, flesh-eating beetles... are you still reading? Then you might have a stomach strong enough to enjoy the nauseating yet fascinating "CSI: Crime Scene Insects" exhibit at the Miami Science Museum. At a crime scene, the presence of certain creepy-crawlies can help investigators... More >>

Joan Rivers Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts	Wed., November 11, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Comedy
Few people can boast the success Joan Rivers has achieved during her half-century on the stage. Since reaching stardom on The Tonight Show in the ’60s, the raspy-voiced fossil has gone on to become a best-selling author, Tony-nominated actress, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture... More >>

Happy Hour and Jazz Night Club 50	Every week Wednesday, 6:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Food & Drink Nightlife
Caddyshack golf legend Ty Webb never kept score, so when Judge Smails asked him how he measured himself against other golfers, the six-foot-four Webb replied, "My height." Club 50 should have a similar answer if it's ever asked how it measures itself against other Miami bars and lounges.... More >>

Your Miami Heat American Airlines Arena	Thu., November 12, 8:00pm more dates/times	Miami / Central Dade	Sports - Spectator
Just as Miami Heat fans are holding their breath waiting to see if star Dwyane Wade will re-sign with the team, Cleveland Cavaliers fans are worried LeBron James will leave when he enters free agency at the end of this season. At least the Cavs’ management has made moves to appease their... More >>

Celebrity Chef Series Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts	Fri., November 13, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Food & Drink
How can you not love Anthony Bourdain? He travels the world getting drunk and eating weird shit, yet still keeps his composure long enough to have a successful show on the Travel Channel. And now the 28-year culinary veteran brings his panache to South Florida when he hosts the Celebrity Chef... More >>

Miami Book Fair International Miami Dade College Wolfson	Sat., November 14, 10:00am more dates/times	Miami / Central Dade	Book Events
It’s been 26 years since the Miami Book Fair International first hit our lil’ city, and since then it’s become one of the most highly anticipated events of the year. Though the preliminary excitement doesn’t quite match the all-out roars you hear leading up to drug and... More >>

Roofless Records In-Store Show Sweat Records	Sat., November 14, 8:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Music
“Before there were blogs, there were webzines,” says Roofless Records head Matthew Preira, who started booking shows with Florida’s Underfoot as a kid. Then he transitioned from staging ska, punk, and hardcore events to four years of college booking bands, promoting campus fests,... More >>

Festivals of Speed Bayfront Park Amphitheater	Sun., November 15, 10:00am	Miami / Central Dade	Festivals
It’s damn near impossible to ignore the fact that there’s an above-average number of luxury cars lumbering through our palm-lined streets. While many American cities still gawk at Lex coupes, the Beemers, and the Benzes, those who can afford exquisite rides in our city are all about... More >>

Miami Poetry Collective Miami Dade College Wolfson	Sun., November 15, 4:30pm	Miami / Central Dade	Book Events
You know them as the vagabond poets squatting in front of Gallery Diet every Artwalk in Wynwood. You know them as the super-stylish-über-sexy-typewriter fetishists, the specialists of dirty limericks, odes about dogs, sestinas on Hialeah, and haiku on lipstick lesbians, car repairs, and... More >>

Pagliacci and Suor Angelica Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts	Sat., November 14, 8:00pm more dates/times	Miami / Central Dade	Music Opera Theater
Composer Pierre Boulez once said that the solution to the declining audience for opera was to blow up the opera houses, the kind of overly dramatic line that, quite frankly, belongs in an opera. If drama’s your thing, you can’t do better than the original pairing of one-act operas... More >>

Vizcaya (Film) Vizcaya Museum and Gardens	Wed., November 18, 7:00pm	Miami / Central Dade	Film
Historians have already begun comparing the 1990s with the 1920s; both share exorbitant wealth, optimism, and blindness to the coming recession. But take one look at Vizcaya, Miami’s architectural gem from the early ’20s, and you realize the 1990s fell well short in the opulence... More >>

Gaiser Electric Pickle	Fri., November 20	Miami / Central Dade	Music Nightlife
Like some buff God-looking dude, Jon Gaiser (a.k.a. Gaiser, a.k.a. Fraktion) emerged from his bedroom studio in a blaze of blue light. The genius was naked, except for a sweaty sheet wrapped about his waist, and he stroked his beard while muttering this rote quote: "My bedroom has always been a... More >>

Gospel Sundays Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts	Sun., October 18, 4:00pm more dates/times	Miami / Central Dade	Music Religion & Spirituality Theater
Question: Why do liberal atheists, who wouldn’t walk into a Lutheran church on Sunday if you paid them, suddenly go all Christ-loving when a place such as the Knight Concert Hall hosts Gospel Sundays? Answer: It’s the music. The fact is some of the best pipes in the history of... More >>

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