Eight Best Things to Do This Weekend

A city is only as good as its weekend lineup, right? So we took a quick look at the events in other cities in the Village Voice paper chain to see how Miami measures up. This weekend, Denver has an animation festival and an edible book show (?). In Phoenix, there’s a sticker art show and a skydiving festival. Seattle boasts a Chaplin fest while San Fran has hipster magic shows. And New York hosts John Waters’ movie sing-along and five-minute lecture series where you can learn how to have sex standing up and use a scarf as a neck brace.

Check the jump for the eight best things to do in Miami this weekend. Are our events awesome? Yep. Could they use a heavy dose of weird? YES. Turn up the crazy, Miami event planners.

• Square Grouper: Show your pothead pride and watch Rakuntour’s latest

  about our city’s ganja-smuggling past. Currently screening nationwide, O Cinema is one of the first theaters to show Square Grouper in its

  hometown.

• Amigo Skate Cuba: Best way to fight communism? Skateboarding. So the

  Miami skate scene is holding a fundraiser, Amigo Skate Cuba, at Transit

  Lounge on Saturday. Hear from local bands Spam Allstars and ArtOfficial,

  get a Hellbound City tattoo, and test your own board skills in the

  miniramp, flatground, and longboard skating contests.

• Pride: Show your support for living the out and proud life at Miami Beach Pride Weekend

  and parade. Bravo’s Andy Cohen is the Grand Marshal.

• Wine and Food Festival: Not as grand at the SoBe fest, but certainly

  more accessible, the Miami Wine and Food Festival includes interactive

  dinners, wine parties, and beer tastings.

• SweatStock: Just in time for Record Day, Sweat Records is hosting their

  second annual block party, SweatStock. Hear from a jam-packed lineup of

  local bands –Panic Bomber, Beings, Deaf Poets, etc. — and from other non-music favorites — O,Miami, Borscht, Pure

  Imagination — in the empty lot next to Churchill’s Pun in Little Haiti.

• Taste of the Grove: Summer’s almost here so get outside while you can

  still stand it. Area restaurants and local bands will fill the Grove’s

  charming canopied streets. All you have to do and wander around and

  nosh.

• Don Giovanni. Florida Grand Opera’s Don Giovanni opens on Saturday at

  the Arsht. If you like opera, that was probably enough to lure

  you in.

• EarthFest: Are you ready for Earth Day? Consider this all-day festival your

  boot camp. You’ll learn how to be the green-savvy earth dweller you

  always intended to be via composting workshops, yoga en masse, and

  moonlight drum circles.

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