The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday The first-ever Latinx Art Sessions, a two-day affair exploring Latin identity and contemporary art, kicks off Thursday. Artists and art admirers alike can enjoy studio visits at ArtCenter/South Florida, a session that explores what it’s like being stuck between different colonial legacies, and other diversions. Speakers include Franklin Sirmans,…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday The 22nd-annual Miami Jewish Film Festival is well underway. After attracting more than 30,000 movie lovers last year, the fest this year boasts more than more 80 films from 25 countries at 15 venues throughout the area, including Faena Bazaar, SoundScape Park, and Coral Gables Art Cinema. Another awesome…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Hip-hop meets a musical. Talk about a powerful combo! Making Henry Box Brown that much more powerful is the Roots’ Karl “Dice Raw” Jenkins playing the lead role. Prepare for an emotional roller coaster as you track the enslaved Henry Box Brown’s amazing journey to escape bondage in Virginia…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday A bunch of clowns and mimes down by a river? In most towns, that would sound like a horror movie. But all of this and more will happen at the beautiful Wharf Miami during the Riverside Circus. The waterside space will boast stilt-walkers, jugglers, acrobats, magicians, and other performers,…

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday You know a Riot Ten show will be anything but boring. The word “riot” is right there in his name. Hitting Club Space this Thursday is his Hype or Die Tour, bearing the same name as the El Paso-bred artist’s EP, which dropped earlier this year. If your soul…

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday No, there’s not a weed convention in town. It’s just Snoop Dogg performing. To prep for his show, you could watch Snoop in Scary Movie 5 or The Wrecking Crew or his reality show Snoop & Son: A Dad’s Dream. Or you could listen to one of his 16…

Bayskate Miami Returns With “Holiday Boogie” Skate Jam, Tunes, and Cocktails

That whole ice-skating thing at Rockefeller Center in NYC can just step aside. While those peeps up North freeze while falling on ice, Miami is converting one of its parks into a bayside, old-school, rollerskating jam. Take that, Northerners! Bayskate Miami is back for a fourth year. And after a spooky, Halloween-inspired skating spectacle in 2017, a holiday shindig is set to happen this month.

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday As if Cirque du Soleil weren’t visually captivating and mind-boggling enough, now there’s a production on ice. Crystal marks the 42nd original Cirque show and is the first to be performed on an ice rink. After a successful stint at the BB&T Center in Sunrise earlier this year, the…

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday The artsiest time of the year is upon us. Art Basel is back, boasting more than 200 galleries by 4,000-plus modern and contemporary artists from across the globe. This year’s fair features work in six distinct sections, including the collaborative Edition sector and the historical Survey sector. And beyond…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday Wynwood’s leading ladies are coming together for a high-power, educational event. TEDxWynwoodWomen will present speeches from eight leading ladies, including Health in the Hood founder Asha Walker and Wyncode CEO Johanna Mikkola. Each speaker has her own story of perseverance and success. You will leave inspired, guaranteed. 6 to…

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday: Put down the potatoes — you have to earn them first! Turkey Trot Miami is back, providing locals with the perfect opportunity for some exercise before properly gaining ten pounds on Thanksgiving. There’s a 5K, 10K, and kids’ race, all of which weave in and around Tropical Park. So…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday The “Seinfeld of France” is making his way to Miami. Global comedy phenom Gad Elmaleh is kind of a big deal abroad, having sold out Paris’ iconic Olympia Theater Hall for seven straight weeks, as well as other big-time tours. Here in the States, his deadpan awesomeness has equated…

The 21 Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Thursday In what might be the best name of a Florida-themed photography exhibition ever, “A Peculiar Paradise” opens at HistoryMiami this Thursday. The exhibit includes more than 100 pics from guest photographer Nathan Benn, who was on assignment for National Geographic in Florida in 1981. It was an interesting time…

Five Coffee Shop Drinks Better Than Pumpkin Spice Latte

Ah, the leaves are turning and soon we’ll all be cozying up to the closest fireplace as snowflakes fall outside. OK, we totally won’t be because we live in paradise, and it’s still 70-plus degrees even during the “coldest” of our winter days. Despite it feeling like summer, South…

The 21 Best Things to Do This Week

Thursday Art and politics will come together when the Creative Time Summit hits Miami for the first time. The summit, now in its 11th year, is typically chock full of meaningful workshops, discussions, roundtables, performances, and other diversions designed to inspire people to take meaningful, artsy action. The theme of…