Arts & Culture

Trippie Redd, the Shelley Novak Awards, 305 Half Marathon, and other events in Miami this week.

Inter Miami CF’s debut, big-time drag awards, YoungArts Miami 2020, and a local Carnival celebration top your free things to do in Miami during the week of Monday, February 24, through Sunday, March 1.

Lil Jon, Rod Stewart, a brewery grand opening, and Mardi Gras action await this weekend.

See where art, science, and justice intersect.

Every third Thursday of the month, Miami Beach makes many of its cultural attractions free to the public during its Culture Crawl. From 6 to 9 p.m., walk, bike, or take the white trolley to see ballet in Collins Park, survey fine art at the Bass, visit…

Speaking with Cynthia Gauthier immediately breaks all preconceptions of who monster-truck drivers are or can be. And it isn’t because she’s a woman: Any ’80s child who watched the cartoon Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and witnessed the antics of twin sisters Red and Redder knows that ladies are as capable of driving heavy machinery as well as any musclebound man.

On July 14, 2018, 37-year-old Harith Augustus was shot to death by police in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. It’s a sentence that rings with depressing familiarity for people in the United States. Another incidence of officer violence; another over-policed black neighborhood; another round of vague platitudes to explain a seemingly preventable tragedy.

Check out a kite fest, a vegan food spectacle, Mardi Gras celebrations, and many other free happenings.

Diddy, the Miami Yacht Show, a puppy meetup, and the Gay8 Festival headline your Valentine’s Day weekend.

The longtime “New Yorker” culture critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author will speak Saturday, February 22, in the Design District.