It’s the weekend before Miami Art Week, meaning the Magic City’s streets are about to be inundated with tourists from across the globe. As glamorous as that might seem from the outside, we all know it’ll be a nightmare. But much like the Glee episodes your significant other insists on making you watch, you grit your teeth and smile through it, all for love — or the ensuing perks. Either way, enjoy South Florida while it’s still ours by catching the Drums at Gramps, Zoo Lights at Zoo Miami, and Riptide Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale Beach Park. You won’t really appreciate it ’til it’s gone.

A beautiful marriage of talent and place is going down at the lush Pinecrest Gardens with artist Patrick Dougherty’s installation Stickwork. The gardens, once home to Parrot Jungle, are a beautiful representation of the area before people encroached on the landscape. Dougherty creates haunting but homey structures from bent…

The turkey turnup was real, but now it’s time to get back into the groove and finish the year strong. That means saving up for the Art Basel turnup happening next week. Whether your financial planning is contingent upon your partying habits, the following free events should keep you excited, entertained, and grateful for the padding in your checking account.

Whether you’re all about the hype or you’re just trying to stay sane while your extended family is in town, the weekend is packed with events that will help you let loose, get down, and turn up.

Thursday If retailers get to start their Black Friday sales early, you should be allowed to start your post-Thanksgiving blackout early, right? Fend off the urge to nap after dinner and head to the holiday edition of Wynwood Nights: All Black Thanksgiving to dance to hip-hop, soca, and dancehall while…

It’s Thanksgiving week in Miami, which means one thing: You’re going to get shit-faced. An unfortunate side effect of this fact, one that cannot be solved by carb-loading leftovers, is the hit to your bank account. Whether you’re buying rounds for old friends or forgetting your wallet at your high-school ex’s parents’ house before an awkward walk of shame, you’ll need to pad your pockets. From the Turkey Turn-Up at Mana Wynwood to the Jack Daniels’ Barbecue and Beats festival in Hialeah Park, we’ve got you covered.

Thursday Early film star and cabaret legend Marlene Dietrich is here to lead a seminar on emotional control in a sea of film, DIY stage design, and choral arrangements. At least that’s the concept of the Philadelphia-based performance troupe the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, who will take their audience through a…

Though you might not be able to afford three months on a spiritual retreat to unlearn a lifetime of internalized racism and misogyny, you can attend some free events that expand your mind. You can start by supporting local artists and merchants at the Little River Creative Collective’s event at Bloommiami and the Support Local Market at the Wynwood Yard. Then buy some consciousness-expanding books at the Miami Book Fair before supporting charitable efforts to send aid to Haiti at the Angels of Haiti show at Macaya Gallery. Hey, it’s a start.

Right smack-dab in the middle of Scorpio season in a city that specializes in adult entertainment and decadence, it might seem difficult to find clean, innocent fun. Instead of forcing your strip club persona into saintly garb right before Thanksgiving dinner, try easing into some wholesomeness this weekend with the…

Thursday The nude has been a subject of fine art for centuries. Its current significance might seem limited to learning tools and antiquated still lifes, but Nude Nite is breathing new life into nakedness by filling 25,000 square feet of warehouse space with contemporary takes on the unclothed human form…

An early cold snap can reinvigorate Miamians faith in humanity and the universe. Let’s all be thankful that the past week or so has been cooler than the average early November even if it makes us a little uneasy about the impending catastrophes of climate change. For now, though, we can enjoy the temperate outdoors at the Miami Short Film Festival in SoundScape Park; Lights, Camera, 305 at Gibson Park; Light Up Lauderdale at Esplanade Park; and Danay Suarez at Hialeah Park. Yup, Miamians are headed outside in droves. Let’s enjoy it while we can.

You probably went hard over Halloween weekend — maybe too hard. But that’s OK, because in uncharacteristic form, Miami has decided to take a breather and spend the next several days relaxing hard rather than partying hard. You’ll get the chance to fuel up at Wiener Bash at Magic City Casino…

Thursday Borders, outlines, constraints, connections — all of these words help define not only the word “boundaries” but also the exhibit “Boundaries,” presenting photography by Jacob Hessler and poetry by Richard Blanco. The show will debut this Thursday, but Blanco will sign copies of his book in the museum at…

Whether you have the kind of refined tastes better suited to Shakespeare at Trickster’s Treat at Gablestage and fine art at the South Miami Art Festival, or you prefer to get down and dirty at HalloWyn and the Grateful Dead Invitational at B-Side, you’re bound to find something satisfying without squandering those hard earned dollars

This weekend is pretty freaky, with HistoryMiami’s Miami City Cemetery tour and SAVE’s Halloween Ball, as well as kid-friendly scares such as the Frost Science Museum’s Spooky Science Monster Mash and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Cars in the Garden: Halloween Edition. If Halloween isn’t your thing (what’s wrong with you?), you can head to the Bass’ grand reopening or the Pop Cats convention. Just try not to be too responsible, OK?

Thursday If you’re a Halloween pro, you know you should get at least three runs out of your costume in one year. You also know that you don’t make your freshest run Halloween night, when your getup will get crushed in the sea of street revelers. No, you go to…

Find plenty of events to get you in the spirit, such as Downtown Fright Night, the Paranormal Zine Tour with Exile Books at the duPont Building, and Ball & Chain’s Monster Ball. If you need to save your spooky energy for the true night of fright, chill at Corona’s Electric Beach in Fort Lauderdale, or relax by the pool at the Hotel Colonnade. Just be sure to put your savings where it really counts.

This weekend, you won’t need to curate your health/debauchery tightrope walk, because fate has done it for you. Between Erika Moon’s Burlesque Avant-Garde at the Fillmore and Wanderlust 108 in Virginia Key Beach Park, or the Coconut Grove Seafood Festival at Miami Marine Stadium and Octavia Yearwood’s book-release party at CIC Miami, you have three days of gluttony and repentance all laid out.

Employing elements of both classical painting and magical realism, Edouard Duval-Carrié explores the culture and history of his home in 37 new paintings and sculptures collected by PhD and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Anthony Bogues. “Metamorphosis” continues the artist’s scrutiny of Haiti’s contemporary social and political…