The Best Free Events in Miami This Week
Instead of subsisting off of canned beans for six days, why not venture out to these events without squandering your precious weekend cash.
Instead of subsisting off of canned beans for six days, why not venture out to these events without squandering your precious weekend cash.
With III Points in the mix, the weekend is sure to be magical in Miami, but you don’t need to spend big bucks in Wynwood to get the most out of the next few days. DWNTWN Art Days offers exhibits and tours all over the city for little to no money, and other large-scale events — Grovetoberfest and the Yes and Kid Cudi concerts — are worth shelling out a few extra clams. So go forth and make the most of your fleeting freedom!
October On Your Feet! October 5 through 15 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org. It’s rare to see a semblance of everyday Miami life in books or movies. Popular depictions cast the Magic City as a sea of drug cartels and…
It can feel like hardly anyone really lives in Miami. There are people here for six or eight months at a time, people coming from other countries with aspirations to start the next Uber or Facebook, promoters and DJs and restaurateurs flitting in and out. They all contribute to the…
One of the largest public artworks in the world is on display at Miami International Airport. Titled A Walk on the Beach, the piece comprises about a mile of bronze sculptures embedded in a terrazzo walkway inside one of the terminals. The artist behind it, Michele Oka Doner, has…
It’s time to get in your last pool party of the season, ’cause fall is officially here. That doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be pool weather, but swimming will probably go out of style until all the Art Basel celebrities get here, so squeeze in South Beach Brewing’s Pop Up…
Do you feel it? The air growing ever so slightly cooler? Yeah, not really. But that doesn’t mean this weekend can’t be a snapshot of what fall has in store. You’ve got beer at the Sam Adams Octoberfest in Wynwood, and you’ve got costumes at Animate South Florida and the Miami Broward Carnival…
Thursday It’s rare to see a semblance of everyday Miami life in books or movies. Popular depictions cast the Magic City as a sea of drug cartels and corrupt businessmen. On Your Feet! hits closer to home as a tale of Cuban immigrants integrating into U.S. culture and as a…
The Chonga Girls are back, and they know you’ve been waiting. Since they became famous 10 years ago, Mimi and Laura have gotten non-stop questions about where they went. After Laura got caught up in a Midwestern cult with her ex John Marco, the two moved to L.A. to follow…
I’m in grad school in a critical theory class. My professor — a bald, white, intellectual man — looks poised for something. He wants to start a discussion about an excerpt we read, and he seems to be treading carefully. We — six or seven white students at a prestigious art school in Chicago — listen intently.
While Donald Trump makes asinine remarks about islands being surrounded by water, organizations in Miami and beyond have been working to send relief to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands damaged by this year’s disastrous hurricane season. Whether or not your family was affected, the chaos hits close to home both literally and figuratively.
We’re on the verge of the busiest season in Miami, the insanity of late fall and early winter when other Americans come flocking for warmth or high-class art or the craziest party. For now, we’re in that lull before the storm. You can enjoy it with comedy from John Mulaney and music from Miami Paradise, Jolt Radio, and the ’90s Love Fest, or you can be prepared by getting beefy at the Tone It Up Tour or the South Florida Craft Beer Run. Whatever your fancy, there’s enough here to keep you occupied till Monday morning.
Spend more than 30 seconds at an art school or modern-art museum and you’ll realize you’re way out of the realm of beauty or skill or anything remotely familiar to a novice art appreciator. The first time you hear “hegemonic cultural institutions,” your instinct might be to take cover,…
Every week brings a new expensive concert, a new trend to chase online, or a new political event to trigger a mental breakdown that only Netflix a mango key lime pie can fix. Whether you still have room to splurge after all of this or you’re working toward the luxury of just a sample of Fenty foundation, you can save a few pennies this week with a free beer tasting at Tank Brewing, art talks at Art Center/South Florida, and a shindig in Wynwood.
If catching up with normal life after Hurricane Irma has felt like its own cyclone of impervious chaos and dissolution, then perhaps this weekend can bring you some respite. Whether you like boobs and barbecue in Fort Lauderdale, beer in Wynwood, or death metal bands in both North Beach and…
From a Hurricane Irma benefit at Filling Station Lofts to Foster the People at the Fillmore, here are the best events happening in Miami this week.
We did it, Miami. We’ve got another hurricane under our belt, which has brought strife for some and pride for others. But we can all attest to the incredible amount of money we spent on price-gouged gas and bottled water, not to mention the materials you might have gathered to survive what forecasters promised would be the end of Florida.
Thursday Pants are not the bottoms of choice in a tropical climate, which is why you’ll see everything from biking shorts to thong bikinis covering the privates of Miami citizens. No Pop decided to immortalize this wide variety of attire in its Pants Zine, which consists of photographs of guests…
OK, folks: It’s last week of August. The worst month of the year is almost over. Soon we’ll be able to go outside without overheating, getting a third-degree sunburn, or drowning in sweat. Sure, the weather will still be hot — it always is in Miami — but at least it won’t be “I might die if I’m not indoors” hot. That’s something worth celebrating, perhaps with these wonderful free events, including concerts, minifestivals, listening parties, and even a bookstore opening.
At last, our long nightmare is finally almost over. No, I’m not talking about President Cheeto (although I wish I were) – I’m talking about summer…
In any biz — especially in the movie biz — it’s all about who you know. Finding a place to schmooze with the bigwigs in an atmosphere that’s equal parts professional networking and tropical partying could make your career. So the founders of the Grand IndieWise Convention decided…
The next solar eclipse with the same visibility as that of this Monday’s event won’t occur until 2045, which kind of makes you wonder about the future. Will humans have wiped themselves out in a nuclear holocaust by then? Will Miami officially be underwater? Instead of getting morbid, you can get proactive.