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Honoring Those Who Served
November 11 — From free meals to live music, South Florida is showing up for veterans today.
DiningSweetwaters Was Built by a B-17 Bomber Pilot. On Veterans Day, It Honors Those Who Followed.
The waterfront Fort Lauderdale restaurant is offering free meals to veterans and active military all day November 11.
FreeGolden Corral's 26th Military Appreciation Night: Free Meal for Every Veteran, November 11
No ID required. No reservation. Just show up. From 4 p.m. to close at locations nationwide — including South Florida.
CeremonyPinecrest Honors Its Veterans at Wayside Park, November 11 at 9 a.m.
The Village of Pinecrest gathers at the renovated Veterans Wayside Park for a free, open-to-all ceremony honoring the men and women who served.
Thank you to every veteran and active service member — from all of us at Premier Guide Miami.
Full Coverage →Live NowThe Vice City Bar Takeover — $14 cocktails at 3 Miami venues through Dec 1
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Vice City Is Real. NINE1NINE Opens. Miami Book Fair in One Week. The Week Ahead.
NINE1NINE at E11EVEN · MIA Exhibitions · Feid Tickets · Levi's x Inter Miami · Literary Corner · Active Miami · Free This Week
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The Live Miami Guide to Wellness
Where serious locals actually go to reset, recover, and feel like themselves again — no tourist traps, no gimmicks.
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The Love Miami Food Guide
Where the chefs eat, what's actually worth the hype, and the neighborhoods that are driving Miami's culinary identity right now.
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The Play Miami Nightlife Guide
The venues that matter, the nights that define the city, and the cocktail scene that's finally caught up to Miami's ambition.
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Miami Art Week 2026: The PGM Survival Guide
Every fair, every free event, the museum circuit, and a day-by-day routing plan. Everything you need for the full week.
Read the guide →The Short List
If you only do six things this week.
- 01
Closing night is Thursday. John Turturro gets the Variety Creative Vanguard on Monday. Kyle MacLachlan on Tuesday. The full GEMS run ends Nov 5 — not Nov 7. Check the schedule and go before it closes.
- 02
Free. 150+ national juried artists across painting, sculpture, photography, and ceramics. No ticket, no reservation. Show up, walk slowly, bring cash for the work that stops you.
- 03
40 seats. One long table. A multi-course Syrian feast at $125 per person. The first installment sold out before most people knew it existed. The window is open now.
- 04
Xfinity Series Championship on Saturday, Cup Series finale on Sunday. One of the loudest weekends in South Florida motorsport. Gates open early both days.
- 05
The rooms worth going to fill up in the first two weeks of November. Rao's Miami Beach, Torno Subito, Vida at Fontainebleau, Hakkasan — all on Resy or OpenTable now. Do not wait.
- 06
Two nights the week after Christmas. If you have family in town for the holidays and need a plan for the long weekend, this is a clean answer.
Week of November 2
Miami Events Database
2,500+ hand-curated events — the data engine behind our Editorial Guides, weekly Short Lists, and local cultural tracking.
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Galleries, screenings, theater, and fairs
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Dining events, tastings, and outdoor fests
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HEAT, F1, Inter Miami, boat shows
Family & Community
Parks, markets, and neighborhood events
Fashion, Wellness & More
MIAFW, wellness summits, and beyond
November 26 · South Florida
Thanksgiving 2026
Holiday dispatches, dining logs, and the best tables in South Florida.
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December 4–6, 2026
Miami Art Week 2026
Art Basel, Design Miami, NADA, Untitled & more.
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December in South Florida
Christmas, New Year's Eve, and the full December grid — every event, every tradition.
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Proprietary utilities built from 17 years of Miami knowledge.
Skyline Shadow Analyzer
Find out when and where a building casts shade — useful for outdoor dining and event planning.
Acoustic Decibel Matcher
Match 38 Miami venues by sound level — from whisper-quiet to full-blast concert floors.
Transit Route Generator
Map car-free routes to any venue using Brightline, Metrorail, and Miami trolley lines.
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Discover 36 restaurants with optimal airflow — ideal for outdoor dining year-round.
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Three Things Worth Your Wednesday
01Music
Doja Cat Electrifies Kaseya Center
Doja Cat brings her Tour Ma Vie World Tour to the heart of Downtown Miami at the Kaseya Center. Expect an electrifying night packed with her genre-defying hits and unmistakable style, offering an unforgettable experience in the city's bustling entertainment hub.
02Family
SoundScape Cinema: Family Fun with Flubber
Gather under the stars at Miami Beach's SoundScape Park for a free screening of the timeless comedy 'Flubber.' Perfect for a family night out, this event mingles movie magic with the enchanting atmosphere of one of Miami's favorite outdoor venues.
03Art
Tchaikovsky at The Parker
Immerse yourself in the power of classical music with the South Florida Symphony Orchestra's rendition of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 at Wells Hall. This performance promises to captivate with its emotional intensity and technical brilliance, right in the cultural heart of Fort Lauderdale.
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A quick look at the newest openings, cultural moments, and weekend notes from across our pillars.
LOVE MIAMI
The Altman Brothers Are Coming to South Florida — $9.5 Billion in Career Sales, Now Bicoastal
Josh, Matt, and Heather Altman — the Douglas Elliman team behind record-breaking sales in Laguna Beach, Brentwood, and Montecito — have expanded into South Florida, where they were already referring over $100 million in business annually.
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Harvest Festival at The Berry Farm
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Sun, Oct 4Ongoing · Oct 4–Nov 15
BCC Fitness Sundays at Brickell City Centre
Sun, Oct 4Ongoing · Oct 4–Nov 15
BCC Fitness Sundays — Brickell City Centre Wellness Series
Brickell City Centre
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On the SetlistNov 11, 2026
Deer Tick
📅 EventsNov 11, 2026
La Fuga del Ilusionista: Una Velada con Jorge Albertini
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Holocaust Education Week: The Last Twins — Michael-Ann Russell JCC
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Frost School of Music: Frost Wind Ensemble — Fall Concert
📅 EventsNov 11, 2026
Hamilton (Touring)
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Emo Orchestra
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South Florida Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1
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Full Events Calendar →Concert Archive · Since 2009
Pure concert reviews from 17 years on the floor.
Hard Rock Live, Kaseya Center, Revolution Live, Amerant Bank Arena — every show logged since the beginning.
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The Free Miami Concierge
34 local resources. 30 completely free. Your verified, zero-dollar city compass — free transit networks, airport connectors, museum days, and open-air culture blocks. Navigate South Florida seamlessly. No parking fees, no gridlock, no Uber surges.
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The Traffic Dodge
Metrorail Orange & Green Lines
Airport → Brickell → Downtown → Wynwood corridor
The ultimate hack for Kaseya Center concerts and downtown dinners. Skip Brickell gridlock entirely — Airport to City Center in under 20 minutes for $2.25.
Kaseya · Brickell · Coconut Grove
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The Arena Connector
Miami Metromover Loop
Free elevated rail above downtown traffic
Your midnight lifesaver. Glides above downtown gridlock while the rest of the crowd waits for surge-priced rides. Connects Brickell to Omni and everything between.
Downtown · Omni · Brickell
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Brickell · Wynwood · Coconut Grove · Coral Gables
Eight free routes covering the neighborhoods PGM covers most. Runs until midnight on weekends. The move for gallery nights, restaurant hops, and late-night bar crawls.
Wynwood · Grove · Coral Gables
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Plan Your Route →The Long Haul
Brightline Intercity RailMiami ↔ Fort Lauderdale ↔ West Palm ↔ Orlando
The only reason to leave Miami without renting a car. Fort Lauderdale Boat Show, Palm Beach events, Orlando theme parks — all reachable without touching I-95.
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Visual snapshots, red carpets, and frames from the crowd.
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Cultural highlights, community spotlights, and breaking dispatches from across South Florida.
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Christmas Wonderland Is Back at Tropical Park — and This Year It Has a European Market and a Digital Bank
South Florida's largest holiday attraction opens November 12 at Tropical Park with a new Nu Marketplace along Tinsel Trail, a dedicated cardholder lane, and 20% off for Nu cardholders through January 3, 2027.
Miami News & Community Spotlight
- Art Basel Conversations 2026: The Free Talks You Should Actually Plan Around This Art Week
- Kevin Love Collects Ed Ruscha and Rashid Johnson. Art Basel Wants to Talk About It.
- Craig Robins Built the Design District. Now He's Talking About John Baldessari at Art Basel.
- Art Basel Conversations: Clara Wu Tsai and Paul Pfeiffer Ask Whether Stadiums Are the New Art Institutions
- CHŌ Funky Asian Bistro Launches Daily Happy Hour — and It's the Most Inventive $12 Cocktail List on Miami Beach
- Rockstar Drops a Real Festival Into Miami: GTA VI: The Festival at Mana Wynwood Is the Biggest Music Event of November
- Jeff Koons Is Coming to Art Basel Miami Beach — and the Conversation Is Free
- Eight Artists, Eight Bodies of Water: Oolite Arts Opens What Water Remembers This Week
- More Thanksgiving Tables Just Confirmed: Corsair, Bourbon Steak, Rose Cafe, Sufrat, CalaMillor, and Bakey
- Infatuation Says the Restaurant Is the New Nightlife — Miami Has Been Saying That for Years
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Club Space Becomes The Vault: GTA VI's In-Game Nightclub Takes Over the Real One This Weekend
750,000 People Are on His Waitlist. You Can See Tyler Henry Live at Hard Rock Live Hollywood on January 24.
Christmas Wonderland Returns to Tropical Park With a 230-Foot Observation Wheel, a European Christmas Market, and a Mile of Lights Choreographed to Music
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Vice City Is Real
GTA VI drops November 19. Rockstar built their world from our streets. We tracked every real-world activation.
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