The best things to do in Miami this week

Back for a third year, Tinez Farms' Pinterest-perfect pumpkin patch provides the ideal fallscape for all your seasonal photos. Aside from the multi-sized and colored gourds and hay bales, there's an animal barnyard and petting zoo, a garden maze, Tinez yard games, climbing, swings, zip lines, a bounce house and a tubing slide to help get you into the autumnal spirit. You can also opt to add on a cow barrel train or pony, donkey and horse rides to your experience. On the weekends, peruse the farmers' market, where you'll find organic produce and artisanal wares from local businesses.

Japanese contemporary art superstar Yayoi Kusama unveils her largest and most immersive kaleidoscopic environment this spring at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Known for her groundbreaking, psychedelic sculpture and Infinity Mirror installation works that originated in the 1960s and gave rise to today’s ubiquitous immersive art trend, Kusama has created a culmination of her artistic practice in the upcoming LOVE IS CALLING show at PAMM.  As visitors walk through the darkened, mirrored room, they’ll encounter the breadth of Kusama’s visual vocabulary: a disorienting cavern of polka-dotted, tentacle-like forms extending from the floor and ceiling, providing the room’s only source of light as they gradually change color. Meanwhile, a recording of Kusama’s voice fills the space as she recites a love poem that explores poignant, universal themes around life and death. Written by the artist, the Japanese poem’s title translates to “Residing in a Castle of Shed Tears.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Time Out Miami (@timeoutmiami)

Faena Forum hosts another year of Billboard Latin Music Week: Miami, featuring a variety of workshops, activations and concerts through the first week of October. Headlining performers of the event include Shakira, Fonseca, Maria Becerra, Manuel Turizo, Myke Towers, Sebastián Yatra and many more.

Bop downstairs to the basement of the Gale South Beach every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night to find a lineup of the city’s best Latin, fusion and straight-ahead jazz players providing impeccable vibes at Medium Cool, one of our favorite new cocktails lounges in Miami. The music kicks off at 7pm and heats up until 10pm, when the bar's resident DJs take over. Check Instagram for a rundown of the schedule each week.

The discovery of a dead male gigolo in the penthouse suite of a macho (and ostensibly hetero) action star on the night of the Golden Globes opens this gonzo satirical comedy from award-winning South Florida playwright Michael McKeever, in which the actor’s “fixers” must work damage control to hide the inconvenient evidence. Clark Gable Slept Here premiered in 2014, and its observations about Hollywood’s vulturine and dehumanizing nature are no less potent now. Sept 21–Oct 15; various show times; $37.50–$53.50

Hyde Beach at the SLS South Beach is basically a nightclub—but it’s during the day, everyone's in a bathing suit and the dance floor is a pool. If it’s a Vegas-style bash with bottle service and champagne showers you seek, the SLS Pool party is open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm, while the Haus of Hyde nightclub rages on from 10pm to 3am. Though weekends are the busiest, hit up the SLS pool any day of the week for a guaranteed fist-pumping good time—especially during Spring Break and Miami Music Week, when the party programming doesn't stop.  

The Coconut Grove Farmers Market is probably Miami’s most well-known. Every Saturday, Homestead's Glaser Organic Farms transforms an unoccupied corner of Coconut Grove into a full-fledged produce market with dozens of fruit and vegetable stands, a raw bar featuring prepared foods and salads and coolers filled with cold-pressed juices and nut mylks. There’s even velvety vegan ice cream for sale and several rows of picnic tables where you can sit and enjoy your bounty. Along its periphery, you’ll find other local vendors selling honey, homemade soaps, handmade jewelry and other artisanal items. And the setup and breakdown are so fascinating to watch! Much like the circus leaving town, everyone quickly dismantles their tents and packs up just after sunset, leaving no trace of the bustling day on the empty gravel lot.

As the most produced and influential Black American playwright of the 20th century, August Wilson’s momentous body of work includes such masterpieces as Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson. The late author is the subject, not the scribe, of this biographical one-man show. Miami’s Robert Strain portrays Wilson on the playwright’s remarkable ascent from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where he wrote his first poems, to his remarkable career and the love, music and racial consciousness that informed his titanic works. Sept. 29–Oct. 22; various show times; $35–$65

Described affectionately as “a black comedy about white trash,” Del Shore’s enduring 1996 play captures the fallout following the accidental death of an eccentric Texas family’s elderly matriarch. A cult classic among a certain LGBTQ contingent, Sordid Lives features a bustling cast of a dozen, including a gay man on a journey of acceptance; a sex-obsessed, pill-addicted therapist; a cross-dressing Tammy Wynette superfan; and a Southern Baptist preacher. Empire Stage, 1140 N. Flagler Drive, Fort Lauderdale. Sept. 22–Oct. 22; 8pm Fri–Sat, 5pm Sun; $35.

You won't find eggs benedict or Bloody Marys at this rowdy nighttime brunch experience at the contemporary Northern Chinese restaurant, Hutong. Instead, expect two hours of free-flowing drinks, satiating dishes like duck fried rice and ma la beef tenderloin, a resident DJ, fire dancers and authentic sounds played from a guzheng, or Chinese plucked zither. A standard ticket ($70) includes food and unlimited select cocktails, wine and beer; upgraded ticket options include everything above plus bottomless sparkling wine ($130).