Mayrav Estrin

Laugh your ass off as you join some of the biggest names in comedy at the Miami Comedy Festival at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Featuring comedy legends Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Marvin Dixon, Desi Banks, Dominique, Sommore, Arnez J, Lavell Crawford, Tony Rock and Tommy Davidson, you are sure to leave this festival with a smile from cheek to cheek.

Take a walk on the wild side of Claude Monet. Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience is a multisensory art experience at Ice Palace Studios that is brought to life with cutting-edge projection technology, music and sound effects. The beloved impressionist artist’s most famous artworks, like Water Lilies, break free from their frames to surround and encapsulate the viewer.

If your mouth waters when you think of Korean bibimbap, cinnamon bread, pastelitos, and dumplings, you need to run to the SOBEWFF Artisan Food Market that has set up a monthly residency on Lincoln Road. The market started as a pop-up for local food artisans to promote their business during the height of the pandemic and now has more than 75 vendors from all around South Florida selling their creations in Miami Beach for the next six months. Upcoming dates: Nov 28, Dec 19, Jan 23, Mar 27 and April 24. Michigan Ave between Lincoln Lane North and Lincoln Lane South

This trailblazing exhibition will showcase four decades of the Jewish/Polish Maryan S. Maryan’s depictions of his Holocaust experiences. The artist is recognized as one of the first to address these experiences through visual art. For the first time, many of his unique figurative paintings, sculptures, drawings and films will be on view to the public at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.

The legendary Betye Saar, a trailblazer in readymade and Black feminist art since the 1960s, presents an array of rarely exhibited site-specific installations at ICA Miami. Her work addresses social issues of race and gender through images that use commercial objects, narrative worlds and powerful monuments. This unique exhibition will feature work from 1980 through 1988, and heavily explores themes of the African-American experience, Black feminism and the African Diaspora.

If you like croquetas, well, I have some good news for you: the 8th annual Croquetapalooza is coming to the 305 on Saturday, December 4th. Host Burger Beast has loved the Cuban snack since childhood, and this event encapsulates everything special about living in Miami: from cafecito and flan to copious amounts of croquetas. Enjoy at your own risk, deliciousness guaranteed.

Want to treat yourself to a sensory explosion in nature? Pinecrest Gardens invites British artist Bruce Munro to create one of his trademark, immersive light installations inspired by the area’s unique landscape and vegetation. The result: a one-of-a-kind, site-specific piece featuring more than 6,000 fiber-optic illuminated glass spheres that cascade across several acres—from the Gardens’ Cypress Slough and Hardwood Hammock to its natural rainforest. To sum it up simply, it's stunning.

From humans to animals, this vital organ serves as our protector in the natural world. "Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity," presented by the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, hosts the east coast premiere of this bilingual, multi-sensory experience. The exhibition explores the beautiful and complex organ through interactive activities, specimens, and explorations on a topic that is far from skin-deep.

World-renowned Maestro Gerald Schwartz conducts Pictures at an Exhibition at the Knight Concert Hall. His concert features the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music Symphony Orchestra in this performance of 10 Movements inspired by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

Grammy Award-winning Dianne Reeves rings in the holiday season with music from her celebrated album Christmas Time Is Here. Reeves melds her timeless grace, elegance, and charisma into unforgettable jazz renditions of holiday favorites. In addition to being a five-time Grammy Award recipient, Reeves has received honorary doctorates from Juilliard and Berklee College of Music. Opening for Reeves is 15-year-old keyboard wunderkind and Miami native Brandon Goldberg.

Are you looking for a way to enjoy the holidays and get into the festive spirit with your whole family? Join the Alhambra Orchestra as they perform at Pinecrest Gardens. There is something for everyone to enjoy from holiday tunes, movie music, and light classics at this outdoor orchestral concert.

Extraordinary visual artist Anastasia Samoylova depicts climate change in South Florida cities in a series of 46 images printed on an array of mediums. From aerial photography to portraits of community members to blow-ups of buildings, Samoylova shows her unique perspective while encouraging an open conversation. Spectators will contemplate the relationship between urbanization and climate in this exhibition.