From holiday bars to the Book Fair: Things to do in Miami this weekend
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Here's what's on tap this weekend:
📚 The Miami Book Fair celebrates its closing weekend with a downtown street fair. There's a packed schedule of author panels, live entertainment and food from Smorgasburg Miami.
- The street fair runs from 10am-7pm Friday and Saturday, and until 6pm on Sunday.
- Single-day tickets are $12 for adults.
- Located at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus downtown.
Featured authors include:
🤫 An Evening With Mercedes Ron on "Tell Me Softly" Friday at 6pm. ($18, includes paperback copy of book)
- The event will feature appearances from the stars of the Amazon Prime film adaptation of the book, "Dímelo bajito." (Details)
✍️ Art Spiegelman, author of "Maus," revisits the 1986 graphic novel in "MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus."
⚾️ Jane Leavy ("Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It") will be interviewed by the Miami Herald's Linda Robertson on Saturday at 11am. Free event. (Details)
👉 Full Miami Book Fair schedule here
Non-Book Fair events
🎄 It's Christmas pop-up bar season! Miracle, which operates holiday pop-ups across the world, is spreading merriment across South Florida this year.
- Expect holiday cocktails, "kitschy holiday décor...and the nostalgic energy of the best office party you've ever been to," the company says.
🦩 Miracle at The Dead Flamingo is open through Dec. 27 at the Little Havana bar.
- Open daily 5pm-3am.
🍹 Miracle at La Cañita is open through Dec. 31 at Michelle Bernstein's Kendall restaurant.
- Open Wednesday to Friday from 5pm-10pm; Saturday 5pm-1am; Sunday 11am-1am and Monday 11am-9pm.
🎅 Miracle at Carousel Club at Gulfstream Park opens today through Dec. 28 in Hallandale Beach.
- Open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
🎤 Mariah Carey's Holiday Bar is open through Dec. 28 — but you have to pay a cover to get in.
- General admission starts at $19 per person (including fees), which gets you a 90-minute experience with first-come, first-served seating, a welcome cocktail and access to for-purchase food options.
- Brunch tables start at $54.50 per 2 guests.
🛣️ ACLU President Deborah N. Archer will discuss her book, "Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality," at the Historic Ward Rooming House Gallery & Gardens in Miami on Saturday.
- The discussion will explore "how America's highways, bridges, and urban planning were engineered to divide — and how creativity and justice can help rebuild equity," organizers say.
- The 5pm event is free with RSVP and presented by Hampton Art Lovers and the ACLU of Florida.
🛝 The 93-foot-long slide sculpture at Aventura Mall reopens this Saturday for the season. Perfect pick-me-up before holiday shopping. (TimeOut)
🎤 Men I Trust plays the Fillmore Miami Beach on Sunday at 8pm. (Tickets)