📍Frost Art Museum FIU | 10975 SW 17th St, University Park | Free Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10am–5pm | Through October 18

Eighty-two years ago, a group of Cuban painters walked into the Museum of Modern Art in New York and changed how the world understood Latin American art. That moment has been largely buried since. Starting this week, a new exhibition at the Frost Art Museum on FIU's University Park campus in west Miami-Dade is pulling it back into the light.

Modern Cuban Painters from Havana to New York Revisited opened May 2 and runs through October 18. Curated by Elizabeth T. Goizueta and Cristina Figueroa Vives, the show revisits MoMA's 1944 landmark exhibition — the institution's first ever dedicated to Cuban painting — and asks what that moment meant, who made it possible, and why it matters in Miami in 2026.

The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, and archival materials by the movement's defining voices: Wifredo Lam, Amelia Peláez, René Portocarrero, Cundo Bermúdez, Mario Carreño, and Carlos Enriquez, among others. These are artists who shaped Cuban modernity, were shown at MoMA alongside Picasso and Matisse, and then largely disappeared from mainstream American museum culture for decades.

What makes this particularly pointed for South Florida: these canvases represent an artistic tradition that lives in this city's DNA, exhibited now at a free public museum on a public university campus accessible to anyone in Miami-Dade County. No ticket required. No velvet rope.

For a city that often absorbs Cuban culture as aesthetic decoration, the Frost is treating it as a subject of real historical weight. That's the kind of institutional move that matters.

Before this week, Golden Child did not officially exist. Then on April 28, the Miami-based startup emerged from stealth with $37 million in backing and a pointed claim: most of what passes for premium dog food — including the expensive stuff — is not actually good enough.

The company was co-founded by Quentin Lacornerie, who helped scale Hims & Hers from startup to public company as VP of Product, and Jack Abraham, who co-founded Hims & Hers and runs the startup studio Atomic. The origin story is blunt — Abraham's dog fell ill while eating one of the market's most expensive fresh food brands, generating a $5,000 vet bill. He started asking harder questions about the category. The answers led to Golden Child.

The company raised its $37M from Atomic, A*, and Redpoint Ventures to build what it's calling a new food system: fresh frozen meals developed with a board-certified veterinary nutritionist and culinary team, alongside a proprietary supply chain built to human food delivery standards.

The product is subscription-based, ships direct to your door, and is built around the argument that refrigeration has been the industry's only real innovation in 15 years. Their second product is a "drizzle" — a functional nutrient topper — which gives you a sense of how they're thinking about this beyond a single SKU.

For Miami, this is a signal. The Hims & Hers playbook applied to premium pet wellness, built here, funded by West Coast VC. Watch this one.

📍Miami Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Ave, North Beach | May 8, 7 pm | Tickets $42.95

The same week Miami's Frost Art Museum opens a landmark Cuban modernism exhibition, the Miami Beach Bandshell is hosting a concert built around Son Cubano — the genre UNESCO named an intangible cultural heritage of humanity just last year. Cortadito, the Miami-born Cuban son band that's spent a decade keeping the tradition alive in this city, hosts the night alongside Grammy-nominated Cuban vocalist Aymée Nuviola and son legend Roberto Torres. This is the kind of evening that earns the drive to North Beach. Tickets at Eventim.

📍May 8 | 10 pm – 3 am | Midline Miami, 2221 NW Miami Ct, Wynwood Tickets via Eventbrite

Kentucky-born independent producer Daniel Allen built his following without a label — crowdfunding his projects directly with fans before most artists knew that was an option. His Centre Court Tour makes a Miami stop at Midline, Wynwood's newest upscale nightclub, for a late-night set that blends electro-pop, indie electronic, and bass-driven production. Think ODESZA energy in a room small enough to actually feel it. If you've been sleeping on him, this is the room where that changes. Tickets on Eventbrite.

📍Edgewater Rooftop + Bar, Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay, Edgewater | May 9 | Time TBD (doors open 60 min prior) | Tickets via Fever

A 90-minute live Motown set on the rooftop of the Marriott Biscayne Bay, with the bay laid out below, and Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and Aretha Franklin performed overhead. Specialty cocktails and light bites available at the bar. 21+ with valid ID — late entry not permitted, so arrive early. The kind of Saturday night that's easy to plan and hard to forget.

📍May 9–10 | Sat 9 am – 5 pm, Sun 10 am – 5 pm | 3000 E. Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale Free

What started in 2016 as a simple invitation — slide off your shoes, bring a blanket, bring a friend — has spent a decade becoming one of Broward's most consistent weekend rituals. The MKT at Las Olas Oceanside Park runs every Saturday and Sunday, year-round, steps from Fort Lauderdale Beach at the LOOP, the city's bayfront gathering space at 3000 E. Las Olas Boulevard.

The market pulls local makers, food vendors, fresh produce, globally inspired street food, handmade goods, and art you can actually put on your wall or wear out of the parking lot. Live music runs throughout the day. Saturday mornings open with a free yoga class on the main lawn at 9:30am if you want to earn the browse.

What makes this worth the drive from Miami is the setting — open air, ocean breeze, right on the water, no cover charge — and the fact that it doesn't feel like a tourist production. Nearly 130 bands have played the lawn over the past decade. The vendors are local and independent. It's the kind of Saturday morning that turns into an afternoon without you noticing.

Free. Dogs welcome. Parking at the Las Olas Beach Garage.

📍Fort Lauderdale Beach | May 9–10 | Noon - 3 pm | Gates open at 9 am | Tickets from $25

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headline this weekend's Air Dot Show over Fort Lauderdale Beach, joined by the F-22 Raptor Demo Team and the Red Bull Helicopter. The entire event is gated — tickets start at $25 for Drop Zone Beach access, $69.75 for a private Sand Box for up to four people, and go up to $499 for the VIP Penthouse on the 10th floor of the Pelican Grand with an open bar and eye-level jet views. Saturday VIP Penthouse is already sold out. Friday practice runs are free to watch from A1A if you want a preview before the weekend.

📍5840 SW 71st St, South Miami | Price point: $$

Austin-born pitmaster Mel Rodriguez has been building toward this for six years. He started as a first-come, first-served pandemic pop-up that became Miami's Best Barbecue two years running. He opened a brick-and-mortar in Miami Lakes. Then it closed. Now he's back — since April 15 — in a bigger, more serious version at 5840 SW 71st Street in South Miami.

The new La Traila is 160 seats, indoor-outdoor, with an open kitchen anchored by two M&M BBQ Company pits. The menu covers the Texas canon: brisket, spare ribs, beef ribs, pulled pork, beef cheek barbacoa, and house-made sausage, all seasoned with enough Tejano influence to make it distinctly his. Early visitors have flagged the bone-in Tejano-style roasted chicken as the sleeper on the menu — order it.

One genuinely new addition: Texas-style breakfast tacos on house-made flour tortillas with smoked meats, eggs, and crispy potatoes. In a city where breakfast tacos have been nearly impossible to find, this alone earns the detour.

Live music on weekends. Full bar with a Mexican Martini that reportedly justifies the trip on its own.

Price point: $$. Right for a long lunch, a group dinner, or a Saturday with nowhere else to be.