20 Great Things to Do in Miami

Timeout.com picks 20 great things to do in Miami.  Picked by the editors of Time Out, the list includes something for everyone; Romantic, hip, arty, and beachy. Some of our favorites are:

Light up your Cubans in Little Havana
Visit Little Havana for a taste of Cuba. In Calle Ocho (SW 8th Street), you’ll find many restaurants and shops that are replicas of the original in Cuba. Enjoy the atmosphere, with Mediterranean-style houses with rocking chairs on the porch, fragrant air of tobacco wafting from cigar stores and hum of Latin music from record shops.

Dine in style at a classic Miami restaurant
The 19th-century Parisian façade of The Forge conceals a glitzy interior that is a rococo lover’s dream. The steakhouse once hosted the likes of Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Richard Nixon. It still has an 1822 Château Lafite Rothschild worth $150,000 to prove its star quality.

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The 25 Best Men’s Stores in America

GQ.com has named The 25 Best Men’s Stores in America. These stores were chosen by GQ because” …they have impossibly hard-to-find brands or salesmen who know way too much about suits”… and “…”some are just beautiful rooms you never want to leave.” Some of our favorites are:

BODEGA - Hidden in the back of a bodega, this world-famous streetwear spot is as hard to find as the sneakers sold inside. The only place where you can buy an ice-cold Yoo-hoo and a clean pair of Jordans.

THE WEBSTER MIAMI - Milan Vukmirovic’s swanky South Beach shop sells $1,300 Lanvin swim shorts and a Balmain duffel for $3,800. The good news: In early May, Target releases a Webster collab in which everything in the collection is under fifty bucks.

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Jazz in the Gardens

This year’s Jazz in the Gardens event will be held on 3/17-3/18 at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens.The two-day celebration of R & B and soul music returns this weekend with a stellar line-up of acts like Mary J. Blige, Ramsey Lewis and Kenny G. with hostess MC Lyte. Last year, approximately 45,000 people attended the event.

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Dive Bars Across America

Sfweekly.com has a slideshow highlighting the best Dive Bars Across America. “The Dive Bar is as American as apple pie. And from North to South and East to West, cheap beers and sticky floors are just the beginning of what this country’s dives have in common.”

Some of our favorites are:

Mac’s Club Deuce in Miami Beach, Florida
CMJ in New York, New York
Bar in Miami, Florida

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Five Best RSS Newsreaders

Lifehacker.com has highlighted the five best RSS newsreaders in the current market. For the non tech savvy, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available.

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Velocipedes & Shank’s Mare

Green Mobility Network is hosting a juried art show at Flagler Arts Space about alternative transportation. In the motor age that would be public transit as well as the old reliable walking, bicycling, kayaks, etc.  The show starts on 9/30 at Flager Arts Space Gallery, located at 172 W. Flagler St., Miami.

Green Mobility Network aims to make Miami-Dade County a healthier, more livable community by using  education, events, and information to promote transit use, bicycling, running and walking for daily transportation, leisure and fitness.

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Final Flight of Shuttle Atlantis

Space.com has a photo gallery of Shuttle Atlantis’s final flight. The flight took off on July 8th from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and marks end of the 30 year program from NASA. The shuttle is carrying four astronauts on a 12-day delivery mission to the International Space Station.

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150 Best Bars in America

Thedailymeal.com has published its spirited guide to the country’s top watering holes. This subjective guide is divided into categories according to style, location, specialty, and clientele. Some of the categories include:

Best Dive Bars:
The 5 Point Cafe (Seattle, Wash.)
The Raven Grill (Washington, D.C.)
Marshall’s Pub (New Bedford, Mass.)

Best Wine Bars:
Butcher Shop (Boston, Mass.)
Terroir (New York, N.Y.)
Bar Covell (Los Feliz, Calif.)

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Sebastian Spreng’s “Salad Bar” Art Exhibit in Miami

Sebastian Spreng isn’t your typical artist. The talented painter has suffered from muscular dystrophy since he was born. Confined to a wheelchair since the age of 12, the 55 year-old grows increasingly weaker ever year.

Unable to hold up his arms (his left hand, with which he paints, is held up with a strap) and reach across a sprawling canvas, Spreng’s paintings have become pint sized but that doesn’t mean they aren’t poignant. Of his reduced canvas size Steng says, “I had to reduce the size of my canvases out of need, but it’s also pushed me to concentrate on the drama and energy in the paintings.”

His work is reminiscent of the 19^th century when visual art, music, and poetry were combining to produce meaningful masterpieces. According to Dennis Scholl, vice president/arts and Miami program director of the Knight Foundation, “His deep knowledge of painting and music allows him to seamlessly travel across both disciplines and use one to inform the other.”

His latest exhibit, “Salad Bar”, features 250 of his small paintings ranging in size from five to eight square inches arranged in shelves to present in a “buffet-style” look.

Definitely worth taking a look, Steng’s exhibit is more than just beautiful art, it’s a testimony to perseverance and determination against his disease.

“Salad Bar” is on display at the Kelley Roy Gallery located at 50 NE 29^th Street, Miami, Fl. 33137 until June 30^th.

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Woman Captures an Amazing Moment with Her iPhone

Check out one of  the amazing photos that was captured by Stefanie Gordon, an un-employed 33 year old from Hoboken, New Jersey, during her plane ride from New York to Florida on May 16^th. She captured the image on her iPhone during the last half-hour of her flight when she looked out her window and saw the Space Shuttle Endeavour sky-rocketing past the plane on its final journey to space.

The photo made her somewhat of an “instant celebrity” after she tweeted it while waiting for her luggage to come off the plane. Her phone began buzzing with alerts and notifications almost immediately and since then she has been contacted by MSNBC, the Washington Post, Associated Press and a number of other media outlets. While she never realized that the tweet would have the enormous impact that it has, she’s now hoping that a job offer may come her way from all of the attention.

The short video clip and photos have been viewed thousands upon thousands of times and have shown up on newscasts and newspapers all over the country.

What an amazing moment in history to capture!

(AP Photo/Stefanie Gordon)

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