- Pulse Art Fair, Miami Project, Art Asia during Art Basel
- Critical Mass Bicycle Rides (on the last Friday of every month)
- Miami Heat becoming NBA Champs and Lebron doing his magnificent dance
- The Artist being held over for several weeks at the Coral Gables Art Cinema
- Marley, 144 minutes of reggae rapture and respect screened at the O Cinema
- Black Violin laying low at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center
- Miami Book Fair International: Miami Dade College keeping it literary for 29 years
- Zak the Baker, Panther Coffee, Lagniappe: art, craft, eating, and drinking
- ULTRA musicfestival: massive electronic music bacchanal in Bayfront Park
- Miami Made Festival at the Arsht: free, local, and creative
