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Free outdoor films in Deerfield Beach

Deerfield Beach is featuring Moves in the Park at public parks. Entry and popcorn are free. The movies in 2025: 7 p.m. Friday, October 17. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” at Villages of Hillsboro Park, 4111 NW Sixth Street, Deerfield Beach. Other Halloween events in Broward 8 p.m. Saturday, October 25. “Scream,” at Constitution Park, 2841 W. Hillsboro …

ArshtPass offers $25 tickets for full-time college students

Making the arts more accessible and affordable to full-time students is now a reality, thanks to the ArshtPass student discount program, which provides $25 tickets to select shows. To get the deal, you need to sign up in advance and join the program.  Here’s what you need to know: It is free to sign up …

Free Tuba Christmas concerts in Jupiter, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale

You can enjoy festive holiday tunes played on tubas and euphoniums at three Tuba Christmas concerts in Palm Beach and Broward counties. Tuba and euphonium players are invited to participate in all three events. Registration for performers is $15. Admission is free for spectators. Florida Atlantic University’s Tuba Christmas free concert is at 5 p.m. …

Popular Las Olas Art Fair in Fort Lauderdale is free

The Las Olas Art Fair is a popular outdoor event that features about 200 artists from different regions with displays set up along Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Las Olas Boulevard is a ritzy and trendy shopping and dining district with fashion boutiques, galleries and restaurants. Las Olas Art Fairs in 2025 include: Saturday …

Fall and harvest festivals in South Florida 2025

Regardless of the weather in the Sunshine State, South Florida embraces autumn with fall festivals, pumpkin patches and other seasonal events. Fall festivals often feature pumpkins, hayrides & scarecrows. Pull out your plaid shirt and roll up the sleeves. Lots of events in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are free.  Fall is also the …

Dine Out Hollywood offers lunch & dinner promotions at participating restaurants

Hollywood is displaying its eclectic epicurean delights with a Dine Out Hollywood promotion.  Dine Out Hollywood in 2025 is October 15 – November 15 at an array of participating  restaurants. The Dine Out menus at about two dozen venues usually feature an appetizer, entree and dessert for lunch and dinner at prices usually about  $25 …

Ride a little train at Tradewinds Park in Broward

For a fun, unique and inexpensive activity in north Broward, hop aboard a little railroad.  The teeny train runs on tracks around a pond at Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek. Train rides offered third weekends Functioning model locomotives offer rides 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the third full weekend of each month, weather permitting. It’s …

Free tours of the Adrienne Arsht Center

The Adrienne Arsht Center offers a free tour every Monday and Saturday at noon. The tour lasts approximately one hour. No reservations are required.  Tours depart from the lobby of the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House. You might even see some production happenings if the timing is right. Highlights of the tour include: …

Monthly Coral Gables bike tour is fun and educational

If you’re looking for something fun and educational to do outdoors, consider a bicycle tour through “The City Beautiful,” Coral Gables. The third Sunday of each month, The City of Coral Gables and the Coral Gables Museum will host a two-hour bike tour, with different monthly themes. The tour begins at 10 a.m. at the Coral Gables …

Art Walks around Miami-Dade County

Murals, public art and sculptures and galleries, they all beckon the lover of an art walk and the choices for monthly ones reach about every corner of Miami-Dade. Here are the monthly art walks we know about and we will add more as we find them. Wynwood Art Walk, Monthly Happens on the second Saturday …

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