Miami Spice Month is officially in full swing! What is Miami Spice? During August and September, Miami’s top restaurants offer three-course meals (Lunch $22, Dinner $35) featuring signature dishes created by world-renowned chefs. Most of the participating restaurants have their menus up. Some of the restaurants have menus that change daily, so you need to call ahead. Most restaurants have days that they do NOT offer the spice menu, so be sure to check on the Spice website before you go. Click here to go to the Miami Spice web page and plan your restaurant outings for August and September.

Flickin’ Summer Movie: “Sixteen Candles”

The beautiful, historic Gusman Theater in downtown Miami has brought back the “Flickin’ Summer” movie series for a third season. This is the next movie of the showcase which will be followed by an onstage dance party with DJ MR PAUER. At only $10 per ticket, it’s a cool way to spend a hot summer night! It plays this Thursday, July 28th.

Flickin’ Summer 2011 continues with Sixteen Candles, the classic 1984 comedy from director John Hughes. Molly Ringwald stars as a young girl whose “sweet sixteenth” birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. Watch the trailer on YouTube.

Come early to enjoy happy hour specials starting at 6 p.m., and stay afterwards to dance onstage with retro classics from DJ MR PAUER!

Flickin’ Summer is sponsored by the Miami Downtown Development Authority.

Anyone living in Miami looks forward to the Fall when Miami Spice is unveiled providing affordable access to the city’s hottest, chicest and most exclusive restaurants. While we wait in anticipation and start asking our type A friends to pencil us in for a weekend in August and September, we get a fun mini Spice in the form of Coral Gables Restaurant week this June. Coral Gables Restaurant week runs from June 6th through June 19th. Click here to visit the website. My picks: Norman 180′s $40 dinner menu and Ruth’s Chris’s $35.95 dinner menu.

Did you know that the month of may is Museum Month in Miami? What does that mean for you? It means that you can get a museum ticket for half off when you buy one at regular price. What a great way to beat the heat…head inside and check out a museum! Click here for more info. My pick: The Wolfsonian on Miami Beach which is full of art deco and other artifacts. The Wolfsonian exhibits an astounding collection of modern objects—both the rare and the overlooked—from the 1885 to 1945 era, demonstrating the active role design plays in motivating actions, expressing ideas, creating desires, and shaping identities.

Here is a list of the participating museums:

¤ Ancient Spanish Monastery
¤ Art Center/South Florida
¤ Bass Museum of Art
¤ Black Police Precinct & Court House Museum
¤ Coral Gables Merrick House
¤ Coral Gables Museum
¤ The Haitian Heritage Museum
¤ HistoryMiami
¤ Jewish Museum of Florida
¤ Lowe Art Museum
¤ Miami Art Museum
¤ Miami Children’s Museum
¤ Miami Science Museum
¤ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
¤ The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
¤ Wings Over Miami Air Museum
¤ The Wolfsonian—FIU

I am a girl who loves a great deal. I also love shopping events. They make me feel all girly and special! Right now on Gilt City Miami, you can get tickets to the Fashionably Conscious Charity event where designer dud cast-offs from Miami’s socialites are sold at bargain basement prices with proceeds going to needy kids’ after-school and summer programs. The famed charity clothing and accessories sale that made the pages of W magazine and allows you the opportunity to score some fabulous stuff…we are talkin’ Jimmy Choo, Manolo and more! This year’s trove offers items for men, women and kids.

The first package allows admission for one to a VIP preview sale and cocktail party on May 13, plus a complimentary glass of wine at nearby Spartico Trattoria when you show your Gilt City voucher.

The second package includes entry for one just to the event’s all-day sale on May 14, plus all the above perks. So it’s shop ’til you drop with a much-needed rest in the late afternoon.

The only downside is waiting all year for the next one. Click here to visit Gilt City and check it out.