The Boca museum turns July into a Picasso month
Plus a long sales-tax holiday, tribute nights, Pop Art, and Bob Marley at Mizner Park.
The Boca museum turns July into a Picasso month
Thursday at 2 p.m., the Boca Raton Museum of Art screens "Young Picasso" as part of its summer film series, a documentary tracing the artist from Málaga to Barcelona to Paris and the work that eventually blew the doors off modern art. If you want the full arc, three of his pieces are hanging in the museum's Modernisms show, so you can watch the film and then go stand in front of the real thing. It's a good excuse to spend a hot afternoon somewhere air-conditioned that isn't a mall.
The back-to-school tax holiday is coming, and it's a long one
Florida's 2026 Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday runs Monday, July 20 through Thursday, August 20, per a Department of Revenue tax bulletin issued July 1. That's a full month with no sales tax on a useful list of things: clothing, shoes, wallets, and bags at $100 or less per item, school supplies at $50 or less, and learning aids and jigsaw puzzles at $30 or less. The one that tends to surprise people is the tech line, personal computers and accessories up to $1,500, as long as they're for noncommercial home or personal use. If a laptop's been on your list, the timing is about to work in your favor.
Boca businesses have a renewal window open now
Boca Raton's 2026 Business Tax Receipt renewal period is open, according to the city's business tax page. The city says the renewal window began July 1, with business tax receipts tied to the fiscal year that runs October 1 through September 30. Renewal notices go out by email in July and by mail in August, but the city is blunt about the responsibility: if a reminder does not arrive, the business still has to renew by September 30 to avoid penalties. For local operators, this is the boring deadline that becomes expensive only if it gets missed.
Crazy Uncle Mike's leans hard into tribute season
If your idea of a Friday is a familiar chorus and a cold drink, Crazy Uncle Mike's has you covered this stretch. Rock of Abba brings an all-live tribute to the group's multi-platinum catalog on Friday, July 10. The following week keeps the theme going with The Flyers on Wednesday the 15th and The Long Run, a straight-ahead classic-rock reproduction act, on Friday the 17th. None of it is going to reinvent anything, and that's rather the point. It's the kind of low-stakes night out that Boca does well and doesn't brag about enough.
Bob Marley's music comes to Mizner Park Amphitheater
The Summer in the City series lands one of its bigger nights on Friday, July 17, when Yvad & The Legal Roots perform the music of Bob Marley at the Mizner Park Amphitheater starting at 8 p.m. An outdoor amphitheater show in mid-July is a gamble with the weather, but reggae under the stars downtown is about as summer-in-South-Florida as it gets. If you've been meaning to use the amphitheater for something other than walking past it, this is a reasonable place to start.
Pop Art gets the lecture treatment on Friday
The museum's Breaking the Frame lecture series returns Friday, July 10 at 10:30 a.m. with a session on Pop Art, the movement that took soup cans and comic strips and argued its way into the galleries. It's a morning talk, which makes it an easy pairing with coffee beforehand and the Modernisms galleries afterward. For anyone who's ever squinted at a Warhol and wondered what the fuss was, this is the crowd that will happily explain it.