Things to do in Miami this week: Heat playoffs begin, eMerge Americas and Earth Day

Miami opens the first round of the NBA playoffs at home against Charlotte at 5:30 p.m.

Try your hand at haiku today; only three lines of poetry with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5.

Monica Lewinsky joins Colin Powell, Tony Hawk and Pitbull as headliners for this two-day homegrown tech conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Leonard Pitts Jr., Carl Hiaasen, Fred Grimm, Dave Barry, Fabiola Santiago. All people you should buy a drink for today.

21 years ago, the Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people in an act of domestic terrorism.

Pour a tumbler of the Italian liqueur with the strong almond flavor.

Do you have a celebrity doppelgänger? Swap out your Facebook profile for a photo of your long lost twin.

A day that honors Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel (b. April 21, 1782), who is credited as the creator of the first kindergarten.

The annual day to promote environmental protection established at a UNESCO conference in 1969.

The eight-day bread-free festival begins at sundown with the first of two seders to commemorate the Jews’ freedom from Egyptian slavery.

Plan a picnic of your own and share it on social media using #NationalPicnicDay.

“A man can die but once,” but Shakespeare lives on. Dust off your Elizabethan English to celebrate his birthday today.

This story was originally published April 17, 2016 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Things to do in Miami this week: Heat playoffs begin, eMerge Americas and Earth Day."