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As you may have noticed, Flavorpill Miami didn't hit your inbox last week, as we're taking a break for the rest of the summer. We'll be in touch soon with info on what's next, but until then, check the site for all the happenings that are still happening.
All events on Friday November 16
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- Lee Burridge
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9pm) @ Studio A
- There are two famous Lee Burridges. The first was a noted typewriter manufacturer, and the second is the British house, acid-jazz, and breakbeat DJ who... View details »
- Music: Global
- Youssou N'Dour
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Gusman Center
- N'Dour, Africa's most popular musician, is a master of mbalax, a blend of Senegal’s traditional rhythms, religious chant, Afro-Cuban arrangements, and American jazz, soul, and... View details »
- Film
- Consumption Junction
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (7pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
- Free
- Stitched together using endless reels of public domain television footage (cult classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, for example), Consumption Junction highlights the way the... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Celestial Music
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Lincoln Theatre More times »
- The New World Symphony soars into heaven with Kernis' Musica Celestis and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, featuring virtuoso soloist Michael Collins, and plumbs the depths of... View details »
- Film
- L'Humanité (1999)
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- French avant-realist Bruno Dumont's stark drama revolves around the rape, mutilation, and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Set in the steam of an insolent small... View details »
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- Art and Wine Lecture Series: Paul Gauguin
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (7–9pm) @ ArtCenter / South Florida
- Paul Gauguin is one of the brightest European painters to surface in the post-impressionist period. A friend of Van Gogh, the forward-thinking artist eschewed decorative... View details »
- Film
- Outsourced
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- What do you do if the only way to save your job is to fly off to India and train your replacement? Well, if you're... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pablo Cano
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 @ Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami More times »
- Free
- A Dadaist sensibility and a refined knowledge of bricolage inform Pablo Cano's inventive, found-object marionettes. For his new production — the tenth commissioned by MOCA... View details »
- Art
- Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 @ Miami Art Museum More times »
- The Miami Art Museum's MAC@MAM program launches its first much-anticipated exhibit: 11 installations by husband-and-wife team Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. The title piece... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (5pm) @ Tap Tap More times »
- Those who've passed a lazy evening in the rocking chairs on Tap Tap's front porch, sipping Miami's best mojitos while listening to Haitian compas music,... View details »
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- Garden of Eatin'
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (7am–9pm) @ Garden of Eatin' More times »
- With all the tropical flora found in Florida, you'd think the natives would be a bit more appreciative of fruits and veggies. Not so in... View details »
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- Spyro
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (6pm–midnight) @ Spyro More times »
- Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the northern end of this fair city, is a complete and utter mess thanks to recent construction projects. Thankfully,... View details »
- Art
- Goya: The Complete Etchings
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ Freedom Tower More times »
- Free
- Now under the stewardship of Miami Dade College, the Freedom Tower is finally being put to good use, opening its new gallery space with a... View details »
- Art
- California as Muse
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Norton Museum of Art More times »
- For many, California embodies a particular Arcadian ideal. The state's rural splendor was the main source of inspiration for early 20th-century artist couple Arthur and... View details »
- Art
- Agitated Images
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–9pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum More times »
- An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium to denounce the fascist... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- medEia
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Giveaway
- Featuring the music of Joy Division, Public Enemy, and Twisted Sister, this modern retelling of the ancient Greek tale of Medea finds three actors juggling... View details »
- Art
- Pip Brant
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Frost Art Museum - FIU More times »
- Free
- Pip Brant, a local, internationally recognized artist and professor at FIU, works in sundry mediums, but one common thread in all her pieces is their... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Sushi Square
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (6:30pm–midnight) @ Sushi Square More times »
- Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it even when you're looking... View details »
- Art
- The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center More times »
- Free
- Despite the rather turgid genre title used to refer to his work ("modern urban expressionism"), Marcus Antonius Jansen's paintings are beautifully rendered, meticulous tableaux of... View details »
- Art
- Particulars
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Gallery Diet More times »
- Free
- Following her stint as a curator at the esteemed Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Nina Johnson is now opening Gallery Diet, her very own space in Wynwood,... View details »
- Art
- Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9:30am–4:30pm) @ Vizcaya Museum and Gardens More times »
- Visiting the opulent Vizcaya estate is an experience in itself, so hitting it up for the unveiling of a new art piece is really the... View details »
- Art
- Quisqueya Henriquez
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ David Castillo Gallery More times »
- Free
- Abrogating cultural stereotypes is certainly one of Quisqueya Henriquez's central goals. But, more interestingly, the Cuban-Dominican artist, who currently has a major survey at the... View details »
- Art
- L/B
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Locust Projects More times »
- Free
- Switzerland-based artist couple Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann (aka L/B) are best known for their fantastic Hotel Everland — a mobile, ultra-modern, one-room crash/entertainment pad.... View details »
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- Christine's Roti Shop
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (9am–9pm) @ Christine's Roti Shop More times »
- Christine's Roti Shop is a North Miami Beach institution. Just after Hurricane Wilma, when the power was out across the city for three weeks in... View details »
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- Captain Crab's
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–11pm) @ Captain Crab's Take-Away More times »
- You'd think there'd be more crab shacks like this one all over Miami, but it seems as if California's the only place for that. That's... View details »
- Art
- Glexis Novoa
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery More times »
- Free
- Glexis Novoa's aesthetic is unlike any other in Miami. For one, he draws on polished marble slabs — the textures and natural patterns on the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Ian Bagg
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Miami Improv More times »
- Ian Bagg is a funny guy — a noble quality in a standup comic. After coming up through the club circuit, he's gotten the requisite... View details »
- Art
- Yui Kugimiya
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Ingalls & Associates More times »
- Free
- Yui Kugimiya has a keen sense of nature's splendor and chaos. For her second solo show at Ingalls, the young, Tokyo-born artist creates texture-rich paintings... View details »
- Art
- Sandro Chia
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Boca Raton Museum of Art More times »
- A medley of influences and art-historical references appear in Sandro Chia's oeuvre, but most important is his affinity for mythic symbolism and figuration, expressed in... View details »
- Art
- Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries More times »
- Free
- Asian neo-pop art (encompassing South Korea, Japan, and China) is one of the hottest new trends on the contemporary market — and deservedly so. Just... View details »
- Art
- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (11am–4pm) @ The Warehouse More times »
- Free
- The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter), showcasing significant works from... View details »
- Art
- Chimneys and Towers
- Friday Nov 16, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Norton Museum of Art More times »
- A pioneer of American precisionism and modernism, Charles Demuth was also involved in Paris' early 20th-century avant-garde scene, where he hung out with American ex-pats... View details »
