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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 Thursday November 29
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- Bill McKibben
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- It's been 18 years since ace environmentalist Bill McKibben first predicted The End of Nature. Since that time, while the world went through the customary... View details »
- Film
- Winter Light
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8pm) @ Upper Eastside Garden
- Miami's own winter light may have little in common with Sweden's, but that in no way diminishes the effect Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece of the same... View details »
- Music: Global
- Brazilian Night
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11pm) @ Jazid
- Free
- On the one Thursday each month that the Brazilians take over Jazid, they might as well be taking over South Beach. It's quite something to... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Elin
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
- One might not think that a Swedish-born dame with an Irish mother and a Peruvian father would be the next big thing in standards, let... View details »
- Art
- Maurizio Pellegrin
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Sacco Gallery More times »
- Free
- Italian artist Maurizio Pellegrin has a distinct vision and a highly poetic sensibility. His last big show in Miami was more than a decade ago... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pablo Cano
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Thursday Nov 29, 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'
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- California as Muse
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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: Opera
- Così fan tutte
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Grammy-winning soprano Ana María Martínez stars in the Florida Grand Opera's staging of Mozart's comedic battle of the sexes. When a wager is made against... View details »
- Art
- Pip Brant
- Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
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- Sushi Square
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
- Film
- Miami Short Film Festival
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- With entries from such faraway lands as Canada, Greece, Belgium, Australia, and Singapore, not to mention a mingling that pits Colombia with Sierra Leone, the... View details »
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- Christine's Roti Shop
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Miami Art Museum More times »
- Giveaway
- A quiet, spiritual solitude inhabits Enrique Martínez Celaya's work, especially in his dark, ethereal oil-and-tar paintings. The Cuban-born artist makes effective use of texture and... View details »
- Art
- The Brush That Never Rests
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Art Rouge Gallery More times »
- Free
- Having recently relocated from Coral Gables to the ever-expanding Wynwood Art District, Art Rouge presents a four-person group show of contemporary artists from Mexico, Spain,... View details »
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- Moonchine
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11:30am–11pm) @ Moonchine More times »
- Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them all, adding Vietnamese fare... View details »
- Art
- Creating a Scene
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- A hefty, eye-popping 256-page hardcover volume, Miami Contemporary Artists is a testament to the international relevance (and interest in) the Miami art scene. Just released,... View details »
- Art
- The End
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ Twenty Twenty Projects More times »
- Free
- Death, loss, and a general disquietude permeate The End, a multimedia show curated by local artist Jacin Giordano. Daniel Newman's ominous, eight-foot-tall black painting anchors... View details »
- Art
- Three Headed Baby
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Harold Golen Gallery More times »
- Free
- The "heads" of Harold Golen's new three-artist exhibition Three Headed Baby all make particularly interesting use of technology. Kii Arens transfers landscapes — a lake... View details »
- Art
- Yui Kugimiya
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
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- Abbey Brewing Company
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (1pm–5am) @ Abbey Brewing Company More times »
- Free
- There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this small group, there's only... View details »
- Art
- Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Leonel Matheu
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–7pm) @ Dot Fiftyone More times »
- Free
- Leonel Matheu's work seems deceptively simple and naïve upon first glance, but each piece is ultimately underlain with a deeper, philosophical view of the world.... View details »
- Art
- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Thursday Nov 29, 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
- Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
- Art: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Norton Museum of Art More times »
- Adding to its already-expansive collection of more than 2,200 photographs (including works by Man Ray, Walker Evans, and Henri Cartier-Bresson), the Norton has just received... View details »
