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All events on Thursday December 13

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Performing Arts: Comedy
Eddie Gossling
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 @ Miami Improv More times »
Eddie Gossling is that perfect comedy cocktail of smarts and zaniness, overactive imagination and improvisational bravado. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, voiced an animated... View details »
Eddie Gossling
More Flavor: Discussion
Bonnie Clearwater
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
Free
It may have taken Rothko a few years to get to the "multiforms" that would make him famous, but those few years were hardly idle.... View details »
Bonnie Clearwater
Film
Romance & Cigarettes
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
Giveaway
If Tennessee Williams had written a pulp musical based in working-class Queens during the '60s, he might've come up with something like John Turturro's... View details »
Romance & Cigarettes
Music: Jazz/Blues
Jason Marsalis
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (8pm) @ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
The Marsalis clan has given America some of its finest jazz musicians — among them adventurous saxophonist Branford, old-school trumpeter Wynton, and, of course, patriarch-pianist... View details »
Jason Marsalis
Music: Rock/Pop
Battle of the Bands
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (9pm) @ Studio A
There's no telling what any of the ten local rock bands — including throttling acts such as And Then There Was You — might win... View details »
Battle of the Bands

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Pablo Cano
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Pablo Cano
Art
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
More Flavor: City Gem
Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
More Flavor: City Gem
Garden of Eatin'
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Garden of Eatin'
More Flavor: City Gem
Spyro
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Spyro
Art
Agitated Images
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Agitated Images
More Flavor: City Gem
Sushi Square
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Sushi Square
Art
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
The Art of Marcus Antonius Jansen
Art
Particulars
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Particulars
Art
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
Art
L/B
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
L/B
More Flavor: City Gem
Christine's Roti Shop
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Christine's Roti Shop
Art
Jorge Pardo
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ MOCA North Miami More times »
Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles didn't even take place... View details »
Jorge Pardo
Art
Enoc Perez
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ MOCA at Goldman Warehouse More times »
Although primarily a painter, Enoc Perez engages in an assiduous, multi-leveled process involving photographs, color separation, drawing, and pigment transfers to achieve his final, richly... View details »
Enoc Perez
More Flavor: City Gem
Captain Crab's
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Captain Crab's
Art
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
Art
The Brush That Never Rests
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
The Brush That Never Rests
More Flavor: City Gem
Moonchine
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Moonchine
More Flavor: City Gem
W Wine Bistro
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (11:30am–10:30pm) @ W Wine Bistro More times »
Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of resiliency over the past... View details »
W Wine Bistro
Art
Creating a Scene
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Creating a Scene
Art
Yui Kugimiya
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Yui Kugimiya
Art
Sandro Chia
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Sandro Chia
More Flavor: City Gem
Abbey Brewing Company
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Abbey Brewing Company
More Flavor: City Gem
The Room
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (6pm–2am) @ The Room More times »
Free
Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by partying and drinking on... View details »
The Room
Art
Hernan Bas
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Rubell Family Collection More times »
Free
Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest art star, creating darkly poetic, romanticized works read as chapters in an epic, sometimes mythical, and often decadent literary novel... View details »
Hernan Bas
Art
French Kissin' in the U.S.A.
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Moore Space More times »
Free
Taking its title from the 1986 Debbie Harry hit, the Moore Space's new exhibition gathers 18 contemporary French artists, including Adel Abdessemed, Philippe Perrot, and... View details »
French Kissin' in the U.S.A.
Art
Maurizio Pellegrin
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Maurizio Pellegrin
Art
Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
Art
Leonel Matheu
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Leonel Matheu
More Flavor: City Gem
Casa Toscana
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (6–11pm) @ Casa Toscana More times »
Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your sweetie. Casa Toscana is... View details »
Casa Toscana
Art: Architecture/Design
Work in Progress
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Miami Art Museum More times »
Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron have envisioned an ambitious future for the Miami Art Museum's new bay-front home. The recently unveiled plan for... View details »
Work in Progress
Art
Promises of Paradise
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Bass Museum of Art More times »
Curated by Allan Shulman, one of Miami's most prominent architects, Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami delineates the potential of this city as a tropical... View details »
Promises of Paradise
Art
Jason Middlebrook
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Kevin Bruk Gallery More times »
Free
The vast difference between urban and country life is essential to Jason Middlebrook's work, as is the world's supposed tendency towards disorder. Of his paintings,... View details »
Jason Middlebrook
Art
José Bedia
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery More times »
Free
José Bedia's new show at Snitzer has a decidedly African bent, its large-scale acrylics on canvas inspired by the artifacts Bedia collected during his visits... View details »
José Bedia
Art
Peter Coffin
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin More times »
Free
Although some suspect Peter Coffin's work of hokey mysticism, the New York-based artist's sculptures and installations are actually clever deconstructions of commonly held notions. Case... View details »
Peter Coffin
Art
Peter Sarkisian
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery More times »
Free
Santa Fe-based artist Peter Sarkisian liberates video from the traditional frame. One of the most salient features of his recent work is the use of... View details »
Peter Sarkisian
Art
Breaking the Waves
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (1–5pm) @ Dorsch Gallery More times »
Free
Curator Nikki Beem brings together more than 20 artists whose works express a desire for change. Most impressive here are Arnold Mesches' chaotic, black-and-white drawings,... View details »
Breaking the Waves
Art
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Art
Lichtenstein at Fairchild
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (9:30am–4:30pm) @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden More times »
Drawing from popular advertisements, mainstream comic books, and industrial production techniques, Roy Lichtenstein's primary-colored works are now iconic deconstructions of Americana. His sculptures, which are... View details »
Lichtenstein at Fairchild
Art
Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ David Castillo Gallery More times »
Free
In this three-person group show, curated by Berlin-based Manabi Murata, restraint is key, even as the artists — all of whom are Japanese — create... View details »
Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud
Art
Chimneys and Towers
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
Chimneys and Towers
Art: Architecture/Design
Inspired by China
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale More times »
For centuries now, European and American artisans have used Chinese art and culture as a source of inspiration. Back in June 2005, the Peabody Essex... View details »
Inspired by China
Art
Georges LeBar
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Art and Culture Center of Hollywood More times »
Postmodern mishmashes of consumer society, Georges LeBar's paintings are vivid metaphors lambasting a culture of wantonness, image obsession, and gluttonous gratification. The artist's newest works... View details »
Georges LeBar
Art
Fortunate Objects
Thursday Dec 13, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation More times »
Free
The CIFO flexes its conceptual muscle with this wide-ranging multimedia exhibition culled from its permanent collection. These Fortunate Objects aren't always what they seem; the... View details »
Fortunate Objects
Art: Photography
The Hunter Gifts
Thursday Dec 13, 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 »
The Hunter Gifts