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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 Sunday December 16
Previous day|Next day- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Music of Led Zeppelin
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (7pm) @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
- Typically, we don't care much for cover bands, especially Zeppelin cover bands. But here we'll make an exception, because "Stairway to Heaven" in the hands... View details »
- Music: Global
- Café Tacuba
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (8pm) @ Gusman Center
- Café Tacuba have been rocking en Español since a group of graphic-design students got together to jam in Mexico City in 1989, but most of... View details »
- Reading
- Alex Daoud
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (4pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
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Former Miami Beach mayor Alex Daoud may not have presided over
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Fashioning the Modern French Interior
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum More times »
- Giveaway
- The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the States, pochoirs were the... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pablo Cano
- Sunday Dec 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
- Sunday Dec 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 »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Sunday Dec 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 »
- Art
- Agitated Images
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
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- Sushi Square
- Sunday Dec 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
- Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project
- Sunday Dec 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
- Jorge Pardo
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–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 »
- Art
- Enrique Martínez Celaya: Nomad
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–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 »
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- Moonchine
- Sunday Dec 16, 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
- Sunday Dec 16, 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
- Sandro Chia
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–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
- Sunday Dec 16, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Eddie Gossling
- Sunday Dec 16, 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 »
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- The Room
- Sunday Dec 16, 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 »
- Film
- Aida
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (2pm) @ Bill Cosford Cinema - University of Miami More times »
- For modern audiences, opera tends to be a bit inaccessible as a form and expensive to attend. La Scala, Italy's famed opera house is taking... View details »
- Film
- Romance & Cigarettes
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- Giveaway
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If Tennessee Williams had written a pulp musical based in working-class
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Work in Progress
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–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 »
- Art
- Promises of Paradise
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (11am–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 »
- Art
- Lichtenstein at Fairchild
- Sunday Dec 16, 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 »
- Art
- Art Students League of New York
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami More times »
- One of the country's oldest art schools, the Art Students League of New York has been around since 1875, is still run by artists, and... View details »
- Art
- Chimneys and Towers
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (1–5pm) @ 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: Architecture/Design
- Inspired by China
- Sunday Dec 16, 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 »
- Art
- Georges LeBar
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (noon–4pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Fortunate Objects
- Sunday Dec 16, 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 »
- Art: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Sunday Dec 16, 2007 (1–5pm) @ 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 »
