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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 December 21
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- Andy Warhol's The Nude Restaurant
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- Warhol may have G-stringed his superstars for The Nude Restaurant, but that doesn't make the film's ambition any less naked. By creating the story-less story... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Jewish Princesses of Comedy
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (6pm) @ Collins Park More times »
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This bunch must be having a ball. Defying and toying with stereotypes every time they hit the stage, the Jewish Princesses of Comedy... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Elastic Bond
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (11pm) @ Circa28
- Free
- It's been a good year for Miami party-starters Elastic Bond. After the release of their debut album, Madrugada, they took to stages across the city,... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- MAYDAY!
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (11pm) @ Jazid
- MAYDAY! make protest boom-bap, the type of hip-hop that screams rebellion, if only from the sound of a sucker punch that knocks the wind out... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Monkey Village
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (11pm–3am) @ Transit Lounge
- Free
- Every few months, arts collective Monkey Village drops a new compilation CD chock-full of tunes from some of Miami's best bands, then celebrates its release... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Heavy Pets
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (8pm) @ Culture Room
- Giveaway
- Fort Lauderdale-based jam band the Heavy Pets introduced themselves to the South Florida masses at last year's Langerado Music Festival, where they whipped the crowd... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- DJ Funk
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (10pm) @ PS14
- Chi-town producer DJ Funk has rocked stages all over the world with Green Velvet, Detroit's DJ Assault, and more than a few of Ed Banger's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Pablo Cano
- Friday Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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
- Agitated Images
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
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- Sushi Square
- Friday Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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
- L/B
- Friday Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Jorge Pardo
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Enoc Perez
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
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- Captain Crab's
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
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- W Wine Bistro
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Creating a Scene
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Yui Kugimiya
- Friday Dec 21, 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 Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
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- The Room
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Hernan Bas
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- French Kissin' in the U.S.A.
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Maurizio Pellegrin
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Mano a Mano
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- G. Lacouture and P. Berthierm, the two clowns in tonight's show, are no mere buffoons of the balloon-animal, squirting-flower sort. No, these odd fellows are... View details »
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- Casa Toscana
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Work in Progress
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Promises of Paradise
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Fashioning the Modern French Interior
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (noon–9pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Spiegelworld
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 @ Collins Park More times »
- Part Cirque du Soleil and part bawdy burlesque show, Spiegelworld creates a surreal and wicked wonderland where strength and sexuality rule the big top. The... View details »
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- Canela Café
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 (noon–11:30pm) @ Canela Cafe More times »
- There are tons of Latin-American restaurants to be found around greater Miami, but Canela has this stretch of Biscayne Boulevard on lock. Diners can enjoy... View details »
- Art
- Jason Middlebrook
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- José Bedia
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Peter Coffin
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Peter Sarkisian
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Breaking the Waves
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Film
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
- Friday Dec 21, 2007 @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- Giveaway
- Don Rickles is no joke. In fact, the cat won't even tell one. His nearly 60 years in showbiz have been a total riot, however... View details »
- Art
- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Lichtenstein at Fairchild
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Art Students League of New York
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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: Architecture/Design
- Inspired by China
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
- Art
- Fortunate Objects
- Friday Dec 21, 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
- Friday Dec 21, 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 »
