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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 Saturday January 19
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- Native Seeds III
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (7pm–midnight) @ The Standard
- Toasting the most recent winner of its $3,000 Native Seeds grant (which helps support an emerging Miami artist every year) and raising money for next... View details »
- Reading
- Angelo Dundee
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (5pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- Having trained such greats as Ali, Foreman, and Leonard from the fabled corner of the Fifth Street Gym, Angelo Dundee knows boxing inside and out.... View details »
- Film
- Under the Roofs of Paris
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- When Rene Clair made Under the Roofs of Paris, sound was still something new to be explored in film, and while the French silent-film... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- I'm a Born Liar
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- "The key word to understanding my kind of cinema," said Fellini, "is vitality. What I seek is to live the expression itself." Damian Pettigrew's dynamite... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Cosmo Baker
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10pm) @ White Room
- In 2002, Cosmo Baker, alongside DJs Ayres and Eleven, brought open-format to the Brooklyn hip-hop community with their stoopid-popular party, the Rub. Still packing Brooklyn's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Artopia
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (9pm) @ Parkwest Nightclub
- In celebration of its 20th anniversary, counterculture press Miami New Times bring together its most-mentioned local tastemakers for a get-down at the new Parkwest Nightclub.... View details »
- Music
- Diva's Night
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10pm) @ Jazid
- Given the club's name, you'd think Jazid would feature more jazz, but that's rarely the case. Tonight, Jazid finally makes good on expectations by featuring... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Audition
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (7:30pm) @ Culture Room
- Punk isn't dead; freshly scrubbed pop outfits in search of an edge, like Chicago emo-punks the Audition, have just hijacked it. The difference between the... View details »
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- Art
- Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 @ 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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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'
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
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- Christine's Roti Shop
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
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- Moonchine
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
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- Abbey Brewing Company
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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.
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–4pm) @ 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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- Casa Toscana
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts
- Spiegelworld
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 @ 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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
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- Captain Jim's Seafood
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10am–9pm) @ Captain Jim's Seafood More times »
- For years, Captain Jim's has been the fish market of choice for many North Miami residents, but not everyone takes the time to check out... View details »
- Art
- Peter Coffin
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
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- Lighthouse Tour
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10am–1pm) @ Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park More times »
- Nestled on the far end of Key Biscayne — a world away from the razzle dazzle of South Beach — is Bill Baggs Cape Florida... View details »
- Art
- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
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- Mac's Club Deuce
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (8–5am) @ Mac's Club Deuce More times »
- Free
- Freaks, geeks, drag queens, hipsters, club kids, and straight-up drunks commingle at South Beach's most notorious dive bar. The second-oldest watering hole in Dade County... View details »
- Art
- Lichtenstein at Fairchild
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 @ 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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- South Beach Comedy Festival
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
- Over its long and vaunted history, South Beach has grown notorious known for certain things — tourists in third-degree sunburns, miles and miles of velvet... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (8pm) @ Peacock Park More times »
- Free
- The free Shakespeare in the Park performance is one of those beloved cultural institutions that you'd be hard-pressed not to find a in a major... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lawrence Murray Dixon
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Bass Museum of Art More times »
- Back in the '30s, well-heeled New Yorkers migrated to the Florida tropics as a getaway from the cold, often staying in the art-deco hotels designed... View details »
- Art
- Aramis Gutierrez
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ David Castillo Gallery More times »
- Free
- Aramis Gutierrez, a Cooper Union graduate now based in Miami, is one of the city's most promising young painters. With a virtuoso's hand and a... View details »
- Art
- Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Locust Projects More times »
- Free
- Locust Projects opens the New Year with two installations — work that's, yet again, neither easily digestible nor readily sellable, but continues to push the... View details »
- Art
- Christina Pettersson
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Spinello Gallery More times »
- Free
- Ft. Lauderdale-based artist Christina Pettersson creates meticulous graphite drawings that linger in your mind — one especially haunting piece, last seen at the Scope... View details »
- Art
- Diego Singh
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Diego Singh's new solo show at Snitzer is a departure from his early work, which was marked by a decidedly calm and subdued quality. This... View details »
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- Art Deco Weekend
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 @ Ocean Dr btwn 5th & 15th Sts More times »
- Free
- For all of the wild, unhinged happenings that unfold in its streets, Miami Beach is actually a carefully preserved shrine to the age of art... View details »
- Art
- Beyond Picturopolis
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (11am–11pm) @ ArtCenter / South Florida More times »
- Free
- United by a vivid, surreal aesthetic, three artists — Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, and Michelle Weinberg (also the show's curator) — have transformed the ArtCenter's... View details »
- Art
- Fortunate Objects
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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
- Saturday Jan 19, 2008 (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 »
