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All events on Saturday January 26
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- David Allan Coe
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (8pm) @ Culture Room
- You've probably bellowed along with a David Allen Coe song without even knowing it. "Take This Job and Shove It" may have been a hit... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Poplife
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (10pm) @ White Room
- Aramis Lorie has been shape-shifting the Miami underground for the better part of two decades, most notably with Poplife and one-offs at venues like PS14,... View details »
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- Mystery, Mayhem, and Vice Crime Tour
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (10am–1pm) @ Historical Museum of Southern Florida
- South Florida has spent the last century riddled with mobsters, con men, drug runners, fugitives, and assassins. If you're intrigued by this brand of historical... View details »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Pearl Fishers
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Few literary devices have been exploited more than the love triangle. This opera by Bizet, which debuted in Paris in 1863, features two friends who... View details »
- Film
- The Peter Sellers Festival
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (9pm) @ Churchill's
- The local members of the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society are responsible for tonight's festival of feature films, interview clips, and outtakes of the late, hilarious... View details »
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- Tropical 5K
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (7:30am) @ 980 MacArthur Causeway
- The Tropical 5K is a point-to-point race that takes runners from the east side of Watson Island, across the MacArthur Causeway, onto Alton Road, and... View details »
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- Farewell to the Orange Bowl
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Orange Bowl
- Today's farewell event is the last chance to visit the Orange Bowl before it's likely leveled to make way for a new Marlin's stadium. The... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Miami Bhangra Competition
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (8pm) @ Gusman Center
- Experience the Bhangra dance form in all its manifestations as ten dance groups battle for supremacy. The hybrid dance, music, and song sensation has traveled... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Joe Nice
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (11pm) @ The Laundry Bar
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- Joe Nice is known for providing Miamians with sub-crushing decibels unique to dubstep and a tempo reminiscent of the ever-popular Miami bass. The good people... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Tamalyn Dallal
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
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- Miami Style Battle
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (10pm–1am) @ The Ice Palace
- Flashy avant-garde fashion label House of Diehl is hosting this battle royale between several hip local designers and artists, in which the competitors have a... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 »
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- Jorge Pardo
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 »
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- Enoc Perez
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 »
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- Maurizio Pellegrin
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 »
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- Peter Coffin
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 »
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- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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: Architecture/Design
- Inspired by China
- Saturday Jan 26, 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: Theatre
- Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Coming-of-age is difficult enough, even when you feel you possess the right body parts. Female-to-male transgendered performer Scott Turner Schofield wasn't so lucky, but he's... View details »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (3pm–2am) @ Tuna's Garden Grille More times »
- The original Tuna's was a charming waterfront eatery where you could sit on a rickety-but-romantic patio with plates of lobsters and oysters, then watch moneyed... View details »
- Music: Classical
- The Cleveland Orchestra
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Although we don't have a symphony of our own, the Cleveland Orchestra is fortunately making its winter home in Miami. Tonight, the ensemble performs a... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lawrence Murray Dixon
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 »
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- Degas in Bronze
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art More times »
- During his lifetime, French artist Edgar Degas was best known for his paintings of dancers, bathers, and racehorses. Though the 19th-century artist was enamored by... View details »
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- Aramis Gutierrez
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 »
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- Diego Singh
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 »
- Art
- Beyond Picturopolis
- Saturday Jan 26, 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 26, 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 26, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Tiffany Studios
- Saturday Jan 26, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Boca Raton Museum of Art More times »
- After art nouveau first emerged in Europe, the trend soon spread stateside, where American designer Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly adept at incorporting natural elements,... View details »
