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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 February 01
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- Richie Havens
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (8pm) @ Culture Room
- A shining, but often overlooked star of the same '60s folk scene that included titans like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Richie Havens was one... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Loop
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (10pm) @ PS14
- Free
- DJs Induce and Matt Cash play jukebox jams in tribute to the days of big hair and shoulder pads. Every first Friday, the Poplife family... View details »
- Film
- And the Ship Sails On
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- In Federico Fellini's 1983 historical farce, the Archduke of Herzog, some Serbian refugees, a mourning Italian opera company, and a rhinoceros jostle aboard a luxury... View details »
- Reading
- Steve Alten: The Shell Game
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- If famed futurist Alvin Toffler were to apply his talents to the intricacies of politics and conspiracy, he might concoct a thriller as chilling as... View details »
- Music: Global
- La Gata
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (9–11pm) @ Che Sopranos More times »
- Free
- Miami's very own catwoman, La Gata is a tango singer who wields her mystique and bravado like a dagger. She's up there in age, but... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Ladies and Eighties
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (10pm) @ Studio A
- The folks at Studio A aren't relying on any mega-popular promoters or DJs to give the people what they want at their new Friday-night party.... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday Feb 1, 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'
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (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 Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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.
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (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 »
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- Casa Toscana
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (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 Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (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 Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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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- Lighthouse Tour
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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 »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Friday Feb 1, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Lawrence Murray Dixon
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Degas in Bronze
- Friday Feb 1, 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 »
- Art
- Aramis Gutierrez
- Friday Feb 1, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Pearl Fishers
- Friday Feb 1, 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 »
- Art
- Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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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- Miami Beach Antique Show
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (noon–9pm) @ Miami Beach Convention Center More times »
- More than 1,000 exhibitors from all over the world bring their dusty, tarnished treasures to this gigantic antique show — centuries-old furniture, Asian art, Russian-impressionist... View details »
- Art
- Beyond Picturopolis
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Phil Stein
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center More times »
- Free
- Evincing a cubist's predilection for deconstruction, Pennsylvania-based photographer Phil Stein also possesses a keen sense for detail. After printing several digital shots of a particular... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Friday Feb 1, 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
- Friday Feb 1, 2008 (10am–9pm) @ 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 »
