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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 Wednesday February 13
Previous day|Next day- Film: Documentary
- The Song Remains the Same
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (8:15pm) @ Cinema Paradiso
- Even if you were one of the 18,000 lucky people who got to catch Led Zeppelin's London reunion show last year (and we're guessing you... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Iron Ladies of Liberia
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- Free
- Harvard-educated Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a rural daughter of the first indigenous Liberian to be elected to the national legislature, is not only experienced (she's... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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'
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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 »
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- Sushi Square
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Can You Rock a Little Softer?
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (9:30pm) @ Churchill's More times »
- In the few months since its inception, this night by homespun guitar duo Raffa and Rainer has become an offbeat hit all over town. The... View details »
- Art
- Jorge Pardo
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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.
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Spiegelworld
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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 »
- Music: DJ
- Eclectíque
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10pm) @ Darius Palace More times »
- Free
- Argue about limited-edition pressings and hi-fi sound quality all you want at this Broward weekly for vintage-vinyl freaks. In the back lounge, chill out (or... View details »
- Art
- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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: Architecture/Design
- Inspired by China
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Wilfredo Lam
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Miami Art Museum More times »
- This retrospective is the first large-scale Wilfredo Lam exhibition ever organized in a South Florida museum. Arguably the 20th century's most famous Cuban artist, Lam... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- The High Style of Dorothy Draper
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale More times »
- An illustrious American interior decorator from the Jazz Age through the '60s, Dorothy Draper lived to bedazzle, with a bold, unabashed style and an almost... View details »
- Art
- Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Galerie Bertin-Toublanc More times »
- Free
- As gallery shows pop up all over the country and a new slate of stars makes its way to Miami, there's no question: contemporary Asian... View details »
- Art
- Beyond Picturopolis
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (11am–10pm) @ 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: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale More times »
- Before American automobile design started becoming more and more homogenized, there was a time when cars actually had real presence, imagination, and style. In this... View details »
- Art
- Fortunate Objects
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 @ 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
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- John Westmark
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Chelsea Galleria More times »
- Free
- Early in his career, Florida's John Westmark found inspiration in the abstracted landscape paintings of Richard Diebenkorn. But in the past few years, Westmark has... View details »
- Art
- Gina Ruggeri
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Kevin Bruk Gallery More times »
- Free
- New York-based artist Gina Ruggeri displays an obsessive interest in accumulated masses, from cloud buildups, rockpiles, and leaves to otherwordly heaps of fabric. She slightly... View details »
- Art
- Jill Cannady
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery More times »
- Free
- In addition to Luis Cruz Azaceta's solo show, Bernice Steinbaum is exhibiting Jill Cannady's dramatic and stirring works. Titled Women of the Storm, the series... View details »
- Art
- Charley Friedman
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Gallery Diet More times »
- Free
- Once, Charley Friedman walked into New York's Jack Tilton Gallery as one of his alter egos, "art dealer" Betsey Geffen, and tried to coax the... View details »
- Film
- The Walker
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (6pm) @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) is a gay, Washington DC escort to the power ladies who lunch. Natalie Van Miter (Lauren Bacall) is the grand... View details »
- Art
- Blackbooks
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Spinello Gallery More times »
- Free
- Blackbooks is the the Fort Lauderdale-based artist duo Andy Black and Books IIII. They've already made a name for themselves by designing and building custom... View details »
- Art
- Alejandro Contreras
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery More times »
- Free
- If you swing by Snitzer's, you'll notice two peculiar, orange-hued figures, standing tall in the grassy area adjacent to the gallery; the closer you get,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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
- Farouk Hosni
- Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale More times »
- From his tenure as director of the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris to his current position as Egypt's Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni has worn... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Tiffany Studios
- Wednesday Feb 13, 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 »
