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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 Thursday February 14
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- Girl Shy
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- Though silent-film star Harold Lloyd isn't as well known as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton nowadays, he's surely their equal. Like Keaton, Lloyd performed his... View details »
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- Frailty
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (10pm) @ Cinema Paradiso
- A man, believing that God has chosen him to rid people of their demons, enlists his young sons to assist him in his gruesome "divine"... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Arturo Sandoval and Malena Burke
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (7pm) @ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
- It's not uncommon for legendary jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval to take the stage at his namesake club on Miami Beach, but this Valentine's Day, he'll... View details »
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- Miami International Boat Show
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Miami Beach Convention Center More times »
- It's been said that there are two kinds of people in Miami: those who own boats… and the rest of us chumps. While most of... View details »
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- 15th Street Fisheries
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (5–10pm) @ 15th Street Fisheries
- If you want some Valentine's ambiance with your catch of the day, Fort Lauderdale's 15th Street Fisheries might be the place. Located inside the historic... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Thursday Feb 14, 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'
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Hernan Bas
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Rubell Family Collection More times »
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- 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 »
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- French Kissin' in the U.S.A.
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ The Moore Space More times »
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- 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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- Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries More times »
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- 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Work in Progress
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Promises of Paradise
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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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- Circuit
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (9pm) @ Grass More times »
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... ’s only been a month since Circuit launched this Thursday soirée at Grass, but already most of
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- Lighthouse Tour
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (8–5am) @ Mac's Club Deuce More times »
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- 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 »
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- Lichtenstein at Fairchild
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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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- Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Wilfredo Lam
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Fortunate Objects
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- John Westmark
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Gina Ruggeri
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Jill Cannady
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Charley Friedman
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 2008 (6 & 8pm) @ 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 »
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- Blackbooks
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
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- Farouk Hosni
- Thursday Feb 14, 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
- Thursday Feb 14, 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 »
