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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 Tuesday February 19
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- Feneiva
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10:30pm) @ Jazid
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- Local Latin rock/reggae/kitchen-sink band Feneiva have been a Tuesday-night staple at Jazid for over a year. They drop a few original ballads here and there,... View details »
- Music: DJ
- The Attic
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11pm) @ Jazid
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- At Jazid, live bands pack 'em in so tightly that the DJ lounge upstairs rarely sees any action. But that's beginning to change, thanks to... View details »
- Reading
- James O. Born
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- Few lawmen have a knack for cracking cases like James O. Born, a former state special agent whose real-life resume features stints with both the... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Tuesday Feb 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'
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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 »
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- Shuffle Tuesdays
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11pm) @ Fox's Lounge More times »
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- Fox's Lounge is giving South Miami a break, offering up unbeatable two-for-ones all night to those unwilling to trek all the way to the beach.... View details »
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- Sushi Square
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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 »
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- Captain Crab's
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (1pm–5am) @ Abbey Brewing Company More times »
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- 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (6pm–2am) @ The Room More times »
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- 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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 »
- Art
- Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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 »
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- Canela Café
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Tuesday Feb 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 »
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- Mac's Club Deuce
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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 »
- Art
- Lichtenstein at Fairchild
- Tuesday Feb 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 »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Tuesday Feb 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
- Degas in Bronze
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Galerie Bertin-Toublanc More times »
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- 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
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (11am–8pm) @ Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery More times »
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- Highly regarded for his scores — most notably for Wes Anderson's films — Mark Mothersbaugh is also an eccentric visual artist. Bear and Bird Gallery... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Phil Stein
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center More times »
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- 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Chelsea Galleria More times »
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- 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Kevin Bruk Gallery More times »
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- 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
- Women Only!
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami More times »
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- To increase attention to American women in contemporary art, the Lowe's Women Only! show gives props to 20 notable ladies in the field, including Jenny... View details »
- Art
- Jill Cannady
- Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery More times »
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- 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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 »
- Art
- Blackbooks
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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
- Tuesday Feb 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Tiffany Studios
- Tuesday Feb 19, 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 »
