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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 Saturday February 23
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- Leon Russell
- Saturday Feb 23 (8pm) @ Culture Room
- To say that raspy troubadour Leon Russell has "been around" would be a bit of an understatement. As a teen in the '50s, he played... View details »
- Reading
- Lip Service
- Saturday Feb 23 (7pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- The concept is simple: Submit a story according to three guidelines. The story must be true; it must involve you, the writer; and it can... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Venetian Snares
- Saturday Feb 23 (10pm) @ PS14
- In the world of glitchy electronic experimentalism, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, and Autechre tend to garner the lion's share of accolades. While their ADD-addled, breakbeat-heavy... View details »
- Film
- Alila
- Saturday Feb 23 (8:30pm) @ Miami Beach Cinematheque
- A Holocaust survivor who just wants to live out his last days in peace and quiet has no luck in Amos Gitai's Alila, which follows... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Fred Thomas Band
- Saturday Feb 23 (2pm) @ North Shore Park
- Free
- Not to be confused with the same-named Christian pop group, this Fred Thomas Band derives its power from a far funkier place. Back in the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Aunt Dracula
- Saturday Feb 23 (7–11pm) @ Upper Eastside Garden
- With a sound that conjures up a way-too-stoned evening on an almost-tropical beach, quirky psych-rock band Aunt Dracula probably feel more at home here in... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- José el Rey
- Saturday Feb 23 (10pm) @ White Room
- With the return of Miami's best party in town, Poplife, Saturdays have been resurrected. The promoters always give local rock bands a chance to play... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Saturday Feb 23 (10am–5pm) @ Norton Museum of Art More times »
- Throughout his prolific career, American sculptor Alexander Calder created a variety of objects — from inventive children's toys and 1927's miniature Cirque Calder to his... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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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- Casa Toscana
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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 Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 @ 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
- Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Rape of Europa
- Saturday Feb 23 @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- ... tler's quest for world domination was aimed not just at nation states, but also at other cultures — and he might have succeeded if... View details »
- Art
- Wilfredo Lam
- Saturday Feb 23 (noon–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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Saturday Feb 23 (11am–9pm) @ Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Frankie Valli
- Saturday Feb 23 (8pm) @ Seminole Hard Rock Casino More times »
- Whether singing with the Four Seasons or solo, Frankie Valli has racked up dozens of Top 40 hits. His piercing falsetto defined the classic '60s... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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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- South Beach Wine & Food Festival
- Saturday Feb 23 @ Various locations More times »
- Winter in Miami is a beautiful time. We get the art crowds in December and the electronic-music heads in March, but in between all that,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Last Words
- Saturday Feb 23 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Kenny Carnes specializes in documentary theater, a genre that mixes high drama with actual testimony. In Last Words, his main characters are hardcore criminals on... View details »
- Art
- John Westmark
- Saturday Feb 23 (noon–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
- Saturday Feb 23 (noon–5pm) @ 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
- Women Only!
- Saturday Feb 23 (10am–5pm) @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami More times »
- Giveaway
- 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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Vintage Pulp Illustration
- Saturday Feb 23 @ Harold Golen Gallery More times »
- Free
- Pulp-novel and magazine covers were crucial marketing tools of the '60s and '70s, sending the careers of small-time artists and illustrators skyrocketing. The images' sensational... View details »
- Art
- Luis Garcia-Nerey
- Saturday Feb 23 (1–5pm) @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art More times »
- Free
- Sadly, what begins as a utopia often ends in one hot mess. Such was the case with ancient Mesopotamia's capital city of Babylon — its... View details »
- Art
- Alejandro Contreras
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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
- Saturday Feb 23 (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 »
