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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 29
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- José González
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (8pm) @ Manuel Artime Theater
- Argentinian-born Swedish singer/songwriter José González is best known for stripping electronic songs to their acoustic essence — his interpretation of the Knife's "Heartbeats" breathes warmth... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Love, Janis: The Musical
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (8pm) @ Parker Playhouse More times »
- Much of Love, Janis: The Musical's plot is conveyed through actual letters to friends and family from the late, great singer herself. Two actresses, Cathy... View details »
- Reading
- James W. Hall
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- South Florida mystery writer James W. Hall takes his genre of choice deep into the Everglades, where a suitably shady family of old-money Floridians is... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Kryptonite Festival
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (8pm–3am) @ Tobacco Road
- You won't find any faux-metal at the Kryptonite Festival, exploding with brimstone and hellfire at Tobacco Road tonight. More than 30 bands rotate through four... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Miami City Ballet
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- At the top of 2008, the Miami City Ballet presented Program II, an evening of movement set to music by heavy hitters like Tchaikovsky and... View details »
- Film
- Monty Python Film Night
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (6pm) @ Cinema Paradiso
- It's hard to believe that there are some people out there who don't "get" Monty Python's brand of British absurdity. Maybe you've got a friend... View details »
- Music: Global
- Conjunto Progreso
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (7–11pm) @ Viernes Culturales
- Free
- Since their inception in 1999, Conjunto Progreso have evolved from a quartet to a full-on, ten-member ensemble pumping out the sort of fiery Cuban son... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday Feb 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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 »
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- Christine's Roti Shop
- Friday Feb 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 »
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- Canela Café
- Friday Feb 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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
- Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
- Friday Feb 29, 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 »
- Music: Global
- La Gata
- Friday Feb 29, 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 »
- Art
- Wilfredo Lam
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- Friday Feb 29, 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: Photography
- Phil Stein
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Women Only!
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Miami International Film Festival
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
- This annual cinephile powwow may not enjoy the prominence of Cannes or Sundance, but each year the Miami International Film Festival grows in stature. The... View details »
- Art
- Blackbooks
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Vintage Pulp Illustration
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 @ 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
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Friday Feb 29, 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
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Friday Feb 29, 2008 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Tiffany Studios
- Friday Feb 29, 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 »
