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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 07
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- Flamenco Festival Miami
- Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- You don't find much Flamenco in Miami, and what is here tends to be on the glossy side, rather than melancholy or fiery and passionate.... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Ghetto Blaster
- Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10pm) @ The Laundry Bar
- Free
- On Thursday nights, Haviken Hayes, Karakter, and D'Jane shake the windows on Lincoln Lane. They showcase their unique blend of post-IDM, funk, experimental, and old-school... View details »
- Art
- Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 »
The following events are ongoing.
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 »
- Art
- Agitated Images
- Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (noon–9pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum More times »
- An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium to denounce the fascist... View details »
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- Sushi Square
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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.
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- The Pearl Fishers
- Thursday Feb 7, 2008 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Few literary devices have been exploited more than the love triangle. This opera by Bizet, which debuted in Paris in 1863, features two friends who... View details »
- Art
- Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- The High Style of Dorothy Draper
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Beyond Picturopolis
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Thursday Feb 7, 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
- Thursday Feb 7, 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 7, 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 »
