Events on Friday, February 8

<em>Trading Women </em>(2003)

Film: Documentary

Trading Women

Friday 2/ 8 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

Prostitution is a pretty lucrative business in Southeast Asia. According to a recent study, it accounts for 2-14 percent of the... 

The Go-Go's

Music

The Go-Go's

Friday 2/ 8 @ The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater

Formed in the late '70s, the all-girl Go-Go's are probably best known for their Hot 100 hit "We Got the Beat"... 

[CANCELLED] Lenore Raphael Trio

Music

Lenore Raphael Trio

Friday 2/ 8 @ Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club

Lenore Raphael swings with the best of them — and while you could call her a jazz diva, that doesn't quite... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Great Age of American Automobiles</em>

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Friday 2/ 8 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

Before American automobile design started becoming more and more homogenized, there was a time when cars actually had real presence, imagination,... 

Charlie Murphy

Comedy

Charlie Murphy

Friday 2/ 8 @ Miami Improv

You may know him as the straight-man foil to Rick James in Dave Chappelle's wildly popular "True Hollywood Stories" skit; you... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Friday 2/ 8 @ Casa Toscana

Go somewhere to deflate after the crush of Art Basel, eat a good meal, and connect with either yourself or your... 

<I>French Kissin' in the U.S.A.</I>

Art

French Kissin' in the U.S.A.

Friday 2/ 8 @ The Moore Space

Taking its title from the 1986 Debbie Harry hit, the Moore Space's new exhibition gathers 18 contemporary French artists, including Adel... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Friday 2/ 8 @ Abbey Brewing Company

There are a few watering holes on South Beach that feature an endless selection of excellent international beers, and, of this... 

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Friday 2/ 8 @ Galerie Bertin-Toublanc

As gallery shows pop up all over the country and a new slate of stars makes its way to Miami, there's... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Friday 2/ 8 @ W Wine Bistro

Hidden away under an overpass on the outskirts of the Design District, this tiny wine bistro has shown a lot of... 

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project: Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Art

Vizcaya's Contemporary Arts Project

Friday 2/ 8 @ Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Visiting the opulent Vizcaya estate is an experience in itself, so hitting it up for the unveiling of a new art... 

<em>Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture-makers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>

Art

Inspired by China

Friday 2/ 8 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

For centuries now, European and American artisans have used Chinese art and culture as a source of inspiration. Back in June... 

Spiegelworld presents <i>Absinthe</i>

Performing Arts

Spiegelworld

Friday 2/ 8 @ Collins Park

Part Cirque du Soleil and part bawdy burlesque show, Spiegelworld creates a surreal and wicked wonderland where strength and sexuality rule... 

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Friday 2/ 8 @ Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Nestled on the far end of Key Biscayne — a world away from the razzle dazzle of South Beach — is... 

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Friday 2/ 8 @ Spyro

Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare through the northern end of this fair city, is a complete and utter mess thanks to... 

<i>Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami</i>

Art

Promises of Paradise

Friday 2/ 8 @ Bass Museum of Art

Curated by Allan Shulman, one of Miami's most prominent architects, Promises of Paradise: Staging Mid-Century Miami delineates the potential of this... 

Enoc Perez

Art

Enoc Perez

Friday 2/ 8 @ The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse

Although primarily a painter, Enoc Perez engages in an assiduous, multi-leveled process involving photographs, color separation, drawing, and pigment transfers to... 

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Friday 2/ 8 @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center

Evincing a cubist's predilection for deconstruction, Pennsylvania-based photographer Phil Stein also possesses a keen sense for detail. After printing several digital... 

Jorge Pardo: <i>House</i>

Art

Jorge Pardo

Friday 2/ 8 @ MOCA North Miami

Jorge Pardo subverts traditional definitions of sculpture, design, and architecture. For instance, his 1998 solo exhibition at MOCA in Los Angeles... 

Christine's Roti Shop

City Gems

Christine's Roti Shop

Friday 2/ 8 @ Christine's Roti Shop

Christine's Roti Shop is a North Miami Beach institution. Just after Hurricane Wilma, when the power was out across the city... 

<em>Beyond Picturopolis</em>

Art

Beyond Picturopolis

Friday 2/ 8 @ ArtCenter / South Florida

United by a vivid, surreal aesthetic, three artists — Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon, and Michelle Weinberg (also the show's curator) —... 

<em>The Pearl Fishers</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Pearl Fishers

Friday 2/ 8 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Few literary devices have been exploited more than the love triangle. This opera by Bizet, which debuted in Paris in 1863,... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Friday 2/ 8 @ Sushi Square

Sushi Square is more like a cube — a block of Biscayne Boulevard restaurant so tiny that you might miss it... 

Hernan Bas: <em>Works from the Rubell Family Collection</em>

Art

Hernan Bas

Friday 2/ 8 @ Rubell Family Collection

Hernan Bas is Miami's biggest art star, creating darkly poetic, romanticized works read as chapters in an epic, sometimes mythical, and... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Friday 2/ 8 @ Tuna's Garden Grille

The original Tuna's was a charming waterfront eatery where you could sit on a rickety-but-romantic patio with plates of lobsters and... 

<em>Wilfredo Lam in North America</em>

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Friday 2/ 8 @ Miami Art Museum -

This retrospective is the first large-scale Wilfredo Lam exhibition ever organized in a South Florida museum. Arguably the 20th century's most... 

Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz

Art

Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz

Friday 2/ 8 @ Locust Projects

Locust Projects opens the New Year with two installations — work that's, yet again, neither easily digestible nor readily sellable, but... 

<em>Tiffany Studios: The Holtzman Collection </em>

Art

Tiffany Studios

Friday 2/ 8 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art

After art nouveau first emerged in Europe, the trend soon spread stateside, where American designer Louis Comfort Tiffany was particularly adept... 

<i>Sculpture: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection</i>

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Friday 2/ 8 @ The Warehouse

The Margulies Collection is one of the foremost private contemporary art repositories in Miami (and the United States, for that matter),... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Friday 2/ 8 @ Garden of Eatin'

With all the tropical flora found in Florida, you'd think the natives would be a bit more appreciative of fruits and... 

Farouk Hosni: <em>The Energy of Abstraction</em>

Art

Farouk Hosni

Friday 2/ 8 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

From his tenure as director of the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris to his current position as Egypt's Minister of Culture,... 

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Friday 2/ 8 @ The Room

Miami might be one of the only places in America where you recover from a weekend of partying and drinking by... 

<i>Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum</i>

Art

Work in Progress

Friday 2/ 8 @ Miami Art Museum -

Pritzker Prize-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron have envisioned an ambitious future for the Miami Art Museum's new bay-front home. The... 

<i>Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage, 1920-1938</i>

Art

Agitated Images

Friday 2/ 8 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

An iconoclast ahead of his time, Berlin Dadaist John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld) helped revolutionize modern photomontage, subversively using the medium... 

<em>Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection</em>

Art

Fortunate Objects

Friday 2/ 8 @ Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

The CIFO flexes its conceptual muscle with this wide-ranging multimedia exhibition culled from its permanent collection. These Fortunate Objects aren't always... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Friday 2/ 8 @ Moonchine

Miami's Upper Eastside isn't lacking in cozy restaurants that feature both Japanese and Thai cuisine, but new eatery Moonchine trumps them... 

<I>Lichtenstein at Fairchild</I>

Art

Lichtenstein at Fairchild

Friday 2/ 8 @ Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Drawing from popular advertisements, mainstream comic books, and industrial production techniques, Roy Lichtenstein's primary-colored works are now iconic deconstructions of Americana.... 

<em>The High Style of Dorothy Draper </em>

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Friday 2/ 8 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale

An illustrious American interior decorator from the Jazz Age through the '60s, Dorothy Draper lived to bedazzle, with a bold, unabashed... 

<em>Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures </em>

Art

Degas in Bronze

Friday 2/ 8 @ Boca Raton Museum of Art

During his lifetime, French artist Edgar Degas was best known for his paintings of dancers, bathers, and racehorses. Though the 19th-century... 

Flamenco Festival Miami

Festival: Performing Arts

Flamenco Festival Miami

Friday 2/ 8 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

You don't find much Flamenco in Miami, and what is here tends to be on the glossy side, rather than melancholy... 

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Friday 2/ 8 @ Captain Jim's Seafood

For years, Captain Jim's has been the fish market of choice for many North Miami residents, but not everyone takes the... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Friday 2/ 8 @ Tap Tap

Those who've passed a lazy evening in the rocking chairs on Tap Tap's front porch, sipping Miami's best mojitos while listening... 

Lawrence Murray Dixon:<em> Art Deco Master</em>

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Friday 2/ 8 @ Bass Museum of Art

Back in the '30s, well-heeled New Yorkers migrated to the Florida tropics as a getaway from the cold, often staying in... 

<i>Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s</i>

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Friday 2/ 8 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

The little pochoirs on view at the Wolfsonian are delightful, precious, and enticing. More commonly referred to as stencils in the... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Friday 2/ 8 @ Norton Museum of Art

Adding to its already-expansive collection of more than 2,200 photographs (including works by Man Ray, Walker Evans, and Henri Cartier-Bresson), the... 

<em>Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists</em>

Art

Six 21st Century Chinese Neo-Pop Artists

Friday 2/ 8 @ ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries

Asian neo-pop art (encompassing South Korea, Japan, and China) is one of the hottest new trends on the contemporary market —... 

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Friday 2/ 8 @ Mac's Club Deuce

Freaks, geeks, drag queens, hipsters, club kids, and straight-up drunks commingle at South Beach's most notorious dive bar. The second-oldest watering...