Events on Saturday, February 9

Atheists of Broward County presents Darwin Day 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

Darwin Day 2008

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Fern Forest Nature Center

You know those people who have that little Jesus fish on the back of their cars, but the fish, oddly, has... 

MOCA Pop 8 1/2 La Dolce Vita

Art

MOCA Pop 8 1/2

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

MOCA's much anticipated fifth annual fundraiser has a Fellini theme, so expect lots of free-flowing Prosecco, as well as reproductions of... 

Film as Fine Art: 16mm Experimental Workshop I

Workshop/Class

Film as Fine Art

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Miami Beach Cinematheque

The Miami Beach Cinematheque continues its workshop series with a hands-on exploration of that seemingly archaic medium, film. Experimental filmmaker and... 

Bang Camaro w/ the Hep Cat Boo Daddies

Music

Bang Camaro

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Studio A

Bang Camaro is a heavy metal choir. Really. Powered by churning, meaty guitar riffs and driving drums, the outfit is fronted... 

Campbell McGrath: <em>Seven Notebooks</em>

Books: Poetry

Campbell McGrath

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Books & Books - Coral Gables

A singular voice blurring the edges of poetry and prose, Campbell McGrath has won nearly every award available to a poet,... 

Yonder Mountain String Band

Music

Yonder Mountain String Band

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Revolution Live

Bluegrass purists may balk at Yonder Mountain String Band's latest, self-titled album. Produced by Tom Rothrock (Foo Fighters, Elliott Smith, Beck,... 

Ongoing Events

The Room

City Gems

The Room

Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Room

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

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

Art

Farouk Hosni

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,... 

<em>Vintage Pulp Illustration</em>

Art

Vintage Pulp Illustration

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Harold Golen Gallery

Pulp-novel and magazine covers were crucial marketing tools of the '60s and '70s, sending the careers of small-time artists and illustrators... 

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

Art

Agitated Images

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

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

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

Art

Promises of Paradise

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Wilfredo Lam

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Jill Cannady

Art

Jill Cannady

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

In addition to Luis Cruz Azaceta's solo show, Bernice Steinbaum is exhibiting Jill Cannady's dramatic and stirring works. Titled Women of... 

Moonchine

City Gems

Moonchine

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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.... 

Flamenco Festival Miami

Festival: Performing Arts

Flamenco Festival Miami

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Beyond Picturopolis</em>

Art

Beyond Picturopolis

Saturday 2/ 9 @ ArtCenter / South Florida

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

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

Art

Degas in Bronze

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

City Gems

Haitian Dining at Tap Tap

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Captain Jim's Seafood

City Gems

Captain Jim's Seafood

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Work in Progress

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Art

Xu Yongkang and Kim Joon

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Gina Ruggeri: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Gina Ruggeri

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Kevin Bruk Gallery

New York-based artist Gina Ruggeri displays an obsessive interest in accumulated masses, from cloud buildups, rockpiles, and leaves to otherwordly heaps... 

<em>The Hunter Gifts </em>

Art: Photography

The Hunter Gifts

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Warehouse

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

Mac's Club Deuce

City Gems

Mac's Club Deuce

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Casa Toscana

City Gems

Casa Toscana

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Casa Toscana

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

Charley Friedman: <em>A'Cappella</em>

Art

Charley Friedman

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Gallery Diet

Once, Charley Friedman walked into New York's Jack Tilton Gallery as one of his alter egos, "art dealer" Betsey Geffen, and... 

Charlie Murphy

Comedy

Charlie Murphy

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Abbey Brewing Company

City Gems

Abbey Brewing Company

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Abbey Brewing Company

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

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

Art

French Kissin' in the U.S.A.

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz

Art

Graham Hudson and Aili Schmeltz

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Locust Projects

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

Phil Stein:<em> Streets </em>

Art: Photography

Phil Stein

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

W Wine Bistro

City Gems

W Wine Bistro

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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>The High Style of Dorothy Draper </em>

Art

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Spiegelworld presents <i>Absinthe</i>

Performing Arts

Spiegelworld

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Collins Park

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

Spyro

City Gems

Spyro

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Spyro

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

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Lighthouse Tour

City Gems

Lighthouse Tour

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Enoc Perez

Art

Enoc Perez

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Lawrence Murray Dixon

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>Myth + Pattern: New Works by John Westmark</em>

Art

John Westmark

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Chelsea Galleria

Early in his career, Florida's John Westmark found inspiration in the abstracted landscape paintings of Richard Diebenkorn. But in the past... 

Alejandro Contreras: <em>Colonialism </em>

Art

Alejandro Contreras

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery

If you swing by Snitzer's, you'll notice two peculiar, orange-hued figures, standing tall in the grassy area adjacent to the gallery;... 

Jorge Pardo: <i>House</i>

Art

Jorge Pardo

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Sushi Square

City Gems

Sushi Square

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Sushi Square

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

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

Art

The Great Age of American Automobiles

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,... 

<em>The Pearl Fishers</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

The Pearl Fishers

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,... 

Tuna's Garden Grille

City Gems

Tuna's Garden Grille

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Hernan Bas

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Fashioning the Modern French Interior

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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>Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection</em>

Art

Fortunate Objects

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Blackbooks: <em>Ask Us About Our Free Stabbings</em>

Art

Blackbooks

Saturday 2/ 9 @ Spinello Gallery

Blackbooks is the the Fort Lauderdale-based artist duo Andy Black and Books IIII. They've already made a name for themselves by... 

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

Art

Tiffany Studios

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Inspired by China

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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... 

Lunch at Garden of Eatin'

City Gems

Garden of Eatin'

Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...