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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 March 08
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- The English Beat
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (8pm) @ Culture Room
- Music
- Junk Science
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (6pm) @ Studio A
- Hometown heroes ArtOfficial know how to throw a party, as evidenced by their successful State of the Art events last year at PS14. Tonight, they're... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Talking Here and Now
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (10am) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Free
- Miami Light Project is one of the city's most important cultural institutions, making unconventional artistic explorations of theatre, hip-hop, and many, many forms of world... View details »
- Music
- Manicato
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (11pm–3am) @ Transit Lounge
- Free
- Something about the Manicato crew may strike local music fans as familiar — specifically, their freewheeling, big-band blend of Latin rhythms, roots-heavy reggae, and rock... View details »
- Music
- The '70s Soul Jam
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (8pm) @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
- If you've ever sleeplessly grappled over whether or not to shell out for one of those Time Life '70s soul compilations, then tonight's your night.... View details »
- Art
- Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin More times »
- Free
- Gearing up for the spring season, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin opens two heavy-hitting shows, one by Belgian artist Johan Creten and the other by Frenchman Jean-Michel... View details »
- Art
- Melanie Smith
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Miami Art Museum More times »
- British-born artist Melanie Smith examines contemporary life in the big city — and injects her work with a dose of turn-of-the-century malaise for good measure.... View details »
- Art
- Alex Sweet
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Fredric Snitzer Gallery More times »
- Free
- As one of Snitzer's younger artists, Alex Sweet is poised to create some buzz in the local scene, especially with this first solo exhibition. In... View details »
- Art
- Wendy Wischer
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ David Castillo Gallery More times »
- Free
- Local artist Wendy Wischer has a gift for re-interpreting nature's uncanny elements, often with the aid of technology. She once projected a large, perfectly rendered... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Saturday Mar 8, 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'
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Enoc Perez
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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.
- Saturday Mar 8, 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 »
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- Casa Toscana
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (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 Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (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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- Bin No. 18
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (11am–3pm & 6–11pm) @ Bin No. 18 More times »
- Miami's midtown crowd has really caught on to wining, thanks to bars like the much-missed Stop Miami, which closed earlier this spring. Bin No. 18... View details »
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- Canela Café
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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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- Langerado
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 @ Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation More times »
- Homegrown music fest Langerado seems to double in size and prestige nearly every year — so much so that this year, the organizers are moving... View details »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Wilfredo Lam
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (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 Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Gina Ruggeri
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 (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 Mar 8, 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 »
- Film
- Miami International Film Festival
- Saturday Mar 8, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Spamalot
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Spamalot, as most folks know by now, is a musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python's cult-film farce on the King Arthur legend. Although the... View details »
- Art
- Blackbooks
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Luis Garcia-Nerey
- Saturday Mar 8, 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: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Saturday Mar 8, 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Nanking
- Saturday Mar 8, 2008 @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
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In December of 1937, a million-member branch of the Japanese army invaded Nanking — then the capital of
- Art
- Farouk Hosni
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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
- Saturday Mar 8, 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 »
