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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 April 18

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Music: Rock/Pop
VHS or Beta
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (8pm) @ Culture Room
Giveaway
Few are the bands that can appease both the indie elitists crowded around small stages and the electronic-music junkies bouncing around in the club. Louisville,... View details »
VHS or Beta
Film: Documentary
The Singing Revolution
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (6pm) @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia has a tumultuous history, having been occupied by Nazi Germany before being absorbed into the Soviet Union — after... View details »
The Singing Revolution
Film
Chop Shop
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (8pm) @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all similarities stop. Rather than... View details »
Chop Shop
Music: Global
Asha Bhosle
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (8pm) @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Bette and Barbra, move over — Asha Bhosle has the market cornered on divahood. Armed with a formidable set of pipes and saris more sparkly... View details »
Asha Bhosle
Reading: Poetry
Moonrise at Stiltsville
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (7–11pm) @ Shake-a-Leg Miami
Organized by the great minds at the Stiltsville Trust, the Dade Heritage Trust, the Shake-a-Leg Foundation, and Books & Books in celebration of National Poetry... View details »
Moonrise at Stiltsville
Film: Documentary
In Marjorie's Wake
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (7pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
Free
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings may have been behind both The Yearling and the syndicated "Songs of the Housewife" column, but she was far from a YA-writing... View details »
In Marjorie's Wake
Film
The Visitor
Friday Apr 18, 2008 @ Regal Cinemas 18 More times »
Some character actors should never really be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor

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Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
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Garden of Eatin'
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Garden of Eatin'
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Spyro
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Spyro
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Sushi Square
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Sushi Square
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Christine's Roti Shop
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Christine's Roti Shop
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Captain Crab's
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Captain Crab's
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Moonchine
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Moonchine
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W Wine Bistro
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
W Wine Bistro
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Abbey Brewing Company
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Abbey Brewing Company
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The Room
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
The Room
Art
Hernan Bas
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Hernan Bas
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Casa Toscana
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Casa Toscana
Art: Architecture/Design
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Fashioning the Modern French Interior
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Bin No. 18
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Bin No. 18
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Canela Café
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Canela Café
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Captain Jim's Seafood
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Captain Jim's Seafood
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Lighthouse Tour
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Lighthouse Tour
Art
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Martin Z. Margulies Collection
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Mac's Club Deuce
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Mac's Club Deuce
Art
Lichtenstein at Fairchild
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Lichtenstein at Fairchild
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Tuna's Garden Grille
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Tuna's Garden Grille
Art: Architecture/Design
Lawrence Murray Dixon
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Lawrence Murray Dixon
Art
Degas in Bronze
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Degas in Bronze
Music: Global
La Gata
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
La Gata
Art
Wilfredo Lam
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Wilfredo Lam
Art: Architecture/Design
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
The High Style of Dorothy Draper
Art: Architecture/Design
The Great Age of American Automobiles
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
The Great Age of American Automobiles
Art: Photography
The Hunter Gifts
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
The Hunter Gifts
Art
Melanie Smith
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (10am–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 »
Melanie Smith
Art
Pivot Points I
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami More times »
Last year, Miami collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz donated the multimedia project No Ghost Just a Shell to MOCA and the Tate in... View details »
Pivot Points I
Art: Architecture/Design
Alexander Calder Jewelry
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Alexander Calder Jewelry
Art
Rubens to Corot
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Norton Museum of Art More times »
Given the lack of extensive Old Masters collections in South Florida museums, Valerie Delacorte's recent gift of more than 60 paintings, sculptures, and drawings to... View details »
Rubens to Corot
Art
Beyond Borders
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (noon–7pm) @ Freedom Tower More times »
Free
Miami-Dade College is making good use of its recent Freedom Tower acquisition by hosting an exhibition of modernist works from the collection of the Inter-American... View details »
Beyond Borders
Art: Architecture/Design
Tiffany Studios
Friday Apr 18, 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 »
Tiffany Studios
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Luminaire X
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Luminaire X More times »
Free
The success of a "pop-up store" is dependent on brands and atmosphere — if the place doesn't deliver on those fronts, it's just another soulless... View details »
Luminaire X
Performing Arts: Opera
La Bohème
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (7pm–midnight) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of North America's most performed operas, second only to his Madama Butterfly — and it's not for nothing. The... View details »
La Bohème
Performing Arts: Comedy
Tommy Davidson
Friday Apr 18, 2008 (8:30 & 10:45pm) @ Miami Improv More times »
Although he's never had the same kind of big-screen success that his former In Living Color castmates Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans have attained, Tommy... View details »
Tommy Davidson