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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 Wednesday April 02
Previous day|Next day- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Mars Volta
- Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 (8pm) @ The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
- The Mars Volta may very well be responsible for some of the most Guitar Hero-worthy tunes out there. This generation's Rush rose from the ashes... View details »
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- Loose Cannon on the Run
- Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 (10pm) @ UNIV
- Free
- Faced with motivating an ambivalent crowd to show up for his Wednesday-night Fingerlickin' party, promoter and former BMX trickster Joel Meinholz offered $1 beer to... View details »
- Reading
- Finn
- Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- Acclaimed short-story writer Jon Clinch's debut novel doesn't tread lightly on literary history. Clinch takes a short, obscure reference in chapter nine of Mark Twain's... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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'
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Can You Rock a Little Softer?
- Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 (9:30pm) @ Churchill's More times »
- In the few months since its inception, this night by homespun guitar duo Raffa and Rainer has become an offbeat hit all over town. The... View details »
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- Captain Crab's
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
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- Casa Toscana
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
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- Bin No. 18
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Music: DJ
- Eclectíque
- Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 (10pm) @ Darius Palace More times »
- Free
- Argue about limited-edition pressings and hi-fi sound quality all you want at this Broward weekly for vintage-vinyl freaks. In the back lounge, chill out (or... View details »
- Art
- Martin Z. Margulies Collection
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- The High Style of Dorothy Draper
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Wicked
- Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Panned by New York critics when it premiered, Wicked has proven its detractors wrong, or at least irrelevant — this hugely popular reimagining of The... View details »
- Art
- Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Art
- Alex Sweet
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Farouk Hosni
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Pivot Points I
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Art
- Wendy Wischer
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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
- Rubens to Corot
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Art
- Beyond Borders
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Tiffany Studios
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
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- Luminaire X
- Wednesday Apr 2, 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 »
