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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 Sunday April 20
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- Jake Shimabukuro
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (8:30pm) @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts
- The sound that Jake Shimabukuro extracts from his ukulele — that's right, ukulele — has to be heard to be believed. Shimabukuro's YouTubed rendition of... View details »
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- Green Apple Festival
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (1pm) @ Bicentennial Park
- Free
- When it comes to being socially conscious, Miami's usually better at throwing parties than getting down to any real work. So it stands to reason... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Sunday Apr 20, 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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- Sushi Square
- Sunday Apr 20, 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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- Moonchine
- Sunday Apr 20, 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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- Abbey Brewing Company
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- Sunday Apr 20, 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: Architecture/Design
- Fashioning the Modern French Interior
- Sunday Apr 20, 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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- Lighthouse Tour
- Sunday Apr 20, 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 »
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- Mac's Club Deuce
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (1pm–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
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (11am–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
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- Sunday Apr 20, 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: Architecture/Design
- The Great Age of American Automobiles
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- The Hunter Gifts
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (1–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Melanie Smith
- Sunday Apr 20, 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
- Pivot Points I
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (noon–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: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (1–5pm) @ 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
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (1–5pm) @ 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 »
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- Tiffany Studios
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (noon–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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Bohème
- Sunday Apr 20, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Tommy Davidson
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (8:30pm) @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- The Singing Revolution
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (4pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Chop Shop
- Sunday Apr 20, 2008 (2 & 6pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Sunday Apr 20, 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 »
