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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 23
Previous day|Next day- Music: Rock/Pop
- Panic at the Disco
- Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (7pm) @ The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
- Pretty. Odd. might seem like an obvious title for an album by a bunch of pretty, glam-loving boys. Then again, being pretty and odd is... View details »
- Film
- The Band's Visit
- Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- An Egyptian police band invited to perform in Israel arrives at the wrong town, much to the dismay of its leader, the officious and stoic... View details »
- Reading
- Mary Roach
- Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- Mary Roach's bestselling Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers brought the dead back to thrilling life, as did her follow-up, Spook: Science Tackles the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Can You Rock a Little Softer?
- Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (9pm) @ Churchill's
- Over the last year or so, this night hosted by homespun guitar duo Raffa & Rainer has become an offbeat hit. The boom and thump... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Vegetarian Global Tour Cooking Class
- Wednesday Apr 23, 2008 (6:30–8:30pm) @ The Wellness Center, University of Miami
- No telling what them city-folk-lynching cowboys from the Pace Picante sauce commercials would think of this Southwestern-themed vegan cooking class. The press materials claim "cowboy... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 »
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- Bin No. 18
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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 »
- Art
- Melanie Smith
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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
- Pivot Points I
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 23, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Bohème
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Wednesday Apr 23, 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 »
