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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 25
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- Viernes Culturales
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (6–11pm) @ Viernes Culturales More times »
- Free
- It's easy to dismiss Calle Ocho as little more than a beat-up strip of bodegas, luncherías, and used-furniture stores. But some remember a time when... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Dwarves
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (6pm) @ Studio A
- With song titles like "Sometimes Gay Boys Don't Wear Pink," "Fuckhead," "Skin Poppin' Slut," "We Must Have Blood," and "Insect Whore," no-pants punk-rock legends the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sugar 'n Vice
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (9pm) @ Alligator Alley
- Fort Lauderdale's Alligator Alley may not register on the South Florida music map, compared to places like Studio A or Culture Room. But the tiny... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- ¡Mayday!
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (10pm) @ Jazid
- Those seeking refuge from Miami's oft-mediocre live-music scene can find it in Jazid's tight quarters; local hip-hop duo ¡Mayday!, who now own the corner stage,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Lisa Lampanelli
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (8pm) @ Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
- With her neverending stream of offensive and racially insensitive jokes, Lisa Lampanelli is like Andrew Dice Clay reimagined by someone who's, you know, funny. Fans... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Schubert, Berg, and the Lyricism of Vienna
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (6–8pm) @ Lincoln Theatre More times »
- As part of its In-Context Festival series, the New World Symphony pays tribute to two Viennese legends with Alan Berg's Lyric Suite and Franz Schubert's... View details »
- Film
- My Blueberry Nights
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 @ Regal Cinemas 18 More times »
- Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights is undeniably, embarrassingly cheesy. Replete with slow-motion shots and blue-lit greasy spoons, it truly leaves no US coming-of-age travelogue... View details »
- Film
- Baby Mama
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
- With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team — most memorably as the... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday Apr 25, 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'
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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 »
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- Captain Crab's
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Fashioning the Modern French Interior
- Friday Apr 25, 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 »
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- Bin No. 18
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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 »
- Music: Global
- La Gata
- Friday Apr 25, 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 »
- Art
- Wilfredo Lam
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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
- Friday Apr 25, 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 Band's Visit
- Friday Apr 25, 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
- Friday Apr 25, 2008 (7:45pm) @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- Whoever said that they don't make 'em like they used to never got a peek inside the Steinway factory in Queens, where they've been making... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Friday Apr 25, 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 »
