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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 May 16
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- Washington Burning
- Friday May 16, 2008 (8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- Architect and planner Pierre Charles L'Enfant may have been America's most patriotic Frenchman, but he also happened to be one of his era's most reviled... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Lee Williams
- Friday May 16, 2008 (11pm) @ Jazid
- Before they absconded to the happening bars of Brooklyn, hip-hop/soul singers the Square Egg were one of Miami's most original bands. They switched up their... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Scissors for Lefty
- Friday May 16, 2008 (10pm–5am) @ The Vagabond
- The Vagabond takes advantage of Miami's between-season nightlife lull with a series of energetic live acts ideal for amping up your weekend. Tonight, San Francisco's... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Hunt for Nazi Scientists
- Friday May 16, 2008 (7pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
- As WWII was coming to a close, the Allies were hot to get their hands on the Nazis' wonderful, terrible toys, deploying crack commando teams... View details »
- Art
- JonOne
- Friday May 16, 2008 (1–5pm) @ Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art More times »
- Free
- We can't think of a better location for a graffiti-inspired show than Carol Jazzar's garage-turned-gallery. Internationally acclaimed artist JonOne has transformed Jazzar's exhibition space into... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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
- Friday May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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
- Friday May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 »
- Music: Global
- La Gata
- Friday May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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 May 16, 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: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Friday May 16, 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 May 16, 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 »
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- Luminaire X
- Friday May 16, 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Everything/Everyday
- Friday May 16, 2008 (11am–9pm) @ Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery More times »
- Free
- Ft. Lauderdale's Bear and Bird continues its string of odd and inventive shows, this time with a photo exhibition by a clutch of amateur photographers.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Avenue Q
- Friday May 16, 2008 (8pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Tossing Sesame Street and Rent into a hilarious theatrical blender, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Avenue Q concerns itself with the everyday lives of humans... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Friday May 16, 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 »
- Film
- My Blueberry Nights
- Friday May 16, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- John Witherspoon
- Friday May 16, 2008 (8:30 & 10:45pm) @ Miami Improv More times »
- If Bill Cosby is the Jell-O-eating granddad of African-American comedians, then John Witherspoon is the crazy, bow-tied uncle, a politically incorrect loudmouth who's constantly bragging... View details »
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- The Art of Food
- Friday May 16, 2008 (11am–8pm) @ The Art of Food More times »
- Raw meals aren't for everyone, but there's no denying that a diet free from processed, over-salted, and over-sweetened food is a healthy alternative to many... View details »
- Film
- Baby Mama
- Friday May 16, 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 »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Friday May 16, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a ju-jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions, which he believes compromise the martial art's principles. When... View details »
- Art
- Lee Materazzi
- Friday May 16, 2008 @ Spinello Gallery More times »
- Free
- Next time you feel the urge to play hide and seek, tuck yourself into Spinello Gallery and let Lee Materazzi's photographs teach you a thing... View details »
- Art
- Amber Hawk Swanson
- Friday May 16, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Locust Projects More times »
- Free
- "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" Amber Hawk Swanson asks her life-sized, silicone-and-steel doppelgänger. Amber Doll may not answer, but we can't stop talking... View details »
- Art
- Paley Pavilion
- Friday May 16, 2008 (10–5pm) @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami More times »
- Free
- A stellar selection of more than 150 glass masterpieces greets visitors to the new Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts... View details »
