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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 May 18
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- Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World
- Sunday May 18, 2008 (6–8pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
- Free
- Victor Hugo spent much of his Isle of Jersey exile summoning the spirits of Galileo, Shakespeare, Plato, and Rousseau. The budding parapsychologist also saw fit... View details »
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- Underground FLA Video Premiere and Skate Contest
- Sunday May 18, 2008 (4–11pm) @ MIA Skatepark
- Anyone who's ever manned a skateboard and confronted a curb, flight of stairs, or handrail knows that a trick not caught on film may as... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Sunday May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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 »
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- Lighthouse Tour
- Sunday May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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
- Wilfredo Lam
- Sunday May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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 May 18, 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: Architecture/Design
- Alexander Calder Jewelry
- Sunday May 18, 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 May 18, 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Everything/Everyday
- Sunday May 18, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 18, 2008 (2 & 7:30pm) @ 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
- Sunday May 18, 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
- Sunday May 18, 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
- Sunday May 18, 2008 (8:30pm) @ 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 »
- Film
- Baby Mama
- Sunday May 18, 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
- Sunday May 18, 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
- Paley Pavilion
- Sunday May 18, 2008 (noon–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 »
- Art
- Unbroken Ties
- Sunday May 18, 2008 @ Museum of Art - Fort Lauderdale More times »
- Inspired by the tripartite structure of Greek tragedies, Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art examines the experience of exile in three chapters: Paradise Lost, Risking... View details »
