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All events on Thursday June 19
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- Andre Dubus III
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (8–9:30pm) @ Books & Books - Coral Gables
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- April is a stripper who can't do without the loot she makes at the Puma Club for Men, so when her elderly babysitter is hospitalized,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- True Colors
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (6:30–11pm) @ BankAtlantic Center
- For those eternally seeking the next best thing, Cyndi Lauper and the B-52s probably don't rank very high on the music agenda — big mistake.... View details »
- Music: DJ
- DJ Craze
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10pm–5am) @ The Vagabond
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There's nothing like pulling a disappearing act to elevate your profile
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Rancid
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (7pm) @ Revolution
- Emerging from the same early-'90s Northern Cali punk-rock scene that birthed bands like Green Day and the Offspring, Rancid played a big role in redefining... View details »
- Film
- Hester Street
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (8–10pm) @ Cinema Paradiso
- The Jewish immigrant experience at the end of the 19th century in New York City is one of the most storied (and saddest) tales in... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002)
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (5:45pm) @ Cinema Paradiso
- Saving one child's life is impressive, but preventing 669 children from being killed by Nazis is heroism of the highest order. A 29-year-old British stockbroker... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Alice Russell
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10pm) @ Florida Room at the Delano Hotel
- Call her the next British blue-eyed soul export if you want, but Alice Russell doesn't need a trademark look, tabloid troubles, or a promotional deal... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Thursday June 19, 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'
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (1pm–5am) @ Abbey Brewing Company More times »
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- 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
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (6pm–2am) @ The Room More times »
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- 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
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Rubell Family Collection More times »
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- 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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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- Circuit
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (9pm) @ Grass More times »
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... ’s only been a month since Circuit launched this Thursday soirée at Grass, but already most of
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- Lighthouse Tour
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (8–5am) @ Mac's Club Deuce More times »
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- 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 »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Thursday June 19, 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
- The High Style of Dorothy Draper
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Rubens to Corot
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Luminaire X More times »
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- 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: Theatre
- UnderShorts
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- City Theatre has already won national acclaim for the one-act comedies and dramas it staged during last year's Summer Shorts festival. Now, the theatre company... View details »
- Film
- The Counterfeiters
- Thursday June 19, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
- Someone's got to say this aloud: It's getting hard to rouse the will to see more films about the Holocaust. Only Germany still excavates new... View details »
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- The Art of Food
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Son of Rambow
- Thursday June 19, 2008 @ AMC Cocowalk 16 More times »
- Young Will lives in a religious home that forbids television or film — but once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of... View details »
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- Rusty Pelican
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (11:30am–11pm) @ Rusty Pelican More times »
- If you're not a churchgoer, but still need a Sunday-morning ritual, the Rusty Pelican is a good place to start. Nestled on the edge of... View details »
- Music: Global
- Celia
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (7:30pm) @ Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts More times »
- Already a hit in New York, Celia charts the life and times of late Cuban songstress Celia Cruz through the eyes of her husband Pedro... View details »
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- The Honey Tree
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (8am–8pm) @ The Honey Tree More times »
- Sandwiched between an inexpensive sushi joint and a popular Cuban restaurant, health-food store and vegetarian eatery the Honey Tree appears to face some stiff competition.... View details »
- Music: Festival
- Miami International Guitar Festival
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (9am–10pm) @ Weeks Center, Frost School of Music, University of Miami More times »
- The Frost School of Music at University of Miami hosts four days of workshops, master classes, performances, and exhibitions for the Miami International Guitar Festival.... View details »
- Art
- Lee Materazzi
- Thursday June 19, 2008 @ Spinello Gallery More times »
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- 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
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ MOCA North Miami More times »
- Sympathy for the Devil is an exhaustive exploration of the intersection between rock 'n roll and contemporary art. The exhibition, which debuted in Chicago, is... View details »
- Art
- Amber Hawk Swanson
- Thursday June 19, 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
- Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery More times »
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- Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas, mother and son, collaborate for Progeny at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. While each is an accomplished artist on his or... View details »
- Art
- Shadows, Disappearances, and Illusions
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Miami Art Museum More times »
- Miami Art Museum's Shadows, Disappearances, and Illusions shows off a delightfully disorienting selection of contemporary optical art. Artists such as Martin Oppel and Regina Silveira... View details »
- Art
- Paley Pavilion
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (noon–7pm) @ Lowe Art Museum - University of Miami More times »
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- 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
- Cary Kwok
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin More times »
- Free
- London hairstylist-cum-artist Cary Kwok's exquisite renderings of the human form are expertly executed with a simple ballpoint pen. Informed by a background in fashion design... View details »
- Art
- Nathan Sawaya
- Thursday June 19, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Art and Culture Center of Hollywood More times »
- Nathan Sawaya's Art of the Brick, made of nearly 1 million individual Lego pieces, induces both giggles and awe. The deceivingly minimal forms rendered in... View details »
