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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 June 20
Previous day|Next day- Film: Documentary
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Friday June 20 (7–9pm) @ Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
- Free
- Langston Hughes may have garnered the most literary accolades, and W.E.B. DuBois might still have the most street cred, but of all the figures in... View details »
- Music
- Music from the 2nd Dimension Release Party
- Friday June 20 (11pm) @ Transit Lounge
- Free
- Groundbreaking music-and-arts collective Monkey Village never lets up. The Village drops a new compilation CD every two or three months, and each time around, the... View details »
- Film
- The Greenhouse (aka Tales from the Zoo) (1994)
- Friday June 20 (8–10pm) @ Cinema Paradiso
- WWII is not the most fertile ground for comedy, but The Greenhouse suggests that perhaps a sense of humor is necessary for surviving the senseless... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Modernage
- Friday June 20 (10pm) @ The Vagabond
- With just a little more mystique than your average Miami rock band, Modernage appeal to the imagination of local audiences in a way that other... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 »
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- Tuna's Garden Grille
- Friday June 20 (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 June 20 (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: Architecture/Design
- The High Style of Dorothy Draper
- Friday June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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 June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 (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 June 20 (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: Theatre
- UnderShorts
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 @ 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
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 @ 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
- Friday June 20 (11:30am–midnight) @ 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
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 (8am–7pm) @ 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
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 @ 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
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 (10am–6pm) @ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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
- Friday June 20 (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
- Friday June 20 (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 »
- Art
- Cary Kwok
- Friday June 20 (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
- JonOne
- Friday June 20 (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 »
- Art
- Nathan Sawaya
- Friday June 20 (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 »
