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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 27
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- Rooney
- Friday June 27 (6pm) @ Revolution
- Named after Ed Rooney, the nefarious, persnickety principal in '80s teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, California's Rooney effortlessly conjure up nostalgia for the classic... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Neil Hamburger
- Friday June 27 (10pm) @ PS14
- Neil Hamburger (aka Gregg Turkington) is quite possibly the worst comedian to sweat it out beneath the spotlight — that's his schtick. With his silver-screen... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jacuzzi Boys
- Friday June 27 (10pm–5am) @ The Vagabond
- Free
- For the musically uninitiated, Friday nights at the Vagabond are an easy education, with weekly gigs showcasing local bands and artists. This evening, it's Jacuzzi... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Tantric
- Friday June 27 (7:30pm) @ Culture Room
- Emerging from the turn-of-the-millennium rock landscape that gave us bands like Creed and Godsmack, Tantric scored a major hit with "Breakdown," and then promptly found... View details »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Friday June 27 @ Regal Cinemas 18 More times »
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
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- Haitian Dining at Tap Tap
- Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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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- Viernes Culturales
- Friday June 27 (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 »
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- Sushi Square
- Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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: Photography
- The Hunter Gifts
- Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 »
- Film
- The Counterfeiters
- Friday June 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 (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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Chicago 10
- Friday June 27 (6 & 8pm) @ Cinema Paradiso More times »
- In Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, stylish archival footage and original animation make an unusually powerful marriage of form and function: a re-creation of the now-legendary... View details »
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- The Honey Tree
- Friday June 27 (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 »
- Art
- Lee Materazzi
- Friday June 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Godfrey
- Friday June 27 (8:30 & 10:45pm) @ Miami Improv More times »
- Godfrey is one of those guys who can most appropriately and affectionately be described as "that guy" — that guy you see popping up as... View details »
- Art
- Cary Kwok
- Friday June 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 »
