Month: October 2010

Happy Hour – StreetSide Social Fridays – Novecento – Coral Gables – Coral Gables – Fridays – 4pm to 11pm – No Cover, 2×1 Drinks 4-7pm and 2×1 Frozen Drinks All Night

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Happy Hour StreetSide Social Fridays at Novecento – Coral Gables
Coral Gables
Fridays, 4pm to 11pm, 4-7pm
No Cover, 2×1 Drinks 4-7pm & 2×1 Frozen Drinks All Night
121 Alhambra Plaza
Coral Gables, FL 33134
www.megacityevents.com

Megacity Events invites you to StreetSide Social Fridays at Novecento of Coral Gables featuring Live Music & DJ’s.

Enjoy 2×1 all drinks 4-7pm and 2×1 frozen drinks all night (outdoor patio only), plus FREE ADMISSION when you mention “Megacity Events” invited you.

Other Specials Available:

Complimentary Bottle of Champagne for Groups of 6+ Ladies
Open Bar for Office/Corporate/Social Groups of 20+ People (must be reserved 3 days in advance)

Dinner Reservations from 7-10pm
$50 Food Platter for Groups of 6-8 people

$75 Bottles of Perrier-Jouet Champagne
$350 for 2 bottles of Grey Goose or Black Label

For more info & reservations, call/text 786-277-3703 or email rsvp@megacityevents.com

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
All specials listed must be made in advance and are subject to availability.

The Standard Hotel Membership Info

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The Standard Spa, Miami Beach is a holistic and hydrotherapy oriented spa hotel inspired by global bathing cultures, self teaching, and healing.

An adult playground where you can explore the curative effects of water, steam, or mud in our Hamam, Aroma Steam Room, Cedar Sauna, Infinity Pool, Roman Waterfall Hot Tub and Mud Lounge.

Welcome, relax, participate….retreat and enjoy yourself.

For Membership information contact Martin Solorzano through email at msolorzano@standardhotel.com or call 305.673.1717

En Serio? Latin Night 10/19/10

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En Serio? – Latin Night
Tuesday October 19, 10:00pm
Bar 721
721 N Lincoln Lane
Miami Beach, FL 33139

You are cordially invited to the preview of our newest and hottest latin night, EN SERIO?.

** Hosted by Daniel Miagany **

** Special performance by Victoria Sky **

** BEST LATIN music by DJ Juan Carlos **

** CUBA LIBRE Open Bar at 10pm, EN SERIO??? **

** $20 Cubatazos , DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT!!! **

No cover, no door drama…..EN SERIO???

Art Whino The Takeover during Art Basel Miami 12/3-5/10

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Art Whino: THE TAKEOVER
3 Day exhibit during Art Basel Miami
***Please take note of the new location of the show***
Charcoal Studios Outdoor Space
2135 NW 1st Ave
Miami, Florida 33127
www.artwhino.com

Friday Dec 3rd and Saturday Dec 4th
General Admission
Noon-8pm
Free Admission

Sunday Dec 5th
General Admission
Noon-5pm
Free Admission

Show Reception Saturday Dec 4th
8pm-Midnight
Live Painting by participating artists
Music by DJ Adrian Loving
Free admission with RSVP prior to the event

RSVP to ArtBasel2010@artwhino.com

Art Whino is a DC based art gallery whose mission is to bring together the freshest and rawest talent from around the world. With over 1200 artists in the Art Whino arsenal, ranging from California to New York, Germany to Japan, and beyond, Art Whino has become an all encompassing force in the art world. Exhibitions cover the whole spectrum of new art forms ranging from exposing emerging stencil and wheat pasting artists to showcasing the most skilled leaders of many different genres.

Angry Woebots: Aaron Martin was born on the island Oahu 1977, Hawaii. Most of his childhood was spent growing up and moving from Southern California to Nevada before finally landing back into Hawaii during his Junior year in high school. In 1999 a car accident changed everything; this life-threatening experience inspired him to leave the island once again, this time to Seattle, Washington. Inspired by the rain and being indoors, he started playing around with different art mediums again. He then left back to Hawaii with a new perspective, Aaron had his first show in 2002 and has not stopped. He has showed in galleries up and down California, the east coast, and even in shows that have traveled from the U.S. to Hong Kong. His focal medium is acrylic paintings on wood and canvas. Using minimal colors and detailed character design, these paintings are usually comprised of stressed out emotional pandas. The pandas tend to represent the story of struggle. www.armyofsnipers.com

Brett Amory: Brett Amory was born June 25, 1975 in Portsmouth, Virginia. When he was 21, Amory moved to San Francisco to study motion pictures at the Academy of Arts. Soon after enrolling in school, Amory took his first drawing class and was introduced to his passion for the arts. Around the time Amory turned 24 he tried his hand in painting. In 2002, Amory switched his major to fine art and started his first body of work called “Waiting” a series of paintings about the anticipation of the next moment. Amory gathers his source material by taking pictures on the street of people waiting. He gravitates towards visible quirks and, by his own admission, a lot of his subjects are older.

Amory graduated from the Academy of Arts in 2005 and has shown his work all over the country. In 2006 Brett along with five other artists published a book called “Convergence” and had book signings in New York, Los Angeles, and at the SFMOMA in San Francisco. Amory currently works as a graphic designer at an environmental company in San Francisco and continues to show his work in galleries across the country. www.brettamory.com

Charlie Owens: Charlie Owens is a Chicago based mixed media artist, formerly from his original home of Atlanta, GA where he established himself and developed much of his talent. His work features a mixed media collage style, utilizing both graphic illustrations and fine art abstract techniques that produce an obvious distinct style. Using a variety of techniques to achieve this look including, but not limited, to screen printing, stenciling, wheat paste, and a wide range of acrylics, inks and oil stains. By combining his love of illustration and design, Charlie has made a name for himself with his stylized characters and over-sized murals that showcase the depth and dimension of his talent. www.charlieowens.com

Daryll Peirce: Focused on exploring the connectivity within humanity and its claims of control over social systems, habitat, nature, and future, Daryll Peirce’s artwork pendulates between the satiric and esoteric, optimistic and pessimistic, scientific and spiritual, bold and poetic. Grotesquely exaggerated human forms, arterial-botanic city organisms, and flowering interconnected urban clusters currently inhabit his psyche and spew into his work. On a more intimate level, his influences instinctively stem from past and current environs, travel, exploration, skateboarding, surfing, dreaming, philosophy, and interacting with all forms of the human animal with a focused lens on the social outcast. artderailed.com

David Flores: Well known within the urban arts community for his self-proclaimed “stained glass” style, David Flores is keeping busy in 2010 working with Kid Robot, XLarge, and other principal brands in the urban realm.
www.davidfloresart.com

Jim and Tina Darling: Jim Darling grew up in the sprawling suburbs of Dallas, Texas. Recklessness in his teenage years resulted in long spans of detention and grounding… Isolated hours proved beneficial in sprouting daydreams and his love for drawing and creating. Darling dove into fine art as a junior in high school and quickly saw the need to further his education. Leaving Texas he headed to Denver, where he received his BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design. Fresh out of school Jim co-founded an interactive design shop (Xylem Interactive). A few years later he would go out on his own in pursuit of his solo career as a fine artist & freelance creative. After living in Colorado for eight years Darling headed to Los Angeles to further his creative endeavors. Darling’s gallery work ranges from intricate ink drawings to layered wood work with illustrative painted skins. Outside, Jim expands his tool set by including found objects and materials. His subject matter lives between play and real. Large issues are often looked at in simplistic terms and are then juxtaposed by intense detail.

Tina Darling’s paintings are fluid and ethereal coupled with hand-cramping detail. Weaving together curvilinear line work, patterns & soft colors together into dreamy, detailed images, she gathers her inspiration from the natural world & the human condition. Quiet expressive energy and emotion are spoken with a soft hand, leaving the viewer to process through the filters of their own lives & experiences. www.jimdarling.com

Joe Iurato: Once upon a time Joe Iurato worked as a magazine editor in NYC, where he’d escape into the streets of SoHo during lunch break to explore the art and occasionally contribute some of his own. At the time, stenciling was more of an obsession than a passion. Like every other moment in Joe’s life when his desire to create art was challenged by a strong, “responsible” work ethic, the latter prevailed. But as fate would have it, the two worlds collided after Joe was laid off last year. While the economy fell to pieces and decent jobs were scarce to come by, Joe used every bit of his free time to let his art out and grow creatively. He now applies that same work ethic into developing his craft. While he’s usually found in his garage painting on reclaimed cabinet doors and scrap pieces of wood, he also enjoys painting in the street, where his work is tagged with the name :01. He doesn’t use it as a means to hide his identity – it serves as a reminder to him, and he hopes as a message to others, that it only takes one single second to decide you’re going to move forward, regardless of circumstance or struggle, and never look back.

Josh Taylor: JOSHUA TAYLOR was born in New Jersey and continued his downward trajectory in hellish locales in up-state New York and North Carolina before honing his art skills at Pratt Institute. Upon earning his degree, he traversed the country, from California to Vermont, pursuing his art career. His fine art has appeared in galleries in LA, NY, Europe, and the Philippines, and has also been featured in various publications worldwide. Taylor’s current body of work focuses on the history, myths and legends of his “Gastonian Multiverse”, an odd ancient doppleganger reality where the laws of physics and the very fabric of time and space are falling apart at the seams. He currently resides in Baltimore where he paints, pays for parking, and works on a series of graphic novels and web comics entitled Bird & Girl. www.joshtaylorart.net

Kelly Castillo: Kelly Castillo is an artist intertwined in the underground emerging artist scene in Southern California. Not only an urban contemporary artist, she is also a gallery owner, an arts Commissioner for the City or Anaheim and the owner of Dr. Sketchy’s anti art school: Anaheim Chapter. Castillo made her professional debut in 2009 as an artist and has since been featured in galleries throughout Southern California and on the East Coast. Her involvement with Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School is evident in her work. Mainly focusing on portraitures, she used bold lines to create an illustrative quality in her work using modern media techniques with like spray paint, marker and acrylic paint. Bold color and design juxtaposed with vintage subjects lends itself to a multidimensional audience in love with the old and inspired by the new. www.kellycastilloart.com

Peap: Peap, or Samapeap Tarr originally born and based artist from Auckland New Zealand now living and creating in Phnom Penh Cambodia is a person whose cultural background has influenced him to create his signature sinister yet tranquil works of art which has caught the attention of art lovers around the world and also gained respect from many of his art peers including legendary LA Graffiti Cholo style artist Chaz Bojorquez. Known primarily for his use of bold black ink and paints on a blank white medium including canvas and walls, his art exists in a world where lightness and darkness battle, yet coexist in the same breath to balance each other and contrast against each other. It represents the ups and downs of life, the yin and the yang, the ongoing war that ends up being waged on canvas or whatever medium his work lies on. samapeaptarr.blogspot.com

Peat Wollaeger: Peat Wollaeger (stenSOUL) Internationally known stencil artist infamous for his signature EYEZ , raw colorful characters
and stencil videos. (http://vimeo.com/peat/videos)

You may have seen Peat’s work at “Electric Windows” in NY, “Paint Louis Wall” in the STL, “The Mad Artists Tea Party” in LDN, “Horrorwood” in LA, “Hotel des Arts” in SF or “Primary Flight” in the MIA! If NOT…possibly on a street near you. www.stenSOUL.com

Remi Mead: Remi Mead calls Hawaii home, although she was born in Okinawa Japan and lived in Colorado Springs earlier in her life. The experiences of learning new culture and language while holding on to her Japanese roots provide the foundation and growth in her work. The memory of painting beside her mother, who is also an artist, has shaped her stylistic approach. Her work is shown internationally, with her last show in the Washington D.C.area at G40 Art Summit.

Ruben Ubiera: Ruben Ubiera is a Dominican neo-figurative artist, known for his strong use of the line, who has been drawing and painting ever since he had use of reason. Ruben paints and draws in a style considered by many as Pop-surrealism, but he prefers to call it urban-pop, since he has lived most of his life in the urban, populated areas and most of his inspiration is derived from the interactivity between man and his urban environment. www.urbanpopsoul.com

Scribe: Donald Ross also known as “scribe” is 34 years old and currently lives in Kansas City, Missouri of the United States. The animated, public murals by Scribe are readily recognizable in Midtown Kansas City and throughout different part of the United States, Canada and down into Mexico where he has both painted murals and had gallery shows. Scribe incorporates a menagerie of animal characters developed over many years representing a particular, self-referential trait that he inserts in various scenarios. Scribe intersperses personal iconography, biblical and fairytale references, animation and metaphor in works intended as contemporary parables for public audiences, hence the use of his artist name and persona. Through accessible idiom and image, Scribe incorporates humor and play in the conveyance of serious messages regarding personal integrity, attainment of knowledge, and adventure. graffart.eu/blog/2009/04/scribe-art-pack-2

Sue Works and HermLife! Like Batman and Robin, they speaks strictly in clipped, short, powerful expressions of wonderment written large in neon letters across a perpetually hazy backdrop of pop culture references and cheap beer.
They are a neo-absurdist, a post-soda-pop burp upon the scene who mixes and marries humor, intellectual hypochondria and classical thought.

Mary Spring: Mary Spring’s figures are at once both self portraits of the present and projections of internal hope for the future. Each representation depicts the panoptic range of mental, emotional and physical conditions experienced in a mere snapshot of time, enabling the observer to merge silently into the psyche of the artist.

From ultimate pleasure to unbearable sadness, each expression communicates the profound casualties of insight. The integration of medium and mechanics with design and spirit, lead to the paradoxical enlightenment and anguish portrayed at the moment each stroke is applied.

Self-realization emerges from the artist as the feminine heart, the kinesthetic demands of performance and dedication, and the consequential strength are unveiled in each expression. Pain synthesized into passion. Time united with eternity. www.maryspring.com

Tim Conlon: Tim Conlon is an artist known for large-scale murals, graffiti art, and works on canvas. Conlonʼs work has been featured in museums and galleries across the country, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Conlonʼs work has appeared in feature films, television ads, art books and magazines, custom clothing designs, and on large street billboard advertising. Conlon is also an animator, illustrator, web designer, and video editor. www.conoperative.com

Many more artists to be announced in the next couple of weeks!

Photographs of FAD Walk and Bird Road Art District Art Walk on 10/16/10

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FAD Walk and Bird Road Art District Art Walk on Saturday, October 16, 2010.  Two new Art Walk going to be every 3rd Saturday of the month.

The FAD Walk (Fashion Art Design) will be from 6:00-9:00 pm and enjoy special offers, free drinks, free food, and a unique collection of shops specializing in women’s apparel, children’s apparel and accessories, shoes, fashion jewelry, handbags, glass art, photo studios, invitations, fabrics, home décor and furniture and accessories including plants, ornaments, furniture, window treatments and much more. Special offers and discounts will also be offered by participating stores plus free food and drinks. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served at each location.

The Bird Road Art District Art Walk will be from 7:00-10:00 pm and experience where creativity is inspired. Go behind-the-scenes, visit open studios and gallery exhibitions, meet the artists, enjoy poetry readings and music, and indulge in an explosion of flavors served from gourmet food trucks. Come get inspired and be part of a creative process!

Click here to view map of particpating studios/galleries of the Bird Road Art District’s Art Walk.

Van Dyke Cafe present Silvano Monasterios and the Fourth World Ensemble 11/11/10

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KCC Productions and the Van Dyke Cafe present Silvano Monasterios and the Fourth World Ensemble, Thursday November 11, at 9 PM. The Van Dyke is located at 846 Lincoln Road, South Beach. For more information, call 305-534-3600 or visit thevandykecafe.com.

Voted “Best Jazz Musician in Miami (2009)” by the Miami New Times, pianist-composer Silvano Monasterios hails from Caracas, Venezuela. In 1989, he traveled to Miami, Florida to participate at the Miami Jazz Festival. After obtaining an “Outstanding Soloist Award” at the University of Colorado in 1991, Silvano received a music scholarship from the University of Miami, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1995.

Silvano has performed with a number of important artists including Ira Sullivan, Terumasa Hino & the World Jazz All-Stars, Othello Molineaux, Dave Liebman, Melton Mustafa, Marc Johnson, Donald Byrd, Alan Harris, Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Nathen Page, Randy Brecker, Sammy Figueroa, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Paul Wertico, Mark Egan, Shakira, David Lee Roth, and Nestor Torres.

In 1998, Silvano was voted “New Artist of the Year” at the Hennessy Cognac Jazz Search in New York City. 1998 also marked the release of his first CD, Roads Not Taken, which received outstanding reviews in the U.S. and Latin America.

He earned his Master’s Degree in Jazz Piano and Pedagogy in 2004 from The University of Miami. DownBeat Magazine honored Silvano as the winner of its “Best Jazz Instrumental Soloist Award” in the 28th Annual (2005) Student Music Awards. In 2006, his new recording, Fostered, was released. Fostered features all original compositions, including “Avila”, mentioned above.

In 2007, Dogleg Records, a new independent company, released a recording of a live concert by the Wertico/Egan/Monasterios Trio entitled “Jazz Impressions”. Silvano composed, performed & co- produced two songs, including the title track, of the 2008 GRAMMY-nominated album, “The Magician”, by Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz Explosion. This wonderful CD has been nominated as “Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year”.

The 4th World Ensemble, emerging in 2007 from Monasterios’ desire to experiment with the fusion of Latin Rhythms, World Music and Pure Jazz, features Monasterios on piano, accompanied by percussion, drums, bass and saxophone. The ensemble performs all original music composed and arranged by Silvano Monasterios.

Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation 25th Anniversary Concert Series

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Dranoff Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Jam-Packed Concert Series

8 Hands, 6 Countries, 12 Composers, 4 Locations, 1 Month

The Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation is beginning its 25th concert season with an exciting schedule of concerts whose programs run the gamut from piano to percussion, and from Schubert to Bernstein.

The programs promise the audience the familiar and the more adventurous with each concert held in a different setting.

On October 23 at 7:30PM at the Lincoln Theater a collaboration between Dranoff Laureates Stephanie and Saar and the New World Symphony Percussion Concert will present Andre Boucourechilev’s Archipel I, an “aleatroic” work for two pianos and percussion.

On October 30 at 5PM on Key Biscayne the internationally known Dranoff Laureates, Hesse and Pauna will play a repertoire that includes Schubert, Grieg, Ravel and Mendelssohn. The concert will take place at the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church.

November 4 at 7:30P in the Design District a first for the District, will provide the setting for Gold Medal winners Seo & Kato and the Bergonzi String Quartet. The program for the evening includes Leonard Bernstein, Arvo Part, and an ensemble premiere of Jerome Moross’ “Sonata for Piano Duet and String Quartet”

November 19 at the Steinway Gallery will play host to Bronze Medal winners Smolina and Mogilevsky from Russia. Theirs will be a program that features Stravinsky and Shostakovitch.

About the Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation

The Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation is dedicated to the presentation of Two Piano music and its outstanding artists to the audiences of the world. Foundation programs develop audiences and appreciation of this unique art form through performance, education, and the commission of new Two Piano compositions by world-renowned composers.

For more information call (305) 572-9900 or visit our website at: www.dranoff2piano.org.

MOCA Shakers Elie Tahari Bal Harbour Cocktail Party 10/26/10

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An Evening Of Fall Fashion And Digital Art With Moca Shakers, Elie Tahari and hosts Edison Lozada, Valerie Graves , Ivonne Ronderos, Carolyn Travis, and Erin Newberg.
Tuesday, October 26th
7-9 pm
Elie Tahari Boutique Bal Harbour Shops, 2nd Level

featuring artists Susan Lee-Chin And Jen Stark
From Moca’s Optic Nerve Video Collection

Enjoy Cocktails, Hor D’oeuvres
Receive an exclusive gift from ELIE TAHARI with your purchase.
A percentage of sales from the event will benefit MOCA, North Miami

RSVP
rsvp@mocanomi.org
305 893 6211
For further details , please click the invite link below:
Moca Shakers / Elie Tahari – Bal Harbour Cocktail Party

Become a MOCA Shakers member today! Join online at www.mocanomi.org/moca-shakers
To learn more about the MOCA Shakers, please email Tracey Robertson Carter, Director of Membership at trobertsoncarter@mocanomi.org

Celebrate The Wolfsonian-FIU Quince at at Fontainebleau Miami Beach 11/12/10

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Celebrate our Quince!
Friday, November 12 at 8pm
Fontainebleau Miami Beach
www.wolfsonian.org

Put on your dancing shoes and help us celebrate our Quince! That’s right, The Wolfsonian is turning fifteen (and you thought we were born yesterday). To mark our coming of age, celebrate our accomplishments, and pay homage to our many friends, the Wolfsonian Visonaries are throwing the museum a fantastic, Miami-style Quince. “This is going to be a very fun party, one of the best of the season,” says Gingi Beltran, Wolfsonian Visionary Quince co-chair and vice president of The Patton Group, Inc.

Join us on Friday, November 12 at 8pm as we dine and dance the night away. The place? An oceanfront ballroom and outdoor terrace at Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The sounds? Miami’s own Grammy-nominated Latin jazz band, Conjunto Progreso, led by Johnny Aguiló, and DJ-about-town Jody McDonald. The food? Excellent, the best the Fontainebleau chefs can whip up. The libations? Spirits generously provided by Bacardi. Dress? Festive black tie, and why not wear a tiara and gloves while you’re at it? The cause? Funds raised by the Quince will help The Wolfsonian continue to do what we have done so well for the past fifteen years—bring you thought-provoking exhibitions, innovative academic and public programs, grow the unique collection, and stimulate thinking about the significance of design in our lives both historically and today.

“The Wolfsonian is a jewel in our city. It has made a major contribution to our community and it is such a respected museum internationally,” notes Beltran. “Look at all it has done. It is truly amazing that The Wolfsonian has accomplished all of this in only fifteen years.”

The Quince is the first major event to be planned and hosted by the newly formed Wolfsonian Visionaries. Event chairs, in addition to Beltran, are Adrian De Brasi and Jaime Odabachian. “We have been so honored that The Wolfsonian has allowed us to organize the ball. It has been a fantastic creative experience,” says Beltran. The Visionaries are a group of community leaders, many from the art and design world, who work with The Wolfsonian to plan events and who are engaged in an ongoing dialog with the museum, providing ideas and feedback in areas such as programming and fundraising. The group is open to new members; meetings are the second Monday of each month at The Wolfsonian from 6-8pm. Anyone interested in joining should contact ian@thewolf.fiu.edu or 305.535.2631.

The Quince is part of our annual Very Wolfsonian Weekend event on November 11-13, the whole of which is dedicated to celebrating fifteen years of The Wolfsonian.

Miami Marketers November Happy Hour 11/3/10

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Miami Marketers
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
6:00pm
Novecento
121 Alhambra Plaza
Coral Gables, FL 33134

Come celebrate our third anniversary! Courtesy of our sponsor, impreMedia, guests will receive complimentary drink tickets (first come basis) and hors d’oeuvres. Also, don’t forget your business cards, as our sponsor will be raffling prizes. Last but not least, Novecento will be extending happy hour (2×1 drinks) until 9pm. Hope to see you there!

CocoWalk 2010 Holiday Preview Fashion Show 11/20/10

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CocoWalk 2010 Holiday Preview Fashion Show

CocoWalk has announced the date of their much anticipated Holiday Preview Fashion Show. The show will take place Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 8:00pm in the Courtyard at CocoWalk where an 80 foot Catwalk is being built for this premier event. Enjoy the eclectic styles from retailers such as Palm Produce, Bobby Chan, European Fashion, GAP, Divine Clothing and many more. The show will run to the beats of DJ Bill James and feature specials, discounts and giveaways throughout CocoWalk. This years’ show coincides with CocoWalks’ 20th Anniversary to be celebrated with all day entertainment and activity Saturday November 20th.

The fashion shows are primarily a showcase for new styles as well as Holiday Gifting Ideas. “Last years’ CocoWalk Holiday Preview Fashion Show was a great venue to preview our holiday fashion trends.” – Stephen Licata, Owner – Palm Produce Resortwear

Miami Emerging Arts Leaders Creative Conversation 2010 11/9/10

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Miami Emerging Arts Leaders
A program of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs

SAVE THE DATE

CREATIVE CONVERSATION 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
9:00 AM – Noon
Art Deco Welcome Center
1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida

Every year, in honor of National Arts & Humanities Month, Americans for the Arts partners with emerging leaders from across the country to host Creative Conversations.

Are you a young and/or new arts administrator?
Do you want to connect with other young arts professionals?

Come learn how to be an effective advocate and meet your fellow arts professionals in Miami-Dade County!

Information: (305) 375-4634
http://miamidadearts.org/emergingleaders.aspx

Make a Difference Day 2010 10/23/10

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October 23, 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Make A Difference Day, the largest national day of community service. Sponsored by USA Weekend and HandsOn Network, the day is a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors, with the common goal of improving the lives of others, embracing social responsibility, and connecting people and projects.

This historic Make A Difference Day is a time for awareness, that any individual can make a real impact on their community, on the life of another, or most profoundly, for themselves. In honor of this day the Adrienne Arsht Center will host an orientation for the community, describing the multi-faceted volunteer opportunities at the Center. The free seminar will outline ways to get involved and engaged with the Center’s vibrant cultural community of over 400 volunteers, and earn rewards and benefits through volunteerism.

Make A Difference Day celebrates the person who wants to be the change. This day celebrates you!

Learn more about the difference and the impact that only you can make at the Adrienne Arsht Center, by joining us at the You Make A Difference Volunteer Orientation, on Saturday, October 23 @ 10:00 a.m.

Sign Up Today! Contact volunteers@arshtcenter.org to sign up and learn more.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132

Surprise Guest DJ Straight From Philly at Champion Sound 10/20/10

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Wednesday, October 20th @ The Electric Pickle
Champion Sound presents..
Special Secret Surprise Guest DJ
from Philadelphia, USA
w/ your local champs..
Lumin
Manuvers
A-Train
Sire Esq
Mr.Brown
Including but not limited to: funk/ soul/ hip-hop/ thug-disco/ reggae/ etc.
No Cover
Drink Specials
2-4-1 drinks 9-11p
$5 cocktail all night loooong
..more info and goodies @ http://championsoundmia.blogspot.com

Supported By:
Public Wizard: http://www.PublicWizardInc.com
Frank 151: http://www.Frank151.com
Wax Poetics: http://www.WaxPoetics.com
ATC: http://www.ATCMIA.com
Electric Pickle: http://www.electricpicklemiami.com
http://championsoundmia.blogspot.com

KCC Productions and Jazid present Jazz at Jazid with the Troy Roberts Quartet 11/9/10

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KCC Productions and Jazid present Jazz at Jazid, with the Troy Roberts Quartet, Tuesday November 9, at 11 PM. Jazid is located at 1342 Washington Ave, South Beach. For more information, call (305) 673-9372 or visit jazid.net.

Hailing from the remote location of Perth, West Australia, Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Troy Roberts has recently relocated to the USA. Having completed a Masters and currently teaching part-time at the University of Miami, Troy recently won two consecutive Downbeat Jazz Soloist Awards, two consecutive West Australian Music Industry Awards, was the only Australian finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, and continues to maintain a busy performance schedule around Australia, Europe and the USA.

Having shared the stage with greats such as Sammy Figueroa, Robby Ameen, Lew Soloff, Lauryn Hill, James Morrison, Kevin Mahogany, Slide Hampton, Gary Bartz, Geoff Keezer, Rodney Whitaker, Carl Allen, Dennis McCrell, Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton, Troy has not only just released his third album, The XenDen Suite – an 8-part composition for jazz quartet and string quartet – but also his first DVD – a live concert performance of The XenDen Suite.

Troy leads two bands: The exciting nu-jazz project, The Jive Collective features some seriously talented young Miami-based artists, while showcasing Troy’s original compositions – an eclectic concoction of jazz, groove, Latin and neo-soul. And Troy’s Quartet sets its focus on capturing the raw energy and excitement of the moment in a straight-ahead, hard swinging jazz style, with repertoire comprising original compositions and re-arranged jazz and contemporary classics.

Recent Awards
2010 Perth Jazz Society Member’s Choice Award
Perth Jazz Society Best Jazz Performance Award (Troy
Roberts Double Quartet)
Downbeat Student Music Award – Jazz Soloist

2009 WAMI Award – Best Original Jazz Act (VOID)
Finalist in the Wangaratta Jazz Saxophone Competition.

2008 Grammy Nomination (for performance on ‘The Magician’)
Semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International
Saxophone Competition
WAMI Award – Best Original Jazz Act (VOID)

Night Netoworking Tweet Up Uva in Coral Gables #NNCG 10/27/10

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Night Networking Tweet Up !
Wednesday, October 27, 6PM
Uva in Coral Gables
Uva
2626 Ponce De Leon Blvd
Coral Gables, FL 33134
www.insensemiami.com

Over the past couple of weeks, we have received a TON of requests to host one of our Night Networking Events in Coral Gables, so thats just what we’re doing, in fact we’re taking a step further a making it a TWEET UP!

(Hashtags for this TweetUp include: #NNCG, #InSenseMia, #SocialBuzzTV)

We’ve teamed up with the Florida Marlins and the New Florida Marlins Ballpark to host this AWESOME Social Media Networking Event!

Come join us for a great night of food, drink specials and movers and shakers in Miami!

Start the night with a glass of your favorite complimentary vodka libation and hors d’oeuvres.

Be sure to bring plenty of business cards for Business Card Bingo, a networking event like no other.

(RAFFLE!) There will also be a raffle to win free admission to our upcoming Business Boot Camp in the beginning of November in Coral Gables. (location TBD)

Look your best as SocialBuzzTV will be filming this event and hopefully interviewing you!

We look forward to seeing you there!

HistoryMiami Wine Down Wednesday 11/3/10

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Wine Down Wednesday
First Wednesday of the Month
November 3
5 PM
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler, Downtown Miami

Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be drinking wine, listening to music and mingling with other professionals.
Join us every first Wednesday of the month!
HistoryMiami Members FREE
Non-Members $5
RSVP to 305-375-1614 or to rsvp@historymiami.org
Free parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue

The Raleigh Hosts Gatsby Gone Goth Halloween Soirée 10/30/10

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THE RALEIGH HOSTS “GATSBY GONE GOTH” HALLOWEEN SOIRÉE
Saturday, October 30, 2010
9:00 PM to 3:00 AM
The Raleigh
1775 Collins Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305.534.6300
www.raleighhotel.com

On Saturday, October 30, 2010, The Raleigh hotel will transform its elegant ballroom and 6,000 square-foot penthouse into the backdrop for the “Gatsby Gone Goth” Halloween costume party. A gloomy homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic, The Great Gatsby, this event is the fourth annual era-themed happening presented by SuperMarket Creative’s Michelle Leshem and Ocean Drive Editor at Large Jose Ortiz. They will be joined by a panel of Miami tastemakers including: TARA, Ink. co-principal Nick D’Annunzio; Vogue Italia Fashion Stylist Danny Santiago; Sweat Records owner Lolo Reskin; Spinello Gallery owner Anthony Spinello and NBC Miami photographer Jipsy; along with sponsors
Dirty-Mag.com, Heineken, Quintessentially and Spinello Projects.

Upon entering the hotel’s lobby, guests will experience a darker side of Jay Gatsby’s Roaring 20s, posing for pictures alongside an experiential vignette (photographed by Stian Roenning) that shines a brooding light on the opulent mansion. The Ballroom will feature live performances by Toronto-based synth-pop group Parallels, who will make their Miami debut alongside Panic Bomber. Tommy Gunn and Smeejay will also be in The Ballroom laying down their signature cult classic beats. DJs of-the-moment Ess & Emm, Troy Kurtz and Mister Drake will provide musical direction in The Penthouse, accompanied by video art curated by Spinello Projects. Patrons will enjoy complimentary Heineken / Heineken Light lagers from 9 PM to 10 PM, which will later be available for a cost of $5.00. Stash Wardrobe Rental (featured in Sex & The City) is the official costume retailer for “Gatsby Gone Goth” and offers guests haute prohibition-era looks, though all costume types are welcome.

Advance ticket purchase fees are $25.00 for The Penthouse (based on availability) and $20.00 for The Ballroom. Admission fee is subject to increase for tickets purchased after 9:00 PM on October 30, 2010. Tickets are available for purchase at www.gatsbygonegoth.com.

One of Miami’s most cherished landmarks, The Raleigh celebrates its 70th anniversary of fashion, elegance and glamour this year. The oceanfront hotel, with its expansive Oasis sanctuary of private cabanas and famed Esther Williams baroque pool, has been the backdrop for films and photo shoots, and host to countless events. Built and designed in 1940 by famed architect L. Murray Dixon, one of the most prolific architects of South Beach’s historic Art Deco District, guest rooms are adorned to match, with the fabrics and style of the 1940’s, featuring period furnishings and terrazzo floors. A stunning 3-bedroom, 6000 sq.ft. duplex penthouse with 1,950 sq.ft. terrace and outdoor shower crowns this grande dame of South Beach. The Raleigh’s Martini Bar was recently named of the “World’s Ten Best” by Details and The Restaurant serves Florida cuisine with a South American influence in a romantic outdoor garden setting. www.raleighhotel.com.

Celebrate 5 Years of the World Erotic Art Museum 10/16/10

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The Queen of Erotica Naomi Wilzig welcomes her court: The Queens of South Beach to celebrate 5 Years of the World Erotic Art Museum.
October 16, 8pm-12m
1205 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
At the corner of Washington Avenue and 12th Street
Tel: 305.532.9336 | Toll Free: 1.866.969.WEAM | Fax: 305.695.1209
weam.com

Highlighting the evening during which Ms. Wilzig will deliver a lavish buffet and entertainment that will cheer on all who attend, will be famed performance artists Geraldine and Shanaya. Adding to the glamour and fun will also be divas Adora and Victoria.

$15, Must be 18 or older to enter.
Free for members.
The World Erotic Art Museum is proud to announce that proceeds will benefit the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.

Sponsored by:
42 Below Vodka
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at UM School of Medicine
Wire Magazine
Miami New Times
Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce
South Florida Concierge Association
Welcome and Bienvenidos Visitors’ Magazines
Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

Photography is permitted. No photographs taken in the museum may be reproduced, distributed, or sold without written permission from the museum.

Parking garages are conveniently located at 13th Street and Collins Avenue, and 12th Street and just West of Washington Avenue. Metered street parking is available, but please be sure to heed all residential zone parking restrictions when parking in South Beach. As a reminder, on all non-holiday weekdays from 7am to 6pm parking is permitted in the residential zones of South Beach.

Photographs of the AniMiami Festival & Conference Press Conference on 10/15/10

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AniMiami Festival & Conference Press Conference at the Doubletree Grand on Friday, October 15, 2010.  I got to talk to the Key Note Speaker Hans Donner, the Creative Director of Globo Network in Brazil.  He is an amazing person, I could have listen to him talk all day.  I am looking forward to hear him talk tomorrow at AniMiami.

The Grand Re-Opening of the New Club Play 10/15/10

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Headliner Market Group|Fever Stimulation Beverage
in association with Rolls Royce Motors
Presents
The Grand Re-Opening of the New Club Play
Also Featuring An Exclusive Miami Heat 2010-2011 Season Kickoff |Fashion Me Hard Fashion Showcase
Friday October 15:

Rolls Royce Motors + Worth Magazine
Invite You to Attend
Miami Heat 2010 NBA Season KickOff + Re-Grand Opening of Club Play

The Official Roll-Out For The
ROLLS ROYCE GHOST
F**HION ME HARD
2010 FALL FASHION SHOWCASE

EVERYONE FREE ALL NIGHT

MUSIC BY: Stevie J & Top Feeling

@PLAY
1045 5th Street. South Beach
(corner of 5th & Lennox)

To RSVP & For More Info:
305.978.0954 | PBAHMG@YAHOO.COM
VIP Tables: 305.532.4340

VIPink Miami Charity Event 10/15/10

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VIPink Miami Presented by Sports Authority
Friday, October 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM – Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM (ET)
At the door (If Available): $60

Private cocktail reception includes: beer, wine, liquor, hors d’oeuvres & desserts.

VIPink Miami will feature complimentary manicures and exclusive raffle prizes including the full line of ZoN Fitness Bright Pink workout products and a signed Dwayne Wade jersey!

A bright thank you to our VIPink Miami 2010 host committee:
Heather Malkoff, Adrienne Bosh, Priscilla Brito, Kristy Hernandez, Danielle Hirschfeld, Rashelle Hix, Jessica Lieberman, Marisa Marcus, Allison Margolis, Lisa Yanowitz

Website.

beScene Magazine Presents–PINK 10/15/10

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beScene Magazine would like to invite you to our event this upcoming Friday, October 15th. We will be hosting an evening of awareness, supporting the fight against breast cancer at the posh Novecento Coral Gables. The night will feature open bar from 8 to 9 p.m., and the first 50 attendees to arrive will receive a complimentary gift bag with goodies from Movilos Designs, Her Majestys Cupcakes, Gold Saturn Turbands, Polished by Esty and more!

If you wish to make a small contribution, donations will be collected at the door; all proceeds will be given to a breast cancer association. Take it a step further and wear your favorite shade of pink to honor the many women (and men) who have battled breast cancer.

Please feel free to spread the word and RSVP to: info@bescenemag.com.

Irreversible Art Space Factory II Opening 10/16/10

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OPENING: SATURDAY OCT 16TH 7PM!
6900 Biscayne Blvd Miami, FL 33138

IRREVERSIBLE’S art Space is a pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art show, including all mediums: small format, large scale installations, theatrical events, mixed media, video projections, massive sculptures, music, live performances & unlimited kids programs.

rsvp: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
www.irreversiblemagazine.com

Youtube video.
factory II presents:
Pablo Cano | Catherine Tafur | Alejandro Mendoza
Sinuhe Vega | Ciro Quintana
Yovani Bauta | Lucinda Linderman

The First Annual SeeFit Family Fitness and Fun Day 11/7/10

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SeeFit Family Fitness & Fun Day Gives to Charity Proceeds to Benefit Research for Blind and Visually Impaired Children November 7, 2010
Flamingo Park Track 999 11th St Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 673-7766
8:00am to Noon: The morning will feature a CrossFit competition sponsored by CrossFit 305.
Noon to 4:00pm: The family fun begins with ten field & track competitions for both the individual and the family.
There will be carnival games, prizes, food, and rides.

Cost: Family Fun: Adults: $25 / Children: $12 (ages 5 and up) for the first 2 children and any additional children are free of charge. ‘CrossFit’ morning competition is $50 per adult (adults only for crossfit) For more information or to register please call 305-753-3190 or www.seefit.org .

The First Annual SeeFit Family Fitness & Fun Day will take place on November 7th, 2010 at Flamingo Park Track & Field in Miami Beach, Florida. SeeFit offers something for everyone – from the more advanced athlete to the occasional weekend warrior! Participants can compete as an individual or a family team in fun but challenging events ranging from an obstacle course to pop-a-shot. Winners in the individual competitions will take home medals and the family team winners will take home the coveted SeeFit Fittest Family Trophy! Enjoy a day of good food, carnival games, and fun activities with family and friends. All proceeds from this great event will benefit research for the blind and visually impaired through The Vision For Tomorrow Foundation.

The Miami Beach 18th Annual Antique Jewelry and Watch Show at Miami Beach Convention Center 10/15-17/10

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The Miami Beach 18th Annual Antique Jewelry & Watch Show Unveils its Latest Collection of Spectacular Creations
October 15th – 17th, 2010
The Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show
Miami Beach Convention Center. Hall B
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami, FL 33139
Show hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, October 15th and Saturday, October 16th, and 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 17th, 2010.
Website.
One-time admission fee of $15 is valid for all three days of the show

US Antique Shows announced today that The Annual Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show will open to the public on October 15th – 17th, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The show, which has been held in Miami Beach for 18 successive years, features spectacular antique, vintage and estate jewelry and watch co llections, showcasing popular trends in jewelry and watch design.

This three-day show brings together more than 100 dealers from all over the world who are recognized for their unparalleled quality, diversity and unique selection of products. Miami’s top antique jewelry and watch collectors as well as many local celebrities and socialites, will be in attendance. Attendees will have the opportunity to view and purchase spectacular brooches, cameos, earrings, necklaces, rare jewels and gemstones, unique signed designer pieces, as well as exquisite timepieces.

“This show marks the start of the high season in Miami and also the beginning of antique jewelry buying season.” said Andrea Canady, fair director for US Antique Show’s The Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show. She added: “For buyers it represents rare access to some of the world’s most impressive antique jewelry and watch collections. For dealers it is an opportunity to showcase and sell their merchandise to discerning buyers in an exciting, high powered atmosphere such as Miami Beach”.

Show hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, October 15th and Saturday, October 16th, and 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 17th, 2010. There is a one-time admission fee of $15 which is valid for all three days of the show. For more information about the show or to purchase tickets online, please call 239.732.6642 or visit The Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show

The Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch Show is produced by GLM®. GLM is a leading producer and marketer of consumer product tradeshows in North America, serving industries as diverse as giftware, home furnishings, social stationery, home textiles, tabletop, gourmet housewares, contemporary furniture, personal care, antiques, jewelry, art, surf, skate, water sports, swim and resorts. GLM also manages business expositions and conferences on behalf of others, within the hospitality industry. Additional information about GLM is available online at www.glmshows.com. Follow us on Twitter at MiamiAntiquShow or Facebook. For additional information, visit www.usantiqueshows.com.

For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com.

Locust Projects presents Conversation Collecting 101 11/3/10

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November 3rd, 6:30pm

Conversation: Collecting 101

An introduction to Building a Contemporary Art Collection from the unique perspectives of a private collector, an art advisor, an auction house, and a commercial art gallery.

Panel: Miami-based Art Advisor, Lisa Austin; Christie’s Senior Vice President, Vivian Pfeiffer; Owner Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Fred Snitzer; Moderated by Miami-based collector, Dennis Scholl

RSVP locustprojects@yahoo.com or 305.576.8570

Wash for a Cause at Homestead Speedway 10/24/10

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Wash for a cause
10/24/10, 10 am – 10 pm
Homestead Speedway
1 speedway blvd
Homestead, Fl 33035
www.farausa.com

Kids off streets a non-profit organization & Fara USA (FaraUSA.com) will be hosting a charity car wash along with exotic F1 racing. A $10 min suggested donation going towards Breast Cancer awareness is all we ask. The first 30 car washes will get a complimentary ticket to the race. A live DJ and beautiful models will be taking photos with the guest.

Business After Howls at Hard Rock Café 10/27/10

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Business After Howls
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 5 pm – 7pm
Hard Rock Cafe
1 Seminole Way
Hollywood

Located in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood!
www.hollywoodchamber.org

Join the Greater Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for the annual Business After Howls Costume & Networking Party!

Network with your fellow gouls and goblins for another horrific business after hours.

Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served.

Prizes for the best costumes!
*No masks allowed in casino.*

Registration is required! Please call 954.923.4000 or visit www.hollywoodchamber.org

Friends of The Orphans Fundraiser at The Ritz Carlton South Beach 10/22/10

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Friends of The Orphans Fundraiser
Friday, October 22, 2010
7:00 – 11:00 p.m.
The Ritz Carlton South Beach
One Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139

More Info and Tickets.

Join us for an evening like no other! Open your heart and make a difference at this glamorous fundraising cocktail gala.

Enjoy the beauty and artistic surroundings of the Ritz-Carlton’s Evolution and feast on an unbelievable array of gourmet delicacies masterfully created by Ritz-Carlton chefs to tantalize all your senses. The event will also feature a stunning silent auction, fund-a-need and DJ Edwin Adams.

Mistress of Ceremonies: Neida Sandoval, anchor of Despierta America, Univision Network
Featured speaker: José Bermudez, former pequeño, NPH Mexico

Individual Tickets: $130 each and include gourmet chef tastings and open premium liquor bar

RSVP by noon Central time on October 21.

Tito Puente Jr at Van Dyke for Miami Children’s Hospital 12/18/10

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Kcc Productions And The Graspa Group Present A Holiday Toy Drive/Fundraiser For Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation Featuring Tito Puente, Jr., And His Latin Jazz Ensemble At The Van Dyke Café
Saturday, December 18 at 9 PM and 11 PM
846 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

In an effort to bring some holiday cheer to children at Miami Children’s Hospital, KCC Productions and the Graspa Group invite all to bring a new, unwrapped toy or Gift Card to a special holiday concert featuring Tito Puente, Jr. and His Latin Jazz Ensemble at the Van Dyke Café on Saturday, December 18th.

Cosponsored by the Miami Beach Arts Trust/miamiartzine.com, there will be two shows – at 9 PM and 11 PM – priced at just $20 per person plus a toy or Gift Card. Additional funds raised through a drawing and voluntary donations will benefit Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Miami Children’s Hospital receives an estimated 185,000 patient visits each year, and Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation is one of the Hospital’s largest supporters. This event will enable the Foundation to continue funding world-class pediatric health care for children throughout South Florida and beyond. In the spirit of the holiday season quickly approaching, all authorized toys and in-kind donations will benefit Miami Children Hospital Foundation.

Cosponsor Miami Beach Arts Trust, publishers of miamiartzine.com, is devoted to building a stronger arts environment in Miami Beach and beyond, providing information, funding, and training to local artists and arts organizations.

The Van Dyke Café is located at 846 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. Tickets are available at the door.

Join us for a fun-filled evening to benefit a noble cause! For more information on the Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation, visit the foundation’s “wish list” at www.mchf.org/images/pressPrint/ToyWishList2010.pdf

Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation is a not-for-profit 501 (C) (3) established to create a world-class pediatric hospital so no child need leave South Florida for superior medical care. “Funding World-Class Care” and following the principle that all children deserve state-of-the-art pediatric care with no financial boundaries, the Foundation helped 289-bed Miami Children’s Hospital become a leader in pediatric healthcare with more than 40 subspecialties, the largest pediatric neurology center in the United States, a top provider of cardiology and neonatology services, and a Research Institute conducting in excess of 200 clinical trials and protocols.

Miami Children’s Hospital is one of 170 pediatric hospitals in North America affiliated with Children’s Miracle Network and South Florida’s only freestanding Hospital dedicated exclusively to children. To learn more about the Foundation and offer support, visit www.mchf.org, become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MCHFoundation, or call 305-666-2889 (toll-free: 1-800-987-8701.)

KCC Productions and Jazid present the LeNard Rutledge Ensemble 11/2/10

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KCC Productions and Jazid present the LeNard Rutledge Ensemble Tuesday, November 2, from 11 PM – 2 AM. Jazid is located at 1342 Washinton Avenue, South Beach. For more information call 305-673-9372 or visit jazid.net.

Captivating, soul stirring, earthy and funky. These are just some of the words used to describe the song stylings of LeNard Rutledge. Growing up in Miami, Florida, LeNard was always surrounded by many different musical styles. His parents had an extensive music collection ranging from Classical, Jazz, Hymns and the funk of James Brown.

In the fall of 1984, LeNard went to St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, NC. LeNard was awarded a Band Scholarship by Dr. Harold Jeffries (Director of Bands). It was in Raleigh when LeNard’s musical journey took flight. In the fall of 1984, he recorded two jingles for WLLE, a local AM radio station. He played drums, co-wrote and sang background vocals. He played timpani and general percussion in the Concert band and was the back–up drummer for the Jazz Ensemble. After a year of hinting and periodic begging, LeNard got his first big break. In the fall of 1986, LeNard sang the ballad “Teach Me Tonight” at the Annual Spring Concert. His confidence grew as he sang more songs, which led to other projects such as studio work and voice-over jobs. For fear of letting his drumming chops falter, LeNard played at area clubs to keep the rust away. A musical friend (Rick Best) introduced him to song writing.

In 1992, Stanley Baird, an area saxophonist, asked LeNard to submit songs for his upcoming CD, Stop, Look & Listen. Stan recorded three of his songs and released them on his label, Saxony Records. In 1995, LeNard submitted two of those songs to the Billboard Songwriting Contest. One of the songs, “So In Love (with you)” placed in the top 1% of 50,000 R&B entries. In the fall of 1995, he returned for a while to Miami. Needing extra cash to return to school, a childhood friend, Alan Morley told him he could earn extra money producing Rap and Hip-Hop Music. He introduced him to Gary Bradshaw (a Miami Rapper). From October 1995 to January 1996, LeNard “ghost wrote” and produced 9 original tracks for Gary. After returning to school in January of 1996, LeNard made the Dean’s List and Graduated in May 1997 with a B.S. Degree in Industrial Hygiene and Safety.

In May 1997, LeNard moved back to Miami. In October 1997, LeNard auditioned as a vocalist for the Melton Mustafa Orchestra. He got the gig and was the featured vocalist until 2003. LeNard has been a featured vocalist at area jazz spots in South Florida. The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Van Dyke Café and O’Hara’s Jazz Pub are the most notable. LeNard has shared the stage with a number of highly respectable jazz artists such as: Nnenna Freelon, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kenny Drew Jr., and Harry Allen. In May of 2006, LeNard was named BEST JAZZ ARTIST, by the Miami New Times magazine. His first CD, Hello World, was released in November

Junior League of Miami Fundraiser Shopping Card for a Cause

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Shop ‘Til You Drop!
Junior League of Miami Fundraiser Offers Big Savings with Even Bigger Community Returns
www.jlmiami.org

It’s time once again to shop ‘til you drop – all for a great cause! The Junior League of Miami (JLM) is sponsoring the 3rd Annual Shopping Card for a Cause fundraiser with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting the mission of the JLM, an organization of more than 1,000 women dedicated to the empowerment of Miami’s women, children and families.

With the purchase of a $50 Shopping Card for a Cause in-the-know shoppers can receive a 20 percent discount at more than 125 participating merchants throughout Miami from October 23 through November 7. Some participating retailers include Elie Tahari, Vera Bradley, J. Crew, H&H Jewels, The Savoy Hotel, along with many others.

“The Shopping Card for a Cause is great way for people to save money on holiday gifts all while giving back to their community,” said Jennifer Burchard, co-char of the Shopping Card for a Cause fundraiser. “It really is a win-win situation for everyone involved.”

The proceeds from the purchase of just one Shopping Card for a Cause provides five or more books for impoverished elementary school children in the JLM literacy programs, three school uniform sets for a child in transitional housing as a result of domestic violence, and two holiday gift for a child in need.

For a full list of retailers or to purchase a Shopping Card for a Cause, go to www.jlmiami.org. Cards are on sale now and can also be purchased from JLM volunteers and participating stores.

The Junior League of Miami, founded in 1926, is an organization of approximately 1,000 women sharing a common vision to empower Miami’s women, children, and families to conquer tomorrow’s challenges and to build a united community. The mission of the Junior League of Miami is to promote voluntarism, develop the potential of women and improve communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. The Junior League concentrates its resources to make a significant impact on our community within the areas of homelessness, family violence, early childhood education, children’s & women’s health and foster care. This year, in addition to providing $100,000 in direct funding, another $600,000 in volunteer hours will be dedicated to the community for projects that address our five focus areas. For more information, visit www.jlmiami.org.

Kick off Stone Crab Season with HistoryMiami at Joe’s Stone Crab 10/21/10

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Kick Off Stone Crab Season
Thursday, October 21
6:30 PM
Joe’s Stone Crab
11 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach

Join HistoryMiami’s Flagler Street Society (ages 21-45) and the Surfrider Foundation to learn about how Joe’s Stone Crab survived against the odds during the Gulf Oil spill.

Enjoy stone crabs, hors d’oeuvres and wine as you network with young professionals!

HistoryMiami and Surfrider Members $20
Non-Members $35

RSVP to 305-375-5356 or email membership@historymiami.org

General Hauling Service, Bakehouse Art Complex and 6th Street Container proudly announce, Dumpster Art.

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General Hauling Service, Bakehouse Art Complex and 6th Street Container proudly announce, Dumpster Art.

Dumpster Art, is the brainchild of General Hauling Service Inc; coordinated by artist AdalDelgado from the 6th Street Container, in collaboration with the Bakehouse Art Complex. Dumpster Art is a project in which commercial trash dumpsters will be transformed into art, by five local artists. The artists will be selected from a “call to artists” with a deadline of October 28th, 2010.

Each prospective artist will submit their Dumpster Art Proposal to a panel of
distinguished local art experts, who will then select the artists that will be given the
opportunity to bring their visions to life by recreating their proposals on the actual
dumpsters. The commercial dumpsters and a cash prize for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place have all been donated by General Hauling Service, Inc.

The Dumpster Art competition will take place at the BAC facility and, once complete, willbe placed strategically around the Miami Beach Convention Center, the Wynwood Arts District and the Design District, during the week of Art Basel. After Art Basel, the containers will be exhibited at 6th Street Container’s courtyard and at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood.
Photographs of all phases of the Dumpster Art project will be provided by Susie Bush Photography and exhibited at the 6th Street Container in LIHa (Little Havana). The Dumpster Art Project is meant as a way for our local art community to bring beauty and creativity to a seemingly mundane item like a trash dumpster.

The competition judges are scheduled to be: Christopher Miro, Director, Christopher Miro Gallery, Arlys W. Raymond, Executive Director BAC and Maria Amores, co-director and
curator at the 6th Street Container.

General Hauling Service is a locally owned solid waste and recycling firm that has beenserving South Florida for over 50 years (www.generalhauling.com). The 6th Street Art Container is located at 1155 (rear) SW 6th Street.

The Bakehouse Art Complex, located at 561 NW 32nd Street, Miami, Florida (www.bacfl.org), is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing emerging and mid-career artists with affordable workspace, and educational and exhibition opportunities.
For more information, please contact Adal Delgado at 786.587.5279 or via e-mail at
6thstreetcontainer@gmail.com or info@generalhauling.com

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Latin American Business Association Networking Event at Biltmore Hotel 10/20/10

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We would love to have you at our October Networking Event will be taking place on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 to include a “Face to Face” with Candidates in the 2010 November Election; to be located INSIDE the Alhambra Ballroom at The Biltmore Hotel 1200 Anastasia Avenue Coral Gables, FL! Come and join us to enjoy music, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, and a cash bar; all with FREE admission and over 150 professionals to network with. Complimentary drinks provided by Chivas 12 & Chivas 18. Attached please find the invitation with further information.

Bring and invite your friends and business associates. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS! I hope to see you there!

L’Aperitivo at MaiTardi Miami Design District 10/21/10

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L ’ A P E R I T I V O
{THE AUTHENTIC ITALIAN HAPPY HOUR}
October 21, 2010 7:00–9:00 PM
MaiTardi
(163 NE 39th Street | Miami, FL 33137)

It’s time for some “sensational” networking: Heighten and energize your senses with us!
Hearing: the ability to perceive and interpret sound waves
Join us at MaiTardi, one of Miami’s most scenic courtyards for a night of networking, live music and dance

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres.
Free cocktails from 7 to 8pm sponsored by Aperol & Palm Bay International
Entrance fees: IACC Members FREE | Non Members: $10

RSVP to rsvp@iacc-miami.com by October 20, 2010

Empowered Woman Success Summit 11/11-12/10

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Empowered Woman Success Summit
November 11th & 12th, doors open 9:00 am, sessions from 9:30 am to 4:45 pm
Miami Museum of Science
3280 South Miami Avenue, Miami, FL

Join hundreds of smart, successful and ambitious women for workshops, panels, coaching,
assisted networking, contests, raffles, and an EXPO with shopping & gifts.
Gain practical, applicable knowledge and skills on how to sell, market and promote yourself.

Register here.

Enrique Sendra Mid-Air Negotiations Solo Show Closing Reception at Jazz Gallery 10/16/10

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Enrique Sendra’s “Mid-Air Negotiations” Solo Show Closing Reception at Jazz Gallery
Saturday, October 16, 2010. 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Jazz Gallery WDNA 88.9 FM. 2921 Coral Way. Miami, FL 33145
Admission: Free

Jazz Gallery WDNA 88.9 FM presents the solo exhibition of Enrique Sendra as part of the celebrations of the National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Enrique Sendra was born in Havana, Cuba in 1982. At the age of 17, Enrique enrolled in his first professional art school, where he was able to learn art in a more structured way. He had his first solo exhibition the following year at the Amelia P�laez Gallery in Havana. That same year, Enrique Sendra immigrated to United States.

Sendra’s works are the result of a self-discovery process where his personal experiences and observations are expressed through a high level of pictorial symbolism. His paintings and works on paper resemble a sort of surrealist imagery where colors, technique and Cuban references come together. His work has been included in numerous group and solo art exhibitions and the artist has been represented by galleries such as Vincent Gallery in Miami, Florida and Boswell Mourot Fine Art in Little Rock, Arkansas. Enrique has been recognized by the Miami-Dade County and various local governments for his contribution to the Arts in the South Florida community. Today, Enrique resides in Miami, Florida and continues to grow personally and professionally through his art.

WDNA is the South Florida’s premiere jazz music station, providing quality public-centric music, arts, and cultural programming to the residents of South Florida. In an ever changing radio landscape, WDNA remains committed to America’s Classical Music, alternative voices, and the marriage of entertainment with enrichment.

enriquesendra.art.officelive.com
www.wdna.org
For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Mujer issue release party at Segafredo Brickell 10/14/10

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Meet HAYDEE PEREZ, Miss Doral 2010 and Singing sensation DIEGO VAL personally While enjoying delicious Hor d’ouvres by Segafredo And sipping on Piscojitos, Piscotinis & Pisco Sours From Pisco 100. The first 200 Guests will receive a gift certificate from La Per & XeXi Hair and a Gift Bag Confirm to rsvp@mujeronline.com

Conoce a nuestra Miss Doral 2010 HAYDEE PEREZ y disfruta del encanto de DIEGO VAL Mientras saboreas deliciosos bocadillos de Segafredo Acompañados de Piscojitos, Piscotinis y Pisco Sours por cortesia de Pisco100. Los primeros 200 invitados recibiran un certificado de de La Per y Xexi Hair asi como una bolsa de regalo Favor de confirmar asistencia a rsvp@mujeronline.net

Coral Gables Museum and Green Mobility Network present the Seersucker Social Bicycle Tour 10/16/10

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Coral Gables Museum and Green Mobility Network present the Seersucker Social Bicycle Tour
Saturday, October 16 at 10:30am
University Metrorail Station on Ponce de Leon Boulevard

The Coral Gables Tweed Ride this past winter featured over 100 riders on a variety of bikes who pedaled through the City Beautiful donning vintage attire. Next month, the Coral Gables Museum and the Green Mobility Network are teaming up to present a biking event fashioned for South Florida’s warm, early autumn weather.

The Seersucker Social, on Saturday, October 16, will offer another enjoyable and relaxing biking experience by encouraging participants to tour the Gables in their best seersucker ensemble. According to Wikipedia, seersucker was originally worn by the poor in the U.S. until undergraduate students, in an air of reverse snobbery, began to wear the fabric. Damon Runyon wrote that his new habit for wearing seersucker was “causing much confusion among my friends. They cannot decide whether I am broke or just setting a new vogue.” Let’s opt for the latter!

Participants will gather at the University Metrorail Station on Ponce de Leon Boulevard at 10:30am and bicycle through the Gables, with a stop and tour at the Coral Gables Museum, and then pedal on to the historic Coral Gables Merrick House at 907 Coral Way for a picnic, badminton and croquet. The catered lunch featuring fabulous food from the Green Gables Café is $14 per person. You can still join in the fun and ride without purchasing the picnic lunch.

For more details, and to purchase/reserve your picnic lunch, please visit coralgablesmuseum.org/seersuckersocial.php or greenmobilitynetwork.org.

Green Mobility Network is an education and advocacy group that promotes walking, running and bicycling as necessary elements of a healthy and desirable community.

The Coral Gables Museum’s mission is to celebrate, investigate and explore all aspects of architecture, landscape architecture, design and urban planning as well as historic and environmental preservation, set within the context of one of America’s first and most successful planned communities – the City of Coral Gables.

Photographs of The Coffee House Gypsies & Radioboxer at Tobacco Road on 10/13/10

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The Coffee House Gypsies and Radioboxer at Tobacco Road on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.  This event raised money for breast cancer research/The Susan G. Komen Foundation. Live music lovers and supporters of this very important cause, breast cancer awareness, gathered for THE WEDDING: a two part live music event featuring the winners of nine Status QuO South Florida Live Music Awards, The Coffee House Gypsies, and Miami New Times Best New Band of 2009, Radioboxer.  The music was amazing, both groups rocked the house and I can not wait to see them again.

WIFF presents Wednesdays With Women Champagne Networking Reception 10/20/10

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Women’s International Film Festival requests the honor of your presence at Wednesdays With Women
(CHAMPAGNE NETWORKING RECEPTION)
OCTOBER 20, 2010
6PM-8PM
Mediterraneo Restaurant
1331 Brickell Bay Drive

FREE CHAMPAGNE FOR LADIES, HORS D’OEUVRES
FREE tickets to MOVIE Screening of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls” starring Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Whoopi Goldberg
Feature Film Scenes, Live Music, Complimentary HOLIDAY GIFT BAG( $30 value)
Preview AZUL by Elgar Aragundi -Celebrating Women’s Beauty
Donation: $20 in advance & WIFF members
(Advance rsvps receive free tickets to the Movie Screening of CLINT EASTWOOD’S HEREAFTER Starring Matt Damon)
$25 at the door

Dress Code: Chic
rsvp@nicoleshelleymodels.com
Host Committee: Yvonne McCormack-Lyons, Nicole Shelley, We Want it All TV hosts (Deborah Magdalena, Vanessa Conde and Chanel Gonzalez)
Complimentary Valet

Chef Douglas Rodriguez Celebrates the Grand Opening of his latest restaurant De Rodriguez Ocean 10/15/10

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Chef Douglas Rodriguez Celebrates the Grand Opening of his latest restaurant De Rodriguez Ocean

Friday, October 15, 2010
Event starts at 8:00PM

De Rodriguez Ocean at Hilton Bentley Hotel
101 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Grand Opening of South Beach’s Newest Restaurant: De Rodriguez Ocean. 400 elite guests and foodies, including top names in Miami’s social scene, will be welcomed to De Rodriguez Ocean, Chef Douglas Rodriguez’s newest restaurant boasting ceviche, raw bar and sustainable seafood. De Rodriguez Ocean welcomes the cosmopolitan set to indulge in exotic cocktails, an abundance of fresh seafood with Douglas’s Nuevo Latin twists and limitless other libations.

Dave Siegel and Miles High at Van Dyke 10/14/10

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KCC Productions and the Van Dyke Café present
Miles High
featuring
Dave Siegel

Thursday, October 14, at 9 PM
846 Lincoln Road, South Beach
305-534-3600

David Siegel is a Miami-based producer/songwriter/musician whose name has appeared as such on over 30 million records sold worldwide. David is known for performing most of the instruments on his own productions, as well performing as a musician for countless sessions outside of his own work. David is equally comfortable in a jazz environment while performing with Latin jazz great trumpet master Arturo Sandoval and others. David currently resides in South Beach and continues his work writing and producing out of Miami as well as producing and playing.

Featuring:
Dave Siegel, keyboard
Jacin Nagao, guitar
Harvel Nakundi, drums
Kirk Green, bass

kccproductions.com
thevandykecafe.com

Halloween Masquerade At Club O1 10/31/10

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Halloween Masquerade At Club O1
From Oct 31 to Nov 1 2010, From 11 pm to 5 am
club o1
One Ocean Drive
Miami Beach Florida 33139
305 538 1111
www.clubo1.com

Sunday Octorber 31st 2010 From 11 PM – 5 Am.A Night Of Seductive Enchantment And Fantasy At Our Over-The- Top Costume Ball. Special Guest DJ IRIE and Opening Set By Resident DJ Joe Dert.
For more information or to book your reservation call 305.538.1111 For table and bottle reservations: reservation@clubo1.com

City of Hialeah Light’s on Afterschool Event 10/21/10

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City of Hialeah Announces ‘Light’s on Afterschool Event’

Are You Smarter than Me?
Wilde Community Center (Ballroom)
1701 W 53 Terrace, Hialeah, 33016
7:00 – 8:30 pm

“Family Feud”.
City of Hialeah Educational Academy (cafeteria)
2590 West 76 St, Hialeah 33012
5:00 – 6:30pm

Mayor Julio Robaina and the City of Hialeah Council are proud to announce the City’s participation in this year’s National Light’s on Afterschool Event. We will be one of more than 7,500 sites across the nation sending the message that afterschool is key to children’s success, and that we must keep the lights on and doors open after school.

On Thursday, October 21, 2010, the City of Hialeah’s afterschool programs – Creative Learning & Play (CL&P) and Young Leaders with Character (YLC) will be hosting two fun-filled events. To kick-off our celebration, Mayor Julio Robaina and Hialeah City Council will proclaim October 21, 2010 as Lights on Afterschool Day in Hialeah.

Wilde Community Center will host a game of “Are You Smarter than Me?” similar to the popular game show, “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” where CL&P participants will compete with Hialeah Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz, Hialeah’s Fire Chief Marcos de la Rosa and Florida House of Representative Esteban Bovo Jr., along with other business and community leaders, City Officials and media representatives in a battle of wits.

Middle and high school students from our YLC program and their families will participate in our version of “Family Feud”. This should prove to be an exciting and fun event for both the students and their parents. The event will be held at the City of Hialeah Educational Academy from 5:00-6:30pm.

Invited guests include: City of Hialeah Mayor and Council; local elementary and middle school principals, Miami-Dade County Public School (M-DCPS) Regions I, II and III Directors; M-DCPS board member, Perla Tabares-Hantman; CEO for The Children’s Trust, Modesto Abety; County Commissioners, Jose Diaz, Natacha Seijas and Rebecca Sosa; Mayor de la Cruz from Hialeah Gardens; Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Alvarez and County Manager, Mr. George Burgess; Senators Bill Nelson and George LeMieux; State Representative Marco Diaz-Balart.

Unplug and Unwind Friday Clevelander with Angela Laino 10/15/10

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The Clevelander, 1020 Ocean Drive, Miami, 33139
Unplug & Unwind, Friday evenings at the Clevelander, is back! The most exclusive and unique hot spot after work. Enjoy live acoustic performances by South Florida’s hottest singers six-stories above a breathtaking Ocean Drive view. This week at 8pm, enjoy the sounds of Angela Laino. This Miami native is known for delivering a fusion of R&B, gospel, and funk. Order from our $5 Munchies Menu and sample our Happy Hour cocktails. For cabana reservations : rsvp@clevelander.com or 305-532-4006 x3515.

Rockstar Rewards Football at The Clevelander 10/17-18/10

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Clevelander
1020 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
clevelander.com

Are you ready for some football? The Clevelander is ready to cater to all the die-hard football fans of South Florida for the first week of the regular season. With your Rockstar Rewards card, enjoy $10 pitchers of Budweiser & Bud Light, $5 Jack Daniels and $0.50 Buffalo Wings during every live game. Don¹t have a Rockstar Rewards card? Visit the Gift Shop inside the Clevelander Sports Bar everyday from 5pm to 10pm.

Week Six
Sunday 10/17
Seattle @ Chicago (1p)
Baltimore @ N England (1p)
Detroit @ NY Giants (1p)
Atlanta @ Philadelphia (1p)
Cleveland @ Pittsburgh (1p)
Miami @ Green Bay (1p) ***Rockstar Rewards Members: Get a free Dolphins Calendar & Enter to win a Budweiser iPod Cooler***
San Diego @ St. Louis (1p)
N Orleans @ Tampa Bay (1p)
Kansas City @ Houston (1p)
Oakland @ San Francisco (4:05p)
NY Jets @ Denver (4:05p)
Dallas @ Minnesota (4:15p)
Indianapolis @ Washington (8:20p)
Monday 10/18
Tennessee @ Jacksonville (8:30p)

Lorie Lester Showcasing at Sassy City Chicks Sample Sale Up to 80% off at The Moore Builiding 10/14/10

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Lorie Lester sample sale at Sassy City Chicks Fashion Bash
Thursday, 10.14.10 at 5PM
The Moore Building
4040 NE 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33137
General Admission: $5
Sassy Tote Ticket: $15 *complimentary spa services and complimentary Smirnoff cocktail sampling

Miami-based designer Lorie Lester, who is hosting the grand opening of her flagship boutique in Miami next month, is showcasing at this year’s Sassy City Chicks fashion bash and sample sale on Thursday, 10.14.10 from 5PM – 10PM at The Moore Building.

Just in time for the holidays and fall, fashionistas can get their hands on Lorie Lester’s boho-chic apparel including an assortment of tops, dresses, tunics, jumpers and skirts at up to 80% off! Created in a mixture of silk, lace, micro-modal, as well as organic fabrics, the glamorous and sexy looks give confidence and are comfortable enough to sit at dinner or dance the night away.

Tigertail presents Benjamin Herman Quartet at Byron Carlyle Theatre 11/13/10

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Benjamin Herman Quartet
Byron Carlyle Theatre
500 71st Street
Miami Beach, FL
Saturday, November 13, 8:30 pm
$25 General Admission
$50 VIP ticket (priority entrance and seating)
$15 Seniors (65+) w/ id
$15 Students w/ id
Buy Tickets Now or call Tigertail at 305 545 8546

New Jazz from the Netherlands
As part of the New Cool of the jazz scene in the Netherlands Benjamin Herman blows away every cliché while working hard to return jazz to the dance floor, and building bridges between the mainstream, improvisational jazz and the pop scene. He began his career when he received a saxophone as a bar mitzvah present. Since then, Benjamin has become known as the hardest-working, sharpest-dressing and most original musician in the Netherlands. He is the winner of several Edison awards (the Dutch Grammys). Joining him are some of Holland’s finest players. Bassist Ernst Glerum has worked with Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Han Bennink and John Zorn. Guitarist Anton Goudsmit has worked with Tony Allen, Han Bennink and John Zorn, and is a founding member of the Ploctones. Anton appeared here at the Byron Carlyle two years ago with Eric Vloeimans. Drummer Joost Patocka performs with the Beets, Carolyn Breuer, Ernst Glerum, Jazz Cats, and Five Up High.
“Benjamin Herman seems to re-invent himself for each CD. While his style and sound remain recognizable, his borders extend each time.” Jazz
“This is music that also scores high on an international scale … with this release he will likely become too big for our country!”
– Jazzism Magazine (Netherlands)
Read more about Benjamin Herman at benjaminherman.nl

Educate Tomorrow’s 4th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner 11/25/10

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Educate Tomorrow’s
4th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner
Thursday November 25, 2010
Miami Yacht Club from 12 – 3 pm

With the holiday season fast approaching, Educate Tomorrow staff is planning its Thanksgiving Dinner for approximately 50 of our youth who are without family. Due to our limited resources, we are relying upon the generosity of people within our community to make this dinner possible. Please let us know if you, or anyone you know, are able to help with the following:

Food and beverages (turkey, side dishes, deserts, etc.), transportation, or monetary donations. Also, we are looking for volunteers on the day of the event to help with set-up, cooking, serving, playing games, etc.
*All donations are tax deductible.

For more information or to make a contribution, please contact
Educate Tomorrow at 305-374-3751 or email french@educatetomorrow.org
www.educatetomorrow.org

Dos XX presents The Most Interesting Show in the World at Revolution Fort Laurderdale 10/20/10

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Dos XX presents The Most Interesting Show in the World!
Andew W.K.
Revolution Live
200 West Broward Blvd
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312
Wed. Oct 20, 2010 at 8:00pm

Admission free with RSVP and complimentary Dos XX will be served. Guests must be 21 & Over.

Join us for an extraordinary evening celebrating interesting talent while the Dos XX flows at the bar. Curated by the Most Interesting Man himself, acts from around the world have been brought together for this thrilling 17-city tour.

Infamous Rockstar, Andrew W.K., has been hand selected by the Most Interesting Man to host and perform in this year’s showcase. Andrew is world renown for his ability to mesmerize crowds and amplify parties. Joining Andrew on stage will be the great Hungarian illusionist, the Great Zimmet, burlesque star Cherie Lily, and many other mind blowing talents.

Want A Sneak Peak?

Event Is First Come First Served. Early Arrival is strongly advised.

Must Rsvp Here For Your Free Tickets

Funkshion Fashion Week Miami 10/20-24/10

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Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach, Oct 20th – 24th.
Setai Hotel and the Bass Museum in South Beach

Funkshion Spring Summer/2011 Runways Shows.
Oct 20-24th Miami Beach, FL 2010

Bass Museum – 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach
Setai Hotel – 2001 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach

WED // October 20
· Setai (free cocktail from 8PM – 9PM)
9PM Krel: Flora & Fauna Opening Night Fashion Show
10PM Afterparty

THU // October 21
· Bass Museum
6:00 PM FGI Emerging Designers Competition
6:30 PM Alfonso Couture
8:00 PM Red Dress by American Heart Association featuring Perry Ellis

Setai (free cocktail from 8PM – 9PM)
9:00 PM Ibellav by Izabella Sienkiewicz
10:00 PM Afterparty

FRI // October 22
· Bass Museum
8:00 PM Vanidades Magia De La Moda featuring
· Luca Luca
Silvia Tcherassi
Elie Tahari
Trina Turk
Sergio Rossi Bal Harbour
Laura Buccellati
Beautiful People (tickets not available)

Setai (free cocktail from 8PM – 9PM)
9:00 PM Paul Sinclaire
10:00 PM Afterparty

SAT // October 23
· Bass Museum
12:00-6:00 Pm Shop Miami Beach
6:00 PM Walk for Cure Fashion Show hosted by Miami Heat’s Juwan Howard
8:00 PM Islands Of The World Fashion Show

Setai (free cocktail from 8PM – 9PM)
9:00 PM Richie Rich
10:00 PM Closing party hosted by Richie Rich

SUN // October 24
· Bass Museum
12:00-6:00 PM Shop Miami Beach

Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach celebrates its 15th season Next week! The state of the runways will be built at the Setai Hotel and the Bass Museum in South Beach, Miami. The venues both features two unique spaces with a large courtyard for sponsor activations in the center of it all. Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach .

All Hair and Make-up will be provided by Prive Salon and Motives By Loren Ridinger, respectively. As with every year, Funkshion: Fashion Week Miami Beach will fuse music, art and fashion like no other city in the world could do. Over 20 Fashion Designers from around the world showcasing their new Spring/Summer 2011 collections with Runway Shows. Richie Rich, FGI’s Emerging designers competition, runways shows, etc,. For details go to www.Funkshion.com. As always, first 100 people per show (not the benefits) can to go to www.fashionweekmiami.com to rsvp for the shows to attend for free! … (real people..guests, etc)

Juwan Howard Foundation Event with a kids fashion show (multiple designers) is Saturday , October 23rd 5-8pm…..at the Bass Museum, 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach . In February 1994, Juwan Howard founded the Juwan Howard Foundation. The Mission of the Foundation is to embrace at risk inner city children living with little hope. The foundation provides assistance for a better education, expanded recreational opportunities, moral support and encouragement to at-risk children living in the inner cities For ticket sales go to : www.Funkshion.com for the link to buy tickets.

American Heart Association’s Red Dress Campaign show, presented by Perry Ellis. The Go Red For Women Event and runway show on Thursday, October 21st at The Bass Museum at 8pm. The runway show and 100 percent of ticket sales will benefit the American Heart Association. This is great event to support. Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. For ticket sales go to : www.Funkshion.com for the link to buy tickets.

Shop Miami Beach: Oct 23-24th Noon- 6pm . A shopping event open to the public. Retailers from around the city. Big Sales, big shopping days! The showcase a bounty of the finest retailers, home grown talent and the best of blossoming labels worldwide -all stemming from a carefully curetted collection of design conscious products set to bloom on the international design scene. At the Bass Museum -Shop Miami Beach presents a delectable assortment of selected vendors to bring you high production standards via a manicured orchard of fashion fruit ranging from the couture to the affordably chic; all presented in an atmospheric garden of designer delights. Bass Museum – 2121 Park Avenue, Miami Beach For details go to : www.Funkshion.com

KCC Productions Presents Noche Latina A Night Of Salsa At Mai Tardi Restaurant With Krioyo Son 10/21/10

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Mai Tardi restaurant continues its “Noche Latina” series, produced by KCC Productions, with Krioyo Son at the restaurant’s outdoor courtyard in the Design District, Thursday, October 21, from 9 to midnight. Party under the stars to some of the best salsa while enjoying a mojito with reasonably-priced Italian cuisine as well as tapas, all without a cover charge!

Krioyo Son is composed of 7 musicians who specialize in traditional Cuban music, as well as Merengue, Cumbia, Boleros, and more.They have played in numerous local events such as Cuba Nostalgia, Alcazabas, and many others. The band includes such musicians as Tony Gundin (drums) who worked with Latino pop stars like Julio Iglesias, Jon Secada, and the Ed Calle Jazz Project, Luis Serrano (bass), a founding member of the Miami Sound Machine, and Jesus “Chuchi” Jorge (trumpet and trombone), who has collaborated with Carlos Santana and is a member of Miami’s outstanding band, Palo.

Mai Tardi is an innovative Italian restaurant located at 163 NE 39th Street in the Design District. Its open courtyard provides a romantic setting for repasts ranging from tapas and pizzas to vegan dishes to specialties from their wood- burning oven such as rack of lamb and butterflied yellowtail snapper. Dining Out magazine describes it as “northern Italian cuisine with Mediterranean overtones…a menu marked by intriguing elements like venison ravioli with Gorgonzola sauce and classic wood-fired pizza.”

For more information about Mai Tardi, visit their web site at www.maitardimiami.com, or call 305-572- 1400. For more information about Krioyo Son, please contact Kimberly Chmura at (305) 332-2623 or visit www.kccproductions.com.

Uptown Saturdays at Satoro’s Restaurant and Lounge 10/15/10

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Uptown Saturdays
October 15th 2010, 10pm to until
Satoro’s Restaurant & Lounge
2050 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, Fl

Models and Bottles this Saturday at Satoro’s! Aspiring models come out and network with some of the industry’s rising stars. Enjoy a great menu along with sexy, chic, upscale young professionals from across South Florida.
Come out this Saturday and see what all the fuss is about.
This is an Uptown Event, so dress to impress. A selective door policy will be enforced.

On Lucid Grounds A Modern Photography Exhibition featuring works by Anthony Humphreys 10/20/10

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On Lucid Grounds – A Modern Photography Exhibition featuring works by Anthony Humphreys
October 20, 2010, 7:00PM to 9:00PM
Piola Hallandale Beach
Piola
1703 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd.
Hallandale Beach, FL
www.anthonyhumphreys.com

“On Lucid Grounds” | Modern Photography Exhibition
Featuring works by Anthony Humphreys

Showing Wednesday, October 20 through December 22, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 20 from 7PM – 9PM
Wine & hors d’Å“uvre will be served.

Anthony featured as one of the “Art Inside Piola” artists for the end of 2010. Piola, an international Italian restaurant/art gallery fused into one. Piola opens its doors to culture, hosting film premieres, book & magazine events, art exhibitions & many other social and artistic activities.
www.anthonyhumphreys.com

Piola also is an editor and publisher: Piola’s magazine embodies all that Piola brings to its international customers on a daily basis. 35,000 copies of a 48-page, full color, annual magazine, written in Italian and translated in 4 languages.
www.piola.it

Miami’s Independent Thinkers is a South Florida-based non-profit organization promoting local emerging and premiere artists. Featuring painting, photography, sculpture, film, animation, performance, writing and mixed-media by some of South Florida’s most talented creatives.
www.miamithinkers.com

Grand Opening of Vino and Olio 10/23/10

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Grand Opening
October 23, 2010, 9pm-1am
Vino & Olio
139 NE 39th Street
Miami, FL
www.vinoeolio.com

The newest addition to the Design District’s culinary renaissance, Alessandro Cecconi’s Vino E Olio will bring a new level of Italian cuisine never before seen in Miami. At the helm, Chef Andrea Menichetti is sure to delight the most discerning tastebuds with his rustic Tuscan cuisine. The son of Michelin star rated Valeria Piccini, gastronomy runs through Menichetti’s veins, his parents are the founders of Da Caino, one of Italy’s most revered restaurants. Inspired by the district, owner Alessandro Cecconi choose glass lit walls casting colors in all directions for the dining room and magnificent acoustics, very befitting of the restaurant’s eccentric downtown location. Guests will have the option to dine al fresco on a stunning outdoor terrace, part of the 220 seat eatery.

Please join us on the evening of Saturday, October 23, 2010 taking place at Vino & Olio located at 139 NE 39th Street in Miami from 9:00 pm – 1:00 am. Event details are below.

Every Saturday Evening
Reservations strongly suggested :
Phone | 305 573 0707
Text | 786 286 1010
Email | valeria@vinoeolio.com

The Grand Opening Gala Benefiting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure 10/21/10

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The Grand Opening Gala Benefiting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Thursday, October 21, 2010, 7:00pm-10:00pm
Couture Active Wear Showroom
3616 NE 2nd Ave. Miami Design District
www.coutureactivewear.com

Shopping, Silent Acution/Raffle, Music & Fun! The event will include a Silent Auction and raffle with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Miami/Ft. Lauderdale affiliate.

This novel event is cosponsored by Camp Construction Inc. Complimentary cocktails provided by 42 Below.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 7pm with press and fitness celebrities, Janis Saffell, President & Creative Director of Couture Active Wear®, Jennifer Nicole Lee, a bestselling author featured on Oprah and a Fitness/Lifestyle Consultant, and Sensei Guillermo Gomez, 4th degree black belt in Aikido by Hombu Dojo (Tokyo, Japan), industry expert for Univision, Telemundo, CNN, America TV, and Mega TV.

**Featured Silent Auction items at the grand opening gala include Janis Saffell’s Top Selling Fitness DVD’s (http://JanisSaffell.com), Jennifer Nicole Lee Worldwide products (http://JenniferNicolelee.com), Designer Jewelry by Maria-Tina Vision (http://maria-tinavision.com), Shaun T’s Hip Hop Abs & Insanity workout DVD’s (http://www.beachbody.com), Designer Dresses by Look Within Collections (http://www.lookwithincollection.com), Sensei Guillermo Gomez top rated fitness DVD programs (http://martialfusion.com), plus a chance to win a $500 Training Package with Fitness Celebrity Janis Saffell……among others!**

Dancing In Miami At Nikki Music Every Sunday Night 10/17/10

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Dancing In Miami At Nikki Music Every Sunday Night
From Oct 17 to Oct 18 2010, From 7 pm to 5 am
Nikki Beach Miami
One Ocean Drive
Miami Beach Florida 33139
305 538 1111
www.nikkibeach.com

Every Sunday Night From 7pm to 5am Our most recent addition, Nikki Music, is our weekly Sunday night party providing you with the freshest tracks and entertainment. This week line up features Special Guest DJ COCODRILLS + JARED ESDALE, and Residents DJ Felipe Kaval ,DJ Armand Pena, For more information or to book your reservation call 305.538.1111 For reservations table and bottle reservations: viptables@nikkibeach.com

City of Homestead Freaky Friday 10/29/10

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City of Homestead “Freaky Friday”
10/29/10, 6pm – 9pm
Homestead Sports Complex
1601 S.E. 28th Ave
Homestead, FL 33035

Across the street from Keys Gate Charter School
www.cityofhomestead.com

Come out and join us for the City of Homestead’s “Freaky Friday” event held at the Homestead Sports Complex.
Fun for the whole family!!
Radio Disney will be there for the kids! Rides, food, & entertainment!
Enter our haunted house if you DARE!

Ricardo E. Zulueta Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-first Century 11/13/10

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Ricardo E. Zulueta “Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-first Century
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 6pm to 10pm
Wynwood Project Space
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.as.miami.edu/art

UM Presents Ricardo E. Zulueta
“Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-first Century”

The Department of Art and Art History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at UM, presents a solo exhibition by Ricardo Estanislao Zulueta on view all November. The exhibition features Zulueta’s impressive digital performance categorization project of over 35 images which address the social practice of consumerism in an era of globalization.

Zulueta’s interdisciplinary exhibition titled Domesticated Homosapiens in Traditional Costume Circa Twenty-First Century includes a diverse cross-section of participants typically marginalized from mainstream advertising that Zulueta directs in order to create a digital record of a pseudo anthropological ethnography study. The concept deals with expanding the tradition of photographic categorization projects of the past by documenting relevant social practice today. Berta Sichel, Curator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid has written about the series, “ …this project is contemporary and its contemporaneity is due to Zulueta’s ability to tap into issues that are current and relevant in how they address social practice”.

Zulueta has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally at such venues as the International Center for Photography, Smithsonian Institution and the Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cintas Foundation and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

A full schedule of exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art . For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call (305) 284-2543 or email m.cardoso1@miami.edu .

Fire and Ice Halloween at Nikki Beach Miami 10/31/10

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Fire & Ice – Halloween at Nikki Beach Miami
Sunday, October 31st From 11AM-5AM
Nikki Beach Miami
One Ocean Drive
Miami Beach Florida 33139
www.nikkibeach.com

The ultimate Heaven and Hell party will be happening at Nikki Beach this Halloween! Chill out during the day at our Icy Soiree. Sunday Brunch Served 11AM-4PM with sounds by Felipe Kaval. Burn up the night at our Fiery Affair with Special Guest DJ Desyn Masiello, Alongside Residents Armand Peña and Bruno!

Fire & Ice at Nikki Beach for Halloween
Chill by day and burn up the night, Nikki Beach hosts the ultimate Heaven and Hell party for Halloween.
Masquerade soirée at O1 with special DJ Irie

Nikki Beach Miami goes white ice by day and red hot by night for Halloween this year. During our world famous Sunday brunch, guests will enjoy a chilling, magical décor inspired by a winter wonderland where snow angels will perform to the sounds of world famous DJ Felipe Kaval. Featuring cool elements such as ice carvings, snowflakes and winter angels, guests will be transported into a surreal heavenly atmosphere until 7PM when all hell breaks loose. Special guest DJ Desyn Masiello and resident DJs Armand Pena and Bruno will take over to melt the ice and bring the red hot heat. As the sun sets and darkness unveils, angels will turn into demons and the snow will disappear to make way for the flames of hell. Guests will be entranced by the torrid fire dances and surrounded by endless alluring temptations.

From 11 PM to 5 AM, head to the upstairs Club O1 celebrating its hotly anticipated re-opening with a glamorous masquerade themed soiree featuring the scorching beats of special guest DJ Irie. The classic cabaret style décor of O1 will be transformed into a haunted mansion for the occasion and special performances by burlesque dancers with a fully costumed greeter will dazzle the senses. Private tables and ultimate VIP experience are available. The evening will also feature a unique surprise performance. This exclusive and exciting event is not to be missed. For more information and to make reservations, please visit http://www.nikkibeach.com/miami/events.php.

Halloween horror dance party at Doral Florida 10/29/10

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Halloween Horror Dance Party at Doral, Florida
October 29, 2010, 4pm -11.30 pm
Fitbyhaydee dance & fitness studio
1790 nw 108 ave,doral florida

The studio is located just between the Dolphin and International Mall just behind the Eurosuites hotel and Best Buy in the heart of Doral 15 or 20 minutes from most miami dade locations

It’s an annual event and this year will be at at the new 3000 sqf studio in Doral,Florida. The studio will be open from early hours 4 pm for the parents to bring the kids to different activities,a haunted house and trick or treat and then all adults to closing hours beggining at 8 pm. There w…ill be live percusion all night long,a musical extravagance with lights and a video show and our own annual traditional Zumba of the souls bash event that will make everyone a star this night and feel the dancer inside them . The studio will have an open bar courtesy of president beer and others to confirm licour companies with procedures going to two charities organizations in addition there will be non alcohol drinks and food until it last.

Finally the ladies will get a free rafle of fantasy jewerly included with the cost of your ticket and we are going to have a best custome fashion show and basically all you do is take your friend, boyfriend, wife,kids or else and just bring your camera(no videos allowed) your best custome and your soul to loose ont this night and expect the unexpected. You can purchase your discounted $8 advance ticket until october 17 by paying with a credit cardl account to paypal account rglvz888@yahoo.com and includind “add me to the Halloween list”. After oct 17 the online ticket are $10. Studio members will pay $8 to this point in advance sales or at the door $12. if you need more details or information call or better stop by the studio and be an insider.

The studio has plenty of free parking around for your convinience.

Finally the International mall is hosting the Horror nights theme park with rides and their own Haunted house
about less than a mile from the studio so plan early to get a taste of Doral halloween week

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at Novecento Brickell 10/14/10

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month this Thursday, October 14th | Novecento Brickell
Join us this Thursday, 14th at Novecento Brickell to celebrate Miami’s Hispanic Heritage Month!
From 7:00pm to 10:00pm, at Novecento, 1414 Brickell Avenue | Miami, FL 33131

This Thursday, October 14th, 2010 BP Media Partners will be celebrating their third annual Miami’s Hispanic Heritage Month networking event at Novecento Brickell.
We would like to invite you to participate by inviting your clients and friends for such important celebration in South Florida and around the world.
Guests will enjoy refreshing complimentary cocktails courtesy of Brugal Rum and delectable Hors d’ Oeuvres provided by Novecento Brickell.

This event will be an opportunity to build new business relationships while enjoying an evening of networking and marketing your business among our guests, sponsors, and exhibiters.

Be part of this celebration and support the Hispanic community in South Florida.

Thank you and See you on Thursday,

Miami Symphony Orchestra Conductor Eduardo Marturet Opens 2010-11 Season With Arturo Sandoval Concert 10/24/10

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Miami Symphony Orchestra Conductor Eduardo Marturet Opens 2010-11 Season October 24 With Arturo Sandoval Concert Celebrating Miami’s Diversity
8 p.m. Sunday, October 24
Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, in Miami

The Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO) kicks off its 2010-2011 season at 8 p.m. Sunday, October 24, with Conductor Eduardo Marturet welcoming world-famous trumpet soloist Arturo Sandoval in the world premiere of Carlos R. Rivera’s “Concierto de Miami for Trumpet and Orchestra.” The concert, which takes place at the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, in Miami, will be part of Festival Miami, the annual music festival that opens the South Florida arts season. It also will be part of the Ninth Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days, an international network of concerts using the power of music to reaffirm their commitment to tolerance and humanity.

“We are excited to open our season with Arturo Sandoval and offer our guests a unique opportunity to celebrate the cultural diversity that makes Miami so great,” said Marturet, MISO’s conductor and music director. “Music is a language that helps us transcend our cultural barriers and connects us with our shared humanity.”

Daniel Pearl World Music Days was created in response to the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal South Asia Bureau Chief, by extremists in Pakistan. Pearl was a talented violinist who joined musical groups in every community where he lived, leaving behind a long trail of musician friends spanning the globe. MISO’s concert will honor Pearl’s life and his belief music can help people transcend multicultural differences and help create world harmony.

MISO’s innovative performances this year are designed to appeal to all types of music lovers who have an affinity for everything from traditional classical music to contemporary sounds, including famous movie soundtracks. Upcoming concerts include “Heavenly Voices” (November 19, 20 and 21), an artistic alliance with the Master Chorale of South Florida, and “Golden Sounds of Hollywood” (December 10 and 12), featuring film scores of some of the most famous Hollywood composers. Season subscriptions are on sale now. Three program subscriptions are available from $79 to $193, and full season subscriptions are available from $250 to $450, or nine programs for the cost of seven. For details, visit www.themiso.org/tickets.php, call (305) 275-5666, or email info@themiso.org.

About The Miami Symphony Orchestra
The Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO) is a considered a cornerstone of South Florida’s cultural community. Founded in 1989 by Maestro Manuel Ochoa, MISO is comprised of a diverse group of more than 80 talented musicians led by famed Music Director and Conductor Eduardo Marturet. Designated a Major Cultural Organization, the not-for-profit symphony also conducts an in-school arts and education program for elementary school students in the Miami-Dade Public School System, and provides low-or no-cost tickets to students and senior citizens in South Florida. For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.themiso.org

The Eh Team Returns To Cafeina With Canadian Cocktails and Jewelry By TAudry 10/15/10

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Cafeina
Friday, October 15
297 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood

“The EH Team!” returns to Cafeina on Friday, October 15 with your favorite Canadian DJ trio ESS & EMM and Maxwell Blandford, along with special guest hosts Tiffany Calil, Elizabeth Calil and Miss Miami 2010 Jaife Calil. Attendees will enjoy complimentary libations inspired by our neighbors to the north from 9 PM to 10 PM. Emerging jewelry designer TAudrey will be on hand at the Wynwood haunt to showcase its latest collection of playful, yet sophisticated accessories for ladies “on-the-go.” Cafeina will also raffle off the Audrey Hepburn-inspired pieces for a few lucky guests throughout the soiree.

RSVP required to abbey@supermarketcreative.com.

Networking With A Cause at Tequila Sunrise Mexican Grill 10/13/10

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Networking With A Cause – Tequila Sunrise Mexican Grill – October 13 – 5:30-7:30 PM
The Ann Storck Professionals Group is sponsoring the event below to benefit the Ann Storck
Center. Please come out to meet some fellow professionals and help support the efforts of the Ann Storck Center. Below you’ll find details on the event and a link to register in advance.

RSVP Here.

JAFCO Gala Gift Gathering Event 10/21/10

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We invite you to this very special event to benefit the children of JAFCO.
Lexus of North Miami, 14100 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami, FL 33181, 305-372-1400
October 21, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Cost: $50 cash, check, gift card, or item for raffle or silent auction item worth $50.
All proceeds collected will benefit the children of JAFCO and go towards underwriting the expenses of the JAFCO Art in Motion Gala on November 20th at The Westin Beach Resort in Ft. Lauderdale.

Please contact Gail Marlow at 954-749-7230 ext. 137 or gail@jafco.org to RSVP for the Gala Gift Gathering Event and more information about the JAFCO Art in Motion Gala.

“JAFCO’s mission is to care for abused, neglected and special needs children in the Jewish community and to work in partnership with families and the entire child welfare community. We believe that the care of children in our community is our responsibility, one we accept with joy, pride and love.”

Don’t forget to become a Fan on Facebook to receive the latest updates on events, offers and promotions at Lexus of North Miami.

Surfcomber Happy Hour 10/14/10

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Happy Hour at the Surfcomber
10/14/2010, 6pm-10pm
The Surfcomber Hotel
1717 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, Fl 33139

Please join us for Happy Hour on Thursday October 14th at 6pm
Enjoy the eclectic sounds of DJ Vidal, as we celebrate “Mario Casal’s Birthday”, you know it’a going to be a great time!

Complimentary hor d’oeuvres and 2 for 1 cocktails
Reduced Valet Parking

Please RSVP to monique.pellerin@hilton.com or 305.779.3812

Parisian Bash for Charity in Coral Gables 10/29/10

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J’adore Paris Gala & Cabaret After Party
Friday, October 29th
Comber Hall (next to the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables).

The Coral Gables Community Foundation is having their annual fundraiser gala earlier the evening of October 29th downstairs in this same building with dinner and a band at $250 a ticket. This is the after party hosted by Bacardi and is intended for some of our younger audiences… at a lower price with a faster pace. It should be fun and is a great bargain for $50 for a four hour bash! Please forward to your friends and enjoy a great evening in the Gables together.

This year’s black-tie affair will be spectaculaire as we transport our guests to the glamorous and romantic city of Paris. The evening begins with our signature silent auction and sparkling Bacardi cocktail reception, followed by dinner, Bacardi bar, lively entertainment, and dancing (7 PM-11 PM).

Keep dancing into the night at our After Party (9PM-1AM). The CABARET After Party is new this year and is included with the purchase of a Gala ticket ($250). You may also attend just the After Party ($50).

PURCHASE Tickets / More Information
305-446-9670 www.gablesfoundation.org

Kiki Hamann Launches her New Black and White Collection at One Bal Harbor 10/16/10

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JOIN Kiki Hamann for the Launch of her NEW Black & White Collection, Saturday, October 16th at ONE Bal Harbor
Saturday, October 16, 2010
8:00PM – 11:00PM
(Runway Show at 10:00 PM)

ONE Bal Harbor Resort & Spa
10295 Collins Ave., Bal Harbor

Renowned Canine Couture Designer, Kiki Hamann, Launches her Highly Anticipated Fall/Winter Collection at ONE Bal Harbor

200 elite guests and fashionistas, including top names in couture fashion design, will be introduced to the highly anticipated Black & White Collection, by Kiki Hamann Canine Couture. Guests will be transported into the chic world of canine couture while joining celebrity designer Kiki Hamann at the launch of her new Fall/Winter Collection. This Launch Party will give patrons the exclusive opportunity to preview and purchase items from the Black & White Collection. Also featured at the event is a silent auction for the chance to win a special edition piece, which will benefit the designer’s “I Love My Human” campaign. Locals and visitors will enjoy complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, music, and an exciting runway show with models and their favorite furry friend.

Open bar serves complimentary wine and champagne from 8-10PM, and a cash bar will be available after 10PM. Proceeds from the event benefit Kiki Hamann’s charity, “I Love My Human.”

Luigi Lone presents: VIPink Fridays at Pinkroom 10/15/10

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Luigi Lone presents: VIPink Fridays at Pinkroom
10/15/2010, 11:30 PM
Pinkroom
739 Washington Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139
www.megacityevents.com

VIPink Fridays at Pinkroom
Hosted by Luigi Lone
Sounds by Tavin & Vernau
For VIP Guest List & Table Reservations, call or text 786-277-3703 in advance or email rsvp@megacityevents.com

Doors Open at Midnight
Guest List Open til 12:30am
Dress Code Enforced

Saturday’s Upscale Event Masquerade Bday Bash 10/16/10

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Saturday’s Upscale Event Masquerade Bday Bash
October 16 Th, 10:00pm
Mia Ultra Lounge
20 East Flagler
Miami Florida 33131
Mia.QueCoCo.com

Masquerade !! Masquerade !! Masquerade !!
J.Fabian in Association with LMG
Brings You:Experience MIA Ultra-Lounge This and every Saturday Night
DJ’s Albert Day & Willy will make you dance your night away with International Open Format in the main room & House music in the terrace…

A state of the art facilities, amazing decor and the most incredible cocktails are waiting for you this Saturday
It is highly recommended that you reserve tables in advance to ensure admission. We Have Fabulous Bottle Specials.
To RSVP – MiamiFabian@Hotmail.com or 786.942.2097
Upon Arrival Inform The Door Staff That You And Your Guests Are In Fabian’s List
Guest list valid till 12:30am . To be on the Guest list please send us an Email OR a text 786.942.2097 MiamiFabian@Hotmail.com
Girls In Free All Night Assuming That You Rsvp

21+.Dress code is strictly enforced.

Follow us on Twitter @miamifabian
www.QueCoCo.com

*there will be no cover before 12 for guys
*there will be no cover for girls all night
rsvp your table asap si
* assuming that you rsvp 786.942.2097 or by email miamifabian@hotmail.com

Halloween Festival At Snyder Park 10/21-31/10

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Halloween Festival At Snyder Park
October 21-24 & October 28-31
6:00pm – 11:00 pm Thurs & Fri, 4:00pm – 11:00 pm Sat & Sun
Snyder Park
3299 SW 4th Ave, Ft. Lauderdale
Website.

Eight Spooktacular nights of Halloween Entertainment for the Entire Family
50+ Terrifying, Enchanting, and Rockin’ acres of Fun!

Interactive Horror Trail
A first of its kind, terrifyingly unforgettable Snyder Hollow Interactive Mass Mutation Experiment set in the post toxic disaster world of Snyder Hollow Forest..30 blood curdling, hair raising minutes

If you haven’t run home screaming yet, you can groove on over to our
Monsters Ball 2010 Main Stage
featuring the Monster Ball 2010 Rock Opera, Short Horror Films,and a scary cool mix of Rock, Blues, Reggae, Dub and Funk Live Bands including Spam Allstars, Matt Guitar Murphy & The Nouveaux Honkies, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Benjah,Spiritual Rez, Crazyfingers, Juke, Rudy and many more…

Visit www.halloweenatsnyderpark.COM for the complete lineup
Don’t know where to take the kids?
We built a 3+ Acre Fantasy Fun Zone
for the little Halloweeners.

Fanciful, Enchanting, Interactive, and appropriate for kids of all ages.
Children will go gaga over our Costumed Characters, Games, Rides, Lights, Treats and surprises

Beer, Wine, Festival Eats, and a totally unique “Halloweenisphere” presented by South Florida’s best actors & bands. Lovingly Conceived, Produced and presented for the community.

KCC Productions Presents Noche Latina At Mai Tardi Restaurant 11/18/10

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KCC Productions Presents “Noche Latina”, A Night Of Salsa At Mai Tardi Restaurant November 18 With The Luis Bofill Project

Mai Tardi restaurant continues its increasingly popular “Noche Latina” series, produced by KCC Productions, this month with the Luis Bofill Project performing at the restaurant’s outdoor courtyard Thursday, November 18, from 9 to midnight. Enjoy a slice of Havana under the stars in the Design District with some of the best salsa while enjoying a mojito with reasonably-priced Italian cuisine as well as tapas, all without a cover charge!

Cuban singer Luis Bofill has performed as lead singer with Salsamania, Color Latino, Nuevo Visión, and Grupo Café Nostalgia here in Miami. He has shared the stage with Ruben Blades, Mark Anthony, Luis Enrique, Bono, and many others. His deft phrasing has drawn comparisons to Benny Moré even as his delivery evokes contemporary R&B. The band’s performance adds sophisticated elements of 3 AM smokiness and languishing regret. José António Evora, in El Nuevo Herald, calls him “la voz de la noche miamense”.

Mai Tardi is an innovative Italian restaurant located at 163 NE 39th Street in the Design District. Its open courtyard provides a romantic setting for repasts ranging from tapas and pizzas to vegan dishes to specialties from their wood-burning oven such as rack of lamb and butterflied yellowtail snapper. Dining Out magazine describes it as “northern Italian cuisine with Mediterranean overtones…a menu marked by intriguing elements like venison ravioli with Gorgonzola sauce and classic wood-fired pizza.”

For more information about Mai Tardi, visit their web site at www.maitardimiami.com, or call 305-572-1400. For more information about Luis Bofill, please contact Kimberly Chmura at (305) 332-2623 or visit www.kccproductions.com.

Jazz at Jazid, with Silvano Monasterios and The Fourth World Ensemble 10/12/10

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KCC Productions and Jazid present Jazz at Jazid, with Silvano Monasterios and The Fourth World Ensemble, Tuesday October 12, at 11 PM. Jazid is located at 1342 Washington Ave, South Beach. For more information, call (305) 673-9372 or visit jazid.net.

Voted “Best Jazz Musician in Miami (2009)” by the Miami New Times, pianist-composer Silvano Monasterios hails from Caracas, Venezuela. In 1989, he traveled to Miami, Florida to participate at the Miami Jazz Festival. After obtaining an “Outstanding Soloist Award” at the University of Colorado in 1991, Silvano received a music scholarship from the University of Miami, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1995. Silvano has performed with a number of important artists including Ira Sullivan, Terumasa Hino & the World Jazz All-Stars, Othello Molineaux, Dave Liebman, Melton Mustafa, Marc Johnson, Donald Byrd, Alan Harris, Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Nathen Page, Randy Brecker, Sammy Figueroa, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Paul Wertico, Mark Egan, Shakira, David Lee Roth, and Nestor Torres. In 1998, Silvano was voted “New Artist of the Year” at the Hennessy Cognac Jazz Search in New York City. 1998 also marked the release of his first CD, Roads Not Taken, which received outstanding reviews in the U.S. and Latin America. He earned his Master’s Degree in Jazz Piano and Pedagogy in 2004 from The University of Miami. DownBeat Magazine honored Silvano as the winner of its “Best Jazz Instrumental Soloist Award” in the 28th Annual (2005) Student Music Awards. In 2006, his new recording, Fostered, was released. Fostered features all original compositions, including “Avila”, mentioned above. In 2007, Dogleg Records, a new independent company, released a recording of a live concert by the Wertico/Egan/Monasterios Trio entitled “Jazz Impressions”. Silvano composed, performed & co- produced two songs, including the title track, of the 2008 GRAMMY-nominated album, “The Magician”, by Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz Explosion. This wonderful CD has been nominated as “Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year”. The 4th World Ensemble, emerging in 2007 from Monasterios’ desire to experiment with the fusion of Latin Rhythms, World Music and Pure Jazz, features Monasterios on piano, accompanied by percussion, drums, bass and saxophone. The ensemble performs all original music composed and arranged by Silvano Monasterios.

The Third Annual Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest 10/15-17/10

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The Third Annual Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest
October 15-17
Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort
16701 Collins Avenue
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160
(305) 949-1300

Samson Oceanfront Park
17425 Collins Avenue
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160

Acqualina Resort & Spa
17875 Collins Avenue
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160
(305) 918-8000

Come join the City of Sunny Isles Beach as it presents The Third Annual Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest.

Sunny Isles Beach will be hosting a weekend of events, October 15th -17th, by featuring an unforgettable artist line-up that will bring smooth soothing jazz to the shores of Sunny Isles Beach

Jazz Composer/Pianist Tony Sona
Friday, October 15, 2010 from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Jazz Club/Acqualina Resort and Spa

Feat.Ed Calle and Performances by Oriente and Jesse Jones, Jr.
Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Samson Oceanfront Park

Sunday Brunch featuring Grammy Nominee Troy Roberts
Sunday, October 17, 2010 from 11:00 AM-3:00 PM
Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort

Ed Calle to Headline 3rd Annual Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest
– October 15-17, 2010 in “Florida’s Riviera” –

The Third Annual 2010 Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest is pleased to announce an artist line-up that will bring cool jazz sounds to the beautiful city on the weekend of October 15-17, 2010.

The Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest will celebrate the extraordinary sounds of jazz music throughout the event weekend; featuring renowned jazz artists. Headlining the festival is one of the most recorded saxophonists in jazz history, Ed Calle. Calle is known for his extraordinary ability to play bebop, Latin jazz, contemporary jazz, and pop. He appears on such Grammy award-winning albums by Frank Sinatra, Arturo Sandoval and Jon Secada. Ed has also recorded and performed around the world with such artists as Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Michael Bolton and Rihanna.

Additional musical guests include successful saxophonist and flautist Jesse Jones, JR. whose amazing talent in playing everything from traditional jazz to Bebop has allowed him to perform with such notable artists as Donald Byrd, Blue Mitchell and Ira Sullivan. Jesse Jones, JR. will be featuring multi- talented vocalist Yvonne Brown, and the performance is sponsored by the Sunshine Jazz Organization. Also, performing will be the always distinctive sounds of the Afro-Cuban Jazz band, Oriente.

The Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest, produced by the City of Sunny Isles Beach in partnership with the Sunny Isles Beach Tourism and Marketing Council, will showcase and highlight the best that the city has to offer including great music, fine dining, exclusive resorts, beautiful beaches and much more! The Jazz Fest’s special nonprofit partners, who will get partial event proceeds, are Joshua’s Heart Foundation (www.joshuasheart.org), which strives to “Stomp out Hunger” by providing necessities such as food and water to individuals in underserved communities and Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation (www.mchf.org), which aims to create awareness, funds and involvement for Miami Children’s Hospital through donations and charity fundraising events.

The weekend Festival kicks off on Friday, October 15th from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. with a spectacular performance by pianist and composer, Tony Sona at the elegant Jazz Club in Acqualina Resort & Spa, located at 17875 Collins Avenue. Admission is $25.

The festival will continue on Saturday, October 16th, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. with a blazing performance by headlining artist, Ed Calle followed by additional performances by Oriente and Jesse Jones, Jr. at the spectacular Samson Oceanfront Park. All ticket sales are final for this special event. Admission is $15

The final event of the Festival is a sumptuous Sunday brunch on Sunday, October 17th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. featuring the soothing sounds of Grammy Nominee, Troy Roberts at the Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort, located at 16701 Collins Avenue. Admission is $22.95.

The Jazz Fest is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Alvarez, the Board of County Commissioners, Commissioner Sally Heyman, Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, Around Town Magazine, Barefoot Wine, Polar Beer, Continental Group, Epicure Market, J. Milton & Associates, Trump International Beach Resort, Newport Beachside Resort and Acqualina Resort.

“The Third Annual Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest keeps getting better every year!” adds Ibis Romero, Executive Director of Sunny Isles Beach Tourism and Marketing Council. “We are happy to produce an event that, after three years, continues to attract both local residents and tourists.”

For more information on the Sunny Isles Beach Jazz Fest, its artists, venues or corporate sponsorships please visit the website at www.sunnyislesbeachjazz.com or email Ibis Romero at ibis@sibfl.net.

Bike Miami Days 11/14/10

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Sunday, NOVEMBER 14
Free & Family-Friendly
9am-2pm in Downtown

Bryan Pena from BP Media + Partners cordially invites you to
Miami Get Ready to Bike | Bike Miami Days

Join us this Sunday November 14, in the heart of DWNTWN to explore Miami in a new way.
Downtown Miami | 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Bike Miami Days is a City of Miami initiative to promote a healthy, active community based on livable streets and the growing urban neighborhood that is DWNTWN. It’s free, family-friendly, and a lot of fun. Bike Miami Days is an open street event for walking, cycling, skating, and enjoying your DWNTWN.

Sponsored by
DOWTWN | Downtown Miami
BP Media + Partners
Consulate General of France in Miami

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Opening of Freakonomics at the Coral Gables Art Cinema 10/15/10

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The Coral Gables Art Cinema opens its doors with the Florida premiere of Freakonomics and a special opening night event
Opening night Friday, October 15, 7:00 & 9:00 pm
Freakonomics plays for two weeks, varied screening times; the Cinema will be open seven-days-a-week, year-round, with a full line-up of films
Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida, 33134
parking on-site in covered garage
Year-round movie ticket prices under $10, varies for adults, students, seniors, children and members.
Opening Night screening and reception fundraiser ticket $100
Opening night tickets available online at www.coralgablescinemateque.org, and by phone at (786) 385-9689
regular screening tickets available at the box office only during screening hours with online advance sales in the near future
www.coralgablescinemateque.org
www.facebook/gablescinema
info@coralgablescinemateque.org
(786) 385-9689

Screening schedule 10/15 though 10/21
All screenings are for “Freakonmics”
Friday 10/15 (Special Gala Tickets Only) – 7 &10 pm
Saturday 10/16 – 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & 11 pm
Sunday 10/17 – 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Monday 10/18 through Thursday 10/21 – 5:30, 7:30 & 9:30 pm

Coral Gables Art Cinema Opens
South Florida’s New State-of-the-Art
Non-Profit Movie Theater
October 15 Special Premiere Event With Freakonomics

South Florida’s art house film scene is getting a shot in the arm with the October 15 launch of the new Coral Gables Art Cinema. With the most advanced technical set-up of any stand-alone non-profit movie theater in the region, 144 stadium configured seats, and a truly comfortable but intimate space in the upscale Gables, the Cinema is positioned to become an important destination for film-lovers in Greater Miami and beyond. Long-time film industry leader Steven Krams is the Founder and President of the Coral Gables Cinemateque, Inc., the non-profit that runs the Cinema, which was developed in partnership with the City of Coral Gables, Magna-Tech Electronic Co. and the Coral Gables Community Foundation.

The first film at the Coral Gables Art Cinema will be the Florida premiere of Freakonomics, the funny and insightful feature based on the bestselling book of the same name that explores “the hidden side of everything.” On Friday, October 15, there will be a special opening fundraising event for the Cinema, with screenings of the film at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm and a reception at 9:00 pm that those with tickets for either show can attend. Tickets for these screenings cost $100 and can be purchased in advance on the Cinema’s website www.coralgablescinemateque.org or by phone at (786) 385-9689.

Freakonomics will play for two full weeks with regularly priced screenings under $10, varying for adults, students, seniors, children and members. For a full schedule and ticket purchase options, plus news on upcoming film programs, check movie listings, or visit the Cinema’s website or call them for more information. Annual memberships are available that provide a range of discounts and benefits, and help support the Cinema.

The highly anticipated Freakonomics examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years, including Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong). In the movie, like the bestselling book Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner on which it is based, the filmmakers apply a surprising, economics-based analysis to the problems of every day life. The film, which closed the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, is just opening in theaters in October and will be making its Florida premiere at the Coral Gables Art Cinema.

The Coral Gables Art Cinema is a state-of-the-art theater and arts center that includes 35mm, 16mm (for archival prints) and pristine 2k/4k true industry-standard theatrical quality digital projection, Dolby digital sound, an onsite gallery, gourmet café and covered outdoor patio seating. It is fully wheelchair accessible with available assistive listening devices. The Cinema is also equipped for live presentations and performances, and includes parking in a covered garage.

“We will be showcasing the best first-run American independent and international features, both fiction and documentaries, in addition to repertory films, special programs and film festival events, which vividly speak to the multilingual and multicultural diversity of South Florida,” says Robert Rosenberg, the Cinema’s Director. “In addition to film screenings, the Cinema will be a cultural hub for filmmakers, other artists and the public, with live performances, great food and drinks, sidebar events and educational activities.” Rosenberg, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and a respected film festival curator and arts consultant, was recently brought on to develop the Cinema’s programming and community profile. Upcoming films at the Cinema this fall include Florida Premiere and First Run Presentations of international films from Peru, Israel, France and Nicaragua as well as more U.S. titles; films with stars such as James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker, Colombian heart-throb Manolo Cardona and Isabelle Huppert; and award-winning directors such as Gasper Noé, D.A. Pennebaker, Claire Denis and Rob Epstein.

The Coral Gables Art Cinema was conceived of in 2006 as a new movie theater to serve the South Florida region. The City of Coral Gables owns the building and the theater is operated by the Coral Gables Cinemateque, Inc., a non-profit film arts organization, under a long-term favorable lease. Gables Mayor Don Slesnick has also been instrumental in helping create the Cinema. “So many individuals and groups have come together to make the Cinema possible,” says President Steven Krams. “We truly believe that a venue such as this will serve the South Florida region for years to come.” The Cinema’s Board of Directors is made up of Carmen Argamasilla, Midge Blumberg-Krams, Patrick de Bokay, Daniel Gelber, Howard Glicken, Mitchell Kaplan, Steven Krams, Marshall Pasternack and Cathy Swanson-Riverbank.

Funding for the Coral Gables Art Cinema comes in part from the City of Coral Gables; the Perrin Fund of the Coral Gables Community Foundation; Steven and Myrna-Blumberg Krams; Bacardi; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; and the many individual donors and members who have joined to make the Cinema a reality. Major in-kind contributions of professional movie theater equipment, furnishings, fixtures and installations have been contributed by a range of film industry companies have been key to outfitting the theater.

Miami Deluxe Tweetup at Le Bar at Sofitel 10/26/10

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Miami Deluxe Tweetup
Le Bar @ Sofitel Miami
5800 Blue Lagoon Drive
Miami, FL
Oct 26 from 6.30 – 9pm
RSVP here: http://twtvite.com/miamitweetup
#MIAtweetup

BIG NEWS!!! Time to meet face to face!! TweetUp coming to Miami Oct 26 from 6.30 – 9pm !! Meet new friends, network, drink
cocktails (1st one’s on us!), learn about
Social Media and much more! Free
appetizers served from 7 – 8.30pm. Don’t
forget your business card to enter our raffles!
Lots of prizes to win for an evening full of
surprises!
RSVP via Twitter @sofitelmiami or by e-mail: miami@sofitel.com today to guarantee your place!

Le Bar @ Sofitel Miami
5800 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami FL/33126
Phone: 305-264-4888 • Fax: 305-503-8383

The Luckiest Penny show at the Ability Explosion 10/21/10

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“The Luckiest Penny” at the Ability Explosion
October 21st at 12:15
Miami Beach Convention Center
Featured on the Resource & Technology and Education Expo
It is FREE

“The Luckiest Penny” is an interactive all original musical that shares why “Self-worth has NO price tag!” It is seen through the eyes of two rare, pure copper 1943 pennies. Allister, believes that he is perfect because he lives in a plastic case which has protected him from taking life’s tumbles. Henrietta, on the other hand, is a tossed about penny with different abilities, who knows what is really important in life. The mission of the production is to accept each other’s different ABILITIES through a FUN and whimsical way! Here’s what Laura Duksta, Author, New York Times Bestseller, of I Love You More said: “The Luckiest Penny gives us all an opportunity to look at what we value about ourselves and other. It is an engaging story that encourages the conversation of self-worth and love!

Ability Explosion is a week long series of exciting events made to celebrate the abilities of individuals with disabilities.
October 19-24
http://www.AbilityExplosion.org

Miami Media Girls Sing Karaoke at Vinyl and Kai 10/12/10

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October 12, 9pm-12am
Vinyl & Kai
1131 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305.531.2640
www.vinylkai.com
Twitter: @vinylkai

Please join us at Vinyl & Kai on Tuesday, October 12 for a special edition of “Sink or Sing” Karaoke Tuesdays hosted by a few of your favorite local leading ladies..
Annie Vazquez
Jilian Sanz
Kelly Talamas
Lauren Gnazzo
Liana Lozada
Maria Arguello
Mary Jo Shore
Megan Harris
Stephanie Wilson
Tracy Block

$3 cocktails for the ladies from 9pm – midnight. Karaoke and DJ are provided by Kara-O-King.

Situated on Washington Avenue, Vinyl & Kai presents a refreshing new alternative and social mix to the South Beach scene — good food combined with live music at affordable prices. The space is intimate and inviting and will give the creative set of South Florida a reason to make Washington Avenue their new destination for breakfast, lunch, dinner or cocktails. The unique atmosphere at Vinyl & Kai imparts a casual ambiance with comfort dining and friendly service that has guests returning regularly on a weekly basis. Located at 1131 Washington Avenue, Vinyl & Kai offers an array of dishes in a quintessential indoor and outdoor space and is sure to become a local’s favorite in the South Beach neighborhood.

What’s What with The Webster

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The Webster
1220 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
thewebstermiami.com

By Talmage Thornhill
The Webster is undeniably cool. It has a pricey boutique with several different merchandise brands on the first and second floors. There’s a restaurant whose menu looks delectable, but so far I have only been tempted enough to try the rooftop bar and lounge.

Quite the chic sobe experience, everything about this place is hip: beautiful people, comfortable seating, exciting open view of Collins Ave from above, and eclectic, interesting music. In fact, the Thursday night DJ is one of the most creative cats spinning records I’ve heard in Miami in quite some time.

They have an excellent late night happy hour, during which cocktails are a mere $5. Paula, our cocktail server for the night, was as gorgeous as the bottle girls at Mynt and Mokäi but thankfully omits the snooty, I-deserve-all-of-your-money-and-you-are-lucky-to-be-here-attitude that too frequently accompanies so many of her contemporaries. The drinks are strong and there’s not a plastic cup in sight.

The bathrooms are downstairs, a bit far from the rooftop, but that’s the only thing that doesn’t basically totally rock about this joint.

I can’t wait to go back!

Biltmore Health and Wellness Festival 10/15-17/10

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The Biltmore Health & Wellness Festival
Friday, October 15 to Sunday, October 17, 2010.
The Biltmore Hotel
1200 Anastasia Avenue
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
Website.

organic food and wine tastings,
community organizations,
experience auricular acupuncture,
yoga, tai chi and qigong demonstrations,
holistic nurses doing energy healing,
acupuncture demonstrations,
organic food and wine tasting
acupuncture history, theory & modern research
Total Performance Golf
women’s health
organic & healthy cooking,
organic lifestyle,
Biltmore Culinary Academy Ongoing Culinary Demonstration
acupuncture facial rejuvenation
modern acupuncture techniques & equipment
modern Chinese herbal remedies
Celebrate the health of the individual, family, community and planet.

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to this year’s Biltmore Health & Wellness Festival featuring 2nd Annual Acufest. Inspired by the overwhelming response to last year’s inaugural event, this year’s Festival has grown into a three-day community wellness celebration. Individual, family, community and planetary wellness will be explored in a series of exciting events, beginning with Friday’s Women’s Health and the Environment Conference, workshops with renowned holistic health experts on Saturday, and live entertainment events each evening. The three days will culminate with Sunday’s Acufest, an all-day celebration, featuring dozens of exhibits and interactive workshops with national and local health educators. One of the highlights of Acufest: A Festival of Healthy Living is our very popular organic food and wine tasting, this year featuring many of South Florida’s top chefs. We look forward to seeing you and enjoying this year’s Festival with all of you!

Book Launch and Reading Tigertail a South Florida Poetry Annual 10/14/10

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Thursday, October 14, 8pm
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables
booksandbooks.com
miamipoetrycollective.com
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

books available for purchase

Go to tigertail.org for map and directions

Tigertail, a South Florida Poetry Annual is a Tigertail publication project that addresses new poetry. This eighth edition is by the innovative Miami Poetry Collective. In the book’s introduction, Campbell McGrath says, ‘In short, the MPC wants to rescue poetry from the airless box in which American society has locked it away, help it feel the sun on its skin again, maybe toss a Frisbee with it, share a drink or two, let it run shoulders with the other arts, music and painting and film.’
Join the poets for an evening of lively reading.
‘We should all rejoice in the wonderful and important work found in Tigertail, a South Florida Poetry Annual.’ – Mitchell Kaplan

The Fairchild Palms Bootanical Bash 10/29/10

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Bootanical Bash
Friday, October 29th, 2009
8:00 p.m. to Midnight
Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens
10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL 33156

The lush Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is South Florida’s ideal setting for the coolest Halloween blowout. Come in costume and mingle with Miami’s young professionals. Howl on the lawns and terrorize the dance floor, all in support of environmental conservation and education.

– Bludgeoning beverages at several open bars
– Horrifying hors d’ oeuvres and devilish dishes on open buffet
– Costume contest. 1st prize is an exclusive hotel/dinner package!
– DJ & dancing in the Fog Cave
– Indoors/outdoors event

Buy your tickets online today! This event will sell out!
Tickets on or before October 26th (midnight)
Palms Members $45 Before October 26th (midnight)
Non-Members $50 Before October 26th (midnight)
Tickets after October 27th are $60

ArtOfficial with special guests Tanya Morgan at Transit Lounge 10/23/10

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ArtOfficial play Transit Lounge on Saturday, October 23rd with very special guests Tanya Morgan…
Saturday – October 23rd
Transit Lounge
729 SW 1st Ave
Miami, FL
No cover, doors @10pm
21+

Please join us for this very special night. This will be Brooklyn based Tanya Morgan’s debut in Miami. For a sneak peek check out their video So Damn Down.

More info:
www.artofficialmusic.net
tanyamorgan.brooklynati.com
transitlounge.us

Chocolate Festival 2010 at Aventura Mall 10/10/10

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Indulge In Delicious Confections At Aventura Mall’s Chocolate Festival
Sunday, October 10 from 12:00pm – 4:00pm
Aventura Mall
19501 Biscayne Boulevard, Aventura FL

Satisfy that ever-present sweet tooth at Aventura Mall’s Chocolate Festival on Sunday, October 10 from 12:00pm – 4:00pm. A chocoholic’s dream, the mall’s Center Court will showcase a decadent display of delicious chocolate morsels prepared by some of South Florida’s most popular restaurants.

A true celebration of all things chocolate, visitors can tantalize their taste buds by purchasing mouthwatering treats from participating restaurants, while admiring a runway show featuring the latest in chocolate-inspired fashions designed by students from Miami International University of Art & Design beginning at 2pm. Children can play with their food without a word from Mom and Dad at the kid’s chocolate station, and raffles offering fabulous prizes will be held throughout the event.

Guests can be a part of the Chocolate Festival by purchasing tickets for $1 each or 13 tickets for $10. The tickets can then be traded in to vendors for the chocolate treats. Proceeds from the Chocolate Festival benefit the Children’s Craniofacial Association.

Participants in Aventura Mall’s Chocolate Festival include: Chef Allen’s, Grand Lux Café, Schakolad Chocolate Factory, The Grateful Palate, Porto Vita, Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club, Turnberry Ocean Colony, Alisa’s Painted Bistro, Florida International University School of Hospitality, Chocolate 4 Charity, Nordstrom Café Bistro, Miami International University of Art & Design, Ocean Prime, We Take the Cake, Godiva, and Starbucks.

Aventura Mall’s Chocolate Festival is sponsored by Gym Kids, New York Bakeries, Norwegian Cruise Line and Turnberry Ocean Colony.

South Florida’s #1 shopping destination among locals and international visitors, Aventura Mall ranks as one of the top five highest grossing malls in the country in sales per square foot. The 2.7 million square-foot multi-level mall is home to Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Macy’s Men’s Home Furniture, JCPenney and Sears, 300 stores and restaurants, a 24-screen movie theater, and an artist-designed interactive playground, Rainbow Valley. Located at 19501 Biscayne Boulevard, the mall is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and Sunday, Noon to 8 p.m. For more information call (305) 935-1110, visit the website at www.aventuramall.com.

Miami Seaquarium Monster Splash Nighttime Bash 10/29-31/10

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3 Nights of Fun & Frights! Friday, Saturday & Sunday
October 29th – 31st • 5 – 11pm
Kids will have a spooky good time at the annual Monster Splash Nighttime Bash, a family-friendly nighttime extravaganza.
Website.

For young ghosts and goblins:
Trick or treating
Spooky stroll through ‘Frightening Forest’
Pirate Skeleton Walk
Little Monster Play Area

‘Field of Screams’ for older scare seekers:
Unlimited carnival rides
2 haunted houses including ‘Buried Alive’
Live DJ, games & food
Plus trilling Halloween-themed Shows for everyone! ONLY $24.95 (10 and up) & $19.95 (3-9 yrs)

Groups of 10 or more call (305) 365-2531 for group discounts.

Print Coupon.

Buried Alive Haunted Houses and Carnival 10/22-31/10

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Buried Alive
4400 Rickenbacker Causeway,
Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Across from the Miami Seaquarium
Fri, Oct 22 – Sun, Oct 24
Thurs, Oct 28 – Sun, Oct 31
7pm – 11 pm
$13 all night and unlimited carnival rides
www.buriedalive2010.com

Experience the suffocating sensation of being buried in your own tomb. The maggots and flesh-eating worms aren’t your only companions. Your worst nightmares live down here, too. This Halloween, we’re gonna scare the (BLEEP) out of you!
South Florida’s most horrific haunted houses
The insanity of unlimited carnival rides
Food, music and beer (you’ll need a few after this one)
On the “field of screams” next to Miami Seaquarium.

Calix Gustav Gallery exhibition mörker during Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk 10/9/10

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Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29 St.
Miami, FL 33127
Saturday October 9, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Calix Gustav Gallery is pleased to present its current exhibition mörker, taking place this Saturday during Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk.

Set in a magical and mysterious Scandinavian forest inhabited by eerie mystical characters intricately depicted in charcoal and ink drawings by Swedish artist Johan Björkegren. The longing for comfort is not lost in the innocence of a child and the warm love of a mother. Artists Ingrid Eliasson and Jennifer Basile bring a calming effect from this lurid fantasy with the detailed structured graphite drawings, juxtaposed over the rich biomorphic backgrounds. The feeling of a “cozy home” is amplified by the crocheted fiber tapestries.

We are introducing the new CG Boutique, a smaller gallery intended for the younger art collector. The first featured artist will be Birds Are Nice.

Birds Are Nice is a visual artists and graphic designer working in the Miami area. The decision to work anonymously as Birds Are Nice came from the artist wanting to have fun and make happy, urban work that references pop culture along with the comic and cartoon genres. Formally trained at a university, BAN considers them-self a self-taught artist as most of the materials and techniques used in the current work are not what was learned in school.

Taking inspiration from the graffiti artists of our time, such as Word to Mother, Know Hope, and countless others, Birds Are Nice wishes to get the work out in the general public. There are many traveling outdoor projects currently in the works. BAN feels the art world takes themselves very seriously. Low brow vs. high brow, street art vs. gallery art? Art is art and Birds Are Nice wants people to stumble upon the work and have a moment of laughter.

Birds Are Nice uses illustration, digital mediums, sculpture, animation and video.

Mörker will run from September 11, 2010 through November 19, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.calixgustav.com.

The Great Table on the Great Lawn at Miami Beach Botanical Garden 10/22/10

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The Great Table on the Great Lawn
Octber 22, 7:00pm
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
2000 Convention Center Drive
mbgarden.org

Under the full, harvest moon on Friday, October 22, the Garden will present The Great Table on the Great Lawn, a reception and dinner that showcases locally grown organic foods, esteemed regional growers and producers, a stellar guest chef and distinctive culinary experience.

Celebrated chef Ken Lyon of Fratelli Lyon Restaurant and Lyon + Lyon Catering will prepare a five-course reception and dinner served on a grand table on the Garden’s Great Lawn. Exceptional wines from Mattebella Vineyards on Long Island’s North Fork will be paired with each course on an extensive menu designed to highlight locally harvested seafood, seasonal fruit and vegetables, locally raised organic meats, cheese and dairy products from Florida growers such as Paradise Farms, Bee Heaven Farm, Palmetto Creek Farms, Hani’s Mediterranean Organics, and others.

The all-inclusive dinner is priced at $100 per person with a 10% member discount on two tickets. The event will raise funds for landscape features in the Garden’s new design by acclaimed landscape architect Raymond Jungles. Highlights of the design will be discussed by Ray Jungles during the reception.

Seating is limited. For reservations and information, call 305-673-7256 Ext 206.

Doing Business In Miami X at Blue Martini Brickell 10/20/10

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Doing Business In Miami X.
One Mask + One Glass & One Goal = Hope
Get more, Give more.. ™®cram
Blue Martini (Brickell)
900 South Miami Ave. # 250 Miami, FL 33130
Phone: 305-981-2583
Wednesday October 20th
From 6:00 Pm to 9:00 Pm
Complimentary Drink – Cocktails & Appetizers
Us$2.00 dollars Admission Fee. For CRAMNAT Humanitarian Programs
RSVP: cram@boxbe.com

Our main focus is in introducing, sharing, and becoming part of humanitarian and social charities. Join us and be part of our events and know their programs. We can all be part of their Dream while we do Business and explore Different Strategies and make your opportunities a success
Special Guest’s Speakers :
Rick Rivera, Rear Commodore Miami Outboard Club
Michael Ghaemi, GPM Chief Executive Officer MBA Pepperdine
Alison Reagin, Health Coach

Business Opportunities with Latin American and The Caribbean

Mingle with:
Investors Groups and Hedge Funds. Project Developers. Funding & Capital Market companies. Real State Investor’s. Law firms. Foundations and Humanitarian Corporations. CPA, Bank and Trader’s officers and many more friends.

Street parking and Valet parking available
50 % H. Hour Drinks until 8 pm and Ladies until 9pm
Also 50% OFF (until 8 pm) entire Dinner Menu For Our Guest
invite your Friends Facebook (Strategic Point)

Cram Group and its companies are honor to support
A Gift for Life Foundation .
Sponsor By Aguila (Colombian Beer) Cramnet- Cram Group. Cramnat GPP Foundation, Rawny Law Office.PA., Soul of Miami, GoldFellow

Wynwood Gallery Walk After Party at Mamushka Made in Havana Arts Café 10/9/10

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After Wynwood Gallery Walk come and enjoy Classic Salsa at Mamushka Made in Havana Arts Cafe
Saturday October 9, at 10pm
31 NW 36th St.
(3 blocks west of Biscayne Blvd).

With DJ David Solero and special guests. Drinks, Food, and music … Cash Bar Only!

For reservations call 786-991-3823 or 305-343-2585.

www.mamushkagallery.com

Brotherly Love Productions Halloween schedule 10/29-31/10

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Halloween is, hands down, the best party holiday of the year offering multiple opportunities to dress crazy and explore your wild side. Second to New Year’s Eve, it is also the premier night for bands to take the stage and warp their identities. This Halloween, Brotherly Love Productions has summoned three eerie nights of musical tricks from Oct 29 – 31 and costume contest treats including Aura Music Festival tickets, bar tabs, hot new BLP merch, and band and bar goodies.

Friday, October 29
EP3 w/ DuBBle James @ Funky Buddha Lounge
$5 | 9pm | 18+
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, EP3 have been hard at work over the past year, touring throughout the US where they’ve shared the stage with a number of well-known acts including Pretty Lights, Bassnector and Pnuma Trio. This four-piece has embraced new technologies and traditional improvisational elements, creating their own brand of live electronic music. The release of “EP3D” has found the band exploring new musical ground, combining top shelf production from Underlying Themes Studio with all the power and feel their live show is famous for. www.ep3band.com

DuBBle James is the womped-out alter ego of keyboardist Jim Wuest and drummer Jamie Newitt (both of The Heavy Pets). In their free time, this duo has been mastering the hottest and trendiest electronic music style today, using no computers, only live instrumentation to create their unique down tempo dubstep.

Saturday, October 30
Aquaphonics “Under The Sea” Halloween Party @ Funky Buddha Lounge
$5 before 11pm, $10 after 11pm | 9pm-3am | 18+
Aquaphonics is a uniquely funky electro-soul indie band that is quickly gaining steam in their native South Florida. Derived from friends and jam sessions, Aquaphonics has boasted several different members and worn different skins, yet to this day retains its original, liquid, “Aquaphonics Sound.” The band is comprised of founding members, Jessiah Weston (drums) and Alan Martinki (keys), who have been melding their music since 2000, along with dynamic guitarist Steve Elmore and bassist Jim Dinsmore. Their edgy grooves and inspired song writing continues evolving and has recently earned them spots supporting Perpetual Groove and a set at Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival in November. www.aquaphonicsband.com

Sunday, October 31
BLP Sunday Night Cookout & Halloween Party with Lather Up! @ Hurricane Bar
FREE BBQ 6-8pm | FREE show 8pm-1am
Another side project of The Heavy Pets keyboardist Jim Wuest, drummer Jamie Newitt and bassist Justin Carney; Lather Up! is a jazz-funk explosion that explores alternative takes on THP tunes along with some groovy covers and rare originals.

VENUE INFO
Funky Buddha Lounge
2621 North Federal Highway, Boca Raton, FL 33431
561.368.4643 | www.thefunkybuddha.com

Hurricane Bar & Lounge
640-7 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483
561.278.0282 | www.hurricanelounge.com
*All shows – FREE | 8pm | FREE BBQ from 6-8pm featuring mojo-marinated chicken, sirloin burgers and beefy foot-long hotdogs for bar patrons.

Mantrap In Concert and Disco Party at La Casa de Tula 10/15/10

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MANTRAP IN CONCERT & Disco Party
October 15, 10 PM
La Casa de Tula
La Casa de Tula
1513 SW 8th St. Miami
Friday, October 15, 2010
Facebook evite.

Mantrap, the legendary Miami band from the 70’s is performing live at La Casa de Tula on Friday, October 15 at 10 PM.

Bring your DISCO era attire and come to experience the music of one of Miami’s most famous band of the 70’s.

Mantrap was put together by a group of friends during the early 70’s and Reached Stardom Quickly And Drew Very Large Crowds.

In 1975 Mantrap recorded and released their first album, then, in 1977 they released their second album titled “Disco Fantasy” when Disco music was sweeping the nation and Mantrap switched styles from a rock to disco to please their fans. Disco music was fabulous for Mantrap. It took them to new heights and made them more popular than other local bands.

In May 2010, Mantrap released their 3rd production and CD titled “Lost Memories” which bring back dancers to the 70’s area one more time!

On Friday, October 15, Mantrap will perform live at Tula for a night of great music of an era that many still remember… The disco and 70’s!

Cover: $10

See U all … a Miami’s 70’s partyyy that you can not miss!

Ana G.Méndez University System-Celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month 10/19/10

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Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez-Celebra el mes de CONCIENTIZACIÓN SOBRE EL CÁNCER | Ana G.Méndez University System-Celebrates BREAST CANCER AWARENESS Month
October 19, 2010, 7:00 PM
Ana G. Méndez University System-Miramar Campus
Miramar Park of Commerce
3520 Enterprise Way
Miramar, FL 33025
www.suagm.edu/southflorida

Ana G. Mendez University System invites cancer survivor Verna Donaldson to come educate our audience about breast cancer prevention, thru her own experience. She works with the American Cancer Society helping affected patients. She will visit the Learning Resources Center at our Miramar Please join us!
RSVP: 954-885-5595 Ext. 8511 www.suagm.edu/florida

Gatsby Gone Goth at The Raleigh SuperMarket 4th Annual Halloween Event 10/30/10

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Michelle Leshem, Jose Ortiz, Danny Santiago, Lolo Reskin, Anthony Spinello, Nick D’Annunizio, Jipsy and David Glass invite you to THE Halloween bash of the year.
GATSBY GONE GOTH
Saturday, October 30, 9:00pm – 5:00am
with complimentary cocktails from 9-10.
The Raleigh Hotel
1775 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL

Buy your reduced advanced tickets
$20 | Ballroom and $25 | Penthouse
www.gatsbygonegoth.ticketleap.net

*a dark and goth homage to the kind of the roaring 20’s the Great Gatsby*
…Video Art curated by Spinello Projects
Supermarket’s infamous vignette styled by celebrity stylist Danny Santiago and photographed by Stian Roenning.
In the Ballroom: LIVE Performances by The Parallels and Panic Bomber with DJ’s Tommy Gunn and Smeejay
In the PH: DJs Ess & Emm | Mister Drake | Troy Kurtz

Need to purchase a costume?? Visit Stash Wardrobe Rental — the premier place for designer and vintage clothes for men and women as featued in Sex n The City. By Appointment only 305-318-3973

www.supermarketcreative.com | www.dirty-mag.com
www.sweatrecordsmiami.com | www.spinellogallery.com
www.heineken.com | www.taraink.com

Claudia Calle Solo Show at The Awarehouse with Fabrika 10/9/10

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Join Fabrika this Saturday Oct. 9th at The Awarehouse for Claudia Calle’s Solo Show

Miami Photographer/Mixed Media Artist Claudia Calle Receives Top Honors By International Photography Awards For Interpretations Of China
Celebratory Exhibit Slated for October 9, 2010
Awarehouse in Wynwood, Miami
550 NW 29th Street, Miami FL, 33127
7:00 to 11:00 p.m. is free and open to the public.

In celebration of Claudia Calle’s “Fine Art Collage” first place achievement from the International Photography Awards (“IPA”), presenting The Road to Calle: Republic of China, a solo exhibition at Luis Perez Galeria / Awarehouse. The artist will showcase a series of socio-cultural images, which represent China’s controversial globalization, copyright and mass production issues. Slated to coincide with Wynwood’s monthly Second Saturday Art Walk, the opening reception on Saturday, October 9, 2010 from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. is free and open to the public.

A beer sampling courtesy of Samuel Adams and DJ sets by Aramis (Poplife), Mr. Pauer (Fabrika) and Kiko de Gallo (Groovalizacion) will set the tone at Luis Perez Galeria / Awarehouse (550 NW 29th Street, Miami FL, 33127), with the official after-party taking place at Grand Central. For more information please visit www.claudiacalle.com or www.awarehousemiami.com.

“I create from a spontaneous place where, even if only for a brief moment through the lens, I can expose the wondrous nuances of my surroundings,” said Calle. “My passion for traveling and studying social and cultural phenomena pushes me to capture the essence of people and things in front of me. Experimenting with photography, painting and non-conventional materials allows my canvas to expand, making all traditional techniques or rules disappear.”

Calle’s Republic of China series was selected by International Photo Awards among 15,000 submissions spanning 103 countries. The pieces, which fuse photography with collage and acrylic on wood, were further hand-picked by renowned curator Adriana Teresa to appear in the IPA “Best of Show” Exhibit in late-October at Splashlight Studios, New York.

Leading up to IPA’s New York event, complete works of Calle’s Republic of China will be on view from October 9 to 29, 2010 at Luis Perez Galeria / Awarehouse, Miami, FL. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment at 305.573.4004.

Born in Manizales, Colombia, Claudia Calle has resided in Miami for more than 10 years. The vibrant artist whose designs and photographs capture poignant everyday moments, both locally and in foreign countries, opened an eponymous studio in Wynwood during Art Basel 2009 at 2722 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami FL 33127. Calle studied photography and graphic design at the Caldas University in Colombia, the Audiovisual Art Center in Mexico and at Miami AD School. She is the recipient of numerous awards including two honorable mentions by the prestigious International Photography Awards with her series Living in Silence and Between Frontier: The Longneck Story (2009); “Five Minutes of Fame” by the Museum of Contemporary Art (2009); and Photographer’s Forum “Top 100 Best Photography Worldwide” (2002). Please visit www.claudiacalle.com for more information.

Miami Hair Beauty and Fashion Launch at The Spa at Viceroy Miami 10/14/10

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The Long Anticipated Miami Hair Beauty & Fashion 2010 To Launch In South Florida

Thursday, Oct. 14
7:00 p.m. Media Registration
7:30 p.m. Pink Carpet Guests start to arrive
7:45 p.m. Backstage glass suite experience
9:40 p.m. Announcement by Candela Ferro
10:00 p.m. Fall trends fashion show
11:00 p.m. Club 50 After Party

Viceroy Miami Icon Brickell, Water Spa Lounge
485 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131

Rocco Donna and international renowned leader in the hair design industry will launch the Miami Hair Beauty and Fashion 2010 by Rocco Donna Oct. 14 in association with Fashion Box Studio. This insiders only event will be a first-of-its-kind marketing platform for the latest innovations in hair, make-up and fashion. Complete with a pink carpet supporting the Susan G.Komen for the Cure for guests to walk and celebrity hosts to greet them, this will be a top-shelf, precedent setting event. This inaugural year the event will be limited to beauty and fashion industry insiders only and next year the event will expand to the anticipating public.

Unique to the show, Rocco leading the hair & beauty experts chose to style the models in glass suites, so that guests and media will have the opportunity to see how models go from natural to glamorous. The glass suites will be divided by category that will include: hair, make-up and fashion. Immediately following the fashion show there will be an After Party to celebrate Rocco Donna’s sixth anniversary at Club 50.

Leonardo Rocco, President Rocco Donna Hair & Beauty Art
Elias Maida, President of Fashion Box Studio
Patricia Rivadeneira, Vice President of Fashion Box Studio
Irma Martinez, Internationally renown stylist and image-maker
Hosts: Candela Ferro & TBD
Hispanic Celebrities Karla Martinez, Maritza Rodriguez, Veronica Montes, Alexandra Olavarría, Ximena Duque, Laura Ferreti, Mariana Rodriguez, Ana Carolina Dafonseca, Paulo Quevedo, Rodolfo Jimenez, Roba Avelanet, Mauricio Henao, Ana Layevska, Rosina Grosso, Vanessa Villela, Alejandra Espinoza, Jason Canela, David Chocarro, among others, that will be modeling on the runway.

Five years in the making, Miami Hair Beauty & Fashion 2010 by Rocco Donna alongside South Florida beauty and fashion industry specialists will come together for a show that will tout latest innovations and cutting-edge trends in hair, make-up and fashion.

Leonardo Rocco, CEO and founder of Rocco Donna and international renowned leader in the hair design industry, is preparing to launch the Miami Hair Beauty and Fashion 2010 by Rocco Donna presented by Suave Professionals® on Oct. 14 in association with Fashion Box Studio headed by Elias Maida, President and Creative Director, and Patricia Rivadeneira, Vice President and Chief Orchestrator.

Held in the elegance of The Spa at the Viceroy Miami, this insiders-only event will be a first-of-its-kind marketing platform for the latest innovations in hair, make-up and fashion. Complete with a pink carpet for guests to walk and celebrity hosts, Candela Ferro and Rodner Figueroa to greet them, this will be a top-shelf, precedent setting event. This inaugural year the event will be limited to beauty and fashion industry insiders only and next year the event will expand to the anticipating public.

“This beauty platform will become the place where beauty industry leaders come to launch and showcase their products to the US Hispanic market and Latin America,” said Leonardo Rocco, co-creator of the Miami Hair Beauty & Fashion. “There is not quite another platform like this that pulls together the most sought after Hispanic celebrities, industry insiders, and global brands invested in this category and market in South Florida. We are proud to be the first to launch this one-of-a-kind event.”

From beginning to end, guests will feel that they are part of a celebrity gala with backstage access. Starting with the pink carpet supporting Susan G. Komen for the Cure which replaces the traditionally red carpet in the spirit of Breast Cancer awareness, to the pristine, elegant spa setting designed by Philippe Stark and behind the scenes access, Rocco Donna and the participating brands have pulled out all the stops.

Participating brands include: presenting sponsor Suave Professionals®, Babyliss PRO, Marcia Teixeira BKT, SO.CAP Hair Extensions, BECCA, Decléor Paris, and Taca Airlines. Furthermore, guests will be served Latino-inspired hors d’oeuvres during the cocktail courtesy of Morena Restaurant and they will be enchanted by elegant house music by Claudio Holze.

Unique to the show, Leonardo Rocco leading the hair & beauty experts from our exclusive alliances to this platform chose to style the models in glass suites, so that guests and media have the opportunity to see how models go from natural to glamorous. The glass suites will be divided by category that will include the “Suave Professionals® Hair Lounge,” where the celebrities and models will have their locks primped to achieve sensational red carpet and runway looks.

In the Make-up Suite, Decléor products will be prepping the skin before the application of BECCA’s award winning make-up system that leaves skin flawless every time. Finally, there will be a Fashion Suite sponsored by Taca Airlines where Irma Martinez and her Trendy team will be dressing and accessorizing the most radiant Hispanic talent with this Fall’s chic fashion tendencies.

Elias Maida, co-creator of Miami Hair Beauty & Fashion 2010 by Rocco Donna and Fashion Box Studio President, believes that Miami showcases some of the latest trends and attitudes in the world of beauty and fashion.

“Miami‘s unique position as a multicultural city, coupled with the dynamic interaction of cultures, make for women from all over the world share their beauty secrets resulting in vast beauty options and a highly educated audience in this category,” said Maida.

To add to the evening’s appeal, Irma Martinez will be serving as the night’s fashion curator. Martinez is an internationally renowned stylist and image-maker, a Target spokeswoman, and was recently named one of People en Español’s 25 most influential Latinas.

Immediately following the fashion show there will be an After Party sponsored by Babyliss PRO to celebrate Rocco Donna’s sixth anniversary at Club 50, the Viceroy’s private rooftop evening lounge. Rocco Donna’s anniversary celebrations have attracted over 1,000 people and included celebrities, media, and friends. And this year will be no exception, especially because of this year’s dual celebration.

This event would not be possible without the support of our sponsors, who believe in this innovative platform for showcasing exceptional hair, make-up and fashion. Our presenting sponsor is Suave Professionals®, our platinum sponsor is Taca Airlines, and gold sponsors are Babyliss PRO, Marcia Teixeira Brazilian Keratin Treatment, Yucatan Holidays, Morena Restaurant. Silver sponsors are SO.CAP, and BECCA. Bronze sponsors are Decleor Paris, Velati Candles and Chef Jackie. The Spa at Viceroy Miami is a partial sponsor.

Rocco Donna Hair & Beauty is considered one of the most prestigious and avant-garde beauty salons in South Florida. Located in the heart of the world famous Ocean Drive, it is a temple of beauty that offers an ample services menu and the latest trends in the market. Excellent service and devoted experts truly honor their slogan, “introducing the energy of beauty”, sharing it with their clients providing them with red carpet worthy locks every time.

Leonardo Rocco, CEO and President of Rocco Donna Hair & Beauty Art, is a legend in the hair design industry. Widely known for styling A-list talent he created a stir in the business arena as well. He has been featured in Ocean Drive en Espanol’s Power Player Issue as one of the most influential personalities in Miami and his salon was voted “Best Celebrity Haircut.” In November 2009, he was acknowledged for his outstanding entrepreneur spirit at the 15th annual Sunshine awards luncheon paying tribute to the top Hispanic business leaders in South Florida. In addition, Rocco serves as the Hispanic spokesperson for Unilever brands among them Suave Professionals®.

Rocco’s latest venture is the Miami Hair, Beauty and Fashion by Rocco Donna, launching in the Fall of 2010 for beauty and lifestyle industry leaders and press only and for the public in 2011. For additional information, please visit www.roccodonna.com.

For over 70 years, Suave has been committed to creating professional-quality products for you and your family designed to work as well as high-end salon and specialty brands. We are challenging consumers everywhere to Rethink Suave®, and rediscover the quality that is in every bottle we sell. As America’s #1 hair care brand, Suave offers a line of shampoos, conditioners and styling products that are proven to work as well as salon brands.

Founded in 1931 and with over 77 years of history, TACA Airlines has made a priority to offer passengers a travel experience marked by friendliness, respect and customer service. Today, TACA Airlines flies to 42 destinations in 22 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean and has a new generation fleet consisting of Airbus 319, 320, 321 and new Embraer E190 configured in two classes: Business class and economy class. TACA has been recognized in 2009 and 2010 by Skytrax, worldwide renowned travel survey, as the Best Airline in Central America and the Caribbean and for Best Cabin Staff in Central America and the Caribbean. More information on TACA Airlines and its services can be found in www.taca.com.

BaByliss Pro is always at the forefront of developing new, innovative products, as well as researching and implementing new technologies. The latest is the introduction of the first professional luxury hair dryer driven by an engine developed in collaboration with the Ferrari Challenge Team. Babyliss Pro offers several lines of superior professional styling tools, including dryers, straighteners, curling irons, trimmers, and clippers, with top-of-the-line brands such as BaByliss®PRO Nano Titanium™, TT®, Diamond Titanium™, Porcelain Ceramic™, Forfex® and Ceramic Tools™. State-of-the-art technology, quality and design are the hallmarks of this world leader in professional hair care products. BaByliss Pro empowers stylists by creating the ultimate tools of the trade. For additional information please visit: www.babylissus.com / www.stylesource.com.

Internationally renowned stylist and image-maker, Irma Martinez, is the founder and creative director of Trendy Inc, an innovative company based in Miami offering services to the entertainment and lifestyle industries. Considered a true pioneer in her field, with a track record of more than 20 years, the biggest and brightest Latin stars, top brands and Fortune 500 companies have confided their image on her, delivering high impact collaborations for top-rated shows, music productions, editorials and ad campaigns. This is why People en Español has chosen her as one of the 25 most influential Latinas. Recently this proud and talented Latina was chosen as spokesperson of Target, taking part in its Dream in Color campaign and the communication of trends for each season. Irma is working on her first editorial project and developing a multimedia platform based in the Affordable Style concept, which has always been her philosophy, nowadays even more relevant.

Mexico, the place you thought you knew. Enjoy an experience of a lifetime, Yucatan Holidays will take you there. Yucatan Holidays is a Mexican company with international endorsement whose goal is to travel 40,000 guests per year through the partnership and alliances with travel experts who share its vision, and are committed to personalized service and luxury travel at an affordable price. Yucatan Holidays wishes to gain worldwide recognition while promoting Mexican culture, traditions and sustainable efforts to promote a positive perception of Mexico. For additional information, please visit: www.yucatan-holidays.com.

Established in February 2006, M & M International is a family owned and operated business with its headquarters and warehouse in Delray Beach, Florida. The owners, Marcia and Marcelo Teixeira have created and introduced a revolutionary product to the U.S. market and created an entirely new category of product never before seen in the salon industry. Marcia was presented with an award at the Miami Beauty Show in August 2010 for having pioneered the Keratin Treatment category in the U.S.
For additional information on this revolutionary product, please visit www.braziliankeratin.com.

From a simple and personal desire for a cosmetic range that produced a flawless complexion, grew a company that has developed a make-up system that outperforms other high profile, expensive and well-established global brands.

BECCA has set a new performance benchmark and has established itself as a reference for creativity, style and quality. Add to that a range of focused colour products and a collection of the finest brushes, and it is easy to see why BECCA has so quickly made its mark in the competitive world of beauty products. For additional information, please visit: www.beccacosmetics.com.

Restaurateur Hernan Caporaso along with partner Alejandro Maya opened Morena Restaurant & Lounge on January 29, 2010. Morena provides South Beach and all the surrounding areas, an ultimate experience in upscale dining and entertainment, Morena is located on the ground floor of 1334 Washington Avenue in the heart of South Beach. Morena is open seven days a week. Restaurant hours are from 7pm to 12am and Nigth Club hours are from 11:30pm – 5am.
For reservations and more information call 305.538.4165 or visit www.morenamiami.com.

SHE by SO.CAP USA is an Italian company with its headquarters in New York and offices around the world. Dedicated for over 50 years to process the best quality 100% human hair and provide the best training to professional hairdressers. World leader in the manufacture and sale of hair extensions, wigs, hairpieces and cutting-edge bonding machines, and always developing the latest technologies. Represented in Florida by Gina Mijares president of SHE by SO.CAP USA Miami.

DECLÉOR Paris, the Cosmetic Aromatherapy expert for over 35 years, has a legacy rooted in the science of plant energies, combined with an in-depth understanding of the body’s vital energies. Found in resort and day spas across the globe, DECLÉOR products and spa treatments offer a unique art of beauty based on the power of Essential Oils that heighten the senses and invite the body to fully experience relaxation and well-being. At the heart of DECLÉOR are exclusive Aromessence™ serums and balms, 100% natural, pure, active and preservative-free Essential Oil blends that regenerate the skin, drain toxins, treat the skin from within, and impart lasting radiance. For additional information please visit: www.decleor.com

Velati Candles manufactures the most beautiful and unique wax lanterns available. Each one of them is handmade with love and dedication, as we know that they will be sharing a special space in your home or transforming your next party into an unforgettable event.  For additional information please visit www.velati.net.

Chefs Productions, LLC by Chefs Jackie and Raul can provide you with all of your Culinary needs. We can provide you with a personal or executive chef, a line or grill cook and any other type of culinary staff you may need for your home, event, event space or restaurant. More information can be found at www.chefproductionsllc.com.

The 28,000 square-feet spa at Viceroy Miami Icon Brickell is the Miami urban spa destination managed and operated by Viceroy Hotel Group. A 5,000 square-feet Water Lounge is staged as a whimsical floating “library,” with a wading pool decadently set with waterborne sofas and chairs and flanked by three hot-and-cold plunge pools and two fireplaces. The Spa also includes 2,500 square-feet, state-of-the-art gym facility. The full-service spa offers an exclusively curated collection of massages, facials, body treatments, and beauty services that combine the use of product lines and advanced technology available no where else in the metropolitan area. You will walk away with glowing results immediately. For additional information please visit: www.viceroymiami.com/spa.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world’s largest breast cancer organization, awarded more than $100 million in research grants last year, representing the largest single-year investment in research in the organization’s 26-year history and a 30 percent increase over the previous year’s award total of $77 million. The 2008 grants slate moves Komen for the Cure closer to accomplishing its goal of investing another $2 billion in breast cancer research and community health programs by 2017.

Born in Argentina, has discover an important role in the music industry. He began his residence at the prestigious nightclub “Nikki Beach”, meanwhile also playing in important events sponsor by famous brands like Louis Vuitton in San Francisco, Moet Chandon in France, Custo Barcelona Fashion Show and Fashion Week in New York for Paris Hilton. Claudio Holze is a well-known Dj with an elegant and unique style of playing with a long and distinguishes reputation.

Fashion Box Studio was founded by Elias Maida, President and Creative Director, and Patricia Rivadeneira, Vice President and Chief Orchestrator. Fashion Box Studio creates marketing platforms, provides product development for established and emerging brands, and also produces fashion lines for both men and women.

Among their most significant marketing platforms is the “Fashion Art Show” presented by MasterCard. The platform pulls together luxury brands with worldwide prestige and internationally acclaimed Hispanic talent that are considered “Masters of Excellence”. Unique to this marketing platform are two marketing pillars, FAS Magazine and FAS TV.

In 2009, Fashion Box studio launched Equinoccio-Equinoccio, an exclusive women’s clothing line, spear headed by Venezuelan designer Alejandro Crocker. Miami Hair, Beauty & Fashion is their latest creation. For additional information please visit: www.fashionboxstudion.com.

Miami New Times Downtown Development Authority Iron Fork at Grand Central 10/21/10

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Miami New Times is proud to present Iron Fork Presented by Downtown Development Authority.

Thursday, October 21, 2010
Grand Central (697 North Miami Avenue, Miami)
6pm-10pm / 7pm-10pm General Admission
Ticket Price: $35 Pre Sale / $45 at the Door / $65 VIP
Tickets and more info.

The center stage of this event will be the Chef Challenge Finals where Returning Champion: John Critchley, Area 31 will battle Douglas Rodriguez, D. Rodriguez Restaurant Group for the prestigious Iron Fork award. The chefs will receive a basket of ingredients and one secret ingredient. The winner will be announced that evening.

Iron Fork Will Feature:
Food Samplings From Area Restaurants
Open Bar Featuring: Famosa Beer, Bombay Sapphire, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly
Kitchen Provided by: Panda Kitchen & Bath

Performing Live: ‘BAREFOOT & BRENDON’. DJ MIKE T FEATURING JON SAXX

Benefiting: United Way

21+ Event

Bird Road Art District Art Walk 10/16/10

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Bird Road Art District – Art Walk
Saturday, October 16, 2010, 7:00-10:00 pm
Throughout the Bird Road Art District (BRAD)
The Bird Road Art District (BRAD) is located just east of SR-826 (Palmetto Expressway) & south of Bird Road (SW 40th Street) to SW 48th Street and to SW 72nd Avenue

Join us on Saturday, October 16 from 7:00-10:00 pm and experience where creativity is inspired. Go behind-the-scenes, visit open studios and gallery exhibitions, meet the artists, enjoy poetry readings and music, and indulge in an explosion of flavors served from gourmet food trucks. Come get inspired and be part of a creative process!

Visit:
Accent Alternative Art Space
Aperture Studios
Ana Maria Sarlat
Caudart Gallery & Studio
Ediciones Malgon
Edward Berounsky at Architeknics
Erik Speyer Studio
Esteban Blanco Art Studio
G Peralta Fine Arts
Gina Guzman Stained Glass Studio
Ilisastigui Studio
Lambertini Art
Madero Art
MANO Fine Art Studio/Project Space
Miami Press Workshop
Nestor Arenas Fine Art Photography
Nkinsi Projects
Ray Azcuy Art Studio
Rodolfo Chavarriaga Art Studio
Rofle Art Studio
Romero Hidalgo Artists’Studios

Join us every 3rd Saturday of the month from 7-10 pm for the Bird Road Art District’s Art Walk.

Click here to view mapof particpating studios/galleries.

Maps will be available at all participating studios and galleries. For more information contact 305.467.6819.

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Photographs of Macy’s Heart of Haiti Collection Launch Party on 10/7/10

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Heart Of Haiti Collection Launch Party at Macy’s at Dadeland Mall on Thursday, October 7, 2010.   Recognizing the continued need in Haiti, Macy’s announced a new initiative – “The Heart of Haiti” – which will bring trade and aid to the earthquake-devastated country through a program for selling traditional Haitian artisan home décor products. The collection, inspired by the courage and culture of the Haitian people and created by Haitian artisan survivors, will be available in 25 Macy’s stores and on Macys.com in October. Already, monies are being sent to Haitian artisans to buy needed materials to return to work, and more than 200 artisans are at work full-time.

Launch Miami Market 11/6/10

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Launch Miami Market
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 11am – 7pm / Free To The Public
Artist, Designers and Culinary Artist selling their goods
Launch Miami Market
121 NE 36th Street & NE 2nd Ave
www.launcharte.com

Launch Arte is a company created to give Artists, Designers and Entrepreneurs an outlet to be discovered.

Launch Miami Market is a branch of Launch Arte giving the community direct access to the talent that lives and works locally.
Starting Saturday, November 6 and every Saturdays following through end of April.

At Launch Miami Market, you can find:
*Jewelry
*Accessories
*Vintage
*Clothing
*Fashion
*Art
*Handbags
*Hats
*Handmade leather goods
*Culinary Artists
*Music
*Antiques/ Rare finds
*Organic Farmers Market

Launch Miami Market is now accepting emerging designer entries!
For inquiries email: info@launcharte.com
For space reservations email: reservations@launcharte.com
www.launcharte.com

Launching Saturday, November 6 and every saturday following until end of April.
Threading the community with local Artist and Designers.

Locust Projects presents Valerie Hegarty Break-Through Miami Reception 10/9/10

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Valerie Hegarty
Break-Through Miami
Reception: Saturday, October 9, 7-10pm
Locust Projects, Inc, 155 NE 38th Street Suite 100 Miami, Fl 33137
Through October 16, 2010

Locust Projects is pleased to present a site-specific installation by New York-based artist Valerie Hegarty. Hegarty’s practice often involves processes of recreation, deconstruction, and transformation. Inspired by the history of the sublime landscape painting, Break-Through Miami transforms the 2,700 square foot exhibition space into a site where architecture and nature collide. Hegarty adheres layers of painted paper to the walls and floor of the gallery, only to peel them back in a technique she describes as “reverse archeology.”

Using paper-mache, photography and trompe l’oeil painting techniques, Hegarty creates the impression that the gallery walls have been stripped, revealing an old Miami building interior. Illusionary holes in the space create fabricated portals to the exterior environment where wildlife appears to creep in and new views to the Miami shoreline are discovered. The work shares a visual affinity to the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, who famously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls in abandoned buildings. Instead of the heroic gesture of actually breaking through the architecture with a saw and sledge hammer, Hegarty cleverly alludes to the physicality of this process with fragile materials such as foamcore, paper, paint and glue. The gallery is transformed into a quasi-abandoned space, but is in effect a deconstructed still-life painting.

The artist utilizes the existing architecture of the gallery to create the illusion of an environment under transition or altogether forgotten. The result is a collapse of exterior and interior that questions the stability of the space. The viewer is left to ponder the gallery’s altered interior and the veracity of the transformation.

Valerie Hegarty studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. Hegarty is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including a 2010 Pollock Krasner award and a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. She was recently awarded a residency at the Triangle Arts Association in New York for 2010-11. The artist’s work is currently on view as part of a public art commission on the High Line, NY and at Portugal Arte 10 in Lisbon. Recent exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NY; Marlborough Gallery, NY; Kings County Biennial, NY; and New York Minute at the Depart Foundation, Rome, Italy. Hegarty is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York and Museum 52 in London.

Bodegon de Brickell Brings its Best!

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Bodegon de Brickell
801 Brickell Bay Drive
Miami, FL
bodegonbrickell.com

By Talmage Thornhill
This gringa doesn’t even know how to properly pronounce the word “bodegon,” but that didn’t stop her from getting into the groove at Bodegon de Brickell last weekend at its sneak preview.

Located inside the  Four Ambassadors Building at 801 Brickell Bay Dr., the new hot spot transcends categories. Start with an amazing restaurant, add a healthy pinch of nightclub, glaze with some swanky lounge, and you just might have it. More practically, the place is neither small nor big, but is very open. Tiered levels with tables into the back of the space lend both privacy and focus to the dance floor, DJ booth, and stage down below. An impressive array of lighting and digital media keep you interested while the ample seating allows for maximum comfort.

For me and my crew of two others, the night felt effortless. I took my first try at dancing Salsa since my Padawan days in Miami, when I regretfully worked at an unspeakably tacky South Beach staple for longer than I’d like to admit (cough *Mango’s* cough). Alas, I had the basic 1-2-3 of salsa down, and turns out that rhythm is incredulously stubborn. With either  a sexy Cuban or confident Venezuelan as a partner, I was able to keep up.

While the band kept me moving, the bartender kept me sipping. A stiff cocktail or two, a generous sampling of the restaurant’s best dishes, and even complimentary champagne brought Bodegon de Brickell to that place all resto/lounges want to be: memorable. It’s easy to let one little thing or another slide in the hectic world of hospitality, but Bodegon understands it has stiff competition and is up for the challenge. We ended the night eager to discover what more fun there was in store.

bodegonbrickell.com will have details on events, including happy hour, nights catering to the Salsa and Merengue loving crowd with a live band, and local DJ talent brought to rip up the decks with everything from house to hip-hop. In the meantime, check out the grand opening this Friday night at 9:00 PM to take your taste of Bodegon de Brickell.

Accent Alternative Art Space to serve Miami a Full Plate 10/14/10

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Accent Alternative Art Space to serve Miami a “Full Plate”
Accentmarketing’s project space launches its sequel exhibit featuring the work of Miami artist Julio Antonio
Thursday, October 14th, opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m.
4841 SW 75th Avenue Miami, Florida 33155

Exhibit Dates: October 14th to November 8th

Thursday, October 14th Accent Alternative Art Space debuts “Full Plate”, with an opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Miami artist Julio Antonio will exhibit 100 ceramic plates and works on paper. Exquisite symmetrical patterns grace these ceramics, making the collection an extraordinary production inspired on the island of Cuba, the human figure and various animal forms.

Accent Alternative Art Space’s premiere exhibit, “Killing and Salting”, had an extraordinary turnout its opening night and showcased the work of emerging young artists. (See photos here.) “Full Plate” hopes to continue this momentum and carry on its non-profit’s mission to develop ideas that are outside the mainstream scope of Miami’s commercial art galleries, while harnessing local talent and culture. Julio Antonio’s distinct style falls within the scope of alternative expression that Accent Alternative Art Space strives to highlight within the community, and his work is profoundly shaped by the idea of exploring the endless possibilities to transform the commonplace into objects of beauty.

“The sheer vibrancy of this collection is testimony to the creative drive of a master craftsman in full command of his art,” said Esteban Blanco, founder of the non-profit gallery. “It is a dazzling demonstration of how to make the extraordinary seem easy.

Cuban-born artist Julio Antonio is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts, Cuba. Considered a keystone integrant of the exile artist community, Julio Antonio taught many of the prominent exiled artists while a professor of Art in Havana. His work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo of Malaga, Spain, among many others. Some monotypes of the same series shown in the exhibition are part of the collection of the McArthur Foundation.

Coral-Gables based Accentmarketing continues to support its non-profit passion project by contributing the energy and creativity of its talented staff. Each gallery show is a collective effort on behalf of the agency, whose team has demonstratedtheir ardor for freethinking expression within the community in areas such as painting, graphic design, creative writing and music.

Accent Alternative Art Space continues to showcase all forms of art. Local artists are welcome to become fans of its Facebook page and begin an artistic discussion on Miami’s alternative art scene by posting their art and vision on facebook.com/accentART Additionally, artists who post their work may qualify to have their pieces featured in the gallery.

A truly inspiring group dedicated to the idea that art can transform a community, Accentmarketing is committed to furthering Miami’s artistic culture by giving the heart and soul of the community’s creative scene a chance to make their work known.

Accent Alternative Art Space is located at 4841 SW 75th Avenue Miami, Florida 33155 and open only by appointment.

Accent Alternative Art Space is a not-for-profit art initiative by advertising agency Accentmarketing. This creative piece of real estate launched in 2010 is dedicated to non-commercially driven artwork by emerging and mid-career artists. Essentially, AAAS wants to develop ideas that are outside of the mainstream scope of Miami commercial art galleries while harnessing local talent and culture. To learn more about the not-for-profit art gallery visit www.facebook.com/accentart

About Accentmarketing (www.accentmarketing.com)
Established in 1994, Accentmarketing is a full-service Hispanic marketing communications agency with offices in Miami, Los Angeles and Detroit. A certified minority owned business and member of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Accentmarketing employs a multinational and multicultural staff. The agency’s client partners include the American Heart Association, Dunkin Donuts, Farmers Insurance, GobiernoUSA.gov, Chevrolet, the California Association of Realtors, Kaiser Permanente, Brown-Forman and the U.S. Navy.

For more information on the artist visit www.julioantonio.com

KCC Productions and the Van Dyke Cafe present Deskarga Jam Band 10/8/10

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KCC Productions and the Van Dyke Cafe present Deskarga Jam Band
Friday October 8, at 9 PM.
The VanvDyke is located at 846 Lincoln Road, South Beach.
For more information, call 305-534-3600 or visit thevandykecafe.com.

Deskarga Jam Band….Timba meets Latin Jazz. Composed of Cuban-American musicians with a unique free style of playing, the musicians individually have performed with Julio Iglesias, Jon Secada, Los Sobrinos, Tipica Tropical, among others. Deskarga’s repertoire covers everything from Benny Moré, Los Van Van, Buena Vista, and NG La Banda to Celia Cruz. The band has played to the greater Miami dance audience in venues such as Alcazabas, Macabi Cigar Bar, Mojitos & Calle Ocho Festival among others, as well as numerous private and corporate events.

Deskarga have earned a reputation for exceptional musicianship and their exciting energetic live performances. They can captivate audiences’ hearts with their soulful montunos, explosive percussion riffs, and melodic vocal improvisations.

Florida Ranching Roundup at HistoryMiami 10/9/10

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FLORIDA RANCHING ROUNDUP
HistoryMiami | 101C West Flagler Street | Miami | FL | 33130
Saturday, October 9
Noon – 5 pm

Round up the family for a fun-filled afternoon! Enjoy activities at every turn, including:
Storyteller Iris Wall
Saddle maker Michael Wilder, spur maker Billy Davis and whip maker Buddy Mills
Presentation on harvesting and preparing swamp cabbage
Recreated cow camp
Crafts for kids

Free and open to the public
http://www.hmsf.org

Barge, O’Connell and Thiele opening at Dorsch Gallery 10/8/10

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Dorsch Gallery is pleased to present three solo shows by Rene Barge, Brian O’Connell and Robert Thiele. A preview opening will be held on Friday October 8th from 6-9pm. We will also be open late for Second Saturday from 7-10pm.
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 St
Miami, FL 33127

O’Connell will offer Drawing Seminar: How to Make Your Jeans Blue, a performative workshop about the indigo plant, on Saturday October 9th from 1-3pm. Bring something you want to dye.

Rene Barge: The Making of a Porous Body
The prints and videos in Barge’s stellar body of new work are prismatic glimpses into pattern interactions with specific environments. Barge blends multiple filters and distortions via alternately human, natural and artificial agents, showing multiple aspects of change at once.

Brian O’Connell: The Illusion of Plans
New York – based artist Brian O’Connell (currently featured in PS1’s Greater New York) presents The Illusion of Plans. In three separate installations, he reduces objects and structures to their most basic physical variables, allowing the complex histories of his materials and construction processes to come to the surface.

Robert Thiele: 8-Four-9
Thiele presents new work (all made within the last year) in the project room, in conjunction with the release of 30, a survey catalog accompanying his 2009 exhibition at Dorsch Gallery.

Other DG News
Arnold Mesches: Selections from Anomie 1492-2006, part of the Florida Artists Series, opens at the Patricia and Philip Frost Museum at Florida International University (FIU) on October 13 from 6-9pm. The event is free and open to the public. Selections from Anomie 1492-2006 runs through December 5, 2010.

LoweDown Happy Hour 10/7/10

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LoweDown Happy Hour
Thursday, October 7, 2010, 7-9 PM
Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month!
The Lowe is featuring its’ spectacular Mesoamerican collection with a tour of the exhibition The Jaguar’s Spots by Curator Dr. Traci Ardren. Guests can enjoy light Mexican fare, Mariachi, and register for a raffle of The Jaguar’s Spots catalog.
$10 Admission; Free for Lowe Members

Cocktails generously provided by Bacardi
Other beverages courtesy of Vitamin Water Zero and Honest Tea

Thursday, October 7 – Sunday, October 10
Annual Recycled Book Sale
Don’t forget to stop by…
you may find a book you can’t live without!
All proceeds benefit the Lowe Art Museum.
For information, call the Museum Store: 305.284.6988

The Deering Estate at Cutler Living Artist Concert Series Opening 10/15/10

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The Deering Estate at Cutler presents the 2010-2011 “Living Artist Concert Series”
Classical Chamber Music Concert Series opens Friday, October 15th, 2010
Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble
Deering Estate at Cutler • 16701 SW 72nd Avenue • Miami, FL 33157

From October 2010 through April 2011

A season subscription for all six concerts is $120. Individual tickets: Adult $25, Student $12. Tickets can be purchased Online or by calling the Deering Estate Ticket Office at 305.235.1668 x 233.

The Deering Estate at Cutler presents classical chamber music with the 2010-2011 Living Artist Concert Series. The superb natural acoustics of the elegant Stone House Ballroom provide the perfect setting for the concerts performed by the talented Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble and noted guest musicians and composers. The Living Artist Concert Series combines performances with lectures, visual art exhibits and interpretive programs.

The first concert of the season “Unveiling” features works by Spanish and Cuban composers who lived at the turn of the 20th century along with the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor. The concert will be held on Friday, October 15th. Guests can meet the Ensemble members at an artist reception at 6:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:00 p.m.

The richly diverse series of six programs continues through April 2011, and includes works by Liszt, Mozart, Schumann, and contemporary pieces by Resident Composer Judith Shatin.

All concerts begin at 7:00 p.m. with a meet-the-artist reception at 6:30 p.m. A season subscription for all six concerts is $120. Individual tickets: Adult $25, Student $12. Tickets can be purchased Online or by calling the Deering Estate Ticket Office at 305.235.1668 x 233.

The Deering Estate at Cutler, a Miami-Dade County Park, is located at 16701 SW 72nd Avenue in Miami. This 444-acre natural and archeological preserve, and historic site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a center for education, culture and recreation. Historic house tours and natural area tours are offered daily with admission to the Estate. EcoAdventure Tours are also offered throughout the year for an additional fee. For more information on the Deering Estate’s educational and cultural programs, please visit www.deeringestate.org.

For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

International Cell Phone Photo Show at Artspace MAGQ Gallery 10/8/10

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The International Cell Phone Photo Show – A Juried Show October 8th from 7 – 10pm
OPENING FOR THE SHOW FRIDAY – 7-10 PM October 8, 2010
Artspace MAGQ
8747 S.W. 134 Street | Miami | FL | 33176

“The International Cell Phone Photo Show” is showcasing artists worldwide that have submitted work produced using any cell phone available to the artist.
We look forward to having you be a part of the opening night for this event at Artspace MAGQ Gallery.
Show will be open to the public from Friday October 8th until Thursday November 4, 2010

The Frost Art Museum presents Four New Fall Exhibitions during Target Wednesday After Hours 10/13/10

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The Frost Art Museum presents Four New Fall Exhibitions during Target Wednesday After Hours
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Mateo Manaure. Untitled. 1977. Acrylic on wood, 56 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches. Art&Art LLC Collection. Photo © Gary Mercer
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. 10975 SW 17th Street. Miami, FL 33199
From Oct 13th, 2010 through Jan 2nd, 2011
Admission: Free

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) will host the opening receptions for four major exhibitions: Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction; Sequentia by Xavier Cortada; Selections from Anomie 1492-2006 by Arnold Mesches and La Habana Moderna in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum as part of The Museum’s Target Wednesday After Hours programming series on Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. located at 10975 SW 17th Street, Miami, FL 33199. The event is free and open to the public.

Coming on view is Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction which presents a historical overview of the origins of Venezuela’s abstract movement, focusing on its early development dating from the late 1940’s to the 1960’s. It includes works by artists who were responsible for the growth of the movement at the national and international level, particularly in Paris where many of them resided at the time. The show, curated by Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig and Maria Carlota Perez, features works by Omar Carre�o, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Narciso Debourg, Gertrude Goldschmidt (Gego), Elsa Gramcko, Carlos Gonzalez Bogen, Gert Leufert, Mateo Manaure, Alfredo Maraver, Nedo, Ruben Nu�ez, Alejandro Otero, Mercedes Pardo, Jesus Rafael Soto, Victor Valera, and Oswaldo Vigas, among others.

The selection of works from private collections and Foundations included in the exhibit document an important period of Venezuela’s art history, which was instrumental in the development of Modern Art in the Americas. Paintings, sculptures and installations illustrate the development of Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction and Kinetic art, and introduce many artists who contributed to the movement in Venezuela, unknown to the American public. On view through January 2nd, 2011.

Florida Artists Series: Selections from Anomie 1492-2006 features Florida artist, Arnold Mesches. Throughout his 65-year career as an artist and professor, Arnold Mesches has woven many narratives into lush and virtuosic paintings. Beginning in late-1989 and until mid-1996 Mesches created the ANOMIE series, paintings and collages that included overt and subtle references to the overlapping histories and multi-cultural aspects of life. The 48 large acrylic paintings and 150 collages encompassed postmodern concepts with old master techniques and structures. In these works, large canvases of cinematic proportions, nothing is overt, images move and mingle freely through time, find their place conceptually, independent of actualities. In a broader sense, they are the conceptual admixtures of reality and the surreal Mesches has been striving for over these many years of painting and activ ism. This series incorporated pertinent, often disparate, historical and personal images. It seems to be a summation of Mesches’ collected views on the world’s madness and inconsistencies, on beauty and ugliness, evil and justice, on life over death. Mesches has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad, most recently at PS1 Contemporary, the Museum of Modern Art affiliate. On view through December 5th, 2010.

Sequentia, Xavier Cortada’s solo exhibit at the Frost Art Museum explores the sequence of events that make up life on the planet from the molecular to the monumental. The title of the exhibit also references a series of actions Cortada will set in motion to create of a unique strand of DNA. The artist will work with a molecular biologist to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence generated by museum visitors using Cortada’s art. In “The Four Nucleotides”, the artist creates large scale “portraits” of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine – the four bases of a DNA strand that summarize all we are, were and will be. In Sequentia, the artist invites museum visitors to randomly select a post card depicting one of Cortada’s four nucleotide oil paintings and attach it sequentially on strings hanging in the form of a helix from the exhibit gallery’s ceiling. In stringing the n ucleotides along, they develop a DNA strand as a participatory installation.�On view through January 2nd, 2011.

In La Habana Moderna, Habana is the focus of the next exhibition in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum on view in the fall of 2010. By presenting a variety of materials from the collection of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University (magazines, photography, architectural drawings, tourist ephemera, and other media), it explores how international commercial and cultural links contributed to the emergence of a modern identity for the city in the decades before the Cuban Revolution. The exhibition is made possible by financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. On view through January 2nd, 1011.

Target has teamed up with The Frost Art Museum to sponsor an event series designed to complement The Frost’s exhibitions. These events give visitors the chance to meet contemporary artists and engage with controversial art, live music, talks, films, dance, and performance art, while providing an excellent opportunity to socialize with other people interested in the arts. For information on future Target Wednesday After Hours, please visit http://thefrost.fiu.edu/wah.ht

For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Opening Reception of Pre-City by Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza at Gallery Diet 10/8-9/10

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Friday Preview : October 8th, 2010 6-8pm
Second Saturday : October 9th, 2010 7-10pm
On view through : November 4th, 2010
174 NW 23 Street, Miami, Florida 33127

Gallery Diet is pleased to present Pre-City, a solo exhibition of collaborative works by Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza. With the works in this exhibition, Moreno and Oroza speculate on what they call the pre-city, a kind of abstract plane or pliable region made up of the different shapes and materials that determine what the city will look like. They propose that the city is already compressed in the range of materials, repeating objects and standard metrics found in construction material depots, lumber yards, roofing companies, landscaping nurseries, and home improvement stores. The pre-city is a series of codes that have yet to be arranged and coupled into larger assemblages. The exhibition will include “diagrammatic lamps”; “photographs” made out of materials printed in newspapers, magazine and catalogues; a new tabloid; domestic tableaux; and collages.

Gallery Diet is a contemporary art gallery located in the Wynwood District of Miami, Florida where it has existed since 2007. The gallery has produced over 25 solo and group exhibitions by new and emerging artists from around the world and has documented those exhibitions in hard cover print on a yearly basis. Represented artists include Charley Friedman, Christy Gast, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski.

How to make Love stay by Divna Pesic at CityLoftArt 10/9/10

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How to make Love stay by Divna Pesic
Art & Design Night – Saturday October 9th. 2010, 7-10pm
CityLoftArt / European Art Gallery, LLC. – 61, NE 40th Street – Miami, Fl.33137

An incredible women and artist, oil-surrealist, and professional sportsman from Macedonia
Meet her Saturday in my Gallery and get her new book personally signed for you !

You will have a Great night with light, music, drinks, nice stores, gastronomy at it’s best. See how you can improve your wellbeing at home and… Park, Walk, Talk and enjoy the European style pedestrians side walks, in addition to an amazing festive ambiance…

Appreciate our exhibition and enjoy our beautiful live piano music entertainment with our well known pianist Domingo Aragu. Come and see how we translate and show Light meets Color, subtly transported by our media: Resin, Enamel, Laquer, Glass, Acrylic, Polycarbonate and even Water(-Jets). Taste our complimentary buffet with Julio Maza: Intern.”Harmony” Vegetarian Meat

Our website: www.CityLoftArt.com
– Be very welcome ! –
Hans-Jürgen R. Klemm

Grand Opening of Art Nouveau Gallery 10/9/10

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Georgina Chumaceiro and Elizabeth Hazim
Directors of Art Nouveau Gallery, cordially invite you to the Grand Opening of Art Nouveau Gallery
Saturday, October 9 2010, 7 – 10 pm
Wynwood Arts District
348 NW 29th St.
Miami, FL 33127
305 573 4661
www.artnouveaugallery.net

Vernissage Reception for the Inaugural Exhibition Abstracción Geométrica

Exhibition on view
October 9, 2010 – January 8, 2011

Featuring Carlos Cruz Diez, Héctor Ramírez, Martin Morales, Rafael Barrios, Jesús Rafael Soto, Carlos Rojas, Eduardo Rodríguez Villamizar, Carlos Medina, Octavio Herrera, Inca Zabala, Inés Silva, Saverio Cecere, Rodrigo Rodríguez and Joaquín Latorraca.

For over 20 years, Art Nouveau has captured the hearts of collectors who appreciate and enjoy art. Since its creation, this gallery has undertaken de challenge of showcasing the most interesting proposals in the international scene, and has done so with sensitivity and courage. It has become a reference for experts in Latin American art.

It has also been a first home to some new artists whom time has chosen as a way to reward the remarkable vision of this gallery. For many, Art Nouveau represents avant-garde, but it is perhaps the sharp intuition to choose master pieces of contemporary art what best defines the profile of this gallery. They have understood that the eye makes the photography and that history and respect make tradition, but it is the heart that sets the guidelines in this business.

artnouveaugallery@yahoo.com
www.artnouveaugallery.net

Biophilia Nellie Appleby at DV 10/9/10

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Dimensions Variable Presents
Biophilia- Nellie Appleby
September 11 – October 30, 2010
Please join us October 9, 2010, 7-11 pm for the new evolution of Biophilia.
171 NE 38th Street, Design District, Miami, Florida 33137, United States

Appleby will be presenting a collection of new works made in the last year while living the subtropical locale of Key West. This new body of work continues her essential focus on the human relationship with nature – but with a decidedly lighthearted lens. A cacophony of works will be shown ranging from color and cyanotype photographs, video installation, and constructions of edible, growing plants that will be cultivated in the gallery and be eaten at dinner parties and during conversations at Dimensions Variable. The exhibit will be in a state of transformation, as the plants always are.

Born 1973 in the mountains of Virginia, grew up in Southern Africa. Nellie Appleby earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Virginia in 1997 and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. She has received various grants including the Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellowship and the Sierra Club Water Sentinels Grant. She has exhibited her work in NYC (Wildfist, Mighty Robot, the Cave, Leonard Codex, Che Mez), Virginia (ADA, Fayerweather, Nature, Anderson) and Mexico (Museo Ex-convento del Carmen – Guadalajara, Galeria Metropolitana – Mexico City), Houston (skydive), and San Francisco (California College of Art).
Sponsors
Narragansett Beer
Design Landscape Design
3800 NE 1st Ave, Miami
305.446.8159

Buena Vista Deli
4590 NE 2nd Ave, Miami
305.576.3945
Special Thanks
The Studios of Key West, Katrina Rank, Bennett Hirschhorn and Angela Valella

Saturday’s Upscale Event Mia at Biscayne International Affair 10/9/10

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Saturday’s Upscale Event ✖ Mia at Biscayne – International Affair
October 9th, 10:00pm
Mia At Biscayne
20 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL
http://Mia.QueCoCo.com

J.Fabian in Association with LMG
Brings You:Experience MIA Ultra-Lounge This and every Saturday Night
DJ’s Albert Day & Willy will make you dance your night away with International Open Format in the main room
& House music in the terrace…

A state of the art facilities, amazing decor and the most incredible cocktails are waiting for you this Saturday
It is highly recommended that you reserve tables in advance to ensure admission. We Have Fabulous Bottle Specials.
To Rsvp – MiamiFabian@Hotmail.com or 786.942.2097

Upon Arrival Inform The Door Staff That You And Your Guests Are In Fabian’s List
Guest list valid till 12:30am . To be on the Guest list please send us an Email OR a text 786.942.2097 MiamiFabian@Hotmail.com

Girls In Free All Night Assuming That You Rsvp
21+.Dress code is strictly enforced.

Follow us on Twitter @miamifabian
www.QueCoCo.com
786.942.2097 MiamiFabian@hotmail.com

Girls in free all night (assuming that you rsvp)
Guys in free before 12 (after 12:00 is reduced for guys)
For vip and bottle service contact Fabian

Not So Scary Family Halloween Bash at Miami Children’s Museum 8/24/10

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Not So Scary Family Halloween Bash
Benefiting the Museum’s Scholarship Programs
Sunday, October 24, 2010 1-6 p.m.
Miami Children’s Museum
980 MacArthur Causeway
Miami, FL 33132

Save the date for our Not So Scary Family Halloween Bash benefiting the museum’s scholarship programs. Enjoy activities such as trick or treating, costume parade, pumpkin decorating, and a haunted house. To purchase tickets or for more information contact Kelly at 305.373.KIDS (5437) or kelly@miamichildrensmuseum.org.

Tickets: $40 per person (children and adults)
Packages:
$1,000 – 10 tickets, Benefactor MCM Membership & a personalized tile on Starfish Stroll
$500 – 8 tickets & MCM Family Membership
$200 – 6 tickets

Sexy Saturdays Return of the Raw Bar 10/9/10

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Sexy Saturdays- Return of the Raw Bar!
Every Week at Nikki Beach, From 11 am to 7 pm
Nikki Beach Miami
One Ocean Drive
Miami Beach Florida 31339
305 538 1111
www.nikkibeach.com

Seduce Your Senses Every Saturday. Experience what makes us the “Sexiest Place on Earth”. Enjoy Live Entertainment, Daily Drink Specials and the Return of our Extravagant Raw Bar.

For more information or to book your reservation email: RESERVATIONS

Amazing Sundays Day Brunch At Nikki Beach Miami 10/10/10

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Amazing Sundays Day Brunch At Nikki Beach Miami
From Oct 10 to Oct 10 2010, From 11 am to 4 pm
Nikki Beach Miami
One Ocean Drive
Miami Beach Florida 33139
305 538 1111
www.nikkibeach.com

Join us Every Sunday, Our Award-Winning Sunday Brunch runs from 11a.m. to 4p.m. Come by and check out our all-new waffle station, omelet station, custom pastas, freshly carved meats, sushi station, desserts and more! Enjoy VIP bottle and beverage service or even a massage from any of our lounge beds.
For more information or to book your reservation email: Reservations.miami@nikkibeach.com

Dancing In Miami At Nikki Music Every Sunday Night 10/10/10

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Dancing In Miami At Nikki Music Every Sunday Night
From Oct 10 to Oct 11 2010, From 7 pm to 5 am
Nikki Beach Miami
One Ocean Drive
Miami Beach Florida 33139
305 538 1111
www.nikkibeach.com

Every Sunday Night From 7pm to 5am Our most recent addition, Nikki Music, is our weekly Sunday night party providing you with the freshest tracks and entertainment. This week line up features Special Guest DJ HUGO BIANCO, and Residents DJ Bruno,DJ Armand Pena, For more information or to book your reservation call 305.538.1111 For reservations table and bottle reservations: viptables@nikkibeach.com

O. Ascanio Gallery Presents Nanín

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Nanín, a renowned Latin American contemporary artist, to exhibit for the first time in the United States

O. Ascanio Gallery presents the work of Venezuelan contemporary artist Nanín in an intriguing solo-exhibition featuring a selection of original works that challenge the imagination and transcends the space that contains it. Dubbed, Nanín: Recent Works, the series will be available for public viewing from October 16 through November 13.

Each work in the series was thoughtfully and scrupulously selected to complement, and ultimately transform, the gallery space. Each piece – made up of abstract, minimalist geometric figures – complements the next to form a unique alphabet, evocative of an extraterrestrial script. This fluid expression of secret codes and signature geometric abstractions, transforms thought into visual compositions.

Nanín was inspired by geometric and mathematical principles that support the idea of a hybrid language expressed through symmetries, asymmetries, repetitions and developments. Color harmonizes the series’ structure and projects movement through an innate, subliminal context.

“Nanín brings an entirely new approach to contemporary art and the theme of abstraction, breathing new life into the genre,” said Oscar Ascanio, the gallery’s owner.

While working as an architect in Caracas, Venezuela, Nanín simultaneously toyed with a musical career. Both these experiences are evident in his artwork today. In the late ‘80s, he decided to follow his passion and pursued a career in art. Since then, Nanin’s work has been shown extensively in France and throughout Latin America. He’s had solo-exhibitions in venues that include:Espacio Meyer Zafra in Paris in 2008, Durant & Diego in Caracas in 2007 and Galeria Graphic Art in Paris in 2006. He also was part of a collective exhibition in Artbo in Bogota in 2006 and Feria iberoamericana FIA 2009.

Also noteworthy, he is a seasoned museum curator, taking part in organizing important exhibitions in Museo de Arte Moderno Jesus Soto de Ciudad Bolivar in 1992, in Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas in 1999 and in Primer Salon Bigott de Arte Popular en el Centro de Arte Maracaibo in 2006, among others.

Nanín was born in 1952 and he has garnered extensive publicity in his native Venezuela. He studied art in Escuela de Champertier in Paris (1978-1981) and architecture in Universidad Central de Venezuela (1981-1986). And was the apprentice to op and kinetic contemporary great, Carlos Cruz Diez, for 13 years (1978-1981 and 1981-1991).

In 1978 Oscar Ascanio opened his first gallery, Estudio 1, in Caracas which was dedicated to promoting and selling the works of Jesus Soto, one of the world’s most famous contemporary artists. And in 1984 he opened Galeria Oscar Ascanio also in Caracas where he featured artists that included Alejandro Otero, Edgar Negret, Lina Sinisterra, Victor Lucena, Francisco Salazar, Bernar Venet, Bernard Aubertin and Fernando Mignoni. The recently opened O. Ascanio Gallery is located at 2600 NW Second Ave in the Wynwood Arts District. For more information call 305-571-9036 or visit www.oascaniogallery.com.

The Lotus Party at Club 50 10/8/10

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The Lotus Party
Friday October 8th, 10:00pm
Club 50
485 Brickell Ave
Miami, Florida
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J.Fabian in Association with CMS
Brings You: Club 50 The Lotus Party

Featuring Exotic World Sounds in a Sophisticated International Setting
Fifty Stories up, Club 50 Reigns as Miami’s Most Exclusive Lookout Point
Spectacular, Asian-inflected Private Pool and Lounge Atop The Hotel Tower.
Unforgettable Sounds by Local and International DJS

It is highly recommended that you reserve tables in advance to ensure admission. We Have Fabulous Bottle Specials.
To Rsvp – MiamiFabian@Hotmail.com or 786.942.2097

Upon Arrival Inform The Door Staff That You And Your Guests Are In Fabian’s List

Guest list valid till 12:30am . To be on the Guest list please send us an Email OR a text 786.942.2097 MiamiFabian@Hotmail.com

21+.Dress code is strictly enforced.

Follow us on Twitter @miamifabian
www.QueCoCo.com

Dress code is strictly enforced
Great bottle prices
Complimentary entrance (assuming that you rsvp on time)

The Third Fundrising 2010 Gala En las Alas de Family Builders USA 11/12/10

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The Third Fundrising 2010 Gala, “En las Alas de Family Builders USA”
Friday, November 12, 2010, 8 PM
JW Marriott
1109 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131
www.familybuildersusa.org

Family Builders USA Foundation will host its 3rd Annual Gala on November 12th, 2010. Celebrities and Miami’s finest personalities will be delighted by exclusive entertainment composed by live orchestra, children musical performance and original visuals followed by an exquisite culinary presentation where all attendees will explore an exceptional sensorial experience and fulfillment in helping family in crisis. Also, a Silent Auction will feature fine arts, exotic travel destinations, sports memorabilia and many other surprises for which guests will be able to bid on.

EVENT TIME
•Red Carpet & VIP rereception: 8-9:30 PM
•Special Performances / Special Guests
•Dinner Gala: 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
•Special Performances / Special Guests
•Live Orchestra: 11:00 p.m. – Midnight.

6th Annual Key Biscayne Wine, Food and Silent Auction 11/12/10

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6th Annual Key Biscayne Wine, Food & Silent Auction
Friday, November 12, 2010, 6:30 PM
The Links @ Key Biscayne
6700 Crandon Blvd
Key Biscayne, Florida
www.keybiscaynewinefest.com

The Rotary Club of Key Biscayne Foundation announces a unique wine tasting “New World vs. Old World”. Wines from the New World – USA, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay will compete for the “Best New World Wine”; the Old World- France, Spain and Italy will compete for the “Best Old World Wine”. And then they will face off! Who will win Best of Show?

Proceeds of the “New World vs. Old World” event will benefit The Rotary Club of Key Biscayne Foundation’s charitable work in the Miami area and beyond.

Cost:
$85.00 the night of the event.
$75.00 Pre-register by November 5th
$65 for members of Rotary and its participating charitable organizations.
Cash, check, credit cards welcome. Complimentary Valet Parking available.

Masquerade Motel Miami Swedish House Mafia and Brazilian Girls 10/30/10

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From Ibiza To Miami
Masquerade Motel
Scope Art Arena, Midtown Miami, FL
Saturday, October 30, 3:00 PM – 12:00 AM EST

Starring the Swedish House Mafia
Axwell, Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso
Also a Live performance by Brazilian Girls
Additional talent:
AN21
Cedric Gervais
Patrick M
TKO

Click Here To Purchase Tickets & For More Information

Nothing is what it seems in this Motel. From the outside you could confuse it with a hotel on sunset strip or highway 99…frequented by movie stars behaving badly, bank robbers on the run and couples catching an hour between marriages..

This is no ordinary motel. As you unlock the door the low hum of a bassline hits your ears..and the flashing of lights push themselves under the foot of a door down the darkly list corridor and is broken by the shapes of bodies dancing. As you walk into the lobby a broken neon sign flashes the house rules…

MASKS ON PLEASE!

As you pick up the mask and place it on your face it feels warm..like it is connected and your body starts to relax and feels so awake you feel you will burst.

As you near the door your subconscious realizes there are other rooms to the left and right. Dark shadows move and yet you feel no fear. Something inside you knows every element of what happens in this hotel is about pleasure and euphoria. You set your mind to explore every room.

As you stand in front of the door…..your hand poised to turn the handle….your heart pounding ….the door opens of its own accord welcoming you in. The heat of the room hits you like a warm embrace, the music covers you…loud and yet clear….synced with your heartbeat as the room moves together as One.

The feeling is strange, whilst everyone is concealed their eyes connect with you and it’s like you know everyone in the room, perhaps you do…

Everyone there together to share the feeling of being behind the doors of the Masquerade Motel and the feeling anonymity and mystery brings…coming together as one to perform in the best show on earth…

A 54,000 Square foot indoor arena is being built just for this event! This promises to be the most attended Masquerade and Halloween Extravaganza in South Florida.
Limited Early Bird, General Admission and Private Open Bar Tickets are now available.
VIP TABLES INFO: Please email Plushvip@ymail.com or call 305.321.3050

Race for a Cure Makeover Marathon in Support of Breast Cancer Research 10/16/10

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Race for a Cure Makeover Marathon in Support of Breast Cancer Research
10/16/10, 10am
The Beauty Center
12340 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, Fl 33186
http://www.mkacf.org/Pages/Women_Cancer.aspx

Join me for my Race for the Cure Makeover Marathon Saturday October 16th at 10am. Treat yourself to a complimentary pampering session, brunch and raffles in support of Breast Cancer Research.

Throughout the month of October my beauty center will be offering complimentary facials and makeovers and for each individual that participates a donation will be made to the Mary Kay Foundation. The Mary Kay foundation donates 100% of all proceeds to causes such as breast cancer and domestic violence.

This event is FREE but it is by RSVP only. Please contact me (Melissa Martinez)to RSVP at 305-794-5985 or via email at mely1015@aol.com

THINK PINK THIS MONTH! IT WILL HELP SAVE LIVES! Look forward to seeing you there!

Heart Happening at The Margulies Art Warehouse 10/22/10

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Heart Happening
October 22nd, 2010, 8pm
The Margulies Art Warehouse
591 NW 27th Street, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, 33127
www.lotushouseshelter.org

Don’t just see art – BE IT! Join us for the spectacular Heart Happening benefiting the Lotus House Women’s Shelter on October 22nd at the 45,000 square foot Margulies Art Warehouse in Wynwood. 45 mediums of art will be represented by 30 internationally renowned performance artists and will “happen” spontaneously throughout the night amidst the guests! Sotheby’s are flying in to hold a live auction!

For tickets and info: www.lotushouseshelter.org or (305) 365-2478.

Please join us for the sixth annual fall fundraiser for the Lotus House Women’s Shelter!

Don’t Just See Art – BE IT!
Performance Art
Live Auction by Sotheby’s
Silent Auction of Incredible Works

Chef’s Tastings from Miami’s Finest Buena Vista Deli, Cafeina Wynwood Lounge, Café Bustelo, Delhi Daal, Hearts of Palm, Jimmy’z Kitchen, Latin Café on the Beach, Lido at The Standard Hotel, Lost & Found Saloon, Mama Jo’s Chicken, Mercadito, New Urban Farms, Sakaya Kitchen, Sra Martinez, StevieCakes, The Cuisine Marines, Yuga

Musing with Myra 10/13/10

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Musing with Myra
October 13, 2010, 5-8PM
UVA Restaurant and Lounge @69th + Biscayne Blvd
6900 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami. FL.
musingwithmyra.blogspot.com

Kick off of my new venue and name for my ongoing,
weekly Arts Networking Event.

MUSING WITH MYRA @ UVA.
69th St. and Biscayne Blvd.
in historic MIMO.

As an Arts Enthusiast, I am committed to promoting all things related to the The Arts and Artists who make it happen here in our community and the
World @ large.
Miami is the pulse/the #1place, for what’s happening in the Art World today.
Come to The Table.
All are welcome.
Be part of the dialog.
Show the love.
Be there.

Weekly Arts Networking Event.
New name, new venue.
Promoting The Arts and Artist that make it
happen everyday.

Preview my new Studio/Gallery/Salon space, as well.
Upstairs
6900 Biscayne Blvd.
Historic MIMO District

Galery Walk at Markowicz Fine Art in the Design District 10/9/10

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Gallery Walk : Saturday, October 9th
Markowicz Fine Art highlights the pop art artist Mel Ramos
This Saturday, October 9th, come and see the tryptic Peek a Boo Marilyn of Mel Ramos.
Markowicz Fine Art
1 NE 40th Street, #5
Miami, FL 33137
RSVP: info@markowiczfineart.com

This artists began his career with the inspiration of the imagery of American comics, painting the portrait of Batman or Flash Gordon. He then addresses the theme of the Pin-up, such as Marilyn Monroe.

This art prints collection of Mel Ramos is limited to 199 lithographs. They are hand signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.

Don’t forget that on gallery walk days, every second Saturday of each month, galleries and shops of the Miami Design District open their doors to the public from 7:00PM to 10:00PM.

Mourlot Collection
Vintage lithographic posters from the Mourlot Estate are available at Markowicz Fine Art.

Pop Art artists
Other pop art artists will be exhibited in the showroom: Steven Gagnon, Takashi Murakami, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, Tom Otterness, Red Grooms, Keith Haring…

Miami Art Museum to Present Local Artist Video Project on AmericanAirlines Arena MediaMesh 10/7/10

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Miami Art Museum Presents Local Video Art on Three Story High AmericanAirlines Arena Media Mesh
NWM2010: Video on AmericanAirlines Arena’s exterior Media Mesh
Thursday, October 7, 2010
8pm – midnight
AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33130
A selection from the New Work Miami 2010 Video compilation.

Miami Art Museum will present a selection of videos created by local artists, in conjunction with its current New Work Miami 2010 exhibition, on the AmericanAirlines Arena’s exterior Media Mesh, a digital LED screen on the facility’s 34,000 square foot facade, on Thursday, October 7, 2010, from 8pm until midnight. The public screening selection provides a sneak peak at the complete compilation, which will be shown at Miami Art Museum on a loop throughout the final weekend of New Work Miami 2010, Saturday, October 16, and Sunday, October 17, 2010.

Like the New Work Miami 2010 gallery show, the video compilation comprises new and recent works by Miami-based artists. The selection provides a window into the wide variety of local experimental video art, from new forms of abstraction to non-narrative approaches. The compilation artists are: Sam Borkson & Bert Rodriguez, Friends with You, Christy Gast, Jiae Hwang & Nicholas Raftis III, Lee Materazzi, Raul J. Mendez, Magnus Sigudardson, Kyle Trowbridge, Tatiana Vahan, Agustina Woodgate and Juan Carlos Zaldivar.

New Work Miami 2010, July 17 through October 17, 2010, is organized by Miami Art Museum and supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund, with additional support provided by Lin Lougheed.

Coming up:
NWM2010: Video Screening at Miami Art Museum
Saturday, October 16, and Sunday, October 17, 2010
Noon – 5pm
Miami Art Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
A compilation of video art works by Miami-based artists will be screened on a loop. Free with museum admission.

Jewels for a Gem Benefiting Breast Cancer 10/28/10

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“Jewels for a Gem” Benefiting Breast Cancer Awareness Month IN PINK
Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 9:00 PM (PT)
Pangaea @ The Hard Rock
1 Seminole Way
Hollywood, FL 33314
Free Entry
Door open @ 9pm
Fashion Show @10pm
2-4-1 DRINKS/ COMPLIMENTARY Appetizer’s 9-10pm
RSVP Here.

“Jewels for a Gem” Jewelry Fashion Showcase
Benefiting Breast Cancer Awareness Month IN PINK
Free Entry
Door open @ 9pm
Fashion Show @10pm
Complimentary cupcakes In Pink by Yes Ma’aM www.yesmaam.us
Complimentary Appetizer’s 9-10pm

Fab C. & Majestic Groups, LLC of Miami host’s “Jewels for a Gem” Jewelry Fashion Showcase Benefiting Breast Cancer Awareness Month IN PINK, Thursday,October 28, 2010 @9pm at Pangaea at The Hard Rock HOLLYWOOD. Innovative jewelry designer’s located all across high profile Miami will be showcasing their jewelry using PINK in their creations, in emphasis for the awareness of Breast Cancer for women, the Gem. “Jewels For a Gem” will give everyone a glimpse into the world of couture jewelry designs by 6 of Miami’s brightest designer’s. You can find all of their jewelry sold in stores in Miami, Bal Harbor, Coconut Grove amongst other South Florida attractions.

The powerhouse designer’s includes PattyM Jewelry, which offers an exquisite collection of high quality jewelry designed entirely by hand, with exceptional attention to detail an individuals taste. www.pattymjewelry.com

Catalina Mora specializes her creations with real orange peels, tagua, and coffee beans amongst others to create her natural accessories while having an amazing aroma to it. www.catalinamoradesigns.com

Khal’s Jewelry, where you can find in Coconut Grove’s main fashion attraction store, Azul, amongst other store location; her pieces has undergone an authentic handmade process. This ensures that each piece itself is unique. Not one is the same.

Also showcasing will be Jewelry by Marina Fulgueira and Naturally Divine Co. by Pamela Robinson, who caters to fashion of the past, present and future by creating unique jewelry inspired by her naturally sophisticated fashion sense which remains classic and timeless. www.naturallydivineco.com

“Jewels For a Gem” will also be introducing Hippie Headwear by Nikki Balzano . Her Fall Collection includes custom made one of a kind head wear pieces, using materials such as dried butterflies adorned in Swarovski Crystals, braided into hemp, suede or leather using the best in silk flowers.Vintage jewelry/charms and metals are in these designs to insure each piece is truly one of a kind and unique! Bohemian, Hippie and Native American cultures are the true inspiration.

All guests will have an opportunity to take home a piece of jewelry from each designer showcasing in this event
Raffle: $5

Special invited guest, successful Brazilian Super Model and cancer survivor, Juliane Howard will also walk on the runway. Her story can inspire women all across the country with having the strength to fight cancer and pursue their ultimate goals in life. She will be apart of helping us spread awareness to women about cancer and sharing her experience with all the guests.

For more information about “Jewels for a Gem” , please contact:
info@fabcproductions.com
Reservations: majesticgroupevents@gmail.com

Giant Step and Svedka Vodka and Giant Step Present N*E*R*D Listening Party Miami 10/7/10

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SVEDKA Vodka and Giant Step invite you to an exclusive opportunity to hear the sounds of Nothing, N*E*R*D’s upcoming 4th album, which will be out everywhere on November 2nd. On Thursday October 7th at The Florida Room at Delano the listening party comes to Miami on its way across the country.

Entrance is free, but strictly RSVP only.

The Florida Room at Delano, A Morgans Hotel
1685 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Whereas their first album, In Search Of…, was an imaginative, exploration of identities, their second album, Fly Or Die, sought out the range of genres and sounds that have influenced the group, and their third album, Seeing Sounds, grinded everything together, Nothing promises to be an album that delivers a brand new N*E*R*D sound, an album that amplifies the attitudes, style and persona that has made Pharrell, Chad and Shae the transcendent cultural icons they are today.

Agustina Woodgate Growing Up One-Night Performance 10/7/10

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Growing Up
Agustina Woodgate
Main Library, Auditorium, 101 W. Flagler St. • 305.375.2665
Performance: Thursday, October 7
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., performance begins at 7 p.m.

Dancing couple figurine, ca. 1970s, ceramic music box.
Permanent Collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System.

Agustina Woodgate’s work is about relationships. She investigates the ways we compose our rituals, traditions, and narratives through the materials and places around us. The improvisational performances in her Fairy Tale Series are structured like stories with conflicts and a beginning, middle and end. She constructs settings or stages from materials found at the exhibition site and invites musicians to play live during the performance. The artist’s close friends or family members perform along with her; their actions play out the conflicts at the heart of well-known fairytales. Woodgate then records these bent fairytales; the exhibition will include photographs from previous performances based on Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Sleeping Beauty.

Growing Up is based on the English fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk.” For this one night performance, Agustina will wake up sleepy corners of the Main Library auditorium, make magic with mysterious library collections, and perform with Anthony Spinello as Jack.
ALSO:
The next day (Friday, October 8), come back for a special edition of the Reading Room with special guests Agustina and Anthony and artists’ books from the Library’s Permanent Art Collection–all in a strange little room with coffee and cookies.
The Reading Room: A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples
With special guests Agustina Woodgate and Anthony Spinello
Friday, October 8, 12-2 p.m.
Main Library, Children’s Room Area

AGUSTINA WOODGATE explores the social narratives of human relationships, rather than independent and private space, as a theoretical and practical point of departure. She creates responses to these narratives through situations that unveil the tensions between the natural-becoming-unnatural, and the unnatural-becoming-natural as constructions of our surreal and very real human condition. Her work discovers illogical scenarios that appear in an otherwise realistic or even “normal” setting to explore transience in beliefs and behaviors, revealing unconscious liaisons between these two worlds. Working with available, at hand, and everyday resources contributes a very important element of the conceptual process. Woodgate works inclusively and socially, finding new access points for communication to create public, intensive, and process-oriented works. She approaches the creation of a work as an ongoing discovery, and fold chance-elements, surprises, and synchronicity into everything she makes.

To find more about exhibitions and programs coming up this month, visit our website.

Oktoberfest Stammtisch at Fritz and Franz Bierhaus 10/7/10

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You are kindly invited to our
Monthly Stammtisch
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
starting at 6 pm

Fritz & Franz Bierhaus
60 Merrick Way, Coral Gables
Ph.: 305-774-1883

This Stammtisch will be held during the annual Fritz & Franz Oktoberfest and we are happy that our friends from the Spain-United States Chamber of Commerce will join us to celebrate this traditional German celebration.

Please RSVP TODAY to miami@gabc.us so we can reserve enough space on the table for everyone.

Sunday Tailgate Party at Grease Burger Bar 10/10/10

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Grease is located at 213 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach FL, 33401 | 561.651.1075 | www.GreaseWPB.com

Whether you root for The Eagles, The Jets or The Dolphins, West Palm Beach’s quintessential burger joint, Grease Burger Bar, welcomes football fanatics every week for their Sunday Tailgate Party. From 11:30am – 2:00pm patrons can watch their favorite teams and Fantasy Football players on 14 flat screens while enjoying $1 Sliders, $1 BBQ Chips, $5 Mimosas and $5 Bloody Marys. From open to close, Grease also offers $12 buckets of domestic beers and of course their full menu of hand-shaped 10oz juicy award-winning burgers, salads, chicken sandwiches, wings and all the sides you’d expect at your neighborhood watering hole.

Sassy Classy Sneak Peak Event featuring With Love Boutique 10/17/10

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Sassy Classy Sneak Peak Event featuring With Love Boutique
10/17/10, 12pm-4pm
D Furniture Boutique (in the design district)
4742 sw 72 ave Miami, FL

Join us for an afternoon of STYLE and BEAUTY! Sassy Classy and With Love Boutique offer classic and trendy accessories and clothing for women of all ages. And with our low prices, a little goes a long way!

Join us at our exclusive shopping event as Sassy Classy reveal’s their new line of custom made jewlery!

In addition With Love Boutique will showcase their fall collection and will be offering complimentary makeovers in support of Breast Cancer Research.

There will be raffles and light refreshments/snacks will be served. We look forward to seeing you there!

In the meantime, check us out online! Contact us with any questions

Sassy Classy
Contact: Nataly (305) 815-7481
Email: info@sassyclassyonline.com
Facebook page.

With Love Boutique
Contact: Melissa (305) 794-5985
Email: mely1015@aol.com
Facebook page.
Mary Kay Website.

Race for the Cure Makeover Marathon in Support of Breast Cancer Research 10/12,19,26/10

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Race for a Cure Makeover Marathon
10/12/10, 10/19/10, 10/26/10, 7pm
The Beauty Center
12340 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, Fl 33186
www.mkacf.org/Pages/Women_Cancer.aspx

Join me for my Race for the Cure Makeover Marathon every tuesday in the month of October at 7pm. Treat yourself to a complimentary pampering session, dinner and raffles in support of Breast Cancer Research.

Throughout the month of October my beauty center will be offering complimentary facials and makeovers and for each individual that participates a donation will be made to the Mary Kay Foundation. The Mary Kay foundation donates 100% of all proceeds to causes such as breast cancer and domestic violence.

This event is FREE but it is by RSVP only. Please contact me (Melissa Martinez)to RSVP at 305-794-5985 or via email at mely1015@aol.com

THINK PINK THIS MONTH! IT WILL HELP SAVE LIVES! Look forward to seeing you there!

Celebrity Pillow Fight For Care Resource 12/4/10

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Pillow Fight For Care Resource
Saturday, December 4, 2010, 7:00 P.M.
Baltus Collection
3925 N. Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127

Pillow Fight For Care Resource

Baltus Collection Taps Celebrities And Artists Including Sarah Silverman, Alec Mapa, Kourtney Kardashian & More To Create Original Throw Pillows For Charity

It’s the end of White Party Week and you’re ready to sleep for days. To help you rest and relax in luxury Baltus Collection has teamed up with celebrities, artists and designers to create a line of one-of-a-kind throw pillows.

On Saturday, December 4, Miami’s chicest crowd will be fighting over the pillows in a silent auction hosted at the gorgeous Baltus Showroom during an evening of cocktails, food and surprise entertainment. All proceeds will benefit Care Resource.

Local and national celebrities, artists, designers and socialites have offered their talents to Baltus Collection in support of Care Resources by creating one-of-a-kind designer throw pillows in styles ranging from quirky to elegant to priceless.
Celebrity designers include Actors Olivia Wilde, Sarah Silverman, Alec Mapa, Kourtney Kardashian, Nathan Lee Graham, Valerie Pattiford, Miss Universe Amelia Vega, artist Gregg Hamby, famed 3-D graffiti artist Erni Valdes, legendary designer Althea Harper and Miami darlings high-fashion designers Karelle Levy and Luis Valenzuela, and artist Noel Sanchez.

Baltus Collection is a high-end contemporary interiors and furniture design company that hails from Spain. Miami’s Design District is home to its first US based showroom.
Care Resource is a non-profit, multi-cultural, community based HIV/AIDS community health provider. Care Resource is South Florida’s oldest and largest HIV/AIDS service organization serving both Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Live Jazz Duo at The French Quarter 10/10/10

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Live Jazz Duo at The French Quarter
10/10/10, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Mardi Gras Casino, 3rd Floor Restaurant
The French Quarter
Mardi Gras Casino, 3rd Floor
831 N Federal Hwy
Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
954-924-3200
casinohost@playmardigras.com
Website.

Highly acclaimed jazz singer, Debbie Orta performs jazz standards and various jazz tunes from old to new. The French Quarter Restaurant is a great place to unwind and enjoy a delicious meal with first class live entertainment. At Mardi Gras Casino, Pembroke Rd. & US-1, Hallandale Beach, 3rd floor. Inexpensive, wine, full bar, live music, live jazz, casual or dressy, what more could you ask?

$6.95 for our signature appetizer platter on Sunday

Miguel Paredes to unveil new works during Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk 10/9/10

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Local Artist Miguel Paredes To Unveil New Works
During Wynwood Arts District’s 2nd Saturdays Art Walk
Urban realist to host cocktail reception at Paredes Fine Art Studio
Saturday, October 9, 2010. From 7:00 p.m. to 11:00
2311 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL. 33127

Celebrated local pop and multi-media artist, sculptor and urban realist, Miguel Paredes, will continue making his mark in the Wynwood Arts District during the bourgeoning neighborhood’s monthly “2nd Saturdays Art Walk” on Saturday, October 9, 2010. From 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., Paredes Fine Arts Studio will be open to the public offering guests a chance to view new, never-before-seen art work while enjoying complimentary cocktails by Ice Tropez and live music by DJ Ari X.

Paredes was born in New York and is of a Latin American descent. He is an artist who combines the exhilarating sense of New York City’s graffiti art with the skill and perceptiveness of a true exceptional artist. Growing up 72nd Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Paredes exuded early signs of artistic ability and accepted an invitation to New York City’s prestigious Fiorello La Guardia High School of Music and Art – immortalized in the musical and movie Fame – in the early 1980s. His studies at Fiorello coincided with the explosion of street culture in the city. Paredes drew inspiration from notorious pop artists like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring and plunged into the world of graffiti and pop art taking the name “Mist” as his moniker.

Another influential figure in Paredes’ artistic career is his mentor Ronnie Cutrone. Cutrone was Andy Warhol’s immediate assistant at the Factory during the notorious pop artist’s most productive and prestigious years. To Paredes, his mentor’s paintings are the essence of pop: colorful, lively and highly accessible. Cutrone’s constant use of bright and fluorescent colors not only influenced Warhol’s return to such hues, but shaped Paredes’ color palette choices as well. Paredes’ piece “Ronnie is that you?” pays homage to Cutrone and features one of Paredes’ sons painted on a vintage Mickey Mouse bed cover. The child represents the artist looking for Ronnie.

In the late 80s, Paredes left New York to come to then burgeoning Miami Beach, FL. in search of new inspiration. He fell in love with the city and immediately submerged himself in its thriving art community. Almost 20 years later, Paredes remains a Miami resident and has established himself as a respected artist. In addition, he is owner and CEO of one of the most successful printing companies in the U.S., PK Graphics, and is happily married with three children which are his most current muses.

At Paredes Fine Arts Studio, the artist will exhibit select pieces and sculptures from collections such as Los Niños, Urban Dreams and Pulgha & Birds.

With Los Niños Paredes has taken what he calls “the best masterpieces I have ever created in my life,” his children, and made them the subjects for his revealing drama about the timeless hopes of all parents and the resolutions needed to face the unknown battles of the future. The entire experience of these paintings is shockingly honest, risky and flies in the face of three decades of neo-Pop and post-modern ideas that no image is truer or deeper than the next.

In the artist’s Urban Dreams series, Paredes explores the parallel spectrums of color and tone and modifies the urban landscape, while combining photographic realism with the rich graphic elements of floating vines, flowers and leaves. Paredes animates New York’s brownstone crayons by darkening the darkest corners, layering one vanishing point across the other, squeezing streets and alleys into exaggerated vertical tunnels, and balancing brick, grit and white space into an ambiguous and deceptive surface.

Paredes’ Pulgha & Birds Digital Art Series showcases his most recent invention, Pulgha, and its colorful world of Birds, Geishas and puckish, child-like tricksters. Paredes’ admiration of Japanese anime is apparent in this collection, however, the artist’s imaginative hands re-create this specific language and re-enchant the original concerns – all through his Latin and urban sense of digital mysticism and narration. Pulgha means flea in Spanish, but there is nothing small or itchy about this rebellious character. Instead, Pulgha and Co. are creative emissaries, seeding innovation, luring younger generations of anonymous house-bound gamers and online exiles out into a public world of human interaction and community. Paredes donated one of his latest pieces “Pulgha World” and created a mural in the Wynwood Arts District near his new gallery.

Paredes Fine Arts Studio is located at 2311 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL. 33127. For more information, please visit www.miguelparedes.com.

National Spa Week Local $50 Steals 10/11-17/10

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Rest, Relaxation And Financial Relief: Indulge In National Spa Week With $50 Treatments At The New Seven Seas Aveda Spa And Salon

In celebration of the Fall 2010 Spa Week, the Seven Seas Aveda Spa and Salon is promoting three new luxury treatments for the promotional price of $50. From October 11th to October 17th, locals are invited to celebrate seven days of health and wellness with affordable and rejuvenating treatments for the mind and body.

As a nationwide campaign, Spa Week promotes rest, relaxation and financial relief to millions twice a year. More than 800 spas in 30 markets across the country participate, guaranteeing a spa near just about everyone. For the past six years, the event has aimed to introduce the average consumer to the amazing physical benefits of spa therapy while simultaneously raising awareness and educating the public on healthy living.

The Seven Seas Aveda Spa and Salon will offer the following signature treatments for only $50, a savings of 55 to 60 percent off for one week only.

Aveda Elemental Nature Facial
Our estheticians will customize this natural facial based on your skin’s specific needs, as revealed by Aveda’s signature Elemental Nature Consultation. From dry and dehydrated, to sensitive, oily or congested skin, the Elemental Facial is truly a personalized treatment for the skin.

Elemental Nature Massage
A one-of-a-kind massage with relaxing Aveda aromas creates an overall, relaxing experience. Depending upon your needs, a variety of massage techniques will be utilized including, but not limited to, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Pregnancy Massage, Acupressure and Reflexology.

Caribbean Therapy Body Treatment
Rejuvenate the body and soul with aromas of the Caribbean. Dry exfoliation, seaweed body masque and total body massage detoxify, calm and renew in this island-inspired ritual.

Launched in March 2010, the Seven Seas Aveda Spa and Salon features eleven treatment rooms, three hair styling stations and a luxurious nail bar. Nestled inside the Newport Beachside Hotel and Resort, Seven Seas is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. For appointments call 305.749.2100 or visit http://www.sevenseasspasalon.com for more information.

Rockstar Rewards football at The Clevelander 10/10-11/10

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Are you ready for some football? The Clevelander is ready to cater to all the die-hard football fans of South Florida for the first week of the regular season. With your Rockstar Rewards card, enjoy $10 pitchers of Budweiser & Bud Light, $5 Jack Daniels and $0.50 Buffalo Wings during every live game. Don’t have a Rockstar Rewards card? Visit the Gift Shop inside the Clevelander Sports Bar everyday from 5pm to 10pm.

Clevelander
1020 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
www.clevelander.com

Week Five
Sunday 10/10
Jacksonville @ Buffalo (1p)
Tampa Bay @ Cincinnati (1p)
Atlanta @ Cleveland (1p)
St. Louis @ Detroit (1p)
Kansas City @ Indianapolis (1p)
Green Bay @ Washington (1p)
Chicago @ Carolina (1p)
Denver @ Baltimore (1p)
NY Giants @ Houston (1p)
N Orleans @ Arizona (4:05p)
San Diego @ Oakland (4:15p)
Tennessee @ Dallas (4:15p)
Philadelphia @ San Francisco (8:20p)
Monday 10/11
Minnesota @ NY Jets (8:30p)

One of the biggest college football rivalries hit South Florida Saturday night! Florida State University challenges the University of Miami at 8pm on Saturday 10/09. South Florida locals with your Rockstar Rewards card, enjoy $10 pitchers of Budweiser & Bud Light, $5 Jack Daniels and $0.50 Buffalo Wings. Don’t have a Rockstar Rewards card? Visit the Gift Shop inside the Clevelander Sports Bar for a quick and free registration. After the game, stick around for WQAM’s live broadcast of the Cane Post Game Show in 1020 Music Boxx. Join the party and celebrate NCAA football at its finest!

Wine Down Wednesday at HistoryMiami 10/6/10

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Wine Down Wednesday
First Wednesday of the Month
October 6 @ 5pm

Why sit in rush hour traffic…stop by HistoryMiami, sip some wine and take in the sounds of Raffa and Rainer.

HistoryMiami Members: FREE
Non-Members: $5.00

Please RSVP by October 4th
Call 305-375-1614 or email rsvp@historymiami.com

HistoryMiami
101 W Flagler St
Miami, FL 33130

Free parking available at 50 NW 2 Ave

historymiami.org

The DWNTWN Miami Concert Series is Back featuring City of God and Lanzallamas Monofonica10/8/10

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The DWNTWN Miami Concert Series is BACK!
Join us on Friday, October 8th @ 5:30pm in Bayfront Park for the first concert of the season featuring City of God and Lanzallamas Monofonica!
Get ready to shake your groove thing…this Friday @ Bayfront Park, Tina Hills Paviallion

Same Time, Same Place, New Great Music…

The band, City of God pays homage to the Brazilian roots of most of its members by combining elements of Funk, Dance and Hip Hop to make a unique style all their own. City of God has been seen performing their electrifying and intense live show throughout South Florida and around the World. This summer their tune “Make It Hot” got radio play on Y-100 and recently signed to a Warner Group label. City of God will leave you dancing all night long.

Lanzallamas Monofonica is a big band with a big sound, charged with melodic fire and global rhythm chemistry. Lanzallamas combines a deep artistic concept with a high-energy dance show that keeps their audience grooving. The Lanzallamas Monofonica mission is clear; create music of a “Monophonic Essence”, one sound that unifies all!

The DWNTWN Miami Concert Series just got a whole lot tastier!
The Food Truck craze hits Bayfront Park for our show tomorrow night with gastroPod and Jefe’s Original Fish Tacos and Burgers on site cooking up some gourmet eats…and Coffee Brake with coffee, tea and smoothies!

www.dwntwn.com

Trinumeral Music and Arts Festival 10/8-10/10

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Friday 10/08/10
7th Circuit Studio (Moksha Gallery)
228 NE 59 Street
www.mokshafamily.org

Saturday 10/09/10
White Room
1306 North Miami Avenue
www.whiteroomshows.com

Sunday 10/10/10
Grand Central
697 North Miami Avenue
www.grandcentralmiami.com

Big Boi • Blackalicous • Tokimonsta • Eprom
Heyoka • Mochipet • Otto Von Schirach
Juan Basshead • Panic Bomber • Mayday • ArtOfficial
BfGf • John Hancock (ANR) & Friends • Mindelixir
Panther God • Bowie Van Ling • Jacque Polynice
Gift • Benton • Alex Caso • Cornerstoners • Saheed
Spytek vs. Mr. Atomic • Llama Beats & Parable
Kentsoundz • Vidio Tape • Okulus Anomali & Solfire
Kool Large • Charlie Astro • Marley Carroll
Special MC Battle

Art Curated by Robert Chambers featuring:
Bhakti Baxter • Jay Hines • Tao Rey • Jason Hedges • Jiae Hwang
Julian Picaza • Matthew Schreiber • Oliver Sanchez • TM Sisters
Michael Jurado

The Trinumeral is a yearly celebration of Music & Art held on the date in which the day, month, and year align in an auspicious numeric sameness. Trinumeral began on January 1, 2001: 01.01.01 and has expanded to become a multidisciplinary event held every year on the synchronized dates. Trinumeral is a multi-media event that bridges multiple forms of art into a singular event.

This year’s Trinumeral will take place near downtown Miami. Some of the best National music talent in America will headline this year’s Trinumeral. Acts such as Big Boi, and Blackalicious. Many of Miami’s significant local music talent will perform as well. Acts like Otto Von Schirach, Juan Basshead, Panic Bomber, Mayday, ArtOfficial, BfGf, and Panther God.

The visual art for this year’s Trinumeral will be curated by local visionary Robert Chambers and some of the most significant visual artists in Miami will be contributing to the event.

This year’s event will be a true showcase of the burgeoning art and music scene in Miami: The Magic City.

Photographs of Crescendo Jazz and Blues Lounge Grand Opening on 10/5/10

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Crescendo Jazz and Blues Lounge Grand Opening on Tuesday, October 5, 2010.  The music was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Ike and Val were performing and oh my gosh they were so incredible, did not want the to stop.  Crescendo’s has a wonderful feel and great atmosphere, I will be going back, a lot.

Crescendo Jazz and Blues Lounge
2201 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33137
305-967-8176

Photographs of the Miami Book Fair Kick Off Party at Mia on 10/5/10

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Miami Book Fair Kick Off Party at Mia on Tuesday, October 5, 2010.  This years official poster for the 27th annual Miami Book Fair International was created by Mexican-born artist Alejandro Cabrera De La Mora, better known by artistic name Maximus Blanc. Self-described as a citizen of the world, Blanc draws inspiration from all artistic disciplines, especially music.  The Miami Book Fair is November 14-21 in Downtown Miami at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus.  This is huge street fair not to be missed, they have something for everyone.

Ocean Drive Magazine and Saks Fifth Avenue Dadeland invite you to Boot Camp 10/5/10

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Ocean Drive Magazine and Saks Fifth Avenue Dadeland invite you to
BOOT CAMP

Find you next pair of fashionable fall boots and get fit with leg-toning tips from Exhale Spa

Enjoy Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar hors d’oeuvres and Vita Coco refreshments

Tuesday, October 5th
6-8:30PM

10022-SHOE on Two
Dadeland

RSVP to 305.662.8655, ext. 262 or email rsvpdadeland@s5a.com

Museum of the Americas Opening Cocktail for Hispanic Heritage In America 2010 10/8/10

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Invitation Opening Cocktail, Friday, October 8 In Doral, Florida
The Museum of the Americas cordially invites you and your guests to the opening of the exhibition “Hispanic Heritage In America 2010”
on Friday, October 8, 2010
from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Museum Of The Americas
2500 Nw 79 Ave #104/108 – Doral, Fl 33122
www.museumamericas.org

celebrating the Hispanic Heritage Month featuring
Martha Abaroa, Josefa Agra, Endika Basaguren, Ricardo Campos, E.B. Christensen,
Jose Luis Cravero, Isabel de Haro, Arnoldo Diaz, ERA, Fondevila, Mikel Garate,
Lucia Martinez Argüello, Julia Martos de Azuaje, Migogay, Mitra,
Baldomero Moreiras, Pancho (Francisco Varela),
Marilse Passariello,Maria Angelica Piola (In Memoriam),
Hortensia Ramos Blanco, Wenceslao Robles,
Maria Jesus Ruiz, Gloria Sala,
Touza and Luisa Vasquez

The Museum of the Americas is part of the “Social Fridays in Doral”
(The free trolley leaves Doral Park Country Club,
5001 NW 104 Ave, Doral
at 8 PM ending the service at 11 PM)
it stops at art galleries and restaurants and at the Museum of the Americas the night of the opening of exhibitions

Free admission – Free parking

Exhibition ends on October 30.
Museum hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11-5
Saturdays, 11-4 (by appointment only)

Opening Reception Come Hither at Artformz 10/9/10

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You Are Invited Opening Reception with the Artists
2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk
Saturday, October 9, 2010
7:00pm – 10:00pm
171 NW 23rd Street, Miami FL 33127 – 305.572.0040 – www.artformz.net

Donna Haynes ……..Natasha Duwin….. .Mary Larsen
“Come Hither”
Constructions – Performance – Painting

Artformz is pleased to present the work of artists Natasha Duwin, Donna Haynes, and Mary Larsen. Storytelling has always played a role in art, whether through words or images. The three artists collaborating for the Artformz October exhibition encourage the public to join them in a visual experience of stories and journeys. Natasha Duwin will exhibit sculptural and wall objects. Duwin also brings a special Opening Night performance that is a surprising and poetic addition to her renowned work exploring the construction of the female identity, using mediums that have long been relegated to the worlds of labor and craft, such as embroidery and textiles. Artist Donna Haynes will show new pieces from her ongoing series of fantastic multimedia constructions. Her work will combine text and preserved imagery, expressing visual narratives that result in a unique sharing of personal journeys. One of the new members of the gallery, artist Mary Larsen, will exhibit newly created works on canvas. Larsen uses books and printed text as part of her mixed media paintings. The rich surfaces play with light, tecture, and color, creating an illusion of an ethereal world of dreams, not quite recalled.

These are interconnecting visual stories not to be told but to be experienced; worlds of despair and chaos intertwined with hope and light.

Exhibition Dates October 2 – October 30, 2010

October Gallery Walk Solo Show by Igal Fedida 10/9/10

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October Gallery Walk
Symphony of Colors (A Journey Through My Colorful Roots).
IGAL FEDIDA
Closing Reception
Saturday October 9th, 2010.
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
100 NE 38 Street, Suite # 3
Miami, FL. 33137

The Borinquen Art Gallery is now showcasing a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Igal Fedida titled Symphony of Colors (A Journey Through My Colorful Roots). Mr. Fedida is an award-wining painter who has been recently awarded at the Biennial 2010 of the National Museum in Ecuador and has received the Best Audience Choice Award at MOCA North Miami.

Igal Fedida, born and raised in Israel, moved to the United States at an early age to pursue a successful business career in construction, design and remodeling. Being of curious and deeply spiritual natured, however, he decided to take some time to get to know the world. He has traveled to many distant and unusual pockets of our home planet. He enjoyed drawing, sketching and design since an early age and he discovered the love for photography during his journeys, capturing images of nature and people alike.

Returning to Los Angeles, he enrolled in intensive photography study program at the UCLA. Exploring the world of photography, his need for expression drove him to develop a unique form where he combined Polaroid photographs with water color in order to deepen the effect of the image. In doing so he discovered that his need to express the nature and the world that surrounds us far surpasses the limited potential of photography. Subsequently, as if an invisible hand pointed a direction, the magic door opened and he was pulled into the world of painting.

Completely self taught, over the time he developed his own fascinating style of contrasting images. His black and white collection clearly expresses his inner search of balance between order and chaos, good and evil and evermore constant yin and yang presence in life. On the opposite to this sharp collection stand abstracts filled with mesmerizing colors inspired by nature and God alike. Some of his paintings carry deep meanings about the creation and the world from “big bang” and Adam and Eve to modern day socialites while others are visually hypnotizing, energy filled abstracts of strikingly vivacious colors.

You can find Fedida at his Miami studio/gallery where he spend sleepless nights with a brush in his hand and a vision on his mind passionately driven to deliver to the world his ingenuous masterpieces.

Preview of Sandra Muss at Kelley Roy Gallery 10/7/10

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Kelley Roy Gallery cordially invites you to the Preview of the exhibition
Sandra Muss Life and Light: Nature’s Passionate Journey

Thursday October 7, 6 – 9
Kelley Roy Gallery
50 NE 29th Street
Miami, Fl 33137
www.kelleyroygallery.com

Exhibition on view
October 9 – November 6

Sandra Muss. Life and Light: Nature’s Passionate Journey

Sandra Muss’ body of work is inspired by the majestic qualities of nature. This first exhibition in Miami is a highly personal reflection of a journey that incorporates the mysteries of life, the magical characteristics of light, the brilliant sun, the moving power of water and the strength of the elements.
Muss describes her work as energetic and passionate and as the simple inspiration that one finds in the unexpected. Each piece is a mirror of her travels.

Muss holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in New York, and a Masters Degree in Media from the New School in New York. Muss has taught painting and drawing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College High School and Lehrman Day School.
About Kelley Roy Gallery:
The gallery exhibits mid- career and well recognized American and International contemporary artist. The gallery has a diverse program with emphasis on painting and sculpture. Artists include John Henry, Sebastian Spreng, Soile Yli-Mayry, Dolly Moreno, Henry Lautz and Antonio Ugarte, among others. This very contemporary art gallery is located on 29th St., perpendicular to Midtown Boulevard, the Corridor of Wynwood Arts District.

Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration in Miami Beach 10/15/10

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Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
Friday, October 15, 6PM, North Shore Park & Youth Center, 501 72 Street
Join us celebrate with food, music, dancing, carnival rides and more. Congratulations to this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month Award winners: Elsa Urquiza, resident; Luis Hernandez, business; Fernando Cid de Diego, artist; Margarita Cepeda, social service; and Maria Costa, educator.

Luminaire Welcomes Paola Lenti to Outdoor Therapy 10/7/10

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LUMINAIRE WELCOMES PAOLA LENTI TO OUTDOOR THERAPY
LECTURE & RECEPTION
Thursday, October 7, 6-8p
Outdoor Therapy
161 NE 40th Street, Suite 100
Miami Design District
RSVP

Highlighting a month-long exhibition of Paola Lenti’s furniture during October at Outdoor Therapy, Luminaire is pleased to announce a special lecture with the designer on Thursday, October 7.

Founded in 1994, Paola Lenti’s eponymous company specializes in outdoor furniture and rugs with a focus on the innovative exploration of both natural and synthetic materials. Sourcing both traditionally produced fabrics of the highest quality as well as adapting contemporary, technologically-advanced textiles, her products are unlike any others on the market. The pieces comprising Lenti’s lines have become new classics that can be seamlessly integrated within the domestic landscape, bringing sophisticated elegance to the exterior and interior.

EXHIBIT
October 1 – 31, 2010
at Outdoor Therapy

Junior Achievement Bowl-a-Thon 10/13/10

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JA Bowl-a-Thon
Wednesday October 13th
6 to 8 PM
Lucky Strike, 1691 Michigan Ave, South Beach
Facebook page.

Be part of a 5 person bowling team and secure at least $25 per bowler in pledges from friends, neighbors, colleagues and acquaintances. Each bowler is entitled to two games of bowling, shoe rental, one drink and great prizes! Sign-up at Firstgiving to start fundraising online!

Won’t be able to bowl that day? Don’t feel to sure about your bowling skills?
You can still create your fundraising page and help us educate more kids in Miami.
By raising $100 in donations you’ll provide one classroom with Junior Achievement’s curriculum. Please help us with our cause!

Check out the amazing prizes we have!
The individual raising the most money overall will receive 2 airplane tickets from Southwest Airlines! ($500 minimum)

The top two teams which raise the highest amount of pledges receive a Papa John’s Catering Party for 10!

Ad2 Miami AdColor Awards Millennial Town Hall advertising discussion 11/6/10

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Ad2 Miami: AdColor Awards’ Millennial Town Hall (advertising discussion)
Saturday, November 6, 2010, 10AM — 1PM
Fontainebleau Resort
Fontainebleau Resort (Glimmer 1 & 2 Ballroom)
4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
Facebook evite.

Ad2 Miami is calling all marketing/advertising & mass communications students to attend “AdColor Reaches Back: Millennial Town Hall” — exclusive!

During ADCOLOR Awards 2010 weekend in Miami, the Millennial Town Hall panel discussion will provide a forum and opportunity for you to engage with industry professionals of color on a one-on-one level, focusing on your challenges and perspectives.

RSVP INFO…
Space is limited to 50 guests.
To RSVP for this FREE panel discussion please register by October 15th by visiting this link.

2010 ADCOLOR Reach Back Program Participants: TORCH (NYC), Ghetto Film School (NYC), The Marcus Graham Project (TX), Metropolitan State College of Denver (CO), The Miami Ad School (FL), Brotherhood/Sister Sol (NYC), VCU AdCenter (VA)

Sponsored by: Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Deutsch, DraftFCB, Ogilvy & Mather, RAPP, TBWA\, Wieden + Kennedy

For more information about ADCOLOR, visit www.adcolor.org
[This year’s AdColor Awards 2010 ceremony honors Queen Latifah.]

Keeping Up With Us on Twitter: @AdColor | @Ad2Miami | @AAFMiami

Special thanks to Omnicom Group Inc.
Questions? TheJoseResendez@gmail.com

KCC Productions and Jazid present the LeNard Rutledge Ensemble 10/5/10

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KCC Productions and Jazid present the LeNard Rutledge Ensemble
Tuesday, October 5, from 11 PM – 2AM.
Jazid is located at 1342 Washinton Avenue, South Beach.
For more information call 305-673-9372 or visit jazid.net.

Captivating, soul stirring, earthy and funky. These are just some of the words used to describe the song stylings of LeNard Rutledge. Growing up in Miami, Florida, LeNard was always surrounded by many different musical styles. His parents had an extensive music collection ranging from Classical, Jazz, Hymns and the funk of James Brown.

In the fall of 1984, LeNard went to St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, NC. LeNard was awarded a Band Scholarship by Dr. Harold Jeffries (Director of Bands). It was in Raleigh when LeNard’s musical journey took flight. In the fall of 1984, he recorded two jingles for WLLE, a local AM radio station. He played drums, co-wrote and sang background vocals. He played timpani and general percussion in the Concert band and was the back–up drummer for the Jazz Ensemble. After a year of hinting and periodic begging, LeNard got his first big break. In the fall of 1986, LeNard sang the ballad “Teach Me Tonight” at the Annual Spring Concert. His confidence grew as he sang more songs, which led to other projects such as studio work and voice-over jobs. For fear of letting his drumming chops falter, LeNard played at area clubs to keep the rust away. A musical friend (Rick Best) introduced him to song writing.

In 1992, Stanley Baird, an area saxophonist, asked LeNard to submit songs for his upcoming CD, Stop, Look & Listen. Stan recorded three of his songs and released them on his label, Saxony Records. In 1995, LeNard submitted two of those songs to the Billboard Songwriting Contest. One of the songs, “So In Love (with you)” placed in the top 1% of 50,000 R&B entries. In the fall of 1995, he returned for a while to Miami. Needing extra cash to return to school, a childhood friend, Alan Morley told him he could earn extra money producing Rap and Hip-Hop Music. He introduced him to Gary Bradshaw (a Miami Rapper). From October 1995 to January 1996, LeNard “ghost wrote” and produced 9 original tracks for Gary. After returning to school in January of 1996, LeNard made the Dean’s List and Graduated in May 1997 with a B.S. Degree in Industrial Hygiene and Safety.

In May 1997, LeNard moved back to Miami. In October 1997, LeNard auditioned as a vocalist for the Melton Mustafa Orchestra. He got the gig and was the featured vocalist until 2003. LeNard has been a featured vocalist at area jazz spots in South Florida. The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Van Dyke Café and O’Hara’s Jazz Pub are the most notable. LeNard has shared the stage with a number of highly respectable jazz artists such as: Nnenna Freelon, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kenny Drew Jr., and Harry Allen. In May of 2006, LeNard was named BEST JAZZ ARTIST, by the Miami New Times magazine. His first CD, Hello World, was released in November.

Ana G. Méndez University System Professional Development Workshops 10/14/10

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Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez-Talleres de Desarrollo Profesional | Ana G. Méndez University System-Professional Development Workshops
October 14 2010, 6:30-9:30pm
Ana G. Méndez University System Miramar Campus
Ana G. Méndez University System
Miramar Park of Commerce, 3520 Enterprise Way, Miramar, FL 33025

Website.

Don’t miss the opportunity to register for Ana G. Méndez University System’Professional Development Workshops!

To confirm your attendance, please call Ana G. Méndez University System’s Learning Resources Center at 954-885-5595 Ext. 8511

13th Annual Halloween on the Mile 10/30/10

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13th Annual Halloween on the Mile
October 30, 2010, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Downtown Coral Gables and Miracle Mile

www.shopcoralgables.com

The 13th Annual Halloween on the Mile is back to give parents and their kids a safe tick-or-treating experience the day before Halloween night. Presented by Baptist Medical Plaza at Coral Gables, Halloween on the Mile promises to entertain children with spooky storytelling, free treats from merchants, live performances, kiddie and canine costume contests and a Halloween photo booth presented by Flagler Development Group.

3 p.m. Trick-or-Treating along Miracle Mile and adjacent streets

Halloween-Themed Photo Booth presented by Flagler Development Group at the Coral Gables Museum 285 Aragon Ave.

3:30 p.m. Story Time at Books & Books Books 265 Aragon Ave.

4:00 p.m. Doggie Costume Contest
Host MC NBC 6 WTVJ Reporter Nathalie Pozo Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave.

4:30 p.m. Musical Miracles performance
The Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre 280 Miracle Mile

5 p.m. Kiddie Costume Contest The Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre

Susan G Komen Race for the Cure Auction

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These original photographs are being auctioned to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure being held in Miami, FL on 10/16/2010. 50% of the proceeds from these original works will be donated to the upcoming race.

More information pertaining to the race can be found here. The photo will be framed in an 18″ x 24″ black wooden frame (hanging fixtures pre-attached to the frame) and sent to the highest bidder immediately following the auction. Bidding ends on 10/12.

Thank you for your support and happy bidding!

DIRECT LINK TO AUCTION ITEMS.
Items number:
170547846587
170547847964
170547849322

Santo VIP Lounge Gulfstream Park 10/9/10

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Saturday Night ~ 11pm – 5am

Santo VIP Lounge
Gulfstream Park
501 S Federal Highway
Hallandale Beach 33009

Featuring The SANTO Live Band
Sounds by: DJ NIKOLAS

Table reservations & bottle service are strongly recommended
Dress code strictly enforced
Guestlist & Table Reservations:
Erin Mia Milchman 954.232.0772

Valet Parking $6.

Stephen Seo Collection Fashion Show at The Sunset Lounge at Mondrian 10/8/10

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Friday Night ~ 10pm -4am
Stephen Seo Collection Fashion Show
The Sunset Lounge at Mondrian
1100 West Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139

New York Fashion Designer, Stephen Seo presents his 2012 Collection
for Men & Women

Steven Seo’s apparel has been most recently featured on “Entourage”

Fashion ~ Music ~ Vibe

Sounds by DJ Danny
Dress code strictly enforced

Valet Parking

Table reservations & bottle service are strongly recommended
Erin Mia Milchman 954.232.0772
** This Event Is Almost Sold Out ~ Contact Me For Guest List Immediately

A Night of Fashion, Art and Beauty at Tribeca Medaesthetics 10/8/10

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Friday Evening 7pm ~ 12am

A Night of Fashion, Art & Beauty

Tribeca Medaesthetics
1425 South Andrews Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33136

Fashion Show by Blake Lyon of Mimosa Boutique & The Academy of Glam
Abstract Artwork by Jen Haley of Fat Arts Village
Injectibles & Aesthetics by Dr. Jason Shapiro of Tribeca Medaesthetics
( Dysport appointments at promotional pricing )
Sounds by DJ Mc Nasty
Complimentary Cocktails

Free Parking

SoLita Thursdays 10/7/10

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Thursday Evening ~ 8pm – 2am
SoLita Thursdays
SoLita ~ Las Olas
“South of Little Italy ”
1032 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Fine Italian Cuisine & Nightlife
Acclaimed Chef “Radar” Rissoli

Sounds by: DJ ANTHONY PISANO

Valet Parking available in rear

Dinner Reservations are strongly recommended
Bottle service available
Erin Mia Milchman 954.232.0772

2 for 1 Taverna Opa Tuesdays 10/5/10

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Tuesday Evening ~ 8pm – 2am
2 for 1 Taverna Opa Tuesdays
Taverna Opa Hollywood Beach
410 North Ocean Drive
Hollywood Beach 33019
( A1A just north of Hollywood Boulevard )

Taverna Opa South Beach
36 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach 33139
( Directly across from Nikki Beach )

Greek Taverna Style Cuisine
2 for 1 Mezze ( tappas menu )
2 for 1 Cocktails
2 for 1 Imports & Domestics
2 for 1 Shots

Price ~ fixe menus starting at $30. p/p
Belly Dancers, Fire Breathing Bartenders, Table Top Zorba

Sounds by: DJ HANA
Lively party atmosphere

$3. Valet parking.
Casual attire
Dockage available

Dinner Reservations:
Erin Mia Milchman 954.232.0772

Macy’s Heart Of Haiti Collection Launch Party 10/7/10

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Macy’s Launches “Heart Of Haiti” Collection, Partners With Artisans To Help Rebuild Economy In Earthquake-Devastated Haiti
Traditional Artisans to show and discuss their work at Macy’s at Dadeland Mall
October 7, 6:00 p.m.
Dadeland Macy’s Home Store
7675 North Kendall Drive
Miami, Fl 33156

Recognizing the continued need in Haiti, Macy’s announced a new initiative – “The Heart of Haiti” – which will bring trade and aid to the earthquake-devastated country through a program for selling traditional Haitian artisan home décor products. The collection, inspired by the courage and culture of the Haitian people and created by Haitian artisan survivors, will be available in 25 Macy’s stores and on macys.com in October. Already, monies are being sent to Haitian artisans to buy needed materials to return to work, and more than 200 artisans are at work full-time.

The following artists will be on hand to help launch the collection at The Macy’s Home Store at Dadeland Mall:

Pascale was raised in Port-Au-Prince and has been creating art her entire life. In 2004, she moved to a seaside village on the outskirts on Jacmel with her daughter and joined a community of papier mache artists. She creates in papier mache as well as wood, textiles and mixed media. Pascale is a leader of the collective organization that is creating Macy’s products. Pascale’s home and workshop were destroyed in the earthquake.

Serge Jolimeau is a world-renowned metal artist, who has exhibited globally. A wise community leader, Serge presides over the guild organization ADAAC- Association of Artists and Artisans of Croix des Bouquets- that links the many artisan ateliers of Croix de Bouquets, a small town outside of Port-Au-Prince. Serge creates his masterworks using imagery drawn from his rich visionary imagination, memories of participating in ceremonies and the magnificent Haitian landscape.

Pierre Satyr is a master papier mache artist and the president of the Jacmel Guild of artists and artisans. He is heading the effort to build an artisans’ center in Jacmel, where the artists can live and work. A master painter, Satyr created the patterns for several pieces of the “Heart of Haiti” collection.

In May 2010, The William J. Clinton Foundation called American businesses to action by urging them to engage in rebuilding Haiti’s shattered economy in the wake of the country’s January 12, 2010 earthquake. Macy’s, having long partnered with global artisan communities, was an immediate responder. Knowing that traditional handmade goods are the heart and soul of cultures and economies that also delight North American shoppers, Macy’s turned to the successful model it has employed in the past. Currently, Macy’s carries fine products made by master artisans from across the developing world, including the famed Rwandan “Path to Peace” baskets, which have employed thousands of survivors of that nation’s 1994 conflict. Now in its fifth year, the relationship between Macy’s and the Rwandan weavers remains an enduring partnership providing education, healthcare, clean water, plentiful food, and dignity in Rwanda.

Haiti is recognized globally as a center of handmade industries and its ancient culture includes a vast diversity of traditional, handmade products. These include hand-tooled serving trays and up-cycled oil drums from the blacksmith community in Croix des Bouquets, the work in papier mache from Carnival Jacmel artists and a women’s quilting cooperative in Cite Soleil. A selection of these artworks will launch as the exclusive Macy’s “Heart of Haiti” collection, including quilts, metalwork, ceramics, wood-carvings, paintings and jewelry.

Please contact Dori Robau at (305) 577-1973 or via email at Dori.Robau@macys.com for more information.

Macy’s, the largest retail brand of Macy’s, Inc., delivers fashion and affordable luxury to customers at more than 800 locations in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. Macy’s stores and macys.com offer distinctive assortments including the most desired family of exclusive and fashion brands for him, her and home. Macy’s is known for such epic events as Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks® and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade®, as well as spectacular fashion shows, culinary events, flower shows and celebrity appearances. Building on a 150-year tradition, Macy’s helps strengthen communities by supporting local and national charities that make a difference in the lives of our customers.

Fairchild’s Edible Garden Festival featuring a Sacrecrow Contest 10/23-24/10

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Fairchild’s Edible Garden Festival featuring a Sacrecrow Contest
October 23 and 24, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, Fl 33156
www.Fairchildgarden.org

Learn how to grow, prepare and enjoy vegetables, fruits and herbs grown in your own garden – what could be more fulfilling? The Edible Garden Festival will feature gardening lectures, workshops, plant sales, cooking demonstrations and more.

Scarecrows will fill the garden as part of the Edible Garden Festival. Enter your own original scarecrow in our Scarecrow Contest and help raise funds for The Fairchild Challenge Satellite Programs.