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lunes, 31 de enero de 2011

ARCHITECTURE at Brickell

Brickell Key

Viceroy Hotel & Spa
Espiritu Santo Tower
The Palace, Villa Regina , Imperial and Santa Maria Condominium
The Financial District
One Broadway, The Four Seasons

LA MOON Restaurant

For those looking at 1 am for a good Colombian "Sancocho de Res", "Ajiaco Santafereño"only on Wednesday, Sobrebarriga, Colombian Style Hamburgers, Arepas, Colombian Hot Dogs, Pepitos or Breakfast.

La Moon Restaurant at 144 Sw 8 St. Brickell.
Open hours: Monday - Tuesday 8 am - 12 pm
Wednesday - Saturday 8 am - 6 am
Sunday 8 am - 1 am.
Delivery: (305) 860-6209 / 856-2003.


"Doggi" Great Hot Dogs at Brickell

Walking Brickell last week I found George, a Venezuelan serving a great Hot Dogs, with variety of sauces and a refreshing "Aguita de Papelon", (Lemonade with sugar cane).
For the Miami Cold days you probably find Hot Chocolate.
Walking Miami recommend.
Doggi Hot Dogs: SW 15th Rd and SW 1st Ave .

domingo, 30 de enero de 2011

Mar.6, The 13.1® Miami Beach Marathon

13.1® Miami Beach i13.1® Miami Beach This race is about the run, the fun,the Latin Music and Cooking. It will be truly one of a kind and the most fun running experience of your life! Don't miss out on this event, register now: www.131marathon.com

Entertainment, bands, and dancers all along the course will propel you to the exciting Latin food and dancing bash at our beachside finish line party. Arroz con pollo, a live salsa band, a dance floor to show off your moves, a kids corner with face painting and balloon animals, free massage, sand castle making demonstrations and much more.

And come ready to compete in our
Salsa Competition and our Costume Contest , because we're giving away prizes!


MIAMI ING MARATHON and Half MARATHON 2011




sábado, 29 de enero de 2011

Graffiti by Bike.

Foto By emerge miami


February 12, MAM Contemporary Art.

Graffiti by Bike, the latest innovation for Miami Art Museum Contemporaries group during February's Wynwood's art walk will start with a bike tour of home-grown and world class graffity, including Primary Flight's diverse urban art and the Wynwood Walls.

The bike tour will include information on the artists and crews, and the codes by which they create their work. MAM Contemporaries will trace a route through Wynwood, following the artistic development of early "tags" to large-scale commissioned murals.



Continue reading on Examiner.co:
Miami Art Museum Contemporaries Art Crawl by Bike - Miami Art and Gallery








jueves, 27 de enero de 2011

Mar.2-20 BROADWAY TO MIAMI-JERSEY BOYS at Adrienne Arsht Center


JERSEY BOYS



The 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical thats takes you up to charts,
across the country and behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

More Information and Tickets:http://ziffoperahouse.com/Events.php?search_text=Jersey+Boys+Miami&x=0&y=0&gclid=CMSDo-v22qYCFQxl7AodNSOK2Q

Feb. 17 - 20 ALVIN AILEY Adrienne Arsht Center

ALVIN AILEY DANCE 50th years

Miami 2011 Season

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Miami with new productions,
thrilling premieres and beloved audience favorites.
Two of Alvin Ailey’s most stirring works – Cry, dedicated “to all Black women everywhere, especially our mothers”

Three Black Kings, set to Duke Ellington’s last major score – return to the repertory.

Artistic Director Designate Robert Battle’s The Hunt and Christopher L. Huggins’sAnointed have their Miami debuts. Love Stories, Judith Jamison's dynamic collaboration with Battle and hip-hop pioneer Rennie Harris, brings the movement, energy and rhythm of African-American social dances to the stage. And at all five performances, celebrate 50 years of Mr. Ailey's masterpiece,Revelations, which continues to move audiences around the world with its powerful storytelling and soul-stirring music.

More information and Tickets: https://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/calendar/view.aspx?id=8798


miércoles, 26 de enero de 2011

Jan. 26-27 LECTURES FROST Museum, Feb. 2,4,5,11,12,23, Mar. 4 and 9.

FROST MUSEUM at FIU
January, February and March LECTURES

January 26, 2011


6 - 9pm

Target Wednesday After Hours

Exhibitions Opening receptions
Join us for the opening reception of our season's exhibitions: Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art; My Eyes Have Seen by Robert Farber; The Tale of the Unknown Island by Ester Villalobos and Mar Solis; As of 24-03-07 by María Brito.

Crossing the Boundaries: Art & Music — David Amram
David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the filmsSplendor in The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, including the groundbreaking Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient; and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac.

Target has teamed up with The Frost Art Museum to sponsor the museum’s popular programming series Target Wednesday After Hours. Designed to complement Frost exhibitions, these events give visitors the chance to meet contemporary artists and engage with controversial art, live music, talks, films, dance and performance art.

Target Wednesday After Hours provide an excellent opportunity to meet and socialize with other people interested in the arts while learning more about the museum, exhibitions and artists. The events are free and open to the public and take place from 6pm – 9pm one Wednesday each month.

January 27, 2011

2:30pm

5pm

Robert Farber Lecture

Join us for "The Story Behind the Image" a talk with Robert Farber about the works in his current exhibition "My Eyes Have Seen." This event is free and open to FIU Students and Museum Members.


Join us for "My Eyes Have Seen" a talk with Robert Farber about the works in his current exhibition "My Eyes Have Seen." This event is free and open to the public.

February 2, 2011

5:30pm

Meet & Mingle
Lecture: Understanding the Baroque Masters - Rubens by Professor David Chang

The Frost Art Museum is pleased to announce a special lecture by Professor David Chang, a renowned artist and Frost Professor and Director of Art Education at Florida International University. This lecture will focus on the visual analyses of the precious Baroque masterpieces currently on display at the Frost. It will be followed by a tour and on-site discussion on the special visual qualities as well as materials and methodologies of the Baroque master Rubens and his studio. If you have not yet seen the Baroque exhibition on the 2nd floor of the museum, try to arrive 15-20 minutes early and see it prior to the lecture. This would help enrich your experience and understanding.

The admission is free to all.

For more information about lecture, contact Linda Powers at phone: 305.348.6963 or e-mail:lpowers@fiu.edu.

February 4-5, 2011

5pm

Rubens and His World – Flemish / Dutch Art in the 17th century

Join us for a two-day symposium on Ruben's and his world. This symposium on Flemish and Dutch master's will introduce you to the 17th century masterminds and artists. This event is free to FIU students, faculty, staff and Frost Art Museum members. $10 to the general public.

February 11, 2011

7pm

The Steven & Dorothea Green Critics' Lecture Series presents:

"Christo & Jeanne-Claude—Two works in progress:Over the river, project for the Arkansas River, Colorado; The Mastaba, project fro the United Arab Emirates"

Join us for the next Green Critics' Lecture series with Christo on February 11, 2011 at 7pm. This lecture will take place at Florida International University's, College of Business Complex, Room 235 located at 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, Florida 33199, please note new time and location.

With his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo has wrapped the Reichstag building in Berlin (1995) and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris (1985) in fabric. Together they orchestrated a 25-mile fabric fence across Northern California (1976), strung an orange curtain across a Colorado valley (1972) and surrounded 11 islands with floating pink woven polypropylene fabric in Biscayne Bay (1983). Most recently, The Gates transformed 23 miles of Central Park walkways for 16 days in 2005 with 7503 vinyl gates with free-flowing saffron nylon fabric panels. Christo's lecture will address two upcoming projects: Over The Riverand The Mastaba.

The Museum will be open prior to the lecture.

Mark your calendar for the next Critics' Lecture Series by Dr. Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution, on March 4, 2011.

February 12, 2011

8pm

A Visual Journey through Art & Music

An artistic alliance with the Miami Symphony Orchestra featuring violinist Kristóf Baráti winner of the Sixth International Paganini Violin Competition (Moscow 2010).

PROGRAM:
Maxwell Davies: Five Klee Pictures
Garcia: In Memoriam Earle Brown (world premiere) - commissioned by MISO
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3, K. 216 in G major
Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano
with Kristóf Baráti, violin

Kristóf Baráti was born in Budapest in 1979, into a family of musicians. He spent a large part of his childhood in Venezuela and at the age of 8 performed with the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra.

In 1996, Professor Eduard Wulfson, director of the Stradivarius Society, discovered Barati at the Jacques Thibaud Competition. Since then he became his music advisor and coach.

Baráti has participated as guest professor, alongside Ida Haendel, Vadim Repin and Natalia Gutman, at the master-classes organized by Eduard Wulfson, initially at the "Chateau de Champs-sur-Marne" and at the Sorbonne University in Paris.

In addition to performing with major orchestras worldwide, Barati is a regular with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer and with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zoltan Kocsis.

This event will be held at The Wertheim Performing Arts Center at FIU - MMC. To purchase tickets, please click here.

February 23, 2011

6-9pm

Target Wednesday After Hours

The Arts of Myth & Medicine

ArtWorks!

The Frost will present its third exhibition devoted to art therapy, entitled Artworks! The exhibition will showcase the work of students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) who participate in the MDCPS art therapy program.

March 4, 2011

7pm

The Steven & Dorothea Green Critics' Lecture Series presents:

Dr. Richard Kurin

Dr. Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture for the Smithsonian Institution, is a former Fulbright-Hays fellow and earned his Ph. D in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. He has worked with the Smithsonian since 1976 when he was the director of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. After over a decade of research, Kurin wrote Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem. With his background as a cultural anthropologist, Kurin will discuss the impact that the presence of the diamond created across different cultures and societies throughout history. His book follows the origin of the curse, and how it has evolved as a modern legend which the people of today believe is an 'urban legend'.

Dr. Richard Kurin's lecture will be held in the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall across from The Frost Art Museum on FIU's Maidique Campus. The Museum will be open prior to the lecture.

March 9, 2011

6-9pm

Target Wednesday After Hours

"Crossing Boundaries: Art and Music" with composer Fred Kaufman Composer

Fred Kaufman has published over 130 compositions that have been performed worldwide by international orchestras, including the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and author of The African Roots of Jazz, a groundbreaking study rooted in his early musical life as a jazz trumpet player with the Woody Herman Band.

The evening will include a multimedia presentation and guided museum tours followed by light refreshments.

martes, 25 de enero de 2011

Mar 6 JULIO IGLESIAS at Hard Rock & Casino


Julio Iglesias
The romantic charismatic sounds of Julio Iglesias comes to Hard Rock Live
on March 6th 2011 at 7pm
More information and Tickets :http://www.hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com/events.php

Feb. 12 - 13 RAUL Di BLASIO



The pianist Raul Di Blasio in concert

at The Miami Dade County Auditorium

Saturday 12, at 8pm
Sunday 13, at 3 pm

Tickets : http://www.ticketmaster.com/Miami-Dade-County-Auditorium-tickets-Miami/venue/106614

Feb 19 MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS / RICARDO MONTANER



Marco Antonio Solis and Ricardo Montaner in concert
"De Los Enamorados 8:pm

More information: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Marco-Antonio-Solis-tickets/artist/781016?camefrom=[=CAMEFROM=]&brand=tm&tm_link=artist_rc_image2

Feb 14 JAZZ CONCERT at Fairchild Tropical Garden



Jazz singer Kevin Mahogany and the University of Miami’s Frost Concert Jazz Band
bring their sultry sounds to the garden on February 14 at 7 pm.

More information:http://www.fairchildgarden.org/Events/?date=2011-01&eventID=542

jueves, 20 de enero de 2011

Feb.25 GEORGE LOPEZ and Feb.28 GIPSY KINGS at Hard Rock & Casino

George Lopez
February 25 at 8:00pm

Gipsy Kings
February 28 at 8:00pm

Feb.24-27 WINE and FOOD FESTIVAL

The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Food & Wine is a national, star-studded, four-day destination event showcasing the talents of the world’s most renowned wine and spirits producers, chefs and culinary personalities. Hosted by Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida and Florida International University (FIU), the festival benefits FIU’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Teaching Restaurant and the Southern Wine & Spirits Beverage Management Center.

More information:http://2011.sobefest.com/visitor.php

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