MEMBER PRESALE for CELIA: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
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CELIA: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
June 2 - 28
Knight Concert Hall
Following last year's record-breaking run that drew more than 20,000 attendees, South Florida will get another chance to witness CELIA: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF CELIA CRUZ. Kick off your summer singing and dancing with Cuba's legendary salsa diva, when this dynamic and rhythmic production returns to the Knight Concert Hall following its triumphant international tour!
Called "EXPLOSIVE" by the New York Post, here's one more chance to discover what all Miami was talking about! Featuring a hit parade of Celia's greatest hits, including "La negra tiene tumbao", "Quimbara" and "La vida es un carnaval."
NOTICE:
Tuesday and Wednesday performances contain bilingual dialogue (English and Spanish) while others are spoken exclusively in Spanish.
All songs, however, are sung in Spanish during every performance.
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and enter promo code CELIA2009 to purchase your tickets before the general public. Member presale ends April 4.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Area 31 announces The Blissful Sixty Happy Hour
As a cure for the economy blues, Area 31 is pleased to present “The Blissful Sixty” Happy Hour. Join us at Area 31 every Monday – Friday from 5 – 7 pm for food and drink specials that help you escape for sixty minutes (or stay longer for an even more blissful 120 minutes). Grab a cocktail and a bite at this happiest of hours.
Matzah, Mitzvah & More--Sunday, April 5
I would love to see you all next Sunday, April 5 for a very special (and very easy) way to make an immediate difference in someone's life. The Matzah, Mitzvah & More project has been one that my family has been involved in for many years. My parents are the co-chairs this year. Please click on the link below for details. If you can just give one hour that day, it would be most appreciated (children are definitely welcome). It is not only the meal that we are delivering, but kindness and compassion as well. For many of these seniors, we will be their only good meal of the week and their only visitors in months. As you all know, charities and social service programs have all taken a tremendous hit. The recipients of these much-needed services are truly bearing the brunt of this hit. I hope you can join me in making the holidays a bit more joyful this year.
Please email me back and let me know if you would like to join me and my family. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested.
Thanks,
Risa
Please forward the e-flyer to everyone you know!=2 0The flyer’s link:
http://www.tropicsurvival.com/htmlmail/jcs/JCS_MMM.html
Please email me back and let me know if you would like to join me and my family. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested.
Thanks,
Risa
Please forward the e-flyer to everyone you know!=2 0The flyer’s link:
http://www.tropicsurvival.com/htmlmail/jcs/JCS_MMM.html
RSVP for Next Filmmaker Seminar With Writer-Director Brian Hecker Wednesday April 1
RSVP for Next Filmmaker Seminar With Writer-Director Brian Hecker Wednesday April 1
To find out more about the Entertainment Industry Incubator and the Miami Filmmaker Project
visit www.eincubator.org or email us at info at eincubator.org
Join us on our Facebook and Myspace pages (myspace.com/eincubator and http://groups.myspace.com/miamifilmmakerproject) and keep in touch!
To find out more about the Entertainment Industry Incubator and the Miami Filmmaker Project
visit www.eincubator.org or email us at info at eincubator.org
Join us on our Facebook and Myspace pages (myspace.com/eincubator and http://groups.myspace.com/miamifilmmakerproject) and keep in touch!
MEMBER PRESALE: Fuerza Bruta
Fuerza Bruta
Previews June 9 & 10
Opening Night June 11
Lynn Wolfson Stage
at the Ziff Ballet Opera House
"A dazzling blend of erotic, hypnotic, aquatic." - New York Post
"A sexy, heart-pounding fantasy. Not many shows can boast that they deliver something you've never seen before. This one does." - New York Daily News
LOOK UP — and experience a non-stop collision of dynamic music, jaw-dropping acrobatics, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a mash up between aerial theater and a late-night rave!
From the creators of the smash-hit De La Guarda, Fuerza Bruta will transform the Lynn Wolfson Stage into an alternate universe with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multidimensional swimming pool above the heads of the audience. The visuals are spectacular! The effects are stunning!
"FUERZA BRUTA has a company in New York that is currently performing their second blockbuster year, as well as a touring company that has played major cities world wide including New York, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, London, Cordoba, Bogota, Edinburgh, Berlin, Mexico, Sao Paulo and Miami to high critical acclaim."
Come experience a 360° heart-pounding theatrical experience!
Important Notice
The show is general admission; patrons will stand for the length of the show; dress casual.
See fuerzabrutamiami.com for videos, music and more!
LOG IN
and enter promo code BRUTA to purchase your tickets before the general public.
Member presale ends April 4.
Previews June 9 & 10
Opening Night June 11
Lynn Wolfson Stage
at the Ziff Ballet Opera House
"A dazzling blend of erotic, hypnotic, aquatic." - New York Post
"A sexy, heart-pounding fantasy. Not many shows can boast that they deliver something you've never seen before. This one does." - New York Daily News
LOOK UP — and experience a non-stop collision of dynamic music, jaw-dropping acrobatics, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a mash up between aerial theater and a late-night rave!
From the creators of the smash-hit De La Guarda, Fuerza Bruta will transform the Lynn Wolfson Stage into an alternate universe with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multidimensional swimming pool above the heads of the audience. The visuals are spectacular! The effects are stunning!
"FUERZA BRUTA has a company in New York that is currently performing their second blockbuster year, as well as a touring company that has played major cities world wide including New York, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, London, Cordoba, Bogota, Edinburgh, Berlin, Mexico, Sao Paulo and Miami to high critical acclaim."
Come experience a 360° heart-pounding theatrical experience!
Important Notice
The show is general admission; patrons will stand for the length of the show; dress casual.
See fuerzabrutamiami.com for videos, music and more!
LOG IN
and enter promo code BRUTA to purchase your tickets before the general public.
Member presale ends April 4.
Miami City Ballet presents Program IV
Miami City Ballet presents Program IV
Friday, April 3 at 8pm
Saturday, April 4 at 8pm
Sunday, April 5 at 2pm
Ziff Ballet Opera House
The Super Human Season Finale! See the Company Premiere of In The Night, by legendary Broadway/ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Three stages of love – flirtation, passion and intimacy – are experienced through three glamorous pas de deuxs. Also part of Program IV is a George Balanchine signature ballet, Concerto Barocco, as well as Symphony in C, an extravaganza that culminates with a thrilling stage-filling 48-dancer finale...the grandest way to end the season!
BUY TICKETS NOW
or call the box office at 305.949.6722.
Friday, April 3 at 8pm
Saturday, April 4 at 8pm
Sunday, April 5 at 2pm
Ziff Ballet Opera House
The Super Human Season Finale! See the Company Premiere of In The Night, by legendary Broadway/ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Three stages of love – flirtation, passion and intimacy – are experienced through three glamorous pas de deuxs. Also part of Program IV is a George Balanchine signature ballet, Concerto Barocco, as well as Symphony in C, an extravaganza that culminates with a thrilling stage-filling 48-dancer finale...the grandest way to end the season!
BUY TICKETS NOW
or call the box office at 305.949.6722.
Tennis for Ivy Plus group
Thanks to everyone who made it to the Epic Hotel and Area 31 on Wednesday! We had a great turnout!
This is short notice, but for those of you who are tennis fans, please consider joining All Ivy+ and Georgetown University for cocktails and tennis at the Sony Ericsson Open on Tuesday, March 31st.
Meet fellow alums at 6pm at the Bacardi Bar on the tournament grounds, immediately followed by a night match at 7pm.
400-Level Stadium Seating available at the group discounted rate of $22 per ticket
300-Level Stadium Seating available at the rate of $90 per ticket
This is short notice, but for those of you who are tennis fans, please consider joining All Ivy+ and Georgetown University for cocktails and tennis at the Sony Ericsson Open on Tuesday, March 31st.
Meet fellow alums at 6pm at the Bacardi Bar on the tournament grounds, immediately followed by a night match at 7pm.
400-Level Stadium Seating available at the group discounted rate of $22 per ticket
300-Level Stadium Seating available at the rate of $90 per ticket
APRIL 2009 at the Miami Beach Cinematheque!
“High-Def HITCH!” continues all April, with the MBC HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS exhibition March 31-April 30!
MBC is opening it's archives for the April exhibition "HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS", which includes rare vintage memorabilia, much of it autographed by the director and stars, and including important pieces on loan, such as the spectacular photograph "Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, Los Angeles 1962, by Lawrence Schiller!
M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España, (305) 67-FILMS (673-567)
BECOME A MEMBER HERE: www.MBCINEMA.com
APRIL 2009 at a Glance:
March 31: High-Def HITCH: Psycho
01, 03, 04: Cine-THEATRE: Hughie starring David Tawil
02: High-Def HITCH: The Birds
03 & 04: Medicine For Melancholy
05 & 06: Dog Eat Dog
07: Miami Beach Dance Festival: Bollywood Straight From the Heart
10:The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
11, 12: Waltz with Bashir
13-19: Sicilian Film Festival
19: Miami Latin Gay Film Festival: MARISOL in Tombola!
21: High-Def HITCH: Topaz
22: "Cine-IMPROV"
23, 24: Examined Life
25, 26: Wendy and Lucy
30: High-Def HITCH: Frenzy
31 TUE
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Psycho
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1960)
With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the best-known film director in the world, when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From
its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in
a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced
that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job. Impulse takes over and Marion takes off with the company cash, and stops for the night at the Bates Motel, where innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. “There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next”
-Starpulse
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
April 01 WED 8:30pm,
& 04 SAT & 05 SUN 5pm:
LIVE THEATRE at MBC!
“Cine-THEATRE”
Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE
A One-Act (one hour) play including cinematic supplements!
Starring David Tawil
Also featuring Mark Kroczynski / Directed by Aaron Gonzalez
Multi-Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote the one act play Hughie in 1940, set in the year 1929. . .two years that resound loudly in American history. Hughie is about the American psyche in periods of economic and emotional distress, which is why 2009 is a perfect year to reflect on our current conditions and where they slide into perspective. Small-time gambler Erie Smith lives in a seedy New York hotel, and Hughie, the hotel's clerk is a captive audience for Erie's regular ranting and tall tales. Erie comes home from a night of grief-stricken drinking because Hughie has died. Will there ever be a companionship replacement for one loner seeking solace in another?
$15 or $12 MBC Members/Seniors/Students
For tickets click HERE
April 02 THU 8:30pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
The Birds
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1964)
With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security
is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. “The birds have run amok, and once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup.”
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."-Alfred Hitchcock
"Hitch was all about the chase with his blondes. I don't think he ever wanted to-
how will I say? - culminate the chase." -Tippi Hedren
For tickets click HERE
03 FRI 7pm & 9pm:
and 04 SAT 7pm & 8:45pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
MEET DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS!
Medicine For Melancholy
Directed by Barry Jenkins
With Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
WINNER: Special Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival
Independent Spirit Award and Someone To Watch award nominee
“Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.”-Michael Fox, SF Weekly
“EXCELLENT, SURPRISING, and SUBTLE...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.”-D. Scot Miller, SF Guardian
Meet director BARRY JENKINS on the Friday night screenings!
Q&A will follow the screenings. This event is co-presented by "CCCV"
For tickets click HERE
05 SUN, 06 MON
7pm & 9pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Dog Eat Dog (Perro come perro)
Directed by Carlos Moreno/Colombia/2008
With Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda
Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution is Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film. El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job, but makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?
WINNER: Gramado Film Festival Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival Best Actor
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Miami Int. Film Festival
"Dog Eat Dog" is a very funny film, not in the traditional devices of the one-liner and wisecracks, but in a more subtle language of facial expressions. The slow but confident pace, which is engaging and tense, is unusual in a film of its type and gives lie to just how boring the frantic editing of recent thrillers has become.”-Quiet Earth
For tickets click HERE
07 TUE 8pm:
Miami Beach Dance Festival
Bollywood!
Straight From the Heart
(Hum dil de chuke sanam)
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. 2000
Starring Aishwariya Rai, Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan
Running time : 188 minutes
Have you ever seen a REAL Bollywood film? (Not the made-for-Hollywood stuff). Now is your chance to see an authentic award winning emotional drama with the outstanding choreography, acting, and production values that you have heard all about. In this dramatically complex family story, Nandini (the soulful, beautiful, confident heart of the family, played by India's biggest star sensation Aishwariya Rai) hides her new love interest from her strict father. Her arranged marriage can not stop “the desire that rules her heart!” Meanwhile, this basic Indian story is told in the elaborate, colorful, flamboyant style that made India's Bollywood the most successful and prolific movie-making place on earth! Viva Bollywood!
In Hindi, English, Hungarian, with English subtitles.
WINNER: Indian Film Fare Awards Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress
National Film Awards India: Best Choreography
International Indian Film Academy Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress
The film will be preceded by a Bollywood dance demonstration
by Geeta Dias! This is a complimentary event! (donations welcome!)
09 THU 8:30pm: “High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Torn Curtain
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1966)
With Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy
In a sign of the times, Universal wanted “big Hollywood stars” in the films they presented, even Hitchcock films. So Paul Newman and Julie Andrews were cast even though Hitchcock wanted his regulars Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. In this thriller of paranoia and double crossing, a double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. To his surprise, his fiancée, fellow scientist Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) follows him, and she soon discovers Armstrong is no traitor, but acting as a secret undercover agent.
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
10 FRI 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
Directed by Sophie Fiennes/UK/Austria/Netherlands/2008
Featuring ZIZEK!
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humor.
WINNER: British Independent Film Awards Best Documentary
“Highly entertaining and often brilliant.” –Guardian (UK)
“Here's a film guaranteed to make you smarter than all your friends for 48 hours, or at least feel like you are.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune
* * * * * “ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR CINEPHILES! But also for anyone else interested in the enduring power of cinema.”—Time Out
For tickets click HERE
11 SAT, 12, SUN 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Encore Miami Screenings!
Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
Directed by Ari Folman/Israel/Germany/France/2008
Director Ari Folman's animated documentary has been acclaimed worldwide and is winner of 6 Israeli Film Academy Awards, including Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Art Direction. One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images. In Hebrew, German, Arabic, English, with English subtitles.
WINNER: Israel Awards Best Film, Golden Globes Best Foreign Film
César Awards Best Foreign Film, Israeli Film Academy Best Film, Director
“AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER!” –Wall Street Journal
“PROVACATIVE, HALLUCINATORY, INCENDIARY!. . .it's unlike any film you've seen, period.” –Los Angeles Times
For tickets click HERE
Sicilian Film Festival (April 13-19)
13 MON 6pm: SFF Opening Ceremony with wines of Sicily
followed by 7pm: The Viceroys (I Vicere') by Roberto Faenza
$20 opening ceremony and film
8:45pm: La baronessa di Carini by Umberto Marino
14 TUE 7pm: La baronessa di Carini by Umberto Marino
8:45pm: The Viceroys (I Vicere') by Roberto Faenza
10:30pm: If You Close Your Eyes (Se chiudi gli occhi) by Lisa Romano
15 WED 6pm: The Island Inside: A Journey With Vincenzo Consolo (L'isola in me: in viaggio con Vincenzo Consolo) by Ludovica Tortora De Falco
7:15pm: Taormina Shorts in cooperation with Taormina Film Festival
Our Sea (Mare nostro) by Andrea D'Asaro 20', Maradona Baby by Nino Sabella 10', Sgangsters by Mario Cosentino, 17', The Door of Forgiveness (Bab al Samah – La porta del perdono) by Francesco Sperandeo 15', The Nude Life (La vita nuda) by Dino Santoro 21', The Hallway (Il corridoio) by Gaia Bonsignore 6'
9pm: Homage to the Sicilian Producer George Litto
Dressed to Kill by Brian Di Palma
16 THU 6pm: Documentaries From Sulfur To Coal (Dallo zolfo al carbone)
by Luca Vullo 30', The Magic of Acitrezza (La malia di Acitrezza) by Paolo Brunatto 29'
7pm: Conference: Being a Sicilian Producer by Augusto Allegra
with Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso
$15 (conference and films)
9:00pm: A Gide's Love (Un amore di Gide) by Diego Ronsisvalle
17 FRI 6:30pm: Short films: Party Night (Amiche) by Massimo Natale 14', Original Talents (Originali talenti) by Manolo Cristian Abbondati 20', A Scrooge Meets Cinderella Story (Cenerentola e lo sfruttatore) by Andria Litto 17', Faida 2 - The return (Faida 2 - Il ritorno) by Giorgio Galieti 10', A Heart Inside The Sea (Un cuore dentro al mare) by Claudia Labianca 20', The Fishing Light (La Lampara) by Giovanni Sinopoli 13', Being Handy (Mi chiamo Handy) by Vincenzo Cosentino 7'
8:45pm: The Sicilian Girl (La siciliana ribelle) by Marco Amenta
18 SAT 7pm: Documentaries Black Vessel (Il mare come il vino) by Luigi Valente 22'; Vara by Joseph Gardella 35'; Easter in Sicily (Pasqua in Sicilia) by Sigal Bujman 50'
8:40pm: Detective Montalbano: Paper Moon (Il Commissario Montalbano:
la luna di carta) by Alberto Sironi TV Series
10:30pm: SFF Afterparty at The Forge, 432 41st Street, Miami Beach
with host Juan Carlos Perez Complimentary Champagne until 12.
RSVP for guest list to jcpwonder@yahoo.com
19 SUN 6pm: Documentaries: Street Food Palermo by Laura Ravaioli 22'; Prince Alliata's Sweet Life (Il tonno, il corvo, la granita, Francesco Alliata, una vita dolce)
by Alfredo Antonaros 29'
7pm: Helen (Elena) by Salvo Bitonti 15'
and A Breath Of Life (Diceria dell'untore) by Beppe Cino 97'
With special guest Franco Nero
$30
9pm: SFF Fundraising Party
with concert by Kelly J. Roberts, and the official SFF Awards
and Italian Buffet Dinner with Wines of Sicily
Villa Viscuso, 8300 Hawthorne Ave, Miami Beach
Call (305) 710-4593 for reservations and info.
benefiting the not-for-profit “Sicilian Cultural and Film Festival”
$50
For SFF Tickets and details on films visit www.MBCinema.com
(Events are $10 each, or $7 MBC Members, unless otherwise noted).
Miami Latin Gay Film Festival
19 SUN 2pm:
A Sing-Along matinee with. . .
¡MARISOL in Tómbola!
PRESENTED WITH CENTRO CULTURAL ESPANOL
(Directed by Luis Lucia/1962)
Just in time for Gay Pride Weekend and the Miami Latin Gay Film Festival!
Who do you get when you cross Julie Andrews, Haley Mills, and Shirley Temple with Charo, and Jennifer Lopez? MARISOL. . .that's who! Marisol was Spain's colorful answer to wholesome entertainment during the grey General Franco dictatorship. Her young and flamboyant vitality was also a secret symbol of leftie liberation, and that includes, of course, being a gay icon for all the colorful boys (and girls) yearning to be just like her, or yearning to, at least, sing just like her, which brings us to YOU. If you speak or sing or, at least, read Spanish, now is your single rare chance to relive or live for the first time your Spanish heritage and childhood, singing your heart out with MARISOL (on screen) in her classic film Tómbola (which is about. . .um, Marisol being fabulous!).
“Her figure and her grace fill the screen from the beginning till the last sequence, and the feature's festive and sentimental rhythm never declines.” Olé! Olé! Olé!
-La Vanguardia 1962
In Spanish with Spanish lyrics provided for singing along!
Join us afterwards for Sangria and home-made Spanish omelette,
included in your price! $12 or $10 MBC Members
For advance tickets visit www.MBCinema.com
21 TUE 8pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Topaz
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1969)
With Frederick Stafford, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the months prior to the 1962 missile crisis. Someone is supplying castro--and, by extension, Moscow -- with NATO secrets; it is up to Devereaux to liquidate the "mole." Aiding Devereaux is CIA agent Nordstrom (John Forsythe) and aristocratic anti-Castro Cuban Juanita (Karin Dor), who happens to be the girlfriend of pro-castroite Rico Parra (John Vernon).
"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
22 WED 8:30pm: “Cine-IMPROV!”
A LIVE Comedic Jam presented by “the Model Citizens”
Miami's hottest improv actors perform unscripted theater based on your suggestions, in the art of “long form improv," rather than the typical comedy you see at the clubs and on TV. Including film dubbing, the "Armando Diaz Experience," and a live improvised "movie" based on the life experiences of one of our audience members, with stylistic parody, edits, comedic characters, and other scenic devices.
This month's theme: Let's DANCE!
“The Cine-Improv troupe works at a higher level than even the pros you see on Comedy Central, late-night TV, and at clubs. Their improvised take on film removes the middleman and leaves him (rolling) on the cut-up room floor (in this case that's the Miami Beach Cinematheque).”--Greg Baker New Times
For tickets click HERE
23 THU & 24 FRI
7pm and 8:45pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Examined Life
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms,
and puts it back on the streets...
Directed by Astra Taylor/Canada/2009
Featuring Cornel West, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor
In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Slavoj Zizek questions current beliefs about the environment while sifting through a garbage dump. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco's Mission District questioning our culture's fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America's best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates
For tickets click HERE
25 SAT & 26 SUN
7pm and 8:35pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Wendy and Lucy
Directed by Kelly Reichardt/USA/2009
With Michelle Williams
Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy. Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people's duty to each other in tough time.
“A PITCH PERFECT TRIUMPH!—Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“What may emerge as THE BEST PERFORMANCE of the YEAR!”—Film Comment
"What will happen to her? The strength of this short, simple, perfect story of a young woman and her dog is that this does not seem, by the end, to be an idle or trivial question. What happens to Wendy -- and to Lucy -- matters a lot, which is to say that Wendy and Lucy, for all its modesty, matters a lot too."--A.O. Scott New York Times
For tickets click HERE
30 THU 8:30pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Frenzy
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1972)
With Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Frenzy marked Hitchcock's return not only to England for the first time in twenty years but also to the subject matter with which he'd started his career in thrillers back in 1926 - murder, and a hunt for a serial killer in London. As the latest female victim of the "Necktie Murderer" is found in the Thames, raped and strangled, we meet Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), a bitter, belligerent ex-Royal Air Force officer who can't seem to find his way in life. We also meet his girlfriend, a barmaid (Anna Massey); his ex-wife, a professional matchmaker (Barbara Leigh-Hunt); and his best friend. Their connection to the necktie murders will be clear to us in the first thirty minutes, as Chief Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowan) and his men tighten a circle around the wrong man, who rapidly runs out of options and allies.
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
Cine-Theatre: $15 or $12 Members
Sicilian Film Festival opening Night $20
SFF Conference Being a Sicilian Producer $15
SFF Evening with Franco Nero $30
Parking: 16th St. between Collins and Washington (covered lot)
or 16th St and Drexel Avenue (open lot)
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
MBC is opening it's archives for the April exhibition "HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS", which includes rare vintage memorabilia, much of it autographed by the director and stars, and including important pieces on loan, such as the spectacular photograph "Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, Los Angeles 1962, by Lawrence Schiller!
M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España, (305) 67-FILMS (673-567)
BECOME A MEMBER HERE: www.MBCINEMA.com
APRIL 2009 at a Glance:
March 31: High-Def HITCH: Psycho
01, 03, 04: Cine-THEATRE: Hughie starring David Tawil
02: High-Def HITCH: The Birds
03 & 04: Medicine For Melancholy
05 & 06: Dog Eat Dog
07: Miami Beach Dance Festival: Bollywood Straight From the Heart
10:The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
11, 12: Waltz with Bashir
13-19: Sicilian Film Festival
19: Miami Latin Gay Film Festival: MARISOL in Tombola!
21: High-Def HITCH: Topaz
22: "Cine-IMPROV"
23, 24: Examined Life
25, 26: Wendy and Lucy
30: High-Def HITCH: Frenzy
31 TUE
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Psycho
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1960)
With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the best-known film director in the world, when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From
its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in
a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced
that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job. Impulse takes over and Marion takes off with the company cash, and stops for the night at the Bates Motel, where innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. “There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next”
-Starpulse
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
April 01 WED 8:30pm,
& 04 SAT & 05 SUN 5pm:
LIVE THEATRE at MBC!
“Cine-THEATRE”
Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE
A One-Act (one hour) play including cinematic supplements!
Starring David Tawil
Also featuring Mark Kroczynski / Directed by Aaron Gonzalez
Multi-Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote the one act play Hughie in 1940, set in the year 1929. . .two years that resound loudly in American history. Hughie is about the American psyche in periods of economic and emotional distress, which is why 2009 is a perfect year to reflect on our current conditions and where they slide into perspective. Small-time gambler Erie Smith lives in a seedy New York hotel, and Hughie, the hotel's clerk is a captive audience for Erie's regular ranting and tall tales. Erie comes home from a night of grief-stricken drinking because Hughie has died. Will there ever be a companionship replacement for one loner seeking solace in another?
$15 or $12 MBC Members/Seniors/Students
For tickets click HERE
April 02 THU 8:30pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
The Birds
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1964)
With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security
is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. “The birds have run amok, and once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup.”
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."-Alfred Hitchcock
"Hitch was all about the chase with his blondes. I don't think he ever wanted to-
how will I say? - culminate the chase." -Tippi Hedren
For tickets click HERE
03 FRI 7pm & 9pm:
and 04 SAT 7pm & 8:45pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
MEET DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS!
Medicine For Melancholy
Directed by Barry Jenkins
With Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
WINNER: Special Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival
Independent Spirit Award and Someone To Watch award nominee
“Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.”-Michael Fox, SF Weekly
“EXCELLENT, SURPRISING, and SUBTLE...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.”-D. Scot Miller, SF Guardian
Meet director BARRY JENKINS on the Friday night screenings!
Q&A will follow the screenings. This event is co-presented by "CCCV"
For tickets click HERE
05 SUN, 06 MON
7pm & 9pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Dog Eat Dog (Perro come perro)
Directed by Carlos Moreno/Colombia/2008
With Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda
Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution is Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film. El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job, but makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?
WINNER: Gramado Film Festival Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival Best Actor
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Miami Int. Film Festival
"Dog Eat Dog" is a very funny film, not in the traditional devices of the one-liner and wisecracks, but in a more subtle language of facial expressions. The slow but confident pace, which is engaging and tense, is unusual in a film of its type and gives lie to just how boring the frantic editing of recent thrillers has become.”-Quiet Earth
For tickets click HERE
07 TUE 8pm:
Miami Beach Dance Festival
Bollywood!
Straight From the Heart
(Hum dil de chuke sanam)
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. 2000
Starring Aishwariya Rai, Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan
Running time : 188 minutes
Have you ever seen a REAL Bollywood film? (Not the made-for-Hollywood stuff). Now is your chance to see an authentic award winning emotional drama with the outstanding choreography, acting, and production values that you have heard all about. In this dramatically complex family story, Nandini (the soulful, beautiful, confident heart of the family, played by India's biggest star sensation Aishwariya Rai) hides her new love interest from her strict father. Her arranged marriage can not stop “the desire that rules her heart!” Meanwhile, this basic Indian story is told in the elaborate, colorful, flamboyant style that made India's Bollywood the most successful and prolific movie-making place on earth! Viva Bollywood!
In Hindi, English, Hungarian, with English subtitles.
WINNER: Indian Film Fare Awards Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress
National Film Awards India: Best Choreography
International Indian Film Academy Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress
The film will be preceded by a Bollywood dance demonstration
by Geeta Dias! This is a complimentary event! (donations welcome!)
09 THU 8:30pm: “High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Torn Curtain
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1966)
With Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy
In a sign of the times, Universal wanted “big Hollywood stars” in the films they presented, even Hitchcock films. So Paul Newman and Julie Andrews were cast even though Hitchcock wanted his regulars Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. In this thriller of paranoia and double crossing, a double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. To his surprise, his fiancée, fellow scientist Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) follows him, and she soon discovers Armstrong is no traitor, but acting as a secret undercover agent.
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
10 FRI 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
Directed by Sophie Fiennes/UK/Austria/Netherlands/2008
Featuring ZIZEK!
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Zizek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humor.
WINNER: British Independent Film Awards Best Documentary
“Highly entertaining and often brilliant.” –Guardian (UK)
“Here's a film guaranteed to make you smarter than all your friends for 48 hours, or at least feel like you are.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune
* * * * * “ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR CINEPHILES! But also for anyone else interested in the enduring power of cinema.”—Time Out
For tickets click HERE
11 SAT, 12, SUN 8:30pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Encore Miami Screenings!
Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
Directed by Ari Folman/Israel/Germany/France/2008
Director Ari Folman's animated documentary has been acclaimed worldwide and is winner of 6 Israeli Film Academy Awards, including Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Art Direction. One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images. In Hebrew, German, Arabic, English, with English subtitles.
WINNER: Israel Awards Best Film, Golden Globes Best Foreign Film
César Awards Best Foreign Film, Israeli Film Academy Best Film, Director
“AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER!” –Wall Street Journal
“PROVACATIVE, HALLUCINATORY, INCENDIARY!. . .it's unlike any film you've seen, period.” –Los Angeles Times
For tickets click HERE
Sicilian Film Festival (April 13-19)
13 MON 6pm: SFF Opening Ceremony with wines of Sicily
followed by 7pm: The Viceroys (I Vicere') by Roberto Faenza
$20 opening ceremony and film
8:45pm: La baronessa di Carini by Umberto Marino
14 TUE 7pm: La baronessa di Carini by Umberto Marino
8:45pm: The Viceroys (I Vicere') by Roberto Faenza
10:30pm: If You Close Your Eyes (Se chiudi gli occhi) by Lisa Romano
15 WED 6pm: The Island Inside: A Journey With Vincenzo Consolo (L'isola in me: in viaggio con Vincenzo Consolo) by Ludovica Tortora De Falco
7:15pm: Taormina Shorts in cooperation with Taormina Film Festival
Our Sea (Mare nostro) by Andrea D'Asaro 20', Maradona Baby by Nino Sabella 10', Sgangsters by Mario Cosentino, 17', The Door of Forgiveness (Bab al Samah – La porta del perdono) by Francesco Sperandeo 15', The Nude Life (La vita nuda) by Dino Santoro 21', The Hallway (Il corridoio) by Gaia Bonsignore 6'
9pm: Homage to the Sicilian Producer George Litto
Dressed to Kill by Brian Di Palma
16 THU 6pm: Documentaries From Sulfur To Coal (Dallo zolfo al carbone)
by Luca Vullo 30', The Magic of Acitrezza (La malia di Acitrezza) by Paolo Brunatto 29'
7pm: Conference: Being a Sicilian Producer by Augusto Allegra
with Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso
$15 (conference and films)
9:00pm: A Gide's Love (Un amore di Gide) by Diego Ronsisvalle
17 FRI 6:30pm: Short films: Party Night (Amiche) by Massimo Natale 14', Original Talents (Originali talenti) by Manolo Cristian Abbondati 20', A Scrooge Meets Cinderella Story (Cenerentola e lo sfruttatore) by Andria Litto 17', Faida 2 - The return (Faida 2 - Il ritorno) by Giorgio Galieti 10', A Heart Inside The Sea (Un cuore dentro al mare) by Claudia Labianca 20', The Fishing Light (La Lampara) by Giovanni Sinopoli 13', Being Handy (Mi chiamo Handy) by Vincenzo Cosentino 7'
8:45pm: The Sicilian Girl (La siciliana ribelle) by Marco Amenta
18 SAT 7pm: Documentaries Black Vessel (Il mare come il vino) by Luigi Valente 22'; Vara by Joseph Gardella 35'; Easter in Sicily (Pasqua in Sicilia) by Sigal Bujman 50'
8:40pm: Detective Montalbano: Paper Moon (Il Commissario Montalbano:
la luna di carta) by Alberto Sironi TV Series
10:30pm: SFF Afterparty at The Forge, 432 41st Street, Miami Beach
with host Juan Carlos Perez Complimentary Champagne until 12.
RSVP for guest list to jcpwonder@yahoo.com
19 SUN 6pm: Documentaries: Street Food Palermo by Laura Ravaioli 22'; Prince Alliata's Sweet Life (Il tonno, il corvo, la granita, Francesco Alliata, una vita dolce)
by Alfredo Antonaros 29'
7pm: Helen (Elena) by Salvo Bitonti 15'
and A Breath Of Life (Diceria dell'untore) by Beppe Cino 97'
With special guest Franco Nero
$30
9pm: SFF Fundraising Party
with concert by Kelly J. Roberts, and the official SFF Awards
and Italian Buffet Dinner with Wines of Sicily
Villa Viscuso, 8300 Hawthorne Ave, Miami Beach
Call (305) 710-4593 for reservations and info.
benefiting the not-for-profit “Sicilian Cultural and Film Festival”
$50
For SFF Tickets and details on films visit www.MBCinema.com
(Events are $10 each, or $7 MBC Members, unless otherwise noted).
Miami Latin Gay Film Festival
19 SUN 2pm:
A Sing-Along matinee with. . .
¡MARISOL in Tómbola!
PRESENTED WITH CENTRO CULTURAL ESPANOL
(Directed by Luis Lucia/1962)
Just in time for Gay Pride Weekend and the Miami Latin Gay Film Festival!
Who do you get when you cross Julie Andrews, Haley Mills, and Shirley Temple with Charo, and Jennifer Lopez? MARISOL. . .that's who! Marisol was Spain's colorful answer to wholesome entertainment during the grey General Franco dictatorship. Her young and flamboyant vitality was also a secret symbol of leftie liberation, and that includes, of course, being a gay icon for all the colorful boys (and girls) yearning to be just like her, or yearning to, at least, sing just like her, which brings us to YOU. If you speak or sing or, at least, read Spanish, now is your single rare chance to relive or live for the first time your Spanish heritage and childhood, singing your heart out with MARISOL (on screen) in her classic film Tómbola (which is about. . .um, Marisol being fabulous!).
“Her figure and her grace fill the screen from the beginning till the last sequence, and the feature's festive and sentimental rhythm never declines.” Olé! Olé! Olé!
-La Vanguardia 1962
In Spanish with Spanish lyrics provided for singing along!
Join us afterwards for Sangria and home-made Spanish omelette,
included in your price! $12 or $10 MBC Members
For advance tickets visit www.MBCinema.com
21 TUE 8pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Topaz
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1969)
With Frederick Stafford, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the months prior to the 1962 missile crisis. Someone is supplying castro--and, by extension, Moscow -- with NATO secrets; it is up to Devereaux to liquidate the "mole." Aiding Devereaux is CIA agent Nordstrom (John Forsythe) and aristocratic anti-Castro Cuban Juanita (Karin Dor), who happens to be the girlfriend of pro-castroite Rico Parra (John Vernon).
"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
22 WED 8:30pm: “Cine-IMPROV!”
A LIVE Comedic Jam presented by “the Model Citizens”
Miami's hottest improv actors perform unscripted theater based on your suggestions, in the art of “long form improv," rather than the typical comedy you see at the clubs and on TV. Including film dubbing, the "Armando Diaz Experience," and a live improvised "movie" based on the life experiences of one of our audience members, with stylistic parody, edits, comedic characters, and other scenic devices.
This month's theme: Let's DANCE!
“The Cine-Improv troupe works at a higher level than even the pros you see on Comedy Central, late-night TV, and at clubs. Their improvised take on film removes the middleman and leaves him (rolling) on the cut-up room floor (in this case that's the Miami Beach Cinematheque).”--Greg Baker New Times
For tickets click HERE
23 THU & 24 FRI
7pm and 8:45pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Examined Life
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms,
and puts it back on the streets...
Directed by Astra Taylor/Canada/2009
Featuring Cornel West, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor
In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Slavoj Zizek questions current beliefs about the environment while sifting through a garbage dump. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco's Mission District questioning our culture's fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America's best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates
For tickets click HERE
25 SAT & 26 SUN
7pm and 8:35pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami Theatrical Premiere!
Wendy and Lucy
Directed by Kelly Reichardt/USA/2009
With Michelle Williams
Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy. Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people's duty to each other in tough time.
“A PITCH PERFECT TRIUMPH!—Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“What may emerge as THE BEST PERFORMANCE of the YEAR!”—Film Comment
"What will happen to her? The strength of this short, simple, perfect story of a young woman and her dog is that this does not seem, by the end, to be an idle or trivial question. What happens to Wendy -- and to Lucy -- matters a lot, which is to say that Wendy and Lucy, for all its modesty, matters a lot too."--A.O. Scott New York Times
For tickets click HERE
30 THU 8:30pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Frenzy
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1972)
With Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Frenzy marked Hitchcock's return not only to England for the first time in twenty years but also to the subject matter with which he'd started his career in thrillers back in 1926 - murder, and a hunt for a serial killer in London. As the latest female victim of the "Necktie Murderer" is found in the Thames, raped and strangled, we meet Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), a bitter, belligerent ex-Royal Air Force officer who can't seem to find his way in life. We also meet his girlfriend, a barmaid (Anna Massey); his ex-wife, a professional matchmaker (Barbara Leigh-Hunt); and his best friend. Their connection to the necktie murders will be clear to us in the first thirty minutes, as Chief Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowan) and his men tighten a circle around the wrong man, who rapidly runs out of options and allies.
"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
Cine-Theatre: $15 or $12 Members
Sicilian Film Festival opening Night $20
SFF Conference Being a Sicilian Producer $15
SFF Evening with Franco Nero $30
Parking: 16th St. between Collins and Washington (covered lot)
or 16th St and Drexel Avenue (open lot)
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
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Free Sushi On SoBe:
Prices Get Really Loews
Tonight! Enjoy
A Free Buffet:
Welcome to the Grove, Sekai
Prices Are Going
Down Like The:
Titanic's Ten Year Anniversary
Mo' Better, Mojitos:
Free Mojito Happy Hour
Catch Of The Day:
UYE: Try Your Claw at Lobstering
Yelpin' Recession Friendly Restaurants
Sure, the economy is in shambles, but any good yelper knows there's a silver lining to every cloud. Frugal is the new chic, and plenty of local restaurants are helping you stretch those Washingtons by offering recession-friendly options that will still fill your belly right. Hit "print" on this Weekly, 'cause you'll wanna stick this money saver on the fridge for safe keeping!
Brickell, traditionally known for its moneyed yuppie crowd, has some of the best deals in town. Valentina D has a soft spot for the River Oyster Bar and its half-price oyster happy hour: "I loved the opportunity to snarf down a large sampler platter of exquisite bi-valves who gave up their simple yet poignant lives for my momentary enjoyment." On Thursdays, you can manga on pasta at Perricone's for a mere ten spot, but Chelsea O reminds us that the "great atmosphere, outside dining in a barn-like structure, with well-lit trees, twinkle lighting and soft jazz harp in the background" don't cost a thing! Joshua M has his true Blú favorite: "On weekdays from 5-7pm you get an excellent deal in which the price is based off the time of day. If you buy at 5pm the meal is five dollars, if you order at 6pm the meal is six dollars." Yep, timing is everything!
Beat-the-clock specials are also available at Lincoln Road sister eateries Spris and Tiramesu. The former "has the basics down to a science," if you ask Ginger H, while the latter keeps Kim H coming back for their "hearty Italian fare." On Thursdays, look for Eve C sampling the vino e antipasti at Fratelli Lyon's Aperitivo in Milano: "It was all delicious." And then there's Kent K, whose wallet-friendly choice for a more rustic approach to Italian is Café Prima Pasta: "Typically very busy with locals, there is a reason why this place is always popping: the food." Well here's one very yelpy tip: The entire menu is half off if you show up for the 5 or 5:30pm seatings during the week!
Looking for some meatier dining specials? Peep the perks at Bourbon Steak, where Maria T knows "it's chichi von fancy, but sometimes, that's just what you need." With a new Raise Your Spirits happy hour, gourmet Bourbon Bar burger menu and their weekly Bourbon and Blues series, all of a sudden even Michael Mina seems (somewhat) affordable!
Prices Get Really Loews
Tonight! Enjoy
A Free Buffet:
Welcome to the Grove, Sekai
Prices Are Going
Down Like The:
Titanic's Ten Year Anniversary
Mo' Better, Mojitos:
Free Mojito Happy Hour
Catch Of The Day:
UYE: Try Your Claw at Lobstering
Yelpin' Recession Friendly Restaurants
Sure, the economy is in shambles, but any good yelper knows there's a silver lining to every cloud. Frugal is the new chic, and plenty of local restaurants are helping you stretch those Washingtons by offering recession-friendly options that will still fill your belly right. Hit "print" on this Weekly, 'cause you'll wanna stick this money saver on the fridge for safe keeping!
Brickell, traditionally known for its moneyed yuppie crowd, has some of the best deals in town. Valentina D has a soft spot for the River Oyster Bar and its half-price oyster happy hour: "I loved the opportunity to snarf down a large sampler platter of exquisite bi-valves who gave up their simple yet poignant lives for my momentary enjoyment." On Thursdays, you can manga on pasta at Perricone's for a mere ten spot, but Chelsea O reminds us that the "great atmosphere, outside dining in a barn-like structure, with well-lit trees, twinkle lighting and soft jazz harp in the background" don't cost a thing! Joshua M has his true Blú favorite: "On weekdays from 5-7pm you get an excellent deal in which the price is based off the time of day. If you buy at 5pm the meal is five dollars, if you order at 6pm the meal is six dollars." Yep, timing is everything!
Beat-the-clock specials are also available at Lincoln Road sister eateries Spris and Tiramesu. The former "has the basics down to a science," if you ask Ginger H, while the latter keeps Kim H coming back for their "hearty Italian fare." On Thursdays, look for Eve C sampling the vino e antipasti at Fratelli Lyon's Aperitivo in Milano: "It was all delicious." And then there's Kent K, whose wallet-friendly choice for a more rustic approach to Italian is Café Prima Pasta: "Typically very busy with locals, there is a reason why this place is always popping: the food." Well here's one very yelpy tip: The entire menu is half off if you show up for the 5 or 5:30pm seatings during the week!
Looking for some meatier dining specials? Peep the perks at Bourbon Steak, where Maria T knows "it's chichi von fancy, but sometimes, that's just what you need." With a new Raise Your Spirits happy hour, gourmet Bourbon Bar burger menu and their weekly Bourbon and Blues series, all of a sudden even Michael Mina seems (somewhat) affordable!
Looking for Love?
We are looking for attractive single females (25-40)
Sure there are plenty of fish in the sea -- but what if the right one isn't
swimming in your particular cove?
That's why SOAPnet (ABC Media Productions) is swapping the lives of two
single women to see if a change in locale could change their future. It's a
reality special called "Holidate" -- basically the women temporarily trade
homes, date men in each other's social circles, and stay in touch with one
another on their unique journey to find true love.
ABC MEDIA PRODUCTIONS is NOW CASTING SINGLE WOMEN who are LOOKING FOR LOVE
anywhere but here!!!
Are you a woman age 25 to 40 who is successful in every aspect of life
except one.finding love? You're climbing your way up the corporate ladder,
have your own boutique business, or manage a hip new start-up company. You
just put a down payment on your own condo by the beach, bought that trendy
loft downtown, or maybe even splurged to upgrade to that shiny convertible
you've been eyeing. You play as hard as you work.from the health club to the
nightclubs. You're cute, sexy; maybe even drop dead gorgeous! Yep, you've
got it all.everything except the right guy to share it with.
The men in your life are everywhere. There's that successful co-worker
that's off limits, your brother's gorgeous friend who looks at you as if
you're his little sister, and the guy at the gym that's just not your type.
In fact, they surround you.but for whatever reason none of the guys in your
very crowded pond are your Mr. Right.
You haven't given up hope that he is out there.somewhere...waiting.maybe
even looking for you! If you could only get out of here and go
somewhere.anywhere, you know deep in your heart that a new place filled with new people could change everything.
If you believe there is love out there for you, now is the time to throw
caution to the wind. This is your chance to jump into a different life in a
different part of the country. A romantic holiday completely planned and
organized just for you. We provide the new city, the new digs, the new guys.
even the plane ticket. You just have to believe in love.and get on board!
Please send your age, occupation, contact info and photos
We are looking for attractive single females (25-40) that are likable and have pretty much everything, except Mr. Right. They don't have to be top models or super wealthy, but we are looking for attractive, deserving women with careers or decent occupations (not actresses). Please let me know if you have any questions.
Sure there are plenty of fish in the sea -- but what if the right one isn't
swimming in your particular cove?
That's why SOAPnet (ABC Media Productions) is swapping the lives of two
single women to see if a change in locale could change their future. It's a
reality special called "Holidate" -- basically the women temporarily trade
homes, date men in each other's social circles, and stay in touch with one
another on their unique journey to find true love.
ABC MEDIA PRODUCTIONS is NOW CASTING SINGLE WOMEN who are LOOKING FOR LOVE
anywhere but here!!!
Are you a woman age 25 to 40 who is successful in every aspect of life
except one.finding love? You're climbing your way up the corporate ladder,
have your own boutique business, or manage a hip new start-up company. You
just put a down payment on your own condo by the beach, bought that trendy
loft downtown, or maybe even splurged to upgrade to that shiny convertible
you've been eyeing. You play as hard as you work.from the health club to the
nightclubs. You're cute, sexy; maybe even drop dead gorgeous! Yep, you've
got it all.everything except the right guy to share it with.
The men in your life are everywhere. There's that successful co-worker
that's off limits, your brother's gorgeous friend who looks at you as if
you're his little sister, and the guy at the gym that's just not your type.
In fact, they surround you.but for whatever reason none of the guys in your
very crowded pond are your Mr. Right.
You haven't given up hope that he is out there.somewhere...waiting.maybe
even looking for you! If you could only get out of here and go
somewhere.anywhere, you know deep in your heart that a new place filled with new people could change everything.
If you believe there is love out there for you, now is the time to throw
caution to the wind. This is your chance to jump into a different life in a
different part of the country. A romantic holiday completely planned and
organized just for you. We provide the new city, the new digs, the new guys.
even the plane ticket. You just have to believe in love.and get on board!
Please send your age, occupation, contact info and photos
We are looking for attractive single females (25-40) that are likable and have pretty much everything, except Mr. Right. They don't have to be top models or super wealthy, but we are looking for attractive, deserving women with careers or decent occupations (not actresses). Please let me know if you have any questions.
Villa in Greece
If interested his contact details:
Yiorgos
email: ewyogi at otenet.gr
Here are some more details about the villas with some pictures of Sivota and Lefkas in general
Villa Information
At a landscape of hills that surrounds the pretty harbour of Sivota we have just built two identical villas each with their own private pools, situated in an estate of approximately 8000 m2 that includes a private forestry land. The views are unique, unobstructed and breathtaking, since both villas are built on a cliff and at a distance of 100m from the sea and cover the tip of Lefkada and beyond to Ithaca and Kefalonia and the smaller offshore islands at the sea in front. These views can be enjoyed from multiple locations, like the terrace connecting the two villas, the infinity swimming pools and surrounding sitting areas, the living rooms, the master bedrooms and balconies.
The villas lay very close to Sivota harbour, at a walking distance of less than a 1km.
Each villa is approximately 105 m2 and consists of a modern house of 2 floors, built of local stone, bricks, wooden pergolas & traditional ceramic roof. The interior design is minimal & furnished on modern country-style. The top floor has a twin & a double bedroom w/shower room en suite, leading to private balcony & pergola. The main level that is connecting with the top floor through a wooden internal staircase consists of a long open-plan living room w/integral kitchen, a dinning table, WC & a fireplace. The living room is surrounded by wide-open wooden double glassed windows that lead to the infinity swimming pool which is 5.5m x 10m, and a large outside sitting area surrounding the pool. This area is furnished for outdoor living and entertaining and also commands superb views.
The villas are connected between them with a big terrace offering a vast playground and spectacular views
Finally, the villas are extremely luxurious built with great design and state of the art materials, equipment, kitchen appliances, furniture and accessories.
They have redundant central heating systems with additional solar cells, security and fire alarms, full air-conditioning and built in reservoir water tanks.
They are completely independent and private from the other and can be used comfortably at all seasons.
Google placemark of the villas :see attached placemark
Area Information
Satellite map Sivota
Link:
Aerial View of Sivota
SIVOTA or SYVOTA, is a picturesque natural port, favorite with the boating set
Nestled in a picturesque wooded valley Sivota has a small scruffy pebble beach at the end of the harbor and is much quieter by day than at night when the sailing set comes out to play.
The resort boasts a number of fish tavernas to satisfy the needs of the yachting set - most of them lining the long quayside on the west side of the bay.
Amenities Sivota port with supermarket and several restaurants 1.5 kms (five mins); Lefkas Town 45 mins; Nidri (boat hire and water sports) 20 mins
(Nidri: Holiday resort, sailing centre, shops and restaurants, starting point for boat excursions; Vassiliki: Wonderful beach, international windsurfing centre)
Beaches Amousso 5kms, Mikrys Gialos 5 kms, Vasiliki 12 kms, AghioFili 12kms
Airport Preveza 55kms (approx 1hr 15mins)
Activities Swimming, sailing, windsurfing, Kite surfing, scuba-diving, fishing, mountain-biking
-Sailing: Sivota a sheltered anchorage and famous mooring spot for yachts that sail the Ionian Sea .
- Kite surfing: Milos Beach in the north. The mid-summer tournament attracts international competitors and is spectacular to take part in or watch due to high-speed local winds
- Windsurfing: Vassiliki in the south is rated as a world-class windsurfing centre
- Paragliding: Take off from the hill of Kathisma for an exhilarating flight and landing on the beach below
- Scuba Diving: Nidri and Vassiliki
• Hiking and mountain biking enthusiasts will enjoy the scenery at Syvros, with its lovely natural springs and waterfalls
Thank you,
Yiorgos
email: ewyogi at otenet.gr
Here are some more details about the villas with some pictures of Sivota and Lefkas in general
Villa Information
At a landscape of hills that surrounds the pretty harbour of Sivota we have just built two identical villas each with their own private pools, situated in an estate of approximately 8000 m2 that includes a private forestry land. The views are unique, unobstructed and breathtaking, since both villas are built on a cliff and at a distance of 100m from the sea and cover the tip of Lefkada and beyond to Ithaca and Kefalonia and the smaller offshore islands at the sea in front. These views can be enjoyed from multiple locations, like the terrace connecting the two villas, the infinity swimming pools and surrounding sitting areas, the living rooms, the master bedrooms and balconies.
The villas lay very close to Sivota harbour, at a walking distance of less than a 1km.
Each villa is approximately 105 m2 and consists of a modern house of 2 floors, built of local stone, bricks, wooden pergolas & traditional ceramic roof. The interior design is minimal & furnished on modern country-style. The top floor has a twin & a double bedroom w/shower room en suite, leading to private balcony & pergola. The main level that is connecting with the top floor through a wooden internal staircase consists of a long open-plan living room w/integral kitchen, a dinning table, WC & a fireplace. The living room is surrounded by wide-open wooden double glassed windows that lead to the infinity swimming pool which is 5.5m x 10m, and a large outside sitting area surrounding the pool. This area is furnished for outdoor living and entertaining and also commands superb views.
The villas are connected between them with a big terrace offering a vast playground and spectacular views
Finally, the villas are extremely luxurious built with great design and state of the art materials, equipment, kitchen appliances, furniture and accessories.
They have redundant central heating systems with additional solar cells, security and fire alarms, full air-conditioning and built in reservoir water tanks.
They are completely independent and private from the other and can be used comfortably at all seasons.
Google placemark of the villas :see attached placemark
Area Information
Satellite map Sivota
Link:
Aerial View of Sivota
SIVOTA or SYVOTA, is a picturesque natural port, favorite with the boating set
Nestled in a picturesque wooded valley Sivota has a small scruffy pebble beach at the end of the harbor and is much quieter by day than at night when the sailing set comes out to play.
The resort boasts a number of fish tavernas to satisfy the needs of the yachting set - most of them lining the long quayside on the west side of the bay.
Amenities Sivota port with supermarket and several restaurants 1.5 kms (five mins); Lefkas Town 45 mins; Nidri (boat hire and water sports) 20 mins
(Nidri: Holiday resort, sailing centre, shops and restaurants, starting point for boat excursions; Vassiliki: Wonderful beach, international windsurfing centre)
Beaches Amousso 5kms, Mikrys Gialos 5 kms, Vasiliki 12 kms, AghioFili 12kms
Airport Preveza 55kms (approx 1hr 15mins)
Activities Swimming, sailing, windsurfing, Kite surfing, scuba-diving, fishing, mountain-biking
-Sailing: Sivota a sheltered anchorage and famous mooring spot for yachts that sail the Ionian Sea .
- Kite surfing: Milos Beach in the north. The mid-summer tournament attracts international competitors and is spectacular to take part in or watch due to high-speed local winds
- Windsurfing: Vassiliki in the south is rated as a world-class windsurfing centre
- Paragliding: Take off from the hill of Kathisma for an exhilarating flight and landing on the beach below
- Scuba Diving: Nidri and Vassiliki
• Hiking and mountain biking enthusiasts will enjoy the scenery at Syvros, with its lovely natural springs and waterfalls
Thank you,
Extreme Miami Archery
Archery!!!
Cause it's fun to play with bows and arrows!
Host: Siri and Extreme Miami
Type: Sports - Sporting Event
Network: Miami, FL
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Everglades Archery Range
Street: 17415 SW 264th St. (Bauer Dr.)
City/Town: Homestead, FL
Email: Sirilek101 at yahoo.com
DescriptionHey all!!! It's about that time! Another round of Archery! Yeee! I have organized a great deal for us! It's going to be a great time...for only $25, you'll get instruction on the proper use of a bow and arrows from Shelly Mascaro, Certified Master Coach with the NFAA and a Level 3 NAA Coach. She has been shooting for 10 years in the styles of compound, Olympic Recurve and traditional. She is also still a competitive archer in national level Archery competitions. We'll be able to practice all afternoon - and even take a nature walk around the field archery range where we can learn about fun exotic plant species! :)
For those of you who want, we'll be meeting at my family's restaurant before to caravan/carpool. Meet at 12:15-12:30pm at Siam Lotus Room, 6388 South Dixie Hwy, Miami, fl. I will meet whoever wants to caravan and will leave promptly at 12:30pm. Please bring your sunpass, as we'll be taking the turnpike down. Or you can meet at the archery range too!
Looking forward to a great fun filled afternoon shooting with you all! Please note that this is also an Official Extreme Miami event!!! Check us out....www.extrememiami.com!
Cause it's fun to play with bows and arrows!
Host: Siri and Extreme Miami
Type: Sports - Sporting Event
Network: Miami, FL
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Everglades Archery Range
Street: 17415 SW 264th St. (Bauer Dr.)
City/Town: Homestead, FL
Email: Sirilek101 at yahoo.com
DescriptionHey all!!! It's about that time! Another round of Archery! Yeee! I have organized a great deal for us! It's going to be a great time...for only $25, you'll get instruction on the proper use of a bow and arrows from Shelly Mascaro, Certified Master Coach with the NFAA and a Level 3 NAA Coach. She has been shooting for 10 years in the styles of compound, Olympic Recurve and traditional. She is also still a competitive archer in national level Archery competitions. We'll be able to practice all afternoon - and even take a nature walk around the field archery range where we can learn about fun exotic plant species! :)
For those of you who want, we'll be meeting at my family's restaurant before to caravan/carpool. Meet at 12:15-12:30pm at Siam Lotus Room, 6388 South Dixie Hwy, Miami, fl. I will meet whoever wants to caravan and will leave promptly at 12:30pm. Please bring your sunpass, as we'll be taking the turnpike down. Or you can meet at the archery range too!
Looking forward to a great fun filled afternoon shooting with you all! Please note that this is also an Official Extreme Miami event!!! Check us out....www.extrememiami.com!
Film Seminar - Conversations with Brian Hecker - Wed., April 1
The Entertainment Industry Incubator,
in association with the Miami International Film Festival,
continues its seminar series with accomplished Florida filmmakers.
FREE FILM INDUSTRY SEMINAR
A Conversation with Filmmaker Brian Hecker
Wednesday, April 1 @ 6:30pm
Miami Science Museum,
3280 S. Miami Ave, Miami
Across from Vizcaya. Ample free parking is on-site.
Hecker grew up in South Florida, the setting of his new autobiographical feature film Bart Got a Room, which opens April 3 at AMC Sunset Place and Aventura. The film stars William H. Macy, Jennifer Tilly and newcomer Steven Kaplan in an off-beat coming-of-age comedy shot entirely in Florida. Hecker received an MFA at the American Film Institute where he was awarded 'Director of the Year'. His short thesis film Family Attraction, starring Martin Sheen and the late Chris Penn, earned over a dozen national and international film festival awards. Paramount Pictures has recently hired Hecker and his writing partner to write a biopic for Leonardo Dicaprio about the 29-year-old rebel-genius Nolan Bushnell who, in 1972, created Pong and started Atari. Brian Hecker has recently joined the Miami Filmmaker Project Advisory Board.
This event is part of the Entertainment Industry Incubator Miami Filmmaker Project.
For more information, visit www.eincubator.org or email info at eincubator.org.
in association with the Miami International Film Festival,
continues its seminar series with accomplished Florida filmmakers.
FREE FILM INDUSTRY SEMINAR
A Conversation with Filmmaker Brian Hecker
Wednesday, April 1 @ 6:30pm
Miami Science Museum,
3280 S. Miami Ave, Miami
Across from Vizcaya. Ample free parking is on-site.
Hecker grew up in South Florida, the setting of his new autobiographical feature film Bart Got a Room, which opens April 3 at AMC Sunset Place and Aventura. The film stars William H. Macy, Jennifer Tilly and newcomer Steven Kaplan in an off-beat coming-of-age comedy shot entirely in Florida. Hecker received an MFA at the American Film Institute where he was awarded 'Director of the Year'. His short thesis film Family Attraction, starring Martin Sheen and the late Chris Penn, earned over a dozen national and international film festival awards. Paramount Pictures has recently hired Hecker and his writing partner to write a biopic for Leonardo Dicaprio about the 29-year-old rebel-genius Nolan Bushnell who, in 1972, created Pong and started Atari. Brian Hecker has recently joined the Miami Filmmaker Project Advisory Board.
This event is part of the Entertainment Industry Incubator Miami Filmmaker Project.
For more information, visit www.eincubator.org or email info at eincubator.org.
Monday, March 30, 2009
"Girl Geek" happy hour
We are SO excited! We wanted to get a final count of who is coming to make sure that we have lots of goodies! This could be the #1 FREE networking opportunity of the year! Our 1st monthly "Girl Geek" happy hour will be meeting at the Hollywood Ale House at 7:00 pm on Monday March 30th. (Guys are welcome too!)The Ale House and WITI are "hooking us up" as they say as well. WITI is getting ready for our "Celebrity" golf tournament as well. If you are interested in being on the committee, please come at 6:00. All are welcome! We were at 50, now we expect close to 80!!! Will your company or organization be represented at THE IT Networking event everyone is talking about? New folks have registered including: NCCI Cigna DentalTechnology Management ConsultantsGulfstream Goodwill, IncMTM TechnologiesRCG-ITAutoNationBoston Scientific and many more!!!!
Also, make sure that you are registered for our April 14th WITI meeting"The Emerald City" to be held at Emission Critical. Spaces are going fast. What is a Girl Geek Happy Hour? WITI South Florida, decided to start a monthly Girl(and Women and Men)Geek happy hour! This is a "just for fun" event. It is an excellent opportunity for like-minded women to get together, discuss and learn in an informal environment about technology and science. Drinking, cat eyeglasses and throwing around css terms are not required, but are appreciated. How do I know if I qualify to be a girl geek? Don't worry about qualifying yourself. If you think you're a girl geek,you probably are. Come on down and see for yourself. The whole point is to meet new people. What's the point, really? Look, we're girls. We're social. We can like motherboards and MAC. We need to remind each other that we're out there, mentor each other and encourage girls to fly their geek flag proudly. Oh Yeah - Like all WITI events, Boys can come too! The Small Print: This is a "just for fun" event so that we can get to know one another in a fun non stressful way. Food and drinks are on your own! Please let me know if you are going to come! Jackye Clayton (witi-southflorida at corp.witi.com) Regional Director WITISouth Florida
Also, make sure that you are registered for our April 14th WITI meeting"The Emerald City" to be held at Emission Critical. Spaces are going fast. What is a Girl Geek Happy Hour? WITI South Florida, decided to start a monthly Girl(and Women and Men)Geek happy hour! This is a "just for fun" event. It is an excellent opportunity for like-minded women to get together, discuss and learn in an informal environment about technology and science. Drinking, cat eyeglasses and throwing around css terms are not required, but are appreciated. How do I know if I qualify to be a girl geek? Don't worry about qualifying yourself. If you think you're a girl geek,you probably are. Come on down and see for yourself. The whole point is to meet new people. What's the point, really? Look, we're girls. We're social. We can like motherboards and MAC. We need to remind each other that we're out there, mentor each other and encourage girls to fly their geek flag proudly. Oh Yeah - Like all WITI events, Boys can come too! The Small Print: This is a "just for fun" event so that we can get to know one another in a fun non stressful way. Food and drinks are on your own! Please let me know if you are going to come! Jackye Clayton (witi-southflorida at corp.witi.com) Regional Director WITISouth Florida
INVITATION: Thursdays at Club 50
Introducing Thursdays at Club 50, downtown Miami's new Happy Hour!
Enjoy premium signature cocktails at Viceroy's rooftop lounge. Rediscover Miami and experience sunsets like nowhere else... You won't want to miss the signature Sunset Toast! Fifty stories up, Club 50 reigns as Miami's most exclusive after-work destination.
Premieres Thursday, April 2 | 6.00 pm - 10.00 pm
Hosted by Clement Reid | Sounds by DJ Induce
Arrive before 7.00pm for a complimentary cocktail
Happy Hour prices from 6.00 to 8.00pm:
$10 Premium drink specials: Chopin Martinis, 10 Cane Mojitos, Glenmorangie Scotch and more...
Ruinart Champagne by the flute: $20 Ruinart Blanc de Blancs, $23 Ruinart Rose
Bottle specials from 8.00 to 10.00pm. Select food menu available.
RSVP required. Please confirm the number in your party to generationcocktail at gmail.com
Club 50 at Viceroy Miami
485 Brickell Ave | Miami, FL 33131
www.viceroymiami.com
Enjoy premium signature cocktails at Viceroy's rooftop lounge. Rediscover Miami and experience sunsets like nowhere else... You won't want to miss the signature Sunset Toast! Fifty stories up, Club 50 reigns as Miami's most exclusive after-work destination.
Premieres Thursday, April 2 | 6.00 pm - 10.00 pm
Hosted by Clement Reid | Sounds by DJ Induce
Arrive before 7.00pm for a complimentary cocktail
Happy Hour prices from 6.00 to 8.00pm:
$10 Premium drink specials: Chopin Martinis, 10 Cane Mojitos, Glenmorangie Scotch and more...
Ruinart Champagne by the flute: $20 Ruinart Blanc de Blancs, $23 Ruinart Rose
Bottle specials from 8.00 to 10.00pm. Select food menu available.
RSVP required. Please confirm the number in your party to generationcocktail at gmail.com
Club 50 at Viceroy Miami
485 Brickell Ave | Miami, FL 33131
www.viceroymiami.com
Job in Philadelphia
An opening for "Development Manager, Individual Giving" in our Philadelphia (national) office. Please forward to anyone you feel may be a good fit. Details at https://home.eease.com/recruit/?id=211119
Wharton Club Event 'Scripps Florida: What It Means to the South Florida Community'
SCRIPPS FLORIDA: WHAT IT MEANS TO THE SOUTH FLORIDA COMMUNITY
with special guest speaker
Arthur Donny Strosberg
Professor, Scripps-Florida
and sponsored by
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
6:00 PM Networking
7:00 PM Presentation
at
Florida Atlantic University
Marleen & Harold Forkas Alumni Center
777 Glades Road, Building 94
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Click here for directions / Click here for campus map
Cost for this event:
Wharton Club of South Florida Members (plus 2 guests): FREE
Non-members and Guests: $25.00 (per person)
All guests must pre-register no later than Monday, April 20, 2009 via our website at www.whartonsouthfla.com. All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have any questions, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@whartonsouthfla.com or (786) 206-4867.
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Arthur Donny Strosberg is a world-renowned scientist and serial entrepreneur. He is currently a Professor of Infectology at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida where he focuses on developing therapeutics based on inhibition of protein-protein interactions.
Professor Strosberg received his doctorate from the Free University of Brussels and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He began his career as an Instructor / Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School before becoming a Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology in Brussels and in Paris. He has published over 390 scientific articles, and five books. Additionally, he has authored over 20 issued patents of which several were licensed to pharmaceutical companies.
He has co-founded several biotechnology companies with world-class institutions, including the University of Paris, M.I.T., and Yale University. From 1998 to 2004, Professor Strosberg was the Chairman and CEO of a company he co-founded with the Pasteur Institute. Since coming to Scripps in 2005, he has created several companies in Florida with Scripps technology, the latest of which is Protix Therapeutics.
About Our Sponsor:
Novak Druce + Quigg LLP is a national firm focusing exclusively on complex intellectual property matters with more than 70 attorneys, agents, and scientific/technical advisors and analysts with offices in Houston, Texas; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, CA; and a recently added office in West Palm Beach, FL. Novak Druce attorneys help clients navigate the complexities of U.S. intellectual property law by securing, enforcing, and defending their intellectual property rights. Novak Druce also has a renowned reexamination practice having more claims of unworthy patents rejected before the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Central Reexamination Unit than any other law firm to this date. The firm's commitment to excellence in intellectual property law and counseling continues and remains the foundation for the future, which is made apparent though achievements such as back-to-back WORLDleaders International IP Patent Excellence Awards - North America/Canada - 2007 and 2008.
with special guest speaker
Arthur Donny Strosberg
Professor, Scripps-Florida
and sponsored by
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
6:00 PM Networking
7:00 PM Presentation
at
Florida Atlantic University
Marleen & Harold Forkas Alumni Center
777 Glades Road, Building 94
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Click here for directions / Click here for campus map
Cost for this event:
Wharton Club of South Florida Members (plus 2 guests): FREE
Non-members and Guests: $25.00 (per person)
All guests must pre-register no later than Monday, April 20, 2009 via our website at www.whartonsouthfla.com. All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have any questions, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@whartonsouthfla.com or (786) 206-4867.
_____________
Arthur Donny Strosberg is a world-renowned scientist and serial entrepreneur. He is currently a Professor of Infectology at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida where he focuses on developing therapeutics based on inhibition of protein-protein interactions.
Professor Strosberg received his doctorate from the Free University of Brussels and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He began his career as an Instructor / Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School before becoming a Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology in Brussels and in Paris. He has published over 390 scientific articles, and five books. Additionally, he has authored over 20 issued patents of which several were licensed to pharmaceutical companies.
He has co-founded several biotechnology companies with world-class institutions, including the University of Paris, M.I.T., and Yale University. From 1998 to 2004, Professor Strosberg was the Chairman and CEO of a company he co-founded with the Pasteur Institute. Since coming to Scripps in 2005, he has created several companies in Florida with Scripps technology, the latest of which is Protix Therapeutics.
About Our Sponsor:
Novak Druce + Quigg LLP is a national firm focusing exclusively on complex intellectual property matters with more than 70 attorneys, agents, and scientific/technical advisors and analysts with offices in Houston, Texas; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, CA; and a recently added office in West Palm Beach, FL. Novak Druce attorneys help clients navigate the complexities of U.S. intellectual property law by securing, enforcing, and defending their intellectual property rights. Novak Druce also has a renowned reexamination practice having more claims of unworthy patents rejected before the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Central Reexamination Unit than any other law firm to this date. The firm's commitment to excellence in intellectual property law and counseling continues and remains the foundation for the future, which is made apparent though achievements such as back-to-back WORLDleaders International IP Patent Excellence Awards - North America/Canada - 2007 and 2008.
Karaoke Tonight for Autism Speaks...Fri Night Happy Hour
Hey Democrats! Some fun things to get you through the week!
Tonight = Join Commissioner Jimmy Morales for a Karaoke Fundraiser!
Karaoke tonight for a great cause! Help fight Autism! 6 to 9 @ The Sandbar Grill!
3064 Grand Avenue...Half price Drinks and Tacos...surprise Celebrity emcee!
Friday Night = Democratic Happy Hour 5-9PM at Tarpon Bend, 65 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, 305-444-3210
Some Democratic Meetings this week:
Tue Night = Young Democrats Meeting at Gordon Biersch on Brickell, 7PM
Wed Night = DFAM Meeting, 303 Alahambra Circle, Legion Post #98, 7PM
Thur Night = Democratic Power, Mayor Kevin Burns, 7500 SW 120th St, 7PM
Hope you all have a great week!
Don't forget the next DEC meeting is April 13th at 7PM at Temple Judea in Coral Gables!
Please don't forget about our Democrats running this spring for city council!
These are races where there is only our Dems vs. Non-Dems!
Bay Harbor Islands = Re-Elect Jordan Leonard, Stephanie Bruder, & Al Ruder
Miami Springs = Re-Elect Bob Best, Elect Todd Stiff & Jennifer Ator
Miami Shores = Elect Eddie Lewis & Donald Shockey
Coral Gables = Re-Elect MARIA ANDERSON
North Miami Bch = Re-Elect Ray Marin & Phillipe Derose
Call your friends in these cities and spread the word! To volunteer call office...
305-477-4994
All the best,
BJ
Tonight = Join Commissioner Jimmy Morales for a Karaoke Fundraiser!
Karaoke tonight for a great cause! Help fight Autism! 6 to 9 @ The Sandbar Grill!
3064 Grand Avenue...Half price Drinks and Tacos...surprise Celebrity emcee!
Friday Night = Democratic Happy Hour 5-9PM at Tarpon Bend, 65 Miracle Mile in Coral Gables, 305-444-3210
Some Democratic Meetings this week:
Tue Night = Young Democrats Meeting at Gordon Biersch on Brickell, 7PM
Wed Night = DFAM Meeting, 303 Alahambra Circle, Legion Post #98, 7PM
Thur Night = Democratic Power, Mayor Kevin Burns, 7500 SW 120th St, 7PM
Hope you all have a great week!
Don't forget the next DEC meeting is April 13th at 7PM at Temple Judea in Coral Gables!
Please don't forget about our Democrats running this spring for city council!
These are races where there is only our Dems vs. Non-Dems!
Bay Harbor Islands = Re-Elect Jordan Leonard, Stephanie Bruder, & Al Ruder
Miami Springs = Re-Elect Bob Best, Elect Todd Stiff & Jennifer Ator
Miami Shores = Elect Eddie Lewis & Donald Shockey
Coral Gables = Re-Elect MARIA ANDERSON
North Miami Bch = Re-Elect Ray Marin & Phillipe Derose
Call your friends in these cities and spread the word! To volunteer call office...
305-477-4994
All the best,
BJ
America's Got Talent in Miami!
America's Got Talent in Miami!
Nick Cannon hosts the fourth season of NBC's hit reality competition. Be in the audience as the best amateur performers from around the country compete! David Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan judge! Produced by Simon Cowell.
If you have a group of 20 or more you can attend the show as a fundraiser and earn money for your group!! For more information, please register by clicking here.
The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater
1700 Washington Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139
For more infomation about America's Got Talent, please click here.
Tue March 31, 2009 1:00 PM
Tue March 31, 2009 6:00 PM
Wed April 1, 2009 1:00 PM
Wed April 1, 2009 6:00 PM
(Listings are updated daily)
Nick Cannon hosts the fourth season of NBC's hit reality competition. Be in the audience as the best amateur performers from around the country compete! David Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan judge! Produced by Simon Cowell.
If you have a group of 20 or more you can attend the show as a fundraiser and earn money for your group!! For more information, please register by clicking here.
The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater
1700 Washington Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33139
For more infomation about America's Got Talent, please click here.
Tue March 31, 2009 1:00 PM
Tue March 31, 2009 6:00 PM
Wed April 1, 2009 1:00 PM
Wed April 1, 2009 6:00 PM
(Listings are updated daily)
Casting Calls- South Florida and beyond
South Florida Casting Calls
Holidate will be casting at The Rustic Cellar in Boca on Monday,the Ganesvoort in Miami Tues through Thurs and Palm Beach Fri to Sun casting "Holidate". Info at www.holidatecasting.com
Casting Call: NBC seeks outgoing, fun-loving families to participate in its new series The Great American Road Trip. Families of all kinds with at least two children aged 10-16 years and available around early May to late June 2009 are encouraged to apply. Family type examples include: Clean Fanatic Family, Slob Family, Cheap Family, All-American Family, Hippie Family, Rancher Family, City Slicker Family, Musical Family and Animal Family to any other fun family type. Send an email to Twinsworld1 at aol.com and include full names of family members and who they are (i.e. mom, dad, etc.), family photos, contact information, where the family lives (city/state) and interests of each family member and why you would be perfect for the show.
Casting Call: Doron Ofir Casting and GotCast.com are seeking participants for the fourth season of MTV's reality series A Shot At Love. Eligible, alluring, outrageous and adventurous men and women are encouraged to apply. Two members of the GotCast website (1 male and 1 female) are guaranteed auditions in Los Angeles. For more information and to submit, visit www.gotcast.com/casting-calls/MTVs-A-Shot-at-Love-4/53666.
Casting Call: Nancy Glass Productions is seeking authentic designers, carpenters and landscapers for two future reality pilots. Candidates should have real design, carpentry and landscaping skills. Production will happen in and around the Philadelphia area. Interested candidates should send headshots and resumes to NGPcasting09 at gmail.com. Demo reels can also be submitted to Nancy Glass Productions; Attention Casting; 211 Rock Hill Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
Casting Call: QVC seeks experts in various areas including electronics, beauty, fitness and cooking for on-air guest opportunities. Candidates should be located in the New York, Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. area, close to suburban Philadelphia. Send an email with resume and/or press kit along with a recent photo and letter of interest to Casting Director Sean De Simone at QVCguestcasting at gmail.com, or hard copy submissions can be mailed to Sean De Simone Casting, P.O. Box 20347, New York, NY 10009.
Holidate will be casting at The Rustic Cellar in Boca on Monday,the Ganesvoort in Miami Tues through Thurs and Palm Beach Fri to Sun casting "Holidate". Info at www.holidatecasting.com
Casting Call: NBC seeks outgoing, fun-loving families to participate in its new series The Great American Road Trip. Families of all kinds with at least two children aged 10-16 years and available around early May to late June 2009 are encouraged to apply. Family type examples include: Clean Fanatic Family, Slob Family, Cheap Family, All-American Family, Hippie Family, Rancher Family, City Slicker Family, Musical Family and Animal Family to any other fun family type. Send an email to Twinsworld1 at aol.com and include full names of family members and who they are (i.e. mom, dad, etc.), family photos, contact information, where the family lives (city/state) and interests of each family member and why you would be perfect for the show.
Casting Call: Doron Ofir Casting and GotCast.com are seeking participants for the fourth season of MTV's reality series A Shot At Love. Eligible, alluring, outrageous and adventurous men and women are encouraged to apply. Two members of the GotCast website (1 male and 1 female) are guaranteed auditions in Los Angeles. For more information and to submit, visit www.gotcast.com/casting-calls/MTVs-A-Shot-at-Love-4/53666.
Casting Call: Nancy Glass Productions is seeking authentic designers, carpenters and landscapers for two future reality pilots. Candidates should have real design, carpentry and landscaping skills. Production will happen in and around the Philadelphia area. Interested candidates should send headshots and resumes to NGPcasting09 at gmail.com. Demo reels can also be submitted to Nancy Glass Productions; Attention Casting; 211 Rock Hill Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004.
Casting Call: QVC seeks experts in various areas including electronics, beauty, fitness and cooking for on-air guest opportunities. Candidates should be located in the New York, Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. area, close to suburban Philadelphia. Send an email with resume and/or press kit along with a recent photo and letter of interest to Casting Director Sean De Simone at QVCguestcasting at gmail.com, or hard copy submissions can be mailed to Sean De Simone Casting, P.O. Box 20347, New York, NY 10009.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Yelp.com/ WMC
Yelp Does The WMC!
March 24
This Weekly Yelp brought to you by UrbanDaddy.com
Dance toward the light!
The Return Of Losing It:
Spectral Sound's WMC 2009 Showcase
From A To Z:
Everything In Between [Miami]
Monty Python Never
Looked This Sexy!
Flying Circus at Nikki Beach
A Scandalous Affair!
Proton Radio & friskyRadio present Scandal
Keep your Hed Up!
Sweeten It Up at Hed Kandi
Blame it on Miami Vice, or maybe it was just serendipity, but as Jan Hammer's 1985 classic theme shot up the charts and into our pop culture psyche, the first-ever Winter Music Conference also came into being. Twenty four years later, the electro-beat still goes on and gets bigger and better each year. Whether you've scored tickets or are still waiting on your shady "hook-up," this week we're bringing you some prime places to dance the night away and still be able to walk into work the next morning.
WMC's life-affirming revelry resonates with thousands, including ten-year vet Sabrina C who has no qualms giving us the lowdown: "With exclusive DJs from around the globe, the entire city dances its ass off for a straight week, and even the hardest of party-goers struggle to keep up by the last Sunday pool party." Follow Marcos R to the National Hotel, "as they're sure to be planning must-see (or be-seen) parties throughout the entire week. The infinity pool is exquisite and leads to the outdoor bar and eventually the beach. Just follow it all the way to Candyland." Sweet!
For a more intimate dance party, 2-step into Set... if you can. Alice S "hearts this place like Angelina Jolie hearts orphans," but warns that it "doesn't let just anyone sashay through its doors." Sound like a hassle? Drea Q has your answer: "Stop in at Indra Lounge. It's got a great ambiance – very sexy and seductive, but is not one of the those foo-foo spots that think they are too cool for everyone." Meanwhile, Elizabeth V suits up for Heathrow: "Exactly what South Beach needed. The type of club you expect to find downtown nestled somewhere within the Design District appealing to the house-lovers and indie kids."
Linette P feels right at home downtown at PS14: "Good drinks, a pool table, inside/outside areas... yup my kinda place." And just in time to partake in the WMC festivities, The Electric Pickle promises to light things up, or at least get you pickled after a few of their Dirty Pickle Martinis! But when the weekend hits, run wild at the enormous, not-to-be-missed, live music extravaganza that is the Ultra Music Festival. With over a hundred artists performing on multiple outdoor stages, it's no wonder Eddy D describes it as "a drum and bass, techno, house, trance Mecca." Lucky for you, there's no pilgrimage necessary!
Where will you be dancing the days and nights away? Tell us on Talk!
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Picks of the Week
Reviews we liked this week.
Ramon C. on B.E.D.
"From the moment I first walked into this place in 2002 I knew it was special. Just a sign that said B.E.D. outside and a bouncer who stood outside little did I know what I would find when I went inside. The DJ on the turntables was none other than Danny Howells. Let me see you throw your hands in…"
Lourdes W. on Gansevoort South
"This hotel makes you feel like you just stepped into the hollywood lime light. Not to mention, its sister property in NYC is a hot-spot too. I spent my birthday weekend here and I loved every minute of it even though the weather did not cooperate with me most of the time.
The room was a suite with a…"
Franky A. on Forge Restaurant & Lounge
"If you ever wanted to feel like Tony Montana, this is the place to be for you to be decadent and then some. Actually, this place has been around for ages and was once (probably still is) the spot where the real-life cocaine cowboys hung out.
It's THE spot to check out celebs, high rollers, Arab…"
Fresh Lists
The newest of our users' favorites. South Beach Lunch spots
"Restaurants for lunch on South Beach that won't break your bank and some to avoid."
SoBe Local Faves
"Now that I've moved to a new neighborhood, it's time for a new list. Here are some of the places I love and plan on frequenting now that I've moved into the heart of South Beach. While I'll miss my good ole 41st St favorites, I'm excited to explore a new neighborhood!"
Best Downtown Miami Lunch Spots
"as per my coworkers request- i've comprised a list of all my favorite lunch spots for people who work in downtown miami."
March 24
This Weekly Yelp brought to you by UrbanDaddy.com
Dance toward the light!
The Return Of Losing It:
Spectral Sound's WMC 2009 Showcase
From A To Z:
Everything In Between [Miami]
Monty Python Never
Looked This Sexy!
Flying Circus at Nikki Beach
A Scandalous Affair!
Proton Radio & friskyRadio present Scandal
Keep your Hed Up!
Sweeten It Up at Hed Kandi
Blame it on Miami Vice, or maybe it was just serendipity, but as Jan Hammer's 1985 classic theme shot up the charts and into our pop culture psyche, the first-ever Winter Music Conference also came into being. Twenty four years later, the electro-beat still goes on and gets bigger and better each year. Whether you've scored tickets or are still waiting on your shady "hook-up," this week we're bringing you some prime places to dance the night away and still be able to walk into work the next morning.
WMC's life-affirming revelry resonates with thousands, including ten-year vet Sabrina C who has no qualms giving us the lowdown: "With exclusive DJs from around the globe, the entire city dances its ass off for a straight week, and even the hardest of party-goers struggle to keep up by the last Sunday pool party." Follow Marcos R to the National Hotel, "as they're sure to be planning must-see (or be-seen) parties throughout the entire week. The infinity pool is exquisite and leads to the outdoor bar and eventually the beach. Just follow it all the way to Candyland." Sweet!
For a more intimate dance party, 2-step into Set... if you can. Alice S "hearts this place like Angelina Jolie hearts orphans," but warns that it "doesn't let just anyone sashay through its doors." Sound like a hassle? Drea Q has your answer: "Stop in at Indra Lounge. It's got a great ambiance – very sexy and seductive, but is not one of the those foo-foo spots that think they are too cool for everyone." Meanwhile, Elizabeth V suits up for Heathrow: "Exactly what South Beach needed. The type of club you expect to find downtown nestled somewhere within the Design District appealing to the house-lovers and indie kids."
Linette P feels right at home downtown at PS14: "Good drinks, a pool table, inside/outside areas... yup my kinda place." And just in time to partake in the WMC festivities, The Electric Pickle promises to light things up, or at least get you pickled after a few of their Dirty Pickle Martinis! But when the weekend hits, run wild at the enormous, not-to-be-missed, live music extravaganza that is the Ultra Music Festival. With over a hundred artists performing on multiple outdoor stages, it's no wonder Eddy D describes it as "a drum and bass, techno, house, trance Mecca." Lucky for you, there's no pilgrimage necessary!
Where will you be dancing the days and nights away? Tell us on Talk!
(A Word from Our Sponsor) UrbanDaddy is a free exclusive email covering everything exciting in the city.
Hear about it on UrbanDaddy today and write about it on Yelp tomorrow!
Whether it’s a secret cocktail den or the newest rustic Italian date spot, UrbanDaddy has the info on all the spots in the city, wrapped up and delivered to your inbox every day. You’ll know the right unmarked doors to knock on, the right numbers to call, and the best way to get the most out of your city. Your inbox just got a whole lot more exciting.
Sign up now and you’ll be automatically entered to win a $2000 shopping spree at Saks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Top Yelpers
See who's been mouthing off this week!
Mario D.
If I don't have anything nice to say,…
Pat M.
JennyLee H.
Lourdes G.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Yelper
David P.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Picks of the Week
Reviews we liked this week.
Ramon C. on B.E.D.
"From the moment I first walked into this place in 2002 I knew it was special. Just a sign that said B.E.D. outside and a bouncer who stood outside little did I know what I would find when I went inside. The DJ on the turntables was none other than Danny Howells. Let me see you throw your hands in…"
Lourdes W. on Gansevoort South
"This hotel makes you feel like you just stepped into the hollywood lime light. Not to mention, its sister property in NYC is a hot-spot too. I spent my birthday weekend here and I loved every minute of it even though the weather did not cooperate with me most of the time.
The room was a suite with a…"
Franky A. on Forge Restaurant & Lounge
"If you ever wanted to feel like Tony Montana, this is the place to be for you to be decadent and then some. Actually, this place has been around for ages and was once (probably still is) the spot where the real-life cocaine cowboys hung out.
It's THE spot to check out celebs, high rollers, Arab…"
Fresh Lists
The newest of our users' favorites. South Beach Lunch spots
"Restaurants for lunch on South Beach that won't break your bank and some to avoid."
SoBe Local Faves
"Now that I've moved to a new neighborhood, it's time for a new list. Here are some of the places I love and plan on frequenting now that I've moved into the heart of South Beach. While I'll miss my good ole 41st St favorites, I'm excited to explore a new neighborhood!"
Best Downtown Miami Lunch Spots
"as per my coworkers request- i've comprised a list of all my favorite lunch spots for people who work in downtown miami."
Wolfsonian- FIU
THIS WEEK AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU
INNOVATION BY DESIGN SERIES
Join us for a series of presentations in which leading voices in design, science, and technology explore the meaning of innovation.
Thursday, March 26, 7pm
WHEN YOU MEET THE EXPECTATIONS OF WOMEN, YOU EXCEED THE EXPECTATIONS OF MEN—The title of this talk, spoken by a marketing expert in 2001, inspired Volvo to create "Your Concept Car" (YCC), designed by a team of women and introduced in 2004. Tatiana Butovitsch Temm, communications manager for the Volvo YCC design team, reflects on design, gender, and consumption. Copresented by FIU's European Studies Program and Women's Studies Center and the FIU/UM Miami-Florida European Union Center for Excellence. Free and open to the public.
DOCUMENTARY SERIES: TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
explores the impact of technology on our lives. Curated by Michael Laramee, a graduate student in Film Studies at the University of Miami, it is cosponsored by FIU's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies.
Friday, March 27, 7pm
WHY WE FIGHT (2005, USA, Eugene Jarecki, 98 min, color, DVD)—Why do we go to war? This documentary looks at U.S. policies regarding war since World War II, including the Iraq war, and poses the topic "Why We Fight" to several individuals. It then reflects back on President Eisenhower's warning, upon leaving office, of the growing power of the "military industrial complex," foretelling today's entangled political, corporate, and military interests. Free to members and students; $10 all others.
Think, Shop, and Eat at The Dynamo Museum Shop and Café!
Stop by The Dynamo Museum Shop and Café for some unusual gifts and creative food this week. The Dynamo Museum Shop offers a selection of carefully selected, unconventional gifts, books, and films, much of it inspired by The Wolfsonian's collection of modern objects from 1885-1945. The Dynamo Café features a sophisticated menu in a casual and artfully designed setting, also inspired by the themes of the museum's collection. For questions contact 305.535.2680 or paola@thewolf.fiu.edu.
DON'T FORGET...FREE GALLERY ADMISSION ON FRIDAYS FROM 6-9PM
Free admission begins at 6pm. Join us for a guided tour at 6pm, and innovative programming at 7pm. Galleries remain open until 9pm.
1001 WASHINGTON AVENUE
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139
T 305.531.1001 F 305.531.2133
wolfsonian.org
MUSEUM & DYNAMO HOURS
Mondays, Tuesdays: Noon-6pm
Thursdays, Fridays: Noon-9pm
Saturdays, Sundays: Noon-6pm
Wednesdays: Closed
INFORMATION: 305.535.1001
information@thewolf.fiu.edu
MEMBERSHIP: 305.535.2631 membership@thewolf.fiu.edu
PROGRAMS: 305.535.2644
programs@thewolf.fiu.edu CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
Another way Florida International University makes Earth more interesting.
The Wolfsonian receives ongoing support from the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation; William J. and Tina Rosenberg Foundation; Continental Airlines, the Official Airline of The Wolfsonian-FIU; The Miami Herald; Miami.com; Bacardi U.S.A., Inc.; Robert Mondavi Winery; and Pistils & Petals.
INNOVATION BY DESIGN SERIES
Join us for a series of presentations in which leading voices in design, science, and technology explore the meaning of innovation.
Thursday, March 26, 7pm
WHEN YOU MEET THE EXPECTATIONS OF WOMEN, YOU EXCEED THE EXPECTATIONS OF MEN—The title of this talk, spoken by a marketing expert in 2001, inspired Volvo to create "Your Concept Car" (YCC), designed by a team of women and introduced in 2004. Tatiana Butovitsch Temm, communications manager for the Volvo YCC design team, reflects on design, gender, and consumption. Copresented by FIU's European Studies Program and Women's Studies Center and the FIU/UM Miami-Florida European Union Center for Excellence. Free and open to the public.
DOCUMENTARY SERIES: TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
explores the impact of technology on our lives. Curated by Michael Laramee, a graduate student in Film Studies at the University of Miami, it is cosponsored by FIU's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies.
Friday, March 27, 7pm
WHY WE FIGHT (2005, USA, Eugene Jarecki, 98 min, color, DVD)—Why do we go to war? This documentary looks at U.S. policies regarding war since World War II, including the Iraq war, and poses the topic "Why We Fight" to several individuals. It then reflects back on President Eisenhower's warning, upon leaving office, of the growing power of the "military industrial complex," foretelling today's entangled political, corporate, and military interests. Free to members and students; $10 all others.
Think, Shop, and Eat at The Dynamo Museum Shop and Café!
Stop by The Dynamo Museum Shop and Café for some unusual gifts and creative food this week. The Dynamo Museum Shop offers a selection of carefully selected, unconventional gifts, books, and films, much of it inspired by The Wolfsonian's collection of modern objects from 1885-1945. The Dynamo Café features a sophisticated menu in a casual and artfully designed setting, also inspired by the themes of the museum's collection. For questions contact 305.535.2680 or paola@thewolf.fiu.edu.
DON'T FORGET...FREE GALLERY ADMISSION ON FRIDAYS FROM 6-9PM
Free admission begins at 6pm. Join us for a guided tour at 6pm, and innovative programming at 7pm. Galleries remain open until 9pm.
1001 WASHINGTON AVENUE
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139
T 305.531.1001 F 305.531.2133
wolfsonian.org
MUSEUM & DYNAMO HOURS
Mondays, Tuesdays: Noon-6pm
Thursdays, Fridays: Noon-9pm
Saturdays, Sundays: Noon-6pm
Wednesdays: Closed
INFORMATION: 305.535.1001
information@thewolf.fiu.edu
MEMBERSHIP: 305.535.2631 membership@thewolf.fiu.edu
PROGRAMS: 305.535.2644
programs@thewolf.fiu.edu CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
Another way Florida International University makes Earth more interesting.
The Wolfsonian receives ongoing support from the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation; William J. and Tina Rosenberg Foundation; Continental Airlines, the Official Airline of The Wolfsonian-FIU; The Miami Herald; Miami.com; Bacardi U.S.A., Inc.; Robert Mondavi Winery; and Pistils & Petals.
This week at MBC: A Music Conference "Cine-Kink": GARTEL, & South Beach ANIMATION Fest!
This week at MBC:
"Cine-Kink" GARTEL
Electronica Erotica 1979-2009
AN EVENING WITH THE FATHER OF DIGITAL ART
© GARTEL The Art of Fetish
PLUS...
The South Beach International ANIMATION Festival
with special guests John Canemaker and Bill Plympton!
Two Academy Award winning animators will be honored guests at this year's South Beach International Animation Festival, from April 26-29. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from these legends up close and personal! Details below and at www.southbeachanimationfest.com
M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España, (305) 67-FILMS (673-567)
BECOME A MEMBER HERE: www.MBCINEMA.com
Pick up a MIAMI SUNPOST this week!
MBC is subject of the cover story by Omar Sommereyns
"...Attending a screening at the Cinematheque is like finding your comfort zone and settling in for a relaxing, congenial, and perhaps even edifying two-hour evening with a coterie of like-minded people. The space is elegant, somewhat understated, and always welcoming. It is the antidote to South Beach's intellectual vacuity and a haven for devoted cinephiles. But quiet simply, it is just a great place to watch any movie, or to discover more experimental and off-the-radar films...".
MARCH & early APRIL 2009 at a Glance:
25: "Cine-Kink": "GARTEL; Electronica Erotica 1979-2009"
05: South Beach Animation Festival with animators Bill Plympton and John Canemaker
31: High-Def HITCH: Psycho
April 01, 03, 04: Cine-THEATRE: Hughie starring David Tawil
April 02: High-Def HITCH: The Birds
April 03 & 04: Medicine For Melancholy
April 05 & 06: Dog Eat Dog
MBC March Photography exhibition:
“GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”
Legendary digital art and photography pioneer Laurence GARTEL, "The father of digital art”, has exhibited work around the world for over 30 years in such institutions as MoMa, the Whitney Payson Museum, the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Alongside colleagues and fellow pioneers Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, (who Gartel taught how to use the now vintage Amiga Computer), and Robert Mapplethorpe (who he exhibited with in 1982), Gartel was instrumental in capturing America's cultural fascinations in digital format, for the first time ever (illustrated, for example, in the first ever digital photograph for the Absolut vodka campaign, ABSOLUT GARTEL, circa 1991). MBC pays tribute to GARTEL in March, with an exhibition of his work focusing on his theme of erotica throughout his career, “Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”, which will be highlighted by an evening of his digital films for the second installment of the MBC series “Cine-Kink” on Wednesday, March 25, with “interactive activities included”. In the meantime, experience his vintage unconventional digital works on paper at MBC from March 05-March 31.
25 WED 8:30pm:
A Music Conference “Cine-Kink”
An MBC series for mature audiences (only).
GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009
MBC's “Cine-Kink” night, the semi-monthly tribute to the artistic side of kinky subjects,
brings you "GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”, erotic works set to electronic music by the "Father of Digital Art” Laurence Gartel. Join us for a screening of Gartel's multimedia video/animation works along with the March MBC exhibition of “Electronica Erotica” works
on paper, as well as a book and dvd signing. Gartel's digital films will be paired with the showcase of early nudes made with crude analog computer systems from the 1970s until today. His theme of fetish and erotica has been a thread through much of his life's work. The visceral energy and impact of voltage control over color, form, and content makes GARTEL a "genuine original article" moving the world into the Electronic Art aesthetic, all set to electronic music for Miami Music Conference!
Also included in your GARTEL experience is a live “Hooded DJ On A Leash” performance, interactive “Saran Wrapping”, and much more!
Be prepared if you wish to play! Got Fetish-Wear?
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
$12 and $10 for (kinky) MBC Members
For tickets click HERE
South Beach Animation Festival (March 26-29)
With visiting animation legends JOHN CANEMAKER
and BILL PLYMPTON!
Idiots and Angels screens Sunday!
26 THU:
6:30pm:
SBIAF OPENING RECEPTION!
8:30pm:
INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF SHORTS
Poland, Turkey, Cuba, Spain, Canada are just a few of the countries animators have sent their films from. We live in the same world, but do we see it the same way? Come see our world
from their eyes.
10pm: RED LIGHTS BLUE TOONS
27 FRI:
7pm: OTTOWA INT. ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Is billed as the largest animation festival in North America and our very good friends.
8pm:
MUSIC VIDEO and TUNE THE BLUES
10pm:
RED LIGHTS BLUE TOONS
Foul mouth, sexy stories of blow up dolls and dirty jokes??? What's not to like!?
Perfect Land, Ex-Ergo, Great Dates In History, A Night with Nixon, Berni's Doll,
Transrexia, and more! And. . .SCARY AND SILLY POLITICS, SO WHAT'S NEW?
Getting Out, Bye-Bye-Bin Laden, and more!
28 SAT:
11am:
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO FILM
Jamie Cardona from Music Ala Carte presents a workshop where you will learn how to get the best music for your film while keeping your budget tight.
1pm:
CONCEPT TO CREATION
So you have an idea for this great character with all these neat ideas that he/she could be saying running around your head. But now what? Jesus is a working animator with a project heading
for THE GREEN LIGHT. Come and learn what it takes to get your idea from your head to the paper and onto the screen by someone that's been there.
3pm:
JOHN CANEMAKER will be signing some of his best books. Meet one of the world foremost directors and most knowledgeable historians in animation!
7:30pm:
THE ART OF THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
This unique collections of films brings a creative twist as they deliver their message that
the ABILITIED are not the handicapped. The Plastic Perils of the Pacific, Life On A
Limb, A Day at the Beach, The Old Sap, The Bicycle Lesson, and more!
8:30pm: COMEDY of POLITICS
10pm: SBIAF COMEDY HOUR
29 SUN:
10:30am: ABSTRACT ANIMATION DISCUSSION/SCREENING
With Prof. Allergro of University Of Miami Faculty
2pm: JOHN CANEMAKER: MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT TOON
A Showcase of Animation Films By Director John Canemaker
4pm: IDIOTS AND ANGELS (2008)
A new animated feature by Bill Plympton. Idiots and Angels a dark comedy about a man's battle for his soul. Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local
bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to
rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune. Mature Audience Suggested.
For South Beach Animation Festival tickets click HERE
31 TUE
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Psycho
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1960)
With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the best-known film director in the world, when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From
its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in
a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced
that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job. Impulse takes over and Marion takes off with the company cash, and stops for the night at the Bates Motel, where innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. “There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next”
-Starpulse
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
April 01 WED 8:30pm,
& 04 SAT & 05 SUN 5pm:
“Cine-THEATRE”
Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE
A One-Act (one hour) play including cinematic supplements!
Starring David Tawil
Also featuring Mark Kroczynski / Directed by Aaron Gonzalez
Multi-Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote the one act play Hughie in 1940, set in the year 1929. . .two years that resound loudly in American history. Hughie is about the American psyche in periods of economic and emotional distress, which is why 2009 is a perfect year to reflect on our current conditions and where they slide into perspective. Small-time gambler Erie Smith lives in a seedy New York hotel, and Hughie, the hotel's clerk is a captive audience for Erie's regular ranting and tall tales. Erie comes home from a night of grief-stricken drinking because Hughie has died. Will there ever be a companionship replacement for one loner seeking solace in another?
$15 or $12 MBC Members/Seniors/Students
For tickets click HERE
April 02 THU 8:30pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
The Birds
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1964)
With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security
is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. “The birds have run amok, and once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup.”
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."-Alfred Hitchcock
"Hitch was all about the chase with his blondes. I don't think he ever wanted to-
how will I say? - culminate the chase." -Tippi Hedren
For tickets click HERE
“High-Def HITCH!” continues all April, with the MBC HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS exhibition March 31-April 30!
APR 02 THU 8:30pm: The Birds
APR 09 THU 8:30pm: Torn Curtain
APR 21 TUE 8:30pm: Topaz
APR 30 THU 8:30pm: Frenzy
03 FRI, 04 SAT
7pm & 8:45pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Medicine For Melancholy
Directed by Barry Jenkins
With Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
WINNER: Special Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival
Independent Spirit Award and Someone To Watch award nominee
“Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.”-Michael Fox, SF Weekly
“EXCELLENT, SURPRISING, and SUBTLE...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.”-D. Scot Miller, SF Guardian
For tickets click HERE
05 SUN, 06 MON
7pm & 9pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Dog Eat Dog (Perro come perro)
Directed by Carlos Moreno/Colombia/2008
With Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda
Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution is Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film. El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job, but makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?
WINNER: Gramado Film Festival Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival Best Actor
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Miami Int. Film Festival
"Dog Eat Dog" is a very funny film, not in the traditional devices of the one-liner and wisecracks, but in a more subtle language of facial expressions. The slow but confident pace, which is engaging and tense, is unusual in a film of its type and gives lie to just how boring the frantic editing of recent thrillers has become.”-Quiet Earth
For tickets click HERE
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
Cine-Kink: $12 or $10 Members
Parking: 16th St. between Collins and Washington (covered lot)
or 16th St and Drexel Avenue (open lot)
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
Ordinary
movies?
NEVER!
YOU and TIPPI can be ONE...April 2...
(during the screening of Hitchcock's The Birds!)
Become our friend on Facebook! (and join the MBC group too).
MBC is supported by the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and the
Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council,
the Miami Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners
"Cine-Kink" GARTEL
Electronica Erotica 1979-2009
AN EVENING WITH THE FATHER OF DIGITAL ART
© GARTEL The Art of Fetish
PLUS...
The South Beach International ANIMATION Festival
with special guests John Canemaker and Bill Plympton!
Two Academy Award winning animators will be honored guests at this year's South Beach International Animation Festival, from April 26-29. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from these legends up close and personal! Details below and at www.southbeachanimationfest.com
M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España, (305) 67-FILMS (673-567)
BECOME A MEMBER HERE: www.MBCINEMA.com
Pick up a MIAMI SUNPOST this week!
MBC is subject of the cover story by Omar Sommereyns
"...Attending a screening at the Cinematheque is like finding your comfort zone and settling in for a relaxing, congenial, and perhaps even edifying two-hour evening with a coterie of like-minded people. The space is elegant, somewhat understated, and always welcoming. It is the antidote to South Beach's intellectual vacuity and a haven for devoted cinephiles. But quiet simply, it is just a great place to watch any movie, or to discover more experimental and off-the-radar films...".
MARCH & early APRIL 2009 at a Glance:
25: "Cine-Kink": "GARTEL; Electronica Erotica 1979-2009"
05: South Beach Animation Festival with animators Bill Plympton and John Canemaker
31: High-Def HITCH: Psycho
April 01, 03, 04: Cine-THEATRE: Hughie starring David Tawil
April 02: High-Def HITCH: The Birds
April 03 & 04: Medicine For Melancholy
April 05 & 06: Dog Eat Dog
MBC March Photography exhibition:
“GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”
Legendary digital art and photography pioneer Laurence GARTEL, "The father of digital art”, has exhibited work around the world for over 30 years in such institutions as MoMa, the Whitney Payson Museum, the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Alongside colleagues and fellow pioneers Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, (who Gartel taught how to use the now vintage Amiga Computer), and Robert Mapplethorpe (who he exhibited with in 1982), Gartel was instrumental in capturing America's cultural fascinations in digital format, for the first time ever (illustrated, for example, in the first ever digital photograph for the Absolut vodka campaign, ABSOLUT GARTEL, circa 1991). MBC pays tribute to GARTEL in March, with an exhibition of his work focusing on his theme of erotica throughout his career, “Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”, which will be highlighted by an evening of his digital films for the second installment of the MBC series “Cine-Kink” on Wednesday, March 25, with “interactive activities included”. In the meantime, experience his vintage unconventional digital works on paper at MBC from March 05-March 31.
25 WED 8:30pm:
A Music Conference “Cine-Kink”
An MBC series for mature audiences (only).
GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009
MBC's “Cine-Kink” night, the semi-monthly tribute to the artistic side of kinky subjects,
brings you "GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”, erotic works set to electronic music by the "Father of Digital Art” Laurence Gartel. Join us for a screening of Gartel's multimedia video/animation works along with the March MBC exhibition of “Electronica Erotica” works
on paper, as well as a book and dvd signing. Gartel's digital films will be paired with the showcase of early nudes made with crude analog computer systems from the 1970s until today. His theme of fetish and erotica has been a thread through much of his life's work. The visceral energy and impact of voltage control over color, form, and content makes GARTEL a "genuine original article" moving the world into the Electronic Art aesthetic, all set to electronic music for Miami Music Conference!
Also included in your GARTEL experience is a live “Hooded DJ On A Leash” performance, interactive “Saran Wrapping”, and much more!
Be prepared if you wish to play! Got Fetish-Wear?
Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .
at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)
$12 and $10 for (kinky) MBC Members
For tickets click HERE
South Beach Animation Festival (March 26-29)
With visiting animation legends JOHN CANEMAKER
and BILL PLYMPTON!
Idiots and Angels screens Sunday!
26 THU:
6:30pm:
SBIAF OPENING RECEPTION!
8:30pm:
INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF SHORTS
Poland, Turkey, Cuba, Spain, Canada are just a few of the countries animators have sent their films from. We live in the same world, but do we see it the same way? Come see our world
from their eyes.
10pm: RED LIGHTS BLUE TOONS
27 FRI:
7pm: OTTOWA INT. ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Is billed as the largest animation festival in North America and our very good friends.
8pm:
MUSIC VIDEO and TUNE THE BLUES
10pm:
RED LIGHTS BLUE TOONS
Foul mouth, sexy stories of blow up dolls and dirty jokes??? What's not to like!?
Perfect Land, Ex-Ergo, Great Dates In History, A Night with Nixon, Berni's Doll,
Transrexia, and more! And. . .SCARY AND SILLY POLITICS, SO WHAT'S NEW?
Getting Out, Bye-Bye-Bin Laden, and more!
28 SAT:
11am:
THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO FILM
Jamie Cardona from Music Ala Carte presents a workshop where you will learn how to get the best music for your film while keeping your budget tight.
1pm:
CONCEPT TO CREATION
So you have an idea for this great character with all these neat ideas that he/she could be saying running around your head. But now what? Jesus is a working animator with a project heading
for THE GREEN LIGHT. Come and learn what it takes to get your idea from your head to the paper and onto the screen by someone that's been there.
3pm:
JOHN CANEMAKER will be signing some of his best books. Meet one of the world foremost directors and most knowledgeable historians in animation!
7:30pm:
THE ART OF THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
This unique collections of films brings a creative twist as they deliver their message that
the ABILITIED are not the handicapped. The Plastic Perils of the Pacific, Life On A
Limb, A Day at the Beach, The Old Sap, The Bicycle Lesson, and more!
8:30pm: COMEDY of POLITICS
10pm: SBIAF COMEDY HOUR
29 SUN:
10:30am: ABSTRACT ANIMATION DISCUSSION/SCREENING
With Prof. Allergro of University Of Miami Faculty
2pm: JOHN CANEMAKER: MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT TOON
A Showcase of Animation Films By Director John Canemaker
4pm: IDIOTS AND ANGELS (2008)
A new animated feature by Bill Plympton. Idiots and Angels a dark comedy about a man's battle for his soul. Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local
bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to
rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune. Mature Audience Suggested.
For South Beach Animation Festival tickets click HERE
31 TUE
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Psycho
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1960)
With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the best-known film director in the world, when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From
its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in
a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced
that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job. Impulse takes over and Marion takes off with the company cash, and stops for the night at the Bates Motel, where innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. “There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next”
-Starpulse
"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."-Alfred Hitchcock
For tickets click HERE
April 01 WED 8:30pm,
& 04 SAT & 05 SUN 5pm:
“Cine-THEATRE”
Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE
A One-Act (one hour) play including cinematic supplements!
Starring David Tawil
Also featuring Mark Kroczynski / Directed by Aaron Gonzalez
Multi-Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote the one act play Hughie in 1940, set in the year 1929. . .two years that resound loudly in American history. Hughie is about the American psyche in periods of economic and emotional distress, which is why 2009 is a perfect year to reflect on our current conditions and where they slide into perspective. Small-time gambler Erie Smith lives in a seedy New York hotel, and Hughie, the hotel's clerk is a captive audience for Erie's regular ranting and tall tales. Erie comes home from a night of grief-stricken drinking because Hughie has died. Will there ever be a companionship replacement for one loner seeking solace in another?
$15 or $12 MBC Members/Seniors/Students
For tickets click HERE
April 02 THU 8:30pm:
“High-Def HITCH!”
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
The Birds
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1964)
With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security
is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. “The birds have run amok, and once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup.”
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."-Alfred Hitchcock
"Hitch was all about the chase with his blondes. I don't think he ever wanted to-
how will I say? - culminate the chase." -Tippi Hedren
For tickets click HERE
“High-Def HITCH!” continues all April, with the MBC HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS exhibition March 31-April 30!
APR 02 THU 8:30pm: The Birds
APR 09 THU 8:30pm: Torn Curtain
APR 21 TUE 8:30pm: Topaz
APR 30 THU 8:30pm: Frenzy
03 FRI, 04 SAT
7pm & 8:45pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Medicine For Melancholy
Directed by Barry Jenkins
With Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
WINNER: Special Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival
Independent Spirit Award and Someone To Watch award nominee
“Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.”-Michael Fox, SF Weekly
“EXCELLENT, SURPRISING, and SUBTLE...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.”-D. Scot Miller, SF Guardian
For tickets click HERE
05 SUN, 06 MON
7pm & 9pm:
An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!
In collaboration with Emerging Pictures
Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!
Dog Eat Dog (Perro come perro)
Directed by Carlos Moreno/Colombia/2008
With Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda
Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution is Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film. El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job, but makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?
WINNER: Gramado Film Festival Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival Best Actor
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Miami Int. Film Festival
"Dog Eat Dog" is a very funny film, not in the traditional devices of the one-liner and wisecracks, but in a more subtle language of facial expressions. The slow but confident pace, which is engaging and tense, is unusual in a film of its type and gives lie to just how boring the frantic editing of recent thrillers has become.”-Quiet Earth
For tickets click HERE
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors
Cine-Kink: $12 or $10 Members
Parking: 16th St. between Collins and Washington (covered lot)
or 16th St and Drexel Avenue (open lot)
Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings
T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E The ongoing HD film festival where you don't just watch, you experience!
512 Española Way at Plaza España (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
Ordinary
movies?
NEVER!
YOU and TIPPI can be ONE...April 2...
(during the screening of Hitchcock's The Birds!)
Become our friend on Facebook! (and join the MBC group too).
MBC is supported by the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council and the
Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council,
the Miami Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners
WMC09 is here
Winter Music Conference 2009 is here!
Pre-sale tickets available to most events. Don't get stuck in line.
For Table Reservations, please call 305.788.3673.
WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE 2009 IS HERE!!!
Winter Music Conference 2009 is here, and Mansion, SET, and Luois have some of the best events in years. As you may know, there are no guest lists for WMC events, and the lines to pay can get quite long. But you can avoid them by purchasing your pre-sale tickets or tables to all of these events now.
If you wish to purchase a table you can use the links below or call 305.788.3673 at anytime this week.
Thank you, and have fun at WMC09!
ALL ACCESS PASSES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL VENUES - MANSION, SET and LOUIS - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 24th-29th WMC 2009 http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53221&res=seanford
Mansion - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 24th-29th WMC 2009
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53216&res=seanford
SET - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 24th-29th WMC 2009
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53219&res=seanford
LOUIS - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 25th-28th WMC 2009
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53220&res=seanford
Pre-sale tickets available to most events. Don't get stuck in line.
For Table Reservations, please call 305.788.3673.
WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE 2009 IS HERE!!!
Winter Music Conference 2009 is here, and Mansion, SET, and Luois have some of the best events in years. As you may know, there are no guest lists for WMC events, and the lines to pay can get quite long. But you can avoid them by purchasing your pre-sale tickets or tables to all of these events now.
If you wish to purchase a table you can use the links below or call 305.788.3673 at anytime this week.
Thank you, and have fun at WMC09!
ALL ACCESS PASSES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL VENUES - MANSION, SET and LOUIS - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 24th-29th WMC 2009 http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53221&res=seanford
Mansion - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 24th-29th WMC 2009
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53216&res=seanford
SET - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 24th-29th WMC 2009
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53219&res=seanford
LOUIS - ALL ACCESS Pass - March 25th-28th WMC 2009
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=53220&res=seanford
Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art at ArteAmricas 2009
Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art at ArteAméricas 2009
Curated by Curator Milagros Bello. Booth # 809
From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Dates: From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center. 1901 Convention Center Drive. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth # 809
Regular Hours: Friday, March 27th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29th,2012:00 noon - 7:00 p.m. and Monday, March 30th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $ 12
Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art curated by Milagros Bello has been presented at the Merrill Lynch ArteAméricas art fair since its first edition. This year Merril Lynch ArteAméricas will take place from March 27th through 30th, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami.
Trends 2009 will present more that fifteen Contemporary Latin American Contemporary artists. A talented group composed by a mix of y oung and emergent voices as well as mid-career creators who have transformed the Latin American art scene. They focus on cultural politics and hot issues of contemporary times. Through drawings, paintings, objects, installations, digital photographs, videos and performances, they propose politically charged works with a new visual vocabulary away from traditional practices and fossilized academicism. They propose new icons, new subjectivities and personal mythologies that reflect their concern on societal and cultural ordeals nowadays.
Trends’ works juxtapose multiple narratives and intercrosses ideological standpoints, crystallizing and mirroring world critical issues. It incorporates ephemeral elements, memorabilia, discarded objects, imposing new methods and techniques that dislocates traditional exposure, and forces the public to perceive the art from new angles of vision.
Contemporary Latin American Art is no longer a peripheral art enclosed in a territorial microcosm, restrained to tight borders or simple geographies. Contemporary Latin American art reveals itself concisely strong and vividly rooted in the global hemisphere competing in the world art arena.
Participating artists show their determination to set new ways of expression. They are Aisen Chacin, Alvaro Garcia-Ordonez, Barbara Barreiro, Belaxis Buil, Carlos Tirado, Ena Marrero, Evelyn Valdirio, Grimanesa Amoros, Liliam Dominguez, Mariano Costa Peuser, Nestor Arenas, Pablo Contrisciani, Pacaso Frank Chinea, Patricia Gil, Rosario Bond, Ruben Ubiera and Sergio Garcia. Video artists: Andres Michelena, Flavio Cury, Gabriela Morawetz, Marco Montiel Soto, Matilde Marin, Richard Garet, among others.
Curator's Voice Art Projects
Milagros Bello
Curated by Curator Milagros Bello. Booth # 809
From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Dates: From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center. 1901 Convention Center Drive. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth # 809
Regular Hours: Friday, March 27th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29th,2012:00 noon - 7:00 p.m. and Monday, March 30th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $ 12
Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art curated by Milagros Bello has been presented at the Merrill Lynch ArteAméricas art fair since its first edition. This year Merril Lynch ArteAméricas will take place from March 27th through 30th, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami.
Trends 2009 will present more that fifteen Contemporary Latin American Contemporary artists. A talented group composed by a mix of y oung and emergent voices as well as mid-career creators who have transformed the Latin American art scene. They focus on cultural politics and hot issues of contemporary times. Through drawings, paintings, objects, installations, digital photographs, videos and performances, they propose politically charged works with a new visual vocabulary away from traditional practices and fossilized academicism. They propose new icons, new subjectivities and personal mythologies that reflect their concern on societal and cultural ordeals nowadays.
Trends’ works juxtapose multiple narratives and intercrosses ideological standpoints, crystallizing and mirroring world critical issues. It incorporates ephemeral elements, memorabilia, discarded objects, imposing new methods and techniques that dislocates traditional exposure, and forces the public to perceive the art from new angles of vision.
Contemporary Latin American Art is no longer a peripheral art enclosed in a territorial microcosm, restrained to tight borders or simple geographies. Contemporary Latin American art reveals itself concisely strong and vividly rooted in the global hemisphere competing in the world art arena.
Participating artists show their determination to set new ways of expression. They are Aisen Chacin, Alvaro Garcia-Ordonez, Barbara Barreiro, Belaxis Buil, Carlos Tirado, Ena Marrero, Evelyn Valdirio, Grimanesa Amoros, Liliam Dominguez, Mariano Costa Peuser, Nestor Arenas, Pablo Contrisciani, Pacaso Frank Chinea, Patricia Gil, Rosario Bond, Ruben Ubiera and Sergio Garcia. Video artists: Andres Michelena, Flavio Cury, Gabriela Morawetz, Marco Montiel Soto, Matilde Marin, Richard Garet, among others.
Curator's Voice Art Projects
Milagros Bello
Curator's Voice Art Projects at ArteAmricas 2009
Curator's Voice Art Projects at ArteAméricas 2009
The new space for art projects led by Curator Milagros Bello. Booth # 903
From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Karen Gilinkski. Farm Series I. 2009. Mixed media on canvas
Dates: From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center. 1901 Convention Center Drive. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth # 903
Regular Hours: Friday, March 27th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29th, 12:00 noon - 7:00 p.m. and Monday, March 30th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $ 12
Curator's Voice Art Projects led by Miami based curator Milagros Bello will participate this year in the Young District Section of Merrill Lynch ArteAméricas, Booth #903. As a curator Milagros Bello has chosen the following talented artists to be shown in the booth this year: Rosario Bond, Karen Gilinski, Corina Hernandez, Carlos Tirado, from Miami; Ricardo Migliorisi from Uruguay, and Pablo Hernan Cortez from Argentina.
ArteAméricas, the premier fair of art from Latin America, will be returning to Miami for the seventh consecutive year. Starting on Friday, March 27th through Monday, March 30th, ArteAméricas will showcase the latest trends in paintings, sculpture and multimedia from contemporary artists as well as renowned masters at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
In just seven years, ArteAméricas has become one of the world’s most important and prestigious fairs of Latin American art. The best galleries from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, the United States and Venezuela will be in attendance this year.
With them, they will bring works by20internationally celebrated artists, including Fernando Botero, Lygia Clark, Wifredo Lam, Armando Reverón, Jesús Soto, Rufino Tamayo, José Pedro Costigliolo, León Ferrari, and Joaquín Torres-García. Vanguard contemporary artists including Alexandre Arrechea, José Bedía, Tony Bechara, Eduardo Chapela, Tomás Espina, Bastón Díaz, Mauro Giaconi, Maria Monteagudo, Santiago Porter, and Hugo Zapata, among others. This year’s fair will be a place where art collectors and art professionals alike will gather among the present trends in paintings, sculptures, and conceptual art multimedia that distinguish the region’s art.
Curator's Voice Art Projects
Milagros Bello
milabello at aol.com
www.milagrosbello.com
The new space for art projects led by Curator Milagros Bello. Booth # 903
From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Karen Gilinkski. Farm Series I. 2009. Mixed media on canvas
Dates: From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center. 1901 Convention Center Drive. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth # 903
Regular Hours: Friday, March 27th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 noon - 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29th, 12:00 noon - 7:00 p.m. and Monday, March 30th, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $ 12
Curator's Voice Art Projects led by Miami based curator Milagros Bello will participate this year in the Young District Section of Merrill Lynch ArteAméricas, Booth #903. As a curator Milagros Bello has chosen the following talented artists to be shown in the booth this year: Rosario Bond, Karen Gilinski, Corina Hernandez, Carlos Tirado, from Miami; Ricardo Migliorisi from Uruguay, and Pablo Hernan Cortez from Argentina.
ArteAméricas, the premier fair of art from Latin America, will be returning to Miami for the seventh consecutive year. Starting on Friday, March 27th through Monday, March 30th, ArteAméricas will showcase the latest trends in paintings, sculpture and multimedia from contemporary artists as well as renowned masters at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
In just seven years, ArteAméricas has become one of the world’s most important and prestigious fairs of Latin American art. The best galleries from Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, the United States and Venezuela will be in attendance this year.
With them, they will bring works by20internationally celebrated artists, including Fernando Botero, Lygia Clark, Wifredo Lam, Armando Reverón, Jesús Soto, Rufino Tamayo, José Pedro Costigliolo, León Ferrari, and Joaquín Torres-García. Vanguard contemporary artists including Alexandre Arrechea, José Bedía, Tony Bechara, Eduardo Chapela, Tomás Espina, Bastón Díaz, Mauro Giaconi, Maria Monteagudo, Santiago Porter, and Hugo Zapata, among others. This year’s fair will be a place where art collectors and art professionals alike will gather among the present trends in paintings, sculptures, and conceptual art multimedia that distinguish the region’s art.
Curator's Voice Art Projects
Milagros Bello
milabello at aol.com
www.milagrosbello.com
Executive Director, Public School Operations at Kaplan
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Executive Director, Public School Operations at Kaplan
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At Kaplan, our mission is to help individuals achieve their educational and career goals. We build futures one success story at a time. As one of the world’s leading providers of lifelong education with operations around the globe, we have evol...
-Eduardo
Executive Director, Public School Operations at Kaplan
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
At Kaplan, our mission is to help individuals achieve their educational and career goals. We build futures one success story at a time. As one of the world’s leading providers of lifelong education with operations around the globe, we have evol...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Corporate Growth During Economic Downturn - It's Still Possible -- MARCH 26
The Wharton Club of South Florida
and the
Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), South Florida Chapter
is pleased to invite you to
a Cocktail Reception and Discussion Panel Program on
CORPORATE GROWTH DURING
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
IT'S STILL POSSIBLE
Moderated by
Lisa Gibbs
Business Editor
Miami Herald
on
MARCH 26, 2009
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Networking Reception
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Discussion Panel Program and Q&A
at the
Knight Auditorium, H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business
Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue
Davie, FL 33314
Cost for this event:
Wharton Club of South Florida Members (plus 2 guests): FREE
Non-members and Guests: $25.00 (per person)
All guests must pre-register no later than Tuesday, March 24, 2009 via our website at www.whartonsouthfla.com. All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have any questions, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@whartonsouthfla.com or (786) 206-4867.
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PANELISTS:
Guest Panelist: Colin Campbell, President and CEO
Colin Campbell has served as President/CEO of Hostopia since November 2005. He was Chief Operating Officer from January 2001 to November 2005. From November 1999 to December 2000, Mr. Campbell held the position of Senior Vice President, Internet Services at Look Communications Inc., a communications service provider, where he was responsible for leading the Internet team, guiding Internet product and services development, and for mergers and acquisitions in that product area. Mr. Campbell was a founding member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority and served as a board member from June 2001 to January 2003. Mr. Campbell was Chief Operating Officer of TUCOWS Interactive Inc., a web services and online software delivery services provider, from 1997 to 1999 and was Chief Operating Officer of Internet Direct, an Internet service provider which later merged with I.D. Internet Direct Inc., an Internet service provider from 1994 to 1999. Mr. Campbell has a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce from the University of Toronto.
HOSTOPIA
Hostopia.com believes that service and the Web should be synonymous. The company provides Web services that enable small and midsized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. Hostopia's customers include telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, and Web hosting providers. Clients typically purchase Hostopia's services on a wholesale basis and resell them under their own brands to end users, which are most commonly small and midsized businesses. The company's services include Web site design, e-commerce applications, managed e-mail services, and Web hosting. In mid 2008 the company was acquired by Deluxe. For more information, please visit www.hostopia.com.
Guest Panelist: Bubba Kassal, Chief Executive Officer. Bubba Kassal was born and raised in Florida's wine & spirit industry. Before college he became a realtor and soon after became a real estate broker. After graduating from the University of Florida, Bubba spent 5 years learning every aspect of Crown's operations, initially working side by side with managers and stockmen.
Afterwards, he joined the executive team to restructure and expand the operations of the company. Over the last 2 years, Bubba has re-created the CEO role at Crown. Bubba's contributions, along with a new operating team and various technological improvements, have transformed Crown into a 21st century, highly streamlined operation, radically different from 50 or even 5 years ago.
CROWN WINE & SPIRITS
Crown Wine & Spirits is a chain of wine, spirit, & gourmet food stores that has flourished in Florida since 1955. Crown has over 30 locations and a flourishing Web presence. Revenues in the current year will surpass $75 million.
In addition to the store operations, Crown owns 15 pieces of real estate in Florida, manages properties and sells liquor licenses.
The ownership of Crown Wine & Spirits today is the same family that founded the chain in 1955. The Kassal family has owned and operated businesses within the wine & spirit industry since prohibition. Stanley Kassal, as president, along with the help of his son, Michael Kassal, Vice President and COO, and son Bubba Kassal, CEO are still currently operating this dynamic company. For more information, visit http://www.crownwineandspirits.com/.
Guest Panelist: Doug Feirstein, Founder. Mr. Doug Feirstein, founder of LiveOps, re-invented how call centers work by letting people work from home instead of showing up to a huge call center. LiveOps has gone on to become the largest virtual call center platform in the world, backed by Menlo Ventures, Benchmark, and August Capital. Doug has a unique talent for taking old business models and radically turning them around to benefit everyone involved. He has since contributed to many new startups through his Angel Investment activities. He holds a Bachelors degree in Finance from the University of Florida.
LIVEOPS
LiveOps provides best-in-class on-demand call center technology, as well as virtual call center services through its network of over 20,000 independent home agents, to hundreds of companies in both the direct response and enterprise industries. In the direct response sector, LiveOps has gained the undisputed reputation as the best performing virtual call center, with 30% more revenue per campaign than traditional outsourcers. For the enterprise market, LiveOps helps companies transform their traditional call center into a more flexible, highly scalable, and cost-effective virtual call center model. For more information, please visit www.liveops.com.
THE ENTREPRENEURS' ORGANIZATION (EO)
The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) - for entrepreneurs only - is a dynamic, global network of more than 7,000 business owners in 38 countries employing nearly 1,000,000 workers. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Total sales for all member companies is over $100 Billion. Some of the world's top executives are or have been members of this organization.
With membership approaching 100 companies, the EO South Florida chapter is proud to be the largest EO Chapter in all of Florida. Total sales of all chapter members is more than $1 billion and the chapters employ more than 25,000 people across a wide range of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, construction, telecom & others. For more information, visit http://www.eosofla.org/.
and the
Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), South Florida Chapter
is pleased to invite you to
a Cocktail Reception and Discussion Panel Program on
CORPORATE GROWTH DURING
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
IT'S STILL POSSIBLE
Moderated by
Lisa Gibbs
Business Editor
Miami Herald
on
MARCH 26, 2009
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Networking Reception
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Discussion Panel Program and Q&A
at the
Knight Auditorium, H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business
Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Avenue
Davie, FL 33314
Cost for this event:
Wharton Club of South Florida Members (plus 2 guests): FREE
Non-members and Guests: $25.00 (per person)
All guests must pre-register no later than Tuesday, March 24, 2009 via our website at www.whartonsouthfla.com. All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have any questions, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@whartonsouthfla.com or (786) 206-4867.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PANELISTS:
Guest Panelist: Colin Campbell, President and CEO
Colin Campbell has served as President/CEO of Hostopia since November 2005. He was Chief Operating Officer from January 2001 to November 2005. From November 1999 to December 2000, Mr. Campbell held the position of Senior Vice President, Internet Services at Look Communications Inc., a communications service provider, where he was responsible for leading the Internet team, guiding Internet product and services development, and for mergers and acquisitions in that product area. Mr. Campbell was a founding member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority and served as a board member from June 2001 to January 2003. Mr. Campbell was Chief Operating Officer of TUCOWS Interactive Inc., a web services and online software delivery services provider, from 1997 to 1999 and was Chief Operating Officer of Internet Direct, an Internet service provider which later merged with I.D. Internet Direct Inc., an Internet service provider from 1994 to 1999. Mr. Campbell has a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce from the University of Toronto.
HOSTOPIA
Hostopia.com believes that service and the Web should be synonymous. The company provides Web services that enable small and midsized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. Hostopia's customers include telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, and Web hosting providers. Clients typically purchase Hostopia's services on a wholesale basis and resell them under their own brands to end users, which are most commonly small and midsized businesses. The company's services include Web site design, e-commerce applications, managed e-mail services, and Web hosting. In mid 2008 the company was acquired by Deluxe. For more information, please visit www.hostopia.com.
Guest Panelist: Bubba Kassal, Chief Executive Officer. Bubba Kassal was born and raised in Florida's wine & spirit industry. Before college he became a realtor and soon after became a real estate broker. After graduating from the University of Florida, Bubba spent 5 years learning every aspect of Crown's operations, initially working side by side with managers and stockmen.
Afterwards, he joined the executive team to restructure and expand the operations of the company. Over the last 2 years, Bubba has re-created the CEO role at Crown. Bubba's contributions, along with a new operating team and various technological improvements, have transformed Crown into a 21st century, highly streamlined operation, radically different from 50 or even 5 years ago.
CROWN WINE & SPIRITS
Crown Wine & Spirits is a chain of wine, spirit, & gourmet food stores that has flourished in Florida since 1955. Crown has over 30 locations and a flourishing Web presence. Revenues in the current year will surpass $75 million.
In addition to the store operations, Crown owns 15 pieces of real estate in Florida, manages properties and sells liquor licenses.
The ownership of Crown Wine & Spirits today is the same family that founded the chain in 1955. The Kassal family has owned and operated businesses within the wine & spirit industry since prohibition. Stanley Kassal, as president, along with the help of his son, Michael Kassal, Vice President and COO, and son Bubba Kassal, CEO are still currently operating this dynamic company. For more information, visit http://www.crownwineandspirits.com/.
Guest Panelist: Doug Feirstein, Founder. Mr. Doug Feirstein, founder of LiveOps, re-invented how call centers work by letting people work from home instead of showing up to a huge call center. LiveOps has gone on to become the largest virtual call center platform in the world, backed by Menlo Ventures, Benchmark, and August Capital. Doug has a unique talent for taking old business models and radically turning them around to benefit everyone involved. He has since contributed to many new startups through his Angel Investment activities. He holds a Bachelors degree in Finance from the University of Florida.
LIVEOPS
LiveOps provides best-in-class on-demand call center technology, as well as virtual call center services through its network of over 20,000 independent home agents, to hundreds of companies in both the direct response and enterprise industries. In the direct response sector, LiveOps has gained the undisputed reputation as the best performing virtual call center, with 30% more revenue per campaign than traditional outsourcers. For the enterprise market, LiveOps helps companies transform their traditional call center into a more flexible, highly scalable, and cost-effective virtual call center model. For more information, please visit www.liveops.com.
THE ENTREPRENEURS' ORGANIZATION (EO)
The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) - for entrepreneurs only - is a dynamic, global network of more than 7,000 business owners in 38 countries employing nearly 1,000,000 workers. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life. Total sales for all member companies is over $100 Billion. Some of the world's top executives are or have been members of this organization.
With membership approaching 100 companies, the EO South Florida chapter is proud to be the largest EO Chapter in all of Florida. Total sales of all chapter members is more than $1 billion and the chapters employ more than 25,000 people across a wide range of industries including manufacturing, healthcare, construction, telecom & others. For more information, visit http://www.eosofla.org/.
Miami Job BBC - research analyst
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
St Pattys- playwright
Irish Stimulus Package
For the die-hard partyers
OK, so most of you probably were not today is St. Patrick's Day. Now that you are, you should also know The Bushmen will be headlining the best party in town at The Playwright, on Washington Avenue and 13th Street from 8 - 12 p.m.
For the die-hard partyers
OK, so most of you probably were not today is St. Patrick's Day. Now that you are, you should also know The Bushmen will be headlining the best party in town at The Playwright, on Washington Avenue and 13th Street from 8 - 12 p.m.
See you guys in a week and a half
Our Next
huge Party
Saturday March 21
Its dance your Butt off
time again with
Nightscape
Returning to
Saturday, March 21st 9:00pm to 1:00am
(join us for dinner beforehand!)
Dance your Butt off and continue celebrating St Patty’s Day: come toast to friends along with some really talented professionals
(Hail, Hail All Nightscapers!)
Saturday, March 21st 9:00pm to 1:00am
60 Merrick Way (near 37th Ave between Coral Way and Alhambra (Satchmo location))
Coral Gables, FL 33134 Call (305) 774-1883 For more Fritz & Franz info www.bierhaus.com
huge Party
Saturday March 21
Its dance your Butt off
time again with
Nightscape
Returning to
Saturday, March 21st 9:00pm to 1:00am
(join us for dinner beforehand!)
Dance your Butt off and continue celebrating St Patty’s Day: come toast to friends along with some really talented professionals
(Hail, Hail All Nightscapers!)
Saturday, March 21st 9:00pm to 1:00am
60 Merrick Way (near 37th Ave between Coral Way and Alhambra (Satchmo location))
Coral Gables, FL 33134 Call (305) 774-1883 For more Fritz & Franz info www.bierhaus.com
The Big Give
This month’s Big Give goes to Cherish Our Children. http://www.cherishourchildren.org/ Their mission is to develop and fund projects and programs that provide a brighter future for the world's most vulnerable children. You can donate directly to the charity thru the website or you can donate thru
http://www.firstgiving.com/nicolasphilippe
A friend of mine is raising money for Cherish Our Children and matching all contributions. This way you can make him pony up more money and also help a great cause. He is running in the Lone Star Triathlon in Galveston, Texas.
http://www.firstgiving.com/nicolasphilippe
A friend of mine is raising money for Cherish Our Children and matching all contributions. This way you can make him pony up more money and also help a great cause. He is running in the Lone Star Triathlon in Galveston, Texas.
New World Symphony this weekend
Prokofiev’s “Cinderella Suite”
plus an electronic and multimedia Penthouse Performance
by the New World Symphony Fellows
Saturday, March 21, 6pm
Begin your evening at 6pm with Chopin Vodka cocktails at the beautiful Lincoln Theatre. Then step inside for the magical music from Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella Suite; a one-hour performance and commentary from the stage.
The New World Symphony’s fellows will enchant you in the Theater and long into the evening. Hail a pumpkin after the show to the Penthouse performance at the Riviera Hotel, where the NWS Fellows will plug in and perform electronically with a multi-media video performance just in time to kick off the Winter Music Conference.
Chopin Vodka, Kung Fu Sushi, and exceptional music under the stars on South Beach.
Saturday night for only $50 for non-members.
Gratis if you are a Friend of the New World Symphony.
To purchase the package for the night, please call the New World Symphony box office at 305-673-3331.
To support a great cause, expand your knowledge of Classical Music, and have a great time doing it, be a Friend and e-mail Stacey.Glassman at nws.edu for information about an Annual Membership that includes concerts (Like Symphony with a Splash), After Parties, and much more.
plus an electronic and multimedia Penthouse Performance
by the New World Symphony Fellows
Saturday, March 21, 6pm
Begin your evening at 6pm with Chopin Vodka cocktails at the beautiful Lincoln Theatre. Then step inside for the magical music from Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella Suite; a one-hour performance and commentary from the stage.
The New World Symphony’s fellows will enchant you in the Theater and long into the evening. Hail a pumpkin after the show to the Penthouse performance at the Riviera Hotel, where the NWS Fellows will plug in and perform electronically with a multi-media video performance just in time to kick off the Winter Music Conference.
Chopin Vodka, Kung Fu Sushi, and exceptional music under the stars on South Beach.
Saturday night for only $50 for non-members.
Gratis if you are a Friend of the New World Symphony.
To purchase the package for the night, please call the New World Symphony box office at 305-673-3331.
To support a great cause, expand your knowledge of Classical Music, and have a great time doing it, be a Friend and e-mail Stacey.Glassman at nws.edu for information about an Annual Membership that includes concerts (Like Symphony with a Splash), After Parties, and much more.
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