Entertainment in South Florida
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Harriet Himmel Theater
CityPlace is where you'll find West Palm's upscale performance space, an 11,000-sq-ft space housed in a 1926 Methodist church. You can catch its weekly Sunday Brunch Jazz Series, and its First Tuesdays Piano Series, but beyond that, there's not much on its schedule yet, oddly enough.
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Boteco
- Miami, USA
- Entertainment › Bar
If you're missing São Paolo, come to Boteco on Friday evening to see the biggest Brazilian expat reunion in Miami. Cariocas (Rio natives) and their countrymen flock here to listen to samba and bossa nova, and chat each other up over the best caipirinhas in town.
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Casino Princesa
Docked adjacent to the Hard Rock Café in the Bayside Marketplace, the Casino Princesa is a large, upscale yacht that departs on 4½-hour voyages that head 3 miles offshore. The boat has two decks of gaming tables (blackjack and craps are big), slot machines and bars.
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Automatic Slims
Slim’s sells itself as a seedy rock bar, but it’s really a marketing consultant’s idea of what a dive should be. The Harley outside, Coyote Ugly ambience and manufactured ‘edge’ make it the Blink 182 of Miami’s nightlife universe: watered-down punk and pretty nonthreatening.
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Boy Bar
- Miami, USA
- Entertainment › Bar
The North Beach boys (and just about everyone else) flock to this neighborhood cruise bar, where everyone plays pool, chills on the back porch and basically avoids indulging in too much South Beach–style madness. Which isn’t to say they don’t engage in a little bad behavior…
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Raleigh Hotel Bar
You’d best be orderin’ a Manhattan if you’re gonna sidle up to this cologne-and-leather bar. Like everything else in the Raleigh, this lounge evokes South Beach’s good old days, when guys like Al Capone and Meyer Lanksy cut deals in the corner and jazz set the soundtrack.
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Books & Books
The Coral Gables branch of the well-stocked and popular bookseller features frequent solo readings from famous (and not so famous) local authors, as well as group readings on a particular theme (science fiction, Tibetan culture, Brazil) and various book-discussion groups.
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801 Bourbon Bar
Boys will be boys.
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Bill Cosford Cinema
On the University of Miami campus, this renovated art house was launched in memory of the Miami Herald film critic.
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New Theatre
This strong Coral Gables company performs an eclectic mix of contemporary pieces and modern classics that fall squarely between the conventional and alternative. You’ll be up close and personal with the actors since there are only 70 seats in the house.
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Sarasota News & Books
When they say 'from latte to literature' they aren't kidding. Along with plenty of books and magazines, this independent café serves strong and flavorful espresso. It's a perfect alternative to that ubiquitous coffeehouse chain that shall remain nameless.
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Touch
Touch’s owners turned Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry box into a lounge: a vintage-y, opulent mess of sensory glitter, gaudy overkill and refined elegance. Drink alongside a slew of Miami’s hiperati at this new Lincoln Rd resto-lounge and try not to be overwhelmed.
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Abbey Brewery
- Miami, USA
- Entertainment › Bar
The only brew-pub in South Beach is on the untouristed end of South Beach (near Alton Rd). It's friendly and packed with folks listening to the Grateful Dead and slinging back some excellent homebrew: give Father Theo's stout or the Immaculate IPA a shot.
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Dewey's Tavern
- Miami, USA
- Entertainment › Bar
Dewey's is an art-deco dive (really; the exterior is a little gem of the genre) and it's as unpretentious as the best sordid watering holes get. Come here to get wasted and menace the crowds seeking serenity on quiet Alton Rd (just kidding – behave yourself!).
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Chopin Foundation of the United States
This national organization hosts a treasure trove of performances for Chopin fans – the Chopin Festival, a series of free monthly concerts and the less frequent National Chopin Piano Competition, an international contest held in Miami every five years.
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Transit Lounge
Transit exists in some perfect-bar conceptual space, possessing the everyone-knows-your-name camaraderie of a dive, cool-daddio ambience of a good jazz club, the street cred of some of Miami’s hottest live acts and a welcoming but ruggedly sexy venue.
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Empire/Climax
Techno, hip-hop and booty tunes draw a diverse crowd here, where DJs spin R&B and reggae to color laser lights on Friday and Saturday. On Thursdays you can drink all night (for free) after paying the cover, which increases as the night goes on.
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Regal South Beach Cinema
This mod, state-of-the-art, 21-screen theater anchors the western end of Lincoln Rd by being both an architectural delight and a filmgoers’ paradise. It shows a good blend of foreign, independent, and critically acclaimed Hollywood stuff.
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Green Iguana Bar & Grill
A cool, laid-back bar and restaurant by day (with Floribbean food, fish sandwiches and good burgers), by night the Green Iguana is actually two clubs in one. Head here for high-energy cover bands or DJ-driven dance music; $1 drinks on Wednesday.
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Society of the Four Arts
The concert series here includes cabaret, the Palm Beach Symphony, chamber orchestras, string quartets and piano performances.
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Light Box Theatre/Miami Light Project
The Miami Light Project is a nonprofit cultural foundation that represents innovative shows from theater troupes and performance artists from around the world. Shows are performed across the city, but the project is housed at Light Box Theatre.
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Spanky's Sports Bar
Sure, it's a sports bar - hence the name, pool tables and ESPN - but you're bound to see more tattoos and dreadlocks than baseball hats and pleat-front shorts. Its indoor stage and outdoor amphitheater host local and national bands, to boot.
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No Name Pub
The proprietors at the No Name Pub, 1.5 miles north of US 1 on Big Pine Key, know where their retirement is coming from: the approximately $60,000 in $1 bills stapled to the walls by customers; stop by for pizza and beer.
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Miami Improv
Part of a national chain, this 3rd-floor club has the usual club-circuit suspects plus monthly Miami Comics, open-mic shows and Urban Nights, which feature stars from Comedy Central's Showtime, HBO's Def Comedy Jam and BET's Comic View.
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Colony Theatre
A stunning deco showpiece, this small 1934 performing-arts center has 465-seats and great acoustics. It’s a treasure that hosts everything from movies and an occasional musical to theatrical dramas, ballet and off-Broadway productions.
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