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Sunday, November 17, 2013
4:30-6pm

Put on the very bluest outfit you’ve got, saddle-up, and head-out
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17

DEPARTURE
Magic City Bike Collective
1100 N Miami Avenue
~4:30pm

ARRIVAL
BlackBird Ordinary
729 SW 1st Street
~6:00pm

Riders will be physically demarcating the high water lines of mainland Miami so that we can take a good look at ourselves and start asking the big question and all it carries with: How will we adapt to this fundamental shift in our relations at the human-water-land nexus as seas continue to rise?

Go out, ride your bike, and make a statement:

SEA LEVEL RISE IS HAPPENING. WE SEEK A RESILIENT MIAMI. WE ARE A RESILIENT MIAMI


Do you live on the high-water line? You know, those blocks in your neighborhood that’ll soon be underwater.

That’s right, don’t be shy. . . . You know its happening. . . . You’ve known its happening. We’ve all known its happening — forget your politics and denial (and forget your politics of denial).

If it hasn’t already, sea-level rise is coming to a South Florida neighborhood near you, and faster than most of us realize.

Our community is the most at-risk city for sea-level rise in the entire United States, and we’re going to have to start making some serious decisions about the fate of our beloved Miami. We’ll have to embark on some collective South Florida soul-searching as we all face down and come to terms with our comingWater World.

The first three questions that probably come to mind are:
How much water is rising?
Where is the water rising?
When is the water rising?

While the answers to some of these questions are less unclear than for others, uncertainty, confusion, and denial persist.

But just because the bulk of those among our citizenry elected to represent us in office remain for the most part muted on the subject, we, the people on the ground, need not follow their non-existent lead.

Rather, we can embrace head-on the fourth and most important question we’ve got to ask:
What are we going to do about it?

A good place to start is by coming out to make history at the unprecedented High Water Line (HWL) | Miami’s Bicycle Ride for Resiliency!
Friday, November 15, 2013
6-9pm


The Mayfair Hotel & Spa is teaming up with Thrillist for a breezy rooftop Happy Hour. 

Typically, the Friday rooftop happy hours are from 6 – 8 p.m. but, just this time The Mayfair Hotel & Spa is extending it an extra hour just because, the hotel loves Thrillist that much. Happy Hour will be from 6-9pm, and ALL drinks will be half-off and a limited number of complimentary bites prepared by the hotel’s Executive Chef Dario Correa. 

Bar bites will also be available to purchase in case anyone’s suffering from the post-work munchies. 

The Mayfair Hotel & Spa
3000 Florida Ave, Miami, FL 33133
Friday, November 15, 2013
Big Night in Little Haiti, featuring RAM
6-10pm, Little Haiti Cultural Center

RAM is the band started by Richard Morse, who runs the historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-Au-Prince.
RAM plays most Thursday nights in PAP, and gets you dancing and sweating to their style of mizik rasin.
Truly, one of my favorite nights in Haiti, and happy that they will be coming to share their music with Miami.


RAM is a legendary 13-member rasin band based Haiti, founded in 1990. Their music is “voudou rock ‘n’ roots”, a style pioneered by bandleader Richard Morse to meld his love of both Haitian roots culture and rock. They are famed for their regular Thursday night performances at Morse’s historic Hotel Oloffson in downtown Port au Price, attended by a wide spectrum of the country’s political and cultural leaders. Through their music, the group pushes forward a message of freedom for Haitian people, with a base of traditional voudou-inspired lyrics and instruments in a modern rock and roll context.

In RAM, one hears the beautiful complexity of the past, present and future of the Caribbean. Morse was born in Puerto Rico – his father an American sociologist and his mother famed Haitian singer Emirante de Pradine. Morse graduated from Princeton in 1979, an anthropology student who also played in a punk rock band. A change of life in 1987 brought him to Haiti, where he took over the operation of the historic but near-ruined Oloffson Hotel. The folkloric dance troupe Morse hired for the hotel became the base of his new band. RAM formed the nucleus of the rising rasin (roots) music movement – combining elements of ceremonial voudou traditions, folk styles and American rock and roll.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Cranksgiving Bike Food Drive Race

It's back! Cranksgiving Miami returns for its fifth installment come Saturday, November 16th 2013.

For the past four years the Cranksgiving Miami food drive alleycat race & ride has helped collect non-perishable goods for those in need during the holiday season. To those unfamiliar with Cranksgiving, it's basically a food scavenger hunt on bicycles with all the goods collected being donated to Camillus House at the end of the race.

Details:
Participants will be asked to register at a table and will then receive a map/manifest before the start of the race. The map and/or manifest will have designated grocery store locations marked and a shopping list. Riders are to go to the grocery store checkpoints and buy the non-perishable food items from the checklist. There is no registration fee, the $10 you need to bring go towards the purchase food items. The first participant to get to the finish after visiting all the checkpoints & purchasing all the items from the list wins! Cranksgiving is lots of fun and for a great cause, it also helps shine a positive light on the local cycling community. Expect to spend about $2 at each grocery store ($10 total), it is required to keep all your receipts.

The race is approximately 10 - 17 miles depending on whether you do the long or short route, speed will be an obvious factor. However, knowing your way around the city & the aisles of a supermarket can be advantageous.

*Racing is not required, you can simply participate by riding with a group and visiting the checkpoints at your own pace. We want to make sure everyone is included, all bikes are welcomed. Please keep in mind that the cause is what's most important.

It's okay for those who wish to ride but not necessarily race. We will also have prizes for the most charitable participants. If speed is not your thing you can ride the event as a scavenger hunt instead of a race. Last year over 170 local cyclists participated making it the largest alleycat in South Florida, everyone had a great time and the Camillus House was very appreciative about Cranksgiving. This year we're hoping to appeal to more riders, thus collecting more items for those in need!

We have a lot of cool prizes and giveaways courtesy of our sponsors. Stay tuned for more event details.

RSVP on Facebook and share event with friends.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Launch of Kolyr at Segafredo Brickell
9pm-3am


Add a little KOLYR to your social calendar at the official launch event of KOLYR, a new line of university-inspired vegan footwear on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 9:00 PM at Segafredo in Brickell. 

The exclusive, ever-popular French Kiss Tuesdays event series will team up with KOLYR for a fashionable evening showcasing the brand’s first line of University of Miami inspired footwear. This energetic social soiree will bring together French Kiss Tuesdays’ signature taste for class and conviviality and KOLYR’s vibrant new community-driven brand initiative for an unforgettable evening.

Because KOLYR was designed by fans, for fans; the brand will donate 5% of all proceeds to the University of Miami’s Entrepreneurship Club. Guests will also receive a 30% discount on all pre-orders placed the week of the event and be entered to win exciting raffle prizes such as advanced pairs of KOLYR’s inaugural line.

Guests will enjoy premium cocktails by Segafredo Brickell while DJ Youseff sets the mood for celebration on the turntables. Visit KOLYR’s Facebook page for advanced raffle prizes and an exclusive sneak preview of the evening’s surprise guests.

KOLYR:

KOLYR is pronounced “CO-leer” or color with a “K.” It is the Yiddish word for color and speaks to the idea of self-expression through style and color. KOLYR is a line of active footwear that lets you show your true “Kolyrs” in a variety of university-inspired color combinations. All our shoes are ultra lightweight, flexible and 100% vegan and cruelty free. These brilliant, unisex styles are made to fit any active lifestyle. Whether you’re at the gym, headed to the beach, at the office or out on the town – KOLYR will go too. Visit: www.KOLYR.com for more information.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Chouffe Fest Miami
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
The Stage, 170 Northeast 38th Street, Miami, FL 33137

Release your inner gnome and enjoy a gnome- sized world while sipping on the Belgian beer.
Gnome Thyself in the big chair and become Gnome-a-fied by a caricature artist. 

Eater.com says "The festival promises to take you "from your everyday world to one that is completely gnome-sized" with "not-so-small glass of Chouffe's fine craft beers", live art installations and live entertainment.

Free and open to the public, must RSVP HERE
Must be 21+
Miami Book Fair International: November 17-24, 2013
I Heart Miami Book Raffle: November 4-15, 2013 (You can enter as many times as you wish, info below)
The Miami Book Fair, one of Miami’s flagship cultural events, will treat book lovers to eight days of cultural and educational activities, November 17-24, including the beloved Evenings With… series, the IberoAmerican Authors program, literacy and learning activities for children and teens during Generation Genius Days, and The Kitchen, demos and panels for food enthusiasts in partnership with the College’s Miami Culinary Institute. To celebrate the 30th anniversary, the Fair organizers have launched a campaign that celebrates Miami’s love and involvement with their hometown jewel. Visit the Fair’s social media platforms for vintage photos, author Q&As (Including with authors who are already confirmed for this year!) and a sampling of the many reasons why Miami loves Book Fair



Schedule of Events listed HERE

Enter our raffle to win books
from local South Florida Authors by commenting or retweeting this post on Twitter

You can win one of the following books (click on the links to read info on their book and their MBFI events)
(You may enter the contest as many times as you'd like, winners will be chosen randomnly by rafflecopter. You will be contacted within 48 hours of the contest ending, good luck!!)

Friday, November 8, 2013
Tobacco Road, Miami's Oldest Bar, Celebrates their 101st Birthday!!!!!

Tobacco Road's 101st Anniversary Bash

Tobacco Road, "Miami's Oldest Bar" is celebrating their 101st Anniversary on Friday November 8th, 2013 and is throwing a major Bash. Performing live from New Orleans Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk 

The Bash pops off at Happy Hour with 101 cent drinks for 101 minutes starting at 6pm and it's free til 8pm. Cover starts at 8pm with open bar for 101 minutes and the best part is the it's only $10. Also on this amazing line up are: Spam Allstars, Earphunk, Jimmy Lewis of Superunloader, The Dead Good Young and Tobacco Road's very own Eric Vick Musici.

Tickets are on sale now at Tobacco Road for only $10 and on line at online at

For more info call 305.374.1198 or visit 

You can also rsvp on Tobacco Road's Facebook event page at 

Tobacco Road
626 South Miami Ave
Miami, Florida 33130
Friday, November 8, 2013
Cycling Night at the New World Symphony
Experience a unique cycling-themed evening at the New World Symphony!
In addition to a brisk, insightful and powerfully moving 30-minute concert – which will include Bach’s Suite No. 3, we’re thrilled to present an evening dedicated to Miami’s passionate cycling community.

Led by Emerge Miami and New World Symphony Fellows, cyclists will meet at the Omni Metro Station (1455 Biscayne Boulevard) at 6:30 PM on Friday, and will ride across Biscayne Bay to the New World Center on Miami Beach, an iconic Miami venue designed by star architect Frank Gehry. 
Bring food or snacks and enjoy the show picnic style!

Friday, November 8, 2013- Sunday, November 10, 2013

A Tasting Event
CRAFT: SPIRITS & BEER 

Three Day Program Includes Tasting Gallery Experience and Panel Discussions at Soho Studios Wynwood and an Offsite Masters’ Dinner Series 

 CRAFT: Spirits & Beer (CRAFT), a namesake three day program concentrating on the beverage industry's fastest growing segment announces their roster for industry and public festivities.
 The event takes place Nov. 8 – 10 and is anchored by a tasting gallery experience on Nov. 9.
 Other educational offerings include panel discussions and a series of masters’ dinners hosted by some of the industry’s most influential beverage specialists with proceeds benefitting the Florida Craft Distillers Guild and Florida Brewers Guild. 


Taking over Soho Studios (2136 NW 1st Avenue) in Miami’s hipster Wynwood district, CRAFT will showcase best-in-show artisanal spirits and beers. Curated by a distinguished advisory board, each producer has been carefully evaluated to ensure the perfect blend. An exciting line up of exhibitors includes brands like Brooklyn Brewery, Koval, Dry Fly Distilling, Benromach Distillery, Balcones, Miami Club Rum, Atsby Vermouth, Cape Distillers, Compass Box and Tuthilltown Spirits. 

Tickets are available for purchase online at www.craftspiritsandbeer.com/tickets

· Tasting Gallery Experience, Nov. 9
 Enjoy a true craft experience with unique beverages perfectly paired with some of the city’s most authentic eats including Cacao Art Chocolates, The Daily Melt, Illegal Bakery, Saucy Stache and Cabot cheese. Additionally, Earls Kitchen + Bar, the Canadian-based, family-owned independent restaurant group, coming to South Miami in 2014, will will showcase libations from their custom, craft cocktail program. 

Tickets for the Tasting Gallery Experience can be purchased for $50 per person for general admission (3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.) or $75 per person for VIP admission (2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.).

· Educational Panel Discussions, Nov. 9
Four panel discussions taking place throughout the Tasting Gallery Experience will cover on trend topics like The Art of Scotch Whisky Blending with John Glaser and Northern Whites: The Heart(s) of the Matter. Tickets for seminars range in price and start at $25 per person. 

· Masters’ Dinner Series, Nov. 8 and Nov. 10
Taking place on Friday and Sunday night, dinners are $150 per person and are both educational and intimate. Dinners include Artisanal Cognacs at Copper Box with host Nicolas Palazzi; American Craft Whisky at Michael's Genuine Food and Drink with Chuck Cowdery; and Balcones Whiskey Pairing Dinner at Yardbird with Chip Tate.

· Craft Cocktail BBQ Brunch, Nov. 10
James Beard-nominated mixologists Elad Zvi and Gabriel Orta of The Broken Shaker will host a craft cocktail barbecue, sponsored by High West, St. George, Dry Fly and Tapatio. The event is complimentary and invite only.

“As we have seen over the past decade with food, both in our homes and restaurants, people are more aware and concerned with knowing the source of what they consume and how it’s made. The farm-to-table movement is really a nod to old processes, a step back in time,” says Massolo. “With CRAFT, I hope to bridge a similar gap, one that grows the understanding of- and appreciation for- small batch spirits and beers being made with great care; many, following family recipes, helping revive their surrounding community or following historic and traditional guidelines.” 

For more information about CRAFT please visit www.craftspiritsandbeer.com


ABOUT CRAFT: SPIRITS & BEER
Jennifer Massolo of The Liquid Projects is the founder of CRAFT: Spirits & Beer (CRAFT). Taking place Nov. 8-10, CRAFT will include trade and consumer elements ranging from a Tasting Gallery Experience to panel discussions, unique pairing dinners and cocktail events. The main event, the Tasting Gallery Experience, will take place on Nov. 9 at Soho Studios (2136 NW 1st Avenue, Wynwood) and will feature more than 50 craft distilleries and breweries from around the world. For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.craftspiritsandbeer.com
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
5-7pm

Mix. Mingle. Sip. Unwind.


Join us at downtown Miami’s only cultural hotspot!
 Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be making new friends, enjoying unlimited treats and refreshments.  Enjoy free access to our exhibition galleries, relax with live local music, and experience cultural performances! 

FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH! 5 - 7 PM
November 6 - Local band Inna Sense will perform as part of Miami Live Month

HistoryMiami, 101 West Flagler Street, downtown Miami
Members: FREE Non-Members: $10
Info/RSVP: Call 305-375-1618 or email: RSVP@historymiami.org
Ample free parking located at the Miami-Dade County Cultural Plaza Garage, 50 NW 2 Avenue.
November 2013 SoundScape Series at New World Center
Free Outdoor Movies


SoundScape at New World Center - a source and a destination for creativity and inspiration. Campus of the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy. And a cultural icon in the center of Miami Beach. The Center is an inimitable foundation for a unique experience, one that you’ll want to share with family and friends.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, New World Center features numerous spaces for performance and presentation; a flexible and variable seating performance hall, and a 7,000 square foot projection wall on which concerts, video art and films will be shown free-of-charge to audiences in SoundScape, a 2.5 acre public park, designed by Dutch architectural firm West 8.


FALL 2013 SOUNDSCAPE CINEMA SERIES @ExoStage*

The FREE SoundScape Cinema Series is presented generously by the Marilyn and Edward Gadinsky Charitable Foundation and held at the new Miami Beach SoundScape ExoStage, corner of 17 Street and Washington Avenue. Movies begin at 8:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Nov 6: WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971)
 Directed by Mel Stuart; starring Gene Wilder and Jack Albertson 

Nov 13: BEN-HUR (1959)
 Directed by William Wyler; starring Charlton Heston and Jack Hawkins 

Nov 20: HELLO, DOLLY! (1969)
 Directed by Gene Kelly; starring Barbra Steisand and Walter Matthau 

Nov 27: SKYFALL (2012)
Directed by Sam Mendes; starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench and Javier Bardem 
Miami Book Fair International: November 17-24, 2013
I Heart Miami Book Raffle: November 4-15, 2013 (You can enter as many times as you wish, info below)
The Miami Book Fair, one of Miami’s flagship cultural events, will treat book lovers to eight days of cultural and educational activities, November 17-24, including the beloved Evenings With… series, the IberoAmerican Authors program, literacy and learning activities for children and teens during Generation Genius Days, and The Kitchen, demos and panels for food enthusiasts in partnership with the College’s Miami Culinary Institute. To celebrate the 30th anniversary, the Fair organizers have launched a campaign that celebrates Miami’s love and involvement with their hometown jewel. Visit the Fair’s social media platforms for vintage photos, author Q&As (Including with authors who are already confirmed for this year!) and a sampling of the many reasons why Miami loves Book Fair

Schedule of Events listed HERE

Enter our raffle to win books
from local South Florida Authors by commenting or retweeting this post on Twitter

You can win one of the following books (click on the links to read info on their book and their MBFI events)
(You may enter the contest as many times as you'd like, winners will be chosen randomnly by rafflecopter. You will be contacted within 48 hours of the contest ending, good luck!!)
Sunday, November 3, 2013
7:30am - 11:00am 

Eco Canoe Tour



The Deering Estate at Cutler offers guided canoe tours of Biscayne Bay that depart from Charles Deering’s boat turning basin. You will canoe to Chicken Key, a seven-acre mangrove island and restored bird rookery, which lies one mile off shore. The island contains sand dunes and mangrove forests and is surrounded by sand bars, tidal flats, seagrass beds, and rocky debris. While canoeing, you can observe marine wildlife such as manatees and sea turtles, as well as numerous species of birds.

The program is designed for beginners and experts alike. Please bring closed-toe shoes, comfortable clothes, water, a hat, and sunscreen. 

7:30 am – 11:00 am
Cost: $30 adults; $20 children (ages 9-14)
To reserve your space call the Ticket Office at 305-235-1668 ext. 233.

Other Sunrise Canoe Tour dates:
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Friday, November 1, 2013
Movies on the Plaza presents
The Pianist
8pm

Movies on the Plaza is a free, family-friendly event sponsored by Brickell World Plaza each month. 

Admission is free. Parking is free in the surface lot. Chairs are available. 

Bring dinner. Bring snacks. 
Coolers are allowed, but please, no glass or bottles. 
Movies nights are subject to favorable weather conditions.

For more information please call (305) 384-7170.

 A film based on the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish classical pianist who struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. As Wladyslaw and his family are selected for deportation to a Nazi concentration camp, Wladyslaw goes into hiding in an apartment provided by a friend. However, when his friend goes missing, Wladyslaw is left to fend for himself and he spends the next several years dashing from one abandoned home to another, desperate to avoid capture by German occupation troops.