January 2011
www.MiamiandBeaches.com OUT AND ABOUT IN
MIAMI Happy New Year! Thank you for your
continued support of Miami! The first 2011
issue of the monthly Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
Media Relation’s e-newsletter is filled with
story leads you can develop, including exciting news and events.
Enjoy! SOUTH BEACH WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL AROUND THE
CORNER: Celebrating its 10th year, the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food
Festival presented by Food & Wine will land on Miami Beach Thursday, February 24 – Sunday, February 27, 2011. The national, star-studded, four-day destination event will also celebrate the release of the official Food Network
South Beach Wine & Food Festival cookbook (Clarkson Potter), written
by Lee Brian Schrager with Julie Mautner, featuring a foreword by Anthony
Bourdain. Set against the tropical backdrop of
South Beach, the festival is sure to satisfy taste buds with an array of
exciting culinary events for which tickets are still available. Among the
highlights are the Moet Hennessy
USA Sobe’s 10th year Anniversary Party hosted by Emeril
Lagassee and Martha Stewart, Kohl’s
Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen, Italian in Paradise hosted by
Giada de Laurentiis, Paula Deen’s Down Home Cookin’ Sunday Gospel
Brunch and Whole Foods Market Grand Tasting Village. To access the festival schedule or
purchase tickets visit www.SobeWineandFoodFest.com. NEW WORLD SYMPHONY’S NEW HOME: An
extraordinary facility for music education and performance, designed by
Frank Gehry as the first purpose-built home of the New World Symphony
(NWS), will soon open its doors in the heart of
Miami
Beach. The building is slated to
officially open on January
25th, 2011
offering six days of festivities that include world premieres, indoor and
outdoor video projections and new concert formats designed to engage and
broaden audiences. The 100,641-square-foot construction, designed in close
collaboration with NWS founder and artistic director Michael Tilson
Thomas, will dramatically advance the institution’s mission of providing
exceptional professional training for gifted young music school graduates.
The new dynamic and flexible facility will overlook
Miami
Beach’s new
Lincoln
Park, an
elegantly designed and landscaped 2.5-acre park into which the NWS will
extend its programming. The building will be a lab for generating new
ideas in music education and performances. For more information and for
upcoming performances, visit www.NWS.org. ART DECO WEEKEND CELEBRATES 34th
YEAR: The Art
Deco Weekend® Festival will entertain visitors and tourists alike as it
takes center stage January
14-16, 2010 on
Miami
Beach.
Started in 1976 by the Miami Design Preservation League to attract
visitors to Miami Beach’s Art Deco Historic District and to raise
awareness and appreciation of the arts and culture of the Art Deco era
(approx. 1925-1945), the festival weekend draws tens of thousands of
people for the three-day event
and features more than 85 events. Among the activities this year
are Art Deco guided tours, film series/lectures, antiques, art and
collectibles vendors, a variety of food vendors, musical attractions,
theatrical and dance performances, classic automobile exhibit, a Saturday
morning parade, Dog promenade and other events. As is customary, the Art Deco Weekend Ocean Drive Parade will
take place on Saturday, January 15th at 11 a.m. The Grand Marshal for 2011 will be the renowned Miami Beach
Celebrity Elaine Lancaster. The Arf Deco Dog Parade will join along with
the main Art Deco Parade. Dog participants and their owners are encouraged
to dress in their most glamorous costumes. For more information on
complete schedule or to volunteer, visit www.ArtDecoWeekend.com, or
call 305-672-2014. SHOPPING THERAPY UPON CHECK IN: At Kimpton’s EPIC Hotel in Downtown Miami, the price of a room
will now include the services of a personal therapist – a Retail Therapist – to help out-of-towners shop like a true
South Florida local when looking for the perfect gift for someone
special. Kimpton’s Retail Therapists are employees of the hotels and
longtime residents of the city with self-proclaimed credentials in savvy
shopping. Advice is complimentary and available to all who inquire
either by email in advance of a stay, or in person at the hotel. The
Retail Therapist at Kimpton’s EPIC Hotel sends fashion seekers to shopping
malls, and one-of-a-kind boutiques and trendy stores that are open late to
accommodate any shopping schedule. Guests are encouraged to contact Retail Therapists 48 hours in
advance of stay. For more information phone 866-760-3742 or visit www.EpicHotel.com.
NEW RESTAURANT CONCEPT OPENS IN MIDTOWN
MIAMI: Sustain Restaurant + Bar, Midtown Miami’s highly anticipated new restaurant, located
at 3252 NE 1st
Avenue, has opened
to the public for dinner service. Sustain Restaurant offers South
Florida foodies progressive American fare prepared from local, sustainable
products at reasonable prices and in a beautiful eco-friendly design.
Sustain’s menu features classic dishes redefined and crafted from quality
ingredients. Chef Alejandro Piñero, who previously worked under high
profile chefs Dawn Sieber and Michelle Bernstein, served as sous chef at
Casa Tua, and as chef de cuisine at Fratelli Lyon, is enthusiastic about
this venture. The chef focuses on using seafood that complies with the
Monterey Bay Fish Guide, as well as meat and produce from local sources
and sustainable producers. Dishes include: Delectable Bites such as
house-made soft pretzels and fried chickpeas in herb infused oil, Main
courses include roasted Italian sausage with fennel served on focaccia,
BBQ Grilled quail with mustard-horseradish crème and a variety of pizzas,
salads, sandwiches and sides such as braised escarole, apple, brussel
sprouts and turnip hash and grain pilaf. For more information visit, www.SustainMiami.com or
phone 305-424-9079.
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR RETURNS TO
MIAMI: The Miami International Art Fair (MIA) will be inaugurating an
intriguing and unique new model this year, combining a highly selective
art fair with a strong, central curatorial vision, in addition to
independently curated projects. On January 13-17th, 2011, the Miami Beach Convention Center will host the mid-winter contemporary art fair. The event will host prestigious international dealers featuring
contemporary, emerging, conceptual, and modern art including photography,
installations, performance, and video. Highlighting MIA in 2011 is the
special installation Museum of Modern Ice, bringing Canadian artist Gordon Halloran’s
dazzling paintings in ice to sunny South Florida for the first time. The fair also integrates innovative
educational art projects – linked to important museums and other
art-related organizations. An array of vibrant social activities attract
collectors from throughout the US, Latin America and Europe. MIA débuted in 2010 with 80
U.S. and international dealers, drawing more than 17,000 visitors
and garnering positive reviews from exhibitors, collectors, curators and
press. The fair attracted noted art collectors, including Rosa de la Cruz,
Richard Shack and Janet Liedeker. For more information visit www.Mia-Artfair.com MIAMI CITY BALLET REMAINS A TRADITION: The Miami City Ballet celebrates its 25th
Anniversary Season in South Florida with Program II and the Company Premiere of Twyla Tharp’s
exhilarating Baker’s Dozen. Program II also features
George Balanchine’s haunting La Sonnambula and buoyant Western
Symphony. The Opus One Orchestra will play, under the baton of
maestro Gary Sheldon, 42 to 56 musicians strong, supported by a grant from
the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts
Challenge. The Company Premiere of Baker’s Dozen showcases
choreographer Twyla Tharp’s “prankster sense of humor” (The Times)
as she flings a dozen dancers onto the stage, dressed in smoothly shaped,
silky cream clothes by designer Santo Loquasto - hustling, spinning,
shimmying, yet romantically inclined - to the irresistible stride
piano of the immortal Willie “The Lion” Smith. Since its inception,
the dance has held the public’s attention as a special Tharp classic,
mixing nostalgic and contemporary emotions all together. For more
information, visit www.MiamiCityBallet.org. MOVIE THEATRE TO DEBUTS IN DOWNTOWN
MIAMI: Metropolitan Miami developer MDM Development has reached a deal to bring
Naples-based movie theater operator Silverspot, a 12-screen boutique movie
theater, to anchor its planned Met Square entertainment complex in Downtown Miami. The Silverspot theater will
include a full kitchen, a bar serving wine and beer, and a lounge area,
according to MDM. The cinema is expected to show new releases, including
3D showings, as well as independent and foreign films. The state-of-the-art cinema will
encompass 12 screening rooms with large leather seats and hardwood
flooring. Construction of the four-story
Met Square complex is to begin in 2011. For more information visit www.SilverspotCinema.com
Calendar of Events:
JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL PARADE
JAN. 2
WWW.JRORANGEBOWL.ORG RINGLING BROS. BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS
JAN. 7-17
WWW.TICKETMASTER.COM FLORIDA RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL
JAN. 8-23
WWW.REN-FEST.COM
BEAUX ARTS FESTIVAL
JAN. 8-9
WWW.BEAUXARTSMIAMI.ORG MIAMI JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
JAN. 22-30 WWW.MIAMIJEWISHFILMFESTIVAL.COM TO CONTACT US AT: 1-888-766-4264, Media@MiamiandBeaches.com
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