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Hyatt Regency Miami
Contact:
- 800/233-1234
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Location:
- 400 SE Second Ave
- Miami,FL 33131
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The Hyatt Regency is located just off the Miami River in the heart of downtown Miami. It shares space with the Miami Convention Center, the James L. Knight Convention Center Theater, an exhibition hall, and a 5,000-seat auditorium and concert hall. This hotel is perfect for large groups, business travelers, or basketball fanatics in town to see the Miami Heat play at the nearby American Airlines Arena. The People Mover and Metrorail are just blocks away, and water taxis are available at the front steps. Most of the spacious, recently renovated guest rooms have great bathrooms, products, and a balcony with a view of either the city or the bay.
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Florida Philharmonic Orchestra
Contact:
- 800/226-1812
Location:
- 4120 Leguna St
- Coral Gables
- Miami,FL 33309
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South Florida's premier symphony orchestra, under the direction of James Judd, presents a full season of classical and pops programs interspersed with several children's and contemporary popular music performances. The Philharmonic performs downtown in the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts and at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium.
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Ballet Flamenco La Rosa
Contact:
- 305/899-7729
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Location:
- 13126 W. Dixie Hwy
- North Miami
- Miami,FL 33161
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For a taste of local Latin flavor, see this lively troupe perform impressive flamenco and other styles of Latin dance on Miami stages.
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Tower Theater
Contact:
- 305/237-6180
Location:
- 1508 SW 8th St
- Little Havana
- Little Havana,FL 33129
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This renovated movie theater in Little Havana features highly regarded Cuban art such as Carlos Navarro's Cosas Cubanas (Cuban Things).
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Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
Contact:
- 305/865-5775
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Location:
- 6701 Collins Ave
- In the Deauville Beach Resort, Miami Beach
- Miami,FL 33141
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The legendary Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz great, who often plays here, opened this retro-fabulous supper club, where equally great musicians from Roberta Flack to Willie Chorino play on a weekly basis. An extensive menu featuring some of Sandoval's Latin-flavored favorites is also available.
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Ortanique on the Mile
Contact:
- 305/446-7710
Location:
- 278 Miracle Mile
- Next to Actor's Playhouse
- Miami,FL 33134
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You'll be greeted as you enter with soft, spiderlike lights and canopied mosquito netting that will make you wonder whether you're on a secluded island or inside one of King Tut's temples. Chef Cindy Hutson has truly perfected her tantalizing New World Caribbean cuisine that also graces the menus of her two other Ortaniques in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas. For starters, an absolute must is the pumpkin bisque with a hint of pepper sherry. Afterward, move on to the tropical mango salad with fresh marinated sable hearts of palm, julienne mango, baby field greens, toasted Caribbean candied pecans, and passion-fruit vinaigrette. For an entree, I recommend the pan-sautéed Bahamian black grouper marinated in teriyaki and sesame oil. It's served with an ortanique (an orangelike fruit) orange liqueur sauce and topped with steamed seasoned chayote, zucchini, and carrots on a lemon-orange boniato-sweet plantain mash. For dessert, try the chocolate mango tower -- layers of brownie, chocolate mango mousse, meringue, and sponge cake, accompanied by mango sorbet and tropical-fruit salsa. Entrees may not be cheap, but they're a lot less than airfare to the islands, which is where most, if not all,...
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Club Space
Contact:
- 305/372-9378
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Location:
- 34 NE 11th St
- Miami,FL 33132
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Clubland hits the mainland with this cavernous downtown warehouse of a club. With more than 30,000 square feet of dance space, you can spin around à la Stevie Nicks (albeit to a techno beat) without having to worry about banging into someone. On Saturday and Sunday nights, the party usually extends to the next morning, sometimes as late as 10am. It's quite a sight to see club kids rushing off to work straight from Space on a Monday morning. Known as the venue of choice for world-renowned DJs, Club Space sometimes charges ludicrous admission fees to cover its hefty price tags. Note: Club Space doesn't really get going until around 3am. Call for more information, as it doesn't have a concrete schedule.
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Miami City Ballet
Contact:
- 305/929-7000
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Location:
- 905 Lincoln Road
- Ophelia and Juan Jr. Roca Center, Collins Ave. and 22nd St., South Beach
- Miami,FL 33195
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This artistically acclaimed and innovative company, directed by Edward Villella, features a repertoire of more than 60 ballets, many by George Balanchine, and has had more than 20 world premieres. The company's three-story center features eight rehearsal rooms, a ballet school, a boutique, and ticket offices. The City Ballet season runs from September to April.
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Florida Grand Opera
Contact:
- 305/949-6722
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Location:
- 1300 Biscayne Blvd
- Miami,FL 33145
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Around for more than 60 years, this company regularly features singers from top houses in both America and Europe. All productions are sung in their original language and staged with projected English supertitles. Tickets become scarce when Placido Domingo or another opera luminary comes to town. The season runs roughly from November to April, with five performances each week. In 2007, the opera moved into more upscale headquarters in the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Arsht Center (Carnival Center) for the Performing Arts.
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New World Symphony
Contact:
- 305/673-3331
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Location:
- 541 Lincoln Rd
- South Beach
- Miami,FL 33139
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This organization, led by artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas, is a stepping stone for gifted young musicians seeking professional careers. The orchestra specializes in innovative, energetic performances, and often features renowned guest soloists and conductors. The season lasts from October to May, during which time there are many free concerts.
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Miami Chamber Symphony
Contact:
- 305/284-6477
Location:
- 5690 N. Kendall Dr
- Kendall
- Miami,FL 33156
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This professional orchestra is a small, subscription-series orchestra that's not affiliated with any major arts organizations and is therefore an inexpensive alternative to the high-priced classical venues. Renowned international soloists perform regularly here. The season runs October to May, and most concerts are held in the Gusman Concert Hall, on the University of Miami campus.
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Bongo's Cuban Café
Contact:
- 786/777-2100
Location:
- 601 Biscayne Blvd
- At the American Airlines Arena, Downtown Miami
- Miami,FL 33154
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Gloria Estefan's latest hit in the restaurant business pays homage to the sights, sounds, and cuisine of pre-Castro Cuba. Bongo's is a mammoth restaurant attached to the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami. On Friday after 11pm and Saturday after 11:30pm, it's transformed from a friendly family restaurant into the city's hottest 21-and-over salsa nightclub. Cover charges can be hefty, but consider it your ticket to an astounding show of some of the best salsa dancers in the city. Prepare yourself for standing room only. Salsa lessons are also available for those with two left feet.
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Rok Bar
Contact:
- 305/538-7171
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Location:
- 1905 Collins Ave
- South Beach
- Miami,FL 33119
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Larger-than-life rocker Tommy Lee has assembled a motley Miami crew at this paradox of a bar that combines down-'n'-dirty rock 'n' roll with the swank comforts of a chic lounge. The place is claustrophobic, with limited seating (unless you're Pamela Anderson, forget about scoring a table), high-priced drinks, and an oxymoronic soundtrack of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael Jackson, and Kid Rock.
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Skybar at The Shore Club
Contact:
- 305/695-3100
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Location:
- 1901 Collins Ave
- At The Shore Club, South Beach
- Miami,FL 33119
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Skybar lives up to its name in terms of loftiness; something this place has perfected better than anyone else, whether at its original L.A. location or the sprawling South Beach location at The Shore Club. If you're not a hotel guest, not Beyoncé, or not on the "list," or if you're a guy with several other guys and no girls, forget about it. For those of you who can't get in, the Skybar is basically the entire backyard area of The Shore Club, consisting of several areas, including the Moroccan-themed garden area, the hip-hop-themed indoor Red Room, the Sand Bar by the beach, and the Rum Bar by the pool. Sunday afternoon pool parties are a magnet for celebs and locals alike. Popular on any given night, Skybar is yet another brilliant example of how hotelier Ian Schrager has managed to control the hipsters in a most Pavlovian way.
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