Fringe Projects at Downtown Art Days

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Ben Vida | Photo courtesy Fringe Projects

This week Fringe Projects launches a program of new commissions for this year's Downtown Art Days. Launching on Thursday, September 8th New York-based artist Siebren Versteeg debuts Small is Beautiful, a a six-day long intervention taking place on the digital canvas of the InterContinental Miami. The piece offers a complete transcription of the entire text of the book “Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered” by economist E.F. Schumacher on a constant scroll down the sides of the hotel. 

In tandem New York-based artist Ben Vida will premier an electronic music piece titled Tracers that uses a process of digitally tracing preexisting recordings to extract control data. Vida traced recordings of a Cuban drum ensemble demonstrating Santeria rhythms and fed them into synthesizing systems to create dance tracks.

These two works are part of DWNTWN Art Days, a three day celebration of arts and culture supported by the Miami Downtown Development Authority and Miami Dade-County that will take place from September 9 - 11 this year. Other Fringe Projects artists include Cara Despain, Alan Gutierrez, and JPW3. 

Fringe Projects
Intercontinental Hotel
100 Chopin Plaza
Downtown | Miami

The Best of Miami Spice

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photo courtesy of pubbelly

Every year for the months of August and September, some of Miami's best restaurants offer diners the best of Miami cuisine at the best price – $23 for lunch and $39 for dinner. A two-month restaurant promotion that lasts from August 1 to September 30, participating eateries offer three-course meals featuring signature dishes. 

The offering is expansive, with restaurants as far as Doral, Sunny Isles, and Pinecrest serving delicious dishes and signature sweets. And it's the perfect time to try the restaurants on your list.

Here, our list of favorites for Miami Spice.

27 Restaurant and Bar
The menu is a mix of delicious dishes that showcase the restaurants blend of Israeli-LatinAmerican-Caribbean flavors including the spicy griot & pikliz and Elad's signature shakshuka. The highlight? The menu comes with a complimentary cocktail from one of the best bars in town. 

Ariete
One of the most talked about new restaurants in Coconut Grove, the Spice menu at Ariete will rotate every ten days showcasing a mix of seasonal dishes and standout favorites already popular with the regulars. Go with a friend who likes share and avoid choosing between seasonal pie and house-made doughnuts for dessert.

Hakkasan
If you like a good dim sum brunch Hakkasan's lunch menu is available on Saturdays and Sundays and is sure to leave you feeling full. The menu includes a dim sum basket with three different dumplings, three entrees and a mango custard for dessert.

Pubbelly
One of Miami's best gastropubs Pubbelly's Miami Spice dinner menu starts with an selection of five different signature appetizers and gives diners a choice of four entrees – think corn soup dumplings, duck confit ravioli. or uni pasta. There's dessert too. 

Pao by Paul Qui
The menu at Pao draws on Filipino flavors serving up Unicorn – a mix of sea urchin and corn pudding – alongside smoked short rib asado and buko pandan, a dessert made from young coconut and pandan jelly.

Mignonette
The neighborhood favorite brings back its popular prime rib just for Miami Spice. Enough said.

Toro Toro 
This hidden gem at the Intercontinental offers a Pan-American twist on steakhouse favorites with smoked swordfish dip and prime grade skirt steak. For dessert, pay $5 extra for the pleasure of La Bomba, a chocolate sphere filled with fresh berries, dulce de leche & strawberry ice cream, cream cheese mousse, almond cookie crumbs, and caramel, prepared tableside.

Miami Spice
Reservations can be made on OpenTable.

Red Bull Sound Select: 3 Days in Miami

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AlunaGeorge | photo courtesy red bull sound select

 

On September 1st Red Bull kicks off three days of music in Miami for the inaugural Red Bull Sound Select Presents: 3 Days in Miami. The festival features a roster of young and up-and-coming artists including A$AP Ferg and AlunaGeorge, alongside Miami's Nick Leon and Steven A. Clark. 

Red Bull Sound Select is an artist development program that works with music influencers from around the country to curate artists from their local scenes and supports musicians through in-studio collaborations, mentorship, music distribution, and shows across the U.S.

For 3 Days in Miami Red Bull Sound Select has partnered with three local curators Poplife, III Points and YesJulz to handpick artists for the program. The schedule is below, events take place at The Hangar located downtown. Tickets are $15 per day. 

SEPT 1
A$AP FERG
Jazz Carter
070 Shake

SEPT 2
Cashmere Cat
Tennyson
Nick Leon

SEPT 3
AlunaGeorge
Xavier Omar
Steven A. Clark

Red Bull Sound Select
The Hangar
60 NE 11th Street | Miami