Cavas Wine Tasting Room & Cafe is having their first neighborhood wine expo at their South Miami location tomorrow, from 2-6 p.m. A $20 tasting fee allows you taste over 100 wines. $10 of the tasting fee will be applied toward any wine purchase you make. What a wonderful way to spend the day… tasting wine and strolling along downtown South Miami. After the wine tasting, head over to Blu, Town, or Cafe Pastis, all of which have tables outside, and enjoy our beautiful Fall weather.
The Yellow Green Farmers Market, South Florida’s largest farmers market, opens today in Hollywood, Florida. Spend the day visiting some of the more than 300 vendors, snack on goodies, and buy natural products by local vendors..
The Yellow Green Farmers Market, South Florida’s largest farmers market, opens today in Hollywood, Florida. Spend the day visiting some of the more than 300 vendors, snack on goodies, and buy natural products by local vendors..
It’s that time of year again…Art season in South Florida. After visiting the South Miami Art Festival, stop by one of the great local restaurants in South Miami. Blu has great pizzas and salads, Town Kitchen and Bar has great calamari, salads, sandwiches and mixed menu, and Cafe Pastis has mussels, quiches, and an extensive French menu.
The Community Foundation of Pinecrest is sponsoring Garden Pop, a fine art exhibit and sale in Pinecrest Gardens, November 7-25. Original works from the following artists will be available: Andy Warhol, Rupert Jasen Smith, Tom Wesselmann, Joan Miro, Gene Davis, Jasper Johns, Jime Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, Romero Britto, Donald Sultan, Erika King, Eileen Seitz and Purvis Young.
An Evening in Tuscany, featuring concert pianist Francesco Attesti and German mezzo-soprano Annika Kaschenz, is coming to the St. Louis Church in Pinecrest on Tuesday, October 6th. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Miami Sundown as a benefit concert to end polio, this classical concert promises to be an evening filled with beautiful classical music.
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A Gallup study reported in today’s Miami Herald states, “Miamians love their city more than ever”.
What’ s not to love? The tropical climate, beautiful beaches, colorful flora, variety of cultures, the views, the food, the number of never ending activities from sports, to dancing, dining, diving? There is a reason my blog is ILoveSoFla! Ever since I moved here from the San Francisco Bay area over 18 years ago, I have been able to say, “I love Miami”!
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New World Symphony to Host Stories in Music: Concert for Kids
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Remember the great music in the movie, Peter and the Wolf? How about the music that Sleeping Beauty and her prince waltz to when they first meet in the forest? So many children’s movies contain great classical music. The New World Symphony will be presenting some of that music in their Stories in Music: Concert for Kids, on October 4. In addition to hearing music that they may already be familiar with, your children will also have the opportunity to meet the musicians and see and play the instruments in the Instrument Petting Zoo.
The first video is the Disney version for your children
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-6fYCMqSN4[/youtube]The second is Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty and is for your listening pleasure
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I found another reason to love South Florida, CHEAP fishing licenses! I purchased annual fishing licenses for my sons to go out for mini lobster season and thought I had been charged incorrectly. The cost for an annual license was $17! I paid $52.70 for an annual license in Pennsylvania so one of my sons could fish for two weeks. Granted, I paid as a non-resident in PA and the non-resident in Florida is $47, but where do you think you get more bang for the buck?
Looking for some from free things to do before school starts? A lot of our local museums have free days each month. Since today is the first of the month, you will be able to get a lot of these in. Or spread them out over the next couple of months.
Bass Museum of Art free family day on Sundays 2-5 p.m.
Miami Art Museum free admission on the second Saturday of each month
Miami Museum of Science free planetarium shows and star gazing beginning at 7:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month
Museum of Contemporary Art free to North Miami residents and free jazz for all at 8:00 p.m. on the last Friday of each month.
Wolfsonian Museum free gallery admission Fridays from 6-9