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MIAMI in November 2011

Thank you for your continued support of Miami! The November 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!

REST UP FOR A SLEEPLESS NIGHT OF CULTURE SATURDAY IN MIAMI BEACH: High season in Miami Beach now begins in November with an all-nighter. Sleepless Night, a citywide celebration of art, music and dance, traditionally runs from sundown to dawn on the night of the autumnal time change. This year that falls on Nov. 5. The idea began in Paris in 1984 - with Nuit Blanche, or White Night. Internationally appealing singers, dancers and performance artists perform alongside award-winning local favorites such as the Florida Grand Opera, the Miami City Ballet and the Miami Symphony Orchestra. For this one night the city is divided into four cultural zones, which encompass 80 venues. This year\'s schedule includes Barcelona-based Sarruga, a street theater group; Brazil\'s Livio Tragtenberg, who will present \"The Cabinet of Dr. Strange,\" a \"composer\" in the form of an extinct animal; \"The Carpetbag Brigade,\" a group from San Francisco that utilizes acrobatic stilts, physical theater, modern dance and circus arts; and \"Project Bandaloop,\" an aerial dance troupe, which will perform its new work \"Bound (less),\" using the city\'s new Frank Gehry-designed New World Center. All of the cultural performances are free. Museums waive their admission fees. Luxury bus coaches transport people from place to place, with onboard entertainment and films shown on the vehicles as well. Finally, those who stay up all night will be treated to breakfast on the beach as the sun comes up. Over 100,000 people will enjoy free admission to theaters, museums, indoor and outdoor art, music, dance, theater, film, video, fashion, acrobatics, and poetry. Last year, Sleepless Night attracted 130,000 people, with an estimated 27,000 coming from outside the area. www.sleeplessnight.org

IN GREATER MIAMI & THE BEACHES, FREE MUSIC IS JUST A CHECK-IN AWAY: Miami Live Music Month, the Only Month-Long Celebration of Live Music in The World Returns for its Second Year MIAMI (November 1, 2011). The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) welcomes back this November the ever popular Miami Live Music Month providing music lovers with a roster of live music acts throughout the destination as well as surprise pop-up concerts taking place during the month. The GMCVB will host a Foursquare and text-to-win promotion offering locals and visitors an opportunity to win free iTunes music cards, VIP passes to the Bayside Rocks Festival and a grand prize weekend stay at The Fontainebleau for the Ricky Martin concert on November 26. Miami Live Music Month is designed to increase awareness of the thriving live music scene to visitors and locals alike, and ultimately get people dancing their way through the holiday season. To coincide with this year’s Live Music Month, the GMCVB will partner with Big Bus Tours Gray Line Miami and host a pop-up concert on the second tier of the double-decker bus. The concerts will take place on November 5 and November 12, coinciding with the Sleepless Night festival in Miami Beach and The Design District’s monthly Art Walk. The pop-up concert will feature live performances by favorite local Miami band Suenalo. www.MiamiLiveMusicMonth.com

KIMPTON HOTELS & RESTAURANTS ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL OPENING OF ITS NEW SURFCOMBER, MIAMI, SOUTH BEACH: Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants brings its signature service and whimsical spirit to South Beach as it raises its flag on its newest oceanfront lifestyle hotel in Florida, the Surfcomber Miami, South Beach, on December 1, 2011. Following a top-to-bottom renovation of this popular South Beach classic, the new Surfcomber will offer guests a stylish and playful escape within a trilogy of sun, surf, and sand. Surfcomber’s new design-driven spaces marry the eclectic style of European Bohemia with a down home American front porch appeal. The design creates an inviting and comfortable atmosphere, with elements of surprise throughout. Combined with Kimpton’s warm and welcoming service, the newly and fully renovated hotel offers guests a retro, breezy atmosphere and a distinctive South Beach experience that is as cool as it is friendly, and as sexy as it is fun. To book a stay at Kimpton’s new Surfcomber, and be among the first to experience the hotel’s new surf-splashed and sun-kissed appeal, a special grand opening rate has been created. Available for booking through January 31, 2012, rates start at $149 and $199 depending on dates of stay, with some blackout dates. To book, visit www.surfcomber.com , call (800) 994-6101 or email FloridaSales@KimptonHotels.com .

NYC MEETS MIAMI BEACH AS NEW YORK RESTAURATEURS BRING “THE DUTCH” TO THE W SOUTH BEACH HOTEL & RESIDENCES: New York restaurateurs Chef Andrew Carmellini, Josh Pickard and Luke Ostrom will bring their American restaurant The Dutch and its roots-inspired cuisine to the W South Beach Hotel & Residences, opening just in time for Art Basel. For this project, they have partnered with Karim Masri and Nicola Siervo who also own and operate The Wall, W South Beach’s nightlife destination, Wet and W Living Room Bar. To create interiors for the much-anticipated new restaurant, Meyer Davis Studio (Locanda Verde) completely gutted and transformed the previously dark space into a hip, light, airy eatery where NYC meets Miami Beach. Reflecting Chef Andrew Carmellini’s roots-inspired American cuisine, every material reflects honesty; from the natural light oak floors to the white brick walls, zinc bar top, greyed driftwood beams, framed photographs of Florida ephemera and accents, all lighten and color the space with cultural references. The terrace area facing the lush W grove is open to the ocean breezes and a closed off service entry ensures guest’s privacy and a door to the adjacent grove area provides a sense of wonderment. The Dutch will be located inside the W South Beach Hotel & Residences, Miami Beach. www.TheDutchMiami.com

BUCKLE UP: NASCAR CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVE RETURNS TO MIAMI BEACH: NASCAR Championship Drive is cruising back to Miami Beach. In its second year, the outdoor fan festival and Coca-Cola Racing Family Concert featuring Blake Shelton, which are free to fans, will take place Nov. 17-18 at Lummus Park and officially kick-off Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Launched in 2010 as a thank you to fans, the two-day NASCAR Championship Drive festival revs up for the race weekend with live music, multiple driver appearances, a race hauler parade, and many other activities. New this year is NASCAR Youth Fest, a youth education program targeted to school-aged children in Miami-Dade County. Taking place on Friday, Nov. 18, several hundred elementary and middle school students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, plus youth groups from the Boys and Girls Club, and the Police Athletic League, will learn how math, physics, communications, and teamwork are essential to racing success. Youth-oriented programming will include the Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM Initiative, Teamwork Pit Stop Challenge, and 3M Visiting Wizards stage show. www.nascar.com/championshipdrive

“HARRY’S PIZZARIA, A NEW CASUAL, NEIGHBORHOOD JOINT FROM CHEF MICHAEL SCHWARTZ, BRINGS MORE FRESH, SIMPLE, PURE FOOD & DRINK TO THE MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT: As Michael\'s Genuine Food & Drink approaches its fifth anniversary in March of 2012, chef/owner Michael Schwartz and the team at The Genuine Hospitality announce the opening of their third restaurant, Harry’s Pizzeria, at 3918 North Miami Avenue, between Northeast 39th Street and Northeast 40th Street in the Design District. Two blocks west of Schwartz’s flagship, Harry’s is a comfortable place to gather and share craft beers on draught, house made dishes featuring local ingredients, and seasonally inspired pizzas cooked thin and crisp in the restaurant’s wood-burning oven. Bright and airy, with street-facing floor to ceiling windows draped in blinds, the restaurant basks under the golden glow of gelled industrial florescent lamps and features a modern rustic interior of woods, leather, rattan, white marble, and metal. Miami artist Babette Herschberger’s two acrylic on wood panels, Guiding Light and Sweet Spot Yellow (2008,) grace the northern wall. The bathroom blackboard is for guests to get creative. www.genuinehospitalitygroup.com

Calendar of Events:

MIAMI LIVE MUSIC MONTH Nov. 1 – 30 www.miamilivemusicmonth.com

SANTA’S ENCHANTED FOREST Nov. 3- Jan. 1 www.santasenchantedforest.com

SLEEPLESS NIGHT Nov. 5-6, 2011 www.sleeplessnight.org

MIAMI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Nov. 14-20 www.miamishortfilmfestival.com

MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL Nov. 13-20 www.miamibookfair.com

NASCAR’S FORD CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND Nov. 18-20 www.homesteadmiamispeedway.com

WHITE PARTY WEEK 2011 Nov. 23-28 www.whiteparty.org

RUN MIAMI\'S TURKEY TROT Nov 24 www.runmiami.com

THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE Nov. 25 305-893-6511, ext. 2228.

ART MIAMI 2011 Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 www.art-miami.com

TO CONTACT US AT: 1-888-766-4264, Media@MiamiandBeaches.com

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