Free Dinner in SoBe every Sunday

In bars across Florence between the hours of 7pm & 11pm while you are having a pre-dinner drink (or two) - you can enjoy a free food buffet of appetizers, pasta, salads and cold cuts.

The Italian word APERITIVO is derived from the latin word "to open". It has become a popular time in Itali to share a drink & a laugh with friends and "open" your stomach and palate to the dinner that lies ahead.Buon Appetito!

Vladimir L. Jean - Gabriella Di Falco -
Luciano Purpi - Roberto Fedi along with The Corsini Family cordially invites you to experience

"L' A P E R I T I V O"
A true taste of Italy @

iCORSINI
unconventional touch
(Corner Of 6th & Washignton Ave)

EVERY SUNDAY
From 7pm- 11pm

SPONSORED BY : PERONI BEER

All Guest Enjoy
Complimentary Admission & Full Dinner
(DRINKS NOT INCLUDED )

Dinner prepared by Executive Gourmet Chef:
----- BEPPE GALAZZI-----

Valet Parking $10.00
Dress Code :South Beach Trendy

For More Information Or To RSVP (recommended)
Contact your host :

Vladimir L. Jean and Gabriella Di Falco
Call ll Text : 7863036746 or 786 319 3654
Email : aperitivorsvp@gmail.com
www.nitefxent.com

iCORSINI:560 Washington Ave - Miami Beach

Hollywood Beach Latin Festival

Aetna Hollywood Beach Latin Festival celebrates its 16^th Anniversary

Sunday, September 20^th, 2009

New York Street and Hollywood Boardwalk

Free Medical Services

Latin Music and Food

Hollywood, FL---Aetna Hollywood Beach Latin Festival marks the beginning of the Hispanic Heritage month, and this year the festival is focused on fitness! New additions to the festival’s activities include info sessions on various health issues and fun exercises to promote physical health.

With over two million Hispanics now living in South Florida, this year’s festival promises to bring more diversity than ever! Internationally-renowned performers, top local musicians, arts and crafts merchants, and dozens of food vendors will surround almost 2 miles off the main stage located on Garfield Street and Johnson Street on Sunday, September 20^th, 2009 from 11:00 to 7:00 pm.

The continuous entertainment will feature Orquesta Brava, Didier Hernandez y Su Orquesta, Fulanito, Tony Swing, DJ Luandy and many more!

As part of the day-long, health geared celebration, Aetna’s Health Pavilion in partnership with Memorial Health Care System will offer an array of free services for everyone! An Adult Mobile Clinic will have a doctor on site all day available for questions. Free blood pressure screenings and tours of the clinic will also be provided. On board the Adult Mobile Clinic there will be free calendars with the dates that the mobile will be in the community offering free physical exams for anyone that does not have health insurance. Additionally, this year the Aetna Hollywood Beach Latin Festival is bringing a Triple Touch instructor to inform attendees about breast cancer awareness and will teach how to do a breast self exam.

Additionally, people with autism will have access to the UM-NSU CARD, the Autism Center of the University of Miami; its executive director, Dr. Michael Alessandri, stated: “This year UM-NSU CARD staff is here not only providing autism spectrum information to families, but to give them a look inside the New UM-NSU Mobile Autism Family Clinic that will allow us to reach communities that need information and resources. We are proud to be a part of this wonderful community event,"

The festival draws an estimated crowd of 30,000 who attend for free while enjoying the last days of summer at the beach. “This has always been a festival for the family. They come here not only to enjoy the day but to celebrate their heritage and to share their traditions…we are thrilled that this year they’ll have fun while having access to healthcare services,” says festival’s President, Jose “Pepe” Lopez.

Attendees will also be able to enjoy Latin Food from all over the region including Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the United States.

Free Tapas Tuesday

Enjoy Free Tapas Tuesday every Tuesday at Maya's Tapas & Grill on Lincoln Road. This event takes place from 6 to 8pm every Tuesday.
Taste free tapas like bruschetta, chorizo & garbanzo beans, Argentine blood sausage with marinated onions, assorted cold cuts (prosciutto, serrano ham, mortadela, Genoa salami), and a cheese platter with smoked Gouda, Manchego, Brie and Roquefort with toast points and grapes. In terms of drink specials there's $4 sangria, mojitos, wine, and beers like Corona, Peroni, and La Rossa.

Maya Tapas Grill; 809 Lincoln Rd; South Beach; 305.538.0058

Free Yoga, music, and refreshments

Crunch’s Yogapalooza returns! Come out and get your Vinyasa on to the sounds of live performances by local musicians. This unique outdoor traveling event combines a 90 minute Vinyasa yoga workout followed by 30 minute breakout sessions, all set to the sounds of live music for the ultimate exercise experience. Get your sweat on to some groovy tunes and enjoy free refreshments and product samples from our partners Smartwater, Vita Coco, Havaianas, and more!

Free and open to the public. Yoga mats provided.

Saturday, September 19
10am – 1pm (mats down at 10:30am)
Lummus Park, Miami Beach (Ocean Drive & 13th Street)

Free Biking with Friends and Neighbours

Every second Saturday of each month, the Miami Beach Bicycle Center organizes a community group bicycle ride with the help of the Miami Beach Police Department. The ride starts this Saturday at 9:00am at the Miami Beach Bicycle Center. Please arrive on time and bring your helmet and plenty of water. This is a non-competitive, family-friendly event. The ride is free and the pace is a moderate 8-12/mph. For additional information please call Jack or Danny @ (305) 531-4161
Date: Saturday September 12, 2009Time: 9:00amLocation: 601 5th St Miami Beach, FL 33139Cost: Free Fun!

Free Taste of Out in the Tropics

BETTY & More at "A Taste of Out in the Tropics"
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Performing Arts Showcase Sleepless Night at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre, November 7, 2009


Gender-bending, great music, lots of laughs and some powerful takes on history and sexual identity are all part of the upcoming A Taste of Out in the Tropics Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) performing arts showcase. It begins at 10:00 pm and continues on past midnight on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road. A Taste of Out in the Tropics is part of the annual Sleepless Night event, a vibrant free indoor and outdoor cultural festival spread out over multiple locations throughout Miami Beach on the 13-hour night that marks the end of Daylight Savings Time. A Taste of Out in the Tropics is a presentation of Robert Rosenberg/Tropical Wave Productions, in association with FUNDarte and MiamiARTzine.com, with the support of the City of Miami Beach and other funders.
A Taste of Out in the Tropics’ featured performer is the women-led pop-rock group BETTY, whose hilarious and always fresh musical performances and theater work has made them popular worldwide. They are well known for their music for the groundbreaking Showtime lesbian series The L Word, including the racy theme song, as well as their Off-Broadway show BETTY Rules. Lily Tomlin has said they are “so joyously captivating, you’ll ovulate” and Gloria Steinem has commented that they “sing with heart, humor….and attitude.” BETTY will perform a full concert to close the evening.

A great line-up of local GLBT artists will open A Taste of Out in the Tropics with brief sets from 10:00 to 11:30 pm. The M.C. for the night will be Adora, South Florida’s infamous gender illusionist known for his spot-on comedy and lip-synching in both English and Spanish. Juan Carlos Zaldivar will appear in his Martí and I, a mixed-media piece that blends video and live performance. Drag It Out will present their female-to-male “drag king” show that is sure to entertain audience members of all persuasions. And finally, the evening will be rounded out with a performance from an ensemble of the always-popular Miami Gay Men’s Chorus.

A Taste of Out in the Tropics is a preview of what will be South Florida’s first full-fledged gay contemporary performing arts festival, Out in the Tropics, coming to Miami in July 2010. The festival will present award-winning, cutting-edge GLBT performing artists from around the country who address broad gender and social issues, for an extended weekend of shows and other events. “We are so excited to launch this new Out in the Tropics project by participating in Sleepless Night this year, “ says Out in the Tropics Artistic Director Robert Rosenberg. “Our intent is to create a gay and lesbian signature event that can have both a local and national profile while exposing South Florida audiences to new and exciting work that rarely if ever gets presented in the region.”
Admission to A Taste of Out in the Tropics is free, with no reservations required, as is the case for all Sleepless Night events. For more information visit www.fundarte.us and www.sleeplessnight.org or contact robert@tropicalwavemiami.com .Robert Rosenberg, whose Tropical Wave Productions is presenting A Taste of Out in the Tropics, is the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker of the classic gay documentary “Before Stonewall;” was the Founding Director of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; and has worked in many capacities in presenting live performance in South Florida. A Taste of Out in the Tropics is presented in association with FUNDarte, a multidisciplinary non-profit organization dedicated to producing, presenting, and promoting music, theater, dance, film and visual arts that speak to Miami’s diverse cultures, with a special emphasis on artists from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain; and MiamiARTzine.com, a biweekly online magazine that showcases the diverse events and activities of South Florida’s cultural organizations and individual artists. A Taste of Out in the Tropics project and organizational support comes in part from the City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; Glassworks Multimedia; Mega TV; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; and the Southern Arts Federation (SAF) in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council.

WHAT: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender performance showcase featuring BETTY
WHEN: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 10:00 pm
WHERE: Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
TICKETS: Free admission as part of the City of Miami Beach’s Sleepless Night event INFO: Visit www.fundarte.us and www.sleeplessnight.org

Free Art Walk on Lincoln Road

What better way to lift our mood on a muddy, rainy Saturday like today than by feasting our eyes and minds on some beautiful and refreshing art?
The Lincoln Road Art Walk takes place the first Saturday of every month - in other words, today! In addition to The Flying Carpet exhibit in the main gallery, more than 40 local artists in ACSF’s 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road studios, local art spaces and Maya Tapas & Grill in South Beach will open their doors to share photography, painting, installation, video, mixed media, glass works and culinary delights. The amazing Smiling Gums are playing at 9 p.m. as well.

7pm - 10pm
Free

Special hint: print the invite on the picture to the left for free wine and appetizers inside of the galleries!

Free Salsa in South Beach

Any Salsa Lover out there knows that Salsa, while being a very fun and healthy hobby, does not come cheap. Women needs fancy outfits, guys need to take classes, and admission to Salsa events can be anywhere from $10 up. So how about some free Salsa? In South Beach, you can find just that at Texas de Brazil this Friday.
Miami Salsa Driven, Oscar Ochoa's excellent dance school, will be dancing and enjoying great Salsa by Melina this Friday, September 4, at Texas de Brazil on South Beach (300 Alton Rd, above Monty’s)!

Feel like you have 2 left feet? No worry, warm up at the Happy Hour from 7 pm to 9 pm with $5 drink specials (Caipirinhas). You'll be ready to "shake your skeleton" as Cubans say and enjoy the and live Salsa music with dancing at 10 pm. No cover.

Dress to impress.

Free Cooking Classes (tasting included!)

The cooking classes at Williams Sonoma on Lincoln Road are simply the best way to start a Sunday. Pick up a few new recipes, knife skills, cooking techniques (or do you actually know the difference between braising, brining, and basting is?) and mingle with other locals while tasting the delicious outcomes of each Sunday's class. Yep, you get to taste the creations afterwards, so stick around till the end. Class sizes are limited so be on time and even better, sign up with an associate beforehand.
Classes start at 11am and go for about an hour.

See schedule for this Fall below:

Sunday August 30: Crepes & Croques
Sunday September 13: Classic French Techniques: Braising & Sauteeing
Sunday September 20: Bistro Suppers
Sunday September 27: Espresso, Cappuccino, or Coffee
Sunday October 4: Fresh Pasta
Sunday October 11: Knife Skills
Sunday October 18: Fall Baking