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December Newsletter
Vol. 5 No. 23
Welcome to December!
Season is upon us with all the holiday festivities. We hope you are enjoying our extensive event calendar tracking all the events until June of next year.
Ready for Basel?
Its finally arrived. The Super Bowl of art in South Florida.
If you have never been, get out and explore what Basel and all the satellite fairs have to offer.
Warm Regards,
Miguel Pena
President
Southern Florida Concierge Association
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EVENTS
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Santa's Enchanted Forest
DEC 1-31
Tropical Park
7900 SW 40th St
Miami, FL 33155
The largest holiday theme park in the world, Santa's Enchanted Forest is happening at Tropical Park. Enjoy carnival rides, shows, games, a 92-foot tall Christmas tree and more than three million Christmas lights. Ride the ferris wheel, race speedy cars, or risk it all on the "Mega Drop." Single day and season passes are available. The park is open until the beginning of January.
http://www.santasenchantedforest.com/
Deering Holiday Wonderland
DEC 1-31
Deering Estate
16701 SW 72nd Ave
Miami, FL 33157
Tour the elegant and historic Deering Estate located on the edge of Biscayne Bay when it's festively decorated for the holidays and decked out in beautiful Christmas lights. Highlights include story time and photos with Santa Claus as well as the Holiday Bay Cruise. Admission is $12 for adults and $7 for children ages 4 to 14. Special events like the Holiday Bay Cruise are $35 per person.
http://www.deeringestate.org/holiday-season/
Art Basel
DEC 7-10
Various Locations
Miami, FL
Pinecrest Gardens Nights of Lights 
DEC 15-31
Pinecrest Gardens
Pinecrest, FL
Pinecrest Gardens
transforms into a holiday wonderland illuminated by thousands of spectacular and sparkling holiday lights. The event presented by Live Like Bella, a foundation for childhood cancer, features pictures with Santa, midway rides, Christmas music, pony rides and Banyan Bowl performances on select dates featuring story tellers, the Nutcracker ballet and more.
https://www.pinecrestgardens.org/gardens-home
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SPORTS
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Miami Dolphins
vs. New England
DEC 11: 8:30PM
Hard Rock Stadium
347 Don Shula Drive
Miami Gardens, FL 33056
Miami Heat 
vs. Portland
DEC 13: 7:30PM
vs. LA
DEC 16: 8:00PM
American Airlines Arena
601 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
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ARTS & CONCERTS
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Winter Shorts 2017
DEC 7-23
Adrienne Arsht PAC
Miami, FL
Get in the spirit of the holidays with City Theatre's brand new Winter Shorts! This festive version of Summer Shorts: America's Short Play Festival features a jolly program of short plays and musicals! Treat yourself, your friends and family to an evening of theater filled with hilarity, both naughty and nice. Penned by the country's best playwrights and performed by a company of South Florida theater all-stars, City Theatre's Winter Shorts will sparkle this holiday season!
Miami City Ballet: The Nutcracker
DEC 15-24
Adrienne Arsht PAC
Miami, FL
New Production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker! The holiday tradition you love will become even more magical, with an all-new production by Cuban-American artistic power couple, Isabel and Ruben Toledo.
Concerts in South Florida
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FEATURED RESTAURANTS
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1-800 LUCKY
Wynwood, Miami, FL
[email protected]
1-800-Lucky, an Asian-themed marketplace set to open this month, will offer seven food vendors from around the country, a karaoke bar, and a small theater in a 10,000 square-foot space - all disguised as a record shop and convenience store.
Three
50 NW 24th Street, Miami, FL
305-748-4550
Three will be helmed by esteemed James Beard award winning chef Norman Van Aken. A 100 seat restaurant focused on New World Cuisine.
Soul Tavern
1801 West Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
305-925-0799
Nourishment takes many forms. We are fed through laughs, nurturing environments, human contact, passionate work, rest, art, community, and food. Traditionally, a tavern was a place we went for all these things. It was a community cornerstone for locals and visitors. Soul Tavern is resurrecting the tavern as it was a century ago-with soul-for the soul.
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FABULOUS 5
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Wild Lime Adventures
Led by two former university professors, one of which a Florida Master Naturalist Instructor, Wild Lime Adventures is an eco-tour and cultural tour company, providing round-trip day-tours in South Florida.
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COOL APPS
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ACTually!
A fun app that lets you act out scenes with friends. Each "actor" gets a line and time limit. They need to record their best reading with their phone and send out their scenes. When everyone is ready, the app stitches the clips together and makes all the takes play together in a coherent scene!
Patch: Smart Portrait Editor 
A way to mimic the iPhone 8 portrait mode, without an iPhone 8. Patch is great for automagically creating the background blur, no matter what the object is (it doesn't have to be a face). It pretty much never gets it exactly right, but you can mask out the parts that you do or don't want blurred after it automatically applies the effect.
Temi 
A speech-to-text engine that transcribes spoken word fairly well and lets you edit the text afterwards. You can open the transcript on a mobile device or even on PC via a web version and navigating around it is easy, as the text is synced to the original audio.
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WALL OF FAME
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The Miami Beach EDITION
Jessica, the concierge, was amazing at helping us choose the city's best Farm to Table restaurants who could handle some food allergies that I have.
FAENA
Rosa, at the concierge desk, a total asset. She got us a reservation at a restaurant totally booked for days.
1 Hotel
Keston, the concierge, saved our vacation last time. American airlines lost my bags and weren't being receptive and were very hard to get in touch with. He saw I had a dilemma and offered to help. I looked at him like " good luck ", not expecting him to get anywhere . within minutes he had them on the phone and the problem was resolved .
The Setai
Ask everything to Maïte, the Clef d'Or Chef Concierge and she will find the hidden jewels of the City for you.
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