Promotional graphic featuring Carlos Gutierrez in a dark suit and glasses beside the red cover of his memoir, "Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path."
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From cereal van to Cabinet, Carlos Gutierrez brings his story to Books & Books

Carlos Gutierrez began his career selling breakfast cereal from a van in Mexico. A quarter-century later, he was running Kellogg, one of the world’s best-known food companies. Before another decade…

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Pianist Mackenzie Melemed smiles while standing in a dark suit and tie in a tree-lined urban plaza with modern buildings behind him.
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Aiming for all 50 states, a pianist brings American music to UM

Pianist Mackenzie Melemed is on a musical journey across America, with an ambitious destination: all 50 states. His instrument is the piano, his repertoire spans nearly two centuries, and his…

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Publicity portrait of Brazilian operatic tenor Thiago Arancam, performing Oct. 17 at Sanctuary of the Arts in Coral Gables.
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Brazilian tenor Thiago Arancam brings opera and Broadway to Sanctuary of the Arts

Brazilian tenor Thiago Arancam has sung on some of the world’s great opera stages, from Milan’s La Scala to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. On Saturday night, he will trade those grand…

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Dr. James K. Bass, artistic director of Seraphic Fire, wearing a black jacket and standing before colorful blue, gold and white stained-glass windows.
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Seraphic Fire opens a new era with James K. Bass at the podium

When an acclaimed choir changes artistic directors after 24 years, its first concert offers a glimpse of the direction ahead. For Seraphic Fire, that glimpse includes Shakespeare’s celebration of music,…

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‘All the President’s Men’ at 50: the Miami link to Watergate

The trail that helped unravel the Watergate scandal ran through Miami, where a local investigator followed bank records to a $25,000 check linking one of the burglars to President Richard…

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Three carved jack-o’-lanterns glowing over water at dusk, evoking the Pumpkin Float event at the Coral Gables Golf & Country Club.
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Coral Gables Halloween 2026: what’s free, what costs and what to book

Pumpkins will take over Ponce Circle Park, jack-o’-lanterns will float in a swimming pool, and the War Memorial Youth Center’s basketball gym will become a haunted house as Coral Gables…

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Author Michael Lewis appears at left and Dave Barry at right, with the cover of Lewis’s book Blockers centered between them.
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Michael Lewis brings his new book on DOGE to Coral Gables Congregational Church

Since Liar’s Poker in 1989, Michael Lewis has made a career of finding the people inside institutions most readers rarely think about, from bond traders and baseball executives to the…

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Promotional poster for Cuba: Música y Memorias featuring OKAN and AfroMore, with four performers pictured against a dark background and text announcing a tribute to Benny Moré.
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From ancestral rhythms to Benny Moré, Coral Gables concert traces Cuba’s musical story

Cuban music has always been a conversation among continents, and a Saturday night program in Coral Gables sets out to follow that conversation from its deepest roots to some of…

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Circular 2026 Miccosukee Indigenous Film Festival logo featuring a film reel, filmstrip and Miccosukee-inspired geometric designs.
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From the Amazon to the Everglades: Indigenous film festival debuts at UM

A Shuar teenager confronting mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Navajo runners retracing a 330-mile forced march, First Nations activists crossing Canada by train and a Miccosukee leader seeking recognition for…

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Sculpture of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry seated beside the Little Prince against a pale blue sky.
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From New York to ‘The Little Prince’: lecture at Coral Gables Museum explores author’s American years

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote “The Little Prince” not in France, but in New York, where the book was first published in both English and French in 1943. That American chapter…

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