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The star that helped sell the city: ‘Million Dollar Mermaid’ returns to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Long before Million Dollar Mermaid became a Hollywood spectacle, its central figure was already part of Coral Gables’ origin story. In 1925, city founder George…

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Scene from When Harry Met Sally… showing Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal talking in a park during autumn.
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New Year’s Eve at the movies: ‘When Harry Met Sally’

By Coral Gables Gazette staff As Coral Gables prepares to close out the year, the city’s cultural calendar offers a quieter but no less resonant way to welcome the New…

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A collage-style image showing small portraits of filmmakers above black-and-white scenes, including figures walking near the pyramids, from the film Lumière & Company.
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‘Lumière & Company’ revisits the moment cinema learned to move

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Cinema began not with spectacle, but with astonishment. Light moved. Time appeared to breathe. Lumière & Company returns to that foundational moment and reminds audiences…

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A musician in a light-colored cowboy hat plays acoustic guitar at a microphone while a female vocalist sings beside him during a live concert performance.
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‘You Got Gold’ showcases songwriter’s voice—and his people

By Coral Gables Gazette staff John Prine never wrote songs to impress. He wrote them to last. You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine, screening at the Coral Gables…

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A group of young men and women in formal evening attire sit around a dining table set with glassware and wine bottles, their expressions serious as they converse in an elegant, traditional interior.
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‘Metropolitan’ revisits fading blueblood Christmas in Manhattan

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables Art Cinema will present a holiday screening on Christmas Eve that is less about sentiment than social observation. At 4 p.m. Wednesday,…

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A bearded man in a white short-sleeve shirt speaks on a red public telephone inside a curved yellow booth, with weathered political posters visible on the wall behind him
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Brazilian thriller ‘The Secret Agent’ brings Carnival-era tension to the screen

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables Art Cinema will present a first-run engagement of The Secret Agent, bringing a politically charged Brazilian thriller to the screen from Thursday,…

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Two women in period costumes sit facing one another on a bench in a theatrical set, engaged in a tense conversation during a National Theatre Live performance of Mrs. Warren’s Profession.
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Coral Gables Art Cinema to screen National Theatre Live’s ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables Art Cinema will present a new National Theatre Live production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession from Friday, Dec. 19 through Sunday, Dec. 21, offering…

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Man smiling next to three animatronic Hitchhiking Ghost figures from Disney’s Haunted Mansion, featured in the documentary Stolen Kingdom about theft and park subcultures.
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‘Stolen Kingdom’: Inside the underground world of Disney theft

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables Art Cinema will welcome audiences into one of the strangest corners of Florida lore on Thursday, December 11, when director Joshua Bailey appears…

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Close-up promotional image of actors Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman staring intensely at each other in a scene from The Fifth Step, the National Theatre Live production coming to Coral Gables Art Cinema.
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National Theatre Live’s ‘The Fifth Step’ brings dark humor, raw vulnerability to Coral Gables Art Cinema

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables Art Cinema will close Thanksgiving weekend with a production designed to challenge, provoke, and stir audiences long after they leave Aragon Avenue. From…

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Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal stand close together in a moss-covered forest, dressed in period clothing, facing each other in an emotionally charged moment from Hamnet.
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‘Hamnet’ reimagines turning point that shaped Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables Art Cinema marks Thanksgiving night with one of the season’s most anticipated literary adaptations when Hamnet, directed by Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao,…

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