Tag: Coral Gables events
From medieval cooking to barbecue fame, Steven Raichlen brings memoir to Books & Books
Steven Raichlen went to Europe to study what people ate in the Middle Ages. He emerged with the beginnings of a career that would eventually take him around the world…
Morocco Days brings crafts, food and trade to Ponce Circle Park
A Moroccan souk is coming to the heart of Coral Gables this weekend, bringing traditional crafts, contemporary design, food and business connections to Ponce Circle Park for two days. Morocco…
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…
Little-person wrestling dropped from Day of the Dead festival after board objections
Little-person wrestlers have been dropped from a Lucha Libre exhibition planned for Coral Gables’ Oct. 31 Day of the Dead celebration, according to sources close to the city, hours after…
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…
Paws in the Pool draws hundreds of dogs to Venetian Pool
The Venetian Pool welcomed hundreds of dogs Sunday, and many dressed for the occasion. Life vests in orange, turquoise and pink camouflage bobbed across the water. One black dog wore…
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…
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…
From ‘Godspell’ to ‘SNL’: documentary traces how a Toronto cast shaped comedy
Before Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Gilda Radner became comedy fixtures, they shared a stage in Toronto in a 1972 production of “Godspell.” A new documentary argues that the 14-month…
The humor of concrete comes to Coral Gables Art Cinema
“The History of Concrete” opens Friday at the Coral Gables Art Cinema for an eight-screening run through Thursday, Oct. 8, with six performances followed by a prerecorded conversation between director…
