Jazz vocalist Laila Biali in a red dress and wide-brimmed red hat holding a vintage-style microphone in front of a large yellow circle.
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Frost School marks 100 years of live music with star-filled season

A century after the University of Miami’s music school opened its doors and presented its first concert, the Frost School of Music is marking the anniversary the way it knows…

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Composite of black-and-white historic street photographs showing storefronts, utility poles, pedestrians and cars along a Miami commercial corridor.
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Coral Gables Museum panel to explore preservation amid displacement

Coral Gables Museum will turn its attention Wednesday to a question confronting historic immigrant neighborhoods across South Florida: how to preserve the people, places and culture that define a community…

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A woman in a long black dress and a young girl in white stand beside a grand piano on a misty beach.
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Sam Neill returns to the screen in 4K restoration of ‘The Piano’ at Coral Gables Art Cinema

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Less than seven weeks after the death of actor Sam Neill, the Coral Gables Art Cinema will bring one of his most acclaimed films back…

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Joe L. Gómez, wearing a dark suit and orange tie, smiles while seated during a public meeting.
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Gomez approved as next Coral Gables city manager

By Coral Gables Gazette staff During Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago’s discussion on why he chose Deputy City Manager José “Joe” Gómez as his pick to be the city’s next…

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EDITORIAL: Coral Gables swore them in. Then acted as if the truth could wait.

By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Before anyone testified about Crystal Residences, Coral Gables required an oath. Raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony…

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A man speaks at a lectern before the Coral Gables City Commission as a presentation reading “Stop The Lies, Save The Garden” appears on a screen behind the dais.
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Crystal Residences wins final approval despite allegations of false testimony

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables commissioners gave final approval Tuesday to the long-debated Crystal Residences development, even after opponents presented videos and witness statements alleging that several project…

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Photograph of the University of Miami campus entrance sign overlaid with six labeled panels. Under the heading "What the university would receive": hospital use, up to 100 beds permitted in the Multi-Use Zone with no conditional-use vote; enrollment, 17,500 becomes a mitigation threshold rather than a cap; development intensity, the 6.8 million square foot cap gives way to a floor area ratio of 1.0; and parking, certain city spaces and their revenue shift to the university. Under the heading "What the city would receive": a park of 5.52 acres conveyed only if the city approves everything on terms the university accepts, and a payment of $1,025,000 in the first year rising 4 percent annually for 30 years.
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Coral Gables Commission advances UM’s 30-year campus deal

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The City Commission voted 4-0 Tuesday to advance the University of Miami’s proposed 30-year development agreement and four related comprehensive-plan and zoning amendments, with Commissioner…

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Illustration of a balance scale with university development, hospital use and enrollment provisions on one side, and Centennial Park and annual payments on the other, with a question mark on the scale’s gauge above a 30-year development agreement.
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EDITORIAL: Coral Gables has not shown its 30-year UM deal is fair

By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The City Commission voted 4-0 Tuesday to advance the University of Miami’s proposed 30-year development agreement, with Commissioner Ariel Fernandez absent. The vote…

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Aerial concept plan for the proposed dog park at 520 University Drive showing large- and small-dog areas, benches, trees, entrance gates and landscape buffers.
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After months of debate over University Drive dog park, city studies alternate site

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Months of public debate over a proposed dog park at 520 University Drive may be headed toward a different location, as Coral Gables staff told…

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Four dogs sit on artificial turf beneath a large tree at Chewy Bark Park, with buildings visible in the background.
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Chewy Bark Park launches monthly ‘Pack Walk’ along The Underline

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Chewy Bark Park, the Coral Gables dog park that opened along The Underline earlier this year, is launching a monthly social walk designed to bring…

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