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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Promotional graphic showing the cover of Ken Salazar’s memoir “Borderlands,” alongside portraits of Maria Elena Salinas and Salazar wearing a white cowboy hat.
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Ken Salazar discusses new memoir “Borderlands” with Maria Elena Salinas at Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Former U.S. Sen. and Ambassador Ken Salazar, whose career has taken him from a family ranch in Colorado to the U.S. Senate, a presidential Cabinet…

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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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Black-and-white portrait of César Orozco seated at a piano, wearing a patterned shirt and looking off to the side.
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Latin Grammy winner César Orozco brings Cuban son and jazz to The Burrow

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Latin Grammy-winning pianist and vocalist César Orozco will bring the Cuban son tradition that shaped him, reworked through timba and modern jazz, to Miracle Mile…

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Composite image showing actors Hugo Diego García and Ester Expósito in a scene from “Drawn Together,” author Mercedes Ron, and the cover of the English-language edition of her novel “Drawn Together.”
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Before it streams, ‘Drawn Together’ screening/book signing brings Mercedes Ron and stars to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Before “Drawn Together” reaches Prime Video viewers around the world, Coral Gables audiences will get an early look at the romantic thriller alongside the author…

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Abstract animated image of Mount Fuji outlined above red hills and geometric shapes from Robert Breer’s 1974 short film “Fuji.”
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National Film Registry selection anchors ‘Journeys in Motion’ at Coral Gables library

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A train ride past Mount Fuji, an animated rendering of Homer’s “Odyssey” and a meditation on discovery will share the screen Wednesday at the Coral…

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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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Black-and-white image of a drummer at a drum kit with an inset color portrait of a smiling woman and the words “Celebrated Vocalist Tanya Maria.”
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Latin Grammy-nominated drummer Nomar Negroni leads a night of jazz standards

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Nomar Negroni has spent more than two decades behind the drum kit alongside his father in one of Puerto Rico’s better-known Latin jazz ensembles. On…

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Man wearing an embroidered vest holds a violin in front of a stylized sunset scene with an ornate caravan in the background.
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Youth orchestra with El Sistema roots brings Klezmer and flamenco to Woman’s Club

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A Miami youth orchestra led by a musician whose own training reaches back to the beginnings of Venezuela’s famed El Sistema will bring Klezmer and…

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