Tag: Things to do in Coral Gables
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mediterranean music meets aerial acrobatics at Sanctuary of the Arts
Aerialists, dancers and musicians will fill a converted Coral Gables church on Tuesday, Sept. 22 as Les Ailes du Désir Foundation returns with a Mediterranean-themed edition of its long-running Soirée…
Rosewood massacre history comes to Coral Gables in two Marvin Dunn documentaries
More than a century after a white mob destroyed the predominantly Black community of Rosewood, Florida, two documentaries by historian Marvin Dunn will bring the town’s history — and physical…
Morel Doucet asks what we carry from home at the Lowe
What do people carry with them when they leave one home for another? That question sits at the center of “Morel Doucet: The Things We Carry,” opening Sept. 24 at…
Haberman brings bestselling Trump book to Coral Gables Congregational Church
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman comes to Coral Gables Saturday to discuss “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” the bestselling account of President Donald…
Author revisits the flamboyant reign of the King of Mambo at Books & Books
Long before Miami Sound Machine and decades before reggaeton, Dámaso Pérez Prado was packing dance floors with blaring brass, pounding percussion and the signature grunts that helped make mambo a…
