Author Michael Lewis appears at left and Dave Barry at right, with the cover of Lewis’s book Blockers centered between them.
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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…

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Circular 2026 Miccosukee Indigenous Film Festival logo featuring a film reel, filmstrip and Miccosukee-inspired geometric designs.
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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…

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Promotional artwork for “Soirée des Arts” showing a dancer in flowing costume beside a large orange circular graphic on a textured blue-gray background.
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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…

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Black-and-white portrait of historian Marvin Dunn smiling with his hand resting beneath his chin.
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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…

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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…

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Promotional graphic showing the gold cover of “Regime Change” beside a portrait of a woman wearing glasses.
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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…

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Book cover for Pérez Prado: King of the Mambo shown beside a portrait of the book’s author against a red-and-tan background.
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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…

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The Burrow pairs ‘La La Land’ with post-film conversation Sept. 9

A screening of La La Land at The Burrow on Wednesday will not end when the credits roll. The Miracle Mile cultural salon is bringing Damien Chazelle’s 2016 musical to…

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A line dancing instructor in the foreground wears a cream cowboy hat and a teal Country Heart t-shirt, arms raised and mouth open mid-call, leading a dance session at an outdoor evening event. String lights glow overhead against a backdrop of lush green trees. A second instructor in an identical outfit and cowboy hat is visible slightly behind and to the left. A crowd of attendees is blurred in the background. The setting suggests a warm outdoor evening at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
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Boots & Blooms brings country music, line dancing back to Fairchild Sept. 12

Country music and line dancing return to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden on Saturday, Sept. 12 as Boots & Blooms comes back for its third edition in less than a year….

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Brian Sippin paints a stylized anatomical heart beside one of his colorful abstract artworks featuring a smartphone-like frame and swirling shapes.
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Coral Gables Gallery Night spans a debut show, Cuban masters and live music Sept. 4

A Books & Books employee will mount his first gallery exhibition, a Coral Gables gallery will mark the centennial of Cuban painter Gina Pellón, and photography from 17 countries will…

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