Four men in mismatched military costumes stand in a row, each saluting with one hand. From left: a man in a blue military jacket with gold buttons, a man in a tan shirt with gold-braided epaulettes, a man in a white undershirt wearing a small helmet, and a man in a yellow vest wearing round glasses and a false mustache. The background suggests a theatrical or battlefield setting with soft, colorful tones.
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‘Duck Soup’: Coral Gables Library screens the Marx Brothers’ masterwork on April Fool’s Day

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Picture four brothers dressed as soldiers, fighting a war that no one can quite remember starting, in a country whose name — Freedonia, Land of…

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Group of contemporary dancers in white costumes leaping with arms raised on a stage lit in blue and purple tones.
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New dance program in Coral Gables puts gender and identity in motion

A new program at the Sanctuary of the Arts on Saturday night turns to one of dance’s most enduring questions: how the body carries identity, memory, and meaning. The Peter…

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Painting by Georgia O’Keeffe showing a stylized animal skull held by hands with a pale flower against a blue sky background.
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Georgia O’Keeffe documentary brings the artist’s life — and mythology — into focus at Coral Gables Art Cinema

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A painter of flowers, bones, and desert horizons, Georgia O’Keeffe built a body of work that reshaped American art. A new documentary screening at the…

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Composite image showing Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, the cover of his book The Dark Side of the Earth, and University of Miami scholar Aaron Rosen.
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Russian journalist sentenced to prison will speak at Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff In July 2024, a Moscow court sentenced Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison for disseminating what Russia called “fake news” about…

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A brightly colored sawdust carpet featuring intricate geometric and floral patterns is arranged on the ground, bordered by rows of green fruit and other natural materials.
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An art form made to be destroyed comes to the Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Imagine spending days placing colored sawdust, flower petals, pine needles, and fruit on the ground, spoonful by careful spoonful, building a work of art so…

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Five musicians perform with acoustic instruments, including banjo, mandolin, guitar, and upright bass, standing by the water at sunset with a female vocalist in the foreground.
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A college band went viral playing Bieber on a banjo. Now they’re closing out Music at McBride Plaza

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Picture five college students on Miracle Mile on a Thursday evening, the sun going down behind the buildings, a banjo and a mandolin and a…

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Two characters stand in an elegant Paris apartment, with the man looking upward and the woman facing forward, reflecting the film’s themes of class and social division.
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A Paris apartment — and the lives hidden above it — come to the University of Miami

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The apartment is large, elegant, and immaculate. The egg must be cooked exactly three and a half minutes. The wife moves through a world of…

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Families are invited to spend a meaningful, art-filled Saturday at the next Family Day on Aragon, returning August 9 to downtown Coral Gables with a full slate of creative and community-minded programming.
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The painter who changed Florida brings his story to Family Day on Aragon

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Somewhere in the galleries of the Coral Gables Museum this Saturday, a child will stop in front of a painting of the Everglades — the…

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Black-and-white portrait of conductor Arianne Abela shown from the shoulders up against a solid black background. She holds a conductor's baton in her right hand and extends her left hand open, mid-gesture, with an expression of focused intensity. She wears a patterned sleeveless top, drop earrings, and a delicate pendant necklace.
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Seraphic Fire brings its annual candlelight concert to St. Philip’s Episcopal Church

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The candles go down one at a time. The church fills with a particular kind of silence — not the silence before music begins, but…

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A black-and-white film still from "I Vitelloni" showing a man in a carnival costume drinking directly from a large bottle amid a crowd of revelers. Confetti, streamers, and festive decorations fill the frame, and other costumed figures are visible in the background.
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Before ‘La Dolce Vita,’ Fellini made this — and the Bill Cosford Cinema is screening it Sunday

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Five young men in a small Italian coastal town. One has just gotten a girl pregnant and must marry her. One is perpetually, cheerfully unemployed….

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