Black-and-white still from the 1946 film The Big Sleep showing Humphrey Bogart seated beside Lauren Bacall during a quiet, tense scene.
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Silver Screen Mornings brings film noir classic ‘The Big Sleep’ to Coral Gables Library

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The shadow-soaked world of classic Hollywood returns to Coral Gables this month as the Coral Gables Library continues its Silver Screen Mornings series with a…

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The star that helped sell the city: ‘Million Dollar Mermaid’ returns to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Long before Million Dollar Mermaid became a Hollywood spectacle, its central figure was already part of Coral Gables’ origin story. In 1925, city founder George…

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Event flyer featuring an illustrated portrait announcing a workshop with artist Edel Rodriguez titled A Cuban American Odyssey.
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Illustrator Edel Rodriguez brings memoir of exile and resistance to Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Art that endures rarely separates aesthetics from consequence. It absorbs history, pressure, and lived experience, then returns them to the public sharpened and clarified. The…

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Portrait of author Sam Sussman alongside the cover of his novel Boy from the North Country.
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Bob Dylan, a dying mother and a son’s reckoning: Sam Sussman comes to Books & Books

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Intimate novels sometimes arrive disguised as larger stories. Boy from the North Country, the debut novel by Sam Sussman, carries the gravitational pull of cultural…

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Fireworks explode in the night sky above cupcakes and desserts at a New Year’s Eve celebration at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.
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Biltmore rings in 2026 with dessert soirée and midnight fireworks

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Coral Gables will welcome the New Year in classic fashion as the Biltmore Hotel hosts its New Year’s Eve Dessert Soirée & Fireworks on Wednesday…

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Scene from When Harry Met Sally… showing Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal talking in a park during autumn.
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New Year’s Eve at the movies: ‘When Harry Met Sally’

By Coral Gables Gazette staff As Coral Gables prepares to close out the year, the city’s cultural calendar offers a quieter but no less resonant way to welcome the New…

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A collage-style image showing small portraits of filmmakers above black-and-white scenes, including figures walking near the pyramids, from the film Lumière & Company.
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‘Lumière & Company’ revisits the moment cinema learned to move

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Cinema began not with spectacle, but with astonishment. Light moved. Time appeared to breathe. Lumière & Company returns to that foundational moment and reminds audiences…

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A close-up photograph of a delicate pink orchid in bloom, with several small flowers and buds on a single stem against a softly blurred dark background.
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Fairchild’s holiday plant sale runs through New Year’s Eve

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The most memorable holiday gifts do not arrive shrink-wrapped. They grow. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s annual Holiday Plant Sale reframes seasonal giving as something enduring,…

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A musician in a light-colored cowboy hat plays acoustic guitar at a microphone while a female vocalist sings beside him during a live concert performance.
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‘You Got Gold’ showcases songwriter’s voice—and his people

By Coral Gables Gazette staff John Prine never wrote songs to impress. He wrote them to last. You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine, screening at the Coral Gables…

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A group of young men and women in formal evening attire sit around a dining table set with glassware and wine bottles, their expressions serious as they converse in an elegant, traditional interior.
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‘Metropolitan’ revisits fading blueblood Christmas in Manhattan

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables Art Cinema will present a holiday screening on Christmas Eve that is less about sentiment than social observation. At 4 p.m. Wednesday,…

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