White La La Land title lettering on a black background.
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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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Promotional graphic for The Disappearers showing the book cover beside a portrait of Marlon James, with a smaller inset portrait of Kei Miller.
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Booker Prize winner Marlon James brings ‘The Disappearers’ to Coral Gables Congregational Church

Booker Prize winner Marlon James comes to Coral Gables on Saturday with a novel already drawing some of the strongest notices of his career — and one rooted in the…

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A man and woman in period clothing and straw hats pose together against a painted Paris street backdrop in a scene from An American in Paris.
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Coral Gables to screen ‘An American in Paris’ free for residents Sept. 5

Coral Gables residents can spend Saturday morning in postwar Paris — at no charge. The city’s Adult Activity Center will present the 1951 musical An American in Paris at the…

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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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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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