Tag: Things to do in Coral Gables
When the factory became magic: Disneyland’s automation story comes to Books & Books
By Coral Gables Gazette staff When Disneyland in California opened in 1955, it did more than introduce America to Sleeping Beauty Castle, riverboats, jungle cruises and a new kind of…
No actors, no plot, no sets: Soviet montage landmark screens at Gables Library
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Before the lights went down on “Man with a Movie Camera” in 1929, the audience received a warning. A title card announced that what followed…
‘Moonlight’ at 10: Coral Gables Art Cinema to show a Miami masterpiece
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney grew up a few blocks apart in the same Liberty City housing project, a low-slung public-housing complex that residents…
Fairchild Mango Festival returns with rare varieties, chef brunch and new fruit club
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Mango Festival has always been more than a tasting table. In its 32nd year, the June 13 and 14 festival adds…
From Warsaw to Coral Gables, Chopin laureates and jazz converge at Frost festival
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Forty-five years separate the Warsaw breakthroughs of the two pianists at the center of the 7th Frost Chopin Academy & Festival at the University of…
Original Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls star in Coral Gables Library celebration
By Coral Gables Gazette staff The most improbable fact about the original Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls is not that they still exist. It is that they have spent the…
Bach, Beatles and two cellos open Community Arts Program summer series
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Ken Kubota treats the cello like something less fixed than tradition suggests: part guitar, part rhythm section, part singing voice. His partner Mitchell Lyon approaches…
From bartender to food historian, Bobby Hicks brings retro recipes home to Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff Bobby Hicks has a theory about why Americans keep reaching for the dishes their grandparents made. It is not sentimentality exactly, he has said, and…
From Bach to the Beatles, Boyd Meets Girl brings cello-guitar chemistry to Coral Gables
By Coral Gables Gazette staff The cello and the classical guitar do not, on paper, seem like obvious partners. One sustains and sings; the other speaks in plucked, decaying notes…
June’s Gallery Night brings couture, a mural anyone can help create and live music
By Coral Gables Gazette staff On the first Friday of every month, the galleries and cultural venues of downtown Coral Gables stay open late, the trolleys run between them, and…
