Image showing Bruce D. Baker beside the cover of Segregation and School Funding: How States Reinforce Inequality and What to Do About It.
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A UM scholar asks why, more than 70 years after Brown, school funding still follows the color line

By Coral Gables Gazette staff More than 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education struck down racial segregation in public schools, American education remains divided by race, income and…

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Six-photo collage featuring performers in the 2026 Community Arts Program Summer Concert Series: Empire Wild with cello and double bass, saxophonist Langston Hughes II, vibraphonist Warren Wolf, vocalist Kate Kortum, pianist Clayton Stephenson seated before a grand piano, and guitarist Leonela Alejandro holding a classical guitar.
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A Coral Gables concert tradition returns for its 41st summer

By Coral Gables Gazette staff There is a particular kind of musical evening that Coral Gables has been quietly producing since 1985 — intimate, unhurried, and built around the idea…

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A close-up detail of Daniel Supervielle’s painting Estados Unidos, showing a dense field of red, white, and blue brushstrokes, multiple American flags, scattered stylized faces, and a hand-painted banner reading “Football es Fútbol,” evoking the movement and energy of a World Cup stadium crowd.
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The World Cup crowd comes to Coral Gables in paint

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The 2026 FIFA World Cup will bring matches to Miami this month and next, and with them the particular phenomenon that has defined the tournament…

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Promotional graphic for a Books & Books Coral Gables author event featuring the cover of An Inconvenient Widow by Lois Romano alongside headshots of Romano and Miami Herald humorist Dave Barry, who will join her in conversation about Mary Todd Lincoln’s contested historical legacy.
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A new biography revisits one of America’s most contested first ladies

By Coral Gables Gazette staff History has been cruel to Mary Todd Lincoln. The received portrait — demanding, erratic, financially reckless, a burden to the president and an embarrassment to…

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Cuban trombonist Julio Montalvo performs onstage at night, playing trombone under warm concert lighting during an outdoor live music performance.
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Fairchild’s Tropical Jazz Night brings Cuban jazz under the stars

By Coral Gables Gazette staff There are concerts designed for concert halls, and there are concerts designed for a warm South Florida night beneath a canopy of palms, with a…

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Stage scene from The Playboy of the Western World showing multiple actors in period Irish costumes gathered around a wooden table, with one woman standing atop it as others react dramatically in a rustic interior set.
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Coral Gables Art Cinema to screen the Irish classic that once sparked riots in Dublin

By Coral Gables Gazette staff When John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World premiered at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in January 1907, it ignited one of the most famous…

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Close-up of a red, white and pink chrysanthemum illustration from an 1893 Japanese wood-block printed book, with black vertical Japanese calligraphy along the right margin.
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University of Miami opens the vault on literary treasures hidden in its Special Collections

By Barbara GutierrezUniversity of Miami The delicate folding book has several understated color photographs that explore themes of memory, nature, and transformation through visual storytelling. Its name is “Once it Bursts…

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Promotional poster for Ballet Classics Under the Stars featuring headshots of pianist Francisco Renno, conductor Gary Sheldon and violinist Mei Mei Luo, with Miami City Ballet dancers Nathalia Arja and Rei Cruz listed as special guest performers.
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Miami City Ballet Orchestra steps out of the pit and onto the stage for three nights in Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff For the entirety of its existence, the Miami City Ballet Orchestra has done its work in the dark — in the pit, beneath the stage,…

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Promotional graphic featuring author Ben Rhodes, moderator L. Felice Gorordo and the cover of All We Say: The Battle for American Identity — A History in 15 Speeches, for a Books & Books event in Coral Gables.
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Rhodes brings America’s contested story to Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Two days after its publication, a newly released work of American political history comes to Coral Gables. Books & Books presents an evening with Ben…

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Publicity portrait from The Thin Man featuring actors William Powell and Myrna Loy posed beside Asta the wire-haired fox terrier.
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‘The Thin Man’ brings wit, martinis and murder to Coral Gables Library

By Coral Gables Gazette staff There is a version of The Thin Man that could be described as a mystery — a retired detective and his wealthy wife are drawn…

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