Portrait of South Korean pianist Saehyun Kim seated in a white shirt against a dark background.
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The pianist who won in Paris at 17 makes his American debut in Coral Gables

By Coral Gables Gazette staff When pianist Saehyun Kim won the 2025 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris just before his 18th birthday, the jury made an unusual decision: it declined to…

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Promotional image for A Mighty Wind featuring Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and other cast members holding folk instruments against a light background.
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Coral Gables Art Cinema to screen ‘A Mighty Wind’ as Catherine O’Hara’s legacy continues to grow

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Christopher Guest’s A Mighty Wind was released as a mockumentary about aging folk singers and forgotten harmonies. More than two decades later, it has become…

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Promotional image featuring the cover of Survivor Legends: The Players Who Changed the Game beside author Shaan Merchant against a green and orange background.
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What ‘Survivor’ reveals about 25 years of American culture

By Coral Gables Gazette staff For 25 years, Americans have watched strangers lie, manipulate, betray allies, reinvent themselves, and compete for survival on a tropical island before a national television…

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Three side-by-side professional headshots. At left, Alexander Fiterstein in a dark suit holding a clarinet against a stone wall backdrop. At center, Nokuthula Ngwenyama in a white dress holding a viola, seated against a warm neutral background. At right, Michael Stephen Brown in a dark blazer and open-collar shirt standing outdoors near the ocean.
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At Friends of Chamber Music finale, the performers also wrote the music

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Friends of Chamber Music of Miami closes its 70th anniversary season with a program built around an increasingly uncommon idea in classical music: performers…

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A promotional image showing author Ada Ferrer on the left — a woman with curly dark hair in a teal blouse — alongside the cover of her book Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter. The book cover features a black-and-white photograph of a woman holding an infant and a young boy, with the title and author name in red and white text on a dark background. A tagline identifies Ferrer as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cuba: An American History.
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Ada Ferrer spent decades writing Cuba’s history. Her new memoir turns inward.

By Coral Gables Gazette staff Ada Ferrer has spent three decades writing about Cuba — its revolutions, migrations, political ruptures, and complicated relationship with the United States. Her latest book…

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A young man in a dark shirt and glasses conducts with a baton in the foreground while approximately two dozen young children in formal school uniforms — white shirts, dark vests, and dark dresses — stand arranged in rows behind him against a draped white backdrop. The children's expressions range from focused to uncertain.
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A Russian teacher filmed what his school became. The result won an Oscar.

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The 2026 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature arrives at the Coral Gables Art Cinema this week with a story that began inside a…

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Robert Longfield stands on a concert stage in a dark tuxedo and bow tie, holding a conductor's baton at his side. He faces the camera with a composed expression. Musicians and a warmly lit stage backdrop are visible behind him.
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Robert Longfield takes his final bow with the Greater Miami Symphonic Band

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Greater Miami Symphonic Band closes its 47th season Sunday with a concert that is equal parts celebration and farewell. Robert Longfield — A Celebration…

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Moroccan Visions brings together more than two dozen works by four artists
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‘Moroccan Visions’ brings four contemporary artists and a century of painting history to the Coral Gables Museum

By Coral Gables Gazette staff The Coral Gables Museum is presenting Moroccan Visions, a program of exhibitions and family workshops developed in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Kingdom…

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Actors Mallory Newbrough and Daniel Llaca perform a tense scene from Dial M for Murder onstage at Actors’ Playhouse, with Newbrough holding a telephone as Llaca stands behind her in a trench coat inside a 1950s-style apartment set.
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In this ‘Dial M’ at Actors’ Playhouse, the danger extends beyond murder

By Coral Gables Gazette staff A man plans the perfect murder. He rehearses the timing, manipulates the evidence, blackmails an old acquaintance into doing the killing, and calculates every movement…

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ive theater artists pose against a green background with a large yellow paper sun. Director Stuart Meltzer sits at left in a blazer with a briefcase. Standing and seated around him, left to right: Jeni Hacker in a lace duster holding a book, Rita Cole in a red leather jacket holding a scone, Jordyn Moone in a white off-shoulder top knitting, and Ryan Didato in a hoodie holding a phone. All are barefoot on a children's alphabet play mat.
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Before COVID, ‘Eureka Day’ was satire. Now it lands differently.

By Coral Gables Gazette staff At a progressive Berkeley private school where every decision is supposed to emerge from consensus, a mumps outbreak turns enlightened conversation into something far messier…

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