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  • Paris in Miami

    French language filled the air at the Grove’s MDC Tower Theater for the opening of the 7th annual France Cinema Floride, a weeklong celebration of French film.

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  • A Night of Art and Music

    Art is what you feel. You put your watercolor brush to the canvas and see a wash of color. Each stroke makes you more vulnerable. But more importantly, you are expressing yourself. This is the conviction many Watercolor Society artists share when painting. “You’re putting your soul on paper,” says Karon Sew, a contributing artist…

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  • Grovetober Festival

    Grovetober Festival

    Miami held its very own Oktoberfest in the Grove called Grovetoberfest. Beer enthusiasts came to sample beers from across the country and the world. The event featured live music, cooking lessons and an array of food trucks.

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  • Seeds of a Globetrotting Gardener Bloom At The Kampong

    When looking out to the bay from The Kampong, you can see a house, a garden, and the ocean. The house was the first Florida home of Dr. David Fairchild, called the “Columbus of American Horticulture.” The garden on 11 acres is lush with fruit trees, palms and flowering plants. The ocean is fringed with…

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  • St. Alban’s Young Authors

    St. Alban’s Young Authors

    In a colorfully decorated classroom surrounded by smiling faces, Dr. Franklin Sands proudly hands a small book to six young students. “This is the book you produced and you authored,” Sands says. “You’re going to keep on writing great books, right?” This book, called Spider-man Saves The Day, was created last spring by Jayden Knowles,…

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  • Children's Mosiac Mural

    Children’s Mosaic Mural Unveiling

    The Coconut Grove Children’s Mosaic Mural will be unveiled on Friday, October 7 at 3:00 p.m. at the U.S. Post Office at 3191 Grand Avenue, in Coconut Grove. City of Miami Commissioner Marc D. Sarnoff and U.S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are planning to be at the event. The Mosaic Mural community project took more than…

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  • Jazz It Up Festival

    Jazz It Up Festival

    It’s said that music can bring people together — and to Police Officer Beau Leonard, there’s nothing like jazz to bring together a community. At Saturday’s “Jazz It Up” festival at Virrick Park, Leonard’s own Back Street Crab Hole Organization brought together, not only members of the West Grove, but people from all over South…

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  • Artwork by Vizcaya's current CAP artist Naomi Fisher (Courtesy Vizcaya Museum and Gardens)

    Contemporary Arts Reinvigorate Historic Vizcaya

    A seemingly endless vine weaves its way up a manicured trellis. Ice-clear water cascades down a staircase of eroding stone. Beyond the grand gates on South Miami Avenue, a winding driveway leads to Vizcaya, a Renaissance-style villa and national historic landmark.

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  • Call to Artists – Mad Hatter Arts Festival

    Call to Artists – Mad Hatter Arts Festival

    The Mad Hatter Arts Festival returns to celebrate its 7th year in Coconut Grove on October 29 and 30 with another new element: Watch Art Happen. Artists are invited to join in the festivities by painting en plein air on the streets of the historic village of Coconut Grove.

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  • Saving a Piece of Maritime Heritage

    By Nicky Diaz Hidden from the Coconut Grove traffic by a thick mesh of trees is Barnacle Historic State Park, the setting for one of South Florida’s oldest residences. Designed by Commodore Ralph Munroe in the late 1800s, the bayside enclave comprises 10 acres – five of them submerged – where Munroe’s home, boathouse and…

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