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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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  • Young Groveites Reading List: December Highlights

    Young Groveites Reading List: December Highlights

    My Penguin Osbert By Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, illustrated by H.B. Lewis Sometimes Santa takes your Christmas wishes very seriously. So it is important to be careful what you wish for this Christmas, because it just might come true! This is a lesson Joe learns as he writes a personal letter to Santa asking for a…

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  • Toya Johnson (center) who runs Barberdoll’s Community Barbershop, is one of the Grand Avenue business leaders selling the $1 chocolate bars for the renovation of the Mariah Brown House. Toya Johnson is with Ms. JoAnne Sams and Nathan Lightburn.

    West Grove shops selling chocolate to help renovate Mariah Brown House

    A dollar’s worth of chocolate will help preserve West Grove’s history: A candy drive was started to help renovate the Mariah Brown House on Charles Avenue. The Friends and Family of Mariah Brown’s House and Museum want to preserve the house to showcase the rich Bahamian and African American history of Coconut Grove. Friends’ member…

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  • Art for a cause: Grove event to raise money Sunday for gay film festival

    The Rodezart.com gallery in Coconut Grove wants to encourage the Art Basel crowd to attend an art fundraiser for the Gay and Lesbian Miami Film Festival on Sunday, Dec. 5. The fundraising event will be the last night of Art Basel. It will begin with the film screening of A Dark and Handsome Stranger, about…

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  • Miami Book Fair shines with many famous black authors

    Miami Book Fair shines with many famous black authors

    Black authors, including popular novelist Walter Mosley, Miami-based Haitian author Edwidge Danticat and Pulitzer Prize journalist Eugene Robinson will be appearing at the upcoming Miami Book Fair International. Celebrating its 27th anniversary, the fair begins Sunday, Nov. 14 and goes through Nov. 21 at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami. Fort Lauderdale…

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  • Rob Collins takes on the leading role as Michael Jackson for the second year at the Miami performance of Thrill the World in CocoWalk.

    Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in the Grove — for a cause

    As the clock struck 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, the rocking began with 25 men, women, and children performing Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller” dance. The Miami dancers came together as part of the Thrill the World project, a global venture committed to setting a world record for the largest number of people simultaneously performing a…

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  • “A Night of Song” raises more than $2K for the Mariah Brown House

    The Friends and Family of Mariah Brown’s House and Museum, in partnership with the Coconut Grove Ministerial Alliance, raised more than $2,000 during “A Night of Song” – the first fundraiser geared toward earning donations to make the historic house into a museum. The event was organized by Renita Ross Samuels-Dixon, director and founder of…

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  • Dancers from the Coconut Grove Ballet dance center perform a modern contemporary number during the monthly event featuring Artway 66, an art gallery located in the Mayfair Promenade of Coconut Grove, Miami, FL. Owner Johnny Valdes has invited the girls to perform at previous events in an effort to help their studio gain local recognition. Photo by Brittney Bomnin

    Strolling for art

    Bright yellow signs welcomed visitors to the art galleries on the Mayfair Promenade in Coconut Grove on Saturday for the monthly Art Stroll. The main event: The opening of Artway 66, a gallery fashioned as a modern artist’s loft, which showcased the work of Proman Garcia, Marlenes Gasiba, Kurt Merkel, Arien Lopez, Haydee Pichardo, Rolando…

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  • Renowned funambulist Will Scott juggles on slack rope. Photo by Ashley Chase

    ‘Cirque du Grove’ offers free fun for the Fourth

    Will Soto takes a deep breath and perfects his footing trying not to look down at the dozens of people who watch him as he balances a slack rope and the 7 feet of air below his feet. The energetic wire walker from Key West has been mesmerizing crowds from the Caribbean to Europe with…

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