Epicure Gourmet Market to open in Coral Gables
Gourmet food lovers in Coral Gables will soon have a new destination to add to the list.Epicure Gourmet Market & Cafe is expanding to Coral Gables. The legenday Miami Beach market will open in...
View ArticleFor some South Floridians, Beaux Arts Festival is a family tradition
Marika Lynch fondly remembers spending time at the annual Beaux Arts Festival as a child.“My mom used to bring me there to do arts projects while she shopped,” she said. “It was always fun. I remember...
View ArticleOffer of $7.6 million to buy Star Island mansion is rebuffed by ‘Miami...
A plastic surgeon and his reality TV star wife want to raze an iconic Star Island mansion. Preservationists want to protect it. And now, an artist living in New York thinks he has a solution: He wants...
View ArticleJazz in the Gables free lunchtime series returns
Jazz in the Gables, a popular lunchtime series on the plaza grounds of the Coral Gables Museum on Salzedo Street, two blocks north of Miracle Mile, returned last week with a performance by saxophonist...
View ArticleCoconut Grove Village Council comes out against trolley project
The Coconut Grove Village Council on Thursday joined the chorus of opposition to a new trolley-bus fueling and maintenance garage now under construction on Douglas Road in the predominantly black West...
View ArticleGables candidates report over $334,000 in donations, loans
Candidates in the Coral Gables City Commission elections raised $124,370 for their campaigns in the final quarter of 2012 for a total of $334,111, according to documents recently filed at the City...
View ArticleYoung exec finds creative ways to support Gables Museum
At 25, Cristina Mas is a young professional who’s already noted for community leadership. The group she founded and now serves as president, the Young Associates, has raised more than $55,000 in less...
View ArticleCoral Gables commissioners and city manager argue over trolley garage
The controversy over building a Coral Gables trolley garage in the West Grove as the result of a land swap with a local developer was not on the Gables’ commission’s first meeting of the year Tuesday....
View ArticleFree UM class offers tips on healthy diet and exercise
Selina Stasi, a public health graduate student at the University of Miami, learned long ago that a healthy diet plus exercise equals a happier life.On Saturday, Stasi and her colleagues of the FOGO...
View ArticleFound: After a week’s absence, missing Gables senior turns up at Publix
Four days after her disappearance alarmed family and friends and triggered a citywide search, Miami police found an 86-year-old retired crossing guard shopping for snacks at a Publix supermarket in...
View ArticleCoral Gables author has the 411 on packing in new book
The suitcase is not your enemy, Susan George insists. Sure, packing and checking bags can be a nightmare. But George, a retired flight attendant, has written a new book, How to Pack (With Style)...
View ArticleMaternity concierge helps expectant parents get ready for new baby
When Lourdes Leon-Vega of Coral Gables got pregnant with her second child, she felt like she was starting over again in a new world. It had been 10 years since the birth of her first daughter,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to address UM community
Sonia Sotomayor learned quickly how to navigate the stairwells of the Bronx housing project in which she was reared in the 1960s — basically, avoid them as often as possible. Because in her...
View ArticleMarian Cline Krutulis, founder of Gulliver Schools, dead at 89
Marian Cline Krutulis, the founder and head of the prestigious Gulliver Schools in Coral Gables, died early Saturday morning. She was 89.Known on campus as “Mrs. K,” Krutulis taught or shaped thousands...
View ArticleMiami-Dade Police dogs, cocaine used in 4th-grade science project
An ounce of cocaine can fetch as much as $1,300 on the streets of Miami, or a three-year mandatory prison sentence in criminal court.Or it can help a fourth-grader win first place in the science fair...
View ArticleGables embraces coinless parking with mobile app
Parking in Coral Gables has entered the 21st century with the PayByPhone parking application, now installed in 4,200 parking spaces.The new system has seen a significant increase in activity since its...
View ArticleCoral Gables Museum hosts exhibit with area galleries
The tradition of local gallery nights, in which art-lovers stroll from one gallery to another and absorb as much culture as possible, began, some say, about 30 years ago in Coral Gables.The regularly...
View ArticleMiami landscape architect Jonathan Seymour dies at 94
It’s safe to say South Florida would have a very different look if Jonathan Seymour had never worked his magic on it.The landscape architect created buildings and outdoor spaces that became some of the...
View ArticleLinking the world since 1993, flags on Ponce flutter again
Twenty years ago, the Flags on Ponce program was unfurled by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce to display a “boulevard of flags” along Ponce de Leon in recognition of the city’s growth as a center...
View ArticleCoral Gables Mayor Jim Cason seeks second, and final, term
Coral Gables’ election cycle is solidifying, with two candidates running for the mayor’s seat and six vying for two open commission seats.Hopefuls have until Feb. 22 to qualify for the April 9...
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