Aqua Foundation for Women to honor allies including Cristina Saralegui, NAACP
South Floridas largest lesbian organization on Thursday will honor its allies: Cristina Saralegui, the straight Cuban-American television talk-show host; the NAACP; and a gay male couple who have been...
View ArticleDr. Walter A. Scott, AIDS researcher, dies following stroke
Nearly 70, Dr. Walter A. Scott, a University of Miami biochemistry and molecular biology professor, wasn’t thinking about retiring.“The lab was his life,’’ said Dr. Gwendolyn Scott, his wife of 42...
View ArticleGables Community Foundation installs new leadership
The Coral Gables Community Foundation’s annual installation of officers and directors was held recently at Seasons 52.Carlos F. Garcia, CPA, began his two-year term as chair with a board retreat prior...
View ArticleCoral Gables restores Miracle Theatre and talks trolleys
Leona Cooper still lives across the street from where her late husband was born, 84 years ago, in the 200 block of Washington Avenue, in Coral Gables, she proudly told city commissioners Tuesday...
View ArticleSquatters living in million-dollar home in Coral Gables?
For the last six months, Robert Ramos, his wife Ana Alvarez, and her grown son, Jonathan, and a menacing American Bulldog have been living in a million-dollar house in a swanky section of Coral Gables...
View ArticlePolice are investigating possible fraud in squatters’ case in Coral Gables
Police are investigating whether a family allegedly squatting in a million-dollar Coral Gables house forged a lease they turned over to city officials Wednesday.Meanwhile, the owners of the rambling...
View ArticleMan wanted in California murder arrested in Coral Gables
A man charged with murder in Riverside County, Calif., was arrested Wednesday in Coral Gables, the FBI said.Edgar Alvarez, 33, was wanted in the fatal shooting in 2006 of Emeon Hernandez at a...
View ArticleAir-charter ‘queen’ finds arranging trips to Cuba is risky business
For Vivian Mannerud, president of one of the oldest Cuba travel companies in Miami, the past two years could be described as the agony and the ecstasy.Scene one: Her company, Airline Brokers, organizes...
View ArticleWife of former Heat star is arrested on DUI charge
The wife of former Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning was arrested early Friday and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol by Miami-Dade police near Old Cutler Road and San Servando...
View ArticleNFL player’s gift leads to makeover for Gables High athletic facilities
Coral Gables Senior High School has finished major renovations to its indoor athletic facilities despite a lack of public funding, thanks to alumni and community donations.Although Miami-Dade voters in...
View ArticleCoral Gables upholds historic designation for Alfred Browning Parker home
The home at 2 Casuarina Concourse in Gables Estates, aka the Landon House, designed by the prominent architect Alfred Browning Parker, has received a temporary stay from the wrecking ball.The city...
View ArticleMoving on out: Baby boomers’ housing choices vary in retirement
There was a time when retirement meant a move to a community where all your neighbors belonged to the same generation: Old. No more. As baby boomers begin to retire, theyre going their own way or...
View ArticleChopin-prize award winner will perform classical music in South Florida
Taiwanese pianist Yi-Yang Chen will perform two classical music performances in Miami-Dade and Broward in February.The performances, called “Chopin for All,” will be 3 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Broward...
View ArticleFlautist left Cuba behind to pursue his music
Ernesto Fernandez performed his final master’s flute recital at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music on a recent Friday evening.“I’ve been practicing the music for half a year now,” said the...
View ArticleCoral Gables Museum offers walking tours of downtown
Celita Lamar remembers when horses from the long-gone riding academy roamed the streets of Coeal Gables, when the city’s first car dealership became an oyster house, and when a couple purchased the...
View ArticleGables squatters begin packing up to move out
Damian Echauri finally got the keys to his million-dollar Coral Gables house Wednesday after police ordered a family of squatters to leave. Inside the five-bedroom home at 601 Sunset Dr., he found...
View ArticleGables High PTSA hosts second annual Career Fair
The Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) of Coral Gables Senior High School hosted its second annual Career Fair in the school gymnasium on Thursday, Feb. 7.The Career Fair offered students who...
View ArticleBring the kids: ‘Cinderella’ playing at Miracle Theatre
Combine a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, a magical fairy godmother, a king, a charming prince and a pair of glass slippers and you have the recipe for a lively, musical retelling of...
View ArticleChopin-prize award winner will perform classical music in South Florida
Taiwanese pianist Yi-Yang Chen will perform two classical music performances in Miami-Dade and Broward in February.The performances, called “Chopin for All,” will be 3 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Broward...
View ArticleAndrew Hertz installed as Orange Bowl Committee president & chair
Andrew Hertz, president and general manager of Miami Seaquarium, was installed recently as the Orange Bowl Committee’s new president and chair during a reception at the Riviera Country Club in Coral...
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