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Arun Abey -- How Much is Enough? -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:25:28 -0500

Start: Feb 8 2012 - 6:30pm

End: Feb 8 2012 - 6:30pm

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Christine Najac -- Food Lovers' Guide to Miami & Fort Lauderdale -- Bal Harbour Shops

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:18:42 -0500

Start: Feb 8 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 8 2012 - 7:00pm

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Eleanor Brown -- The Weird Sisters -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:39 -0500

Start: Feb 9 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 9 2012 - 7:00pm

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Tim Dorsey -- Pineapple Grenade -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:16:23 -0500

Start: Feb 9 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 9 2012 - 8:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard: Emmet Cohen Trio -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:43:55 -0500

Start: Feb 10 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 10 2012 - 7:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard

Tigertail -- Lenelle Moïse -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:17:08 -0500

Start: Feb 10 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 10 2012 - 8:00pm

Tigertail brings back Lenelle Moïse, a powerhouse poet, theater artist and dynamic speaker. Lenelle Moïse offers interactive performances and workshops that address race, class, feminism, LGBTQ identities, new theater aesthetics, immigration and Haitian-American culture. She creates intimate, fiery, politicized texts about the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, culture and compassion.

Don Van Natta -- Wonder Girl -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:09:56 -0500

Start: Feb 11 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 11 2012 - 7:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:07:10 -0500

Start: Feb 11 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 11 2012 - 8:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard

PJ Library Story Time -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:18:07 -0500

Start: Feb 12 2012 - 10:30am

End: Feb 12 2012 - 10:30am

Candles, Kiddush, challah and more. It’s time to celebrate stories that celebrate Shabbat. Join us for stories, crafts and fun today! The national PJ Library program supports families in their Jewish journey by sending Jewish-content books and music on a monthly basis to children. Presented in collaboration with the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the Gordon Schools of Beth David Congregation.

PJ Library Story Time -- Bal Harbour Shops

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:20:25 -0500

Start: Feb 12 2012 - 12:30pm

End: Feb 12 2012 - 12:30pm

Piano Story Time: Sleeping Beauty -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:18:57 -0500

Start: Feb 12 2012 - 2:00pm

End: Feb 12 2012 - 2:00pm

Share the timeless tale and moving music of Sleeping Beauty at Piano Story Time presented by the Miami Piano Academy. Little ones, as young as 2 years old, will float away with this story and musical accompaniment. Miami Piano Academy is an educational institution offering individual piano classes to adults and children, starting as young as 4 years old.

Reader's Circle Lunch with Patricia Schultz -- 1000 Places to See Before You Die -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:26:39 -0500

Start: Feb 13 2012 - 12:00pm

End: Feb 13 2012 - 12:00pm

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Patricia Schultz -- 1000 Places to See Before You Die -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:19:24 -0500

Start: Feb 13 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 13 2012 - 8:00pm

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Jodi Kantor -- The Obamas -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:22:01 -0500

Start: Feb 14 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 14 2012 - 8:00pm

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Vizcaya Lunch & Learn Series presents the Les Standiford and Last Train to Paradise -- Vizcaya Museum

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:23:11 -0500

Start: Feb 15 2012 - 1:30pm

End: Feb 15 2012 - 1:30pm

The Vizcaya Lunch and Learn Series presents the Centennial Edition of Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford.

In an age where e-publishing has created profound changes in the industry, the commemorative edition of Last Train to Paradise (B&B Press, $60) is a reminder that there are some books that can only be fully experienced and appreciated in physical form.

As artistic director for the Commemorative Edition, published by B&B Press in conjunction with the Flagler Museum of Palm Beach, Petra Mason culled through more than 1,000 photographs in archives up and down the East Coast, including the Library of Congress, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Miami-Dade and Monroe County Libraries and others, finally selecting 154 to illustrate and augment the original text. She then had the unenviable task of choosing just the right formats and placement of the images, many of which have not been published in book form before, to properly support and enhance the reading experience.

Please call 305-856-4866, Ext 111 to RSVP. Seating is limited.

Kristin Hannah -- Home Front -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:24:58 -0500

Start: Feb 15 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 15 2012 - 8:00pm

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Eleni Gage -- Other Waters -- Gables

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:37:44 -0500

Start: Feb 16 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 16 2012 - 8:00pm

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Rina Jakubowicz -- Choose Peace -- Fairchild Gardens

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:21:39 -0500

Start: Feb 17 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 17 2012 - 7:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard: Natalie York -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:44:46 -0500

Start: Feb 17 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 17 2012 - 7:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard.

University of Miami Writers Salon with Peter Selgin -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:41:07 -0500

Start: Feb 17 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 17 2012 - 8:00pm

Abandoned Hat Factories: Setting & Atmosphere in Fiction with Peter Selgin is a reading/discussion with the award-winning author on his newest work, and specifically on the roles of atmosphere and setting in fiction.

The University of Miami sponsored Writers’ Salon will feature Selgin reading from various works, including his yet-to-be-published Pirate’s Alley / Faulkner Society Prize-Winning new novel, The Water Master, set in a dying hat factory town in 1963, as well as from 179 Ways to Save a Novel, his book on the craft of fiction writing.

The reading will be followed by a Q & A with the author moderated by University of Miami MFA in Creative Writing student Benjamin “Benjy” Caplan.

Green Card Stories -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:44:29 -0500

Start: Feb 18 2012 - 5:00pm

End: Feb 18 2012 - 5:00pm

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Matt Kramer -- A Book of Poems from the Smallest of Towns -- Gables

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:11:57 -0500

Start: Feb 18 2012 - 6:00pm

End: Feb 18 2012 - 6:00pm

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Family Matters with Dave Barry and Michelle Kaufman hosted by Mitchell Kaplan -- Shoppes of Mayfair

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:41:29 -0500

Start: Feb 18 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 18 2012 - 7:00pm

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Rachel Simon -- The Story of Beautiful Girl -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:57:47 -0500

Start: Feb 20 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 20 2012 - 8:00pm

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Ruth Vander Zee -- Woman Meets Jesus -- Gables

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:04:11 -0500

Start: Feb 21 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 21 2012 - 8:00pm

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Jean-Vincent Blanchard -- Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France -- Gables

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:09:10 -0500

Start: Feb 22 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 22 2012 - 8:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:46:01 -0500

Start: Feb 24 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 24 2012 - 7:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard

William Gonzalez -- Recuerdos intimos de Cuba -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:49:50 -0500

Start: Feb 24 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 24 2012 - 8:00pm

After many years of seeing his extraordinary Cuban slide shows, Mr. William Gonzalez is now bringing a truly unique treasure trove of his latest acquisitions. Images of a long gone 1940's telephone, a rare seen "dos centavos" coin. Did you ever see the "tranvias" cemetery? Did you ever cross in Miramar the all steel "Puente de Pote"? Or for that matter saw a real Cuban "bodega"? Bet you bought "Guarina" ice-cream from a horse drawn vendor, didn't you? How about a picture of the world famous Cuban sailboat yacht "El Criollo" during the St. Petersburg to Havana race? These and many more of his gems will make this list too extensive. Do not miss this Very Cuban Presentation…shown in his own peculiar way via one of the last Kodak slide projectors, for a real "nostalgia" night with "boleros" music and all.

Alex Flinn -- Bewitching -- Gables

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:20:17 -0500

Start: Feb 25 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Feb 25 2012 - 7:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard: Emmet Cohen Trio -- Gables

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:21:06 -0500

Start: Feb 25 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 25 2012 - 8:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard.

Kim Harrison -- A Perfect Blood -- Gables

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:51:24 -0500

Start: Feb 26 2012 - 6:00pm

End: Feb 26 2012 - 6:00pm

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Rabbi Solomon Schiff -- Under the Yarmulke -- Gables

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:23:53 -0500

Start: Feb 27 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 27 2012 - 8:00pm

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Beyond Boundaries Children's Foundation -- Exclusive Recipes from Claudette’s Kitchen -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:53:30 -0500

Start: Feb 28 2012 - 6:30pm

End: Feb 28 2012 - 6:30pm

Beyond Boundaries Children’s Foundation is delighted to invite you to the launching of its cookbook Exclusive Recipes from Claudette’s Kitchen by Claudette Hawit. Claudette is a renown Honduran chef who is known for donating all her book proceeds to help benefit children. Please stop by to delight yourselves with these amazing recipes and at the same time you will be helping the children of Honduras have a better tomorrow.

Letra Urbana -- Dr. Cristina Bulacio -- Gables

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:52:16 -0500

Start: Feb 28 2012 - 6:30pm

End: Feb 28 2012 - 6:30pm

Note: This event is in Spanish. Alentando el encuentro desde múltiples perspectivas, para explorar cómo los cambios del último milenio, dan forma al hombre y la realidad contemporánea, Letra Urbana junto al Centro Cultural Argentino presenta: ¿Y para qué el arte? con la Dra. Cristina Bulacio. La condición humana conlleva tres factores que marcan su perfil: la caducidad de la existencia, sólo un margen de libertad y, también una poderosa imaginación; a ellos se debe la imperiosa necesidad de trascender más allá de sus propios límites. En ese movimiento de salir de sí mismo los hombres han buscado sostén, tradicionalmente, en los sentidos que albergan el arte y la religión, más que el saber que da la ciencia. Sin arte y sin religión una sociedad languidece y muere. Nos preguntamos por qué. No hablamos de los mercados actuales de arte ni de obras de arte como mercancías; hablamos de la obra de arte como autorreferente y del verdadero hacedor, el artista anónimo y creativo, que se juega el sentido de la vida en cada obra. En tiempos de violencia y exclusión, de tecnología y utilitarismo, donde la eficiencia es un valor supremo, nos preguntamos ¿por qué el hombre sigue haciendo arte?

Leila Cobo -- The Second Time We Met -- Gables

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:29:41 -0500

Start: Feb 29 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Feb 29 2012 - 8:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard: Negroni Trio -- Gables

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:17:41 -0500

Start: Mar 2 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 2 2012 - 7:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard.

Coral Gables Gallery Night -- Diego Quiroz -- Gables

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:16:40 -0500

Start: Mar 2 2012 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 2 2012 - 7:00pm

Join us for Coral Gables Gallery Night.

Les Standiford and Joe Matthews -- Bringing Adam Home -- Gables

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:04:55 -0400

Start: Mar 2 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 2 2012 - 8:00pm

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Live Music in the Courtyard -- Gables

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:18:30 -0500

Start: Mar 3 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 3 2012 - 8:00pm

Join us for live music in the courtyard

Ace Abbott -- The Rogue Aviator: In the Back Alleys of Aviation-- Gables

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:14:28 -0500

Start: Mar 5 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 5 2012 - 8:00pm

Ace Abbott's book, the recently released 3rd edition of The Rogue Aviator, will put you in the cockpit of the F-4 Phantom for exhilarating Mach 2 test flights and pulse-racing, treetop-level formation flights. Ace's Learjet charter stories will take you to five-star hotels and restaurants in Paris, jails in Venezuela, and greasy, noisy, air cargo ramps. The final journey encompasses a 22-year adventure as a Boeing 727 Captain with nearly a dozen different airlines during the unstable years of airline post-deregulation (1978 to present).

This insider's perspective of a professional pilot's exposure to the "back alleys" of commercial aviation will reveal a roller-coaster-like ride that is both entertaining and informative. Ace's unstable career results in numerous oscillations between the aviation penthouse and the aviation outhouse. The myth of under-worked and over-paid pilots will be debunked. Spiced with humor, The Rogue Aviator is complemented with occasional sketches of pathos and poignancy. Captain Abbott's story also contains a smattering of decadence and debauchery.
Fasten your seat belt and hang on!

Jen Lancaster -- If You Were Here -- Gables

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:23:32 -0500

Start: Mar 6 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 6 2012 - 8:00pm

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Bill Press -- The Obama Hate Machine -- Gables

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:26:26 -0500

Start: Mar 7 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 7 2012 - 8:00pm

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Jamal Joseph -- Panther Baby -- Gables

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:29:28 -0500

Start: Mar 8 2012 - 8:00pm

End: Mar 8 2012 - 8:00pm

In Panther Baby (Algonquin, $23.95) with raw, powerful prose, Jamal Joseph helps readers understand what it meant to be a soldier inside the militant Black Panther movement. He recounts a harrowing, sometimes deadly imprisonment as he charts his path to manhood in a book filled with equal parts rage, despair, and hope.