St. patrick’s Day in Coral Gables

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Who knew Coral Gable was so Irish? It’s the place to be for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations Wednesday, March 17.
The big free party is organized by John Martin’s Irish Pub & Restaurant at 253 Miracle Mile. The street fair [...]

Talk on foreclosure prevention

Coral Gables financial expert Dalis Freixa will discuss and sign her book, The American Dream: It’s Not Forgotten, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, at Books & Books in Coral Gables.
Freixa, a mortgage broker and real estate broker, is the founder and chief executive officer of the nonprofit H.E.R.O. Foundation (an organization that offers homeowners [...]

Free Spam AllStars at Bal Harbour

Bal Harbour Shops will offer two free concerts by the Spam Allstars at 5:30 pm. and 7 p.m. on the second level of the shopping center at 9700 Collins Ave. The performances are part of the mall’s weekly Cultural Series of life music.
The music coincides with Books and Books’ “grand(er) opening” celebration for its [...]

Free interview with a vampire (author)

Richelle Mead, author of the best-selling Vampire Academy series, is bringing the Vampire Academy tour to South Florida, by popular demand of fans who voted on her website.
Mead will read from and sign Vampire Academy: Signature Edition (Penguin, $17.99), which includes a sneak preview of the first chapter of Book 5: Spirit Bound, due out in May.
The [...]

New Year’s Day sale at Books & Books

Books and Books is having a New Year’s Day sale, with 25 percent off all inventory at the Coral Gables store from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 1.
The deal excludes special orders, books on hold, newspapers and magazines.
The celebration will include free-flowing champagne and free parking.

Free pirate party with Dave Barry

Writers Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson will celebrate the launch of their new book, Peter and the Sword of Mystery, with a free pirate party starting at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables.
The event, led by the Miami Children’s Museum, will include costumes, contests, crafts and a chocolate fountain [...]

Congolese music, food, film

Books and Books and HEAL Africa are presenting a free evening of Congolese music and food, a silent auction and a screening of the film LUMO: One Woman’s Struggle to Heal in a Nation Beset by War .
The event begins at 7 p.m Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Riviera Theatre, 1560 South Dixie Highway, Coral [...]

Sue Monk Kidd, daughter to speak

Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees, and her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor, will discuss and sign their new book, Traveling with Pomegranates
(Viking, $25.95), at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 at Coral Gables Congregational Church,
3010 De Soto Boulevard (across the street from the Biltmore Hotel), Coral Gables.
The free event is presented [...]

Free food, music, Jewish cooking talk

Books & Books at Bal Harbour, 9700 Collins Ave., is throwing a free party with live music, free food food and some insights into Jewish cooking from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10.
Roz Marks and Andrea Marks Carneiro will speak at 7:15 p.m., sharing all the kitchen secrets your bubbe never taught you with [...]

Free poetry workshop for kids

Books & Books is offering a free poetry workshop for kids at 11 .m. Saturday, Aug. 8.
Elementary school-age kids can learn to write their own poems at a free workshop led by Denise Lanier – poet, poet, writing professor at Broward College and founder of Word Play, a poetry-in-the-schools project.
The workshop will be at Books and [...]