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      <title>'An exciting new chapter' for Miami City Ballet</title>
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      <description>MCB's season-opening "American Rhythms" program features works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Patricia Delgado.</description>
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      <description>A new ballet is bringing together choreographer Patricia Delgado and musician Emily Estefan, drawing on shared family histories, their connections to the women who raised them and the trust they developed working together.</description>
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      <description>Sister Boniface Mysteries and My Life Is Murder deliver back-to-back mysteries, from a deadly TV stunt to the suspicious death of a horse trainer.</description>
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      <title>Miami Book Fair announces 2026 lineup featuring  nearly 500 authors and literary icons</title>
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      <description>The 43rd annual Miami Book Fair returns Nov. 15–22 to Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami, anchored by its popular Street Fair weekend from Nov. 20–22.</description>
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      <description>Leslie Roberts pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiring to sell fake artwork from his Miami Fine Art Gallery on Commodore Plaza. The FBI raided the gallery in April 2025, arresting Roberts the same day.</description>
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      <title>Rejections roll in for Broward arts grant applicants following anti-DEI law</title>
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      <description>The Stonewall National Museum in Fort Lauderdale and the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum in Plantation are among those that have been rejected for grants. It comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis in April signed a law that bans local governments from funding diversity, equity and inclusion-related programs.</description>
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      <description>Humphrey Goodman and his team investigate the baffling disappearance of the Colbert family.</description>
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