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• Sprung! beef festival is just a few weeks away

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  Sprung! is coming, that's the Spring and Summer craft beer festival by the same guys who brought you Grovetoberfest. On March 9, Peacock Park will be the place for  South Florida craft beer enthusiasts.
  
  “Our inboxes were flooded with requests for a spring festival. This event is' [...]
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• Modern, avant-garde art?

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  The most photographed thing at last week's Coconut Grove Arts Festival was the partly dismantled Grand Bay Hotel! You could see the structure for most areas once you got onto the north section of South Bayshore Drive and it was so odd just standing out there in the distance.
  
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• Great Taste of the Grove is back April 13 and 14

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  Miami’s original family-friendly food festival, the Great Taste of the Grove Food & Wine Festival, is back celebrating its 23rd year with a weekend of food, wine, music and fun for the whole family. On Saturday April 13 and Sunday 14, from noon to 7 pm, Coconut Grove’s [...]
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• Meeting planned to discuss Playhouse's fate

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  There is a meeting to discuss the Coconut Grove Playhouse next week. It's a private dinner meeting of the Dade Heritage Trust where they will try to save the structure from developers who have their eyes on the place. The public is not invited as this is a private group.' [...]
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• Look, Ma! Bottom billing!

  This is funny, as we were walking through the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, a friend pointed out my logo on the sponsors banner. Every year, I am one of the media sponsors. This year, I wasn't publishing the Grapevine at the time, so I had asked the Arts Festival' [...]
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• Should the BID continue to help fund the Strut?

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  The subject of the King Mango Strut came up at the last BID marketing meeting. The BID gave $12,500 to the Strut committee to help fund the parade. The total cost is around $30,000 to put on the event, most of that goes to city services, which is a [...]
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• Next Grove Chamber event is at Atchana's

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  The Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce is having the next networking cocktail event at Atchana's East/West Kitchen on Wednesday, February 27 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Atchana's is in the lobby of the Mutiny Hotel (2951 S. Bayshore Drive).
  
  Admission is $10 for Grove Chamber members, $15 for [...]
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• Lucky friends

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  My friend Ty was one of the lucky winners at the CocoWalk booth at this year's Arts Festival. He won a $50 gift certificate for the Cheesecake Factory. That's Stephanie Gonzalez and Cindee Tabares from CocoWalk with Ty. 
  Speaking of CocoWalk and luck, my friend M. Peggy Quattro [...]
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• It's avant-garde, exciting and new for the Grove

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  Everyone came out Saturday night to celebrate the grand opening of something new and special in Coconut Grove, The Dynamo Art Gallery at CocoWalk. At left are Ellie Rusinova and Brandon Styles from Colorado, Ellie was showing at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival and at right are Carl Templer [...]
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• Italian restaurant planned for Commodore Plaza

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  Looks like we may have a new upscale Italian restaurant planned for Coconut Grove. The former Cita's place at 3176 Commodore Plaza has been purchased.
  
  The 1965 free-standing structure needs a lot of rehab, it's been abandoned for two years now. MMA Real Estate is getting busy on the [...]
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