The Rosie Herrera Dance Theater and DJ LeSpam and the Spam All Stars will perform on Thursday, Mar. 10, at 7 p.m. It happens poolside at One Bal Harbour Resort and Spa, 10295 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
Mar 092011
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The cookbook author and media personality discusses and signs her latest work, The Flavors of the Florida Keys, on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m. She appears at Books and Books Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
Jan 242011
Reality television personality Lauren “Lo” Bosworth has written The Lo Down, a book on dating and love. She’ll discuss it on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. at Books and Books at the Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
Jan 172011
The latest edition of this monthly event takes place on Wednesday, Jan. 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. Bal Harbour Shops hosts themed installations in collaboration with ArtNexus. This month features the work of Fernando Botero. Bal Harbour Shops is at 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
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On Sunday, Jan. 2, at 4:30 p.m., meet Maureen Sherry at Books and Books Bal Harbour. Walls Within Walls is her first book for middle schoolers. It’s a mystery starring three siblings whose lives are turned upside down by their father’s success as a video game inventor. Books and Books Bal Harbour Shops is at 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
Dec 142010
Award-winning writer Helene Layne has put together some of the best emails circulated in the last 10 years. She’ll discuss the collection of jokes, anecdotes, facts and trivia on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. It happens at Books and Books Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
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On Thursday, Nov. 11, at 7:15 p.m., One Bal Harbour Spa kicks off its Performance on the Green series with Manolito the Gypsy.
He’s joined by vocalist Lito and, on flamenco guitar, Manolo. Both are former members of the Gypsy Kings.
The concert will be held in the Cabana Green area behind the resort at 10295 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour.
Aug 072010
It’s not too late for summer reading. And if you’re reading at Books and Books in Bal Harbour, there are some nice perks for bibliophiles.
Buy any book at that Books and Books location in the next few days, and receive a pass for two to a movie screening on Wednesday, Aug. 11.
The movie, The Extra Man, is a comedy, based on Jonathan’s Ames’ book. It’s showing at AMC Aventura 24 on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Second perk: Buy one yogurt get one free at The Newstand Café at Books & Books, Bal Harbour.
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The Books and Books where these deals are valid is located at Bal Harbour Shops, 9700 Collins Ave, in Bal Harbour.
Jun 202010
Camp Books & Books offers FREE activities at 11 a.m. every Saturday at the Coral Gables store and at 11:30 a.m. every Tuesday at the Bal Harbour Shops store this summer, plus a few other dates.
Camp Books & Books is led by a veteran elementary school teacher. You can find the schedule here.
Feb 222010
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 Bal Harbor store at 7:30 p.m. That party will features champagne and noshes from Chef Bernie Matz and a reading by Angella Nazarian, author of the memoir Life As A Visitor.
Jan 052010
Bal Harbour Shops patrons can hear the Afro-Latin funk band Suenalo! play free music from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, at the mall’s first-floor courtyard.
The mall is on 96th Street, one block west of Collins Avenue.
Sep 102009
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 a discussion of their new cookbook, Jewish Cooking Book Camp: The Modern Girl’s Guide to Cooking Like a Jewish Grandmother (Globe Pequot Press, $19.95) .
Music will be by the Miami jazz band Elemnts, and Epicure will provide hors d’oeuvres and treats. A portion of sales during the event will go to Project: New Born, which benefits the neonatal intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Other Bal Harbor stores will also host special events Thursday. La Goulou will have an “all you can eat” mussels and fries special for $15, plus half off the wine list.
Apr 162009
Books & Books is offering 20 percent off all poetry throughout April, National Poetry Month, at all three South Florida stores.
On Sunday, April 19, at 2 p.m., elemtary 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 focus on a hip-hop poem about your best friend and a nonrhyming poem about the best day of your life, real or imagined. It will be at Books and Books in Coral Gables, 265 Aragon Ave.
