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Spring Break for Miami-Dade County’s public school students runs March 23-27, 2020. It’s the perfect time to enjoy a family staycation and do for free what tourists pay hundreds of dollars to come here to do. Here are free and cheap ideas for Spring Break kids’ activities in Miami-Dade: Go behind the scenes at the …

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Move over, South Beach. Little Havana drag queens are coming through and closing down the street. Get ready for a free street festival with a gay Latino flair. Gay8 Festival (GayOcho!) runs from 11 a.m. to 10 pm on Sunday, Feb. 16, on Calle Ocho and features some of Miami’s most celebrated bands and artists including Albita, DJ Alex, …

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The University of Miami’s Frost School of Music is hosting a wide variety of free concerts throughout the month of February. They include recitals of chamber music, percussion groups, jazz and other ensembles. Here’s the schedule of free events with campus location noted: Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Concert by Frost Percussion Group of percussion …

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When your friends see that you hung out with an elephant, dangled off the edge of a skyscraper, stole a dragon’s treasure and then walked the red carpet with Morgan Freeman and Robert Downey Jr. in the same afternoon, they won’t believe their eyes. And at the Museum of Illusions, that’s the whole point. For …

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This boat parade was cancelled for 2023 because of weather. Boat and yacht owners deck their vessels for the holidays during the annual Miami Outboard Club Holiday Boat Parade at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, at Bayfront Park, 301 N. Biscayne Blvd., Miami. With DJ Laz as the Grand Marshall, watch nearly 60 yachts and …

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