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Shoe-throwing journalists and lassoing pirates lampooned the year’s events at the annual King Mango Strut.

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Jewish families find ways to handle the December Dilemma: celebrating Hanukkah in the midst of Christmas.

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The 37th annual Winterfest Boat Parade will launch on Saturday in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
In South Florida, we take our holiday traditions with a twist.

Holiday lights wrap around palm trees. Carolers travel in flip-flops.

And Santa Claus rides into town on the river, gliding atop a glass barge and flanked by two snow bunnies and four hunky South Florida firefighters.

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Four-year-old Design Miami has come of age — and so has the Design District in which it sits.

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At the opening of The Station, a 12,000-square-foot, three-floor exhibit in Miami’s Midtown, more than 40 artists displayed mixed-media and site-specific installations in a half-finished condo building.

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Fashion lovers may want to head to the second annual In Fashion Photo, an exhibit featuring some 250 works by more than 35 top fashion photographers, including Slim Aarons, Miles Aldridge and Bettina Rheims.

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Oh Seuss! Off to Great Places at the Young at Art Children’s Museum offers 20 activities that reflect scenes from books: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!; Green Eggs and Ham; Horton Hatches the Egg; If I Ran the Circus; Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? The exhibit runs through May 10.

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Mauro Mozzani, the Italian starring as a possibly dead clown in Corteo, the Cirque du Soleil production opening Thursday at Bayfront Park, finished rehearsal one recent morning and retired to the dressing room he shares with Russian acrobats and at least one seven-foot clown colleague.

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Their wearers are merely swept along. Saturday marks the beginning of the 68th season of the Florida Grand Opera.

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Marcial Rodríguez was 15 when his parents made a fateful decision.

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