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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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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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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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Mariah20carey_jayz Art Basel Miami Beach isn’t that far away, and if you think about it, the only people who will be able to afford to come here and buy art are overpaid celebrities, so it’s only fitting that celeb photogs Markus Klinko and Indriani will unveil their all-star exhibition down here during that time. According to the NY Post’s Page Six, the artists are shooting Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, and even newly svelte celeb chronicler Perez Hilton.

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Kids and teens can learn about contemporary art while learning to express themselves as part of an educational enrichment program presented by The Museum of Contemporary Art.

The program begins this weekend with Tahitian Print Making Inspired by Paul Gaugin. Taught by a professional art teacher, each class features a hands-on project — parents can participate as well.

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Comedy is on the house at JohnMartin’s in Coral Gables; it comes with serious cuisine at Laffing Matterz in Fort Lauderdale, and it has those you-gotta-be-there moments at Just the Funny in Miami.

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Which U.S. city rocks it the hardest? Hmm, that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out. New York, of course.

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Miami Libre may be over, but the show’s female lead isn’t sitting idle.

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