{"id":192456,"date":"2026-03-15T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:26:24","slug":"calle-ocho-festival-set-to-take-over-little-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192456\/","title":{"rendered":"Calle Ocho festival set to take over Little Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 10:05 AM<\/p>\n<p>Annual Calle Ocho festival set to kick off in Little Havana <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Several streets in Little Havana will be blocked off on Sunday for the Calle Ocho festival. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">From the music to the food and the South Florida crowds, the festival highlights the diversity of our Latin community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got the music, weather, culture, all Latin American countries here together as one,\u201d said James Villalobos. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That culture will be on full display, stretched out across 15 blocks of Little Havana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">From merchandise, to drinks and of course, delicious food, the event draws in crowds from near and far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nearly 50 years ago, the Kiwanis Club launched the street party as a fundraiser, which has now blossomed into what it is today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The festival takes place in along Southwest Eighth Street, from 12th Avenue to 27th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Organizers expect more than half a million people to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Gabrielle Arzola\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/78673faa-0bcf-4b53-bb07-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Gabrielle Arzola<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Gabrielle Arzola is an award-winning journalist and proud Miami native. For nearly a decade, she has reported across Florida, with previous stops in Gainesville and Tampa before returning home to cover the community she loves most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 10:05 AM Annual Calle Ocho festival set to kick off in Little Havana MIAMI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-192456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}