My road trip down the Avenue
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As a mainstay of one desk my three semesters at The Alligator, I feel it’s only right I address this letter in her name:
Under the blistering Florida sun, the sound of African percussion and excited attendees echoed throughout downtown Gainesville Saturday as it became a creative space for a multitude of Florida-based artists and trailblazers.
Since my freshman year, there has been at least one large and obstructive campus construction project. I remember a time when most of Museum Road was closed off. Now, with only a few weeks before my graduation, I find myself boxed in with few good sources of information to learn more.
The UF Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, at the Hippodrome State Theatre and Oak Hammock, will present its 13th annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival throughout March. It will feature 12 film screenings about the Jewish experience and culture around the world.
As the curtains rose, the lights dimmed to black, transporting the audience into the realm of ‘Take 5’ — a series of five, 10 minute plays, performed and directed by Santa Fe College students Jan. 26.
In the days following the statewide ban on diversity, equity and inclusion funding, students at the University of North Florida are protesting the closure of their school’s LGBTQ+ center. Meanwhile, UF faculty and students are still unsure what the future looks like.
Anybody who says “no man is an island” clearly hasn’t seen the family dynamics of the Tony award-winning musical, “Next to Normal.”
The Hippodrome Theatre went from a humble post office in 1911 to one of Florida’s most successful historic preservation projects in just over 100 years. Work on it isn’t finished yet, and if the next 100 years are anything like the previous, it may never be.
Gainesville residents of all ages filled the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall Dec. 2, learning about animals and summoning snow alongside Santa Claus, Frosty and Perry the Mouse.
I grew up in the Dunedin-Clearwater area, and one of the parks in Safety Harbor I frequented had an “Indian mound.” I didn’t know the weight of its meaning until I was much older, and Tocobaga was a name that had hardly ever crossed my mind at all.
Matt Dibble, 33-year-old Hippodrome Theatre box office worker, sported his new Dollywood sweatshirt as he welcomed excited guests to the premiere Nov. 15, 2023 at The Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, Fla.
The crowd waited in anticipation in the intimate theater with popcorn bags in hand. As the golden-haired, Southern superstar appeared on the big screen, someone shouted “I’ve waited 20 years for this!” and the applause roared.
Audience members flooded the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall Sept. 15, swaying along to Bach, clapping to the beat of marches and rallying players through trumpet solos with shouts of “olé.”
Since its opening 50 years ago, the Hippodrome Theatre has become an integral part of the Gainesville artistic community. What once was a small mail processing room nestled in a post office decades ago has become a fully renovated and functioning cinema at the Hippodrome Theatre for the first time in about 45 years.
POTUS at the Hippodrome Theatre Picture by Michael A Eaddy – Left to right Kelly Atkins*^ as Jean and Sophia Paige as Dusty
An Oval Office filled with presidential portraits and a neatly organized desk sets the stage for a professional and serious production to the unknowing eye.
The tight confines of the Constans Theatre nestled inside the Reitz Union was the epicenter of performances for theater students at UF. But now, it’s the bright lights and bustling Broadway streets of Manhattan that many musical theater alumni call home.
Some LGBTQ+ Santa Fe College attendees fear discrimination after a law prohibiting people from using public bathrooms of their non-assigned sex can now result in firing.
Iris Rodriguez feels welcome at Santa Fe College where her peers share her cultural background and she participates in programs that promote inclusivity.
On a typical Friday night, the High Springs community would line up, clamoring to catch the premiere of the latest local love story while listening to the distinct pop of everyone’s favorite movie snack. But now, scarfing down buttered popcorn as the lights dim on a Friday night is another piece of fiction.