High Dive will put Gainesville’s finest rap and R&B artists on display with its Local Hip Hop Showcase event today. The venue, located at 210 SW Second Ave., will kick off the show at 8 p.m. and will feature rappers with all-star connections.
Taste Pho & Noodle House, located at 3117 SW 34th St., will host its second annual pho-eating contest today at 7 p.m.
Those looking to keep the party going after Saturday’s football festivities will be able to head downtown for a journey back in time to the ’50s and ’60s.
Artisans and craftsmen from all over Alachua County will come together Saturday to showcase their work at the One Love Cafe Craft Show.
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This weekend, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens will host Paint Out, an annual event in which about 20 local landscape artists join together to create a live painting experience inspired by the gardens around them.
Ft. Lauderdale-based quintet The Heavy Pets will be playing a set composed entirely of Beatles covers Friday at High Dive in a tribute show the group affectionately calls “Walrus.”
There have been some incredible releases so far in 2016 and over the past few weeks, several established artists released projects that are definitely worth checking out. Here are some of the best:
The Florida basketball team will play 12 Southeastern Conference games on national TV this season.
For 92-year-old Estelle Blakely, wearing makeup used to be a morning routine.
Preseason Week 4 is a bittersweet time to be unproven in the NFL. On one hand, there’s probably no better opportunity to score playing time as head coaches cautiously sit their starters. But it could also be your last chance to suit up if you’re cut from the 53-man roster. Former Gators experienced both outcomes over the weekend, from 2013 running backs to Jeff Driskel to a pair of Chiefs’ receivers and scattered defensive specialists.
Two UF football players charged with firing BB guns on campus had their felony charges reduced, Bill Cervone, a state attorney, said.
Moriah Saunders, 21, has worn shabby UF Women’s Rugby Club jerseys for two years. But she said it’s not the bloodstains and holes that bother her.
UF’s Supreme Court failed three petitions Tuesday after students spent two hours defending them.
There wasn’t a doubt that Florida’s secondary showed holes in its season opener against UMass — a 53-yard bomb down the sideline over sophomore defensive back Chris Williamson in the second quarter affirmed that notion.
Twenty years after gunfire ended his life, Tupac Shakur will be remembered as more than just a hip-hop artist.
Starting today, UF students and staff can get free vaccination shots.
The alligatorSports roundtable returns for Week 2, and this time we’ll discuss what we think will be the biggest key to a Florida win on Saturday against Kentucky. Sports writers Ethan Bauer, Ian Cohen, Jordan McPherson and Patrick Pinak will debate, with arguments going in alphabetical order by last name.
Adult and childhood pleasures will collide Friday at a burlesque show inspired by “The Lord of the Rings.”
The construction of low-income housing planned for Gainesville received a monetary boost Tuesday.
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