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‘The Amish Project’: How tragedy breeds forgiveness
By Emma McAvoy | Jan. 24, 2019The Star Center Theatre presents a play on the real-life tragedy in an Amish schoolhouse.
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Review of A Doll’s House, Part 2
By Vanessa Blankenship | Jan. 15, 2019“A Doll’s House, Part 2” will make you laugh and break your heart. It’s the story of one woman’s fight for the freedom to pursue her ambitions while shattering her family in the process.
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Come and listen, spoken word event at the Harn
By Jackie DeFreitas | Jan. 8, 2019The 50th anniversary of African-American Studies and the life of Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated through poetry on Thursday night.
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Midnight Bar Hosts All-Female Production of “Shakespeare Abridged”
By Emma McAvoy | Oct. 4, 2018Watching as three actors play literal fools while presenting all 36 of William Shakespeare’s plays isn’t an average Saturday night, but The Midnight isn’t your average bar.
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Series review of the of the week: Netflix’s ‘Disenchantment’
By Tranelle Maner | Oct. 4, 2018“Disenchantment” left me feeling disappointed. While Netflix is trying to appeal to the inner child in growing adolescents, it just could not reach the level of greatness that its sister animated shows, “Bojack Horseman” and “F is for Family” have gotten to.
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Local Album Review: Jay Rouge & the Stoges’ 'Friends & Lovers'
By Jackie DeFreitas | Oct. 4, 2018With the beginning of the new month came Jay Rouge & the Stoges’ new album. Released on Monday, the album “Friends & Lovers” comes just in time for woodsers and long drives to visit family. Quirky lyrics fill the album, and catching all the witty lines makes the album worth a listen.
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‘We are the Wolves’
By Emma Witmer | Aug. 28, 2018“The Wolves” is a heartwarming, laugh-out-loud and brutally honest look inside the world of a varsity high school girls’ soccer team working through the ever-changing process of growing up.
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Gainesville Alternative Shakespeare presents: “Drunk Macbeth” at High Dive
By Emma McAvoy | Aug. 3, 2018This is not the ordinary tragedy of death, daggers and deception that you snoozed through in 11th grade English.
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‘Tune in’ to Umwelt
By Emma Witmer Avenue Editor | July 27, 2018“Umwelt” is a German word that translates roughly to environment, and it is the namesake of downtown Gainesville’s newest interactive art exhibit.
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The theater awakens tonight with a never-before-seen performance
By Lindsey Brenemen Avenue Writer | July 19, 2018Gainesville has a chance to stop and smell the flowers this weekend when Catherine Yu’s new play “The Day is Long to End” premieres.
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‘A Land Remembered,’ the newest graphic novel from Andre Frattino
By Emma McAvoy | July 2, 2018For graphic novelist Andre Frattino, Florida’s history, arts and culture is everything.
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We made a podcast!
By Emma Witmer | June 14, 2018The Avenue is giving a voice to entertainment, literally. Today, the Avenue is launching its first ever podcast: “The Avenue: Roundup.”
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The Harn Museum of Art has a new director
By Emma Witmer | June 14, 2018The Harn Museum of Art is welcoming Lee Anne Hurt Chesterfield as the new museum director.
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Macy’s mannequins become rainbow spirits for pride
By Lindsey Breneman | June 6, 2018Gainesville artists are coming together to transform a batch of retired mannequins into works of art — celebrating the legacy of pride.
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Review of "The Bikinis" at the Hippodrome
By Emma Witmer | June 6, 2018What can separate even the closest of friends? The future. What can reunite them? The past.
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‘Black Films Matter’: The first film series of its kind begins at the Hippodrome
By Aaron Dozier | June 1, 2018Screenings are open to the public on the last Thursday of each month until the year ends.
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Danza Dance Company to host 20th Anniversary Showcase
By Brooke Steinberg | Apr. 24, 2018UF’s Danza Dance Company, a premiere student-run performance dance company, will celebrate 20 years with its Anniversary Showcase on Saturday.
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Always True Collective to host No Signal art gallery & show
By Emma Witmer | Apr. 17, 2018Local T-shirt company Always True Collective returns this weekend with a one-day art show and party with live local music and live T-shirt printing.
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Avenue Staff’s Guide to Changeville 2018
By Avenue Staff | Feb. 6, 2018Downtown Gainesville might give New Orleans a run for its money Thursday and Friday.
