Can a movie be smart yet exceedingly dumb? Is it possible to look past empty dialogue, pointless action and shallow characters to recognize a film’s deeper message? Have I just been mercilessly trolled? These are questions I kept asking myself after seeing Luc Besson’s “Lucy”.
You may not have heard of new reggae pop outfit MAGIC! until this summer, but you’ve known lead singer Nasri Atweh’s catchy lyrics for years.
From the bar area to the stripper poles, Uber Promotions is offering a party before the party with its new party bus.
It was 6 a.m. in the Butler Plaza Publix bakery when a co-worker said something I never thought I’d hear: “I’m glad ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is doing well again.”
Cookbooks contain more than directions for food preparation. They are like a “magician’s hat: one can get more out of them than they seem to contain,” or so muses culinary historian Barbara Wheaton.
Walk into a bookstore, browse Amazon cookbook category listings, and you’ll find various genres of cookbooks. There are cookbooks for kids, for vegetarians, for couples, for one, for beginners and even for dogs. Look closer, and you’ll notice a category of cookbooks for men. But absent is a category for women, revealing the assumption that unmarked cookbooks are for women.
Bruce Yang and his friends woke up the morning after his bachelor party and checked their phones to make sure they hadn’t posted anything embarrassing on social media. That’s when Yang decided to create the app, Sobrr.
Roger Ebert is undoubtedly the most popular mainstream film critic in American history. People who usually don’t follow film know his name.
Already known for dropping beats, No Southern Accent hopes to soon be dropping something else: its second studio album.
High Dive Bar & Venue is giving people a chance to take advantage of its concerts while still saving some extra cash.
The indie-pop band Fun. set the charts ablaze with its hit singles “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.”
Former (for now) Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba is appearing at 1982 Bar on July 24 with his latest project, a seven-person folk-rock outfit called Twin Forks. Just like Dashboard Confessional, you’ll want to belt their songs as you drive with the windows down — but for different reasons. Where Dashboard songs spoke of vulnerability edged with mid-2000s emo self-consciousness, Twin Forks sheds those feelings in favor of folksy, uptempo good times. And yes, there’s even some whistling.
You may not know the band Woman’s Hour, but you will soon. Its debut LP, “Conversations,” teases the early makings of a beloved indie-pop band.
The CNTRL-SPACE exhibit by Patrick Pagano, assistant in Digital Arts and Science and UF alumnus, is a new exhibit at the University Galleries that is a part of UF’s Creative B summer activities.
When indie-rock giant Built to Spill decided to perform in Gainesville last October, it wanted an intimate, scaled-back show. So Pat Lavery, owner of local booking company Glory Days Presents, booked them at High Dive.
Among apps that allow you to rate friends and strangers, there is now one that enables coworkers to rate their fellow colleagues.
The title of a recipe gives the first impression of the dish and the author. Recipe titles are printed in special, large type, memorable as the official label. The title can be simply a word, “Oatmeal,” a more elaborate phrase, “Bountiful Blueberry Pie with Spiced Whipped Cream,” or almost a paragraph, a format more typical of earlier recipe titles. One from 1608: “To Make a Walnut, That When you Cracke It, You Shall Find Biskets, and Carrawayes in It, Or a Prettie Posey Written.”
What is the American dream? Does it matter how we achieve it? How far can one go before they are unredeemable? These are all questions James Gray’s The Immigrant expects the audience to grapple with. Whether you find answers is not the film’s problem. The director James Gray is content to let the viewer come to their own decisions, which is both a weakness and strength for the film.
The 2013 Polish black-and-white film, “Ida”, which will end its two-week run at the Hippodrome State Theatre this Sunday, is both a nuanced study of 1960s Eastern Europe and a coming-of-age film that feels familiar and strange at the same time.
After Keenan “Ginger Chestnut” Bailey won The Swamp Restaurant’s first hot dog eating contest Friday by scarfing down nine hot dogs in 10 minutes to take home the grand prize of $100, a $50 certificate to the restaurant and a silver plate with his name engraved, he said he felt just fine.
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