THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
LivFit: Shape Up and Save Our Environment
By Olivia Langdon | Nov. 13, 2013“What you don’t know can’t hurt you.”
The Avenue
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Passafire celebrates mainstream success with new album
By RJ Schaffer | Nov. 13, 2013With an upcoming album, a full headlining tour with reggae group Ballyhoo! and a new record deal, it’s possible Passafire is having its most successful year yet.
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Motion City Soundtrack draws nostalgic crowd
By Chloe Finch | Nov. 13, 2013Last week, Minneapolis-based band Motion City Soundtrack — whose songs you set to autoplay on your MySpace pages, whose lyrics you scrawled on your arms during that boring ninth-grade history class and whose very name stirs up memories of checkerboard Vans and middle school dances — played at High Dive with Relient K and Driver Friendly.
THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
LivFit: Small Goals Yield Big Gains
By Olivia Langdon | Nov. 6, 2013About Danielle (nationally qualified bikini competitor)
THE AVENUE
|
FOOD
McDonald’s joins pumpkin spice bandwagon
By Courtney Nachlas | Nov. 6, 2013This fall season, McDonald’s debuted its McCafé pumpkin spice latte, but some UF students do not appear to be “lovin’ it.”
THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
Mo ’staches, mo money: Movember
By Marjorie Nunez | Nov. 6, 2013The first time the Grooming Standard participated in Movember, 447,808 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas were registered to grow mustaches and support mustache growth.
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Fest leaves volunteer with new friends and lasting memories
By Emily Cardinali | Nov. 6, 2013You never notice the way the crowd synchronizes at a concert when you’re in it: the flux and flow of the bodies like blood to the pulse of the music, the crowd surfers skimming over the mass.
THE AVENUE
|
FOOD
Pumpkin goodness abounds at 4 Rivers Sweet Shop
By Katherine Kallergis | Nov. 6, 2013All pumpkin everything.
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Electric Daisy Carnival returning to Orlando for the third year in a row
By Alejandro Saenz | Oct. 31, 2013Multiple stages, carnival rides and state-of-the-art production will be taking over Orlando’s Tinker Field Nov. 8 and 9. For the third year in a row, Electric Daisy Carnival is returning to Florida.
THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
LivFit: Stay Lean this Halloween
By Olivia Langdon | Oct. 30, 2013Halloween: n. the holiday excuse to dress up as a slutty schoolgirl, consume countless grams of sugar in candy and — since it’s a college town — drink until you actually believe you are the character of your costume.
THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
Don’t worry, Halloween stragglers — we’ve got you
By Angela Skane | Oct. 30, 2013It’s Halloween day, and you still don’t have a costume. Your sources are limited, and you’ve lost all hope. Fear not. These last minute creative ideas are sure to allude to the fact you totally did not plan your costume.
THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
Instagram does good job fitting ads into personal feeds
By Lauren Adamson | Oct. 30, 2013Don’t be surprised if you haven’t noticed the new ads on Instagram. The company is being very cautious about how they introduce them to the public.
THE AVENUE
|
MOVIES AND TV
‘Workaholic’ no more: Watch ‘Adam Devine’s House Party’
By Chloe Finch | Oct. 30, 2013“Workaholics” and “Pitch Perfect” star Adam Devine said comedy has always come naturally.
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Fest grows with more bands, attendees and volunteers
By Emily Cardinali | Oct. 30, 2013Fest, an annual punk music festival, has gotten so big that this year it officially started with a Pre-Fest in Ybor City on Tuesday.
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Hometown boys Surfer Blood return to roots with Coastline
By Marjorie Nunez | Oct. 30, 2013Interview with bass guitarist Kevin Williams:
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Matt & Kim talks weather, Swampfest and getting wild
By Colleen Wright | Oct. 30, 2013Interview with Matt from Matt & Kim:
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Where we belong: Passion Pit closing 2013 with Coastline Festival stops
By Chloe Finch | Oct. 30, 2013As Passion Pit wraps up its 2013 touring stops, the Avenue spoke with keyboardist and guitar player Ian Hultquist before the band’s trip to South Florida as Coastline’s headline act.
THE AVENUE
|
FASHION
Try scarily cheap makeup tips
By Niko Pifferetti | Oct. 23, 2013Regina George of “Mean Girls” loves Halloween, and so do makeup artists — but for a decidedly classier reason.
THE AVENUE
|
LIFESTYLE
Last-minute costumes have lasting impact
By Angela Skane | Oct. 23, 2013Your time until Halloween is dwindling. All those elaborate costumes you dreamt up in class are now seeming less and less possible. There are still a few simple costumes you can pull together to avoid recycling last year’s ensemble.
THE AVENUE
|
MUSIC
Odell plays up emotional, heart broken rocker status to award-winning success
By Lauren Adamson | Oct. 23, 2013Tom Odell is a 22-year-old up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Britain who fits the stereotype of the pained, sensitive, broken-hearted male whose emotions are so heavy they can only be processed alone, hunched over his instrument.
