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High Dive season passes for sale
By Riana Melendez | July 23, 2014High Dive Bar & Venue is giving people a chance to take advantage of its concerts while still saving some extra cash.
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Cookbooks for men: reflecting on gender roles
By Keri | July 23, 2014Walk 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.
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Fun. guitarist’s project puts out first LP, exceeds expectations
By Cody Smith | July 23, 2014The indie-pop band Fun. set the charts ablaze with its hit singles “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.”
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UF a capella group at work on second album
By Joey Martinez | July 23, 2014Already known for dropping beats, No Southern Accent hopes to soon be dropping something else: its second studio album.
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Beaches, Jeff Tweedy and Myspace: A Q&A with Twin Forks
By Chloe Finch | July 16, 2014Former (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.
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Dreamy indie pop band Woman’s Hour releases debut LP
By Cody Smith | July 16, 2014You 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.
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CNTRL-SPACE: Artwork you can add to
By Jacqueline Adadi | July 16, 2014The 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.
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High Dive celebrates three years of live music, comedy & food trucks
By Chloe Finch | July 16, 2014When 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.
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Know what your co-workers really think of you with ‘Knozen’
By Riana Melendez | July 16, 2014Among apps that allow you to rate friends and strangers, there is now one that enables coworkers to rate their fellow colleagues.
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Recipe titles: Does a recipe by any other name taste as good?
By Kelsi | July 16, 2014The 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.”
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Period drama ‘The Immigrant’ opens at the Hipp with ironic take on American Dream
By Jackson Hart | July 12, 2014What 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.
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Lauded ‘Ida’ ends Hipp run Sunday
By Niko Pifferetti | July 9, 2014The 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.
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Eating to win eats away at your health
By Debora Lima | July 9, 2014After 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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Summer dance intensive Swamp Dance Fest starts up
By Joey Martinez | July 9, 2014The Swamp Dance Fest wants to get dancers moving – for a whole month.
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‘Creative Summer B’ returns this year with new features
By Hannah Fell | July 9, 2014This year’s Creative Summer B will take students to a GPS scavenger hunt, a digital image projection show and a 24-hour filmmaking competition.
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UF grad debuts bedroom-born album
By Cody Smith | July 9, 2014Bedroom producing has become all the rage these days. The rapid advancement of music production technology allows musicians access to less expensive programs and tools, sparking a Renaissance of sorts.
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Reading Recipes as Stories
By Keri | July 9, 2014Reading hundreds of cookbooks and recipes has convinced us that these books form a distinct genre, a storytelling genre, governed by conventions and codes.
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New Florida music festival Coral Skies forms
By Cody Smith | July 9, 2014After successes of festivals like Big Guava Festival and Sunset Music Festival, Central Florida has rapidly become a formidable market. Luckily for live music lovers, Live Nation Florida announced the lineup to a new festival called Coral Skies Music Festival on Tuesday.
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High Dive celebrates the Fourth of July with live music and BBQ
By Stephanie Newman | July 2, 2014For those seeking fun other than fireworks this Fourth of July, you can check out The High Dive: The local music venue will host a celebration with food and musical performances.
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RiFF RAFF’s ‘Neon Icon’ album has new sounds, old traditions
By Emily Cardinali | July 2, 2014After much album-date release confusion and pandering to white girls on Twitter to revamp excitement, Houston-based rapper RiFF RAFF finally released “Neon Icon” on June 24.
