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Pumpkin goodness abounds at 4 Rivers Sweet Shop
By Katherine Kallergis | Nov. 6, 2013All pumpkin everything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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Hometown boys Surfer Blood return to roots with Coastline
By Marjorie Nunez | Oct. 30, 2013Interview with bass guitarist Kevin Williams:
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Matt & Kim talks weather, Swampfest and getting wild
By Colleen Wright | Oct. 30, 2013Interview with Matt from Matt & Kim:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With "Rap God" and new album, real Slim Shady stands back up
By ADAM LICHTENSTEIN< | Oct. 23, 2013Guess who’s back, back again?
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Not the Koalas! Koala bears hurt by climate change
By Courtney Nachlas | Oct. 23, 2013Koalas are an iconic part of Australian culture, but a new study reveals that the country’s lack of koala protection may result in a dramatic loss of the population.
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LivFit: Snack Smarter
By Olivia Langdon | Oct. 23, 2013Eating clean 99-percent of the time is a challenge, but doable.
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Fake pockets make real difference for charities
By Michelle Jackson | Oct. 23, 2013“Frockets,” or T-shirts with a faux pocket sewn onto the front, are saving the world one minutely stitched monogram and chevron-patterned pocket at a time.
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Baseball, dreams and the message behind ‘Monsters University’
By JOE MORGAN< | Oct. 23, 2013My dream ended in seventh grade.
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Vixen Workout booty-pops its way into Gainesville
By Isha Choksi | Oct. 23, 2013Liz Delgado, a 30-year-old mother from Miami, does the Vixen Workout because it makes her feel sexy.
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Filmmaker produces creepy movie Escape from Tomorrow at Disney
By Maria Llorens | Oct. 23, 2013“Escape from Tomorrow,” a psychosexual fantasy film set in Disney World, opens at 9 p.m. Friday at the Hippodrome.
