Q&A with Omar Offendum
By Vanessa Blankenship | Mar. 12, 2019Students Organize for Syria at UF hosted an open mic poetry night on Monday, March 11, in the Rion Ballroom in the Reitz Union where poets and musicians were encouraged to perform.
Students Organize for Syria at UF hosted an open mic poetry night on Monday, March 11, in the Rion Ballroom in the Reitz Union where poets and musicians were encouraged to perform.
It is 8:30 a.m. on Monday in studio G15. Young actors yawn and stretch to wake themselves up. Tiza Garland walks through the door with a bright smile and a wake of palpable energy. She tells them to start running. She sprints about the room alongside her students, and class begins.
On Friday, Gainesville residents are invited to reconnect with their inner child in the national tour of “Finding Neverland.” Before the show, actress Emmanuelle Zeesman gave us a sneak peak into a show she said is one of a kind.
See the Florida Museum of Natural History come alive in a new way at the first SciArt Showcase to open Friday.
On Jan. 21, the Hippodrome State Theater announced the departure of its artistic director, Lauren Warhol Caldwell, a director, performer and educator at the regional theater for 28 years.
Q&A with UF spoken word poet
Fred Wilson recontextualizes history through art.
The Star Center Theatre presents a play on the real-life tragedy in an Amish schoolhouse.
“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.
The 50th anniversary of African-American Studies and the life of Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated through poetry on Thursday night.
Watching 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.
“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.
With 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.
“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.
This is not the ordinary tragedy of death, daggers and deception that you snoozed through in 11th grade English.
“Umwelt” is a German word that translates roughly to environment, and it is the namesake of downtown Gainesville’s newest interactive art exhibit.
Gainesville has a chance to stop and smell the flowers this weekend when Catherine Yu’s new play “The Day is Long to End” premieres.
For graphic novelist Andre Frattino, Florida’s history, arts and culture is everything.
The Avenue is giving a voice to entertainment, literally. Today, the Avenue is launching its first ever podcast: “The Avenue: Roundup.”