Downtown Hippodrome State Theatre rebrands after 20 years
By Jasmine Wildflower Osmond | Oct. 8, 2014A horse with six legs and a collaboration between downtown neighbors: The Hippodrome State Theatre is changing pace.
A horse with six legs and a collaboration between downtown neighbors: The Hippodrome State Theatre is changing pace.
Tonight, the UF Symphony Orchestra will bring “The Story of Cinderella” to life with narration from Amy Redford, the daughter of Academy Award-winning film director and actor Robert Redford.
People poured into the High Dive last October to watch a performance that sold out at the door. This year the venue will give the public not just one, but three chances to see this popular production.
They’re hairy, they’re manly, they’re vulgar — they’re burlesque.
“Les Miserables” is a tale of salvation, and that’s just what Gainesville Community Playhouse expects to show in its own production.
Painting brought vibrancy to Jess Yelvington’s life when she faced difficult times with her health.
Horror fans will not want to miss the activities the Hippodrome State Theatre has planned in October because there’s something different to scream at every week.
UF’s University Gallery has opened its doors to an art collector who has amassed thousands of pieces of art since 1986.
Do you ever find yourself making snap judgments based on race and still insist that you’re not racist? The characters in Bruce Norris’ Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning play “Clybourne Park” certainly do.
Bunches of illustrated chickens form the word "YUM" on a blood-red background. A familiar sans-serif font in trademarked yellow letters reads, "they’re livin’ it" just beneath.
EarFilms is coming to UF – to give your sense of vision a break.
Gavin Doran spends up to three hours a day walking around with a camera, talking to people he’s never met before.
Roughly 100 students from the art and engineering departments at UF met Wednesday to participate in a ritualistic performance dedicating the newly installed art piece “Moving Water.”
Already known for dropping beats, No Southern Accent hopes to soon be dropping something else: its second studio album.
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.
Bibliophiles everywhere can recognize “Call me Ishmael” as one of the most famous first sentences in literature. But a new project is taking that opening line from “Moby-Dick” and giving it a modern twist.
It’s convenient to call “Young and Beautiful” a coming-of-age film, but it’s also unjustly incomplete. The 2013 French film, opening Friday at the Hipp, follows its 17-year-old protagonist into much darker places than comparable films —Gia Coppola’s “Palo Alto”, for example — and taps into terrors and emotions that transcend teenage identity crises.
Wild Iris Books, home to Gainesville’s feminist community, is one of the last bookstores of its kind in the U.S., according to a story published last week in PolicyMic Magazine, and it plans to stay that way.
Gia Coppola’s directorial debut, “Palo Alto,” opening tomorrow at the Hippodrome State Theatre, is in some ways a mix of “Mean Girls” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” It’s a coming-of-age film that frankly addresses the sex, drugs, despondency and debauchery of adolescence, while at the same time mourning the loss of its characters’ childhoods.
A tiny paintbrush. White gesso. Radiohead’s live concert on tape.