The Avenue | Lifestyle
Chatroulette takes Web by storm
By AMELIA HARNISH | Feb. 17, 2010Connected, feel free to talk now. Anticipation, hilarity, disappointment. Next. Disgust. Next. Repeat.
Shhhhh...This is a library!
By GABRIELLE FALCONEIRI | Feb. 17, 2010It’s that time again. Midterms are upon us, and Gators flood Library West in desperate attempts to cram a half of a semester’s worth of information into three all-night study sessions.
Dance like a Pussycat Doll
By ALLISON BANKO | Feb. 10, 2010When flipping through music videos, it is difficult to keep your mouth from dropping at the sight of a Pussycat Dolls music video. Whether you are a boy or a girl confronted with the spectacle is irrelevant. The Dolls’ sultry demeanor and flawless stomachs causes most guys to contain themselves in their inseam and turns girls green with envy.
Screen Actors Guild
By Alex Orlando | Jan. 27, 2010I'd like to start out this column by posing a question to you, readers, and the entire Screen Actors Guild: What the hell is a female actor?
Haiti fundraisers get fun
By Jon Silman | Jan. 27, 2010Sometimes extraordinary things come from ordinary people - in ordinary places. Will Thomas, 33, a common man with sharp blue eyes, works prep at The Top and plays the drums in local band Grabass Charlestons. He gets up early enough to listen to the birds on his way to work and NPR when he gets there. On this particular Tuesday morning, while working in the silver, cluttered kitchen behind shelves of clunky metal pots and pans, the UF grad knew something was wrong.
Chris Brown deserves a second chance
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Jan. 13, 2010We’re all familiar with the classic celebrity catastrophe: Celeb is clean-cut. Celeb makes fatal mistake. Celeb apologizes. But what comes after that is a bit hazy. As the adoring fans, we either hold our grudges until the celeb morphs into a has-been, or we forgive and forget. I’m here today to make a case for a current crossroads the public has arrived at: Either forgive Chris Brown or condemn him to Pop Culture Hell.
Groovaloo freestyles, defies gravity in shows
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Jan. 13, 2010Groovaloo, a 28-member dance company known for throwing caution and choreography to the wind, is performing tomorrow night at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
Forget your New Year's fitness resolution
By ERIK VOSS | Jan. 6, 2010At this stage in my life, the only practical benefit to regular exercise is improving my sexual attractiveness. (Health? I’m good, thanks. I voted for Obama, and he’s got me covered there.) I’ll pick up a dumbbell when the other channels of attracting women become obsolete.
"Cats" musical comes to Gainesville
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Jan. 6, 2010Based on T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and composed by theater proficient Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Cats” celebrates the lives and stories of a variety of dancing, prancing cats.
The Avenue wants talent, opinions
By ASHLEY ROSS | Jan. 6, 2010Stop by The Alligator Friday between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to pitch your ideas, show us your work or give us any feedback.
‘Lovely Bones’ shows realm between life and death
By MARY MANCHESS | Dec. 2, 2009Saoirse Ronan isn’t like her peers. She doesn’t have a fragrance or clothing line, and she isn’t among the teeny bopper, triple-threat, overnight sensations that Disney produces.
Killing Christmas spirit
By ERIK VOSS | Dec. 2, 2009When my family gathers, we collectively devolve into sadists.
Facebook reveals all
By LAUREN GOLD | Nov. 18, 2009In high school, I jealously watched my older sister on her laptop. She was on Facebook, a network exclusively for college kids. I couldn’t wait for college — if not for the freedom, then definitely for the college e-mail address that would grant my entry into the elite Facebook club.
Bayside rocks out, but doesn’t lead rockstar lifestyle
By Gabriela Izarra | Nov. 18, 2009Editor’s note: The writer spent twelve hours shadowing Anthony Raneri of Bayside to write this story.
Kava offers medicinal effects, soothing social atmosphere
By REBEKAH GEIER | Nov. 11, 2009Not often do people come across an herbal medicine that works against stress, calms nerves and “creates a general feeling of well-being” without it being illegal. But the drink Kava, an ancient beverage crop from the South Pacific, legally holds all of those characteristics.
Lacuna Coil transforms gothic sound into mainstream
By Nicole La Hoz | Nov. 4, 2009Lacuna Coil has never been a conventional band.
Racism becomes more subtle, complicated
By ERIK VOSS | Nov. 4, 2009Whenever I hear the word "racism," I think back to a friend I had in second grade named Christopher. Christopher, it turned out, wasn't big on black people. One afternoon, the two of us were playing on a jungle gym when two black boys asked to join us.
Michael Moore part of American fight for responsibility
By Jon Silman | Nov. 4, 2009Maybe Kanye West is a genius after all.
Russian Circles release new album and start tour
By MARY MANCHESS | Oct. 28, 2009With their new album, “Geneva,” released just a little more than a week ago, the Russian Circles have already gassed up their 16-passenger van and kicked it into high gear.The trio will perform Friday night at Common Grounds as part of The Fest.