In a town full of thrift shops, several hidden treasures to find
By Riana Melendez | Aug. 6, 2014Gainesville has more to offer thrift shoppers than some might think.
Gainesville has more to offer thrift shoppers than some might think.
Magic Man has grown a bit since its inception in 2010. Originally consisting only of vocalist Alex Caplow and guitarist/keyboardist Sam Vanderhoop Lee, Magic Man expanded to a quintet for the 2013 EP, "You Are Here." Their new studio album "Before The Waves" caters to the indie pop and synth pop crowd but fails to stand out among their contemporaries.
"The Greenes always request for small slices. You can ask them if they would like just a little more, or if they are sure they are full, and they always express with certainty, ‘I really only want a tiny slice.’
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.”
Gabrielle Ueberroth doesn’t need science to tell her how she feels about the color red.
Can a movie be smart yet exceedingly dumb? Is it possible to look past empty dialogue, pointless action and shallow characters to recognize a film’s deeper message? Have I just been mercilessly trolled? These are questions I kept asking myself after seeing Luc Besson’s “Lucy”.
You may not have heard of new reggae pop outfit MAGIC! until this summer, but you’ve known lead singer Nasri Atweh’s catchy lyrics for years.
From the bar area to the stripper poles, Uber Promotions is offering a party before the party with its new party bus.
It was 6 a.m. in the Butler Plaza Publix bakery when a co-worker said something I never thought I’d hear: “I’m glad ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is doing well again.”
Cookbooks contain more than directions for food preparation. They are like a “magician’s hat: one can get more out of them than they seem to contain,” or so muses culinary historian Barbara Wheaton.
Walk 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.
Roger Ebert is undoubtedly the most popular mainstream film critic in American history. People who usually don’t follow film know his name.
Already known for dropping beats, No Southern Accent hopes to soon be dropping something else: its second studio album.
High Dive Bar & Venue is giving people a chance to take advantage of its concerts while still saving some extra cash.
The indie-pop band Fun. set the charts ablaze with its hit singles “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.”
Bruce Yang and his friends woke up the morning after his bachelor party and checked their phones to make sure they hadn’t posted anything embarrassing on social media. That’s when Yang decided to create the app, Sobrr.
Former (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.
You 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.
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.