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THE AVENUE  |  ART AND THEATER

Enigmatic 'Young and Beautiful' opens at The Hipp on Friday

By Niko Pifferetti | June 18, 2014

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. 

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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Female DJs underrepresented in the industry

By Cody Smith | June 18, 2014

Electronic dance music now rests at the forefront of dance music worldwide. With millions of dollars invested in the genre, EDM has quickly altered the status quo of the music industry, but it seems to have hit a glass ceiling: The artists who dominate local and national bookings are primarily male.

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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Lana Del Rey’s voice is the star on her cinematic new album

By Patrick Glynn | June 18, 2014

Lana Del Rey’s career skyrocketed with her 2012 release, “Born to Die,” where she wrote songs of love, heartbreak and alcohol addiction at an early age. The album had strong hip-hop influence in its quick-tempo production and moments of rap from Del Rey on songs like “National Anthem” and “Diet Mountain Dew.” While her latest record, “Ultraviolence,” doesn’t vary much in lyrical content, it is a bigger, more cinematic experience than her previous effort thanks to the change in production and attention to Del Rey’s voice.

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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

‘Bro Island’ and Christian dubstep: Q&A with Hundred Waters

By Chloe Finch | June 18, 2014

The L.A.-via-Gainesville electro-indie group Hundred Waters will perform at the High Dive on June 27 at 9 p.m. Tickets can be purchased for $10 online, at Hear Again Music and Movies or the High Dive box office and are $12 at the door. Hundred Waters’ tour comes off the tails of the release of “The Moon Rang Like a Bell,” which dropped on May 27 under Skrillex’s record label,  OWSLA. The Alligator caught up with electronics/guitarist and former UF architecture major Paul Giese for a brief Q&A.

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THE AVENUE  |  FOOD

Are celebrity cookbooks ‘culinary’?

By Keri | June 18, 2014

Americans love cookbooks, and this is especially apparent in recent years. In 1961, 49 cookbooks were published. In 2001, more than 1,700 were published, with an astounding 530 million books on food and alcohol sold in the U.S. in 2000. Furthermore, cookbooks are the only genre of print books to maintain sales after 9/11 and to increase in sales during the 2009 recession. 

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THE AVENUE  |  FOOD

Matwick Musings: Cookbooks: Print and Digital

By Keri | June 12, 2014

When you need a recipe, where do you turn? We have many options — cookbooks, magazines, newspaper columns, food websites, television cooking shows and even food products themselves (cereal boxes, chocolate chip bags, etc.).

Lead vocalist Sean Bonnette and guitarist Preston Bryant, members of the band Andrew Jackson Jihad, perform at High Dive Bar & Venue on Sunday night.
THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Andrew Jackson Jihad returns

By Chloe Finch | June 11, 2014

Phoenix-based folk-punk outfit Andrew Jackson Jihad proved on Sunday night at High Dive that punk isn’t dead. What’s more, it can be all at once smart, sincere and totally delirious.

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THE AVENUE  |  ART AND THEATER

‘Palo Alto’ opens Friday at The Hipp

By Niko Pifferetti | June 4, 2014

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.

Hundred Waters, a band from Gainesville, released their latest album "The Moon Rang Like A Bell" last week.
THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Gainesville band Hundred Waters makes waves

By Patrick Glynn | June 4, 2014

Hundred Waters, a band formed in 2011 with roots in Gainesville, has covered genres from electronic to indie to folk to hip-hop with their tempos and drums over their last couple projects. Though their self-titled album, released in 2012, introduced the ability to cover those genres, the band’s most recent effort, “The Moon Rang Like A Bell,” enhanced and honed in on those sounds.

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THE AVENUE  |  FOOD

Food and memory: Mention ‘Proust’s madeleines’ like a pro

By Kelsi | June 4, 2014

Food is more than just nutrients. Food conjures up memories and reveals who we are and who we are not. What we eat is a medium for personal recollection and collective identity. Marcel Proust, the great French author, is famous for connecting food and memory with madeleines, “those squat plump little cakes.” We certainly have him to thank for those little packages of “petite French cakes” at every Starbucks checkout.

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