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UF alum plays High Dive
By Cody Smith | Oct. 29, 2014A J-School graduate swung his guitar down and smashed it onstage at Lollapalooza.
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‘Dear White People’ is relief from racial stereotypes in movies
By Bryan Faux | Oct. 22, 2014Writer and director Justin Simien’s new film, “Dear White People,” is a hilarious satire of racial politics and a welcome breath of fresh air. While the movie has its flaws, it is funny, pointed, honest and something we haven’t seen in recent modern films.
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Your cookbook is more than simply your recipes
By Kelsi | Oct. 22, 2014A cookbook can be considered an autobiography.
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Local food: Ward’s fall festival returns
By Lilianne Busto | Oct. 22, 2014A locally owned Gainesville grocery store is celebrating its 63rd Anniversary Fall Food Festival on Saturday.
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Found Footage Festival back in Gainesville with more obscure clips
By Daniela Prizont-Cado | Oct. 22, 2014The dramatic how-to videos of the ‘90s, such as a McDonald’s training video and a 1997 instructional video “How to Have Cybersex on the Internet,” will come alive this weekend.
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Coral Skies Festival brings big-name acts to Tampa, West Palm
By Cody Smith | Oct. 22, 2014Gator Growl just brought two headlining musical acts to Gainesville, but concert addicts can see even more this weekend at the Coral Skies Music Festival.
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Gator Walk brick seals engagement between UF alumni on gameday
By Jasmine Wildfloer Osmond | Oct. 22, 2014Even though Gator football failed against Louisiana State University this season, a Gator grad won his sweetheart’s heart forever that day.
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Dixieland Music Park Fall Bluegrass Festival returns to Waldo
By Cody Smith | Oct. 22, 2014The fall music festival season is kicking off strong in Central Florida in the coming weeks, and the small town of Waldo is once again bringing back bluegrass.
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Dating website finds UF females more selective than UF males when dating
By Mahogany Brown | Oct. 15, 2014A dating platform that makes finding love easier for students recently looked through its users from colleges in Florida to find out who were the pickiest when it came to dating.
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Raven-Symoné’s social media storm
By Rachel Welch | Oct. 15, 2014Former “The Cosby Show” and “That’s So Raven” child star “set the Twitter on fire” Sunday night, according to Oprah Winfrey.
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Christian musical acts to perform tonight at local church
By Kelsey Jordan | Oct. 15, 2014Contemporary Christian artist Jason Gray’s “With Every Act of Love Tour” will grace Gainesville tonight.
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A whole latte fall-flavored love
By Kelsey Jordan | Oct. 15, 2014As the cool weather of autumn arrives, coffee drinkers are trading in their iced beverages for hot brews. Local cafe menus are filling up with flavors of the season, and while the pumpkin spice latte is a dead-set tradition, creative alternatives are emerging.
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Toasting to the holidays ahead
By Keri | Oct. 15, 2014Now is the time to start preparing for the holidays ahead. No, we don’t mean shopping or menu planning, which are good ideas by the way, but preparing for the social events ahead. Ways to fine-tune your social etiquette are to know how to give good toasts, a universal practice of honoring a person or occasion with an expression of goodwill and a drink. The holidays present many opportunities to give toasts with gatherings of friends and family ahead, including parties, winter weddings and graduations.
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Blood, a D-list film director, a drugged-up mom and more
By Jasmine Wildflower Osmond | Oct. 15, 2014With a set that features bloody mannequins chained to walls and a bathtub full of bloody body parts and severed heads, the Hippodrome State Theatre’s Halloween play isn’t scared of getting a little messy this year.
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Halloween at Universal: From witches, wizards and goblins to terrorizing zombies and Michael Myers
By Emily Cardinali | Oct. 8, 2014Diagon Alley
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UF Symphony Orchestra presents Cinderella
By Aileen Mack | Oct. 8, 2014Tonight, 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.
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Wizardly drinks this month
By Lauren Bobek | Oct. 8, 2014Wizard-themed drinks are whizzing into UF’s Starbucks this month.
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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.
