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MOVIES AND TV
Dude, where’s my wand? How to honor Harry Potter
By Jon Silman | Nov. 17, 2010It’s bittersweet. Your heart swells, but it aches, too. There are only two “Harry Potter” movies left. The saga that defined your youth is parachuting to its final destination into collective pop culture memory. So you need to celebrate this momentous occasion. But how? Faster than you can say (insert spell name here), the Avenue has you covered.
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LIFESTYLE
Dancing with the Dazzlers: Meet the girls with all the moves
By Marissa Prietow | Nov. 17, 2010Week by week, one by one, Hollywood regulars like Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Audrina Patridge and Michael Bolton faced a tough reality: Not everyone makes it on the “Dancing with the Stars” parquet.
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The A-list
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Nov. 17, 2010Each Thursday, the Avenue is serving up the best in entertainment, pop culture and everything in between. From the big screen to the radio waves, check out this week’s picks.
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LIFESTYLE
Getting over the semester slump with 13 days to go
By Kat Bein | Nov. 17, 2010It’s perhaps the most hellish of semester circumstances for students: We’re finished with midterms but still have weeks to go before we can say so long to fall semester and hello to winter break.
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LIFESTYLE
Strip club’s food fails to wow
Nov. 9, 2010Somewhere between the straight-from-Winn-Dixie hamburger bun collapsing to pieces and side items like Ruffles potato chips (which, sadly, taste just like Ruffles potato chips) and one packet of “fancy ketchup,” one thing becomes clear: This restaurant lacks artistic risk.
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LIFESTYLE
The A-list
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Nov. 3, 2010Each Thursday, the Avenue is serving up the best in entertainment, pop culture and everything in between. From the big screen to the radio waves, check out this week’s picks.
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LIFESTYLE
Challenge: Could you bear your hair for No-Shave November?
By Marissa Prieto | Nov. 3, 2010No-Shave November. Novembeard. Call it what you want, but the time is upon us. For one month, men and women across the nation will ditch their Gillette and Venus razors to let the natural beauty flow from their faces, legs and any other optional body part.
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LIFESTYLE
Feeling fruity? Course is a sweet pick for spring schedules
By ALLISON BANKO | Nov. 3, 2010It’s breathing in your ear, flashing in the back of your mind and cowering over your shoulder. Spring registration kicked off this week, and ISIS has become the new Facebook in your hunt for a flawless batch of courses. Among the massive mess of course listings nuzzles a one-credit course that’s extra sweet: Growing Fruit for Fun and Profit (FRC1010).
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MUSIC
Feeling the jam: Papadosio to spin through Gainesville
By Kat Bein | Nov. 3, 2010This Friday, Gainesville is getting a dose of one of Asheville, N.C.’s most up-and-coming rock forces, Papadosio, who have dedicated themselves to reinventing the jam band.
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FASHION
The art of shopping: New store features fashion, gallery
By Kathleen Boyle | Nov. 3, 2010Tucked in a darling two-story corner building at 101 N. Main St., an area known for nightlife and local dives, the marriage of art and fashion is alive and thriving.
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FASHION
Tricks to look like a treat
By ALLISON BANKO | Oct. 27, 2010Sure, you’ve been going buck wild in all of autumn’s glory: breathing in sweet smells of cinnamon, indulging in candy corn, busting out the pumpkin spice candles. You may think you’ve got the fall feel down, but does your wardrobe?
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SEX
Sex and the Swamp: Be a gentleman — ladies first
By Jared Misner | Oct. 27, 2010Dear Jared,
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LIFESTYLE
Start the Fest-ivities: Amping up for a weekend of rock
By Benjamin Evans | Oct. 27, 2010If you’re downtown any time between Friday and Sunday, you’ll probably notice an influx of 15-passenger vans, Paul Bunyan beards, bicycle traffic and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans on the side of the road.
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The Crusty: A poem about our favorite Fest goer
By RICHARD STEHLI | Oct. 27, 2010Editor’s Note: This humor poem was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
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LIFESTYLE
The A-List
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Oct. 27, 2010Each Thursday, the Avenue is serving up the best in entertainment, pop culture and everything in between. From the big screen to the radio waves, check out this week’s picks.
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Get lost: Gainesville corn maze celebrates Halloween
By Melinda Cartensen | Oct. 27, 2010All is still and quiet at Rogers Farm but for a faint breeze and the soft, muffled clucks of a few chickens behind barbed wire.
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MUSIC
Local bands need love, too, at the Fest
By Kat Bein | Oct. 27, 2010Come Friday, Gainesville will be flooded with out-of-towners from all over the world who come to take part in the famous Fest. But let us not forget that Gainesville owes its ability to host a huge indie festival due to its own healthy and vibrant local music culture. Ready to go local? Here are three Gainesville-bred acts you can’t miss at the Fest.
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MUSIC
Meet the Zombie Beatles: Bands we want to resurrect
By Jessica Poitevien | Oct. 27, 2010Let's take a trip down music's memory lane, back to a time when there was no such thing as Auto-Tune or "Glee" or Ke$ha. We had our one-hit wonders (anyone heard from Haddaway lately?) and our boy bands that produced a few albums then disappeared (B2K ring a bell?).
