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Knitting
By Hannah Powell | May 14, 2022"These wooden fingers dance an elaborate plan while the sound keeps time."
The Avenue
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Lady of the Night
By Darwin Tortorella | May 14, 2022"To the solar winds your love you need not throw"
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A Verbal Shanty
By Ian Jackson | May 14, 2022"I am chained just as my ancestral history has always foretold. It has been my past, and present, it will forever be my future."
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Don't Say...
By Jillian Rodriguez | May 14, 2022"'Don’t say [redacted],' they say. But if someone does say it, then go ahead and out them to the office, and the office will out them to their parents and whatever reaction the parents have is their right to have."
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They Are Going To Ask You/Te van a preguntar
By Joaquin Cabrera Petrone | May 14, 2022"And they will ask you: and how does he kiss? And that only God knows."
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MUSIC
Rate and Review: Bad Bunny welcomes summer with ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
By Kristine Villarroel | May 10, 2022Three years and a pandemic since he first skyrocketed to the international stage with his hit single "Callaita," “Un Verano Sin Ti” picks up exactly where Bad Bunny left off.
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Rugh kicks off summer tour with warehouse show
By Kristine Villarroel | May 10, 2022Local “anxiety pop” band Rugh kicked off its summer tour Friday between lightning, rain and glitches in a Storage Zone lot.
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ART AND THEATER
Hippodrome art gallery holds a mirror for its latest installment
By Anna Ward | May 10, 2022Taking inspiration from "Humans of New Yoek," “Hipp Humans: a Collection of Stories from the Humans of Gainesville” presents a snapshot of the Gainesville community, focusing on forces large and small.
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LIFESTYLE
It’s great to be a Florida Gator mom: UF students' mothers on Mother's Day
By Averi Kremposky | May 10, 2022With kids that don’t live at home anymore, Gator moms reflect on why they are looking forward to spending time with their college students this Mother’s Day.
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FOOD
A guide to Gainesville’s best late-night bites
By Amanda Friedman | May 10, 2022A combination of newly opened restaurants and long-time staples represent the late-night food restaurants in Gainesville. Some of the highlights include Insomnia Cookies, Naq’s Halal Food, Flaco’s Cuban Bakery, The Top and Five Star Pizza.
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Dining halls to at-home cooking: UF students discuss college eating habits
By Jared Teitel | May 1, 2022Hundreds of hungry college students continuously line campus cafes. After a full day of lectures and textbook chapters, they’re ready to be served a hearty dinner of grilled chicken, smoked pit ham, vegetable medleys and pasta topped with tomato sauce and fresh basil on hard plastic plates.
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MOVIES AND TV
Rate and Review: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a beautiful clash of multiversal sci-fi and family drama
By Joseph Henry | Apr. 21, 2022It’s not often that a film challenges you to truly be a better person. Nestled between a plethora of genres and a multiverse, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is that film. Read more from Joseph Henry
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Diversity on the rise in Gainesville’s music community
By Amanda Friedman | Apr. 18, 2022In a town previously viewed as a hub for white, indie-rock music, now people of color, queer and female artists are breaking into the Gainesville scene with more experimental sounds inspired by hip hop, ska, funk and Latin music.
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ART AND THEATER
Dancing to the drum beat at the Afro Roots Fest
By Eileen Calub | Apr. 13, 2022Bo Diddley Plaza teemed with festival-goers of all ages, from the elderly lounging in lawn chairs to children dancing in hula hoops in front of the stage. Above, colorful lights casted patterns of violet, red, blue and green onto a brick backdrop and performers below. A musician stepped up to the microphone. His strong voice boomed out a call-and-response scat melody, beckoning to the audience. More than 100 people eagerly participated in the dancing crowd, echoing back the improvised syllables.
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Local artist “Zzz” signed to Grade A Productions
By Alexis Carson | Apr. 12, 2022Grade A Productions made international stars out of rap artists like Juice WRLD and The Kid LAROI. The U.S. production company’s next big name could be one of UF’s own.
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Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Survivor UF holds first two seasons on ‘Gator Island’
By Caleb Wiegandt | Apr. 11, 2022Survivor” has been a staple of American TV on CBS for more than 20 years now, but this Spring UF saw the first iteration of a Gator copycat of the Emmy-winning program. Sitting at home last summer, Casella never thought he wanted to be the one to start a club at UF. Then again, he didn’t want to spend all his time studying for the MCAT either.
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NIGHTLIFE
Madwoman celebrates new single release at the How Bazar
By Amanda Friedman | Apr. 5, 2022About 300 people attended the mindfulness-themed event, which featured performances from local artists Spatially Fed, Rakhu, Faro, Rugh and Madwoman.
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Rate and Review: Denzel Curry looks to the sun on “Melt My Eyez See Your Future”
By Dazion Prosser | Apr. 5, 2022Released March 25, the album marks nearly four years since Curry’s 2018 “TA1300” album. Since then, the 27-year-old has had a lot to reflect on.
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Shabbat traditions give Jewish students home away from home
By Jared Teitel | Apr. 4, 2022A full day’s celebration of completing a laborious week became a staple of Jewish tradition, occurring every week on Friday’s sundown and ending on sundown Saturday when the lights go out for bedtime. Although a holiday typically is observed at home in the company of family, Shabbat has become an important campus tradition of UF Jewish students’ lives — fostered by Jewish leaders, students and other observers. This common practice has allowed UF Jewish community members to surround themselves with each other and embrace their common heritage.
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“Night Before Gainesville” shines spotlight on talented Florida artists
By Dazion Prosser | Mar. 30, 2022“Night Before Gainesville” screened more than 120 music videos and short films from Florida-based artists and filmmakers at the Hippodrome Theater.
