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Friday, June 27, 2025

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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

Downtown Cuban film festival celebrates music, culture

This weekend, the Hippodrome State Theatre will host a Cuban film festival downtown. The festival, which runs from Friday at 6 p.m. until Sunday at 7 p.m., will feature three Cuban films: “Before Night Falls,” “Cicho and Rita” and “Playing Lecuona;” a biopic, animated film and music documentary, respectively.


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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

Gainesville organization creates storytelling meetups

Tonight, Gainesville-based storytelling group Self Narrate will be hosting one of its monthly meetups at Third House Books & Coffee from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This event will feature stories told live by Gainesville residents on the topic of leaving home. Each story will be approximately five minutes long.


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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

The definitive senior bucket list for your last six weeks

If you’re graduating this semester, and you’re like me, you’re starting to panic about leaving behind everything Gainesville has to offer. Coming back from Spring Break made that impending diploma seem way too real, and now you may be looking to pack in everything you’ve wanted to do over the last four years into the last six weeks. Lucky for you, I’m here to round up all of the must-do activities you need to check off your bucket list before the end of April.


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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Music Roundup: Nav, Future

If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest music, you’ve come to the right place. The past two weeks have been stacked with releases. Get caught up with everything you should be listening to by checking out these projects:


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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

After four-year hiatus, John Mayer is back

Before we had Ed Sheeran’s acoustics, James Bay’s raspy vocals or Shawn Mendes’ catchy lyrics, we had the smooth guitar stylings of John Mayer. With tunes like “Your Body is a Wonderland” and “Waiting on the World to Change,” girls around the world swooned and sighed as Mayer picked his guitar with an effortless presence.



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