While national music festivals attract people from across the world, their high price tags often prevent college students from attending. Luckily for Gainesville, a local alternative has emerged to satiate the music lover’s hunger for live music.
Bibliophiles everywhere can recognize “Call me Ishmael” as one of the most famous first sentences in literature. But a new project is taking that opening line from “Moby-Dick” and giving it a modern twist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Patti Smithereens,” No. 86, fought her way through the pack of women as she was met with crushing shoulder shoves and hips knocking her every which way.
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.
With mobile dating apps on the rise, a new company is offering a new take on the nature of creating fast relationships by encouraging members to involve family and friends in the process.
Gainesville Fashion Week will be holding a runway show at The Enclave Apartments on June 28 that will feature summer and resort-wear trends. Down by the pool at The Enclave is where the runway will be.
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.).
Ecoterrorism, the subject of Kelly Reichardt’s “Night Moves,” is a tricky topic to think about.
The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off today, and Gainesville bars are ready for the influx of customers during the month-long international soccer championship.
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.
Wild Iris Books, home to Gainesville’s feminist community, is one of the last bookstores of its kind in the U.S., according to a story published last week in PolicyMic Magazine, and it plans to stay that way.
Justin McKenzie, 25, asked a crowd of about 100 dancing, sweaty concertgoers at The JAM on Saturday night, “Who’s thirsty?”
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.
Disney’s “Maleficent” is so many things at once. It is a beautiful fairy tale. It is visually stunning. It is overdone. It is messy.
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.
Some of Gainesville’s top bars and clubs are sweating this summer, and it’s not just because of the heat.
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