Not many artists can say they have had Jack White as a critic.
For some, it’s a simple click of a button. You hover the arrow over “buy,” click and music is immediately downloaded to your computer and transferred to your iPod where you can hear it instantaneously.
The summer is an interesting time in Gainesville. About 40,000 students are gone, and the town seems to slow down. The Hippodrome Theatre takes advantage of this relaxing time to entertain the city with its annual summer musical.
Gainesville is the perfect place to become an artist, with its cultural influence and connection to nature. This is exactly why Tom Hart, 42, of New York City, decided to move to Gainesville to open the Sequential Artists Workshop, a school, studio and library that serves to foster the creation and appreciation of comics.
Two months ago, Sarah Goff and Mike Myers sat outside a colossal empty warehouse in a mountain of old clothes, vinyl records, picture frames and empty vases. They waited. They sold trinkets at yard sales every Saturday. They waited some more.
Whether you are a beer aficionado, occasionally indulge your inner Sam Adams or just want an excuse to booze, American Craft Beer Week kicked off Monday to celebrate the masterful hop-barley-yeast concoction — aka fun in a bottle.
In May of 2008, Hoffman was acting as an informant for the Tallahassee Police Department when a poorly executed drug sting led to her death.
Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel spoke out last week in a big way, revealing exclusively to Rolling Stone magazine that he is transgender, has spent almost his entire life feeling trapped in the wrong skin and will be undergoing the steps necessary to transition into a woman.
One of the oldest and arguably best freebies in Gainesville, Free Fridays, has begun to host its summer-long concert series.
Vishal Agarwala was tired of bands he loved not touring in Gainesville, so he started his own company to bring his favorite artists here.
I’m going to tell you what I’ve actually learned here at UF without any weird advice about where to poop.
The Great White Way has a knack for turning films of the past into contemporary musical showstoppers.
At Gainesville Fashion Week’s Saturday runway shows, about 300 fashion fans and style supporters dressed to impress at Villa East to watch as seven designers showcased their creations on the catwalk.
On April 21, local Gainesville record stores Hear Again Music and Movies!, Wayward Council and toneVendor will participate in the fifth annual Record Store Day, a celebration of independent music retailers across the nation.
The Brits have a lot to look forward this year — the Olympics starts off in London in July and a month before, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will be celebrated, commemorating her 60 year reign of promoting British culture.
Leave anything on stage, and the guys of Enter Shikari will climb it.
Ariana Grande, who’s known as the burgundy-haired Cat Valentine on the TV show “Victorious,” documents her life every day.
When every other kindergartner in her class was focused on coloring, learning the ABCs and nap time, Laura Kathleen Planck was working on becoming a fashion designer.
Ever since New Kids on the Block (NKOTB, if ya nasty) crooned their way onto the popular music scene in the 1990s, the musical staple known as the “boy band” has evolved into a larger-than-life cultural phenomenon that has transfixed tweens for several generations.
Screenplay writer David H. Steinberg, of the iconic teen movies “Slackers” and the “American Pie” series, shows that 10 years after the movies’ releases, when it comes to playing out teen lingo, sex drives and self-deprecations, he still understands teenagers — all of which we see in his new book “Last Stop This Town.”
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