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Sex and the Swamp: Be a gentleman — ladies first
By Jared Misner | Oct. 27, 2010Dear Jared,
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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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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 horror, the horror: Scary flicks, local picks
By Joshua Saval | Oct. 27, 2010If you’ve ever wandered around the student ghetto post-midnight — or shopped at the Oaks Mall — you know that Gainesville can be creepy. Really creepy.
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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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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?).
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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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Trick-or treating with the Avenue
Oct. 27, 2010We’re not in denial: We know we’re a little past our trick-or-treating prime. We know we can no longer strap on a pair of rabbit ears and faux-furball tail without being called a few choice words. We know we’re not getting any candy this year unless we march our non-bunny-costumed selves over to Walgreens (most likely on Nov. 1, when all that cavity-causing goodness goes on sale).
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How to belly dance
By Marissa Prieto | Oct. 20, 2010There’s a specific image that comes to mind when you picture a belly dancer: beaded bras, jingling coin skirts and perfectly toned stomachs.
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Sex and the Swamp: My sex drive needs a drought
By Jared Misner | Oct. 20, 2010Dear Jared,
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ORI: Gainesville’s party people
By Kat Bein | Oct. 20, 2010The people behind some of Gainesville’s biggest parties have more on their minds than just having a good time.
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Drink up: Ring in the season with pumpkin ale
By RICHARD STEHLI | Oct. 20, 2010We won’t make you wait for the leaves to change colors to celebrate all the autumn season has to offer. And that’s more than just candy corn and witch-shaped lollipops — no offense, Halloween.
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The A-List
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Oct. 20, 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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Avenue celeb dream-product picks
By ALLISON BANKO | Oct. 20, 2010He’s got the face of an innocent angel, the voice of a pre-pubescent Backstreet Boy and a mane that shimmers like heaven’s rising sun. Yet, lusting after him feels like the filthiest of sins.
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Fall for fashion: swear off your sweats
By Dana Burke | Oct. 13, 2010You said sayonara to summer months ago, but now that Mother Nature’s finally catching up, it’s time to officially part ways.
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Eisley journeys ‘Over the River and Through the Wood' to Gainesville
By Britt Perkins | Oct. 13, 2010Though known for their sunshiny demeanor and picturesque themes, Eisley's current "Over the River and Through the Wood" tour might as well be named "Over the Heartaches and Through the Divorce." With a label battle to boot.
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There will be Blood: ‘Dracula’ flaunts his fangs at the Hippodrome
By Benjamin Evans | Oct. 13, 2010The cast and crew of the Hippodrome State Theatre’s “Dracula” stop for a ten-minute break from rehearsal after running through the show’s first act. Some go straight for their lighters, some for a drink, and Van Helsing, played by Eric Mendenhall, tests the sharpness of a stake he wields in the second act.
