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Fashion blogs help define style scene
By ASHLEY McCREDIE | Mar. 24, 2010Blog: Sea of Shoes
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Fashion week ahead
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 24, 2010Fashion has no limits. It’s daring, risky and of course, fabulous. Tuesday evening, Gainesville Fashion Week and CovetedList.com proved the absence of style’s boundaries with a fashion show that featured outfits fitting women of all colors, heights and body types.
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Slightly Stoopid, G. Love & Special Sauce play free show
By ASHLEY McCREDIE | Mar. 24, 2010UF will be taken over by bluey-hip-hop and funky-punk-reggae beats on Saturday.
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Atten-tion! Bootcamp pushes students to new levels
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 24, 2010For 30 seconds, you and a partner are shoulder- pressing a 30-pound tire together over your head. Just when your shoulders can’t take it anymore, you’re running 40 yards at full speed. Your jog to the next station is your break, only to throw a 10-pound medicine ball as hard as you can to your partner after squatting and then lunging forward with it. You throw back and forth with your partner for 50 seconds.
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Total Breakdown
By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Mar. 24, 2010What do you get when you throw 90 bands on six different venues in Gainesville? You get Total Bummer, Gainesville’s biggest do-it-yourself music festival.
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Film 'As We Forgive' screened on Tuesday
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 18, 2010Large brown eyes never packed so much emotion. Veined with burst blood vessels stained from tears and anger, just two women of the many affected by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda are portrayed in the documentary, "As We Forgive." AIM For Africa and Reitz Union Board Entertainment presented the film, directed by Laura Waters Hinson, Tuesday evening as the first part of An African Film Series in order to raise awareness to issues in foreign nations.
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Spring brings new beer
By Richard O. Stehli | Mar. 17, 2010With the first day of spring on Saturday, it’s time to trade in your heavy, warming stouts and porters for lighter, crisper spring fare. Here are a few suggestions for what you can drink as the days get longer:
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Too much porn can make the actual bedroom a bore
By MICHAEL PERRONNE | Mar. 17, 2010He says...
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Diverse offering from Harvest of Hope
By Alex Orlando | Mar. 17, 2010With mud underfoot, pumping fists overhead and the music of 160 bands thundering through the air, thousands of people braved rain, wind and cold weather for three days to support artists and migrant farm workers at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds.
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Andy Samberg makes waves
By AMELIA MARTY | Mar. 17, 2010Mr. Pibb and Red Vines? Crazy delicious.
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Splurge on tickets now, summer fests sell out
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Mar. 17, 2010Music festivals. The one event where you can ignore the jacked-up water bottle prices and smelly bathrooms (or lack thereof) and just kick back and enjoy being in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by thousands of people who want and love the exact same thing you do: good music. The music festival season is fast approaching, and tickets are selling out quickly. Whether you’re a seasoned music festival expert, or you’ve been itching to try one, here are some of the music festivals worth checking out in 2010:
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Don’t bake, fake to keep tan
By ALLISON BANKO | Mar. 17, 2010You may be freshly bronzed from those Spring Break fiascoes in the sun, but soon the honeymoon will be as done as your reputation from that night out in Cabo. However, your tan (existing as your one bit of dignity from that vacation) will soon disappear—causing you to resemble more of a “Twilight” vampire than Jessica Alba’s doppelganger.
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Exclusive: Ben Folds Q&A
By GABRIELLE FALCONEIRI | Mar. 17, 2010Singer, songwriter Ben Folds performed last night at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Read here for his take on a cappella versus pop and how he designs his set lists.
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SFC dance show hits the stage
By LAUREN GOLD | Mar. 17, 2010The lights go down, and the curtain goes up. It’s showtime.
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Eighties babies will love “Hot Tub”
By ASHLEY ROSS | Mar. 17, 2010Admit it. Although your birth date falls in the late eighties or (gasp!) nineties, you still love the puffy-bright-tracksuit-side-ponytail-wearing-“Breakfast Club”-loving generation.
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Local spring break tips
By MICHELLE PROFIS | Mar. 3, 2010Stuck in Gainesville over Spring Break? We’ve got you covered. Here are some fun things to keep you occupied throughout next week:
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NRWO touring Florida this month
By Benjamin Evans | Mar. 3, 2010In 1992, the year Sir Mix-A-Lot rapped about oversized backsides and Billy Ray Cyrus pleaded on behalf of his ticker, U2 launched an attack on the media with their groundbreaking Zoo TV Tour.
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Harvest of Hope brings over 160 bands during spring break
By Alex Orlando | Mar. 3, 2010Although Woodstock was 40 years ago, bands and thousands of fans still gather to celebrate their love for music.
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Effortless ways to avoid packing on the pounds this break
By LANCE FULLER | Mar. 3, 2010Editor’s Note: How much you weigh and how long you exercise will determine how many calories you will burn.
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Sneaking by security easy for your booze cruise
By GABRIELLE FALONEIRI | Mar. 3, 2010Many Spring Breakers will hit the decks of cruise ships for vacations that leave little bits of dignity scattered about Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
