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A Newcomer’s Guide to Downtown Gainesville

Now, more than ever, the downtown area is the place to be for the best Gainesville has to offer in terms of local restaurants, bars…

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Cypress & Grove Brews Up Grand-Opening Party

Two years in the making, Gainesville’s newest craft brewery is throwing a grand-opening celebration on Saturday in a building that once housed the city’s first…

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Social Dance Programs Get Artwalk Introduction

A new program called JUMPSTarts, based at the city’s renovated Rosa B. Williams Center, is intended to get interested people — young and old —…

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‘Me & Jezebel’ Shows Davis as Real-Life Character

The two-women production at the Actors’ Warehouse describes what happened when the aging film star dropped in on a Connecticut family and made herself right…

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‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Exudes Playfulness

The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre presents its second installment of Summer Shakespeare. This year it’s the Bard’s most frequently performed comedy that’s still funny 400 years…

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Morning Fatty Taking Music to the Next Level

The Gainesville-based band, which performs in concert on Saturday night at High Dive, is getting ready to release a new album later this summer that…

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Thomas Center Showcases Work of Street Artists

A new exhibit, UNCONTAINABLE | Urban Art from Vandalism to Movement, sheds a whole new light on an art style that has its roots in…

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The Hipp’s ‘Forever Plaid’ Summer Comfort Food

This year’s summer musical at the Hippodrome will entertain audiences with a sentimental mix of 1950s and ’60s rock n’ roll as well as popular…

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Actors’ Warehouse Ready to Christen New Home

The award-winning theater company has moved out of its North Main Street storefront and into a historic church building only a block away. Its latest…

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Tom Miller’s ‘UMMU’ Takes You to Another World

The longtime Gainesville resident, best known as a performance artist, puts his writing skills on display this week when the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre presents the…

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