WUFT Morning Edition host, Glenn Richards, talks with guitarist/composer Nels Cline, probably best known as lead guitarist for Wilco. They discuss his latest project, an improvisational collaboration with drummer Gerald Cleaver and saxophonist Larry Ochs. Their new album, ‘What Is To Be Done,’ was released earlier this year by Clean …
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Santa Fe College’s annual Spring Arts Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary on Saturday and Sunday in Gainesville’s downtown historic district.
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“From Colored to Black” is a Gainesville play that reflects on past and current race disparities within the north central Florida African American community.
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In Windsor, the Zucchini Festival and the volunteer fire department are almost synonymous. The festival started out as a silly fundraiser for Windsor's fire department and May will mark the 35th time zucchinis take over the town.
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Singer Lisset Díaz on forming a band in Cuba: "...it’s not like here, like that you can just gather some friends and start a band. You can’t do that in Cuba. You need permissions. You need someone to tell you – like someone important – to tell you that you are good to go."
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This year marks the 50th Gatornationals. The races are held March 14 to 17.
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For nearly five years, two statues have greeted visitors outside of an old art gallery along State Road 26 in Melrose. The sculptures depicting the likenesses of John Belushi and Dan Akyroyd’s characters Jake and Elwood from the 1980 film The Blues Brothers have become a local landmark, but now the one of the sculptures is missing.
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Raiford is Union Juvenile Residential Facility currently holding 24 young men from ages 13 to 18. For the next few months a team of theater and education workers from Gainesville will make weekly visits to the detention center to help rehabilitate these young men.
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In a statement, lawyers Charles Kuck, Dina LaPolt and Alex Spiro said the rapper, whose given name is She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was released Tuesday.
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A proposed ordinance came before the Gainesville City Commission on Thursday that would eliminate the limit on permits for entertainment for small businesses that might be causing loud noise until two in the morning.
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