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“The two questions I got when I returned [were], ‘Are you going to run for office?’ and ‘Are you going to play music?’ And so the answers were easy: no and yes.”
Read More »Gary Gordon Returns To Gainesville With New Songs And Stories
Raelyn Nelson: Willie Nelson’s Granddaughter Brings Her Brand of Rock & Country to Gainesville
I just want to keep playing music the rest of my life. My Grandpa and Aunt Bobbie have been playin’ on the road for over 45 years together. It’s all I’ve known that they do. They just go out and play songs and they call it work.
Read More »National Changes To Miss America Will Filter To Local Pageants Next Year
The 2018 national competition will reflect these new changes, but, with local pageants well under way, the changes will be implemented locally next year.
Read More »Lauren Groff’s ‘Florida:’ A Psychological State Imposed by the Natural World of Florida
“Florida is the strangest state. It’s the butt of everyone’s joke. But at the same time, it’s not a single thing. It’s a multitude of stories layered on top of one another.”
Read More »‘Funk Is Life For Me’: Big Sam’s Funky Nation Returns To Gainesville
“Funk is life for me. Funk is everything. We all need some of it in our lives, so guess who’s here to give it to you?”
Read More »Florida Cuts Budget For Cultural Affairs
Florida cut funding to cultural affairs by 80 percent this year which impacts about 500 cultural organizations in the state.
Read More »Cade Museum Opens In Gainesville As Hub For Invention
The revitalization of downtown Gainesville continued on Saturday with the grand opening of The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention.
Read More »UF Dance Professor Elizabeth Johnson Teaches Alexander Technique To Broaden Mind And Body Through Ballet
As a university dance professor, Johnson takes the discipline and specificity of conservatory teaching and mixes it with improvisation skills.
Read More »Tiny Beds, Big Impact
Kendall is one of 14 artists in residence at UF Health. Through music, visual arts and other types of artwork, each of these artists help patients cope with an avenue aside from medicine alone.
Read More »Florida Voices | Carlton “Blixx” Barber, The Tiny Terror
Inside the world of dwarf wrestling, Blixx is one the sport's most recognizable faces.
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