Arts and Entertainment

Arjuna Myles spends weeks every summer at band camp. But he's no high school student or band director. He’s a drill designer; he directs hundreds of high school students scampering in intricate patterns across football and practice fields around North Central Florida, like ants under a microscope.

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.

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.

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.

Gainesville residents take to the streets to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and speak out for equality on Monday.

Voices Rising will have a free holiday concert, at First United Methodist Church on Northeast First Street in Gainesville, 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday.

A Jacksonville-area woman is helping families cope with loss by making teddy bears made out of clothing of loved ones killed due to violent crime.