It’s late October and the many local pumpkin patches have painted Alachua County orange. Each patch has something more than pumpkins to offer, whether it is food, activities or the hours that the patch is open. One pumpkin patch at Gainesville Church of God served as a fundraiser (location …
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Tom Leadon says he's looking forward to seeing family, friends, and fans when he returns to Gainesville to celebrate Tom Petty's birthday: “It’s going to be very emotional for me. He was my closest friend that I ever had.”
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The Santa Fe College Art Gallery will feature an exhibit on musician Bo Diddley, highlighting not just his musical prowess, but his love of inventing, too.
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Even after 420 years, a play like Hamlet can still be “shockingly relevant.” Actress Grace Andrews says, "I’ve been amazed how lines I’ve known all my life – you know, famous Shakespearean lines – have suddenly ... come out in kind of brutal clarity, of … how I can make sense of them now, today. For example, all the stuff that’s been in the news in the past weeks and Ophelia’s line, ‘He took me by the wrist and held me hard.' I suddenly read that and … it takes your breath away, sometimes, if you allow yourself to make it live in a current way."
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“Here is Home: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek” paints the vivid memories the elders of Cross Creek hold of Rawlings.
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Tuesday is the one-year anniversary of Petty’s death, and the official music video for “Gainesville” – part of his new “An American Treasure” box set – was released Monday.
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Tom Petty Nation, which bills itself as having the biggest fan group on Facebook with more than 32,000 members, hosted the listening party at Swamp Head Brewery on Southwest 42nd Avenue.
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On speaking at UF Zanes said, “When the call comes from Gainesville, I pick up, because you can’t tell the Tom Petty story without going to Gainesville. It’s a special place.” On Tom Petty's untimely death: "“I didn’t think Jerry Lee Lewis was still going to be alive and Tom Petty wasn’t going to be here. I was just looking forward to those records...."
Read More »Sandy Stringfellow said he was “the first official roadie” for Mudcrutch, a forerunner band to Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
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“Homegrown in the headphones” is the opening line and “Gainesville was a big town” is the refrain in Tom Petty’s latest song, an homage to his hometown released Thursday.
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