Looking for a night of fun with great activities and exciting performers, all for free?! That’s what RUB Entertainment and GatorNights! are all about!

For our Hunger Games-themed GatorNights! this past Friday, we brought magician Mat Franco, who thrilled the crowds with magic tricks, his mind-reading abilities and hilarious college humor. Perhaps one of the most exciting parts of his performance was when he made a student’s signed $20 bill appear in the chicken flavor packet of a sealed package of Ramen noodles! That’s not all, though. He brought our very own advisor, Charlotte, out from the crowd and on-stage to demonstrate a few mind-reading techniques, in which he guessed the next two songs to be played on her iPhone!

In addition to Mat Franco, we also played the movie Red Dawn and had free activities for GatorNights!-goers like laser tag, an obstacle course, wax flowers and sandy candy.

This Friday, March 29, the movie Lincoln will be playing throughout the night. We’ll also have Western/cowboy-themed novelty activities like Scribe the Hide, cactus decorations and old-time photos. Not to mention there will also be House of Flying Cards in the Orange & Brew, the Pride Struts Its Stuff talent show in the Rion Ballroom and much more!

So be sure to come out this Friday night for a fun time in the wild west of the Reitz Union!

RUB Entertainment’s Neon Nights brought Miami’s Ultra Music Festival right to the Rion Ballroom Wednesday night. Neon Nights was a free event in the Retiz Union that was packed with glow in the dark T-shirts, stage lighting, two amazing DJs, refreshments, and games. 

Gainesville DJ Dominican Dutch warmed up the dance floor with Dubstep and electronic music that got the people moving. Then the much anticipated mash-up DJs the Hood Internet took the stage and rocked the crowd with their eclectic music taste and unique genre mash-ups.

 The music and lights kept the people sweatin’ and bustin’ a move on the dance floor. Even some RUB Entertainment Directors and members had some surprising dance moves. Move over Miami, Gainesville is where the party is at.

We would like to thank DJ Domimincian Dutch and The Hood Internet for rocking the Rion Ballroom. Please check out RUB Entertainment Facebook or Twitter for more FREE music related events coming to the Reitz Union. 

RUB Entertainment's Superhero Week continued Thursday night in the Orange and Brew!


Our Bands subcommittee hosted a special Battle of the Bands concert from 8-10pm.  Five, talented local bands from the Gainesville area duked it out on Gator turf for some great prizes!  But perhaps the most important one of all: to perform at SGP's renowned concert series, Swampfest, in April! 


Swampfest last year was a success and had performers like Mac Miller, Rooney, and Tokyo Police Club.  The winner of the Battle of Bands will open for some huge names in music.


Each performer was given six to eight minutes to prove to the UF students why they deserved to be victorious.  Of course, this was a fight to the death - and a winner only barely won!


Rachel Rose exceeded our expectations and won us over with her heavenly voice and stage presence. We cannot wait to see her on the big stage in April.


We would like to thank Coal Bed, MotherCulture, Revision, and Golden Caulfield for giving it their all and battling on stage.  Make sure to check out their performances around Gainesville!

RUB Entertainment didn't stop with the comics or the marvelous superhero night, we then brought you the actual thing! Wednesday night in the Rion ballroom, RUB hosted guest speaker Doug Jones. Best known for his roles as the Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, as Abe Sapien (blue fish guy) in both Hellboy movies, and as the Faun and Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth, not only is Doug a talented actor, his personality is just as great. 

One of Doug's specialties, besides his advanced miming skills, (so awesome, I know!) is his acting in special effects costumes. Covered in head to toe with prosthetic body parts, make-up, paint, glue, and other forms of body art, Doug really had to bring his characters to life through body movement, posture, voicing, and sometimes, even contortions. His reenactment of this was pretty entertaining to say the least. 

The talk that evening was casual and comedic, as Doug shared anecdotes of his life, before and during his acting career, and then held a Q&A with the audience. Everyone from film and theatre students to fans asked an array of questions in which Doug offered his advice, inspiration, or simply more insight into his career. 

Later, he chatted and took pictures with the audience members. We were really happy with the audience feedback after the show: they loved it!

Make sure to follow Doug on Twitter (@actordougjones) and keep attending RUB's events. 

Thank you all! 

Reitz Union Board of Entertainment’s Superhero Theme Week continued last night with the Special Event Committee’s Marvelous Superhero Night!  There were tons of opportunities to transform into your alter ego by making your own Superhero mask (the perfect way to disguise your true identity) and taking green screen pictures that put you in full superhero costume.

Crafts were plenty in the Orange in Brew; in addition, to making your own disguise, there was a button station and a superhero bookmark making station as well.  If you needed to reenergize after such action packed activities, there was a sweets station where you could load up on your favorite candy and soda. 

Finally, a superhero trivia game tested everyone’s knowledge with questions like “What is Superman’s weakness?” and “Where is Wonder Woman from?” The winner took home a Superhero prize.

Tonight, we have actor Doug Jones (Silver Surfer) speaking at 8pm in the Rion Ballroom so don’t miss out!

(This blog post was written by Karla Burnett)

Superhero week started off with a bang, pow and ka-boom (or something like that) with the Sequential Artists Workshop(SAW)’s Tom Hart and Justine Andersen coming in to do a lecture and ink demonstration.

SAW is a Gainesville based place that offers classes, workshops, and things like film nights that are all focused on creation of comic-book style art—sequential art. We got a little peek at what it would be like to enroll at SAW tonight as Tom and Justine tag-teamed their way through a slideshow of art that inspires them, as well as some pieces that they’d done themselves.

Pages from Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Jack Kirby, George Grosz, and others served as examples of line variation, shading, pen vs. brush techniques and iconic works in the sequential art industry.

Before doing the ink demonstration and setting the audience loose on some tracing to practice based on the examples we’d just seen, Tom and Justine shared “horror stories” of the business that involved Justine telling off her editors that weren’t respecting her work as an artist, and Tom introducing a hobo character to some Japanese publishers.

Then we all dipped SAW’s pens and brushes into ink and tried it out for ourselves. For some, it turned out very unsuccessfully (mine ended up in the trash can...), but for others, they found they had a knack for using the inking style.

Many cats were sketched free hand.

Oh, and did I forget to mention the fact that there was free pizza? Yeah, there was free pizza.