Abstract Recent advances in the studies of eventwise azimuthal anisotropy from STAR have been made possible by the high statistics 200 GeV Au + Au datasets taken in 2010 and by the broad range of energies recorded during the first phase of the RHIC beam energy scan. The high statistics full energy Au + Au data have allowed precision studies of flow. These include detailed studies of flow versus non-flow, results of elliptic flow at high p T , the ν 2 contributions from jets, and elliptic flow of multi-strange hadrons. Data from the beam energy scan enables STAR to search for evidence of the first order phase transition and the onset of deconfinement through the energy systematics of directed flow, elliptic flow, and azimuthally sensitive HBT.