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Thursday 11/19/2009
Art bash showcases student creations
Updated: 11/19/2009

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Men need matchmaking too
Updated: 11/19/2009

    After Bret found “love” and VH1 ended “Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels,” the trashy reality television gods have blessed me with another gem in the form of an hourlong block of the new season of “Tough Love.” I find Sundays lazing on the couch watching no-thought-involved TV medicinal, but for those of you who don’t, let me recap the show.

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Wednesday 11/18/2009
Theory of a Deadman plays without gimmicks
Updated: 11/18/2009

When Theory of a Deadman commands the stage, there are no frills or gimmicks.

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Aspiring designer starts purse collection One image
Updated: 11/18/2009

Barcelona native Laura Vela will be studying at UF and selling her custom-made line of handbags

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Hot Water Music veteran creates acoustic tour One image
Updated: 11/18/2009

Sometimes, simplicity can feel startlingly fresh.

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MtvU Woodie Awards recognizes popular, new artists
Updated: 11/18/2009

What does it take to gain Woodie status?

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Hawthorne Heights reborn One image
Updated: 11/18/2009

The members of Hawthorne Heights have always been driven to form a solid band. It doesn’t stem from a hunger for success, though. To the Dayton, Ohio, rock band, playing music is a therapeutic escape.

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Wednesday 11/11/2009
Most relationships dysfunctional
Updated: 11/11/2009

Last summer I was visiting a notoriously melodramatic couple in West Palm Beach. Seated at a bar in Bradley’s, the couple’s most recent quarrel had us on the edge of our bar stools. Downing another Tequila Sunrise in a futile attempt to tune out the awkwardness, I listened to my friends trade barbed insults. They passionately disputed whether it’s appropriate to boast about their previous sexcapades in front of one another (by the way, it’s really, really not). Now imagine this: The guy, who resembles a Jewish version of The Hulk, becomes inexplicably jealous and tears up underneath his oversized dark shades while the girl coolly rolls her eyes and says, “If you don’t stop crying, we’re leaving.”

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Small roles still allow for humor, revenge
Updated: 11/11/2009

My first acting role was in a third grade Valentine’s Day-themed play called “Princess Lonely Heart.” It was one of those low-budget cafetorium shows for parents to waste their camcorders’ batteries on their child’s struggle to remember lines.

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  • Men need matchmaking too

        After Bret found “love” and VH1 ended “Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels,” the trashy reality television gods have blessed me…

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