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(07/24/13 11:23pm)
Juanita Frazier gently places a tiny porcelain box on her kitchen table. The box, small enough to hold pennies or bobby pins, is painted with a swirl of flowers in vivid yellows, lavenders and greens.
(07/17/13 11:41pm)
On Friday night, several hundred Gainesville residents braved the Florida summer heat to see Morningbell. Fresh off a two-week tour in promotion of its latest album “Bôa Noite,” the band performed on Bo Diddley Community Plaza for the Free Fridays series.
(07/10/13 11:30pm)
Carl Hiaasen, a long-time columnist for the Miami Herald, prolific author of Florida-based crime fiction and UF alumnus, released his thirteenth novel “Bad Monkey” (Knopf, $26.95) on June 11. In customary Hiaasen fashion, the novel presents a never-ending parade of colorful characters and a string of improbable events set against a backdrop of pristine Key West sunsets and Bahamian beaches.
(06/19/13 11:11pm)
When Elizabeth Jones began working for the UF College of Education in 1952, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School was housed in Norman Hall. The building’s inhabitants, Jones said, ranged from kindergarteners to doctoral candidates at that time.
(06/13/13 11:35pm)
Gainesville Community Playhouse’s membership director Susan Christophy hosted the Playhouse’s first Director’s Showcase on Saturday at the Vam York Theater at 4039 NW 16th Blvd.
(12/05/12 2:45pm)
Something about being back home for the holidays always causes me to regress. After setting aside 48 hours to hibernate and stuffing myself with as much homemade food as possible, I plan to spend the rest of break watching my old movies and reading my old books in my bedroom, which is still has painted-purple walls and my life-sized cardboard cutout of John Mayer.
(11/28/12 12:15pm)
What do you get for the woman who has everything? Holidays are coming up, and should you find yourself wondering just what a modern woman would like to unwrap this Christmas or Hanukkah, consult my handy list of products no lady can resist. Hint: Dick-in-a-box is not one of them.
(11/14/12 12:15am)
On Sunday, Salon.com released a guest piece by Mark Guarino, Christian Science Monitor staff writer and renowned Taylor Swift expert, analyzing the root of Taylor Swift’s commercial success and why we should be wary.
(11/07/12 12:43am)
The only thing that brought me through my candy hangover and post-Halloween depression on Nov. 1 was the thought of a monthlong break from shaving since No-Shave November is upon us once again.
(10/31/12 12:20am)
Maybe in a haze of midterms (or alcohol), you forgot Halloween was today. Never fret, ladies — these simple costume ideas (with a kick-ass lady twist) will be the hit of any Halloween party. After all, there’s more to life than skimpy vegetable costumes.
(10/31/12 12:13am)
“Hey, we all love boobs!” a statement from PornHub’s website reads.
(10/24/12 12:15am)
In a feature titled “The Scary Crime No One’s Talking About,” Cosmopolitan’s cutting-edge reporting team wrote about a new scary thing for women to worry about besides STDs, how to wear capes and the state of Kristen Stewart’s love life: getting roofied by bartenders.
(10/17/12 12:15am)
The New York Times reported last week that writer/actor/filmmaker Lena Dunham just scored her first book deal, at the ripe of 26, from Random House for more than $3.5 million, and haters have gone wild.
(10/10/12 12:15am)
The cover of the October issue of Cosmopolitan advertised not only “78 Crazy-Hot Sex Facts” and “What Your Breasts Need Most at Night,” but in the bottom left-hand corner, next to Zooey Deschanel’s pink-clad thigh, read, “Secrets Even a Good Boyfriend Keeps From You.” I was intrigued.
(10/03/12 1:30am)
If there’s two things I’m sick of hearing about, it’s Chris Brown’s continued existence and the women’s reproductive rights debate. Frankly, I’m just too busy to worry what goes on with my vagina, and I’m a little insulted that some politicians assume that women are obsessed with reproductive rights. If they even took two seconds to open an issue of Glamour, they’d know we care about a wide range of things, like Fall’s Nine Hottest Nail Polish Colors and Three Totally Chic Ways to Wear a Cape.