While theater economy remains iffy in Gainesville, UF students have hope
Gainesville may welcome art in all its forms, but its job market for professional theater is about as bad as the rest of the country’s.
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Gainesville may welcome art in all its forms, but its job market for professional theater is about as bad as the rest of the country’s.
Xylitone can’t stop playing music. Even as each member tells his story during a Friday night rehearsal, the other members strum popular songs on guitar, improvise melodies on piano keys or thumb strings on an electric bass.
Eleven years ago today, Lt. Todd Kelly was lobster fishing in the Keys. He climbed back in the boat to find others gathered around a radio, listening to reports that the twin towers had fallen.
The new Reitz Union Board Entertainment Arts Committee will host its first event Monday.
Grooveshark launched a mobile-streaming website Wednesday to bypass the Google and Apple app stores after a series of disagreements with media companies.
Gainesville residents laughed hard, clapped hard and sometimes gasped hard over the crackle of projectors Sunday night to watch “The Gong Show,” a collection of short films that showcased UF’s Curation as Production class.
President Barack Obama talked student loans, space program funding and beer in an unconventional interview on the Internet last week.
I liked Nickelback once.
In his senior year of college, Dennis Frohlich’s stomach started hurting.
Sixty percent of students intended to work full- or part-time jobs after their spring graduation, according to survey data from the Career Resource Center, Office of Institutional Planning and Research and the registrar’s office. About 30 percent aimed to pursue graduate school.
Whether it’s by attending election awareness campaigns or by registering to vote, UF students can become engaged in the upcoming presidential election.
Now that the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has been updated, words like brain cramp, man cave and sexting are fair game for academic papers.
Editors Note: A version of this story originally appeared in the May 31 edition of the Alligator.
Editors Note: A version of this story originally appeared in the June 14 edition of the Alligator.
I remember freshman move-in day. After the sweaty process of transporting boxes of stuff through Florida rain and humidity, I was excited to make my new space into my new home. I had the bedspread, the desk lamp and storage bins, all from department stores.
When Lia-Lucine Cary was a child, her grandfather taught her a valuable lesson — that educating oneself is the most important thing one can do. Today as a middle school teacher in Hawaii, Cary teaches that lesson to her students who are raised in a culture that doesn’t encourage college as an option.
It’s the first day of elementary school. Some children are scared of letting go of Mom’s hand, some are excited to make new friends. Others are anxious about getting their peers to accept their physical differences, which is why novelist Shelley Fraser Mickle started Wild Onion Press.
In lab, Anna Melnichuk is a 29-year-old graduate student working toward a master’s degree both in physical chemistry and electrical engineering. On the social networking and shopping website, Etsy, she is Silvertree999, armed with handmade jewelry and nature photographs taken with her mother’s 35mm Minolta, a retro film camera.
Ted Kubisek stood in front of the fan to combat the heat during the shop’s last week of being open for business. He spoke to customers and employees in a way that shows he’s known them for years.
In 2011 a group of Gainesville residents came together with a common goal: support the local food economy.