New community project wants a map of Gainesville personalized by you
Three local groups have teamed up to launch My Gainesville Map, a community project where residents can create personalized maps of the city.
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Three local groups have teamed up to launch My Gainesville Map, a community project where residents can create personalized maps of the city.
The Alachua County Health Department detected a significant increase in mosquito populations due to the large amount of rainfall last month. At the same time, 11 cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever have been confirmed in Martin, St. Lucie and Miami-Dade counties, among other areas in South Florida.
Starting this Fall, the way subjects in UF research studies are compensated will be streamlined through the myUFL system. Previously, researchers were forced to cut checks and apply for petty cash orders to pay participants.
Rusty Poulette, a worker and co-owner of Radical Press Coffee Collective, started growing his beard about 11 years ago in high school. He cited cost effectiveness as a reason for not shaving.
Additional regulations for gameday parking in neighborhoods near UF, discussed last week in a City Commission meeting, could also impact parking at the Union Street Farmers Market.
Gainesville will once again make its way onto the big screen in “Paperback,” the second feature film by UF alumnus Adam Bowers.
If all goes according to plan, the familiar ticking whir of traditional projectors will soon be silenced at the Hippodrome Theatre.
Due to an outstanding debt of almost $30,000, delivery of both The New York Times and USA Today to the UF campus has been suspended.
Outside of UF’s Library West, the air smelled strongly of confection. Spread across three tables, the submissions for the George A. Smathers Libraries’ Edible Book Contest lay waiting for judgment, drawing the noses of interested bystanders.
Each Thursday, Aikido of Gainesville offers free self-defense classes to the public.
In the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings released Tuesday, UF programs placed in the categories of “Best Business Schools,” “Best Engineering Schools” and “Best Education Schools,” among others.
UF’s Levin College of Law continues to rank highly both as a public and overall institution among 201 public and private accredited law schools, according to a U.S News & World Report released Tuesday.
You may have passed it on your way to another part of Smathers Library. Or you may have seen the sign announcing a bag sale on your way to class (my first reaction: bag sale? Like backpacks? I have one of those already. I am going to continue walking to class). Tucked away on the first floor of Library East is the Smathers Library Bookstore, and if you can catch it when its doors are open you’ll hit a goldmine.
It is possible you do not have time for books. In fact, in all likelihood you have an entire stack (let’s say right next to your bed, watching you disapprovingly as you instead choose to watch "30 Rock" on Netflix and eat Nutella with the wild, frantic abandon of someone who knows they have better, more enriching things to do. This could just be personal experience.) But, do you know what you do have time for? The internet!
Downtown, just past the Sun Center, beside the Citizen’s Co-op, the Civic Media Center has a sign on its door. After glancing at the various posters stuck to the inside of the glass — The John Locke Initiative is presenting a discussion, a transgender workshop, a coming poetry jam — the sign makes itself apparent. “The Civic Media Center,” it reads. “Reading Room and Library of the Non-Corporate Press.” The door opens with a creak.
Halloween’s nearing, so you know what that means? That’s right, literature.
Something I hear a lot: “I hated the books that I was given to read in high school.” A variation, which is pretty much the same: “I love to read, I just really hate the stuff our teachers gave us.”
So, I’m going to pose a hypothetical: You’re in New York City, and you are bored. You languish urbanely in your loft (it’s an extremely generous hypothetical). However, boredom is generally hard to sustain in a city like New York, where finding things to do is more a matter of choosing. Let’s say you’re a particularly literary metropolitan. You could go see John Jeremiah Sullivan do a nonfiction reading at a bar in the East Village, go to a reading of The Paris Review in a bookstore on Broadway or see the Happy Ending reading series at the Ace Hotel. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the fact that those are all actual things that are happening, just this week, in New York.
I know you don’t have a lot of time to read. You have classes, studying and whatever. You also have a social life and “friends.” But being someone who also has those things (I swear -- all of them), let’s talk about this, you and me. I’ve got some book suggestions, and you’ve got at least an hour or two to spare. So because this month has been pretty heavy with news related to him, we’re gonna talk about David Foster Wallace, and coincidentally it’s one of my favorite things to do. Nope, that’s a lie, it’s actually my favorite thing to do.