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Florida Alligator
THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Trailer park boys

The Netflix original series “Trailer Park Boys” is scheduled to start filming its 10th season this summer, which can mean only one thing: It’s time to get belligerent while you watch seasons one through nine from the comfort of your own home.


Blue Crab Festival
METRO

Annual blue crab festival continues

The festival sprawled along the St. Johns River waterfront, within walking distance of houses with bunting and historic plaques on the porches. On one end of the setup were carnival favorites, including a fun house, a looping roller coaster, giant slides and skee ball. On the opposite side, an entertainment tent was erected.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Minorities not meant to be the butt of the joke

Many comedies thrive off pushing the boundaries into offensive content to get attention. “Pitch Perfect 2,” the sequel to the original “Pitch Perfect,” tells the story of an all-female a cappella group, marketing itself as a boundary-pushing, feminist movie. However, it still relies on unnecessary and out-of-place stereotypical jokes. The one Guatemalan character, Flo, functions as a first-world-problems joke in order to put the girls’ problems into perspective. She doesn’t really have her own story. Even though this may seem like a harmless joke at first, when we don’t know anything else about this character, and she serves no other function in the movie, she becomes a token minority.


Florida Alligator
METRO

Officers punished after traffic stop

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office suspended one of its sergeants for one day and reprimanded one of its deputies following an internal investigation of their use of an armored vehicle to perform a traffic stop in April.


Florida Alligator
OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Memorial Day: A time for remembrance, thanks

The Alligator often represents the voice of millennials and young college-aged men and women, and sometimes it’s said that our generation forgets the sacrifices of those before us in the name of youthful narcissism and detachment from world affairs.



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