Grace Marketplace, Gainesville’s homeless services center, officially opened Sunday with goals of providing a space for homeless people to come together, eat and eventually have a place to stay overnight.
Hurricane season began this week, and experts say college students should be prepared.
UF is reaping the benefits of Florida’s largest budget in history, which pays for new study spaces, renovations and the university’s preeminence campaign.
Alan Shapiro began his horticultural career cutting grass, and soon, he may be growing it.
And so they meet again, the two foes that could not be more different.
A line of orange-and-blue clad Gator fans stood outside Katie Seashole Pressley Stadium and down Hull road waiting to greet the school’s newest national champions.
Gainesville Police arrested a man after he allegedly placed an AK-47 assault rifle to the forehead of a motorcyclist.
UF was ranked ninth nationally for most influential colleges in social media by CollegeAtlas.org, the encyclopedia for higher education.
Hannah Rogers had little success in her first two trips to Oklahoma City.
An easy way to earn scholarship money is literally at the click of a button.
For more than 1,200 high school and college baseball players across the United States, Thursday could potentially mark one of the biggest days of their lives. The 2014 MLB First-Year Draft begins Thursday evening and will continue through Saturday.
What a week! The Gators swept the NCAA softball championship, a first for UF. Congratulations to the kick-ass ladies of Gator softball: We’re incredibly proud.
Following the release of American prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl last week, questions and allegations started to fly over why the Obama administration negotiated with the Taliban for Bergdahl’s release. Some claim that Bergdahl was a deserter, thus negating any reason to trade suspected terrorists for Bergdahl. Others — including House Speaker John Boehner — have already called for congressional hearings to investigate the matter.
Gia Coppola’s directorial debut, “Palo Alto,” opening tomorrow at the Hippodrome State Theatre, is in some ways a mix of “Mean Girls” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” It’s a coming-of-age film that frankly addresses the sex, drugs, despondency and debauchery of adolescence, while at the same time mourning the loss of its characters’ childhoods.
Disney’s “Maleficent” is so many things at once. It is a beautiful fairy tale. It is visually stunning. It is overdone. It is messy.
Hundred Waters, a band formed in 2011 with roots in Gainesville, has covered genres from electronic to indie to folk to hip-hop with their tempos and drums over their last couple projects. Though their self-titled album, released in 2012, introduced the ability to cover those genres, the band’s most recent effort, “The Moon Rang Like A Bell,” enhanced and honed in on those sounds.
Some of Gainesville’s top bars and clubs are sweating this summer, and it’s not just because of the heat.
Food is more than just nutrients. Food conjures up memories and reveals who we are and who we are not. What we eat is a medium for personal recollection and collective identity. Marcel Proust, the great French author, is famous for connecting food and memory with madeleines, “those squat plump little cakes.” We certainly have him to thank for those little packages of “petite French cakes” at every Starbucks checkout.
Tim Walton said it best on April 15.
A UF professor became the first to successfully complete genomic sequencing at sea.
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