Gainesville is the fifth meanest city in the nation toward the homeless for the second time in a row, according to a recent report.
A Spanish red blend wine and a nine-generation chocolate butter rum cake will set the mood for the first Summer Wine Festival fundraiser.
Music and film don't always synch up. While some try to hard to push the entertainment factor with forced tour bus orgies and unlimited profanity, others come up dry. But among the failed attempts, some music-related films mesh both genres of entertainment in perfect harmony.
It's 15 minutes until midnight on a Saturday. The bouncer sits at the entrance to Spannk, wrapping neon green bands around clubbers' wrists. As they enter the bar, green and red beams of light dance through the thick smoke from the fog machine like laser confetti.
It's practically a scientific fact that women have a sexual fascination with musicians.
Editor's Note: This is the last of a five-part series as we reveal who a six-man alligatorSports panel has voted as the Top 10 UF Athletes of 2008-09.
Gainesville is the cradle of startup bands. As new bands pop up left and right, there inevitably comes a point, at which they must drift on. After the diplomas have been handed, the career pressures start to pile on, bands are left with three choices: stay put, break up or leave the nest.
If you do anything this summer, go to a music festival. The summer's music festivals are kicking off soon, and they are competing to have the biggest little bands, host the greenest event and to all in all be the one festival that will be worth your time and money. Who will win this winner-take-all fight? No one knows yet, but these shows are sure to be the most blogged and bragged about events of the summer.
Mediums offering messages from lost loved ones, acupuncture physicians touting instant acupressure facelifts and licensed therapists administering shoulder massages will all be available under one roof this Saturday.
UF President Bernie Machen's proposed changes to the festivities surrounding the UF-Georgia football game in Jacksonville - including a ban on the sale of liquor shots - are getting some heat from Student Government, including Student Body President Jordan Johnson.
After a marked absence from a May meeting to address the closure of Shands at AGH, Shands CEO Timothy Goldfarb addressed concerns about the future of community health care at a special Wednesday meeting.
I don't envy David Letterman. Putting together a top 10 list can be fairly difficult.
Drivers can expect traffic delays across central Gainesville to end no earlier than September 2011, according to a state official.
She arrived in Tehran the day after Neda Soltani was shot dead in the streets, a murder that added fuel to the most heated days of recent Iranian protests.
Mary Lou Miller wanted to help her daughter through cervical cancer.
Citing privacy rules, UF officials aren't revealing what possible consequences a student fired for plagiarizing The New York Times during a reporting internship will face.
A photo caption in Tuesday's Alligator incorrectly identified a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis as being part of the Amazing Butterflies exhibit running through Sept. 7 at the Florida Museum of Natural History. It is part of the Butterfly Rainforest, a permanent exhibit at the museum.
A story in Tuesday's Alligator incorrectly stated that College of Journalism and Communications Dean John Wright said that Hailey Mac Arthur may be expelled from the College. Wright only stated that administrators would be meeting to discuss Mac Arthur's status in the College.
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