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THE AVENUE
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MOVIES AND TV
‘Revolutionary’ drama reveals true life in suburbia
By DAN SECO | Jan. 28, 2009Unfortunate results tend to ensue when Hollywood moguls cast their significant others in leading roles.
SPORTS
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SFC
Santa Fe men's basketball bounces back against Daytona State, avoids dropping second straight conference game
By JESSICA ETTER | Jan. 28, 2009Redemption.
THE AVENUE
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SEX
How to find and seduce a valentine
By ASHLEY ROSS | Jan. 28, 2009There are only about two weeks left until that dreaded holiday, the one full of an obnoxious amount of pink, with roses everywhere and events planned to remind you that you're single.
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MUSIC
Album Review: Glasvegas – “Glasvegas”
By ROBERT HILSON | Jan. 28, 2009Glasvegas takes its name from hometown Glasgow and Sin City, which means that the Scottish quartet has an uncanny knack for haphazardly conjoining words and musical trends. To the surprise of no one, the NME crowd has anointed these Clash look-alikes London's latest and greatest craze du jour as This Month's Beatles manage a sound that pillages from almost every English musical movement of the last three decades. Shoegaze grandeur? Check. Ringing Edge-style guitars? Check. The Smiths' melodrama? Oh yeah, it's there -- most shamelessly in the form of "Lonesome Swan," a hackneyed rip of "I Know It's Over" with a guitar line set to the latter song's "Then why are you on your own tonight?" melody. Particularly grotesque is the Joe Strummer knock-off "Stabbed" that repeats ad nauseam, "I'm gonna get stabbed."
NEWS
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CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION
BOG to discuss money–saving options for students
By LAUREN BAKER | Jan. 28, 2009Florida's Board of Governors will meet again today as part of a two-day session, addressing two topics that will center on saving students money, in the session's final day.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Columnist takes himself too seriously
By Molly Mosher | Jan. 28, 2009As a recovering Christian, I find some of the proclamations of faith in Turlington Plaza extremely hard to swallow. I do not understand how screaming "You're all gonna die" is supposed to bring people to Christ. It is a ludicrous idea.
METRO
Volunteers collect data for local homeless census
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Jan. 28, 2009Jayne Moraski knocked on tent flap after tent flap at tent city on Wednesday, poking her head in to ask Gainesville homeless about their lives.
METRO
RTS hosts workshop as part of bus remodeling efforts
By MORGAN COLLINS | Jan. 28, 2009Improving transportation and making city buses more hip were among the topics discussed by Gainesville residents Wednesday at a workshop sponsored by the Regional Transit System.
OPINION
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Column lacks understanding of Bible
By Michael Herrmann | Jan. 28, 2009Dean Early's column pertaining to the front-page photo on the January 22 issue of the Alligator is rife with contradiction, both in theology and logic.
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MUSIC
Album Review: Late of the Pier – “Fantasy Black Channel”
By ROBERT HILSON | Jan. 28, 2009Worlds collide in Castle Donington, England. Devo grows up a punk band; disco hones its chops at CBGB; black leather sprouts sequins. Late of the Pier wears the side effects. A four-piece from the British Isles, the young new wave act shows off all manner of mishmashed influences, piecing together a sound that filters the '80s' choice bits through a laptop, distorts them to hell and discards everything else. This cut-and-paste style makes room for swirling synths, Nintendo-bleep percussion, even Sabbath-lite riff rock ("Heartbeat"). But these secondary players all feed off the band's bread and butter: the almighty groove, which achieves a heightened state in the form of the menacing electro-blast called "Whitesnake." It's a song that unlocks imaginative, other-dimension scenarios - two-steppers take over Studio 54; Madge learns guitar; hipsters dance to power chords.
SPORTS
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Gators hope to extend perfect home record
Jan. 28, 2009Home-court advantage can never be underestimated in college basketball.
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LIFESTYLE
‘Trashed talk’ eases convos
By ERIK VOSS | Jan. 28, 2009As the youngest member of a family of seven, I was the last one to start drinking alcohol.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Co–discoverer of HIV speaks at UF
By RACHAEL PINO | Jan. 28, 2009Dr. Jay A. Levy, co-discoverer of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), spoke to a packed auditorium Wednesday morning to present research on a protein produced by certain white blood cells that can interrupt the transmission of HIV.
METRO
Prostitution charges filed against ex–GPD officer
By KATIE EMMETS | Jan. 28, 2009The State Attorney's office filed three charges of prostitution against former Gainesville police officer Bill Billings Wednesday, after seven months of investigations revealed that he paid prostitutes for sex.
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Tyus, not Calathes, fills most important role for Gators
Jan. 28, 2009Alex Tyus' shoulders better be even broader than they appear.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF food sellers pull some peanut products, not all
By KATHRYN STOLARZ | Jan. 28, 2009Stores on the UF campus stopped selling peanut butter products listed on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's voluntary recall list in connection with the salmonella outbreak caused by Peanut Corporation of America's tainted peanut butter and peanut paste, according to Lionel Dubay, UF's director of business services division.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
‘Souper’ Stimulus: Barack’s budget plans are mmm–mmm–good
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 28, 2009Put away the government cheese, the House just passed President Barack Obama's stimulus package to the tune of $819 billion.
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MUSIC
Q&A with Streetlight Manifesto
By HENRY TAKSIER | Jan. 28, 2009Streetlight Manifesto, New Jersey's beloved third-wave ska band, will play Wednesday at Common Grounds. The show, which also features A Wilhelm Scream, The Swellers and The Stitch Up, begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are for $14.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Budget Bowl
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 28, 2009Typically synonymous with Super Bowl week, celebrity-filled bashes may be taking a backseat to the game thanks to the sputtering economy.
