How many things have you done this summer that have helped your wallet, your wardrobe, the environment and the community all at once? If your answer is zero, then you are not taking advantage of the array of charity thrift shops that Gainesville has to offer.
The 64th annual international Festival De Cannes wrapped up May 22 in France.
What if the world was even messier than you thought? A place where sailor-mouthed jackalopes roamed the desert, pants-free cowboy assailants are armed with pick-up trucks and machine guns, junked school buses are fair game artillery and the heads of the world's superheroes are wanted dead by everyone?
iPhones annoy the crap out of me.
Stefanie Hamblen was tired of walking into markets and watching customers pick up produce, look at it and put it back down; they didn't know what to do with it.
After a steamy, emotional, rollercoaster weekend, No. 1 Florida exited Hoover, Ala., with its first Southeastern Conference Tournament trophy since 1991 and a No. 2 overall national seed in the 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament.
Mike Lupica shoots from the lip. Pat Dooley strokes the back nine, and Bill Simmons writes 10,000-word mailbags.
Michelle Moultrie was going to attend Florida no matter what.
Even though Florida’s track and field athletes only needed to crack the top 12 in each event to advance from the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, UF coach Mike Holloway didn’t let the Gators run on cruise control.
Lauren Embree pulled out a magical performance to will the UF women’s tennis team to a national championship last week, but the sophomore ran out of steam just short of an individual singles championship.
The salty aroma of fresh seafood churned in the cool breeze blowing across the St. Johns River as children laughed and screamed out of joy or fear - and sometimes both - as carnival staff pushed mobile thrill rides to their limits.
The Gainesville chapter of Veterans for Peace erected more than 6,000 tombstones along a mile of Northwest Eighth Avenue between Northwest 34th Street and Northwest 23rd Street this Memorial Day weekend.
A broken air conditioning system, a hole in the roof and a busted water chiller. The cost of these would-be repairs, after Gov. Rick Scott vetoed roughly $12 million in funding for UF Thursday, would not come out of state funds.
Impending doom arrived May 21, 2011.
This isn't even fun anymore.
I gulp a frosty mug of Pabst, wink at Gerry and ask, "Hey Hank, when are you going to start serving blacks in here?"
The summer heat has arrived. Students have fled the city, and the midtown business drought is on.
When Gov. Rick Scott announced his budget proposal in February, the word "education" was notably absent from the political event. And when he did roll out his education budget proposal, it called for slashing already underfunded public schools by more than 10 percent.
Gainesville residents might have to wait a little longer to find out the day they are supposed to vote for their future leadership.
UF broke ground Thursday on its new Clinical and Translational Research Building, a $45 million, 120,000-square-foot complex expected to be completed by January 2013.
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