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Friends of Lamar Abel share memories

Dear Lamar,

Home brewing, a complicated but rewarding endeavor

With all sorts of extra time on your hands during Gainesville's offseason and a serious prerogative to stay indoors, why not try your hand at some new hobbies? How about making your own alcohol? Part chemistry, part cooking, part art and part drinking, home brewing is a great way to pass those extra hours of summer daylight.

A guide on how to recognize jerks

Dear readers, I have enjoyed my time so far serving as an Avenue columnist. By which, I mean that I enjoy getting my opinions and musings out there so I can entertain some bored students who just finished the crossword in the classifieds section. However, I will be taking my column in a different direction this time. Instead of entertaining you people with (mostly) true stories about being bored and anti-social, I will use my position as a semi-legitimate column writer to warn one and all about a very grave threat to our collective well-being: douchebags.

Facial hair fad hits Gainesville’s guys

I first discovered the mustache thing when I was in Chicago last August. Every time I saw a bike ride by, I had handlebar double-vision.

Life Prerequisites

Starting next school year, incoming high school freshmen in Florida will have to pass both Algebra 1 and Geometry in order to earn their diplomas.

Columnist gets hands on BP’s leaked memo

As a corporation, British Petroleum is deeply saddened by the recent leaks in our interwebs tube that have pumped out an ever-increasing number of highly sensitive and damaging internal documents into the vital Gulf of Public Opinion.  We have prepared the following memo as a “top kill procedure” on the destructive flow of information by piping loads of crap into real leaks of BP’s corporate philosophy:

Student Health Care Center offers services for sexual health

After seeing the column ‘Sexual health care on the cheap’ in the May 13th edition of the Alligator, we’d like to remind readers that the UF Student Health Care Center also offers a full range of sexual health care services available to students.

The Savvy Modern Online Politico

I love a good Internet political meme. Most political junkies have their inner circles of friends on an email list-serve that they use to distribute particularly funny or applicable memes. It can be a very enjoyable hobby.

Summer festivals showcase eclectic musical landscape

Finally, festival season is here. And the Avenue has searched high and low to bring you music options both near and far.

Forget Nothing: Remember the purpose of Memorial Day

The weather is going to be great, but you may want to think twice before cracking open a beer and having a pool party this weekend.

Gardening in home is easy, cheap

Want to learn how to grow weeds? Have you been itching to use your green thumb this summer? Then I'm here to tell you that it's not only easy, it's fun and affordable.

Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rain or Shine

Gators fall to Cardinal 4-3 in NCAA Championship

In the third set of the last singles match to decide the championship, Marrit Boonstra was one game away from putting the finishing touches on the ideal ending to her college career.

Gators sweep Regional

Although it was coming off its worst loss of the season, the Florida softball team proved last weekend it can play its best when it matters most.

Adams ends long slump

Josh Adams began the regular season with a bang and ended it with one, too.

Age ain’t nothin’ but a number

Kevin O’Sullivan is the R. Kelly of college baseball coaches.

UF vies for national title

When the season began, UF women’s tennis coach Roland Thornqvist said he felt like it had been a long time since 2003, the year Florida won its last national title.

Gators advance past Regional to NCAA Championships

The Gators enjoyed the luck of the Irish in South Bend, Ind., at the Central Regional this past weekend, and finished high enough to earn a bid for the NCAA Championships.

Master gardeners sell 4,500 plants to public

Caleb Burton was looking for plants for his landscaping project. Every year for his wife’s birthday, he does gardening work. This year, he went to the Alachua County Master Gardener Plant Sale.

Former walk-on defensive Gator lineman dies

Lamar Abel, a former walk-on defensive lineman for the Gators, died Saturday after an apparent seizure.