As 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.
Jayne Moraski knocked on tent flap after tent flap at tent city on Wednesday, poking her head in to ask Gainesville homeless about their lives.
Improving 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.
Dean 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.
Worlds 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.
Home-court advantage can never be underestimated in college basketball.
As the youngest member of a family of seven, I was the last one to start drinking alcohol.
Dr. 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.
The 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.
Alex Tyus' shoulders better be even broader than they appear.
Stores 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.
Put away the government cheese, the House just passed President Barack Obama's stimulus package to the tune of $819 billion.
Streetlight 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.
Typically synonymous with Super Bowl week, celebrity-filled bashes may be taking a backseat to the game thanks to the sputtering economy.
I would like to honestly thank you for printing Dean Early's column detailing how aggrieved the whole religion of Christianity is, due to your front page photo showing a student flicking off a "preacher."
Alachua County schools could get a financial boost if Congress passes President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.
For the second time in UF's history, a member of Student Government's executive branch will face getting the boot.
A national report released Tuesday shows that UF's endowment has fared much better than those of other colleges and universities.
About 65 students listened to Jon Douglas Rainey, co-host of Discovery Channel's series "It Takes a Thief," Wednesday night in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom.
Students have skateboarded to class for years without much trouble, but that all changed Wednesday as the University Police Department conducted a "saturation detail," targeting skateboarders and pulling them over if they were skating on the street.
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