More travelers on the road this Fourth of July weekend
By Ansley Pentz | July 1, 2015Maria Cirillo will drive more than 200 miles from Jacksonville to Fort Pierce to visit with her family for the Fourth of July.
Maria Cirillo will drive more than 200 miles from Jacksonville to Fort Pierce to visit with her family for the Fourth of July.
With the start of the Summer B semester and the end of the 2014-2015 collegiate athletic season, it’s time for another installment of the annual Alligator Awards. This week, Alligator editor-in-chief Jordan McPherson and alligatorSports assistant editor Luis Torres debate which of UF’s national championship winning teams — the softball team or the gymnastics team — deserves the title of "Best Team."
Two former Gators from this year’s baseball team are already making a splash in the minor leagues, and another is set to join them.
UF has released its 2015 soccer schedule.
Director Paul Feig, who brought us the notable favorite “Bridesmaids,” released his new Melissa McCarthy collaboration “Spy” on June 5.
A performance artist and UF student redefines normalcy in his new play, UMMU.
It’s both hopeful and hopeless, a dramatic epic from beginning to end.
The roommates of apartment 4D would agree there are two ways to spend your first weekend of the semester. Option one: You could cuddle up on the couch and binge watch “Dirty Dancing” while hysterically crying into a pillow — Jessica Day style. Option two: You could go crazy with your friends and attempt to play a game of “True American.” With both options being a bit extreme, it’s best to just settle for a happy medium. Yes, it’s finally here — a “New Girl” drinking game!
On this righteous day, we celebrate the brave souls who made the American dream a reality. This reality was founded on the grounds that justice is needed for all. This is the one day of the year when we all come together and applaud the fact that people fought to make the land of the brave. As Americans, it is our duty to honor this day the way a true patriot would — we give it our all or we give nothing.
Punk-rock quartet Abandon the Midwest is returning to Gainesville tonight, and if you’re lucky, you might catch them throwing the occasional beer can at one another.
I’ve always driven a manual transmission car. In my house, an automatic just wasn’t an option. My parents have always driven manuals, and when I turned 15 and was ready to learn how to drive, that was what was available to me.
Since the social media boom of the 2000s, there has been a common refrain amongst parents, professors and anyone generally over the age of 35: Watch what you post on Facebook. As the distinction between our online personas and our physical activities becomes increasingly blurred, more scrutiny than ever has been placed upon an individual to keep their online profile proper, pristine and free of anything remotely vulgar or suggestive. Conventional wisdom holds that once college students enter the professional world, they’ll be surprised to learn how little that picture of them double fisting PBR tallboys will impress their potential employers.
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Bursts of color and patriotism will once again speckle the night sky over UF’s Flavet Field.
Campus safety was a focal point at Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting, with the chambers unanimously approving a resolution encouraging scooter safety and University Police Department Operations Deputy Chief Darren Baxley giving an update on the TapShield app.
Twelve sunflowers, an orchid, a potted plant and a box.
With the departure of former Florida coach Billy Donovan, who built the Gators into a perennial contender in not just the Southeastern Conference but the entire country, one would think incoming UF coach Mike White would attempt to emulate Donovan’s methods to be successful.
When examining Florida baseball’s 2015 season, the best place to begin is at the end.
Alex Rodriguez’s baseball accomplishments shouldn’t be celebrated.
Florida track and field has made its mark in recent years in the triple jump circuit.