Hogtown HomeGrown will host its eighth annual Eat Local Challenge Community Celebration on Sunday at the Matheson History Museum to celebrate the end of Eat Local Month. Festival events will be from 1 to 4 p.m. and are free to the public.
A new drive-thru restaurant is serving up Italian cuisine.
Let’s start with what’s been buzzing in the news lately. Several FIFA officials and other affiliates were recently indicted on charges of racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and general corruption.
Tony Award-winning producer and UF alumnus John Arthur Pinckard has brought in an accomplished team to work with the UF’s School of Theatre and Dance.
The Netflix original series “Trailer Park Boys” is scheduled to start filming its 10th season this summer, which can mean only one thing: It’s time to get belligerent while you watch seasons one through nine from the comfort of your own home.
Russian-German disc jockey Anton Zaslavski, known as Zedd, recently released his junior album, a choppy composition in comparison to his previous works.
Country-duo Sundy Best is coming to Gainesville for the first time and drummer Kris Bentley is sure they’ll fit right in.
Lauren Haeger has been named the 2015 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She was presented the award in Oklahoma City at a banquet on Tuesday night.
The Southeastern Conference title game was over, but the players still stood on the field in Hoover, Alabama, clad in white SEC champion T-shirts.
The Florida softball team is headed back to Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series.
The UF men’s golf team will play in the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship on Friday, and the team is eager to bounce back from adversity.
With Florida’s men’s track and field claiming the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships on May 16, the Gators are hoping for similar success at the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminaries.
Florida’s postseason run came to an end on Sunday afternoon, as the three Gators representing the team at the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships at the Hurd Tennis Center of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, fell just short of reaching the finals.
In honor of Memorial Day, Body by Boris hosted a Memorial Day Murph event to raise money for the Jonathan Cote Memorial Scholarship that is awarded to veterans attending UF and Santa Fe College.
Scott Camil spent most of his Memorial Day weekend on Northwest Eighth Avenue just like he has since 2007.
The festival sprawled along the St. Johns River waterfront, within walking distance of houses with bunting and historic plaques on the porches. On one end of the setup were carnival favorites, including a fun house, a looping roller coaster, giant slides and skee ball. On the opposite side, an entertainment tent was erected.
Many comedies thrive off pushing the boundaries into offensive content to get attention. “Pitch Perfect 2,” the sequel to the original “Pitch Perfect,” tells the story of an all-female a cappella group, marketing itself as a boundary-pushing, feminist movie. However, it still relies on unnecessary and out-of-place stereotypical jokes. The one Guatemalan character, Flo, functions as a first-world-problems joke in order to put the girls’ problems into perspective. She doesn’t really have her own story. Even though this may seem like a harmless joke at first, when we don’t know anything else about this character, and she serves no other function in the movie, she becomes a token minority.
Juan Gilbert, one of the first hires under UF’s Preeminence Plan, has been appointed to chair of the department of computer and information science and engineering in the UF College of Engineering.
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