Jen Ambrose Cotter uses her blog, “Bipartisan Victory Garden,” to bring attention to Cabot-Koppers, the wood-treatment facility that has been listed by the federal government as a contaminated Superfund site for more than 25 years.
Each Thursday, the Avenue is serving up the best in entertainment, pop culture and everything in between. From the big screen to the radio waves, check out this week’s picks.
Let’s have a big round of applause for mediocrity, UF’s new area of excellence. After watching Saturday’s game, I was struck with a dilemma: Where will I now derive my pride in my choice of higher learning?
You’ll be waiting a little longer for your already-making-you-late-for-class-with-a-line-stretching-to-Quiznos $6.87 skinny, double-shot, extra-hot, no-foam, in-a-reusable-cup-please, sugar-free-syrup, soy Mochachinofrappelatte.
Jared Chasse, 12, wants to be an oceanographer when he grows up, and the City of Gainesville is offering to help pay for him to reach that goal.
When Emmanuel Moody walked through the Florida football offices Sunday, he came upon a welcome sight waiting in the hallway.
When the No. 13 Gators embarked on their second Southeastern Conference road trip of the season, they were fresh off their best offensive weekend of the year.
Andre Debose didn’t need to run routes or learn a book’s worth of plays in high school.
The Gators headed into the Jerry Pate Invitational knowing they had to go low.
The game was played in order to draw attention to their poker tournament Thursday at Beef ‘O’ Brady’s at 8 p.m. Registration will be held at the restaurant prior to the competition for anyone who wants to play for $10.
In a marketing move some are calling greasy, unhealthy and hideous, not much unlike the criticisms of its artery-clogging sandwich laden with 32 grams of fat, KFC is paying (supposedly) good-looking girls at a handful of colleges across the nation to promote its death-defying sandwich with the words “Double Down” on the buns of specially-designed sweatpants.
UF researchers can now get up close and personal with shallow-water sharks.
Two months ago, Renee Gork was known to the sports world as the woman who wore the wrong hat to work and found herself out of a job.
UF’s Student Body really has nothing interesting to say.
When weighing a quasi-important, ecologically destructive decision in the aftermath of the nation’s largest environmental catastrophe, apparently six months is plenty.
When Bernice walks around on a game day, fans stop and say, “What a fat beagle!”
Last week, I mused on why Florida needs to get on the ball when it comes to decriminalizing marijuana, and I attended the Bob Dylan concert with thousands of other fans at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. Some would like to use that anecdotal evidence to further their claims of me as a “stoner.”
My father is a man of few words.
Stadium Club, the partially constructed luxury condominium building on University Avenue across from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, will be auctioned today.
The graphic design club Vox Graphis will be selling Halloween-themed paper items designed and printed by UF students until Thursday on the Plaza of the Americas.
Solutions by The State News
