Stefanie Hamblen was tired of walking into markets and watching customers pick up produce, look at it and put it back down; they didn't know what to do with it.
The Starbucks store located at 3822 Newberry Road and 39th Street is scheduled to close on May 22.
It doesn't take much for one to realize the Gainesville music scene is heavily submersed in punk rock.
When Kat DiManno teaches her kindergarten class about plants, she knows she could stand in front of them and just tell them how it all works.
Mark is the driver of Chocolate Cab, one of the taxi cabs in the Gator Taxicab service in Gainesville. He rolls around the city streets Thursday through Sunday evenings stopping for lucky passengers who can answer trvia questions for chocolate.
Stand-up comedians in Gainesville have it pretty good.
The walls, ceiling and floor are painted a psychedelic mural, acoustic instruments strum, dancers fluidly move to the beat, friends laugh and art thrives. The masterpiece is complete.
UF student Laura Mutis knows how difficult it is to be an immigrant in the United States.
The chapter was notified last Thursday that it was the first in Gainesville to win the national award from the organization.
“All politics are local.” This time-tested adage never has been truer. On Tuesday, the runoff elections for Districts 2 and 3 will take place. Running in District 2, which encompasses the northwest section of the city, is incumbent Lauren Poe. Running in District 3 is Susan Bottcher. District 3 spans the southwestern sector of the city from the western half of campus all the way to I-75.
Gainesville’s own Swamp Head Brewery is now offering what some judges have named the best beer in Florida.
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, thousands of people flock to downtown Gainesville’s bar scene. Students and locals alike cram into watering holes for many reasons: to socialize with friends, to look for romance, to dance and, let’s face it, to drink.
Although Gainesville is 3,000 miles away from the west coast, where radiation is expected to first make landfall in the continental U.S., local health food stores are sold out of potassium iodide.
Eric Conrad and Bryan Griffin go head-to head in the Gainesville City Commission run-off election.
College is a time for change and the mill of experiences, realizations and revelations. While it probably doesn’t bother most people when they change their majors, course schedules or political affiliations, what about when someone changes his or her faith?
The crowd snaked through the store, weaving a line of jittery, excited customers from the doors to the shipping area at the back. In this line, 6-year-old Mackenzie waited with all the patience a child could muster - just to get a glimpse of the object of her desire.
Today marks St. Patrick’s Day. Around Gainesville Catholics dress for Mass, children don green for fear of being pinched, and pubs stock up on kegs.
Stephon Lewis brought $650 of his own money when he met the UF student hoping to sell his iPhone 4, but Lewis’ friend brought a gun.
A number of meditation centers call Gainesville home. And as meditation becomes more popular as a way to ward off stress, the Avenue wanted to find out the story behind a few of the centers in town.
Geneva Jarvis hasn’t missed a day of work in 25 years.
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