Local artist teaches new style
By Erik Knudsen | Sep. 18, 2011Marco Razo impacts Gainesville with free art classes every Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the downtown library. His unique style brings new flavor to the surrounding area.
Marco Razo impacts Gainesville with free art classes every Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the downtown library. His unique style brings new flavor to the surrounding area.
Students, faculty and alumni recollect today, 10 years ago, as a generation-changing event. The events on campus reflect a shift to remembrance through speech and expression.
Amid a roaring buzz and clouds of bees, Wayne "Chappie" McChesney sets to work.
Campus streets close Wednesday night to make way for the end of semester Midnight Fun Run. This 5k run serves as a way for students to relax under the burden of coming exams.
As a teen with autism on the brink of adulthood, Christian Early and his mother, Mayra Ron, didn't know what he would do for the rest of his life. Employment options were limited for Early, and they hadn't found his strength, Ron said. It was until he began taking painting lessons that his true talent was discovered. Now at 27 years old, Early paints for a living.
University of Florida Professor Emeritus Stephen Saxon talks about left-brain versus right-brain in his two lifetime hobbies: mathematics research and opera.
Demonstrators gathered on Bo Diddley Community Plaza and marched to the Bank of America on West University Drive on Monday afternoon. The demonstration continued outside the bank, where protestors delivered a bill for what they believe the bank "owes" the American people.
Hordes of people took over Southwest Recreation Center courts 2, 3 and 4 friday for 5 hours of dodging, ducking, dipping, diving and more dodging.
Saturday's Dance Marathon at the University of Florida broke a threshold of $700,000 raised for the Children's Miracle Network at Shands. The event, which lasted 26.2 hours, brought 800 dancers together inside the O'Connell Center to fight fatigue to show support for the children and families who undergo hardships on a daily basis.
UF's Relay for Life raised more than $110,500 in a night of music, partying and hope. People came and left as all night as hundreds walked around the O'Connell Center's track in Gainesville.
Humans continue their battle for survival in UF's biannual game of Humans vs. Zombies after a semester hiatus.
Rose Godfrey is a figure model for UF students in drawing, painting, ceramics and photography classes, and has been helping students learn how to recreate the human body for 11 years.
A group of activists upset with legislation and Florida's current governor hold a rally and march several blocks to the Gainesville City Hall in a coordinated effort with other cities in Florida.
Join the University Gospel choir for one of its memorable and thunderous practices--you ought to have been there.
On the eighth episode of our weekly video show, Adam Berry and Greg Luca bring you coverage of the Florida-Vanderbilt basketball game from Memorial Gym in Nashville, Tenn. Once Greg figured out where the unusual complex was located, the duo reviewed the Gators' SEC Championship-clinching win, with quotes and input from Billy Donovan and Chandler Parsons.
Ben Myers and the Unite Party sweep the SG elections in a late-night celebration at the Reitz Union.
The annual film festival's competitive event comes once more, bringing filmmakers and film enthusiasts from across the country (and beyond its borders) to town.
The alligatorSports staff continues its goal of taking it one week at a time, adding improved effects, more game footage and Adam's delusions of stardom in the third installment of the weekly video show. Greg returns to Gainesville from Athens with analysis of the Gators' double-overtime win over Georgia, and Matt breaks down the women's basketball team's skid-snapping victory over Alabama. Finally, we have footage of the gymnastics squad's impressive performance at the Link to Pink tri-meet.
Second-year Peter Romberg spends a few hours every day blowing giant bubbles, entertaining passersby on Plaza of the Americas.