We all know how it goes: Our favorite show is released on Netflix, and for about 13 hours (maybe more with a quick food run or bathroom break), we retreat to our beds until we’ve finished it all.
Danny Pynes, born and raised in Gainesville, has been a fixture on the local hip-hop scene for many years. After years of working and cultivating his sound, Pynes hit it big, touring around the country and gaining fans around the world. I sat down with him to talk about his Gainesville roots and making it to the big stage.
How do we have a Darts & Laurels today, while we still grieve over those we lost in Orlando, while we painstakingly hold our breath for those still in recovery. The rest of the country can move on, but how do we? It happened right here at home. How did those in Newtown, Connecticut, or Charleston, South Carolina, move on when mass murder devastated their lives?
There is a Swahili proverb: “The world is a field of chaos.” With my eyes I see it is so, and with all my heart I wish it wasn’t the case.
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Florida coach Mike Holloway doesn’t coach for participation ribbons.
The ball left JJ Schwarz’s bat, the crowd erupted, and the sophomore pointed out of the park as he began to run around the bases.
People love to talk about how it’s important to be a leader.
After 25 seasons and 27 national championships, Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley is retiring.
ORLANDO — On Sunday, everyone was family.
ORLANDO — UF alumni joined fellow Orlando residents to support thousands of blood donors Sunday afternoon.
The name “slow food” movement might suggest a campaign to eat slow animals or cook food slowly, but its goals are quite different, as Jeff Honeycutt, an executive chef, explained at the Alachua County Headquarters Library this past weekend.
At this year’s UF International Piano Festival, finalists for the pre-college solo piano competition include one pianist from China and two pianists from the U.S.
Let’s be honest, getting offers for free or discounted things online or in the mail can be pretty exciting. As you move forward in your financial life, you will start to get more and more offers for things like new cars, insurance options and instant approval credit card offers. Most of these offers are easy to disregard, as they include major financial decisions you have to make when the time is right for you.
Sunday morning Orlando became the center of another massive shooting, something that seems to have become an occupational hazard of American life. While the details are still coming in about the deaths and injuries, and the whole story is not yet clear, a couple things are.
Wow, has it really been a week since our last talk? I feel like so much has happened! I don’t know if 650 words are going to be enough to express my discontent with three latest controversies: the gorilla, the rapist and the two hair-dyed blondes that could possibly be president.
Twenty first-graders attending school in Newtown, Connecticut. Then, it was a family and pedestrians in Santa Monica, California. Twelve more at a Washington, District of Columbia, naval yard. Three at Fort Hood, Texas. A long-planned mass-murder at Isla Vista, California.
A student finds refuge from a Monday afternoon rain storm at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
After Florida’s 3-0 loss to Florida State on Saturday night, in which FSU pitcher Drew Carlton threw a complete-game shutout, Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan was surprisingly calm.
Gainesville locals turned to love and community strength Sunday in the wake of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
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