Burglars have targeted rural homes in four counties, grabbing guns, jewelry and cash before escaping in broad daylight.
Dylan Farr said a disease is ravaging his family’s orange grove.
Two free workshops will teach Alachua County residents how to properly can food today.
So, the season six finale of “The Walking Dead” happened Sunday night. Wasn’t it crazy? Wasn’t it intense? There’s so much to discuss about this series, in fact, that AMC Networks created a talk show centered around it called “Talking Dead.” You all probably know this, because the talk show has come on just after the most recent episode of “The Walking Dead” since the premiere of season two in 2011. AMC has copy-pasted this formula a few times: “Talking Saul” parallels “Better Call Saul” and “Talking Bad” paralleled “Breaking Bad.” The network’s got a knack for creating whole subcultures around these shows, which is really a double-edged sword.
In the season-one finale of “Master of None,” Aziz Ansari’s character, Dev, stands in the middle of a bookstore clutching a copy of “The Bell Jar.” Faced with a seemingly unending variety of life choices, each taking him on a drastically different path, Dev has exhausted every source of advice and looks to the Sylvia Plath novel as a last-ditch effort. Ansari’s voice can be heard reading some of Plath’s most painfully poignant lines: “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America.”
I am deeply disturbed by Jordan MacKenzie’s column from Wednesday, “The meaning of the word ‘apartheid.’” First, I am always amazed when a Floridian criticizes Israel, given how Floridians live and work on land stolen by force from Native Americans who were “ethnically cleansed.”
Readers, I’d like you to know I was followed just yesterday by members of the #StopMichael movement. I could feel them lurking behind me for 10 minutes before I turned back to see the entirety of The Really Independent Florida Crocodile editorial staff. They satirized the daylights out of me. No dead horse went unbeaten that day.
Over the last decade, phrases like “go green” and “reduce your carbon footprint” have become firmly embedded in our lexicon, just as Earth Day has become an annual celebration. As an environmental advocate, this couldn’t make me happier. I’ve been inspired to see people switch to efficient light bulbs, recycle and use canvas shopping bags instead of paper or plastic. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they recycle on a regular basis compared to a quarter of Americans in the 1990s.
JJ Schwarz had been struggling at the plate during Southeastern Conference play.
The infield collapsed as Alabama’s Chandler Dare showed bunt.
After recording the final out in No. 2 Florida’s series finale against top-ranked Texas A&M, Shaun Anderson pumped his right fist twice as the rest of the Gators gathered around the pitcher’s mound.
Emily Glaser made history on Sunday.
Sam Horsfield sank a short putt for birdie on the 18th hole.
Despite pouring rain, hundreds showed up to learn about insects Saturday.
UF students surrounded the stage as a Pakistani pop artist sang Justin Bieber and Pakistani songs Saturday night.
Vincent DiMenna listened to UF alumni talk about entrepreneurship Friday.
Jay Rosen makes collages inspired by dada art in his spare time.
President Fuchs told UF’s Board of Trustees he worries about students’ health Friday morning.
Middle-schoolers built bridges and robots at UF on Friday.
A Williston, Florida, man was arrested Friday night after police said he stole $30 worth of deodorant from a Walgreens and then broke into a house.
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