El Caimán

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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Local bands need love, too, at the Fest

By Kat Bein | Oct. 27, 2010

Come Friday, Gainesville will be flooded with out-of-towners from all over the world who come to take part in the famous Fest. But let us not forget that Gainesville owes its ability to host a huge indie festival due to its own healthy and vibrant local music culture. Ready to go local? Here are three Gainesville-bred acts you can’t miss at the Fest.

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THE AVENUE  |  SEX

Sex and the Swamp: Be a gentleman — ladies first

By Jared Misner | Oct. 27, 2010

Dear Jared,

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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

The Crusty: A poem about our favorite Fest goer

By RICHARD STEHLI | Oct. 27, 2010

Editor’s Note: This humor poem was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

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NEWS  |  SFC

Santa Fe gets spooky with haunting lecture

By Chelsea Hull | Oct. 27, 2010

Andrew Nichols has used Ouija boards, locked his wife in a dungeon and stared as a grandfather clock rotated completely around by itself — all in the name of his career as a parapsychologist.

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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

The A-List

By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Oct. 27, 2010

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.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Block tuition a discriminatory policy

By Mitchell Norton | Oct. 27, 2010

Francisco Sotomayor’s Tuesday letter completely ignores the struggles of working-class students. Sure, block tuition might be great for someone who wants to take underwater basket weaving, but some of us actually have to work to get through college.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Consumer confidence up

By Meredith Rutland | Oct. 27, 2010

The economy may be improving, according to a new UF study.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

Walking Gators kicks off fall semester walks with new routes

By Sara Solano | Oct. 27, 2010

A small cluster gathered around library employee Jami Beserock, her orange Walking Gators T-shirt signaling their usual meeting spot outside Smathers Library.

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OPINION  |  LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Reader disappointed with endorsement

By Naveen Mudaliar | Oct. 27, 2010

Wednesday’s endorsement for attorney general was the worst endorsement yet in the series of political endorsements.

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OPINION  |  EDITORIALS

Amendment Showdown

By Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 27, 2010

We see you’ve made it through your near booklet of a sample ballot, filling in the bubbles for the best candidates (in black ink because apparently blue is just not acceptable) as we work our way through the endorsements of major political candidates. But you still have local races, judges to not reappoint (read: Charles T. Canady) and lots of amendments to bravely work your way through. Luckily, we’re not going to abandon you in the wake of a mind-numbing panic of legalese. Stay with us as we present you with your very own and possibly very first This-Looks-A-Lot-Like-Darts-&-Laurels-But-It’s-Really-Not edition of Amendment Showdown.

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THE AVENUE  |  FASHION

Tricks to look like a treat

By ALLISON BANKO | Oct. 27, 2010

Sure, you’ve been going buck wild in all of autumn’s glory: breathing in sweet smells of cinnamon, indulging in candy corn, busting out the pumpkin spice candles. You may think you’ve got the fall feel down, but does your wardrobe?

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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

US legal system fundamentally flawed

By Nate Rushing | Oct. 27, 2010

Pamela Raymond is a former nurse who lives in the quaint city of Morristown, Vt. And according to the state, Raymond is a murderer.

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NEWS

Correction

Oct. 27, 2010

Wednesday’s story on the Alachua County School Board forum discussed charter schools. For clarification, charter schools are independent,  non-profit schools but are funded by the public.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

‘Sex on the lawn’ event offers food, free condoms, sex ed

By Mina Radman | Oct. 27, 2010

Three blindfolded students raced to open condoms and place them on plastic model penises while others guessed how many condoms were in a jar Wednesday.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

Professor loses 10 years of racism research to burglars

By Jon Silman | Oct. 27, 2010

Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston has spent the past 10 years studying racism in Nova Scotia — but now all of her research is gone.

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NEWS  |  CAMPUS

IFAS gets $2.9 million to study strawberries

By Gennaro Scibelli | Oct. 27, 2010

The grant will help the multi-state research team, led by UF plant pathologist Natalia Peres, find better ways to fight fruit rot that plagues the strawberries in Florida fields and refrigerators every year.

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THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Meet the Zombie Beatles: Bands we want to resurrect

By Jessica Poitevien | Oct. 27, 2010

Let's take a trip down music's memory lane, back to a time when there was no such thing as Auto-Tune or "Glee" or Ke$ha. We had our one-hit wonders (anyone heard from Haddaway lately?) and our boy bands that produced a few albums then disappeared (B2K ring a bell?).

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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

Get lost: Gainesville corn maze celebrates Halloween

By Melinda Cartensen | Oct. 27, 2010

All is still and quiet at Rogers Farm but for a faint breeze and the soft, muffled clucks of a few chickens behind barbed wire.

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THE AVENUE  |  LIFESTYLE

Trick-or treating with the Avenue

Oct. 27, 2010

We’re not in denial: We know we’re a little past our trick-or-treating prime. We know we can no longer strap on a pair of rabbit ears and faux-furball tail without being called a few choice words. We know we’re not getting any candy this year unless we march our non-bunny-costumed selves over to Walgreens (most likely on Nov. 1, when all that cavity-causing goodness goes on sale).

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SPORTS  |  FOOTBALL

Rainey could see time at RB

Oct. 26, 2010

Chris Rainey could see a lot of touches out of the backfield Saturday against Georgia, but he needs earn playing time first.