Admit it. Although your birth date falls in the late eighties or (gasp!) nineties, you still love the puffy-bright-tracksuit-side-ponytail-wearing-“Breakfast Club”-loving generation.
The Harvest of Hope music festival raises money for migrant farmworkers.
For more than two decades, Marcee Lee Winthrop has lived in poverty. Now, she and her daughter are trying to get themselves out of it.
For the first time in history, gay and lesbian couples will be counted on the U.S. Census form.
The City Commission works for us, the taxpayers, just like the police are supposed to.
The Alligator’s coverage of the shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong has been shameful. The story was first reported not as a front-page headline, as warranted, but buried deep within the paper. What pressing development grabbed the front page headline that day?
Much of the Alligator coverage in the past two weeks has dealt with the actions of the University Police during the tragic shooting of graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong. But another, equally great tragedy is the scant coverage of the extremely poor response to a man suffering from poor mental health.
About 30 students learned about the definition of beauty and the power of anonymous notes at the Operation Beautiful Forum on Wednesday night in Anderson Hall.
Leaving behind green beer and St. Patrick’s Day festivities, 1,577 people headed to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday night to watch a sold-out Ben Folds performance.
Dressed in military fatigues and boots, UF Society of Professional Journalists President April Dudash led a mock protest of the First Amendment to the Constitution Wednesday afternoon on Turlington Plaza.
Although Tuesday’s city election saw an encouraging increase in voter turnout from the last mayoral race, election officials see room for improvement.
Richard Selwach will sell you a handgun, but he won’t take a handout. Craig Lowe bought enough stamps to mail 23,672 first-class letters. Ozzy Angulo preferred to campaign by city bus.
The five University Police officers involved in the March 2 shooting of UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong were placed on administrative duty under UPD policy.
About 20 people attended UF’s Speech and Hearing Clinic, located at 1405 NW 13th St., to receive a free hearing screening Wednesday.
There will be eavesdropping, matchmaking and lying on the Plaza of the Americas today, Saturday and Sunday.
A plain white delivery truck with pictures of fruit was parked near Library West on Wednesday, but the inside of the truck was less plain — chain and news clippings with the word “slavery” in every headline covered the walls.
Former UF quarterback Tim Tebow shows off his improved mechanics and new throwing motion for NFL coaches and scouts at UF’s Pro Scout Day in The Swamp on Wednesday. Tebow and other UF pro prospects, including Joe Haden and Brandon Spikes, worked out for teams.
Today roughly marks the one-year anniversary of the unquestioned pinnacle of Barack Obama’s presidency – the bracket he filled out for last year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Mired in the muck of a massively unsatisfying and restive term as the leader of the free world, President Obama now must re-calibrate his approach and perhaps use the basketball acumen of his inner circle to a decided political advantage.
In a society that goes out of its way to celebrate the mediocre — Applebee’s restaurants, allowing the Detroit Lions to be televised on Thanksgiving Day, ‘80s music — we really outdo ourselves on March 17.
More than a year after Barack Obama was elected president, his home state is finally trying to grow a pair.
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