Last week I wrote about the fashion rules that you can (and probably should) break, especially in Florida. This week, I'm writing about the rules that you can bend. I emphasize the word bend because if you break them, you could end up looking like a hot fashion mess, but if you bend them the right way, you could break new fashion ground.
The new online ticket system is infinitely better than the old phone system.
I arrived at Tuesday night's first meeting of the new Student Senate apprehensive of what was to come. I was afraid of the ugliness that would follow when the gloves came off in the start of a new Senate session.
Fred Pearce drinks his own sewage water.
Wednesday night's dismantling of South Carolina came down to one thing: hitting percentage.
If the Cubs ever won a World Series, the universe would collapse on itself. Likewise if Oasis ever made another classic album -some things just aren't meant to happen. But Noel Gallagher has a go at greatness anyway, and on "Dig Out Your Soul," he comes very close before little brother Liam and friends set him back another hundred years. The first four songs, penned by the older, more talented sibling, make up a bristling suite channeling the sounds of London, circa 1969. "Bag It Up" and "The Shock of the Lightning" strut to quintessential Oasis - swaggering guitar rock, pissed off and brash. And too good to be true. Liam and the rotating cast of sidemen promptly pull a Steve Bartman: distracting the professional from accomplishing something special.
There's a place in the market for white noise, and nobody knows this better than Mercury Rev. With "Snowflake Midnight," the veteran space-rockers piece together an orthopedic pillow of an album that's not only as serenely unexciting as its name suggests but could likely accompany "trickling stream" and "rainforest animals" as the third setting on a Sleep Mate sound machine. Each of the few engaging moments scattered throughout - the soft-loud dynamic in "People Are So Unpredictable (There's No Bliss Like Home)," the Little-Drummer-Boy-learns-techno choral passage of "Dream of a Young Girl as a Flower" - is promptly smothered to death by an extended ambient interlude. This is the sonic equivalent of turkey: it's pretty bland by itself, and after consumption, all you want to do is take a nap.
While blasting music through iPod headphones may seem harmless now, the noise could cause serious hearing problems in the future, according to a new European study.
To opposing teams' defenses, it sometimes appears as if the entire UF soccer team is attacking them.
When UF's coaching staff told Janoris Jenkins that he would be starting at cornerback opposite Joe Haden, the true freshman had a rather simple reaction.
A debate planned for Wednesday at Santa Fe College became heated, though only one candidate was present.
University Police Department officers arrested a man on campus Wednesday who they reported was carrying a gun.
At first glance of the 2008-09 UF women's basketball media guide, you can't help but notice the slogan at the bottom: Bigger and Better.
A new electronic system for UF students to pay fees and access financial services went online Wednesday afternoon, two days after the initially planned launch on Monday.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will speak at UF this November, according to an e-mail sent to UF law students Tuesday.
I found it strange that in an editorial that was otherwise touting the exact same principles as the Students for a Democratic Society-supported referendum against installing hand scanners at UF's gyms, there was need to chastise SDS for their "scanners-signal-the-apocalypse mentality."
Live from New York, it's Saturday night - on Thursday.
The parents of a 3-year-old who died from a chemical overdose at Shands at UF about a year ago were given a chance to present their case to the Florida Board of Pharmacy on Tuesday.
Daniel Milian, 4EG
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