While you may not run into Soulja Boy on campus, critiquing local musicians can be risky. In the attempt to discover local music and at the suggestion of a fellow writer, below is a local band review.
If subleasing in Gainesville was a club, it would be the type of club where you have to know someone to get in.
"We are young despite the years we are concern/ We are hope despite the times." So sings Michael Stipe on R.E.M.'s classic "These Days," the band's statement of purpose and a tune that had been rattling in my head a full week prior to an early summer gig at the University of California, Berkeley campus. The song rocks, no questions asked, but it's also slightly cringe-inducing, should you picture it played by three middle-aged hipsters - one frumpy (Peter Buck), one bald (Stipe) and one timelessly nerdy (Mike Mills). It also begs the question, are these guys full of it? Twenty years on, are once-ballsy claims now as hollow as one of Buck's signature Rickenbackers? In short, does R.E.M. still matter?
Beginning July 1, Salvia divinorum, a hallucinogenic drug, will no longer be legal in the state of Florida.
Authorities released a revised sketch Sunday of the man who attacked a woman who was jogging in Haile Plantation last month.
Lakecia Ealey waved goodbye to her collegiate career Friday at the NCAA Track and Field championships.
The night ended with a rhythmic reggae beat pulsing through thick, humid Florida air.
Earlier, I touched upon the market forces responsible for determining demand for (and, consequently, the price of) oil. There was, however, some concern that my coverage of the supply-demand dynamic was relatively one-sided.
Gov. Charlie Crist reduced funding for statewide agencies by another 4 percent Thursday, but UF President Bernie Machen assured the Board of Trustees on Friday that the cut would not drain any more of UF's resources.
Friends of Jeremy "Norton" Smith said the 20-year-old UF student loved nothing more than caring for his fully restored 1967 Ford Mustang and playing basketball with friends.
The ambiguity of African social identity will be the focus of the Harn Museum of Art's newest exhibit, which opens today.
Last week marked the dawn of a new era for Florida's higher education system. Whether it represents a breakthrough or another example of political expedience, grandstanding and shortsightedness remains an open question.
UF police chased and used a Taser on a Gainesville teenager Friday afternoon after he fled from police when they found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in his car.
Congratulations, Marreese Speights, you're about nine days away from getting paid.
University officials plan to give the manager of UF's culinary kingdom control of campus food services for 10 more years starting July 2009.
After announcing in March that he intended to resign, Dr. Douglas Barrett has agreed to stay on as UF's senior vice president for health affairs for at least one more year or until a replacement is found.
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