Looking for something fun to do this Memorial Day weekend? The Avenue has got you covered. Here are some of the Gainesville highlights for art, food and entertainment:
Five Star Pizza will stop delivering to Granada Apartments in Northwest Gainesville after a delivery driver was robbed and hospitalized.
About 500 adults and 260 children attended Saturday’s inaugural event for Bug Week at the Florida Museum of Natural History, which will continue online through Friday. About 40 families used bug-related hints and navigated the Florida Museum during a scavenger hunt.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday a new Nutrition Facts label, which many manufacturers need to adopt by July 26, 2018.
Members of Gatorloop share more than just a team name. The 55-member group is mostly comprised of engineering undergraduates with fond memories of tearing things apart and seeing how they tick.
David Swanson, a 2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke about his newest book, “War is a Lie,” to an audience of roughly 70 on Saturday. Rather than focus on individual wars, Swanson analyzed noble ideals used to justify wars in the public sphere.
Florida pitcher Logan Shore was named the 2016 Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year on Monday, becoming just the second player in school history to receive the award.
Even without echolocation, hundreds found their way to the Lubee Bat Conservancy for an opportunity to learn about endangered species. The conservancy’s second annual Endangered Species Awareness Day took place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and attracted more than 300 guests. The event was held to raise awareness of threatened and endangered animals.
About 84 people received trivia facts, healthy-cooking demonstrations and advice from a Gainesville-licensed dietitian Saturday.
Florida’s subtropical climate, coupled with its proclivity for sunshine, has traditionally been an attraction for snowbirds. Now the Nile crocodile is staking its claim to call Florida home.
When Amanda Brown was 8 years old, she was gifted a sparkling new bike. Even though the sparkle faded, Brown rode the bike all the way through her undergraduate and graduate studies at UF.
This Wednesday, Gainesville locals can participate in a tree-planting project to commemorate National Bike Month, which is held in May.
Despite fewer UF students living in Gainesville during the summer, the Union Street Farmers Market keeps its liveliness.
Solar-powered lights will be installed at 24 Regional Transport System bus stops in the Greater Gainesville area by the end of June. The Federal Transit Administration will fund the $36,120 project to improve visibility and safety at each location, according to a press release.
By now, most of you have probably heard about what happened at Nevada’s state Democratic caucus on May 14. Violence, chair throwing, verbal harassment, a California senator fearing for her life: At least, this is what happened according to many Democratic officials and major media.
As the election season is shifting gears into the general, with the two presumptive nominees beginning to attack each other, there is still a glaring lack of policy or anything resembling it. Last week was plagued with attack ads from both candidates in regard to each other’s history with women. It reminds me of the Mark Twain quote, “Never argue with a fool, onlookers won’t be able to tell the difference.” One of the candidates is a master of making politicians look like fools.
Get Air! will open its first Florida location in Gainesville, and it recently added 10,000 square feet to its original construction plan.
It was last summer when I was first confronted with the infamous controversial beast that is the unisex restroom. I was interning at an environmental research firm in the heart of Jerusalem, the holiest city on earth. The Jerusalem Municipality is the formal institution that governs the city, and, because Jerusalem houses both the people and holy sites of the three major Abrahamic religions, holy men and women serve in the local government in a variety of ways.
Some students use their Florida Bright Futures Scholarships in the Fall and Spring. Bright Futures is offered to high school students in the state who display high ACT and SAT test scores and work a certain number of community service hours.
In the days following an abrupt NCAA Tournament exit, the success that Florida’s women’s tennis team had this season was forgotten.
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