About 150 people answered trivia questions about museum pieces Wednesday night.
I believe, and hope, we are currently in the final years of the current U.S. two-party system as we know it.
These past few weeks have seen an almost unprecedented movement in state governments across the country attacking LGBTQ+ rights in one way or another. The failed Georgia and successfully passed North Carolina and Mississippi religious liberty bills have caused widespread debate and condemnation across the country. It isn’t new; the respective “bathroom” and “wedding cake” wars have been playing out in state and local governments for the past couple years and have been evermore present since the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision last summer.
"Floridians have been encouraged to believe that government could take care of us. But government always takes more than it gives back.” —Rick Scott, in his 2011 State of the State address.
It’s a beautiful world and a wonderful life, but these are also times of great civil unrest. Tensions between civilians and police, institutionalized racism and movements like “Occupy Wall Street” and “Fight for $15” are sobering reminders of such unrest. In light of all this strife, you’d think when a noteworthy example of nonviolent civil disobedience arises, there’d be relentless cable news coverage of it, right? Right?
Hear Again Music and Movies normally retains a quiet atmosphere — until the third Saturday of April.
Dear Mediocre,
This weekend, more than 100 UF student performers will take over the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
JJ Schwarz hadn’t homered in 21 games — the longest drought of his career.
Bryce Harper, one of baseball’s great young stars, recently wore a hat that said "Make Baseball Fun Again," playing off Donald Trump’s campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again."
The Florida gymnastics team is showing no signs of slowing down.
The UF softball team has dominated Florida State over the last decade.
Following No. 2 Florida lacrosse's 10-9 win against a feisty Temple team on April 2, UF coach Amanda O’Leary was concerned about her team’s aggression — or, rather, its lack thereof.
Two UF coaches answered questions Tuesday night about both sports and their personal lives.
Thousands of books will go on sale Saturday, but a line will begin for the Friends of the Library’s Spring 2016 Book Sale on Thursday night, said P.j. van Blokland, a sorter for the organization and a professor in the UF Food and Resource Economics Department.
A model plane built by UF students never got off the ground.
Editor's note: This is part of an ongoing series on sexual assault survivors. See Thursday’s paper for an overview of the legal options and processes that survivors experience.
Part of the 34th Street Wall now reads “In Honor of Fallen Women.”
The Alachua County Labor Coalition will join the Civic Media Center, located at 433 S. Main St., to screen “Dream On” today at 7 p.m. The film will later air on PBS.
A student news organization is battling a Florida university for the right to know the names of Student Government officials in meetings and documents.
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