In the sports world, certain teams can only win for so long before a changing of the guard takes place. Professional teams like the Chicago Bulls, New York Yankees, Montreal Canadians, and Pittsburgh Steelers all had their eras of dominance before their winning ways left them.
The dog days of summer are fondly known for their carefree spirit, sun-soaked beach trips and sticky popsicles. And, if you don’t eschew social media, television or newspapers, then you already know that summer is the heart of music festival season. Music festivals are where the worlds of music and fashion beautifully collide leaving lots of boho-chic Instagram posts in their wake.
This week I experienced the two extremes of a Floridian summer: terrible sun-burn and torrential rain.
This week’s brief Senate meeting appointed next year’s Student Supreme Court and Student Honor Code administration.
A 2011 study said the great white shark population was endangered, but UF shark expert George Burgess and a team of researchers didn’t think those conclusions added up.
Bibliophiles everywhere can recognize “Call me Ishmael” as one of the most famous first sentences in literature. But a new project is taking that opening line from “Moby-Dick” and giving it a modern twist.
It’s convenient to call “Young and Beautiful” a coming-of-age film, but it’s also unjustly incomplete. The 2013 French film, opening Friday at the Hipp, follows its 17-year-old protagonist into much darker places than comparable films —Gia Coppola’s “Palo Alto”, for example — and taps into terrors and emotions that transcend teenage identity crises.
Electronic dance music now rests at the forefront of dance music worldwide. With millions of dollars invested in the genre, EDM has quickly altered the status quo of the music industry, but it seems to have hit a glass ceiling: The artists who dominate local and national bookings are primarily male.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man on Tuesday for storing nearly 3 ounces of cocaine in his pockets and underwear and running from officers.
In a joint effort by multiple law enforcement divisions, officers were able to act swiftly to protect most residents at a Spanish Trace Apartments shooting situation that ended with an alleged suicide.
Florida Prepaid tuition plan prices are expected to drop nearly $20,000 by next year, according to the Florida Prepaid College Board.
Property owners in Gainesville should expect to see a reduction in their fire insurance bill in September.
Juan Arboleda was searching for his professor.
The Student Health Care Center basement and first two floors are scheduled to close to patients and students from June 23-27, but limited services will be available for university athletes.
Here it is, y’all: Your Summer-A-is-over-and-all-I-have-is-this-stupid-editorial edition of Darts & Laurels.
Iraq, a country that for mind-boggling reasons the U.S. invaded in 2003, is in a state of disarray. In recent weeks, a terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has taken control over large swaths of the country, including Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city.
Lana Del Rey’s career skyrocketed with her 2012 release, “Born to Die,” where she wrote songs of love, heartbreak and alcohol addiction at an early age. The album had strong hip-hop influence in its quick-tempo production and moments of rap from Del Rey on songs like “National Anthem” and “Diet Mountain Dew.” While her latest record, “Ultraviolence,” doesn’t vary much in lyrical content, it is a bigger, more cinematic experience than her previous effort thanks to the change in production and attention to Del Rey’s voice.
The L.A.-via-Gainesville electro-indie group Hundred Waters will perform at the High Dive on June 27 at 9 p.m. Tickets can be purchased for $10 online, at Hear Again Music and Movies or the High Dive box office and are $12 at the door. Hundred Waters’ tour comes off the tails of the release of “The Moon Rang Like a Bell,” which dropped on May 27 under Skrillex’s record label, OWSLA. The Alligator caught up with electronics/guitarist and former UF architecture major Paul Giese for a brief Q&A.
“Patti Smithereens,” No. 86, fought her way through the pack of women as she was met with crushing shoulder shoves and hips knocking her every which way.
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