He was trying to make a flight out of Ft. Lauderdale to Colombia. The bus service offered a "first class coach" trip from Gainesville to Miami for $20. He took the trip; he won't ever do that again.
Forced to close its doors after 4 p.m. now, the Fat Tuscan Café may have to close forever if its zoning code doesn't change.
UF's rugby team is going to Columbus, Ohio, on June 2 to participate in the first USA Sevens' Rugby Collegiate Championship Invitational.
After a moment of silence, senators unanimously passed a resolution during Tuesday's Senate meeting to honor Lamar Abel, a former UF football player who died over the weekend.
Twelve columns of the Rosa Parks Downtown Regional Transfer Station were dedicated Tuesday to honor prominent civil rights leaders.
Gainesville residents who walk with canes are advised not to lift them above their waist in the presence of law officers. Doing so may result in you being legally shot, or so argues Bill Cervone in his statement regarding Kofi Adu-Brempong.
The infamous Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sending an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day.
Electric hums echoed down gravel paths, through trees and over creeks as a crowd meandered its way through the woods of southwest Gainesville on a steamy Saturday afternoon.
No more season-ending cliffhangers, no more time travelling and no more Hurley episodes: Lost is over.
Babies can soak up knowledge like sponges even when they dream.
While a penchant for minimalism and convenient digital technology drives the majority of music sales (or lack thereof), a growing number of music fans are returning to a bulkier but more interactive format - the vinyl record.
Dear Lamar,
With all sorts of extra time on your hands during Gainesville's offseason and a serious prerogative to stay indoors, why not try your hand at some new hobbies? How about making your own alcohol? Part chemistry, part cooking, part art and part drinking, home brewing is a great way to pass those extra hours of summer daylight.
Dear readers, I have enjoyed my time so far serving as an Avenue columnist. By which, I mean that I enjoy getting my opinions and musings out there so I can entertain some bored students who just finished the crossword in the classifieds section. However, I will be taking my column in a different direction this time. Instead of entertaining you people with (mostly) true stories about being bored and anti-social, I will use my position as a semi-legitimate column writer to warn one and all about a very grave threat to our collective well-being: douchebags.
I first discovered the mustache thing when I was in Chicago last August. Every time I saw a bike ride by, I had handlebar double-vision.
Starting next school year, incoming high school freshmen in Florida will have to pass both Algebra 1 and Geometry in order to earn their diplomas.
As a corporation, British Petroleum is deeply saddened by the recent leaks in our interwebs tube that have pumped out an ever-increasing number of highly sensitive and damaging internal documents into the vital Gulf of Public Opinion. We have prepared the following memo as a “top kill procedure” on the destructive flow of information by piping loads of crap into real leaks of BP’s corporate philosophy:
After seeing the column ‘Sexual health care on the cheap’ in the May 13th edition of the Alligator, we’d like to remind readers that the UF Student Health Care Center also offers a full range of sexual health care services available to students.
I love a good Internet political meme. Most political junkies have their inner circles of friends on an email list-serve that they use to distribute particularly funny or applicable memes. It can be a very enjoyable hobby.
Finally, festival season is here. And the Avenue has searched high and low to bring you music options both near and far.
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