Gainesville twitter users hosted a meet up at Stubbies and Steins on Thursday, June 25, 2009. The Alligator can be found on twitter at @TheAlligator.
Most would call a mass of people swaying to music in a tiny building with a broken air-conditioning system on a day where the heat index put the temperature at over 100 a circle of hell.
With the unforgiving humidity of a Gainesville summer sucking the life out of you like a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, the Department of Darts & Laurels encourages you to relax and crack open an ice-cold Zima.
What happens on stage at a Get the Led Out concert is something unlike anything any Led Zeppelin fan has ever experienced.
UF and the University of California at Los Angeles are using artificial stem cells in an attempt to cure Lou Gehrig's disease.
The eighth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival wrapped up Sunday evening after hosting more than 120 acts varying from the hard rocking Nine Inch Nails to the old-school jams of Bruce Springsteen and Phish.
Stars are out of 5
Two men discussed the dimensions in Esphyr Slobodkina's paintings on Tuesday afternoon. I saw a jumping fox in one of them.
I went to the NBA Finals in Orlando this past weekend, and a fistfight almost erupted in my section after a group of rowdy, young Magic fans bombarded the Lakers fans in front of me with an endless chant of "LA sucks!" First of all, Orlando fans, people who live in prefab, cookie-cutter houses, should not throw stones. But more importantly, where on earth do you get the idea that your basketball team being up 10 points has anything to do with your city being any better than anyone else's?
More buses and a new route may make UF's campus more accessible this fall, but the changes will come out of students' pockets.
The NBA Draft used to be like a holiday to me.
It took a while, but UF finally has an official Twitter account.
The Florida Cross Country Camp will take place June 28-July 1 on UF's campus.
A student senate bill allocating $300,000 for improving the Student Government computer lab passed Tuesday night.
With the housing market slump in full force, developers and real estate agents are looking for creative ways to sell properties.
Eight student-aged people were mugged and beaten last month while walking to and from the bars in the midtown area, according to the Gainesville Police Department.
If you've ever thought about nabbing an abandoned bicycle off a bike rack on campus, maybe you should think again.
A fight near 8 Seconds in downtown Gainesville early Tuesday led to three arrests and two Taserings and sent an officer to the hospital after he was hit with a concrete brick.
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