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THE AVENUE | MUSIC

Album review: Of Montreal – "Skeletal Lamping"

By ROBERT HILSON | Oct. 22, 2008

Kevin Barnes lost his marbles a long time ago. Now his pants must go. Of Montreal's "Skeletal Lamping" uncovers the brainchild's most outrageous fantasies in a series of wildly uninhibited hallucinations - each deceptively catchy, each bat-shit freaky. The track titles -"An Eluardian Instance," "Nonpareil Of Favor" - baffle as much as the actual music, which shuns conventional song structures for whimsical snippets blended indiscriminately into a faux-disco smoothie. Prince says it goes down easy. And it does - the slinky R&B, the electro-pop excursions, the noise jams. It's an orgy of a record that takes us to the bottom of Barnes's rabbit hole where he buried his two most cherished readings - Webster's Dictionary and the Kama Sutra.

SPORTS | COLUMNS

College football should be decided like baseball

Oct. 22, 2008

Dear college football fans,

THE AVENUE | SEX

Halloween treats adults to more than just candy

By STEPHANIE DUNN | Oct. 22, 2008

I'm convinced Halloween was created for the sole purpose of getting boned. No other holiday compares. When mischief and moonlight abound, someone is going to get laid. Throw in a chintzy costume, garish makeup and orange beer, and you're done for.

THE AVENUE | NIGHTLIFE

Mind your bar manners

By GABRIELLE FALCONEIRI | Oct. 22, 2008

This difficult midterms week that recently passed wore on my patience because of the day-to-day annoyances bartenders face. It inspired me to share my thoughts on bar etiquette from start to finish.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Meyer gives respect to UK special teams

Oct. 22, 2008

Special teams will again play a big role when No. 5 UF hosts Kentucky on Saturday.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Divorce doesn’t justify gay marriage

By Stephen Courson | Oct. 22, 2008

In reading Michael Belle's article about how he is both a Christian and a Democrat, I thought he proposed his ideas well but had flawed logic in some of his thinking.

NEWS | CAMPUS

National story-gathering project comes to Gainesville

Oct. 21, 2008

You don't have to run for president to become part of American history.

OPINION | EDITORIALS

Alection: Beer company uses creative polling method

By The Alligator Editorial Board | Oct. 21, 2008

A northern California brewery has taken it upon itself to establish the most directly proportionate presidential election model so far this election year. Actually, the brewery has only succeeded in running the election hype into the ground.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

UF diploma helpful in real world

By Daniel Seeman | Oct. 21, 2008

Wes Hunt's Monday column is, perhaps, the worst opinion piece that I've seen in the Alligator in the last five years.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Tebow likes Colt McCoy for Heisman

Oct. 21, 2008

Tim Tebow has more than one vote to cast this fall.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dogs enjoyed costume contest

By Lauren Gray | Oct. 21, 2008

Boy, was I disappointed when I opened the Alligator on Monday morning.

METRO

First days of early voting see high turnout

By BETHY PIERRE | Oct. 21, 2008

Alachua County residents heading to the polls are quickly outnumbering early voters from the 2004 presidential election.

METRO

GPD arrests woman for hitting boyfriend with car

Oct. 21, 2008

A woman was arrested after witnesses reported she intentionally hit a man with her car early Tuesday morning.

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate appoints 19 senators to committees

By LAUREN BAKER | Oct. 21, 2008

Nineteen senators - 12 from the Gator Party, six from the Orange and Blue Party and one independent senator - were appointed to Student Senate committees during Tuesday's meeting.

NEWS | CAMPUS UF ADMINISTRATION

UF to maintain spending despite lower investment returns

By THOMAS STEWART | Oct. 21, 2008

The ailing economy has caused UF to take new risks with its $1.25 billion endowment.

NEWS

Work Bench

By Harrison Diamond | Oct. 21, 2008

Feature photo

METRO

Alert helps find missing High Springs man

Oct. 21, 2008

An 85-year-old man missing from his High Springs home was found Tuesday in South Carolina after an state alert was issued.

OPINION | COLUMNS

Future relies on innovation

By ANTHONY PAGLINO | Oct. 21, 2008

I am taking the final economics course for my major. I learned curves, graphs, labor and capital, and I have come to a truth about economics. It is incapable of quantifying human factors, such as fear, trust, greed and hope.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Flu shot has proven effective

By Dan Fitzpatrick | Oct. 21, 2008

In Ian Shtulman's Monday letter to the editor, most of Shtulman's "evidence" grows out of the mass anti-vaccine rage following an October 2006 article by Tom Jefferson that was full of speculation. The rest of the scientific community, in virtual unanimity, has agreed that the flu vaccine is both safe and effective.

OPINION | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Alligator insensitive to dog costume event

By Serena Bloom | Oct. 21, 2008

I appreciate the Alligator sending a reporter to cover a local fundraising event. However, I am sorely disappointed with its lack of sensitivity and misinformation.

El Caimán