In the first week of November of last year, I kissed an owl. She was not an owl when I kissed her, though she was when I met her, and, at that point, I’d still thought of her as a reflection of the costume she wore.
Volunteer at an animal shelter, be a bridesmaid, visit all 50 states and spend a whole day sleeping. These are only a few bucket list items pinned on Pinterest.com. Bucket lists are a trending topic online and on campus.
From the colorful mural on the side of the wall to the scent of burning incense that seeps outside, Wild Iris Books is hard to miss.
Inspired to keep spreading positive messages beyond the Internet, 19-year-old English junior Sylvia Lai created “Today I Will,” a line of stainless steel reusable water bottles with uplifting words printed on them.
Located at 101 N. Main St., WolfWax Culture is testing out a soft opening with hours from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. every day except Mondays. It won’t have its official opening until late October.
Sanctuary Yoga, previously located at the Seagle Building on University Avenue, has moved downtown, now located at 530 N. Main St.
Unlike the more commonly known form of Chinese acupuncture, the acupuncturists at the clinic locate the Qi, which is the energy element in your body, through pulse tests and access it by pushing needles in and out of the body.
I could very easily play devil’s advocate when it comes to Nickelback and all of the unequivocal hatred surrounding its members. However, after constantly hearing a particularly poignant list of “reasons” for the band’s supposed amount of suck, I find myself more leveled with defending what is, without a doubt, one of the decade’s most successful acts.
I liked Nickelback once.
1882: Gender-neutral historical figure Toni Labor sought to free the American worker from the shackles of the American work-week that, at its inception, continued for 365 days in a row. Tasks included, but were not limited to, beating rocks together and collecting goat and human sacrifices as offerings to the evil dragon who oversaw production atop Mt. Drudgery. Americans refered to the dragon as “Grover.” Toni Labor succeeded in slaying the dragon with a cardboard sign that read: “Seriously Grover, my feet are killing me,” and Americans celebrated by cooking the dragon over a fire. The Labor Day barbeque tradition was born.
Bryan Dubno overheard more than sandwich orders while standing in the Reitz Union Subway line Sunday. He stood between two UF students who were talking about one of his cherished inventions: the UFmobile iPhone app.
It’s no secret that pop-country superstar Taylor Swift is famous for her themed song writing concerning breakups and general lovesickness. For her, it’s as if the theme is super-sized and mega-adaptable, fitting seamlessly into all types of beats and styles alongside the standard painful lyrical prose.
For the past several hours, I’ve been staring at the drop/add page on my computer screen the way a drunk person watches the rotation of a gas station hot dog: with a mixture of hunger and disgust. Not five minutes goes by before I reclick the page’s refresh button, only to find myself seconds later cursing the heavens and shouting, “Buddha, Jesus, Athena! WHY!?,” knowing full well that somewhere in Gainesville, at that exact moment, some jerk is laughing because he has the class I want, and he knows it.
When Lia-Lucine Cary was a child, her grandfather taught her a valuable lesson — that educating oneself is the most important thing one can do. Today as a middle school teacher in Hawaii, Cary teaches that lesson to her students who are raised in a culture that doesn’t encourage college as an option.
Picture this, you start a fundraiser. In 15 days you raise $4,500, but you set your goal at $9,600. If you don’t raise the full $9,600, you get nothing, zero, goose egg.
The Gainesville Flow Arts Spin Jam meets the second Sunday of every month at Albert “Ray” Massey Westside Park from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A local soap-making business, Thrive Handcrafts, recently teamed up with a local coffee business, Sweetwater Organic Coffee Roasters, to create a soap that will leave java junkies feeling squeaky clean.
Otter and Trout Trading Co., located at 625 W University Ave., recently added another room to its store to make space for the growing collection of herbs, books, gems and unusual gifts, but the renovations aren’t over.
Mars Pub and Laser Tag transformed its laser tag arena into an arcade.
In the woods off of Southeast 16th Avenue and Williston Road lives 36-year-old Sam Parrish. He built a home there; a tent reinforced with a tarp, a futon, a cot and solar powered lights next to a creek.
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