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Tips to acclimate yourself properly by not pissing off the locals
By Alex Orlando | Aug. 20, 2010Yep, it’s that time of year again.
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New students, meet your new neighbors — the homeless
Aug. 20, 2010Living in Gainesville, there’s something you’re going to encounter on the streets that you should be ready for.
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Fall season brings new hope for tried and true franchises
By Josh Isom | Aug. 20, 2010Zombies, Spartans and 22 men getting sweaty together: It must be the beginning of gaming season.
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Dave’s final summer column: A whole season in review
By DAVE JOHNSON | Aug. 4, 2010And so, dear readers, here we are. Another summer in Gainesville has come and gone, and it's time we all look back and reflect on how much we've gone through. There's been plenty of things to remember over this past pseudo-semester, like that time ... where ... um ...
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Colorful sunglasses trend is just clever marketing ploy
By Angela Flatland | Aug. 4, 2010Members of UF's Greek community are responsible for the thousands of walking billboards for apartments, insurance companies and its own events on campus and around Gainesville.
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With a few tips, biking a viable travel option
By Zachary Griner | Aug. 4, 2010Even though riding around on a little metal frame with two wheels can seem foolish and a bit dangerous, it doesn't have to be.
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The Beta gaming tournament bridges media, video games
By Marissa Prieto | Aug. 2, 2010Those with a love for video games or digital arts and media, and even some professional gamers, came out last Thursday and Friday to the Norman Gym for The Beta gaming tournament.
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Four Horsemen? No, the Four Loko is the apocalypse
By DAVE JOHNSON | July 28, 2010Civilizations rise and fall, such is the cycle of human history. There are many things attributing to the downfall of a civilization, such as disease, wars or societal collapse. However, I realized recently that there will be only one thing to bring down modern Western civilization. Dear readers, I have seen the harbinger of the end of time, and it exists among us in startling quantity. Of course, I refer to Four Loko.
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Serendipity defines accomplished ghost writer’s career
By Alex Orlando | July 28, 2010An economics degree from Cornell University. A law degree from UF. Experience as a marketing director.
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Hospice roadshow helps patients
By Erin Rauch | July 28, 2010A timid young boy and his family held their ticket and waited anxiously in line to have John Sikorski, local antique evaluation expert, evaluate their item.
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Bootsington T. Cat: A column of reverence befit for a feline king
By DAVE JOHNSON | July 21, 2010Rarely is a man so great that even the legends written about him fail to truly capture the magnificence of his existence. This is one of those situations. This is an especially unique case, however, because the great man I am writing about is not a man. Readers, put on your monocles and be seated in your favorite fireside chair, for I shall chronicle the life and times of my cat, Boots.
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Games you may have missed: ‘Alan Wake’ for Xbox 360
By Josh Isom | July 21, 2010In a quarter swarming with high-profile sequels like “Red Dead Redemption” and “Super Mario Galaxy 2”, it may have been easy to overlook an original game for something flashy, familiar and safe. To overlook “Alan Wake,” however, is a fool’s mistake that should be rectified immediately.
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Pornographer worked for NASA before adult-film career
July 21, 2010When Mike Strother was a kid growing up in the 60s, he wanted to be so many things. He liked science. He pictured himself as a biologist, a chemist, an astronomer and finally an astronaut.
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‘Unspectacular’ talent show debuts at The Laboratory
By Lidia Dinkova | July 13, 2010On stage at The Laboratory, Tom Miller, clad in a red button-up shirt, hunches over his typewriter, his face hidden behind his sunglasses and a frayed straw hat.
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Dave Johnson’s parents sell house, he gets existential
By DAVE JOHNSON | July 13, 2010I knew this was coming for years. My parents decided to sell the house so they could live closer to the water and their boat (I don’t blame them. Who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to drink and fish all day with minimal planning and effort?). Once I realized this, every time I came home I acted like it could potentially be the last time I see my house or my hometown of Miami.
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Garden dedication focuses on community improvement
By Erin Rauch | July 13, 2010Alachua County officials turned soil and heads on Saturday at the Alachua County Administration Building.
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Roller Rebels recruiting session promotes camaraderie
By Alex Orlando | July 13, 2010By day, Adrienne Filardo, 22, works as a grant assistant in the UF Department of Neurosurgery. On a typical day of work, she wears a cardigan, skirt and pantyhose – looking “as June Cleaver as possible,” she said. But three nights a week, donning fishnet stockings, short shorts and a thick layer of purple eye shadow, she is Rage-rienne, the roller derby girl, acting as a blocker for her team, the Gainesville Roller Rebels.
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Zumba dance phenomenon combines exercise, rhythm
By Marissa Prieto | July 13, 2010Kicking off in Colombia and now making it all the way to Gainesville, Zumba is sweeping the nation off its feet (literally) one dance class at a time.
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Emmy winning actor Joey Pants talks illness, life
By Jon Silman | July 7, 2010What's it like to be Joey Pants?
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Road trips test manhood
By DAVE JOHNSON | July 7, 2010If there is one great American rite of passage, it is the road trip. Haphazardly shoving people and belongings into a car and debauching ourselves across state lines is about as American as apple pie baked by underpaid immigrant laborers.
