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Gainesville High School teacher helps families in need
By Ellen Villafuerte | Jan. 7, 2015If you ask Louise Yariv how long she and her husband have been donating items to families in need, she’ll chuckle and won’t give you a straight answer.
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Time Magazine apologizes for including ‘feminist’ on poll of words to ban in 2015
By Kelsey Jordan | Nov. 23, 2014Time Magazine has apologized for including “feminist” on its poll of words that should be banned in 2015, and UF students see through it.
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Prayer brings big artists to small GNV church
By Kelsey Jordan | Nov. 19, 2014Music gently hovers over a swaying crowd, tickled by raised hands and voices that are carried up by the melodic vibrations of choral composition. It radiates off of faces filled with awe.
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Non-Humans of Gainesville
By Daniela Prizont-Cado | Nov. 19, 2014What started out as a joke became a social buzz in a matter of days.
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Pet stories at The Conch
By Stephanie Wantage | Nov. 12, 2014Whoever holds the conch, speaks.
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UF student pwns in Super Smash Bros
By Cody Smith | Nov. 12, 2014While Gainesville residents regularly follow Gator football and basketball, a new fanbase tracks a UF student as he rises in the ranks of competitive gaming.
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Pineapple Instagram probably has more followers than you
By Kelsey Jordan | Nov. 5, 2014A fruity face is finding fame from a UF student’s Instagram.
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Oaks Mall hosts first trick or treat event
By Rumi Rahman | Oct. 31, 2014Gainesville’s children can go trick-or-treating safely from store to store this Halloween instead of door to door.
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Ominous bells over campus
By Gabriella Nunez | Oct. 30, 2014Every day, Century Tower chimes peacefully throughout campus. But on Friday, Century Tower will be chiming a different, spookier tune.
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Awesomely abnormal Halloween costumes
By Elly Ayres | Oct. 29, 2014“Being normal is vastly overrated.”The declaration proclaimed by beloved grandmother slash benevolent witch Aggie Cromwell– mere minutes into Disney’s 1998 cinematic masterpiece “Halloween Town”– is just as relevant today as it was 16 years ago.
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Puppet company showcases Halloween-themed burlesque
By Edwin Exaus | Oct. 29, 2014Burlesque, an aerialist show and a masquerade ball create the perfect Halloween trifecta — and puppets will perform them all Saturday.
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Ghost tales of Gainesville
By Jasmine Wildflower Osmond | Oct. 29, 2014On the spookiest night of the year, the ghosts and ghouls of Gainesville gleefully greet the town, but which are truth or fiction is still under speculation.
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Gator Walk brick seals engagement between UF alumni on gameday
By Jasmine Wildfloer Osmond | Oct. 22, 2014Even though Gator football failed against Louisiana State University this season, a Gator grad won his sweetheart’s heart forever that day.
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A whole latte fall-flavored love
By Kelsey Jordan | Oct. 15, 2014As the cool weather of autumn arrives, coffee drinkers are trading in their iced beverages for hot brews. Local cafe menus are filling up with flavors of the season, and while the pumpkin spice latte is a dead-set tradition, creative alternatives are emerging.
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Dating website finds UF females more selective than UF males when dating
By Mahogany Brown | Oct. 15, 2014A dating platform that makes finding love easier for students recently looked through its users from colleges in Florida to find out who were the pickiest when it came to dating.
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Raven-Symoné’s social media storm
By Rachel Welch | Oct. 15, 2014Former “The Cosby Show” and “That’s So Raven” child star “set the Twitter on fire” Sunday night, according to Oprah Winfrey.
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Halloween at Universal: From witches, wizards and goblins to terrorizing zombies and Michael Myers
By Emily Cardinali | Oct. 8, 2014Diagon Alley
