Get your hands dirty for the holidays: DIY gifts for your list
By Kiera Wright-Ruiz | Nov. 30, 2011Looking for a fun and festive way to give this holiday season? Check out the Avenue's crafty side with these DIY projects.
Looking for a fun and festive way to give this holiday season? Check out the Avenue's crafty side with these DIY projects.
He collapsed on the bed, his 6-foot-3 frame too long for the extra-long twin. His feet hung over the wooden bedposts. His chest heaved as he allowed his long arms to succumb to gravity and dangle over the mattress.
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The post reads: "When it was over, all he said was, 'This is our secret.'
A hot commodity in the smartphone world, the iPhone 4S is losing its cool when it comes to battery life. Many users of the phone and the iOS 5 update say they have seen dramatic decreases in the longevity of the phone's battery, according to a Computer World article.
Gator Growl is going to be "The Soup" du jour in Gainesville when comedian Joel McHale performs.
No two social networks are the same, though people tend to see them as replicas of each other.
Just four doors down from a busy Starbucks is a store not much bigger than a closet. Inside are vintage blouses, clocks and pearled purses. The small space echoes with music, and around this time of year it specializes in vintage Halloween costumes dating from the '70s to the present.
Not your typical trip to the strawberry fields, this haunted corn maze is the perfect October activity. The third-annual Rogers Farm Corn Maze, 3831 NW 156th Ave., is now open, and it offers the perfect mix of fright and fall. Here's what to expect.
Swaying blue lights illuminate the winding, wooded path you walk through, while actors hide in the brush, waiting to jump out from the darkness. The path leads you through a sawmill town cursed by a voodoo priestess. Chuckles the Clown, Mrs. Slaughter, the Butcher and the chainsaw-wielding Virgil roam through the woods waiting for passers-by to haunt.
By this point in the semester, there is an inevitable pile of books to read, exams to study for and lectures to watch.
Fall is here, and it's not going to be as easy to maintain that golden-goddess glow you worked oh-so-hard on this summer, especially for those in California.
We've all had those nights where we've just finished an exam and are ready to party, yet we have no idea what's going on.
Try as you might, there is no winning
We all react the same every time it happens - grumble and post a snarky status. People assume it's the end of the social-networking world and make empty threats to leave Facebook every time it redesigns its website, but this time there are big changes in store for the more than 800 million of us who share cat pictures with the revolutionary service.
It's no secret that having a good laugh from time to time can help lighten your mood and make you feel a little better - if not at least for that moment. Not only can it make you feel better, but it also helps increase your tolerance for pain.
With acts including a human pincushion, glass walker and eater, a bed of nails and a fire-eater, the audience will be no less than intrigued by "Mr. Blank's Weird & Wandering Sideshow."
Christie Leigh Mueller is the epitome of class and fanaticism. She is dressed in a three-quarter-length sleeve blue cotton dress, khaki woven cinch belt, orange sandals and a string of pearls. Her hair, of course, is twisted in an adorable Southern braid.
There's no escaping that it's humid outside.
In the first week of September, Gainesville and Tallahassee-founded company Party Degree launched its new website, PartyDegree.com.