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Dave Johnson had a Crappy Weekend

By DAVE JOHNSON | June 16, 2010

This is not the column I planned on writing this week. If everything had gone like it was supposed to, I'd be recapping my adventures at Bonnaroo. I had my ticket paid for me. My car was just about packed. And then I was reminded that this was the weekend my dad and I were supposed to visit my grandmother. Goodbye, Bonnaroo. Hello, Mishawaka, Indiana.

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Pool party brings despair

By RICHARD STEHLI | June 16, 2010

Summer pool parties include beer, food, music, and girls in bikinis. What more could you ask for? Saturday seemed to be my lucky day, as Gainesville Place hosted its Summer A pool party.

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UF group wins funniest comedy team

By ALI RIECK | June 16, 2010

Gators have a new reason to turn their jorts-swag on: UF students Rudy Mendoza, Calvin Cole, Tim Keck and Brian Amos won the title of Funniest Comedy Team at the National College Comedy Competition.

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Conversation with transvestite prostitute gives insight

June 9, 2010

When I told my editor I’d do a feature on a tranny prostitute, I sort of meant it as a joke.

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Fake weed offers smokers a more legal, less potent alternative

By ALI RIECK | June 9, 2010

Sold in a small pouch clearly labeled “not intended for human consumption,” Gainesville Green Sense is marketed as an herbal air freshener. The finely crumbled blend of dry plant matter smells slightly sweet, similar to a fruity bubblegum.

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Youth soccer fills void for sports fans in summer

By DAVE JOHNSON | June 2, 2010

Summer is a hard time for sports fans. As the NBA and NHL playoffs come to a close, fans are left trying to subsist off of the meager pickings of summer sports.

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Finding the best Gainesville pools to cool off in isn’t easy

By Webb | June 2, 2010

You can’t describe summertime in Gainesville. You have to experience it – the 98- degree temperatures, 110 percent humidity, mosquitoes the size of cockroaches and sweat stains galore. It’s a time when even a brief walk to class leaves you with a swamp in your pants.

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UF Comedy Team to perform in Aspen for second time

By Jon Silman | June 2, 2010

The UF Stand Up Comedy Team has made it to the Funniest Four of The Rooftop Comedy National College Comedy Competition for the second consecutive year. The fabulous foursome are: Rudy “Glitter Machine” Mendoza, Calvin “Time Hooker” Cole, Tim “Shadow Box” Keck and Brian “New Guy” Amos.

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The Latest in Literary Mashups: "Android Karenina"

By Britt Perkins | June 2, 2010

"Functioning robots are all alike; every malfunctioning robot malfunctions in its own way."

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Reviewed

June 2, 2010

Space. The final frontier. Where no one can hear you scream, and where everyone's favorite mustached avenger must return to once again save the princess on the back of a dinosaur-dragon and get a piece of that cake! Finally.

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A guide on how to recognize jerks

By DAVE JOHNSON | May 26, 2010

Dear readers, I have enjoyed my time so far serving as an Avenue columnist. By which, I mean that I enjoy getting my opinions and musings out there so I can entertain some bored students who just finished the crossword in the classifieds section. However, I will be taking my column in a different direction this time. Instead of entertaining you people with (mostly) true stories about being bored and anti-social, I will use my position as a semi-legitimate column writer to warn one and all about a very grave threat to our collective well-being: douchebags.

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Gardening in home is easy, cheap

By Erin Rauch | May 26, 2010

Want to learn how to grow weeds? Have you been itching to use your green thumb this summer? Then I'm here to tell you that it's not only easy, it's fun and affordable.

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Gainesville Comedy Showcase takes on area’s bar scene

By Drew Wilson | May 19, 2010

“I drive a Honda Fit, which is ironic,” Chris Cope said.

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Gatorade ad serves purpose

By Alex Orlando | May 19, 2010

“If you want a revolution, the only solution: evolve, gotta evolve.”

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How to survive, enjoy the summer slowdown

By DAVE JOHNSON | May 12, 2010

“You’re staying in Gainesville for the summer?” This is the last thing my friend said to me after I had finished helping him move out of his apartment a couple of weeks ago.

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Pulitzer Prize winners, authors meet for story summit

By Erin Rauch | May 12, 2010

Dust off your morals and pray for calamity. Ellis Amburn, former editor to the stars and author of seven biographies, is just one of the 30 writers coming to a workshop at the UF.

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Facebook privacy issues raise concerns about the site’s safety

By MARGARET GRECO | May 12, 2010

Just when the e-dust settled and pretty much everyone forgot what the “old Facebook” looked like, the unstoppable website did it again. The company’s new changes to profiles’ information section strip users of any sort of individuality and beg the question: Really?!

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Go out with a bong

By MICHELLE PROFIS | Apr. 14, 2010

As the semester comes to a close, many students try to go out with a bang, while others, with a hit.

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Eating healthy not impossible

By LANCE FULLER | Apr. 7, 2010

It’s five minutes until your next class. You have just come out of a three-hour-block and now have to run across campus to present a project. By the way, your stomach is growling.

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Protocol for pranking every fool

By Alex Orlando | Mar. 31, 2010

• Messy pranks: