What do you get when you mix sneakers, serotonin and socializing? For Gainesville’s Generation Z crowd, the answer is Peak Pulse Run Club.
The Election Day event offered an all-day happy hour, board games and a “mood mending meditation” session led by a Lynx employee and yoga instructor. The event was intended to give those dealing with political stress a safe space to cope before election results were announced.
As an area with a largely democratic majority, Alachua County faced an influx of Instagram stories from students expressing their election disappointment or celebration, and not all of them were ready for peaceful discourse.
Organizations across the county rallied young voters in the college town with incentives and online promotions. On Tuesday, Farah & Farah Personal Injury Lawyers offered free coffee to voters at over 30 coffee shops across Florida and Georgia, including four Gainesville locations.
From Oct. 16 to Oct. 27, the UF School of Theatre and Dance put on a nine-show run of the musical, which follows traveling conman Harold Hill, played by Ethan Garrepy, who goes from town to town persuading citizens of his “plan” to form a boys marching band. After collecting payments for instruments and uniforms, he skips town, starting his pursuit of his next victims. But this time, it’s a little different.
During the organization's Party to the Polls event on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., a party bus transported UF students from La Casita, UF’s Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, to the Reitz Union, an early voting location for Alachua County.
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The Alzheimer’s Association hosted its annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday morning, with 756 participants walking together to show their support. The Gainesville event aimed to raise money to fund research and provide resources to those affected by the disease.
Swamp Records collaborated with #UNLITTER to host four bands its R.I.P Rockfest show Wednesday night. This is the second year the nonprofits have worked together on the show, aiming to raise money for their organizations.
To get in the fall spirit, here is a list of the five best pumpkin farms in the Gainesville area.
The Gainesville Orchid Society hosted its annual orchid show and fall plant sale Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens. The show included food vendors, gardening supplies, plants and orchids and lawn decorations.
The Chabad UF Jewish Student and Community Center is one of 500 campuses that make up the Chabad on Campus International network, and it aims to help students immerse themselves in Jewish culture.
For those experiencing homelessness in Alachua County, GRACE Marketplace became a sanctuary offering safety from Hurricane Milton as the winds and rain began to bear down.
Mochiry offers a Korean-inspired menu with mochi donuts, ice cream, boba tea, Korean hot dogs and coffee drinks.
Studio T/M is the only one-stop ceramics shop in Alachua County. The studio provides clay, tools, materials, studio memberships, pottery classes, themed events, kiln firings and repairs.
The Humane Society of North Central Florida, which usually shelters between 35 to 40 dogs, evacuated dogs from coastal shelters the days leading up to Helene. With just under a week’s notice of Helene, the shelter had to foster out all of its in-house animals to make room for more.
Gainesville Indie Night welcomed audience members Sept. 27 for a themed event that aims to highlight local indie bands and draw in new audiences.
Despite week-long uncertainty, the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida hosted its Pride Festival on Sept. 28 from noon to 8 p.m. at Bo Diddley Plaza and on surrounding streets.
The North American Veterinary Community welcomed a special visitor to its Gainesville office Wednesday morning. Calvin, a 3-year-old gray French bulldog, strolled around the halls, never shying away from the cameras.
On Sept. 6, the Florida Museum of Natural History announced its temporary closure in a press release, revealing a large-scale, front-end expansion project that is anticipated to span the next two years.
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