If 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.
Gainesville is crammed with bars, and this Fourth of July weekend you will no doubt encounter throngs of sloppy drunks ready to join you in the never-ending war against joyless, American sobriety.
Famed West coast rock band Rooney is coming to Gainesville.
I know you've been waiting for it: the weekend of booze, fireworks and watermelon in celebration of our country that looms at the end of this first week of Summer B.
The Fourth of July. It’s possibly the greatest holiday that has ever existed. Some guys signed a piece of paper that brought the United States of America into existence, and more than two centuries later we commemorate that day in the most American way: grilling, getting belligerently drunk and watching things explode. I love July Fourth because I’m a big fan of America. It’s pretty much the best country I’ve ever lived in.
Gainesville’s only annual fireworks display is bursting back to life with help from local sponsors.
Fireworks, patriotism and guns! It’s the Fourth of July, and the best way to enjoy the
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.
It has been nearly seven years since the final episode aired, but “Futurama” is back and better than ever.
Below a flock of butterflies and a few feet from a mammoth skeleton hang 15 windows into Florida’s Nature Coast.
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.
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.
Music echoed out of the Bo Diddley Community Plaza on Friday, bouncing off the courthouse walls and sending a booming bass line through downtown Gainesville.
When I told my editor I’d do a feature on a tranny prostitute, I sort of meant it as a joke.
Mrs. Schubert in the salon with the scissors? Don’t put it past “Shear Madness,” a comedic whodunit that is as entertaining and flamboyant as it sounds.
The Supervillains, an Orlando-based ska and reggae band that's been around since 1998, will be playing at Common Grounds with local opening acts Cardboard Paradise, Half Track and rapper DP on Thursday. The four members of the Supervillains packed the house on its last visit to Common Grounds and are predicted to do it all over again tonight.
Greenland is Melting : Our Hearts are Gold, Our Grass is Blue : Bluegrass/Punk : Released 9/17/09
From W.C. Fields to Ron Burgundy to Ron White, people love Scotch. There's no reason you can't, too! Wait, am I even writing about Scotch in a college newspaper? Get a hold of yourself, because if there's one thing in this world with the power to cross cultural and social boundaries, it's alcohol. So, prepare yourself to enjoy something new, and consider this your crash course in single malt Scotch whiskey.
Suicide, drug addiction, bestiality and glory holes. Dark and disturbing realities in our society, or a family-friendly pilot episode that is “very funny”? TBS aired its first original primetime animated series, “Neighbors From Hell,” on Monday.
Those who know me knew this column was inevitable. However, I was not planning on writing it so soon. But something I saw in this very publication a week or two ago raised my ire to such a height that I could not help but offer my commentary on the situation.
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