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Gainesville

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Black Group Allegedly Beats White Man While Shouting "Trayvon," Internet Overreacts

    If there's perhaps one thing the Trayvon Martin case has taught us, it's that we should all wait until more facts come to light before we make any absolute judgment. This is at least what a lot of my friends on the right have been telling me. Of course, now comes news that a drunk guy in Gainesville ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Florida Woman Pretends to Help Cyclist Almost Hit By Car, Then Punches and Robs Her

    ​When you're a bicyclist, especially in Florida, don't trust anyone else on the road with your safety. A female bicyclist in Gainesville found that out the hard way. After the cyclist was sideswiped by a car, another woman offered to help her. Instead, she punched her in the face and snatched her ... More >>

  • Music

    January 26, 2012

    The Kills at Revolution January 28

    ​When you're a bicyclist, especially in Florida, don't trust anyone else on the road with your safety. A female bicyclist in Gainesville found that out the hard way. After the cyclist was sideswiped by a car, another woman offered to help her. Instead, she punched her in the face and snatched her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Gainesville's Elderly Are Being Tied Up, Stabbed, and Beaten at an Alarming Rate

    Robbery suspect Michael Lynn Pierce​What in hell is going on in Gainesville? In the past week, two different elderly residents have been tied up and beaten by brazen robbers -- the latest in a spree of such crimes dating to last summer.Today 78-year-old disabled retiree Paul Quant is recovering af ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Gainesville Woman Tossed Used Condoms at Store Clerk Before Exposing Herself

    ​Jealousy is about as pretty as a bag full of used condoms.A woman in Gainesville stands accused of verbally assaulting a female store clerk at a Kangaroo convenience store, dumping a bag of used condoms on the counter, slinging one at the clerk, and, for good measure, exposing all of her private ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    Cruisin' for a Bruisin'

    ​Jealousy is about as pretty as a bag full of used condoms.A woman in Gainesville stands accused of verbally assaulting a female store clerk at a Kangaroo convenience store, dumping a bag of used condoms on the counter, slinging one at the clerk, and, for good measure, exposing all of her private ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Help NOFX's Fat Mike Beat Foreclosure by Booking Your Vacation at His Vegas Punk House

    Fat Mike playing pool at his Vegas Punk House.​Crossfade has experienced our share of punk houses. We've got stories about crossword puzzle face tattoos, a dumpster literally converted into a fridge, and losing an arm-wrestling match to a dog wearing an eyepatch and a Discharge butt-flap. One ti ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2011

    Miami missed the rapture for many sinful reasons

    Fat Mike playing pool at his Vegas Punk House.​Crossfade has experienced our share of punk houses. We've got stories about crossword puzzle face tattoos, a dumpster literally converted into a fridge, and losing an arm-wrestling match to a dog wearing an eyepatch and a Discharge butt-flap. One ti ... More >>

  • Music

    April 21, 2011

    Assholeparade at Churchill's Pub April 22

    Fat Mike playing pool at his Vegas Punk House.​Crossfade has experienced our share of punk houses. We've got stories about crossword puzzle face tattoos, a dumpster literally converted into a fridge, and losing an arm-wrestling match to a dog wearing an eyepatch and a Discharge butt-flap. One ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Assholeparade Charges Into Churchill's Pub April 22

    via myspace.com/assholeparadeAssholeparade in action.​If Shakespeare got it right and brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then Assholeparade's Student Ghetto Violence is some Poor Richard's Almanack-level shit. Issued back in 2000, Student is the closest thing the Gainesville five-piece has to a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Terry Jones' Koran Burning Inspires Afghan Riot That Kills 12 U.N. Workers

    ​When lunatic Gainesville pastor Terry Jones announced his plan to burn Korans at his tiny church, no less an authority than Gen. David Petreaus warned that there would be consequences in places like Afghanistan where fellow religious lunatics look for any such provocation for bloodshed. Jones wen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Bardot's WMC 2011 Lineup: Eyes Lips Eyes, LazerDisk SexParty, Young Empires, and Others

    Jill Weisberg​Speakeasy and small live music venue Bardot has really brought the 'burbs and the beach to Midtown since it opened a few years ago. North of Space and west of South Beach, it's right off the highway, so Winter Music Conference partiers will find their way there easily, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Needless Records' Adam Gersten Talks Jimmy Buffett, and His Need for an Intern

    Adam Gersten is a hard-living lawyer who runs a record label.​Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who's found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspir ... More >>

  • Music

    November 18, 2010

    Diet Cokeheads, White Execution, and Bone Owl with new releases

    Adam Gersten is a hard-living lawyer who runs a record label.​Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who's found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspir ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    International Burn a Koran Day: What else can we torch September 11?

    Adam Gersten is a hard-living lawyer who runs a record label.​Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who's found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton Condemn Koran-Burning Church, But Mayor Bloomberg Supports Congregation's Rights

    Pastor Terry Jones​Pastor Terry Jones and his small Gainesville church known as the Dove World Outreach Center will continue with their plans to burn copies of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks despite a growing backlash and warnings ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Lil Wayne's Lyric Book and Five Other Things to Burn With the Koran

    MyFoxOrlando.comWhy are we not surprised that Terry Jones is a 'Braveheart' fan?​Gainesville pastor Terry Jones has set off a firestorm by planning "International Burn a Koran Day" for September 11 to protest the "religion of the Devil." As Jones posits on YouTube: "I mean, ask yourself: Have you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Florida Church Told It Can Not Hold International Burn a Qur'an Day

    This sign proudly sits outside the Dove World Church.​The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville was all set to host "International Burn a Koran Day" to commemorate the 9th anniversary of 9/11 in all their joyous, ignorant, bigoted glee. But the City of Gainesville has denied them the proper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Florida Church Hosting "International Burn a Koran Day" on 9/11

    This sign proudly sits outside the Dove World Church​The Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, but could a small congregation of horribly misguided Christians in central Florida soon be taking their pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Man Dies While Trying to Save Two Drowning Children off Virginia Key

    Two children were swimming yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. off Virginia Key near the Miami Seaquarium when they began to struggle. Two men heroically jumped in to save them. However, one man died trying to the save kids.The man, identified as Douglas Frank Butler, was visiting from Gainesville and ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    Miami fails to make list of top pot-smoking cities

    Two children were swimming yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. off Virginia Key near the Miami Seaquarium when they began to struggle. Two men heroically jumped in to save them. However, one man died trying to the save kids.The man, identified as Douglas Frank Butler, was visiting from Gainesville and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Wrong: Miami Left Out of Top 40 Pot-Smoking Cities

    Local pride took another hit today. Fresh off that embarrassing #4 party school ranking from Playboy, a Web site run by a white British blonde reports Miami is not one of the country's top 40 pot-smoking cities. ​ Tina Brown's The Daily Beast compiled a list of America's most stoned cities in hon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Did Homestead Manager Cover Up a Crash Involving Mayor Steve Bateman?

    Did a shredded tire cause damage to Steve Bateman's city issued SUV? I think not.​Back in late January, the City of Homestead contracted A&B Paint & Body Shop at 142 SW Fifth Ave. to repair significant damage to the front and rear of a city-owned Ford Expedition driven by Mayor Steve Batem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Guess Which Florida Towns Made The Advocate's "Gayest Cities in America" List

    via advocate.com​The Advocate, America's oldest and most respected gay publication, doesn't want to hurt South Beach's feelings. No, the poor place has been through enough in the past few months. What with ACLU lawsuits, hate crimes, and meddlesome New Times reporters chronicling its decline as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Miami Lawsuit: Air Traffic Controllers Caused Plane Crash, Couple's Death

    GAB via Flicker CC​Just after midnight last November, Gordon and Barbara Taylor climbed into a privately-chartered, two-propeller airplane at Key West International Airport. Gordon, age 51, had a bad kidney and was on his way to surgery in Gainesville. So the small plane took off northbound in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Gainesville Legends Against Me! Come to Culture Room February 18

    via againstme.net​When Gainesville anarcho-punks Against Me! released their fourth album, 2007's New Wave, the band's hardcore fundamentalist fans immediately swung into crisis mode, organizing counseling and puke circles for heartbroken indie kids nationwide. Understand though, the mass freakout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    South Florida According to Brooklyn: More Bike Rally Talk

    ​Fort Lauderdale had its own alley cat bike race this last weekend, the River Rat race put on by Justin Brunetti, who does the South Florida Fixed blog. It was sponsored by the Bike Spot, Atlantic Bikes, and Keirin Cycles of Miami, and they all also donated their time by working at the race's chec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    News Roundup

    LocalA racial slur was spray panted on a poster for North Miami mayoral candidate Andre Pierre. [Herald]More details on the MDC cuts. [Herald]A Bal Harbor police officer has allegedly confessed to sex crimes involving a seven year-old girl. [CBS4]The state is calling in Boba Fett, Dog, and other bou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Hardcore God Greg Ginn at Tobacco Road this Thursday night

    Those of us familiar with the history of Hardcore Music know that Greg Ginn is not just the man, but a brilliant guitar god. He formed Black Flag in 1977, eventually releasing the band's records (as well as Bad Brains, Minutemen, Descendants, Sonic Youth, and lots more) on his own label SST. Blac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    MPLS Pop-Punkers Off With Their Heads to Play Goo on April 20

    Minneapolis drunken life-hating poppy punk masters, Off With their Heads are coming back to South Florida for a (gross) Monday night event at Goo, on April 20.  This is one of those bands that is awesome live, puts out great records, and doesn't seem to give up on touring despite not being the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    Florida Culture Warriors Start Transgender Toilet Trouble

    One quick look at these two, and I'm sure you could decide which public restroom they'd feel more comfortable using. Well, a group of moral crusaders in Gainesville thinks the muscle-bound man on the left ought to be using the lady's loo while the fabulous woman on the right should be in the little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2008

    Cute is What We Aim For Tonight at the Culture Room

    One quick look at these two, and I'm sure you could decide which public restroom they'd feel more comfortable using. Well, a group of moral crusaders in Gainesville thinks the muscle-bound man on the left ought to be using the lady's loo while the fabulous woman on the right should be in the little ... More >>

  • Music

    November 8, 2007

    Piss and Vinegar

    What not to ask Tom Gabel of Against Me!

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2007

    Flickering Brightly

    Read and listen at The Firefly

  • Music

    April 26, 2007

    Soulphonics

    Read and listen at The Firefly

  • Calendar

    February 1, 2007

    Gotta Have Faith

    Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough

  • Music

    September 29, 2005

    Ska Is Dead 3

    Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough

  • Music

    March 17, 2005

    305 Fest

    Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough

  • Music

    September 16, 2004

    Hot Water Music

    Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough

  • Music

    January 23, 2003

    Tourist Trappings

    Altcountry newcomers send a mint julep postcard from Holopaw

  • Calendar

    December 17, 1998

    Night & Day

    December 17 - 23, 1998

  • Music

    October 22, 1998

    Rotations

    December 17 - 23, 1998

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    After the Breakup

    December 17 - 23, 1998

  • Music

    March 27, 1997

    Sweetly Smiling Sister

    December 17 - 23, 1998

  • Music

    October 31, 1996

    Reverb

    December 17 - 23, 1998

  • News

    March 14, 1996

    Reverb

    December 17 - 23, 1998

  • News

    September 21, 1995

    Setting a Fine Example

    Two members of For Squirrels die on the eve of the band's major-label debut

  • Music

    June 29, 1994

    On the Rodent

    Some squirrels gather nuts for the winter. Others are nuts all the time.

  • News

    March 9, 1994

    We're with the Band

    Superstars fly personal jets from concert to concert. Real rock bands rent a van and go. Natural Causes is a real band. They're renting a van. And we're going with them.

  • Music

    September 4, 1991

    Off the Beaten Utrec

    Superstars fly personal jets from concert to concert. Real rock bands rent a van and go. Natural Causes is a real band. They're renting a van. And we're going with them.

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