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University of Florida

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Rapper Brenton Brown Talks Musical Love Affairs and Free Downloads

    ​Brenton Brown knows how to hustle. Having come back to his native Miami after graduating from the University of Florida, he doesn't let the haters throw him off his quest to be the next big rapper. Signed with new management, he just made a video for his song, "Lemme Know," with Ghostwridah, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Pythons May Have Eaten All the Rabbits in the Everglades

    ​Peter Cottontail's Florida cousin is no longer hopping down any bunny trails in the Everglades. That's because he was eaten by a python.A new study says that rabbits may have been completely eliminated from areas of the Everglades where invasive snake populations are the most heavy. Bobcats, racc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Ohio State Player Cries Racism After Being Called "Cracker" by Florida Player

    ​Oh, those poor, poor white folks, always the victims of racism. Just ask Ohio State linebacker Tyler Moeller. He's busy whining about being called a "cracker" by University of Florida players during the Gator Bowl.

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Justin Sanchez: Creating Cyborgs

    ​Oh, those poor, poor white folks, always the victims of racism. Just ask Ohio State linebacker Tyler Moeller. He's busy whining about being called a "cracker" by University of Florida players during the Gator Bowl.

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Seven Billion and Counting: Dade's Farms Disappear, Hunger Grows

    via .:[ Melissa ]:.'s Flickr (CC)​The world's population reaches seven billion today, according to the United Nations. That has led to a lot of hand wringing about how we feed future populations around the world.But what we really need to worry about is right here.In both Miami-Dade and the rest o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Woman Says Univision Lost Her Mother's Bones After Investigative Report

    photo by Brian C. Goss via Wikimedia Commons​Ana Teresa Martin had only one simple wish when she agreed to let an Univision TV crew dig up her mother's bones and ship them off to a University of Florida expert: To find out whether she was secretly descended from the Russian Romanov dynasty. Who ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Channing Crowder Hints He May Have Sold Memorabilia at UF

    ​The Ohio State Buckeyes are still reeling from a memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal that caused coach Jim Tressel to resign and star quarterback Terrelle Pryor to leave for the pros. Though, there's plenty of people out there who don't think the idea of players selling or trading memorabilia is all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Miami is the Sixth Most Well-Read City According to Amazon

    ​According to the stereotypes, Miami is supposed to be a bit of a shallow city and not exactly an intellectual hot spot. Yet, we're apparently the sixth most book-looking city in America according to Amazon.com sales data. The book-selling super site totaled all book, magazine and newspaper sales ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Gators Coach Will Muschamp Disses Hurricanes

    ​Barring some sort of bowl matchup, the Florida Gators and the Miami Hurricanes won't meet again on the football field until 2013, but the two programs are always locked in an intense recruiting war for players and, occasionally, personnel. Wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill was one of the few staff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Tallahassee Is America's Pot-Smoking Capital, Miami Isn't Even On the List

    ​Tallahassee is not only the political capital of Florida, but also apparently the pot-smoking capital of America. Surprisingly, Miami, most often associated with drugs, doesn't even make the Daily Beast's list of Mary Jane-loving cities. Then again, maybe it's not much of a surprise that college ... More >>

  • Culture

    April 14, 2011

    "The Wilderness" at MAM explores man's relationship with nature

    ​Tallahassee is not only the political capital of Florida, but also apparently the pot-smoking capital of America. Surprisingly, Miami, most often associated with drugs, doesn't even make the Daily Beast's list of Mary Jane-loving cities. Then again, maybe it's not much of a surprise that college ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Radiation From Japan Has Arrived: Our Food and Water Are Exposed

    via Flickr BlatantNews.comRadiation in your food and water? Fuggedahboutit!​Due to devastation caused by the Tsunami that recently hit Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is leaking radiation. It might not sound like a big deal to us, except for the fact that said radiation is traveling all t ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2011

    Letters from the issue of January 6, 2011

    via Flickr BlatantNews.comRadiation in your food and water? Fuggedahboutit!​Due to devastation caused by the Tsunami that recently hit Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is leaking radiation. It might not sound like a big deal to us, except for the fact that said radiation is traveling all t ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Pay Florida football coaches more

    via Flickr BlatantNews.comRadiation in your food and water? Fuggedahboutit!​Due to devastation caused by the Tsunami that recently hit Japan, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is leaking radiation. It might not sound like a big deal to us, except for the fact that said radiation is traveling all t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    The New Yorker Picks Top 20 Writers Under 40, Disco Rick Picks Top 40 Strippers Under 20

    ​On Monday, The New Yorker published the most anticipated listicle of the year: the 20 under 40 list, a grab bag of the best fiction writers under 40 in the country. It's a veritable who's that of the literary world, which includes such noted page-turners as David Bezmozgis and famous wife Nicole ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Miami Has Some of the Most Polluted Soil in the World

    ​Will Miami ever have a sensible, convenient and popular public transport system? Not any time soon, but a lot of us have cars, so who cares? Well, the very soil under your feet cares. A new study out of the University of Florida finds that urban Miami has some of the most polluted soil in the wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Miami Beach Could Be Affected By Oil Spill, More So Than West Coast

    via The AwlHeaded to a beach near you?​The devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has concerned us, but we didn't think it would actually reach the beaches of Miami and other east coast shores. However, a University of Florida oceanographic engineer says that the east coast of Florida is at g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Florida Doctor: "If You Voted for Obama, Seek Urologic Care Elsewhere"

    Hi everybody!... Everybody who didn't vote for a socialist, that is. ​Dr. Jack Cassell sounds like a real dick doctor, and that has nothing to do with the fact he specializes in urology.The Mount Dora physician recently put up a sign informing potential patients: "If you voted for Obama... seek ur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Gather Around Your Morons of the Week

    It's once again that time of the week-- when a bearded, wild-eyed Riptide climbs down from that mountaintop hoisting stone tablets bearing the names of the last seven day's most elite numbskulls. Without further ado, your morons of the week: 5. The city of Haikou It's being called the "Miami of Chin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Florida's Population Back on the Rise

    ​Last year, for the first time in more than six decades, Florida actually saw a decrease in its total population. University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research reported that the the population fell by about 58,000 people between April 2008 and April 2009.Now that same bureau is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    News Roundup

    My least favorite things in the world: Britto art and parking meters. Somehow they are coming together to raise money for the homeless. [WSVN]Some corporate thing I have never heard of has given the Miami Heat lots of money to make sure we all hear about it. Yep, the Heat has a new presenting sponso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Florida's Population Starts Shrinking

    Florida seemed to be on the fast track to over taking New York as the third most populace state by the 2010 census. Since 2000, Florida's population has boomed by over 3,000,000 and the 2008 estimate put us at 18,328,340, just shy of New Yorks 19,490,297. But according to a new s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    No Curry? No Worry

    Jackie Sayet Just chop and saute the warty Karela (bitter melon) with curry to jazz up rice, noodles or a saladKnow how to tell when an ethnic restaurant is authentic? Check out the regular clientele. At Spice 'N' Curry in Sweetwater, you won't find tourists or South Beach jet set. Just some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    University of Miami Returns to Playboy's Top Party School Glory

    via Wikimedia CommonsUniversity of Miami used to be a "Top Party Schools" mainstay back in the 80's, coming in at #2 on Playboy's first 1987 list, but with a rise on academic lists came a fall on the party lists. UM didn't even make Playboy's list last year (the top spot went to University of Florid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Saturday Afterhours: Amber Reyn at Eden Terrace Garden

    Pornograph Events is celebrating 3 years of underground nightlife this Sunday dawn at the new Eden Terrace Garden in North Miami. Locals Nova, Dsan Powell and Tuki Romero will be spinning in support of LA-based minimal DJ/producer Amber Reyn. Originally from New York, Miss Reyn was first introduced ... More >>

  • News

    January 8, 2009

    Lucky Rabbit's Foot

    Pahokee's latest superstud hunts a BCS title in Miami.

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2008

    The Bhangra Competition: Dancing With the Stars Meets Bollywood

    Pahokee's latest superstud hunts a BCS title in Miami.

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2007

    Top Ten Sports Moments of the Year

    Pahokee's latest superstud hunts a BCS title in Miami.

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Comeback Caterpillar

    A rare creature quietly returns to Key Biscayne

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    Eye for an Eye

    Three teens allegedly killed a man for eleven dollars. Do they deserve the needle?

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2006

    This Kitty Got the Cream

    Three teens allegedly killed a man for eleven dollars. Do they deserve the needle?

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    What's That Cop Doing in Our Huddle?

    When campus police tangle with football players at FIU, you can expect a punt

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Die, Weed, Die!

    An alien moth munches an invasive fern into extinction

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2005

    Planetary Exhibition

    An alien moth munches an invasive fern into extinction

  • Diversions

    May 12, 2005

    BEST COMEBACK (ANIMAL KINGDOM)

    Miami Blue Butterfly

  • Music

    March 24, 2005

    Ultra Music Festival Winner

    Miami Blue Butterfly

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Nowhere Left to Build

    It was just another housing development, but its approval marked the beginning of the end

  • Music

    December 11, 2003

    Road Less Traveled

    Singer/songwriter Steven Franz plays from the heart

  • Culture

    September 11, 2003

    Get on the Bus

    If you're looking for stage action, go back to school

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2003

    This Week's Day by Day Picks

    If you're looking for stage action, go back to school

  • Music

    April 26, 2001

    No Cotton Ear Candy

    Carnival Waste likes it harsh

  • News

    March 15, 2001

    New World, Old Woes

    The battle to restore funding for the New World School of the Arts is under way

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    Power Play

    A drama featuring MDCC president Eduardo Padron in the role of backstabbing Brutus. Or is it tyrannical Caesar?

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Anatomy of a Quarantine

    State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Letters

    State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    State Secrets

    State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Big Chief Moneybags

    Part CEO, part shaman, Seminole leader James Billie has his tribe charging toward economic independence.

  • Dining

    October 16, 1997

    Mideast Peace

    Part CEO, part shaman, Seminole leader James Billie has his tribe charging toward economic independence.

  • News

    December 21, 1995

    Bugged!

    Ever wanted to rub out every single insect in your home? Rent a tent!

  • Music

    September 4, 1991

    Off the Beaten Utrec

    Ever wanted to rub out every single insect in your home? Rent a tent!

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