Gainesville

Samuel Little, Alleged L.A. Serial Killer, Possibly Linked to Florida Cold Cases

Samuel Little is not the guy you'd want to bump into alone in a dark alley. A hulking former boxer armed with a cold glare, on paper he's a career criminal with a rap sheet stretching across 24 states. Police now believe Little was actually a vicious serial killer who preyed on lost women and prosti ... More >>

Sandy Hook Tragedy Has Florida Parents and Students on Edge

Tensions have been high right here in Florida ever since the tragedy that unfolded in Newtown, Connecticut, last Friday. People are being arrested for bringing guns into schools, modified lockdowns are being enforced over bullets found on a school bus, and we're learning that bulletproof backpacks ... More >>

A Professional Tailgater? Jeff Dockeray On Best Tailgaiting Products and How Florida Can Up Its Game

The last time Jeff Dockeray was in South Florida, he watched his prized New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl in 2009. While Doc, as he likes to be called, basks in the glory of his team winning the most important football game ever, he also remembers the tailgaters.  "There isn't a lot of spac ... More >>

I-4 Corridor Predicts Florida for Romney

Fort Lauderdale Almost Dead Last on Forbes' List of Best Places for Businesses and Careers

The big business brains over at Forbes compiled a list of 200 American cities that the magazine says are the best for "business and careers."Don't get your hopes up, folks. Fort Loddy Doddy did terrible, coming in 192 out of 200. We barely beat out notorious hellhole Flint, Michigan.

Arizona's Immigration Enforcement Law: Florida's Stances on Both Sides of SB 1070

This week's issue includes a four-story special report from Village Voice Media about SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law that both casts criminal suspicion on anyone who looks Latino and transforms local law enforcement officers into immigration investigators. It's featured nationally because it i ... More >>

Florida Woman Hospitalized After Sturgeon Leaps From Water and Knocks Her Off Boat

Sturgeons are big, ugly fish that look like something a dinosaur crapped out a few million years ago that never properly evolved. Some can top 200 pounds and grow up to seven feet in length, yet they have no internal skeleton and are covered with razor-sharp scutes. And though they're not ... More >>

Hector Picard, Double-Arm Amputee, Is Riding His Bike From Fort Lauderdale to New York

Hector Picard was making his rounds through Hollywood on a typical day of work in 1992 when something went terribly wrong. The then-25-year-old electrician stepped into a fenced-off area to inspect a substation transformer -- a hulking, two-story-tall structure that processes electricity and di ... More >>

Tebow Finds Cocaine in a Suitcase at Orlando Airport; Unfortunately, Tebow Is a Dog

Orange County JailMorales Castro​If Florida's rivers were to fill with molten gold tomorrow and a rainbow of cotton candy stretched from Key West to Gainesville over herds of running unicorns, we'd probably all think Tim Tebow did it. At least, that's what one could deduce from the wild cheers the ... More >>

Gold Coast Derby Grrls Head to Regional Championship

Jammin'.​Leopard leggings and neon tights. Candy-striped socks. Booty shorts and cat ears. Sparkly skull decals and paisley bandannas. Scuffed-up helmets and nappy body padding. Pouting lips swollen with plastic mouth guards. Suitcase upon suitcase filled with gummy, rubber wheels. A group of abou ... More >>

Terry Jones Burns Qur'an; Mob Kills Ten UN Workers

2010 protest against Jones' Qur'an-burning.​Rev. Terry Jones is an asshole.There will be a lot of talk in the coming weeks about Jones' culpability for the murder of ten U.N. workers, and not a few Afghan citizens, in a Friday riot protesting Jones' burning of a Qur'an. Those on what passes for th ... More >>

Lake Worth Reggae Festival at BryantPark

Koran Set Ablaze At Terry Jones's Church

​The Islam-hating preacher with a ridiculous 19th-century mustache, who threatened to host International Burn A Koran Day on the anniversary of 9/11 but then reneged, torched a copy of the Muslim holy book this past weekend.    During Sunday service at the tiny Gainesville church, Pastor ... More >>

Sumsun to Launch Monthly Lush Haus Residency at Propaganda

Electronic Artist-Producer Amtrac Adds Local Flavor to the Dancegiving Music Festival

Hollywood Man Killed in Botched Robbery

Photo: Florida Department of CorrectionsOteger Greene​A 27-year-old man from Hollywood died from gunshot wounds this weekend after he was shot during a struggle with another man in Lake City. But detectives are only recently pieced together the sequence of events that led to his death, according t ... More >>

Anything But Sellouts

After 16 years, Less Than Jake sticks to its independent roots.

Died in a Plane Crash Performs at Churchill's This Sunday

I am a composer of modern music.The video above is my new group, Died in a Plane Crash. Let me explain: One of my current roommates is a sports fanatic. So, while I enjoy my morning coffee, he is watching ESPN Sports Center in the living room area. When I come home at night, he is watching a basket ... More >>

Southeast Campsite

The good art floats to the top in FAU's regional show. The rest? Sinks to the bottom, silly.

I Hear Florida Singing

Against Me!

New Wave (Sire)

CD Review: Against Me!

Natural Causes

Raid Gainesville

Jake Speaks

A band's namesake tells all, sort of.

You Got the Chops?

Jazziz Bistro plays in the key of safe.

Subtropical Spin

Two Minutes' Enlightenment (No Idea)

Pez, Pez Me

Less Than Jake dispenses more ska-flavored ear candy

Open Spaces

What Plot?

Birds of a Feather

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and special guests the Black Crowes

Red Dirt Woman

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Spare Change

Traffic Jams

This tag-teaming trio's got the beats that make the booty go clap

Live Wire

Against Me!

As the Eternal Cowboy (Fat Wreck Chords)

Against Me!

Give Gainesville back to the Irish!

Crazy from the Heat

Florida artists sweat it out

The Antiwarriors

Riding shotgun with Broward County's tiny but angry peace movement

Slipped Discs

Time once again to sift through the latest in local-band recordings

The Jury Is In

This year's All Florida competition at the Boca Museum lives up to its name

A Little Water Music

The Gainesville band's pop-punk cup boileth over

Bandwidth

You can't keep a good Button down

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The Rocking Horse Winner goes for a little ride up north

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In which we sift through a mixed bag of local CDs from Big Sky, China Doll, Grant Livingston, and Eyes of Pandora

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Praise the Lord and pass the Pavement. Coolness comes to Himmarshee inside Lord Nelson Pub.

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Writers Night, Joni Mitchell

The Unforgiven

Bryant Troville served out his sentence for his sexually violent acts. His prospects for freedom? Not good.

Night & Day

March 5 - 11, 1998