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In The Tasting Room: Hop Gun IPA From Funky Buddha

Friday's here, so it's time for beer. Every Friday, so long as the creek don't rise, this beer enthusiast will take a look at a Florida beer that, hopefully, should be readily available in a local shop or on tap at your favorite bar. Five o'clock happy hours are a godsend. Some days you need to ge ... More >>

Florida Man Asks Cops to Cut Off His Genitals, Tells Them He's God

A University of Florida student decided to get naked, walk around the campus, and tell everyone he's God. He also asked police officers to cut off his genitals. According to school newspaper the Alligator, Michael Joseph Silecchia, 19, ran around in the halls of Building 5 of the Campus Club Apartm ... More >>

Garage Party

Monster Mosquitoes Set to Overrun Florida This Summer

If you squint your eyes a certain way, Florida begins to look like some holdover from the Triassic period, and we're not talking about the residents of Century Village. The center of the state is overrun with huge pythons. Sharks coast the waters. The mammals on hand seem inclined to cannibalism. A ... More >>

President Clinton's Event Disrupted by Anti-Circumcision Activists

Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquardo, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event -- a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Che ... More >>

Florida Python Challenge: Two Weeks In, an Updated Body Count

We're pretty much at the middle mark for the first-ever Florida Python Challenge, the dubious public service free-for-all the state cooked up to control the dangerous number of Burmese pythons slithering around the state. The challenge started January 12, when some 800 hunters went head-first into t ... More >>

Python Challenge: FWC Announces First Kills in 2013 Contest

For the few hundred hunters who showed up Saturday for day one of the 2013 Python Challenge, it was a day of high excitement and little payoff, at least according to the numbers beamed out of the Glades on Saturday night. The kickoff party -- and really the good-time atmosphere fits the description ... More >>

Lionfish Are Spreading Through Florida Waters

It's official. The lionfish have arrived. While fishing off the Naples shoreline, an angler snagged a 16-pounder last week. The fish originally made its first appearance in the waters off the Florida Keys in 2009. Now, it appears to be spreading. Native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, lionfis ... More >>

Viagra Cures Everything: Off-Label Uses for Erectile Dysfunction Drugs

Beyond Tumescence: Four Other Uses For Erectile Dysfunction Drugs

It's been a marquee week for boner pills. First, a University of Florida professor and colleagues published a study showing that Cialis, the blockbuster erectile dysfunction drug, can help treat Becker muscular dystrophy, a rare and debilitating disease that often cripples people by age 30 and for w ... More >>

UF Researcher Helps Show That Boner Pill Cialis Can Help Treat Rare Form of Muscular Dystrophy

You probably know Cialis as that boner drug with the annoying commercial of a sex-deprived couple sitting in separate bathtubs gazing toward the horizon. The announcer says something about the dangers of erections lasting more than four hours and viewers get grossed out thinking about baby ... More >>

Want to Start a Goat Farm? JoJo Milano of Delilah's Dairy Tells Us How

Amongst foodies, interest in farming seems to have reached epic proportions. Aside from the growing number of farm-to-table restaurants, it seems as though you cannot dine with any well-known chef and not hear about the organic gardener that grew your tomato, the ethical farmer that reared your meat ... More >>

Largest Burmese Python Found In Everglades Measures 17 Feet, Has 87 Eggs Inside

See also "Feds Likely To Face Face Legal Battle Over Burmese Python Ban" and "Are Burmese Pythons Slithering, Destructive Force?"The University of Florida announced a startling discovery Monday: A 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python had been pulled from the Everglades. The record-setting reptile weighed 1 ... More >>

Colony Collapse Disorder: Can BeesFree Save the World's Bees?

Back in 2006, researchers from the University of Florida described for the first time a cryptic phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, through which massive amounts of worker bees vanished.The problem has since been documented around the world. Everyone from esteemed entomologists to armchair ... More >>

Giant Ancient Turtle Capable of Dining on Crocs Discovered by Florida Researchers (IMAGES)

In the world of reptiles, turtles have a certain reputation as shell-dwelling wimps that make nice pets for 8-year-old girls. They're slow and passive and hardly what one would call intimidating. Sure, you can argue that the snapping turtles pack a mean bite, but who among us has actually ... More >>

Baseball Star Johnny Damon Gives UF Money to Build Lab on Remote Viking Island

As far as mash-ups go, this is one for the books. Johnny Damon -- the former long-haired, free-rocking, super-awesome Boston Red Sox outfielder turned short-haired, lame-o Yankee turned Cleveland Indian, ugh, Cleveland -- has decided to donate a bunch of money through h ... More >>

Invasive Caribbean Termites or Snakehead "Frakenfish": Which is Grosser?

It seems every week a new invasive species tearing through Florida makes the headlines. Maybe it's because we're home to some of the busiest ports in the world, maybe it's due to our ostentatious exotic pet owners constantly trying to one up each other, or maybe it's just that the climate here is so ... More >>

Shark Attacks: Florida Leads U.S., but Numbers Down. Are Terrorists and Shark Week to Thank?

​When it comes to shark attacks, Florida is tops. In 2011, there were 11 unprovoked attacks in the state's waters, including one in Palm Beach. The next closest state was North Carolina, which had only four. Losers.But the 11 attacks in Florida marks a huge drop over past years, according to ... More >>

A New Florida Tomato, Jose Andres' Food Truck, and Other Links

The Whisky Water Trick from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.Hope your weekend was delightful. First up for this morning's links, see above for a new bar trick brought to our attention from Yardbird. Practice up for the weekend and read on for this morning's roundup.

Rick Scott's Signature on University Diplomas Is Now the Subject of a Petition

I'll be on your wall for the rest of your life!​Apparently Gov. Rick Scott's positions on the state's higher-education system isn't impressing all of the students in Florida's public universities.There's now a creative, albeit small, petition with signatures from Gainesville down to Broward of peo ... More >>

Florida Has World's Worst Invasive Amphibian and Reptile Problem, According to UF Research

University of FloridaThis iguana doesn't belong in Florida, but here it is at someone's front door in Lake Worth.​If you're looking for a reptile or amphibian species that "causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health," chances are, it's in Florida.According ... More >>

The Four Baddest Animals in Florida That Shouldn't Be Here

flickr.com​A 20-year University of Florida study out last week says Florida has the most invasive reptiles and amphibians in the world. A day or two after that came out, state officials declared war on giant African snails in Miami-Dade County.Yep, Florida apparently has a nasty invasive species p ... More >>

Florida Researcher Uses UV Rays to Zap Allergens from Peanuts

Allergic to peanuts? Zap 'em with UV rays!​Are you tired of signs everywhere saying "this cookie/ice cream/coffee/hamburger/goat stew has been processed in a plant that uses peanuts"? So are we, which is why we got so jazzed up about a new technique developed by a ... More >>

Where to Buy Gator Meat in Broward County

Photo © Mark Bridge/Flickr​ Here's what I just learned: Don't mess with Cindy Petryszak, purchasing agent for the Delaware Chicken Farm & Seafood Market in Hollywood. Why not? Because the woman has access to alligator meat, and she isn't afraid to use it. Petryszak's daughters attend the Univ ... More >>

Q&A: Larry "Sprinklesman" Bach of Sprinkles Custom Cakes

Larry Bach ​I recently came across a cupcake that is not eaten in the normal fashion. Instead of peeling off the paper wrapping and getting crumbs all over the place, Larry Bach invented a way to eat cupcakes without all the mess.  Named Cake Shooters, they come packaged inside a ... More >>

Embattled UF Film Students Bring Haiti Documentary to FLIFF

Jon Bougher and Roman Safiullin with the subject of their film.​The two University of Florida graduate students who almost didn't get to graduate, are now bringing the controversial film to the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. And there will be no disclaimers.Jon Bougher, originally fr ... More >>

University of Florida Brings Its Gator Might Down on Tiny Glades Day Over School's Uniforms

The Glades Day championship team of 2006 wore a uniform with a UF-looking logo on the right shoulder.​Glades Day School has a pretty amazing football team, considering. The kindergarten-through-12th-grade private school has just 400 students on a tiny campus north of Belle Glade. Yet it has won si ... More >>

UF Allows Film Students to Use Post-Earthquake Haiti Footage

courtesy of Jon Bougher​Two graduate film students at the University of Florida will be allowed to use footage they shot on a trip to Haiti since the earthquake in January in their thesis documentary. They will have to include a disclaimer at the beginning of the film that explains that the univer ... More >>

UPDATE: Two UF Film Students May Not Graduate Because of Trip to Haiti

courtesy Jon Bougher​Even after weeks of media coverage and national attention, two graduate film students at the University of Florida might not be able to graduate in a few weeks because of a documentary they are making about Haiti. School officials have ruled that the film made by Roman Safiull ... More >>

VIDEO: This Footage From Post-Earthquake Haiti May Keep Two UF Film Students From Graduating

This is a short clip from a documentary by two University of Florida film students. The students, Roman Safiullin from Fort Lauderdale and Jon Bougher from New Hampshire, were in Haiti in January when the big earthquake hit. Despite a university travel ban, the students went back to Haiti several d ... More >>

Two UF Film Students May Not Graduate Because of Trip to Haiti

courtesy of Jon BougherJon Bougher (left) and Roman Safiullin​Even after weeks of media coverage and national attention, two graduate film students at the University of Florida might not be able to graduate in a few weeks because of a documentary they are making about Haiti. School officials have ... More >>

UPDATE: Planting Peace Orphans in Haiti Are "OK"

Planting PeaceIn times of crisis, Aaron Jackson delivers.​We just got word that all of the Haitian orphanages run by the South Florida-based non-profit Planting Peace are upright and the children are, as Planting Peace founder Aaron Jackson put it, "OK." In addition, the two University of Florida ... More >>

Charlie Crist Adviser Mendelsohn Tied to Ponzi Scheme

   Hollywood ophthalmologist Alan Mendelsohn is one of Charlie Crist's closest political allies, a leader on the governor's transition team who helped raise Crist and other Republicans huge amounts of cash for their campaigns during the past decade. Mendelsohn may ... More >>

SEC Coaches Engage in Old Fashioned Cat Fight Over Local Recruit

So first Nu'Keese Richardson said he would play for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida. Then on national signing day the speed-demon wide receiver from Pahokee decided he would rather play for University of Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin (a UF rival). Then at a press conference yester ... More >>

Dan Marino Reports: Smoking Trial Goes Out, UF Admissions Blows, Killer Lighters

Dan Marino has ninja problems. Dan Marino Says: Mistrial Declared in Tobacco CaseA Broward County judge has declared a mistrial in the tobacco lawsuit filed against Philip Morris by the widow of a guy from Cooper City. That's the big news this morning, at least according to The Juice's news partner ... More >>

Party With Your Crüe

It's True: People Are Stupid

The Bang Bus Baits Fort Lauderdale

Post Wins Pulp Headline Competition

Mid-Terms Came Too Late

Smooth Transition

Letters for June 23-29, 2005

Traffic Jams

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

Hey, Miss DJ

Soozin brings down the house, one jam at a time

Step On It

Teach Me Tonight

South Florida schools are pumping new energy into the stage scene

Zook Out!

Gators fans count the days

Letters for February 13, 2003

Rot on top

Beauty and the Books

The hometown heroine goes for the tiara at the Miss Florida USA pageant

A Natural Alliance

Buck Island Ranch is home to the threatened caracara, and it's a laboratory where ranchers and conservationists are learning to work together