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How to Become a Journalist: 5 Big Steps to Starting, and Skyrocketing, a Career

__ The image of a writer: a moneyless starver, compiling newspaper obits just for crackers and bill appeasement, toiling at barrel’s bottom with all the traveling musicians and junkyard painters. Though I doubt you’ve met an alleged writer in such dire [...]

July 10, 2014 Journalism/Communications

Uber Taxi Service Looks to Gainesville

A mobile-application taxicab service that has drawn scrutiny elsewhere in Florida for allegedly not following the law – even leading to the impounding of drivers’ cars – is considering a Gainesville expansion. [...]

July 10, 2014 Business, Tech, Travel & Culture

Truck Stop with McDonald’s to Replace Cracker Boys’ in Hawthorne

A Love’s truck stop and convenience store is set to replace the closed Cracker Boys’ Country Café on U.S. 301 in Hawthorne. [...]

July 2, 2014 Business, Travel & Culture

Wildlife Catalog: Dozens of Unique Critters

It took me a while, but I finally got all the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and arthropods moved over from my old site. [...]

July 1, 2014 Nature & Wildlife, Photo

7 Photos That Prove German Dogs Are the Best Behaved

Whoa, is that dog not on a leash? That’s what I said at first during my recent trip to Germany, but I got used to it pretty quick. Actually, most German dogs don’t require leashes and just follow their owners about [...]

June 29, 2014 Nature & Wildlife, Travel & Culture

What Movie Is Being Filmed Here?

When I recently arrived at Hackerbrucke station in Munich by bus, I spotted the above shootout during a movie filming. Know what it might be? Please do tell me. It’s probably nothing high budget, but you never know: I could have captured [...]

June 22, 2014 Music & Arts