Though band practice takes place in a storage unit like most other Gainesville bands, Cassette’s space is unusually clean. The floor is patched up in a dumpster-dive-turned-Tetris masterpiece, with L- and rectangle-shaped pieces of carpet that cellist Marc Hennessey collected and pieced together. The ground is litter-free and newly vacuumed, cluttered only by cables, power cords, [...]
The Struggle By Erin Cass Although Gainesville was named the 11th gayest city in America, don’t let these social venues distract you from our struggle for civil rights. While we live in a city with a gay mayor who has voted to protect LGBTQ people in the workplace, there are still many discriminative [...]
Far too often, people are pigeonholed. I am a blond-haired, blue-eyed, Catholic, Cherokee Indian in Student Government that just happens to be a vegan. Does that define me as a person? Since my decision to become a vegan in fall 2006, I have been bombarded with questions like: “What can you possibly eat?” and “Can vegans [...]
When Mary Ann Jones bought her house in Northwest Gainesville, the real estate agent said there might be noise every now and then, due to the nearby industrial facility. She was okay with that. She was not warned that her grandchildren could be exposed to a dangerous concentration of dioxins, which are known to cause cancer and a wide range of health problems, especially in small children.
