By Ashton Charles

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 [...]

By Jessica Newman

Bill Bryson is one of the founders of Grow Radio, an online Gainesville community radio station with both musical and non-musical programming, as well as the former publisher of Satellite Magazine. He moved to Gainesville in 1992 and opened the Covered Dish, a music venue that operated for eight years. He was involved in college [...]

By Joe Richard

Gainesville, it’s been a long time coming. We both knew it was going to happen. We’ve known each other for years now, always with the thought that, one day, our two lives would cease their parallel course and veer in wildly different directions. But at this moment of our nearing departure, I’d like to raise [...]

By Cody Bond

If I die in Key West, there will be a party. There will be drinking and sunburns and sex. They will toast me at sunset in Mallory Square, and they will play up and down Duval Street, shouting into shop corners as their hats fill with pocket change. Everyone will dance. And in the [...]

By Chelsea Hetelson

Powering through with Gainesville’s new folk-ska-punk band

The acoustic guitar and trombone may seem like an unlikely pairing for a band, but the combination is somewhat organic, mixing Gainesville ska and Gainesville punk to create Coffee Project’s unique sound. And though the two-piece outfit didn’t plan on becoming a band, let alone staying a two-piece line-up, [...]