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, [...]
By Fine Print Staff
Bridging the gap between the farm and the table
Elizabeth Nesbit went on a tour of the U.S. with her husband and two young children in 2007 in search of a new place to live. What she found were co-ops.
When her family decided to stay in Gainesville, she couldn’t stop thinking about the food cooperatives that [...]
By Fine Print Staff
About 10 self-identified guerrillas went on a reconnaissance mission of the area surrounding Southeast Fourth Avenue and Main Street on Saturday, April 10. Bombs in hand, we scoured the area.
With seeds.
From fast-growing summer veggies to Florida wildflowers to culinary and medicinal herbs, our Guerrilla Gardening workshop turned into an insurgency of the downtown area.
The workshop, [...]
