By Danielle Peterson
At the end of 2010, Matt Town released the first issue of “Speedball,” a local zine with raw and edgy aesthetics, influenced by graffiti, tattoo design and skateboarding.
By Esteban O Sullivan
The SpringBoard dinner will take place on April 9 at the Matheson Museum, 513 E. University Ave. For more information, call the Civic Media Center at (352) 373-0100.
By Nadine Navarro
Why UF’s award-winning Documentary Institute is relocating to Wake Forest The notorious UF budget cuts have brought opportunity to another institution. While the cuts have affected every college in the university in some way – some more than others – they’ve had a particularly interesting effect on UF’s award-winning Documentary Institute, which will permanently close [...]
By Lydia Fiser
I don’t have much to say about this other than watch it. Staceyann Chin is truthful and raw and reminds me why free speech is so essential. I know that about three minutes into this, almost every man will shun away, click out of the blog post, close his laptop, and run. Don’t. Keep watching. [...]
By Erin Cass
Tonight Wild Iris is hosting a film screening of the documentary Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women. The video is only half an hour long, so it’s worth stopping by if you can! According to Jean Kilbourne, one of the main arguments of the video “is that advertising, as perhaps the primary storyteller [...]
By Erin Cass
I’m new to the whole blogging “thing”, so hopefully I can do TFP justice! Last night the CMC held an awesome film screening of Market This! Queer Radicals Respond to Gay Assimilation, which was sponsored by G-ville’s Queer Activist Coaltion (QAC). Myself being a member of QAC, I was pretty excited. Aside from the fact [...]
By Henry Taksier
For 35 years, Goerings Book Store has struggled to survive in Gainesville’s increasingly corporate market. Located on 1717 NW First Ave., behind midtown, it was a place for students, professors and Gainesville residents to meet, talk about literature and browse titles by local authors. In a few weeks, its shelves will be empty. By March, even the shelves will be gone, and its doors will close permanently.
By Jessica Newman
Colin Whitworth started Moon Magazine, a free Gainesville alternative monthly that focused on local politics and entertainment, with four other journalists in 1990. He graduated from UF in the late ’80s and worked at The Alligator during his college years, which he described as a “very idealistic place when it came to journalism.” After graduation, Whitworth went to work at the daily paper in Leesburg. But he wasn’t happy with his job at the profit-driven news organization, so he and some friends decided to start Moon Magazine, where Whitworth could focus on the in-depth reporting that got him into journalism in the first place.
By Jessica Newman
This video performance from a Canadian newspaper staff is more quirky than pointed. The quartet works for The Globe and Mail, a weekly national newspaper printed in Toronto. Like print media everywhere, they’re struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of the endless possibilities of the Internet. In the video, they touch [...]
By Jessica Newman
Today, Nov. 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event many deem to be the ultimate triumph of democracy, like Ross Douthat of the New York Times. In fact, media outlets all over the world celebrated the anniversary today as an event that brought “democracy” to the Eastern bloc. [...]