By Cody Bond
The lights are dim inside the King Corona cigar shop. It’s nearly midnight, and after two pints of Guinness and a glass of cabernet, I’m barely halfway through my cigar. It keeps burning itself out in the ashtray. The bartender has polished all the glasses and is working on the tables. I buy a copy [...]
By Cody Bond
It’s after 8 when I turn off Interstate 4—dark out in most places, but Orlando blazes with a million neon squiggles and block after block of twinkling enticements. It hums like a bug zapper. The vacationers have ironed out the wrinkles in their dinner clothes and are ambling up and down International Drive, wallets stuffed, [...]
By Kristen Abdullah and Richard Blake
As we made the four-hour journey south to tomato-town Immokalee, Fla., we ran through the itinerary for the long weekend to come and familiarized ourselves with the 40-plus pages of reading material that we were supposed to have completed three weeks before. The thick packet of literature included stories like “Immokalee family sentenced for slavery,” [...]
By Matthew Clark
Slouching Towards Washington “The elevation of the family to ideological preeminence guarantees that a capitalist society will reproduce not just children, but heterosexism and homophobia.” – John D’Emilio, Capitalism and Gay Identity For the last several months, this sentence has haunted me and kept me awake at night. Every time I hear the word “gay” [...]
By Travis Pillow
“The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want…” – Mark 14:7 “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” – Mark 8:36 Dear Tim Tebow, Over the four years we’ve been attending this university together, I feel like [...]
By Travis Pillow
It’s a good day for Bubba Kurtz when nobody craps in the parlor. These days most dairies are crappy – covered in the feces of hundreds of cows, packed into industrial feedlots, injected with hormones and antibiotics, and engorged with chemical-laced feed, so they can’t help but shit themselves. But Bubba runs one of Florida’s [...]
By Travis Pillow
The psychedelia of Sincerely, Severely, Morningbell’s fourth full-length album, lies in the schizophrenic nature of the songs. Though the majority of the songs could be considered all over the place, the collection of tracks is steadfast in dance-ability and in the capability of the Gainesville musicians – Travis Atria on guitar and vocals, Eric Atria on bass and theremin, Chris Hillman on drums, and Stacie Thrushman on keyboard.
