By Lydia Fiser
If you’re looking for unique holiday gifts, the GLAM Indie Craft Show may be just the place to start. This Sunday, the third annual craft show will feature a collection of 50 local crafters.
By Ashira Morris
The hundreds of people who packed The Doris at 716 N. Main St. for its grand opening party Saturday night were as varied as the artwork on display.
By Lily Wan
Gainesville-landia? Portland and Eugene, Oregon model a streetcar and public transit system for Gainesville’s future.
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 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 Travis Pillow
One might be inclined to say, “Yes, homo mayor!” On Friday, a recount confirmed that Gainesville citizens have elected Craig Lowe to be the next mayor of Gainesville. The runoff was tight – ultimately decided by just 42 votes, with a higher turnout than the general election. The student support Lowe cultivated clearly helped make [...]
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 Cody Bond
When it rains, Geneva’s dishes get wet. So do the coffee pots and the Coke bottles, the Bibles, lamps and bike helmets. All the wooden furniture swells; the scrap metal rusts a little more; and Geneva stays inside. During the winter, she shuffles her wares down the long lines of tables and sweeps the leaves. By the time she’s finished, more have fallen, and she starts all over again.
By Joe Richard
In November 2008, President Obama was elected in a massive outpouring of energy, enthusiasm and high hopes for the change that this country so badly needs and was so arrogantly deprived of in the eight-year nightmare of the Bush administration. Roughly 2 million people traveled to Washington, D.C., to watch his inauguration. Professors showed the [...]