By Lydia Fiser
We accidentally included an old Letter from the Editors in the March issue of The Fine Print. This is what we meant to share with you all…
By Matt Walsh
Matt Butcher is a singer, song-writer from Orlando and former UF student. He’s played with some of today’s most influential folk artists, including Conor Oberst and The Felice Brothers.
Go see Matt Butcher play at Common Grounds on March 19 at 9 p.m. and at the Reitz Union on April 1.
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 Nadine Navarro
In January, UF’s Office of the Provost awarded the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, SPOHP, with a $150,000 grant for a three-year research project that involves conducting and transcribing interviews in Alachua County and surrounding areas with black Americans who came of age during legal segregation. Most of the interviews will be conducted by UF students and put into a database accessible to students all over the world.
By Fine Print Staff
In light of President Obama’s one-year anniversary in office, The Fine Print staff interviewed both current and former members of the Gainesville community and of all ages and backgrounds to get their take on how Obama’s first year went.
By Lydia Fiser
The High Springs Farmers Market is the only market in Florida that accepts federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. So everyone in High Springs has the opportunity to eat Florida-grown produce that’s washed in in water, not pesticides, and bought from fellow citizens instead of a Super Wal-Mart. Although this isn’t the case in Gainesville now, Florida Organic Growers (FOG) and its partners in the city and county have a plan to change this and join High Springs in setting the precedent for other Florida cities.
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 Joel Mora
Umoja Orchestra singer Sebastián López tilts his head up and closes his eyes tight. It looks as if his body is being consumed by the sounds of the orchestra. His right hand closes in a fist as he listens to the exchanges between Jason Prover’s trumpet and David Borenstein’s saxophone. The slight taps of Evan [...]