By Jessica Newman
Bill Bryson is one of the founders of Grow Radio, an online Gainesville community radio station with both musical and non-musical programming, as well as the former publisher of Satellite Magazine. He moved to Gainesville in 1992 and opened the Covered Dish, a music venue that operated for eight years. He was involved in college [...]
By Cody Bond
If I die in Key West, there will be a party. 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 morning, when the sweat has dried, they will forget.
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 Travis Pillow
The real significance of the Unite Party recordings has nothing to do with a supposed feud between Greeks and non-Greeks. The recordings show that the political machine, run by Greek houses along with other groups, remains intact to this day.
By Henry Taksier
March 19 marks the beginning of the first annual Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, a 10-day celebration of the earth and its resources with a chance to learn about the problems the earth is facing and how to build a better future. Click here for The Fine Print’s complete coverage of the festival.
By Travis Pillow
The Fine Print has learned that Reitz Union officials are actively involved in funding and supporting the Renew Your Reitz campaign – the one with all those green banners and T-Shirts seen all over campus. They want us to “Vote Yes and Yes” for a Reitz Union expansion and new student fees that won’t be [...]
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 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 Britt Perkins
She’s a photographer, but has stepped from behind her equipment to become an icon. Written, directed and filmed by her sister Barbara as a gift to their mother, the film intersperses Leibovitz’s childhood and early career with behind-the-scenes footage of some of her latest work for Vanity Fair. The photographer started her career in 1967 [...]
By Fine Print Staff
Fox News doesn’t acknowledge environmental harm is a bad thing. CNN can only cover celebrities and politics-as-a-spectator-sport. NBC is owned by GE, the world’s largest producer of coal-burning power plants. Nobody in “serious television” is in a position to give an issue like mountaintop removal the attention it deserves. Enter Colbert, who starts with the premise that his show is entertainment, and then brings in someone like Margaret Palmer, lead author of a recent study published in the journal Science that calls for an end to the harmful practice. The result makes for excellent television.
