While I’m elbow deep in this 50-year retrospective of the Gainesville 8 trial, I think it worth revisiting the particularly…
What difference a half century?
I guess that the government was trying to intimidate us. Vietnam veterans were not the kind of guys you could…
Where the art meets the asphalt
Cities coast-to-coast are increasingly turning to arts-driven street redesigns—think colorful crosswalks, intersection murals and painted pedestrian plazas—to quickly improve city…
When we turned our backs on Hogtown Creek
I went to Creekside Mall to check out the Acrosstown Repertory Theater’s new home. Which, naturally, made me think about…
The fine art of parking at GHS
The things you notice when you get around town on a bicycle. Riding from Planet Fitness to the 13th Street…
The third time’s the charm for the ART
I wrote this piece about the Acrosstown Repertory Theater’s new home for The Gainesville Sun. Turns out there will be…
Florida needs a Claudius, it’s got a DeSanitizer
What’s running hot and what’s running cold in Florida? Hot: Florida’s climate catastrophes. Not: The DeSantis Presidential campaign. Florida’s seas…
That time in Sarasota
So I’m in Sarasota. This because I am a member of the Florida Bar’s Citizen Advisory Committee (go figure). The…
Petty’s Wildflowers opens at The Cade
Listen, if you are a Tom Petty fan (and really, who isn’t in this town?) you need to get yourself…
Will Waldo finally catch a traffic break?
The urbanist Andres Duane once said that the Department of Transportation has “destroyed more American cities than Gen. Sherman.” In…
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