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I love Spotify. It has personalized playlists for every mood based on the songs you’ve saved, it tailors radio stations based off each like and dislike more accurately than Pandora does and it lets you seamlessly share singles, albums and playlists between friends. I can’t remember life before Spotify.
Ira Glass, the 59-year-old host of the popular radio show “This American Life”, speaks to a packed auditorium at the Phillips Center on Saturday. The speech was titled “Seven Things I’ve Learned,” and was made up of lessons Glass found meaningful throughout his 40 years of broadcasting. These included segments on how to tell a story, how to interview children and learning from failure. Glass took seven questions from the audience at the end of his speech.
Ira Glass, the 59-year-old host of the popular radio show “This American Life”, speaks to a packed auditorium at the Phillips Center on Saturday. The speech was titled “Seven Things I’ve Learned,” and was made up of lessons Glass found meaningful throughout his 40 years of broadcasting. These included segments on how to tell a story, how to interview children and learning from failure. Glass took seven questions from the audience at the end of his speech.
UF students were able to put a face to the voice heard weekly across the nation.
Ron Hamer, 64, enjoys chicken noodle soup at St. Francis House in downtown Gainesville, which provides cold night services for the homeless. Hamer dropped out of high school in 11th grade and went to work for a local Birmingham radio station, WZZK. When his mother died in 1996, he lost her house and found himself living on the streets.
Ron Hamer, 64, enjoys chicken noodle soup at St. Francis House in downtown Gainesville, which provides cold night services for the homeless. Hamer dropped out of high school in 11th grade and went to work for a local Birmingham radio station, WZZK. When his mother died in 1996, he lost her house and found himself living on the streets.
Rescue shelters and organizations in Alachua County are preparing to accommodate about 8,000 displaced greyhounds over the next two years.
For one brief second, the Stephen C. O’Connell Center fell silent.
Gainesville residents can buy YETI cups, Patagonia jackets and southern-themed clothes in one spot for the first time starting this month.
Illuminating light. A sudden chill. An alarming shadow. Some instances are hard to explain when it comes to the supernatural.
Tony Weinbender has two great loves: music and Gainesville. Seventeen years ago he lost $500 trying to combine those, but in doing so, he created an event that became a city staple and a community that never stops coming back for more.
ACFR’s radio communications team set up a 100-foot radio tower in Mexico Beach to provide communication between rescue teams.
Alachua County emergency personnel left behind their beds at home for trailers stuffed with cots in the Florida Panhandle.
It all started with a painfully true quip from the senior class president: “I didn’t even know we had a Student Government Twitter account.” The offhand remark drew chuckles from the Student Senate, because we all knew of the sad state of our social media.
Mick Hubert, the voice of Florida Gators radio, has been immortalized for all time with his call of Florida-Tennessee last season. You can probably hear his exasperated voice trying not to crack as he shrieks, “IT’S A TOUCHDOWN! HOOO MY!”
Tom Petty’s legacy will be memorialized in a Gainesville park next month.
The eastern United States is currently at the height of the Atlantic hurricane season, and as I write this, Hurricane Florence is battering the Carolinas with heavy rain. Florence, plus Hurricane Irma which hit Florida a little over a year ago, are a stark reminder that a powerful storm can strike at any time and that everyone, from the county disaster official to the average Joe or Jane, must be prepared when it happens.
On Nov. 6, 2018, Florida voters will decide the fate of eight possible amendments to the state constitution. One of these is Amendment 4, entitled “Voting Restoration Amendment.” According to the Miami Herald, Amendment 4 would restore voting rights to felons who had served their time (except for more serious crimes like murder or sexual offenses). Previously, according to The Palm Beach Post, felons convicted of nonviolent crimes would have to wait at least five years before petitioning to have their voting rights restored, with their case being argued before the board of Office of Executive Clemency, headed by Gov. Rick Scott.
My column last week posed the problem of 24/7 news. This week, I wish to examine a few of this problem’s consequences.
Three new electric buses will take Gainesville streets by 2019.
Solutions by The State News
