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Editor’s Note: This is the third story in a series about Gainesville’s beauty industry.
It’s just after dawn, and the woods are drowsily still. The sunlight filters through the trees, and the croon of the mourning dove gently shakes the world awake. There’s movement in the tall grass up ahead. With a breath and a bang, Missie Schneider has her dinner.
On a typical Friday night, the High Springs community would line up, clamoring to catch the premiere of the latest local love story while listening to the distinct pop of everyone’s favorite movie snack. But now, scarfing down buttered popcorn as the lights dim on a Friday night is another piece of fiction.
Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series about Gainesville’s beauty industry. You can read the first story of this series here.
As the clock ticked closer to midnight and the release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” neared, people fearlessly began to dance to the beloved Taylor Swift songs they knew all too well.
In downtown Gainesville, a pale, columned building looks almost out of place among the brick facade of surrounding streets. Though it visually stands out, the Hippodrome Theatre has been the heart of downtown.
As the “Sunshine State,” Florida is no stranger to busy summers. Every year, millions of people come to Florida for its amusement parks and beaches.
Watermelon and melted snow cones dripped into sticky puddles on the sidewalk as people abandoned their treats to dance to DJ Mellow’s remixes of the latest pop hits. Children jumped to the beat in bouncy castles, ran through hazes of bubbles and threw footballs around the park.
Editor’s Note: This is the first story in a series about Gainesville’s beauty industry. You can read the second story of this series here.
Everyone deserves to see art when they look at themselves in the mirror — for the past six years, Figure on Diversity has been dedicated to helping people do just that.
A local group of artists debuted their first exhibit while bouncing bass and percussion echoed, glasses were filled with wine and glowing black lights lit up the SL8 gallery Friday.
The sound of people speaking Chinese, Japanese or Tagalog layer over K-pop harmonies. The smell of Indian spices floats in from next door. It’s the sight, sound and smell of home.
With signs held high and voices raised, students all across Florida are taking back their education.
When Buchholz High School student Ahan Mishra received a physics book titled “Introduction to Classical Mechanics” in the mail, he wondered how it made its way to his doorstep when school was out for the summer and Newton’s laws of motion were the last thing on his mind.
In the classroom of an environmental science teacher one will see many things. Lab coats. Goggles. Maps. Skeletons of animals tangled in nets.
Gainesville’s second K-9 Unit community meeting to discuss the status of the Gainesville Police Department’s K-9 unit was met with anger from residents.
Tivalee Hansen’s life came to a halt when her mother, Jill Hansen Holker, became one of 100 million people to get COVID-19.
In the classroom of Harbour View Elementary School, an 8-year-old boy cried.
Dave Conser is a big believer in nominative determinism, or when a name predicts one’s career.