Gainesville residents bring superheroes to life
What started as a simple walk down Newberry Road in a Batman suit for a 24-year-old Gainesville resident has turned into an opportunity to share joy with the local community.
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What started as a simple walk down Newberry Road in a Batman suit for a 24-year-old Gainesville resident has turned into an opportunity to share joy with the local community.
For Tom Miller, creativity has always been his solution to adversity. With multiple acting, performing and directing credits to his name, the 57-year-old continues to push artistic boundaries.
Johnny Nguyen found he enjoyed the comfort of a pencil in his hand from an early age while growing up in Urbana, Illinois. Tracing the covers of GameCube games, like Spiderman 2 and old Disney movies, onto sheets of copy paper led him to create his own sketches.
Decorated with fairy lights, large hanging greenery and an outdoor seating area, locals know Sublime Tacos for being one of the six businesses at 4th Ave Food Park.
A full house of punk-rockers dressed in their best black tank tops, skinny jeans and fishnet tights met Laura Jane Grace’s heavily anticipated return to Gainesville.
Debra Fetzer’s typical uniform for her performances is purple lipstick — to match her purple hair — frilly tops and bottoms, and old cowboy boots. Watching her perform, you can expect a high kick — or two.
Jack Polk’s white Honda Civic, known by his friends as “Satchy,” has at least 10 Satchel’s Pizza bumper stickers on its back window. While Polk doesn’t recall exactly when his collection started, he estimates around 2009, when his grandparents first moved to Gainesville.
Daniel Halal grew up with constant access to vinyl records through his family's collection. From rock groups like The Band and Elvis Costello to Arabic music from Fairuz, the diverse collection piqued Halal’s interest from an early age.
It’s hard to imagine Gainesville’s music scene without staples such as the Heartwood Soundstage and the High Dive. In the early ‘70’s, Jim Forsman and Jeffrey Meldon came together to create the Great Southern Music Hall, a first-of-its-kind performance space in Gainesville that paved the way for future venues.
As the chief of staff of P.K. Yonge’s Black Student Union, 16-year-old Caleb Little has seen firsthand just how impactful the club’s annual Black History Month event has been for his peers and the P.K. Yonge community as a whole.
Community members came together at Roper Park, surrounded by music and artistry, to celebrate their neighborhood and the unity created by the upcoming city-planned greenway corridor.
Tucked into the fairy light lit patio behind Gainesville’s Civic Media Center, artists and creatives gathered to share their work — from crocheted bucket hats, stickers and prints, to strange oddities like preserved mice and realistic monsters built into boxes.
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves line the walls of Heather Ray’s at-home library, a point of pride for the 48-year-old UF physics professor. When she finds a title she hasn’t picked up in a while, she’ll place it in a local Little Free Library — one of several community book boxes that have popped up around Alachua County.
As the lights came up on the stage, audience cheers welcomed Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi onstage as they stepped out to perform in Gainesville for the first time.