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Rain Henderson Introduce yourself! What’s your name, what’s your favorite thing to do, where ya from? My name is Soloman, I’m from Fort Myers FL but have lived in Gainesville FL since 2012. My favorite things to do are Thrifting/Finding stuff to use for art/inspiration. I’ve seen you put on art galleries/pop-up things, what kind of people go to those? Is it a type of thing where everybody knows everybody? Jacksonville has a pretty tightknit “art” scene. Kind of a small skate scene locally but Gainesville has a solid music/art scene. Gainesville is very transient due to it being a …

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Jospeh Guiffre Mushrooms hold a distinct place in society’s collective consciousness, to the untrained eye falling into two major categories: food and poison. It is a delicate line they walk, between a familiar friend and frightening foe. There is a small but motivated group of mushroom enthusiasts out to open the minds of people to the possibilities of the powerful and misunderstood mushroom. At an unassuming house on Jacksonville’s Westside, fog pours out from the confines of a small shed into the bright, crisp air of a spring day. Inside is a zippered door of a tent housing about a …

Lily Snowden It’s always exciting to hear of large blocks of drugs washing up on the coast of Florida and wondering where the pirates or fugitives are that let the product slip away. What is often not thought about, however, is how or why the bale was let go or how it got there. What normal, non-drug smuggling people do not think about is the logistics from a drug dealer’s point of view. “If I drop this package from the air at this coordinate, the boat three nautical miles away will be able to pick it up due to the …

“What if, long after all of nature has been finally ground up in the garbage disposal of the technologic sink, it becomes clear that there are indispensable genetic needs for many of these components of nature?” –Hugh Iltis, in a letter to science In 1916, Gaylord Nelson was born into the forest of Northern Wisconsin. Like many kids from his time, his youth was spent between the trees and his curiosity fed by ever-changing landscapes, scurrying critters and Earth’s pools. His interest in life and the inspiration from political speakers he’d seen in town would eventually mix to create a …

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Watch interview here Jay Mafela Most movies you see in the theater usually take months, even years to finish and make distribution-ready. But what if the movie had a much shorter production time? Like just two days? That is the premise of Jacksonville’s 48-Hour Film Project. The 48-Hour Film Project is an annual competition with events across the U.S. and around the world. The Jacksonville 48-Hour Film Project is headed by local filmmakers Adam and Monique Madrid, who went from participating in the festival for 10 years (and winning in 2014) to coordinating the event. “It’s been a rewarding experience …

Lily Snowden The Garden Club of Jacksonville turned 100 years old on March 25, 2022. The Garden Club of Jacksonville is one of Florida’s oldest and most established garden clubs. Ninah May Holden Cummer founded the club on March 25, 1922 in her home in Riverside. The club was originally comprised of 17 of Cummer’s friends. Within months, the club grew to over 100 members. The Garden Club of Jacksonville was one of the original four clubs in the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs. The club continued to grow over the years, and eventually broke ground on a clubhouse. The …