image courtesy of gregoryanusco.com When Joyce McKinney, star and subject of the new documentary Tabloid reached out to the audience at the Regal Hollywood theater on April 16, it wasn’t through some new kind of 3D technology. Like a scene out of the Schwarzenegger vehicle…
The local food movement wants us to change the way we think about our food. Wants us to reconsider the dirt and the farm and the farmer and the cook — the trip our food took to the table — before tucking in to our…
Photo courtesy beaumontenterprise.com After twice being a finalist in the last four years, Sarasota’s local paper at last walks away with its own Pulitzer Prize. Paige St. John, emerging after two years from piles of public records and hours of corporate interviews, released a report…
All photos Skylar Ead/Catalyst With a backdrop of the rolling click-clack sounds and the eerie white glow of an old-fashioned movie projector, Boulders, the opening act for Russian Tsarlag, performed for an audience in the New College Black Box Theater on April 17. Thesis student…
As writer-in-residence Adam Davies introduced him to the Four Winds’ crowd of eager listeners, Josip Novakovich’s status as an illustrious and prolific wordsmith was firmly cemented. Currently a fellow at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Novakovich has published a novel, three short story anthologies, two collections…
“My first poem?” repeated Alexis Orgera to the Catalyst, a smile spreading across her face. “I can tell you my first poem. It was in the ninth grade and it was called Kiwi, and it goes like this: ‘fuzzy football in the sand, shave the…
On Apr. 23, a balmy saturday before Easter, Sarasota citizens flocked to the Take Over at the Sarasota fairgrounds. The Take Over is a youth hip hop festival spear-headed by Shakira Refos and Ali Hackathorn — two Sarasota natives who decided to create an event…
For three days, 10,000 young activists in Washington, D.C. learned about big-time polluting companies and the ways the government funds them. On the fourth day, they confronted the government. Powershift 2011, a conference about clean energy, culminated on April 18 with a march to Capitol Hill and meetings with state representatives, giving these activists a chance to bring their message to their elected officials.
Lobbying was only aspect of Powershift, which was first held in 2007. Activists staged several protests, marches, street theaters and demonstrations throughout the conference. “We were really yelling at BP and the Chamber of Commerce and Obama and the House of Representatives and the Senate, all with kind of different issues … unified with an idea of the government not supporting dirty energy,” first-year and Council of Green Affairs (CGA) representative Nicholas “Niko” Segal-Wright said.
