In a well-lit office building waiting room sits Laurie Swink, the co-founder of Selah Freedom, an anti-trafficking organization based in Sarasota, waiting for me to set up the recording device. She’s a blonde woman with piercing blue eyes and a tight smile. She gets up…
As anyone driving in the Sarasota-Manatee area is aware, traffic is horrible. The snowbirds have flown down--rather they drove, and they are driving locals up the wall. Recently, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) proposed a plan to make driving easier for the predominantly…
As a little girl, Sophia Kanzius often wondered what heaven would look like. She imagined a place that was warm all year, a place where no one had to work, with green trees and flowers that stayed in bloom. At 92 years old, Sophia…
From Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast At Tiffany’s to Scarlett Johansson in the 2017 live-action version of Ghost in the Shell, Hollywood has a long and abysmal track record of miscasting White actors as East Asian characters. One reason producers cite…
For religion students at the New College of Florida and potentially all disciplines on the tightly-knit New College campus, the circle of professors you work with is small. Religion houses Professor Marks, Professor [Manu] Lopez-Zafra, Professor Michalson and Professor Langston. Douglas Langston is one…
Artists Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp’s influential works and distinct personalities are the focus of an exhibition taking place at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg from now until May 27. The first exhibition to focus solely on the friendship between the two avant-garde artists,…
The biggest party on the New College campus is the famous Palm Court Party (PCP), and the only way they happen is for brave souls to take the initiative and throw it. The festivities have traditionally spanned campus wide and are known to coax impressive…
Not all thesis’ are alike and rarely any are site-specific. For Rachel Ceciro a literature and anthropology thesis student, site and environment are more than important to her work this thesis year. Specifically, she has reimagined the body of water that we all know to…
For 2018, Day of Dialogue will become ACTIONS--which stands for Active Conversations To Initiate Our Next Steps--and there will be no class cancellation for the events. Instead, ACTIONS will take place over several days and will work around classes, raising questions around how to prioritize…
Lakewood Ranch is trying very hard to be someplace. It does not simply want to be another housing development--and in many ways, it’s not. For one, it’s huge: in addition to 12 neighborhoods--referred to as “villages”--there’s also 150 miles of trails and 10,000 acres of…
