On Oct. 25 at dawn, Peter Hindel discovered an eight-foot tall Lego man clad in a shirt that read: “No real than you are,” on one of his early morning walks. “My first thought was that it was a manatee or something because this thing…
photo courtesy of Puneet Sandhu/Catalyst Faries wrote one chapter of his memoir from the point of view of a hamster as a way for him to tell a "pathetic, cute story," while avoiding an over-sentimental tone, he said. He scored pot brownies and brownie points with…
photo courtesy Allie Smith/Catalyst Plato (pictured) is a shy and fearful dog who's afraid of the dark. Possibly abused in the past, he oftentimes hides behind or stays close to Bob. As I rang the doorbell at the well-kept little house of Nancy Quinn, I was…
photo courtesy of Daniel Ducassi/Catalyst “I hope to see some ass kicking,” Jessica Marino said in anticipation of the roller derby bout minutes from starting. Marino got her wish in what was a particularly physical match on Saturday between the Bradentucky Bombers and the Suncoast…
all photos Eva Gray/Catalyst In addition to chilly weather and pumpkin-flavored everything, Florida’s “fall” season brings the spookiest time of the year when amusement parks extend their hours late into the night to frighten patrons with haunted houses, roller coasters and paid “scare-ers”. This year’s…
photo courtesy of Time.com The last of the Marines to leave Iraq, cross the border into Kuwait. Military Humvees are already shipping out through U.S. military Victory Base Complex, stationed near Baghdad, Iraq. On Friday Oct. 21, President Barack Obama announced to the country…
photos courtesy of Lynn Gusman On the night of the Halloween Palm Court Party (PCP), one of the largest and most extravagant parties thrown at New College (NC), its antithesis lurked on the on the other side of the overpass. This year upon walking through…
all photos Eva Gray/Catalyst In mid-October, WSLR ,“Sarasota’s Own Community Radio,” made the long-anticipated move from an unsuspecting house on Myrtle Dr. to a full-fledged community space at 525 Kumquat Ct. WSLR’s board of directors seriously considered a location on Central Ave., but Kumquat won…
After nearly half a century of patrolling the world’s oceans and embarking on countless environmentally-conscious activist missions, Rainbow Warrior II, the flagship of international activist group Greenpeace, was finally retired to a quiet life as a hospital ship off the coast of Bangladesh. Its successor,…
Muammar Gadaffi was confirmed dead on Thursday, Oct. 20 after rebel forces overran Sirte, the Libyan ex-leader’s hometown and the last bastion for the loyalist faction. According to Al Jazeera, both the former leader and his son, Mutassim Gadaffi, were killed “following an apparent attempt…
