All photos Casey Morell/Catalyst Members of the New College and Sarasota communities gathered on Friday, April 15 to dedicate a sculpture outside the new Academic Center to New College supporter, benefactor and Board of Trustees Chairman Sen. Bob Johnson. In commemoration of the event, both…
Photo courtesy of britinisrael.com Kersel emphasized that much illegal trade takes place under the guise of protocol in souvenir shops such as this. Though with not the quite the candor of an Indian Jones movie, the sentiment of “That belongs in a Museum!” certainly ran through…
Desirous of a blank, unadorned space to store your mini-fridges, microwaves, bookshelves, beloved textbooks and cold weather garb over summer break? The Catalyst has gathered a comprehensive list of the storage options near campus for its readers’ convenience. U-Store-It Self Storage 8250 North Tamiami Trail…
At 5:40 a.m. one day in Novmber 2008, Jamie Havican decided to take his black and brown miniature Dachshund Charley out for a walk. “I went out front and as we were walking down the driveway I was looking on the ground for snakes or…
All photos Christine McCormick/Catalyst Second-year Kenneth Lee walked over to a pile of rainbow hoops, watching his reflection in the mirror. He flung it around his legs and tried to keep the hoop rotating around his knee. “I just can’t seem to keep it from…
All photos Anne Larkin/Catalyst Five years ago, 37 percent of kids in Sarasota County were eligible for free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches. That number has now climbed to 50 percent. “We went from one in three, which was high, to one in two,”…
All photos Corey Rodda/Catalyst Brian Doherty at his desk. Dean of Cook Library Brian Doherty Where are you from? I was raised in New Jersey How did you decide to become a librarian? I was working on my musicology studies at Rutgers University and had…
Billy Cox’s interest in UFOs began during March 1979. At 12:30 a.m. on a moonless night with a scatter of light clouds, Cox walked the Cocoa Beach shoreline with his girlfriend Terry and friend Steve. They headed north with heat lightning and Kennedy Space Center’s…
Anne Larkin/Catalyst April Glasco in the SCLO building. In 1995, April Glasco gave away everything in her Newtown convenience store and dedicated herself to setting up an organization to simply “help people.” In the past 16 years, Second Chance Last Opportunity (SCLO) has grown to…
Christine McCormick/Catalyst The Bugatti Veyron Super Sort was the center of attention, with event attendees crowding around to photograph every detail of the car, down to the pattern of its tire treads. I arrived in St. Petersburg last Sunday, the sunny streets flooded with a…
