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…
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…
The words “medieval studies” may conjure images of stuffy old men clad in wool, smoking pipes, polishing pocket watches and debating the ecclesiastical reforms of Pope Gregory VII. However, nothing could be further from the truth, and on Mar. 8-10 New College will open its…
According to Warhol’s landlord, the prominent Sarasota philanthropist Alfred J. Goldstein, the “Factory” was having too many wild parties. “We understand that they are generally large parties and are held after usual office hours,” a letter from Goldstein, who’s also the namesake for…
"Black Panther" took audiences on a journey to the nation of Wakanda, portraying its hidden technological advancements seamlessly intermingled into an urban, African space complete with bright costuming and breathtaking scenery. Set against this background was inclusive and intriguing fight scenes, which did not consist of…
(All photos by Bree Nieves/Tangent) From New York to Mexico, from Kenya to the local Sarasota community, one can notice that the experience of blackness is transnational and diasporic in nature. With that being said, Black History Month celebrates the Black Latinidad experience with…
An old postcard from circa 1920 shows Mary’s chapel. (Photos courtesy of Gulf Coast Heritage Association) The definition of “Old Florida” is more than what the magazines and newspapers describe. It’s not just quaint fishing towns and hole-in-the-wall seafood restaurants. It’s more than sepia-toned…
College is expensive. There are all the regular fees for tuition, room and board, books, materials, mandatory fees and daily expenses, but also additional costs like study abroad and academic research. Students generally have a few options to make ends meet: grants, student loans or…
Open distributed ledger technology--or “cryptocurrencies”--global market capitalization exploded from $20 billion in February of last year to $850 billion at its peak in the beginning of January 2018, forcing the hand of governments, banks and folks around us to start talking about it. Federal Reserve…
(all photos Miranda Gale/Tangent) The back porch at Four Winds was packed and not entirely with millennials for once. At the Nostalgia Coffeehouse event for the 2018 alumni reunion, former and current New College denizens of all ages squeezed into a familiar community space…
