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o many things have happened! So many For a while, it felt like I wasn’t alone in things are happening! So many things my stagnation — I was joined by the world. are doing something at some point. So It seemed like everything had reached a point Smany. where it was what it was. Conservatives will If you have worked with us before, you be elected to local offices and the secondhand know that for every issue we make a Google bookstore in your town will close. The journey Published with support from the Gainesville Doc where we hyperlink our stories. The was like a commute from work — so familiar community. Donate to keep The Fine Print in writer, illustrator/photographer and editor are that you can pull into your driveway without print at www.thefineprintmag.org/donate. listed below each slug and shared on the Doc any memory of going home. Editor-in-Chief Sarah Senfeld (this is also the Doc where the deadlines lurk in But now, things are starting to surprise me. 11 point sans serif font reminding you — or at There’s a bookstore opening downtown. In least me — how unremarkably horrifying the the county, progressives continue to keep the Print Editors Michael Holcomb Molly Minta passage of time is). conservative invasion at bay. Each slug has a brief description of what One after another, new journeys are Photo Director Sean Doolan the story might eventually be. For this issue's popping up, catapulting me into the next editor’s letter, our editor-in-chief, Sarah, wrote, experience before I can obtain knowledge from “Hello! New journeys.” the last one. Art Director Shannon Nehiley Sarah is right to make that the description. It’s easy to be bewildered — that’s how But when I first read it, I felt at a loss for words off-putting, yet normal, it is. But we have to Creative Writing Helen Stadelmaier … For approximately 2 and half months. combat it. We have to search for reflection and Editor What I felt more confidently than look for the takeaways. In many ways, The anything was bewilderment. New journeys Fine Print strives to be a place for introspection. Copy Editors Adriana Barbat are happening everywhere and they’re But we’re also a place for action. Words Kai Su happening so quickly. I head one way, and I printed in a magazine are just the beginning — Web Editors Molly Minta am confronted with a journey. I spin around the real journey starts when you go out and do Sarah Senfeld and am astonished by yet another journey. The something about what you’ve just read. There frequency of these encounters ebbs and flows as are so many journeys to be had in this town. Social Media Erick Edwing I attempt to search for an equilibrium — too Let us be your jumpstart. many journeys, and I find myself dizzy and Molly Minta Page Designers Maddie Ngo carsick, unable to experience reflection. Too Sarah Senfeld few, and I’m a stagnant human. Ingrid Wu

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RAVE DISCRIMINATION The Equal Employment Opportunity the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this Commission, which sued on behalf of Jones, year’s elections were pushed back to 2018, new york fashion week wrapped up a month is still considering whether to appeal the keeping President Joseph Kabila in power ago, but its remnants are still woven into the decision. past his December term limit. Widely seen fabric of our society. Garnering criticism, When a reporter asked Guido Palau, as a move to keep Kabila’s 15-year hold on Marc Jacobs sent a cast of predominantly the hairstylist for Jacobs’ show, what their power, the delay is “because the number of white models down the runway wearing inspiration was, he cited the '80s, rave voters isn’t known,” according to an official wigs made to look like rainbow locs. culture, Boy George and Harajuku as with the so-called Independent National “An unknown black man/woman has references — he was careful to emphasize Electoral Commission. The move came dreads, it is assumed they smoke and/or are that Rasta culture was not part of it. amid anti-government riots in the capital unprofessional. Marc Jacobs has a model "The interesting thing about Marc is how of Kinshasa that saw dozens of casualties. with dreads, it’s boho chic,” tweeted user he takes something so street and so raw, and In October, Venezuelan President Nicolas keikei_xo. because of the coloration of the hair and the Maduro effectively blocked the voting Jacobs responded in an Instagram post. makeup, it becomes a total look," Guido process to recall him, stifling the feeble “All who cry ‘cultural appropriation’ … explained. "Something that we've bypassed semblance of democracy in the country. funny how you don’t criticize women of on the street and not really looked at, or Even in more democratic countries, the color for straightening their hair,” he wrote. seen a million times, he makes us look at ideal is cracking. Referenda from the U.K. His later, more “thought out” response it again in a much more sophisticated and (breaking ties with the E.U.) to Colombia said, “Of course I do ‘see’ color, but I DO fashionable way.” (rejecting a peace deal with FARC guerillas) NOT discriminate. THAT IS A FACT!” In other words, Jacobs makes it white. • have left room for angry and vocal extremists Jacobs’ show happened on Thursday, to sway the course of history. At home in the Sept. 15. A few days later, the U.S. Circuit By Molly Minta U.S., a broken campaign finance system, Court of Appeals ruled that banning locs shady presidential primaries, gerrymandered in the workplace is legal. The call center districts and an arcane electoral college that had told Chasity Jones her locs were DEMO-CRAZY system have left some wondering whether too “messy” for the workplace was within democracy even exists in the very country its rights because “black hairstyles” are a it’s been a tough few months for democracy that exemplifies. Donald Trump has said he “choice” — one that black people don’t have around the globe. In July, an attempted coup will accept the results of November’s election to make. The court further reasoned that in Turkey resulted in a crackdown on dissent if he wins, a troubling claim amid affronts banning locs is not racial discrimination in the country, strengthening President to democracy around the globe. It turns out because if a white person wore locs “as a sign Recep Erdogan’s power and triggering a that free and fair elections, a process we take of racial support for her black colleagues”, massive purge of dissenting government for truth, are not so self-evident. • she too could “assert a race-based disparate officials, media outlets and even teachers. In treatment claim.” By Michael Holcomb

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BY DOROTHY THOMAS, CO-CHAIR the southwest advocacy Group (SWAG) is a grassroots have been shown to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and organization that works to improve opportunities and neglect when present in families. quality of life in the Tower Road corridor in the 32607 zip code in Gainesville, Florida. We address the needs of the sw health clinic SWAG community by connecting individuals to services SWAG, together with the Alachua County Health and resources through our advocacy and collaboration Department, the Alachua County Commissioners and with agencies and community partners. SWAG’s unique numerous private entities has also established the SW Health partnerships have led to the creation of a family resource Clinic to meet the area’s health needs. Prior to the opening center, a playground and a health clinic in the heart of the of the SW Health Clinic, transportation created a major SWAG neighborhoods. Our newest project is the CHILD obstacle to health care access, taking more than 1.5 hours and Center, an early learning center. three buses for residents to get to the Health Department, the sole place that 23 percent of residents obtain care. The the swag family resource center SW Health Clinic opened in March of 2015, and provides SWAG Family Resource Center opened in June 2012. pediatric and adult primary care, full service dental care, and SWAG and Partnership for Strong Families, the Resource a WIC office that provides nutritional programs to women, Center’s operating partner, work together at the Resource infants and children. The clinic sees close to 500 patients Center to provide place-based services that strengthen each month. Since it's opening, the clinic has performed over families and communities through building on existing 55,000 medical services and 18,000 dental services. assets, identifying needs and connecting to resources within the broader community. All programs, services and resources the child center at the Resource Center support five protective factors that SWAG’s newest project is the Children’s Health Imagination Learning and Discovery (CHILD) Center, which will educate, support and coach families and caregivers to be their children’s first teachers. The CHILD Center will also serve as an evidence-based model demonstration center for Alachua County’s parents and childcare professionals. The CHILD Center’s focus will be increasing access to quality early learning opportunities for our SWAG community. We will accomplish this goal through our partnership with UF’s Anita Zucker Center and Baby Gator. Our center will work to meet the physical, cognitive and social-emotional needs of children by providing high quality pre-school programming and curriculum in a safe and healthy environment, located right in the heart of this under-served community. •

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Dicussing the harmful disconnect between political narrative and the actual policies that affect immigrants. BY KEVIN ARTIGA ILLUSTRATION BY SARA NETTLE

t has become nearly impossible when discussing immigration percent of voters viewing it as “extremely important.” The same in 2016 to avoid mentioning Donald Trump, a real-estate poll conducted this year saw immigration rise to 70 percent, mogul turned reality TV star turned major party candidate becoming a top issue in the public consciousness. whoseI rhetoric has struck a nerve with white working-class voters. It is difficult to characterize Trump’s focus on immigration as Prior to his candidacy, immigration was relegated to a second- a brilliant move of political calculation — after all, race-baiting tier issue, often used as a hot topic to stir up emotions while has always been an effective method to rally anxious voters. His serving as a political wedge issue to mobilize the electorate. A incendiary remarks paint undocumented immigrants as an evil Pew Research Center poll conducted before the 2012 presidential this country needs to remove in order to thrive. This became the election asked voters to rank, in their view, the most important ethos of an election that uncovered the invisible yet blatant legacy issues; the economy, jobs, healthcare and the deficit topped the of racism ingrained in the United States. list, while immigration was last in the ranking, with only 41 The fictitious and racially exploitative nature of Trump’s

06 | THE FINE PRINT| thefineprintmag.org COLUMN / OPINION rhetoric should not invalidate the these statistics is the link between U.S. fled to the U.S. following the civil wars significant loss of economic power white foreign, economic and military strategies of El Salvador and Nicaragua — wars working-class voters faced during the first and illegal immigration flows. that were facilitated by the U.S. military. two decades of the 21st century. In fact, The United States signed the North These refugees formed gangs as a result while narratives of illegal immigration American Free Trade Agreement of the violence and police brutality of have been used as a conduit to direct the (NAFTA), a trade deal that is controversial Los Angeles. The U.S. deported gang group’s angst into a racially motivated on both sides of the political spectrum, members back to Latin America, and right-wing political movement, the forces in 1993. Trump, specifically, condemns Central American governments were of globalization that produced their NAFTA, since it moved a significant not equipped to deal with the return of anxiety are the same that have created portion of U.S. manufacturing to Mexico. hundreds of dangerous nationals. Thus, the immigration problem in the United These jobs made up an important tool of a culture of violence and vulnerability States. The issue is that competing political economic mobility to white working- was created in Central America, forcing narratives surrounding immigration have class voters. Another result of this trade families to flee. obscured the link between these two agreement, suspiciously absent from Following the uptick of migrants occurrences. Trump’s analysis, is the destruction of in June 2014, Mexico began a The language used in national political Mexican manufacturing. Foreign-owned tough deportation campaign in its discourse by both major parties to talk U.S. companies oversaturated the market, southernmost region called the Programa about immigration characterizes these decreasing the number of well-paying Frontera Sur (PFS), the Southern Border narratives. Democrats embrace rosy jobs provided by Mexican factories. Program. Placing between 300 and 600 depictions of immigrants as representing These same U.S. companies placed their immigration agents in Mexico’s southern the “American dream,” while Republicans factories in the northern part of Mexico, border, authorities conducted raids on the project a more forceful and dangerous where land was cheap and infrastructure common areas migrants used for shelter tone about justice and enforcement. This was underdeveloped. and movement. Capturing over 90,000 election has hyperbolized this binary, with Trade deals like these accelerated migrants, Mexican President Enrique Trump going full-force with “deportation the restructuring of global capital, Peña Nieto said the strategy was to “protect task forces” and Clinton being painted which had been heading this direction the human rights of migrants.” The PFS as a radical, with leaked emails revealing for decades. This created a hotbed of strategy began its implementation one speeches where she talked about economic destabilization in Mexico, week after the Obama administration’s “open borders.” While these might be where laborers were either forced to request to Congress for funding to interesting and provocative talking points, work in environmentally hazardous respond to the migrant crisis. saturating the national conversation conditions with short-term, low-wage The next month the administration about immigration with these narratives jobs, or migrate north to the U.S. to find directed $86 million from the U.S. has concealed the actual history and more economic opportunity. But another Department of State funds to support the lived experience of immigrants. Most casualty was the white-working class, PFS, and also included $14 million in a importantly, it has disguised the long which lost the manufacturing jobs that 2016 foreign assistance budget proposal legacy of the inhumane policies of U.S. had led to its economic stability. to strengthen Mexico’s southern border. immigration — a legacy that lives beyond In the recent years, the large migration Under the Obama administration, the the 2016 presidential election. from Central America more strongly U.S. began a policy of outsourcing The problem of illegal immigration has resembles a refugee crisis than actual deportation strategies to Mexico — a largely been a reaction to these inhumane conventional migratory patterns. These proposal Trump could only dream of. policies. The Department of Homeland migrants are escaping the violence that Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa Security routinely releases reports persists in three particular countries — wrote that the U.S.-Mexican border is estimating figures on the unauthorized Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador “una herida abierta,” or an open wound, immigrant population residing in the — known as the Northern Triangle. The “where the Third World grates against United States. The last report, published violence in these countries originates the first and bleeds.” ­She’s right. The in 2013, showed that the top four in the street gangs that have become election discourse has showed us how countries of origin of the undocumented a powerful force in Central America. narratives surrounding immigration can population in the U.S. were Mexico, El Economically, these gangs depend on a be used to create prejudiced suspicion Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, network of drug cartels that meet U.S. among the U.S. electorate and precarious respectively. Migrants from these four drug demand. The war on drugs has not hope among immigrants. However, countries make up over 70 percent of the eliminated drug demand in the U.S., and until immigration policy can correspond undocumented population in the United current drug laws defer to the cartels to be with values of humanity, decency and States. This list is significant, since the U.S. the suppliers. compassion, the political imagination has a long history of intervention in these Most of these gangs in Latin America guiding policy will always be one of countries. What is hidden underneath were created in the U.S., after refugees violence and exploitation. •

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CHOW DOWN BY MARTHA PAZ-SOLDAN ILLUSTRATION BY MELANIE BERRA PHOTO BY SARAH SENFELD

ainesville’s popular restaurants are usually hard legged friends are welcome as your dinner date while you to miss, sprinkled in the vibrant Midtown and enjoy the fresh air outside. downtown areas, making them fair game to The menu, a testament to quality over quantity, consists crowdsG of college students and locals alike. But you aren’t of a diverse selection of dishes, ranging from salads and too likely to stumble upon Public & General, located in the sandwiches to a chicken liver pate. If you want to try the northeast side of Gainesville, after a long night out on the acclaimed pub fare, don’t miss out on the signature dill fries town. Perhaps it is precisely for this reason that this up-and- with roasted tomato mayo or the crispy fried beets, some of coming food joint has so much heart. the few menu items that stay anchored through Public & With its string lights hanging over the patio and its General’s daily menu rotation. rustic ambiance, Public & General assumes the role of your Ranging from $7 to $11, the sandwiches include the friendly neighborhood tavern, complete with a makeshift pork or brisket sandwich with seasonal greens, garlic, and play area loaded with toys for the tots. Even your four- provolone, as well as the saucy BBQ mushroom sandwich

08 | THE FINE PRINT| thefineprintmag.org COLUMN / READ UP, CHOW DOWN with salted cabbage and the option of kimchi for an extra dollar. Public & General also offers a cheese and charcuterie counter for those who Champagne Sherry want to build their own plates. Both the sizable Public portions and fresh ingredients sourced from Viniegrette local farms make the meals well worth the price. & INGREDIENTS Vegetarians everywhere can breathe a ¾ cup champagne vinegar collective sigh of relief, as this restaurant ¼ cup sherry vinegar carries several veggie options, such as the General aforementioned BBQ mushroom sandwich 1 tspn minced shallot LOCATION and the $4 to $6 seasonal greens and herbs salad ¼ cup of honey Great with with sherry vinaigrette. A majority of the side 1000 NE 16th Ave. 1 tspn fresh thyme leaves dishes are vegetarian as well. a fresh Public & General co-owners Sean Atwater publicandgeneral.com ½ tbs dijon mustard salad! and William Thomas both boast an abundance Salt and pepper to taste of prior restaurant experience. 1 ¾ cup canola oil “It’s something I’ve been involved with HOURS since I was a teenager,” Atwater said. “If there’s Closed Monday ½ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil anything I feel comfortable with, it’s definitely Tuesday - Saturday this industry.” In a blender mix everything except In addition to food, they offer a great tap Noon to 10 p.m. olive oil. Slowly drizzle in oil to Sunday selection for craft beer devotees, as well as an emulsify. Season to taste with salt extensive variety of bottled beer and wine. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. These can be found in the restaurant’s market and pepper. area, a grocery of sorts that features a counter for food orders to be enjoyed at home. Atwater is optimistic about Public & General’s future. Just about a year after the restaurant’s opening, he said it was too early to tell how the restaurant has been received in IN SEASON Gainesville. “We’ve barely gotten started,” he said. “But AND FRESH we plan on improving aesthetics. We started with very little means. Now we're just trying to avocado • carambola • peanuts expand our ideas.” orange mushroom eggplant He said the rotating daily and seasonal • • menus let the owners experiment with with guava • radish works and what doesn’t. Located east of Main Street on 16th Avenue, Public & General was not the first establishment to set its roots in this spacious, albeit isolated, venue. Its predecessor, The Brew Spot Cafe, once served as a small breakfast place. The quaint location was simply too out of the way for most of Gainesville’s breakfast enthusiasts. Tucked away in a plaza of medical and office buildings, Public & General isn’t looking for the Friday night crowds that normally roam around downtown. The obscurity of its venue is purposeful: The restaurant seeks to appeal to the community it belongs to, and at the same time builds a larger community of fans that extends beyond its location. There is unmistakable room for growth, and yet somehow, a budding vibrance inviting us to join them on that journey. •

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Showcasing local bands, the next big thing, and all your friends. If you’d like to see your band re- Beast (left) and Chkofsky (right) share shakes at The Clock restaurant. Photo by Melissa Gillum. viewed in For The Record, or if you want to be vocals, drums Brooke Chekofsky vocals, bass Zo Beast considered to play at our next EW benefit show, email [email protected] a dirty purple wig inner freak, who they have , a slime green baby costume and a pair of for more information. Love Songs wicked smiles. The cover of EW’s album, “LOVE SONGS,” been their whole entire lives smacks you in the face with relentless madness. Their music but have just been made fun of is no faÇade, for EW plays unapologetically from the the first for being,” Beast said. angry bend of the bass note to the last howl in a drunken fina- Their onstage persona and hysteric com- le. “LOVE SONGS” compresses authenticity, rage, food and positions can pigeonhole them as tawdry artists seeking shock humor into an incendiary, warped package. value, but underneath the makeup lies a genuine proclamation The orchestrators of the concoction, Zo Beast and Brooke for freedom. Their third song, “Rice Cakes,” does exactly that: Chekofsky, follow a garage punk theme, but their sound is hard Instead of having to live a boring and rigid life eating rice cakes, to ultimately label. Ranging in influences from the Ramones to EW reminds you to eat voraciously and throw inhibitive cus- doo-wop, EW successfully piles their eclectic influences into a toms in the garbage. Campy riot-grrrl fat taco and serves it hot. “I never really think, ‘I wanna sound “People try to control how you eat your whole life, and released July 2016 like this!’ It just comes out,” Chekofsky said. “Our influences food is this weird thing that’s attached to your identity and recorded at Black Bear Studios are whatever is happening at a time in our lives.” your value as a person. [Rice Cakes] is about reclaiming your sounds like Ty Segall, The A distorted bassline plays over a maddening blaze of the ability to be whoever the fuck you want,” Chekofsky said. Ramones drums. These instruments alone whirl your eardrums through Chekofsky and Beast do not always dress up like a pair of inspiration doo-wop, the Ramones a gauntlet of food adoration and man-hatred, but it is the sing- siblings from an acid-wrecked Tim Burton movie. They often key tracks Delivery Boy, Rice ing and songwriting which solidifies EW among the noise. look like your average young adults. But when the sun goes Cakes By the second track, “Delivery Boy,” the duo’s surprisingly down and the amp is plugged in, EW is their refuge, offering a where to get it ewwww. bandcamp.com complex melody and harmonic structure emerges, giving the space free from stern parents, social norms and the emotional genre a refreshing spin. Blending subversive lyrics with nu- trek of everyday life. anced harmonizations, every song is laced with not just rage “This band has been an outlet for me and how I’ve dealt but ecstatic vibrancy. with [my problems]. It’s like the veil is being taken off,” Beast The underlying motor of this mean machine is humor and said. the truth — the truth being to just be yourself. “I want to “Life is a joke,” Chekofsky said, “and you have to get that empower people to be themselves and not be scared to be their joke to survive.” •

BY ALCINO DONADEL 10 | THE FINE PRINT| thefineprintmag.org vocals, guitar Jordan Burchel JORDAN BURCHEL BY CAMERON RIVERA FOR THE RECORD after a year of tireless work, what was recorded the songs at his home studio, Sunburst Les Paul from his father. He still VOWEL SOUNDS intended to be a small EP evolved into which he and his friends painstakingly uses the guitar today. Jordan Burchel’s second full-length built, taking the time to locate constructive Eventually, Burchel adopted an indie album, “Vowel Sounds.” The album and destructive sound wave interference rock sound. On “Vowel Sounds,” the expands on Burchel’s impressive musical for the best acoustics. music is restrained, with soft drumming talents — evident in his 2014 debut — The introduction of a drum set, and simple, yet powerful, guitar riffs. He and introduces him to other local artists among other instruments, provides a cites artists like The War On Drugs as who were vital in its creation. fuller backdrop to “Vowel Sounds.” his musical influences. Though his music “The approach was the same, which With this came the challenge of properly may not reflect it, he said he also looks up was that we’re going to do everything recording them. The steady, clear drum to hip-hop artists such as Kendrick Lamar ourselves, but I learned so much in the beat and haunting bass riff on the album’s and Chance the Rapper. Lush indie guitar time between the first [album] and the fourth track, “Blesh,” show that this hard “Hip-hop is an influence more in the release Dec.16, 2016 second one,” said Burchel. work paid off. mindset and in the approach. Good hip- recorded at Home studio A host of other artists were involved “I didn’t want it to sound good for hop music sounds like someone saying, sounds like Radical Face, James in the project. Zach Totta, a friend of a DIY project,” Burchel said. “I wanted ‘I’ve just got to get this out and this is my Bay Burchel’s, helped mix and produce the it to hold its own against something expression,’ so I take that into the creative inspiration Tame Impala, The music and also played drums on most of that was made in a great studio by process,” Burchel said. War On Drugs, Kanye West, St. the tracks. Sam Moss, Burchel’s girlfriend, professionals.” In the span from his debut album to Vincent, Kendrick Lamar provided vocals on “Why They Call You Burchel began playing guitar in “Vowel Sounds,” Burchel has experienced key tracks Paper Face, Blesh, Blue” and “Blesh.” The saxophone, played middle school. Originally interested personal along with musical growth. Kulterator by Paul Johnson, is one of Burchel’s in heavy metal, he spent a year taking “The making of the album mirrored my where to get it iTunes, Spotify, favorite elements of the album. guitar lessons before teaching himself to personal change,” said Burchel. “It all feels possibly CDs in stores Despite the extra hands, “Vowel play. After learning the solo from Lynyrd like I was living and then transcribing my Sounds” remains a DIY album. Burchel Skynyrd’s “Free Bird,” Burchel received a life into the album.” •

synth, guitar, beat programming Kane Pour KANE POUR BY MADDIE NGO soothing instrumentals and personal style into these two songs. Rather than basing his songs off Vision Crayon lively, vibrant beats promptly draw I feel like I reached back into my of a specific narrative or background listeners into “Vision Crayon.” Each cavern of melodies and achieved story, he likes to express a certain song is carefully composed, taking everything I wanted to with them,” feeling or the state of mind he was special care to create a cohesive blend he said. in at the time. in the midst of a wide compilation Album opener “Paprika” starts “Each song is a separate of sounds. off whimsical and animated. The experience, but it catalogs the Kane Aram Mohammad-Pour, second half of the album transitions extremes of growing up and dying a senior Digital Arts and Sciences into slower, more intricate melodies. in a short time,” Pour said. “I like major at the University of Florida, Songs like “Crimson Pendulum” to explore more linear narrative first picked up the guitar when he and “Lament of Listening” convey a concepts.” was 13 years old. more pensive, nostalgic mood. Although each track significantly Electro-future Krautrock “I became really obsessed with While he was recording the differs from the next, listeners album, Pour said he drew inspiration can distinctly hear the playful, released July 2016 the guitar and I’ve been playing from an eclectic mix of fusion jazz yet somber, recurring mood of recorded at Home studios in in bands ever since,” Pour said. “I North Carolina and Gainesville found a lot of comfort in making music, the ‘70s band Azymuth, each song. It’s never conflicting or Ryuichi Sakamoto and music from overpowering, but a compelling sounds like Azymuth my own music.” films and commercials. balance that defines the album and inspiration Jazz electronic music, Released nearly 2 years after his Ryuichi Sakomoto first album, “Hyper Pollen Temple,” The mood of each song isspeaks to Pour’s dynamic narrative. effectively conveyed purely through Pour is mainly focused on key tracks Crimson Pendulum, Pour recorded “Vision Crayon” while Lament of Listening, Coral Crayon residing in both North Carolina and instrumentals and electronics; completing his senior year, but he without incorporating lyrics is constantly generating ideas and where to get it kanepour. Gainesville. While living in North bandcamp.com Carolina 3 years ago, he retreated to or vocals into his music, Pour creating new music. “I don’t know his recording studio and spent most continuously adds layers to each where everything is going to fall into of his time on the songs “Crimson track. His sound relies heavily on the place yet, but I’m always thinking Pendulum” and “Coral Crayon.” guitar, synthesizers, and computer about music in some form,” he said. • “I put the most of my own programs like Ableton Live.

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What’s the deal withVIRAL Zika, and is it a threat to you? BY VINCENT MCDONALD ILLUSTRATION BY ELIZABETH GARCIA

or nearly 70 years, the Western world lay peacefully Each time a Florida county confirms its first case of the unaware of Zika. After its discovery in 1947, the virus, virus, it is added to an ongoing Declaration of Public Health which is channeled by Aedes mosquitoes, stuck mainly Emergency for Zika. On Feb. 12, Alachua County made the list. Fto small stretches of land close to the equator in Africa and Asia. Ten countywide cases of Zika have been reported since then, but At the time, it seemed to target more monkeys than humans. all were travel-related, explained Mara Gambineri wrote. Research suggests anyone who did contract Zika virus went As cases are continuously confirmed, local health departments undiagnosed. and mosquito control districts collaborate in systematically Suddenly, the number of reported cases of Zika in humans spraying insecticides, destroying breeding sites and educating the exploded. In 2007, an outbreak of the virus infected nearly three public on Zika, Gambineri said. quarters of Micronesia’s Yap Island population. Even then, the While the health department works to eliminate risk, UF disease was mistaken for other mosquito-borne diseases like biostatistics professor Ira Longini, a co-author of the study on dengue and Chikungunya, wrote Dr. Jorge Rey, interim director the spread of Zika virus cited earlier, is currently working with for the University of Florida’s Florida Medical Entomology his colleagues on mathematical models of transmission in the Laboratory, in an online FAQ page. Researchers aren’t sure Americas. In a recent study, Longini and his colleagues concluded exactly where or when Zika first cropped up in the Americas, that the projected numbers of Zika cases in the continental U.S but a study published late last summer indicates the virus likely are generally low, with Florida’s clusters of cases representing an entered Brazil sometime between August 2013 and August outlier. 2014. As for Gainesville specifically, “we don’t have much to worry Only a few years later, the Center for Disease Center and about,” Longini said. Our own localized cluster of cases is Prevention estimate thatover 3,000 cases of Zika virus have certainly possible, but unlike tightly packed Miami, Gainesville’s been reported in the continental United States, along with over low population density grants the majority of the city room to 21,000 cases in Puerto Rico. Florida stands as the only U.S. state breathe easy. Besides, it is the infected people, not the mosquitoes with cases of local transmission, meaning some infections — themselves, that pose a legitimate threat of spreading the virus approximately 169 in total at the time of writing — were carried beyond their neighborhoods. “The average Aedes mosquito is between between humans and mosquitos at home rather than born, lives, works and dies within 100 meters,” Longini said. abroad. The two species of Aedes mosquitoes that can transmit the Their origin? Two areas of Miami-Dade County identified virus, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, propagate throughout by the Florida Health Department that together measure just a Florida, but not in large bodies of water. Both species are few square miles, the sole locations of active local circulation in considered “container mosquitoes,” meaning all they need is a the U.S. However, the state’s “small case cluster is not considered bottle cap’s worth of water to multiply, said UF entomologist widespread transmission,” according to the department’s website. Roxanne Connelly in a Zika webinar. In Alachua County, 10 cases of Zika have been reported since As soon as the water level in a container rises, mosquito February, but all were travel-related. Effectively, “there are no eggs hatch and continue to live as larvae and pupae aquatically, areas of concern” in Alachua County, wrote Mara Gambineri, leaving an opportunity for vigilant humans to shut down their Florida Department of Health Communications Director, in an development. Bromeliad plants, old tires, flower pot saucers, email. rooftop gutters and bamboo sticks can all easily house the larvae,

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so weekly inspections of yards, porches, or gardens to search for some studies to maintain viable Zika virus for over 60 days objects that need draining are key to cutting down their stock. after its initial infection, the CDC wrote. The amount of time Should your precautions fail, you may not even know you’re someone remains viable to sexually transmit Zika is yet to be infected. Only about one in five people exposed to the virus show determined. any indication of the disease, Dr. Rey wrote. The symptoms Iovine is working to combat that unknown. By studying outlined by the CDC are fairly tame — fever, rashes, headaches, symptomatic patients’ body fluids, she and her colleagues hope to reddened eyes and joint and/or muscle pain — and could easily discern how long the virus persists in them. be confused with a cold or a bad hangover. Those infected only “The point of the study is that we don’t really know necessarily have the potential to pass on the virus to mosquitoes for about how long people are infectious for — and that’s a very broad term a week, Longini said. After that period of time, the condition to say, infectious,” Iovine said. effectively resolves itself, and hospitalization is rarely needed, There are still several unanswered questions about Zika, like Connelly said. the frequency of sexual transmission, whether the trimester during So why is Zika so scary? The predominant concern about which an infection occurs influences the severity of subsequent the virus is its effect on unborn babies. The CDC said infection birth defects, or if all infants born to a parent infected with Zika during pregnancy can cause birth defects like microcephaly, during pregnancy will be affected. Another question lies in the a condition where a baby’s head is too small and its brain viral load of mosquitoes, or if “one mean mosquito is enough,” often underdeveloped. “There also are babies born without Iovine said. microcephaly, but they have other neurologic problems,” “The thing that we do know is that if you can protect explained UF-based infectious disease specialist Nicole Iovine. A yourself from mosquito bites, and if you use barrier methods of correlation between Zika and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disease contraception, your chances of getting Zika are low,” Iovine said. in which the immune system attacks itself and results in muscle And when it comes to protecting against mosquitoes, experts weakness and even paralysis, is also under investigation. Women recommend long-sleeved clothing and pants. In the Florida heat, who are not pregnant at the time of infection likely don’t need to repellents might be more practical. worry about future birth defects. Chances are, unless you’re traveling abroad, a frequent visitor Further complicating the situation is Zika’s ability to be to Miami, pregnant, or planning to become pregnant you don’t sexually transmitted, a factor not considered by the model in need to worry too much about Zika. At least in Gainesville’s own Longini’s projections. Zika is a blood-borne virus, but it has been bubble, precautions must be taken, but it’s not time for panic detected in a range of bodily fluids, including semen, vaginal just yet. • secretions and saliva. Semen in particular has been observed in

Fall 2016 | THE FINE PRINT| 13 picture this: You’ve been planning some quality time outdoors all week. You’ve taken the evening off work and prepared a backpack with all your hiking essentials. You arrive at the trailhead, soaking in the green and brown of the forest. Suddenly, you feel a UIT sting on your ankle — the bugs have arrived. Q In Florida, going outside is already a battle against the heat and Bugging Me! rain, and bugs add a nasty bite to the challenge. You want to keep BY SOPHIA SEMENSKY them away, but the chemicals found in traditional bug repellents ILLUSTRATIONS BY INGRID WU can have severe effects on humans in high quantities. However, with Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases becoming serious threats, it is imperative to protect yourself. Don’t forget about your garden, either: Pests can easily harm vegetable crops, and synthetic pesticides contain phosphates and nitrates that lower soil quality and contaminate nearby water reservoirs. There is a better alternative: Natural options are both safe and effective. Essential oils from plants have been proven to have repellent properties, and species such as lavender, catnip, citronella and geranium offer short-term protection against mosquitoes and other insects. For the garden, neem oil is non-toxic and child-safe, and it works against many pests. Using simpler ingredients and more natural alternatives is surprisingly easy and fun — and it smells a lot better. • Sweet Vinegar Witchy Bug Home Spray What You’ll Need Repellent Spray »» 15 drops lavender essential oil: What You’ll Need »» 10 drops eucalyptus essential oil »» 10 drops rosemary essential oil »» 10 drops tea tree (Melaleuca) essential oil »» 10 drops lavender essential oil »» 6 drops lime essential oil »» 10 drops cinnamon essential oil »» 6 drops bergamot essential oil »» 10 drops eucalyptus essential oil »» 2 ounces distilled water »» 10 drops cedarwood essential oil »» 2 ounces white (or apple cider) vinegar »» 4 ounces distilled water »» 1 4-ounce spray bottle »» 3.5 ounces witch hazel »» 1/2 teaspoon vegetable glycerin (optional) 1. Pour the water and vinegar into a 4-oz spray »» 1 8-ounce spray bottle bottle. 2. Carefully add the drops of essential oils. 1. Fill the spray bottle halfway with water. If you only have one or two varieties, just make sure you have about 45 – 50 drops total. Other 2. Add witch hazel so the mixture almost reaches options include citronella, rosemary, geranium the top of the bottle. Witch hazel is an astringent and peppermint. One small bottle of essential oil made from the witch hazel shrub, and it is known contains enough to make many batches of spray, for its skin moisturizing and soothing benefits. and they can be used to make lotion, soap and 3. Add 1/2 teaspoon of glycerin if using. This will even for cooking with food-grade oils. preserve your spray and make it last longer. 3. Shake well and spray away! Due to 4. Use 30 – 50 of any combination of the essential the intensity of the oils, this spray is oils above. The intensity and scent depens on the best used in the area around you ratio of essential oils used. and is not to be applied directly to the skin.

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If you only want to make one tin, cut the recipe BZZ! in half!

Bee Balm What You’ll Need »» 6 tablespoons beeswax pastilles or beads »» 6 tablespoons cocoa butter »» 1/4 cup coconut oil »» 2 tablespoons castor oil »» 15 drops each of citronella, lemongrass, and eucalyptus essential oils »» 5 drops each of peppermint and geranium essential oils Garden Pal »» Tins or small glass jars What You’ll Need »» 2 teaspoons Neem oil »» 1 teaspoon liquid soap (organic) 1. To melt the beeswax, you will need to construct »» 1 quart water your own simple double boiler. First, boil about an inch of water in a saucepan. Mix together the beeswax, cocoa butter, coconut oil, and castor 1. Add Neem oil and soap to water in a small oil in a glass measuring cup, glass jar or metal bowl. Neem oil is very effective in small amounts, bowl. Place the container with the ingredients in so a small concentration is enough to deter most the boiling water and reduce heat. Do not melt the bugs. If there is a stronger infestation, increase the ingredients directly in a saucepan! Neem oil concentration. Transfer to spray bottle and shake thoroughly. 2. After the ingredients are melted, set aside and let cool. Wait until the edges begin to harden, then 2. Spray on plant foliage to deter pests! After about add the essential oils. a week, there should be a decrease in insects. 3. Place in a tin or jar while still semi-liquid. After about 30 minutes, the mixture will harden into a balm. Use as needed on skin. PSSH! Neem is completely natural and is sourced from the seeds of the Neem tree. It is biodegradable, non-toxic to children and pets, and easy to find at gardening shops or natural food stores. With this recipe, you can use Neem to keep bugs out of your garden. You can even use it in low concentrations as a bug Fall 2016 | THE FINE PRINT| 15 repellent! FOOD FOR THOUGHT: H LE-Y GRAIL BY MAX BARON & HELEN STADELMAIER ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRITTANY EVANS

when taking stock of all the bagel options in Gainesville, it can be easy to get overwhelmed. There are so many choices, and depending on who you talk to, everyone has the best bagel in town. And that's true, to some extent. Every bagel is the best at something. Each place has a unique take on the bagel that accentuates a different element of the bagel experience. That's why each bagel has been carefully assigned a superlative, a marker of what really makes it stand out from the crowd. It's about appreciating the individual qualities that make every bagel shine and highlighting the achievements that all bagel shops can be remembered for in years to come. •

Remember that kid who was friends with everyone? They were student body president, captain of the foot- ball team, and still somehow found time to also be the lead in the school play. Whether you have breakfast plans with a crowd of picky eaters or are looking to try at least three new things every time you go some- where, Bagels Unlimited is the most well-equipped spot in town for your needs. They have by far the larg- est menu, as well as the most vegan options. In the Every class has those two friends who seem insepara- mood for some eggs or pan-fried breakfast potatoes? ble. They go together like peanut butter and jelly, tea They have their signature hot sauce wall full of over and sugar, or, perhaps, Bagels and Noodles. Locat- 50 varieties to spice up your morning. You'll definitely ed close to the University of Florida campus (honor- take a few minutes to decide on your order, because able mention for ‘Dynamic Duo’ goes to college stu- at this place, there's no limit to what you can try. dents and laziness), Bagels and Noodles offers lots of customizable options, like their “Eggel Bagel,” a 2124 SW 34th St. plain bagel stuffed with eggs, cheese and fried ham. 352-372-7006 Bagels and Noodles doesn’t isn’t just a traditional diner. At 3 p.m., they serve noodle soups and oth- er Asian foods. The friendship between bagels and noodles is offbeat and unexpected, but lift up the lid of the plastic bagel that sits on the restaurant’s cashier table and you’ll see why they make such a great pair.

1222 W University Ave 352-872-5789

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Most bagels these days wear just the basics: Cream CYM cheese, maybe some chives (if they’re feeling a little Oval bagels, round bagels, square bagels, adventurous). Occasionally they’ll go all out and put apple bagels, pear bagels: All bagels are on ‘everything’ in their wardrobe. But for those days beautiful in their own delicious way. That being when you just need to feel a little special, The Bagel said, the “Best Body” superlative goes to the bagels at C.Y.M. coffee. Their bagels must Bakery serves up bagels in style. With two kinds of have had a lifetime in rigorous athletic training, hummus and sandwiches stuffed with alfalfa sprouts as their bodies are shaped like the Olympic and curry chicken salad, The Bagel Bakery gives rings: elliptical, with large holes. However, you the opportunity to design your own, one-of-a-kind C.Y.M.’s coffee far outpaces their bagels. The bagel experience. As you move through the line, coffee shop has a large outdoor porch, and the sights and smells of their various accoutrements while we were trying the bagels, we sat next will make you feel like you’ve stepped inside Cher to a feral cat — perhaps he is one of their Horowitz’s closet. Your best-dressed bagel will be the regulars — who too found their espresso to be envy of everyone in town. the cat’s meow.

NW 16th Blvd 352-384-9110 CURIA ON THE DRAG You’re sat at the perfect table. Your laptop is fully charged and a strong glass of cold brew is within your reach. You’re in the midst of a deep study session. You feel unstoppable, but suddenly, hunger strikes. Luckily, Curia on the Drag was clever enough to offer a selection of sourdough bagels to fuel you as you study, socialize or just relax in their expertly curated space. Though they only carry plain or everything bagels, Curia offers a bagel experience that will please a connoisseur in search of broader horizons. If you’re looking for a bagel that takes a subtle, but altogether Bageland has been open for more than 40 years. unique approach, Curia boasts a bagel that You know because they’ll tell you: Overlooking can outwit them all. their beverage fountain is a sign that proudly thanks customers for their quadragenarian loyalty. Good food comes before presentation and you can appreciate Bageland for what it is — real. You can be yourself here. Pictures of the owner’s family adorn the walls, VOLTA and his friendly New Jersey accent indicates that this Just when you think you’ve tried it all, Volta drops is the spot where you can hole up and make yourself a bagel bomb. The bagel bomb is shaped like comfortable, personality quirks and all. a jelly donut — round, with no hole. Inside, it’s firm, but squishy, and stuffed with cream cheese. Paired with Volta’s iced coffee, one sink into the bagel bomb can cure even the worst hangover. 2441 NW 43rd St. #6-C It’s by far the most unique bagel experience, but 352-371-3354 it appears out of the left field. You can try calling ahead to find out if they have it, or you can keep your eyes peeled for a pleasant surprise when you stop in for your morning coffee.

Fall 2016 | THE FINE PRINT| 17 SPOTLIGHT meat in the middle The story of how two tempeh-makers took over Gainesville.

BY SIRENE DAGHER ILLUSTRATIONS BY EVA SAILLY

Jose Caraballo tried tempeh, the vegetarian from Caraballo. soy product infiltrating menus all throughout Art Guy, owner of Arto Moro Tempeh town, for the first time at “The Farm,” a Company was introduced to tempeh spiritual camp founded in Tennessee in the upon purchasing Steamers, “a weird little 1970’s. There, members were experimenting Midwestern sandwich restaurant,” that also with foreign food products to supplant served up Indonesian curries and rice dishes protein in a vegetarian diet. Caraballo liked in 2000. The former owners, an Indonesian tempeh so much that he began making small couple, told him plainly to throw the stocks batches for his family, then for his neighbors, of tempeh in the trash “because you’re his friends, and many local Gainesville American, and you’ll never do well with businesses. And thus he began The Tempeh tempeh.” Guy, familiar with developing vegan Shop, monetizing the upwards of 800 pounds trends, decided to keep it anyway. of tempeh per week he now produces. For those recluse carnivores unfamiliar Caraballo, part scientist, part tinkerer, is with tempeh: Be patient, for it deserves arguably Florida’s first tempeh producer. He serious, if not chief respect among the meat innovated many of his own technologies and analogs. Nutty, savory and hearty, tempeh is tools, from vacuum packers to custom driers. a fermented Indonesian food staple. Unlike “I had to come up with new ideas,” he said. its heavily processed and concentrated “For about 20 some years it was just me.” companion, tofu, tempeh is made using the Twelve years ago, Caraballo’s son, Damian, whole bean, legume or pea. The whole beans joined The Tempeh Shop. Since then, the are never actually “cooked,” but instead are store has hired additional employees and soaked in hot water, dried and inoculated with has the manufacturing capacity to produce the mold rhizopus oligosporus. The culture double its current output. What began by containing the mold devours the beans in the means of “one humble pot” now ships the fermentation process, breaking down the nationwide. organic molecules and making them more With his success, it wasn’t long before easily digestible. The beans are then placed in others sought out lessons in tempeh making perforated bags and left to breathe for about

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"Tempeh production has surged in balloon.” Guy, on the popularity as veganism begins to other hand, prefers lose the stigma of angry, anti- to actively seek out authoritarian hemp-wears and the his clientele. “I promote [my movement towards sustainable business] by handshake, and local foodstuffs gains eyeball to eyeball. I deliver. traction." Everything I do is essentially 20 to 50 years antiquated,” he joked. 30 to 40 hours. The final product resembles a dense, Guy and his partner, James Thurston, have a cake-like sheet and does not require cooking before larger local base than Caraballo, but unlike Caraballo, consumption. The unpasteurized method Guy and they do not deliver outside Florida. Caraballo utilize to produce and ferment the tempeh “There’s a cap to how far you can grow before a significantly increases its nutritional (and taste) value certain amount of detachment sets in,” Thurston said. compared with commercially manufactured versions. He prefers “a personal ‘mom and pop’ operation where Caraballo and Guy together supply most of the you know all the clients.” tempeh found in Gainesville’s restaurants and local The two realized it was better for them to go their grocery stores. They had a brief partnership, but their separate ways. But, Caraballo qualified, “you will find beans' moldyy bond was insufficient to unite the two very few towns in the United States that have two cottage industry visionaries. It was “the love affair that tempeh shops.” didn’t happen,” Guy said. One thing they agree on: Their Despite their different entrepreneurial styles, both split was due to divergent business philosophies. Compared to Guy, Caraballo prefers a slower-paced, more reactive business model. He relies on shipping, an online presence, and word of mouth. “I don’t like the stress of pushing the product. Sales will happen on their own,” he said. “I had to wait so many years before I had an income. I’ve made [my business] more natural, more organic, [through] making and reinvesting, in the sense that it grows like a tree. Most businesses you take a big loan and it grows like a

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which preserves the living organism This business is protected so someone and the product’s nutritional vigor. can make a living and people can eat Tempeh production has surged healthy, living food. That’s basically in popularity as veganism begins the future of the company.” to lose the stigma of angry, anti- Maintaining a small business, with authoritarian hemp-wears or without competition from other and the movement towards local companies or national chains, is sustainable and local exhausting in its own right. foodstuffs gains traction. “I get a hundred phone calls a day “If you know from all over the state,” remarked anything about Thurston, who along with Guy Gainesville,” Sara does the entirety of the production, Puyana, the owner delivery and sales. “Keeping up with of Flaco’s, said, it’s demand and organizing your week that “there are a and months on a production and lot of vegetarians. delivery schedule based on how much Vegetarians don’t people need and when – it’s difficult.” want to feel You can find both Caraballo and limited. Because Guy at the Wednesday Farmer’s I’m a vegetarian I Market in Bo Diddley Plaza. There, can’t have a taco the long-addled competition between now? It’s not just the two can be observed side-by- a vegetarian thing, side. You can also find another people incorporate it form of competition in almost into their regular diets.” every restaurant in Gainesville that Tempeh is produced offers vegetarian options. Tempeh commercially: Publix, is extremely versatile: In Pop-a-Top, Winn Dixie and Walmart all it’s deep-fried and placed atop their sell the pasteurized version. While vegetarian cobb salad. At El Indio, it’s commercial tempeh has a longer marinated in spices and loaded into men shelf-life, it forfeits the probiotic tacos and quesadillas. It’s served in undoubtedly share a paternal benefits and leaves a characteristically Jamaican-style curries and barbequed affection for tempeh. bitter aftertaste. like pulled pork – the list never ends. “I just follow God’s rules,” Guy Guy and Caraballo are also not Although the two men’s history said, observing the natural, almost subject to rigid scheduling, as is has been tempestuous rather than neglectful obedience involved in the case with tempeh produced temperate, it has been temporally tempeh-making. “Converting food to commercially. Their businesses are tempered by their mutual passion tempeh is a beautiful thing, but that’s small enough that it’s feasible for them for generating and distributing a done by God.” to personally oversee production of nutritious and wholesome product, Caraballo echoed the same their tempeh good for people and good for the sentiment. “I find it very rewarding that Earth in general. “It is definitely spiritual to see something could be created and “Protein is an incredibly powerful nature working for you,” he said. manufactured and still be a local force in the food industry,” Guy “You are not actually manufacturing product,” Caraballo said. “[The said. “Protein generally means death. tempeh, you are growing it. Much Tempeh Company has] been certified Tempeh has a life, not a death.” • like a farmer, all I do is create the organic for 9 years now. Most people conditions that will favor this live find that is too much for a small product to grow.” operation, but we think it’s worth it.” Guy's and Caraballo’s “My No. 1 one interest,” Guy unpasteurized tempeh is frozen said, “is not to become big and immediately after its fermentation, corporate and have board meetings.

20 | THE FINE PRINT| thefineprintmag.org COMIC SPOTLIGHT A THORN IN OUR SIDE Ocala’s only abortion clinic has shut down. Now, Marion County’s women and protesters are coming to Gainesville.

BY ROMY ELLENBOGEN ILLUSTRATION BY SHANNON NEHILEY

n June 2016, the Ocala Women’s Center, an abortion clinic, closed Iits doors after 18 years of service. Now, if women in Marion County would want an abortion, they must travel miles away across county lines to what is now their closest clinic: The Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center in Gainesville.

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The Ocala Women’s Clinic was unfair law that penalizes poor and personal care [for] a patient founded in 1998 by Dr. James women.” receiving an abortion and recovering Pendergraft with the intent to Other TRAP laws are newer and [as] someone can be right by them provide abortions in a “supportive, not yet well established. Recently, rubbing their head or holding their comfortable environment.” But Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 1411 hand.” throughout its life the clinic was into law. The bill would have With the new requirements, that besought by troubles: It was a prevented state funds from going wouldn’t be permitted. frequent target for anti-abortion to organizations that also provide “It would be more cold and activists and when Pendergraft sued abortion, but that provision was sterilized,” Mutch said. “And I don’t the city in an attempt to obtain extra struck down after the law was mean medically sterilized – like an security, his lawsuit was met with an challenged by Planned Parenthood. office.” indictment for extortion. The law does, however, require If not the TRAP laws themselves, More recently, Pendergraft was that doctors who perform abortions legal battles can take down a clinic. In arrested in South Carolina for states with more conservative elected “drug-related offenses,” resulting“[The Hyde Amendment] officials, like Florida, clinics are in him being unable to pass a constantly under scrutiny. Gov. Rick Level 2 background check, which has really meant that Scott is responsible for appointing is required to operate an abortion low income women don’t the officials in charge of the AHCA, clinic. The Agency for Healthcare and according to the Tampa Bay Administration, the state agency have the same access to Times, in recent years, the agency that oversees Medicaid in Florida, safe and legal abortion has come under fire for its treatment told Pendergraft that he no longer of abortion providers. The agency qualified for his “ownership interest” as other women,” Cecile shows a “puzzling persistence” in its in the clinic, and he was forced to put Richards, a women’s efforts to fine clinics wrote the judge the building up for sale. Interfaith presiding over a dispute between Emergency Services bought the health advocate, said. the AHCA and Bread and Roses building, and Marion County is now “It’s been a completely regarding the legal definition of a without a reproductive health care woman’s first trimester. center. unfair law that penalizes In Florida, the governor also poor women.” oversees appointments of federally qualified clinics. These clinics, bortion is, of course, legal however, seem to be lacking in A due to the 1973 Supreme services and supplies. Court decision, Roe v Wade. also have admitting privileges at a Over the summer, Gainesville’s Despite this, the state legislators nearby hospital. This portion of the chapter of the National Women’s have frequently, and in recent years law was not challenged by Planned League (NWL) organized a protest more fervently, tried to enact laws Parenthood. called ‘Not My Clinic.’ During the that make it harder for women to Hospital admitting privileges rally, protesters called the federally actually receive an abortion. These may seem simple, but according qualified clinics to request services laws are known as targeted regulation to Whitney Mutch, president like abortions, plan-B pills and of abortion providers, or TRAP, laws. of Gainesville area National full gynecological exams and were TRAP laws can take different Organization for Women (NOW), repeatedly told they could not be forms. Some abortion restrictions they regulate insignificant details like provided. When asked to be referred are hard-wired into American the width of hallways and a building’s to other clinics, the operators said federal legislation, like the Hyde size. When TRAP laws are enforced, they could not. Amendment. Passed by Congress in they can cost existing clinics hundreds “[The appointments are] not 1976, it forbids the use of Medicaid of thousands of dollars or cause them really about giving women access funds for abortion. to close their doors permanently. and options,” said Erica Rodriguez “[The Hyde Amendment] has Additionally, Mutch says the Merrell, owner of the Wild Iris really meant that low income women requirements take away the comfort Bookstore. “It’s the exact opposite: don’t have the same access to safe of the clinic and turn it into It’s about limiting our access and and legal abortion as other women,” something colder and crueler. options and providing us this list that Cecile Richards, a women’s health “Bedside manner, in some really has no health care options at all advocate, said. “It’s been a completely ways, is what leads to quality care for reproductive justice.”

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girls, it made me want to cry. I want American women will have had at least ith the ocean in the them to know I’m not judging [them], one by age 45. When you tell people W distance, Mutch looked I want to help [them].” that, they’re like, what? There’s that ut over the sixth story balcony of a While some like Cuesta prefer to language, safe, legal, and rare. We need condo. pray, others outside the clinic choose to just get rid of the ‘rare.’” She was scared. Looking down, she bolder statements. She’s joined by To those against abortion, closing thought about jumping. another man wearing a “Choose Life” the clinics is seen as a succes. But to She was pregnant. shirt and holding two signs. One is women seeking an abortion, this “I wanted to jump,” Mutch said. “I more than half his size and depicts narrows their options and can prevent Right knew I wouldn’t survive, and I didn’t an unborn baby, labelled “preborn the procedure entirely. fucking care.” “Not all women can afford to take Today, as president of Gainesville “[Activism],” Merrell off work 2 days in a row, or pay for a area NOW, Mutch devotes her time bus to get to the clinic and back two to defending women’s reproductive said, “reminds women days in a row, which means abortion rights. services are essentially blocked Every Wednesday, and when she who are facing from women experiencing poverty,” can get a babysitter on Fridays, Mutch challenges that they said Emily Calvin, a member of volunteers at Bread and Roses as an the Gainesville National Women’s abortion escort. She and the other are not alone. It helps Liberation. In volunteers wear lime green T-shirts remove the stigma Activism surrounding reproductive and hold clipboards with stickers that rights continues to be strong in state “#shoutyourabortion” on the and the judgment. It’s Gainesville and other parts of the back. nation. The fight for reproductive The escorts are trained not to speak letting people know freedom is a cornerstone of feminist to the anti-abortion protestors or give that bodily autonomy thought and an entry point for their name, though they are regularly many women joining the movement, joined by them. is something they Merrell said. The groups fighting One woman, Jazmin Cuesta, brings should have and for change are often the same ones her own cushion and kneels to pray for that have been fighting since the 60s nearly 45 minutes after splashing holy something we should and '70s, like NOW and the NWL. water around the area. Cuesta has been Merrell mentions that you can even protesting the clinic for almost 5 years all fight for.” sponsor a protester, where people give and has opened up a nearby prayer a donation to the women’s clinics for and counselling space, the Fiat Center, human.” Another, smaller sign, shouts each protester that stands outside, just a few doors down from the clinic. in bold block letters: “ABORTION using the large crowds of dissenters to She describes it as “a place of prayer, so IS MURDER.” Cartoon blood drips support the clinics. close to a place of darkness.” from the lettering. “Until we’re all free, none of us are “Women deserve better than that,” “That baby has committed no truly free,” Calvin said. Cuesta said. “When I first started I crime against anyone,” he said to the The escort program shows no got frustrated. I wanted to help the escorts. “Please have mercy on your sign of stopping. Laws, lawsuits and innocent child.” protests show no signs of stopping. The women walk And neither will the number of women past. Sometimes they who are in need of an abortion. lower their heads, Though she only had to wait a few Mutch said, and days, Mutch did receive the abortion sometimes they shout she wanted. But she still remembers back at the protestors the fear she felt upon learning that she coFFee · tea · beer · WiNe or stick their middle was pregnant and has turned that fear paStrieS · SaNDWicheS · SalaDS · SNackS fingers up in defiance. into action. “People seem more “[Activism],” Merrell said, “reminds opeN MoN–Fri, 7aM–12aM / Sat–SuN, 9aM–12aM open in speaking women who are facing challenges that 2029 NW 6th St., GaiNeSville, Fl 32609 out and removing they are not alone. It helps remove the Event info at facebook.com/curiaonthedrag this stigma about stigma and the judgment. It’s letting @curiaonthedrag on Instagram abortion,” Mutch people know that bodily autonomy said. “Because at this is something they should have and point, 35 percent of all something we should all fight for.” •

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Chloë GoldbachIn is Gainesville's first trans woman to run for office. BY PIA MOLINA PHOTO BY SEAN DOOLAN

Fall 2016 | THE FINE PRINT| 25 t was opening night, Feb. 14, 2016, and founder and creator of LovEd, and began Chloë Goldbach stepped on stage. She to work with her to update the organization’s “Rather than was one of three women. The lights were current self-improvement model. They Iin her eyes as all attention in the Hippodrome worked to make the programs that will be getting to know was on her. presented nationwide starting in April 2017 “In my early 20s I came out to a girlfriend more LGBTQ-friendly. as a crossdresser,” she began. “She ridiculed As Goldbach became more involved in us and asking me and we broke up. The inevitable next Gainesville’s LGBTQ community, she began girlfriend wrongly assumed I was a gay man. to feel more like herself. what our pronouns No one gives you permission to be yourself; “My biggest issue with [engineering] was you have to take it.” that I just felt so far disconnected from the are, many Since her transition, Goldbach had been [people] I’m supposed to be helping that I working on an original piece for The Vagina almost felt like I was not helping them,” people create Monologues, a play written by Eve Ensler Goldbach said. “Through my transition I that features monologues from women began to realize that my passion lies more assumptions about about their experience as a woman. Now, in directly helping people.” she’s taking on a another stage in her life as Through their mutual involvement in our identities,” a write-in candidate for District 5 City LovEd, Goldbach and Springer became good Commissioner. friends. When Springer became the social Goldbach said. Goldbach arrived in Gainesville 8 years media manager for Mike Byerly’s re-election ago as a mechanical engineering student at campaign for District 1 in early June 2016, hurtful, they lead to discomfort, humiliation the University of Florida. Like most she asked Goldbach to assist her. and in some cases, violence.” freshmen, Goldbach tried to find her place “What I love about [Goldbach] is her Goldbach aims to bring diversity on campus by joining clubs that interested stand for important issues,” Springer said. programs to public schools to help bridge her. She joined an engineering fraternity “She’s really motivated by people having the gap between those who fall under the and tried out a faith organization in an fairness and being treated well. She’s… LGBTQ spectrum and those who do not. attempt to find solace in religion and her become a leader in the community, and I’m She also wants to address the issue of major, but after a few months in each group inspired by that.” LGBTQ youth homelessness, which she she just “felt like she didn’t belong again.” A few months into the Byerly campaign, believes receives almost no attention in “[These groups] felt too isolated and I Springer and Melina Barrat, now Goldbach’s politics, by working with the homeless felt too forced into a box to appease the campaign manager, suggested to her that “it shelters in the county. people in these groups,” Goldbach said. “I would be nice to have a transgender woman Goldbach has had to grapple with the was still very much processing my trans on the ballot.” With their support, Goldbach realities of running a campaign on a limited identity, so I didn’t like how segregated into decided to run, though she declared her budget. She’s a new candidate and has been men and women they were. I just always intention too late to have her name printed trying to introduce herself to Gainesville felt like I didn’t belong in the men’s group.” on the Aug. 30 primary ballots. voters through meet-and-greets since the It would not be until after graduation Goldbach’s campaign began as another beginning of October. At the end of the that Goldbach would finally be able to live way to raise awareness for the LGBTQ month, she’ll begin canvassing in the life as she wanted. community in Gainesville and to educate Duckpond neighborhood. In September 2014, Goldbach started people on the everyday life of transgender- However, for Goldbach, this campaign her transition into full-time womanhood, identifying individuals. is not the end. Next spring, she will finish though it was not immediate. At first she “I have known Chloë for a long time, her second bachelor’s degree, this time in only felt comfortable enough to dress as and I find it easy to support her during this,” psychology. She hopes to become a social herself on the weekends; during the week said Nancy Conlin, Goldbach’s friend and worker and wants to help people in the she was still going to work dressed as a man, supporter. “She’s compassionate and has this community. She will also present her original her birth-assigned gender. ability to listen and take action. ” piece in the Vagina Monologues this spring As part of her transition, Goldbach If elected, Goldbach hopes to examine season for the second time and continue her became involved with LovEd, a self- current teaching practices in Alachua work with LovEd. improvement community organization County Public Schools and implement anti- “I just hope to be remembered as based in Gainesville that seeks to empower bullying education in schools and the someone who was not afraid to be 100 individuals through healthy relationships. workplace. percent themselves.” • In February 2016, she attended one of “Rather than getting to know us and If you would d like to donate or volunteer to Goldbach’s LovEd’s three-part seminars, which give asking what our pronouns are, many people campaign, visit chloeforcommissioner.org. people the information and tools to empower create assumptions about our identities,” Keep up with her campaign on her Facebook page themselves and reach their full potential. Goldbach said. “Whether or not these Chloe for Commissioner. Through this, Goldbach met Isabell Springer, assumptions are accidental or intentionally Election Day is Nov. 8, so remember to go vote!

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The first part in our series on development in Gainesville.

he balmy sun inches below the horizon at about 7 p.m. each day. With a vast web of oaks and pines, Gainesville has fewT openings for the sunset’s creamsicle hues to bleed through. A handful of windows already exist across Gainesville’s landscape; the Sweetwater overlook off the Hawthorne trail is one, Depot Park is another. But most of the windows exist in parking lots, above parking garages, or in spaces cleared for construction. These man-made windows are not permanent. The view from the intersection of 13th Street and University Avenue is blocked by a looming 10-story apartment complex dubbed The Standard, the counterpart to Social 28 on 13th Street. Construction of The Standard is not complete, and its stucco and concrete facade lacks heart. The building is austere in comparison to the gothic architecture of the college campus and the grubby, low-lying storefronts that span University Avenue. The Standard reflects the recent efforts by the city of Gainesville and Alachua County’s to create more dense mixed-use development, a type of development that combines residential and commercial units in the same building, providing all the amenities people need. The Standard will have a Target Express and a CVS on the ground floor. Like Social 28 or 2nd Avenue Center, People will be able to sleep, eat and shop in one building. And the city doesn’t have plans to stop construction of Celebration Pointe — a retail center similar to Butler Plaza, but with residential space — began in April. So far only a Bass Pro Shop has been built, but the rest of its features — apartments, restaurants, movie theatres, office spaces and more — will follow in the coming years as permits are approved and construction THE NEW churns. STANDARD Gainesville will continue developing to BY ANNE MARIE TAMBURRO suit the needs of the highest bidder. With a ILLUSTRATION BY ZIQI WANG population of over 50 thousand students and yearly endowments of over $1.5 billion, the In the past 2 years, Gainesville has seen University of Florida’s voice is one of the loudest rapid growth. But why and for whom? in the area — and its collective wallet one of

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the fattest. Development in Gainesville will People can now choose to walk, bike or take the bus continue to target the university’s main demographic, to where they want to spend their time — if it isn’t college students and young professionals, at the already an elevator ride down from their front door. expense of other communities in town. “It’s all about options,” Barrow said. “Some people lanning in Gainesville was not always focused think that multi-modal is trying to make people not on packing people into small spaces. Car- drive their cars, but in reality, our culture and our cities dominated, single-lot subdivision development and communities are auto-dominated.” Phallmarked the 1950s and '60s. But this resulted in Relying heavily on cars creates many problems. rampant urban sprawl; everyone wanted their own High traffic can cause accidents, wear down roads and house, with their own lawn, out in the country. The pollute the air. Florida has steadily grown in population government had to spend more money on gas to since the 2000s, and more people bring more cars. deliver mail, and grocery stores were, at minimum, a Mixed-use development aims to combat the car car ride away. Developers and city planners saw this problem by creating areas with “a sense of place,” said as a problem and decided the style of development Steve Lachnict, director of Growth Management for needed to change. Alachua County. “You walk downstairs and you’re somewhere,” Lachnict said. “The “Development happens and idea is you create those environments within cities and in developing areas people say, ‘That’s not what we more easily if you don’t require everybody to do the single-family wanted. That’s not what we talked subdivision.” According to Barrow, providing more than one way to access work, about at the workshop.’” buy groceries or go to school is another way to manage population growth. But there is no quick fix Until Florida passed the Growth Management Act for bad development, especially when it’s the only in 1985, community members had little say in what development a lot of people know, Lachnict said. buildings would be erected and where. The Growth “We’ve had 25 years of discussing that we’re doing Management Act strengthened planning measures it the wrong way, and it’s going to take 25 years to fix across the state. Towns established comprehensive it,” Barrow said. plans with the intention of changing the course of lachua County, the City of Gainesville and the development. Public workshops were implemented to University of Florida are all responsible for the determine the community’s wants and needs. development of different areas of town, and Before 2000, development in Gainesville was Aeach has its own comprehensive plan. These plans are predominantly low-density residential. After the updated at least once every 7 years, and small-scale construction of Interstate 75 in 1964, residential areas changes to zoning or land use regulations occur off began sprawling westward. Haile Plantation followed, -cycle on an individual basis. While the development another experiment in mixed-use development. style of each plan overlaps, the work done to create Population in the western side of the county grew, and and update them does not, as each entity operates in 1990 Butler Plaza was built. Today, the retail center independently. is mostly parking lots, which are impossible to navigate The reasons for development vary as well. with a car as without. “Part of the developing process is finding demand There became a need to “lasso in the sprawl,” or seeing if they [can] create demand. Part of it is said John Barrow, a former city commissioner. The working with the areas to see what they need,” said traditional single-lot subdivisions that comprised Ken McGurn, owner of a local development company Gainesville made it difficult to access much of the who is currently running for U.S. Congress. town on foot, which left those without transportation Demand for development is driven by demographics. unable to access fresh groceries or get to work easily. In Gainesville, the keystone demographics are young Mixed-use development, Barrow said, takes a professionals and college students. different approach. With it, the gears of transit shift. “I’ve been guided by the idea of doing more long-

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term approach to development patterns,” said Lachnict. and at one point there was a tree advisory board.” “[If] there’s good demographic support, maybe we should “It all boils down to money,” McGurn said. do things differently … The trend with the millennial reating space for students and young professionals generation and the early retirees is the desire for the non- comes at a cost to the rest of Gainesville. single family home. They’d rather live in an apartment or The county’s emphasis on mixed-use wherever they don’t have to be dependent on a car.” developmentC has garnered support from community When it is time to update the comprehensive plan, members aware of how the city and its surrounding areas officials hold workshops open to the public to get input are changing, Lachnict said. But according to Eduardo from the community. Arenas, co-owner of The Jam, it’s the people whose voices But according to Barrow, going to just one of these are not being heard who oppose the development. workshops won’t make your voice heard. The Jam, which closed in May 2016, has suffered “The problem with people feeling like they aren’t being from both the literal and figurative costs of mixed-use heard is that they’re not part of the day-to-day negotiations,” development. Ownership changed hands several times he said. “Development happens and people say, ‘That’s not since it opened in September 2012, from UF Health to what we wanted. That’s not what we talked about at the Innovation Square. Ultimately, the developers who now workshop.’” own the property intend for it to follow in the footsteps of Decisions are made at many levels of local government. The Independent Alligator’s office—they want to demolish The big picture changes as meticulous details are lost in it and construct another multi-story, mixed-use complex memoranda and committee meetings. in its place. “There’s no longer just one plan board,” Barrow said. Arenas and his business partners knew The Jam would “There are subcommittees within the city and county be short-lived from the start, which he said was part of the commissions. Crime, community development, bicycle — project’s appeal. Repairs fell in the hands of Arenas

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and his partners. Cheap rent and an ideal location were contradicts the goal of keeping spaces affordable. part-and-parcel of impending demolition. “I’ve seen music venues in this town close one after the “We were only supposed to have The Jam open for 8 other. Some argue that it’s the skyrocketing rents, and that months until the lease expired, but the venue took on a life goes hand in hand with the development,” Arenas said. of its own and became such a valuable part of the live music “Business owners can’t afford to pay for the rents in the new community in Gainesville that we just continued on until spaces, and The Jam is a prime example of that.” the last possible moment,” Arenas said. “The saying that we When faced with the decision of keeping The Jam alive in used from the get-go was that we were going to ‘ride it 'til a new space, Arenas and his partners — unable to replicate the wheels fell off,’ and that’s what we did.” the unique charm and accessibility of the old venue at an The Jam falls just outside of the southern University affordable price — choose otherwise. He said a lot of the Heights historic district. If that designation were expanded culture in Gainesville is lost at the expense of the city, and one or two blocks, its story, along with the neighboring businesses owners who need to relocate do not receive help. houses and buildings, would be different. Arenas said a But is it possible to develop without displacing people or better alternative would be to preserve and restore these local businesses? buildings while creating new development to match the “Not if you want change,” McGurn said. “Change is existing style and size. good. You displace one or two people, I tell you they go to “I think that’s a much better solution, but I understand city hall and walk out with a big, fat check, smiling.” that for the businessman, for someone who’s trying to Arenas, however, argues that the change brought by maximize their profit, it makes a lot more sense to just plow development must be kept in check. The challenge is finding it all down, build up as high as they can, and squeeze as the balance among innovation, growth, and the preservation many people as they can into a building,” Arenas said. “But I of local businesses and communities. think that’s a disservice to Gainesville’s culture and history.” “I think that’s what make a town attractive for people Lachnict said that while he and the county disagree with to come and live here, just the fact that it does have a some of the city’s development projects, such as the recent history and a rich culture,” Arenas said. “I’m not against northern expansion of Butler Plaza, he supports the city’s development, but developers need to be mindful of what changes to the area east of campus that encompasses The they’re destroying in their path.” • Jam. The newer buildings are a healthly mix to have around campus, he said. Molly Minta contributed to this report. However, Arenas said the mixed-use development

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Latterman performing at 8 Seconds, now Cowboys, during Fest 2012. MANIFEST DESTINY The history behind Gainesville’s annual punk-rock music festival. BY NATALIE RAO ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANERI PANDYA

t’s the end of October, and football fans clear out of town to Jacksonville for the Florida-Georgia game. Left in the wake of the party busses, a quiet midtown and downtown brews with anticipation. The tailgater exodus coincides with another scene’s migration. Punks, travelling from as far as IAustralia, populate downtown Gainesville just for The Fest, one of the biggest punk-rock music festivals in the world. This year marks Fest’s fifteenth birthday and its largest lineup yet; over 350 bands are scheduled to play, plus 100 more at a two-day “pre-Fest” in Ybor City, Fla. And the music is just the beginning. Fest also includes a flea market, plus comedy and wrestling shows. But back in 2001, Fest, with just 60 bands and small venues, looked very different.

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A Wilhelm Scream performing at Orpheum during Fest 2014. est was founded by Tony Weinbender. It was also Weinbender’s first time organizing Born in 1976 in Roanoke, Virginia, he a music festival. He leaned on this experience calls himself a “kid of the radio heavily when life — following a world tour Fgeneration” — his mom listened to a lot of with popular ska band Less than Jake and a music and always had the radio on. Weinbender stint at the record label Fueled by Ramen — An attendee of Fest 2011. knew he liked punk music, he just didn’t know brought him to Gainesville, bussing tables and really what to call it. washing dishes at Leonardo’s 706. relied on your friends and the fact that It wasn’t until a friend, Chad Smith from “My resume sucked,” he said. “I learned Gainesville had such a thriving music scene. band class, played him three punk rock LPs in how to wait tables and waited tables for years.” That’s how we did the first Fest.” the summer of 1989 that Weinbender was able But he kept asking himself, “‘What am I doing?’ But the initial go was far from profitable: to put a name to the genre. Before music was Friends of mine said that when I did Weinbender lost $500. He was still waiting digitized, albums spread by word of mouth. MACROCK it was awesome, so they said, tables for a living and “taking that hit was really That summer, Smith’s cousin took him to a ‘Why don’t you do that here, [in Gainesville]?’” hard.” record store and introduced him to bands like Weinbender got around town a lot. He had “I didn’t have two pennies to shake together Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and Minor Threat. a wide network of friends, from Satchel Raye at that point,” he said. Weinbender and Smith spent many summers of Satchel’s Pizza to his coworkers at Fueled by The loss was disheartening. Weinbender skateboarding together, a hobby that further Ramen. He knew people who worked at wanted to pay the bands, who played in “good expanded their punk repertoire. Common Grounds, which is now Gainesville faith,” but for a long time Fest did not make At a skateshop the pair decided to form a Cycle on University Avenue, from his time substantial money. Starting in 2004, band, Swank, after seeing a flyer for a show. coordinating shows for the record label. When Weinbender worked a side job as a publicist Swank was on track to do fairly well, and they he decided to attempt organizing Fest, he for No Idea Records, an independent music toured all throughout the southeast, including reached out to them, as well as to now-closed label in Gainesville. Gainesville. But Swank broke up, and venues like Sidebar and The Purple Porpoise. “That was his day job,” said Matt Sweeting, Weinbender figured he might as well go to Soon, Weinbender had the bands locked. a No Idea Records employee. “Fest was his college. Promotional posters, made on an old Macintosh baby.” Weinbender attended James Madison computer and printed off a donated printer, Though the first Fest was gritty and University in Virginia for about 2 years. While lined the streets. hodgepodge, the guests didn’t seem to care. It in school, he volunteered at the college radio “It was really small,” Weinbender said. “You was a Fest after-party that persuaded Weinbender station and got the opportunity to attend a music festival in New York City. However, none of the bands he listened to were represented. He came back disillusioned but “ambitious as It’s kinda like Disney to little kids, or Vegas to fuck” to create something. This was the start of MACROCK, a multi- rich, young people, or Tokyo in general. You venue show and music conference that still takes place to this day in Harrisonburg, Virginia. kinda just walk around with a shit-eating grin on your face the whole time.

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request off because it’s so busy.” Despite the crowds, security, for both the venues and the Gainesville Police Department, is simple. GPD even vouched for the festival two years ago when there was a dispute with a venue. “Our attendees are good people,” Weinbender said. “That’s how we got the support of the city [to use Bo Diddley Plaza]. Good people … can go in front of the city council and say, ‘We’re there, we hang out with Fest-goers. They’re great.’” Most of the management for the festival goes into coordinating the bands and training the volunteers, many of whom, like Murdock, return year after year. Fest-goers in 2012. Volunteers work a single shift consisting to keep going. the beginning, when he started as a volunteer. of responsibilities like building fences, filling “Everybody was like, ‘This is so awesome. After Bo Diddley Plaza, the Wooly is the kegs or working security at stages. In You have to keep doing this,’” Weinbender second-largest venue at Fest. exchange, volunteers get a free Fest pass. “[Bands] are always amazed at how well said. “I was like, ‘You know what? We have Murdock said working Fest “is stressful in something good here. I’ll work the extra the context that you’re at capacity the entire things are run, how on time it is, how “pro” hours.’” time,” but he also enjoys it. The festival is like it’s run” Weinbender said. “But nobody In 2012, Weinbender stopped working at a homecoming for his friends. working it is pro. We have stage managers No Idea Records. Fest had been growing in “We have to staff so many more people,” who are nurses the rest of the size, and Weinbender decided to see what said Alaina Walton, a prep baker and barista year.” would happen if he focused on Fest full time. at Karma Cream. “Nobody’s allowed to Volunteers are an He took out a loan, and the music festival integral part of Fest. expanded rapidly: ‘pre-Fest’ began the next This stems not just year, and in 2015 Weinbender partnered with from Weinbender’s the City of Gainesville to include Bo Diddley time volunteering at Plaza as a venue. his college radio “I’ve always worked station, but from the in music but haven’t festival’s scrappy always been able to beginnings. survive off of music,” Weinbender didn’t he said. “I did this start out with the intent to profit off the more for my sanity festival — all he wanted was to do “good and [for] the heart and things for good people.” soul of it.” Weinbender said that he tries to put the Despite its attendees first when it comes to Fest. The expansion, Fest festival is about more than the bands that continues to call play or the volunteers who donate their time. Gainesville its home. Fest was first organized by Weinbender and PHOTO COURTESY OF TONY WEINBENDER, PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN PHOTO COURTESY Due to close his friends, and that feeling of camaraderie quarters, loud music and booze, punk rockers still hangs in the sweaty air. can garner a bad reputation. But Fest stays “There’s a constant state of euphoria that’s so interesting to me,” Sweeting said. “It’s amiable In fact, Weinbender said there has kinda like Disney to little kids, or Vegas to never been a single fistfight at Fest. rich, young people, or Tokyo in general. You “The scene is really good to each other,” Weinbender saaid. “Usually guys end up kinda just walk around with a shit-eating grin • hugging it out.” on your face the whole time.” Jeremy Murdock, production manager for The Wooly, has been involved with Fest from A photo taken at the first Fest.

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Unveil Hell, ALEXIE DRIS

34| THE FINE PRINT| thefineprintmag.org ART & LITERATURE Night Swim She peered down at her jagged reflection, a half-moon undulating with her on the river’s surface. Over the charcoal and mackerel-blue waters a jury of street lights mocked her. No noise broke the gauzy silence, no movement disrupted the stillness. She dove in. The river’s thick water surged against her every stroke, the cold burning a hole through her chest. She emerged—gasping, freezing, grinning— wet blonde hairs engraved upon her skull, the fair follicles mimicking the veins that mapped about her head. When dawn carried another Monday, she would relapse to the mundane—to academia, to Ovid, Shakespeare and the Iliad. Steps from the shore, she fumbled for her clothes when suddenly, the cracks of water, devoid of the sun-glare, allowed her to feel darkness, complacency. Chores It’s easy enough to hang up the mortgage, drying on the clothes line next to our loan payments, the credit card, your mother’s health. I stretch one to the next and feel you watching me as I work while you hesitate to pour your coffee and check the bagels for white buds of mold. How did we grow so cautious? The hallway from the foyer to the bedroom is littered with sharp scarps of hello’s and chaste kisses, a tenuous foundation to walk upon. Before you leave, you hand me the car insurance off your back, damp from sweat. Even after work, I can smell the down payment like some noxious odor behind your ears, the morning shift beneath your fingernails, the looming date of our anniversary wedged between us. That night I dreamt of Coney Island ice cream, hazy mountain prospects, the rich scent of leather—wondering how all marvelous things eventually amass to burdens.

Rachel Reh is a senior at the University of Florida studying English and political science. She plans on earning a Master's Degree in Political Communication. Her writing has appeared in the Harn Museum's Words on Canvas and the Florida Political Review.

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