The History Behind the Fest, Gainesville's Popular Punk Gathering. P. 31 from the EDITORIAL DESK
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VOLUME IX, ISSUE I thefineprintmag.org FALL 2016 FREE The history behind The Fest, Gainesville's popular punk gathering. p. 31 from the EDITORIAL DESK 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 Advertising Leanne Sheth Anne Marie Tamburro SUMMER 2016 Directors FREE thefineprintmag.org VOLUME VIII, ISSUE IV MISSION STATEMENT DRAGONFLY Our mission is to serve the Gainesville community • yuzu butter corn AW, SHUCKS. TORN FOR MORE• dumplings CORN? served with by providing an independent outlet for political, POP INTO ONE OF THE PLACESThe Top BELOW in search of its famous TO GETpopcorn YOUR cream FIX.sauce After, we moved on to social and arts coverage through local, in-depth corn nuggets. 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Email The Fine Print at Summer 2016 DISCLAIMER [email protected], and we’ll send you a lifetime’s supply of corn! Expect Julyyour of fi rst2020. shipment no later than thefineprintgainesville.tumblr.com The Fine Print reserves the right to deny or accept the publication of articles or advertisements ac- cording to the decisions of its editorial board. The views of our writers do not necessarily express those of The Fine Print. 02 | THE FINE PRINT| thefineprintmag.org IN THIS ISSUE Cover art by Shannon Nehiley. COLUMNS Monthly Manifesto, p. 05 Read Up, Chow Down p. 08 Homestead Instead, p. 14 SWAG aims to improve quality of life in Public & General dresses up Fend off mosquitoes and other creepy- Southwest Gainesville. your neighborhood pub. crawlies. Opinion, p. 06 p. 12 Art & Literature, p. 34 Simply Science, Art by Alexie Dris and poetry by The harmful discourse surrounding What's the deal with Zika? immigration. Rachael Reh. SPOTLIGHTS Food For Thought, p. 16 She Sonders, p. 21 This round we scope out all the bagels Aneri Pandya brings us a new comic. Gainesville has to offer. A Thorn In Our Side, p. 22 Meat in the Middle, p. 18 Bread and Roses is one of few abortions The tale of two tempeh makers. clinics left in North Florida. FEATURES Right In, p. 25 Manifest Destiny p. 31 Chloë Goldbach is Gainesville's first trans Looking back on how The Fest got its start. woman to run for office. The New Standard, p. 27 The first part in our series on development in Alachua County. FEATURED STAFFER Sirene Dagher Una Herida Abierta p. 06 Sirene Dagher is a senior at the University of Florida studying Arabic and English. She also writes for The Fine Print. After she graduates she plans to find a quiet room and finish all of "In Search of Lost Time" or finally complete a Rubik's Cube. She should be better at pool, considering how much she practices. When she's not reading poems into the night, For The Reacord p.10 she's wishing she were drinking a beer. Or she's drinking The scoop on locally grown tunes from EW, Jordan Burchel and Kane Pour. a beer. Fall 2016 | THE FINE PRINT| 03 COLUMN / PAPER CUTS Paper Ouch! That hurts, doesn’t it? Paper Cuts are our short, erratic and slightly painful updates on current, local and national events. See our website for more Paper Cuts at thefineprintmag.org. 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.