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o many things have happened! So many things are happening! So many things are doing something at some point. So many.

If you have worked with us before, you know that for every issue we make a Google Doc where we hyperlink our stories. The writer, illustrator/photographer and editor are listed below each slug and shared on the Doc (this is also the Doc where the deadlines lurk in 11 point sans serif font reminding you — or at least me — how unremarkably horrifying the passage of time is).

Each slug has a brief description of what the story might eventually be. For this issue's editor’s letter, our editor-in-chief, Sarah, wrote, “Hello! New journeys.”

Sarah is right to make that the description.

But when I first read it, I felt at a loss for words … For approximately 2 and half months.

What I felt more confidently than anything was bewilderment. New journeys are happening everywhere and they’re happening so quickly. I head one way, and I am confronted with a journey. I spin around and am astonished by yet another journey. The frequency of these encounters ebbs and flows as I attempt to search for an equilibrium — too many journeys, and I find myself dizzy and carsick, unable to experience reflection. Too few, and I’m a stagnant human.

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For a while, it felt like I wasn’t alone in my stagnation — I was joined by the world.

It seemed like everything had reached a point where it was what it was. Conservatives will be elected to local offices and the secondhand bookstore in your town will close. The journey was like a commute from work — so familiar that you can pull into your driveway without any memory of going home.

But now, things are starting to surprise me.

There’s a bookstore opening downtown. In the county, progressives continue to keep the conservative invasion at bay.

One after another, new journeys are popping up, catapulting me into the next experience before I can obtain knowledge from the last one.

It’s easy to be bewildered — that’s how off-putting, yet normal, it is. But we have to combat it. We have to search for reflection and look for the takeaways. In many ways, The Fine Print strives to be a place for introspection.

But we’re also a place for action. Words printed in a magazine are just the beginning — the real journey starts when you go out and do something about what you’ve just read. There are so many journeys to be had in this town.

Let us be your jumpstart.

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IN THIS ISSUE

Cover art by Shannon Nehiley.

COLUMNS Monthly Manifesto, p. 05 SWAG aims to improve quality of life in Southwest Gainesville.

Read Up, Chow Down p. 08 Public & General dresses up your neighborhood pub.

Homestead Instead, p. 14 Fend off mosquitoes and other creepycrawlies.

Opinion, p. 06 The harmful discourse surrounding immigration.

Simply Science, p. 12 What's the deal with Zika?

Art & Literature, p. 34 Art by Alexie Dris and poetry by Rachael Reh.

SPOTLIGHTS Food For Thought, p. 16 This round we scope out all the bagels Gainesville has to offer.

Meat in the Middle, p. 18 The tale of two tempeh makers.

She Sonders, p. 21 Aneri Pandya brings us a new comic.

A Thorn In Our Side, p. 22 Bread and Roses is one of few abortions clinics left in North Florida.

FEATURES Right In, p. 25 ChloĂŤ Goldbach is Gainesville's first trans woman to run for office.

The New Standard, p. 27 The first part in our series on development in Alachua County.

Manifest Destiny p. 31 Looking back on how The Fest got its start.

FEATURED STAFFER Sirene Dagher

Una Herida Abierta p. 06

For The Reacord p.10 The scoop on locally grown tunes from EW, Jordan Burchel and Kane Pour.

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, she's wishing she were drinking a beer. Or she's drinking a beer.

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Paper Ouch! That hurts, doesn’t it? Paper Cuts are our short, erratic and slightly painful updates on current, local and national events.

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RAVE DISCRIMINATION new york fashion week wrapped up a month

ago, but its remnants are still woven into the fabric of our society. Garnering criticism, Marc Jacobs sent a cast of predominantly white models down the runway wearing wigs made to look like rainbow locs.

“An unknown black man/woman has dreads, it is assumed they smoke and/or are unprofessional. Marc Jacobs has a model with dreads, it’s boho chic,” tweeted user keikei_xo.

Jacobs responded in an Instagram post.

“All who cry ‘cultural appropriation’ … funny how you don’t criticize women of color for straightening their hair,” he wrote.

His later, more “thought out” response said, “Of course I do ‘see’ color, but I DO NOT discriminate. THAT IS A FACT!” Jacobs’ show happened on Thursday, Sept. 15. A few days later, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that banning locs in the workplace is legal. The call center that had told Chasity Jones her locs were too “messy” for the workplace was within its rights because “black hairstyles” are a “choice” — one that black people don’t have to make. The court further reasoned that banning locs is not racial discrimination because if a white person wore locs “as a sign of racial support for her black colleagues”, she too could “assert a race-based disparate treatment claim.”

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued on behalf of Jones, is still considering whether to appeal the decision.

When a reporter asked Guido Palau, the hairstylist for Jacobs’ show, what their inspiration was, he cited the '80s, rave culture, Boy George and Harajuku as references — he was careful to emphasize that Rasta culture was not part of it.

"The interesting thing about Marc is how he takes something so street and so raw, and because of the coloration of the hair and the makeup, it becomes a total look," Guido explained. "Something that we've bypassed on the street and not really looked at, or seen a million times, he makes us look at it again in a much more sophisticated and fashionable way.”

In other words, Jacobs makes it white. •

By Molly Minta

DE MO -CR AZ Y it’s been a

tough few months for democracy around the globe. In July, an attempted coup in Turkey resulted in a crackdown on dissent in the country, strengthening President Recep Erdogan’s power and triggering a massive purge of dissenting government officials, media outlets and even teachers. In

the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this year’s elections were pushed back to 2018, keeping President Joseph Kabila in power past his December term limit. Widely seen as a move to keep Kabila’s 15-year hold on power, the delay is “because the number of voters isn’t known,” according to an official with the so-called Independent National Electoral Commission. The move came amid anti-government riots in the capital of Kinshasa that saw dozens of casualties.

In October, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro effectively blocked the voting process to recall him, stifling the feeble semblance of democracy in the country.

Even in more democratic countries, the ideal is cracking. Referenda from the U.K. (breaking ties with the E.U.) to Colombia (rejecting a peace deal with FARC guerillas) have left room for angry and vocal extremists to sway the course of history. At home in the U.S., a broken campaign finance system, shady presidential primaries, gerrymandered districts and an arcane electoral college system have left some wondering whether democracy even exists in the very country that exemplifies. Donald Trump has said he will accept the results of November’s election if he wins, a troubling claim amid affronts to democracy around the globe. It turns out that free and fair elections, a process we take for truth, are not so self-evident. •

By Michael Holcomb

COLUMN / MONTHLY MANIFESTO

BY DOROTHY THOMAS, CO-CHAIR Group (SWAG) is a grassroots organization that works to improve opportunities and quality of life in the Tower Road corridor in the 32607 zip code in Gainesville, Florida. We address the needs of the SWAG community by connecting individuals to services and resources through our advocacy and collaboration with agencies and community partners. SWAG’s unique partnerships have led to the creation of a family resource center, a playground and a health clinic in the heart of the SWAG neighborhoods. Our newest project is the CHILD Center, an early learning center. the southwest advocacy

the swag family resource center

SWAG Family Resource Center opened in June 2012.

SWAG and Partnership for Strong Families, the Resource Center’s operating partner, work together at the Resource Center to provide place-based services that strengthen families and communities through building on existing assets, identifying needs and connecting to resources within the broader community. All programs, services and resources at the Resource Center support five protective factors that

have been shown to reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect when present in families. sw health clinic

SWAG, together with the Alachua County Health Department, the Alachua County Commissioners and numerous private entities has also established the SW Health Clinic to meet the area’s health needs. Prior to the opening of the SW Health Clinic, transportation created a major obstacle to health care access, taking more than 1.5 hours and three buses for residents to get to the Health Department, the sole place that 23 percent of residents obtain care. The SW Health Clinic opened in March of 2015, and provides pediatric and adult primary care, full service dental care, and a WIC office that provides nutritional programs to women, infants and children. The clinic sees close to 500 patients each month. Since it's opening, the clinic has performed over 55,000 medical services and 18,000 dental services. the child center

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. • how you can help

• Donate directly to the CHILD Center.

• Volunteer at the SWAG Family Resource Center. For details, contact us via our website, www.swadvocacygroup.org.

• Follow us on Facebook, subscribe to our list serve and learn more via our website: www.swadvocacygroup.org.

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una herida abierta Dicussing the harmful disconnect between political narrative and the actual policies that affect immigrants.

BY KEVIN ARTIGA ILLUSTRATION BY SARA NETTLE

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t has become nearly impossible when discussing immigration in 2016 to avoid mentioning Donald Trump, a real-estate mogul turned reality TV star turned major party candidate whose rhetoric has struck a nerve with white working-class voters.

Prior to his candidacy, immigration was relegated to a secondtier issue, often used as a hot topic to stir up emotions while serving as a political wedge issue to mobilize the electorate. A Pew Research Center poll conducted before the 2012 presidential election asked voters to rank, in their view, the most important issues; the economy, jobs, healthcare and the deficit topped the list, while immigration was last in the ranking, with only 41 06 | T H E F I N E P R I N T | thefineprintmag.org

percent of voters viewing it as “extremely important.” The same poll conducted this year saw immigration rise to 70 percent, becoming a top issue in the public consciousness.

It is difficult to characterize Trump’s focus on immigration as a brilliant move of political calculation — after all, race-baiting has always been an effective method to rally anxious voters. His incendiary remarks paint undocumented immigrants as an evil this country needs to remove in order to thrive. This became the ethos of an election that uncovered the invisible yet blatant legacy of racism ingrained in the United States.

The fictitious and racially exploitative nature of Trump’s

COLUMN / OPINION rhetoric should not invalidate the significant loss of economic power white working-class voters faced during the first two decades of the 21st century. In fact, while narratives of illegal immigration have been used as a conduit to direct the group’s angst into a racially motivated right-wing political movement, the forces of globalization that produced their anxiety are the same that have created the immigration problem in the United States. The issue is that competing political narratives surrounding immigration have obscured the link between these two occurrences.

The language used in national political discourse by both major parties to talk about immigration characterizes these narratives. Democrats embrace rosy depictions of immigrants as representing the “American dream,” while Republicans project a more forceful and dangerous tone about justice and enforcement. This election has hyperbolized this binary, with Trump going full-force with “deportation task forces” and Clinton being painted as a radical, with leaked emails revealing speeches where she talked about “open borders.” While these might be interesting and provocative talking points, saturating the national conversation about immigration with these narratives has concealed the actual history and lived experience of immigrants. Most importantly, it has disguised the long legacy of the inhumane policies of U.S. immigration — a legacy that lives beyond the 2016 presidential election.

The problem of illegal immigration has largely been a reaction to these inhumane policies. The Department of Homeland Security routinely releases reports estimating figures on the unauthorized immigrant population residing in the United States. The last report, published in 2013, showed that the top four countries of origin of the undocumented population in the U.S. were Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, respectively. Migrants from these four countries make up over 70 percent of the undocumented population in the United States. This list is significant, since the U.S. has a long history of intervention in these countries. What is hidden underneath

these statistics is the link between U.S. foreign, economic and military strategies and illegal immigration flows.

The United States signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a trade deal that is controversial on both sides of the political spectrum, in 1993. Trump, specifically, condemns NAFTA, since it moved a significant portion of U.S. manufacturing to Mexico.

These jobs made up an important tool of economic mobility to white workingclass voters. Another result of this trade agreement, suspiciously absent from Trump’s analysis, is the destruction of Mexican manufacturing. Foreign-owned U.S. companies oversaturated the market, decreasing the number of well-paying jobs provided by Mexican factories.

These same U.S. companies placed their factories in the northern part of Mexico, where land was cheap and infrastructure was underdeveloped.

Trade deals like these accelerated the restructuring of global capital, which had been heading this direction for decades. This created a hotbed of economic destabilization in Mexico, where laborers were either forced to work in environmentally hazardous conditions with short-term, low-wage jobs, or migrate north to the U.S. to find more economic opportunity. But another casualty was the white-working class, which lost the manufacturing jobs that had led to its economic stability.

In the recent years, the large migration from Central America more strongly resembles a refugee crisis than actual conventional migratory patterns. These migrants are escaping the violence that persists in three particular countries — Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador — known as the Northern Triangle. The violence in these countries originates in the street gangs that have become a powerful force in Central America.

Economically, these gangs depend on a network of drug cartels that meet U.S. drug demand. The war on drugs has not eliminated drug demand in the U.S., and current drug laws defer to the cartels to be the suppliers.

Most of these gangs in Latin America were created in the U.S., after refugees

fled to the U.S. following the civil wars of El Salvador and Nicaragua — wars that were facilitated by the U.S. military.

These refugees formed gangs as a result of the violence and police brutality of Los Angeles. The U.S. deported gang members back to Latin America, and Central American governments were not equipped to deal with the return of hundreds of dangerous nationals. Thus, a culture of violence and vulnerability was created in Central America, forcing families to flee.

Following the uptick of migrants in June 2014, Mexico began a tough deportation campaign in its southernmost region called the Programa Frontera Sur (PFS), the Southern Border Program. Placing between 300 and 600 immigration agents in Mexico’s southern border, authorities conducted raids on the common areas migrants used for shelter and movement. Capturing over 90,000 migrants, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said the strategy was to “protect the human rights of migrants.” The PFS strategy began its implementation one week after the Obama administration’s request to Congress for funding to respond to the migrant crisis.

The next month the administration directed $86 million from the U.S. Department of State funds to support the PFS, and also included $14 million in a 2016 foreign assistance budget proposal to strengthen Mexico’s southern border.

Under the Obama administration, the U.S. began a policy of outsourcing deportation strategies to Mexico — a proposal Trump could only dream of.

Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa wrote that the U.S.-Mexican border is “una herida abierta,” or an open wound, “where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” ­ She’s right. The election discourse has showed us how narratives surrounding immigration can be used to create prejudiced suspicion among the U.S. electorate and precarious hope among immigrants. However, until immigration policy can correspond with values of humanity, decency and compassion, the political imagination guiding policy will always be one of violence and exploitation. • Fall 2016 | T H E F I N E P R I N T | 07

COLUMN / READ UP, CHOW DOWN

READ UP,

CHOW DOWN

BY MARTHA PAZ-SOLDAN

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ILLUSTRATION BY MELANIE BERRA

ainesville’s popular restaurants are usually hard to miss, sprinkled in the vibrant Midtown and downtown areas, making them fair game to crowds of college students and locals alike. But you aren’t too likely to stumble upon Public & General, located in the northeast side of Gainesville, after a long night out on the town. Perhaps it is precisely for this reason that this up-andcoming food joint has so much heart.

With its string lights hanging over the patio and its rustic ambiance, Public & General assumes the role of your friendly neighborhood tavern, complete with a makeshift play area loaded with toys for the tots. Even your four-

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legged friends are welcome as your dinner date while you enjoy the fresh air outside.

The menu, a testament to quality over quantity, consists of a diverse selection of dishes, ranging from salads and sandwiches to a chicken liver pate. If you want to try the acclaimed pub fare, don’t miss out on the signature dill fries with roasted tomato mayo or the crispy fried beets, some of the few menu items that stay anchored through Public & General’s daily menu rotation.

Ranging from $7 to $11, the sandwiches include the pork or brisket sandwich with seasonal greens, garlic, and provolone, as well as the saucy BBQ mushroom sandwich

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 want to build their own plates. Both the sizable portions and fresh ingredients sourced from local farms make the meals well worth the price.

Vegetarians everywhere can breathe a collective sigh of relief, as this restaurant carries several veggie options, such as the aforementioned BBQ mushroom sandwich and the $4 to $6 seasonal greens and herbs salad with sherry vinaigrette. A majority of the side dishes are vegetarian as well.

Public & General co-owners Sean Atwater and William Thomas both boast an abundance of prior restaurant experience.

“It’s something I’ve been involved with since I was a teenager,” Atwater said. “If there’s anything I feel comfortable with, it’s definitely this industry.”

In addition to food, they offer a great tap selection for craft beer devotees, as well as an extensive variety of bottled beer and wine.

These can be found in the restaurant’s market 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 Gainesville.

“We’ve barely gotten started,” he said. “But we plan on improving aesthetics. We started with very little means. Now we're just trying to expand our ideas.”

He said the rotating daily and seasonal menus let the owners experiment with with 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. •

Public & General LOCATION

1000 NE 16th Ave. publicandgeneral.com

HOURS

Closed Monday Tuesday - Saturday Noon to 10 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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FOR THE RECORD

Showcasing local bands, the next big thing, and all your friends.

Beast (left) and Chkofsky (right) share shakes at The Clock restaurant. Photo by Melissa Gillum.

EW

Love Songs

Campy riot-grrrl

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a dirty purple wig,

Brooke Chekofsky Zo Beast

a slime green baby costume and a pair of wicked smiles. The cover of EW’s album, “LOVE SONGS,” smacks you in the face with relentless madness. Their music is no faÇade, for EW plays unapologetically from the the first angry bend of the bass note to the last howl in a drunken finale. “LOVE SONGS” compresses authenticity, rage, food and humor into an incendiary, warped package.

The orchestrators of the concoction, Zo Beast and Brooke Chekofsky, follow a garage punk theme, but their sound is hard to ultimately label. Ranging in influences from the Ramones to doo-wop, EW successfully piles their eclectic influences into a fat taco and serves it hot. “I never really think, ‘I wanna sound like this!’ It just comes out,” Chekofsky said. “Our influences are whatever is happening at a time in our lives.”

A distorted bassline plays over a maddening blaze of the drums. These instruments alone whirl your eardrums through a gauntlet of food adoration and man-hatred, but it is the singing and songwriting which solidifies EW among the noise.

By the second track, “Delivery Boy,” the duo’s surprisingly complex melody and harmonic structure emerges, giving the genre a refreshing spin. Blending subversive lyrics with nuanced harmonizations, every song is laced with not just rage but ecstatic vibrancy.

The underlying motor of this mean machine is humor and the truth — the truth being to just be yourself. “I want to empower people to be themselves and not be scared to be their

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inner freak, who they have for more information. been their whole entire lives but have just been made fun of for being,” Beast said.

Their onstage persona and hysteric compositions can pigeonhole them as tawdry artists seeking shock value, but underneath the makeup lies a genuine proclamation for freedom. Their third song, “Rice Cakes,” does exactly that: Instead of having to live a boring and rigid life eating rice cakes, EW reminds you to eat voraciously and throw inhibitive customs in the garbage.

“People try to control how you eat your whole life, and food is this weird thing that’s attached to your identity and your value as a person. [Rice Cakes] is about reclaiming your ability to be whoever the fuck you want,” Chekofsky said.

Chekofsky and Beast do not always dress up like a pair of siblings from an acid-wrecked Tim Burton movie. They often look like your average young adults. But when the sun goes down and the amp is plugged in, EW is their refuge, offering a space free from stern parents, social norms and the emotional trek of everyday life.

“This band has been an outlet for me and how I’ve dealt with [my problems]. It’s like the veil is being taken off,” Beast said.

“Life is a joke,” Chekofsky said, “and you have to get that joke to survive.” •

BY ALCINO DONADEL

JORDAN BURCHEL VOWEL SOUNDS

Lush indie guitar

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Paper Face, Blesh,

Kulterator iTunes, Spotify, possibly CDs in stores where to get it

of tireless work, what was intended to be a small EP evolved into Jordan Burchel’s second full-length album, “Vowel Sounds.” The album expands on Burchel’s impressive musical talents — evident in his 2014 debut — and introduces him to other local artists who were vital in its creation.

“The approach was the same, which was that we’re going to do everything ourselves, but I learned so much in the time between the first [album] and the second one,” said Burchel.

A host of other artists were involved in the project. Zach Totta, a friend of Burchel’s, helped mix and produce the music and also played drums on most of the tracks. Sam Moss, Burchel’s girlfriend, provided vocals on “Why They Call You Blue” and “Blesh.” The saxophone, played

by Paul Johnson, is one of Burchel’s favorite elements of the album.

Despite the extra hands, “Vowel Sounds” remains a DIY album. Burchel after a year

KANE POUR Vision Crayon

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recorded the songs at his home studio, which he and his friends painstakingly built, taking the time to locate constructive and destructive sound wave interference for the best acoustics.

The introduction of a drum set, among other instruments, provides a fuller backdrop to “Vowel Sounds.”

With this came the challenge of properly recording them. The steady, clear drum beat and haunting bass riff on the album’s fourth track, “Blesh,” show that this hard work paid off.

“I didn’t want it to sound good for a DIY project,” Burchel said. “I wanted it to hold its own against something that was made in a great studio by professionals.”

Burchel began playing guitar in middle school. Originally interested in heavy metal, he spent a year taking guitar lessons before teaching himself to play. After learning the solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird,” Burchel received a

synth, guitar, beat programming

instrumentals

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lively, vibrant beats promptly draw listeners into “Vision Crayon.” Each song is carefully composed, taking special care to create a cohesive blend in the midst of a wide compilation of sounds.

Kane Aram Mohammad-Pour, a senior Digital Arts and Sciences major at the University of Florida, first picked up the guitar when he was 13 years old.

“I became really obsessed with the guitar and I’ve been playing in bands ever since,” Pour said. “I found a lot of comfort in making my own music.”

Released nearly 2 years after his first album, “Hyper Pollen Temple,” Pour recorded “Vision Crayon” while residing in both North Carolina and Gainesville. While living in North Carolina 3 years ago, he retreated to his recording studio and spent most of his time on the songs “Crimson Pendulum” and “Coral Crayon.”

“I put the most of my own

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Kane Pour

Sunburst Les Paul from his father. He still uses the guitar today.

Eventually, Burchel adopted an indie rock sound. On “Vowel Sounds,” the music is restrained, with soft drumming and simple, yet powerful, guitar riffs. He cites artists like The War On Drugs as his musical influences. Though his music may not reflect it, he said he also looks up to hip-hop artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

“Hip-hop is an influence more in the mindset and in the approach. Good hiphop music sounds like someone saying, ‘I’ve just got to get this out and this is my expression,’ so I take that into the creative process,” Burchel said.

In the span from his debut album to “Vowel Sounds,” Burchel has experienced personal along with musical growth.

“The making of the album mirrored my personal change,” said Burchel. “It all feels like I was living and then transcribing my life into the album.” •

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personal style into these two songs.

I feel like I reached back into my cavern of melodies and achieved everything I wanted to with them,” he said.

Album opener “Paprika” starts off whimsical and animated. The second half of the album transitions into slower, more intricate melodies.

Songs like “Crimson Pendulum” and “Lament of Listening” convey a more pensive, nostalgic mood.

While he was recording the album, Pour said he drew inspiration from an eclectic mix of fusion jazz music, the ‘70s band Azymuth, Ryuichi Sakamoto and music from films and commercials.

The mood of each song is effectively conveyed purely through instrumentals and electronics; without incorporating lyrics or vocals into his music, Pour continuously adds layers to each track. His sound relies heavily on the guitar, synthesizers, and computer programs like Ableton Live.

Rather than basing his songs off of a specific narrative or background story, he likes to express a certain feeling or the state of mind he was in at the time.

“Each song is a separate experience, but it catalogs the extremes of growing up and dying in a short time,” Pour said. “I like to explore more linear narrative concepts.”

Although each track significantly differs from the next, listeners can distinctly hear the playful, yet somber, recurring mood of each song. It’s never conflicting or overpowering, but a compelling balance that defines the album and speaks to Pour’s dynamic narrative.

Pour is mainly focused on completing his senior year, but he is constantly generating ideas and creating new music. “I don’t know where everything is going to fall into place yet, but I’m always thinking about music in some form,” he said. •

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GONE VIRAL

What’s the deal with Zika, and is it a threat to you?

BY VINCENT MCDONALD ILLUSTRATION BY ELIZABETH GARCIA

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or nearly 70 years, the Western world lay peacefully unaware of Zika. After its discovery in 1947, the virus, which is channeled by Aedes mosquitoes, stuck mainly to small stretches of land close to the equator in Africa and Asia.

At the time, it seemed to target more monkeys than humans.

Research suggests anyone who did contract Zika virus went undiagnosed.

Suddenly, the number of reported cases of Zika in humans exploded. In 2007, an outbreak of the virus infected nearly three quarters of Micronesia’s Yap Island population. Even then, the disease was mistaken for other mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Chikungunya, wrote Dr. Jorge Rey, interim director for the University of Florida’s Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, in an online FAQ page. Researchers aren’t sure exactly where or when Zika first cropped up in the Americas, but a study published late last summer indicates the virus likely entered Brazil sometime between August 2013 and August 2014.

Only a few years later, the Center for Disease Center and Prevention estimate thatover 3,000 cases of Zika virus have been reported in the continental United States, along with over 21,000 cases in Puerto Rico. Florida stands as the only U.S. state with cases of local transmission, meaning some infections — approximately 169 in total at the time of writing — were carried between between humans and mosquitos at home rather than abroad.

Their origin? Two areas of Miami-Dade County identified by the Florida Health Department that together measure just a few square miles, the sole locations of active local circulation in the U.S. However, the state’s “small case cluster is not considered widespread transmission,” according to the department’s website.

In Alachua County, 10 cases of Zika have been reported since February, but all were travel-related. Effectively, “there are no areas of concern” in Alachua County, wrote Mara Gambineri, Florida Department of Health Communications Director, in an email.

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Each time a Florida county confirms its first case of the virus, it is added to an ongoing Declaration of Public Health Emergency for Zika. On Feb. 12, Alachua County made the list.

Ten countywide cases of Zika have been reported since then, but all were travel-related, explained Mara Gambineri wrote.

As cases are continuously confirmed, local health departments and mosquito control districts collaborate in systematically spraying insecticides, destroying breeding sites and educating the public on Zika, Gambineri said.

While the health department works to eliminate risk, UF biostatistics professor Ira Longini, a co-author of the study on the spread of Zika virus cited earlier, is currently working with his colleagues on mathematical models of transmission in the Americas. In a recent study, Longini and his colleagues concluded that the projected numbers of Zika cases in the continental U.S are generally low, with Florida’s clusters of cases representing an outlier.

As for Gainesville specifically, “we don’t have much to worry about,” Longini said. Our own localized cluster of cases is certainly possible, but unlike tightly packed Miami, Gainesville’s low population density grants the majority of the city room to breathe easy. Besides, it is the infected people, not the mosquitoes themselves, that pose a legitimate threat of spreading the virus beyond their neighborhoods. “The average Aedes mosquito is born, lives, works and dies within 100 meters,” Longini said.

The two species of Aedes mosquitoes that can transmit the virus, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, propagate throughout Florida, but not in large bodies of water. Both species are considered “container mosquitoes,” meaning all they need is a bottle cap’s worth of water to multiply, said UF entomologist Roxanne Connelly in a Zika webinar.

As soon as the water level in a container rises, mosquito eggs hatch and continue to live as larvae and pupae aquatically, leaving an opportunity for vigilant humans to shut down their development. Bromeliad plants, old tires, flower pot saucers, 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 objects that need draining are key to cutting down their stock.

Should your precautions fail, you may not even know you’re infected. Only about one in five people exposed to the virus show any indication of the disease, Dr. Rey wrote. The symptoms outlined by the CDC are fairly tame — fever, rashes, headaches, reddened eyes and joint and/or muscle pain — and could easily be confused with a cold or a bad hangover. Those infected only have the potential to pass on the virus to mosquitoes for about a week, Longini said. After that period of time, the condition effectively resolves itself, and hospitalization is rarely needed, Connelly said.

So why is Zika so scary? The predominant concern about the virus is its effect on unborn babies. The CDC said infection during pregnancy can cause birth defects like microcephaly, a condition where a baby’s head is too small and its brain often underdeveloped. “There also are babies born without microcephaly, but they have other neurologic problems,” explained UF-based infectious disease specialist Nicole Iovine. A correlation between Zika and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disease in which the immune system attacks itself and results in muscle weakness and even paralysis, is also under investigation. Women who are not pregnant at the time of infection likely don’t need to worry about future birth defects.

Further complicating the situation is Zika’s ability to be sexually transmitted, a factor not considered by the model in Longini’s projections. Zika is a blood-borne virus, but it has been detected in a range of bodily fluids, including semen, vaginal secretions and saliva. Semen in particular has been observed in

some studies to maintain viable Zika virus for over 60 days after its initial infection, the CDC wrote. The amount of time someone remains viable to sexually transmit Zika is yet to be determined.

Iovine is working to combat that unknown. By studying symptomatic patients’ body fluids, she and her colleagues hope to discern how long the virus persists in them.

“The point of the study is that we don’t really know necessarily how long people are infectious for — and that’s a very broad term to say, infectious,” Iovine said.

There are still several unanswered questions about Zika, like the frequency of sexual transmission, whether the trimester during which an infection occurs influences the severity of subsequent birth defects, or if all infants born to a parent infected with Zika during pregnancy will be affected. Another question lies in the viral load of mosquitoes, or if “one mean mosquito is enough,” Iovine said.

“The thing that we do know is that if you can protect yourself from mosquito bites, and if you use barrier methods of contraception, your chances of getting Zika are low,” Iovine said.

And when it comes to protecting against mosquitoes, experts recommend long-sleeved clothing and pants. In the Florida heat, repellents might be more practical.

Chances are, unless you’re traveling abroad, a frequent visitor to Miami, pregnant, or planning to become pregnant you don’t need to worry too much about Zika. At least in Gainesville’s own bubble, precautions must be taken, but it’s not time for panic just yet. •

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QUIT Bugging Me!

BY SOPHIA SEMENSKY ILLUSTRATIONS BY INGRID WU

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 sting on your ankle — the bugs have arrived.

In Florida, going outside is already a battle against the heat and rain, and bugs add a nasty bite to the challenge. You want to keep them away, but the chemicals found in traditional bug repellents 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. •

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10 drops rosemary essential oil 10 drops lavender essential oil 10 drops cinnamon essential oil 10 drops eucalyptus essential oil 10 drops cedarwood essential oil 4 ounces distilled water 3.5 ounces witch hazel 1/2 teaspoon vegetable glycerin (optional) 1 8-ounce spray bottle

1. Fill the spray bottle halfway with water.

2. Add witch hazel so the mixture almost reaches

the top of the bottle. Witch hazel is an astringent made from the witch hazel shrub, and it is known for its skin moisturizing and soothing benefits.

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Add 1/2 teaspoon of glycerin if using. This will preserve your spray and make it last longer.

4. Use 30 – 50 of any combination of the essential oils above. The intensity and scent depens on the ratio of essential oils used.

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15 drops lavender essential oil: 10 drops eucalyptus essential oil 10 drops tea tree (Melaleuca) essential oil 6 drops lime essential oil 6 drops bergamot essential oil 2 ounces distilled water 2 ounces white (or apple cider) vinegar 1 4-ounce spray bottle

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Pour the water and vinegar into a 4-oz spray bottle.

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Carefully add the drops of essential oils.

If you only have one or two varieties, just make sure you have about 45 – 50 drops total. Other options include citronella, rosemary, geranium and peppermint. One small bottle of essential oil contains enough to make many batches of spray, and they can be used to make lotion, soap and even for cooking with food-grade oils.

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Shake well and spray away! Due to the intensity of the oils, this spray is best used in the area around you 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 in half!

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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 Tins or small glass jars

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»» 2 teaspoons Neem oil »» 1 teaspoon liquid soap (organic) »» 1 quart water

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Add Neem oil and soap to water in a small bowl. Neem oil is very effective in small amounts, so a small concentration is enough to deter most bugs. If there is a stronger infestation, increase the Neem oil concentration. Transfer to spray bottle and shake thoroughly.

2. Spray on plant foliage to deter pests! After about a week, there should be a decrease in insects.

1. To melt the beeswax, you will need to construct

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 oil in a glass measuring cup, glass jar or metal bowl. Place the container with the ingredients in the boiling water and reduce heat. Do not melt the ingredients directly in a saucepan!

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After the ingredients are melted, set aside and let cool. Wait until the edges begin to harden, then add the essential oils.

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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.

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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 repellent!

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

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 football 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 somewhere, Bagels Unlimited is the most well-equipped spot in town for your needs. They have by far the largest menu, as well as the most vegan options. In the mood for some eggs or pan-fried breakfast potatoes?

They have their signature hot sauce wall full of over 50 varieties to spice up your morning. You'll definitely take a few minutes to decide on your order, because at this place, there's no limit to what you can try.

2124 SW 34th St. 352-372-7006

Every class has those two friends who seem inseparable. They go together like peanut butter and jelly, tea and sugar, or, perhaps, Bagels and Noodles. Located close to the University of Florida campus (honorable mention for ‘Dynamic Duo’ goes to college students and laziness), Bagels and Noodles offers lots of customizable options, like their “Eggel Bagel,” a plain bagel stuffed with eggs, cheese and fried ham.

Bagels and Noodles doesn’t isn’t just a traditional diner. At 3 p.m., they serve noodle soups and other 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 cheese, maybe some chives (if they’re feeling a little adventurous). Occasionally they’ll go all out and put on ‘everything’ in their wardrobe. But for those days when you just need to feel a little special, The Bagel Bakery serves up bagels in style. With two kinds of hummus and sandwiches stuffed with alfalfa sprouts and curry chicken salad, The Bagel Bakery gives you the opportunity to design your own, one-of-a-kind bagel experience. As you move through the line, the sights and smells of their various accoutrements will make you feel like you’ve stepped inside Cher Horowitz’s closet. Your best-dressed bagel will be the envy of everyone in town.

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Oval bagels, round bagels, square bagels, apple bagels, pear bagels: All bagels are beautiful in their own delicious way. That being said, the “Best Body” superlative goes to the bagels at C.Y.M. coffee. Their bagels must have had a lifetime in rigorous athletic training, as their bodies are shaped like the Olympic rings: elliptical, with large holes. However, C.Y.M.’s coffee far outpaces their bagels. The coffee shop has a large outdoor porch, and while we were trying the bagels, we sat next to a feral cat — perhaps he is one of their regulars — who too found their espresso to be the cat’s meow.

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Bageland has been open for more than 40 years.

You know because they’ll tell you: Overlooking 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, and his friendly New Jersey accent indicates that this is the spot where you can hole up and make yourself comfortable, personality quirks and all.

2441 NW 43rd St. #6-C 352-371-3354

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 unique approach, Curia boasts a bagel that can outwit them all.

VOLTA Just when you think you’ve tried it all, Volta drops a bagel bomb. The bagel bomb is shaped like 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.

It’s by far the most unique bagel experience, but 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.

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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 soy product infiltrating menus all throughout town, for the first time at “The Farm,” a spiritual camp founded in Tennessee in the 1970’s. There, members were experimenting with foreign food products to supplant protein in a vegetarian diet. Caraballo liked tempeh so much that he began making small batches for his family, then for his neighbors, his friends, and many local Gainesville businesses. And thus he began The Tempeh Shop, monetizing the upwards of 800 pounds of tempeh per week he now produces.

Caraballo, part scientist, part tinkerer, is arguably Florida’s first tempeh producer. He innovated many of his own technologies and tools, from vacuum packers to custom driers.

“I had to come up with new ideas,” he said.

“For about 20 some years it was just me.”

Twelve years ago, Caraballo’s son, Damian, joined The Tempeh Shop. Since then, the store has hired additional employees and has the manufacturing capacity to produce double its current output. What began by the means of “one humble pot” now ships nationwide.

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from Caraballo.

Art Guy, owner of Arto Moro Tempeh Company was introduced to tempeh upon purchasing Steamers, “a weird little Midwestern sandwich restaurant,” that also served up Indonesian curries and rice dishes in 2000. The former owners, an Indonesian couple, told him plainly to throw the stocks of tempeh in the trash “because you’re American, and you’ll never do well with tempeh.” Guy, familiar with developing vegan trends, decided to keep it anyway.

For those recluse carnivores unfamiliar with tempeh: Be patient, for it deserves serious, if not chief respect among the meat analogs. Nutty, savory and hearty, tempeh is a fermented Indonesian food staple. Unlike its heavily processed and concentrated companion, tofu, tempeh is made using the whole bean, legume or pea. The whole beans are never actually “cooked,” but instead are soaked in hot water, dried and inoculated with the mold rhizopus oligosporus. The culture containing the mold devours the beans in the fermentation process, breaking down the organic molecules and making them more easily digestible. The beans are then placed in perforated bags and left to breathe for about

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balloon.”

"Tempeh production has surged in Guy, on the popularity as veganism begins to other hand, prefers lose the stigma of angry, anti- to actively seek out his clientele. authoritarian hemp-wears and the “I promote [my movement towards sustainable business] by handshake, eyeball to eyeball. I deliver. and local foodstuffs gains Everything I do is essentially traction."

20 to 50 years antiquated,” he 30 to 40 hours. The final product resembles a dense, cake-like sheet and does not require cooking before consumption. The unpasteurized method Guy and Caraballo utilize to produce and ferment the tempeh significantly increases its nutritional (and taste) value compared with commercially manufactured versions.

Caraballo and Guy together supply most of the tempeh found in Gainesville’s restaurants and local grocery stores. They had a brief partnership, but their beans' moldyy bond was insufficient to unite the two cottage industry visionaries. It was “the love affair that didn’t happen,” Guy said. One thing they agree on: Their 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

joked.

Guy and his partner, James Thurston, have a larger local base than Caraballo, but unlike Caraballo, they do not deliver outside Florida.

“There’s a cap to how far you can grow before a certain amount of detachment sets in,” Thurston said.

He prefers “a personal ‘mom and pop’ operation where you know all the clients.”

The two realized it was better for them to go their separate ways. But, Caraballo qualified, “you will find very few towns in the United States that have two tempeh shops.”

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men undoubtedly share a paternal affection for tempeh.

“I just follow God’s rules,” Guy said, observing the natural, almost neglectful obedience involved in tempeh-making. “Converting food to tempeh is a beautiful thing, but that’s done by God.” Caraballo echoed the same sentiment.

“It is definitely spiritual to see nature working for you,” he said.

“You are not actually manufacturing tempeh, you are growing it. Much like a farmer, all I do is create the conditions that will favor this live product to grow.”

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which preserves the living organism and the product’s nutritional vigor.

Tempeh production has surged in popularity as veganism begins to lose the stigma of angry, antiauthoritarian hemp-wears and the movement towards sustainable and local foodstuffs gains traction.

“If you know anything about Gainesville,” Sara Puyana, the owner of Flaco’s, said, it’s that “there are a lot of vegetarians.

Vegetarians don’t want to feel limited.

Because I’m a vegetarian I can’t have a taco now? It’s not just a vegetarian thing, people incorporate it into their regular diets.”

Tempeh is produced commercially: Publix, Winn Dixie and Walmart all sell the pasteurized version. While commercial tempeh has a longer shelf-life, it forfeits the probiotic benefits and leaves a characteristically bitter aftertaste.

Guy and Caraballo are also not subject to rigid scheduling, as is the case with tempeh produced commercially. Their businesses are small enough that it’s feasible for them to personally oversee production of their tempeh “I find it very rewarding that something could be created and manufactured and still be a local product,” Caraballo said. “[The Tempeh Company has] been certified organic for 9 years now. Most people find that is too much for a small operation, but we think it’s worth it.”

“My No. 1 one interest,” Guy said, “is not to become big and corporate and have board meetings.

This business is protected so someone can make a living and people can eat healthy, living food. That’s basically the future of the company.”

Maintaining a small business, with or without competition from other local companies or national chains, is exhausting in its own right.

“I get a hundred phone calls a day from all over the state,” remarked Thurston, who along with Guy does the entirety of the production, delivery and sales. “Keeping up with demand and organizing your week and months on a production and delivery schedule based on how much people need and when – it’s difficult.”

You can find both Caraballo and Guy at the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in Bo Diddley Plaza. There, the long-addled competition between the two can be observed side-byside. You can also find another form of competition in almost every restaurant in Gainesville that offers vegetarian options. Tempeh is extremely versatile: In Pop-a-Top, it’s deep-fried and placed atop their vegetarian cobb salad. At El Indio, it’s marinated in spices and loaded into tacos and quesadillas. It’s served in Jamaican-style curries and barbequed like pulled pork – the list never ends.

Although the two men’s history has been tempestuous rather than temperate, it has been temporally tempered by their mutual passion for generating and distributing a nutritious and wholesome product, good for people and good for the Earth in general.

“Protein is an incredibly powerful force in the food industry,” Guy said. “Protein generally means death.

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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

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n June 2016, the Ocala Women’s Center, an abortion clinic, closed its 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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SPOTLIGHT The Ocala Women’s Clinic was founded in 1998 by Dr. James Pendergraft with the intent to provide abortions in a “supportive, comfortable environment.” But throughout its life the clinic was besought by troubles: It was a frequent target for anti-abortion activists and when Pendergraft sued the city in an attempt to obtain extra security, his lawsuit was met with an indictment for extortion.

More recently, Pendergraft was arrested in South Carolina for “drug-related offenses,” resulting in him being unable to pass a Level 2 background check, which is required to operate an abortion clinic. The Agency for Healthcare Administration, the state agency that oversees Medicaid in Florida, told Pendergraft that he no longer qualified for his “ownership interest” in the clinic, and he was forced to put the building up for sale. Interfaith Emergency Services bought the building, and Marion County is now without a reproductive health care center.

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bortion is, of course, legal due to the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v Wade.

Despite this, the state legislators have frequently, and in recent years more fervently, tried to enact laws that make it harder for women to actually receive an abortion. These laws are known as targeted regulation of abortion providers, or TRAP, laws.

TRAP laws can take different forms. Some abortion restrictions are hard-wired into American federal legislation, like the Hyde Amendment. Passed by Congress in 1976, it forbids the use of Medicaid funds for abortion. “[The Hyde Amendment] has really meant that low income women don’t have the same access to safe and legal abortion as other women,” Cecile Richards, a women’s health advocate, said. “It’s been a completely

unfair law that penalizes poor women.”

Other TRAP laws are newer and not yet well established. Recently, Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 1411 into law. The bill would have prevented state funds from going to organizations that also provide abortion, but that provision was struck down after the law was challenged by Planned Parenthood.

The law does, however, require that doctors who perform abortions

“[The Hyde Amendment] has really meant that low income women don’t have the same access to safe and legal abortion as other women,” Cecile Richards, a women’s health advocate, said.

“It’s been a completely unfair law that penalizes poor women.” also have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. This portion of the law was not challenged by Planned Parenthood.

Hospital admitting privileges may seem simple, but according to Whitney Mutch, president of Gainesville area National Organization for Women (NOW), they regulate insignificant details like the width of hallways and a building’s size. When TRAP laws are enforced, they can cost existing clinics hundreds of thousands of dollars or cause them to close their doors permanently.

Additionally, Mutch says the requirements take away the comfort of the clinic and turn it into something colder and crueler.

“Bedside manner, in some ways, is what leads to quality care

and personal care [for] a patient receiving an abortion and recovering [as] someone can be right by them rubbing their head or holding their hand.”

With the new requirements, that wouldn’t be permitted.

“It would be more cold and sterilized,” Mutch said. “And I don’t mean medically sterilized – like an office.”

If not the TRAP laws themselves, legal battles can take down a clinic. In states with more conservative elected officials, like Florida, clinics are constantly under scrutiny. Gov. Rick Scott is responsible for appointing the officials in charge of the AHCA, and according to the Tampa Bay Times, in recent years, the agency has come under fire for its treatment of abortion providers. The agency shows a “puzzling persistence” in its efforts to fine clinics wrote the judge presiding over a dispute between the AHCA and Bread and Roses regarding the legal definition of a woman’s first trimester.

In Florida, the governor also oversees appointments of federally qualified clinics. These clinics, however, seem to be lacking in services and supplies.

Over the summer, Gainesville’s chapter of the National Women’s League (NWL) organized a protest called ‘Not My Clinic.’ During the rally, protesters called the federally qualified clinics to request services like abortions, plan-B pills and full gynecological exams and were repeatedly told they could not be provided. When asked to be referred to other clinics, the operators said they could not. “[The appointments are] not really about giving women access and options,” said Erica Rodriguez Merrell, owner of the Wild Iris Bookstore. “It’s the exact opposite: It’s about limiting our access and options and providing us this list that really has no health care options at all for reproductive justice.”

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ith the ocean in the distance, Mutch looked ut over the sixth story balcony of a condo.

She was scared. Looking down, she thought about jumping.

She was pregnant.

“I wanted to jump,” Mutch said. “I knew I wouldn’t survive, and I didn’t fucking care.”

Today, as president of Gainesville area NOW, Mutch devotes her time to defending women’s reproductive rights.

Every Wednesday, and when she can get a babysitter on Fridays, Mutch volunteers at Bread and Roses as an abortion escort. She and the other volunteers wear lime green T-shirts and hold clipboards with stickers that state “#shoutyourabortion” on the back.

The escorts are trained not to speak to the anti-abortion protestors or give their name, though they are regularly joined by them.

One woman, Jazmin Cuesta, brings her own cushion and kneels to pray for nearly 45 minutes after splashing holy water around the area. Cuesta has been protesting the clinic for almost 5 years and has opened up a nearby prayer and counselling space, the Fiat Center, just a few doors down from the clinic.

She describes it as “a place of prayer, so close to a place of darkness.”

“Women deserve better than that,” Cuesta said. “When I first started I got frustrated. I wanted to help the

girls, it made me want to cry. I want them to know I’m not judging [them], I want to help [them].”

While some like Cuesta prefer to pray, others outside the clinic choose bolder statements. She’s joined by another man wearing a “Choose Life” shirt and holding two signs. One is more than half his size and depicts an unborn baby, labelled “preborn

“[Activism],” Merrell said, “reminds women who are facing challenges that they are not alone. It helps remove the stigma and the judgment. It’s letting people know that bodily autonomy is something they should have and something we should all fight for.”

human.” Another, smaller sign, shouts in bold block letters: “ABORTION IS MURDER.” Cartoon blood drips from the lettering.

“That baby has committed no crime against anyone,” he said to the escorts. “Please have mercy on your innocent child.”

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American women will have had at least one by age 45. When you tell people that, they’re like, what? There’s that language, safe, legal, and rare. We need to just get rid of the ‘rare.’”

To those against abortion, closing the clinics is seen as a succes. But to women seeking an abortion, this narrows their options and can prevent the procedure entirely.

“Not all women can afford to take off work 2 days in a row, or pay for a bus to get to the clinic and back two days in a row, which means abortion services are essentially blocked from women experiencing poverty,” said Emily Calvin, a member of the Gainesville National Women’s Liberation.

Activism surrounding reproductive rights continues to be strong in Gainesville and other parts of the nation. The fight for reproductive freedom is a cornerstone of feminist thought and an entry point for many women joining the movement, Merrell said. The groups fighting for change are often the same ones that have been fighting since the 60s and '70s, like NOW and the NWL. Merrell mentions that you can even sponsor a protester, where people give a donation to the women’s clinics for each protester that stands outside, using the large crowds of dissenters to support the clinics.

“Until we’re all free, none of us are truly free,” Calvin said.

The escort program shows no sign of stopping. Laws, lawsuits and protests show no signs of stopping.

And neither will the number of women who are in need of an abortion.

Though she only had to wait a few days, Mutch did receive the abortion she wanted. But she still remembers the fear she felt upon learning that she was pregnant and has turned that fear into action. “[Activism],” Merrell said, “reminds women who are facing challenges that they are not alone. It helps remove the stigma and the judgment. It’s letting people know that bodily autonomy is something they should have and something we should all fight for.” •

Right In Chloë Goldbach is Gainesville's first trans woman to run for office.

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t was opening night, Feb. 14, 2016, and Chloë Goldbach stepped on stage. She was one of three women. The lights were in her eyes as all attention in the Hippodrome was on her.

“In my early 20s I came out to a girlfriend as a crossdresser,” she began. “She ridiculed me and we broke up. The inevitable next girlfriend wrongly assumed I was a gay man.

No one gives you permission to be yourself; you have to take it.”

Since her transition, Goldbach had been working on an original piece for The Vagina Monologues, a play written by Eve Ensler that features monologues from women about their experience as a woman. Now, she’s taking on a another stage in her life as a write-in candidate for District 5 City Commissioner.

Goldbach arrived in Gainesville 8 years ago as a mechanical engineering student at the University of Florida. Like most freshmen, Goldbach tried to find her place on campus by joining clubs that interested her. She joined an engineering fraternity and tried out a faith organization in an attempt to find solace in religion and her major, but after a few months in each group she just “felt like she didn’t belong again.” “[These groups] felt too isolated and I felt too forced into a box to appease the people in these groups,” Goldbach said. “I was still very much processing my trans identity, so I didn’t like how segregated into men and women they were. I just always felt like I didn’t belong in the men’s group.”

It would not be until after graduation that Goldbach would finally be able to live life as she wanted.

In September 2014, Goldbach started her transition into full-time womanhood, though it was not immediate. At first she only felt comfortable enough to dress as herself on the weekends; during the week she was still going to work dressed as a man, her birth-assigned gender.

As part of her transition, Goldbach became involved with LovEd, a selfimprovement community organization based in Gainesville that seeks to empower individuals through healthy relationships.

In February 2016, she attended one of LovEd’s three-part seminars, which give people the information and tools to empower themselves and reach their full potential.

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founder and creator of LovEd, and began to work with her to update the organization’s current self-improvement model. They worked to make the programs that will be presented nationwide starting in April 2017 more LGBTQ-friendly.

As Goldbach became more involved in Gainesville’s LGBTQ community, she began to feel more like herself.

“My biggest issue with [engineering] was that I just felt so far disconnected from the [people] I’m supposed to be helping that I almost felt like I was not helping them,” Goldbach said. “Through my transition I began to realize that my passion lies more in directly helping people.”

Through their mutual involvement in LovEd, Goldbach and Springer became good friends. When Springer became the social media manager for Mike Byerly’s re-election campaign for District 1 in early June 2016, she asked Goldbach to assist her.

“What I love about [Goldbach] is her stand for important issues,” Springer said.

“She’s really motivated by people having fairness and being treated well. She’s… become a leader in the community, and I’m inspired by that.”

A few months into the Byerly campaign, Springer and Melina Barrat, now Goldbach’s campaign manager, suggested to her that “it would be nice to have a transgender woman on the ballot.” With their support, Goldbach decided to run, though she declared her intention too late to have her name printed on the Aug. 30 primary ballots.

Goldbach’s campaign began as another way to raise awareness for the LGBTQ community in Gainesville and to educate people on the everyday life of transgenderidentifying individuals.

“I have known Chloë for a long time, and I find it easy to support her during this,” said Nancy Conlin, Goldbach’s friend and supporter. “She’s compassionate and has this ability to listen and take action. ” If elected, Goldbach hopes to examine current teaching practices in Alachua County Public Schools and implement antibullying education in schools and the workplace.

“Rather than getting to know us and asking what our pronouns are, many people create assumptions about our identities,” Goldbach said. “Whether or not these assumptions are accidental or intentionally

“Rather than getting to know us and asking what our pronouns are, many people create assumptions about our identities,” Goldbach said. hurtful, they lead to discomfort, humiliation and in some cases, violence.”

Goldbach aims to bring diversity programs to public schools to help bridge the gap between those who fall under the LGBTQ spectrum and those who do not.

She also wants to address the issue of LGBTQ youth homelessness, which she believes receives almost no attention in politics, by working with the homeless shelters in the county.

Goldbach has had to grapple with the realities of running a campaign on a limited budget. She’s a new candidate and has been trying to introduce herself to Gainesville voters through meet-and-greets since the beginning of October. At the end of the month, she’ll begin canvassing in the Duckpond neighborhood.

However, for Goldbach, this campaign is not the end. Next spring, she will finish her second bachelor’s degree, this time in psychology. She hopes to become a social worker and wants to help people in the community. She will also present her original piece in the Vagina Monologues this spring season for the second time and continue her work with LovEd. “I just hope to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to be 100 percent themselves.” • If you would d like to donate or volunteer to Goldbach’s campaign, visit chloeforcommissioner.org.

Keep up with her campaign on her Facebook page Chloe for Commissioner.

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BY ANNE MARIE TAMBURRO ILLUSTRATION BY ZIQI WANG In the past 2 years, Gainesville has seen rapid growth. But why and for whom?

he balmy sun inches below the horizon at about 7 p.m. each day. With a vast web of oaks and pines, Gainesville has few 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 churns.

Gainesville will continue developing to suit the needs of the highest bidder. With a population of over 50 thousand students and yearly endowments of over $1.5 billion, the University of Florida’s voice is one of the loudest in the area — and its collective wallet one of

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FEATURE the fattest. Development in Gainesville will continue to target the university’s main demographic, college students and young professionals, at the expense of other communities in town. lanning in Gainesville was not always focused on packing people into small spaces. Cardominated, single-lot subdivision development hallmarked the 1950s and '60s. But this resulted in rampant urban sprawl; everyone wanted their own house, with their own lawn, out in the country. The government had to spend more money on gas to deliver mail, and grocery stores were, at minimum, a car ride away. Developers and city planners saw this as a problem and decided the style of development needed to change.

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People can now choose to walk, bike or take the bus to where they want to spend their time — if it isn’t already an elevator ride down from their front door.

“It’s all about options,” Barrow said. “Some people think that multi-modal is trying to make people not drive their cars, but in reality, our culture and our cities and communities are auto-dominated.”

Relying heavily on cars creates many problems.

High traffic can cause accidents, wear down roads and pollute the air. Florida has steadily grown in population since the 2000s, and more people bring more cars.

Mixed-use development aims to combat the car problem by creating areas with “a sense of place,” said Steve Lachnict, director of Growth Management for Alachua County.

“You walk downstairs and you’re somewhere,” Lachnict said. “The idea is you create those environments within cities and in developing areas more easily if you don’t require everybody to do the single-family subdivision.”

According to Barrow, providing more than one way to access work, buy groceries or go to school is another way to manage population growth. But there is no quick fix for bad development, especially when it’s the only development a lot of people know, Lachnict said.

“We’ve had 25 years of discussing that we’re doing it the wrong way, and it’s going to take 25 years to fix it,” Barrow said. lachua County, the City of Gainesville and the University of Florida are all responsible for the development of different areas of town, and each has its own comprehensive plan. These plans are updated at least once every 7 years, and small-scale changes to zoning or land use regulations occur off -cycle on an individual basis. While the development style of each plan overlaps, the work done to create and update them does not, as each entity operates independently.

The reasons for development vary as well.

“Part of the developing process is finding demand or seeing if they [can] create demand. Part of it is working with the areas to see what they need,” said Ken McGurn, owner of a local development company who is currently running for U.S. Congress.

Demand for development is driven by demographics.

In Gainesville, the keystone demographics are young professionals and college students.

“I’ve been guided by the idea of doing more long-

“Development happens and people say, ‘That’s not what we wanted. That’s not what we talked about at the workshop.’”

Until Florida passed the Growth Management Act in 1985, community members had little say in what buildings would be erected and where. The Growth Management Act strengthened planning measures across the state. Towns established comprehensive plans with the intention of changing the course of development. Public workshops were implemented to determine the community’s wants and needs.

Before 2000, development in Gainesville was predominantly low-density residential. After the construction of Interstate 75 in 1964, residential areas began sprawling westward. Haile Plantation followed, another experiment in mixed-use development.

Population in the western side of the county grew, and in 1990 Butler Plaza was built. Today, the retail center is mostly parking lots, which are impossible to navigate with a car as without.

There became a need to “lasso in the sprawl,” said John Barrow, a former city commissioner. The traditional single-lot subdivisions that comprised Gainesville made it difficult to access much of the town on foot, which left those without transportation unable to access fresh groceries or get to work easily.

Mixed-use development, Barrow said, takes a different approach. With it, the gears of transit shift.

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term approach to development patterns,” said Lachnict. “[If ] there’s good demographic support, maybe we should do things differently … The trend with the millennial generation and the early retirees is the desire for the nonsingle family home. They’d rather live in an apartment or wherever they don’t have to be dependent on a car.”

When it is time to update the comprehensive plan, officials hold workshops open to the public to get input from the community.

But according to Barrow, going to just one of these workshops won’t make your voice heard.

“The problem with people feeling like they aren’t being heard is that they’re not part of the day-to-day negotiations,” he said. “Development happens and people say, ‘That’s not what we wanted. That’s not what we talked about at the workshop.’”

Decisions are made at many levels of local government.

The big picture changes as meticulous details are lost in memoranda and committee meetings.

“There’s no longer just one plan board,” Barrow said.

“There are subcommittees within the city and county commissions. Crime, community development, bicycle —

and at one point there was a tree advisory board.”

“It all boils down to money,” McGurn said. reating space for students and young professionals comes at a cost to the rest of Gainesville.

The county’s emphasis on mixed-use development has garnered support from community members aware of how the city and its surrounding areas are changing, Lachnict said. But according to Eduardo Arenas, co-owner of The Jam, it’s the people whose voices are not being heard who oppose the development.

The Jam, which closed in May 2016, has suffered from both the literal and figurative costs of mixed-use development. Ownership changed hands several times since it opened in September 2012, from UF Health to Innovation Square. Ultimately, the developers who now own the property intend for it to follow in the footsteps of The Independent Alligator’s office—they want to demolish it and construct another multi-story, mixed-use complex in its place.

Arenas and his business partners knew The Jam would be short-lived from the start, which he said was part of the project’s appeal. Repairs fell in the hands of Arenas

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“We were only supposed to have The Jam open for 8 months until the lease expired, but the venue took on a life of its own and became such a valuable part of the live music community in Gainesville that we just continued on until the last possible moment,” Arenas said. “The saying that we used from the get-go was that we were going to ‘ride it 'til the wheels fell off,’ and that’s what we did.”

The Jam falls just outside of the southern University Heights historic district. If that designation were expanded one or two blocks, its story, along with the neighboring houses and buildings, would be different. Arenas said a better alternative would be to preserve and restore these buildings while creating new development to match the existing style and size.

“I think that’s a much better solution, but I understand that for the businessman, for someone who’s trying to maximize their profit, it makes a lot more sense to just plow it all down, build up as high as they can, and squeeze as many people as they can into a building,” Arenas said. “But I think that’s a disservice to Gainesville’s culture and history.”

Lachnict said that while he and the county disagree with some of the city’s development projects, such as the recent northern expansion of Butler Plaza, he supports the city’s changes to the area east of campus that encompasses The Jam. The newer buildings are a healthly mix to have around campus, he said.

However, Arenas said the mixed-use development

contradicts the goal of keeping spaces affordable.

“I’ve seen music venues in this town close one after the other. Some argue that it’s the skyrocketing rents, and that goes hand in hand with the development,” Arenas said.

“Business owners can’t afford to pay for the rents in the new spaces, and The Jam is a prime example of that.”

When faced with the decision of keeping The Jam alive in a new space, Arenas and his partners — unable to replicate the unique charm and accessibility of the old venue at an affordable price — choose otherwise. He said a lot of the culture in Gainesville is lost at the expense of the city, and businesses owners who need to relocate do not receive help.

But is it possible to develop without displacing people or local businesses?

“Not if you want change,” McGurn said. “Change is good. You displace one or two people, I tell you they go to city hall and walk out with a big, fat check, smiling.”

Arenas, however, argues that the change brought by development must be kept in check. The challenge is finding the balance among innovation, growth, and the preservation of local businesses and communities.

“I think that’s what make a town attractive for people to come and live here, just the fact that it does have a history and a rich culture,” Arenas said. “I’m not against development, but developers need to be mindful of what they’re destroying in their path.” • Molly Minta contributed to this report.

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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 Australia, 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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est was founded by Tony Weinbender.

Born in 1976 in Roanoke, Virginia, he calls himself a “kid of the radio generation” — his mom listened to a lot of music and always had the radio on. Weinbender knew he liked punk music, he just didn’t know what to call it.

It wasn’t until a friend, Chad Smith from band class, played him three punk rock LPs in the summer of 1989 that Weinbender was able to put a name to the genre. Before music was digitized, albums spread by word of mouth.

That summer, Smith’s cousin took him to a record store and introduced him to bands like Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and Minor Threat.

Weinbender and Smith spent many summers skateboarding together, a hobby that further expanded their punk repertoire.

At a skateshop the pair decided to form a band, Swank, after seeing a flyer for a show.

Swank was on track to do fairly well, and they toured all throughout the southeast, including Gainesville. But Swank broke up, and Weinbender figured he might as well go to college.

Weinbender attended James Madison University in Virginia for about 2 years. While in school, he volunteered at the college radio 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 fuck” to create something.

This was the start of MACROCK, a multivenue show and music conference that still takes place to this day in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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It was also Weinbender’s first time organizing a music festival. He leaned on this experience heavily when life — following a world tour with popular ska band Less than Jake and a stint at the record label Fueled by Ramen — brought him to Gainesville, bussing tables and washing dishes at Leonardo’s 706.

“My resume sucked,” he said. “I learned how to wait tables and waited tables for years.”

But he kept asking himself, “‘What am I doing?’

Friends of mine said that when I did MACROCK it was awesome, so they said, ‘Why don’t you do that here, [in Gainesville]?’”

Weinbender got around town a lot. He had a wide network of friends, from Satchel Raye of Satchel’s Pizza to his coworkers at Fueled by Ramen. He knew people who worked at Common Grounds, which is now Gainesville Cycle on University Avenue, from his time coordinating shows for the record label. When he decided to attempt organizing Fest, he reached out to them, as well as to now-closed venues like Sidebar and The Purple Porpoise.

Soon, Weinbender had the bands locked.

Promotional posters, made on an old Macintosh computer and printed off a donated printer, lined the streets.

“It was really small,” Weinbender said. “You

An attendee of Fest 2011. really relied on your friends and the fact that Gainesville had such a thriving music scene.

That’s how we did the first Fest.”

But the initial go was far from profitable: Weinbender lost $500. He was still waiting tables for a living and “taking that hit was really hard.”

“I didn’t have two pennies to shake together at that point,” he said.

The loss was disheartening. Weinbender wanted to pay the bands, who played in “good faith,” but for a long time Fest did not make substantial money. Starting in 2004, Weinbender worked a side job as a publicist for No Idea Records, an independent music label in Gainesville.

“That was his day job,” said Matt Sweeting, a No Idea Records employee. “Fest was his baby.”

Though the first Fest was gritty and hodgepodge, the guests didn’t seem to care. It was a Fest after-party that persuaded Weinbender

It’s kinda like Disney to little kids, or Vegas to rich, young people, or Tokyo in general. You kinda just walk around with a shit-eating grin on your face the whole time.

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Fest-goers in 2012. the beginning, when he started as a volunteer.

After Bo Diddley Plaza, the Wooly is the second-largest venue at Fest.

Murdock said working Fest “is stressful in the context that you’re at capacity the entire time,” but he also enjoys it. The festival is like a homecoming for his friends.

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to keep going.

“Everybody was like, ‘This is so awesome.

You have to keep doing this,’” Weinbender said. “I was like, ‘You know what? We have something good here. I’ll work the extra hours.’”

In 2012, Weinbender stopped working at No Idea Records. Fest had been growing in size, and Weinbender decided to see what would happen if he focused on Fest full time.

He took out a loan, and the music festival expanded rapidly: ‘pre-Fest’ began the next year, and in 2015 Weinbender partnered with the City of Gainesville to include Bo Diddley Plaza as a venue.

“I’ve always worked in music but haven’t always been able to survive off of music,” he said. “I did this more for my sanity and [for] the heart and soul of it.”

Despite its expansion, Fest continues to call Gainesville its home.

Due to close quarters, loud music and booze, punk rockers can garner a bad reputation. But Fest stays amiable In fact, Weinbender said there has never been a single fistfight at Fest.

“The scene is really good to each other,” Weinbender saaid. “Usually guys end up hugging it out.”

Jeremy Murdock, production manager for The Wooly, has been involved with Fest from

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.

Volunteers work a single shift consisting of responsibilities like building fences, filling kegs or working security at stages. In exchange, volunteers get a free Fest pass. “[Bands] are always amazed at how well things are run, how on time it is, how “pro” it’s run” Weinbender said. “But nobody working it is pro. We have stage managers who are nurses the rest of the year.”

Volunteers are an integral part of Fest.

This stems not just from Weinbender’s time volunteering at his college radio station, but from the festival’s scrappy beginnings.

Weinbender didn’t start out with the intent to profit off the festival — all he wanted was to do “good things for good people.”

Weinbender said that he tries to put the attendees first when it comes to Fest. The festival is about more than the bands that play or the volunteers who donate their time.

Fest was first organized by Weinbender and his friends, and that feeling of camaraderie still hangs in the sweaty air.

“There’s a constant state of euphoria that’s so interesting to me,” Sweeting said. “It’s kinda like Disney to little kids, or Vegas to rich, young people, or Tokyo in general. You kinda just walk around with a shit-eating grin on your face the whole time.” •

A photo taken at the first Fest.

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ART & LITERATURE

Unveil Hell, ALEXIE DRIS

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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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