By Gina Gould, July 2008
As of three weeks ago, more than 25 specialty coffee shops were operating in Gainesville, nine of which are Starbucks. A new arrival to the scene, Volta Coffee, Tea & Chocolate, opened its doors on May 10 in the Downtown Parking Garage, literally. Located on the corner of southwest Second Street and southwest First Avenue, Volta is one of three retail spaces built right into the garage.
By Charles H. Meyer, July 2008
John Patterson’s collages on display at Volta Coffee, on southwest Second Street in the parking garage, bring together various 20th- and 21st-century art movements as surely as they do an array of vibrant imagery cut painstakingly from hundreds of cookie tins.
By JB Roe, July 2008
Continuing the legacy of the thick-as-molasses explosions of doom since the final 2004 break-up of floor, Miami’s Torche has been touring and recording with two full-length releases and an EP under their belt.
By Josh Fleet, July 2008
Members of the Gainesville-based family band Morningbell entered an OurStage.com contest to play at Bonnaroo, one of America’s biggest summer-rock ‘n’ roll festivals and then forgot about it.
By Roger Beebe, July 2008
The Hollywood Blockbuster has become such a part of our culture that we now take it for almost a natural phenomenon like gravity or ATM fees. But there was a time not so long ago that the word “blockbuster” referred to something very different.
By Shamrock McShane, July 2008
College is not just a time of life; it is a state of mind.
There is the first freedom and the loneliness that goes with it. Then to realize the difference between loneliness and being alone, and that you can hate one and love the other.
By Jeremy Scahill
Nation Books, 452 pages, hardcover, $26.95
Reviewed by Guiding Starr, July 2008
Author Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army documents the birth and growth of a recent radical change in the way the United States views its military.
By Travis Fristoe, July 2008
Going to the Bone Church, Flameshovel Records
Going to the Bone Church? A silly joke, but the band really is pictured at a bone- reliquary church on the back. I’d expect no less from Make Believe, whose spoken-word track here (replete with bongos) falls apart amidst hearty laughter.
By Jake Crown, July 2008
GNV FLA, Sleep It Off Records
GNV FLA is Less Than Jake’s newest album, self-released on their own label, Sleep It Off. This is the album I have been waiting for LTJ to put out for years.
By Matt Farrell, July 2008
Restless Rubes, Suburban Home
Restless Rubes is Ninja Gun’s second release and the production on this album is something Brian Wilson could be proud of.
