‘Culture’ Archives
A Voice interview with DJ Hvlksmash
Getting to know Eckerd's leading DJ, Josh Kneeland When and why did you become a DJ? I became a DJ a few years ago in order to learn how to spin my music productions live. Most DJs learn how to DJ first and then learn how to produce and remix music, although I learned how to make music long before I learned how to spin records. I started [...]
The Little Things.
By: MAX BENJAMIN For more information, check out our article "Fighting For a Precious Penny" to read what YOU can do to protest Publix and end a situation that has created multiple cases of modern slavery according to the US Justice Department.
A Spot of Soul in St. Petersburg
By CARLY CHAAPEL Ten steps to the proper consumption of a slice of Café Alma’s chocolate cake: 1. Listen for the chef’s specialty dessert of the evening (chocolate cake). 2. Order it to go. You’re already full from dinner. 3. Sneak a finger-full of freshly whipped cream from beneath the lid. 4. Ogle at its buttery richness. 5. [...]
Check Out the Blueberry Patch
By ERIN STOCKDALE & ELIZA EPSTEIN Ahoy fellow Voicers! Looking for a fun place to fulfill your community service hours in a relaxed, carefree environment? Do you feel the need to boogey down and view and purchase art? Well come pop your blueberry at the Blueberry Patch! The Blueberry Patch is an artist retreat that hosts a party [...]
Puppies, Turkeys and the Valiant Cause
By ANDY JOHNSON and JENNIE GOLDFARB Recently, as I browsed the Facebook.com, I came across a “status” of one of my friends back home. He really cares about animals and works at a local pet store. It ever so eloquently read:“Designer breeds like cockapoos and labradoodles and shitsapoos and bullshits are fucking ridiculous. Why would [...]
Physical Poetry
By DAVID TRUJILLO I get uncomfortable when I watch certain types of dance. They’re so raw and candidly sexual that I sort of feel like I’m watching porn in public. Don't misconstrue my words as suggestive of support for those evening news programs on local controversies about the rise of grinding at high school dances, although … well [...]
Fall Artist of the Month: Painter Ben Hamburger
My work is mainly driven by human beings. I think there are three things someone could watch forever- water, fire, and other people. What inspires you to paint? I’m inspired by people, relationships, and the corky things about the world. Society in general is bizarre and a lot of that comes out in my work. For me, I focus on the [...]
The Fifth of November
Remember Remember the 5th of November Of Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. – In memory of Guy Fawkes by MATHEW MILETICH Nor accepting the Seasons Of sequence, corruption, and fraud I will tell you the reason, of Government Treason That we allow through uncritical [...]
Hellenic Hella-deliciousness, or, Skidders
By CARLY CHAAPEL Begin with your average diner scene: comfy booths, vases of conspicuously fake flowers, an elderly couple in the corner, and a fluorescent “open” sign to catch your eye as you cruise past. Add a strip of outdoor seating, some classic uplifting tunes, and a number of menu items with a Greek influence, and you have yourself a [...]
