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With $30,000 left over from last year, Student Government President Mark Lombardi-Nelson said he could have purchased new golf carts, a printer or furniture for his new offices. Instead, he plans to leave its spending at the discretion of students—if their ideas are good enough. With the Presidential Initiative Fund, Lombardi-Nelson put his faith in
Learning a new word can expand a person’s vocabulary, opening a crack in a curtain against a midday sun. Some words do more than that. They cast open the curtains of the mind. Timshel is an ancient Hebrew word whose meaning has vexed translators since it appeared alongside Cain and Abel in the original text
With a new website on its palette and increased interest from the 600 Block’s success, St. Petersburg’s Second Saturday Art Walk feels bigger than ever for some of its artists. Thirty galleries across the city open their doors to the public on the second Saturday of every month to show off their latest works for
Please forgive me. I’m a little high right now. I’ve gone six weeks without a fix—possibly the longest I’ve ever abstained—and this dose seems strong to my cleansed and purified body. I can feel the substance spoiling it, twisting and turning through my bloodstream, rushing to my head and the tips of my limbs. And
When death looked Ryan Mitchell in the eye during his three-year jaunt across four of the world’s continents, he turned around and ran away. Mitchell was in Argentina participating in a field study through USF St. Petersburg’s department of archeology. He took a break from helping a researcher record prehistoric carvings and hiked up a
I was back in 11th grade, woolen winter coat bundled up to my neck, hands over the heater in my friend’s brand new Pontiac Aztek. She hit a bump outside of a Hollywood Video and my Frosty—a milkshake dessert from Wendy’s that was much too cold to eat that time of year—spilled its contents all
As 10th grader Lawrence Carter was walking toward the front doors of the Oakley Baptist Church in his family’s usual Sunday morning ritual, he was halted by his Sunday school superintendent. “You’re coming with me,” the man said. Carter was startled at first, but agreed to go with him after confirming his mother had been
Ernest Hemingway had the right idea. Or maybe it was Corey Stoll playing Hemingway in the Academy Award-winning film “Midnight in Paris.” “It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that’s what war does to me,” he said in the movie, talking about one of his first novels. “And there’s nothing
Balloons. Jell-O. Kites. They’re three fairly innocent things you could find at a child’s birthday party. They’re also things that Roz Chast is afraid of. Chast, an author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, put together an alphabetical list of things she hates, fears or is otherwise disturbed by in the form of a
They were nodding. Seated around a table, four women and one man who could see nothing but darkness were nodding at each other. Another man at the table was not. He sat straight and still while his golden-furred dog rested at his feet. Dressed in a well-pressed blue button-up and khakis, not being able to
