As she performed at Pizza Dina one weekend night, playing piano and singing covers as she did most every Friday and Saturday night, Jolie Wright couldn’t believe the crowd that had gathered to listen. Filling the sidewalks and spilling into Hypolita Street, dozens of passersby…
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu For three St. Augustine pastors, issues of race in the city were too much to ignore. Since Juana Jordan arrived at First United Methodist Church in July, she’s taken notice of the way she’s been accepted so far and the…
By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…
By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view the…
By Jared Olson | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past summer, Gargoyle writer Jared Olson was awarded a reporting grant by the Pulitzer Center to pursue a solo journalism project in Chiapas, Mexico. Olson reported on the Zapatistas, a movement of indigenous Mayan campesinos. You can view…
By Jared Olson, photos by Katherine Mellan Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu This past April, Gargoyle journalist Jared Olson and Katherine Mellan Lewin (’18) traveled to report on malnutrition in a rural Guatemalan community. What they found was a slew of deeply interconnected social malaises, many of…
By Abby Bittner | gargoyle@flagler.edu From scrolling mindlessly through Instagram to watching Snapchat stories one after the other, social media has made an impact on society, particularly through the relationships people have. Social media can affect relationships people have in that it potentially impacts the…
By Tejas Badgujar | gargoyle@flagler.edu Shopping has become an inevitable part of our society. The consumption of goods is not only encouraged, but also made necessary to fit in today’s world. The frequency of new products arriving in markets is at an all-time high with…
By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu Three new doughnut eateries have rolled their way into town: Fiction Donuts, The Donut Experiment, and Swillerbees. For the good of the public, I sacrificed my refined collegiate palette to find out which place provides the most flavor payout for…
By Kelly Magee | gargoyle@flagler.edu It’s no secret that many of the plastic products we use end up in our oceans, but what many people don’t realize is that one of the environment’s biggest pollutants can be found in their closets. Clothing has become the…