Spotlight is a local series dedicated to showcasing independent artists and sharing their stories locally and beyond.
Video by Alex Campbell and Freddie Hall
Expanding the Spotlight
Those familiar with our digital Spotlight music series on WFSU’s YouTube channel know that we recently featured our first non-music artist: Muralist Matthew “briteso” Forrest. Forrest has been doing graphic design...
On January 26th 2018, WFSU and Florida A&M University collaborated to bring the public a special advance screening of the new documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising, a film from award winning director Stanley Nelson. FAMU's own Marching...
We met at 7 am to answer a question. For the previous couple of months, I’d been wandering Lake Jackson’s exposed bed, and observing the area around Porter Sink. The lake had been down since November, and on and...
Some needed to escape distractions. Others got in trouble for fighting, or became teenage parents. What they all have in common is that they benefitted from the "work at your own pace" environment at Leon County Public...
Doing the right thing!
We hear a lot about “helping businesses” and “creating jobs”, but do you know what I don’t hear very often? Ready, here it is: “doing the right thing”. In our quest for prosperity we seem to...
Saint Vincent Island compacts a diversity of habitats into 12,000 acres, making it an ideal red wolf island propagation site. We explore the island with Robin and Mike Vroegop, members of the Friends of the Saint Vincent National...
We talk with Cody Diffiefenthaler with the Florida Center for Interactive Media about how found his career as a Application Developer.
Held at the Leon County Civic Center, we head to the annual Leon Works Expo. While there, we talk with members of the Office of Economic Vitality as well as employees, people in various trades, and students who...
We learn about a new program by the City of Panama City to help in clean up following Hurricane Michael. Based on the Adopt-a-Highway model, individuals or groups can pick a section of the city to clean up. The...
