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The solutions will be harder to come by. Lounge owners and promoters who stage events in the clubs say the 2 a.m. bar closing floods the streets with people who are still amped up but have few other venues in which to wind down. Meanwhile, the closing time makes it difficult to operate a nightspot from a business perspective, especially considering that many people don’t hit clubs until 11 p.m. or later. Rather than pay to get into a club for an hour or two, people are instead hanging around outside, said lounge owner Thomas Sims at Wednesday’s Black on Black Crime Task Force meeting. The task force is a decades-old advisory board for GPD on issues related to African-Americans. ....
Editor s note: This month, The Sun will be diving into some of Gainesville s underrepresented community leaders and their work. Rhonda Wilson and her Star Center Theater are the second in this series. Growing up with her grandparents in 1970s Miami, Rhonda Wilson loved acting. From soap operas to Broadway plays, watching people perform and trying her own talent was the young girl s favorite pastime. But nobody looked like her on TV or on stage. Wilson s friends thought her dreams of being a Black opera singer and actress were odd, and her grandparents told her to focus on grades, not theater. ....