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Memorial Day Weekend 2013
Every year Pensacola and Pensacola Beach play host to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) visitors for a truly unique Memorial Day Weekend bash. For some the weekend is one big circuit party, full of beaching and dancing. For others ...
Breaking Down Walls
by Lilia Del Bosque Oakey Whitehouse It’s a topic that people don’t often talk about. But HIVevolution wants to start the conversation. The local non-profit is an HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention program, which provides education, free and confidential HIV testing, outreach, resource ...
Another Summer of Concerts
By Sarah McCartan A Thursday evening in Pensacola during the summer months wouldn’t feel quite right without watching the sun set while listening to music echoing from downtown’s historic Seville Square. The longstanding summer concert series—Evenings in Olde Seville Square—was all but ...
The Buzz 1/6/11
HOUSING BY THE NUMBERS The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the 2005-2009 American Community Survey, which showed that 15 percent of the Escambia County’s 138,000 housing units were vacant. Of [...]
There’s No Place Like Home
Brett Haley Celebrates Debut Film, “The New Year” by Jennie McKeon When Brett Haley decided to make a film about going back home, he thought of only one place: Pensacola. “Going back [...]
IN Interview: Kyle Grooms
The Jersey Devil Visits the Gulf Coast By Rob “Bubbs” Harris Kyle Grooms is an old-school comedian in a new age of entertainment. Many view comedy as a dying art form, with stand-up sinking [...]
What Of It?
Of Montreal Plays Mobile’s Soul Kitchen By Hana Frenette Of Montreal’s founder and front man Kevin Barnes isn’t the kind of performer who plays coy with the audience, smiling and nodding. [...]
Winners & Losers 1/6/11
Seven questions are on everyone’s mind for 2011, and our Magic 8 Ball has yet to come through with definite answers. WHEN DOES DAY ONE START FOR THE ASHTON HAYWARD ADMINISTRATION? During the [...]
Rustic, Authentic and Live
Ragtime Blues Musician to Perform at RadioLive By Kate Peterson Singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter Luke Winslow-King will be featured at RadioLive, the venerable WUWF radio production [...]
Restorative Justice Pilot Program Halted
SCHOOL DISTRICT REJECTS ALTERNATIVE TO ZERO TOLERANCE GRANT by Dustin Toney Restorative Justice offered his daughter salvation from the harsh punishments handed out under the Escambia County [...]
The Public Record
Dear Max, I’ve been to the Billy Bowlegs Festival in Fort Walton before, and I was wondering if Billy Bowlegs was a real person? -Tracy B. ........................ Yes, Billy Bowlegs is an [...]
News Of The Weird
By Chuck Sheppard Catch-22 Catches Disabled Veteran: David Henderson, a Korean War veteran long suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, applied 15 days past the deadline for enhanced care under a [...]
Viewpoint—Korea: A Fresh Approach
By Michael N. Nagler and Stephanie N. Van Hook On the bus from Incheon Airport to Seoul National University, where we were going to participate in a six-culture nonkilling exploratory seminar, we [...]
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