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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 ...
BOC ’10: Weddings
5 ELEVEN PALAFOX Winner: Best Reception Venue Top 3 Finish: Best Special Event Space You may not recognize the name, but 5 Eleven Palafox has become the premier location for wedding receptions [...]
Hot Times 10.21
THURSDAY 10.21 IN 2010 BEST OF THE COAST PARTY 6 p.m. Join Independent News and our 2010 Best of the Coast winners for live music and drink specials. Free and open to the public. Vinyl Music Hall, [...]
BOC ’10: Bars
5 1/2 Winner: Best Bartender-Patrick Bolster The quiet little bar next to Pensacola’s hottest new music venue, Vinyl Music Hall, scored a huge win in landing the IN readers’ favorite [...]
News of the Werid 10.21
David Winkelman, 48, was arrested in Davenport, Iowa, in September on a misdemeanor warrant, still sporting “The Tattoo.” In late 2000, Winkelman, reacting to a radio “contest,” had his [...]
Outtakes 10.21
WHAT IF As the November 2010 Election Day approaches, Pensacola is firmly entrenched as the economic engine of the Gulf Coast. The hope and dreams that its citizens had for the past decade exceeded [...]
Corks and Forks
WSRE Hosts 22nd Annual Wine and Food Classic By Jennie McKeon After 21 years, you probably know that WSRE’s annual Food and Wine Classic is just around the corner. Hopefully you got your [...]
BOC ’10: Community
CAT COUNTRY 98.7 Winner: Best Radio Station Top 3 Finish: Best Radio DJ-Dana Cervantes, Brent Lane This country station has won this category for four consecutive years, thanks, in part, to its [...]
Who’s The Best?
In the Independent News' quest to get to the bottom of this hard-hitting question, we enlisted you, our loyal readers, once again. Frankly, those who took the time to fill out our tenth annual [...]
Suite Sets Sail
Nightclub Closes Doors While Still On Top By Sean Boone In 2008, Edwin Banacia and Albert Lao set out on a mission of opening a different kind of club in downtown—a big city style venue that [...]
Winners & Losers 10.21
Not everything fits easily into a Best of The Coast category. We had to come up with a few more to fulfill our political itch. BEST INTERIM: LARRY NEWSOM This interim county administrator faced [...]
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