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40 Years Strong: Flying the Pride Flag
By Jennie McKeon June is a time for summer vacations and beach days. It’s also a time for pride. In June 1970, people marched into New York City’s Central Park for the nation’s first gay pride parade. It was the one-year anniversary of ...
Safeguarding the Gulf’s Coral
By Jeremy Morrison A few years ago, Hillary Skowronski was diving the Andros Barrier Reef in the Bahamas. Running for 190 miles and dropping 6,000 feet into what’s known as the Tongue of the Ocean, it’s the world’s third-largest fringing barrier ...
A Tasty Tradition Returns
By Lilia Del Bosque Oakey Whitehouse Boiled, fried or in a bisque, it’s safe to say that the South loves its crawfish. More than 16,000 pounds of crawfish will be boiled at Bartram Park for the [...]
#4 Jim Reeves
How powerful is Jim Reeves? Let’s just say he never has a problem getting a table at McGuire’s. “I said, I want a table in the very, very back of the restaurant,” Reeves recalled. “All I [...]
Ears & Fingers 5/2/13
By Jason Leger Deerhunter – ‘Monomania’ I think it’s safe to say that our quaint town has gotten plenty of love in the world of alternative music. In 2005, David Dondero crooned about the [...]
# 2 Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May
When Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May was in high school, one of his teachers asked him what he planned to do with his life. “I told him, ‘I really want to go into the Peace [...]
#1 Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan
He comes from a simpler time and place. The humble landscape of mid-century Missouri. “Have you ever watched that television show ‘The Waltons?’ They were upper class compared to us,” [...]
News of the Weird 5/2/13
By Chuck Shepherd Well-Earned Retirement In March, twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, announced their joint retirement after more than 50 years each on the job—as Amsterdam [...]
Winners & Losers 5/2/13
Winners Pensacola Opera National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Pensacola Opera is one of 817 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Pensacola Opera is [...]
#3 Bentina Terry
With the sun streaming through the office window and bouncing around the executive digs, the Friday-afternoon possibilities seem endless. Outside, glints of light dance on Pensacola Bay. “This [...]
2013 IN Power List—Complete List
1. David Morgan, Escambia Co. Sheriff 2. Lumon May, Escambia Co. Commissioner 3. Bentina Terry, VP, External Affairs, Gulf Power 4. Jim Reeves, Attorney, Developer 5. Sandy Sansing, [...]
Happenings 5/2/13
THURSDAY 5.2 HISTORIC PENSACOLA TROLLEY TOUR 10 a.m. & 2 p.m. Pensacola Visitor Center, 1401 E. Gregory St. 941-2876 or beachbumtrolley.com. ‘LOST AND FOUND’ 10 a.m. Through May 18. [...]
#5 Sandy Sansing
Long ago, Sandy Sansing and partner Wallace Yost upstarted Digital Systems of Florida, offering a turn-key system of mini-computers. Pensacola’s own version of Jobs and Wozniak. The local tech [...]
Radio on the Big Screen
by Jessica Forbes WUWF 88.1 is partnering with NPR to bring "Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!" live on the big screen the Gulf Coast. Pensacola Carmike Bayou 15 (formerly Pensacola Rave) and AMC [...]
Winners & Losers 6/14/18
News of the Weird 6/14/18
Is the Gulf Power Sale Good or Bad?
