By: Riley Glover Describing “Open Doom Crescendo” as a film for normal people to watch is a near impossible endeavor in concept; because you will likely never have the time or effort to see such a thing. It is a three hour long micro budget movie that has spent the last two to three years…
Written by: Quincy Kirn This month, in Downtown Pensacola, Seville Square held a unique opportunity for the community to become better acquainted with the local artists. The 55th annual Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival was held from the seventh to the ninth in November. This free community event was powered by more than 40 sponsors and…
By: Arren Joseph-White & Luke Tarnosky On November 8th, Pensacola celebrated its growing creative scene with its third Night Moves Music Fest. The musical event brought an estimated 2,000 guests total this year, a typical crowd for them, and included not only national names, but local ones, as well as community vendors to the festivities.…
By: Talia Soublet If you missed the Wind and Jazz Ensembles’ first fall performance, Soaring, an evening of music celebrating flight, don’t worry—there’s another opportunity coming soon. On December 4 at 7:30 p.m., PSC’s Wind and Jazz Ensembles will return to the stage for Tribal Tales, a performance designed to immerse the audience in the culture, stories,…
By Arren Joseph-White Need something to do in the coming months? There are always things going on in Pensacola and the surrounding areas. Here are some activities to keep an eye out for, from November to December. There are also things that you can do year-round. As the weather gets more bearable, be ready to…
By Riley Glover Sometimes as a film critic noted for their coverage of the macabre, movies slip through the radar that can’t easily be described. Some unnatural cinema requires explanation, even if the space is too limited to describe such terrors the way they need. So, I let open my doors and let all the…
By Arren Joseph-White September 19th was another hit for Pensacola’s annual Gallery Night. The theme? Art of Hispanic Heritage, or Viva Pensacola. A chance to explore the diverse cultures that Latin America has to offer at a smaller scale. Foods, crafts, and music to create a vibrant and energetic atmosphere that surrounded and invited all…
By Luke Tarnosky On October 17th, the Pensacola State College Performing Arts Department kicked off the autumn season with a bang with the opening night show of their newest comedy/romance musical, The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Running for two weekends in a row and a total of six full-length shows, the show was a massive success;…
By Lydia McAllister Pensacola State College’s Literature club hosted their annual Poetry Open Mic on Wednesday October 15, 2025 on the second floor of the Chadborn Library at 6pm. The evening offered an open invitation for students and faculty alike to read their own works or the works of others. The back of the room…
By Lydia McAllister The Vampire Ball was held at the Court of Deluna event space in downtown Pensacola on Saturday Oct. 4. The spacious location and extravagant decorations encouraged the attendees to embrace the fantastic experience of a vampiric ball. The venue had an entrance gate that accepted in the macabre guests and invited them…
By: Boris Gaidai This September, the newly established Youth Orchestra for the Pensacola Symphony began rehearsing for the 2025-26 season. The orchestra will play two concerts, the first on November 16th and the second on April 12th, and they will also be participating in the regular Orchestra’s 100th anniversary gala in April. The Youth Orchestra…
By Riley Glover Is it playing with fire to say that the “My Melody & Kuromi” TV series (2025) on Netflix is quietly one of the best animated releases of the year? An easy recommendation for a work of stop motion children’s animation that is a beautifully designed piece, that’s also quietly one of the…
By Quincy Kirn At Pensacola State College, the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts is taking a closer look at a seldom-seen artistic form. Joe Hobbs is a mixed media artist whose exhibition consists of hand-blown and hot sculpted glass, found objects, wood, and paint. While attending art school, he enrolled into what he…
On Tuesday, April 8, the Visual Arts Department at Pensacola State College held its annual student art awards show to honor students’ artistic achievements. The expo included diverse mediums, such as digital design, drawing, ceramics, painting, sculpture, and photography.
The Saenger Theatre has long been a large part of Pensacola’s arts and culture. Standing in the heart of Downtown Pensacola since 1925, the theatre recently celebrated its 100-year anniversary. To commemorate it, they hosted a grand reopening ceremony with a ribbon cutting and cake on April 4. On top of this, the Saenger hosted two free showings of the Phantom of the Opera silent film, one of the firm films to be shown back when it first opened in the 1920’s.
Pensacola State College has officially announced its annual student art exhibition. This event kicks off March 31, the works will be available for viewing, with some pieces for sale, until May 2 in the Switzer Gallery on the Pensacola campus. This juried exhibit showcases the finest pieces created by current PSC visual arts students. The…
By Abigail Hrabar This weekend, many took to the Ashmore Auditorium to view Pensacola State College’s “The Crucible”. The play, written by Arthur Miller, was first performed in 1953 as a dramatization of the Salem witch trials and an allegory for the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s. It is a classic play, the script of…
Lady Gaga, an American singer, songwriter, and actress is best known for hits like Bad Romance and Poker Face. She has won fourteen Grammys, two Golden Globes, and one Academy Award. Less than six months after the release of Joker: Folie à Deux, in which Gaga played Harley Quinn, “Mother Monster” is back for more with her seventh studio album labeled MAYHEM, released on March 7, 2025.
(edits by Abbie, arren, marty, MIKE) Pensacola is home to hundreds of public art installations, including the 70+ iconic pelican statues and at least seven murals downtown. Now the city has been planning on adding yet another mural downtown. They proposed a 36-foot mural installation at 100 W. Garden St., just past Palafox. The proposed…
There is a popular philosophical critique about the concept of sci-fi teleportation that has existed for quite a minute now. The idea goes a bit like this: imagine a Star Trek style teleporter that could take every molecule in your body and transfer it over to a completely different place. Now, when that occurs, are you actually teleporting a person or are you killing that person by deconstructing their molecules and then creating an exact clone with the same memories at another place?
On February 12, 2025, Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2019-2022, gave a reading at PSC’s Ashmore Auditorium. She told stories, provided wisdom, and gave the audience a captivating night for creatives and everyday people alike.
The Gulf Coast’s 24th Annual Renaissance Faire once again brought whimsy to Pensacola over the weekends of Feb. 22nd to 23rd and Mar. 1st to 2nd. Established by Steve Melei, the faire encourages costumes but does not require them which makes those who do participate in the Medieval garb more novel.
In 1991, Executive Director of the Arts Council, Andy Witt, met with a few local business owners to discuss holding an event in downtown Pensacola dedicated to spreading culture and art awareness. This is where the nonprofit organization, known as Gallery Night, was born. Every third Friday from five to nine p.m., Palafox Street is transformed into an exhibition for local artists to showcase their work. This month, the city of Pensacola held what was dubbed, “Forks and Frames, a Foodie Gallery Night,” and I decided to attend the event.
The Gulf Coast’s 24th Annual Renaissance Faire once again brought whimsy to Pensacola over the weekends of Feb. 22nd to 23rd and Mar. 1st to 2nd. Established by Steve Melei, the faire encourages costumes but does not require them which makes those who do participate in the Medieval garb more novel.
Joseph Bradford’s Graphic Design II class was given the task of redesigning the covers of a book. The project was simple; choose a book you have read or had personal experience with, then redesign the cover to something of their liking. In all 13 posters created, each student chose a fictional book. Now, their completed projects decorate the walls of the library.
This past month, Ashmore Auditorium was thoroughly rocked by the presentation of punk rock opera American Idiot. Based on the album of the same name, the play celebrates the world-renowned band Green Day. It was first formed using the songs written by Green Day’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, and with writing help from American theater director and filmmaker, Michael Mayer. Pensacola State College’s rendition was directed by Dr. Rodney Whatley and presented on the 3rd and 4th weekends of October.
The Pensacola Museum of Art is in the heart of downtown, just off Palafox Street, and this year it is celebrating its 70th anniversary of rich, local history.
Within the wonderful world of comics, time flows differently than how we perceive real life or even the inherently linier strip of film can allow no matter what weird non-liner storytelling tricks you use. In the simplest definition one can give without going into Scott McCloud speak, what can happen within the frame of a comic panel is a moment of time captured in amber that is clarified within the context of other panels and the space between them.
Pensacola has long been a site for local music to thrive. From punk to indie, there are always live music events for locals and tourists alike to enjoy at places like the Handlebar, 309 Punk Project, the Vinyl Music Hall, and many more.
Pensacola’s 64th Annual Greek Festival took place during the first 3 days of November and, like every year, it went wonderfully. The festival is presented by the Greek Orthodox Church, taking place on its campus over on West Garden Street. The festival includes food, vendors, dancing, and music.
The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts on the Pensacola campus is always displaying new art in their galleries, whether from students, faculty, or visiting artists. The newest exhibition, No Sleep Till Branded, represents art showcasing a collective of eight PSC student portfolios.
As the cooler weather rushes in, so do the fun activities and events. If you are looking for something to do this fall season whether that is strolling through a market downtown or supporting local bands, here are some ways you can spend this autumn season:
by Enrique Viveros From October 10th to 28th the Visual Arts faculty hosted an art exhibition in the Anna Lamar Switzer Gallery with artist introductions and reception on October 20th. The exhibition, Show and Tell!, showcased ten faculty members with art ranging from ceramics to painting to photography. Brian Weaver, department head of Visual Arts,…
by John Mcleod Among the many Netflix original anime that has been released this year, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners stands out as a tragic tale set in the same universe as CD Projekt Red’s controversial release Cyberpunk: 2077. The anime is currently certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is rated 100% on the Tomatometer. The show is…
By Arda Johnson Beginning on 26 Sept., PSC faculty and staff had easy access attending WSRE’s StudioAmped concert series, located next to the tennis courts’ parking lot at the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio. With five total concerts scheduled, attendance was free and offered everyone a chance to attend a concert during different dates;…
By Declan Gibson Company, a conceptual twister performed by PSC written by Stephen Sondheim based on a book by George Furth, shocks theatre fans from October 14-16 and 21-23. While a typical play consists of a linear plot line, PSC’s Theatre Department has different plans this semester. Company is a conceptual play and has no…
By Esther Minor With a long and storied history, the competitive Smash Bros scene is known for the passionate, grassroots community at its heart. This is especially true for fans of the 2001 entry in the Smash Bros series: Super Smash Bros Melee, released on the Nintendo GameCube and commonly referred to more simply as…
By Elwood Folse Director and Producer Kevin Davis is nearly finished with his passion project film starring Jeff Etters, the original voice of Space Ace. The film industry has lately been criticized for its surplus of Oscar bait movies, films that have taken themselves too seriously in order to seem gripping and speaking truths. However,…
by Micayla O’Malley The Kilgore, PSC’s student-run literary journal, is now accepting submissions for poetry, short fiction, photography, and art for their spring issue. The drop box will be open until March 1st for anyone looking to get their work published. Submitting work for consideration in the issue provides a unique opportunity to receive recognition,…
by Sebastian Gordon My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission was released on October 29th, 2021, in the United States and Canada. BONES and Funimation produced the movie. It has a runtime of one hour and forty-one minutes. World Heroes Mission is available to watch in both dub and sub theaters. It has an 80% on…
By Sebastian Gordon Ricky Montgomery is an American Indie pop musician and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He currently has twenty-two released songs across the span of eight albums. On October 15th, 2021, Montgomery released “Sorry for Me.” Along with this new song, he posted a music video on his YouTube channel. Many listeners…
by Sebastian Gordon Squid Games is a new Korean drama/thriller/action fiction that was released to Netflix on September 17th, 2021. The director of Squid Games, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has directed many other hits. These include: Our Sad Life, A Puff of Smoke, Heaven & Hell, Desperation, Miracle Mile, My Father, Silenced (film), Miss Granny, and The…
Artist Lauren Woods is exhibiting her show, Dream State, at the Switzer gallery from August 16th until December 10th, 2021. On August 26th, an artist lecture and a dual reception were held in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center alongside the PSC Art Faculty exhibit. Dream State is Woods’ sixth solo show and showcased paintings that…
Life is Strange True Color was first teased during the Square Enix Presents showcase in March 2021. After four years of development and three years since Life is Strange 2, the previous game’s release in the series. On September 9th, Life is Strange: True Colors came to PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Stadia, with the Nintendo…
by Enrique Viveros Billie Eilish released her second studio album, Happier Than Ever, on July 30th. This fifty-six-minute and fifteen seconds album contains sixteen tracks. Leading up to the album’s release Eilish released five out of the sixteen tracks as singles. Lost Cause, NDA, My Future, Therefore I Am, and Your Power. In addition, made…
by Sebastian Gordon Fruits Basket is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. The manga was first adapted into a 26-episode anime television series in 2001 by Studio Deen and directed by Akitaro Daichi. However, it ended after one season, leaving fans with no true ending. With such high demand, a second…
by Sebastian Gordon Ricky Montgomery is an American Indie pop musician and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He currently has twenty-two released songs across the span of eight albums. On June 24th, 2021, Montgomery released “Talk to You,” his first song in five years. Along with this new song, he posted a music video…
by Sebastian Gordon Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham is an American comedian, musician, actor, film director, screenwriter, and poet. Recently, Netflix released “Inside,” a 2021 American musical comedy special written, directed, filmed, edited by, and starring Bo Burnham. He recorded the special in his home during the COVID-19 pandemic without a crew or audience; it was…
by Sebastian Gordon “Luca” became available on Disney Plus On June 13th, 2021, but it was never made available in U.S theaters. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios, the movie is rated PG and has a runtime of 1 hour and 41 minutes. The movie earned 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a pretty high score.…
by Sebastian Gordon “Raya and the Last Dragon” became available on Disney Plus On June 4th, 2021, originally released in theaters on March 5th of 2021. The movie is rated PG and has a runtime of 1 hour and 57 minutes. The movie earned 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a pretty high score. In…
Incoming artist Olivia Rodrigo released her debut album named Sour on May 21st. Coming from the smash success of her released singles: driver’s license, deja vu, and good 4 you, the Disney+ original series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series where she takes the role of Gabriella in the musical production of High School…
by Sebastian Gordon Since the pandemic started, I’ve had a lot more time to spend indoors. That also means I’ve gotten to explore more music recently. I have several recommendations that I will share with you that cover a variety of genres and tastes. I want to touch on my favorite artists/bands which includes; Mitski,…
by Sebastian Gordon Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train” was released in the United States on April 23rd, 2021. Although originally released in Japan on October 16th, 2020, it needed extra time to be converted to dub in English. The movie is rated R, has a run time of two hours, and…
by Kayla Belanger Humorist, author, and social critic David Sedaris spoke to students at Pensacola State College (PSC) on (insert date). He delivers an informative lecture about writing as a beginner and shares his life experiences. David attended art school before becoming an author. He has been writing for years before college, but his knowledge…
by Matthew Ingram After eleven years on PC and Mac, League of Legends has made its way to mobile, now branded as League of Legends Wild Rift. It’s surprising that it took this long for Riot to bring their extremely popular multiplayer game to mobile, considering how expansive the mobile user base is. I went…
by Enrique Viveros On the evening of April 9th Swifties were excited to relieve their middle or high school memories with a re-recorded album named Fearless (Taylor’s Version). Swift is re-recording Fearless and five more albums with her team. Her previous music label Big Machine Records, and music manager Scooter Braun bought the master recordings…
I usually don’t get sad at celebrity deaths. But I’m not going to lie, when I heard about Chadwick Boseman’s death, my heart. It’s not the fact that he died so young, but it’s the manner of how he died. Colon Cancer. Most celebrity deaths involve a nasty cocktail of depression, unspoken horrors, and usually, drugs.
By Charles Davis 11 One Acts 2 Nights 11 One Acts, 30 Actors, 2 Nights. Every year PSC Theatre majors get a chance to become student directors for a series of One Acts. A One Act is a series of plays with no connection and each play is 10 to about 30 minutes long.…
By Kelli Green Last week’s s episode of Ryan Murphy’s series, FEUD: Bette and Joan, was an explosive mid-point for this season focused on the legendary actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This hour-long drama appeals to two primary audiences. There are the big Davis and Crawford fans who tune in to see the drama…
By Kelli Green Pharrell Williams acts as the producer and songwriter for the soundtrack to the inspiring 2016 Box Office hit, “Hidden Figures”. The music for the film is performed by Pharrell himself, along with artists Lalah Hathaway, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Kim Burrell and one of the film’s stars, Janelle Monae. The ten…
By: Jasmine Britt Not many people knew that three African-American women were vital components in helping the U.S. beat Russia into space in 1962. Based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, “Hidden Figures” tells a history that isn’t written in our history books. This is a real story that needed…
By Kelli Green Everyone grab your popcorn and get comfortable, it’s likely to be a bumpy night. There are a lot of questions surrounding Ryan Murphy’s new series FEUD: Bette & Joan. No, it will not be a shot-for-shot remake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. No, it is not the new season of American…
By: Charles Davis III R&B singer Anita Baker announced early January 12th that she has no plans to tour or produce a new album due to her retirement. Baker has been a staple in the R&B music industry since the early 1980’s and with 24 singles and six albums under her belt, Baker is…
By Sean Minton Many men and women feel like their looks are not ideal and stress over the thought of “a perfect body,” but musician Lizzo wants everyone to embrace their beauty no matter what shape, size or color they are. She expresses this sentiment through her music. Lizzo is an upcoming Alternative hip-hop Artist…
By Tracey Squaire Have you ever wished you could plan the perfect outfit to wear so that you would be comfortable all day, no matter the turn the weather took? Well, the Sunshine app assists you in doing exactly that. Sunshine is a weather app that remembers what you tell it about the weather. Say…
By Katelyn Bailey Nowadays, it’s complicated to find a slice of life TV show that’s intriguing enough to keep you wanting to watch episode after episode and still keep you on the edge of your seat. Most dramedies are tacky or really generic. The ends are predictable and they feel borderline not realistic because, let’s…
By Arieann Pettway “Hush” is a suspense/thriller movie directed by Mike Flanagan. Kate Siegel stars as Maddie. The movie is what one would call a lesson learned movie. Trouble for Maddie starts one day when she’s home alone and notices picture messages from her own phone popping up on her computer. Though the main character,…
By Becca Carlson Models sashayed across the stage of the Hagler Auditorium sporting the Cosmetology department’s best recycled materials creations. Nearly 60 Pensacola State College students delighted audiences with their designs on November 11th, 2016. Students from Pensacola, Milton and Century Center campuses participated in this year’s Fall Fashion Show. Trash bags, toilet paper rolls,…
By: Brittany Lane BTS is taking both the Kpop and international music world by storm. Their newest album titled “WINGS” dropped October 10, 2016, to 500,000 pre ordered albums and a MV that reached 3+ million views within 24 hours. Bangtan Sonyeondan, or more commonly known as BTS or Bangtan Boys, debuted in Korea in…
By: Jasmine Britt Mac Miller released his fourth studio album, The Divine Feminine, on September 16th, 2016. After the success of his third album, GO:OD AM, he announced that he was back at the studio working on another project. With guest vocals from Ariana Grande, Anderson Paak, Bilal, CeeLo Green, Ty Dolla $ign, Kendrick Lamar…
By: Sarah Richards “Como Para Agua Chocolate” is a 1992 film set in a Mexican border town around the turn of the last century. It earned all 11 Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, including the Ariel Award for Best Picture and was the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the United…
By: Becca Carlson & Kelli Green Amy Winehouse September 14, 1983- July 23, 2011 Amy Jade Winehouse is best remembered for her soulful blending of Jazz, Pop and R&B into her own unique sound. In 2006, Winehouse received critical acclaim for her Back to Black album which won 5 Grammy’s including Best New Artist, Record…
By Becca Carlson and Kelli Green Duets: Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell Any of their amazing songs are a must, but especially “You’re All I Need to Get By”, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing.” Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel These guys were prolific both together and as…
By: Minnie-Lee Bush “As they say in Corsica….Goodbye”- Gene Wilder It is with great remorse that America weeps once again for the loss of one of the great American Actors. Gene Wilder lost his life on August 29, 2016 due to difficulties with Alzheimer’s Disease. Though his death was unexpected, his memory will truly be…
By Kelli Green & Jennifer Tonnaer Pensacola State College students and local community members will showcase their talents in “Six Degrees of Separation,” an upcoming production from PSC’s Performing Arts Department. Students are encouraged to come out to the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8 on the Pensacola PSC campus, to check out the play…
By Tracey Squaire This month is National Novel Writing Month, so grab your laptops and flock to the nearest coffee shop! National Novel Writing Month, coined NaNoWriMo by hardcore writing fans, is a month when aspiring writers and people who just want to write a story are challenged to complete a 50,000 word novel during the…
In “Black Mass” Johnny Depp plays the psychopath Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger. Depp’s performance is by far the most standout feature in this movie, which is based on a true story. In 70’s era Boston Whitey is a no-nonsense leader of a gang of men who swear a lot and do gangster stuff.…
By Kimberly Bogers The performing arts department at Pensacola State College has been busy the past couple of months rehearsing for their 25th annual Summer High School Onstage Workshop (SHOW). Local high school students will be showcasing their talents in their rendition of the Tony-winning musical, Mame. The musical takes place in New York and…
By Collin Bestor The second annual Pensacon was a huge success. For three days, thousands of fans flocked to Downtown Pensacola to enjoy the festivities provided at the Bay Center, Crown Plaza hotel and the Sanger Theater. For Sci-Fi, comic book, super hero and TV fans, it felt like Christmas. Walking into the Bay Center for the first…
by Spenser Garber Walking down the street of Alcaniz in downtown Pensacola, I stumbled upon a little BBQ restaurant called the Happy Pig Café. Upon first glance, it looked like a place to enjoy a slow-cooked pulled pork sandwich and some sweet tea, but I was wrong. I walked into the Happy Pig Café, located…
by Spenser Garber The Pensacola Art Museum, located at 407 South Jefferson Street, is looking for volunteers to help them out year-round. They are looking for people to help assist at the front desk, aid teachers in the classroom, and provide museum event support. The Museum was originally a jail built in 1906, and was…
by Spenser Garber PoFolks is a restaurant that opened a few weeks ago at a new location on the corner of 9th Avenue and Creighton. It comes with plenty of parking, a generally welcoming atmosphere, and a couple things that make it stand out from other restaurants. It is easy to make a comparison between…
By: Cody Chavers “Nerd.” “Geek.” What used to be derogatory words for the smart people that didn’t quite fit in are now used to describe the culture that has taken entertainment of every medium by storm. With the surging popularity of comic books (especially the movies and television shows inspired by them), science fiction and…
by Spenser Garber On October 28th, I attended a showing of the Rocky Horror Show at Pensacola Little Theatre. PLT puts on this show every year around Halloween time, and for good reason. The costumes were amazing, make-up was fantastic, most of the acting was phenomenal, and the music was stunning. The Rocky Horror show…
by Cody Chavers At its core, Gotham is an origin story. Not just the origin of Bruce Wayne or James Gordon, but of the city itself. At a time when origin stories seem played out in movies and television shows (especially those based on comic books), Gotham offers a fresh take by shining a brand…
By Cody Chavers and Nicholas Guest DC Batman: Future’s End #1 – Score: 4/5 The Future’s End one-shots continue this week with Batman desperately trying to save his own life by breaking into a secure LexCorp facility. Writer Ray Fawkes manages to make a futuristic story feel like classic Batman with…
By: Cody Chavers and Nicholas Guest DC Action Comics: Future’s End #1 – Score: 2.5/5 This one-shot by Sholly Fisch was disjointed and fairly boring as Clark Kent gardens while people around town gain various super powers. This book’s only real redeeming quality is pretty fantastic visuals thanks to artists Pascal…
By Nicholas Guest The Game Space, a tabletop gaming store and event venue, and Pensacola Pop Comics, a comic book store, recently opened in May. Harley Orr, owner of Pensacola Pop Comics, and Jason Picheo, owner of The Game Space, each sat down with the Corsair to share what they’ve learned opening a new Pensacola…
By Cody Chavers and Nicholas Guest DC Aquaman #34 – Score: 3/5 Thankfully this issue is one big fight scene as Carlos Rodriguez’s art carries this issue, although he does have a few missteps, specifically with characters’ faces. Writer Jeff Parker’s dialog is really stale and holds the issue back. Batman Superman #13 – Score:…
by William Patterson The Student Support Services “Justice League” and Student Activities are providing a free salad and music today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. between buildings 1 and 6, giving students a relaxing and sunny atmosphere to study for finals.
By: T. Cummings If you walk through the bottom floor of the 140 year-old Quayside Art Gallery building in downtown Pensacola, you will encounter a strange society hanging from its walls—a cow moose, several herons, an elephant seal, a cape buffalo, a black lab, a titmouse, some owls. They are the subjects of Nature’s People,…
By: Rebecca Juntunen Viewing the world through rose-colored glasses is one thing, but viewing it through a kaleidoscope creates a whole new outlook of the people in it. Be prepared to confront this outlook if you plan to attend this weekend’s showing of “The Great Gatsby”. The production, staged by the Pensacola State College Theater…
By: Rebecca Juntunen On Thursday, February 20th, PSC’s main campus student center offered a free mini movie theater experience to students, complete with free drinks, popcorn, and snacks. Students settled down at tables and couches in front of a huge projector screen, to watch “Catching Fire”— a film adaption of the second book in…
by SA McMillan The Academy Awards are the highest honor bestowed upon filmmakers in the United States, and Movies 4 Cinema in Gulf Breeze has a treat not often seen—The Academy Award Nominated Short Films, both live action and animated. “There are five films in each category ranging from whimsical family films to serious foreign dramas,” said Dylan…
by Ben Sheffler The third ever Pensacon has been a long time coming, but the Feb. 21-23 festivities could prove to be worth the wait. The event incorporates celebrity guests and memorabilia from many genres, including sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comics, anime and gaming. “We’ve got a lot of guests coming in from a lot of…
By: Rebecca Juntunen It’s been said that you should never judge a book by its cover. Well, except if it’s the newest edition of “the Hurricane Review” literary magazine, whose intriguing cover is a hazy snapshot of an elderly, overall-clad man, sitting beside his wife and holding a cigarette. This photo captures the essence…
Fun, But Mostly Plastic by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if you’re not picky about a clear or attractive visual style to your animated movies, and would be satisfied with some clever, rapid-fire humor in an otherwise colorful and pleasant animated adventure. Avoid it… if you’re expecting Pixar quality action and animation, for the necessary…
by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if an ill-advised romance between a lonely-yet-perfect single mother (who has been wronged) and an equally perfect escaped convict (who has also been wronged) sound just like your cup of tea. Avoid it… if you prefer your romances to be populated with characters rather than vague ideals. Adele Wheeler…
By: Mary Whitham Artistic Director of the Steinway Piano Series in Tampa, Svetozar Ivanov captivated the Ashmore Auditorium audience on January 12th with his novel take on the ordinary piano recital. The program was part of the ongoing Kamerman Piano Series to be held at PSC. Unlike the other featured pianists, Ivanov included media…
By Rebecca Juntunen Pensacola State College received a taste of variation on the typical Pensacola dance culture, when SWERVE, a local Dance Company, performed in the Ashmore Auditorium on Saturday, January 25th. SWERVE is a modern dance ensemble based in Northwest Florida, founded by LaVonne French— an instructor of dance at PSC—and Elizabeth Bradford. Their…
By: Alexis Lugo On Thursday, November 14, 2013, Pensacola State hosted an artists’ reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Building 15, on the Pensacola campus. This annual exhibition features some of the recent pieces by PSC’s art faculty and displays a variety of artwork including…
By Rebecca Juntunen The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, a versatile, Grammy Award winning group, will be performing at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium on the Pensacola Campus, at 7:30 on Tuesday, November 19th. In their 30 years as a group they have continued to break new ground with a range of musical genres, such as…
War is a Universal Language By: J. Scott Watch it… if you’re prepared for a challenging and sometimes gut-wrenching film that faithfully adapts Orson Scott Card’s novel into a visually stunning and mentally stimulating tour-de-force. Avoid it… if you’re seeking an entertaining and exciting blockbuster adventure, for Ender’s Game retains the cautionary nature of…
JUST TRYING TO BELONG by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if you have already seen the original Carrie and are seeking an adaptation with more violence and less vulnerability than the original adaptation. Avoid it… and go watch Brian De Palma’s classic 1976 adaptation instead if you want a film that rises above its genre…
A Tragedy at Sea by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if you’ve ever wondered what it might feel like to be captured and turned into an unwilling hostage in a situation torturously outside of your control, because Captain Phillips should give you a good approximation of what that might be like. Avoid it… if you…
Round and Round and Round She Goes… by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… to experience a roller-coaster of a movie, a disaster film in space that introduces fascinatingly detailed models of some of the most famous objects in earth orbit, and then gleefully destroys them. Avoid it… if you are hoping for a spacefaring drama…
High on Velocity by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… to feel one of this year’s truly unique experiences, a racing film and biopic that distinguishes itself with a fierce integrity of character. Avoid it… and go to one of the many knock-off and franchise blockbusters currently running unique characters if fresh experiences are not your…
Hell is Depending on Other People by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if you like your thrillers served smart and sensitive, with a rich blend of external and internal conflict and a dash of ethical dilemma for spice. Avoid it… if you find thrillers in general are not your cup of tea, or if you…
Electric, but Hardly Divine by J. Scott Southworth This week, rather than critiquing another film in wide release, The Corsair has instead been offered an opportunity by the Pensacola Little Theatre to see and review their newest show, ‘Godspell.’ The Little Theatre is located in downtown Pensacola. Address and ticket information are available at the…
Being Black in a White Nation by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if you have any interest in all in the American Civil Rights movement, for The Butler provides a provocative examination of the movement from a variety of perspectives. Avoid it… if you think that all history is boring and relevance is a drag,…
By Ally Doty Grammy Award-winning Christian Rock band Switchfoot will be preforming at the Pensacola Interstate Fair Friday, Oct. 25 to promote the release of their new album and upcoming film. The album, to be released in January, will go hand-in-hand with the film Fading West; a detailed perspective on the lives of the…
by Danielle Storley “Men are Dogs,” a realistic romantic comedy by playwright Joe Simonelli, was the most recent production by PSC’s Performing Arts Department. Director Rodney Whatley brought the somewhat adult-themed play to life, with the actors starring in roles that required wisdom way beyond their years. The play centers on a psychiatrist, Cecilia Monahan…
by Hope Hall “Star Trek Into the Darkness” is a sci-fi action/adventure movie loosely based on Gene Rodenberry’s classic original series. The film follows Captain James T. Kirk, his first officer Spock, and the other familiar characters through a journey involving genetically enhanced humans, a renegade Star Fleet officer, and a startling discovery of a…
by Danielle Storley Poet Kim Addonizio conjured the spirits of trains passing through from another time as she presented poetry and “train songs” played on the harmonica in a visit to the Pensacola Campus for a poetry workshop and speaking event on April 11. Addonizio, an award-winning American poet, and novelist has been called “one…
by Danielle Storley Intense emotion and genuine acting shared the stage recently during the Pensacola State College Theater Department’s presentation of the play “Rabbit Hole” at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. A contemporary drama about the grief of a couple recovering from losing their four-year-old son, the play was directed by Rodney Whatley. The grieving…
by Danielle Provau & Lionel Haynes Jr Today, Pensacola State College’s Student Leadership and Activities hosted a Fat Tuesday celebration in the student center with free red beans and rice, moon pies, and beads.
by Lionel Haynes Jr With prices within any student’s budget, the Palafox Market offers a variety of local produce and products most Saturday mornings, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., in downtown Pensacola. More than 70 vendors provide everything from homemade food to local art. The market is located at the Martin Luther King Plaza on…
by Danielle Provau The “Twilight” series is a guilty pleasure for adults. Readers love this series, but no one wants to actually admit it. Author Stephanie Meyer has a knack for writing for teens. She took an unobtrusive, average teenage girl and changed her life forever. She made sure that her main character Bella could…
by Danielle Provau The Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company lit the Ashmore Auditorium on fire with their passion for the fiery Flamenco dance style on Jan. 14, 2013. The group performed two sets, showcasing the dancers and musicians respectively, in front of a sold out audience. Before the show, the beautifully dressed dancers were practicing their…
New Orleans instrumentalists Galactic performed at The Vinyl Music Hall on Jan. 15, 2013. The band, which specializes in funk grooves, works with a revolving group of guest vocalists rather than having a lead singer. For their Pensacola show, the featured vocalist was Corey Glover of Living Color, best known for the ’90s hits “Cult…
Student Activities will present two Free Movie Nights featuring The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 on Thursday, Jan. 24 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 on Thursday, Feb. 7. Both films will begin at 6 p.m. in the Pensacola campus student center. Based on the bestselling vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer, The…
Rebecca Byers The Corsair The Pensacola Symphony Orchestra performed at the Pensacola Saenger Theater in downtown Pensacola, Fl, on Nov. 3. The theme of the concert, French Impressions, featured a variety of musical numbers written by French composers Maurice Ravel and Georges Bizet. Richard Jernigan, a performing arts professor at Pensacola State College, is one…
The following won first place in the Expository/Argumentative Essay division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. Hunter Brown Tidal Wave: Why Books Are Solid Ground in the Sea of Cyber Chaos Thanks to the Internet, ours has become the Information Age. Torrents…
David Mamet’s new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. It’s November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith’s chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money’s running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the…
The following won first place in the Humanities/Literature division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. By Lauren Massey Blake’s Implications of “Innocence” and “Experience” William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience~ is a collection of poems divided into the categories mentioned…
The following won first place in the Poetry division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. by Lauren Massey Regarding Last Sunday When we watched that horse die, I had a better view than you did. I could see him kick…
The following won second place in the Humanities/Literature division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. Carla Courtney PAINTING WITH WORDS: A COMPARISON OF AUTHORS TO ARTISTS If a picture paints a thousand words, then it can also be said that…
The following won second place in the Poetry division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. by Brooke Martin The Course of a Relationship Like the flu, It can begin with just a touch. Once you‘re infected, It can take only days to…
The following tied for third place in the Poetry division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. Luke Bremner Bubba Dew sits atop green blades laced with yellow. Thick oaks pour Spanish moss in gobs outlining open strips of manicured Bermuda and…
The following tied for third place in the Poetry division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. Samantha Shields Tag. He covered his mouth to hush the panting breaths he took. Leaning his bare back against the shed, he re-formed his small…
The following won third place in the Humanities/Literature division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. Rachel Girouard An Admirable Gambler Author Bret Harte is best known for his story, “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” in which the main character John…
The following won second place in the Expository/Argumentative Essay division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. by Elise Gerard CONSEQUENTIALLY CURIOUS “I wonder what’ll happen if I do this.” I thought to myself as I held a large, pink can of…
The following won first place in the Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. By Emily Krzan “The Scarlet Cloak” “Ohhh it’s so lovely, Mutti!” Ulrika squealed as she delicately ran her fingers down the length…
Travis DeSimone Corsair I am not really into horror films. Maybe it is because I was raised on a steady diet of slasher flicks, but nothing seems to be shocking to me any more. What makes a horror movie truly stand out to me is a sense of tension, suspense. It takes more than blood…
Travis DeSimone The Corsair Naoki Urasawa may just be one of the best writers in the manga industry right now. With a focus on characters and story telling rather than all the over wrought nonsense you find in most modern anime and manga, Urasawa has changed the game. I am a big fan of his…
The following won second place in the Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. by Xzavyer Whittle The Price They Pay It was raining. Not the usual droplets but large, peculiar ones. The darkness of February…
The following won third place in the Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. by Hope Hall Friend of Mine My name is Avery Sparrow, and I work with the Circus. It’s a menial job really, picking…
The following won third place in the Expository/Argumentative Essay division of the Walter Spara Writing Contest sponsored by the Department of English and Communications in the spring semester, 2012. by Travis Swann The Godfather: Cultural Value One may not have believed that a movie, produced in 1972, involving an entwinement of violence and family love…
Travis DeSimone. The Corsair. Anyone who has seen Mad Men knows what the buzz is all about. Good writing, convincing acting, great sets, terrific costumes, and an aesthetic that makes you just want to kick back and enjoy an Old Fashioned with a Lucky Strike. The critically acclaimed show created by Matthew Weiner has gone on…
Travis DeSimone. The Corsair. Every time the seasons change I do a couple of things. I start shopping for appropriate clothes, maybe go for a swim, or start looking for my favorite seasonal foods. Another thing I do is look up the Anime schedules for the season approaching. Spring has sprung. SEASONAL CHART As these…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Let me go on record and say that I am not a big fan of reality television. The only kind of reality shows I can stomach are documentaries. I found a show recently that captivated me, Call Of The Wildman. The show follows the adventures of Ernie Lee Brown Jr. A.K.A. The…
Travis DeSimone The Corsair Most readers have been in love before. Most of have fallen out of love as well. Typically when we lose a lover it is through a nasty break up or some logistical issue, but sometimes death intervenes. What would you do to bring a dead lover back to life? This is…
Tim Ajmani The Corsair There’s only been one series of books that has captivated my interest and desire to finish reading each as soon as possible. That is the story of Harry Potter. Well, that is, up until now. When I started to read Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, I experienced the same feeling; I…
Shanna Wells The Corsair “Thank you… Alright, you’re ruining the show. Thank you for clapping at what my parents are ashamed of,” said Daniel Tosh, a preacher’s son, as he walked onto the stage during his successful tour in 2010. Tosh, a comedian named one of the “10 Comics to Watch” in 2005 by Variety…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. It is that time of year again, as spring rolls around festival season begins. SXSW is currently in swing in Austin Texas, and while I may not be able to make it I wanted to highlight some artists there. A-Track Diplo Le Castlevania Daedelus Purity Ring Pictureplane YACHT Grimes Dive Mr. Muthafuckin…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Last year around June, Minneapolis 2 piece Elite Gymnastics released a double sided ep RUIN 1 and 2. Although they had been around the scene for a while this EP brought them a lot of international attention, being praised on Pitchfork and Stereogum. When I heard RUIN 1 I was instantly hooked. Washed…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. If anyone reads this section, then they know that I am a big fan of alternative business models in the world of multimedia. Whether it be micro transactions for a movie that circumvent the big publishers, or a band releasing their album on a “pay what you like” model, I am a big…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. The Book Group is a BBC4 show that aired for two seasons from 2002 until 2003. The Book Group is an interesting blend of comedy and drama, while having funny moments I felt like it had a more serious tone. The show was written and directed by Annie Griffin who also wrote…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. The Mike Leigh film Naked really struck a chord in me. Johnny flees Manchester for London after he rapes a young woman. Upon arriving in London he wanders around meeting strangers and talking with them. These scenes are more like vehicles for the film makers to question religion, and philosophy. Johnny is a…
Asia Rodgers The Corsair Last Tuesday, my and family and I made our way to Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and Have Nots” at the Pensacola Civic Center. Like many people who planned on attending the play, I, myself thought that the world’s best grandmother, Madea, was going to be in the place. But, that happened…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. This last weekend I found myself in beautiful New Orleans for the 57th annual South Eastern Psychology Association’s conference. Fate had it that this wonderful groups of doctors and mavericks had planned the conference for the same weekend as Mardi Gras: very fortuitous. In 1955 the SEPA was established and originally allowed…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. We Need To Talk about Kevin is a twisted and heart rending story about a Mother, Eva, ( Tilda Swinton ) coming to terms with her son ( Ezra Miller ) committing an act of mass murder at his local high school. Based on the 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. On Monday night Vinyl Music Hall was packed. People had come from hither and yon to see Liturgy, Sleigh Bells, and Diplo. The three have recently embarked on the Paradise Lost tour across Florida, from Pensacola to Miami. Naturally I was shocked to find out that Sleigh Bells were going to be…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have a truly twisted view of the world. As twisted as their vantage point may be they relay a sincerity that is missed in most forms of television, in most forms of comedy. They lampoon everything from public access shows to infomercials to our celebrity obsessed culture. Their…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Over the weekend I watched a documentary that has sort of shaken me up a little bit. Director Sean Donnelly brings us a startling picture of obsession, desperation, isolation, and unrequited love in his documentary I Think We’re Alone Now. The film chronicles the lives of Jeff Turner and Kelly McCormick, two troubled…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Every once in a while you see a movie so dark that it changes the way you perceive black comedies. A Film With Me In It did that for me. Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon and starring Mark Doherty as Mark, an actor out of work who is holding on to the last…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. A lot of great albums came out this last year. 2011 was a good one for all the dancers, hipsters, and DJ’s. Every so often you hear something that you didn’t even know you needed, something that hooks you like an eel and keeps you stuck in the bin. Electricity is blood.…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Year of the Dragon, baby. Everyone has probably made their resolutions already, maybe even defaulted on them at this point. Here in the west we celebrate the new year on the first of January. It is like a dessert holiday for Christmas. Every one makes a bunch of promises…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Some days waking up is very hard, I don’t want to interact with people even on a good day. Sometimes I want to indulge in the finer things in life, like $1.99 wine and about 32 smokes. A splash of water on the face is a shower, and brushing my teeth is…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. This morning I woke up at a crude hour. Nearly seven AM and I had an impassable gap between then and ten thirty. With nothing to do and no way I could return to my sleeping, I did something I had planned on doing for a while. I got down to brass…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. Louis CK is a funny man. He gets paid to share his special form of bitter cynicism with the world. He has a hit show on FX, was a long time writer for Conan O’Brien, and directed and wrote the undervalued gem Pootie Tang. Love or hate the man’s comedic perspective, he…
Raymond Knott. Corsair. Between playing an amazing show at De Luna Fest, sharing a tour with Sleigh Bells that will be stopping at our very own Vinyl Music Hall, and co-producing one of my favorite collaborative DJ projects, Major Lazer, I can’t really seem to get away from Diplo lately. Major Lazer is one of…
Rochard By Recoil games Genre: Similar to Metroidvania, but more combat-oriented. Rating: None, probably Teen for Mild Language and Violence John Rochard, captain of a mining operation employed by multi-planetary conglomerate SkyRig, is not having a good day. Upon revealing an unexpected find on an asteroid, Rochard reports it to his superior, Maximilan. A day…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. I don’t find myself at the movie theaters very often lately. Many people complain about the price but for me it is an entirely different issue. I see Hollywood pushing things on us like Adam Sandler’s latest exploitation known as Jack and Jill, or re branding something like The Smurfs and it makes me sick.…
Raymond Knott. Corsair. The Hood Internet’s first official album is up via Mishka NYC, and I must say I am so eager to crack into this. These guys are two of my favorite mashup artists circling the blogosphere, and they’re always buzzworthy. Outside of that, these two have been here twice in the last year,…
by Raymond Knott Star Wars:The Old Republic Beta Impressions A New Hope? As a seasoned MMO player, I definitely didn’t know what to expect from Star Wars:The Old Republic. On the one hand, I’m a shameless fanboy for all things Bioware: Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Jade Empire; they pretty much…
Travis DeSimone. Corsair. In this age of gaming, most titles that come out are high definition blockbusters with bloodlust. So, I was pleasantly surprised last week when I sat down and started a game of Minecraft. This game really shines amongst the competition. Minecraft was released on PC in 2009 and has since gone on…
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations By Ubisoft Genre: 3rd-person Action-adventure Rating: Mature (Blood, Language, Mild Sexual Themes, Violence) Desmond Miles is in trouble. He’s fallen into a coma following the events of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood; I imagine being mentally manipulated by a super-powerful alien, one of a race who claims to have created the human race, could…
Danika Campfield The Corsair Pensacola State College’s performing arts department put on a fall production of the well known Broadway musical Chicago. Chicago is a racy, controversial musical based in the 1920’s Prohibition-era. This play sports two strong female leads, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, who are at each other’s throats fighting their way to…
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword By Nintendo Genre: Third-person action-adventure Rating: Everyone 10+ (Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence) In the spirit of celebrating The Legend of Zelda’s 25th Anniversary, Nintendo’s released its newest installment in the storied, epic series. As always you take on the role of a young man who’s destined to…
Jurassic Park: The Game By TellTale Games Genre: Cinematic action/adventure Rating: Teen (Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Tobacco, Violence) Back in the early 90s, there was written a book by the late, great Michael Crichton, about a Latin American island that’s become home to strange and exciting experiments concerning dinosaurs and related species.…
Saints Row: The Third By THQ and Volition Genre: Third-person open-world action-adventure The Saints Row series has long been compared to and connected with its better-known cousin, Grand Theft Auto; while Saints Row began with mildly over-the-top antics, and progressed on into full-blown insanity, Grand Theft Auto has remained mainly serious and mainstream through its…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim By Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Genre: Open-world RPG Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol It’s here! The most eagerly-anticipated RPG for many followers of the epic Elder Scrolls series has arrived. Is it worth the hype and all the positive feedback? Oh, yes,…
The Elder Scrolls: A Retrospective With the imminent release of the long-awaited fifth installment in the award-winning series, The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim, I thought it prudent to go back and explore the series and see where it’s taken us in the past, so that we may better understand the impact of this monumental open-world…
Aquaria By Bit Blot, LLC Genre: Action-Adventure/Underwater Metroidvania! Not rated but I would guess an Everyone 10+ for Mild Violence. Another intensely relaxing game that puts me in the exploration mood, Aquaria has been described by some as Ecco the Dolphin (a classic SEGA Genesis underwater title) meets Metroidvania, my overall favorite genre of 2D…
Sonic Generations By SEGA and SONIC TEAM Genre: Action-Adventure Rating: Everyone (Comic Violence) Another homage to old-school gaming sees us return to our favorite blue hedgehog and his friends on a strange yet very humorous and self-referential journey through time, as Sonic of old and of new finally meet! A malevolent being, intruding upon what…
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet By Shadow Planet Productions and Fuelcell Games Genre: Action-Adventure/Metroidvania! Rating: Everyone! Yet another wonderful exploration title in the vein of that blended genre that’s come to be known, over the years, as Metroidvania, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet features exactly what its title would suggest; a Shadow Planet that twists and corrupts…
Halloween Games With the Halloween season just behind us, I thought it best to look at a couple of games that have that ‘scary’ theme about them. Be warned: they couldn’t be more different! One of them deals directly with that most beloved (to some) of holidays and is quite whimsical and funny, as per…
Rabecca Rogers The Corsair Pensacola State College seeks high praise for their arts and theatre performances this semester. Hoping to fall nothing short of a standing ovation and honorable review, Don Snowden, the department head of music and theatre and Vivian Spencer, gallery director for the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, have planned…
Batman: Arkham City By Warner Bros. Entertainment, Rocksteady Studios Genre: Free-roaming, third-person action-adventure Rating: Teen for Alcohol Reference, Blood, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Tobacco, Violence Two years ago around this time, Batman: Arkham Asylum was released, and chronicled the Caped Crusader’s struggle against the Joker, Poison Ivy, Bane, Scarecrow and others on the…
iOS 5 On October 5, one of the world’s leading visionaries was unfortunately taken from us. Exactly one week later, the latest iteration of his creative vision was released to the public, proving what I said before that Steve Jobs’ legacy will go on for a long, long time. Formerly known only as iPhone OS,…
Warhammer 40,000 By Games Workshop, game adaptations developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ To be honest, I never really got into the tabletop/pen-and-paper RPG craze. With all due respect to those who play, of course: a whole lot of numbers, statistics and variables to manage doesn’t really seem like my idea of fun.…
Breakfast: Fuel for Thought by Torie Hutchinson The sunrise is a signal for most people to wake up for the new day. Grabbing a bite to eat after waking up has become a normal tradition. According to Better Health Magazine, “Breakfast is considered an important meal because it breaks the overnight fasting period, replenishes your…
Let Me In By Hammer Films Starring Cody Smit-McPhee and Chloe Grace Moretz Genre: Horror Rating: R for pervasive horror violence, gratuitous profanity spoken by teens, and a short scene of nudity I was only in the mood for a slasher flick. I didn’t expect to be moved as much as I was. This remake…
Temple Grandin By HBO Films Starring Claire Danes, Catherine O’Hara, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn Genre: Drama, biography I recently had the great pleasure of watching the biopic of the most prominent advocate of autism support I’ve ever seen, and a woman whom I admire greatly. Temple Grandin may look and sound a lot different from…
Psychonauts By Double Fine Productions Genre: Third-person adventure/platformer Rating: Teen for Cartoon Violence, Crude Humor, Language Although the game Psychonauts hit way after my youth, the impressionable period in which I loved anything and everything, I still feel very emotional in regards to it. Merely recalling it brings a tear to my eye, and perhaps…
SEGA Dreamcast Collection The SEGA Dreamcast. Ah, do I have fond memories of this system. Sporting a 128-bit CPU (as opposed to Nintendo 64’s 64-bit), this system introduced us to many innovations in the console market, including: Sonic in 3D with Sonic Adventure; the most impressive 2D fighter for years after its release, Marvel vs.…
Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road By Obsidian/Bethesda Softworks The Fallout: New Vegas DLC story arc comes to a close with this, the fourth DLC pack… Ulysses, the other Courier Six who refused the job of delivering the Platinum chip, leaving it to the player character, has now made his way to the Divide, a land…
Mirror’s Edge By Electronic Arts, DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment) Genre: First-person platforming with parkour (free-running) Rating: Teen for Blood, Language, Violence Stark cityscapes and fast movements await you in this early 2009 game from the Swedish makers of the Battlefield series of tactical shooters! Faith is a Runner, an illicit courier who, along…
Oldschool FPS’s! I’ve talked before about my disillusionment with the games industry ignoring its roots, and praised independent game developers for making games which are more or less tributes to those old times. Well, again our indie friends don’t fail to entertain, and here I’ll discuss two first-person shooters just released this week that definitely…
Veronica da Voe Goldsmith The Corsair Starting a new semester of school, whether you are a new or returning student, can be a challenge. You’re faced with a ton of decisions. What should I major in? What classes should I take? Should I join a campus organization or club? The last thing you want to…
by Raymond Knott Few bands have been able to achieve the widespread acclaim and notoriety that Ladytron enjoys while simultaneously managing to avoid the watering down that comes with attaining huge commercial success. Touring with such a varied lineup, including Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails, The Presets, Simian, Franz Ferdinand, and The Faint, even doing…
Dead Island By Techland, Deep Silver Genre: First-person survival horror RPG Multiplayer: up to 4 players! Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol The beautiful tropical island resort of Banoi has recently gotten a whole lot deadlier… The relentless hordes of the undead have somehow…
Velvet Assassin By Replay Studios and SouthPeak Games Genre: Third-person sneaker Rating: Mature for Blood, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Drugs Back during World War II, Violette Szabo was a British secret agent in charge of a French Resistance in Nazi-occupied France. She performed two covert ops missions before being captured, interrogated and executed…
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Classic TV has long been one of my loves, including this gem, which is available both on DVD and through Netflix! The story goes like this: Begun in 1988 on a local cable-access channel in Minnesota by writer and comedian Joel Hodgson, and friends Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Josh Weinstein, Patrick…
Paul Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and the voice of Seth Rogen Genre: Sci-fi comedy Rating: R for language including sexual references, and some drug use Around 70 or so years ago, an alien crash-landed on Earth, and after being the guest of our government for as many years, decided to escape. He finds the…
Devil May Cry series By Capcom One of the best console-to-PC ports of a popular game is currently available on Steam, so why not look at it and its prequels? This is the kind of twitch-action I can get into, similar to the previously-reviewed Bayonetta by the same creator; it’s got a great style, a…
Deus Ex By Eidos/Square Enix Genre: First-person RPG Since 2000, there’s been one series of RPG with the deepest, most politically charged story, the most diverse means of game play, and the most intense high technology on display. That series is Deus Ex, named after the Latin term “Deus ex machina,” or ‘god from the…
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom By Blue Byte, most recently distributed by Ubisoft Genre: Real-time strategy For almost twenty years, a German-based software company, Blue Byte, has been manufacturing some of the best-regarded “underdog” strategy titles, the Settlers series. This series, while it may have a storyline in some of its installments, and…
HOARD By Big Sandwich Games Genre: Top-down Action-strategy Rated: Everyone for Fantasy Violence Downloadable Yet another independent title finds its way onto my computer, and like most others I’ve tried, this one is really great. You take control of a dragon! How awesome! And your goal is to amass more gold than all the other…
The Chronicles of Riddick Way back in 2000, director David Twohy brought together actors Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David and several others, and told us the far-future tale of a crew of civilians whose freighter was damaged in a freak meteor storm above a white-hot, desolate moon lit by three suns. Now…
From Dust By Ubisoft Montpelier Genre: God game (strategy) Rating: E10+ for mild violence. A fantastical, mythological re-telling of the distant origins of man, From Dust sets you as the Breath, a godlike being represented by a simple cursor on screen, but capable of manipulating the elements of Water, Earth and Fire to reshape the…
Bastion By Supergiant Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Genre: Action RPG Caelondia. Once a country by degrees gritty and industrious, but also beautiful and idyllic. That all changed when the Calamity struck. Something caused the world to simply shatter, its people turned to statues of ash, with no hope of repair, and so the ending…
Oddworld: The story of a unique, though maligned franchise. Way back in the late 1990s, a company founded by special-effects experts called Oddworld Inhabitants began a years-long journey to tell us tales of the adventures of non-human, yet sentient species on a bizarre, diverse planet known as Oddworld. The first in this offbeat series, Abe’s…
LIMBO By Playdead Genre: Platforming/exploration “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy enters LIMBO” – honestly, this sparse description given on Steam’s Store Page for this wonderfully understated, creepy game is all you need know of the story when you start playing. To say much more of it would be horribly spoiling what is an…
Two Tribes Games Another independent game studio has released a three-pack of its offerings on Steam, the game delivery service of which I’ve sung praises in the past. The name of this group brings to mind a song by the 80s new wave band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and while they claimed that when two…
Captain America: The First Avenger From Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios Starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving and Tommy Lee Jones Genre: Superhero-style action Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action Captain America is one of my favorite superheroes; simply patriotic, determined and very able to get the job done. But as we…
Singularity By Raven Software Genre: First-person shooter with Time Control Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language In this game seemingly inspired by BioShock, you play a Marine, Nathan Renko, sent to the Russian island of Katorga-12 on a reconnaissance mission. Back in 1950, strange experiments were run here concerning a newly…
And now it’s time to talk about perhaps the best form of gaming ever: gaming for charity! In 2010, a group of independent game developers banded together with another one, Wolfire Games, to deliver their games in connection with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that defends online rights, as well as Child’s…
Chantelise: A Tale of Two Sisters By EasyGameStation Genre: Japanese Action-RPG From the makers of Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, comes this more traditional action-RPG in the vein of, say, Secret of Mana or even, perhaps, a more primitive form of Final Fantasy XII (the behind the back view definitely lends itself to this). It’s…
Ghostbusters: The Video Game By Terminal Reality and Atari Genre: Third person action/adventure Rating: T for Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language If you’re like me, you have fond memories of that excellent pair of science-fiction-fantasy movies from the late 80s/early 90s, Ghostbusters and its sequel. They saw a ragtag trio of “paranormal investigators” (everyone…
Fallout: New Vegas – Old World Blues article by Wade Manns Yet again Obsidian brings to us another piece of the puzzle that is the Courier’s life in the Mojave Wasteland. This time out the storyline and happenings are far quirkier than you might expect for an installment of Fallout; it seems to draw as…
Travel back in your mind, if you can, to the mid-80s. Travel back to your local mall, and enter the arcade. Crowded, noisy, maybe smoky? Filled with flashing lights and sounds of primitive audio processors? I am filled with a rush of nostalgia whenever I think of the classic arcade; 20 or more cabinets of…
Splinter Cell series Tom Clancy, the renowned author of political action thriller novels, has carved out quite a little niche for himself in the world of computer gaming, most of his work being distributed by Ubisoft. From Rainbow Six and its many spinoffs (Ghost Recon, Vegas, Raven Shield), tactical first-person shooters; to HAWX and its…
Free to Play Games (F2P) and World of Warcraft (WoW)! article by Wade Manns Since the beginning of the Internet, there have existed free games: download them, play them, no big deal at all. Then came the Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games, which were quite the opposite: you paid a (usually hefty) fee up front,…
Sam and Max: The Adventure Games By LucasArts, then TellTale Games Genre: Graphical adventure Steve Purcell is a comic artist best known for releasing Sam and Max: Freelance Police in the late 80s. This comic series (and what I’ll be talking about, the games) follows the adventures of a detective dog who works for a…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 By Warner Bros. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson Genre: Magical fantasy Some say it’s the end of an era. It only lasted about ten years, though, so for cinema in general it’s a fairly small time frame, and arguably the literary potential can last indefinitely.…
Mary and Max (2009) Directed by Adam Elliot Starring the voice of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries Genre: Black comedy/drama Let’s get one thing straight, first: Whatever you may think of claymation – the technique used by (among others) Aardman, creators of the whimsical Wallace and Gromit series and movie…
Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII: The Beginning! By Zeboyd Games Here I was, just recently waxing near-rhapsodic on the virtues of old-school games for this very publication, when along come two of the best representatives of the Retraux game form I’ve ever seen! From independent developers Zeboyd come offerings that are…
Wolfenstein: A Retrospective Back in the 80s, a computer-game author named Silas Warner made what could be considered the world’s first stealth-action game: Castle Wolfenstein. Taking place at the height of World War II deep in Nazi Germany, the game doesn’t give you much of a backstory or even a name. Since the graphics don’t…
The King’s Speech Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush Genre: Drama/biopic Rating: R for some language. Here’s an excellent picture that delivers to us a dramatized look into the accession to the British throne of Albert Frederick Arthur George, or simply Bertie (Firth), Duke of York, who would become King George VI, shortly before the outbreak…
(pronounced the same, actually) I’ve played quite a few retro titles in my time, and for good reason: Retro, as well as more modern attempts to capture the retro feeling through graphics and/or sound (known as Retraux as a sort of portmanteau of Faux Retro), is one of my favorite styles of entertainment. The Seventies,…
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean By Travellers Tales and Disney Interactive Genre: LEGO-building, action-adventure Rating: E10+ for Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief Once again the venerable designers at Travellers Tales partner with a license holder to translate a property to the LEGO medium. This time, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean gets the treatment. It’s every bit…
Terraria By Re-Logic Genre: 2D sandbox action-adventure-puzzler-RPG? Not rated, but if it were it’d probably be E10+. Terraria is an extremely addictive sandbox game that supports co-op, and you will need your friends for this. You make your character from quite a few presets of color and basic look; you create a randomly-generated world, small,…
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings By CD Projekt RED Genre: RPG Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of books about the professional monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, have yielded two games for the PC thus far. The first…
Bulletstorm By Epic Games and People Can Fly Genre: First-person shooter Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol Kill with Skill! That’s always been a tenet of most first-person shooters. But here, it’s the main idea of the game! In Bulletstorm, you play Grayson Hunt,…
Red Faction: Armageddon By THQ and Volition Games Genre: Third-person shooter Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence The Red Faction series has long been a staple of the shooter genre, featuring revolutionary (at the time) destructible terrain ever since its first release as a first-person shooter back in 2001. Its second outing…
One of my great loves, as you may well know from my other articles, is the puzzle genre of games. These are for when you just need to kick back and enjoy solving problems at your own pace. Sure, there’s something to be said for fast-paced action and drama, but you can’t beat a refined,…
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator and a founder of the studio, Studio Ghibli, known for making films that appeal to young and old. Through the friendship and work of fellow director John Lasseter, known for his work at Pixar, Miyazaki’s films have received star-studded dubs (translations) and imports into the United States, for enjoyment…
Syberia By Microids Genre: Old-school graphical adventure! Rating: Teen for Mild Language, Use of Alcohol (second only has Mild Language) A rather odd story, but still an endearing one, as well as beautiful pre-rendered art and suitably epic music surrounds this grand adventure written by Belgian comic author Benoit Sokal, the first installment of which…
Alice: Madness Returns By EA and Spicy Horse Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence Back in 2000, a video game designer named American McGee released his take on a possible sequel to the classic Victorian-era books by Lewis Carroll, known as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through…
Duke Nukem Forever By Gearbox Software and 2K Games Genre: First-person shooter Players: 1, or up to 8 in multiplayer Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs and Alcohol The King is back; does he still reign? Spouting one-liners, kicking alien rear and…
When I first heard of Duke Nukem (not the Captain Planet character, of course), I was quite young; 12 to be exact. Duke was a pretty arrogant bad-boy hero type even back then, for how simple his first game, made back in 1991, was; bare-bones sci-fi story, simple blow-up-aliens-and-get-to-the-end gameplay, old-school EGA (16 colors at…
Tim Ajmani The Corsair I have personally seen the “Hangover” a billion times, and that’s not an exaggeration. So you can guess how excited I was when I heard that there was going to be a “Hangover: Part II”. I have been excited about many movie sequels before, such as “The Two Towers” and “Pirates…
Fallout: New Vegas DLC! War. War never changes. And neither does my love for this series. Brought back to life after ten years by Bethesda Softworks in 2008, and continued by Obsidian in 2010, the Post Atomic Role Playing Game never ceases to present a bleak yet continually enthralling vision of an alternate, irradiated, paranoid…
L. A. Noire By Rockstar Games and Team Bondi Genre: Third-person action/adventure Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence Ah, the hard-boiled detective world of the 1940s. The subject of many a detective novel by Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Elmore Leonard and others, this genre has a…
Travis Noonan Poetry – Third Place When my children ask how to ward off terrors brought on by darkness, I wilt suggest sleeping with two pillows: one under the head and the other wrapped tightly in their arms. “Treat the latter like a future lover. Tell it all of the things your mother’d never hear.”…
Ryan P. Quirk Poetry – Second Place I have traded in my humanity for a steady hand. Compassion for coolness. Curiosity for hatred. The scents of blood and gunpowder intoxicate me. A body, not a friend. I make a decision and he dies. Each bullet rips out part of my soul, The mark of a…
Carla Courtney Essay – First Place The issue of assisted suicide may be sensitive to some because of misinformation, unfounded fears, or even religious beliefs. Once addressed in a logical, unemotional manner, those concerns should dissipate leaving one to view the act as a kind, moral, and necessary choice when the situation warrants; and those…
Cameron J. Bell First Place Fiction He savagely bit into the fallen tree trunk, more to keep from crying out in pain than to actually affect his rather dire situation. Things were already bad enough without his shrieks of agony drawing predators in. That was assuming they hadn’t already caught a whiff of the blood-slick…
RANDALL WILLIAMS – The Corsair By Universal Pictures PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, sexual content and language. Well, the boys who love the racing thrill are back in this fifth iteration of the infamous series; and this one stands to possibly be the best film to come from it. The story starts…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Valve Software Genre: First-person puzzler There haven’t been too many really, really original science fiction stories lately. Even fewer which put YOU, the reader (or in this case, the player character), in as the protagonist. In this pair of incredible games, you play Chell, who is never really given…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By SEGA and Rebellion Genre: First-person shooter/sneaker Few things genuinely terrify me so much as the Xenomorphs of the Aliens franchise. It’s the look, as well as behavior, of the monstrous Xenomorphs, designed by surrealist artist H.R. Giger, which sets my heart pounding and adrenaline flowing when I watch the…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Electronic Arts and BioWare Genre: Epic Role-playing In the near future of the story of the human race, a strange weapons cache is discovered on Mars, one whose weapons employ a bizarre new technology involving accelerating the molecules in ordnance to very fast speeds via lowering their mass. This…
ENJOY MANY PLAYS AT ‘FESTIVAL OF ONE ACTS’ PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola State College Directing I class presents its annual “Festival of One Acts” for two nights. “Festival of One Acts” is 7:30 p.m. April 22-23 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. Each night features acts from six…
From Staff Reports PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola State College Art Student Honors Exhibit runs April 11-May 4 in the Visual Arts Gallery of the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts. The annual exhibition of student work represents the finest examples of ceramics, drawings, digital imaging, graphic design, jewelry, painting, photography, sculpture and video.…
WADE MANNS By LucasArts and Traveler’s Tales Games Genre: Third-person Lego-crossover action Star Wars has long been great fodder for video games, from the epic RPG Knights of the Old Republic (taking place 4,000 years before the first-released movie), to the RTS Empire at War (exploring rebel-versus-Empire skirmishes in detail from the movies and beyond),…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair Stacking By Double Fine Genre: third-person puzzle/action? Double Fine has a history of releasing games that are really fun but have some pretty weird concepts. The company, founded by former graphic adventure genius Tim Schafer, has been the launching ground for underdog titles that never seemed to get past the…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Bioware and Electronic Arts Genre: Role-playing The high-fantasy world of Ferelden is just about to get darker… As has happened many times in its past, a Blight sweeps the land, carrying with it evil, twisted creatures known as Darkspawn. Every land they touch becomes tainted and unlivable, as they…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair First-person shooters are definitely fun, allowing one to virtually kill dastardly enemies (or one’s friends) from behind a gun sight. Role-playing games are deep and involved and often have great stories. Fighting games are full of fast action and arouse a very competitive nature. So where do I turn when…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Activision and Beenox Genre: Third-person action/stealth Throughout the years, our favorite wall-crawler Spider-Man has appeared in many games, but few have explored the alternate continuities. (There was a very good Ultimate Spider-Man game a few years back, but no attempts since then). Now you get to experience four of…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Ubisoft Genre: Third-person action/exploration On the idyllic world of Hillys, things couldn’t really be better: beautiful seas, bright lights of the cities, and caves filled with treasure for the intrepid adventurer. A brave pair of giving souls operating out of a lighthouse in the middle of the vast ocean…
RANDALL J. WILLIAMS – The Corsair By DreamWorks Studios Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and for language. The incredible fight scenes and story make “I Am Number Four” a title worth seeing. Based off the book of the same name, this tale of super powered aliens vs aliens doesn’t disappoint. Earth…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Capcom Genre: Tag-team fighting Rating: T for Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Mild Language In the realm of fighting games, few series have developed as much of a following as the Capcom VS. series. But it didn’t start with the massive crossovers we see today… In 1994, Capcom released…
NANCY HAMILTON – The Corsair As I crested a hill near Los Angeles in Southern California, I was astounded to see hundreds and hundreds of giant yellow umbrellas dotting the valley and surrounding hills. Some were in groups and some stood alone, but all were amazing and bright in the sunshine, just begging the question……
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Visceral Games and Electronic Arts Genre: Third-person survival horror, objective-based multiplayer Players: Single-player, or up to 8 over EA’s servers Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language Ready to get the mining suit scared off you yet again? Then strap in and start up this sequel…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Electronic Arts Genre: Third-person survival horror Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language This incredibly atmospheric and scary survival horror science-fiction game, released back in 2008, has recently received a sequel, so why not go back where it all started, to the beginning of the nightmare?…
The past concerts have been oustandig, and with Sounding Rick coming ito the performance studio this friday, one could only expect the momentum to gain!
WADE MANNS – The Corsair Yet another awesome independent game developer, Hothead Games has quite a few more resources at its disposal than most. Its Creative Director was none other than Ron Gilbert, who created Maniac Mansion and the Secret of Monkey Island adventure games in the early 90s. The developer has so far released…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Telltale Games Genre: Episodic graphical adventure Players: 1 Rating: Teen for Alcoholic Reference, Language, Mild Violence Telltale, known for their brilliant graphical adventures in various franchises such as Homestar Runner, the popular but very weird cartoon website; Sam and Max, the dog-and-bunny detective comic and TV series; and (best…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair No other children’s book series in recent memory has captivated more hearts than J.K. Rowling’s epic seven-book saga focusing on the exploits of a simple, messy-haired, bespectacled young man with a scar on his forehead. Harry Potter spent his youth being bullied by his uncaring aunt and uncle, as well…
DYLAN THREADGILL – The Corsair Imagine receiving a call on your cell phone and on the other line is one of your favorite musicians. That is exactly what happened to Joe Abston. Abston was working at Hopjacks, a pizzeria and tap room directly next to what would become Vinyl Music Hall, where they welcomed small…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Microsoft Game Studios and Lionhead Studios Genre: Third-person action/RPG/strategy Rating: Mature for Blood, Language, Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol, Violence The Fable series has always been a favorite of mine, due to its action RPG roots; hack and slash to get experience and loot, sell it back in town,…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair Independent games, made by small development houses and usually only distributed online on platforms such as Steam, or even from the developer’s website, may have a singular focus, or appeal to a broad range of interests at once. With the lack of external quality control, you would think bugs may…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Lionsgate and Highway 61 Films Starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson Rated PG-13 for violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements. What would you do if your loved one were accused of a crime that you’re sure she didn’t commit? Would you do anything to get…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Ubisoft Genre: Third-person action/adventure Players: 1-8 (single/multiplayer modes) Rating: Mature for Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence. Through his many exploits, the Assassin, Desmond Miles’ Renaissance-era ancestor Ezio Auditore has become famous (or rather, infamous) for his charisma and skill, including prowess with his killing implements. But he can’t…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By Harmonix, MTV Games and EA Genre: Music Players: 1-7 (full band includes three vocalists, a guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboardist; also playable online!) Rating: Teen for Mild Lyrics, Mild Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol The rock is back! Rock Band 3 promises to change the face of music games…
BEN HOLCOMB – The Corsair Imaginative, zany, different, and unique all describe the sights and sounds of the Red Priest Baroque Quartet, which performed at the Ashmore Fine Arts Center Auditorium on Oct. 21. Michael Holcomb a former Pensacola State College student and music critic said, “it’s Mick Jagger meets Bach meets Broadway, a blend…
CORBIT KELLY – The Corsair The new sugar coated release from Tennessee brothers (and a cousin) Kings of Leon is the final straw for any hopes of returning to the southern grit and glory they once expelled from the simple chords and rusty tones, what exalted them in the beginning. Come around Sundown is another…
CORBIT KELLY – The Corsair The new sugar coated release from Tennessee brothers (and a cousin) Kings of Leon is the final straw for any hopes of returning to the southern grit and glory they once expelled from the simple chords and rusty tones, what exalted them in the beginning. Come around Sundown is…
WADE MANNS – The Corsair By 2K Games and Gearbox SoftwareGenre: First-person shooter/RPG Rating: Mature for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Strong Language. Players: 1-4 (single-player, cooperative) On the world of Pandora, violence and bloodshed is common. Some unmentioned past apocalypse has made this world into a gigantic rubbish tip; many hostile creatures…
Wade Manns- The Corsair Dead Rising 2 By Capcom and Blue Castle Games Genre: Third-person action/exploration Raing: M (Mature) for Blood and Gore, Use of Alcohol, Intense Violence, Language, Sexual Themes Players: 2-player co-op; up to 4 competitively Back in 2006, a game was released by Capcom, makers of one of my favorite series as…
Rebecca Byers – The Corsair Ludwig Von Beethoven once said “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” The first Brass and Wind Ensemble at Pensacola State College performed Thurs night, Oct 7, at a full Ashmore Auditorium in Building 8. “This was a very hard and challenging program,” Conductor Don Snowden, Director…
Dustin Toney-The Corsair The Institute of Architects-Northwest Florida and Society of Design Administration’s 3rd Annual American CANstruction was considered a success. A competition between engineering, architecture and interior design firms from around the area, CANstruction left six statues, made entirely from packaged food to be donated to MANNA Food Pantries for distribution in Escambia and Santa…
Matt Leight- The Corsair On the September 16th airing of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart announced that he would be hosting a rally on Oct 30, 2010 at Washington D.C.’s National Mall. The purpose of this rally, according to Stewart, is “a clarion call for rationality” for the 70 to 80 percent of…
Wade Manns – The Corsair If you’re an old school gamer like me, you’ve no doubt heard of Castlevania, the storied vampire and monster slaying game series. That’s an odd title, no doubt, but those who have enjoyed video games since the beginning know what it means: solid action, great music and (even since…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Just Cause 2 by Square ENIX Genre: third person freeroaming, action-adventure Rating: Mature for Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Sexual Themes, Violence. If you’ve read my articles for a while, you’ll know that I really like the Grand Theft Auto series. Not for the actions of crime, or its extreme…
Jeremy Torres – The Corsair Tim Burton’s new 3-D version of “Alice in Wonderland” is absolutely visually dazzling. This is the sequel to the 1951 Disney film of the same name that featured characters whose purpose was to tease, puzzle, and torment a young girl named Alice. “What a child’s film,” I thought of the…
Only the Dead See the End of War Vice Records, 2010 Rating: 8 out of 10 Connor Lukkar – The Corsair “Only the Dead See the End of War” is an apt name for Acrassicauda’s debut EP; coming from Baghdad, they know a thing or two about war. Formed in 2001, Acrassicauda (from the Latin…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Final Fantasy XIII By Square Enix Genre: Role-playing Rating: Teen for mild language, suggestive themes and violence. Release: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 The epic (and epically long) “Final Fantasy” series now has 13 games under its belt. All of these games feature a band of disparate adventurers banding together to…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Dante’s Inferno by Electronic Arts and Visceral Games Genre: Third-person action/exploration Rating: Mature, for blood and gore, intense violence, sexual content and nudity. Between 1308 and 1321, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote his epic poem, which would come to be known as “The Divine Comedy.” This was a three-part…
by Wade Manns – The Corsair Star Trek OnlineBy Cryptic StudiosGenre: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Gamerating: Teen (fantasy violence, mild suggestive themes) I was recently given the opportunity to try out a 10-day free trial of “Star Trek Online,” the new massively multiplayer online RPG set in the Star Trek universe. As first MMO’s go,…
by Dana Whitten – The Corsair On Feb. 5, the Artel art gallery, at 505 South Adams St., hosted a most unique show accepting all types of work from various artists. They called it “The Neo Realistic Abstract Expressionistic Romantic Modern Surrealistic Impressionistic Show.” The exhibit runs until March 5 and the gallery is open…
by Richard Barlow – The Corsair “A truly wonderful thing about cinema is that it is an art form that serves as a medium by which any and all other art forms can be displayed. However, it is the mastery, and more importantly the blend of these art forms that determines the quality of the…
by Wade Manns – The Corsair Genre: First-person shooter/adventure Rating: M (for violence, blood, gore and strong language) In the field of video games, few settings serve as effective dystopias like the Rapture of the BioShock series. This underwater city was founded by the wealthy industrialist Andrew Ryan, a staunch objectivist who believed that mankind…
Studio Amped continues this Friday with a performance by the Jeremy Gibson Band named after the main vocalist and guitarist. The band plans to play songs from their new album, “Unsuspecting Will,” which will be sold at the event for $10. Band members Jeremy Gibson (vocals, guitar and keyboard), Josh Sullivan (guitar and keyboards), Jesse…
Kyra Wood- The Corsair Global pianist sensation Sara Daneshpour, 21, gave the first performance of Rolf’s Piano Series Jan. 30 in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. Rolf’s Piano Series is a donation sponsored effort to spark more appreciation toward the classical art form. Daneshpour delivered her piano technique interpreting artists such as Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff,…
Kay Forrest – The Corsair Paramount (PG-13) Directed by Peter Jackson Starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci I must admit, I’ve never actually read “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold (although I now plan on doing so). My desire to see the movie stems from a much nerdier reason: Peter Jackson directed…
by Wade Manns – The Corsair Bayonetta by SEGA and Platinum Games Players: 1 Genre: Third-person action Rating: Mature for blood and gore, intense violence, partial nudity, strong language, suggestive themes Release 1/05/10 —– One genre of video games that I didn’t really think I’d be into is the twitch action genre; in this genre,…
Ricky Barlow – The Corsair Like so many of today’s movies, there has been a lot of pre-release buzz floating around the fan (a.k.a. nerd) community. “Sherlock Holmes” seems to have generated some rather negative feedback. However, after having seen it for myself, I would have to respectfully disagree. Now I admit, this movie isn’t…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed II by Ubisoft Genre: Third-person action-adventure-platforming Rating: M for strong violence, sexual situations, blood, and strong language. Back in 2007, the software company Ubisoft, which had previously done more realistically-themed stealth-heavy action games such as Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six and their sequels, came out with…
Wade Manns – The Corsair “Star Trek” Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban Genre: science fiction. Rating: PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content. Regardless of how old one is, almost everyone has been affected by, or at least heard of, the phenomenon that is “Star Trek.” Whether we’ve only…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony by Rockstar Games and Rockstar North Genre: third person driving/action/shooting (downloadable content) Players: single player, or up to 16 players over Xbox LIVE. Rating: M (blood, intense violence, partial nudity, strong language, strong sexual content, use of drugs and alcohol) Throughout…
Paul Smith – The Corsair It’s hard to digest the fact that this decade is rapidly coming to a close. It seems as if just yesterday we were still partying like it was 1999 (please forgive this unavoidable Prince reference). But, alas, the decade has passed gracefully into the annals of the history books as…
Wade Manns – The Corsair The Beatles: Rock Band by EA, MTV Games and Harmonix with the cooperation of Apple Corps Genre: Music Players: up to 4 locally or via Xbox LIVE Rating: T for Mild Lyrics, Tobacco Reference The Beatles is one of my favorite bands of all time. That magical combination of four…
Wade Manns – The Corsair “Wet” developed by Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M) published by Bethesda Softworks rating: Mature, for blood and gore, drug reference, intense violence, sexual content, strong language. Wet is a stylized 70s-style third-person action shooter, complete with film grain on the main playing field, filmstrips intruding upon the gameplay and cutscenes,…
Timm Showalter – The Corsair Shinedown fans attending the show this Friday, Oct. 16, at 7:30 p.m. inside the Civic Center might think they have passed through a time warp back to 1985 when they hear Eddie Murphy’s, “Party All the Time.” Have no fear; this is just the precursor to the rockin’ out Las…
Paul Smith – The Corsair “Why not be utterly changed into fire?” asks Aaron Weiss, the lead singer of mewithoutYou, on his band’s fourth studio album, it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright. The question is posed repeatedly at the close to the awesomely epic track, “The King Beetle on…
Paul Smith – The Corsair It was October of last year; PJC student Patrick Hudson sat alone inside the End of the Line Café waiting for his friend, former PJC student Andrew Gartman, to join him. They were to discuss how, together, they would implement Gartman’s idea for creating a local poetry group. Gartman never…
Wade Manns – The Corsair Brutal Legend Produced by Electronic Arts and Double Fine Productions Genre: third person action, real-time strategy Rating: mature (blood, language, suggestive themes) Jack Black is one of the most entertaining and unique actors on the Hollywood scene today; he started work in the comedic band he founded alongside Kyle Gass…
Alyson Webb Published: January 24, 2006 As long as there have been humans, there has been art. From ancient cave drawings to primitive written language, we have always been trying to connect to each other. Art is one of the best ways of expressing oneself and if you think you don’t like art or don’t…
Melissa Brown Published: December 6, 2006 The faculty of PJC’s Visual Arts department has an exhibition in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center through December 13. At the exhibition reception, Managing Editor Melissa Brown sat down with several of the faculty artists to discuss the importance of the show and the meaning behind their work.
by Wade Manns Back in 1900, L. Frank Baum released his timeless children’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Over 100 years, many sequels, and many adaptations later, the 1939 movie version, simply called The Wizard of Oz, is still the most popular rendition of Baum’s classic. In September, that venerable movie celebrated its 70th…
by Timm Showalter Oct. 2 – 4 over 35 songwriters will be rockin’ out at Pensacola Beach for the first ever Annual Pensacola Songwriters’ Festival. For those who do not know exactly what a songwriter is: a songwriter is someone who writes the music that major artists then perform. Some of the songwriters attending this…
Kay Forrest – The Corsair The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church at 1720 W Garden St. will hold its 50th annual Greek Festival Oct. 16-18. Admission is free. In addition to authentic Greek food and dancing, church tours will be offered and souvenirs will be sold. Though locals attend the festival for many reasons, one of…
by Wade Manns The Informant! From Warner Bros., Participant Media, and Groundswell Productions Starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, and Melanie Lynskey Rated R for language. You might’ve heard in the 1990s about a certain scandal that went on among several agricultural conglomerates, involving the food additive known as lysine. This was a price-fixing…
by Wade Manns Before 1977, videogames were rather boring affairs. Each unit had built-in game software and used dedicated hardware, which meant that each game had to be very simple. The technically-minded among us probably think of the classic arcade game Pong when I talk about these times, and they would be right, but consoles…
Cynthia Munoz Published: November 22, 2006 From the producers of “Wallace and Gromit,” “Flushed Away” is a sewage floating tale of two mice on an adventure: one to make money, the other on a quest to go home. This sweet tale of how bitter acquaintances become friends through trust and teamwork is raking in revenues…
Ashley Porter Published: November 8, 2006 Stranger than Fiction starring Will Farrell, Emma Thomas and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is about a man named, Harold Crick, and the wrist watch that he dismisses as being an ordinary. Harold Crick is a very, very ordinary man who’s every step is calculated and time precisely by his wrist watch. …
Ashley Porter Published: November 8, 2006 “Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” staring, Sacha Baron Cohen is an absolutely hilarious documentary style film about a journalist named Borat Sagdiyev. Borat is sent on an assignment to better the nation of Kazakhstan by documenting the ways of the American people. …
Cynthia Munoz Published: November 8, 2006 The trilogy has been hacking its way through the box office since the first film was released. The lip biting, face turning, eye shutting debut of “Saw III” opened in theaters on Oct. 27, with profits exceeding $33.6 million during its opening weekend. To “Saw” fans, it will be…
Heather Madden Published: November 8, 2006 Do you know that joke where someone walks into a bar and there is a Priest, Jewish man, and an Atheist woman? Well, the joke was not actually a joke. And the bar was actually a church and a coffee shop. The Factory church and coffee shop is a…
Ernest Clemons Jr. Published: November 8, 2006 Many people want to start their own record label or business in the music industry but do not know what it takes to have a successful business. For some, attending college has helped. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University student Tuesday Donaldson, a junior majoring in Public Relations, has…
Jennifer Rich-Neal Published: November 8, 2006 Through the service learning approach, a series of bonus features has been produced. Prior to each curtain call of the musical, the audience will be treated to a 10-minute presentation of various aspects surrounding the reality that was World War II. PJC students, faculty and patrons of WWII have…
Paul Smith – The Corsair Everyone enjoys a good conspiracy theory—a wild romp through fanciful images of shadow and light at war behind the scenes of ordinary life. But once you peel back the layers and do some proper research, those tales of secret brotherhoods, aliens, and government cover-ups just seem so puerile and inane.…
Trials HD, for Xbox 360 developed by RedLynx for Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade ESRB rating: T. by Wade Manns Trials HD doesn’t really have a story, but at its soul is competition. You compete with your friends that you’ve added through Xbox Live, as well as the thousands-strong whole of the Xbox Live community. Your…
by Wade Manns Inglourious Basterds Directed by Quentin Tarantino Rating: R, for strong graphic violence, language, and brief sexuality. Length: 153 minutes. Tarantino has returned for his latest cinematic masterpiece, and it is quintessentially Tarantino. He’s taken the formula that he used so well in Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill and applied it to the…
By Wade Manns Shadow Complex by Epic Games, Chair Entertainment Genre: 2D action/exploration on a semi-3D field. Rating: T for Violence and Language. Incremental exploration has always been one of my favorite activities in video games. If you have played Super Metroid or any Castlevania game since Symphony of the Night, you know of what…
by Wade Manns My first game console was the Atari 2600. It was around 1983 or 1984, when I was around four or five years old. My brother (who is about three years older than me) and I would gather around that storied box of wonders that connected to our television set and play several…
Cynthia Munoz Published: October 25, 2006 A LionsGate film released on DVD this month is creeping out teens and adults alike. It is about a teenage girl who finally meets up with a hunky 30-year-old photographer at a coffee shop after months of online chatting. She convinces him to take her to his place to…
Gina Nespoli Published: October 25, 2006 On Oct. 11, PJC hosted Mark Doty, author of seven books of poems and three volumes of memoirs. I was ecstatic that I got to hear him read his poetry. I also had the opportunity to ask questions and hear about his influences for each poem. He opened with…
Kay Forrest – The Corsair “People were walking, like, to Mecca,” Iris Shapiro recollects of her long tramp to Woodstock—the music festival of ’69, not Snoopy’s yellow companion. Depending on one’s point of view, the name “Woodstock” conjures up several different images: an open stage, Jimi Hendrix, intoxicated hippies, free love, the idea of “getting…
Wade Manns The Corsair Release: Five, from January to August 2009 Platforms: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 By: Bethesda Softworks As a companion piece to my first review here in the Corsair, I’ll speak on the five Downloadable Content (DLC) packages that have since been released for the wonderful first-person role playing game, “Fallout 3.”…
by Paul Smith Platform: PC “The Sims 3” is the latest installment of one of the bestselling video game franchises of all time. “The Sims” was a game originally conceived by Will Wright (who also made the original “Sim City” and the more recent “Spore”) and was a game designed to let players use their…
Published: October 11, 2006 The Jazz Soceity of Pensacola will be hosting a Jazz Gumbo at Phineas Phogg’s in Seville Quarter Oct. 16 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The doors open at 6 p.m. Popular singer Kitt Lough will entertain with keyboardist David Shelander and other musicians forming a mini-big band. Kitt performed in…
Published: October 11, 2006 Northwest Florida artists are invited to enter the Eighteenth Annual Cinco Banderas (Five Flags) Collection Competition, a unique and permanent body of work established through the Arts Council of Northwest Florida and consisting exclusively of regionally produced art. Works are added to the collection by means of this annual juried competition…
Published: October 11, 2006 Pensacola Junior College presents singer Lorna Bracewell 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio as part of the Coffeehouse Series. Tickets cost $2. Purchase tickets at the Lyceum box office in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, 1000 College Blvd. The Jean & Paul Amos Performance…
Published: October 11, 2006 The PJC Wind and Jazz Ensembles will present a free concert 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Bldg. 8. The Wind Ensemble will present the program “Young Music” – compositions created within the last year. The PJC Jazz Ensemble, featuring 17 of PJC’s most talented instrumentalists, will…
Cynthia Munoz Published: October 11, 2006 Not impressed. I’m sorry, was I not supposed to laugh? “The Beginning” seemed to show no real plot or follow any sort of story line. The movie seemed to have what it wanted to reveal about the beginning or give an idea of the massacres but failed to ever…
Gina Nespoli Published: October 11, 2006 Synopsis: This is a classic story of a man finding his inner hero with the help of a selfless mentor. Jake Fischer, played by Ashton Kutcher, was accepted into every Ivy League school on a scholarship for his incredible swimming skills. Instead, Fischer enlists in the U.S. Coast Guard…
Published: September 11, 2006 The Pensacola Junior College Student Business Club is sponsoring “Fall Bluegrass Day.” The concert is slated for noon to 8 p.m. Sept. 30, at the Milton campus under awnings in front of the Student Activity Center. Rain or shine, come with your lawn chairs to hear the sounds of Sawgrass Revival,…
Marisa Guthrie: New York Daily News Published: Septmember 11, 2006 Not since “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” premiered two years ago and further widened the quality gap between smart entertainment on the little screen and the dreck flung at movie screens, have so many hot shows blown in like autumn leaves. It is indisputably the year…
Published: August 23, 2006 PJC’s new Post Script Productions is presenting the comedy “Art” at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 24, 25, and 26 at the Hagler Auditorium. General admission tickets are $5 each and proceeds benefit the PJC Lyceum Series. This series was created as a venue for more experimental, avant garde theatre productions. Starring…
Brandi Snodgrass Published: April 26, 2006 When Hurricane Katrina hit last August, Ashley Spears, a PJC student, stepped up to the plate to raise money for some of its victims. Spears used the Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival as a catalyst to raise the money. Several years earlier, her mother had recommended Spears to Linda…
Michael Rutschky Published: April 12, 2006 Every year faculty from the Visual Arts Department’s studio art courses receive submissions from their students of work to be presented in the annual student exhibition. This year the department has decided on more than 270 works of art that will be honored and appreciated at this year’s show,…
Published: April 12, 2006 Why you should see this movie: You should see Fear and Loathing because it’s awesome; but beyond that, Fear and Loathing has an amazing cast (Johnny Depp, Gary Busey, Benicio Del Toro, Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame, etc). It’s basically the ultimate drug movie, as well; it involves a…
Troy Lambert Short Fiction When Tony woke up, it was still dark outside. April was gone, but her clothes, still scattered across his bedroom floor, told him that she hadn’t gone far. When he found her she was standing on the front porch, wrapped in a small flannel blanket, smoking a cigarette in the company…
Julia Traylor Note: This essay is one of the first place winners of the 2009 Walter F. Spara Writing Competition. In today’s literary world, birds have become symbolic ambassadors of Romantic connotation. From the immortal freedom of Keats’ nightingale to the esoteric purity of Shelley’s skylark, students have been conditioned to view birds as the…
Paul Smith ENC1102 Note: This essay is one of the first place winners of the 2009 Walter F. Spara Writing Competition. On November 16th, 1965, William F. Buckley’s influential conservative rag, National Review, reprinted the Kurt Vonnegut short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” as a prime example of where the ills of socialism could lead, and in…
William Gilley ENC1101 Note: This essay is one of the first place winners of the 2009 Walter F. Spara Writing Competition. For those of us who grew up roaming the forest around the Escambia River in the north end of Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Hurricane Ivan was a life altering event. While a 20…
Wade Manns The Corsair Resident Evil 5 by Capcom Rating: Mature (17+) for, from what I’ve observed so far, blood and gore and violence. Genre: survival horror Players: one or two over Xbox Live The Resident Evil series, since 1997 has been one of the leading and scariest survival horror series ever. First released on…
Left 4 Dead by Valve Genre: First-Person Shooter Rating: Mature (Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language) Release: 11/18/08 The concept of the Zombie Apocalypse has been fodder for many movies and video games, and this most recent one draws from several inspirations to create a wonderful and very fun experience. Through four campaigns made up…
Spore, by Electronic Arts Rated E10+ for animated blood, comic mischief, and fantasy violence. Genre: simulation/strategy/action. Release: 09/07/08 Imagine a game in which you could manipulate every aspect of life, from the tiniest cell to a space-faring species, all in a few dozen hours. Spore allows you to do that. You begin as said Cell…
Knowing, by Escape Artists and Summit Entertainment Starring Nicolas Cage Rated PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language. Genre: Disaster Thriller If someone were suddenly whispering to you something that you were compelled to write down, that you could not immediately discern, what would be your reaction? It would probably be to…
Resident Evil 5 by Capcom Rating: Mature (17+) for, from what I’ve observed so far, blood and gore and violence. Genre: survival horror Players: one or two over Xbox Live The Resident Evil series, since 1997 has been one of the leading and scariest survival horror series ever. First released on the original PlayStation, with…
At the beginning of last month, I reviewed the movie Watchmen, the interpretation of the graphic novel written by Alan Moore in the late 80s. I noted that several things were taken out or changed to enhance its cinematic quality, but in the end it did not affect the movie, and it turned out to…
Watchmen, by Warner Brothers, Paramount, and DC Comics. Genre: action-adventure, crime thriller, superhero fantasy. Rating: R for nudity, lots of bloody violence, language and adult situations. Review by Wade Manns I really liked Watchmen, based on the graphic novel of 1986 and 87 by Alan Moore and masterfully converted into a stunning motion picture by…
Published: March 8, 2006 Although “Holy Terror, Batman!” may be the dark knight’s first foray into the wars of the real world, it isn’t the first time a comic book super hero has gone to war. During the late 1930s, and into the 1940s, many comic book creators showed their characters fighting the war in…
Michael Rutschky Published: March 8, 2006 Last month at WonderCon in San Francisco, comic book creator Frank Miller unveiled his plans for a 200 page graphic novel which will bring Batman into the war on terror. The project will be titled “Holy Terror, Batman.” Miller, who’s popular comic book series Sin City was recently adapted…
by Paul Smith video segment produced by Paul Smith When most moviegoers decide to take in a film, they will usually check the show-times for the recent blockbusters, and then make the short jaunt down to the local megaplex for the latest installment of Hollywood escapism. But imagine instead, checking the show-times of the most…
by Paul Smith Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” was largely considered to be the “holy grail” of graphic novels, the treasured masterpiece of superhero storytelling that was in a class all by itself. At full disclosure, while I am an avid reader of graphic novels, I grew out of reading superhero comics when I was about 12…
Preeminent composer, Robert W. Smith, will guest conduct the Pensacola Civic Band performing his new Symphony No. 3, “Don Quixote” during the Civic Band’s “Our Spanish Heritage” concert on Tuesday, March 17th at Marcus Pointe Baptist Church. The concert is held in conjunction with Celebrate Pensacola’s 450th Anniversary celebration of the settlement of Pensacola in…
Melissa Howard Published: February 22, 2006 In a society where hardcore and metal music has been watered down and filtered to a pulp, your conventional parents could probably tell you exactly what a blast beat is, and “hard” music is defined by the latest Linkin Park ballad, Uphill Battle brings new strength to the hardcore…
Michael Rutschky Published: February 22, 2006 Steve Martin revives the role of Inspector Jacques Clouseau for “The Pink Panther,” in what is billed as a prequel to the popular movie series starring Peter Sellers. The film sees the bumbling Jacques Clouseau promoted from an average police officer to an inspector, and given the task of…
By Ansley Zecckine The Costa Verde Hotel is a 69-year-old Mexican hideaway resting seaside, imprisoned by the imposing jungle, which slowly creeps up its exterior mud-slapped walls. Rundown as it is, it remains a place of shelter and refuge, and it’s located right here at PJC. It’s the set of Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of…
Grand Theft Auto 4: The Lost and Damned by Rockstar Games Rating: Mature (17+) Number of players: 1 (up to 16 via System Link or Xbox LIVE) Genre: Third person action-adventure, with driving elements review by Wade Manns —– Last year, Grand Theft Auto IV was released to rave reviews, and in August of last…
Street Fighter IV by Capcom Genre: Fighting Players: 1 or 2, locally or over Xbox LIVE Rating: Teen (alcohol reference, suggestive themes, violence). review by Wade Manns ——— I’ve always been a fan of the Street Fighter series of games. Whenever I needed to beat something up, to blow off steam or to otherwise have…
Corsair Staff Reports One of the country’s foremost woodwind artists, Chris Vadala, performs with the PJC Wind and Jazz Ensembles during their Winter Concert. The concert is 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The concert is free, but due to limited seating, tickets are required. Vadala’s…
Corsair Staff Reports The Pensacola Junior College Lyceum series presents “The Night of the Iguana” Feb. 20-22 and Feb. 27-March 1 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. Distinguished American playwright Tennessee Williams won his fourth New York Drama Critics Award for “The Night of the Iguana” – the last…
Friday the 13th Directed by Marcus Nispel Studio/producer: New Line Cinema, Paramount/Platinum Dunes Rated R for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material. I must admit, I’m not really into horror movies. But I am aware of the great three franchises of horror classics: Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street,…
Fallout 3 By Bethesda Softworks Genre: RPG/First-person shooter Players: 1 Rating: Mature (17+) Downloadable Content: Available, 1 pack released so far, out of 3 planned Distribution Model: Retail or over the content delivery system Steam; interfaced with Microsoft’s Games for Windows – LIVE Release Date: October 31, 2008 How would you survive in a world…
by Troy Lambert Everyone at the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio was rocking-out noon Tuesday February 3, 2009. Multi-platinum recording artists, Hoobastank, were featured on WSRE-TV’s Studio Amped. Studio Amped is a music series that features local and regional musicians. However, while gearing up for there tour with fellow multi-platinum artists, 3 Doors Down,…
Grand Theft Auto 4 By Rockstar Games Genre: 3rd-person Driving/exploration/action Players: 1-16 via Xbox LIVE (Maximum 32 on PC version) Rating: Mature (17+) for blood, intense violence, partial nudity, strong language, strong sexual content, and use of drugs and alcohol. The back of the box for this bestseller which was released back in April of…
Lakeview Terrace Studio: Screen Gems/Sony Pictures Entertainment; Overbrook Entertainment Rated PG-13 for intense thematic material, violence, sexuality, language and some drug references This movie tells the story of a gated community, and the gated lifestyle of one of its residents. It takes place in the hot, dry backdrop of suburban Los Angeles in summer, which…
Taken Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Xander Berkeley, Famke Janssen Studio: 20th Century Fox Genre: Action-Thriller Rating: R, for violence. Luc Besson pens and Pierre Morel directs this somewhat mindless but affecting and sweet piece about a disturbing facet of international travel. An Ex-Special Forces operative who now works security for pop divas and other…
The Maw by Twisted Pixel Games Genre: 3rd-person action/platformer Rated: E10+ Players: 1 Release: January 21, 2009 Platform: Xbox 360 (Xbox LIVE Arcade – 800 Microsoft Points) Take charge of a ravenous, walking mouth! That’s Frank’s problem in The Maw, a fun platformer released last month by a relatively unknown company, but their first major…
Fallout 3 By Bethesda Softworks Genre: RPG/First-person shooter Players: 1 Rating: Mature (17+) Downloadable Content: Available, 1 pack released so far, out of 3 planned Distribution Model: Retail or over the content delivery system Steam; interfaced with Microsoft’s Games for Windows – LIVE Release Date: October 31, 2008 Though released at the end of October…
Pam Griswold Published: February 8, 2006 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?” written by Edward Albey, is this spring’s play of choice and the third production undertaken by theater director, Rodney Whatley for the college. The Play: The story follows the events that take place over a nightcap in the home of two veteran college…
Michael Rutshky Published: February 8, 2006 “Underworld: Evolution,” the sequel to 2003’s “Underworld,” continues the story of a feud between a race of vampires and a clan of werewolves. Thrown in the middle is Selene, a pretty girl vampire with guns (Kate Beckinsale), and her boyfriend Michael (Scott Speedman), a hybrid of the two species. …
by Brandee Lay DVD Review: “The Strangers” (2008) “Lock the door, pretend you’re safe…” …from a bad movie. The extent of 90 minutes worth of the 2008 horror movie “The Strangers” could make a person go mad. The movie stars Scott Speedman as James Hoyt and Liv Tyler as Kristen McKay – a couple who…
Melissa Brown Published: February 8, 2006 Popcorn. Pizza. Beer. And now first-run movies. Only Pensacola’s Silver Screen Theatre offers this eclectic combination. Students can view the nation’s newest blockbusters in comfy (and moveable!) chairs, sip a beer, and munch on chicken wings for about ten bucks. PJC criminal justice major Christine Arnette, 18, advocates the…
Erika Wilhite Published: January 25, 2006 It’s beautiful, like a full-motion painting. It’s abstract and meditative, like a picture poem. It’s a romantic re-telling of the life and loves of Pocahontas, like a historical novel more concerned with feelings than with facts. But the most important thing viewers need to know going into it is…
Drew Lovelace & Jamie Dickerson Published: January 25, 2006 For the past few weeks, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola Junior College has been hosting an art exhibition featuring the work of Mitch Lyons and Greg Saunders. The exhibit opened Jan. 19 with noted success as Lyons gave two public demonstrations…
Kristin Martin If you’re on campus around noon next Tuesday, you might want to stop by the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio to see Hoobastank, an alternative rock band, be recorded live for Studio Amped, a WSRE-TV performance series. The event is free, but you’ll need a ticket to get in. You can pick…
By: Troy Lambert Published: January 8, 2009 Stop! Don’t throw that junk out. Bring your junk to Pensacola Junior College’s “Junk to Art Workshop.” On Oct 24, 2008, as part of Pensacola Junior College’s sustainability project, Assistant Professor of Communications, Jen Ehrhardt, and Adjunct of Philosophy, Judy Golding, started a series of workshops where artists,…
From Staff Reports Published: January 9, 2006 Pensacola Junior College presents jazz icon Roy Ayers along with his band Ubiquity and legendary jazz saxophonist Bill Saxton 8 p.m. Friday Jan. 27, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The concert kicks off PJC’s observation of Black History Month and celebrates…
Brandi Snodgrass Published: January 9, 2006 At first glance, Sandi Danielson might look like a wild child, but upon looking closer one can see that she is a genuinely sweet and caring girl who just so happens to express herself through fashions using lots of colors and textures. Danielson is a first year photography major…
Erika Wilhite Published: January 9, 2006 Get Behind Me, Satan is, without a doubt, the White Stripes’ most confounding, bewildering record yet, and possibly their boldest. The Stripes, industry darlings and the poster children for the Detroit garage punk movement, have a track record of bizarre, unorthodox albums, each one different from the last but…
Kristen Bailey Published: January 9, 2006 Director Peter Jackson successfully brought the “eighth wonder of the world” back to the big screen over the Christmas holidays. Having a more emotional slant than its 1933 predecessor and much better graphics, “King Kong” proves that beauty really does tame the beast. In this recreation of the 1933…
Brandi Snodgrass Published: January 9, 2006 Those boots were made for walkin’ and that’s what they’ll be doing this spring. Cowboy boots are back and there is no denying the fun and flirty style they offer to those who are bold enough to wear them. They are coming in all styles from simple everyday casual…
Published: December 7, 2005 “Aeon Flux” takes place in a post-apocalyptic futureworld where people have mutant limbs, mysterious dreams and kicky, asymmetrical haircuts. It’s a good-looking movie with a fine cast, including four Oscars nominees: Pete Postlethwaite, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo and, in the title role, Charlize Theron. She’s fine, but the problems in “Aeon…
Matt Foster Published: December 7, 2005 I’m in love with an immensely powerful, rage-filled, dinosaur-stomping gorilla named King Kong. Maybe it’s the hype stemming from Peter, “Lord of the Rings” Jackson’s latest movie phenomena, the remake of the 1933 classic King Kong. Maybe it’s the longing for a game that is emotionally driven and filled…
Joshua Kinser Published: December 7, 2005 The PJC jazz band will perform their final concert for the semester at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 8 at the Ashmore Auditorium for Fine and Performing Arts. The jazz ensemble, conducted by Tim Jackson, will perform a variety of tunes with diverse styles that include traditional jazz, swing, big…
Ashley Carter Published: November 23, 2005 “Jarhead”, starring Jake Gyllenhal who plays Anthony Swofferd, a legacy Marine enlistee, and Jamie Foxx as his Sgt. Sikes follows Swofferd all the way through basic boot camp into active duty in the Iraqi desert. Gyllenhal trains as a sniper in the police action known as Desert Storm. This…
Matt Foster Published: November 23, 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire cast its spell over moviegoers last weekend. The movie, the fourth in series creator J.K. Rowling’s tale of wizards and witches, is the turning point for young Harry Potter and his friends. Starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and…
Joshua Watson Published: November 23, 2005 The Pensacola music scene is receiving a gradual, yet very important facelift. It’s a change that we need, a change that is bringing talented musicians with thought-provoking lyrics into the limelight. At the forefront of this change is the alternative country and indie rock outfit named Reynosa. This five-member…
Pam Griswold Published: November 23, 2005 The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts is hosting a holiday exhibit from now until Dec. 13 featuring pieces created by the art faculty. Walking through the doors of the Switzer Center, a person can sense a difference in atmosphere. It feels like no other place on campus.…
Ashley Carter Published: November 9, 2005 Saw II is a continuation of the previous movie Saw, in which a “jigsaw” serial killer traps his victims in extraordinary circumstances where they have to figure out a puzzle that they’ve been put in to save themselves from a horrible death. This continuation follows basically the same kind…
Joshua Kinser Published: November 9, 2005 On Oct. 2, DJ Radar and Raul Yanez brought their “Concerto For Turntable” to Carnegie Hall and a standing ovation. The blending of traditional orchestra composition with electronic hip-hop beats and turntables not only validated the turntable as a legitimate instrument, but also pushed the boundaries of live orchestral…
Ashley Carter Published: October 26, 2005 The movie “Domino” starring Keira Knightley is based on a true story of the daughter of a Hollywood actor and a Ford agency model rejecting her Beverly Hills lifestyle to become a bounty hunter. The facts of the story’s truth have been skewed to combine reality with entertainment. Domino…
Joshua Kinser Published: October 26, 2005 On the first weekend in November historic Seville Square will host the annual Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival. Regarded by some as the most popular art festival in America, the three-day, juried art show welcomes more than 200 of the nation’s best painters, potters, sculptors, jewelers, graphic artists, craftsmen, mixed-media…
Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Tim Burtons’ “Corpse Bride” is dually set in a dreary 19th century European village, and the colorful land of the dead. This claymation film is a story of an unsuspecting groom played by Johnny Depp named Victor, asking a corpse bride, Emily, played by Helena Bohnam Carter to be…
Ryan Freeman Published: October 12, 2005 The Daily Grind has made its return to the scene in Pensacola. Owner Jay Marsh reopened the local caf‚ on the site of the old Goofy Golf course on Navy Boulevard after the old Daily Grind building was destroyed by a combination of a massive fire and flooding from…
Rachel Strehlow Published: October 12, 2005 World beat, in the form of Luna Mantra, comes to the Pensacola Campus Oct. 13. The concert is part of PJC’s 2005-2006 Lyceum series and begins at 7 p.m. at the student center, bldg. 5 on the Pensacola campus. The Pensacola-area band, composed of current and former PJC students,…
Published on February 13, 2008 The PJC Planetarium invites everyone to come and enjoy the laser light shows being presented February 18-22. The unique SkyLase system projects state of the art graphics and sound on the Planetarium’s 40-foot dome in an amazing blend of education and entertainment. The kick-off presentation for PJC employees and families…
By Michael Rutschky Published on February 13, 2008 Visitors to the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts this week will notice that a small ceramic pot has been placed on the front desk of the department alongside a printed note asking for donations from the public. According to the letter, the donations will go…
Published on January 30, 2008 Rock Summit ran organization touring the nation in search of talented bands among local music scenes, will make a stop in Pensacola, at Bedlam on Saturday, February 9th. Rock Summit began in Pensacola, Florida 3 years ago while Derrick Knight, the founder was in his senior year of high school.…
Allied aircraft pilots during World War II identified UFO’s as Foo Fighters. In 1994, a heartbroken and jobless Dave Grohl used his hidden song writing talent to produce an album simply titled “Foo Fighters.” The band was a one man show until Grohl picked up ex-Sunny Day Real Estate member Nate Mendel to play bass…
By Lindsey Luker and Matt Brown Published on January 30, 2008 Capicorn: You, my friend, are a natural born leader. You can take control of any situation and you are willing to go to great lengths to accomplish your goals. As far as style and trends go you are ahead of the game. You will…
Published on January 8, 2008 Come hear the wild-and-zany-but-true story of Patrick Combs in “Man 1, Bank 0.” The Pensacola Junior College Lyceum event is 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. During the award-winning, one-man show, Combs tells the hilarious saga of how he…
By Matt Brown Published on January 8, 2008 I’ll just come right out and say it: This is a brilliant idea for a movie. It amazes me that until now there has never been a movie told from the perspective of the actual victims on the ground. You know the ones I’m talking about, the…
Joshua Wilks Published: Februray 4 2004 An hour after sundown, 30 adults and nine children, form a circle around a fire in a backyard amid several large oak trees. In their midst, a man dressed in a cape anoints their heads with oil, as they enter from the east. Once all positioned, he then aims…
Sep 27 2006 12:00AM As part of its Lyceum series, Pensacola Junior College is presenting internationally acclaimed poet Mark Doty. Doty is giving a reading/lecture 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Bldg. 8, and holding a workshop 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the Barfield Administration Building boardroom, Bldg. 7.…
By Joshua Encinias Published on January 8, 2008 Allied aircraft pilots during World War Two identified UFO’s as Foo Fighters. In 1994, a heartbroken and jobless Dave Grohl used his hidden song writing talent to produce an album simply titled “Foo Fighters.” The band was a one man show until Grohl picked up ex-Sunny Day…
Published January 8, 2008 Pensacola Junior College invites members of the community to try out for “The Hairy Ape.” Auditions are 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 14-15, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. Production of the Eugene O’Neill play calls for 10 men and 10 women – all…
By DJ Simmonds Published on November 7, 2007 Note to readers: Hello everyone, I must apologize for last week’s missing column. As you all have heard in the past, XBOX 360s have a history of “red rings,” in which the system locks up and shows a full red ring on the power button of the…
By Nathan Deen Published on November 7, 2007 The Pensacola International Film Festival, which took place Oct. 26-28, is not just an event that encourages people to view independent films, but an opportunity for the area’s best and brightest filmmakers to showcase their talent. Tom Roush, who manages the festival each year, says the films…
By Michael Rutschky Published on November 7, 2007 Three students of PJC’s Adult High School department received awards at the Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival, which was held November 2-4. Three AHS students were awarded a total of four awards. Haley Jacks won both a ribbon of honorable mention from the festival and a Merit…
Heather Madden Sep 27 2006 12:00AM This Saturday, Sept. 30, from noon to 8 p.m., the Gulf Coast Bluegrass Music Association is sponsoring “Fall Bluegrass Day” at the Student Activity Center on the PJC Milton campus. Tickets for the show are $3, and are free to people 16 and under. Support your local musicians, and…
Published on November 7, 2007 PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola Junior College Lyceum series proudly presents classical guitarist William Kanengiser. Kanengiser offers a free classical guitar master class 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Center, Building 8, room 884, on the Pensacola campus. He performs 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec.…
By Nathan Deen Published on November 7, 2007 When we look ahead to upcoming films in the fall season like “American Gangster” the words ‘Oscar bait’ come to mind. But how often does a highly anticipated film deliver as much as this one does. You would have to go back to last year with a…
By Jessica Brown Published on October 24, 2007 Cornelius Eady, playwright and author of six books of poetry, will be a featured guest Nov. 12-14 at PJC. During Eady’s visit, the PJC theatre department will stage a production from his sixth book of poetry, “Brutal Imagination.” The poems, which are the basis for the play,…
By Joshua Encinias Published on October 24, 2007 Pensacola Junior College, is presenting the PJC Art Faculty Exhibition Nov. 5 through Jan. 4. The artists’ reception is 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 8. This annual show highlights an extensive array of media including drawing, digital imaging, graphic design, jewelry, painting, photography, ceramics and sculpture. Artists…
By Joshua Encinias Published on October 24, 2007 “We Own the Night” isn’t quotable. Nor is it the best film of 2007. But the ideas protruding from the screen should have you thinking about family. The film opens to black and white photos, presumably of actual New York City police officers from the 1980s. Each…
Britney Hirras Published: September 28, 2005 For those of us who watch American Idol with envy at the fame, the glory, the snide remarks by Simon Cowell in the tight T-shirts, but know we don’t have a chance because our singing skills are nonexistent – here’s our chance. A new device called the Singing Coach…
Ashley Carter Published: September 28, 2005 “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” is a tale that was based upon a real story of a 19-year-old girl who undergoes an exorcism gone-wrong. As far as Catholic superstitions go, very few exorcisms for casting out demons are ever performed; but when Emily Rose does not survive the ritual,…
Joshua Kinser Published: September 28, 2005 On Friday, Sept. 31 and Saturday, Oct. 1 Jefferson Street, outside Pensacola’s Seville Quarter, will be taken over by the best local and regional rock bands for RocktoberFest, a free outdoor concert featuring the winners and nominees of The Independent’s “In Music Awards.” Seville Quarter, The Independent News and…
Ashley Carter Published: September 14, 2005 “The Skeleton Key,” explores the history of hoodoo, a magical religion among slaves of the old south that still is used by many in the underground of southern culture; this is practiced by past inhabitants of the house in which the movie takes place. The film star Kate Hudson…
Rachel Strehlow Published: Septmeber 14, 2005 Everyone knows styles change, that’s what’s so fun about fashion. Instead of wearing the same old thing, consider re-vamping your wardrobe with this fall’s coolest styles to express yourself in a whole new way. Clothes aren’t just what you put on in the morning, they make a statement, so…
Kristen Bailey Published: August 23, 2005 Despite the odds against them, PJC’s Literary Round Table has successfully published their first issue of the literary magazine ISSUE. The magazine showcases a variety of works including literary short stories, fiction, poetry, art, a play, photos and paintings. “It has short fiction, poetry, art, there’s even a short…
Steven Macks Published: August 23, 2005 Throughout the history of music, the art of making up good music on the spot has been a skill not many musicians can claim to have. The jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, guitarist Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead are just some of the artists that can claim this skill…
Pam Griswold Published: August 23, 2005 A male dance team known as the Fly Dance Company is among the performers coming to PJC this fall as part of the Lyceum arts series. On Saturday, Oct. ÿ8, the Fly Dance Company will put their moves on the Ashmore Auditorium. ÿMembers of the all-male dance team range…
Rachel Strehlow Published: August 23, 2005 Gracefest, Pensacola’s popular Christian music festival, celebrates its fifth year with a new date and location. This year the Gracefest committees are planning their annual concert at a brand new location- Spring Street in Pensacola. Gracefest is scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17. This year’s concert boasts performances by…
Josh Kinser Published: April 27, 2005 The neon lights of the orange and red facade of the long-abandoned Rex Theater are about to blink and buzz once again. Tim Hogan, a successful and local software developer, has purchased the Rex Theater, which is located on Palafox Street next to Rock Hard Jewelry Designs. Hogan’s vision…
Liz Holloway Published: April 27, 2005 It is often hard for civilian wives imagine her husband leaving for another country at a moment’s notice and not knowing when or if she will see him again. Unfortunately this scenario is a reality for many military wives. For a Marine wife, deployments can be extremely difficult, but…
From Staff Reports Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 The Jared Sparks Historical Society of PJC will have a walking tour of Downtown this Saturday October 18, 2008 from 10 AM to 12 noon. We will meet at Palafox and Wright Streets SE corner. All are welcome as the tour is free. See where Andrew Jackson…
Joshua Encinias Published: Monday, September 22, 2008 As smoky twilight gave way to dawn, captive Francis Scott Key penned “The Defense of Fort McHenry” offshore the port city of Baltimore in 1814. That September morning found the flag and fort tattered but standing. Key’s poem about the “banner [that] yet wave” became the United States…
Daniel Danforth Published: Monday, August 25, 2008 Some people in Pensacola look to the beach or to the mall to spend their free time. Others take advantage of the local venues and live shows that Pensacola has to offer. The local music scene has been steadily growing over the years with local venues that include…
Michelle Cornelson Published: Monday, August 25, 2008 Silver Screen is doing something new for the locals to enjoy. It is offering “cinetainment.” “[Silver Screen] is a cinema that has all forms of entertainment,” said Ron Estrada, Silver Screen owner, when explaining “cinetainment.” Of Silver Screen’s four screens, three are newly-installed LCD screens featuring S-XGA resolution, and…
Pensacola Junior College invites members of the community to try out for “Urinetown,” an upcoming Lyceum production. Auditions are 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The Tony Award-winning “Urinetown” is an uproariously funny musical, a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and…
