Category: <span>2008 archive</span>

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...