Category: <span>2009 Archive</span>

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...