Category: <span>Arts and Entertainment</span>

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...

Ryan P. Quirk Poetry – First Place The smoke, so thick that I decide to take some home as a memento, fills this room. It has become so crucial to this place that a clear night’s breeze seems alien. I caress your neck and we begin our session. Dozens of eyes stare at us in...

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...