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

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...