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...
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Bluegrass bands jam
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,...
TV’s top 10: The new must-see shows this fall
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...
‘Art’
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...
Student turns art into cash for hurricane victims
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...
Student Honors Exhibition outdoes itself again
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,...
Movies you have to see before you die
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...
A Scratch on the Record
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...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Screams
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...
Laughing at Them, Not With Them
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...