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Art thrives at “The Anna”

Drew Lovelace & Jamie Dickerson Published: January 25, 2006 For the past few weeks, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola Junior College has been hosting an art exhibition featuring the work of Mitch Lyons and Greg Saunders. The exhibit opened Jan. 19 with noted success as Lyons gave two public demonstrations...

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Junk to Art Workshops bring out student imagination

By: Troy Lambert Published: January 8, 2009 Stop! Don’t throw that junk out. Bring your junk to Pensacola Junior College’s “Junk to Art Workshop.” On Oct 24, 2008, as part of Pensacola Junior College’s sustainability project, Assistant Professor of Communications, Jen Ehrhardt, and Adjunct of Philosophy, Judy Golding, started a series of workshops where artists,...

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The community celebrates Black History Month

From Staff Reports Published: January 9, 2006 Pensacola Junior College presents jazz icon Roy Ayers along with his band Ubiquity and legendary jazz saxophonist Bill Saxton 8 p.m. Friday Jan. 27, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The concert kicks off PJC’s observation of Black History Month and celebrates...

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White Stripes break though confines of earlier albums

Erika Wilhite Published: January 9, 2006 Get Behind Me, Satan is, without a doubt, the White Stripes’ most confounding, bewildering record yet, and possibly their boldest.  The Stripes, industry darlings and the poster children for the Detroit garage punk movement, have a track record of bizarre, unorthodox albums, each one different from the last but...

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Jackson brings more emotion to ‘King Kong’

Kristen Bailey Published: January 9, 2006 Director Peter Jackson successfully brought the “eighth wonder of the world” back to the big screen over the Christmas holidays. Having a more emotional slant than its 1933 predecessor and much better graphics, “King Kong” proves that beauty really does tame the beast. In this recreation of the 1933...

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“Aeon Flux” takes on the big screen

Published: December 7, 2005 “Aeon Flux” takes place in a post-apocalyptic futureworld where people have mutant limbs, mysterious dreams and kicky, asymmetrical haircuts. It’s a good-looking movie with a fine cast, including four Oscars nominees: Pete Postlethwaite, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo and, in the title role, Charlize Theron. She’s fine, but the problems in “Aeon...

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Kong is King for game systems this fall

Matt Foster Published: December 7, 2005 I’m in love with an immensely powerful, rage-filled, dinosaur-stomping gorilla named King Kong. Maybe it’s the hype stemming from Peter, “Lord of the Rings” Jackson’s latest movie phenomena, the remake of the 1933 classic King Kong. Maybe it’s the longing for a game that is emotionally driven and filled...