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

By Joshua Encinias Published on October 24, 2007 Pensacola Junior College, is presenting the PJC Art Faculty Exhibition Nov. 5 through Jan. 4. The artists’ reception is 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 8. This annual show highlights an extensive array of media including drawing, digital imaging, graphic design, jewelry, painting, photography, ceramics and sculpture.  Artists...

By Joshua Encinias Published on October 24, 2007 “We Own the Night” isn’t quotable.  Nor is it the best film of 2007.  But the ideas protruding from the screen should have you thinking about family.  The film opens to black and white photos, presumably of actual New York City police officers from the 1980s.  Each...

Britney Hirras Published: September 28, 2005 For those of us who watch American Idol with envy at the fame, the glory, the snide remarks by Simon Cowell in the tight T-shirts, but know we don’t have a chance because our singing skills are nonexistent – here’s our chance. A new device called the Singing Coach...

Ashley Carter Published: September 28, 2005 “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” is a tale that was based upon a real story of a 19-year-old girl who undergoes an exorcism gone-wrong. As far as Catholic superstitions go, very few exorcisms for casting out demons are ever performed; but when Emily Rose does not survive the ritual,...

Joshua Kinser Published: September 28, 2005 On Friday, Sept. 31 and Saturday, Oct. 1 Jefferson Street, outside Pensacola’s Seville Quarter, will be taken over by the best local and regional rock bands for RocktoberFest, a free outdoor concert featuring the winners and nominees of The Independent’s “In Music Awards.” Seville Quarter, The Independent News and...

Ashley Carter Published: September 14, 2005 “The Skeleton Key,” explores the history of hoodoo, a magical religion among slaves of the old south that still is used by many in the underground of southern culture; this is practiced by past inhabitants of the house in which the movie takes place.  The film star Kate Hudson...

Rachel Strehlow Published: Septmeber 14, 2005 Everyone knows styles change, that’s what’s so fun about fashion. Instead of wearing the same old thing, consider re-vamping your wardrobe with this fall’s coolest styles to express yourself in a whole new way. Clothes aren’t just what you put on in the morning, they make a statement, so...

Kristen Bailey Published: August 23, 2005 Despite the odds against them, PJC’s Literary Round Table has successfully published their first issue of the literary magazine ISSUE. The magazine showcases a variety of works including literary short stories, fiction, poetry, art, a play, photos and paintings. “It has short fiction, poetry, art, there’s even a short...

Steven Macks Published: August 23, 2005 Throughout the history of music, the art of making up good music on the spot has been a skill not many musicians can claim to have. The jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, guitarist Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead are just some of the artists that can claim  this skill...

Pam Griswold Published: August 23, 2005 A male dance team known as the Fly Dance Company is among the performers coming to PJC this fall as part of the Lyceum arts series. On Saturday, Oct. ÿ8, the Fly Dance Company will put their moves on the Ashmore Auditorium. ÿMembers of the all-male dance team range...