Category: <span>Features</span>

Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 The cheering, sold-out, Ashmore auditorium on the Pensacola campus played host to the “FLY Dance Company” which performed on Saturday, Oct. 8th. FLY, listed on their website as an “all-male group of street dancers,” is an innovative contemporary dance troupe that merges everything from hip-hop to classical music with...

By Lindsey Luker Published on February 13, 2008 Anime fanatics now have a place to meet, watch and discuss anime.  A few weeks ago, the PJC Anime Club was assembled.  Anime is a type of animation originating from Japan.  The artwork is breathtakingly vivid and the themes are often futuristic or sci-fi.                                          “Anime is explosions,”...

Published on January 8, 2008 Pensacola Junior College is presenting the Switzer Distinguished Artists exhibit which began on Jan. 21 and will be continued to be showed through March 14 at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts gallery, Building 15 on the Pensacola campus. The honored artists are photographer Jerry Uelsmann and digital...

Kristin Martin By traveling the country one job at a time and having a different job each week, Daniel Seddiqui is “living the map.” Seddiqui is a 26-year-old California native who graduated from the University of Southern California with an economics degree, but no life direction as far as a permanent career goes. Although he...

Kristin Martin Click here to see photos of Del Sherburne. You won’t find many 24-year-olds with as much responsibility on their shoulders as Del Sherburne. The Pensacola Junior College pre-engineering student must balance his school work, a landscaping business and his job as a volunteer firefighter for the Ferry Pass Volunteer Fire Department, which serves...

Daniel Rubin Published: February 18 2004 When Joe Clayton, CEO of Sirius satellite radio, talks about what’s next for his company, it’s easy to see why traditional broadcasters are listening carefully. Starting in August, the service that’s playing catch-up to market leader XM Radio will air every NFL game, live. By year’s end, subscribers, who...

James Hagan Published: February 18 2004 In the past 10 years, interest in food preparation and management in this country has exploded. “The Food Network,” has 24-hour programming of cooking, food-oriented shows such as “Emeril” and “Iron Chef” abound and TV shows such as NBC’s “The Restaurant,” show the inner workings of a New York...

Cynthia Munoz Oct 11 2006 12:00AM Colors on top of colors, fluttering dresses, flirtatious kisses, and gritos of “­Viva M‚xico!” took over the Ashmore Auditorium Friday night, when the ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico twirled its way in.  On Oct. 6, the Ashmore Auditorium hosted Mexico City’s “Mexican Ambassadors of Song and Dance” ballet Gran...

Kathy Manweiler – McClatchy Newspapers Sep 27 2006 12:00AM WICHITA, Kan.  – Did you work out today? No? Don’t bother racking your brain for an excuse. If you don’t feel like exercising, just admit it – or get over it. The staff at your gym truly does not want to hear that you can’t work...

Harry Jackson Jr. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sep 27 2006 12:00AM Here are some of the mistakes that Keath Hausher, owner of Shark Fitness, a boot camp training company, and other folks who teach exercise and physical rehabilitation say they see: Starting a core-concentrated fitness program without knowing what you need to do or what...