Melissa Brown Published: February 8, 2006 Popcorn. Pizza. Beer. And now first-run movies. Only Pensacola’s Silver Screen Theatre offers this eclectic combination. Students can view the nation’s newest blockbusters in comfy (and moveable!) chairs, sip a beer, and munch on chicken wings for about ten bucks. PJC criminal justice major Christine Arnette, 18, advocates the…
Erika Wilhite Published: January 25, 2006 It’s beautiful, like a full-motion painting. It’s abstract and meditative, like a picture poem. It’s a romantic re-telling of the life and loves of Pocahontas, like a historical novel more concerned with feelings than with facts. But the most important thing viewers need to know going into it is…
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…
Kristin Martin If you’re on campus around noon next Tuesday, you might want to stop by the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio to see Hoobastank, an alternative rock band, be recorded live for Studio Amped, a WSRE-TV performance series. The event is free, but you’ll need a ticket to get in. You can pick…
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,…
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…
Brandi Snodgrass Published: January 9, 2006 At first glance, Sandi Danielson might look like a wild child, but upon looking closer one can see that she is a genuinely sweet and caring girl who just so happens to express herself through fashions using lots of colors and textures. Danielson is a first year photography major…
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…
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…
Brandi Snodgrass Published: January 9, 2006 Those boots were made for walkin’ and that’s what they’ll be doing this spring. Cowboy boots are back and there is no denying the fun and flirty style they offer to those who are bold enough to wear them. They are coming in all styles from simple everyday casual…