Child facing an adult in a tense moment, highlighting themes of adolescence and emotional struggles.

“Adolescence” and the Unspeakable

Editorial & Opinion, Features, News Articles

It’s difficult to look at a travesty happening before your eyes. We talk frequently about how easily we can look up and get obsessed with extreme acts of violence even before the rise of the internet, but that’s not what’s being talked about. The real travesty is to look not just at the impact of such violence but also at the aftermath and see the effect. The crying, the trauma, the anger, the backlash, and – most distressingly – the ways such acts of death can affect people.

Audience watching Hadestown performance at historic Saenger Theatre in Pensacola.

Hadestown: Broadway Songbirds Visit Pensacola’s 100-Year-Old Saenger Theatre

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The Saenger Theatre has long been a large part of Pensacola’s arts and culture. Standing in the heart of Downtown Pensacola since 1925, the theatre recently celebrated its 100-year anniversary. To commemorate it, they hosted a grand reopening ceremony with a ribbon cutting and cake on April 4. On top of this, the Saenger hosted two free showings of the Phantom of the Opera silent film, one of the firm films to be shown back when it first opened in the 1920’s.

What Does Pensacola’s Jazz Festival Have to Do with Ron Desantis?

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The arts are important to Pensacola, that’s for sure. Things like Gallery Night, the Arts Festival, and our Jazz Festival all represent the culmination of our town’s collective interest and passion for all things creative. Specifically, the Jazz Festival is the community event where well-known and local jazz talents would show off and entertain the festival attendants. Unfortunately, this year’s Jazz Fest has been cancelled due to budget cuts. Where did these cuts come from? Ron DeSantis.