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COACH DAVID GRANT The longtime

Pensacola Christian Academy coach is retiring this year. Throughout his 45 years with the school, he coached baseball, basketball, cross country, and track, and led the school to numerous district championships and state playoff appearances. He was selected by the Pensacola News Journal as the 2015 Cross Country "Coach of the Year". For 40 years, Coach Grant also served as the assistant director at Camp O' the Pines, a summer camp in north Escambia County.

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PROJECT VOTE The non-profit that helped millions of Americans register to vote and successfully fought lawmakers in courts over voters' rights has suspended its operations. In an email to supporters, Project Vote staff wrote, "For a single-issue nonprofit like Project Vote—without a diverse portfolio of work to fundraise on—we were ultimately forced to admit that our current model had become unsustainable."

HAWKSHAW LAND The city-owned

property on South Ninth Avenue has become an albatross around the necks of Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and Pensacola City Council. Last week, the selection committee rejected the two bids received. The rejection came after the Pensacola City Council hired a consultant to help draft a new Request for Proposal for $25,000. Two years ago, the council rejected three proposals on the site, which prompted the hiring of Urban Design Associates. In 2006, the 1.92-acre site was sold to developers, but the land was returned to the city three years later when the real estate market crashed.

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Nearly 500 people may have had their

Social Security numbers obtained in a data breach at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Also, the names of 16,190 concealed-weapon license holders, out of more than 1.75 million in the state, may have been acquired in the hack.

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MISSING THE MARK Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward missed the mark when he vetoed the City Council's vote to hire a budget analyst, according to a recent poll. However, those who voted for the charter referendum that gave him veto power aren't ready to go back to the city-manager form of government just yet.

In March, Mayor Hayward vetoed the City Council hiring a budget analyst. In a 2014 charter amendment, the voters approved the creation of the position to help the council independently review the city's finances. The mayor fought it but failed to sway the public.

When he announced the March veto, Hayward made it clear that he hadn't changed his mind. He felt the position was an "unnecessary cost to the taxpayers." The following month, the council unanimously voted to override the mayor's action.

Political Matrix conducted a telephone survey of the city's most likely voters over the period of April 25-May 19. The respondents overwhelmingly had not changed their positions about the analyst. Only 28.5 percent agreed with the mayor's veto.

How could a mayor who was re-elected with over 65-percent of the vote in 2014 miss so badly what the voters wanted?

Two possible explanations come to mind. His lack of town hall meetings and over-reliance on social media and You-

Tube videos may have put the mayor out of touch. Or he simply failed over the past two and a half years to demonstrate to Pensacola residents why an independent budget analyst wasn't needed.

On the other hand, the council members apparently had a better handle on the desires of their districts. They understood the 2014 referendum reflected the will of the people, and they had an obligation to enact it.

This Political Matrix study was conducted via Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology. The Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Office supplied the phone numbers. Only households in the city of Pensacola where persons who voted at least three out of the last four elections were called. The numbers were randomized upon implementation of the survey, which collected 411 completed studies. The margin of error was +/- 4.8.

The survey did have a silver lining for Mayor Hayward, who is expected to announce soon he will seek a third term in 2018. The voters aren't ready to scrap the 2009 city charter that created Pensacola's strong mayor form of government.

Of the 411 respondents, 57.7 percent voted for the new city charter in 2009.

Among them, 56.54 percent said they would vote for the charter again. Those wanting to return to the city-manager system may need to give the new charter more time to sort out its kinks. {in} rick@inweekly.net

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BUZ EDDY: A PUBLIC SERVANT RETIRES avoided uprooting his family every five or six years as many city managers do.

The Gulf Breeze elementary, middle and high schools are second to none in the top-notch Santa Rosa County school system. For every big decision involving the city his wife of nearly 35 years, Janet, who worked in government finances, was there for him just like she was for their church, school, sports teams, and community.

She’s the one who convinced him to earn his master’s in administration, he noted.

“When it came down to a real difficult problem that I couldn’t figure out, it was alMichael Beedie, City Manager of Fort Walton Beach, present- ways her,” Eddy said. “She has ing Buz Eddy with a proclamation on behalf of the Florida been critical to my success.”

City and County Management Association (FCCMA) Former Gulf Breeze mayors Ed Gray, Lane Gilchrist and Beverly Zimmern and longtime city attorney and current Mayor Matt Dannheisser and various city council members have also Buz Eddy visited Gulf Breeze at a conhelped mentor and guide Eddy. ference for Florida city managers. Then “They were critical to keeping me from the city manager for Coral Springs for a running the city right into a ditch,” he said. decade, he knew he wanted to work and His children were always ready to pitch raise his young family in the small Santa in and help dear old dad, too. In fact, his Rosa County town. son, Eric, now serves as an assistant city When the position came open in 1992, manager in Colorado. Eric got his first taste Eddy jumped at the opportunity. of public service during the recovery from “A city manager needs to live in the Hurricane Ivan in 2004 as a 16-year-old city where they’re working,” Eddy said. He when he would drive and check on homes stepped down in April after 25 years as the for Gulf Breeze residents and give a report city manager in the coastal community on their condition. Eddy made sure his son with a population of about 6,200. “Persongot a few MREs for his hard work. ally, working and living here is everything I “To deal with that level of emergency, hoped it would be.” that type of problem, that was very exciting His stress level? Close to zero most days. to me to have a challenge like that,” Eddy The job has allowed him to live a “norsaid. “It’s really cool.” mal” family life that has included coachThe city earned praised for its storm ing his son, Eric, and daughter, Celia, in response, which included buying 20 travel baseball, basketball, and volleyball. He has trailers for $1 million, so some residents left

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homeless by the devastation wreaked by Ivan could keep watch over their properties.

“How many cities do that kind of thing?” Eddy asked. “Our city residents were able to stay right there at their houses while recovering from the hurricane. A lot of cities weren’t aggressive at solving problems like our city did.”

Other problems Gulf Breeze attacked?

When ECUA delivered brown water, the city expanded its South Santa Rosa Utilities System and partnered with other South Santa Rosa County systems to supply its water instead, which Eddy called “the most pure water you can find.” Its effluent is treated and sprayed on the Tiger Point Golf Course, public right-of-way, other large parcels the city purchased, as well as businesses and residential yards.

“That was controversial several years ago, but we whipped that problem,” Eddy said.

Controlling the flow of traffic on U.S. Highway 98 is another complicated issue that Eddy and the city council have seemingly constantly battled.

Eddy pointed out that Gulf Breeze bought property across the street from Whataburger when it was rumored Chickfil-A and other fast-food restaurants were interested in the site. Restaurants disrupt traffic during peak hours, Eddy said.

A few years later Gulf Breeze sold the site to a doctor for a medical clinic.

"A lot of people have said, ‘Buz, you did a great job. Well, all of us should be congratulated really. I couldn’t ask for a better staff." Buz Eddy “(U.S. 98) has been a challenge and is going to be a challenge for Gulf Breeze,” Eddy said.

He pointed out the city’s master plan creates alternative routes to U.S. 98 to separate local traffic from through traffic on the busy highway.

He calls plans “tremendous” for the $400-million six-lane Pensacola Bay Bridge that the Florida Department of Transportation recently began constructing. It includes pedestrian and bicyclist paths and a shoulder wide enough for vehicles that break down to pull over and.

One of the unique and innovative revenue streams for the city has been a taxexempt loan pool that funds government projects with a public purpose. About 40 projects have taken advantage of the Gulf Breeze pool. Plus, the city makes money by sponsoring bond issues.

The funds that total about $800,000 to $1 million annually are managed by Capital Trust Agency under Gray.

“It’s been a great enterprise for our city,” Eddy said, praising Gray for his work.

Eddy is proud that Gulf Breeze delivers a “good value,” meaning city residents get many services for paying just 1.9 mils in property taxes. Among them are the city’s new Gulf Breeze Community Center, surrounded by the city’s sports complex, a network of six-foot wide pathways through wooded areas, Shoreline Park on the Santa Rosa Sound and other amenities.

“A lot of people have said, ‘Buz, you did a great job,’” Eddy said. “Well, all of us should be congratulated really. I couldn’t ask for a better staff. I won’t miss the latenight meetings or the problems, but I will miss the folks I worked with.”

The 62-year-old Eddy still has city work left to do. Although retired, he will look at alternative ways to manage effluent and examine more affordable ways to install solar power, not to mention he remains the Fairpoint Regional Utility chairman.

“That’s exciting for a dyed-in-the-wool government bureaucrat like me,” he said laughing. “It may not be exciting to others.” {in}

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According to the attorney, the terrorism in the Middle East was funded entirely by U.S. dollars.

He said, "First of all, Iran could not use its own currency to pay cash bounties, which they were doing on the ground in Iraq—paying terrorists for every American they injured, maimed or killed, or kidnapped or tortured."

The Iranians didn't use their currency because it was essentially worthless outside of the country and would have been traceable to them.

"It wasn't enough to encourage somebody to sacrifice themselves or put themselves in harm's way to attack our troops," said Paulos.

"U.S. dollars were the life blood for terrorism that was taking place."

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civilian contractors and service members who were there on the ground ultimately doing a peacekeeping mission to stabilize Iraq and allow the democratic process that we hope to instill there to take place," said Paulos.

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"Every day we work on this case, we are finding more ties between Iran and the attacks on our citizens and service members in Iraq," said Gavriel Mairone, whose law firm, MMLaw, joined Levin Papantonio in the lawsuit.

His firm is devoted exclusively to representing victims of terrorism.

Mairone said, in a press release, "This investigation gives us the opportunity to hold state sponsors of terror, and those who support and facilitate terrorism, responsible for their abhorrent, systematic killing and maiming of U.S. soldiers and civilians who were on the ground to maintain peace and stability."

Data suggests that the majority of the 36,000 + U.S. casualties in the war resulted from attacks that can be linked to Iraniansponsored terrorists.

"A significant portion of the attacks against our service members and civilian contractors and the resulting casualties can be traced back to Iranian-funded and Iraniansupported terrorists," Levin Papantonio attorney Chris Paulos told Inweekly. "Our suit is designed to use U.S. laws, laws that have recently evolved sadly over the last 15 to 20 years because of the amount of terrorism that's taking place during these times."

The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) narrowed the scope of the legal doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity and made it possible for U.S. citizens to sue foreign governments regarding terrorism, but it took an override of a President Obama's veto last fall to enact the bill. The White House expressed concern that the JASTA would put the United States, its taxpayers, its service members, and its diplomats at "significant risk" if a similar law is to be adopted by other countries.

Paulos said, "We are using these new laws to hold financiers and those who support ter-

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have already pleaded guilty, or admitted and entered into deferred prosecution agreements with U.S. regulators that they conspired with Iran, the Central Bank of Iran, and several other Iranian banks, to illegally provide billions of U.S. dollars to Iran during the Iraq War. "Without those U.S. dollars, Iran could not possibly have committed the acts of terror that it did in Iraq and certainly could not have had the lethality or the efficiency that it truly did," said Paulos. "In some parts of Iraq, 70-percent of the casualties at any given time were being caused not by the Iranian army or the Iraqi army or some act of war but by acts of terrorism being committed by known, specially designated terrorists on the ground in Iraq using money and munitions provided by the State of Iran."

U.S. bank regulators and state regulators in New York and the District of Columbia figured out how these transactions that were being done through European banks using corresponding banks in the U.S. and how the data on those transactions was being scrubbed or manipulated by the banks so that they would not get flagged by the Treasury as suspicious transactions.

"They were able to do what's called ‘Uturn transaction,'" explained Paulos.

"That is, to send a request for funds through a European bank, through banks in New York City and other banks in the United States, and swapping out currency in order to get and convert it to U.S. dollars, and then sending it back to European banks and Iranian banks who needed those U.S. dollars."

He added, "It's fairly technical, but it's not uncommon, particularly in the realm of money laundering for an illicit purpose.

It's something that's routinely done when somebody is trying to ‘wash' money or give money the appearance of a legitimate mean or purpose."

Paulos has been concerned about efforts to normalize U.S. relations with Iran, which began under the Obama administration. If economic sanctions are lifted, he is worried that business investments in the country would put more dollars into the bank accounts of terrorist organizations.

"People doing business in Iran have got to know who they're dealing with," he told Inweekly. "Some experts believe that 40-percent of the Iran economy is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a portion of which has been designated a known terrorist organization."

The website, IraqWarFund.com, has been established to help inform and connect veterans and families who wish to determine if their injuries were the result of wrongful conduct by Iran and others. A short video, explaining the cause and how veterans and Gold Star families are fighting back against terrorism, has been viewed over 60,000 times, and its Facebook page has already grown to 16,000 engaged followers. {in} MUST INITIAL FOR APPROVAL

On May 15, 'Giant Killer' Mike Papantonio and his team at Levin Papantonio, along with six other national firms, filed the first of a series of lawsuits (Holladay, et al. v. Iran). The lawsuits were filed on behalf of injured veterans, their families, and Gold Star families against Iran and its agencies for directing and facilitating a concentrated campaign of terror in Iraq against Coalition Forces, civilian contractors and Iraqi citizens who were attempting to rebuild the country and provide stability and security after Iraq's liberation.

The lawsuit names currently 34 separate Plaintiffs who were injured, directly or indirectly, in 16 separate attacks in Iraq that were allegedly perpetrated by agents of Iran and involving Iranian-supplied munitions and weapons.

rorism accountable for the realities that they cause, including the deaths and severe injuries of our clients."

The lawsuit filed in federal court in the District of Columbia isn't the first time Iran has been sued regarding terrorist attacks.

Under the Foreign Sovereignties Immunities Act, normally a foreign country is immune from a lawsuit, except for several enumerated exceptions. One of those exceptions is if a foreign nation or state commits extrajudicial killings, torture, kidnapping, and other terrorist acts. Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terror by the United Nations and by the U.S. government for nearly three decades, which excepts the Middle East country from a lawsuit alleging that it participated or even committed a terrorist act.

"Under the exceptions to that law, our clients are bringing claims against Iran alleging that Iran, again, financed, or in fact committed, the acts that took place in Iraq, and some maybe even in Afghanistan, that injured

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A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD Studer Properties has been eager to fill the firstfloor commercial spaces in its Southtowne Apartments and the mixed-use office space across the street on the corner of Jefferson and Intendencia Streets in downtown Pensacola, according to Quint Studer.

“There will be three restaurants,” he said on “Pensacola Speaks” last Thursday. “One of them is a currently established restaurant that does pretty well, but it's in a tough location in Pensacola, so it's moving down there.

There's another one that's in Gulf Breeze that's moving down there, too.”

Both signed leases to be part of Southtowne. The third eatery is brand new concept being proposed by an established local restaurant group that hasn't signed a lease but is expected to be on the first floor of the mixed office building under construction next to the Bear Levin Studer Family YMCA. Studer said that the Baptist Health Care has leased the corner of Intendencia and Tarragona streets. Other tenants include a pharmacy, small grocery, a ladies' clothing store, and a second Bodacious Brew location.

“Southtowne is going to be a great little neighborhood,” said Studer.

RESTORE COMMENTS SOUGHT The

Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012, or RESTORE Act and U.S. Department of Treasury’s regulations direct Escambia County to prepare a Multi-Year Implementation Plan (MYIP). The plan prioritizes eligible activities for Direct Component funds awarded to the county through the Deepwater Horizon Settlement and RESTORE Act, and to obtain broad-based participation from individuals, businesses, Indian tribes and non-profit organizations as part of plan preparation.

The BCC shortlisted the following 10 projects in February 2017 to include in the initial MYIP: •Carpenter Creek Revitalization Plan •Eleven Mile Creek Basin •Eleven Mile Creek Restoration •Hollice T. Williams Stormwater & Recreational Park •OLF8 Commerce Park Improvements •Perdido Key Gulf of Mexico Beach Access •Perdido Key Multi-Use Path •Project Universal Access •SOAR with RESTORE •South Dogtrack Drainage In preparation for submitting the final MYIP, Escambia County is accepting public comment for 45 days for the shortlisted projects included within the plan.

The public comment period opens June 5 and closes July 19. On Monday, June 5, RESTORE staff will host a public comment kickoff meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place, Room 104.

LOVE FOR TRUMP BUDGET Congress-

man Matt Gaetz (R-FL1) told Inweekly that he loves the budget proposed by President Donald Trump. The budget emphasizes defense funding, immigration enforcement, the southern border wall, funding to address violent crimes and reducing opioid abuse, while cutting Medicaid, education, housing, environment protection, and foreign aid.

"Look, there are tough choices that have to be made," he said. He isn't worried about the Democrats ranting and raving on the floor of the House about cuts to the program.

“My assessment is that we should not be taking money from our military to fund things that are absolutely nonessential,” said Gaetz. “We are in the middle of the greatest generational theft that the planet Earth has ever known with our deficits and

debts. So I'm glad for the first time in eight years, a President of the United States has delivered to Congress a balanced budget.”

He cited the key pro-growth features of the Trump budget proposal. The congressman said, “First of all, tax cuts and tax reform. Now, these tax cuts don't end up costing money. They are dynamically scored and will ultimately grow the economy. But it will create more investment, and it will really spur more creativity within the country. So that is very productive."

He also sees the regulatory reforms as pro-growth.

“Also, within this budget, there's regulatory reform because we're not going to be able to continue to have more and more regulations that cost more and more money,” said Gaetz.

The increase in defense spending will help the Florida Panhandle, according to the congressman.

"The military spending that's in this budget will have a significant impact in Northwest Florida," he said. "We build the F-35 in Northwest Florida. We train on it. We fly it. So fully funding our military finally over the $600-billion mark, I think is very important not only for the warfighter, not only for the country but for our local economy in Northwest Florida."

PARSCO SELECTED In a city hall meeting regarding the former Blount School property sale and redevelopment Thursday, all committee votes were in favor of ParsCo Construction developing the site.

The company laid out an 112-page construction and development plan for the property, complete with 30 detached houses and a community park.

Amir Fooladi, ParsCo president and CEO, told Inweekly he was excited to begin this project and hopes that the contract is awarded quickly.

“Our next step is setting up a really nice event for the neighborhood and giving all the current residents the chance to meet us,” Fooladi said. “And if the city gives us permission, we might even set up a tent onsite and make this an exciting event for everyone.”

The committee members stressed the importance of ParsCo’s idea to create a green space. Fooladi told Inweekly he wants the project, The Cottages at Five Points, to reflect the importance of a community lifestyle and bringing people together, which is why he included the neighborhood park in the proposal.

“We’re going to hire a talented local landscape architect to help with the green space, as well as get the current community's input on what they want the park to look like in order to meet their needs,” he said.

Another important part of ParsCo’s plan was affordability. Fooladi wants the new units to be reasonably priced for families in the professional workforce. He said each unit is projected to cost around $199,000, which would include the land and a 1,200 square-foot cottage.

WEAR ORANGE The Third Annual Na-

tional Gun Violence Awareness Day is June 2. Supporters of common sense gun laws are asked to wear Orange.

The Wear Orange campaign was inspired by the friends of Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago high school student who was killed by gunfire only one week after performing at events for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. Her friends decided to honor her life by wearing orange, the color worn by hunters for safety, on her birthday.

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At 2 p.m., a Gun Violence Awareness Community Cookout will be held at Greater Little Rock Baptist Church, 901 North A St. Free food and entertainment will be provided.

RAWSON RODEO ENDS On May 22, the

Escambia County Commissioners voted to embrace change with a 3-2 vote for closing Rawson Lane at the request of Pensacola Christian College.

Over 160 Escambia County members voiced their opinions regarding the road’s closure. Thirty-eight of the speakers were against the request, while 123 were in favor.

The vote allows Rawson Lane to undergo change within the next two years.

Amy Glenn, Chief Communications Officer for Pensacola Christian College, told Inweekly that with a growing student body and 95 to 96 percent of undergraduate students living on campus. The school requested the roads partial closure from

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Brent Lane to just before Euseba Street for the continuity of the confined campus and the safety of the students and faculty.

By 2019, the college will build a dormitory on the opposite side of the road, which prompted the college to make its request.

“It’s more than 10 people. We’re looking at 1,000 people crossing Rawson several times a day once the new dorms are built,” Glenn said.

Commission chairman Doug Underhill echoed concerns over safety. He believed that Rawson Lane had become a short cut for people rushing from one side of town to the other and has made the road dangerous for pedestrians.

“Our authority goes back to traffic, pure and simple,” said Commissioner Underhill. “Is there a public interest in this (road closure)? Yes. And really it does come back to traffic.”

Commissioner Lumon May, District 3, urged the board to reject Rawson Lane’s partial closure.

“I applaud Pensacola Christian,” May said. “I don’t mind that they have selfish interests, but I can tell you 90 percent of the

people who want to close it (Rawson Lane) work for the college. That means they have a motive and personal gain.”

A tight 3-2 vote for the Board of County Commissioners is rare. However, the board discussion indicated that such an outcome was inevitable.

Before the vote, Chairman Underhill tried to frame it positively.

"We went through more speakers than we've had on any other subject, and there was not a single outburst," he told the audience. "Regardless of how this vote goes tonight, we will be the best Escambia County there could be."

“FROM THE ASHES” The environmental group 350 Pensacola will conduct a screening of the film "From the Ashes," which explores the lives of workers and communities that once relied on coal mines, how they cope with the transition to clean, renewable energy, and the potential of the rapidly expanding clean energy economy.

The free screening will be 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 6, at the West Florida Public Library, 239 N. Spring St. A panel discus-

sion including local energy, employment, and environmental professionals follows the film.

The presentation is part of a monthly speaker series on climate change sponsored by 350 Pensacola. For more information, call 687-9968 or visit 350pensacola@ gmail.com.

MORRIS COURT PARK REOPENS

Thanks to lobbying from Commissioner Lumon May and the neighborhood on the Area Housing Commission, the Morris Court playground reopened Tuesday, May 30.

The park hours are sunrise to sunset, and the Area Housing Commission will open and close the park daily. Pensacola Parks and Recreation will remain responsible for maintenance and upkeep of the city park.

Predictably, the one trying to take credit for the reopening of the park is the person who worked hardest with Mayor Ashton Hayward and City Administrator Eric Olson to close it—Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn. {in}

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What you’ll be reading, watching and listening to all summer long

By Joani Delezen, Jennifer Leigh, Sammi Sontag and Daniel Barnes June 1, 2017

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The summer movie season is always eagerly anticipated and even more eagerly forgotten, but the shit show known as the summer of 2016 will leave a lasting scar.

“Ghostbusters,” “Suicide Squad,” “Ghostbusters,” “Independence Day: Resurgence,” people tweeting about “Ghostbusters,” “The Legend of Tarzan” and let’s not forget “Ghostbusters.”

But this summer hope springs eternal, and film critic Daniel Barnes managed to find ten highly anticipated films that might just make for the best…summer…ever.

WONDER WOMAN (JUNE 2)

Finally! A female superhero movie helmed by a female director—was that really so difficult? Beyond checking off overdue boxes and rubbing Marvel’s nose in it, “Wonder Woman” could break out of the comic book bubble of bland mediocrity, if only because the character is more identified with bravery and sincerity than with wisecracking smugness or goth mopey-ness. It also helps that the demigoddess warrior princess is played by real-life demigoddess warrior princess Gal Gadot.

IT COMES AT NIGHT (JUNE 9)

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with highly respected indie outlet A24. This follow-up is a horror movie, and after seeing Shults turn a Thanksgiving family dinner into hell on earth, it will be fascinating to watch him plant two feet in the genre.

BABY DRIVER (JUNE 28)

After a number of aborted projects, including a famously failed attempt to make “Ant-Man,” Edgar Wright finally delivers his first film since 2013’s “The World’s End.” I’ll take anything we can get from the maniacally creative Wright at this point, even if this romantic action musical looks like the sort of film that talented directors make when they have no idea what to make.

THE BEGUILED (JUNE 30)

I’m not usually stoked about remakes, especially a remake of a good film like Don Siegel’s kinky 1971 drama “The Beguiled,” but I’m very curious to see a female take on this somewhat misogynist material. It will also be interesting to see if Sofia Coppola can snap out of her funk and invest the film with some of that old “Lost in Translation” spark.

A GHOST STORY (JULY 7)

David Lowery provided one of the last summer’s pleasant surprises with “Pete’s Dragon,” a project conceived as a cynical CGI remake, but imbued with love and

optimism and old-school Disney magic (no wonder it tanked). His follow-up film, a supernatural love story starring Casey Affleck as a white-sheeted ghost trying to connect with his wife, received wide acclaim at Sundance.

DUNKIRK (JULY 21)

Christopher Nolan is practically the only ‘auteur’ permitted to make money-is-noobject, off-brand blockbusters anymore.

That sucks, if only because Nolan seems inclined to make the sort of movies an important director is supposed to make (pretentious space epics and bloated WWII anything) rather than following his “Memento” muse. Still, this story of the Allied evacuation is probably our best chance for non-superhero-related IMAX awesomeness this summer.

ATOMIC BLONDE (JULY 28)

A longtime stunt coordinator and one of the creative forces behind “John Wick,” David Leitch officially steps behind the camera with “Atomic Blonde,” starring Charlize Theron as an undercover agent kick-punching her way through a buffet line of Cold War-era stooges. Leitch has “Deadpool 2” lined up for next year, so hopefully we get one decent genre film out of him before that abomination kills us all.

DETROIT (AUG. 4)

Kathryn Bigelow reteams with “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty” screenwriter Mark Boal for her first film in five years—a visceral ensemble piece about the 1967 Detroit riots featuring John Boyega, Anthony Mackie and John Krasinski.

Sparked by racial injustice and inflamed by police brutality, the riots seem like the sort of historical event tailor-made for Bigelow’s brand of compellingly problematic cinema.

WIND RIVER (AUG. 4)

This is the second directorial effort from Taylor Sheridan, but the barely released 2011 genre film “Vile” was made before he became ‘Wunderkind Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan,’ the Oscar-nominated scribe behind “Sicario” and “Hell or High Water.”

Now there are legitimate expectations for this low-key mystery about a murder on a Native American reservation.

LOGAN LUCKY (AUG. 18)

Steven Soderbergh is very bad at retirement. He claimed to call it quits following 2013’s “Behind the Candelabra,” but he has been working non-stop ever since, most notably on his Cinemax show “The Knick.”

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tv on how adorable little Dev is at Thanksgiving in the early 90s… (Episode 8).

Currently streaming on Netflix

THE HANDMAID'S TALE

Summer is usually when good TV takes a break, but it doesn't seem to be the case this year. For every lame game show (looking at you, “Candy Crush”) there's also a highly-anticipated series getting positive reviews from your friends and on Twitter.

So maybe you're supposed to spend your summer enjoying the outdoors instead of camping in front of the TV. But there's nothing wrong with binging on a few of these shows. Better yet, take your iPad outside and get the best of both worlds.

Here's a look at some shows you won't want to miss.

MASTER OF NONE

If you haven't watched Season Two yet, we can't talk you. Well, we can, but not without spoilers, and we don't want to do that, so just hurry up and watch it, ok? We aren't sure how Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang managed to top Season 1, but they did. Seriously, the only thing better than Dev in Italy (Episodes 1 and 2) is Dev on a dating app (Episode 4). And don't even get us started

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Adapted from the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, “The Handmaid's Tale” might just be this season’s must buzzed about new show and for good reason. It really does seem to be tailor-made for our current political climate— which is equal parts terrifying and entertaining.

Currently streaming on Hulu

which smartly condenses the title, looks at the comedy scene in the 1970s and follows a group of unknown comics looking to break into the scene. The series gives a backstage look at stand-up comedy and has as much heart as it does good jokes.

Premieres June 4 on Showtime

I LOVE DICK

Summer streaming really wouldn't be the same without this show. Thankfully, the ladies of Litchfield are back for Season Five starting next week.

Premiers June 9 on Netflix

Fans of Jill Soloway (creator of “Transparent”) will likely want to binge her latest Amazon TV show, “I Love Dick,” starring Katherine Hahn and Kevin Bacon, based on the novel of the same name. The show follows Hahn, an artist and filmmaker, who goes to Marfa, Texas with her husband where he's taken a research fellowship. In Texas, they both become obsessed with his fellowship sponsor, Dick (Bacon).

Currently streaming on Amazon

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

This Rashida Jones-produced series follows five manicurists at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County in South Florida. Beneath the acrylic nails is a money laundering scam for a nearby pain clinic. Niecy Nash (of “Reno 911” and “Getting On”) plays Desna, the owner who cares for her mentally ill brother Dean (Harold Perrineau).

Premieres June 11 on TNT

I'M DYING UP HERE

Adapted from William Knoedelseder's book "I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak & High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era," the show,

A struggling actress (Allison Brie) unknowingly auditions for an all-female women's wrestling circuit called GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) in this new Netflix dramedy. An added bonus is Marc Maron as coach Sam Sylvia.

Premieres June 23 on Netflix

LOVE CONNECTION

Normally, cheesy game show remakes wouldn't count as must-see TV, but the Bravo king himself Andy Cohen is the new host, so it's worth a shot.

Currently airing on Fox

RAVEN'S HOME

Oh, snap! Guess who's back on Disney Channel? No, not "Girl Meets World" (sorry). But Raven-Symone is. In this spin-off to "That's So Raven," the teen psychic is all grown up as a single mom. And one of her children may have inherited her special powers.

Premiers July 21 on Disney

SNOWFALL

Director John Singleton (“Boyz n the Hood”) tells the origin story of the crack cocaine epidemic. Set in 1983 in Los Angeles, the story is told by weaving the lives of several different characters including a Mexican wrestler, a CIA operative and a young dealer.

Premieres July 5 on FX

TWIN PEAKS

The cult-classic show is back. The smalltown mystery series was a precursor for a lot of the shows you love today. It's worth it just to try it out just to add a little bit of weird to your summer.

Currently airing on Showtime

UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT

That plucky redhead is back for Season Three.

Kimmy is still navigating the outside world and what she hopes to achieve in it, along with her gang of charming, yet odd, friends. If you watch just one episode, make sure it's the one where Titus Andromedon does his best “Lemonade” homage, in a yellow dress and gold boots.

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To travel for music, or not to travel for music, that is the question. And if you ask us, the answer is always “yes.”

If you’ve been itching to see your favorite band and take a mini-vacation, why not take a quick summer road trip to see them?

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JOHN MAYER

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COLDPLAY

KENDRICK LAMAR

JIMMY BUFFET

Dates: June 3–Oct. 21 Closet Stop: June 6 in Orange Beach

PAUL SIMON

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LIONEL RICHIE WITH MARIAH CAREY

Dates: July 7–Sept. 2 Closest Stop: July 17 in Duluth, GA

CHANCE THE RAPPER

Dates: Now–June 17 Closest Stops: June 11 in Atlanta

Dates: June 29–Oct. 6 Closest Stop: Aug. 25 in Duluth, GA Dates: May 12–Aug. 1 Closest Stop: June 14 in Tampa

Dates: July 28–Oct. 17 Closet Stop: Sept. 6 in Jacksonville

Dates: May 27–Sept. 3 Closest Stop: Aug. 9 in New Orleans Dates: June 6–Oct. 8 Closest Stop: Aug. 28 in Miami Gardens Dates: Now–June 30 Closest Stop: June 2 in Fulton County, GA

Dates: July 21-Sept. 5 Closest Stop: Aug. 6 in New Orleans

ON REPEAT Nothing says “summer” like an easy, breezy pop song. You know, the kind of track that instantly puts you in a good mood and is impossible to not sing along with?

Even though summer doesn’t technically start until June 21, there are already tons of contenders out there trying to become this season’s anthem.

Here are the songs we’re going to playing all summer long—windows down, volume up, of course.

I’M THE ONE DJ Khaled with Justin

Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper and Lil Wayne

MOURNING SOUND Grizzly Bear SLIDE Calvin Harris with Frank Ocean and Migos Just in case you wear out “More Life” and need more music get through the summer, here are some upcoming albums worth getting excited about.

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•Dan Auerbach “Waiting On A Song” •Amber Coffman “City of No Reply” •Bleachers “Gone Now”

JUNE 9

•Katy Perry “Witness” •Phoenix “Ti Amo” •Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “The Nashville Sound”

JUNE 16

•Lorde “Melodrama” •Fleet Foxes “Crack-Up”

HUMBLE. Kendrick Lamar

•TLC “TLC”

JUNIE Solange

JULY 7

WANT YOU BACK Haim

•Haim “Something to Tell You”

SWEET CREATURE Harry Styles

JULY 15

STILL GOT TIME Zayn featuring

•Waxahatchee “Out in the Storm”

PartyNextDoor

SHINE ON ME Dan Auerbach

AUG. 18

•Grizzly Bear “Painted Ruins”

PASSIONFRUIT Drake

RUMOR MILL

NO COFFEE Amber Coffman

There’s some speculation these albums will drop sometime this summer, but no confirmed release dates •DJ Khaled “Grateful” •Camila Cabello “The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving” •Zayn Malik (the title is also still TBA)

RUN UP Major Lazer featuring Nicki Minaj and PartyNextDoor J-BOY Phoenix FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man BAD LIAR Selena Gomez

JUNE 30

•Calvin Harris “Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1”

Missed Hangout? Don’t sweat it, there are still tons of other festivals going on this summer if you’re willing to travel a little (or a lot).

BONNAROO

June 8-11, Manchester, Tennessee Headliners: U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd, Chance the Rapper Details: bonnaroo.com

FIREFLY MUSIC FESTIVAL

June 15-18, Dover, Delaware Headliners: Muse, Twenty One Pilots, Chance the Rapper, Bob Dylan Details: fireflyfestival.com

ESSENCE FESTIVAL

June 29-July 2, New Orleans Headliners: Diana Ross, John Legend, Chance the Rapper, Solange Details: essence.com/festival-2017

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NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL

PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL

PANORAMA

FORECASTLE FESTIVAL

LOLLAPALOOZA

SLOSS MUSIC AND ARTS FEST

SATCHMO SUMMER FEST

June 28-July 2 and July 4-9, Milwaukee Headliners: Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Chainsmokers, Future, The Shins Details: summerfest.com July 14-16, Chicago Headliners: Solange, A Tribe Called Quest, Dirty Projectors Details: pitchforkmusicfestival.com July 14-16, Louisville Headliners: LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, Run the Jewels Details: forecastlefest.com July 15–16, Birmingham Headliners: Alabama Shakes, Widespread Panic, Run the Jewels Details: slossfest.com

July 28-30, Newport, Rhode Island Headliners: Fleet Foxes, Wilco, Ben Gibbard, Regina Spektor, John Prine Details: newportfolk.org July 28-30, Randall’s Island, New York Headliners: Frank Ocean, Solange, Tame Impala Details: panorama.nyc Aug. 3-6, Chicago Headliners: Muse, The Killers, Chance the Rapper, Arcade Fire Details: lollapalooza.com Aug. 4-6, New Orleans Lineup will be announced June 20 Details: fqfi.org/satchmo

OUTSIDE LANDS

Aug. 11-13, San Francisco Headliners: Metallica, The Who, Lorde Details: sfoutsidelands.com

MAHA MUSIC FESTIVAL

Aug. 19, Omaha Headliners: Belle and Sebastian, Run the Jewels, The Faint, Sleigh Bells Details: mahamusicfestival.com

BUMBERSHOOT

Sept. 1-2, Seattle Headliners: Flume, Lorde, Odesza, Haim, Solange Details: bumbershoot.org

MADE IN AMERICA

Sept. 2-3, Philadelphia Headliners: Jay-Z, J. Cole, The Chainsmokers, Solange Details: madeinamericafest.com inweekly.net

book a breakout star in “Precious,” it seems she’s been the center of debate in everything from skin color to size. Now, she tells us her story in her own words in this funny and heartfelt memoir.

WHEN YOU FIND OUT THE WORLD IS AGAINST YOU: AND OTHER FUNNY MEMORIES ABOUT AWFUL MOMENTS

by Kelly Oxford You likely know Kelly Oxford from her internet writings—for instance, she is the Twitter account behind the hashtag #NotOkay. In her second book, she writes about everything from natural disasters and cysts to motherhood and her love for McDonald's.

ARE YOU ANYBODY?

Don't limit your summer reading to magazines caked in sand and sunscreen.

Whether you want to pick up a book of funny essays or an in-depth biography, here are a few good picks you can read on and off the beach. And since summer is all about being on the move, audio books do in fact still count as "reading."

THEFT BY FINDING: DIARIES (1977-2002)

by David Sedaris The reigning king of literary humor is back, this time with the first of two volumes of insights and short stories from his actual diary. Super Sedaris fans will recognize some of the characters, like his old neighbor Helen.

THIS IS JUST MY FACE: TRY NOT TO STARE

by Gabourey Sidibe Ever since the 34-year-old actress became

by Jeffrey Tambor Actor Jeffrey Tambor shares the story of his early life and career before he became an actor on beloved shows such as “The Larry Sanders Show,” “Arrested Development” and his latest role on Amazon's “Transparent.” He shares funny anecdotes from his career and some life advice he's learned along the way.

WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE

by Samantha Irby Humor writer and blogger Samantha Irby collects the funny and not-so-funny stories of her life and shares them in this book of essays. Essay titles such as ‘I’m in Love and it's Boring’ and ‘A Case for Remaining Indoors’ are good indicators for how funny and honest this book is.

HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY

by Roxane Gay Author Roxane Gay returns June 13 with "Hunger"—a memoir about food, weight and self-image. If you haven't read her other best-selling essay collections—"Bad Feminist" and "Difficult Women"—we highly recommend those too.

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THE HATE YOU GIVE

by Angie Thomas This novel is labeled ‘Young Adult,’ but doesn't seem to be limited to just that audience. The book is told from the perspective of a 16-year-old black girl who faces all of the normal struggles teenagers come in contact with. But yet, she's also facing police brutality, when she witnesses police kill her childhood friend during a traffic stop. In a Slate article, writer Aisha Harris wrote that the book forces you to "remember not only the victim who died but the victim who lived."

SUNSHINE STATE

by Sarah Gerad Sarah Gerad shares stories from her formative years living in South Florida. In the title essay, the author writes about volunteering at a bird refuge. Other stories include her first relationship and the work to care for the homeless in Florida.

THE ANSWERS

by Catherine Lacey The book follows the story of Mary, a young woman living in New York struggling to cope with chronic pain.

When she finds relief from a New-Agey treatment, she discovers that it not only works, but it is very expensive. So she searches for fast-cash jobs on Craigslist, enlisting herself in the "girlfriend experiment," in which she hired as the "emotional girlfriend" of an eccentric actor.

X: A HIGHLY SPECIFIC, DEFIANTLY INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY

by Chuck Klosterman For his tenth book, Chuck Klosterman is doing what he does best—talking to pop culture figures and then talking about them. From Taylor Swift to Tim Tebow, no modern hero is left out in “X.”

sts a c d po Taking a road trip? Then you'll want to start downloading these great podcasts to take on the road with you to drown out any annoying passengers.

YOU MUST REMEMBER This Holly-

wood historian Karina Longworth's popular podcast is coming back in June. Her last series, “Dead Blondes,” was as interesting as it was sad. No doubt when it returns, they'll be more juicy stories.

June 1, 2017

WOW IN THE WORLD If you have kids

in the car with you, tune into “Wow in the World.” It's the first children's program in NPR's history and shares all kinds of neat stories about science that inspire, create wonder and provide some education.

THE SAM SANDERS PROJECT For

those that miss hearing Sam Sanders say "Hey Y'all" on the NPR Politics podcast, you'll soon be able to get him back in your podcast feed. "The Sam Sanders Project"

debuts the week of June 15 and will feature Sanders in conversation with a wide variety of people. If you follow him on Twitter, you know his interests are certainly varied, so there will be something for everyone.

30 FOR 30 PODCASTS ESPN's excel-

lent string of sports journalism is coming to podcasts with a series of audio documentaries. Some rumored stories include the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the origin behind the "Yankees Suck" cheer and how a group

of women from the UK became Artic explorers. The first episode will drop June 27.

HOMECOMING The experimental audio drama made some headlines when it featured names such as Oscar Isaac and David Schwimmer—it was also acclaimed by critics and listeners alike. Season Two will begin in mid-July and will feature Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, Spike Jonze and Chris Gethard.

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WORK ON FLORIDA TRAIL 8 a.m. Regular meet

up of Western Gate Florida Trail Association to work on National Scenic Trail and side trail.

Meet at Blackwater River Forestry Center, 11650 Munson Highway. meetup.com/ftawesterngate

NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST

10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm LA LECHE LEAGUE 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Free.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org NATURE WALK: LIFE ON A BARRIER ISLAND 10 a.m. Meet at Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/ guis/index.htm ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182 Taylor

Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

FORT PICKENS: GARRISON FOR FREEDOM

2 p.m. Meet at Fort Pickens entrance, Fort Pickens Road., Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/ guis/index.htm FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF

2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm VICTORIAN TEA PROGRAM 2:30 p.m. 19th century tea customs in the Clara Barkley Dorr house. 311 S. Adams St. $4-$8. Free for UWF students and EBT cardholders with photo ID. CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

AUTHOR MAN MARTIN 6 p.m. Southwest

Branch Library, 12248 Gulf Beach Highway.

PALEO DINNER 6 p.m. $85-plus tax. Limited seating. Union Public House, 309 S. Reus St. unionpensacola.com CHRISTOPHER'S CONCERTS 6-8 p.m. Free. Al Martin. St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, 3200 N. 12th Ave. GUT REPAIR WITH BETSY 6-8 p.m. Free.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org SELECT LATIN DANCE LESSONS AND PARTY

6:30-9 p.m. $10. Salsa, Cha Cha, Bachata and more. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com BLUE OCTOBER 6:30 p.m. $27-$30. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSONVILLE JUMBO SHRIMP 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W.

Cedar St. bluewahoos.com

FRIDAY 6.2

NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST

10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm NATURAL REMEDIES FOR YOUR GARDEN 1011:30 a.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182 Taylor

Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF

2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center

3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm VICTORIAN TEA PROGRAM 2:30 p.m. 19th century tea customs in the Clara Barkley Dorr house. 311 S. Adams St. $4-$8. Free for UWF students and EBT cardholders with photo ID. historicpensacola.org WINE TASTING 3-6 p.m. Free. Ever'man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. Free. City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave. HAPPY HOUR COOK OUTS 5 p.m. Drink specials, free cookout. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com RESTORATIVE YOGA 6 Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org JUNE SLOW RIDE 6 p.m. From the Ground Up Community Garden, 501 N. Hayne St. ANNE FRANK & ME 6 p.m. $10. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com RESTORATIVE YOGA 6-7 p.m. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org DATE NIGHT DANCING 6:30-8 p.m. $15. Learn the basics of several romantic ballroom and country dance styles in group classes that keep partners together. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com SEVILLE QUARTER FIESTA PARADE PARTY 6:30 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSONVILLE JUMBO

SHRIMP 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W.

Cedar St. bluewahoos.com

FIESTA DAY PARADE 7 p.m. Downtown Pen-

sacola. fiestaoffiveflags.org OPEN MIC 7-11 p.m. Single Fin Cafe, 380 N. 9th Ave. facebook.com/singlefincafe

MUSIC UNDER THE STARS: MULLIGAN BROTHERS 7:30-9 p.m. $15. From the Ground

Up Community Garden 711 N. Hayne St. facebook.com/FromTheGroundUpGarden BRIT FLOYD 7:30 p.m. $46.50-$65.50.

Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com FOOTLOOSE 7:30 p.m. $12-$30. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com AUTO RACING 8 p.m. Five Flags Speedway, 7451 Pine Forest Road. 5flagsspeedway.com 80’S NIGHT WITH APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION 8 p.m. $10. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S.

Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

SATURDAY 6.3

SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Fresh local produce, honey, baked goods and live music. Pace Presbyterian Church, Woodbine Road, Pace.

LEARN TO ROW 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. For ages 14 and up. Bayview Park, 2000 E. Lloyd St. pensacolarowing.org/ltr OCEAN HOUR CLEAN-UP 9-10 a.m. Naval Live Oaks Headquarters is on Highway 98 about two miles east of Gulf Breeze on the

Let’s Wine!

Free Wine Tasting Every Thursday AWM 5pm - 7pm

27 S. 9th Ave. | 850•433•9463 AragonWineMarket.com

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calendar right. Buckets, grabbers, gloves and trash bags are supplied. oceanhourfl.com COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com FREE BEGINNER AND INTERMEDIATE UKULELE CLASS 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Free. Blues Angels

Music, 657 N. Pace Blvd.

DEBBIE’S KITCHEN: CHINESE FIVE SPICE RIBS AND CORN SALAD 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $10-$15.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST

10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

50 YEARS OF HISTORIC TRUST OPEN HOUSE

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission at Pensacola Historic Village. 120 Church St. historicpensacola.org FIESTA PRAYER SERVICE 10:30 a.m. Old Christ Church, 405 S Adams St. fiestaoffiveflags.org ANNE FRANK & ME 10:30 a.m. $10. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182 Taylor

Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm FIESTA BOAT PARADE 1 p.m. Boats deport from mouth of Bayou Chico. fiestaoffiveflags.org PARTNERS AND LABOR 2-4 p.m. Free.

Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF

2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm ANNE FRANK & ME 2:30 p.m. $10. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com VICTORIAN TEA PROGRAM 2:30 p.m. 19th century tea customs in the Clara Barkley Dorr house. 311 S. Adams St. $4-$8. Free for UWF students and EBT cardholders with photo ID. historicpensacola.org DELUNA LANDING CEREMONY 3 p.m.

Quietwater Boardwalk, Pensacola Beach. fiestaoffiveflags.org CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm DUSK ON THE GULF 6:30 p.m. Meet in Battery Worth Amphitheater. Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSONVILLE JUMBO SHRIMP 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W.

Cedar St. bluewahoos.com FOOTLOOSE 7:30 p.m. $12-$30. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com DANCE PARTY 8-midnight. Partner dancing on the best wood dance floor in the area. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com FUTURE ISLANDS 8 p.m. $25. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com

SUNDAY 6.4

WAKE UP HIKE 7 a.m. Meet at Bay Bluffs Park,

Scenic Highway at Summit Ave., for a brisk one to two-hour walk with brunch to follow at an area restaurant.

NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST June 1, 2017

10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182 Taylor

Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

FIVE FLAGS DANCE ACADEMY 2 p.m. $15-$20.

Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com

FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF

2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm FOOTLOOSE 3 p.m. $12-$30. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm SOUTHEASTERN TEEN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: SHENANIGANS 4-5 p.m. Free. 1010 N. 12th

Ave. setsco.org/first-city-shakespeare BLUES ON THE BAY 6 p.m. Fundraiser for Workman Middle School Orchestra. Emerald Coast Blues Brothers perform. Community Maritime Park, 301 W. Main St. pensacolacommunitymaritimepark.com

MONDAY 6.5

BIRD WALK 8-10 a.m. Free. Meet at Fort Pickens

bookstore. Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST

10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182 Taylor

Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm

PILATES MAT 1:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man

Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org

FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF

2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm SEVILLE QUARTER MILERS 5:30 p.m. Runners meet in front of Seville Quarter for a run around downtown Pensacola. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS 6:30-8 p.m. $10.

Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, and more. Professional dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com CCFA 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org OTEP 7 p.m. $15-$20. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com HIP-HOP DANCE LESSONS 8-9 p.m. $10.

Learn hip-hop moves from a professional instructor. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com

TUESDAY 6.6

VICTORIAN TEA PROGRAM 2:30 p.m. 19th

century tea customs in the Clara Barkley Dorr house. 311 S. Adams St. $4-$8. Free for UWF students and EBT cardholders with photo ID. historicpensacola.org for more listings visit inweekly.net 17

DIFFERENCE MAKERS TOMMI LYTER OFFICIALLY SWORN IN AS CHIEF OF POLICE Former Assistant Chief of Police, Tommi Lyter was sworn in Friday by the Honorable Amy P. Broderson after 27 years of law enforcement experience. The swearing-in ceremony was held at Olive Baptist Church with many community and city leaders in attendance.

Tommi Lyter was appointed Chief of Police by Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward III on May 11, 2017. He was named Acting Chief of the Pensacola Police Department on May 6, 2017, one day after the previous Chief of Police, David Alexander III, retired.

“Tommi has consistently been a professional both on and off duty,” said Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward. “He is the prime example of how a strong drive for success, dedication to your job, and treating all those around you with the utmost respect, will lead you to achieve your goals,” Hayward said. “Pensacola is blessed to have one of the finest, most professional, and most dedicated police departments in America and I am proud to see Chief Lyter take the helm.”

Chief Lyter began his career with the Pensacola Police Department when he was hired as a police officer in August 1990. He was promoted to sergeant in 2003, promoted to lieutenant in 2006, to captain in 2014, and to Assistant Chief on July 16, 2015. Among his assignments have been Uniform Patrol, Investigations, Neighborhood Services, TAC, SWAT, K-9, Dive Team, and Field Training Officer. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Troy State University. He also is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA. Chief Lyter has received three bronze crosses, one unit citation, two Chief’s Awards, and one meritorious service award. His department responsibilities have included project manager for body cameras and a citywide surveillance system. Lyter is on the Board of Directors for the Esca-Rosa Coalition of the Homeless and formerly served on the board of directors for the Community Drug and Alcohol Coalition. He volunteers with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, is a past president and current member of the First Judicial Law Enforcement Association, volunteers with Fiesta Forces, is a committee member of the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival, and works closely with neighborhood associations and Crime Watch groups.

“To be placed in a position of leadership is humbling,” said Chief Tommi Lyter. “I pledge to you my loyalty, my dedication, and my commitment to excellence,” Lyter said. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am extremely honored and I look forward to working with the citizens of Pensacola.”

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news of the weird SMOOTH REACTIONS (1) Police in Cleveland are searching for the woman whose patience ran out on April 14 awaiting her young son's slow haircut at Allstate Barber College. She pulled out a pistol, took aim at the barber and warned: "I got two clips!

I'll pop you." (She allowed him to finish up —more purposefully, obviously—and left without further incident.) (2) Barbara Lowery, 24, was arrested for disorderly conduct in Cullman, Alabama, in May after police spotted her standing on a car, stomping out the windshield and smashing the sun roof.

She said it was a boyfriend's car, that she thought he was cheating on her, and that she had spent the previous night "thinking" about what to do, "pray(ing) about it and stuff."

(However, she said, "I did it anyway.")

UPDATE The impending retirement from public life of Britain's Prince Philip, announced in May, has likely quashed any slight chance he will visit the Imanourane people on Tanna (in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu)—tragic, of course, because Tanna's Chief Jack and his followers continue to believe Philip descended from their own spiritual ancestors and has thus dominated their thoughts for the last seven decades. In fact, when Tanna was in the path of Cyclone Donna in May 2017, the Imanourane were quickly reminded of Philip's continuing "powers." (Philip has never visited, but Tannans have long prayed over an autographed photograph he sent years ago.)

A NEWS OF THE WEIRD CLASSIC (OCTOBER 2013) The story of Kopi Luwak coffee has long been a News of the Weird staple, begun in 1993 with the first reports that a super-premium market existed for coffee beans digested (and excreted) by certain Asian civet cats, collected, washed and brewed. In June (2013), as news broke that civets were being mistreated -- captured and caged solely for their bean-adulterating utility—the American Chemical Society was called on for ideas how to assure that the

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$227/pound coffee beans had, indeed, been expelled from genuine Asian civets. Hence, "gas chromatography and mass spectrometry" tests were finally developed to assure drinkers, at $80 a cup in California, that they were sipping the real thing.

PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US In March, an electrician on a service call at a public restroom in Usuki, Japan, discovered a crawlspace above the urinal area, which had apparently been a man's home (with a space heater, gas stove and clothing). Investigators learned that Takashi Yamanouchi, 54, a homeless wanderer, had been living there continuously for three years—and had arranged everything very tidily, including the 300-plus plastic two-liter bottles of his urine.

(It was unclear why he was storing his urine when he resided above a public restroom.)

NO LONGER WEIRD News that was formerly weird but whose patterns more recently have become so tedious that the stories deserve respectful retirement: (1) On May 5, an elderly woman in Plymouth, England, became the most recent to drive wildly afield by blindly obeying her car's satellite navigation system. Turning left, as ordered, only to confront a solid railing, she nonetheless spotted a narrow pedestrian gap and squeezed through, which led to her descending the large concrete stairway at the Mayflower House Court parking garage (until her undercarriage got stuck). (2) Police in East Palestine, Ohio, said the 8-yearold boy who commandeered the family car and drove his sister, 4, to the local McDonald's for a cheeseburger on April 9 was different from the usual underaged drivers in that he caused no problems. Witnesses said he followed traffic signals en route, which the boy attributed to learning from YouTube videos. {in}

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Send your weird news to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, Fla., 33679 or weirdnews@earthlink.net, or go to newsoftheweird.com

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Our quest to make Pensacola America’s First Early Learning City has begun! Make plans to attend the “Light Up Learning” fundraiser to support the Studer Community Institute Early Brain Development.

Join us for live music, early learning-inspired food and live and silent auctions.

Join a host of professional athletes including:

LIGHT UP

Learning Studer Community Institute

DATE: Thursday, June 22 TIME: 5:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Sanders Beach Corinne Jones Resource Center 913 South I St., Pensacola

• Josh Sitton, Chicago Bears offensive lineman and Pensacola native • Jordan Howard, Chicago Bears Pro Bowl running back • A.J. Hawk, Green Bay Packers all-time leading tackler • Fred Robbins, Super Bowl XLII champion and Pensacola native • Doug Baldwin, Super Bowl XLIII champion and Gulf Breeze native • Charlie Ward, 1993 Heisman Trophy winner, 11-year NBA veteran • Matt Flynn, Super Bowl XLV champion

ATTIRE: Business casual REGISTER: Studeri.org

• Cody Whitehair, Chicago Bears

The Studer Community Institute is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Its mission is to improve the quality of life for people in the Pensacola metro area.

PROGRESS A look at what’s going on in downtown Pensacola Southtowne Apartments

Urban core mixed-use building

Total development budget

$52,000,000

$14,625,000

Over the course of construction, the number of people that will have worked on this project

600

200

Labor hours

1 million

400,000

Spent each week during construction

$650,000

$260,000 LEASING INFORMATION

Andrew Rothfeder andrew@studercdg.com (850) 232-3003

southtowneapartments.com

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Justin A. Beck (850) 529-7499