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winners GARY SWOOPE The Florida Secretary of Commerce and president and CEO of Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI), Gray Swoope, announced that he will leave his post at the end of February. Over the past four years, Swoope helped recruit Amazon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Deutsche Bank, Embraer, GE, Hertz, Lockheed Martin, Navy Federal Credit Union, Northrop Grumman, USAA, United Technologies Corporation and Verizon to either locate or expand in Florida, bringing thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in capital investments.

UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY INSTITUTE The Florida Division of Historical Resources recently awarded a Special Category Grant totaling more than $290,000 to the institute for exploration of a Spanish fleet associated with Tristan de Luna from the 1500s. The archaeological remains of the Spanish ships, located in Pensacola Bay, are the oldest documented in Florida waters. According to the terms of the matching grant, UWF archaeologists will conduct fieldwork, laboratory analysis, artifact conservation and curation, archival research in Spain and public outreach for two years

KARL LEWIS The Pensacola native helped in 2013 the Southern Youth Sports Association create the Living the Dream event that for the past three years has honored individuals who have kept Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream alive. This year’s honorees were Mamie Hixon, Capt. Keith Hoskins, Jessica Lee, Teri Levin, Ezra Merritt, John Peacock and Aaron Watson.

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losers COUNTY FIREFIGHTER STIPENDS

Several years ago, the Escambia County Commission voted to give its volunteer firefighters a stipend, paying them as contractors. An Internal Revenue Service audit determined those payments were subject to employment taxes and hit the county with $78,000 tax bill for 2012. Several firefighters, who are also county employees, will be forced to quit firefighting because of overtime issues.

MITT ROMNEY Few Republicans are ex-

cited about the possibility of a presidential run by the former Massachusetts governor.

Big money contributors seem to be leaning toward Jeb Bush, but Romney may give them some pause before writing campaign checks. Romney and Bush could find themselves fitting for the moderate GOP vote, leaving an opening for a right-wing candidate to win the nomination.

GERALD BAILEY Gov. Rick Scott forced the former Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner out of office. Bailey was appointed to the post by former Gov. Jeb Bush and had served three governors. He had been with the state for 27 years. His resignation was triggered by what Bailey and others at FDLE considered improper interference in agency operations by Scott’s office and his re-election campaign team. Another rumor is Bailey refused to end a money-laundering investigation into a campaign donor seeking an appointment to be on the Fish and Wildlife Commission.

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'JE SUIS CHARLIE' On Jan. 7, two masked gunmen dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikovs entered the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire on a morning editorial meeting. Twelve people were killed in the attack, including eight journalists.

The murderers were later identified as Muslim radicals incited by a series of editorial cartoons in the magazine. The public response was immediate. The phrase Je suis Charlie, French for “I am Charlie,” was adopted by supporters of free speech and freedom of the press who were reacting to the shootings.

Sadly the war on journalists and freedom of the press isn’t new. Last year was particularly dangerous for journalists. They were killed and imprisoned in record numbers.

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports 27 journalists were murdered worldwide in 2014. Another 34 were killed while trying to bring news from some of the most dangerous places on the planet. Over 220 reporters were imprisoned as governments increased their efforts to suppress information, and that list doesn’t include journalists who either disappeared or were abducted by criminal gangs or militant groups.

In this country, reporters who dare investigate corruption face anonymous threats and character assassinations by faceless trolls using social media as their weapon. Dan Kane, a reporter for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, was

bombarded with threats. One email wished him a lingering death by bone cancer. He was tweeted a photograph of a noose.

Websites and blogs attacked his credibility and mocked his reporting. Twice police were called when that criticism crossed a line into implied physical violence.

Lawyers sent threatening emails to Kane’s bosses and co-workers. One columnist was told, “I do not know how you can go home at night, look your own children in the eye and have them think that you are a man of honesty and integrity.”

Why? Kane unearthed one of the worst academic scandals in recent memory at the University of North Carolina. He discovered football players were receiving credit and teachers were being paid for nonexistent classes.

Kane and his newspaper stayed the course and were vindicated. Last fall, Kenneth Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor, released a report that revealed staggering statistics about the African and Afro-American Studies department and the ways its former chairman and a department secretary created thousands of paper classes.

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FLORIDA’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: TOUGH ON CRIME—AND TAXPAYERS weekly, “The prison population has exploded in recent years, and (meanwhile) the crime rate has been declining. That's confusing to many taxpayers."

Florida is not alone in this problem.

Jails nationwide have swelled since the 1970s as the drug war flared and lawmakers adopted "tough on crime" policies such as mandatory minimum sentences, stiffer penalties for habitual offenders and "truth in sentencing" laws that abolished or severely restricted parole.

Those policies, while tough on crime, have also been tough on taxpayers. State and federal governments, collectively spend some $77 billion each year on corrections, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

NEW APPROACH NEEDED

By T.S. Strickland This legislative session, Florida’s lawmakers will be asked to reconsider how the state deals with criminals. The “tough on crime” mantra isn’t working, according to a report recently released.

The Sunshine State is among the very toughest when it comes to crime, with an incarceration rate more than 30 percent above the national average. Since 1970, the number of Floridians in prison has grown more than four times as quickly as the state's population overall. There are more people serving life without parole here than anywhere else in the nation, and those who are released don’t

fair well—one in three released convicts return to prison within three years.

Something isn’t working, and the fallout is costing the state more than $2 billion a year. Because of this, a growing number of people have started to reconsider Florida’s approach to crime and punishment.

Morgan McCord, communications coordinator for Florida TaxWatch, is one of those people. She put the problem succinctly, "The goal of the criminal justice system is to improve safety in our communities, and Florida’s criminal justice system has not done that.”

“We need to figure out a plan so that when they do, they have a sellable skill, that they can get a job and become a productive member of society.

If we don’t, they will revert back to what they were.” Greg Evers Florida TaxWatch, a nonpartisan think tank based in Tallahassee, recently released its annual government efficiency recommendations for 2015. Among the group's suggestions were several aimed at reining in the state’s mushrooming corrections costs.

McCord said she thought Florida’s penal system was ripe for reform. She told In-

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In the face of such rising costs and persistent recidivism, many states have started to move away from the stridently anti-crime policies of the past. Instead they are investing in new approaches that emphasize rehabilitation, and they are leveraging emerging technology to hone in on best practices.

New York is one such state. In 2000, Florida and New York were nearly identical in terms of their rates of incarceration and overall prison populations, with the latter headcount hovering around 70,000.

Fourteen years later, Florida's prison population had increased to 102,467, while New York's had fallen to 54,600. McCord cited the example of New York as evidence that it is possible to reduce prison populations without compromising public safety.

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McCord said one factor that could help explain the differing experiences of the two states was their divergent philosophies on criminal justice. Florida’s system, she said, does not give sufficient attention to the role of rehabilitation in reducing crime.

Bruce Miller agreed. Miller is public defender for the First Judicial Circuit, which encompasses Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, giving him a front-row view of how Florida’s criminal justice policies work outside Tallahassee’s hallowed halls.

“Statutorily, the primary purpose of a sentence (in Florida) is punishment,” he noted. Rehabilitation, he said, is seen as a laudable, but secondary goal.

"I think one of the things that has frustrated the players in the criminal justice system—the judges, the criminal defense attorneys and sometimes even the prosecutors—are the minimum mandatories,” he said, "especially with regard to drugs."

Miller said he had often heard judges complain of their hands being tied by the statutes. Even if they thought an offender might be rehabilitated at lower cost to taxpayers than incarceration, they are not given the discretion to pursue those alternatives.

"You talk about the cost to the taxpayers,” he said, "but there's something you can't quantify, and that's the effect… on the person and their ability, after spending a bunch of time in prison, to go get a job. You can't quantify the effect that has had on society, and that might be the bigger number that we don't even know about."

TaxWatch researchers think the state can quantify, or at least estimate, some of those costs. One of the group’s recommendations to lawmakers this year is to invest in building web-based tools that would help judges, prosecutors and others analyze the costs and risks of incarceration compared to other sentencing options.

McCord noted other states, such as Missouri, had already pioneered the use of such tools and shown they could be effective. Florida lawmakers are beginning to listen, and McCord said momentum was mounting for change.

Since 2000, the number of Florida’s inmates over the age of 50 has ballooned from 5,605 to 21,002. That number represents fully 20 percent of inmates—a greater portion than in any other state.

The National Institute of Corrections has estimated states spend an average of $70,000 per prisoner per year to house and care for elderly inmates. That's nearly three times the cost for those under 50.

The state's elderly prisoners consume roughly half of the DOC's $408 million total annual healthcare budget.

TaxWatch has recommended the state expand its compassionate release program, currently limited to terminally ill inmates, to allow the early release of more of these aging offenders.

“Thirty years for selling a $20 piece of crack cocaine," Miller said. "I don't think that serves the citizens—I’m not sure who it serves.” Bruce Miller

ELDERLY INMATE PROBLEM

This month, policy makers, law enforcement officials and criminal justice experts gathered in Sarasota for a three-day “Smart Justice Summit.” Many of TaxWatch’s recommendations were on the agenda. Two of the group’s researchers appeared before the Senate Justice Committee to discuss expanding the use of parole for elderly offenders, who represent a growing—and increasingly costly—subset of the state’s prison population.

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Local lawmakers appear open to TaxWatch’s recommendations. Sen. Greg Evers is the chair of the Senate Justice Committee and was present at the summit. He was very interested in policy solutions that could reduce the number of prisoners in the state’s care without compromising public safety.

“There are two types of inmates,” Evers said, “those we’re upset at and those we’re afraid of. I’m not concerned about the last group, because their sentences are so long.

But the ones that we’re just mad at… They’re going to be getting out. We need to figure out a plan so that when they do, they have a sellable skill, that they can get a job and become a productive member of society. If we don’t, they will revert back to what they were.”

Rep. Doug Broxson agreed. "What we're doing now is encouraging people to go right back to a life of crime," he said. Broxson was especially excited by the prospect of expanding the state’s use of electronic monitoring of nonviolent offenders, a step Tax Watch has estimated could save many more millions.

Back in his Pensacola office, Miller suggested the speed at which these and other reforms come will likely depend on the prevailing budgetary and political winds.

"It's politically popular to the public to espouse tough on crime laws," Miller said. "I'm a conservative republican, so I understand the concept of consequences for your actions, but there has to be some practicality. We’ve had the war on drugs essentially my entire adult life, and I don't see that it's been successful."

Miller recalled defending a man years ago who was arrested for selling $20 worth of crack cocaine. Because of the state's habitual offender laws, the man, a crack addict selling to support his own habit, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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GRASSROOTS EFFORTS TACKLE CORRUPTION money is not speech, and therefore regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech," she said.

LOCAL ANTI-CORRUPTION MOVEMENT

By Ben Sheffler Ongoing grassroots movements to put an end to government corruption are gaining momentum and happening close to home.

Move to Amend, a nonpartisan coalition of nearly 400,000 people and hundreds of organizations, is trying to gain enough traction to have an amendment added to the U.S. Constitution that says money is not speech and corporations aren't entitled to constitutional rights, according to its website.

The movement's issue is with the 2010 Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United v.

Federal Election Commission and others that effectively said corporations are people and have the right to buy elections and run the government, Move to Amend's website says.

"The founding fathers are turning over in their graves about this distortion of the Constitution," said Mike Potters, co-coordinator of the Northwest Florida Move to Amend (NFMTA) chapter. "One of the things they were fighting against was corporate control of government."

SEEKING COUNCIL SUPPORT

NFMTA has been attending Pensacola City Council meetings since October in an effort to gain its support, hoping Pensacola will become one of the more than 500 cities around the country that have either passed a resolution or are in the process of doing so.

"Our objective is to gather the support, interest and awareness of enough citizens to where city councils and county commissions are going to adopt a resolution," Potters said.

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Potters said he believes the resolutions would then catch the state legislature's attention, getting them to call on Congress to consider the amendment.

Not only are corporations and money currently affecting outcomes of elections, they also affect who has access to elected officials, Potters said.

"I'm not saying that there's a lot of evil people out there who are causing this to happen. I'm saying this is human nature and it has to be regulated, otherwise the system develops into what it is now," he said.

Sixteen states have passed a resolution, and Sherri Myers 34 are needed before it reaches a ballot for state legislatures, where threefourths are needed to ratify a new amendment, according to Potters.

Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers said she hopes to bring a Move to Amend resolution before the Council in February. If it doesn’t pass, she will then ask the Council to pass a city ordinance that would be on the 2016 ballot.

"I think there's a lot of support for this in the community to amend the Constitution, declaring that only human beings, not corporations, are endowed with constitutional rights and that

Another nonpartisan organization, Represent.Us, is working to pass anti-corruption laws in cities and states around the country and has over 478,000 signatures on its online petition. It chose Tallahassee as its first location to push anti-corruption laws, and last November about two-thirds of those who voted approved an ethics and campaign finance city charter amendment.

Josh Silver, director of Represent.Us, said it's not a conservative or liberal problem—it’s an American one.

"Grassroots conservatives and grassroots progressives are equally incensed at the status quo and equally supportive of sweeping reform," he said.

The charter amendment will create a seven-member ethics board that will review ethics complaints against city officials and levy civil penalties if necessary. It also lowers the maximum campaign contribution to a candidate from $1,000 to $250.

"The reason why politicians vote against the public's interest is because of money in politics," Silver said. "It's the fulcrum to advancing virtually every other issue in America."

Although most previous attempts at reform dealt with either campaign finance or ethics, it's important—and possible— to pass both at the same time, according to Silver.

"You don’t fix the problem unless you pass both ethics reforms and campaign finance reforms, because if you cut off the bad ways that money influences politics, you have to figure out good ways for clean money from ordinary constituents to get into politics," he said.

Myers attempted to strengthen Pensacola's ethics ordinance last September when she proposed an amendment that included, among other things, making it an ethics violation to

"If government isn't efficient and accountable, and they're spending our money, then we've lost a lot of our rights."

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interfere with someone attempting to obtain public records. But the proposal didn't pass.

"I think the issue of corruption is multi-faceted, but I think that it starts with transparency in government," she said. "And transparency in this government that we have here locally is very difficult to obtain."

Myers has recently submitted a public records request for copies of the DR-418 form for businesses receiving Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemptions from the city, after not receiving a response from two of her four emails.

"If government isn't efficient and accountable, and they're spending our money, then we've lost a lot of our rights," she said.

Myers intends to resubmit a new draft of the ethics ordinance once she takes a good look at what's taken place in Tallahassee.

While each location might require different aspects of an anti-corruption law, Silver said Represent.Us is flexible and it really depends on motivated and organized activists to contact them.

"We'd love to consider Pensacola,” he said.

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CITY OF TALLAHASSEE ANTI-CORRUPTION CHARTER AMENDMENT

Shall the Charter of the City of Tallahassee be amended to establish an ethics and anti-corruption policy; require the enactment of an ethics code, establishment of an independent ethics board with broad powers, creation of an ethics office and officer; limit campaign contributions to City Commissioners to $250 per contributor per election and establish a citizen campaign finance program with refunds from city funds for contributions and provide for severability.

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“We are not a healthy community.

According to the 2012 Community Health Assessment, we lag behind peer counties in virtually all health status indicators.”

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CHAMBERS PITCH TO LAWMAKERS

The Northwest Florida Delegation heard on Jan. 15 from the business community what it would like to see the Florida Legislature accomplish this year. The list wasn’t long, but each item could have a significant impact on our local economy.

The event was the annual legislative luncheon hosted by the Greater Pensacola Chamber, Gulf Breeze Chamber of Commerce, Gulf Coast African American Chamber of Commerce, Perdido Key Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Rosa County Legislative Coalition.

Introducing all the chambers in attendance, Greater Pensacola Chamber chairperson Carol Carlan made it the clear the priorities being presented were from more than just the Pensacola business community. “We here are not just Pensacola, we are a region,” she said to the packed ballroom at the Crowne Plaza Grand Hotel.

State Senator Greg Evers, State Representatives Doug Broxson, Mike Hill and Clay Ingram listened to presentations on the business community’s three priorities.

Lance Cook, outside sales and marketing manager with Rubber & Specialties, Inc., talked about two priorities for the economic environment. He asked that the lawmakers support making permanent the new and improved sales tax exemption for manufacturing machinery and equipment and eliminate the sales tax on commercial leases and rents.

Cook said, “Florida is one of the few states that taxes commercial leases and rents. The exemption levels the playing field with other states.”

Dr. Martha Saunders, provost for the University of West Florida, spoke on workforce readiness.

“At the University of West Florida, we firmly believe that the answer to almost every important question facing our community is education,” she said. “The support of a high quality education, which provides for a welleducated, well-trained and readily available workforce is essential to the success of the businesses in our community.”

Saunders said the UWF specifically has identified Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Logistics and Advanced Health Professions as top priority academic programs, all of which are in high demand and pay higher wages.

The Mechanical Engineering degree is in direct response to the increased workforce demand for these engineers in northwest Florida

“The support of a high quality education, which provides for a well-educated, well-trained and readily available workforce is essential to the success of the businesses in our community.”

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and southern Alabama. The Logistics program is tied to a recent report by the Florida Chamber CEO to the Florida Cabinet, which said, “The state has the potential to create 150,000 new trade and logistics-related jobs, which will pay 30 percent more than the statewide average, through the next five years.”

On the advanced health programs, Saunders said, “As we continue to respond to the needs in the Health Care profession, UWF will be pursuing a State University partner to collaborate on a Physician’s Assistant degree.

This will go nicely with our Doctor of Physical Therapy with University of South Florida and our Doctor of Nursing Practice with University of Florida.”

Mark Faulkner, president and CEO of Baptist Health Care, spoke on the chambers’ healthy workforce priorities. He got straight to the point.

“We are not a healthy community,” Faulkner said. “According to the 2012 Community Health Assessment, we lag behind peer counties in virtually all health status indicators.”

Those indicators included higher death rates due to Alzheimer’s, cerebrovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, heart disease, pneumonia, stroke and lung cancer, higher rates of breast cancer, smokers, asthmatics, teen births, STDs and higher utilization of emergency departments.

“These statistics represent tremendous cost in health care utilization and lost productivity,” he said. “And the fact is that these costs are born by the entire community, both corporately and individually.”

He said the people with health insurance and access to health care are healthier and cost the system less. However, one out of every five people in Escambia County lacks health insurance, even though most of them have full- or part-time jobs. Statewide the cost of caring for uninsured patients is $3 billion, which drives up businesses’ and individuals’ health insurance premiums.

The expansion of Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act would make over 42,700 residents in the Pensacola area eligible for health coverage and approximately one million working, uninsured Floridians across the state. To date, state leaders have balked at accepting the $50 billion from the federal government for the expansion.

Faulkner asked the lawmakers to support “A Healthy Florida Works Plan” proposed by bipartisan coalition that includes Associated Industries of Florida, Florida United Business Association, nearly 700 businesses, 15 local chambers and over 95,000 individuals.

“A Healthy Florida Works Plan is a fiscally responsible approach that brings Florida dollars sent to Washington, D.C., back to Florida,” Faulkner said. “It encourages personal responsibility and healthy behaviors, while protecting taxpayers.”

The proposed plan is based on free market principles where private insurance providers elect to participate and consumers have choices. Participating individuals and families select a health plan of their choice through a state-operated private health insurance marketplace. To be eligible, participants must have average annual income levels below $16,000 or $32,900 for a family of four, pay modest monthly premiums and take part in job and education training activities.

He said the plan would save state dollars by eliminating the Medically Needy Program.

Studies also show that states that have adopted access expansion have seen reductions in disability claims.

After the presentations, the lawmakers fielded questions and appeared open to the recommendations.

SCHOOL DISTRICT PUNTS School

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas has finally found a buyer for Brownsville Middle School, which has been closed since 2007.

G.S.I. Brokerage, Inc., a sister corporation of a nearby scrap yard, has offered to buy the property for $475,000.

Five years ago, Rev. LuTimothy May and Friendship Missionary Baptist tried to buy the school. The asking price from the district was $1 million, but Rev. May and his advisors found the price steep considering the repairs necessary to make the facility serviceable.

G.S.I. Brokerage has the same principal address, 1831 N. Hollywood Ave., as G.S.I. Recycling, a scrap yard and shredder operation across the street from the old school. Area residents are suing G.S.I. Recycling.

Attorney Bob Kerrigan represents the neighborhood. In March 2012, he informed the school board of the lawsuit he had filed against the scrap yard, because Oakcrest Elementary School was also near the facility.

Kerrigan said his clients had complained about the noise and vibrations from the shredder, which emits what the conditional permit describes as “fugitive emissions.” Neighbors said that there was at least one loud explosion a day from the facility as it crushes cars.

Kerrigan said that homes and cars in the area were covered with dust from the scrap yard.

According the court records, several lawsuits are still open.

During the March 2012 school board workshop, Superintendent Thomas said, “We’ve lost buyers (for Brownsville Middle School) because of the scrap yard. The shredder devalues it even more.”

Three years later, the superintendent is ready to sell the property to the scrap yard. {in} inweekly.net

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They won Best Restaurant Overall in Inweekly’s Best of the Coast and were recently honored with a coveted Golden Spoon Award from Florida Trend Magazine. But we think 2015 might be even bigger for this all-star restaurant—especially since they are officially open for business downtown. If you haven’t checked out their new digs on North Palafox, you better get on it—fast. Tables are already filling up most nights. New location: 22. N Palafox St., restaurantiron.com •And speaking of downtown, if you don’t make to our ‘hood often you might not know that we lost one of most beloved spots in October—The Leisure Club. Fortunately for coffee fans, TLC didn’t close. They just relocated to a more central location near the airport, behind Bonefish Grill on 12th Avenue. The new TLC is much bigger, features an updated menu and a really cool coffee bar.

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•Apparently there wasn’t enough traffic in East Pensacola Heights to keep Hopjacks Filling Station open. Thankfully we still have the Downtown and Nine Mile locations get our duck fat fry and beer fix.

•If Picasso’s Jazz Club was still on your “new places to check out list,” you need to erase it—at least for now. According to their website, they have closed temporarily, citing the need to make changes “in our kitchen... and in our financing.” You can Hip Pocket Deli, arguably Warstill sign up for their mailing list, rington's most popular lunch spot, is which promises to keep you shutting its doors this month. And it’s not posted on all future developbecause people have stopped eating sandments at picassojazz.com. wiches. The state has acquired the property through eminent domain as part of an upcom•Right before the holidays, ing road construction project and the Florida another do-it-yourself frozen Department of Transportation ordered them yogurt shop closed its doors—32 to vacate by January 31. There is no word Degrees by Cordova Mall. But yet if the eatery will relocate. fear not dessert fans, it was quickly replaced with the only kind of sweet treat that might be trendier than fro yo—cupcakes.

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•We don’t typically get excited about chains, but Voodoo BBQ and their corn pudding are worth getting excited about. This New Orleans based franchise opened locally late last year and has quickly made themselves at home in University Town Center. 1741 E. Nine Mile Road, voodoobbqandgrill.com

•If it seems like every time you drive by what used to be University Mall, there are tons of new businesses, it’s because there are.

Some of the most recent additions to University Town Plaza (the area’s new name) include another chain barbecue spot called Dickie’s Barbecue Pit (dickeys.com) and The Egg and I (theeggandirestaurants.com), which serves up breakfast and lunch.

•And if you find yourself kind of tired of barbecue but not entirely, check out Barbasian on North Pace.

It’s a Barbecue/Asian fusion food truck that offers carry out, walk-up, delivery and catering. 2909 N. Pace Blvd., barbasian.com •Downtown’s SoGo district has also welcomed two new food spots since our last Eat Issue— Nom Sushi Izakaya and So Chopped .

One features sushi, ramen and Japanese inspired tapas and the other freshly chopped salads inside the Bodacious Olive—we’re sure you can figure out which is which. Nom Sushi Izakaya, 410 S. Palafox, nomsushi.com; So Chopped, 407 S. Palafox.

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7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday Get swept up in the passionate lives of a group of young bohemians in Giacomo Puccini’s timeless opera, La Bohème. pensacolaopera.com

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7:05 p.m. Saturday The Ice Flyers have been on the road for a while, but they are finally back in action at The Hangar Saturday night.

Join the home team as they take on the Fayetteville FireAntz and host their annual “Race Night” with wiener dog races on the ice and $2 hot dogs. pensacolaiceflyers.com

7 p.m Sunday Pretty much everyone who caught St. Paul & The Broken Bones at Hangout Fest last summer is still singing their praises. That’s probably why this show sold out quickly. Here’s hoping you got a ticket in time. vinylmusichall.com

Showing Daily If you’re looking to watch all the Best Picture nominees before the Oscars next month, Tree House Cinema can help you cross a few off your list—including this buzzed about indie hit staring Golden Globe winner J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller. treehousecinemagulfbreeze.com

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SoGourmet above Bodacious Olive, 407 S. Palafox. $15. sogourmetpensacola.com WINE TASTING AT CITY GROCERY 5-7 p.m.

Out and about in East Hill on Friday night?

Stop by City Grocery for their free weekly wine tasting before settling in or heading out for the night. 2050 N. 12th Ave. “A NIGHT IN SPAIN” WINE AND DINNER CLASS 6-8 p.m. Enjoy sipping Sangria and

biting down on Spanish delights prepared

by SoGourmet chefs at this wine and dinner tasting class. SoGourmet above Bodacious Olive, 407 S. Palafox. $65. sogourmetpensacola.com

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THURSDAY 1.22

TRAIL WORK ON THE FLORIDA TRAIL 8:30

a.m.-1 pm. The Western Gate Chapter of the Florida Trail Association regularly schedules trail work on the Florida National Scenic Trail and Florida Trail in Escambia and Santa Rosa County, each Thursday.

Meet at The Harold Store, 10535 U.S. Hwy 90, in Harold, 10 miles east of Milton. Call 474-5359 for more information or sign up at meetup.com/ftawesterngate.

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thing new every week at Aragon Wine Market’s regular wine tasting, only a few blocks from downtown. 27 S. 9th Ave. aragonwinemarket.com

FRIDAY 1.23

WINE WITH HILARY: “THE WINEMAKER”

3-4 p.m. “The Winemaker” is the third class in Hilary’s wine education series. Participants learn how fermentation and bottling

swept up in the passionate and fateful lives of a group of young bohemians in Giacomo Puccini’s timeless opera, La Bohème. The hauntingly beautiful melodies will guide you through the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s where six friends live freely and struggle to fulfill their dreams. A deeply moving tale of enduring love and the anguish of love lost, La Bohème captures the essence of what it means to be young, in love and alive. The performance lasts approximately three hours with intermission.

Performance in Italian with English translations projected throughout the theatre.

Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox Street. $25 and up. pensacolaopera.com KRISTEN FORD 9 p.m. Kristen Ford and Mad

Happy. Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 101 S. Jefferson St. $5. sluggospensacola.com

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PALAFOX MARKET 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Fresh produce, live plants, baked goods, fine art and antiques are just a few of the items offered at the weekly Palafox Market in Downtown Pensacola. Items originate directly from participating vendors, including dozens of local farmers, home gardeners and area artists. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com UKULELE CLASS 9:30 a.m. The Pensacola Ukulele Players Society (PUPS) meets every Saturday morning at Blues Angel Music, offering free ukulele lessons for both beginners and seasoned musicians. Loaner ukuleles are available for the sessions, which usually last an hour. Blues Angel Music, 657 N. Pace Blvd. bluesangelmusic.com THE CONTENDERS 6 p.m. Free show. The Handlebar, 319 Tarragona St. pensacolahandlebar.com ICE HOCKEY 7:05 p.m. Ice Flyers v. Fayetteville FireAntz. Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St., $18-29. pensacolaiceflyers.com CEDRIC BURNSIDE 8 p.m. Cedric Burnside and Chain Smoking Hags. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $5. vinylmusichall.com MILLIONAIRES 10 p.m. Millionaires and Eryn Woods. The Handlebar, 319 Tarragona St. $8. pensacolahandlebar.com

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SUNDAY WAKE-UP HIKE 7 a.m. Get your Sunday started with a brisk walk with the Western Gate Chapter of the Florida Trail Association, followed by breakfast. This weekly Sunday morning walk/hike ranges from 1 to 3 miles and takes place at different locations every week. This Sunday, the walk takes place in the Pensacola Country Club’s surrounding neighborhood. Meet at Riveria 615 Bayshore Dr. For more details on exact trail meeting location call Peggy at 982-9490.

Sign up at meetup.com/ftawesterngate.

PENSACOLA OPERA PRESENTS “LA BOHEME” 2 p.m. Get swept up in the passion-

ate and fateful lives of a group of young bohemians in Giacomo Puccini’s timeless opera, La Bohème. The hauntingly beautiful melodies will guide you through the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s where six friends live freely and struggle to fulfill their dreams. A deeply moving tale of enduring love and the anguish of love lost, La Bohème captures the essence of what it means to be young, in love and alive. The performance lasts approximately three hours with intermission. Performance in Italian with English translations projected throughout the theatre. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox Street. $25 and up. pensacolaopera.com ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES 7 p.m. St. Paul & The Broken Bones with Humming House. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $1520. vinylmusichall.com RED MOUTH 10 p.m. Red Mouth with Chain Smoking Hags and Frank RIP. The Handlebar, 319 Tarragona St. $5. pensacolahandlebar.com

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FREE NUTRITION CLASS 10:30-11 a.m. Bay-

view Senior Center is hosting a free nutrition class in the center’s auditorium. This is a continuation of the series of monthly educational seminars for seniors offered at Bayview through various community education partners. January's session is offered through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) from the University of Florida Extension office and through the Council on Aging. Bayview Senior Center, 2000 E. Lloyd S. For more

information regarding this class and other course offerings, call 436-5190.

TUESDAY 1.27

STRUT YOUR MUTT 6:45 p.m. Join fellow dog owners for a 45-minute leisurely stroll in East Hill. Dogs must be leashed and well behaved. Owners should be prepared to pick up after the pets. Meet at the entrance of Bayview Park, 20th Ave. and E. Mallory St. TUESDAY NIGHT POETRY NIGHT AT SLUGGO’S 7 p.m. Free open mic poetry

event every Tuesday. Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 101 S. Jefferson St. facebook. com/TNPNS GALACTIC 7:30 p.m. Galactic with Monophonics. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $25. vinylmusichall.com DANCECRAFT SWING CLASS 7:30-9 p.m.

This class teaches the skills necessary to become a practitioner of West Coast Swing, a popular partner dance that can be enjoyed with virtually any kind of music. Additional classes and a social dance are held each Wednesday for a chance to put your skills to use. Tuesday class fee is $10 per person or free for people 30 years of age and younger. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com THE INDEPENDENTS 10 p.m. The Independents with Black Cat Attack and Operation Hennessey. The Handlebar, 319 Tarragona St. $8. pensacolahandlebar.com

WEDNESDAY 1.28

“ALL WRAPPED UP” SEAFOOD LUNCH CLASS 12-1:30 p.m. Learn from SoGourmet

chef Sue Shattuck, the delicious method of cooking with parchment. Menu includes: mozzarella salad, fish ‘en papillote, and coconut custard. SoGourmet above Bodacious Olive, 407 S. Palafox. $35. sogourmetpensacola.com WEST COAST WEDNESDAYS 6:30 p.m.

Learn the West Coast Swing at this weekly class, which is followed by a social dance at 8:30 p.m. DanceCraft instructors are among the foremost experts in West Coast Swing in the Pensacola area.

Wednesday classes are $10 per person and the social dance is $5 per. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com

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MAINLINE ART HOUSE PRESENTS: “KALEIDOSCOPIC INKS” A collection

of screen printed gig posters and art prints by Richard Humphreys, recent winner of the Mainline “Ghostbusters”

exhibit. Humphreys is the founder of the Workweek, a small design and print studio in Northwest Florida. The Workweek umbrella includes design work of all shapes and sizes, while keeping poster design an essential piece of the pie. Various Workweek projects

have been featured on numerous blogs, as well as in the coffee table book, “The Wall: Modern Day Music Posters” and the cover on Inweekly. Art House hours and location: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Mainline Art House, 442 S. Palafox. mainlinearthouse. com PMA PRESENTS: “YOUTH ART FOCUS” The Pensacola

Museum of Art in partnership with the Escambia County School District presents “Youth Art Focus” in recognition of National Youth Art Month.

The exhibition highlights the best

works from over 500 art students and educators within Escambia County schools, celebrating their strong artistic achievements and our area teacher’s dedication to art.

On display through Feb. 14. Also on display through Jan. 31 is “The Alice in Wonderland Series.”

Museum hours and location: TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults; $8 for members, children 17 and under, seniors and active duty military. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org

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Father John Misty “I Love You, Honeybear”

Josh Tillman is reinventing the term “asshole.” He has been since he created Father John Misty, his on-stage persona who raves about drugs and sex in the same way that Tony Clifton lived out another side of Andy Kaufman. On 2012’s “Fear Fun,” Tillman dove headfirst into Americana and folky compositions to surround his sardonic and hedonistic lyrics, but it was all pulled off with a tonguein-cheek flair that makes Tillman lovable, no matter what he says. But the Tillman and Misty on upcoming sophomore release, “I Love You, Honeybear,” are considerably different in tone and content.

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Florida as the backdrop of major motion pictures. On display through Feb.

album focuses quite a bit of its energy and focus on being in love and finding someone to spend the rest of life with. Between albums, Tillman married and moved to New Orleans, which makes “Honeybear” the result of some significant life changes.

“People are boring, but you’re something else I can’t explain.”

Tillman sings these words on ‘Chateau Lobby 4 (In C for Two Virgins),’ the second single to be released from “Honeybear,” following the lead of phenomenal ‘Bored in the USA.’ I think these lyrics are the cohesion point of the album. Tillman realizes that this relationship is something that he doesn’t understand and hasn’t experienced before, then he takes much of the album trying to evaluate, poke fun and organize his feelings. This sentiment is most prevalent in the song ‘The Ideal Husband,’ where Tillman differentiates where he has been and what he has done with where he is and how he feels now. “I came by at seven in the morning, said, ‘Baby, I’m finally succumbing.’ Said something dumb like, ‘I’m tired of running.’” Tillman doesn’t know what it is about this woman, but he has given in to her.

Musically, the album is just as eclectic as “Fear Fun,” with much more seriousness and a bit more soul. ‘The Ideal Husband’ is a bit more raucous and lyrically somber than we have come to expect from Tillman, while closer ‘I Went to the Store One Day’ is very

Museum hours and location: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. T.T. Went-

worth, Jr. Florida State Museum, 330 S. Jefferson St. historicpensacola.org

calm, which is also somewhat new territory.

While this is still very early into 2015, “I Love You, Honeybear” will be in constant rotation and I presume these songs will haunt me, and hopefully you, all year. “I Love You, Honeybear” is out Feb. 10 via Sub Pop Records and Father John Misty is also set to perform as part of this year’s Hangout Fest (May 15-17, in Orange Beach, Alabama.)

IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD: Twerps

Australian jangle-pop export Twerps are getting ready to release their debut full-length for Merge Records, titled “Range Anxiety.”

Last week, the band released the album’s second single, ‘I Don’t Mind’ to critical laud and the coveted “Best New Music” title from Pitchfork.

Earlier work was considerably more carefree than what is being slowly released from this new LP. ‘I Don’t Mind’ and the preceding single ‘Back to You,’ are wrought with moodiness and disquiet, while still exuding an open minded, freewheeling attitude. If the entire work is as perfect as the first two singles, “Range Anxiety” is going to make Twerps a band to keep an eye on in 2015. “Range Anxiety” is out Jan. 27 via Merge Records.

of songwriter Katie Crutchfield, announced a new album last week titled, “Ivy Tripp,” and offered up a corresponding single, ‘Air.’ This first taste of the album shows a very matured sound for Crutchfield, opting for a grooving, very familiar ’90s feel. There has been tremendous growth shown by Waxahatchee since beginning with bedroom solitude and expanding to catchy rock songs, and “Ivy Tripp” is sure to be her most ambitious so far. Stream this track on the Waxahatchee Soundcloud page or snag the track now on iTunes. “Ivy Tripp” is out April 7 via Merge Records and will be playing here in town April 18 (at Vinyl Music Hall). {in}

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BLUE MORNING GALLERY PRESENTS: “THE NEW BLUES EXHIBITION” This

spotlight show features the works of the gallery’s newest members. Featured artists include: Suzette Brooks, glass; Tim Brooks, photography; Frank Brueske, photography; Maria Hoch, ceramic; Bernd Owsnicki, photography; Rafi Perez, oil.

On display through Jan. 31. Museum hours and location: Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m., and Sunday, 12:30-4 p.m. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox. bluemorninggallery. com ARTEL PRESENTS: “VIEW FROM ABOVE” Your pos-

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ous mixed media works. Opening reception takes place Friday, Jan. 23, 6-8 p.m. On display through Feb. 20.

Museum hours and location: TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox, Old County Courthouse. artelgallery.org

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“COLOR YOUR ART” WITH MELINDA GIRON 5:30-8:30

p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. For those with some painting experience Melinda Giron facilitates this refresher class to introduce new ideas/ techniques, open to watercolor, oils and acrylics. Students are invited to bring their own clear image for reference or a piece currently in progress. $100 per student for 4 class sessions. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox. For more information call 686-5151. To register for class, visit: bluemorninggallery. com/classes.

“MAKE-YOUROWN-GLASS” CLASS

10a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23 and Saturday, Jan 24. Held weekly on Friday and Saturdays, First City Art Center offers weekly “MakeYour-Own-Glass” classes, no previous glassblowing skills

necessary. The classes are open to anyone age 8 and older and range in price from $25-$45.

Pre-registration and pre-payment is required and can be made by calling 429-1222. First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL 6 – 8:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 26.

During this weekly workshop held on Monday evenings at First City Art Center, instructor Pearl VanHoove works individually with students to develop consistency in throwing on the wheel. Participants receive and introduction to materials, equipment and throwing techniques.

Each session begins with a brief demonstrations followed by hands-on time at the wheel. The class is $40 and open to individuals age 14 and up. Pre-registration and pre-payment is required and can be made by calling 4291222. Class is limited to two participants.

First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

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POKER 8 p.m. The

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Ticket 2, 2115 W. 9 Mile Rd., ticketsportsbar.com Fridays DRAG BINGO 6-8 p.m. Ages 21 and over. Emerald City’s The Other Side, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola. com POOL TOURNAMENT 8 p.m. The

Ticket 1, 7250 Plantation Rd., ticketsportsbar.com Mondays

TEXAS HOLD ‘EM FOR FUN AND TRIVIA 7 p.m. The

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com TRIVIA NIGHT 7-9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. wobusa.com/locations/ Palafox BAR BINGO 8 p.m.

Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MONDAY NIGHT TRIVIA 9:30-10:30

p.m. Mugs and Jugs, 12080 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ MugsJugs Tuesdays TUESDAY TRIVIA 8 p.m. The Bridge Bar and Sunset Lounge, 33 Gulf Breeze Parkway. facebook.com/ thebridgebargb

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7-9:30 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. facebook.com/ goatlipsdeli

WEDNESDAY QUIZ TRIVIA 8 p.m. The

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VFW Post 706, 6 p.m. 5000 Lillian Highway. vfw706. org Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com The Cabaret, 9 p.m.

101 S. Jefferson St. cabaretpensacola. com Hub Stacey’s At the Point, 9 p.m.

5851 Galvez Road. hubstaceys.com Saturdays

Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 9 p.m. 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com Sundays

Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.

130 E. Government St. sevillequarter. com The Sandshaker Lounge, 9 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach

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101 S. Jefferson St. 607-2020 or cabaretpensacola.com Tuesdays

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The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ QualityInnScenicHwy

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The

Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhouse. goodgrits.com DJ LAO COLLEGE NIGHT 9 p.m.

Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

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LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 5 p.m. The

Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhouse. goodgrits.com AL MARTIN 6 p.m.

The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ QualityInnScenicHwy

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6 p.m. Paradise Bar and Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar-grill.com DUELING PIANO SHOW 8 p.m. Rosie

O’ Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE BLENDERS 8:30

p.m. Hub Stacey's Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com

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The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhouse.goodgrits. com

DJ ORLANDO RICARDO 9 p.m. Emerald

City, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola.com CLASS X 10 p.m.

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com

SATURDAY 1.24 AL MARTIN 6 p.m.

The Piano Bar, Quality Inn, 7601 Scenic Highway. facebook.com/ QualityInnScenicHwy

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6 p.m. Paradise Bar and Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar-grill.com DUELING PIANO SHOW 8 p.m. Rosie

O’ Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St.

sevillequarter.com BAD HABITS 9 p.m.

The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhouse.goodgrits. com DJ JAY-R 9 p.m.

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3 p.m. Paradise Bar and Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebar-grill.com CROSSTOWN 4 p.m.

Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker. com DJ JAY-R 9 p.m.

Emerald City, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola.com

MONDAY 1.26 BLUES SOCIETY

OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA’S MONDAY NIGHT BLUES 8 p.m.

Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

PAPER STREET SOAP CO. 8 p.m. End o’ the

Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

OPEN MIC AT BIG EASY TAVERN 9 p.m.

Bands, individual musicians, comedians, poets, and other artists are invited to participate in weekly open mic sessions known as "Monday Night Jams." Admission is free. 710 N. Palafox. bigeasytavern.com

TUESDAY 1.27

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6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600

S. Barracks St. fishhouse.goodgrits.com TUESDAY JAZZ JAM: THE GINO ROSARIA QUARTET 6:30 p.m.

Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com

WEDNESDAY 1.28

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD

5 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhouse.goodgrits.com JORDAN RICHARDS

6 p.m. Hub Stacey's Downtown, 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com

FOLK MUSIC NIGHT 7

p.m. End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St. eotlcafe.com DJ JAY-R 9 p.m.

Emerald City, 406 E. Wright St. emeraldcitypensacola.com

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news of the weird MAN'S OTHER BEST FRIENDS People's love for their pets reached a new high in December when a British man paid a veterinarian the equivalent of $500 to perform delicate surgery on a sick office goldfish (typical pet store "replacement" price: $1 to $5). Vet Faye Bethell of North Walsham, England, told the Eastern Daily Press in December that there was "nothing special" about the fish, but that the customer "just liked it a lot." In fact, the goldfish likely did not even have a pet name—as Bethell in an interview spoke intimately of another patient by name (Cadbury, the skunk). (Bethell's procedure involved removing the patient from the bowl, flooding its gills with anesthetic-fortified water, and using a tiny scalpel to remove lumps that were causing it constipation, with the surgery guided by a miniature heart-rate monitor.)

IRAQI TV GOES "JERRY SPRINGER" Iraq's government-run channel, Iraqiyya TV, has a reality show reminiscent of American confrontational programs, but is designed to force captured ISIS fighters to acknowledge the pain they have created. One episode of "In the Grip of the Law" (described in a December Associated Press dispatch) showed family members of car-bombing victims on a street corner in Baghdad haranguing one of the men convicted of the crime. A young man in a wheelchair, having lost his father in the attack, faced off against the convict, screaming until the jihadist "began weeping, as the cameras rolled."

WAIT, WHAT? On Nov. 6, a couple (aged 68 and 65) were hospitalized after spending almost 13 hours locked in their car inside their own garage in Alexandra, New Zealand. The night before, they had been unable to remember a salesman's tutorial on how to unlock their new Mazda 3 from the inside and had spent the night assuming they were trapped because they had forgotten to bring along the battery-operated key. The wife was unconscious when neighbors finally noticed them, and her husband was struggling to breathe.

(The door unlocks manually, of course.)

• At first, it seemed another textbook case of a wrongly convicted murderer being released after a long prison stint (15 years), based on a re-examination of evidence. Illinois officials freed Alstory Simon, who had "confessed" in 1999 to killing two teenagers (before a defendants' advocacy organization convinced a judge that the confession had been coerced). That 1999 confession had allowed the man previously convicted, Anthony Porter, to go free, but prosecutors in October 2014 had second—or third— thoughts. They once again believe that Porter was the killer—even though a different defendants' advocacy organization had originally worked to free him. (In any event, "double jeopardy" prevents Porter's retrial.)

• Undersheriff Noel Stephen of Okeechobee County, Florida, acknowledged

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to WPBF-TV in December that among the public services his office performs is supervising parents' spanking of children. After two sisters argued on Dec. 29, their father decided to administer a whipping to one and asked Deputy Stephen to drop by and make sure he stayed within the law. That's "not something we advertise to do," said the deputy, but he estimates he has monitored about a dozen spankings.

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION The Government Accountability Office was on the job in December, issuing an emphatic ruling that the National Weather Service could not legally issue its workers disposable cups, plates and utensils on the job. Such items are "personal," GAO declared, even though most NWS facilities are in remote locations, staffed by twoperson shifts that almost force employees to eat on the premises. "You can't run out" and "grab a burger," one employee said. Nonetheless, after a lengthy deliberative process, GAO said its decision is final.

• In a November ruling, France's minister of housing and minister of ecology jointly announced further streamlining of law books, removing bulky, out-of-date regulations.

Among the rescissions, beginning Dec. 1, is the ban on installing toilets in kitchens.

BEST RECENT FOREIGN NEWS Championship-Level Theft: China's Gxnews.com. cn reported in December the arrest of a man in Yulin City, accused of stealing more than 2,000 items of underwear from women in his neighborhood, taken within the last year. He hid his stash above ceiling tiles in stairwells in his apartment building, but he drew attention when one of the ceiling spaces caved in from the weight of the garments, showering the stairs in an array of colorful lingerie. (Just within the last month, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, two other men, in Zhejiang and Hubei provinces, have been detained for similar crimes. In the latter case, the alleged thief was also wearing lingerie.)

• British makeup artist Jordan James Parke, 23, told London's The Sun in December how he had fallen in love with the look of U.S. celebrity Kim Kardashian and thus had forced himself to spend the equivalent of about $150,000 on "more than 50" cosmetic procedures to adopt her "pouty" look, including lip and cheek fillers, eyebrow tattoos and laser hair removal. "I love everything about Kim ... the most gorgeous woman ever," he said. "Her skin is perfect, her hair, everything about her" (except that, in The Sun report, only her parts above the neck were mentioned). {in} From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2015 Chuck Shepherd

Send your weird news to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, Fla., 33679 or weirdnews@earthlink.net, or go to newsoftheweird.com January 22, 2015

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Don’t miss this exciting finale!

Episode 6 airs Sunday, January 25 at 8 p.m.

Escambia County, FL

Cox.................................Ch. 6, HD Ch. 1006 Bright House ........................................ Ch. 14 AT&T Uverse .......................................Ch. 48

Santa Rosa County, FL

Mediacom ............................................. Ch. 21 AT&T Uverse .......................................Ch. 48

A BlabTV Original Series COMING UP IN THE FINALE!

Mobile County, AL

Mediacom ............................................ Ch. 97 AT&T Uverse .......................................Ch. 48

Sunday Jan. 25 at 8 p.m.

This is it! Producers follow a select crew from the Talent Search as they create a special commercial about Pensacola.

Watch as their unique talents and personalities merge and see all the fun and challenges that come with the creative process! It all ends as the new commercial is revealed, and producers discuss behind-the-scenes involvement with all 250 Talent Search applicants.

The final episode proves this is only the beginning of what BlabTV will be…

Okaloosa County, FL

Cox.............................. Ch. 22, HD Ch. 1022 AT&T Uverse .......................................Ch. 48

Escambia County, AL

Mediacom ............................................. Ch. 21 AT&T Uverse .......................................Ch. 48

Baldwin County, AL

Mediacom ...................................Ch. 21 & 97 Riviera Utilities............. Ch. 18 HD Ch. 861 AT&T Uverse .......................................Ch. 48

From left to right, Samantha Shields, Chris Cook, Charles Ryan, Alexis McDonough, Chris Jadallah, and Felipe Munoz

The new commercial will be available to anyone!

At BlabTV, we’re dedicated to promoting what a great, thriving area we have! The Talent Search special commercial will be available to any news outlet or person who wishes to use it. Visit BlabTV. com after January 25 to share the video via social media or email Nicole Webb, nwebb@studeri. com for a digital copy.

Check out the new website: BlabTV.com

Also Airing In Clarke County, AL Conecuh County, AL Monroe County, AL Washington County, AL George County, MS Greene County, MS On Satellite Providers & Antenna, Ch. 48 Satellite Providers: Dish and DirecTV

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