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Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, praised the approval by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in a viewpoint that has been circulated to the media. Briggs called the permit an “encouraging step forward in BP’s return to the Gulf.”

He believed BP deserved the permit because BSEE Director Michael Bromwich said when the permit was announced that the oil company had met all of the enhanced safety requirements that we have implemented and applied consistently over the past year.

Why doesn’t this make me feel good about BP’s newest venture in the Gulf? It could be that BP has a history of putting workers’ lives at risk. Prior to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a 2005 explosion occurred at BP’s Texas City Refinery that killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others.

Or it could be that BP was the company responsible for cleaning up the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, the largest ever in U.S. waters before last year.

Or, my lack of trust could be because federal investigators found BP solely to

blame for 21 of 35 contributing causes to the Deepwater Horizon well blowout, and partly to blame for eight more.

The report that was released in September was brutal to BP and its cost-cutting ways. The packing cement’s failure to maintain the integrity of the well was the central cause of the blowout.

Because the well was over budget, “BP sought to minimize these losses by reducing the volume of cement it pumped into the well” and a key analysis recommended by a Halliburton engineer was skipped, according to the report.

The oil company said, “From the outset, BP acknowledged its role in the accident and has taken concrete steps to further enhance safety and risk management throughout its global operations, including the implementation of new voluntary standards and practices in the Gulf of Mexico that exceed current regulatory requirements and strengthen the oversight of contractors.”

I don’t believe that BP will be any more careful this time. The culture of the organization, which is evidenced by its poor safety record, is to place profit before people and the environment.

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COUNSELING THE COUNSELORS

Center Reaches Out to Area Ministers

By Jennie McKeon Ministers seek to soothe heartache as part of their profession.

But sometimes, demons bear down on their souls, too.

“It’s a story I hate and love to tell,” said Donald Winslett. “A pastor I know went to her house after evacuating for Hurricane Ivan and found her house 5-feet deep in water. She then went to the hospital to visit a parishioner who had just learned that her house was untouched by the hurricane. How does she summon the courage to celebrate good fortune with this lady?”

This is a situation that is all too familiar for many pastors. In the seminary, ministers are taught the proper way to conduct a funeral or wedding, but how are they trained to deal with their own human emotions?

One answer is the Center for Clergy Care and Education. Winslett is the founder and director of the center and has spent his life helping others. The ordained minister has been a licensed psychologist for the past 30 years and has worked at Baptist Hospital as the director of clinical pastoral education. Working as a minister and a 66

psychologist, Winslett saw a link and has been striving to fill the void of pastoral support groups.

“Eight to 10 percent of the population is clinically depressed,” Winslett said. “Ten percent is chemically addicted, three percent is bipolar. That does not exclude clergy.”

With the Center for Clergy Care and Education, Winslett is trying to provide clergy members continuing education classes to better their profession and someone with whom they can discuss issues.

“Very few pastors have a pastor,” Winslett noted. “One of the things I want to provide is for us to be a network.”

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Posell was one of Winslett’s students almost nine years ago at Baptist Hospital.

The class—which Posell described as “gutwrenching”— was about pastoral identity.

Now a counselor at the Niceville United Methodist Church, she still meets up with Winslett at least once a month.

“I thought he might be nuts the first time I met him, because of the first question he asked me,” said Bob Bailey in an e-mail interview.

“It intrigued me to get to know him better. What I found in that experience and friendship was that this man was truly a pastor’s pastor.”

Bailey has known Winslett for over 20 years and has had his own “gut-wrenching” experiences with him.

“Don also has an uncanny way of keeping a person accountable, not letting you off the hook for something you ‘needed to own,’ yet allow you to come to grips with internal weaknesses that ultimately he would help to turn into strengths,” Bailey explained.

“Very few pastors have a pastor.”

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Before the Center for Clergy Care and Education, Winslett was already a friend and mentor to clergy in the community. It was the beginnings of the network.

“There isn’t a student he hasn’t touched in some way,” said Allison Posell.

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As a wife and mother, Posell has her own family problems and situations that run through her mind while counseling the community. Sometimes it’s hard for a clergy member not to think of their own family when someone is pouring their hearts out over a tremendous loss.

“It’s unhealthy to provide others something you don’t provide for yourself.”

Father Bob Graves “A couple came to me who’s only daughter died,” Posell said. “She was the same age as my daughter and she was buried in the same month as mine was married.”

It’s these situations where it’s hard for clergy members to snap back into reality.

“Ordination is not a vaccination,” Winslett said. “Clergy are licensed without being supervised. Pastors are not equipped, for the most part, to deal with real-life issues.”

Father Bob Graves is a retired priest. He encouraged Winslett to set up Center for Clergy Care and Education. Graves retired in 2003 after serving Christ Episcopal Church for 20 years. Today’s issues may be tough and taboo for the new generation of pastors, but Graves points out he didn’t have it so easy either.

“The world and our country were in upheavals,” Graves said. “There was the Vietnam War, racial conflicts, social conflicts. It was a challenging time for the clergy and all of us.”

Like all clergy, Graves struggled with the constant need he felt from the community.

“It’s unhealthy to provide others something you don’t provide for yourself,” Graves said. “It’s even more challenging for clergy today. Because of cell phones I’m always available. It’s a growing concern for clergy.

Jesus was not always available.”

Even in retirement Graves keeps in practice. He began holding weekly meetings with prisoners at the Fountain Correctional Facility in Alabama four years ago.

“The fact that I’m retired doesn’t mean I’ve hung my collar up,” Graves said.

Posell has learned when to manage her life and work. A lesson most clergy don’t learn until retirement. Two years ago, she was hit by a car while crossing the street.

The near-death experience and the teachings of Winslett have taught Posell to stop and breathe once in a while.

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“I often turn my cell phone off at nine and I don’t answer e-mails right away,” Posell said. “I’ve learned you have to stop and tend to yourself.”

GETTING HELP

Winslett relates crisis to cancers. They have various stages. He wants to teach clergy members to recognize when they’re Stage 1, which doesn’t always happen.

“I rarely get a phone call from a pastor that says, ‘I think I have a problem’,” Winslett said. “It’s ‘I need to see you today’.”

And then when a pastor does finally seek help, they are ashamed.

“Every pastor uses the back door,” Winslett said. “They’re uncomfortable with possibly bumping into one of their parishioners.”

The Center for Clergy Care and Education wants its clients to realize that it is okay to be human, even with the pressures that clergy and their family face. Winslett calls it “congregation expectations.” The center is also geared toward teaching clergy how to face real-life situations such as abuse, suicide and addiction—to recognize it and provide people with references where they can seek professional or clinical help.

“When you understand how he works, you can quickly understand why this endeavor with the Center for Clergy Care and Education is the perfect name for what Don Winslett has been doing for many, many years,” explained Bailey. “His heart is to be as helpful in developing better pastors and finding ways to help them in even the most stressful and lonely problems that pastors often face. There are situations where confidentiality doesn’t allow sharing problems with anyone else. Don teaches how to handle that stress in productive ways.”

“What he has imagined and dreamed of is for clergy to be rejuvenated in what is at times a difficult profession,” Graves said of the center. “He wants the clergy to realize that we all need help. It’s not a negative thing, it’s not a weakness.”

Center for Clergy Care and Education is a non-profit organization. Winslett’s goal is to provide clergy with counseling and education for little to no cost to them. The center will have its first fundraiser on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m., with musician Beth Nielsen Chapman at the Saenger Theatre.

Chapman has written songs for Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Neil Diamond.

She draws from her life experiences to provide lyrics that are inspirational. Chapman will be performing with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra. The concert will benefit the Center for Clergy Care and Education.

Winslett jokes that he always has a place to hide at his private practice, but in all honesty he probably needs a place

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Robertson coolly sipped a Diet Dr. Pepper and surveyed the gallery. By the end of the Oct. 20 meeting he’d be looking at three possible ethics investigations.

“I have absolutely nothing to hide,” said Robertson.

The Escambia County Commissioner had invited the public to Thursday’s commission meeting, where he planned to prove he was not unduly involved in the hiring of a new marketing director for the county’s equestrian center. A few minutes into the public forum it became clear the meeting would take a different course.

“I’d like to see you go, Mr. Robertson,” said county resident Julie Patton.

Citizens were not pleased that Robertson had apparently pushed for a particular candidate, Forest Gibbs, with questionable qualifications and eventually landed his man a job with a hefty salary increase.

“This is a Florida statute,” said Commissioner Grover Robinson, who called for the issue to be addressed. “The question is, was this violated?”

While a few people expressed confidence in Gibbs ability, most citizens focused on Robertson’s role in the hiring process. By law, commissioners cannot be involved in the hiring or firing of county employees; that responsibility lies with the county administrator.

As Robertson rested his head on his fist and listened, citizens quoted Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. They said they were “embarrassed” and “concerned.”

In a series of articles, the daily newspaper uncovered that Robertson lobbied hard for Gibbs, an acquaintance, to get the marketing job. While he has no

to escape. He’s married with two grown children, five grandchildren and another one on the way—not to mention his clergy community.

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marketing experience, Gibbs did eventually get the job, with salary and benefits hitting about $80,000, well above the advertised range.

Robertson had responded by attacking the newspaper, alleging that reporter Jamie Page got it wrong in his series of stories.

“The way he put it was that they were spun,” Page said, during a break in the meeting.

Speakers, however, lauded the daily paper. They praised Page’s “excellent watchdog journalism” and suggested that if Robertson truly had a case he should try to sue the paper.

Following a short break, Robertson announced he had a solution. He suggested that the best way to resolve the matter was to request an opinion from the State Attorney’s office.

“In the paper it’s being called illegal,” Robertson said. “So, my Lord, if it’s illegal, let’s have the state attorney look at it.”

That suggestion eventually morphed into requesting that the State Attorney’s Office, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Commission of Ethics review the issue.

The county commission also saw to it that Gibbs was removed from the marketing position. Though the body cannot hire or fire, they did convey such wishes to County Administrator Randy Oliver.

“The only way I can assure you that the process is 100 percent pure is to restart the process,” Oliver told the board. “What you’re telling me is that you want to assure that this process is 100 percent pure?”

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Unraveling the Meaning of Occupy Pensacola

By Jeremy Morrison The plaza is eerily quite. The bright colors and noises are gone. No one is shouting at passerby about the Federal Reserve anymore.

At the far end of Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, a group of downtown bums relax on park benches and soak up a Friday afternoon.

They collectively mumble something about permits and Occupy Pensacola being relocated to City Hall, before turning their gaze back into the sun.

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During Occupy Pensacola’s first weekend on City Hall’s lawn, people relaxed in the sunshine.

Some people danced. Or debated politics. Joe pondered his next move on the chess board.

Alister McKenzie checks the time. The parade is late.

After nearly two weeks of camping out in the middle of Palafox Street, the Occupy Pensacola movement has struck a deal to move their protest to City Hall. The tents and PA system were moved earlier, but the group is set to return to the plaza for a formal march across downtown.

“I just saw City Hall’s lawn,” said McKenzie, an attorney who is volunteering as the group’s legal counsel. “It’s a hell of a lot nicer than this park.”

Up and down Palafox, parents lead their children into Halloween weekend. Superman, Luke Skywalker and a baby monkey walk store to store, collecting treats. It’s hard not to smile with a bag full of candy.

The scene’s a pleasant one. Perfection without a second thought. Perhaps the contrast is what makes the Occupiers seem so jarringly shrill as they arrive for their scheduled march.

The group is intent on pointing out all the world’s bummers. They insist on debating the tax code or discussing the effects of money in the political process–even on a perfect autumn day.

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“Without sounding too much like a revolutionary, Jefferson would be rolling around in his grave,” says Gary Paull Jr., one of the organizers of the local Occupy, as he waits for the march to begin.

Gathering in the middle of the plaza, the Occupiers map out their route. Someone suggests marching in the street, while others lobby for sticking to the sidewalk.

“The vote was just made that we’re marching down the street,” Paull says. “We’ll see where this chaos leads.”

As Occupy Pensacola begins its charge toward City Hall, the bulk of the group is held up by a ‘don’t-walk’ sign. The protest pauses. After a hesitant moment, the Occupiers leap onto the crosswalk and the revolution proceeds.

BONGOS AND BULLHORNS

In mid-September, people began to gather in New York City’s financial district.

They brought signs, slogans and songs. And they didn’t leave.

Hunkering down in Zuccotti Park, the growing encampment identified itself as “Occupy Wall Street” and adopted the term “99 Percent” as the members railed against the theoretical wealthiest one percent.

The exact message was unclear. But one thing was for sure: the castle walls were being stormed, if not with pitchforks and torches then with bongos and bullhorns.

From the group’s myriad of grievances emerged a recurring theme. The people had lost faith in their democracy to correct a system they deemed institutionally broke.

The Occupy protesters derided climbing unemployment in the face of record corporate profits.

They took issue with the widening wealth-gap and the effects of money in politics. The group tethered itself to this year’s Arab Spring and the unrest sweeping Europe.

As the days rolled into weeks, localized Occupy movements took root in cities across the country–Occupy Boston, Occupy Austin, Occupy San Francisco and Occupy Mobile. By early October, Pensacola’s own Occupy began to take shape.

“Their presence is their remark to the government that the system is broke,” Paull had told a group gathered at Plaza DeLuna on Oct. 8 for a local planning session. “I think eventually this is gonna get too big for anyone to ignore.”

Like most of the Occupy gatherings, the Pensacola contingent appeared to span the spectrum. There were young and old, conservative and liberal, the unemployed and the well-to-do. The group made a plan to begin its occupation on Oct. 15.

“We want a democracy that is our democracy,” Bill Paul, another local organizer, said as the planning session wrapped up.

The next Saturday, Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza bustled with hundreds of Occupy supporters. They used a cooler as a soapbox and squawked through a bullhorn.

Lots of Guy Fawkes-masks waded through

the crowd of poster-board placards. On the fringe, a kid beat lazily on a snare drum plagued with a bad rattle.

Sitting off the sidewalk under the shade of a canopy, Katie Krasinski said the status quo had failed due to “greedy corporations buying politicians to get what they want.”

On Wall Street—as in much of the country—the Occupy protesters were allowed to stay put. With the exception of a few stray scuffles, officials were taking a contain-andobserve approach to the demonstrations.

“People have a right to protest,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, shortly after the Occupies began, “and if they want to protest, we’ll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it.”

The City of Pensacola’s response to the Oct. 15 rally was minimum. As Occupiers filled the plaza, a lone policeman could be seen casually sweating out the late-season sun.

“I think it’s a positive cause,” said Officer Jamon Johnson. “As far as I can see.”

On the other side of the plaza, Paull stepped away from that first-day hoopla to have a smoke. He was curious what the city’s response would be when the Occupy inevitably continued beyond the permit.

“I’m interested to see what Mayor Hayward has to say,” Paull wondered aloud. “Because I was a big supporter of his, because Pensacola needs to change.”

“It’s a burden. It’s like Pandora’s box, once it’s open there’s no turning back.”

Katie Krasinski Krasinski has opened up her business, Dolce Vita Art Bar, to the movement. Local Occupiers have been using the digs to plan and strategize.

“There are smart people out there and they need to get together and figure it out,” she said.

The city permit for the local Occupy event expired that first Saturday night. But on Sunday morning, doughnuts and milk were being served as protesters awoke in the plaza.

“Without sounding too much like a revolutionary, Jefferson would be rolling around in his grave.”

Gary Paull Jr.

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plaza’s sidewalks. Neon chalk drawings electrified the pavement with war cries and hopscotch. Soon, a PA system settled in beside a bust of Dr. King.

“Welcome to my office,” said ReBecca Heyer, as she manned an information booth heading into the second week at the plaza.

“It is going great.”

“Some people think it’s a pipe dream. But weirder things have happened.”

Bill Paul People spent the first day of Occupy Pensacola, Oct. 15, taking to a cooler-turned-soapbox in Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza. Their megaphoned statements blended into a desperate plea for a better day.

By the second morning of Occupy Pensacola, the plaza’s power supply had been shut off. There were also reports that the city was threatening to issue various code enforcement tickets for offenses such as feeding the homeless.

“So, they’re trying,” Paull said on day-two.

“They’re trying to wait us out, push us out.”

That night, Occupiers confronted Mayor Ashton Hayward during a public neighborhood meeting. Power was restored to the

plaza the next morning, with trash service and portable toilets following in quick order.

“They were polite, they were respectful, they made their case,” said Travis Peterson, the mayor’s spokesman, adding that Mayor Hayward understood the group’s frustrations and supported their right to protest.

“That’s what democracy is all about.”

With the city extending Occupy Pensacola’s permit an additional two weeks, people began pitching tents along the

After getting comfortable for a week, the folks on the plaza seemed to feel at home. A woman breastfed her baby in the shade. Down the way, a man wailed a wicked air guitar on a broom stick.

“Aw, man, are you gonna dread your hair?” a shirtless teenage boy asked a girl as the two passed on the sidewalk. “You should.”

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The Occupy movement is a tricky thing to figure out. It is a riddle wrapped in an enigma, folded inside a free-range veggie burrito to be eaten while viewing the inevitable Ken Burns-retrospective on the unraveling of human civilization.

“I think as the movement continues it will continue to evolve,” Paull said.

At first glance, the Occupy phenomenon appears to lean politically to the left.

Conservatives, after all, tend to shy away from crowds carrying signs espousing ‘Eat the Rich.’

But beyond the anarchists’ worn leathers and samba of the drum circles, a more representative cross-section of Americana has emerged: heavily indebted college grads with no job prospects, mothers who can’t afford health care, retirees who had their pensions gambled away by faceless corporations.

In the simplest terms, the Occupy movement is a collective cry of frustration by the masses. It is a populist urban campout at the doorstep of The System.

One of the main criticisms of the movement is that it lacks focus, that it has no clearly defined objective. Locally, this issue was thrown onto the table during the group’s initial planning session.

“What’s the main goal?” Darren Costello had asked. “I haven’t figured it out.”

Nearly everyone at the gathering had an answer for the man. A different answer.

“We probably won’t be able to answer your question today,” Heyer told him.

“Why?” he said. “It’s been going on a month?”

“It’ll be going on for years,” Heyer replied.

Krasinski defines the movement’s purpose as standing in opposition to entrenched corruption. The local business owner only recently began to ponder such matters.

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An Occupy Pensacola jam session at the City Hall campground.

“What got me into politics, of course, was the oil spill,” she said.

Following the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Krasinski and her husband, a commercial fisherman, began the uphill task of recouping financial losses from BP. Through that process, during which she lost her house, her eyes opened to a frustrating reality.

“That got me looking into the corruption and it’s just shocking,” Krasinski said.

Like many embracing the Occupy movement, the mother-turned-protester has been overwhelmed by a barrage of seeming-

ly insurmountable issues: the economy, the environment, the feeling of being a voiceless pawn in a sham democracy.

“It’s a burden,” Krasinski admitted. “It’s like Pandora’s box, once it’s open there’s no turning back.”

Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers said she was encouraged by the nation’s widespread show of discontent.

“I have read the Occupation Declaration,” she said. “I feel many people in this country share their concerns.”

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influence over government. She said it took her back to her youth.

“It reminds me of me when I was young and in the 60s,” the Councilwoman said. “In my hippie-days.”

During Occupy Pensacola’s hike from Palafox to City Hall, some protesters took a moment to reflect on the meaning of the movement. In addition to connecting Occupy to worldwide uprisings, marchers also drew parallels with other times of civil unrest in this country’s recent history.

“There are so many weird things going on,” said Ann Hill, as she finished up the trek to City Hall. “So many unconscionable things.”

Hill made the walk with her friend Dixie Meise. She led a mixed-breed poodle down the sidewalk and talked about other marches she’s made. During her lifetime, the nation took to the streets over both civilrights issues and the Vietnam War. But those battles were focused, the objective clear. This seems different.

“This one is more, like, multi-headed,” Hill said. “Like Medusa.”

The two aging Boomers said they were encouraged that people were plugging themselves back into the process. Hill said she was sure the group would eventually

rally around a tangible platform as it figured itself out.

“First,” she reasoned, “We had to realize we exist.”

Over on the lawn at City Hall, Paul worked on setting up his tent. He thinks the movement’s already figured it out: get the money out of politics, everything else is just details.

“Some people think it’s a pipe dream,” Paul said. “But weirder things have happened.”

And while the overall movement appears to be honing in on financial issues, Occupy also attracts an element that’s been itching to take up pitchforks for quite some time. Edwina Watson stepped off the bus to discover the tent city sprouting up on City Hall’s lawn and felt immediately comfortable.

“I’m from Detroit, baby,” Watson said. “I do unions. I do causes.”

Responses from the political establishment have been predictable.

The movement is still too undefined to have rallied much solid support, with responses ranging from lukewarm flirtiness to cold disdain.

Candidates vying for the Republican presidential ticket have blasted Occupy as class-warfare. Conservative brain-trust Newt Gingrich said the protesters were the product of a poor education system.

“It reminds me of me when I was young and in the 60s.

In my hippie-days.”

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“If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself,” bristled GOP candidate Herman Cain.

Democrats, meanwhile, have tiptoed cautiously around the edges of the movement.

They seem unsure how to harness a populist uprising that rails against the system their party actively and eagerly participates in.

“Let’s be honest with one another,” Vice President Joe Biden conceded in early October.

“The bargain has been breached. The core is the American people do not think the system is fair, or on the level.”

There are also similarities being drawn between the Occupy movement and the Tea Party. On its surface, Occupy appears to be the left’s natural reply to the right-leaning Tea Party.

A flag waves above a tent pitched at City Hall.

“The difference is, we don’t see them as Occupiers in cities such as Atlanta and un-American,” said Paul, Portland have faced mostly uneventful making a case for Occupy’s inclusiveness. arrests. In Denver, protesters clashed with “We respect them as Americans.” authorities, allegedly spray painting ’99 The Occupy movement does, however, Percent’ on a patrol vehicle. look to the Tea Party as an example of the Pensacola, meanwhile, has been absent wrong way to run a revolution. Everyone of such confrontation. A passing driver seems hyper-paranoid about being co-optthrew a handful of change at Krasinski and ed, citing the GOP establishment’s successtold the business owner to “get a job,” but ful infiltration of the Tea Party. no one appears to be looking for a billy-club “The focus has to be organic,” Paul said beat down. of the group’s search for a defining purpose.

“That’s not going to happen,” said Pe“It has to come out of its self, instead of beterson in mid-October, as the city sought ing hijacked like the Tea Party was hijacked.” to establish a comfortable existence with the protesters.

Occupy’s relocation to City Hall apA few days into Occupy Pensacola’s peared amicable enough for everyone stint on Palafox Street, people got bored. involved. The protesters were pleased to They were no longer content to read used officially secure their footing farther out on books and scribble cries for help in chalk on the calendar. The Mayor was happy to get the sidewalk. the group off the main street and out of the Soon, protesters were marching up and business district. down the street. They ventured into crossBut, then, this walks and shouted is a fluid script and at motorists about the landscape can banking regulations change quickly. and the disappearing “ You shouldn’t middle class. Brunch expect anything crowds at The to be like you Leisure Club began expect it to be,” getting heckled as said Paul. “ That’s “The Man.” the thing about Across the revolution—you country, various cities just ride it.” have handled the OcA day before cupy encampments Occupy Penin different ways. As sacola’s scheduled time goes on, officials move to City Hall, appear to be losing Mayor Hayward their patience. issued a statement that tents would no In Oakland, riot police unleashed bright longer be tolerated. He cited city ordinanclights and loud noises on Occupiers in the es, but protesters painted it as a strategic form of tear gas and projectiles. During the move to freeze the occupation out in the incident, police sent Iraq War-veteran Scott face of winter temperatures.

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“It made the people all excited, but it didn’t really do anything. The Mayor’s already said ‘no.’ We’ve said ‘yes.’ But all we’ve done is create a standoff.”

P.C. Wu, Pensacola City Council

The group took their case before the Pensacola City Council. They claimed the Mayor had “blind-sided” them. In the end, the Council voted 5-4 to allow Hayward to waive the ordinance if he so chose.

“It made the people all excited, but it didn’t really do anything,” explained P.C. Wu, who voted against the motion. “The Mayor’s already said ‘no.’ We’ve said ‘yes.’

But all we’ve done is create a standoff.”

Following the decision, Hayward replied by effectively lobbing the public-relations hot potato back into the Council’s chambers.

“Since the Council is the elected, policymaking body of Pensacola, and responsible

for the actual adoption and passage of our City Code of Ordinances, I will accept their decision,” the Mayor said in a statement.

In reality, that plays out into a two-week extension of the status quo. Tents will be allowed on the lawn at City Hall until the Council takes up the issue again at its next meeting.

Hay ward also let it be known in his statement that he did not support Occupy ’s intentions.

“As I have said before,” the Mayor reiterated, “I do not support the political sentiments.”

This revelation probably didn’t win him any votes out on the lawn.

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A couple of days into their stay at City Hall, Occupy Pensacola movement is still busy figuring itself out on the lawn. A pair of blissed-out kids has commandeered the PA system and bob around in a hypnotic trance. A team of Coffee Party disciples do their best to dig an anchor into the movement’s ground floor. Two men settle

into a chess game, and across the yard seeds are sprouted in an effort to start a community garden.

Councilwoman Myers is sure the group will eventually find its voice. She’s inspired by their interest.

“People probably didn’t take me seriously,” Myers said, reflecting on her own protest experiences. “But let me tell you what, we were very serious.”

City Councilman Sam Hall, who opposed council resolution authorizing the tents, has no doubt of the movement’s seriousness. He connects the protesters dissatisfaction with the similar sentiments from the Tea Party and says he buys into a bit of each of the groups’ arguments.

“Quite frankly,” Hall said. “I think it’s got the potential to become a mess everywhere.”

Finishing up the walk to City Hall, Meise and Hill surveyed the tents across the lawn.

Their poodle took a breather.

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“That’s really a dumb thing to say when the movement’s about getting corruption out of politics,” said Krasinski. “He’s going to have to educate himself and answer some questions, because we’re not going away.”

At the end of their march from Palafox, Occupiers pitched a tentcity across the north lawn at City Hall. Winds whipping in from the bay hinted at colder months that will soon befall the campers.

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The season is officially underway for the Pensacola Ice Flyers, with back-to-back home games at The Hangar this weekend. We’ve got our fingers crossed for at least one good fight and, of course, some wins against the Ice Bears. The games, on Nov. 4 and 5, begin at 7 p.m. pensacolaiceflyers.com

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If your answer is “no,” you need to hurry up and get to the Pensacola Museum of Art before it’s too late. The exhibition—“Joan Miró: Order and Chaos”—ends Nov. 12.

We suggest you try for Nov. 10, around 5:30 p.m., because there will be wine, cheese and an art history lecture by John Olsen, Visual Arts Professor at Pensacola State College. pensacolamuseumofart.org

The Pensacola Symphony will pay tribute to the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 with a performance of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5” and John Adam’s “On the Transmigration of Souls”—the latter uses text from missing-person postings at Ground Zero. The Nov. 5 performance begins at 8 p.m. pensacolasymphony.com

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Save the Date for Saves the Day Saves the Day isn’t just another emo band with a hit or two that you’re throwing on a mix CD for someone you think is cute.

And if it were, the band’s managed to stay around long enough to prove it isn’t anymore.

At a time when most people were trying to figure out who to take to the prom or what to write on their college applications, Chris Conley was writing and recording what would be Saves the Day’s first album.

“We were kind of this punk band, and everyone at our school was into Dave Matthews and Phish,” Conley said. “We recorded the first album when I was a senior, in 1997. And then we released it in 1998 after we had graduated.”

Although the album was great, the band wasn’t getting high fives and free letterman jackets in the halls.

“We were like the misfits,” Conley said.

A few things have changed since 1997.

Along with the expulsion of scruncies, pogs and every great show that was on Nickelodeon, 13 different band members have come and gone.

“Oh man, the band is the best it’s ever been—they are all really awesome musicians,” Conley said. “I really enjoy them all as people.”

And that never hurts.

“This could be the way the band is for the rest of our career,” Conley said.

While much has changed over the years, there are also things that have remained the

“It’s kind of just saying, ‘Hey buddy, I miss you.’”

Chris Conley same. The writing process is still just a boy and his guitar.

“It’s still me having fun with an acoustic guitar,” Conley said. “It’s always been an

outlet for me to just write. I’m still writing new songs all the time.”

After a couple of album releases and a few appearances on late-night television, Saves the Day was signed with major label Dreamworks Records. The band proceeded to release “In Reverie.”

The lyrics on the album were noticeably less macabre. It wasn’t completely intentional.

“It just kind of moved toward that sound,” Conley said. “At the time, we were dealing with issues

and longing for peace—just desperately trying to find peace.”

Saves the Day has since put out a trilogy of albums, with the last record, “Daylight,” being released earlier this year.

What’s next for the band?

“I think I’d like to tour more over seas,” Conley said. “But my number one priority is to make another record.”

Although it’s been over ten years since Saves the Day’s first release, the band’s fan base is still holding strong. People are breaking out their old discs in anticipation of the show at Vinyl.

One popular tune of nostalgia is “The Way His Collar Falls,” a song that unfolds on a train headed for New York in 1999.

“It’s a love song. A song about friends and how everybody kind of splits up after high school,” Conley said. “It’s kind of just saying, ‘Hey buddy, I miss you.’”

The band has come a long way from their days skipping school.

So have Saves the Day’s fans. Let’s just think of the show as a mini-high school reunion.

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happenings WINE TASTING AT AWM 5 p.m. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. Ninth Ave., 433-9463 or aragonwinemarket.com.

‘THE FIRST EVER ARROGANT STEAK COOK-OFF’ 5:30 p.m. $25. Seville Rotary Club, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION RECEPTION 6 p.m. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15., 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

HERB CLASS AT EVER’MAN 6 p.m. $2 for non-members. Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St., 438-0402 or everman.org.

VEGAN DINNER AT EOTL 6 p.m. End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St., 429-0336 or eotlcafe.com.

THURSDAY 11.3

‘IT’S 5 O’ CLOCK SOMEWHERE’ MARGARITA TASTING 2 p.m. Margaritaville Beach Hotel, 165 Fort Pickens Rd., 916-9755 or margaritavillehotel.com.

CULTURE CLUB: ‘THREE HOTS AND A COT’ RECEPTION 5 p.m. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St., 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

PHINEAS PHOGGETTES 10 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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COMMON THREAD 6 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St., 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

KATHY LYON 7 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

WINE TASTING AT CITY GROCERY 5:15 p.m.

City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave., 469-8100.

BEN SOLLEE 7:30 p.m. doors open. $8-$10. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl., 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

WINE TASTING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30 p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave., 469-1432

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

PENSACOLA ICE FLYERS VS KNOXVILLE ICEBEARS 7 p.m. $10-$25, Pensacola Civic Center, 201 E. Gregory St., 432-0800 or pensacolaciviccenter.com.

DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

PHINEAS PHOGGETTES 10 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

DJ MR LAO 8 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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COLLEGE DANCE NIGHT 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

FRIDAY 11.4

SAVES THE DAY, BAYSIDE, I AM THE AVALANCHE, TRANSIT 6:30 p.m. Doors open. $15$18. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl., 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

SAWMILL & GUESTS 7 p.m. Chumuckla’s Farmers’ Opry, 8897 Byrom Campbell Rd., Pace, 9949219 or farmersopry.com.

GREAT GULFCOAST ARTS FESTIVAL 11 a.m. through Sunday, Nov. 6, Seville Square, Corner of Government and Alcaniz St., 434-1234 or ggaf.org.

MIKE EAGAN 7 p.m. 600 South Courtyard, 600 S. Palafox Pl., 432-5254 or 600southpalafox.com.

FIRST FRIDAY 4:30 p.m. Portofino Boardwalk Amphitheatre, Pensacola Beach, 346-6525.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

WINE TASTING AT DK 4:30 p.m. Distinctive Kitchens, 29 S. Palafox Pl., 438-4688 or dk4u.com.

WINE TASTING, SEVILLE QUARTER 5 p.m.

Palace Café, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

REDDOG 8 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St., 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

DESTIN ATKINSON 8 p.m. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox Pl., 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

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DJ MR LAO 8 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

HOLLY SHELTON AND DAVID SHELANDER 8 p.m. Ragtyme Grille, 201 S. Jefferson St., 4299655 or ragtyme.net.

MICHAEL LOCKWOOD BAND 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 6779153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

MAINSTREAM 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 932-2211 or sandshaker.com SCHOFIELD 9 p.m. Apple Annie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

TRUNK MONKEY 9 p.m. Lili Marlene’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

JOHN COMMON & BLINDING FLASHES OF LIGHT 9 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St., 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

LIVE MUSIC 9:30 p.m. Intermission, 214 S. Palafox Pl., 433-6208.

‘ROMANCING THE FLAVORS OF ITALY’ 6 p.m. $45, Reservations required. Distinctive Kitchens, 29 S. Palafox Pl., 438-4688 or dk4u.com.

SATURDAY 11.5

PENSACOLA ICE FLYERS VS KNOXVILLE ICEBEARS 7 p.m. $10-$25. Pensacola Civic Center, 201 E. Gregory St. 432-0800 or pensacolaciviccenter.com.

PALAFOX PLACE MARKET 8 a.m. Rain or shine, through Dec. 17. Martin Luther King Plaza on North Palafox St. above Garden St., palafoxmarket.com.

GREAT GULFCOAST ARTS FESTIVAL 10 a.m. through Sunday, Nov. 6. Seville Square, Corner of Government and Alcaniz St. 434-1234 or ggaf.org.

2011 EAST HILL MUSIC FESTIVAL 12-10 p.m. $5-$10. East Hill, intersection of North 14th Ave. and Moreno St., easthillmusicfestival.com.

PENSACOLA MARTINI FESTIVAL 1-5 p.m. $20 advance, $30 at festival. South Palafox Pl. from Garden St. to Romana St., pensacolamartinifestival.com WINE TASTING AT WINE BAR 2 p.m. $5 goes toward rebate on featured wines. Wine Bar, 16 S. Palafox Pl., Suite 100, 476-3830 or chanswineworld.com.

FULL MOON WALK 6 p.m. Fort Pickens, 1400 Fort Pickens Rd., Pensacola Beach, 916-5631 or nps.gov/guis.

GULF COAST HAS TALENT 6-9 p.m. $10. Prophetic Worship Center International, 5404 Sun Valley Dr., jumpoffproductions.com.

‘GLASS JAM’ LIVE AND SILENT AUCTION 6 p.m. $15. Belmont Arts Center, 401 N. Reus St., 429-1222 or belmontartscenter.com.

CHAMPIONSHIPS

MICHAEL LOCKWOOD BAND 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

MAINSTREAM 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

PENSACOLA SYMPHONY – REMEMBERING 9/11 8 p.m. $20-$70. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox Pl., 595-3880 or pensacolasaenger.com.

JOHN COMMON & BLINDING FLASHES OF LIGHT 9 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St., 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

PHINEAS PHOGGETTES 10 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

CRYPTIC AND MECHANIKAL ELEMENT 9 p.m. doors open. $10. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl., 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

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DAVID BALL 7 p.m. Chumuckla’s Farmers’ Opry, 8897 Byrom Campbell Rd., Pace, 994-9219 or farmersopry.com.

KRAZY GEORGE KARAOKE 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St., 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

KARAOKE WITH MARK ESKEW 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s at the Point, 5851 Galvez Rd., 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

JOE OCCHIPINTI’S BIG BAND 7p.m. 600 South Atrium, 600 S. Palafox Pl., 432-5254 or 600southpalafoxcom.

DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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SCHOFIELD 9 p.m. Apple Annie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

TRUNK MONKEY 9 p.m. Lili Marlene’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KNEE DEEP 9:30 p.m. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox Pl., 497-6073 or hopjacks.com.

SUNDAY 11.6

GREAT GULFCOAST ARTS FESTIVAL 11:30 a.m.

Seville Square, Corner of Government and Alcaniz St., 434-1234 or ggaf.org.

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BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE 8:30 a.m. National Museum of Naval Aviation viewing area, 1750 Radford Blvd., 452-3604 or blueangels.navy.mil.

2014 N. 12th Ave. | 432-4180 Hours: Mon-Fri 6:30am-6pm,

YOGA WITH BECKIE SATHRE 6 p.m. $2 for nonmembers. Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St., 438-0402 or everman.org.

Sat 7am-6pm, Sun 7am-4:30pm

‘INTRODUCTION TO LESTER BROWN'S PLAN B’ 7-8:30 p.m. Sustainable Gulf Coast/350 Pensacola, Bayview Senior Resource Center, 2000 E. Lloyd St., 572-7230 or email 350pensacola@cox.net.

Rasputina MO JILES 4-8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 932-2211 or sandshaker.com WAYNE HALL 5 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

MOE 7:30 p.m. Doors open. $20-$25. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl., 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

BROOKS HUBBERT III 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

MONDAY 11.7

BURGERS & BEER NIGHT AT SURF BURGER 6 p.m. Surf Burger, 500 Quietwater Beach Rd., Pensacola Beach, 932-1417 or thesurfburger.com.

‘GIRLS NIGHT OUT: BREAKFAST IN CAJUN COUNTRY’ 6 p.m. $45, Reservations required.

Distinctive Kitchens, 29 S. Palafox Pl., 438-4688 or dk4u.com.

BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN WITH PENSACOLA SYMPHONY 7 p.m. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox Pl., 595-3880 or pensacolasaenger.com.

GAMER’S NIGHT 8 p.m. Fast Eddie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

SKEE BALL LEAGUE 9 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox Pl., Suite 200. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

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BILLY HOWELL & ASHLEY PENNEWILL 6 p.m.

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JAZZ JAM SESSION @ THE UNIQUE CAFÉ 6:30 p.m. $5-$10. The Unique Café, 51 Gulf Breeze Pky., 433-8382 or jazzpensacola.com RASPUTINA 7:30 p.m. doors open. $14-$18.

Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl., 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

LIVIN’ THE DREAM 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

TOSH TUESDAY 8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St., 470-0003 or fishhouse. goodgrits.com.

TUESDAY JAM NIGHT 8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St., 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 8 a.m.3:30 p.m. Fridays through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15, 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

‘DOORWAYS OF THE FRENCH QUARTER’ 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday through Nov. 11. Gallery 88, WUWF Center for Public Media, 474-2787 or wuwf.org.

‘CINCO BANDERAS’ 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday through Dec 1. Artel Gallery, 223 Palafox Pl., 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday. DARC, 207 E. Main St., 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology. org/darc.php.

‘NUDES & NATURE’ 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday through Nov 12. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox Pl., 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

‘JOAN MIRO: ORDER AND CHAOS’ 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tuesday-Friday; 12-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday through Nov. 13. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St., 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

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Tuesday-Friday; 12-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday through Nov. 13. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St., 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

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KARAOKE AT PADDY O’LEARY’S 9 p.m. Paddy O’ Leary’s Irish Pub, 49 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach, 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

WEDNESDAY 11.9

BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE 8:30 a.m. National Museum of Naval Aviation viewing area, 1750 Radford Blvd., 452-3604 or blueangels.navy.mil.

MUSIC STUDY CLUB: CYNTHIA TAPPAN AND BILL WARREN 10 a.m. coffee, 10:30 a.m. program.

Pleitz Chapel, First Baptist Church, 500 N. Palafox St.

WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING CLASSES 6-7:30 p.m. $5 general, $2 students, Gull Point Community Center, 7000 Spanish Trl., 291-2718 or hurreyupstageandfilmworks.com SURF MOVIE NIGHT AT SURF BURGER 7 p.m.

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LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St., 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

IN MARTINI NIGHT 5 p.m. The Global Grill, 27 S. Palafox Pl., 469-9966.

PADDY’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 7 p.m. Paddy O’Leary’s Irish Pub, 49 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach, 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

LADIES NIGHT 5 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St., 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

OPEN MIC NIGHT 7 p.m. End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St. 429-0336 or eotlcafe.com.

MIXOLOGY CLASS AT VIC & IKE’S 6 p.m. $30.

Vic & Ike’s American Bistro, 104 S. Palafox Pl., 912-8569 or vic-and-ikes.com.

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Say Cello to Ben Sollee and His Traveling Band Sollee’s current tour kicked off in New Orleans, where the cellist and his band played the Preservation Hall. Prior to arriving in New Orleans, he was supporting Brett Dennen.

IN had a chance to speak with Sollee recently during a brief moment of down time.

Bands normally travel in a van of some sort, packed with equipment. Or they travel by plane or car, also known as the easy way.

When Ben Sollee and his crew travel around from gig to gig, they do it the other way. They bicycle with all of their equipment.

There is Sollee, with his cello, and then there is drummer Jordan Ellis with a trailer behind his bike carrying the kit. There’s also a crew member packing all the merchandise for the shows and, new this trek, a filmmaker from Ashville, NC, who will be filming along the tour.

Ben Sollee is a cellist from Kentucky, widely admired for his unique genre-crossing skills.

He was a member of the Sparrow Quartet, whose members included Abigail Washburn, Bela Fleck and Casey Driessen. The cello player has also been featured on NPR, PBS and the Showtime television series “Weeds.”

In February 2010, Sollee—along with three Kentucky musicians—released the album “Dear Companion.” All of the songs were written and performed by Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore; it was produced by and featured Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The album sheds light on the destruction caused by mountaintop coal mining, and its effect on the people of the central Appalachia region.

IN: Your tour is called “Ditch the Van,” tell us how it works.

SOLLEE: It is a response to the normal touring routine, where you get in a van, on a bus or travel in and out of towns by plane, never really getting to experience the town or the people. We want to bring it home: touring is not real life. You live frame-to-frame touring, it is individual snapshots, not a whole experience—it feels often superhuman. Traveling by bike is you taking you somewhere as fast and as far as you can go. The reward is getting to know the community.

IN: How did the idea come about?

SOLLEE: I was touring abroad and felt I was getting nothing out of what should have been the most exciting part of my life.

I wanted more.

IN: You are from Kentucky. What part?

SOLLEE: Lexington, born and raised. I live there now with my family, son Oliver and my wife who is an art student.

IN: What or who were your major influences?

SOLLEE: In public school, at the age of nine, I picked up the cello. The vernaculars were baffling, I was learning classical in school, my dad is a rhythm and blues guitar player, my grandparents listened to Appalachian style music, so it all mixed and I was able to make it work on the cello.

IN: Why the cello?

SOLLEE: Well, at eight or nine-years-old you are influenced differently by things, I liked the wide variety of sounds the cello made; I really liked the low sounds.

IN: We noticed you play banjo, too.

SOLLEE: Yes, like the color wheel, every instrument has a complete opposite; the tenor banjo is the cello’s complete opposite. On my new album, there are two songs where I use the banjo.

IN: Playing Bonnaroo, what was that experience like?

SOLLEE: It was my first year playing solo.

I biked the 330 miles to Manchester, and it felt great.

IN: Compliments to your Subway Sessions on YouTube, the venue is perfect for your sound.

SOLLEE: It is the common person’s cathedral. It was New York, so we got many looks from people who were wondering what they were being caught up into. New Yorkers often are caught up in a movie set, or in the filming of a commercial. The subway cops ran us off, even though we had a permit to be there.

IN: A big focus of your musical career is social consciousness.

Tell us when that happened.

SOLLEE: I grew up in the suburbs of Kentucky, middle of life, public school, no traveling and was riding a boat down the middle of the river.

Then I went on tour abroad and was exposed to a completely new world and opened up to how other people live.

IN: You have aligned yourself with three high level organizations: Clif Bar, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Oxfam, tell us about that decision.

SOLLEE: To raise awareness about poverty and struggle, each of them support this message: if you focus on keeping yourself healthy you will be able to effectively keep your community healthy. There is a two-mile radius around all of us that, if each of us truly cares for, we will all benefit.

IN: When the tour is over, do you have any thoughts on what is next for you?

SOLLEE: My 10-year goal is to be able to do all of my touring by bike. If I have to fly, then it is not worth it. There are different opportunities coming my way, I will be recording a new album next year, playing festivals, spending time with family, writing scores for a few ballets and working on pieces for film and tv.

IN: Final thoughts?

SOLLEE: I want to make sure everyone knows that the decision to “Ditch the Van” is not a green thing, it is about connecting with the spaces, places and faces in my show locations and everywhere in between.

I have logged 3,200 miles; this is my fourth tour, on one bike. I am excited to see what this tour has to offer. {in}

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Wear Yourself Out at Arts Festival

poster design by Michael Duncan It’s time to put on you walking shoes.

And maybe a sweater.

This year’s Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival boasts 230 art booths, vendors and performances. That’s quite a bit of ground to cover.

“There is something for everyone,” said Sue Warner, festival chair. “I don’t think you can be bored—maybe worn out, but not bored!”

Now in its 39th year, the arts festival will be spread across Seville Square. Some go to buy. Some go to look. Most decide when they get there.

With so many choices and varieties of art, there is something for every price-bracket. If you’re looking to buy, there are big-ticket investment pieces that you’ll cherish—and need to insure—forever. There are also smaller items, like handmade metal bracelets for $10 (think: Christmas gifts).

Art at the festival falls into 11 different categories: ceramics, drawing, oil and acrylic, jewelry making, printmaking, sculpture, fiber and leather, glass, watercolor and, lastly, photography. Submissions, which are judged, come from all over the country. Many of them hail from the Southeast.

The judging process usually takes an entire day. The first time the judges see the art is at the festival.

“It’s kind of nice, you know, it prevents ‘your brother-inlaw’ from winning a prize ‘just because,’” Warner said. “The judges are looking for technique, but also for something to be unique, different.”

And although the art is broken into categories for the submission process, the breakdown has no bearing on which art wins. Judges look at each piece individually and then bring all their selections together to be judged for the final prizes.

“We don’t say, ‘OK, we need to award three painters, and three sculptors,’” Warner said. “It’s just what the judges think is worthy of a prize.”

In addition to the juried art show, the festival also invites an international artist

button creations. A stage will be set up for each year. This year the international local dancing and musical groups featurinvite was extended to Andrea Spinelli, ing children. from Florence, Italy. Spinelli is mainly a “It’s the 100th anniversary of Naval painter, but also an inventor. He has inAviation, so there will be an aircraft set up vented a device that cuts and carves out over there that the kids can get in and play frames, as well a painting machine that he around on,” Warner added. “Naval Aviation will be bringing to display at the festival is a theme that will be all throughout the alongside his artwork. festival this year.”

“We have a committee that actively Heritage artists will also be displaylooks for artists to invite,” Warner said. ing age-old traditional art forms like “These people are travelers, so when blacksmithing, weaving, wood-carving they’re taking trips to Greece, or Italy or and engraving. There’s something for wherever, they are looking,” Warner said. everyone, even if you’re favorite art is “They are able to look for art that transwood whittling. Sometimes the ladies will lates to this area.” even share their family secret on how to Spinelli should feel right at home. get tough stains out of laundry—an art Many of the houses and churches around form in itself. downtown are reminiscent of the paintThe festival attracts thousands of ings he brought from Italy. guests each year. It has been named one of There will also be several stages set the top-50 best fine art shows in the nation up within the festival, showcasing jazz,

by Sunshine Artist Magazine—most likely bluegrass and folk music. for it’s large conglomeration of fine art, lo“The main stage really does have cal food vendors and performers. awesome music,” Warner said. “And, of “It’s all in one place, and it’s free, so course, we are excited because we have it makes you feel better about having to the Pensacola symphony this year.”

The Pensacola Symphony Orchestra search for a parking spot,” Warner joked. will play on Sunday at the festival. Sev“It just makes for this big party with all eral other musical and theatrical forms these sights and sounds to enjoy.” {in} of entertainment will also be available in the children’s area, across the street in Bartram Park. The park will play host to an art show featuring work by students from Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

WHERE: Seville Square “They are so creative before WHEN: 9 a.m-5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4 and they are corrupted!” Warner said.

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For those who need their Acoustic Interlude fix during RadioLive’s hiatus, you’ll be happy to know that WUWF is bringing Ed Gerhard and Cliff Eberhardt to Pensacola.

“Ed Gerhard has performed on RadioLive more than any other artist and has a tremendous following in this area,”said Executive Director Pat Crawford in an email. “Although we have only had Cliff Eberhardt on RadioLive a few times, his performances were very well received. I

am particularly impressed with his songwriting and musical artistry. Both artists are from New England and know one another, so we thought it would be a great pairing.”

Grammy-winner Ed Gerhard has performed at RadioLive more than any other artist. He’s toured all over the world with his 6-string, 12-string or slide guitar; he sometimes plays a Weissenborn, an acoustic Hawaiian lap slide.

Gerhard learned to play the guitar in his adolescent years, dropping out of lessons and playing by ear, slowing down LPs to make out the complicated notes.

By the age of 15, he was playing in churches and coffee houses.

Since 1977, Gerhard has resided in New Hampshire.

But it’s when he ventures off the home front and onto tour that his music comes alive.

“I think that giving people something interesting to listen to and experience is job-one as a performer,” Gerhard said in an e-mail interview. “So, I try to select stuff to play that is interesting, sounds good and is engaging and affecting. I like music that encourages and rewards one's curiosity.

Music is something that speaks to the best part of us all and I want my listeners to feel and remember that.”

Like Gerhard, Eberhardt is also a famil-

price goes directly to support the station. iar face to RadioLive audiences. Also like We hope the audience will feel good about Gerhard, he grew up in a musical family supporting a good cause while enjoying a and jumped on the circuit by the age fantastic evening of great music.” of 15 .

RadioLive has always been a popular Eberhardt toured with his brother, event for WUWF. It was only a matter of Geoff, until he was 21-years-old. He time before the station had to give its fans moved to New York City in 1978 and something for their patience. became a taxi driver. He also played solo “The hiatus of RadioLive has created a gigs, toured with Richie Havens and even void for folks who enjoy seeing some of the wrote advertising jingles for Coke, Miller best songwriters in the world performing Beer and Chevrolet during the “Heartbeat their original compositions in a familyof America” campaign. Today, the Red friendly environment where the focus is House recording artist is a large part of the the music,” Crawford said.

Greenwich Village new-folk movement.

Inevitably, the musicians have as good Both artists also cite Mississippi John of a time as the fans.

Hurt as a musical influence, which is a “Pensacola audiences are so appreciagood sign for blues lovers. tive of good music—the artists who have The duo will be playing as part of the appeared on RadioLive over the last 24 Acoustic Music Series. The series is a colyears repeatedly tell us that Pensacola lection of quarterly concerts, featuring audiences are the best they have ever entwo musicians at a time. Like RadioLive, countered,” Crawford said. “Continuing to this upcoming concert will be an intimate bring live music is an important part of the setting—the Emerald Coast Ballroom at revitalization of Pensacola.” the Hilton on Pensacola Beach. Tickets Gerhard agreed. are $20, with only 200 available.

“I love coming back to Pensacola,” the While the acoustic series is just a musician said. “It's a beautiful place full of substitute for RadioLive, which should resume this time next year, it will continue great people. I have an abiding love for all my the show’s tradition of bringing worldfriends at WUWF and for the wonderful aurenowned artists to the area for a good diences I've had there for many years.” {in} cause: supporting local radio.

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PYP ANNOUNCES 2012 ADVISORY BOARD The PYP Advisory Board is a council of Pensacola business and community leaders who have been selected by the PYP Board of Directors to render advice and guidance directly to the Board. The leaders of PYP feel that it is important to seek the help and advice of those that have come before them, as well as maintain good relations with those individuals in both business and community functions.

The Advisory Board is selected based on the leaders’ reputation and track record of business and community involvement. Advisors are always encouraged to attend PYP Board Meetings, as well as all other functions and events with PYP. They are encouraged to take an active role with the Board of Directors, whether through interacting with one Board Member or establishing relationships with all Board Members.

PYP is honored to partner with the following members of our community:

Advisory Board Chair, Rodney Rich President of Rodney Rich and Company, an employee benefits firm which he founded in 1976, is the President of our initial Advisory Board for PYP. A graduate of FSU, he was a charter member of Pensacola Sertoma and Five Flags Rotary. He has served on the International Board of Sertoma, the advisory board of The Florida State University College of Business, and the board of Junior League of Pensacola. He was the inaugural president of the Gulf Coast chapter of the International Association of Financial Planners, and he served for eight years on the Santa Rosa Education Foundation. He previously served the community on the Florida Bar Grievance Committee, Chief Judges’s Task Force on Gangs, Big Brothers/Big Sisters board, Think First board, and he is a past-president of Temple Beth-El. Rodney currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Fiesta of Five Flags and is President of the Conquistadors.

He and his wife Kricket have a daughter, Rebekah, who is in graduate school, and a son, Chad, who is Vice President of Rodney Rich and Company.

Claire Bockwith Owner of Express Employment Professionals, Claire was born in Louisiana to a family of four girls and moved to Pensacola in 1979. An FSU College of Business graduate, Claire is married with four children–two sons and two daughters–and she describes herself as “born to serve others.”

She is on the member programs and retention committee of the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, and she serves as the Pensacola

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Over the past 20 years, Express Employment Professionals has been a corporate sponsor for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and has raised over $4,000,000. Each year, they host fundraisers for Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, our local CMN Hospital. A lifelong Episcopalian, Claire is a member of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church.

John Hosman Mr. Hosman is partner and COO of FS Advisors, Inc., which focuses on providing comprehensive financial solutions to Tribes regarding wealth management, benefits, and risk management.

Before joining FS Advisors, Inc., he worked with O’Sullivan Creel Wealth Advisors, LLP and helped develop their Finance Division, leading a team of mortgage professionals that focused on commercial and residential lending. He also worked with a variety of clients providing wealth management services.

John graduated from the University of West Florida with a B.S. in Marketing as well as a Masters in Business Administration. During John’s time at the University of West Florida he was elected to two terms as the Student Body President and one term as the president of the Florida Student Association. He was also named as Florida’s College Student Leader of the Year runner-up.

John currently serves on five civic organization boards and is focused on giving back to his community. He is happily married to his wife, Kindra, and has a 7-year-old daughter, Kylah, and 5-year-old twins, Jordan and Jansen. John and his family are members at First Baptist Church. John was PYP’s first President and one of its founding members.

Cathy Laird Cathy Laird is a native of St. Augustine, Florida and graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in Education. She is married to Gene Laird and they have two boys: Chad and Matt.

In 1990, Cathy was hired Executive Director of the Fiesta of Five Flags Association. After serving in this position for seventeen years, she worked for the Appleyard Agency as an Administrative Assistant and assisted with account coordination. In 2008, Cathy was hired as the Annual Fund Development Coordinator for Sacred Heart Foundation, where she coordinates events which raise funds for SH Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Her duties include working with volunteers to create giving societies such as 300 Hearts, whose funds support women’s and children’s services at Sacred Heart Health

System, and Purple Heart Kids’ Gang, a group that is raising funds to build a new rooftop, healing garden, and renovated playrooms at SH Children’s Hospital.

Peter J. Nowak Originally from New York via Louisiana, Mr. Peter J. Nowak, CEO of Nowak Enterprises, Inc. (NEI) has lived in Pensacola, Florida since 1989. NEI began with two McDonald’s restaurants and has expanded to six, all in Pensacola. NEI employs over 300 people. As a business owner, Mr. Nowak combines hard work with opportunity.

As an entrepreneur, he finds unique solutions to common problems. Peter co-designed a unique system as a way of better communicating with NEI employees. Called L3, for Look, Listen, and Learn, his web-based tool provides a variety of messages to all NEI employees while they are at the stores’ hand-washing stations.

Most recently, Peter helped develop mobile communication software that allows organizations to apply basic text messaging to multi-tiered marketing and analytic applications. Because he is committed to helping the Pensacola area improve childhood literacy, Peter donated L3s and educational content to Escambia County’s Oakcrest Elementary School.

First graders use L3 to reinforce spelling and vocabulary lessons. Peter is also involved in a pilot project with the county’s Early Learning Coalition. L3s and instructional content will be donated as a way to help four-year-olds prepare for school. Voluntary pre-K classroom teachers will use L3 to reinforce their curricula.

Curt Morse Curt Morse moved to Pensacola in 2004 and is the local owner of PODS, Portable on Demand Storage.

He is also owner of the boutique boat building company Caribiana Sea Skiffs. Prior to moving to Pensacola, Curt and his family lived in Atlanta where he was a sales executive in the equine animal health industry for seventeen years.

As a community leader, Morse has exhibited his passion for Pensacola in his volunteer work with numerous organizations including Ronald McDonald House, the Pensacola Opera, Fiesta of Five Flags, and the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival. As a business owner, he serves on both the Military Affairs and the National Operations committees for the PODS Franchise Owners Association. He is past president of the Pensacola High Growth Business Club, has served on the Board of Directors of Five Flags Rotary, and has numerous acknowledgments of achievement from local Chambers of Commerce and various national and regional publications.

John Pharr John Pharr, Jr. of Pensacola is managing partner of John Pharr CPA, LLC, a Certified Public Accounting Firm. Pharr earned a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of West Florida. He currently focuses on business consulting and tax services for clients in the Panhandle region.

Pharr has over 11 years’ experience in the internet and technology business. He is the founder, president, and CEO of JP Micro Corporation, which is an internet development company. JP Micro was formed in 1999 and has successfully grown over the last eleven years. Pharr is also the founder, president, and CEO of Electronics Display Networks (EDN). EDN is a full-service solution provider of digital signage.

Pharr is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FLCPA), as well as a member of Seville Rotary Club.

Bill Wein Bill Wein has over 25 years of experience in building organizations providing human capital solutions. As cofounder and president of IMS ExpertServices, Mr. Wein has been the driving force behind the legal industry’s leading expert witness search firm. As a reflection of its success, IMS has been named to the Inc. 500/5000 list of fastest-growing privately-held companies for each of the past five years.

Mr. Wein formed IMS ExpertServices after co-founding two very successful search firms providing executive search, interim executive, and consulting services to its telecommunications, media, and technology clients.

Through these firms, Mr. Wein built teams within some of the most successful companies in the world to include Time Warner, Philips Broadband, Comcast, AT&T, Sprint, Motorola, and Cox Communications. Previously, he held business development roles in two prestigious telecommunications firms: U.S. West and Jones Intercable.

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CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE Apparently, officials at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport felt the need for professional guidance on rebranding their facility to (as one put it) “carry it into the modern era,” and so hired the creative talents of Big Communications of Birmingham, Ala., to help. Big’s suggested name for the airport, announced to great fanfare in September: “Chattanooga Airport.”

JUSTICE! ... NOW! (1) Elsie Pawlow, a senior citizen of Edmonton, Alberta, filed a $100,000 lawsuit in September against Kraft Canada Inc., parent company of the makers of Stride Gum, which brags that it is “ridiculously long-lasting.” Pawlow complained that she had to scrub down her dentures after using Stride, to “dig out” specks of gum—a condition that caused her to experience “depression for approximately 10 minutes.” (2) Colleen O’Neal filed a lawsuit recently against United/Continental airlines over the “post traumatic stress disorder” she said she has suffered since a 20-minute flight in October 2009—in which, during turbulent weather, the plane “banked” from side to side and lost altitude.

NAMES IN THE NEWS: The man stabbed to death in Calgary, Alberta, in August: the 29-year-old Mr. Brent Stabbed Last. Among the family members of Jared Loughner (the man charged with shooting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in January) who were interviewed by authorities regarding mental illnesses in the Loughner family: Loughner’s distant cousin Judy Wackt. Passed away in May in Fredericksburg, Va.: retired Army

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Sgt. Harry Palm. Charged with murder in Decatur, Ill., in September: a (predictably underrespected) 15-year-old boy named Shitavious Cook.

HEY, IT COULD’VE HAPPENED: (1) The British recreation firm UK Paintball announced in August that a female customer had been injured after a paintball shot hit her in the chest, causing her silicone breast implant to “explode.” The company recommended that paintball facilities supply better chest protection for women with implants. (2) The Moscow, Russia, newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported in October that a local woman’s life had been saved by her “state-of-the-art” silicone breast implant. Her husband had stabbed her repeatedly in the chest during a domestic argument, but the implant’s gel supposedly deflected the blade.

ULTIMATE CATFIGHTING(1) In Charlotte, N.C., in October, a female motorist was arrested for ramming another woman’s car after that woman said “Good morning” to the motorist’s boyfriend as the women dropped kids off at school. (2) In Arbutus, Md., in October, a woman was arrested for throwing bleach and disinfectant at another woman in a Walmart (an incident in which at least 19 bystanders sought medical assistance). Police learned that the arrestee’s child’s father had become the boyfriend of the bleach-targeted woman. (3) In a hospital in Upland, Pa., in October, two pregnant women (ages 21 and 22) were arrested after injuring a woman, 36, and a girl, 15, in a brawl inside a patient’s room.

MIXED EVIDENCE ON SMOKING (1) It’s Bad for You: A 44-year-old woman was hospitalized with a head injury and a broken clavicle in September after she inadvertently walked into a still-moving train at the Needham Center station near Boston. Her attention had been diverted because she was trying to light her cigarette as she walked. (2) Sometimes, It’s OK: A 51-year-old woman told police she fought off an attempted street robbery in Pennsville Township, N.J., in October by burning the age-20-something assailant with her lit cigarette. She said the man yelled “Ouch” and ran away.

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Day Job: The other guy who tends bar at 5 ½ Bar (part time). Gayngsta (full time).

Pensacola Resident Since: Forever, but I took a couple of breaks.

Have you been to the East Hill Market yet? Get on your bike and go, hippies. They take you out into the garden and cut the herbs right off the plant. Awesome! Klik has the best shoes for my personality, but I long for a local shoe store. I like shopping at Intracoastal Outfitters, because the lady is super nice. I shop frequently at Innerlight and Waterboyz, because I can buy sunglasses and plaid shirts at the same place. Also, both are local businesses and I support that as much as possible.

Watering Holes:

5 ½ Bar because Patrick Bolster has turned me into a booze-snob, and the urban atmosphere is cool. Also, people watching is best at 5 ½ Bar because you never know who will be there. I also enjoy drinking and delicious brunch with Nate at Atlas. I stop by Play to hang with Ms.Pac Man, scope Marcy’s newest chalk drawing and laugh with Mike and Sarah. Up north, my choice is definitely Chad and Kristy at Coyote’s because they are both awesome personalities.

Coyote’s is also my favorite dark, smoky place to go and get beat at pool and Silver Strike.

Azalea has the best juke box.

Nightlife:

I am so happy the Levin crew makes it possible for me to experience music at Vinyl

Outdoors:

Nothing beats riding bikes at Fort Pickens and Blackwater trail. I do a lot of geocaching, which shows me all sorts of nooks and crannies around Pensacola. My favorite is the haunted geocaching tour. You can’t beat taking a lesson, then rock climbing with a buddy at Weatherford’s for only $12.

I practice mostly at home, but I like to ‘get my yoga on’ with Tara Taylor at Breathe and Nancy LaNasa at Abhaya. Both Breathe and Abhaya yoga studios are uniquely challenging and fulfilling. Also—drinking margaritas at Paradise. Does that count?

Arts & Culture:

Everywhere is an art museum for me because I love graffiti and we are starting to see a lot more of it in this city. Brooks and Evan Levin create fascinating music and paintings during Awesome Mondays at 5 ½ Bar, with Matt Rod serving up the drinks. Carleton Haack rocks ceramics.

Finally, everyone should be at the annual Art Party by Jef Bond.

Never Miss Events/ Festivals:

The Get Down, because it is all my favorites wrapped into one: music, dancing, sunglasses and shenanigans with Kelly Blackwell. DeLuna Fest is a no-brainer because I love music and beautiful Pensacola Beach. Also, my brother and I go to the Blue Angel’s homecoming air show on NAS Pensacola every year in remembrance of our father. I like the homecoming show better than the beach show because you can walk around and check out all the planes.

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