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likes the county administrator. Unfortunately, County Commissioner Kevin White no longer seems to care for him and Commissioners, Gene Valentino and Wilson Robertson, didn’t want to hire Oliver in the first place.

Apparently there is no tie between White’s change of heart and the District 5 commissioner being dropped from the Forrest Gibbs lawsuit, which impacts now only Grover Robinson and Marie Young, but this surely does smell.

WEST FLORIDA LIBRARY SYSTEM

Everybody claims to love libraries, but nobody wants to pay for them—at least, not in Escambia County. They have become the latest battleground for the county and city. Some people don’t believe poor people need to read those whatchamacallits, otherwise known as books in other communities. Others only see libraries as big computer labs. Meanwhile, the school district is holding workshops to help parents teach their children to read and master the reading part of the FCAT. Are we the only ones seeing the disconnect?

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LAME DUCKS BITE The most dangerous elected official is the one who no longer seeks public office but still has time to create havoc. It’s particularly dangerous when the politician is a county commissioner or city council member.

In 2008, the Pensacola City Council lost four members— Mayor John Fogg, Jack Nobles, Marty Donovan and Mike DeSorbo. In the two-month period before the new council took office, city staff scrambled to ram through an airport commercial development agreement and two amendments to leases at the Port of Pensacola. The incoming members sat helplessly in the wings while the lame ducks exerted their power for the last time.

The votes didn’t miss the attention of the Pensacola Charter Review Commission that changed the swearing in date for the new council. Charles Bare and Andy Terhaar won’t have to wait until the second Monday of January to take office. The pair will be sworn in on the fourth Tuesday of November.

In the past, the Escambia County Board of Commissioners has avoided long lame duck periods by having the newly elected commissioners sworn in at the first meeting after the general election. Outgoing commissioners have had little chance to push things through the board…until now.

District 5 Commissioner Kevin White is in the last days of serving on the board. He

decided this past summer to not seek reelection to a third term. White is now leading the effort to terminate County Administrator Randy Oliver’s contract.

At White’s last commission meeting on Oct. 18, the commission will review Oliver’s performance. White, with the support of fellow commissioners Gene Valentino and Wilson Robertson, has reserved the right to take a termination vote following the administrator’s evaluation.

The census around town is Oliver’s done. Valentino and Robertson have let their displeasure with the administrator, whose contract has one year remaining, be known.

So the current commissioner with nothing to lose—the lame duck Kevin White— does something he rarely has done in his eight years on the commission. He has taken charge. He has made the necessary motion to set stage for Oliver to be fired at his last commission meeting and he could be the swing vote to make it happen.

Valentino and Robertson can claim innocence. Grover Robinson and Marie Young can’t stop it. With the general election 19 days away, whoever is elected to replace White and Young can only sit on the sidelines with no voice in the matter.

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WHAM, BAM, ESCAMBIA “It is not fair to expect that city taxpayers should continually subsidize county users to the system.”

Bill Reynolds

Commissioners discuss the budget with Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver in April. / photo by Jeremy Morrison

Convergence of Issues Trigger County Freakout

by Jeremy Morrison The Escambia County political realm appears to be limping toward a desperate implosion. Maybe it’s the pressure of promised RESTORE money, or maybe the state’s Medicaid-offload rattled nerves in a panic. Perhaps it’s Commissioner Kevin White’s freewheeling rampage as he heads for the exit or the pockets of discontent over the county’s 2013 budget.

Whatever it is, County Administrator Randy Oliver may not have to worry about it too much longer. He’s got a public evaluation during the commission’s Oct. 18 meeting and White recently led the charge in reserving the right to take a termination vote following the administrator’s review.

The commission framed the move as “housekeeping.” Just in case.

But Oliver’s contract is but one blistering blip on Escambia’s political radar as of late.

Whatever the administrator’s fate, county officials must still address budgetary sore spots.

Both the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and the West Florida Public Library System are looking for money. And both know the county commission has been able to find hundreds of thousands of dollars recently for revamping its media equipment and luring foreign business delegations to the area.

And then there’s the disagreement with the city of Pensacola. Where words like “extortion” are being used.

“Let’s seize control of the library system.”

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‘EXTORTION’ IN THE LIBRARY

During a recent Committee of the Whole meeting of the Escambia County Commission, officials worked themselves up into a frenzy. Commissioner Gene Valentino finally burst at the seams.

“Dogs off leash on the beach eating crustaceans, what could go wrong?”—Ames

“Let’s seize control of the library system,” Valentino exclaimed.

It was a pretty climactic moment in a discussion that saw commissioners venting frustration about recent management decisions made by the city regarding the library system, as well past bones of contention.

Under an interlocal agreement, the library system is managed by the city of Pensacola, while Escambia County provides 70 percent of its funding needs. Recently, the county commission decided to cut its contribution by $165,000. In response, Pensacola made cuts at the libraries—in hours, as well as book and subscription orders—impacting branches in the county the greatest.

The county administrator sent a letter to city officials. Oliver requested the city ease off on the cuts, and suggested failure to do so may require the county to withhold additional funding in order to supplement the cuts made to county branches.

Pensacola City Administrator Bill Reynolds wrote a letter back, and later in the media equated the county’s position to “extortion.” He defended the city’s recent

“Luke McCoy is not dead…he just looks and smells that way.”—Chip

cuts, and argued that the county had ducked their full funding obligation for years.

“It is not fair to expect that city taxpayers should continually subsidize county users to the system,” Reynolds wrote. “What I find even more troubling is the attempt by some to make this a ‘city issue’ based upon the efforts we have had to implement to ensure we remain within the budget.”

By the time of the commission’s COW meeting, the Pensacola News Journal had published an editorial entitled “Discussion, Not Extortion Needed.” Commissioner White was steamed. Slightly more so than usual even.

“I call horse crap on that,” he said of the city’s “extortion” characterization.

Commissioner Grover Robinson suggested the board meet with city officials to discuss the matter.

“I’d live to sit down with them,” he said.

“I’d love for the county administrator to arrange a sit-down with the mayor and the city council.”

No one else on the commission was game for meeting with the city. White said it would be “a waste of time.”

“They’re the extortionists,” White growled.

Commission Chairman Wilson Robertson complained that the county had been “villainized” by the city. He linked the library funding to the city’s decision to pull its share of funding of the Escambia County Area Transit system years ago. The chairman suggested the county retroactively bill the city for its portion of public transit funding—with the commissioners pegging that amount at around $5.5 million—and subtract its portion of the library funding from that bill.

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“That’s my starting point,” the chairman said.

Valentino connected the library disagreement to another row between the county and the city earlier this year.

He said he preferred not to meet with the same officials who almost sued the county when Gulf Breeze began providing Pensacola Beach with natural gas in what the city viewed as a violation of an existing service agreement.

Commissioner Marie Young urged civility.

“I think we need to find a way to solve the problem,” she said, “rather than vengeance.”

The commissioners then discussed funding options for a county-run system: library card fees, or a dedicated tax. Robinson requested that the county attorney draft a motion for the Oct. 18 meeting that would offer the commission an opportunity to exit the current interlocal agreement with the city.

‘HARDBALL’ WITH THE SHERIFF

Another camp of discontent following the recent finalization of the county’s 2013 budget is the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The office contends that the county cut its budget more than previously agreed to.

“We got blindsided,” said Sheriff David Morgan recently. “We were totally unprepared.”

Morgan said the sheriff’s office was cut more than $350,000 over what he had agreed to. The county stands by its budget.

“I expect the county to fund all of it. Sorry, this is hardball.”

Sheriff David Morgan “Recognizing the importance of law enforcement, the county only decreased the law enforcement budget by 1.5 percent from the prior year,” Oliver said in a statement.

During its recent COW meeting, Commissioner Robinson told his fellow officials that he planned to bring up the issue of the sheriff’s office funding again. He said he had spoken with Escambia County Chief Deputy Larry Aiken following the budget hearing and felt that the commission could search for some funds.

“The interpretation that he kind of gave me was that they needed $120,000,” Robinson said, adding that he was now hearing the number $220,000. “I keep hearing two different things.”

Other commissioners weren’t as sure the funds could be found.

“I keep hearing ‘the sheriff, the sheriff,’ but I thought we had finished the sheriff,” said Commissioner Young.

The sheriff, meanwhile, isn’t expecting anything less than his full request.

“I expect the county to fund all of it,” Morgan said. “Sorry, this is hardball.” {in} October 18, 2012

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Langer relayed a recent settlement that OCR made with a school district in Oakland, Calif. She was encouraged with the federal settlement, and said it might be a good sign for the local complaint.

“Your numbers in Escambia are much worse than Oakland,” the attorney said.

OLD IS NEW The civic center is nearing

30-years-old. The facility’s new name— Pensacola Bay Center—is brand new.

In a presentation to the Escambia County Commission, the center’s management team explained the facility’s rebrand and marketing plan by quoting the musician Usher. General Manager Cyndee Pennington relied on Usher again in a follow-up press release.

“As we stated in the presentation ... we have to evolve or we will evaporate,” she stated.

The new name is accompanied by a new logo. Because Escambia County owns the facility, commissioners were tasked with choosing from two different options— the first resembled a blue-green wave, while the second was a red-tinted sun.

“I always say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” County Administrator Randy Oliver told the commissioners. “The PIO staff prefers the blue, I think the civic center people prefer the red.”

The commissioners went with the wave-like logo, citing color consistency with other local entities, including the “my escambia” brand. Chairman Wilson Robertson also had a geographical aversion to the “pretty sunset.”

“We’re on the gulf, we’re not out in the desert,” he said.

The Pensacola Civic Center—now the Pensacola Bay Center—was built in 1985. The facility has hosted more than 13,000 events.

Recently, the venue was ranked by an international trade publication as the number one ticket selling facility in the state of Florida for its size (10,000 seats).

The center was number 19 on the international list.

In the past, Escambia County officials have bemoaned the financial commitment to the facility. Following the rebrand presentation, Commissioner Grover Robinson praised SMG, the center’s management company.

“I’ve been amazed at what SMG has been able to provide us,” he said, noting an increased slate of events on the calendar.

SPLC COMPLAINT TRIGGER INVESTIGATION The Southern Poverty Law Center

was in town again recently addressing the issue of disciplinary discrimination within the Escambia County School District. The organization filed a complaint against the district in August, charging that AfricanAmerican students were being disciplined—suspended, expelled and arrested— for minor infractions and at a higher rate than other students.

Representatives from SPLC met with community members this month at the First United Methodist Church. The meeting was a gathering of the newly formed Escambia County Youth Justice Coalition.

“OCR has accepted our complaint and has opened an investigation,” SPLC attorney Stephanie Langer told the group.

The discrimination complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Langer said she did not know what the department’s

SPILL MONEY, MAN With a settlement agreement between BP and more than 60,000 claimants looming, new BP Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau recently visited Pensacola. He spoke at Pensacola State College about how the claims process was progressing and said he expected more claims to be filed prior to the November deadline.

“There are still thousands of legitimate claims that haven’t been filed,” Juneau said.

Taking over for Kenneth Feinberg, Juneau is charged by the federal government with distributing BP settlement money to people and businesses claiming economic loss due to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Claimants—from Florida to Texas—are separated into varying zones that denote spill impact and which will eventually determine their payments.

“There has never been a larger or more complex case in the history of the U.S.,” he said at the local forum.

The claims administrator said as of early October, 7,144 claims had been declared eligible, with $422 million being approved for payouts. In the Pensacola area 11,214 claims have been filed—“only 10 percent of those claims were eligible.”

Many of the ineligible claims apparently lacked the proper tax and financial documentation.

“We can’t process those claims without those documents,” Juneau said.

“There has never been a larger or more complex case in the history of the U.S.” Patrick Juneau

“As we stated in the presentation ... we have to evolve or we will evaporate.”

Cyndee Pennington timeline would be.

The SPLC is planning to return to the area in November. The group is hoping to collect personal testimonies from students and parents who may have experienced disciplinary discrimination in the school district.

During the recent meeting, the concept of civil citations was discussed. The citations, proponents contend, offer an alternative to harsher punishments that introduce youth to the criminal justice system.

PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD Baseball America’s recently released list of the Southern League’s Top 20 Prospects includes four names familiar to fans of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.

The new ball team’s bench had a healthy showing on the list. Shortstop Billy Hamilton made the top five. Also on the list are pitchers Tony Cingrani (11) and Daniel Corcino (17) and shortstop Didi Gregorius (15).

In addition to ranking fifth on the Top 20 list, Hamilton also hit another high note this season when he surpassed Vince Coleman’s record of 145 stolen bases. The local Wahoos star stole 155. {in} 7

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GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI, 2012 VERSION

James Meredith walking to class at University of Mississippi, accompanied by U.S. marshals. / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection

Robert Kennedy, Jr. Interviews Civil Rights Icon

by Rick Outzen

On Tuesday, Oct. 2, I sat in on an interview between Robert Kennedy, Jr. and civil rights icon James Meredith, the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi. Kennedy was taping the interview for his radio show “Ring of Fire” that he has hosted with local attorney Mike Papantonio for nearly 10 years.

The interview was supposed to focus on Meredith’s enrollment in then-segregated Ole Miss 50 years ago and the riots on the campus that ensued—which Kennedy called in his introduction of Meredith, “the last great battle of the Civil War.” However, James Meredith does interviews the way he wants to do them. He’s 79 years old and has spent most of the past year doing interviews about the day the federal government enforced its integration laws and he became a student at, as Kennedy described it, “the Sacred Citadel of Ole Miss.”

Greenwood, Miss. attorney Hiram Eastland, a longtime Kennedy friend, had already warned Bobby that Meredith could be difficult, and he was right. James was ornery and pissed off much of the interview, not really wanting to talk about Ole Miss and instead October 18, 2012

focusing on poverty and the miserable state of public education in Mississippi.

Bobby handled James Meredith respectfully and masterfully. The interview became nearly as much about his father,

“The progress that we’ve made so far [in racial equality] could not have been achieved if it weren’t for the courageous efforts of heroic citizens who refused to be treated as second-class citizens,” said Kennedy. “James Meredith is one of the great figures of that age.”

“The progress that we’ve made so far [in racial equality] could not have been achieved if it weren’t for the courageous efforts of heroic citizens who refused to be treated as second-class citizens.”

Robert Kennedy, Jr. U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. who was the U.S. Attorney General when James enrolled at Ole Miss, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders of that era as it was about Meredith.

REGARDLESS OF SKIN COLOR

Meredith grew up in Mississippi.

While he served in the Air Force, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Brown v.

Board of Education (1954), that publicly supported schools had to be desegregated. When he got out of the military, Meredith attended Jackson State University for two years, then applied to the University of Mississippi.

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“I promised God I was not gonna lie no more and I wasn’t gonna judge.”

James Meredith He was denied enrollment twice. Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers and attorney Thurgood Marshall, who argued the Brown case and later would become the first African-American Supreme Court judge, helped him—although Meredith admitted in the interview that he had hung up on Marshall the first time they talked on the phone.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in the U.S. District Court, and eventually the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Meredith had the right to be admitted to Ole Miss. Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett tried to block his admittance by having the state legislature pass a law making it illegal for “any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school.”

Mississippi’s voter registration laws made it nearly impossible for an AfricanAmerican to vote and Meredith had been convicted of “false voter registration.” That only delayed Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss a few weeks as his attorneys got the law ruled unconstitutional.

It was Attorney General Robert Kennedy that made the decision to use federal troops and U.S. marshals to protect Meredith when he walked on the Ole Miss campus. And that was Meredith’s plan all along.

“I wanted to get the U.S. military to use its power and might to enforce the rights and privileges of all its citizens, including black citizens,” Meredith said in the interview. “I credit Attorney General Robert Kennedy with extending the rights of citizenship to all people, regardless of skin color. It’s just that simple to me.”

Bobby talked about how his father had sent two of his close friends to help protect Meredith—Burke Marshall, head of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and John Doar, a young Republican attorney working under Marshall.

“My father found those two sitting in an office on a Friday afternoon and said to them, ‘I want you to go down to Mississippi

and make sure James Meredith gets into He told Bobby that the state of the the university,’” Bobby said. poor and public education in Mississippi is White students and racists protested much worse in 2012 than it was in 1962. against Meredith’s enrollment by rioting on “And my God ain’t happy about it.” the Oxford campus, which forced AttorKennedy asked Meredith to a talk about ney General Kennedy to deploy more than the Mississippi Delta. In 1967, Sen. Robert 3,000 soldiers and F. Kennedy had more than 500 law traveled to that enforcement ofregion to check on ficers to Ole Miss. the progress of the Two men were Economic Opporkilled and over 200 tunity Act of 1964, people were inbetter known as jured, including 160 the War on Poverty.

U.S. marshals.

The poverty that he (When I atfound shocked the tended Ole Miss 13 senator and became years later, I could part of the impetus still see the bullet for his presidential marks in the columns campaign. of the Lyceum, the “Dr. King went university’s administhrough the Missistration building.) sippi Delta and for For the next the first time in his three months, John life he saw the real Doar slept, ate meals thing. He spent the and attended classes rest of his life trying with Meredith to to show people this ensure his safety. tragedy,” Meredith Bobby tried to told Kennedy. “Then get Meredith to your father came to James Meredith / photo by Darrell Blakely talk about those Mississippi. What days at Ole Miss, he saw shocked his but he would have very being.” none of it. The Both Dr. Martin old man had other Luther King and things on his mind.

Sen. Kennedy were killed in 1968.

“When Dr. King and your daddy died, nobody had even “I promised discussed this isGod I was not sue,” said Meredith, gonna lie no more “and it’s worse than and I wasn’t gonna when Dr. King saw judge,” Meredith it and when your said in response to daddy saw it.”

Kennedy’s questions about Ole Miss. “I’m going to let other people speak to that.”

Meredith talked about Dr. King and how What Meredith wanted to talk about he came to visit the Delta. In 1966, Meredith were poverty and public education. “My led the “March Against Fear” from Memcommitment to God is to the future,” he phis, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss. to encourage said. “He told me that he doesn’t hold our blacks to register and vote. He was shot by sins against us. The only thing that matters a sniper on the second day of the march. Dr. is when we decide to obey we do that, so King took up the march and completed it.

I’m gonna try to stick to that.”

‘MY GOD AIN’T HAPPY’

“It ain’t just hurting poor blacks. It’s gonna destroy America if we don’t hurry up and take up what Dr. King died trying to do.”

Meredith

LIFE-CHANGING VISIT

Meredith contended that as King walked through the Delta he became inspired to fight poverty and hunger in America.

Bobby talked about what his father saw a year later on his visit to Mississippi.

“When my father went to the Delta, it was a trip that changed his life,” he said.

“He came back to our house that night and found us eating at the dinner table and said, ‘Today, I was in a house smaller than this room and there were three families living in it.’”

His father had gone into a shack with Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, that she later described would have made anyone sick because of the smell that came from the hut.

“This deeply concerned my father,” said Bobby. “He found a baby in one of those huts, flies crawling all over it. He talked about the lifelessness in the eyes of the people who lived there, who had just been beaten down by poverty.”

Kennedy talked about his father seeing malnourished children with distended stomachs, red-tinted hair and skin. “They were undersized,” he said.

Meredith wanted to talk about public education, too, which he felt was even worse than the poverty in his home state.

“Public education is more than a disaster,” he said. “Nobody will let it slip out what is really going on.”

Meredith’s voice got louder and more passionate. “When I graduated from high school 60 years ago, everybody who got a high school diploma could go to some good college in America,” he said. “Today less than one out of 10 who get a diploma—and over half don’t get one—can get into college because they don't make high enough college entrance test scores… It’s a tragedy.”

"He talked about the lifelessness in the eyes of the people who lived there, who had just been beaten down by poverty.”

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In many ways, it’s worse than it was 50 years ago.”

Kennedy He went on, “People don’t see the reality of poverty, particularly this school situation, and it ain’t just hurting poor blacks. It’s gonna destroy America if we don’t hurry up and take up what Dr. King died trying to do.”

When he ended the interview, Meredith told Bobby, “I hope that people will take another look, like your daddy did 44 years ago.”

STILL BEHIND

After the interview, I had a few minutes with Bobby to talk about his thoughts about Mississippi. I knew that he had lived in Alabama for a while and that he had friends like Eastland in Mississippi. His environmental organization, Riverkeepers, has a chapter in south Mississippi.

“I love Mississippi, as my father did, but the poverty that he found in the Mississippi Delta shocked him to his core,” Bobby shared.

“When he came home, he told us about it and we could see how much it affected him.”

When his father returned from the Delta, he aggressively fought poverty and hunger.

“People in Washington didn’t believe such poverty existed,” Bobby said. “They couldn’t imagine children starving in America, that malnutrition was on the level of what was found in Africa or read about in National Geographic with children with bowed legs and red tint to their skin and hair.”

Bobby is a friend of Charles Evers, brother of Medgar Evers, who was slain in his driveway one year after he helped Meredith enroll at Ole Miss, and he has visited the Oxford campus.

“The University of Mississippi has made progress, but the state has not,” he said. “Not that much has changed in the Delta. Mississippi is last in its commitment to its children and ranked 50 in most economic indices. In many ways, it’s worse than it was 50 years ago.”

He admired Meredith’s courage and was proud of the role his father played in his admittance to the university. It was important to him to have this interview with Meredith on the 50th anniversary of the event.

And true to form, Meredith agreed to the interview, but he used the soapbox to meet his agenda, the agenda of a civil rights figure that still wants to fight.

“They’ve been trying to silence James Meredith for years, saying I’m crazy,” said Meredith. “I’m gonna do my best to bring people to the reality of what is going on, particularly in education in Mississippi.”

God bless, him. {in} October 18, 2012

KEY PLAYERS

• James Meredith (born 1933): In 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi (Ole Miss); graduate of Columbia University Law School; author of several books, including his memoir “Three Years in Mississippi.”

• Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. (1925– 1968): U.S. Attorney General under his brother, President John Kennedy; sent federal troops to protect Meredith at Ole Miss; later elected U.S. Senator for N.Y.; killed in 1968 while running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): Baptist minister who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; completed Meredith’s “March Against Fear” in 1966 after Meredith was wounded by a sniper; killed in 1968 in Memphis while there in support of striking sanitation workers.

• Medgar Evers (1925-1963): AfricanAmerican civil rights activist who was the NAACP's first field secretary for Mississippi; helped Meredith enroll at Ole Miss; killed in 1963 in his driveway

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• Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993): Chief Counsel for the NAACP; winning lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Education that led to public school desegregation; helped Meredith win his legal battle to be admitted to Ole Miss; first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

• Ross Barnett (1898-1987): States' Rights Democrat who was the governor of Mississippi when Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss. In 1963, he unsuccessfully tried to block Mississippi State’s men basketball team from playing an NCAA Tournament game against the integrated Loyola of Chicago.

• John Doar (born 1921): Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Dept. of Justice under Kennedy; personally protected Meredith during his first three months at Ole Miss; later Chief Counsel for the United States House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate hearings.

• Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939): accompanied Sen. Robert Kennedy on his tour of the Mississippi Delta in 1967; first black female admitted to the Mississippi Bar; founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.

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social event, the 5th Annual

To help you get into the spooky

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Tim Kasher and company are bringing their brand of classic Omaha indie rock back to Pensacola. This time the show's at Vinyl so hopefully there will be more breathing room, but probably not. Come early to get a good spot and to see local openers Pioneers! O Pioneers!. cursivearmy.com; vinylmusichall.com

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Allstars Come From Mississippi

Blues, talent and music lineage, the North Mississippi Allstars have all three—and more.

Band members, Luther Dickinson, vocals, guitar and lowebow, and Cody Dickinson (who is also in the side project Hill Country Revue), drums, keyboards and electric washboard, are the sons of legendary Memphis, Tenn. musician, and record producer, Jim Dickinson.

Dickinson Sr. not only released music in his own name, but he also worked with Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones.

Dickinson Sr.’s career spanned more than four decades before he died in 2009.

He started Zebra Ranch, a recording studio complex, during the 1990s in Hernando, Miss.

Recently, IN was able to talk to Luther Dickinson about North Mississippi Allstars and his musical career.

According to Dickinson, the Zebra Ranch studio is still in existence today. In the beginning, the Zebra Ranch was a family art project—an old barn full of vintage audio recording antiques. Over the past few years, the Dickinson family members have collectively produced more than fifty projects of unique material.

Now, Dickinson is a blues legend in his own right. He still lives in Hernando, Miss. The North Mississippi Allstars formed in 1996.

“I started playing music as a little kid,” Dickinson said. “I was fortunate, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do— play guitar. I had been in studios since I was born. It took a lot of determination and I worked hard to make it happen.”

Among his many accomplishments, Dickinson is part of a side project, The Word. They have only made a couple of appearances, yet people cannot get enough of them. He collaborated with Robert Randolph and John Madeski to form the instrumental rock, Sacred steel and gospel blues band in 1998.

They recently played at this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival.

“We have gotten together a handful of times. We had the idea in 1998 and recorded in 2000,” Dickinson said.

Though they don’t have any upcoming shows currently scheduled, Dickinson said, “I am always willing.”

Other North Mississippi Allstars band members have included Chris Chew, on electric bass, and Duwayne Burnside, son of R.L. Burnside on second guitar.

Chew suffered a medical issue about a year ago, but recently the band announced that he would be well enough to play a couple dates.

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Dickinson joined The Black Crowes in 2007 as lead guitarist and has appeared on a number of their albums. He shares his time with both the Black Crowes and the North Mississippi Allstars.

North Mississippi Allstars have opened for Robert Plant and the Band of Joy on their concert tour in 2011. They have re-

fife and drum blues tradition. He was born and lived his entire life as a farmer in Northern Mississippi, where in 1923 at age 16 he learned to play fifes made out of rivercanes.

Brown, born in Alabama, is an American blues slide guitarist, now residing in Nesbit, Miss. He is an aficionado of the North Mississippi Hill Country blues style popularized by his mentor R.L. Burnside.

These are some musical heavyweights to have as influences and close friends.

The North Mississippi Allstars have some YouTube videos that show them playing at United Record Pressing’s plant. Called, “Upstairs at United Volume 4,” it is a series of all-analog vinyl records recorded inside the historic United Record Pressing Plant in Nashville, Tenn.

“United Pressing Plant built rooms, and a listening group party room, because many African American artists in the ‘50s and ‘60s could not get rooms at any hotel they wanted,” Dickinson said. “The place is unchanged, it has a living room and a kitchen, and we liked recording there. It was a really cool project.”

As for the future, Dickinson has a few things in mind.

“Keep playing, working on more planned recording projects, and keeping the dream alive,” he said. {in}

“I was fortunate, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do—play guitar. I had been in studios since I was born."

Luther Dickinson

corded with Mavis Staples, Spooner Oldham and Alvin Youngblood Hart.

To date, they have recorded 15 albums, have multiple Grammy nominations, toured with John Hiatt and were the house band for “Last Call with Carson Daily.”

Inspiration for their music came from the people and the music they were exposed to as youngsters.

“My father turned us on to all the rock and roll and blues,” Dickinson said. “In the ‘90s, I discovered R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. It blew my mind and inspired the formation of the North Mississippi Allstars.”

“I consider Othar, or Otha WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 18 Turner, a grandfather to me. And, WHERE: Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Kenny Brown: a really close friend,” COST: $20-$22 said Dickinson.

DETAILS: vinylmusichall.com, nmallstars.com Turner was one of the last wellknown fife players in the American

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THURSDAY 10.18

‘PENSACOLA STATE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION’ 7 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg 15, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 4842550 or pensacolastate.edu.

‘RECORD KEEPING IN SMALL BUSINESS’ 9 a.m. Bring Calculator. Free, but registration recommended. The Florida Small Business Development Center (PTAC) 401 E. Chase St. St. 100. 595-0062 or fptac.org.

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

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 10 a.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘YONDERLY: AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF JULIE HUGHES’ 10 a.m. through Nov 1.University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg. 82.

474-3247 or uwf.edu.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4 p.m. Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

JOE OCCHIPINTI JAZZ WINE TASTING 5 p.m.

Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. Ninth Ave. 433-9463 or aragonwinemarket.com.

‘AUTISM SUPPORT GROUP’ 5 p.m. Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St. 438-0402 or everman.org.

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

‘TOAST OF THE COASTS: A FOOD AND WINE SERIES’ 5:30 p.m. The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or goodgrits.com.

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

AFRICAN DRUMMING CLASSES 6:30 p.m. $2$5. Gull Point Community Center, 7000 Spanish Trail. For more information contact, 291-2718, 324-4928 or hurreyupstageandfilmworks.com BRAD BARNES OPEN COLLEGE JAM 7:30 p.m.

Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. 474-1919.

‘THE PILLOWMAN’ 7:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

‘BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL’ 8 p.m. free-$16. Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Bldg. 82, 11000 University Parkway. 857-6285 or uwf.edu.

‘MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER: LIVE DANCE SHOW’ 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville

TROY BRANNON 1 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com BO ROBERTS, RHONDA HART & MARK SHERRILL, JEZEBEL’S CHILL’N,JASON JUSTICE, JON COOK 5 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

ELAINE PETTY 5:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

THE DAVENPORTS 6 p.m. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

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

JAMES AND FRIENDS 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

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

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

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS 7:30 p.m. $20$22. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 E. Garden St. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

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

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

FISH SANDWICH 8:30 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

LOCKWOOD TRIO 9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. 332-7952 or wobusa.com/palafox.

PERFECT DARK, DEFUSING FATE, DAWN WILL BREAK 9 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

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

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

EXTREME KARAOKE WITH G.C.P.C 10 p.m.

Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or gulfcoastpartycrew.com.

NEWBURY SYNDICATE 9:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

LUCKY DOGGS 10 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com

FRIDAY 10.19

‘PENSACOLA STATE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION’ 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar

Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg 15, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15.

484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

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

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 10 a.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘YONDERLY: AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF JULIE HUGHES’ 10 a.m. through Nov 1.University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg. 82.

474-3247 or uwf.edu.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4 p.m.

Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

WINE TASTING AT EVER’MAN 4 p.m. Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St. 438-0402 or everman.org.

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

WINE TASTING AT SEVILLE QUARTER 5 p.m.

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

GALLERY NIGHT 5 p.m. Downtown Pensacola along Palafox, from Wright street all the way down. 434-5371 or downtownpensacola.com.

OKTOBERFEST GALLERY NIGHT AT SEVILLE 5 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

25TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST 5 p.m. St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4600 N. 9th Ave. 438-5229.

STUDENT ART GALLERY 5 p.m. Digital Now, 270 N. Palafox St. 434-2525 or digitalnowgraphics.com.

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

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

WINE AND GLIDE SEGWAY TOUR 5:30 p.m. $45. Emerald Coast Tours, 701 S. Palafox. 4179292 or emeraldcoasttours.net.

WINE TASTING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30 p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave. HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE TOUR 6 p.m. $3-$5.

Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Shell Road. 393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

‘BOO AT THE ZOO’ 6 p.m. $10. Gulf Breeze Zoo, 5701 Gulf Breeze Parkway. 932-2229 or gulfbreezezoo.org.

HAUNTED HOUSE WALKING TOURS 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8 & 8:30 p.m. $5-$10. Ghost Meter Rentals $5. T.T. Wentworth Museum, 330 S. Jefferson. 595-5985 ext 111.

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Gallery Night 10/19/2012 Official Participants 1. Adonna’s Bakery and Café, 114 S. Palafox Pl 2. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox Pl 3. Belle Ame’, 112 S. Palafox Pl 4. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox Pl 5. Carmen’s Lunch Bar, 407-B S. Palafox St 6. Digital Now Reprographics, 282 N. Palafox St. 7. Distinctive Kitchens, 29 Palafox Pl. 8. Dog House Deli, 30 S. Palafox Pl. 9. Don Alan’s, 401 S. Palafox Pl. 10. Dollarhide’s, 41 S.Palafox Pl. 11. Elebash’s, 36 S. Palafox 12. Emerald Coast Bike Tours, 701 S. Palafox St. 13. Epic Inc., 210 E. Government St. 14. First United Methodist Church of Pensacola (First Church) and The Perry Home Coee House, 2 East Wright St 15. Global Grill, 27 S. Palafox Pl 16. Grand Reserve Cigar Shop, 210 S. Palafox Pl. 17. Gulf Coast Community Bank, 40 N. Palafox St. 18. Helen Back Café, 22 S. Palafox Pl. 19. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox Pl 20. Indigeaux Denim Bar & Boutique, 122 S. Palafox Pl 21. Intermission, 214 S. Palafox Pl 22. Jordan Valley Café, 128 S. Palafox Pl 23. London W1 Hair Salon & Studio, 120 S. Palafox Pl 24. Mezza De Luna, 8 Palafox Pl* 25. New York Nick’s, 9 S. Palafox Pl 26. Pensacola CARE Center, 113 N.

Palafox St. 27. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jeerson St. 28. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jeerson St.* 29. Pensacola Opera, at the Saenger The-

atre, 118 S. Palafox St. 30. Pita Pit, 1 S. Palafox Pl. 31. Play, 16 S. Palafox St., Second Floor 32. Quayside Art Gallery, 17 E. Zaragoza St 33. Rock Hard Designs, 16 N. Palafox St. 34. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St* 35. Sole Inn and Suites, 200 N. Palafox St: Enjoy live music and local artists.

36. Susan Campbell Jewelry, 32 S. Palafox, Pl 37. The Bodacious Olive, 407-D S. Palafox, St* 38. The Great Southern Restaurant Group, Jackson’s Steakhouse, Fish House, Atlas Oyster House and the Deck Bar. The Courtyard at Seville Tower, 226 S. Palafox Pl 39. The Leisure Club, 126 Palafox Pl 40. The Spotted Dog, 124 S. Palafox Pl 41. The Tin Cow, 102 S. Palafox Pl 42. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 Palafox Pl 43. Wine Bar, 16 Palafox Pl 44. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox 45. Zarzaur Law Firm, 11 E. Romana St. 46. Pink Picasso, 19 S. Palafox Pl 47. BLAB TV, 121 S. Palafox Pl 48. Pensacola News Journal, S. Palafox between Romana and Intendencia Streets *CANstruction Venue Street closure is sponsored by Stella Artois and Purus Vodka.

Streets will reopen at 9 pm

HAUNTED TROLLEY TOURS 6:30, 7:30 & 8:30 p.m. $8-$16. Ghost Meter Rentals $5. T.T. Wentworth Museum, 330 S. Jefferson. 595-5985 ext 111.

JOE OCCHIPINTI BIG BAND 6:30 p.m. Gregory Street Assembly Hall, 501 E. Gregory St. 307-8633.

STARGAZING 7 p.m. Gulfside Pavillion, 735 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-1500.

‘SWEENEY TODD’ 7:30 p.m. Pensacola Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. 433-6737 or pensacolaopera.com.

‘THE PILLOWMAN’ 7:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

‘BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL’ 8 p.m. free-$16. Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Bldg. 82, 11000 University Parkway. 857-6285 or uwf.edu.

SWING DANCING 8:30 p.m. American Legion, 1401 Intendencia St. $5. 437-5465 or pensacolaswing.com ‘MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER: LIVE DANCE SHOW’ 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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ELAINE PETTY 1 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

TROY BRANNON 2 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

THE NAMES, HEAVY KID 5 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

HELLS/BELLS, BROOKS HUBBERT W. EVAN LEVIN, BELOW THE STITCH 5 p.m. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 E. Garden St. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

J. HAWKINS TRIO 5:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

TIM SPENCER 6 p.m. The Oar House, 1000 S. Pace Blvd. 549-4444 or the-oar-house.com.

LEE YANKIE & HELLZ YEAH 7 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

THE HANGOVERS 7 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

KEITH LEE & MYSTIC SPRINGS 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s at the Point, 5851 Galvez Road. 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

GARCIA & SCOTT 7 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

THE NOUVEAUX HONKIES 7 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 9165087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

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

MIKE BOCCIA 7:45 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. 474-1919.

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

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

DENTON HATCHER ‘THE SOAP BOX BLUES’ 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

CORNBREAD 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

DAMIEN LOUIERE BAND 9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. 332-7952 or wobusa.com/palafox.

ANOTHER HERO 9 p.m. Bamboo Willie’s, 400 Quietwater Beach Road, Pensacola Beach. 9169888 or bamboowillies.com.

REED LIGHTFOOT 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

MO JILES 9 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse. goodgrits.com.

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

DOG SPANKING MONKEY 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

THE MODERN ELDORADOS 9 p.m. Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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

NEWBURY SYNDICATE 9:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

JAY WILLIAMS BAND 10 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

SWANK SINATRA AND MORE 10:30 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

LEE YANKIE & HELLZ YEAH 11 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

SATURDAY 10.20

FUNKY FEST 8 a.m. $10-$15 Old East Hill, from 9th Avenue to Wright Street. Live music, and outdoor market. Call 529-4339 for more information.

PALAFOX MARKET 8 a.m. Martin Luther King Plaza on North Palafox Street between Chase and Garden streets. palafoxmarket.com.

RELAY FOR LIFE YARD SALE 8 a.m. Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church, Soundside Campus, 4115 Soundside Drive. Please contact Marcia Sanders at 324-4930 to donate sale items or be a part of the 2013 team.

BATHE-IN AT HUMANE SOCIETY 9 a.m. Humane Society of Pensacola, 5 N. Q St. 432-4250 or humanesocietyofpensacola.org.

‘A DISCUSSION OF THE AARP STUDY OF MEDICARE’ 9:15 a.m. Lucia M Tryon Branch Library, 1200 Langley Ave. 432-9743 ‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 10 a.m.

Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

‘DISCOVERY SATURDAY – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY’ 10 a.m. Naval Aviation Museum, 1750 Radford Blvd. 453-2389.

FALL FESTIVAL AND PRODUCE DROP 11 a.m. St. Mark Methodist Church, 2203 N. 12th Ave. 525-6570.

‘SECRETS OF SANTA ROSA: ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY IN YOUR BACK YARD’ 11 a.m.

Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site, 5709 Mill Pond Lane. 626-3084.

SOUL BOWL All day. Community Maritime Park, 449 West Main St. For more information, visit sysatigers.org.

25TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST 11 a.m. St. Paul Lutheran Church, 4600 N. 9th Ave. 438-5229.

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 12 p.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘YONDERLY: AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF JULIE HUGHES’ 12 p.m. through Nov 1.University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg. 82.

474-3247 or uwf.edu.

FLORA BAMA OKTOBERFEST 12 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL 1 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. 432-9546.

‘ROLFS PIANO SERIES, MISHA DACIC’ 2:30 p.m.

Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, 1000 College Blvd.

484-1847 or lyceum.pensacolastate.edu.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

OKTOBERFEST 2012 5 p.m. $10. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE TOUR 6:00 p.m. $3-$5. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Shell Road.

393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

‘BOO AT THE ZOO’ 6 p.m. $10. Gulf Breeze Zoo, 5701 Gulf Breeze Parkway. 932-2229 or gulfbreezezoo.org.

HAUNTED HOUSE WALKING TOURS 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8 & 8:30 p.m. $5-$10. Ghost Meter Rentals $5. T.T. Wentworth Museum, 330 S. Jefferson. 595-5985 ext 111.

HAUNTED TROLLEY TOURS 6:30, 7:30 & 8:30 p.m. $8-$16. Ghost Meter Rentals $5. T.T. Wentworth Museum, 330 S. Jefferson. 595-5985 ext 111.

STARGAZING 7 p.m. Gulfside Pavillion, 735 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-1500.

‘THE PILLOWMAN’ 7:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

‘BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL’ 8 p.m. free-$16. Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Bldg. 82, 11000 University Parkway. 857-6285 or uwf.edu.

SOUL BOWL AFTER PARTY 9 p.m. $10-$15 New World Landing, 600 S. Palafox. For more information, call (941) 932-6269.

‘MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER: LIVE DANCE SHOW’ 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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JOE OCCHIPINTI SMALL GROUP JAZZ 10 a.m.

The Drowsy Poet Coffee Company, 86 Brent Lane. 434-7638.

ELAINE PETTY, JOSEF MIT DER OOMPAH 12 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

TROY BRANNON 1 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

CURT & BOBBY 3 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 9322211 or sandshaker.com.

FOXY IGUANAS 5:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

MOST WANTED 6 p.m. The Oar House, 1000 S. Pace Blvd. 549-4444 or the-oar-house.com.

PAUL KILLOUGH 6 p.m. Crabs We Got ‘Em, 6 Casino Beach. 932-0700 or crabswegotem.com.

THE HANGOVERS 7 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

SOUTHERN BREEZE 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

CURSIVE, ELYSE THEROSE, PIONEERS! O PIONEERS 8 p.m. $15. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 E. Garden St. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

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happenings THE MODERN ELDORADOS 9 p.m. Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

DOG SPANKING MONKEY 9 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

RYAN BALTHROP 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

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

HURRICAN WARNING 9:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

CORNBREAD 10 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

‘PRAISE THE BASS’ FEAT: WAKE UP, PANDA PANAX, NEXT LEVEL SQUAD, MINDFLO, 13 RUBLE & NEXJA 10 p.m. $5-$10. Gregory Street Assembly Hall, 501 E. Gregory St. 529-3273.

NEWBURY SYNDICATE 10:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

The House Harkonnen / photo by James Villa DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

SONNY LEDFURD 8 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

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

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

JACOMO KARAOKE 9 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

NICK WING KARAOKE 9 p.m. Hub Stacey’s at the Point, 5851 Galvez Road. 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

MO JILES 9 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse. goodgrits.com.

ANOTHER HERO 9 p.m. Bamboo Willie’s, 400 Quietwater Beach Road, Pensacola Beach. 9169888 or bamboowillies.com.

FLOCK OF SEA MONKEYS 9 p.m. World of Beer, 200 S. Palafox. 332-7952 or wobusa.com/palafox.

THE HOUSE HARKONNEN, TERRIFIC KID AND MORE 9 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

SUNDAY 10.21

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 10 a.m.

Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

WORSHIP ON THE WATER 11 a.m. Tent Stage, Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

CHARITY CHILI COOK-OFF 12 p.m. Tasting begins at 2 p.m. $10 to enter contest or taste. Juana’s Pagodas/Sailor’s Grill, 1451 Navarre Beach. Contact Mandy Evers at 850-366-2660 or mandy@ nwfevents.com or visit juanaspagodas.com.

FLORA BAMA OKTOBERFEST 12 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 12:30 p.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

‘SWEENEY TODD’ 2 p.m. Pensacola Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. 433-6737 or pensacolaopera.com.

‘FACULTY ORGAN RECITAL BY LYNNE LAUDERDALE’ 2:30 p.m. First Baptist Church, 500 N. Palafox. 263-1074.

‘THE PILLOWMAN’ 2:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. 434-0257 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

‘BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL’ 2:30 p.m. free-$16.

Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Bldg. 82, 11000 University Parkway. 857-6285 or uwf.edu.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

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CLARENCE BELL 11 a.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

‘THE BRATS’ POLKA BAND, LEA ANNNE CRESWELL & RICK WHALEY12 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

COWBOY JOHNSON 2 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

AVENEDA 16 2 p.m. Bamboo Willie’s, 400 Quietwater Beach Road., Pensacola Beach. 9169888 or bamboowillies.com.

POSI-TONES 3 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

LEKTRIC MULLET 3 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 9343141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

UPSTARTS 3 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

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T-BONE 4 p.m. Hub Stacey’s at the Point, 5851 Galvez Road. 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

THE RED FIELD 4 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 9322211 or Sandshaker.com.

TOMATO 4 p.m. The Oar House, 1000 S. Pace Blvd. 549-4444 or the-oar-house.com.

JEZEBEL’S CHILL’N 4:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

RON WILLIAMSON OPEN MIC JAM 6 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. 474-1919.

ILL NINO, 9ELECTRIC AND MORE 7:30 p.m. $10. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 E. Garden St. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

J. HAWKINS TRIO 7:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

HOTEL OSCAR 8 p.m. End ‘O the Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

JOHNNY B. DUO 9 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

OYSTER NIGHT AT ATLAS 5 p.m. First dozen are 25 cents apiece and $2 Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob Ultra drafts until close. Atlas, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or atlas.goodgrits.com.

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

‘HANDS ON SKILLS: SUSHI FOR BEGINNERS’ 6 p.m. $60, registration required. Distinctive Kitchens, 29 S. Palafox. 438-4688 or dk4u.com.

TEXAS HOLD’EM 4 FUN 7 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

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

EXTREME TRIVIA 9 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

MONDAY 10.22

COWBOY JOHNSON 3 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

OPEN MIC WITH CATHY PACE 5 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

T-BONE MONTGOMERY 5 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

PAUL KILLOUGH 6 p.m. Crabs We Got ‘Em, 6 Casino Beach. 932-0700 or crabswegotem.com.

LORI & THE JUKEBOX JUNKIES 6 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

NONPOINT, TAPROOT, BLACK OXYGEN, THE ICARUS EFFECT 7 p.m. $15-$17. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 E. Garden St. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

‘PENSACOLA STATE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION’ 7 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg 15, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 4842550 or pensacolastate.edu.

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

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4 p.m.

Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile

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TROY BRANNON 7 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

MUSICIANS ALLIANCE 9 p.m. LiliMarlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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

THE HOUSE HARKONNEN, THE OFFER, IT STARTS TODAY 9 p.m. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or pensacolahandlebar.com.

ELAINE PETTY 9:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

TUESDAY 10.23

‘PENSACOLA STATE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION’ 7 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg 15, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 4842550 or pensacolastate.edu.

BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE 8:30 a.m. Museum of Naval Aviation viewing area, 1750 Radford Blvd.

452-3604 or blueangels.navy.mil.

BLUE ANGELS LIGHTHOUSE TOUR 8 a.m. $15, reservations required. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. 393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

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

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 10 a.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘YONDERLY: AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF JULIE HUGHES’ 10 a.m. through Nov 1.University of West Florida Center for Fine and

Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg. 82.

474-3247 or uwf.edu.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4 p.m.

Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

HALF-PRICE SUSHI 5 p.m. Atlas, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or atlas.goodgrits.com.

PRIME TIME TUESDAYS 5:30 p.m. Jackson’s, 400 S. Palafox. 469-9898 or jacksons.goodgrits.com.

2ND ANNUAL GREAT SOUTHERN BAKE OFF 5 p.m. The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 4700003 or goodgrits.com.

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

ESCAMBIA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES MEET & GREET 6:30 p.m. The Belmont Building, 401 N. Reus St. 380-7682.

ANCHOR STEPS SWING NIGHT 7 p.m. $3-$5.

Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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

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KEN LAMBERT 3 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

COWBOY JOHNSON, T-BONE MONTGOMERY 5 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

UPSTARTS 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

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happenings 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.

REBECCA BARRY DUO 9:30 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

WEDNESDAY 10.24

Rebelution SAMANTHA & THE JUKEBOX JUNKIES 6 p.m.

Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

KITT LOUGH 6 p.m. LiliMarlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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

REBELUTION, PASSAFIRE, THROUGH THE ROOTS 7 p.m. $20. Vinyl Music Hall, 5 E. Garden St. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

BANDS ON THE BEACH FEATURING CIVILIZED NATIVES 7 p.m. The Gulfside Pavillion, 1 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 932-1500 or

visitpensacolabeach.com.

LEA ANNE CRESWELL, RICK WHALEY, PAT MCCANN 7 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

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

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

KARAOKE WITH GEORGE 9 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

‘PENSACOLA STATE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION’ 7 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Bldg 15, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 4842550 or pensacolastate.edu.

BLUE ANGELS LIGHTHOUSE TOUR 8 a.m. $15, reservations required. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. 393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE 8:30 a.m. Museum of Naval Aviation viewing area, 1750 Radford Blvd.

452-3604 or blueangels.navy.mil.

‘HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE ESCAMBIA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD’ 9 a.m. Free.

Registration recommended. The Florida Small Business Development Center (PTAC) 401 E. Chase St. St. 100. 595-0062 or fptac.org.

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

‘INTEGRATE. REPLICATE. GENERATE’ 10 a.m. through Dec 22. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘YONDERLY: AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF JULIE HUGHES’ 10 a.m. through Nov 1.University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 11000 University Blvd, Bldg.

82. 474-3247 or uwf.edu.

‘COLLABORATING WITH NATURE’ 10 a.m. through Nov 10. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 Palafox. 429-9100 or bluemorninggallery.com.

PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR 4 p.m. Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, 6655 Mobile Highway. 944-4500 or pensacolafair.com.

PLAY HAPPY HOUR 4 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox, Suite 100. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

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

WINE DOWN WEDESDAYS 5 p.m. All bottled wines are 50 percent off. Jackson’s, 400 S. Barracks St. 469-9898 or jacksons.goodgrits.com.

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

SURF MOVIE NIGHT AT SURF BURGER 7 p.m.

Surf Burger, 500 Quietwater Beach Road, Pensacola Beach. 932-1417 or thesurfburger.com.

‘SUNSET TOAST AT THE TOP’ LIGHTHOUSE TOUR 7:30 p.m. reservations required. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. 393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

BAR GAMES-WEEKLY TRIVIA NIGHT 8 p.m. Goat Lips Beer Garden, 2811 Copter Road. 474-1919.

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NEIL DOVER 3 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

REED LIGHTFOOT 5 p.m. Florabama, 17401 Perdido Key Dr. 492-0611 or florabama.com.

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You Just Have to Go to the Fair

Morris Day Corn dogs, rides, beer, funnel cakes and games galore. This year the Pensacola Interstate Fair has so much to offer everyone from the little to the big.

To add to the fun, Little Richard is headlining the fair and he is a true legend—someone to see. He put the funk in rock and roll.

The fair has 16 musical acts this year, and one scheduled character visit. IN talked to General Manager Don Frenkel about the musical events planned and all that the fair has in store for visitors this year. After all, their motto is: “Come for the Fun, Leave With the Memories.”

The Frenkel family started the fair over 78 years ago. Since then, the Frenkel brothers have risen through the ranks of management.

“We were raised and trained in the business,” Frenkel said.

Music is a big part of what the fair has to offer.

“I watched Little Richard on an awards show three years ago, he brought the crowd down, and I said to myself that he would be

great for the fair,” Frenkel said. “He is an icon, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. It took me three years to get him here.”

Frenkel and team travel all over the country visiting other fairs to make the one in Pensacola even bigger and better. They have won blue ribbon awards for the quality of fair presented. Currently, out of the 48 state fairs, the Pensacola Interstate Fair is ranked number three. Other fairs are state funded; this one is privately funded and run, complete with a board of directors.

“The fair costs over two million to run each year, and 80 percent of that money stays in Pensacola,” Frenkel said. “We bring a lot of money to the city. This is an event that lasts 11 days, people stay in hotels here, they eat here and they shop here.”

Frenkel’s favorite part of the whole undertaking, “is sitting at the front gate and watching as the children and big kids come in, some for the first time, and watch their troubles melt away and worries go away looking forward to the fun.”

The Pensacola Interstate Fair starts on Thursday, Oct. 18 with Cat Country 98.7’s Catty-oke finals. The final judging will take place in front of a live crowd.

What time is it? Time to see a great show on Friday, Oct. 19. Legendary Morris Day and the Time will play some favorites such as “Jungle Love” and others. They are a funk and dance-pop band formed in Minneapolis in 1981.

Country takes the stage on Saturday, Oct. 20 with The Lost Trailers and Love and Theft.

The Lost Trailers are a country music duo of songwriter and producer Stokes Nielson with collaborator Jason Wyatt. Willie Nelson discovered Nielson’s first record, “The Story of the New Age Cowboy,” in the spring of 2000.

Nelson was so impressed with the album that he invited them to perform at his legendary Fourth of July Picnic.

Love and Theft is a country music duo, composed of Stephen Barker Liles and Eric Gunderson. Both sing lead vocals and play

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“The fair costs over two million to run each year, and 80 percent of that money stays in Pensacola.”

Don Frenkel

Records Nashville, and released the single, “Angel Eyes,” which hit number one in August 2012.

Sunday, Oct. 21 has a wide variety of musical entertainment, Beulah Land South Band, a Southern Rock band from Beulah, Fla.; We’ve Got Talent – A Christian Vocal Contest; Felicia Johnson and Friends, vocal coach and Nashville recording artist; Chloe Channell, an 11-year-old who has opened for Rodney Atkins and Little Big Town; and Robert Wayne, singer-songwriter and Nashville recording artist from Navarre.

Hold on to your square pants, Monday, Oct. 22, Sponge Bob will be at the fair for a meet and greet. Who doesn’t want to meet him? We say take your favorite Sponge Bob item WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 18 through Sunday, and get it signed.

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Fly By Radio is on deck for Wednesday, Oct. 24. They are a metal band from Birmingham, Ala., known for covering AC/DC, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses.

Thursday, Oct. 25 features country music singer and songwriter, James Wesley.

Red takes the stage on Friday, Oct. 26. A Christian rock band from Nashville, Tenn., who have garnered four studio albums and two Grammy award nominations for Best Rock Gospel Album.

The venerable rock piano great, Little Richard is featured Saturday, Oct. 27.

The last day of the fair will feature Momentum Worship, a worship group from Gulf Breeze, and the Dusty Sanderson Band, a country rock band from Pensacola.

The variety of things to do continues with specially priced days, military appreciation, buddy day, ladies day, Cox Cable bill day, senior citizen day, kid’s day, midnight madness, family-friendly trick-or-treat, family day, men’s day, livestock auction, Great American Frontier show, petting zoo, Wolf Packs of America show, Wild West and Trick Riding show…we really could go on and on.

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by Bradley “Beej” Davis Jr.

Artists Celebrate Life at Gallery Night Reception “Art, to me, is like breathing. If I could not have my art, I would stop breathing,” she said. “Art is a release form from your worries and troubles.

You tend to lose yourself in painting or any art form.”

Last year, Wilcox participated in Relay For Life, a signature American Cancer Society event in which communities come together to celebrate loved ones “Lesa’s Buddy” / mixed media painting by Debbie Andress going through cancer, remembering those lost There are two things that are undoubtand fighting back against cancer. edly non-discriminant: art and cancer.

“The American Cancer Society is a The lineage of artists of Quayside Gallery, a wonderful and helpful organization,” Wilcox member-operated and staple Pensacola musaid. However, it was her art and the brainseum, have come together to turn those two things into, quite literally, a celebration of life. child and organizer of the “Celebration of Life” show that she was able to showcase The indubitably named fall show series her talent with other gallery artists to pro“Celebration of Life” began on October viding awareness to the community of this 10 and runs through November 19 with a dreaded disease. reception during the Oct. 19 Gallery Night.

“Everybody has a story about cancer,” The show will feature the works of Quayside said Quayside member and event chair members who, just as all of us, have been Capri Boyles Jones. touched by cancer.

Jones’ ultimate mission of the show is to “I am a 10-year cancer survivor of breast exhibit art by members who have been afcancer, and my husband Gene is a six-year fected by cancer either personally or through survivor of prostate cancer,” said 12-year their relationships. They will be able to honor, gallery member Eve Wilcox. “I think the support or give memory to these patients. toughest thing about dealing with cancer Although not all the members in the is hearing from your doctor the first words show have had cancer, they still honor their ‘you have cancer.’” loved ones through their pieces.

Terrified and feeling helpless, Wilcox “I am not a cancer survivor, but my hussoon found comfort knowing that she and band is: twice over with prostate cancer and her husband were in the caring hands of once with melanoma,” said Carol McCreary, their doctors who helped them each day a five-year member of Quayside. through their treatments. She was also able Now in remission, her husband is being find solace in her art, which will be featured honored with her two pieces titled “Somein the fall show. times” and “Go Towards the Light,” two very

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She, too, uses art as an outlet to cope with the suffering of those with cancer. “Art is spiritual for me because I certainly am not making artwork without a holy muse or whatever you want to call it,” McCreary said.

Many of the artists are donating all or a portion of the proceeds of the sales of their pieces to American Cancer Society. Quayside Charter member Joan Blackburn has also been affected by cancer. She had three sisters pass away from cervical cancer, thyroid cancer and Myelodysplasia.

“I have two paintings in the show, ‘Collectibles with Geodes’ and ‘Yellow Orchids,’” she said. “I feel that art is therapeutic for anyone.”

“When a person is being creative, it fills a need that is inherent in our souls … and it gives me a feeling “The Hug” / oil painting by Debbie Andress of joy, freedom and peace within when I am creating an object of art,” Her objective for this show in relation to Blackburn continued. “I’m very willing to those suffering from cancer is one simple help the [American] Cancer Society in any message: “To never give up and to celebrate way that I can because of the help they gave each day for the gift it is.” {in} my sisters in [their] time of need.”

Other artists participating in “Celebration of Life” have more simplistic, yet powerful, ideals about the show. Three-year gallery member and acrylic/mixed media artist Patricia O’Neal claims the general response of the artists in the show was very positive and enthusiastic.

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by Jessica Forbes

One Square, Many Circles The city renamed Havana Square in June 1965 as part of Pensacola’s participation in the federal People-to-People program. President Dwight Eisenhower devised the program in 1956 to promote international understanding and friendship through cultural exchange.

The first traveling delegations began in the early 1960s. As part of Pensacola’s Fiesta of Five Flags celebration in 1965, This Miraflores Park building was constructed by the CCC in a delegation from Pensacola’s 1934 for the Boy Scouts of America & is now used by the BFA. sister city, Miraflores, Peru visited Pensacola to attend the It is amazing how much history can be renaming ceremony for Havana Square. found in one square block in Pensacola, The Peruvian delegation gifted Peneven in one square block of park space. sacola with a bronze bust of Peruvian author Located at 17th Avenue and East Belmont Ricardo Palma, which was installed in the Street, Miraflores Park contains one building, park as part of the ceremony. Two years one statue, a playground, and a smattering later, the bust went missing but was discovof pine trees. Though it is easy to miss when ered in a ditch one year after that by a city driving through East Hill, Miraflores Park, employee while mowing the roadside. The once known as Havana Square, has ties to thieves were never identified, but the bust multiple chapters in Pensacola’s past. was unharmed, and was reinstalled on its Like most American cities built before pedestal in the southeast corner of the park, automobiles and suburban sprawl, Pensacwhere it stands today. ola’s older neighborhoods were laid out on a The park itself was rebranded in the grid pattern. Certain squares were reserved 1960s, but the Boy Scout Cottage had as public green spaces, many of which are fallen into disrepair. In an effort to preserve still around and part of the city’s network of the building and its use as a communitypublic parks. gathering place, the Bream Fisherman In the early 1900s, older squares such Association (BFA) financed the restoration as Plaza Ferdinand, Seville Square, and Lee of the building, which the City of Pensacola Square had fallen into disrepair. A small group owns, in the 1970s. The BFA has used and of concerned citizens banded together in 1907 maintained the building for over four deand formed a society dedicated to the upkeep cades, holding membership meetings and of the existing parks. In 1910, the city officially countless fish fries. formed a parks department, which grew as Formed in the 1960s, the BFA works residential neighborhoods expanded in East to promote appreciation, awareness, and Hill and East Pensacola Heights in the 1920s. conservation of the region’s waterways and Pensacola’s park names, along with its fisheries. The group began conducting its street names, reference the city’s multivolunteer-based water quality monitoring national past. Miraflores Park’s original name, program before the establishment of the EnHavana Square, nods to the city’s colonial vironmental Protection Agency (EPA). Other ties to Spain and its empire in the Western community groups, namely the Fly Fishers of Hemisphere, in which Havana, Cuba was an Northwest Florida and the Pensacola Speckessential hub for trade and administration. led Trout Club, also use the building.

As a focal point in a newer residential Like the citizens’ parks group of the area, during the Great Depression Havana 1900s, the Boy Scouts, CCC, FERA, and Square became the site of a New Deal projPeople-to-People program, the BFA continect in East Hill. The Civilian Conservation ues the traditions focused on community and Corps (CCC) constructed a brick building in stewardship that are associated with Mirathe park in 1934 for the local Boy Scouts of flores Park. The 2.5-acre site is in many ways America, which utilized the building for seva model park, and the various organizations eral decades. At the same time, the Federal that have worked and met there to represent Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the best of what a community can be. the precursor to the Works Progress AdminFor more information on the BFA, find istration (WPA), constructed the nearby them on Facebook by searching for “Bream 17th Avenue Railway Trestle, now known as Fishermen Association.” {in} Graffiti Bridge.

Jessica is a Pensacola resident with a Master’s degree in Public History. When she’s not digging up history facts, you can find her doing production support at a local architecture firm.

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news of the weird GREAT ART! For September’s Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, artists Michiko Nitta and Michael Burton commissioned soprano Louise Ashcroft to sing, altering pitch and volume while wearing a face mask made of algae. According to the artists, since algae’s growth changes with the amount and quality of carbon dioxide it receives, Ashcroft’s voice, blowing CO2 against the algae, should vary the growth’s “taste” as to bitterness or sweetness. After the performance, the audience sampled the algae at various stages and apparently agreed.

The artists said they were demonstrating how biotechnology could transform organisms.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT Jordan and Bryan Silverman’s start-up venture, Star Toilet Paper, distributes rolls to public restrooms in restaurants, stadiums and other locations absolutely free -- because the brothers have sold ads on each sheet. (Company slogan: “Don’t rush. Look before you flush.”)

Jordan, with 50 advertisers enlisted so far, told the Detroit Free Press in August that he came up with the idea, of course, while sitting on the can at the University of Michigan library.

• First-World Problems: After an international trade association reported that women bought 548 million pairs of shoes in 2011 (not even counting those used exclusively for sports), the manufacturer Nine West has decided to start its own cable TV channel with programing on “various aspects of footwear,” according to an August New York Times report. Programs will feature celebrities rhapsodizing about their favorite pair, women who hoard shoes (purchasing many more than they know they’ll ever wear even one time), tips on developing one’s stiletto-walking skills and shoe closet designs. It’s about a “conversation,” said a Nine West executive, “not about a shoe.”

• Habersham Funding of Georgia and its competitors make their money by buying terminally ill clients’ life insurance policies for lump sums, then continuing to pay the policies’ premiums so that they collect as beneficiaries upon death. The companies’ business model therefore depends on those clients dying quickly; a client who outlives expectations turns the investment sour. Thus, according to an August report by the New York Times, the companies run extensive background checks on the illnesses and lifestyles of potential clients and employ sophisticated computer algorithms that predict, better than doctors can, how long a client will live. Supposedly, according to the report, the companies are nonchalant about erroneous predictions. No company, they claim, has an official policy of hoping for early death.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS Scorpion antivenom made in Mexico sells in Mexico for about $100 a dose, but for a while over the last year, the going rate in the emergency room of the Chandler (Ariz.) Regional Medical

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Center was $39,652 a dose, charged to Marcie Edmonds, who was stung while opening a box of air-conditioner filters in June. She received two doses by IV and was released after three hours, to later find a co-pay bill of $25,537 awaiting her (with her Humana plan picking up $57,509), according to the Arizona Republic newspaper. The Republic found that Arizona hospitals retailed it for between $7,900 and $12,467 per dose -- except for Chandler.

Following the newspaper’s report, Chandler decided to re-price the venom at $8,000 a dose, thus eating a $31,652 “loss.”

• Among the least-important effects of last summer’s drought in the Midwest: Officials overseeing the annual Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw said there would be fewer high-quality cow patties. Said chairperson Ellen Paulson: “When it’s hot, the cows don’t eat as much. And what was produced, they just dried up too quick.” A few patties had been saved from the 2011 competition, but, she said, “It’s not like you can go out and buy them.”

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM The ongoing feud between two Warwick, R.I., households has intensified, according to an August complaint.

Kathy Melker and Craig Fontaine charged that not only has neighbor Lynne Taylor been harassing them with verbal insults and threats, but that Taylor has now taught her cockatoo to call Melker, on sight, a nasty epithet (which rhymes with “clucking bore”). “I’m 53 years old, and I’ve never been called • At least two teams of Swiss researchers are developing tools that can improve farmers’ efficiency and reduce the need for shepherds.

The research group Kora has begun outfitting sheep with heart rate monitors that, when predators approach, register blood-pressure spikes that are texted to the shepherd, summoning him to the scene. Another inefficiency is cow farmers’ frequent needs to locate and examine cows that might be in heat, but professors at a Bern technical college are testing placing thermometers in cows’ genitals, with text messages alerting the farmer that a specific cow is ready for mating. (Since most insemination is done artificially, farmers can reduce the supply of bull semen they need to keep in inventory.)

• Researchers writing in the journal Animal Behaviour in July hypothesized why male pandas have sometimes been seen performing handstands near trees. They are urinating, the scientists observed, and doing handstands streams the urine higher on the tree, presumably signaling their mating superiority. A San Diego Zoo researcher involved in the study noted that an accompanying gland secretion gives off even more “personal” information to other pandas than the urine alone. {in} From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2012 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.

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Leadership Pensacola: Producing Committed Leaders Leadership Pensacola Celebrates 30 years with the Class of 2013!

By Jennifer Allen McFarren, Programs and Events Manager, Greater Pensacola Chamber Leadership development comes in all forms, sizes and experiences.

For the Leadership Pensacola Class of 2013, leadership development includes a diverse, intense experience towards the beginning of their curriculum year in the form of a simulated society retreat (SIMSOC); a dynamic group simulation game that teaches participants to cope with the daily problems of governing society.

Since the curriculum year began in August, the class of 50 community leaders has been challenged to push their limits, think outside the box and explore aspects of our community that they may not have been previously aware of.

SIMSOC retreat was an opportunity for the class to evaluate and learn from the dynamics of social change, the causes of societal fragmentation, the challenges of group conflict and the numerous options for civic control.

In a high-energy simulation, participants were presented with the challenge of creating a utopian civilization. With a limited set of rules and restrictions, players assumed a variety of roles in their new society. Grappling with issues such as abuse of power, justice, diversity, trust and leadership, they negotiated their way through labormanagement strife, political turmoil and socioeconomic dividers.

To succeed in the game, players were required to make key decisions, be creative and use basic social skills from cooperation and reward to threat and punishment. SIMSOC not only promoted leadership skills, it helped participants see the barriers between classes of people that exist in society.

The Leadership Pensacola SIMSOC retreat provided the class an opportunity to thoughtfully select the project they will execute as a team, learn more about themselves, how they perform under stress, and immerse themselves in a simulated society to gain new perspectives about themselves, their classmates and society as a whole. They arrived as individuals and left bonded as a class with a shared experience they will forever remember.

LeaP Class of 2013

Barrie Arnold, Nikki Morette Bell, Robert Bender, Johan C. Boelig IV, Geoff Brodersen, Mark Everett Canada, Donya C. Charles, Nina Clark, Theresa Cserep, Matthew Davis, Gregory P. Fayard, Keith Fell, Richard Fulford, Thomas Greek, Tristan K. Harper, Jennifer Harrison, Danial Hemme, Chip Henderson, Jon Hill, Laura Hill, Emily Homan, Michelle James, Doug Jolly, Steve Kalkman, Stephanie E. Knight, Stacey Kostevicki, Kevin Krieger, Liz Kuehn, Robin Larrieu, Brooke Layton, Leon Ledbetter, Kim McDaniel, Jonathan B. Minchin, Will Nelson, Sharon Nobles, CDR Sean O’Brien, John O’Connor, Liz Pelt, Chris Phillips, Kelly Reeser, William H. Reynolds, Christa G. Ruber, Reid Rushing, Natasha Sluder, Natalie Smith, Kevin F. Spellman, Jonathan E. Thompson, Ryan Tilley, JoAnn Vanfleteren

Upcoming Events Nov. 8, 2012 Community Infrastructure

The day will include exploring and identifying the components that make up the tangible support structure and how they impact our daily life.

Dec. 13, 2012 Education, Health Care & Technology

The class will explore and identify components that make up our community’s support structure and how those aspects interconnect within the Pensacola Bay Area.

Jan. 10, 2013 Military

The class will explore the command posts of our area and the encompassing impact that the military has on our community.

Feb. 14, 2013 Regional Economics Members of the class will explore different economic development strategies and future trends/directions.

They will learn how our community is affected by ongoing local, state or nationwide economic development efforts.

March 14, 2013 Quality of Life

The class will examine the positive and negative aspects of our community’s quality of life. They will discuss the meaning of quality of life for the various socio-economic groups in Northwest Florida while exploring the importance of cultural organizations and activities in the life of the community.

April 3-4, 2013 Legislative Trip to Tallahassee

The Tallahassee trip will focus on how the legislative process impacts how we live, work and play in Northwest Florida and how the lobbying process differs in session and out of session. The class will have the opportunity to speak with area legislators regarding the issues that are important to them.

April 11, 2013 Leadership & Ethics

The class will discuss interrelationships among leaders in the community. They will identify the risks, rewards and challenges of leadership and the bond between leadership and ethics.

May 10, 2013 Closing Retreat

The class will reflect on the LeaP curriculum and explore lessons learned during the past year. They will explore new individual and team challenges at the high ropes course at Adventures Unlimited and are encouraged to apply the LeaP experience to a future course of action.

More Information

For more information on Leadership Pensacola or to inquire about applying for the class of 2014, please contact Jennifer Allen McFarren at 850.438.4081 or visit www.pensacolachamber.com/LeaP.

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Since I have only lived here six months, I have not met all the “cool people” in town, but think the staff that I work with at the Pensacola Bay Center are some of the coolest. They have made me and my family feel very welcome. I am also looking forward to meeting the Pensacola Young Professionals... I hear it doesn’t get much cooler than that group.

Good Eats:

I am addicted to Cactus Flower Café and more specifically, their lime dressing. I even go by there occasionally on my way home from work, just to buy the dressing to take home. Rodizio’s is also at the top of my list, but make sure you go hungry.

Retail Therapy:

Ahh… shopping. I love Alyssa’s Antique Depot. When I first moved here, I think I went every other day for about a month. They have an eclectic collection ranging from new to old.

Watering Holes:

Does sitting on my own couch with a glass of wine after a long day, count? If not, my second choice is World of Beer, because of, well, the beer, of course.

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Night Life:

My husband and I love to go to Blend for music and dancing, but also enjoy The Leisure Club for food and atmosphere. It is laid back and comfortable.

Outdoors:

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Well being that I am a new resident, I have to say the beaches. There is nothing better than enjoying a relaxing day on the white sands and calm waters. We take a tent, a cooler and try to leave the cell phones in the car. Also, we always go behind the residential homes where the parking is easy and the beaches are less crowded.

Arts and Culture:

I am looking forward to making it to some of the Broadway Series at the Saenger Theatre: “Shrek,” “West Side Story,” “Hair.” Does it get any better than that?

Never Miss Events/Festivals: I am so excited about Cirque du Soleil coming to Pensacola for the very first time, ever. I have seen several productions, but never this one. Saltimbanco: at our very own Pensacola Bay Center.

Best Thing About Pensacola:

The friendly, southern hospitality— hands down. {in}

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