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SHERROD SISCO The Pensacola Little
CHAMPION GOLF COURSE The historic
Theatre has hired Sisco as its new Education Director. A Pensacola native, Sisco has been an active member of PLT since 1998 as an actress, member of The Artistic Committee, and as a teacher. She received her B.A. in Communications from NC State and is a former member of The West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles. As Education Director, Sisco will oversee the education offerings at PLT and be responsible for outreach, workshops and classes.
nine-hole public course owned by International Paper closed after the independent operator asked to terminate its lease. The Champion Golf Course was opened in 1941 by the Pensacola Mill and is listed in the Florida Department of State's "Florida Heritage Trail" series. International Paper, who has owned the course since 2000, is looking for a new operator.
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RBI PENSACOLA For six weeks this sum-
mer, local firefighters, police officers, city and county employees, former major league baseball players and other adults volunteered their time to teach children the game of baseball. Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) Pensacola collaborated with the Boys and Girls Club to incorporate baseball instruction into its summer program. Former Council President Charles Bare heads RBI Pensacola, which is a part of Good Works Partnership, Inc. and affiliated with Major League Baseball.
VISIT PENSACOLA Visit Pensacola had
several leaders named to Visit Florida committees. Visit Pensacola President Steve Hayes will serve on the Global Media Committee, Director of Sales and Services Jennifer Jackson Keating to the Meetings Committee and Director of Marketing and Communication Nicole Stacey to the Global Communications Committee. Other industry leaders named include Curt Morse of the Downtown Improvement Board and Jeff Nall of Historic Pensacola.
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RICHARD SPENCER The University of Florida has refused to allow the white nationalist leader to speak on campus next month, citing "serious concerns" about safety in the aftermath of a deadly weekend clash in Charlottesville, Va. UF President Kent Fuchs was concerned about calls online and in social media for similar violence in Gainesville such as those decreeing: `The Next Battlefield is Florida.' A representative of the National Policy Institute, which had booked the event, told The News Service of Florida it was working with attorneys and planned to file a lawsuit challenging the President Fuch's decision.
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NO MORE WHITEWASHING Rep. Matt Gaetz has called the removal of Confederate monuments the "whitewashing" of our history. What he fails to recognize is our history has been whitewashed for more than a century. At Ole Miss, nearly the entire student body, 135 men, enlisted in the Confederate Army. They became known as the "University Greys." The rifle company was part of the disastrous Pickett's charge during the Battle of Gettysburg. The Greys penetrated further into the Union position than any other unit, but every soldier was either killed or wounded. My ancestor, John Adams, was a West Point graduate who resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army. Within a year, he was promoted to brigadier general. He led the advance of John Bell Hood's army into Tennessee and was killed at the Second Battle of Franklin in 1864, one of six Confederate generals to die that day. A bust of Adams is in the Vicksburg National Military Park. I don't know why John Adams and the University Greys fought. I don't know if they even owned slaves. The legends passed down are that they fought valiantly. Their heroism has been honored and commemorated. Like most Southern whites, I was raised in the "Lost Cause" mythology, which taught that we possessed a unique identity because of our Confederate heritage. The Confed-
eracy lost the "War between the States" not due to poor military leadership but because of the Union's greater manpower and resources. The Confederate soldiers fought for the noble principle of states' right. Reconstruction was a failed experiment in racial equality forced upon us by the Union. What we weren't taught was how brutally slaves were treated or if any died valiantly. Their history was never told. Their ancestors were "whitewashed" out of our history, which is why John Appleyard can write a history column on a different white person every week and only occasionally do so for a black family. According to National Archives, about 198,000 black men served in the Union Army and Navy by the end of the Civil War. There are about 31 monuments and markers honoring United States Colored Troops, of which nearly half of them were erected in the last 20 years. Vicksburg has one, so does Pensacola. That's the town of Pensacola in Oklahoma. The state of Virginia alone has 223 publicly supported spaces dedicated to the Confederacy. The "whitewashing" of our history stops when we honor all our histories, and we no longer choose to only revere the ancestors of one race. Only then will the scars of slavery that have wounded the soul of this nation begin to heal. {in}rick@inweekly.net
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A DIALOGUE ON DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION
By Shelby Nalepa As downtown Pensacola experiences a resurgence of development, questions are raised about the value of historic preservation and commercial and residential growth. Who decides if a building can be built or demolished? What factors come into play during those decisions? To answer these questions, WUWF is hosting a panel discussion Monday on the topic of historic preservation and urban development in the greater downtown Pensacola area. The panel discussion will be held at the Bowden Building downtown and will be open to the public and feature a questionand-answer portion. Panelists will include Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Tim Evans, urban planner Christian Wagley, City Council President Brian Spencer, Eddie Todd of the Belmont-DeVilliers Neighborhood Association, business and property owner Robin Reshard, Steven Sebold of aDoor Properties and Architectural Review Board member Carter Quina. "Over the past year or so we've seen
flashpoints of historic preservation like the John Sunday House, Girard Place, Hallmark Elementary School and others. But it seemed as if every time these issues were brought up it centered around a singular place or decision," said WUWF's digital content producer Lindsay Myers said. "We wanted to have a larger conversation without something specific at stake and without pitting parties against one another or ‘taking sides.' So our goal is simply to act as moderators of a conversation that hasn't really happened in a public way," Myers added. Topics will encompass the competing and complementary values of preservation and development and will include current opportunities and profitability of commercial and residential development, the role of nonprofit developers in overall growth, the value of preservation and the role of the Architectural Review Board, local building and design codes, walkable neighborhoods and culturally significant areas without historic designation. "People are talking this over with their friends, our city and county officials are having conversations about it, hearing about it from their constituents, and large and small scale
developers see the opportunity for business in the downtown corridor. These are all our neighbors and community members, and we saw value in looking at it from a variety of perspectives," Myers said. "We felt that as an entity that prides itself on civility and dialogue we could bring people together and foster the conversation. Our goal is to help the community gain a clearer picture of all the pieces that come together in urban planning and development and how they fit into the picture." Myers said that she wanted to have a commercial developer discuss their role on the panel because sometimes commercial developers are villainized when they are simply in the business of going through the channels that exist to build something new. She also wanted people who were knowledgeable about historic preservation for the same reason. "They can also be typecast as obstructionists, and I wanted someone who could speak to the value of preservation and visual standards to enhance a community," Myers said. "The reality is there are developers who are shortsighted, and there are preservationists who are shortsighted, and public policy exists to sort of attempt to curb that. But recently our city council has overruled our architectural review board twice, and that signals that something isn't working on the public policy side. I found that particularly intriguing and that really made me want to put all of these people in a room, without something specific to vote for or against, and have a conversation." Myers said that the city has several review districts which have certain standards for demolition and construction and that the panelists will talk about those areas. "There are also gray areas including most of East Hill, sections of downtown, Belmont DeVilliers and the Westside Garden District that aren't specifically protected en masse but might have individual places worth preserving," she said. "And who does decide that? That's one of the things we are going to talk about, definitely." Neighborhood walkability and nonprofit development are also topics that will be
discussed during the panel. Myers said that walkability is part of urban planning and is an indicator of the health of a neighborhood. "From the policy side, enforcing policies that promote walkability or any other ‘value' can be controversial because some developers see any restrictions as unduly burdensome," she said. "Are they overly burdensome? That's a question we will ask and attempt to find some answers to." WUWF included Tim Evans from Habitat for Humanity as a panelist because Habitat understands the needs in housing and they do development work in a different way from a commercial, profit-driven developer. "We wanted to have someone who could discuss what development looks like from a more macro perspective and from a viewpoint of people who are sometimes left out of conversations about developing new construction," Myers said. The goal of this discussion panel, she said, is to get as many voices as possible engaged in the conversation. "The balance between development and preservation is a question we are incredibly lucky to be able to discuss because Pensacola does have a rich history and the development that is taking place now speaks to a bright future and continued growth," Myers said. "What does the balance look like? Well, that's a question we are not alone in trying to answer, and I think other cities have come to conclusions that work for them. We will have to come to a conclusion that works for Pensacola." {in}
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FIGHTING FOR A FAIR BID PROCESS By Duwayne Escobedo Chance Enmon, the chief operating officer of Jani-King Gulf Coast Region, has never dealt with a bid process like the one he has gone through for custodial services with the Escambia County School District. Jani-King met all the bid requirements and had the best bid price. That was until another bid surfaced seven days after the March 1, 2016 deadline. School district officials said the bid from American Facility Services (AFS) of Alpharetta, Ga. was submitted Feb. 15, 2016 but somehow had gotten lost in the mail room. Still Enmon wasn’t worried because the request for proposals required audited financial statements. AFS had submitted two years of reviewed, not audited, financial reports. Failure to fulfill the audited statement requirement meant the vendor would get a zero in that category of the evaluation process. Instead, the school district ranked AFS at the top and Jani-King second. Following the recommendations of the selection committee and Superintendent Malcolm Thomas, the school board awarded the fi ve-year, $1.5 million contract to AFS. Enmon remains baffled that AFS received the custodial contract over his company, instead of being discarded for giving the school district a non-responsive proposal. Jani-King challenged the recommendation, but Thomas preceded to sign a contract. The company appealed the decision. Administrative Law Judge W. David Watkins issued a ruling on Aug. 16, 2016 that sided with Jani-King and said the Escambia County School District broke Florida law governing public contract awards by ignoring the fact that AFS failed to provide audited financial statements. “It was not a minor irregularity,” Watkins wrote. “Such failure requires the rejection of AFS’s proposal... The District’s effort to excuse AFS’s intentional failure to meet the reasonable terms (of the RFP) was clearly erroneous, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to competition.”
IGNORING THE JUDGE
However, the Escambia County School Board ignored Watkins’ ruling. On Sept. 20, 2016, the school district filed its own fi ve-page response signed by the school board chairman Bill Slayton and Superintendent Thomas. It stated that the August 24, 2017
school board has “substantive jurisdiction” over state purchasing laws and its “interpretation” was “more reasonable” than the one handed down by Watkins. Enmon was stunned. “We’ve never experienced this before. This is the first time somebody did not obey the court’s ruling.” The school board canceled the custodial contract with AFS and rebid the entire job. This time the school board dropped the requirement for companies to provide the higher accounting standard of audited statements. The new custodial contract went to PESG Facilities Services. Jani-King currently has an appeal pending in the First District Court against the Escambia school system. However, school district Chief Financial Officer Terry St. Cyr told Jani-King’s Enmon, “You’re never going to get this contract.” Inweekly tried to reach Superintendent Thomas about the dispute but did not receive a call back. District 1 Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh was on the school board at that time. The frequent critic of Thomas said he supported going out for a second bid. “I’m embarrassed to say I voted in support,” Bergosh said, “(Jani-King’s) bid was really high and extremely expensive to the taxpayers. I know they’re trying to get the bid. But their bid was high, so we invalidated their bid and rebid it. Jani-King was expensive. That’s the long and the short of it.” Bergosh’s assertion is disputed by Enmon who said, “From a custodial price standpoint, we were really close.” Bergosh added that the school district has had a “significant” problem finding custodial companies whose employees meet requirements to be around children. Jani-King Gulf Coast, which started business in 1987 in New Orleans, has about
"We’ll see if they disobey the court again." Chance Enmon 140 custodial contracts in Northwest Florida, including the University of West Florida and Pensacola International Airport. It has about 460 franchises from Florida to Texas that employ about 3,500 people. Enmon said Jani-King submitted a proposal to provide custodial services in 2009. He was “really” impressed by the RFP the school system issued. The custodial company failed to win that contract that year.
“We didn’t do our due diligence,” Enmon admitted. “We could have done a better job. We decided if the bid came around again, we would do a better job. We’ve been waiting for it to come around.” It finally did last year. “We put a lot more time, a lot more effort in our RFP response to make it the best it could be,” Enmon said. He added the school system contract was “very important. It would have made a big impact on our business and our Northwest Florida franchises.”
SUSPICIOUS AWARD
Enmon and others involved in the bidding process label the award to AFS “suspicious.” School district officials said the AFS proposal arrived Feb. 15, 2016, and then disappeared until it was found again March 8, 2016. The AFS bid and bid bond, however, are dated Feb. 29, 2016 and March 1, 2016, respectively. Eight proposals were opened, including the one by AFS, and scored by a school district evaluation committee, which included John Dombroskie, purchasing director, who supervised the group. Other members included St. Cyr, assistant superintendent, finance and business, Brad Mostert, internal auditor, Jim Beagle, custodial services manager, Keith Rich, custodial employee, Chuck Peterson, maintenance director, Shawn Dennis, assistant superintendent, and Margaret Warr, assistant principal. When questioned, Dombrowski was unable to explain the discrepancies with the AFS proposal, according to Jani-King’s bid protest to the administrative court. Marvin Beasley, a certified public accountant, contradicted Mosert, the school district auditor, who argued reviewed financial statements, like the ones AFS submitted, were sufficient in meeting the school system’s RFP, which actually called for audited financial statements. Audited financial statements are more reliable, Beasley said. He testified that “you cannot substitute a reviewed statement for an audited statement and get the same level of assurance.” Meanwhile, Jani-King and the Escambia County School District remain locked today in a legal battle in appellate court. Jani-King representatives said the company may seek to recoup attorneys’ fees and damages, if necessary. Enmon said, “We’ll see if they disobey the court again.” {in} 7
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UNDERHILL AND 'VAGINA HATS' Es-
cambia Commission chairman Doug Underhill created a social media stir when he asked one of his critics whether she was "one of those people walking around wearing a vagina hat and screaming in the streets." Underhill had taken to Facebook to respond to the Aug. 14 Transit Town Hall, where 430 people spoke out in favor of Emerald Coast Transit Authority. He described ECAT as one of the "sacred cows of government handouts." He said the attendees at that town hall were merely fighting "hard to keep their seat at the trough." When his statements were challenged, the commission chairman replied, "Twelve out of 22 bus routes run 10 or fewer riders per hour. The $13M system only collects $1M in revenue. It is funded with a gas tax that was levied on the people without their consent." When Jacquita Stokes-Dykes fired back with "Lies! " the District 2 county commissioner said he was stating "hard cold facts" from the Escambia County Mass Transit Advisory Committee report. "You scream, 'Lies!!' Are you one of those people walking around wearing a vagina hat and screaming in the streets?" he asked Stokes-Dykes. "Is it really that hard to have a conversation with someone who disagrees with you?" Over the weekend men and women came to the defense of the African-American female. They commented on Facebook that they were offended that a county commissioner would make such a statement. Inweekly contacted Stokes-Dykes, who said Underhill's comment shocked and disappointed her. 88
"I felt it was very inappropriate and a bit sexist," she said. "We all elect officials into office with the understanding that they will carry class and have an unbiased opinion even if the person doesn't agree with them." Underhill appeared to miss the point of the criticism. "All of the crap you see going on here. Nothing but tactics designed to make me stop going after the liberal sacred cow of public transportation," he wrote on Facebook. He argued that the county should fire First Transit, the company that runs the bus service. Underhill wrote, "Many of our routes are wasteful. The management team needs to be fired. It is a government service that should be done by government employees. That's what we should be talking about, not vagina hats." As more people questioned whether it was Commissioner Underhill who made the "vagina hat" comment, he responded that he was using "the exact term used in our mainstream press for the actions of liberals in the marches against Trump." "Yep, that is me, and I stand by every word of it," he wrote. "Liberals, sheesh. They can wear offensive costumes in public and expect respect, but if someone calls it what it is, you flip out." But was Stokes-Dykes ever screaming in the streets wearing a "vagina hat" costume? No.
2018 GOVERNOR'S RACE Ryan Wiggins,
the owner of the political media consulting firm Full Contact Strategies, shared her views on the Republican and Democratic gubernatorial campaigns with Inweekly publisher Rick Outzen on "Pensacola Speaks." Wiggins is worried about the crowded field on the Republican side. "I think that there's some polling that needs to come out and maybe clear the field a little bit," she said. "It's getting a little heavy, and that's not always the greatest thing for any Republican candidate because what we end up doing is tearing each other up in a primary and making it easier for the Democrats when it comes time for the general (election)." Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is the early frontrunner for the GOP nomination. State Senator Jack Latvala announced his candidacy two weeks ago, and House Speaker Richard Corcoran is also expected to enter the race. Other Republicans who have filed are David A. Adams, Don Baldauf, Timothy M. Devine, Usha Jain, Bruce F. Nathan, Angel Luis Rivera and Bob White. Another heavyweight eyeing the race is Congressman Ron DeSantis from the Jack-
sonville area. Wiggins said he would either run for governor or attorney general. "Right now, it's the Wild Wild West as far as the rumor mill around Tallahassee where he's going to run for what and why and when and all that," she said. "DeSantis will be running for something statewide." Wiggins believes former Congresswoman Gwen Graham will win the Democratic nomination. She said, "She is a priority candidate for the DNC (Democratic National Committee). They see her as a shining star and a rising star." She continued, "She's seen as a huge threat to Republicans because she's not overly polarizing. That's really scary for Republicans." She said that the Democrats on a national level see Graham as a potential future presidential candidate. "They are going to try to convince other candidates to kind of back off because she is viewed as a star and they don't want to see her get knocked around in a primary," said Wiggins. "She's a real threat when it comes to the gubernatorial race."
QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Until our country
stops ignoring what happened to a race of people that provided 244 years of free labor, race, and racism will continue to provide the controversial, emotional and disunity that politicians relish in." –Howard King, secretary of Pensacola Biracial Committee, 1963-65.
TRANSIT TOWN HALL Amalgamated
Transit Union Local 1395 had a huge turnout for its town hall at Pensacola State College. The headcount was 430 bus riders, drivers and those who believe that mass transit is critical to the growth of the community. Of those attendees, about one of five was from the district of Commissioner Doug Underhill, who has targeted the bus system for cuts. The first 30 minutes of the town hall held in the WSRE Amos Performance Studio were broadcast live on News Talk 1370 WCOA's "Pensacola Speaks." The event opened with a brief panel discussion regarding the importance of ECAT. The panel included Rev. H.K. Matthews, Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May, Pensacola Councilwoman Sherri Myers, community activist Ellison Bennett, attorney Scott Remington, and pastors Larry Watson, Jr. of Englewood Baptist Church, Lonnie Wesley of Greater Little Rock Baptist Church and LuTimothy May of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. Commissioner May said he was there to show his support for those who depend on mass transit. To avoid any appearance of violating the Florida Sunshine Law, he did not discuss any of Commissioner
Underhill's proposals and went to sit in the audience to hear from the public. Commissioner Steven Barry also attended the event as a member of the audience. "We're here tonight for the transit drivers, but really for the transit riders," Rev. H.K. Matthews said. "Because real people rely on this system to get them where they need to go." The citizens who spoke out at the town hall came from a variety of backgrounds. Many had used the ECAT system for years to attend college, get to work, buy groceries and make it to doctors' appointments. Representatives from the Pace Center for Girls, Pensacola State College, and Escambia Community Clinics talked about how vital the bus service is to their clients, students, and patients. Bus rider Joy Hall said she takes the 6 a.m. bus to the first of her two jobs. She walks six blocks to her bus stop and waits anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes for the bus to come, hoping she'll make it to work on time. Regardless of the weather, Hall's routine continues. Some days she walks in the rain, others in hail and most in the blistering heat, but it's the only mode of transportation she has. And then, in the evening, she does it all over again, waiting for the bus to take her home after a long days work. "I'll take the first bus in the morning and the last bus at night," she told Inweekly. "And there have been plenty of times I've missed the last bus at night and had to call a friend to pick me up from work." She added, "So for people who don't have the ability to drive, this bus system is everything."
DOWNTOWN PIONEER WRITES Inweekly received an email from Julia Gomez, the owner of Margarita's Downtown, one of the top lunch spots a decade ago. Part of Hopjacks is on the spot where Margarita's was located. "I would just like to take the opportunity to congratulate Rick and all his staff on the awesome job of producing a very informative paper," Gomez wrote. "I am very busy, but I read the Inweekly from front to back. Thanks for perseverance." PANHANDLING REBOOT Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and the City Council have tried to boot panhandlers out of downtown for years without success. The council is scheduled at its Sept. 14 regular meeting to repeal its latest effort once and for all. They passed on May 11 an ordinance, sponsored by Council President Brian Spencer and Mayor Hayward that banned panhandling in the "Downtown Visitors District." When the ACLU filed a lawsuit questioning its constiinweekly.net
tutionality, Mayor Hayward and Police Chief Tommi Lyter suspended its enforcement. ACLU attorney Benjamin Stevenson said the council's decisions have baffled him. The ACLU warned the city before it voted the ordinance that it would be struck down. "They could have saved a lot of time and effort," he said. "We told them there were constitutional problems. We're hopeful they'll repeal it." Pensacola joins Washington, D.C., Houston and Oklahoma City in constitutional challenges to its laws. Already, cities in Colorado, Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts have had their panhandling ordinances struck down by federal judges, the Wall Street Journal reported. Plus, other cities, repealed laws on their books or halted plans to enact them after the U.S. Supreme Court decision two years ago. The Wall Street Journal cited a National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty study that looked at 187 cities in 2016 and found that 27 percent enacted broad bans on panhandling, while 61 percent passed bans in certain public areas like Pensacola did. Overall, citywide bans increased 43 percent since 2006. Instead of "Band-Aid" laws outlawing panhandling, Stevenson and others have recommended Pensacola and other cities should invest in more impactful programs that address homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse. Stevenson said the ACLU and Pensacola are negotiating a settlement to reimburse the nonpartisan organization committed to fighting egregious civil liberties violations. "We're working on a settlement with the city," he said. "This is the first case (in Florida) that we've done in the last few years."
MOODY VISITS Republican Attorney Gen-
eral candidate Ashley Moody stopped by the Inweekly offices as part of her visit to Northwest Florida. She shared that her background as an attorney, prosecutor and judge has given her necessary experience to serve as the attorney general. "My experience has prepared me for the office," she said. Moody resigned as a Hillsborough Circuit Judge to run. Her family has a long judicial history. Her late grandfather was a circuit judge and served in the Florida Legislature. Her father is a federal judge. When she was elected to the bench in 2006, the thirty-one-year old was the youngest judge in the state at the time. Before then, she was a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Jacksonville. She earned bachelor's, masters and law degrees from the University of Florida. She was August 24, 2017
President of Florida Blue Key. While serving as Student Representative to the state Board of Regents, she met local Collier Merrill who introduced her last week to local leaders, including State Attorney Bill Eddins and Sheriff David Morgan. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has endorsed Moody, who raised more than $600,000 during the first month of her campaign. She probably walked from Pensacola with more campaign checks. To learn more about her campaign, visit electashleymoody.com.
LAWSUIT ON JAIL DEATH The family of the late Rodney J. Berry has filed a lawsuit against Escambia County, former Corrections Director Michael Tidwell, and two jail infirmary employees. Berry's death was one of six deaths that happened in the Escambia County Jail over a year period. (Inweekly, "Jail Deaths Require Scrutiny," 12/3/15) Berry died on May 27, 2015. He had been awaiting trial for two car burglaries in motel parking lots on Pace Boulevard. In each incident, he stole tools, and other property valued less than $100. Records that Inweekly obtained showed that correction officers and his fellow inmates tried to get medical help for Berry, but the infirmary would only place him on a sick call list for later in the day. He died having vomited and defecated on himself repeatedly for nearly seven hours. The lawsuit, filed by the Stevenson & Klotz law firm on behalf of Berry's family, has civil rights claims for failure to provide adequate medical treatment and implement and/or enforce policies to prevent Berry's death, as well as claims of violation of due process and medical negligence. MARK YOUR CALENDAR On Aug. 25,
Pensacola Network hosts its monthly Get Connected session. Guest speaker is Henry Hawkins, "Mayor of Cantonment," on "Small Town - Big Opportunities." The event is free and open to the public. It will be held at 321 N. DeVilliers St. from 5-8 p.m. On Aug. 28, ParsCo will host a town hall on its housing development on the former Blount school site. The event is open to the public and will be held at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 625 N. D St., starting at 5:30 p.m.
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One of William Faulkner's most quoted lines still speaks to us today: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Written as the United States was entering the Civil Rights Era, Faulkner's quote feels relevant today as several cities, including Pensacola, continue to grapple with the lasting legacy of the Civil War. A week after a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turned deadly, national attention quickly turned to the removal of Confederate imagery from public spaces throughout American cities. August 24, 2017
Presently, there are hundreds of monuments and statues honoring the Confederacy across the South, with over two dozen in Florida alone. Pensacola's Confederate statue, based off of an 1880 painting named "After Appomattox" by John Adams Elder, currently hovers over the downtown area, as it has since 1891. The recent events in Charlottesville however, have placed Pensacola's memorial honoring "Our Confederate Dead" in doubt.
"ANGER. COMPLETE ANGER."
On Saturday, Aug. 12, a 20-year old white supremacist named James Fields was in Charlottesville to join a major protest against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. The night before, Americans witnessed torch yielding masses at the "Unite the Right" rally chanting "You will not replace us" and "Jews will not replace us." Public officials feared the protests would become violent. Days before the
protest, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe urged his "fellow Virginians who may consider joining either in support or opposition to the planned rally to make alternative plans." Despite the governor's warning, large groups on both sides converged on Charlottesville, and the worst fears of many were realized. The following day, protests turned violent with several confrontations and physical attacks. The attacks turned deadly 11
when Fields, an Ohio native, drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring 19 people and killing one woman, 32-yearold Heather Heyer of Charlottesville. Katrina Ramos, a local activist with the Black Lives Matter movement, said her reaction to Charlottesville was, "Anger. Complete anger."
"Charlottesville just reignited this anger, and really this fear of being just a black person in America." Katrina Ramos "Charlottesville just reignited this anger, and really this fear of being just a black person in America," said Ramos. "Charlottesville is just another punch in the gut. Just another stab wound telling me it doesn't matter what [African Americans] think…It's a hurt that I cannot put into words." Ramos was bothered by media coverage, which she felt, depicted African Americans in a hostile light. "Even when it's being displayed [on the news] that black people are being harmed," said Ramos, "black people are being beaten to the point where you have a young man who has his head bashed open, we are the antagonists." Ken Daniel, a board member with Save Southern Heritage-Florida, was also bothered by what he saw on television taking place in Charlottesville. Daniel said he was in West Point, New York when the news from Charlottesville erupted. "It was obvious to me that the Mayor [of Charlottesville] and the Chief of Police were doing very little to separate the sides," which Daniel saw as a formula for trouble.
"SOLIDARITY WITH CHARLOTTESVILLE"
While both Ramos and Daniel, as well as many Americans, paid considerable attention to Charlottesville, local focus quickly turned to the Confederate statue standing in the center of Lee Square on North Palafox. The day after Heyer's murder, the Northwest Florida chapter of Indivisible organized a "Solidarity with Charlottesville" march starting at Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza and heading north to the base of the Confederate statue. One activist with Indivisible was so moved that she decided to take steps further than the solidarity march. Eva Ernst, a resident of Pensacola currently attending New College in Sarasota, said that she knew of the statue before the protest, but like many people who pass by it daily, paid little attention. "After talking with others about human rights, I realized that I need to step up and do something about this and move past our Confederate actions in a meaningful way," said Ernst. 212 1
Ernst's own personal action was to start an online petition to remove the statue from Lee Square. Ernst wrote in her petition: "With hate crimes and white nationalist movements on the rise, we as a city must come together to make some serious symbolic strides to combat racism. With the removal of this statue, we can put an end to glamorizing the Confederacy and recognize that they stood for the continued enslavement of black people in this country." Within days, Ernst's petition garnered hundreds of signatures, as well as local media coverage. The increased attention brought Mayor Ashton Hayward into the discussion. After the news broke out about Charlottesville, and a somewhat spontaneous toppling of a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina, Hayward told NewsRadio 1620 AM that his first sentiment was to bring down the statue. "I got back in town and I started going down that path, unilaterally doing that," said Hayward.
"I started this petition so that the conversation would get people interested, but I honestly thought that this would take much longer to reach the news, the Mayor and the public than it has." Eva Ernst Hayward said that his staff worked "around the clock on this," but returned to the conclusion that he doesn't have the authority to act unilaterally. The mayor's office soon released a statement condemning "white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and all other hate groups who do not share our democratic values." Hayward's initial statement fell short of advocating for the removal of the Confederate statue, but his radio appearance launched a storm of online criticism from supporters of the statue, as well as attention to Ernst's petition. "I was incredibly surprised as to how quickly [the petition] increased in supporters," said Ernst. "I started this petition so that the conversation would get people interested, but I honestly thought that this would take much longer to reach the news, the Mayor and the public than it has." The attention also brought another petition urging the mayor to keep the statue. "As horrible as those events were," read the proConfederate statue petition, "it should not be a rallying call to destroy history." While both petitions have local and non-local signatures, the petition to keep the statue in place is outpacing the petition to have the Confederate statue removed. At first, the mayor drew both praise and
ire for expressing his desire to bring the statue down, but by the end of the week Hayward released a follow-up statement. "While my opinion has not changed—the monument should be moved or put in its proper context—I am not advocating for unilateral action." Instead, the Mayor urged the Pensacola City Council to take action concerning "preservation of historical resources."
"DIXIE"
As with most monuments, many drive by without knowing the history or the context of their placement. At the end of Pensacola's brief time in the Confederacy, the city quickly went back to the Union hands. After President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation allowed for the enlistment of black soldiers into the U.S. Army, both Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas saw black men in uniform serving to protect the United States in Pensacola. Although soldiers from the Union and Confederacy are buried in Fort Barrancas, Union soldiers, including 252 soldiers from the U.S. Colored Troops, far outnumber the 72 Confederate dead buried. As white Pensacolians returned from the war, some felt their "options were very limited and in many cases binary," said Matthew Clavin, Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of "Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontier." According to Clavin, "they could join the Northerner conquerors in reconstructing a South that was free, progressive and multiracial, or fight to the death to retain as much of the traditional ‘Old South' culture as possible." The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations, often led by former Confederates, formed to oppose the Republican, and especially black, voting blocs in the South. Blacks in Alabama and Mississippi felt the brunt of these former Confederates trying to restore their order, but Pensacola largely avoided this regional terrorism of white supremacists during the early years of Reconstruction. After the war, Pensacola entered its Reconstruction years as the city's African American population, as well as much of its white population, began to prosper. During this period, a multiracial government oversaw the day-to-day life of Pensacolians. Former Civil War veterans such as John Sunday, who served with the U.S. Colored Troops during the war, continued their public service in local government. In the two decades following General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Pensacola had over twenty African Americans serve in public office. This period came to an abrupt end with the 1884 election of Governor Edward Perry. Governor Perry, a former Confederate general who resided in Pensacola, ran
for Florida's top office with the promise to rid the state of its "carpetbagger" Republican governments. At the time of Perry's election, Pensacola's black population was among the highest in the state. According to the 1880 census, among the 12,000 residents of Escambia County, 45 percent were African American and most voted Republican. Although Perry didn't carry Escambia County in the election, he won across the state. One of Perry's first acts as governor was to abolish Pensacola's city charter, which allowed the governor to remove all Republican black public officials and replace them with hand-picked Democrats, including his friend and former Confederate officer William D. Chipley. According to a Feb. 18, 1885 article in the Atlanta Constitution "The [white] mayor and [black] marshal were arrested, and the provisional officers took charge of the city without any interference."
"LOST CAUSE"
In one legal maneuver, Reconstruction was over, and the city of Pensacola would not see a multiracial government such as what it had in the 1880s for another century. During Perry's four years as governor, the Reconstruction-era 1868 Florida constitution, which officially brought Florida back into the United States, gave numerous rights to African Americans, most notably the right for African American men to vote. The 1885 constitutional convention, which Perry oversaw, undid most of those gains. Segregation within public schools was now mandatory, interracial marriage became illegal, and a poll tax was instituted, which disenfranchised most African Americans and poor whites. Voter participation in the subsequent election dropped 27 percent. Perry, a Democrat, was part of a Southern movement attempting to "redeem" the region from the changes whites saw take place during the Reconstruction years. Historically, this period where many of the post-Reconstruction Confederate iconography and histories arose, is known as "Redemption," which is the context for the movement to glorify the "Lost Cause" after the South's defeat. Governor Perry served one term and died months after leaving office. He is buried in St. John's Historic Cemetery. One of Perry's final dreams was a memorial to honor his fallen comrades. Originally slated to go to Tallahassee, Perry's wife and supporters with the Ladies Confederate Monument Association of Pensacola, worked to have the memorial completed. In 1889, the park known as Florida Square, where Union forces are believed to have occupied during the war, was renamed to honor General Robert E. Lee. According to Clavin, "In the decades after the Civil War, few Americans [North or South] felt compelled to celebrate an event that resulted in more than a million casualties in just a few years. So they didn't." Clavin continued, "It wasn't until a generation of Americans that had not expeinweekly.net
rienced that war came of age that monuments were erected to both remember the sacrifices of a previous generation and serve contemporary political agendas, such as the promotion of legalized racial segregation." In fact, it was the widows of Governor Perry and Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory who spearheaded fundraising to gather the $5,000 to finish the project. The memorial honoring "Our Confederate Dead"—as well as Governor Perry, Secretary Mallory, and Jefferson Davis—was dedicated on June 17, 1891 to a crowd of a few thousand people, many of them Confederate veterans from all over the South. As the bands played ‘Dixie' and ‘My Country ‘Tis of Thee' to honor the Confederate dead, little is known about what the numerous African American veterans of the same war did to mark the occasion or the ascendency of a Confederate statue over a town that, by the end of the decade, was majority black.
"REPRESENTATION OF OPPRESSION AND SUPPRESSION"
Throughout Florida, there are a little more than a dozen Union monuments to represent the sacrifice of the victors. In Pensacola, the closest things to Union war memorials are the hundreds of graves in Barrancas National Cemetery, black soldiers, and white soldiers, many whose names are unknown. As for the losing side of the Civil War, that's another story. Pensacola is far from unique when it comes to cities honoring the Confederacy. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, over 1,500 Confederate memorials exist in the United States, with several in Union states. Whether the intention was to implicitly link the statues with white supremacy, especially for those built between the end of Reconstruction and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, many see the connections. "I feel that this statue is a direct representation of oppression and suppression of a particular population," said Rodney Jones. Jones is the president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). "It shows complete disdain for those who fell victim [to the Confederacy] and those who fought diligently side-by-side to eliminate this regime," said Jones. "The NAACP's position locally is we stand against anything, anyone, any representation, or idea that perpetuates racism, hatred, bigotry and discrimination in any way, shape or form," he continued. Flagler College historian Michael Butler recently spoke about the issue on WCOA's "Pensacola Speaks" show. According to Butler, "One of the things these symbols were meant to do is to rewrite the historical record, to show that normality didn't come to the South until white Southern Democrats were back in control of the government apparatus." August 24, 2017
"Not coincidentally," said Butler, "the black vote was also pretty much eliminated throughout the South." Butler is the author of "Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980." According to Butler, the issue surrounding the statue is multifaceted, but ultimately the problem is political. "It's a failure by political leadership to address the topic head on, to have hard conversations," said Butler. "We keep kicking this issue down the road instead of addressing it head on," said Butler. Activists on both sides see the statues as divisive, even when they come from different vantage points. Nonetheless, Butler takes exception to a common notion that the removal of Confederate symbols is an erasure of history. "Even if you don't understand where the other side is coming from, you have to be willing to listen and take ownership of how other people feel," said Butler. "I just don't understand personally why people would think that their right to have something that offends so many displayed in a public place, trumps, (no pun intended) the feelings of those who feel aggrieved. I don't understand that." Daniel, whose organization stands firm in their support for keeping the Confederate statue in place, has a different take. "There is no legal protection, by the Bill of Rights or Constitution, for anyone being offended," said Daniel. "Our First Amendment basically says if you are offended, get over it."
"There is no legal protection, by the Bill of Rights or Constitution, for anyone being offended. Our First Amendment basically says if you are offended, get over it." Ken Daniel Daniel, who said his four great-great grandfathers fought for the Confederacy, also takes issue with what he sees as a misrepresentation of his heritage. "I am personally offended by many who say they are offended," said Daniel. "This [Confederate] Soldier's Memorial represents the sacrifices of Florida ancestors who took up arms to defend their land and families from invaders from the Northern Union States." Daniel compared the destruction of Southern monuments to the 1937 Nazi-led destruction of Jewish homes and businesses in the infamous night known as Kristallnacht. "History is being destroyed." Both historians, Butler and Clavin, see the issue very differently. "Even if you don't agree with the issue, the whole idea of rewriting history I think is
absurd. Just because we take symbols and statues down, does not mean that we're rewriting the historical record."
"Even if you don't agree with the issue, the whole idea of rewriting history I think is absurd. Just because we take symbols and statues down, does not mean that we're rewriting the historical record." Michael Butler Clavin agrees. "The real history can always be found in schools, colleges, universities, libraries, museums and other institutions of learning, without the influence of biased politicians and community leaders who typically fund, sponsor and organize the erection of statues and other historical monuments," said Clavin. "It's time to recognize the real reason why white southerners began erecting statues to the Confederacy more than a century ago," said Clavin, which includes acknowledging "that the days of slavery and widespread white supremacy have long passed and will, thankfully, never return." Ernst, whose initial petition helped spark the public discussion, adds that she too does not want history erased. Quite the opposite. "We need to keep talking about race and the Civil Rights Movements in our communities and schools," said Ernst. Ernst said the purpose of a statue is to honor an individual or a group of people. "In this case, those individuals fought to maintain the institution of slavery in the South, which is not something to be commended," said Ernst.
"The bigger issue is stopping the systemic issues that are plaguing our cities and town. It's not stopping school-to-prison pipelines. It's not stopping racism. It's not stopping poverty. It's not stopping the wage gap." Concerning the statue's removal, Ramos says "I get it," but adds "it's like putting a band aid on a gunshot wound." Ramos said she was happy to see the Confederate flag come down over the city, but thought more would come from the symbolic gesture. "There are so many ideas connected to those statues and flags," said Ramos. "So many ideas connected to inferiority and superiority when we look at this city."
"The bigger issue is stopping the systemic issues that are plaguing our cities and town. It's not stopping school-to-prison pipelines. It's not stopping racism. It's not stopping poverty. It's not stopping the wage gap." Ramos "So we took the flag down, but you still have a third of the population here that's illiterate," Ramos said. "You still have a humungous wage gap. You still have poverty in this town. You still have people profiting off of the poverty here in Pensacola. So if we're not addressing these issues, if we're not stopping these issues, taking down the statue is doing absolutely nothing. It's just taking down a statue." "If we're not tearing down everything that's connected to it, then you might as well leave it right there," Ramos said. {in}
"IF THE STATUE CONTINUES TO STAND AS IS…"
Despite the controversy, the fate of the statue is still unclear. The mayor and at least two city council members have gone on record in favor of its removal, but the rest of the Pensacola City Council has not officially taken a stance as of this writing. "If the statue continues to stand as is," said Ernst, "that would show me and other proponents of civil rights that our city is not willing to let go of its monuments to systemic racism." Ernst adds that if the statues are removed, and placed in a museum or another space, not on public land, this will indicate Pensacola may be willing to engage in meaningful dialogue around human rights "without problematic sentiments and callbacks to our racist past." Ramos would also like to see the statues come down and put in a museum, but is less optimistic about the statue's removal being much more than a symbolic gesture.
PROTESTS PLANNED
Currently, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans plan to hold a rally on Saturday, Aug. 26 around the statue to show their support of protecting it. Of course, counter protests are also being planned. One of those counter protests is being organized by Strive (Social Trans Initiative). According to their protest event page, the reasons to take down the statue are clear: "We must drive out all traces of hatred, racism, and/ or fascism. Nazis and klans people are murdering people over these monuments and this 'heritage'; it is time for this heritage to be done away with once and for all."
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"Even on our worst night, it's been great"
An interview with Earl's Killer Squirrel—Pensacola's longest-running punk band By C. S. Satterwhite
people have even had bands. Tragically, this last year, the former drummer for EKS, "Big Mike" Lyon, died suddenly. To Earl, Big Mike was more than a bandmate, he was his younger brother. After losing his older brother, Lance Corporal Paul Lyon, in the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, losing his younger brother and bandmate was especially harsh. Nonetheless, the band continues and is probably at their tightest. The current line-up features Scott Lewis on bass, Jeffrey Rahn [formerly of The Unemployed] on drums, and Earl, of course, sings and plays his guitar. I spoke with the band over a beer at End of the Line Café. In our interview, we talk about punk, changes the band has seen over the years and the loss of Big Mike.
Earl and Mike Lyon Not long after I moved to Pensacola, I started writing a fanzine, and the very first band I interviewed was Earl's Killer Squirrel (EKS). That was 1995. The fanzine covered a lot of subjects, but was always rooted in punk and mostly local punk. Of Pensacola's many bands, I really loved EKS. I came to interview Earl Lyon, the namesake and leader of the band, after a friend gave me the band's demo tape with Earl's phone number scrawled on the side. As I was putting together my fourth issue, I got up the nerve to cold-call the number on the tape. That was my very first interview. As the years passed, I've had the opportunity to interview a number of bands and a few pseudo celebrities, but I always remembered how nervous I was calling Earl for that first interview. [Full disclosure: I'm hardly an objective fan. I even have an EKS tattoo, of which I think I'm only one of three others.] At a recent show, asking Earl if he remembered that interview, he said it was his first interview too. In the years since that interview, the band has gone through a number of line-up changes. EKS broke up and reunited more than most August 24, 2017
INWEEKLY: Your band is about to turn 25. For a punk band, that's huge. For any band, that's a big deal. Just about every band that was around when you started, and most that started after you, have broken up, but you're still at it. How does that feel? EARL: It has gotten kind of surreal to look around and see all the bands that started, bands that've gotten out and gone on tour, but are no longer around. Except for reunion shows, like Maggot Sandwich or Woodenhorse or This Bike is a Pipe Bomb or Blount, for example, it hasn't really sunk in. I just like to go around and play music and don't really think that much about it, but I guess everyone has a dream of sometimes going on tour. INWEEKLY: As a band, when did EKS start? EARL: Pretty much, it started in April 1993 with my brother and me. Then Ted Helmick [later from This Bike is a Pipe Bomb] jumped on stage with us and started playing. He had no idea what we were going to be playing, so that was a fun night. That was April 6, 1993. INWEEKLY: You remember the exact date? That's impressive. How long had you been playing before you started EKS? EARL: I taught myself how to play guitar one month before the band started.
INWEEKLY: One month—really? That's pretty punk. Speaking of, when did you all first get into punk? SCOTT: Oh gosh, I got into punk probably about 12 or 13. I think I bought a Ramones tape when I was in middle school, and that was it. Everyone else was listening to hair bands and that kind of stuff, but I just liked punk a lot better. JEFFREY: Yeah, back in the day what really changed me, when I first started to discover music was The Who. They were doing something with it, and that's been my drive. Why play someone else's music? Why play someone else's crap when you can write your own stuff? You can put your heart and soul into that. Just like these guys, EKS. When Kent and I [Stanton] got together with The Unemployed, we were doing that. We discovered bands like The Descendants and Bad Brains, bands that didn't sound like anyone else—bands that were doing their own thing. That's been my drive. Earl plays his own music. If I can help him do that, that's what keeps me going. INWEEKLY: What about you, Earl? When did you first get into punk? EARL: Probably 1986 when I first started listening to it, but I didn't go to my first show until April of 1987. INWEEKLY: Who was it? What was your big first show? EARL: Flaming Lips and Stevie Stiletto at UNICO Hall. INWEEKLY: That's a good one to start off with. EARL: I'll always remember this person in my science class. Before I finally got the nerve to go to my first show, this guy sitting next to me had [Sex Pistols] "Never Mind the Bullocks" tape sitting on his desk. I kept checking out the tape, and I finally went home and listened to the stuff. Then after that, I started going to shows and had a blast. I never looked back. JEFFREY: My first show was SNFU. I think that was at UNICO Hall, too. Shortly after that, I saw The Descendants and I was like "OH MY GAWD!" [laughter] "I'm not worthy!" [more laughter] EARL: Yeah, I guess that was my first big show, The Descendants at DMZ.
SCOTT: Mine was Dead Milkmen. That was in Memphis because I used to live there. INWEEKLY: So how do you define punk? EARL: It used to be anything that wasn't the norm, you know? Whether it's your appearance or a rebellion against authority. But I was thinking about that the other day. What is punk now? Everyone has purple hair. Everyone has green hair. JEFFREY: Everyone's got tattoos. Everyone's got a nose ring. SCOTT: As a music, punk nowadays has all of these genres, but back then we didn't have all of these genres. If you could play an instrument, and you could find three or four other people who could play an instrument, whatever that came out of that was punk. As long as it was aggressive and had a certain attitude, that was punk. No matter what type of music you played, it was more of the experience with those people together. INWEEKLY: So where's the defining line now? It's definitely not solely with the music, but it is. You can have a punk band with acoustic guitars and banjos, or all sorts of things, and still be pretty punk. So what's punk now? EARL: Well, there's not as much snarl as there used to be. Definitely not appearance wise either, you know. Most of the bands that have that very punk appearance either don't have jobs or they don't…I don't know how they do it. JEFFREY: We weren't trying to be punk. We were just different. So I'd say to be different than the norm is punk. You don't want to be Johnny-go-work-at-the-mall. Put on your tie. If you want to do your own thing, wear your own clothes, wear your hair up. If you want to dye your hair purple, that's cool. I think punk has gone the norm now. EARL: Yeah. JEFFREY: When we were growing up, there was no punk. Iggy Pop was punk. He did shit that made people think, "Oh my God! He's the spawn of Satan!" EARL: Yeah, now everyone wears black. JEFFREY: Yeah, but he was doing his own thing, and that's what it boils down to. You don't want to fit in with normal society. You can set a trend or create one. 15
INWEEKLY: You've been around for quite a while now, nearly 25 years. [Everyone at the table instinctively raises a glass to note the moment] EARL: I know. Pretty soon we'll be eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. INWEEKLY: Seriously, that's a long time. What are some of the changes that you've seen? EARL: The crowds nowadays just don't seem to care about the music as much as they used to. You used to go and search for bands. Now they just look on their phone and stay at home and listen. They don't go out and discover bands or discover music. They just want to hear what everyone else is listening to already.
"The crowds nowadays just don't seem to care about the music as much as they used to. You used to go and search for bands. Now they just look on their phone and stay at home and listen." Earl Lyon INWEEKLY: What's lost in that experience? EARL: They're missing out on a lot of good, original music. Music that comes from the heart. Not music that was written for you that you're going to hear on the radio or YouTube. If that's what you're listening to, you're lacking originality. JEFFREY: When you go to a show, you could have the best time of your life, and not even expect it. Or you can go to a show and see the greatest band, and have the worst time. But you've got to get out there. I've got stories to tell, but I probably can't tell it here. EARL: Yeah, you can keep saving money to see that big touring band, but how long are they going to play before they pass on? How many bands are you missing out on that are good and original? SCOTT: For me, going out was the experience. It was an experience to go out and see bands, no matter if they were big or small. But also part of that experience was the community of musicians who appreciated music together. We don't have that too much anymore. INWEEKLY: Do you think that's locally or all over? SCOTT: That's all over. JEFFREY: That's why I have to give a shout-out to Chizuko. Every time I go there, I have a great time. EARL: It's nice to go to a venue and not have to worry about getting robbed by the promoter or the door guy. Most of the times when we go there, we don't even charge a cover. If we do, we just say to make a donation at the door. INWEEKLY: I know this is a sensitive 616 1
subject, but can I ask about Big Mike? EARL: Yeah, that's ok. INWEEKLY: I know that Mike was an onagain/off-again member of EKS. As your brother, Earl, I know you two had a good relationship that translated to the band, even when he wasn't a part of the band. I remember that, even from that time when I interviewed you for my zine in 1995. But even when we wasn't in the band, he was still part of the scene, still your friend, and still your brother. So how has losing Mike affected the band? EARL: I'm still dealing with it myself, to tell you the truth. I've been busy with either dealing with my friend's baby, or with the band, so I haven't had time to take a break and focus on it. It's sad to me to look up and see the posters at the house, and knowing that…you know, I feel guilty, like maybe I was a part of this. I know how much he enjoyed the band and wanted to play in the band. Now I feel, sometimes, that I helped kill him. I saw him a week before he passed away, and everything seemed perfectly fine, and then you hear a call in the middle of the night, coming home from a bar on top of that, and you find out your brother's dead. What the hell are you supposed to do now? SCOTT: On my birthday. EARL: Yeah, right after Scott's party. JEFFREY: I got a text. EARL: He could either be playing with us or not play with us, but he was always a part of us. Always. JEFFREY: Nothing will change that. I mean, he affected my life. Him being in the band or not, that was his choice actually. EARL: He always showed up to play at the right time, for some legendary shows too. One of the best shows was the Surfer's Memorial. Jeff couldn't play that day, so we went out to play it. Scott and I went out there, and my brother in the back seat. First time playing drums in like 15 years. SCOTT: He could barely fit behind the drum set. [laughter] EARL: Yeah, they had a house drum set. Now that was an incredible show. That was one of the most awesome shows. Another was this show when we played at the Handlebar for like two hours. I think me, Mike and Scott and we had been drinking. Mike was the only sober one. SCOTT: My fingers were wore down to nubs…blood was all over my bass.
"I think that all three of us are the reason we keep doing this. We've got a good brotherhood. We've all experienced loss and death in our lives." Jeffrey Rahn JEFFREY: I think that all three of us are the reason we keep doing this. We've got a good brotherhood. We've all experienced loss and death in our lives. We take it with a grain of salt. I'm honored, at 52 years old, to be playing this music at my age. Back in the ‘80s, I was scared I was going to be
dead by now. We were all going to be dead by a nuclear weapon. To still be here, and play, and have fun—I mean, it's never been about money. It's never been about that. I mean, if anyone gets some enjoyment, peace, anything like that, then we've done our job. Earl's done a good job. He's a great songwriter. My job is to accompany him to make the songs come together. It's always been great. Even on our worst night, it's been great. SCOTT: When we're not doing well, that's when we're laughing the hardest. Laughing at yourself is the greatest thing about punk rock music. You already know that you're not part of the norm. You're just playing songs. INWEEKLY: Going back to Mike, does his death make it harder to keep playing, or does it give you more determination? EARL: There's at least one song during each set that's specifically for him. Whether it's "Spot" or "Back in Time," he's definitely never forgotten. One of the guitars I got from him for my birthday a couple of years ago, it's just badass to play. I'll never forget where I got that from. When I sit in my bedroom, I've got posters on my wall that are reminders. It keeps you humble. You remember where you came from. We definitely feel him around us every time we play. He keeps us humble.
"For me, being a part of the band, it's like a legacy. With Mike, he's a part of that legacy and always will be. So when we play on the stage, we play for him, for Mike, to keep that legacy alive." Scott Lewis SCOTT: I first saw Earl play when I moved here in '94. I saw him play for years. For me, being a part of the band, it's like a legacy. With Mike, he's a part of that legacy and always will be. So when we play on the stage, we play for him, for Mike, to keep that legacy alive. I mean, he's probably standing there on stage, looking over my shoulder saying, "Oh, you fucked that one up, Scott!" [laughter] EARL: He always told me, even when he wasn't in the band, "You've got to keep it going. You've got to keep it going." And they've been down with it. JEFFREY: If I quit the band, I'd have his ghost come up and say, "What? You've quit the band?" EARL: Yeah, Jeff had a rough couple of years, but I always had faith that he'd come back to the band. And Scott joined the band about the same time. Ever since then, it's been way better. Way more practices than ever in the history of the band. It was just a matter of time. JEFFREY: When you've got a group of guys here who are on the same page, like my brothers here, it's certainly easier. We're all in the same boat. EARL: We still play within our boundaries. We don't try to do too much. I mean, every now and then, we play a cover song, maybe once a year here and there.
INWEEKLY: After nearly 25 years of being a band, you must have some good stories. What sticks out to you as some of the best moments of being in this band? EARL: My favorite story of EKS was in the ‘90s. I got left in charge of handling the allages shows at Sluggo's, and the two headlining bands were having car trouble. They were an hour and a half away. We weren't scheduled to play, but someone had to stall everybody until they got there. It was 88 Fingers Louie and Fury 66 playing, and they were stuck. One of the band members showed up and got there on time, but he said there was no way the others were going to get there on time. So my brother is already in the club, he's always hanging out, and one of our ex-members. We had our equipment in the mezzanine in Sluggo's. So all three of us jumped up on stage and held the show together for 45 minutes until the bands showed up. The crowd didn't miss anything. The bands came in right at the end of our set. Me and the Fury 66 guys, after that, we were so cool. The cool thing about 88 Fingers Louie was that we were really good friends for years after that. The bass player for 88 Fingers Louie turned out to be the bass player for Rise Against. After that show, he never forgot us. Every time he'd come to Pensacola, and they were playing, he'd yell ‘This one is for Earl's Killer Squirrel!' I get goose bumps knowing how big they are now, and they haven't forgotten. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. JEFFREY: I forgot the question. INWEEKLY: What's your best EKS story? JEFFREY: They're all good. That one time we played Vinyl, and it was for Big Mike. That's my favorite story. It was the first show we did for Big Mike, and I felt his spirit. It started out that we were just killing it. I took my drum stick, and I hit it as hard as I could on the tom, and it bounced like 30 feet in the air and almost hit the rafters. When I did that, I was so emotionally drawn into that moment that I closed my eyes, and I just held my hand out. I caught the stick. That was my high time moment. I mean, I've never done that. Ever. I've tried to do it again, but… EARL: Don't put your eye out! INWEEKLY: So how about the next 25 years. What's next? EARL: I know I've been saying this like a broken record, but the biggest thing for me is to record. Leave some kind of footprint, some kind of beer coaster. JEFFREY: Every band has recorded something, but I want something that says "Yeah, we did that. We did that." {in}
EARL'S KILLER SQUIRREL
WHAT: Earl's Killer Squirrel with Rushmore WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24 WHERE: Chizuko, 506 W. Belmont St. COST: $5 DETAILS: facebook.com/earlskillersquirrel inweekly.net
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New Makers Space Hosts Ruckus Come support a new makers collective Friday night as they raise funds for their new space. Bare Hand Collective is unveiling the beginnings of their new warehouse on North Palafox by hosting a charity music event called Ruckus Fundraiser. Bare Hand Collective is a group of makers, artists and creative professionals working out of the Bare Hand Warehouse. It was started by Jeff Bere, who owns Losobe Woodwork. Owner of Charlotte Mason Printing Company, Caitlyn Cooney, then joined the collective. "At first Jeff was on the lookout for a space for his business, but used the opportunity to create his long-term goal of being part of a makers space," Cooney said. "It grew to include myself, Shane Drye, owner of Jacobi, LLC., a local tech company, and Hannah McLeaish, an all-around creative guru and local graphic designer of HM creative." Cooney said that they all commiserated over the same need for a dedicated makers space in Pensacola that fostered collaboration and professional guidance from a creative standpoint. "It's definitely grown into a more comprehensive and communal concept to include education, community outreach, and special events," Cooney said. "As of right now, it includes the Losobe wood shop, the Charlotte Mason letterpress studio, the private art studios of Jarrod Goldman, Poppy Garcia, Fa-
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mous Gabe and Shauncey Fury from Hula Moon Tattoo, as well as a few flex desks for creative entrepreneurs and professionals such as Drye and McLeaish." Cooney said that Bare Hand has two more private studios for rent, several open art spaces, and room in the office area. "The beauty of these flex spaces is that artists and professionals can be a part of the collective on their own schedule— a day, week, month, or year at a time," Cooney said. "We are definitely accepting more people into those areas at this time. We want to grow our circle." While they may be from different backgrounds, Cooney said, creatives generally all think and work similarly. "We draw inspiration from seeing what one another is working on, asking for a critique or an idea, and even better, working on projects together," she said. "For instance, a photographer may work with me to create wedding packages, or if Jeff builds a desk for a business, we may try and bundle it with a professional design suite. There are so many opportunities to get different and creative perspectives on your work; it's really helped us all be better at our own jobs."
"There are so many opportunities to get different and creative perspectives on your work; it's really helped us all be better at our own jobs." Caitlyn Cooney Cooney said that their goal within the first year of being open is to foster the educational aspect of Bare Hand. "We see opportunities within our own lives to help our adult community members learn new skills to hopefully empower them to create—be it a bookcase for their house or a set of thank you cards, we want to help
people get creative," she said. "Another side of that is entrepreneurial development. While we see resources for new businesses in the community, we want to offer the creative perspective, artist to artist." Cooney said that the children's programming will be similar, but their goal with it will be to supply their young community with practical skills before they reach vocational school age. "We want to teach things like basic hand building, introductory coding skills, personal brand development and collaborative projects where they can learn to work together to improve our community," she said. Cooney said that learning trade skills equips someone to be self-sufficient because many of these skills carry over into contemporary habits. "You see places similar to ours popping up around the U.S., and you hear about the ‘Makers Movement,' but it's become bigger than just a trend," Cooney said. "As our society moves deeper into a digital age of learning, socializing, shopping, etc., we are trying to keep the handmade, self-taught, grassroots movement alive. Building your brand from the ground up keeps you more in touch with your customer engagement, knowing you built your kitchen table with your own hands makes you value your family dinners that much more. There's something sentimental about it, for sure." Cooney said that the DIY movement has really grown out of people making things in their garages, and while that is inspiring, being able to work out of one giant "garage" with people just like herself sparks growth she may not find on her own. The Ruckus Fundraiser to support Bare Hand will feature local bands including McDean, Lee Hicks, BLSSR, God Bless Relative, Faux/Fox and Blight, plus catered food from The Magnolia and End of the Line Café, desserts by Blue Jay's Bakery, free drinks, live art by Jarrod Goldman and Famous Gabe and opportunities for
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people to learn about the space and the studios they can be a part of. Cooney said that their goal is to raise at least $1,000. "While construction and improvements on the space have already started, it's a difficult task to take on financially as a small group," Cooney said. "The money will go toward those improvements and necessary equipment to make the shop and studios fully functional, such as woodworking machinery, exhaust systems, climate control, a foil machine, a laser cutter, etc." Cooney said that Bare Hand Collective's long-term goal is expansion on several levels. "Not only do we want more space to include even more people, but we hope to also create a non-profit that will serve the local creative community in Pensacola," she said. "We are focused on the overarching idea of Creative Placemaking—intentionally leveraging the power of the arts, culture, and creativity to serve a community's interest while driving a broader agenda for change, growth, and transformation in a way that also builds character and quality of place. We want to empower the Pensacola population, from teaching them how to express themselves and successfully brand themselves, or helping them make their own furniture, collaborate with one another and contribute creatively to Pensacola's growth. In short, we want to help Pensacola make better." {in}
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calendar 6:30-9 p.m. $10. Salsa, Cha Cha, Bachata and more. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSON GENERALS 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. BENEFIT SHOW FOR SHAUN HOLIFIELD 7 p.m. $5. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com HISTORY, ART AND CONSERVATION: THE STORY OF THE FEDERAL DUCK STAMP 7-9
p.m. Free. Pensacola State College, Room 2142, 1000 College Blvd. fmwaudubon.org BEN SOLLEE 7:30 p.m. Pensacola State College, Ashmore Auditorium, 1000 College Blvd. pensacolastate.edu
CANCER STUDY: COOKING WITH VEGETABLES
6-8:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org GAME NIGHT 6-7 p.m. Cards Against Humanity. Swan Neck, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com SELECT LATIN DANCE LESSONS AND PARTY August 24, 2017
SATURDAY 8.26
LEARN TO ROW 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Bay-
view Park, 2001 E Lloyd St. Register online at pensacolarowing.org. SANTA ROSA FARMERS MARKET 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Fresh local produce, honey, baked goods and live music. Pace Presbyterian Church, Woodbine Road, Pace. PALAFOX MARKET 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Fresh produce, live plants, baked goods, fine art and antiques. Items originate directly from participating vendors, including dozens of local farmers, home gardeners and area
SAENGER CLASSIC MOVIE SERIES: DIAL M FOR MURDER 7 p.m. $5. Saenger Theatre, 118 S.
Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com DANCE PARTY 8-midnight. Partner dancing on the best wood dance floor in the area. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. $10. dancecraftfl.com
House, 600 S. Barracks St. greatsouthernrestaurants.com MOLINO BOOK DISCUSSION 6 p.m. “Burying the Honeysuckle Girls” by Emily Carpenter. Molino Branch Library: 6450-A Highway 95A. mywfpl.com
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TOAST OF THE COAST: TALES OF THE COCKTAIL NEW ORLEANS 5:30 p.m. $65. Fish
6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. PENSACON DRESS UP OR DRESS UP 7 p.m. $20. Proceeds benefit Pensacola Little Theatre and SouthBARK Animal Rescue. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolalittletheatre.com QC:
tors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm WINE TASTING AT AWM 5-7 p.m. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. 9th Ave. aragonwinemarket.com
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FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF 2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visi-
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ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182
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tors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm CATTLE BARON’S BALL 6 p.m. $75-$150. Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E. Gregory St. pensacolabaycenter.com BIKE PENSACOLA SLOW RIDE 6-7:30 p.m. Start at Waterboyz Surf & Skate Shop, 380 N. 9th Ave. facebook.com/bikepensacola DUSK ON THE GULF 6:30 p.m. Meet in Battery Worth Amphitheater. Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm
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2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. Free. City Grocery, 2050 N. 12th Ave. HAPPY HOUR COOK OUTS 5 p.m. Drink specials, free cookout. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com DATE NIGHT DANCING 6:30-8 p.m. $15. Learn the basics of several romantic ballroom and country dance styles in group classes that keep partners together. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. JACKSON GENERALS 6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. OPEN MIC 7-11 p.m. Single Fin Cafe, 380 N. 9th Ave. facebook.com/singlefincafe THE CURED-A TRIBUTE TO THE CURE 7 p.m. $12-15. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. vinylmusichall.com HIP HOP NIGHT 8 p.m. Chizuko, 506 W. Belmont St. facebook.com/chizukopensacola WHITE TIE ROCK ENSEMBLE 8 p.m. $28-$38. Saenger Theatre, 118 S. Palafox. pensacolasaenger.com
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FAMILY MOVIE CLUB: THE JUNGLE BOOK (1967) 10 a.m. $5. Saenger Theatre, 118 S.
10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm HEROES DAY 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $20-$35. Children under 2 are free. Sam’ Fun City, 6709 Fun City Blvd. samsfuncity.com WISDOM OF MYTH 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free lecture and forum Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. JUNIOR HUMANE SOCIETY ADOPTION 12-4 p.m. PetSmart, 6251 N. Davis Highway. pensacolahumane.org
FRIDAY 8.25
MAKE THE RIGHT CALL. DRINK RESPONSIBLY.
artists. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com OCEAN HOUR CLEAN-UP 9-10 a.m. month. Pensacola Beach Park East and Park West. Buckets, grabbers, gloves and trash bags are supplied. oceanhourfl.com COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, N. Palafox. palafoxmarket.com
SUNDAY 8.27
WAKE UP HIKE 7 a.m. Meet at Bay Bluffs Park,
Scenic Highway at Summit Ave., for a brisk one to two-hour walk with brunch to follow at an area restaurant. NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST 10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER 11 a.m. Meet at entrance of Fort Pickens. Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm
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calendar ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182
Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm
WARRIOR HOOKUP 2017 1-7 p.m. Paradise
Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com BARTENDER CHAMPIONSHIP 2-6 p.m. $25. O’Riley’s, 321 S. Palafox. orileyspub.com FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF 2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visi-
tors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm SOUTHEASTERN TEEN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: SHENANIGANS 4-5 p.m. Free. 1010 N.
12th Ave. setsco.org/first-city-shakespeare
BLUE WAHOOS VS. MISSISSIPPI BRAVES
4:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. GAME OF THRONES TRIVIA AND VIEWING
6-9 p.m. Swan Neck Meadery, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com
MONDAY 8.28
NATURE WALK: LIFE IN A MARITIME FOREST
10 a.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visitors Center, 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm
ADVANCED REDOUBT: LEGACY IN BRICK & MORTAR 12:30 p.m. Fort Barrancas, 3182
Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/index.htm
PILATES MAT 1:30-2:30 p.m. Ever’man
Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org FORT BARRANCAS: BASTIONS ON THE BLUFF 2 p.m. Meet at Fort Barrancas Visi-
tors Center 3182 Taylor Road. nps.gov/guis/ index.htm CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm SEVILLE QUARTER MILERS 5:30 p.m. Runners meet in front of Seville Quarter for a run around downtown Pensacola. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com PERSPECTIVES ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN PENSACOLA: A PANEL DISCUSSION 6-8 p.m.
Hosted by WUWF. Bowden Building, 120 Church St. wuwf.org TRIVIA NIGHT: 90s MUSIC 6 p.m. Swan Neck, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS 6:30-8 p.m. $10. Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, and more. Professional dance instruction for all skill levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. MISSISSIPPI BRAVES
6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. SONGWRITERS AND POETS OPEN MIC 7-9 p.m. Goat Lips, 2811 Copter Road. goatlips.com HIP-HOP DANCE LESSONS 8-9 p.m. $10. Learn hip-hop moves from professional instructor. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com
TUESDAY 8.29
CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens 020 2
Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm COMPLIMENTARY WINE TASTING 5-7 p.m. SoGourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com TICKET FREE TUESDAY MOVIE SCREENING
5:30 p.m. Tryon Branch Library, 1200 Langley Ave. mywfpl.com REAL MEN WEAR PINK 5:30 p.m. Skopelo’s at New World, 600 S. Palafox. RSVP Kayla Owen, 266-2274. FUNKY YOGA FLOW 6-7 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org COMEDY NIGHT 6 p.m. Swan Neck, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com HOMEMADE PASTA EVENING CLASS 6-8 p.m. $64.50. SoGourmet, 407-D S. Palafox. sogourmetpensacola.com FLAVORS FROM THE FAMILY TABLE: BACON 6 p.m. $35. Pensacola Cooks Kitchen, 3670 Barrancas Ave. pensacolacooks.rezclick.com COUNTRY DANCE LESSONS 6:30 p.m. $10. Country Two Step, East Coast Swing, Competition Choreography and more. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. MISSISSIPPI BRAVES
6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. BANDS ON THE BEACH 7 p.m. The Blenders. Gulfside Pavilion, Pensacola Beach. visitpensacolabeach.com HEALING CLINIC AND MEDITATION 7:158:30 p.m. Free. Ever'man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org TUNESDAY SOUND CAFE 7:30 p.m. Enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and tunes from the baby grand piano. Pensacola Library lobby, 239 N. Spring St. mywfpl.com
WEDNESDAY 8.30
CREATURE FEATURE 3:30 p.m. Fort Pickens Bookstore, Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach. nps.gov/guis/index.htm PILATES & PINOT 6-7 p.m. $12. Pure Pilates Downtown, 426 S Palafox. purepilatespensacola.com YOGA FLOW 6-7 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org WATERBOYZ SLOW SKATE 6-7 p.m. Every Wednesday. Skate starts and ends at Waterboyz, 380 N. 9th Ave. waterboyz.com SWING DANCE LESSONS AND PARTY 6:3010 p.m. $5-$10. Professional west coast swing instruction for all levels. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com BLUE WAHOOS VS. MISSISSIPPI BRAVES
6:35 p.m. Blue Wahoos Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Or you can watch live on BlabTV. bluewahoos.com. MOVIE NIGHT 7 p.m. E.T. Swan Neck Meadery, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com MEDITATION 7:15-8:30 p.m. Free. Ever’man Educational Center, 327 W. Garden St. everman.org FREE DANCE LESSONS 8-8:30 p.m. Free beginner west coast swing dance lesson. DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com
Arts & Culture
≥Events
PMOA GALLERY TOURS 2:30 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Free with museum admission. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org NEW EXHIBITION RECEPTION 6-8
p.m. Aug. 24. Digital Schmigital, Art Before Silence, Brush Strokes. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org
VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOP: SCOTT SATTERWHITE 6-8
p.m. Aug. 25. Free. Evening of prose and poetry. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org
NINA FRITZ RECEPTION 5-7 p.m.
Aug. 25. Pensacola Cultural Center, 400 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org SECONDS SALE 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 26. Discounted handblown glass pieces from Joe Hobbs. First City Art Center, 1060 Guillemard St. thejoehobbs.com
≥Current Exhibits
EBB AND FLOW On
view through Aug. 26. First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org
METAPHOR AS MANIFESTATION On
view through Aug. 27. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org
ART IS THE SPICE OF LIFE On view through
Aug. 28. Quayside Gallery, 17 E. Zaragossa. quaysidegallery.com
PIECE BY PIECE: ART WITH LEGO BRICKS BY SEAN KENNEY On
view through Sept. 3. Pensacola Museum
of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org LIVE, LOVE, ART On view through Sept. 9. Blue Morning Gallery, 21 S. Palafox. bluemorninggallery. com DIGITAL SCHMIGITAL On view through
Sept. 22. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org
ART BEFORE SILENCE
On view through Sept. 22. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org
BRUSH STROKES: MY JOURNEY IN ART BY BILLIE BAILEY On view through
Sept. 22. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.org
A DROP OF WATER, A GRAIN OF SAND: WORKS BY JACQUELINE BISHOP On view
through Oct.6. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Building 15, at Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd. pensacolastate.edu
PHILATELY & FRIENDSHIP: THE ART OF ACE
On view through Feb. 27. Exhibition of 50 illustrated envelopes created by members of Art Cover Exchanged. T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Museum, 330 S. Jefferson St. historicpensacola.org
≥Workshops & Classes
POTTERY ON THE WHEEL Six-week
workshops are held Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m., Wednesdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center, 1060 Guillemard St. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for non-members. For more information, visit firstcityart.org. INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL Every
Monday from 6-8:30 inweekly.net
calendar p.m. at First City Art Center. Classes are $40. For more information, visit firstcityart.org. CLAY HAND BUILDING Six-week
workshops are held Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m. and Thursday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for non-members. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.
CLAY SCULPTURE
Six-week workshops held Saturdays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at First City Art Center. Cost is $157.25 for members and $185 for non-members. For more information, visit firstcityart.org.
≥Call to Artists
CUBED Artists are in-
vited to submit proposals for CUBED, a 12-day outdoor mural installation and live mural painting along Palafox Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza. Sixteen artists will be selected. Each artist will create a mural for one 8ft x 8ft panel and will receive a $1,200 stipend. Artists must be onsite and present during the production of their mural during through Nov 3-5. Submission deadline is Sept. 25. The fee is $30 for non-members and $15 for members. For more information visit pensacolamuseum.org.
CROSSING BOUNDARIES: ART AND THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Makers, designers, and creative thinkers are invited to submit artworks and transdisciplinary projects to Crossing Boundaries: Art and the Future of Energy National Juried Exhibition. Submissions should attend to and contemplate issues August 24, 2017
such as the future of clean energy, eco-aesthetics, ecojustice, sustainability, social practice and the environment, the intersections of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM), etc. This call is open to all media and materials as well as researchbased projects that are contextualized through aesthetic practices. Submission deadline is Oct. 2. The fee is $30 for non-members and $15 for members. For more information visit pensacolamuseum.org. DOCUFLORIDA: DIGITAL EXHIBITION
Artists can submit photographic and moving image-based work to the digital exhibition, DocuFlorida, which will be projected at the Pensacola Museum of Art and simultaneously screened at Pensacola Voices Multicultural Center. DocuFlorida is focused on the current environment and landscapes of Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the Southeast Region of the U.S. Established, emerging, and nascent artists and image-makers are welcome to submit. Submissions can be photographs or film and video and should attend to the environment, and rural and urban landscapes of the region. Submission is Oct. 2. The fee is $30 for non-members and $15 for members. For more information, visit pensacolamuseum.org.
Bars & Nightlife
≥karaoke
Thursdays Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 8 p.m.
130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com Saturdays Krazy George 9 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com Sundays The Sandshaker Lounge, 9 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Mondays The Cabaret, 9 p.m. 101 S. Jefferson St. 607-2020 or cabaretpensacola.com Tuesdays Sandshaker Lounge, 8 p.m. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com Play, 9 p.m. 16 S. Palafox, Suite 200. iplaypensacola.com Wednesdays Karaoke with Krazy George 9 p.m. Ticket Sports Bar, 7333 N. Davis Highway.
≥live music
THURSDAY 8.24 JOHN RIPLEY 6-9
p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox NICK ANDREWS 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. BILLY IUSO 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com AL MARTIN 6:30 p.m. Doc’s Courtyard and Cafe, 5198 Willing St., Milton. CAT RHODES AND THE TRUTH 7 p.m.
Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE DEPLORABLES
8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com
FRIDAY 8.25
LIVE JAZZ WITH JOE
OCCHIPINTI 12 p.m.
The Drowsy Poet Coffee Co., 655 Pensacola Beach Blvd.
ALEXA BURROUGHS
12-4 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com
PAW PAW’S MEDICINE CABINET 6 p.m.
The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com CHRISTINA CHRISTIAN 6-8 p.m. Swan
Neck, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com PLATINUM PREMIER 6 p.m. Peg
Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com STOLEN FACES 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com JIM ANDREWS 6-9 p.m. V. Paul’s Italian Ristorante, 29 S. Palafox. vpauls.com AL MARTIN 6:30 p.m. Doc’s Courtyard and Cafe, 5198 Willing St., Milton. CURT BOL JAZZ QUARTET 7-11 p.m.
La Playita, 5 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. JOHN RIPLEY 7-10 p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox CURT BOL JAZZ QUARTET 8-11 p.m.
Jazz and Flow Cafe', 4238 W. Fairfield Dr. DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O' Grady's Dueling Piano Show. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com THE BLENDERS 8:30 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com RICH MCDUFF 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com LIVE DJ: MR. LAO 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg's Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com SHOW ME DRAGON 21
calendar 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com
WEIGHTS 6 p.m.
Marlene’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
p.m. The Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com
MODERN ELDORADOS 9 p.m. Lili
BIG JIM BROWN AND THE SPEED KINGS 9
p.m. End O’ the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BANANA REPUBLIC
10 p.m. Apple Annie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
SATURDAY 8.26
RONNIE LEVINE 12-4
p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com FRWY 98 6 p.m. p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com
BIG AL & THE HEAVY-
Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com
PAW PAW’S MEDICINE CABINET 6
SPEARMAN BREWERS 7:30 p.m. Swan
Neck Meadery, 2115 W. Nine Mile Road. swanneckwinery.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com LIVE DJ: MR. LAO 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg's Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com SHOW ME DRAGON
9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com
THE MODERN ELDORADOS 9
p.m. Lili Marlene’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
BIG JIM BROWN AND THE SPEED KINGS 9
p.m. End o' The Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com BANANA REPUBLIC 10 p.m. Apple Annie’s, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
SUNDAY 8.27
LIVE JAZZ WITH JOE OCCHIPINTI 9-10
a.m. The Drowsy Poet Coffee Co., 655 Pensacola Beach Blvd.
CHARLIE CETTI AND THE FIRST CITY DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND 11 a.m.-3
p.m. Apple Annie’s Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
CURT BOL JAZZ QUARTET 11 a.m. Five
Sister’s Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St.
JAZZ BRUNCH WITH AL ALVARADO 11 a.m.
McGuire's Irish Pub,
600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com
RICHARD MADDEN 12 p.m. Peg
Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com DUNNOTAR 4 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com JOSH GARRET BAND
3 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com KENNY AND ROD 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com KARAOKE WITH JIM BOB 8 p.m. Lili
Marlene’s. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
ALEXA BURROUGHS
9 p.m. End O’ the Alley, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
MONDAY 8.28
MIKE MAGAZINNE 6
p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes. com
SAM PRICE & THE TRUE BELIEVERS 6
p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com JAZZ GUMBO: CHARLIE CETTI AND THE FIRST CITY DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND 6:30-9
p.m. $10-$12. Free to students and military in uniform. Phineas Phogg's, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com JAZZ JAM 7 p.m. Horizen Restaurant, 3103 E. Strong St. MONDAY NIGHT BLUES 8 p.m. Blues
Society of Northwest Florida presents and open jam at Lili Marlene's.
Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com SCOOT AND JEREMY
9 p.m. End O' the Alley. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
TUESDAY 8.29
DJ TONY MUSIC AND DANCING 7 p.m. The
Deck, 600 S. Barracks St. fishhousepensacola.com
JOSH GARRET BAND
6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via De Luna Dr. paradisebargrill.com MIKE VANN 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com AN EVENING OF GREAT JAZZ
6:30-10 p.m. Lili Marlene's in Seville
Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com COLM KELLY 8 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub.com GABE STEEVES 9 p.m. End O' The Alley Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com
WEDNESDAY 8.30 GREG LYON 4-8 p.m.
Hemingway's Island Grill, 400 Quietwater Beach Road. JOHN RIPLEY 6-9 p.m. Skopelos at New World, 600 S. Palafox ADAM HOLT 6 p.m. Peg Leg Pete’s, 1010 Fort Pickens Road. peglegpetes.com SANDY ROOTS 7 p.m. Portofino Island Resort, 10 PortofinoDr.
BEYOND THE BREAK
7 p.m. Hub Stacey's 312 E. Government St. hubstaceys.com
TYLER MAC BAND
8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd. sandshaker.com
DUELING PIANO SHOW 8 p.m. Rosie
O' Grady's, Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com MIKE QUINN 8 p.m. Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com JORDAN RICHARDS
8 p.m. End O' The Alley Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. sevillequarter.com COLM KELLY 9 p.m. McGuire's Irish Pub, 600 E. Gregory St. mcguiresirishpub. com
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news of the weird UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT In early August, Volusia (Florida) County Beach Safety officers banished 73-year-old Richard G. Basaraba of Daytona Beach from all county beaches after it was discovered he was handing out business cards to young women, reading "Sugardaddy seeking his sugarbaby." The mother of a 16-year-old said he approached a group of girls with his cards and continued to speak with the minor girl even after she told him her age. He also produced a bra padding, telling the girls he was "looking for someone who would fill it." He told the 16-year-old she "would be perfect." PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM US In a shocking display of mischief, an unnamed 60-year-old man in Singapore is under investigation for lodging three toothpicks in a seat on a public bus in July. If he is found to be the culprit, he could spend up to two years in prison. Singapore has an extremely low crime rate, and even minor offenses result in harsh punishments. For example, vandalism is punishable by caning. Police said at press time that the investigation was continuing. WAIT, WHAT? Practicing physicians in Cairo, Egypt, opened a surgery-themed restaurant called D.Kebda in July, where they wear surgical scrubs and prepare their only offering, grilled beef-liver sandwiches, behind a glass partition. Kebda is a popular street food in Egypt, but it can cause food poisoning if not prepared carefully. "We tried to take our career values and apply them to this other field," said Mostafa Basiouny, one of the owners. "There is no contradiction between them; we are still practicing doctors." GREAT EXPECTATIONS On Aug. 7, 16-yearold Jack Bergeson of Wichita, Kansas, filed papers in Topeka to run for governor as a Democrat in the 2018 race. Bergeson, who won't be able to vote in that election, said: "I thought, you know, let's give the people of Kansas a chance. Let's try something new." The candidate says he would "radically change" health care and would support legalizing medical marijuana, but he's conservative on gun rights. Bryan Caskey, director of elections at the Kansas secretary of state's office, said there is no law governing the qualifications for governor. Bergeson's running mate, 17-year-old Alexander Cline, will be 18 by the election and will get to vote. ANIMAL ANTICS A skunk got up close and personal with a 13-year-old boy on July 25 when it climbed into his bed in Hamden, Connecticut, apparently after hitchhiking into the house in a trash can. The family was able to remove the skunk without the help of the Hamden Animal Control Division, but an officer said the "smell of skunk ... emanated throughout the house." •The Scardillo Cheese factory in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has a squirrel to blame
by the Editors at Andrews McMeel
for a fire that resulted in more than 20,000 gallons of milk being spoiled on Aug. 8. The squirrel chewed through a main power line on the outside of the building, which sparked the fire, and power could not be restored for 12 hours. Already-made cheese was kept cool with generators, but milk being readied to make cheese warmed and went bad. LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS Criminal justice student Jordan Dinsmore, 20, of Columbia, South Carolina, had her car's manual transmission to thank for her safe escape on July 26. Three men approached her around 1 a.m. and pointed a gun at her. After robbing her of her phone and purse, the men forced her into her car, threatening to kidnap and rape her, but when they realized none of them knew how to drive her stick-shift car, one of the criminals ran away. The other two forced Dinsmore to drive to an ATM to withdraw cash. As she drove, Dinsmore removed her seatbelt, then put the car in neutral and jumped out, screaming, "Call 911! Call 911!" to passing motorists. The Richland County Sheriff's Department arrested a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old in the kidnapping and robbery. •Surveillance video from a July 27 break-in at the home of John C. Burbage, 59, of Naples, Florida, showed a surprisingly familiar picture of the perpetrators: Harold Russell Lanham, 22, and his dad, James Edward Lanham, 41, both of whom Burbage employed and both of whom were wearing their work uniforms. The Lanham duo stole a safe containing more than $30,000 worth of cash and property from their boss's home. THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY Residents of Hollis, Maine, were unnerved on the evening of July 25 as Corey Berry, 31, wearing a clown mask, walked around town with a machete duct-taped to the place where his arm had been amputated. When Berry, intoxicated, was taken into custody in nearby Waterboro, he explained to officers that he was copying other clown sightings as a prank on a friend. Karmen LePage of Hollis warned: "He's not funny. We live in the woods; you think we don't have guns? He's ... lucky." THE CONTINUING CRISIS There are 70 registered voters in McIntire, Iowa, but not one of them showed up to vote in a two-question special election on Aug. 1. Mitchell County deputy auditor Barbara Baldwin told reporters that even poll workers didn't vote because none of them live in McIntire, which is about 130 miles northeast of Des Moines. {in}
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