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New Year Same You: Trash Your Resolutions
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd *Note, this is a satire piece for anti New Years resolutions So, you’ve maxed out a credit card...
Jan 1, 20225 min read


On the Right Track: West Florida Railroad Museum Preserves Local History
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine Long before automobiles and airplanes, railways served as the beating heart of the Industrial...
Dec 1, 20215 min read


Love Your City: A Guide to Giving Back
By Dakota Parks and staff for Pensacola Magazine Introduction by Dakota Parks There is a lot to love about Pensacola—from the iconic...
Dec 1, 202125 min read


Plug into Panhandle Podcasts
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Break out your stretchy pants and noise cancelling headphones, it’s podcast season, baby. You heard...
Nov 1, 20218 min read


Symphonic Serenades: Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Returns with Packed Season
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine For attendees, a night at the symphony is about more than a love of music. It’s also the...
Nov 1, 20215 min read


Someone Waits For Me: LGBT+ Elders Share Their Stories
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine and Coming of Age Magazine Although queer and transgender people have been present in films since...
Oct 1, 20215 min read


Punk to The Core: Pensacola Punk Rock Flea Market
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Across major cities in the US, you can find a hardcore gathering of people clad in leather jackets,...
Oct 1, 20214 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Patrick (Patty) Quintanilla
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Whether he’s tagging and painting over pieces at Graffiti Bridge or designing massive, commissioned...
Oct 1, 20214 min read


Creative Solutions for Marine Pollution
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Living along the white sand beaches of the Gulf Coast and the longleaf pine-covered bayous and rivers...
Sep 1, 20216 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Emily Bishop
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Emily Bishop, 22, has spent the last three years intensively training in dance studios in Chicago,...
Sep 1, 20214 min read


The New Vintage: Curating Nostalgic Collections
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Fashion trends often rotate with the seasons and come in and out of style like clockwork. Mom jeans,...
Aug 1, 202112 min read


A Look Inside Sean Seid’s New Book
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd As a notable figure in the art scene and a regular in the open mic poetry circles, Sean Seid, 31, has...
Aug 1, 20215 min read


Supporting Local Artists at the Pensacola Arts Market
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd In the last year, markets have sprung up across the entire city of Pensacola— from Uptown Pensacola...
Jul 1, 20214 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Doug Stanford of YNICORNS
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd For many of us, music is the much-needed respite from daily chaos and our catalyst for creativity....
Jul 1, 20214 min read


PensaPride: Pensacola’s New LGBT+ Pride Festival
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Every June, people in cities across the world flood the streets in rainbow regalia, flying flags and...
Jun 1, 20214 min read
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