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Robert Malmberg: Exploring the Intersection of Fine Art Photography and Interior Design
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine Robert Malmberg has spent the bulk of his life with his eyes behind a camera, capturing the world...
Jun 1, 20215 min read


Queering Spaces: Uncovering Untold Community History
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd How do we decide whose stories are recorded or written in history books? For a long time, the answer...
May 1, 20215 min read


Q&A with Kate Flannery for Pensacon
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd For most millennials and Netflix-now-Peacock-binge- watchers, Kate Flannery is easy to ID for her role...
May 1, 20214 min read


Citizens: Rhetoric, Response, Representation Exhibit Opens at PMA
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Art has the power to connect, inspire and spark critical discourse through historical and social...
Apr 1, 20214 min read


Creating Harmony from Cacophony: Voices of Pensacola Hosts Jazz Expert
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd and reprinted in Musicwoman Magazine At the young age of four years old, Dr. Joan Cartwright walked...
Mar 1, 20214 min read


Keeping the Arts Alive
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine When the world first stood still, suspended and reeling in the wave of initial COVID-19 reports...
Feb 1, 202114 min read


Haiku Slam: Counting Syllables and Connecting Community
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine Back in 1980s Chicago at the Green Mill Jazz Club, a group of local poets were trying to get the...
Feb 1, 20215 min read


A Joyous Defiance: The Poetry of Charles McCaskill
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Lost in the clutches of a fantasy novel or scouring the pages of journals and composition notebooks,...
Nov 1, 20206 min read


The Art of Staying Free
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Known by many as a creative pillar in the Brownsville neighborhood determined to help uplift and...
Oct 1, 20204 min read


Little Free Libraries: Grassroots Community Literacy
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd In 2009, the national nonprofit organization Little Free Libraries (LFL) was formed to showcase...
Sep 1, 20204 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Emily Bailly
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Armed with her controller and a friend on lookout for birds and power lines, Emily Bailly, a local...
Sep 1, 20203 min read


Binoculars and Chick-A-Booms: Protecting State-Threatened Coastal Birds
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine The love for nature runs deep in all wildlife and environment conservationists. For Rebekah...
Aug 1, 20204 min read


Quarantine Projects
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine When the entire world goes into lockdown, everyone suddenly has a lot of free time on their hands....
Jun 1, 20208 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Dyandra Bonet Mendoza
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Local singer/songwriter and self-proclaimed “spiritual gangsta,” Dyandra Bonet Men- doza recorded and...
Jun 1, 20204 min read


Pensacola Beach Pride Weekend: 'Still Proud Even if Pride is Canceled'
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Across the nation, events and gatherings have come to a crashing halt in response to COVID-19 social...
May 1, 20204 min read
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