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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


The Perseverance of the Pensacola Poetry Scene
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd When tracing through the history of the Pensacola poetry scene, the first word out of most local...
Apr 1, 20204 min read


The Blank Canvas: Interzone Art Center Goes Public
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Tucked into the historic Brownsville neighborhood on North V Street, the building that houses...
Apr 1, 20204 min read


Women Brewsters Unite for Philanthropic Collaboration
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Beer has often been credited as a catalyst for human civilization and technological invention from the...
Mar 1, 20204 min read


Historic Reanimations: Bringing Furniture Back to Life
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine ON THE SIDE OF THE CURB sits a derelict 80-year-old sofa with fraying, nearly see-through fabric,...
Mar 1, 20206 min read


Backwards Southern Hospitality meets Social Media Persona: A Poppy Garcia Art Show
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Over the last year, local Pensacola artist Poppy Garcia has been working day and night, often falling...
Mar 1, 20204 min read
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