Rick's Podcasts

The Books By The Bay Festival is Saturday, March 23 in Museum Plaza and nearby UWF Historic Trust building. The featured bestseller speakers John Patrick Green, author of the graphic novel InvestiGator series, Paula Lenor Webb, historical fiction and mystery novels, Asia Samson and The Asia Project, a spoken word poetry performer, and Ginny Myers Sain, New York Times best selling youth writer.  To learn more, visit here.

Real News broadcasted today from Five Sister Blues Cafe in the heart of Belmont-Devilliers, also known as "The Blocks."   Lumon May, Robin Reshard, and Maria Goldberg discuss the area's history.

Escambia County Public Schools will hold its inaugural ‘Podcastapalooza’ event at Booker T. Washington High School on Saturday, March 2, 2024, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm.  For more information about this year’s Podcastapalooza, visit us at Communications / Podcastapalooza 2024.To learn more about the Voices United in Education podcast, click Voices United In Education Podcast.

Visit Pensacola CEO Darien Schaefer discusses how the Sun Belt basketball tournaments help promote our area.

Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons discusses the role of mentors and his Blazer Academy. We also touch on the Star Network and increasing the force.

The most spectacular concert of our season will take place next month, when you can experience Carl Orff's epic, exhilarating masterpiece Carmina Burana. Choose between two performances, one on Friday, March 8 at 7:30 pm, one on Saturday, March 9 at 2:00 pm, both in the University of West Florida Center for Fine and Performing Arts. Our performance will feature a chorus of 160 voices, the combined forces of the Choral Society and the University of West Florida Singers. It will also feature three soloists (soprano Sheila Dunn, tenor Christian Sanders, and baritone Jack Chandler), two pianists (Hyunjoo Kim and Meredith Stemen), and six percussionists, under the leadership of Matt Greenwood.Buy your tickets here.

Discounted tickets to the 2024 Clover Pick A Bowl Fill A Bowl – Manna Food Bank’s only major annual fundraiser – are going fast! The event is expected to sell out! Online ticket sales close Thursday, Feb. 29, at Noon. This unique event with an artsy twist that features the work of local artists and the fare of local vendors will be held on Friday, March 1, from 6-8 p.m., at the Lou Ross Center of Pensacola State College. Pre-sale tickets are $50 apiece ($60 day-of) and entitle the event-goer to their choice of a one-of-a-kind, handcrafted clay bowl thrown by a local potter, samples of some of the best soups in town, wine and beer (must be 21 or older), and a few special features. Each ticket sold will provide 30 healthy meals for neighbors in need in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.For event tickets, please visit www.mannahelps.org.

The full show: Sena Maddison, Collier Merrill, Mike Dobuski, D.C. Reeves, BB Liggett, Erin Attaway and Mike DeSorbo, Jr.

Culinary Productions’ owner Mike DeSorbo. Culinary Productions Event Space is now open and hosting weddings, reunions, birthdays, corporate events and more. The space accommodates 200-plus people and is located at 201 E Wright St.  

"If we snapped our fingers and had 500 market-rate units, like you've heard me talk about before, all that does is open up the additional opportunity for affordability for someone else,” Maror Reeves said. “But we somehow fall into this trap of you're either doing one or the other. If you see if it goes across ARB (Architectural Review Board) or city council that a market rate building's coming up, you can rest assured that everyone on social media or Facebook comments will say, ‘Well, you don't care about people who don't make less money.”He added, “And it's that term I use with you all the time—we pat our head, rub our belly. We can do these both, and we have to.”