By Dawn Bright Dear Dawn, I was very busy from November through December. Between business travel, family events, Thanksgiving and Christmas, it was nothing but crazy. Now 2019 is looming and I can finally relax, which should be a good thing, but instead I feel a little depressed. What’s up...
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By Charles Morgan III Bill Ming spent most days since 1969 at Destin Marina, watching the world of Choctawhatchee Bay unfold. In what must have seemed like slow motion at times and what had to have been high speed at others, Mr. Ming’s view changed from an actual Crab Island to a bizarre...
Boy Erased Directed by Joel Edgerton In Theaters A horror film where the horrors are the devastating effects of gay conversion therapy, the inability of young people to give consent for such programs, the conflation of sexuality and gender, the perils of groupthink, the use of force and violence on...
1. Machine Head at Vinyl Music Hall, Pensacola. With the band announcing they’ll call it quits very soon, I’m a bit saddened this was likely my first and last Machine Head concert. The next day, my voice was shot and everything hurt—always a sign that a show was a ton of fun. 2. Emerald Coast...
AQUARIUS Jan. 21 ‑ Feb. 19 The full moon is on the 22nd. Get out in the streets of a big city. Wander around. See what street life is like. Try it on for size. You think you can survive a night on the streets of West Chicago? Best of luck, because you are one missed rental payment from being in one...
Tickets are on sale now for the South Walton Beaches Wine and Food Festival, taking place April 25-28, 2019, in Grand Boulevard at Sandestin (not to be confused with the Sandestin resort or Sandestin Wine Festival). With more than 800 wines to taste over four days, this annual award-winning charity...
1. It’s the new Civil War, minus the P.C. complications. 2. Everyone had cool uniforms—Cosplay! 3. There’s lots of weird science—ships made of ice, mines that skipped, etc. 4. There were four military dictators, one of whom fought on both sides. 5. Nobody reads history...
Share your photos and get featured here! instagram.com/beachcomberdestin @traceyandchopperc BEACHCOMBER Pet of the Issue Chopper auditions for a Subaru commercial. @camillesatcrystalbeach Hey, pal, save some of that for us! @kathleenbroaderickstudio BEACHCOMBER cover artist...
By Devin “Deezy” Anderson Oct. 9, 2018. While at work broadcasting live weather updates, my feeling of nervousness slowly intensifies. Each hourly report seems to be getting worse. Hurricane Michael is coming right at us. Originally projected to make landfall as a Category 3 storm, Michael keeps...
William Hazelgrove Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight Prometheus Books December 17, 2018 marked the 115th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ manned flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It takes a bold author (and a lot of research) to challenge...
