PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG) – Just in time for Halloween, the Panama City Center for the Arts is offering a new haunted immersive walkthrough art exhibit. The Haunted Higby opened on Tuesday. The Haunted Higby follows the story of a young couple lost in the Ravenwood Forest and parted forever by the evil Raven queen. The exhibit is family friendly, free, and will open all month long.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – The streets of Panama City were filled with jazz music Friday evening for the Gulf Jazz Society’s Jazz by the Bay Festival. The festival kicked off at the Oaks By the Bay Park at 5:30 p.m.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Saturday, September 11, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. The Panama City Hall, held a flag-raising Saturday at 8:45 a.m. Many officials and locals came to the ceremony to pay their respect and to honor the lives lost. Congressman Neil Dunn, Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford, Panama City Fire Chief David Collier, were among some of the officials who reflected on the events that occurred 20 years ago.
PANAMA CITY — If ever we needed an Art Break Day, it’s got to be this year. World Art Break Day is marked globally on the first Friday in September, and it is happening from noon to 6 p.m. Friday in historic St. Andrews.
PANAMA CITY — Destination Panama City will mark the grand opening of its new visitors center in downtown Panama City on Friday. The afternoon will include tours of the new facility at 101 W. Beach Drive from 3:30-5:30 p.m., live music by Rick Kilpatrick, free food and drinks and an official ribbon cutting ceremony at 4 p.m.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Fireworks will be lighting up the sky over in Panama City this weekend. News Channel 7′s Sam Martello was live from Destination Panama City with more on this year’s 4th of July events. Officials with Destination Panama City say an evening full of free, family-friendly events is set to take place downtown on Sunday, July 4.
PANAMA CITY — Author Ian J. Malone said the upcoming “Lasers & Lagers” event at The Lie’brary on Beck was an intersection of all the things that he loves — specifically, spaceships, family, friends and beer.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -Saturday night, the Florida Roots hosted Port City out of Biloxi in hopes of securing their first win in program history.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) — On a cloudy day you might expect to see a rainbow, but today on the Hathaway Bridge there was at least one hundred rainbows.
PANAMA CITY — The inaugural Gallery Night at Taproom in historic St. Andrews will feature a local artist known for her restaurant murals and window art.
PANAMA CITY — Christence Taylor is the seventh artist to take on a segment of the downtown Welcome Wall at the corner of 6th Street and Harrison Avenue. She has been working on her mural in the evenings because of the heat of the day.
PANAMA CITY — The bay behind Destination Panama City soon will become the permanent home of artificial snorkeling reefs. Jennifer Vigil, president and CEO of the city’s tourism agency Destination Panama City, who is spearheading the effort, said the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission and Corps of Engineers permitting processes are underway.
PANAMA CITY — Alumni from Rosenwald High School will be forever recognized and remembered with a historic marker placed in front of the school on Wednesday.
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – The Bay County History Museum is creating a new exhibit to shed light on the history of the Old Pass. The exhibit will feature a display of antiquated nautical maps showing the history of the pass.
PANAMA CITY — If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now. It’s just a sign you should attend a special concert that will merge the classic rock music of Led Zeppelin with the sounds of the Panama City Symphony Orchestra.