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GUEST EDITORIAL The modern gated community is defined not so much by who it keeps out as the mindset it perpetuates within. p. 4 NEWS The illegal removal of 2,094 trees in the Panhandle prompts calls for an investigation closer to home. p. 7 The not-so-reverend Terry Jones, and Islamophobia’s diminishing returns. p. 12 Codependency is the name of the game at the city’s new downtown cowork space. p. 14 BUZZ, BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS About that fabulous cake on the cover …

Plus MOCA Jax is in the market for some homegrown art. p. 9 & 10 SPORTSTALK Is there time to reanimate The Sharks, or is this destined to be their lost season? p. 16 OUR PICKS Reasons to leave the house this week. p. 19 MOVIES The latest in the “Titans” series offers special effects and a not-so-special story. p. 20 Director Tarsem Singh’s take on the classic “Snow White” fairytale is truly the lamest of them all. p. 24

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MUSIC Ben Folds delivers a symphonic spin on his well-loved tunes. p. 26

Husband-and-wife duo Over The Rhine keep their Americana-style music close to the heart. p. 27 ARTS MOSH presents digital duo The Mast in a workshop and live performance. p. 34 Mark Licari spins one-the-spot narratives in his signature murals. p. 35 Cartoonist Derf chronicles one weird friendship with the acclaimed memoir “My Friend Dahmer.” p. 40 BACKPAGE Should Jacksonville incinerate its garbage? p. 54 MAIL p. 5 I ♥ TELEVISION p. 15 LIVE MUSIC LISTING p. 29 ARTS LISTING p. 36 HAPPENINGS p. 41 DINING GUIDE p. 44 NEWS OF THE WEIRD p. 49 FREEWILL ASTROLOGY p. 50 I SAW U p. 51 CLASSIFIEDS p. 52 Cover comestibles by Bakery Moderne.

For more on the makin’ of the cakin’, see Buzz on page 9.

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Gates of Hell

The modern gated community is defined not so much by who it keeps out as the mindset it perpetuates within

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live in a gated community. There’s a bar code sticker on my car that opens the security arm at the neighborhood’s entrance, and anyone coming to visit me must be on a guest list.

Even without the gates, I live in one of the safest places on Earth. The idea that the added layer of security provides me with that safety is purely the power of suggestion. We live here because we liked the house itself, and the fact that it was in the right school district for our three children. The gates, in my opinion, just clog up the neighborhood entrance with traffic.

But there’s a more concerning aspect of living in this kind of neighborhood, and that’s the danger of forced conformity, authorized and enforced by homeowners’ associations. In most gated communities, HOAs — which are legal governing bodies in the state of Florida, subject to open meeting laws and financial scrutiny — meet regularly to discuss mundane tasks such as installing new street lights, repaving roads and repairing the stop sign that old Mr. Jones plowed into last week.

But they also meet to pass judgment. What color should Jane Smith be allowed to paint her house? Can the Green family build a new deck?

Should we let those new people put up a playset for their kids? (That’s right: We actually had to gain HOA approval to install a swingset.)

More recently, residents of our neighborhood received letters reminding us that it’s time for spring cleanup of our properties. Lawns should be sharply edged, gutters cleaned and dead foliage removed. And then there was this: All children’s toys should be stored out of sight. At that particular moment, I might have been tempted to empty the garage of all the bicycles, tricycles and T-ball sets and place them in the yard, had those items not already been strewn across the front lawn.

That single line made my blood pressure soar, and it clarified, for me, the quiet but insidious dangers of living here: the pressure to suppress who we are, and to shift our daily priorities from taking care of our families to making sure our front yards look stellar.

From that pressure evolves a tendency to skew perspective. Thousands of Syrians face daily bombings from their own government; a resident complains about the type of tree planted in her neighbor’s yard. Jacksonville’s murder rate remains highest in the state; an HOA fines a homeowner for installing a birdbath in his front yard, or painting a mailbox the wrong color.

As the cookie-cutter neighborhood emerges, so does the expectation that the residents, in addition to the properties, should all look and think alike. One of my neighbors recently was actually stunned to learn we differ politically.

This expectation certainly was at play when George Zimmerman chased, shot and killed Trayvon Martin last month. Zimmerman’s critics have focused on their assertion that Zimmerman was racist, and a renegade. More alarming, to me, is the failure to recognize that he lived in a place where the unexpected has become the suspicious, and where the real crime is simply existing in an arena where people have chosen to restrict their comfort zones. All too often, such residents have made a decision — conscious or not — to avoid the complexities of diversity. They want to be surrounded by people who don’t challenge their own life philosophies.

It scares me. This fear is personal, too. My middle child is a boy of Hispanic descent, and one day will be a brown-skinned teenager walking down a street of houses owned by upper-middle-class white people.

I’m aware of the irony here — that I’m casting aspersions on my very own neighborhood, a place we chose to live and probably will live for the next decade. I can hear the naysayers now: Go live somewhere else!

To be clear — we enjoy most things about our life here, and even some aspects of life under an HOA — beautiful common areas, for example, and a street void of junk cars and overgrown lots. The problem comes when people inflict their own standards of living on neighbors with differing opinions and philosophies.

For lots of reasons, we are not going to move in the near future. But here’s the main one: We can’t be bullied into changing who we are. We have three children, and our children play with toys. We have a busy life and more important obligations than trimming the hedges. And when a kid walks down our street, perhaps a young man with dark skin wearing a hooded sweatshirt, we won’t call the police. We might even call him into dinner.

Tricia Booker themail@folioweekly.com Twitter @triciabooker

Booker is a frequent contributor who blogs at mylefthook.com. Anne Schindler’s Editor’s Note returns next week.

religious apologists always fall back on appeals to fear.

Jeremy Racicot Via email

Secular Uprising

In his March 27 letter, Mr. Shuttleworth claims I can’t definitively say what happened in the time of Noah (if he even existed), but I’ll do just that, tackling this latest argumentum ad ignorantiam head-on. He blithely offers a comet collision as a simple explanation for Noah’s flood. Trouble is, to deliver enough water to submerge Mt. Everest, such a comet would have to pack more than 4.5 billion cubic kilometers of water. A comet that big would not burn up, but would collide with Earth, meaning many more long-term problems. Plus, comets typically contain toxic substances, namely cyanide and carbon monoxide, the latter of which would be dispersed in gas form. Sorry, Mr. Shuttleworth, but scientifically speaking, such an occurrence is NOT possible.

Not only am I saying the Bible is filled with outlandish tales with no basis in reality, I also question how the Bible can serve as a moral compass. The Noah myth doubles as a ghastly example of misguided worship of a being that would commit mass genocide.

Sorry, I can’t see how global infanticide can be a trait of a loving deity. And let’s not get started on other outrageous tales, such as Abraham set to kill his son on his God’s say-so, plus passages demanding the death of adulterers, homosexuals, disobedient children and nonbelievers in general. Only some of the reasons I reject the “authority” of the Bible. I am fully capable of making my own (and better) moral belief system for myself, thank you very much. And yes, it includes allowing gay lovers to live their lives as they see fit (so long as I’m left out of the guy-on-guy stuff ).

So whose words do I listen to if I reject the Bible? Actually, that’s a good question.

One of the first to come to mind might be Thomas Jefferson, a man famous for making his own Bible, ripping out the parts he deemed ridiculous. Plus Jefferson said one day, many would think the idea of Jesus’ virgin birth is as silly as Athena sprouting from Zeus’s head. He was right.

But alas, Mr. Shuttleworth ends his letter as he usually does. A thinly veiled threat, saying we must bow to a god yet to be proven to exist, or feel his wrath. It’s this, more than the scientific impossibilities and moral bankruptcy of the Bible, that drove me from religion forever. It’s how

I find Mr. Shuttleworth’s logic laughable, if not downright schizophrenic. His line of thought would have us believe, ”If the story of Noah is a fable, then Jesus is an incompetent mental case. By the way, homosexuality is wrong.”

First, leading scholars of both the Old and New Testaments were, have been and are currently quite comfortable with the use of the term “myth” to describe Biblical narrative (cf. Rudolf Bultmann’s essay, ”New Testament and Mythology”). Myth is used here in the Platonic sense. That is, a story told more for the truth it conveys rather than purely its historical factuality. It can be further noted geological surveys bear out a “great flood” (the so-called antediluvian period) and every ancient Near Eastern culture had creation and flood myths (cf. The Epic of Gilgamesh).

The good news the church is entrusted with that cannot be damaged by whether or not Noah and his family actually floated in an ark is the story of a God who relentlessly pursues the prize of creation, humankind, to

I’ll continue to go out in the world in peace to love and serve people in the name of Jesus and leave Mr. Shuttleworth to his blind apologetics and its god. quite literally save them from the separation fate brought about by unchecked free will.

In short, people are God’s first priority and God expects us to have the same mindset. (Matthew 5:23-4; If you come to the altar and remember you have something against someone, go make it right, then come back and offer your gift — my paraphrase).

Why else then would the Biblical writers urge us to feed the poor, orphans and widows hundreds of times, but warn against homosexuality but a handful of times?

Perhaps it is best here to remember it is the truth and the message of the story that is of value to the church and Christians and not individual wordings. I’ll continue to go out in the world in peace to love and serve people in the name of Jesus and leave Mr. Shuttleworth to his blind apologetics and its god.

Bryan Davis Jacksonville via email

I find it astonishing that individuals like Christopher M. Shea and Jerilyn Ann Cook consider themselves insulted and offended by any criticism whatsoever of the Catholic Church (Mail, March 20). Where were the insulted feelings when the news media exposed the massive numbers of Catholic priests who were molesting children en masse and the Catholic Church simply transferred

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them from one parish to another in an attempt to cover up the scandal and then withheld reporting of that to the law enforcement authorities, only for many Catholics to accuse the media of being anti-Catholic, when they simply reported the truth? I believe that a person has every right to embrace any religious belief that they desire whatsoever, as long as that belief does not harm anyone else.

By the same token, people have the right to not embrace any religion whatsoever and not have any form of religious indoctrinated dogma shoved down their throats against their will.

Mr. Shea considers secular belief as a form of “hyper-autonomy that have long been tearing at the fabric of our culture.” Oh, really?

Perhaps Mr. Shea would like for us to turn back the clock and return to those so-called “good old godly days” of slavery of blacks in America carried out under the banner of the Church and the Bible. How about a return to those bigoted and racist times when we had massive numbers of The Christian Knights of The Ku Klux Klan? Currently, it is prejudice toward secular freethinkers that is the No. 1 form of bigotry in America.

I would like Ms. Cook to know that I am a conservative secular libertarian, pro-life, pro-family, pro-American, pro-capitalism/ free enterprise, and also pro-freedom, justice and equality and the ONLY known black man attending the first Tea Party assembly at The Jacksonville Landing. Where is the public denunciation and outcry regarding the overwhelming amount of secular bashing and vilification going on throughout America?

Many secular Americans are scared to death to reveal their secular beliefs and still thrive in the proverbial “closet” out of fear. I know of no Protestant or Catholic in America who is afraid to reveal that he or she is a Christian. Whenever a secular person speaks up for their beliefs of rational thinking, reason, logical analysis and freedom of inquiry, we are attacked venomously by hypocritical

If you want respect for your right to your beliefs, then try exercising that same respect to others.

It works for me. and arrogant people such as William H. Shuttleworth simply because we don’t embrace a belief in the supernatural or paranormal.

If you want respect for your right to your beliefs, then try exercising that same respect to others. It works for me.

George Starkes St. Augustine Beach via email

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One of the more than 2,000 stumps of illegally cut trees documented with photographs and measurements by the state DOT’s right-of-way division. Scenic acitivists want the photos used to calculate how much Salter Advertising owes the state for the tree removal.

Signs of a Problem

The illegal removal of 2,094 trees in the Panhandle prompts calls for an investigation closer to home

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hen a billboard company chopped down six live oaks blocking a billboard near I-10 in Okaloosa County, they left behind an ironic symbol of how an elected official’s manipulation of a government agency can lead to colossal regulatory failure. Miltonbased Bill Salter Advertising illegally cut down thousands of trees on state land in the Florida Panhandle. One of the largest, a live oak with a 10-foot circumference, was among the six taken because it partially obscured a billboard featuring then-House Rep. (now state Sen.) Greg Evers (R-Milton). The sign featured a picture of Evers holding a rifle, accompanied by the caption, “I am the NRA.” As it happens, it was Evers who contacted the state Department of Transportation on behalf of Salter Advertising, and who urged the agency to issue permits to remove the trees. The agency did the lawmaker’s bidding, but in a way that a Leon County grand jury eventually determined was “in flagrant violation of the law.” The grand jury stopped short of issuing criminal indictments, saying it couldn’t determine who’d ordered the

jury’s recommendation and will instead allow Salter to negotiate a negligible punishment.

Though FDOT filed a draft administrative order in February that sounds substantive — it orders Salter to list the size and species of every tree removed and the cost of replacing them, and requires the company to surrender the 56 billboards and pay $110,000 in fines — the order was never filed. Instead, according to FDOT Communications Director Dick Kane, FDOT and Salter are now in “prelitigation negotiations.”

“It sounds like they’re not going to follow through,” says Bill Jonson, president of Citizens for a Scenic Florida and a Clearwater City Councilmember. “What is there to negotiate?”

Bill Brinton, the Jacksonville-based attorney for Citizens for a Scenic Florida, agrees. “I think it’s back to business as usual,” he says. “They huff and puff, but all they give is a slap on the wrist.”

Brinton has a particular reference point for his cynicism. In late 2006 or early 2007, Clear Channel clearcut more than 194 trees

Brinton sees a larger bias at play in FDOT procedures, one that favors billboard companies and fails to protect trees. Last Monday, he sent a letter to FDOT Secretary Ananth Prasad, asking him to open an investigation into all tree-cutting permits issued to billboard companies in Duval County, including Clear Channel’s removal of the I-95 trees. breach. But it did strongly recommend for the state attempt to recoup the fees it should have charged Salter Advertising to cut down the 2,094 trees, and require the company to surrender the 56 billboards that it should have given up to get the permits in the first place.

But members of Citizens for a Scenic Florida, the group that first began questioning FDOT about the illegal tree removal, fear FDOT will disregard the grand

in the state-owned right-of-way between Baymeadows Road and JTB on I-95 in Jacksonville. Unlike Salter Advertising, Clear Channel submitted a vegetation management plan that identified the size and species of trees before removing them, but it didn’t compute the cost of replacing them as required. Brinton says he’s seen FDOT estimates stating that Clear Channel should have paid $180,000 in mitigation fees, but the

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Judge Not “Mr. Rich is not obsessive compulsive and is not a sociopath. I regret making those statements.”

— First Baptist Church Pastor Mac Brunson, apologizing to blogger Tom Rich during his Sunday, April 1 service. It wasn’t clear if Brunson apologized to settle the defamation lawsuit that Rich filed after Brunson characterized the often-critical blogger as mentally disturbed in a 2009 interview with the Times-Union, but Rich prevailed in lawsuits against the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office for giving his real name to the church as the anonymous blogger FBCJaxWatchdog.blogspot. com. As part of its settlement agreement, the city paid Rich $50,000 and the General Counsel’s Office agreed to train police on privacy and First Amendment rights.

Kids Count “Children 1,2,3.”

— Title of Jacksonville Community Council Inc.’s 72nd study of problems in Jacksonville. JCCI was founded as a non-partisan citizen organization in 1975 to study problems in Northeast Florida and to change public policy. The group also issues the annual Race Relations Progress Report and the annual Quality of Life Report. The upcoming report will focus on improving the quality of early education in Jacksonville. To join the discussion online, go to http://bit.ly/HdzRUz or email tonia@jcci.org.

Headlines From Hell Man Saws Off, Cooks Own Foot to Avoid Work — From the “You Might Be Interested In” list of stories on FirstCoastNews.com last Wednesday.

Yer Art Here!

MOCA Jacksonville is advertising on Craigslist for local artists who want to place housewares, jewelry, scarves, bags and other items in its Museum Store on a 50/50 consignment. If your work has a “fresh modern look,” the museum wants to see three JPEG images of your stuff at http://bit.ly/HdEbTT.

Animal Care in the 904 304 — Number of dogs and cats adopted during an American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty adoption blitz. There were 55 rescue organizations involved in adoptions throughout the city of Jacksonville, including the Jacksonville Humane Society, First Coast No More Homeless Pets and Jacksonville’s Animal Care & Protective Services.

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agency reduced that to a mere $5,000, plus the company’s agreement to plant some trees on the thoroughfare (see Folio Weekly, “Old and In the Way,” Jan. 16, 2007, http://bit.ly/HeeylX).

“What I think happened is that someone made the decision, ‘Oh, that is really a lot of money. That is too much. That is onerous on Clear Channel. We’ll just reduce it,’ to what was probably 3 percent of what they should have been doing,” says Brinton. “They paid something. They did some mitigation. But it was woefully below what the law required.”

Brinton sees a larger bias at play in FDOT procedures, one that favors billboard companies and fails to protect trees — even if it means skirting state law. Last Monday, he sent a letter to current FDOT Secretary Ananth Prasad, asking him to open an investigation into all tree-cutting permits issued to billboard companies in Duval County, including Clear Channel’s removal of the I-95 trees. “I am concerned that there was political interference in connection with that matter,” he wrote of the incident. “If so, it needs to be investigated thoroughly and brought to light.”

Brinton connected the I-95 removal to the scandal in the Panhandle. “These actions would not have happened without FDOT’s acceptance of what should be unacceptable,” Brinton wrote of the Salter Advertising offense, “and a culture of indifference among too many in upper management.”

In the Salter case, Brinton says FDOT should know exactly how much the company owes, and should resolve to collect it.

Otherwise, Brinton says, the company will be rewarded for disregarding state law, and others will be inclined to do so. He points to the case of an employee of Lamar Advertising, another major billboard player in the state, who came forward in 2011 to describe how the company paid him to bore holes in trees blocking their billboards and pour poison into them, so company wouldn’t have to pay to remove them (watch “Crimes Against Nature,” http://bit.ly/H6Cdnt).

“They don’t want anything to stand in the way,” says Brinton, “and they are going to do

anything they darn want to do.”

In response to one of the public records requests that Citizens for a Scenic Florida did on the Salter clearcutting, Brinton received boxes of photographs taken by FDOT’s right-of-way division of more than 2,000 tree stumps. John Garner, who served as head of the right-of-way division in 2009, ordered his staff to document the clearcutting even as Brinton and a Tampa Bay Times investigative reporter began requesting documents related to Salter’s permits. Over a period of three months in late 2009, FDOT right-of-way employees measured and photographed each one of the thousands of tree stumps Salter left behind. They also took photographs that linked the stumps to particular billboards, including the Evers’ billboard and the live oak. The right-of-way division never assigned a dollar value to the trees that had been chopped down and apparently never completed its report on the damage. But Brinton asked Jacksonville landscape architect Lad Hawkins to sift through the pictures, and Hawkins was able to identify the species based on the type of bark and the leaves on shoots sprouting from the stumps. Brinton, who calculated a dollar value based on FDOT’s formula, says he’s determined Salter Advertising owes the state roughly $2.1 million in mitigation fees.

FDOT Communications Director Dick Kane didn’t answer an email question from Folio Weekly about whether Salter Advertising had prepared the vegetation management plan FDOT asked for in the draft administrative order. But Brinton says even if Salter and FDOT don’t agree on the dollar value in the stump estimates, or don’t think the FDOT photographs are useful to measure it, FDOT should fine Salter the maximum penalty for illegally removing the trees. At a $1,000 penalty per tree, Salter would still owe $2.1 million. Citizens for a Scenic Florida President Jonson insists they should also be required to give up the 56 billboards.

“I’m going to be watching them,” he says, “whatever they come up with.”

Susan Cooper Eastman sceastman@folioweekly.com

The trees cut at this site conveniently helped clear the view of a billboard featuring then e -R Rep p. Greg Evers, who pressureed DO DOTT to allow the illegal clearcutting in the first place.

Walter Coker

Let Us Eat Cake!

As you may have gathered from this week’s cover, it’s Folio Weekly’s 25th anniversary. In honor of the occasion, we asked the folks at Bakery Moderne to whip up a little rolled fondant tribute to the publication.

Baker/owner Nathalie Mockler more than delivered, with a massive sheet cake in the style of our cover, featuring the Jacksonville skyline in signature black, teal and gold. To check out a video of the cake-making, go to folioweekly.com. To help us celebrate, come to our bowling, beer and anniversary bash from 6-9 p.m. today, April 10, at Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside. For a mere $5, guests are treated to 1 food ticket, 2 beers or 2 sodas, free bowling and discounted arcade game-cards, plus a slice of another Bakery Moderne creation. And Tropic of Cancer plays live! Come join us! We promise to act our age.

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Burn Season

“It is not just a cutesy idea.”

— Former Jacksonville City Councilmember Elaine Brown, on the St. Johns River Ferry. Brown, who is the chair of a task force to save the ferry, told a group of Nassau County residents that the ferry links Fort George Island to Mayport on A1A and creates a continuous coastal highway all the way to Key West. In fact, the ferry is the only completed portion of the East Coast Greenway — a trail system linking Maine to Key West — in all of Duval County (see map http://www.greenway.org/pdf/FL.pdf)

“We thought that it was a really good fit for us and the community.”

— Jacksonville lobbyist and former Westside City Councilmember Alberta Hipps, describing a plan of Pennsylvania company Integrated Waste Management Systems and affiliated firm Bio-Haz Solutions to build a medical waste incinerator on 24 acres in Baker County, owned by the Baker County Development Commission. Contrary to Hipps’ assessment, Baker County residents oppose the incinerator because they fear it will contaminate their neighborhoods with hazardous waste. (For another view on garbage incineration, see this week’s Backpage Editorial.)

Bouquets to Bobbie O’Connor for her commitment to change the story of race in Jacksonville into one of respect and equal opportunity. After years as director of Project Breakthrough, a program to identify and dismantle structural racism in the city, O’Connor is stepping down. Project Breakthrough was founded in 2006 with support from the Community Foundation, the Aspen Institute and Jacksonville Human Rights Commission. In intensive educational seminars, Project Breakthrough educated Jacksonville corporate, governmental and media leaders how to identify systemic racism, and then brought them all together for a continued dialogue. O’Connor guided that effort with gentle, honest and compassionate leadership.

Brickbats to Jacksonville attorney Wesley Haynes Owens for degrading his profession into a dating service and then punishing the women he pursued. When Owens was interested in romantic relationships with two women who came to him for representation, he initially didn’t charge for his services. When he severed ties with one of them, he sent her a bill for $14,000. When the other woman rejected his romantic pursuits, he threatened to sue her for $18,000 in legal fees.

The Florida Bar recently suspended Owens’ law license for 91 days for several violations of The Bar’s code of ethics, including his unusual courtship techniques.

Brickbats to Jacksonville City Councilmember Clay Yarborough for proposing legislation that will give unsightly cell phone towers additional visibility by allowing companies to wrap them in the U.S. flag. Cell phone companies disguise towers as pine trees, water towers, chimneys and light poles, ostensibly to make them fade into the background, but Yarborough’s new bill would allow them to post American flags atop the antennas, turning the ubiquitous urban object into a patriotic eyesore.

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Despite his myriad controversies, Terry Jones’ waning influence is clear from the fact that no protesters showed up to his speech last week.

Last Year’s Man

The not-so-reverend Terry Jones, and Islamophobia’s diminishing returns

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t wasn’t too long ago that the Reverend Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, was arguably the most controversial person in the Western world. His plans to burn the Quran on 9/11/2010 brought forth global outrage; his actual burning of the Muslim Holy Book in March 2011 precipitated violence in Afghanistan with a body count, and led Afghani President Hamid Karzai to call for the preacher’s arrest.

Jones — who preached in Germany until myriad controversies led to him be legally sanctioned, rebuked by his congregation and driven from the pulpit — still has a global reputation at this point, though it has faded.

Proof? No protesters showed up for his speech last week.

When the Republican Liberty Caucus booked him to address its April meeting at a hotel near the Butler Boulevard Cracker Barrel here in Jacksonville, members weren’t completely sure what to expect — or how much of Jones’ verbiage they would endorse themselves. Sam Pearce, a ginger-headed, bespectacled man in his 30s, opined that Jones would at least “liven up the entertainment” at the meeting. Rebecca Sharp, a 60ish woman in a red dress who was part of the Caucus’ leadership structure, stated that Jones “had the right to do what he wants [as] an American expressing opinions,” and compared the Quran burning to the Occupiers in New York “defecating on American flags.”

Louis Rose, the portly, balding chair of the Duval County RLC, maintained that respect for the “First Amendment” led him to invite the Rev. Jones to address his group. “The Quran and the flag,” he added, are “symbols,” and “there is a difference between burning the Quran and killing someone.” To make plain his interest in equal time for other ideological skeins, the self-proclaimed Ron Paul supporter told Folio Weekly of his plans to invite “Cindy Sheehan and the New Black Panthers” to address the group in the future.

The crowd was late-arriving, and many of those who were on time were silver-maned white men with clipboards who sought to have their petitions signed so they could run quixotic primary campaigns against Ander Crenshaw and Cliff Stearns. By the time Rose introduced Jones to the crowd as having been “banned from the United Kingdom because of his Christian views,” it was close to 7 p.m. — and 100 people had shown up.

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the speech, as he stood on the side clutching a coffee cup with both hands, approached the lectern with his attaché case in hand. After the requisite prayer, Jones got down to business.

“When I left America as a young man, America had a certain way. When I came back, I was horrified … by America’s moral, spiritual and economic condition” and by “people just having sex as they desire.”

After many key phrases, isolated voices in the crowd murmured approval, especially early in the speech.

“We’re a weak nation, a cowardly nation, a nation with bark but no bite [that really needs] a man with some guts to run for office.”

Specifically, a man like Herman Cain, “who had a chance to beat Obama, but he sold out.” This was especially regrettable in Jones’ eyes, because “let’s be honest, Cain is black.”

As the address continued, Islam took center stage — and the oratory devolved further. “Islam is a horrible religion — I don’t understand why anyone would do that [sic],” the elderly preacher claimed. “It hates freedom of speech.”

As fatigue set in, the Reverend fell prey to malapropisms (like “Karl Marx said opium is the religion of the people” and “the media fed us Anthony Casey Case”) and familiar Tea Party memes (“Obama cannot prove he was born in America”). The Reverend also soon veered far away from his First Amendment diatribe to revisit the more familiar terrain of bashing Islam, its adherents and sharia law.

The brief question-and-answer period offered more of the same. In response to one query, Jones talked of an action he hoped to spearhead later in the spring: “A worldwide burning of Qurans and images of Mohammed” — both of which are sacred to Muslims — as a way of protesting the imprisonment of a Christian cleric in Iran. A couple of other questioners had no question at all, but just wanted to make statements; one such, from a permed dowager, was “read the real Quran and know your enemy.”

After the speech, Folio Weekly asked Jones about Rick Santorum (“He’s OK,” replied the grimacing preacher), and about his high school classmate, Rush Limbaugh, whom he characterized as “more intelligent than me, we were in different classes. I didn’t really know him.” Despite their shared adolescence, and Jones’ notoriety, he has yet to be interviewed on Limbaugh’s program.

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Web designer Jeffrey Charette relocated to Northeast Florida from San Francisco and initially worked from home, but says he’s been about twice as productive working at CoWork Jax.

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t 9 a.m., Jeffrey Charette climbs the stairs in the old Woolworth Building on the corner of Forsyth and Main streets in downtown Jacksonville. Crossing a large gallery of couches, chairs and empty desks, he chooses a seat by a row of windows, plugs in his laptop and starts his day. Jeff is one of the first to arrive at CoWork Jax (coworkjax.com), a shared-workspace concept that has become commonplace in many cities and has finally landed in Jacksonville.

At CoWork Jax, tenants — called coworkers — share space in a community designed to be both collaborative and inspired. Beneath exposed 1916 terracotta tiles, the atmosphere is hip but studious, with coworkers arrayed on couches, at desks and in nooks called collaboration corners. People routinely bounce ideas off each other and ask coworkers questions.

So though most work is done individually, the vibe is very much a shared effort.

One of several transplants in the office, Jeff and his wife Emily relocated from San Francisco to St. Augustine because they think Northeast Florida has great potential as a place to succeed in their work as web and packaging designers, without getting drowned out by a lot of big fish.

They’ve been in business nearly three months; their company, We Are Charette (wearecharette. com), opened the same day as CoWork Jax. Jeff started researching coworking a year ago while working from home as a freelancer. When he heard about CoWork Jax, he immediately signed up and soon found he was roughly twice as productive as he’d been at home. It’s an experience shared by many coworkers.

Though a disparate group, coworkers have some similarities. Most are in their 30s like Jeff — The Global Coworking Survey found that the average age of coworkers worldwide is 34 — but ages range from the mid-20s to those approaching retirement. As is typical of coworking spaces around the globe, many work in the tech sector. They are overwhelmingly self-employed or working for small start-ups, and many are entrepreneurs.

Most were attracted to the space in part because it doesn’t have the drawbacks of working from the lonely, often distracting confines of home, or enduring the noise and foot traffic of coffee shops, but also because it is an economical alternative to most office space.

Even in the current real estate market, office space in Jacksonville typically costs a minimum of $500 a month. Full-time membership at CoWork Jax ranges from $229 for first-available seating to $649 for a private office for up to three

workers (there’s currently a waiting list for these “innovation suites”). Part-time membership runs $139 a month, but someone interested in trying it out can purchase a daily pass for $18.50.

Some are concerned coworking indicates an erosion of the traditional office environment.

Others aren’t convinced. Dr. Laura Chambers, adjunct sociology instructor and director of service-learning at Jacksonville University, says that kind of evolution is years from being reality.

“Even for careers where nontraditional work is feasible,” she says, “the traditional workplace will likely not face significant challenge from the coworker model — at least not in the near future.” Chambers thinks coworking has “the potential to create interesting sources of community; building a sense of shared purpose and connection … under the right conditions.”

So for a motivated and dedicated individual, coworking may allow them to “nurture their social network” while remaining productive.

But coworking isn’t for everyone — particularly those who need more structure than a casual environment where the code of conduct boils down to a single rule (“be cool”). Coworking also may not be a long-term solution — The Global Coworking Survey found that after peaking around the third year, member satisfaction begins to wane — nor suit a business that requires lots of confidentiality.

Michael Glass, an application developer who owns the company Pocket Sevens, notes, “If you’re looking for four walls and a door to shut yourself off, coworking is not for you. The place is about collaboration.”

CoWork Jax has the resources to remain open for two years without a single tenant. Cofounder Elton Rivas has ambitious goals for the undertaking, nothing short of “chang[ing] the city dynamic” and inspiring “the powers that be” to fertilize the seeds of growth to be competitive in the global marketplace. Community Curator Paige Calvert, a Jacksonville native, adds that they hope to create a “culture of innovation.”

Others around town are paying attention; Terry Lorince, executive director of Downtown Vision Inc., has been to three of their events and is “thrilled” about CoWork Jax and “excited about the buzz” it’s bringing to town “from an entrepreneurial and innovative perspective.”

For the true believers like Jeff, it’s a place where the solo artist finds a community, where the small business venture finds a network, and where the large firm carves out a niche away from the main office.

Claire Goforth themail@folioweekly.com

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ever again!” reader Thomas G. Mcree of Florida angrily writes.

Dear Wm. Steven Humphrey, Your article is one of the most offensive and vulgar articles I have ever read in a public publication that is out for anyone to pick up free. If you are on an airplane, as I have been, with a major problem, when normal people start praying for the Lord from disaster, are you still going to make fun of them? I think you will pray with the rest of the people.

— Thomas G. Mcree For those just arriving, Thomas’ anger is ejaculating from my recent column “Dear Jeff

HOWEVER! Thomas brings up a fascinating question: If I were involved in some sort of disaster — an actual disaster, not just running out of Totino Pizza Rolls — would I suddenly panic and pray along with “normal” people?

Foxworthy,” which made merciless fun of the redneck comedian, his new bible quiz show and … I was going to say “God,” but since he doesn’t exist, it’s kind of hard to make fun of him. But that doesn’t stop me from trying, does it?

HOWEVER! Thomas brings up a fascinating question: If I were involved in some sort of disaster — an actual disaster, not just running out of Totino Pizza Rolls — would I suddenly panic and pray along with “normal” people?

Mmmmmmmm … sure. Why not?

HOWEVER! I’m fairly sure my “praying” would sound a lot like “yelling” — because after all, if God does exist and he dropped a disaster in my lap, I certainly wouldn’t be singing his praises. I’D BE PISSED, and praying something like: “Oh my YOU, you’re the worst god … like ever! I get that you hate me — but you’re also trying to kill Thomas G. Mcree and all the other dumb-butt folks who actually believe you exist? YOU, SIR, ARE A JERK.” Obviously, I’m an awful person to have around in a disaster. Which is why if there is a god, he’s certainly not going to allow me anywhere around his followers — especially during a cataclysm. And thusly? I SHALL LIVE … FOREVER!!

Speaking of disasters, did you know this Sunday marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic? And if there’s anyone who loves Titanic disaster porn more than God, it’s TV! That means there’s a butt-load of specials this weekend rabidly remembering the tragedy. There’s “Rebuilding Titanic” (National Geographic Channel, Sun., April 15, 10 a.m.) about some engineers who didn’t get the hint the first time God tried to drown these people.

And there’s “Titanic: Mystery Solved” (History

Channel, Sun., April 15, 8 p.m.), which I can sum up in three words: God did it. Lastly, there’s the ABC miniseries “Titanic” (Sat., April 14, 8 p.m.) which dramatically reenacts the tragedy without endangering Kate Winslet or Leo DiCaprio. (Good, because I’m tired of God drowning Leo!) Man! God reeeeally hated those Titanic folks. The maiden voyage of the fanciest luxury ship of its time … and God peevishly drops an iceberg in front of it? Obviously, this was his way of pre-emptively punishing us for global warming. God thinks he’s all clever and ironic like that.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10 9:00 FOX NEW GIRL Jess invites her new boyfriend over and he immediately falls in love with Schmidt. (Who can blame him?!?)

10:00 FX JUSTIFIED Season finale! A friend of Raylan’s is murdered, which means a heapin’ helpin’ of “uh-oh” is acomin’.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 9:00 ABC DON’T TRUST THE BITCH IN APARTMENT 23 Debut! A new sitcom featuring a nice roomie, an evil roomie and James Van Der Beek (starring as himself)! SQUEEE!!

10:00 ABC REVENGE: FROM THE BEGINNING An hour-long recap of all the double-crossing hijinx you’ve missed (probably on purpose).

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8:00 NBC COMMUNITY The gang helps Britta avoid her ex-boyfriend … who may or may not be a vampire.

Midnight TOON EAGLEHEART Season premiere! Funnyman Chris Elliott returns in this very bloody parody of “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

FRIDAY, APRIL 13 9:00 CBS LIONEL RICHIE & FRIENDS IN CONCERT Why can’t I be one of Lionel Richie’s friends? I know all the words to “Say You, Say Me”!

SATURDAY, APRIL 14 10:00 A&E LAST CHANCE DRIVING SCHOOL Debut! A new reality show about terrible drivers and the instructors they kill.

11:30 NBC SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Hosted by hunky Josh Brolin with musical guests, the unpronounceable Gotye!

SUNDAY, APRIL 15 10:00 CBS NYC 22 Debut! A new cop drama about wet-behind-the-ears rookies trying to stay alive. Produced by Robert DeNiro, for what that’s worth.

10:30 HBO GIRLS Debut! A promising new comedy about 20-something gals in NYC. (So much better than “Sex and the City,” I promise!)

MONDAY, APRIL 16 10:00 BBCA RICHARD HAMMOND’S CRASH COURSE Debut! One of the Top Gear daredevils tries to operate dangerous machinery without crushing or killing anyone.

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Is there time to reanimate The Sharks, or is this destined to be their lost season?

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visit to Jaxsharks.com, the home page of Jacksonville’s Arena Football team, shows a prominent banner promoting last year’s Arenabowl XXIV Championship. Not bad for a team in its third year. But 2012 has brought a lot of change to the Sharks, and so far the team doesn’t have that championship look.

It troubled some fans that the team dumped starting quarterback and arena football legend Aaron Garcia after reaching the pinnacle of success with him, but media types exploring the issue – including me – apparently didn’t give Garcia the props he was due. He made it look so easy. A 14-win season at age 40. But he only wanted one more year, he wanted to coach after he stopped playing, and he wanted to be closer to his children, so why not let Aaron Garcia become a San Antonio Rose?

Especially with Chris Leak coming in — THE Chris Leak, who won a national title with the Gators, but who got lost in the Tebow

Why not bring Leak back?

The team’s down to its third string because it couldn’t hold Garcia, and the coach couldn’t manage Leak. The team could lose momentum it might never get back.

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Hype Machine, and who never even had a shot at the NFL the way Danny Wuerffel and Shane Matthews did. Chris Leak has had enough cups of coffee with enough pro and quasi-pro organizations to fill a Thermos. Got to play for the Bears in a preseason Game 4 a few years ago; did OK, ended up cut. Oh, Canada? Yes, for a game with one squad, and a game-and-a-third with another; one start, where he threw for less than 125 yards, turned over the ball three times, and left with an “apparent injury.” The All-American Football League — he would’ve played there for sure, if that outfit’s press releases had any cash backing behind him. And now, his last stint, here in Jacksonville — one game.

It was a win — the only one of the season so far — and Leak threw the ball well, especially for his first time helming a new

team in a new league. Business as usual, or so it seemed. Then, before the squad’s second game, word was out that Leak was suspended for skipping practice (though sources close to the embattled baller said he was told to stay home for whatever reason), and Delray Beach native Omar Jacobs was going to be the team’s new starting quarterback. Not that there’s anything wrong with Jacobs. His 2004 season at Bowling Green was must-see TV when BGSU’s MAC games were on ESPN. If he hadn’t gotten hurt, he may have fulfilled his promise as a chic pick for the Heisman Trophy in 2005, before he got hurt.

Looking at Omar Jacobs’ total career gives me an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu — a socalled classic case of What Might Have Been.

He left college early to enter the draft after his injury, and was drafted in the fifth round by the Steelers, but didn’t survive training camp. Spent the back end of the 2006 season on the Eagles’ practice squad, but got axed. Kansas City signed him in ’07 with the intent of sending him to NFL Europe, but he was hurt yet again and cut at the end of the preseason.

2004 was a long time ago at that point.

From there, Jacobs found his way into the Arena game. Acquitted himself well with Florence, S.C.’s team in ’08, and since then, not much in the way of live action before his two starts here in 2012 with the Sharks. He looked rusty in Game 2, which was over well before the first half. And he left the game with Tampa — the Sharks’ first-ever loss to that club — injured in the second half of Game 3.

Arena Football is like a dive bar; people don’t end up there unless they’ve taken some hard knocks along the way. Any quarterback who comes to Jacksonville has probably been cut many times along the way. Washed out of the NFL. Washed out of Canada. Leagues that never get started or leagues that never pan out. All that being said, a team’s got to have a quarterback. As fragile as Omar is, a team should actually have two of starting quality.

Why not bring Leak back? The team’s down to its third string because it couldn’t hold Garcia and the coach couldn’t manage Leak.

Moss has gotten it done here in the past, but if he doesn’t figure it out in the present, the team could lose momentum it might never get back.

Duval fans are broke and fickle, and they don’t like to lose.

AG Gancarski themail@folioweekly.com Twitter @AGGancarski

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Reasons to leave the house this week BASEBALL JACKSONVILLE SUNS vs.

CHATTANOOGA LOOKOUTS

In 1962, the Cleveland Indians moved its International League team from Havana, Cuba to Jacksonville, and the Suns were born. Local baseball fans have a new season to celebrate a half-century of killer diamond action when our Jacksonville Suns take on the Chattanooga Lookouts on Tue., April 10 at 7:05 p.m., on April 11 at 1:05 p.m., on April 12 at 7:35 p.m., on April 13 at 7:05 p.m. and on April 14 at 6:05 p.m. at the Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., downtown. Tickets start at $7.50. 358-2846.

MUSIC SUPERFEST

The Jacksonville SuperFest is three days, three stages and more than 70 local bands playing in styles ranging from rock, reggae, hip hop and dubstep to gospel and electronica. The festival kicks off with a VIP launch party (tix are $60) on Fri., April 13 at 8 p.m. at Aloft Tapestry Park, 4812 Deer Lake Drive W. On Sat., April 14 and Sun., April 15, the music starts at noon at University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, along with food, a kids zone, games, a Battle of the Bands and an arts market. Tickets for Sat. and Sun. start at $20.

For a full band schedule and to get tickets, go to jacksonvillesuperfest.com. 416-1848.

OUTDOORS SPRINGING THE BLUES

Every year, sun, sand and the blues meet at the crossroads of downtown Jax Beach for Springing the Blues. This year’s show, held Fri., April 13 through Sun., April 15, features performances

by Eddie Shaw & the Wolf Gang, Lucky Peterson (pictured) featuring Tamara Peterson, The Lee Boys, Lisa Mills, The Alexis P. Suter Band, The Tony Lynn Washington Band and others along with food, arts and crafts, a kids zone, a surf contest and a 5K. The whole shebang is at Jax Beach’s oceanfront Seawalk Pavilion. The festival is free, but you can score premium seating ranging from $10-$50. For a schedule and tickets, go to springingtheblues.com

BEN FOLDS

Fronting a symphony is just another day at work for the hard-to-pigeonhole Ben Folds. Since his work with Ben Folds Five (uh, a trio) in the mid-’90s, this quirky singer-songwriter has worked with folks as diverse as Regina Spektor, “Weird Al” Yankovic and even William Shatner. And as a solo artist, the piano man has collaborated with authors Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman, did soundtrack work for animated films “Over the Hedge” and “Hoodwinked!” and has a longstanding gig as a judge on the popular TV show, “The Sing-Off.” So navigating the charts of a string section? A walk in the park, dude. Ben Folds performs with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra on Sat., April 14 at 8 p.m. at the T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $30-$55. 354-5547. See our interview with him on pg. 26.

DANCE

BURN THE FLOOR

This ensemble show follows the history of dance from the birth of the Viennese waltz and the paso doble to the Lindy, foxtrot, cha-cha and rumba. The New York Times-acclaimed ensemble has been featured on “Dancing with the Stars” and “So You Think You Can Dance?” Burn the Floor performs on Tue., April 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the T-U Center’s Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $41-$61. 632-3373.

ROCK

In these times of political uncertainty, social anxiety and economic concern, it’s good to know Van Halen can still rock your ass. While this legendary SoCal band is known as much for drama and gossip surrounding its sometimes swinging-door policy for lead singers, Van Halen has spent the years since its 1978 inception creating an army of fans devoted to hits like “Jump,” “Ain’t Talkin ’Bout Love” and “Hot for Teacher.” A whopping 75 million albums later, the band released its critically praised 12th album, “A Different Kind of Truth.” The current lineup — David Lee Roth, Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen — performs with Kool & the Gang on Mon., April 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $28.50-$78.50. 630-3900.

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Hero Takes a Fall: Sam Worthington reprises his role as Perseus in the latest “Titans” film.

My Big Fat Ancient Greek Action Movie The latest in the “Titans” series offers special effects and a not-so-special story Wrath of the Titans **G@

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t took almost 20 years for the special-effects gurus to tackle a remake of Ray Harryhausen’s beloved “Clash of the Titans” (1981). Fans of the original film, Harryhausen’s last, were mostly tolerant of the 2010 version starring Sam Worthington of “Avatar.” After all, despite the artistry and appeal of the stop-motion technique (of which Harryhausen was the master), digitization has raised the special effects bar to new levels (of which the new “Titans” was a great example). For anyone keeping score two years ago, the disappointing 3-D in the remake was the result of a simple fact: The film wasn’t originally shot in the anaglyphic process, but instead retrofitted for release after the success of “Avatar.”

Following on the heels of that remake, “Wrath of the Titans” doesn’t have much new to offer apart from more impressive effects. The most notable changes are behind the camera, where the previous director Louis Leterrier has been replaced by Jonathan Liebesman.

Since both filmmakers specialize in gargantuan f/x extravaganzas (Leterrier directed “The Incredible Hulk”; Liebesman, “Battle Los Angeles”), viewers won’t notice much of a difference. Both films also feature different writing teams, not that story much matters.

The plot picks up about 10 to 12 years after the original in which Perseus (Worthington) rode off into the sunset with his bride Io after having destroyed the Kraken with Medusa’s severed head, saving the world. In the interim, it seems, things haven’t been going well, either, for gods or men. Zeus, Poseidon and the others (with two notable exceptions) are beginning to lose their powers since men no longer pray to them, and Perseus is in a funk after the death of his wife, determined to raise his son as a simple fisherman apart from the worlds of gods and human conflict.

An initial visit from his father Zeus (Liam Neeson) fails to dissuade Perseus from his course, despite the old man/god’s warning that his brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) is conspiring with Ares, the god of war and Perseus’ half-brother, to let loose Kronos and

his Titan minions from their imprisonment in Tartarus. It’s only after the first wave of the hellspawn make their destructive presence known that Perseus remounts Pegasus and sets off to conquer.

Enlisting the aid of Agenor (Toby Kebbell), the wayward son of Poseidon, and warrior queen Andromeda (blonde Rosamund Pike replacing brunette Alexa Davalos from the first film), Perseus goes looking for Hephaestus (Bill Nighy), the munitions maker of the gods, for a super-duper spear capable of stopping Kronos.

You can pretty much guess what results.

“Wrath of the Titans” certainly delivers the goods in terms of action sequences and special effects. However, despite a fairly heavy-handed attempt to wrap the fantasy tale around a conflict of family values, the hollow plot can’t sustain the dramatic theme.

Perseus and Agenor are both pissed at their deific dads, Hades seeks vengeance against his brother Zeus, and Ares (Edgar Ramirez) is mad because Zeus seems to love him more than his mortal son Perseus. Kronos, their father and grandfather respectively, hates them all and would destroy the world. On a more mundane level, Andromeda still has the hots for Perseus, whose only concern, other than saving the world, seems to be the welfare of his son.

Of the three actors reprising their roles as the Olympian brothers, Ralph Fiennes probably comes off best as vengeful but ultimately remorseful Hades. At least he gets a chance to show some range. Bill Nighy adds some welcome but ultimately nonsensical humor to Hephaestus, who’s gone bonkers. Danny Huston as Poseidon is dispensed with fairly quickly, leaving poor Liam Neeson in his ridiculous wig and beard to reprise the ghost of Albus Dumbledore in the film’s finale, utilizing magic and special effects that would warm Harry Potter’s heart.

Like so many of its predecessors, “Wrath of the Titans” has trouble bringing any kind of substance or credibility to its portrayal of the Greek gods, relating them to a modern audience, so it’s a real narrative problem making them so central to the plot. “Percy Jackson & the Olympians” does it better.

For special effects, watch the movies. For Greek mythology, read the books.

Pat McLeod themail@folioweekly.com

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Sock it to me! Jason Biggs decides to warm his feet while exploring the fascinating website, “The History of Onanism in Popular Culture,” in the raunchy comedy “American Reunion.”

he meets The Once-ler (Helms) who tells the story of The Lorax (DeVito) and the fate of the trees. While the movie benefits from deft animation and good performances, its heavy-handed environmental tone is more like a distraction, especially for younger viewers.

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NOW SHOWING ACT OF VALOR **G@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

This action film tells the story of Bandito Platoon, an elite team of Navy SEALs sent on a global manhunt to topple a deadly terrorist plot and save a CIA operative who’s been kidnapped. Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano and actual Navy SEALs star in this patriotic thriller.

AMERICAN REUNION **@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

More than a decade after graduating from high school, the guys and gals from 1999’s “American Pie” return home for their class reunion and to reminisce about their past raunchiness while engaging in surefire adult-themed filth.

An ensemble cast including Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Eugene Levy, Alyson Hannigan and Seann William Scott are back for the newest installment in the comedy franchise.

DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX **G@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

The animated adaptation of Theodor Geisel’s work features the voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Ed Helms and Danny DeVito. In Thneedville, everything’s made of plastic and teenager Audrey (Swift) wants to see a real tree. When smitten 12-year-old Ted (Efron) accepts the challenge,

GOOD DEEDS **G@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Regency Square Tyler Perry’s newest film is about wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds (Perry) whose priorities change when he becomes involved with struggling single mother, Lindsey (Thandie Newton), who’s just been evicted. Co-stars Jamie Kennedy and Rebecca Romijn.

THE HUNGER GAMES ***G Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Sun-Ray Cinema, WGV IMAX Theater Writer-director Gary Ross’ big-screen adaptation of Susan Collins’ popular book series is a tour de force of contemporary sci-fi cinema. In a dystopian future, the country of Panem (formerly North America) holds a tournament where two chosen adolescents must fight to the death. Initially antagonists, contestants Katniss Evergreen (the superb Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) soon wonder if they want to be pawns in this brutal game. An original, engaging story (author Collins worked on the film’s script) and worthy performances by the costars including Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks and Stanley Tucci makes “The Hunger Games” a must-see.

IN DARKNESS ***@ Rated R • Regal Beach Blvd.

Polish director Agnieszka Holland offers this stark story, based on actual events, about the unspeakable conditions under which Jews survived, hidden in the sewers of an occupied Polish city during WWII. There are English subtitles for this multi-language film.

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JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME **@@ Rated R • Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Beach Blvd.

This indie comedy from the team of writer-director siblings Jay and Mark Duplas stars Jason Segel and Ed Helms as

AREA THEATERS AMELIA ISLAND Carmike Amelia Island 7, 1132 S. 14th St., 261-9867 ARLINGTON & REGENCY AMC Regency 24, 9451 Regency Square Blvd., 264-3888 BAYMEADOWS & MANDARIN Regal Avenues 20, 9525 Philips Highway, 538-3889 BEACHES Regal Beach Blvd. 18, 14051 Beach Blvd., 992-4398 FIVE POINTS Sun-Ray Cinema@5Points, 1028 Park St., 359-0047 NORTHSIDE Hollywood River City 14, River City Marketplace, 12884 City Center Blvd., 757-9880

ORANGE PARK AMC Orange Park 24, 1910 Wells Road, (888) AMC-4FUN Carmike Fleming Island 12, 1820 Town Center Blvd., 621-0221 SAN MARCO San Marco Theatre, 1996 San Marco Blvd., 396-4845 SOUTHSIDE Cinemark Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., 998-2122 ST. AUGUSTINE Epic Theatres, 112 Theatre Drive, 797-5757 IMAX Theater, World Golf Village, 940-IMAX Pot Belly’s, 36 Granada St., 829-3101

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brothers, Jeff (Segel), who’s hiding from life in his parents’ basement, and Pat (Helms), facing his own struggle, a failed marriage. Susan Sarandon, Judy Greer and Rae Dawn Chong co-star.

JOHN CARTER **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Fleming Island, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues This mega-budget, big-screen blow-up of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ sci-fi story takes cues from predecessors “Star Wars,” “Avatar” and even “Gladiator” but somehow misses the mark. During the Civil War, soldier John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) mysteriously wakes up on the planet Mars, where he encounters warring tribes and costars Lynn Collins, Dominic West and Mark Strong. After nearly two hours of director Andrew Stanton’s (“Sherlock Holmes”) paint-by-numbers space opera action, we wish Carter would go back to sleep!

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND **@@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Regal Avenues Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson, Luiz Guzman and Michael Caine star in this family-geared film about a teenager’s adventure on a remote island in the South Pacific.

MIRROR MIRROR *@@@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., San Marco Theatre Reviewed in this issue.

OCTOBER BABY **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Regal Avenues This faith-based flick from Andrew and Jon Erwin is about Hannah (Rachel Hendrix), a 19-year-old who finds out she was adopted — after surviving an abortion attempt — and her road trip that leads to a little soul searching.

PROJECT X *@@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, Regal Beach Blvd.

This teen raunchfest trades the original humor and dialogue that made “Superbad” so enjoyable and replaces it with a stream of unoriginal standards of the genre, i.e., booze, drugs and topless women. Filmed on handycam, “Project X” features a cast of virtual unknowns.

SAFE HOUSE ***@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in this predictable action flick from director Paul Greengrass (the “Bourne” films). Rookie CIA operative Matt Weston (Reynolds) has finally hit the big time after nabbing rogue agent Tobin Frost (Washington). But when killer mercenaries attack the agency’s South African “safe house,” Matt and Tobin are on the run — and Matt learns justice and loyalty aren’t guaranteed.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN ***G Rated PG-13 • Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Beach Blvd.

Sheikh Muhammad (Amr Waked) is a very wealthy MiddleEastern man who just loves the British Empire — so much so, he wants to introduce the Scottish sport of fly-fishing to his homeland … the deserts of Yemen. Not exactly mossy braes. Co-starring Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor and Tom Mison.

A THOUSAND WORDS **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

Fast-talking literary agent Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) wakes up one morning and discovers a beautiful magic tree in his backyard. The only problem with the new landscaping is that chatty Jack discovers that every time he says a word, a leaf dies. And when the last leaf drops (a thousand, to be exact), Jack’s a goner! Kerry Washington, Cliff Curtis and Clark Duke also star in this latest comedy from funnyman Murphy.

TITANIC 3D ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

With this spring season re-issue, movie lovers (and Leo lovers!) may now witness James Cameron’s 1997 re-telling

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“Uh, to be or not to be?” Woody Harrelson flubs his lines, suffering an embarrassing bout of onscreen short-term memory loss as costars Lenny Kravitz (left) and Josh Hutcherson patiently wait in the sci-fi smash, “The Hunger Games.”

of the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic — which wracked up 11 Oscar wins and made Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet megastars — in 3-D. 21 JUMP STREET *G@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star in this big-screen adaptation of the ’80s TV show that suffers from a serious case of arrested development. When rookie cops Jenko (Tatum) and Schmidt (Hill) go deep undercover into a high school to break up a drug ring, we discover the worst dope is the brain-rotting garbage being pushed onscreen as a cop-buddy picture.

WRATH OF THE TITANS **G@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd.

Reviewed in this issue.

OTHER FILMS CREATIVELY SPEAKING Nathalie Engdahl, Piotr Szewxczyk and David Engdahl appear in three short films about their artistic vision, then in person afterward to demonstrate their craft, from 6-8:30 p.m. on April 12 at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., downtown. 366-6911.

THE HAMMER Jacksonville Public Library screens this coming-of-age drama about Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship at 5:20 p.m. on April 11 at Main Library Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Jacksonville. It’s one of the first mainstream movies to use open captioning and include scenes in ASL, acted mainly by deaf actors. Admission is free. 630-1999.

MOVIES IN THE PARK JaxParks presents “Despicable Me” at dusk on April 13, at Wyndham Riverwalk’s riverfront lawn, 1515 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville. Bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets.

634-0303. downtownjacksonville.org CHARADE Movies at Main screens this award-winning thriller, starring Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn and Cary Grant, at 5:45 p.m. on April 12 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Jacksonville. Admission is free. 630-1665.

FRIENDS OF STUDY CIRCLES This non-profit board’s inaugural kick-off meeting is held at 6:30 p.m. on April 10 at Unitarian Universalist Church, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville. The film “Bullied: a student, a school and a case that made history,” is shown and then discussed. Admission is free. 923-6468.

SUN-RAY CINEMA The Frank Lloyd Wright Film Festival features the documentaries “A Child of the Sun,” “Sacred Spaces” and

“Romanza” starting at 1 p.m. on April 15. Director Michael Miner is on hand. A Q&A follows the films. “Lockout,” “Better Than Something” and “The Hunger Games” are currently running at Sun-Ray Cinema@5 Points, 1028 Park St., Jacksonville. Call 359-0047 for showtimes. sunraycinema.com FREE WEEKEND NATURE MOVIES “Where the Whales Sing” screens at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on April 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29 at GTM Research Reserve Environmental Education Center, 505 Guana River Road, Ponte Vedra. 823-4500.

POT BELLY’S CINEMA “Albert Nobbs,” “The Artist,” “The Iron Lady” and “This Means War” are shown at Pot Belly’s, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine. 829-3101.

WGHOF IMAX THEATER “The Hunger Games” is screened along with “Forces of Nature,” “Legends of Flight 3D,” “Rescue 3D,” “The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest,” “Born To Be Wild 3D” and “Hubble 3D” at World Golf Hall of Fame Village, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine. 940-IMAX. worldgolfimax.com

NEW ON DVD & BLU-RAY WAR HORSE This epic offering from Steven Spielberg was nominated for six Oscars and won AFI and BAFTA awards. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 book and the acclaimed stage adaptation of the same work, “War Horse” is the story of battle-torn Europe during The Great War through the eyes of a horse named Joey and the characters he encounters.

An ensemble cast including David Thewlis, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson and Tom Hiddleston, combined with deft cinematography by Janusz Kaminski, a strong script (Lee Hall, Richard Curtis) and Spielberg’s masterful vision make “War Horse” a cinematic thoroughbred.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL After they’re wrongfully blamed for a terrorist attack, the entire IMF team (Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Tom Wilkinson and Paula Patton) must work through their differences to clear their names while battling a ruthless enemy in the form of Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist).

SLEEPING BEAUTY This eerie film from acclaimed novelist-turned-director Julia Leigh reinterprets the childhood fairytale in a very adult way. Emily Browning stars as a disenchanted young woman who decides to take a job as a sex worker, which involves ingesting a sleeping potion that renders her unconscious, leaving her at the mercy of her wealthy clientele.

Provocative, dark and weird, the Aussie import co-stars Rachael Blake and Ewen Leslie.

THE DOORWAY TO HELL Digital reissue of this 1930 Pre-Code (i.e., pre-rating system) crime film from director Archie Mayo stars Lew Ayres and a young scamp named James Cagney in his second role. Ayres plays a young man pulled into the gangster lifestyle, in a film that The New York Times credits with introducing standards of the gangster-crime film genre like “tommy guns carried in violin cases, terrible shoot-outs and lots of rum-running rivalry.”

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One Disenchanted Evening

Director Tarsem Singh’s take on the classic fairytale is truly the lamest of them all Mirror, Mirror *@@@

Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency Square, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Hollywood River City, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., San Marco Theatre

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n a recent interview, Julia Roberts spoke about how she got involved playing the Evil Queen in “Mirror, Mirror,” a comic revision of “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs.” “I was like, ‘This is a terrible idea.’ I was against it [the movie] 1,000 percent,” she is reported to have said.

After a meeting with the film’s director Tarsem Singh, however, she changed her mind. “I am such a fan of Tarsem,” she confessed, “and fell under his spell.”

Too bad. The Oscar-winning actress should have gone with first impressions this time. For despite an occasional visual appeal, “Mirror, Mirror” is an enormous waste of effort and talent. Family-friendly with a PG rating, the movie is likely to be as dull for kids as for their parents. Silly rather than funny, the humor and the actions sequences are equally tepid, and the chemistry between the leads is non-existent.

The problems might have begun even before the screenplay. While fairytales are hot right now (witness TV’s “Grimm” and “Once Upon a Time,” as well as the influential series of graphic novels “Fables”), the decision to revisit “Snow White” as a comedy is dubious. Terry Gilliam pulled off a revisionist approach to fairytales in “The Brothers Grimm” (2005) but only with a heady dose of his macabre black humor.

Even recent Disney versions (“Enchanted,” “Rapunzel”) showed infinitely more substance, wit and imagination than “Mirror, Mirror.”

The screenplay by newcomers Melissa Wallack and Jason Keller does nothing to boost an already-bad concept. A voice-over narration by the Evil Queen, complete with an animation sequence recalling the beginning of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” suggests the familiar story is going to be told from her viewpoint.

However, even that iconoclastic approach proves deceptive since Snow White and the Dwarfs are still front and center, even though Roberts does get the film’s best lines.

Having married Snow White’s father who then mysteriously disappeared, the Queen

has drained her country’s finances dry while keeping her lovely stepdaughter a virtual prisoner in her room. Her decision to murder the raven-haired beauty goes awry, thanks to the soft-heartedness of the Queen’s advisor, Brighton (Nathan Lane). In the snowy forest, Snow White hitches up with the Seven Dwarfs who, in this scenario, are highwaymen on stilts.

In and out of their clutches rides the Handsome Prince (Armie Hammer), who’s alternately bewitched by the outlaw Snow White and then by the Queen, the latter with the aid of a magic potion that infects the handsome hunk with puppy love (one of the film’s silliest miscues). Turning the tables on the familiar trope, Snow White saves him from himself with a kiss before the Queen takes matters into her own hands with a monster, leading to an extended finale in which we finally see Roberts as the ugly crone, complete with apple. (Yet another example of misconception: Much was made in pre-release publicity about Roberts’ makeup in her final guise — much ado about nothing!)

In terms of acting, Roberts delivers her quips with suitable archness, but try as she might, the actress can’t instill life or laughs into the dull script. Poor Armie Hammer, who was quite good in a multilayered role as DiCaprio’s confidante Clyde Tolson in “J. Edgar,” has the worst role in “Mirror, Mirror” as the storybook prince, undone (like Roberts) by the utter banality of the screenplay.

On the plus side, Lily Collins (daughter of pop star Phil) is lovely to look at and delivers probably as charming a performance as possible, given the movie’s considerable limitations.

Her best moments (and the film’s) come in a delightful musical sequence that plays over the closing titles. True to her genes, the lovely Lily (accompanied by the cast in costume) belts out a lively version of “I Believe in Love.”

Director Singh pursued the inclusion of that song with fierce abandon, the story of which makes for interesting reading. Check it out on the web. Apart from the credit sequence, however, the director of “The Fall” and “The Cell” bungles the rest of the movie badly.

Save your money for “Snow White & the Huntsman” out later this summer.

Pat McLeod themail@folioweekly.com

Eight is Enough: Snow White (Lily Collins) and the Seven Dwarfs chow down in the lackluster fantasy tale “Mirror, Mirror.”

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Fran Kanz, Chris Hemsworth and Anna Hutchison hope they survive one horrific vacation in “The Cabin in the Woods.”

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The creators of “Cloverfield” and “Firefly” team up for a game-changing horror ride The Cabin in the Woods ***@

Rated R • Film opens on Friday, April 13

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ountless variations on the phrase “ultimate horror film” have been thrown around, but no movie is more worthy of that claim than “The Cabin in the Woods.” It’s not about a level of violence or gore and it’s not about clever kills. “Cabin” renders all past and future examples of the genre superfluous. How can anyone ever top this? It’s impossible.

It’s not even about “topping.” This latest horror flick is a smorgasbord of delicious twists and turns only the most loyal fan will be able to keep quiet about — there’s never been a more spoiler-rich movie than “The Cabin in the Woods.” And I’m not sure there’s ever been a movie whose story is such a joy to keep secret. Yet it’s not that mere knowledge of a game-changing twist is spoiler enough to ruin a film. “Cabin” is so much more radically original than that. Partly because it’s been marketed on the secret it’s keeping — after all, “You think you know the story” is the tagline — and partly because it opens unlike any other horror movie ever.

See, even before we meet the gang of eager, horny, happy and carefree college students being set up for the slaughter, we meet those who are setting them up. The film opens at a facility, a place that’s white and gleaming and clean and rather terrifyingly ordinary. It’s a workplace for regular guys like Steve (Richard Jenkins) and Richard (Bradley Whitford), dudes who wear short-sleeved dress shirts and talk about what they’re doing over the weekend. And then they go back to work, which happens to be arranging things so the gang of eager, horny, happy and carefree young college students can die in the cabin in the woods, to which they are heading for a weekend getaway.

All horror movies are about conventions and stereotypes: Who dies first and how. What makes the victims targets. What the motives of the killer(s) are. And so on. That gets blown out of the water — at least as a subtext of the narrative — right away. There’s something

else going on, and it’s not like anything we’ve learned about horror movies from watching the genre. Except, as plot twists are revealed, even that perspective is eventually changed.

As is usually de rigueur for horror flicks, the gang is played by a batch of appealing mostly unknowns: Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams and Chris Hemsworth of “Thor,” who was still unknown back in early 2009, when “Cabin” was shot. We’ve got your standard jock, pretty blonde, virgin, brainiac and stoner. Yet these kids seem to defy the stereotypes, too: the blonde isn’t dumb, the brainiac isn’t nerdy. The clichés are here, and “Cabin” is having fun with them, without forgetting they’re real people, as real as the men in the facility watching and manipulating them.

“The Cabin in the Woods” is everything you should expect from the team of screenwriterdirector Drew Goddard (“Lost,” “Cloverfield”) and co-writer Joss Whedon, the cult hero of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly” acclaim. Goddard and Whedon previously worked together on “Buffy,” but this film is nothing like an imitation or a continuation of that effort — yet it still a shares certain spiritual and philosophical connections to both “Lost” and “Firefly.” This story works on many levels while remaining deeply horrifying and uncomfortably funny. “Cabin” returns to the ancient, atavistic terrors that have been fueling scary stories since their inception, while updating them in a way that feeds on uniquely modern ideas about such seemingly diverse notions as religion and bureaucracy.

It’s a metaphor for storytelling that becomes its own sort of archetype — it’s practically a new archetype, if such a thing is possible.

You know how it’s said that there are only six basic stories? I think Whedon and Goddard may have found a seventh, and it’s a doozy. Provocative, inventive and entertaining, “The Cabin in the Woods” is one destination that cinematic sightseers should thoroughly check out.

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BEN FOLDS with JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday, April 14 at 8 p.m.

T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville Tickets range from $20-$80 354-5547

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en Folds has earned bragging rights. His previous band, Ben Folds Five, sold millions of albums and helped make sensitive, singersongwriter types cool again. Songs like “Brick” and “Whatever and Ever Amen” cemented the band as a cross between melodic pop stars and a rowdy punk group, minus the anarchy.

gearing up to perform with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Folds’ songs lend themselves naturally to lush arrangements, and it will be interesting to see the often stoolkicking, sailor-mouthed singer surrounded by tuxes. Ben Folds recently took time out from the studio to talk with Folio Weekly about working with an orchestra, tight leather pants and trying to learn “Freebird” before he gets to town.

This is a fulltime work in progress, not a side project. When I was a kid, I was in an orchestra. I’ve spent a lot of time in that kind of world. I am looking to evolve the experience.

I want to tap into the potential of what we can do. It’s another shape for me to make music in.

Plus, I would take a smaller guarantee to play with the orchestra than I would to go do a show myself. It means more to me.

F.W.: How’s the new album going?

B.F.: Right now, we are finishing tracking and doing things. Last night, we looped some [vocal sound] “ahhs” — three on one mike. Then we doubled them and assigned them to one part of

F.W.: Playing with an orchestra must be the complete opposite of working with a cappella groups.

B.F.: Well, both are large ensembles. Each piece represents one note, or one part. Until you find me some Tibetan that can sing more than one note at a time, the rest of us only can handle one.

There aren’t any divas, either. There are no diva oboe or bassoon players. It’s more of community music, not “dig my shit” music. That’s my business: Tight leather pants and a TV and only green M&M’s in the dressing room.

Ben Folds’ songs lend themselves naturally to lush arrangements, and it will be interesting to see the often stool-kicking, sailor-mouthed singer surrounded by tuxes.

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Folds has also enjoyed an equally successful solo career, with albums including “Songs For Silverman” and “Rockin The Suburbs,” from which a new wedding standard was born in “The Luckiest,” a ballad featured on myriad bridal playlists, including mine. Folds has collaborated with folks as varied as William Shatner to “Weird Al” Yankovic, while releasing two dozen releases focusing on the insecurities and heartbreaks of everyday life. Like most of his peers in the singer-songwriter fraternity, Folds is a master of weaving autobiography into his catchy pop tunes. He has also spent the past couple of years as a judge on NBC’s a cappella singing show, “The Sing-Off.” Yet for all of his accomplishments, the 45-year-old North Carolina native is too busy to bask in the glow of his success. Currently in the studio working on a new album, he’s also

the console, so we could use it like a keyboard.

It can be really rewarding. It’s a little like crack.

F.W.: Will there be a TV on the rider?

B.F.: There f*cking better be! And M&M’s, too.

F.W.: Sounds complicated. So does getting ready to play with an orchestra. How does playing with one change your perception of your music?

B.F.: You can over-indulge or over-arrange if you aren’t careful. When we first started, I had the tendency to over-score. As you mature, you revise and do it over and over and bring it back.

You have to realize every note can’t be heard.

They all can’t be played full. I use the orchestra like a rock band.

F.W.: What do you have in store for us in Northeast Florida?

B.F.: It will be fairly planned out. I’ll have 30 to 40 charts ready. We’ll set up the strongest charts. That’s usually the best way to do a place I haven’t played in this format. A greatest hits thing. I will also have a giant surfboard that I will ride out over the crowd, probably.

F.W.: Is this something you always wanted to do, or does it come out of having a bigger budget to play with?

B.F.: I am very ambitious about doing this.

F.W.: You’ll probably need to learn “Freebird.”

B.F.: I will find out if they chart for “Freebird.”

Who knows, they may already know it. They can probably learn it in less time than the song actually runs.

Danny Kelly themail@folioweekly.com

Flower Power: Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist are Over the Rhine.

Waltzing’s for Dreamers

Husband-and-wife duo Over the Rhine keep their Americana-styled music close to the heart OVER THE RHINE with LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE Thursday, April 12 at 8 p.m.

Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Tickets are $25 and $29 209-0399

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usical relationships, much less personal ones, rarely last two decades. But Ohio natives Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have successfully cultivated both, forming Americana-inflected folk-pop band Over The Rhine in 1989 and marrying seven years later.

Named for Cincinnati’s once-rough-and-tumble and now-gentrified neighborhood, Over The Rhine shares some of their namesake’s traits: lovingly ramshackle, endearingly aspirational and paradoxically inspiring. But with 22 albums under their belt, there’s no questioning Over The Rhine’s staying power, even as they’ve always quietly celebrated their Christian background in a music industry drunk on secular humanism. Folio Weekly caught up with Detweiler to talk about the band’s 2011 album, “The Long Surrender,” its firm belief in life’s unpredictability and the secret to making a band and a marriage succeed.

Folio Weekly: Can you talk a little bit about Over The Rhine’s roots in Cincinnati?

Linford Detweiler: Karin and I both grew up in small towns in Ohio, met in college, and found our way down to the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood when it was still considered the bad part of town. But it was this beautiful, ragged, timeless place, which gave our songs something to live up to.

F.W.: Musically speaking, what influenced you two starting out?

L.D.: Growing up in working-class towns, I was around a lot of old gospel and country music.

Then we discovered rock ‘n’ roll on our friends’ stereos, along with songwriters like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, that took the top of our heads off. When we started Over The Rhine, we were curious about other bands fronted by female vocalists: The Pretenders, Lone Justice with Maria McKee, Lucinda Williams, who we discovered fairly early in her career. We were also listening to R.E.M., so it was all over the map.

F.W.: What’s the secret to maintaining a professional and personal relationship for over 20 years?

L.D.: It’s definitely a work in progress, and not anything that we just put on autopilot. Initially, we had a really good musical chemistry, and that eventually blossomed into a romance. It’s been a good journey, although we’ve hit our rough patches. One of the mistakes we made when

we got real busy was putting the relationship on hold and revisiting it when the dust settled.

Someone once told us that relationships are coin-operated — they take lots of little ongoing deposits. So we’ve tried to find ways to stay connected, even when we get busy. One thing we do on the road is try to eat one meal a day together in a restaurant that serves wine, which means we have to sit down and take a deep breath apart from all the craziness. Another useful metaphor I’ll pass on is we’ve seen our music career and marriage almost as two separate gardens. And both require ongoing attention and care. You can’t ignore one for too long without running into some difficulties.

F.W.: How about your songwriting relationship?

Is it completely collaborative?

L.D.: We both write individually, and when we get to a certain point, we start functioning as each other’s editor. But songwriting remains a mystery; after each record, we wonder whether we’ll ever be able to do it again. [Laughs.]

F.W.: Your last album, 2011’s “The Long Surrender,” was recorded in California with Grammy-winning producer Joe Henry. Were you looking to get out of your comfort zone?

L.D.: Definitely. Joe became a wonderful ally to help us find a fresh way into this project. We’ve resisted the urge to make the same record over and over; we want each one to stand on its own unique piece of musical real estate, since each one is connected to a particular time in our lives in a real honest way.

F.W.: I really liked the liner notes, where you referenced Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” and talked about “blowing the seams out” and “leaving the edges wild.”

L.D.: Hopefully that keeps the songs more connected to reality. There’s so much of our lives that we can’t control — a kind of wildness or danger that’s part of the human experience.

The world is an imperfect place that’s never completely tamed, but there are moments of unspeakable beauty that we want to be awake to.

F.W.: Have you had a good response to the kind of stripped-down acoustic tour you have planned for this spring?

L.D.: Our audience has been pleading with us to do more of these concerts, where we get to the heart and soul of the matter. We’ll be trying out some new songs, just bare-bones modest offerings that have to speak for themselves. There’s a different type of connection you make with your audience when there’s something simple happening. I can’t quite put it into words.

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CONCERTS THIS WEEK INSIDE THE TARGET CAR, I AM THE AVALANCHE, HI SET MY FRIENDS ON FIRE, A BULLET FOR PRETTY BOY, GREELEY ESTATES, A LOT LIKE BIRDS The indie and metal music starts at 6 p.m. on April 10 at Brewster’s Pit, 14003 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $12 and $14. 223-9850.

CANDLEBOX, ACIDIC Alt rockers Candlebox perform at 6 p.m. on April 10 at Mavericks, 2 Independent Drive, Jacksonville. Tickets are $15; $25 for upstairs. 356-1110.

TROPIC OF CANCER These local faves celebrate with Folio Weekly (and you!) for our 25th anniversary beer and bowling party at 6 p.m. on April 10 at Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside. Tickets are $5.

260-9770 ext. 110. Facebook.com/folioweekly GO RADIO, THIS PROVIDENCE, TYLER CARTER, SIMPLE AS SURGERY, THE DRAMA SUMMER These indie rockers hit the stage at 7 p.m. on April 10 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Tickets are $12.

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CANDY LEE, KIDS, THE LIFE FORMS This evening of local folk and rock kicks off at 7 p.m. on April 11 at Brewster’s Pit, 14003 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $10. 223-9850.

JULIE DURDEN, REBECCA LOEBE, REBECCA DAY These singer-songwriters play at 8 p.m. on April 12 at European Street CafĂŠ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville.

Tickets are $10. 399-1740.

TOWER OF POWER Bay Area funk legends Tower of Power perform at 8 p.m. on April 12 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $35 and $40. 355-2787.

LIFT These hard rockers play at 9 p.m. on April 12 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 246-0611. The band plays at 9 p.m. on April 13 at Whitey’s Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 269-4198; and at 9:30 p.m. on April 14 at Monkey’s Uncle Tavern, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 30, Jacksonville, 260-1349.

OVER THE RHINE, LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE Americana duo Over the Rhine performs, along with Rufus Wainwright’s sister Lucy, at 8 p.m. on April 12 at Ponte Vedra

Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach. Tickets are $25 and $29. 209-0399.

HUMAN LIKE ME, MP BORDELON, AC DEATHSTRIKE These indie rockers play at 9 p.m. on April 12 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Jacksonville. 353-4686.

DOUG VANDERLAAN Singer-songwriter Vanderlaan performs at 7 p.m. on April 13 at Three Layers CafĂŠ, 1602 Walnut St., Jacksonville.

355-9791.

SUPERFEST with 70 LOCAL BANDS This three-day festival features three stages of live music, food, a kids zone, games, a Battle of the Bands and an arts market. The VIP launch party is held at 8 p.m. on April 13 at Aloft Tapestry Park, 4812 Deer Lake Drive W., Jacksonville.

Tickets are $60. Music – including Chris Epps, First Coast Friends of Funk, Vlad the Inhaler, DJ Dr. Doom, Joy Dennis, Danka, Chroma, Greenhouse Lounge, John Earle Band, The 8 Track Sweethearts, Joanna Norris, Amy Hendrickson, The Wobbly Toms, Yankee Slickers, Str8Up, Azmyth and State of Mind – starts at noon on April 14 and 15 at University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. Tickets start at $20. For a full band schedule and to get tickets, go to jacksonvillesuperfest.com. Proceeds benefit the Florida School for The Deaf & The Blind and The ARC Jacksonville. 416-1848.

DOWN THEORY, TAPROOT Heavy-hitters Down Theory play at 8 p.m. on April 13 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Tickets are $15.

398-7496.

MARTINA McBRIDE Country favorite Martina McBride performs at 8 p.m. on April 13 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine.

Tickets range from $29.50-$125. 209-0367.

BLISTUR The Northeast Florida rockers perform at 9 p.m. on April 13 and 14 at Cliff’s Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Road, Jacksonville. 645-5162.

SPRINGING THE BLUES FESTIVAL: JOEY GILMORE BLUES BAND, ALBERT CUMMINGS, ELI COOK BAND, TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT, JOANN SHAW TAYLOR, WOODY & THE PECKERS, WILLIE GREEN BLUES PROJECT, EDDIE SHAW & THE WOLFGANG, THE LEE BOYS and more This three-day festival, featuring blues musicians, food and drink, arts and crafts, a kids zone, a surf contest and a 5K, is held April 13, 14 and 15 on the oceanfront at Seawalk

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JOSH GRACIN Country singer Josh Gracin plays at 9 p.m. on April 13 at Mavericks, 2 Independent Drive, Jacksonville. Tickets are $10; $15 for upstairs. 356-1110.

BIG KETTLE DRUM, GHOST LIGHT ROAD, JACKSONVEGAS This night of indie rock kicks off at 9 p.m. on April 13 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Jacksonville. 353-4686.

SPRINGING THE BLUES AFTER PARTY JAM Musical guests from the festival jam each night starting at 10 p.m. on April 13, 14 and 15 at Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach. Tickets are $7. 247-6636.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Braided Light Dance Project performers are featured at 10:30 a.m., Martha’s Trouble performs at 11:45 a.m. and Scott Jones Dancers are on at 2:45 p.m. on April 14 at the weekly market, held under the Fuller Warren Bridge at Riverside Avenue, downtown. 554-6865. riversideartsmarket.com VELOFEST with FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, ANTARCTIC, SON OF A BADMAN, AMY DALLEY and JACK SIZEMORE, RED RIVER BAND These local acts perform at 2 p.m. on April 14 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine. 209-0367.

ALCATRAZ, RIZZIN, DRP, DIRTAY VAINS, MARS, STRIFE INK, MISCREANTS Local rap and rock start at 7 p.m. on April 14 at Brewster’s Pit, 14003 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $10. 223-9850.

WILL PEARSALL Singer-songwriter and dobro-player Pearsall performs at 7 p.m. on April 14 at Three Layers CafĂŠ, 1602 Walnut St., Jacksonville. 355-9791.

BEN FOLDS Singer-songwriter Ben Folds performs with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. on April 14 at the T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $30-$55. 354-5547.

ALAN GOODIS Contemporary Jewish singer-songwriter Goodis performs at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 at Congregation Ahavath Chesed, 8727

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TIM REYNOLDS TR3, SONS OF BILL Dave Matthews Band guitarist Tim Reynolds plays at 8 p.m. on April 14 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach. Tickets are $18. 246-2473.

UNDERHILL ROSE The Americana band is on at 8 p.m. on April 14 at European Street Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $10.

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THE MAST This inventive electronic duo performs at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, on Jacksonville’s Southbank. Admission is $15; $30 (VIP).

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GOLIATH FLORES The local musician plays at 1 p.m. on April 15 at Three Layers Café, 1602 Walnut St., Jacksonville. 355-9791.

DAUGHTRY Modern rockers Daughtry perform at 7:30 p.m. on April 15 at T-U Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $29.50-$49.50.

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TRENT HANCOCK Local musician Hancock appears at 8 p.m. on April 15 at Sun Dog Diner, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach. 241-8221.

NATURAL CHILD, RIVERNECKS, THE COUGS 420-friendly rockers Natural Child plays at 9 p.m. on April 15 at Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. Admission is $8.

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VAN HALEN, KOOL AND THE GANG Classic rockers Van Halen perform at 7:30 p.m. on April 16 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Jacksonville.

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FUSEBOX POET, A CALL FOR KYLIE, LEO AND THE SUN Rockers Fusebox Poet play at 8 p.m. on April 16 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. Tickets are $8.

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COUNTING CROWS May 1, The Florida Theatre THE BEACH BOYS 50th ANNIVERSARY REUNION TOUR May 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MICKEY AVALON, ANDRE LEGACY May 2, Freebird Live DIECAST May 3, Brewster’s Pit THE FRAY May 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GAMBLE ROGERS FOLK FESTIVAL: THE NOUVEAUX HONKIES, THE WAYMORES, AARON O’ROURKE TRIO, GRANT PEEPLES, THE GATORBONE BAND, SAM PACETTI May 4 & 5, St. Augustine WHETHERMAN, CANARY IN THE COALMINE May 5, Mojo Kitchen KOTTONMOUTH KINGS, TWIZTID, BLAZE BIG B May 7, Brewster’s Pit WHITECHAPEL, MISS MAY I May 9, Freebird Live WE OWN THE NIGHT WORLD TOUR: LADY ANTEBELLUM, DARIUS RUCKER, THOMPSON SQUARE May 10, Veterans Memorial Arena BEACH HOUSE May 10, Freebird Live CATIE CURTIS May 11, Café Eleven FUSEBOX FUNK May 12, Mojo Kitchen CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS May 14, Jack Rabbits WILCO May 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JANE’S ADDICTION May 16, The Florida Theatre UNCLE KRACKER May 19, Mavericks GRANT PEEPLES May 19, European Street Southside TRIBAL SEEDS May 20, Freebird Live FLOGGING MOLLY May 21, Mavericks LUCERO May 23, Café Eleven EDGAR WINTER BAND May 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JACKSONVILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL: SONNY ROLLINS, CHICK COREA, STANLEY CLARKE, LENNY WHITE TRIO, PATTI AUSTIN, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA May 24-27, Downtown Jacksonville ONE May 26, Freebird Live COLBIE CAILLAT, GAVIN DEGRAW May 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DETHLEHEM May 30, Burro Bar CELERITAS, MILO June 5, Burro Bar ZZ TOP, 3 DOORS DOWN, GRETCHEN WILSON June 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre

CAFE KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269 Live music in the courtyard at 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., at 5 p.m. every Sun. DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 Lucid on April 13. Duane Trucks & Flannel Church on April 14. Howie and Mosely on April 19. DJs J.G. World & Jim spin actual vinyl at 8 p.m. every Tue. for Working Class Stiffs GENNARO’S ITALIANO SOUTH, 5472 First Coast Hwy., 491-1999 Live jazz from 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Dan Voll from 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Live music every weekend O’KANE’S IRISH PUB, 318 Centre St., 261-1000 Dan Voll at 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Turner London Band at 8:30 p.m. every Thur., Fri. & Sat. THE PALACE SALOON & SHEFFIELD’S, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 BSP sUnplugged every Tue. & Sun. Wes Cobb every Wed. DJ Heavy Hess, Hupp & Rob every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. DJ Miguel Alvarez in Sheffield’s every Fri. DJ Heavy Hess every Sat. Cason every Mon. PLAE, 80 Amelia Circle, Amelia Island Plantation, 277-2132 Gary Ross from 7-11 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6990 Cason at 2 p.m. at the tiki bar every Sat. & Sun. THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Live music Tue.-Sun. DJ Roc at 5 p.m. every Wed.

Country favorite Martina McBride performs on April 13 at 8 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine. Tickets range from $29.50-$125.

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RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND June 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 311, SLIGHTLY STOOPID, THE AGGROLITES July 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre LITTLE FEAT July 31, The Florida Theatre IAN ANDERSON (Jethro Tull) Sept. 21, St. Aug. Amp. EDDIE VEDDER Nov. 24 & 25, T-U Center

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MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music at 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. PLUSH, RAIN, LAVA, 845 University Blvd. N., 745-1845 DJ Massive spins top 40 in Rain every Wed., DJs spin Latin every Fri. STARBUCKS, 9301 Atlantic Blvd., 724-4554 Open mic with Starbucks Trio from 8-11 p.m. every other Fri. TONINO’S TRATTORIA, 7001 Merrill Rd., 743-3848 Alaina Colding every Thur. W. Harvey Williams at 6 p.m. every Fri. Signature String Quartet every Sat. VIP LOUNGE, 7707 Arlington Expressway, 619-8198

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AVONDALE, ORTEGA BRICK RESTAURANT, 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606 Duet every Wed. Goliath Flores and Sam Rodriguez every Thur. Bush Doctors every first Fri. & Sat. Live jazz every Fri. & Sat. THE CASBAH CAFE, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. 3rd Bass every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave., 387-3582 DJ Keith spins for Karaoke every Tue. DJ Free spins vintage every Fri. DJs SuZiRok, LowKill & Mowgli spin for Chillwave Madness every Mon. ELEVATED AVONDALE, 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700 Karaoke with Dave Thrash every Wed. DJ 151 spins hip hop, R&B, old-school every Thur. DJ Catharsis spins lounge beats every first & fourth Sat. Patrick Evan & CoAlition Industry Sun. TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 Live music every Fri. Karaoke at 8 p.m. every Sat.

BAYMEADOWS THE COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows Rd., 642-7600 DJ Roy Luis spins new & vintage original house at 9 p.m. every Thur.

GATOR’S DOCKSIDE, 8650 Baymeadows Rd., 448-0500 Comfort Zone Band at 9 p.m. every Fri. MY PLACE BAR-N-GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows Rd., 737-5299 Out of Hand every Mon. Rotating bands every other Tue. & Wed. OASIS GRILL & CHILL, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., 748-9636 DJs Stan and Mike Bend spin every Feel Good Fri.

BEACHES (In Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) BEACHSIDE SEAFOOD, 120 S. Third St., 444-8862 Kurt Lanham sings island music every Fri.-Sun.

spins Motown, hip hop & R&B every Wed. Jazz at 11 a.m., Latin music at 9 p.m. every first Fri.; Ol’ Skool every last Fri. DIVE BAR, 331 E. Bay St., 359-9090 Live music every weekend DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth, 354-0666 DJ Synsonic spins every Tue. & Fri. DJ Rockin’ Bones spins every Wed. DJ Scandalous spins every Sat. DJ Randall Karaoke every Mon. FIONN MacCOOL’S, The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 176, 374-1247 Live music every weekend THE IVY ULTRA BAR, 113 E. Bay St., 356-9200 DJs 151 The Experience & C-Lo spin every Rush Hour Wed. DJ E.L. spins top 40, South Beach & dance classics every Pure Sat. THE JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Lyons at 8 p.m. on April 13. Gene Mazy Band at 8 p.m. on April 14 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Vinn spins top 40 for ladies nite every Thur. Ritmo y Sabor every Fiesta Fri. BayStreet mega party with DJ Shotgun every Sat. MAVERICKS, The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Candlebox and Acidic at 6 p.m. on April 10.

Josh Gracin at 9 p.m. on April 13. The Frontmen on April 20.

Bobby Laredo spins every Thur. & Sat. Saddle Up every Sat. NORTHSTAR THE PIZZA BAR, 119 E. Bay St., 860-5451 Open mic night from 8:30-11:30 p.m. every Wed. THE PEARL, 1101 N. Main St., 791-4499 DJs Tom P. & Ian S. spin ’80s & indie dance every Fri. DJ Ricky spins indie rock, hip hop & electro every Sat. POPPY LOVE SMOKE, 112 E. Adams St., 354-1988 DJs Al Pete & Gene Dot spin for The Glossary at 10 p.m. every Sat. ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

FLEMING ISLAND MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Wits End on April 12. All About Me on April 13.

Mike Lyons on April 14. Live music every Fri. & Sat. MERCURY MOON, 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999 DJ Ty spins for ladies’ nite every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Buck Smith Project every Mon. Blistur unplugged every Wed. RUSH STREET/CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILL, 406 Old Hard Rd., Ste. 106, 213-7779 A DJ spins at 10 p.m. every Wed., Fri. & Sat. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Karaoke on April 11. DJ BG on April 12. Lift at 9:30 p.m. on April 13.

Spanky at 9:30 p.m. on April 14. Reggae at 4 p.m. on April 15.

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INTRACOASTAL WEST BREWSTER’S PIT, 14003 Beach Blvd., Ste. 3, 223-9850 I Set My Friends on Fire, A Bullet for Pretty Boy, Greeley Estates and A Lot Like Birds on April 10. Candy Lee, Kids and The Life Forms on April 11. Alcatraz, Rizzin, Dirtay Vains, Mars, Strife Ink and Miscreants on April 14. Black Molly and Big Engine on April 20 BREWSTER’S PUB, 14003 Beach Blvd., Ste. 3, 223-9850 Open mic every Wed. Karaoke with DJ Randal & live music every Thur., Fri. & Sat. A DJ spins every Mon. BRUCCI’S PIZZA, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913 Mike Shackelford at 6:30 p.m. every Sat. and Mon.

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Evicted on April 11. Blistur at 9 p.m. on April 13 & 14. Karaoke every Thur. & Sun. Live music every Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE & STEAKHOUSE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22, 220-6766 Billy Bowers at 7 p.m. on April 12.

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JULINGTON CREEK, NW ST. JOHNS HAPPY OURS SPORTS GRILLE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 683-1964 Live music at 7:30 p.m. every Fri. SHANNON’S IRISH PUB, 111 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-9670 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

MANDARIN AW SHUCKS OYSTER BAR & GRILL, 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd., 240-0368 Open mic with John O’Connor from 7-10 p.m. every Wed. Cafe Groove Duo, Jay Terry & John O’Connor, from 8-11 p.m. every Sat. Live music every Sat. CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 11475 San Jose Blvd., 262-4337 Karaoke at 9:30 p.m. every Wed. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Karaoke from 9 p.m.-1 p.m. Mon.-Thur. Dennis Klee & the World’s Most Talented Waitstaff every Fri. & Sat. MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 30, 260-1349 Lift at 9:30 p.m. on April 14 THE NEW ORLEANS CAFE, 12760 San Jose Blvd., 880-5155 Live music at 6 p.m. Tue., Wed., Fri.-Sun. Open mic with Biker Bob at 7:30 p.m. every Thur. Reggae with Les B. Fine at 1 p.m. every Sat. & Sun. Creekside Songwriters Showcase at 7 p.m. last Wed. every month RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS, 4268 Oldfield Crossing, 262-4030 Karaoke at 7 p.m. every Sun. SPECKLED HEN TAVERN & GRILLE, 9475 Philips Hwy., Ste. 16, 538-0811 Live music from 6-9 p.m. every Fri. SUNBURST STUDIOS, 12641 San Jose Blvd., 485-0946 Open mic with My Friendz Band at 8:30 p.m. every Mon. Karaoke at 8:30 p.m. with DJ Tom Turner every Tue.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 1580 Wells Rd., 269-4855 Karaoke at 9:30 p.m. every Wed. & Sat. CRACKERS LOUNGE, 1282 Blanding Blvd., 272-4620 Karaoke every Fri. & Sat. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PARK AVENUE BILLIARDS, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Random Act from 7:30-11:30 p.m. every Mon. Bike Nite THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Lift at 9 p.m. on April 12. Live music every Thur.-Sat. DJ Jason every Tue. DJ Israel every Wed. Buck Smith Project every Mon.

PALATKA DOWNTOWN BLUES BAR & GRILLE, 714 St. Johns Ave., (386) 325-5454 Lee Kelly from 6-9 p.m. on April 11. David Michael Angleton from 6-9 p.m. on April 12. Blue Smoke & the

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Incognito from noon-4 p.m., Dune Dogs from 4:45-8:45 p.m. on April 15 BRIX TAPHOUSE, 300 N. Second St., 241-4668 DJ IBay every Tue., Fri. & Sat. DJ Ginsu every Wed. DJ Jade every Thur.

Charlie Walker every Sun. CRAB CAKE FACTORY, 1396 Beach Blvd., Beach Plaza, 247-9880 Live jazz with Pierre & Co. every Wed. CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Live music every weekend DICK’S WINGS, 311 N. Third St., Ste. 107, 853-5004 Big Jeff at 8 p.m. every Thur. Live music at 9 p.m. every Sat. EL POTRO MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1553 Third St. N., 241-6910 Wilfredo Lopez every Wed. & Sat. ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY, 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337 Live music every Thur.

EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 992 Beach Blvd., 399-1740 Live music from 5-8 p.m. on April 15 FIONN MacCOOL’S, 333 N. First St., 242-9499 Live music every Thur.-Sat. FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Nate Holley every Mon. Wes Cobb every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. King Eddie reggae every Sun. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Tim Reynolds TR3 and Sons of Bill on April 14. GWAR, Ghoul, Kylessa and Legacy of Disorder on April 18 ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, 372-0943 Domenic Patruno on April 12. Evan Paluszynski on April 13. Brady Reich on April 14. Live music every Thur.-Sat. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Live music every Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Out of Hand on April 13 & 14. Split Tone at 10:30 p.m. every Tue. Nate Holley every Wed. Ryan Campbell every Thur. Wits End every Sun. Little Green Men every Mon. MAYPORT TAVERN, 2775 Old Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 270-0801 Live music at 3 p.m. every Sun. Open mic at 5 p.m. every Wed. DJ Jason hosts Karaoke at 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., Ste. 2, 246-1500 Ivey Brothers on April 11. Catfish Alliance on April 13. De Lions of Jah on April 14 MEZZA LUNA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon at 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger at 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford and Rick Johnson at 6 p.m. every Thur.

MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Spinging the Blues official after party jam on April 13, 14 & 15 MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Wes Cobb at 10 p.m. every Tue. DJ Austin Williams spins dance & for Karaoke at 9 p.m. every Wed., Sat. & Sun. DJ Papa Sugar spins dance music at 9 p.m. every Mon., Thur. & Fri. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 De Lions of Jah at 6 p.m. on April 12. Domenic at 6 p.m., That ’80s Show at 10 p.m. on April 13. Acoustic Shade at 2 p.m., Lucky Stiff at 6 p.m. on April 14. Kevin Ski at noon, Jimmy Parrish & the Ocean Waves Band at 3 p.m. on April 15.

Reggae on the deck every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sun. Live music every 3rd Wed. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Live music every Thur.-Sat. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Live music every weekend THE PIER RESTAURANT, 445 Eighth Ave. N., 246-6454 Darren Corlew and Johnny Flood at 7 p.m. every Thur. DJ Infader every Fri. Nate Holley every Sat. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637 Whetherman at 8 p.m. on April 21 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Dan Coady on April 11. The Splinters on April 12.

Story Tellers on April 13 & 14. Domenic Patruno on April 15 RUSH STREET/CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILL, 320 N. First St., 270-8565 A DJ spins at 10 p.m. every Wed., Fri. & Sat. SUN DOG, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 241-8221 Buck Smith at 6 p.m. on April 11. 3 the Band on April 12.

Mr. Natural on April 13 & 14. Trent Hancock on April 15. Live music every Tue.-Sun. THE WINE BAR, 320 N. First St., 372-0211 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

DOWNTOWN 1904, 19 Ocean St., 356-0213 Greenhouse Lounge and Black Drum at 9 p.m. on April 19 BURRO BAR, 228 E. Forsyth St., 353-4692 Human Like Me, MP Bordelon and AC Deathstrike at 9 p.m. on April 12. Big Kettle Drum, Ghost Light Road and JacksonVegas at 9 p.m. on April 13. DJ Tin Man spins reggae & dub every Tue. DJ SuZiRok spins every Thur. $Big Bucks DJ Crew$ every Sat. Bert No Shirt & Uncle Jesse every Sun. CITY HALL PUB, 234 Randolph Blvd., 356-6750 DJ Skillz

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Sacramental Plaid: Drummer Duane Trucks and his band Flannel Church deliver their Pre-Wanee Jam on April 14 at 9 p.m. at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach. 277-8010.

12. Tim O’Shea on April 13. D-Lo Thompson on April 14. Live music every Wed.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 997-1955 Ryan Crary on April 11. Charlie Walker at 8 p.m. on April 12. Catfish Alliance on April 14. Tim O’Shea on April 15 SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY, 9735 Gate Pkwy.

N., 997-1999 Chuck Nash every Thur. Live music at 10 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. SUITE, 4880 Big Island Dr., 493-9305 Live music from 9 p.m.-mid. every Thur. and 6-9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. URBAN FLATS, 9726 Touchton Rd., 642-1488 Live music every Fri. & Sat. WHISKY RIVER, 4850 Big Island Drive, 645-5571 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Ruckus on April 13. Cowford County Band on April 20 & 27.

Live music every Fri. & Sat. Karaoke every Wed.

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What is Hip? Bay Area funk legends Tower of Power perform at 8 p.m. on April 12 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Jacksonville. Tickets are $35 and $40. Known for having a propulsive bass-driven sound, the band formed in 1968 in the same fertile scene that produced The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Santana. 355-2787.

Smokin Blue Horns from 8:30-11:30 p.m. on April 13. Shelby & the Mustangs from 8:30-11:30 p.m. on April 15. Local talent every Wed. Karaoke every Thur. Blues jam every Sun.

PONTE VEDRA LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE, 301 N. Roscoe Blvd., 285-0139 Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson from 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Tony Novelly from 6-10 p.m. every Mon. PUSSER’S CARIBBEAN GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766 Soundstage Sundays at 4 p.m. on the deck every Sun. Live music every Thur.-Sun. URBAN FLATS, 330 A1A N., 280-5515 Darren Corlew every Tue. Soulo & Deron Baker at 6 p.m. every Wed.

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE ALPHADOG GRILL, 2782 Park St., 374-8715 Karaoke every Sat. & Mon. FLA RIDERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB, 243 S. Edgewood Ave. DJ DreOne spins every Wed. for open mic nite HJ’S BAR & GRILL, 8540 Argyle Forest Blvd., 317-2783 Karaoke with DJ Ron at 8:30 p.m. every Tue. & DJ Richie at every Fri. Live music every Sat. Open mic at 8 p.m. every Wed. KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. LOMAX LODGE, 822 Lomax St., 634-8813 DJ Dots every Tue. Milan da Tin Man every Wed. DJ Christian every Sat. DJ Spencer every Sun. DJ Luminous every Mon. THE MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Spangler CD release party with Nobody on Land, Ocean is Theory, Quiet Science and Josiah James on April 13.

Family Force 5, Samestate and The Icarus Account on April 14 PIZZA PALACE, 920 Margaret St., 598-1212 Jennifer Chase at 6:30 p.m. every Fri. YESTERDAYS SOCIAL CLUB, 3638 Park St., 387-0502 Rotating DJs spin for Pro Bono electronic music party from 7 p.m.-2 a.m. every Sun.

ST. AUGUSTINE A1A ALE WORKS, 1 King St., 829-2977 The Committee on April 12, 13 & 14 AMICI ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 1915 A1A S., 461-0102 Fermin Spanish guitar from 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Open mic on April 10. Grassy Noles on April 11. Folkin Up the 80s on April 13. Strumstick on April 14. Kevin Bender on April 16 BARLEY REPUBLIC IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE, 48 Spanish St., 547-2023 Live music Fri. & Sat. THE BRITISH PUB, 213 Anastasia Blvd., 810-5111 Karaoke with Jimmy Jamez at 9 p.m. on April 13 CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Mark Sultan on April 25 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 157 King St., 826-1594 Chillula at 7 p.m. on April 13. J.R. & Barry at 2 p.m., Supernatural at 7 p.m. on April 14. Vinny Jacobs at 2

p.m. on April 15 CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993 Live music every Fri. & Sat. Chelsea Saddler every Sun. FLORIDA CRACKER CAFE, 81 St. George St., 829-0397 Lonesome Bert & the Skinny Lizard at 5:30 p.m. every Wed. HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Billy Bowers from 6-10 p.m. on April 11 JACK’S BARBECUE, 691 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-8100 Jim Essery at 4 p.m. every Sat. Live music every Thur.-Sat. KING’S HEAD BRITISH PUB, 6460 U.S. 1, 823-9787 Mike Sweet from 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

KOZMIC BLUZ PIZZA CAFE & ALE, 48 Spanish St., 825-4805 Live music every Fri., Sat. & Sun. MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Open jam nite with house band at 8 p.m. every Wed. Battle of the DJs with Josh Frazetta & Mardi Gras Mike every last Sun. MEEHAN’S IRISH PUB, 20 Avenida Menendez, 810-1923 Live music every Fri. & Sat. MI CASA CAFE, 69 St. George St., 824-9317 Chelsea Saddler from noon-4 p.m. every Mon., Tue. & Thur. Elizabeth Roth at noon every Sun. MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Martha’s Trouble at 9 p.m. on April 13 & 14.

John Winters at 1 p.m. on April 15. Vinny Jacobs every Tue. Todd & Molly Jones every Wed. Colton McKenna at 9 p.m. every Thur. Will Pearsall at 9 p.m. every Mon. NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Natural Child, Rivernecks and The Cougs at 9 p.m. on April 15 SANGRIAS WINE & TAPAS Piano Bar, 35 Hypolita St., 827-1947 Live music every Thurs.-Sun. SCARLETT O’HARA’S, 70 Hypolita St., 824-6535 Lil Blaze & DJ Alex are in for Karaoke every Mon. SIRENS, 113 Anastasia Blvd., 460-2641 Live music every Fri. DJs spin every Sat. Live music from 3-6 p.m. every Biker Sunday SPY GLOBAL CUISINE & LOUNGE, 21 Hypolita St., 819-5637 Live music every Fri.-Sun. THE TASTING ROOM, 25 Cuna St., 810-2400 Bossa nova with Monica da Silva & Chad Alger from 5-8 p.m. every Sun. TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys at 9 p.m. on April 13 & 14. Mark Hart every Mon.-Wed. Open mic every Thur. Mark Hart & Jim Carrick every Fri. Elizabeth Roth at 1 p.m., Mark Hart at 5 p.m. every Sat. Keith Godwin at 1 p.m., Wade at 5 p.m. every Sun. Matanzas at 9 p.m.

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ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER AROMAS CIGARS & WINE BAR, 4372 Southside Blvd., Ste. 101, 928-0515 Live jazz from 8-11 p.m. every Tue. Beer house rock every Wed. Live music every Thur. Will Hurley every Fri. Bill Rice at 9 p.m. every Sat. BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Dr., 345-3466 Live music from 2-7 p.m. every Sun. JOHNNY ANGELS, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120, 997-9850 Harry & Sally from 7-9 p.m. every Wed. Karaoke from 7-10 p.m. every Sat. with Gimme the Mike DJs ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115, 854-6060 Brady Reich on April 11. Billy Buchanan on April

ENDO EXO, 1224 Kings Ave., 396-7733 DJ J-Money spins jazz, soul, R&B, house every Fri. DJ Manus spins top 40 & dance every Sat. Open mic with King Ron & T-Roy every Mon. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 399-1740 Julie Durden, Rebecca Loebe and Rebecca Day at 8 p.m. on April 12. Jazz every second Tue. HAVANA-JAX CUBA LIBRE BAR LOUNGE, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609 MVP Band from 6-9 p.m., DJs No Fame & Dr. Doom every Wed. Jazz every Thur. American Top 40 every Fri. Salsa every Sat. JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Go Radio, This Providence, Tyler Carter, Simple as Surgery and The Drama Summer on April 10. Down Theory and Taproot on April 13. Fusebox Poet, A Call for Kylie and Leo and the Sun on April 16 MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922 Bossa nova with Monica da Silva & Chad Alger at 7 p.m. every Thur.

PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815 Jennifer Chase at 7:30 p.m. every Sat. SQUARE ONE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 306-9004 Soul on the Square with MVP Band & Special Formula at 8 p.m.; DJ Dr. Doom at 10:30 p.m. every Mon. DJs Wes Reed & Josh Kemp spin indie dance & electro at 9 p.m. every Wed. Mitch Kuhman at 6 p.m. every other Fri. DJs Anonymous and Mickey Shadow every Sat.

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SOUTHSIDE BOMBA’S, 8560 Beach Blvd., 997-2291 Open mic from 7-11 p.m. with Chris Hall every Tue. & every first Sun. Live music every Fri., Sat. & Sun. CORNER BISTRO & Wine Bar, 9823 Tapestry Park Cir., Ste. 1, 619-1931 Matt “Pianoman” Hall every Fri. & Sat. DAVE & BUSTER’S, 7025 Salisbury Rd. S., 296-1525 A DJ spins every Fri. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 5500 Beach Blvd., 399-1740 Underhill Rose at 8 p.m. on April 14 LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 xxx from 6-9 p.m. for Folio Weekly’s 25th anniversary party on April 10.

DJ Mikee and Yankee Slickers on April 12. The Ride at 8:30 p.m., DJ 007 Vic Jones at 11:30 p.m. on April 13. Traveling Riverside Band at 8:30 p.m., VJ Josh Franzetta at 11:30 p.m. on April 14

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE BLUE DINER CAFE, 5868 Norwood Ave., 766-7774 Jazz from 7-9 p.m. every first Thur.

BOOTS-N-BOTTLES, 12405 N. Main St., Ste. 7, Oceanway, 647-7798 Karaoke every Tue., Thur. & Sun. with DJ Dave.

Open mic every Wed. DAMES POINT MARINA, 4518 Irving Rd., 751-3043 DJ Steve at 6 p.m. on April 12. Backwoods Boys at 6 p.m. on April 13. Guitar Redd & the Redd Hotts at 6 p.m. on April 14.

Mr. Natural at 4 p.m. on April 15 FLIGHT 747 LOUNGE, 1500 Airport Rd., 741-4073 Live music every Fri. & Sat. ’70s every Tue. SKYLINE SPORTSBAR, 5611 Norwood Ave., 517-6973 Bigga Rankin & Cool Running DJs every Tue. & 1st Sun. Fusion Band & DJ every Thur. DJ Scar spins every Sun. THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Doug Vanderlaan at 7 p.m. on April 13. Will Pearsall at 7 p.m. on April 14. Goliath Flores at 1 p.m. on April 15 3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL, 2467 Faye Rd., 647-8625 Open mic every Thur. Woodie & Wyatt C. every Fri. Live music every Sat. To get your band listed here, send all the vitals — band name, time, date, location of venue, with street address, city, admission price and contact number — to Dan Brown, 9456 Philips Hwy., Ste. 11, Jacksonville FL 32256 or email events@folioweekly.com.

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The Mast, featuring percussionist Matt Kilmer and singer-guitarist Haale Gafori, perform at MOSH on April 14. Kilmer discusses sound manipulation in a workshop earlier that day.

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MOSH presents digital duo The Mast in a workshop and live performance MATT KILMER: THE SCIENCE OF MUSIC

Folio Weekly: You are not the traditional pop

FolioWeekly duo, especially in your percussive approach.

Saturday, April 14 at 2 p.m. © 2012 Admission to the workshop is free with museum admission

THE MAST Saturday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is $15; $30 (VIP) Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville 396-6674

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f Jacksonville’s Museum of Science & History is known primarily as a kid-oriented science center, the Atypical Arts concert series should tilt perceptions to a more experimental, adultoriented experience. Established in 2009 by producer Jimmy Saal, the episodic Atypical Arts concerts bring New York-based artists — those who rarely make it down these parts — to the museum for interactive shows. This is not to suggest that the concerts won’t appeal to children; in fact, many include an educational component. But fans of new music, and the New York art scene in general, are afforded an opportunity to check out the “real deal.”

Next up in the series is The Mast, a duo comprising drummer/hand percussionist Matt Kilmer and songwriter/guitarist Haale Gafori.

Their music is driving and moody, ethereal and visceral, balancing a rootsy love of ancient instruments with a proclivity for electronics and effects. The duo released its debut, “Wild Poppies,” in June 2011.

Kilmer, who is music coordinator for comedian Louis C.K.’s sit-com, recently talked with Folio Weekly about his upcoming show at MOSH.

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How did that relationship come about?

Matt Kilmer: We make the music we would want to listen to. The instrumentation itself is not traditional, so that puts a unique sound on what we come up with.

F.W.: In the studio, it sounds like you do some of multi-tracking, but live, you are a literal duo.

How do you execute these songs live?

M.K.: The only overdubs on the album are some vocal layers. All of the guitar and percussion was tracked in real time together.

We do use a fair amount of delay and reverb that adds space to the sound, and Haale uses guitar pedals to affect her sound. When we perform live, we run everything through a laptop to add the effects we want in real time.

No loops or pre-recorded tracks, just effects.

F.W.: “Trump” is a great tune. The hand-drums sound really over-driven. What was your approach to performing and recording the percussion for that piece?

M.K.: I really wanted the percussion to fill the sonic space of a drum set, so the approach was basically “hard, loud and driving.”

F.W.: Regarding “Trump,” how often do you get political with The Mast’s music?

M.K.: Haale’s lyrics are influenced by everything she experiences, and sometimes they reference current events. She wrote the lyrics to “Trump” during the union protests held in Madison, Wisc., in 2011. There were articles all over the Internet about them, and that’s the song that emerged.

F.W.: What will you be talking about in your pre-concert presentation?

M.K.: I will be demonstrating my percussion technique on frame drum and also showcasing an electronic hand-drum in combination with real-time computer effects and sound manipulation. I’ll also talk about the role of technology in our music.

F.W.: How do you reconcile the organic nature of hand percussion and the “coldness” of technology?

M.K.: I think that saying the “coldness” of technology in 2012 is a bit of a cliché. Some of the most “organic” sounds I’ve heard have been made with a computer. A computer is a tool, just like an instrument, and then it’s up to the user to create something with it.

F.W.: How did you land the gig with Louis C.K.?

M.K.: I got called do work on “Louie” by my friend, the great comedian/musician Reggie Watts. Louis C.K. asked him to get a band together, and he knew I was connected into the New York City music scene and could get a great band together. After our first session, Reggie got the gig opening for Conan O’Brien on his live tour. At that point, I stepped into the music coordinator position. We are currently making the music for “Louie Season 3.”

F.W.: What would you tell a person who is a little shy about trying “new” music forms such as The Mast?

M.K.: I would say to put some good headphones on, relax and just experience the music. You might really like it — whatever “it” is.

John E. Citrone themail@folioweekly.com

Tall Tale

Mark Licari spins on-thespot narratives in his signature murals

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ark Licari likes drawing on the walls of museums, but the 36-year-old multimedia artist isn’t looking over his shoulder for security guards. In fact, Licari is being paid to create a mural on what he calls a “really big blank page” — the atrium of downtown Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art. While Licari indulges in other media like sculpture and lithographs, he is in demand for his murals. MOCA Jax invited Licari to utilize its 30-foot-tall space for its current Project Atrium series. This area is the largest that Licari has yet to tackle with his assorted arsenal of acrylics and inks, some delivered by way of a high-powered water gun.

“I came out to visit and I knew it was big,” the lanky artist tells Folio Weekly when we stop by to visit the work-in-progress. “I didn’t plan it too much, because those plans usually go out the window, since there are so many shifting factors involved.”

Licari points to this undertaking’s de facto nemesis in the form of a mechanical lift. “I didn’t know how comfortable I would be,” laughs Licari, pointing at the stern piece of industrial machinery parked in the atrium.

“I had a fear of heights, but now I’m probably getting over that.”

Licari’s work (marklicari.org) can be simultaneously whimsical and unsettling.

Houses seem to rip from their foundations, taking flight. Propellers and rocket shiplike vessels launch through a netting of tree roots and flora and fauna. The scenery is peppered with seemingly unrelated objects like butterflies, a teddy bear and even kitchen appliances. The effect on the viewer is one of action, a tornado spinning out a storm of unrelated signifiers, a children’s book written at random. “It’s not really a direct influence, but people seem to say it reminds them of Dr. Seuss.” Licari believes that his work’s innate sense of narrative, a story that he creates on-the-spot since each workspace dictates each tale, reminds people of stories rendered for children. “There’s also an element to what I do that could be somewhat scary, but kids seem to like the work.” Previous and

High Times: Mark Licari creates his three-story mural at MOCA Jax.

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current homes of Licari’s murals range from Monterey Museum of Art, New Mexico’s Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, and even the Haight Ashbury Food Program, where his piece is thus far taking up permanent residence on the walls of the community center. Licari seems indifferent to whether or not his pieces are considered murals or installations, or even if they are kept in place for good. “I guess the real question would be ‘What is permanent?’ ” he laughs, citing a “million different reasons” why some murals are simply painted over. “I like that they are still up, but it is so rare for those kinds of opportunities to come up.”

The piece dictated by the formerly pristine white walls of MOCA’s atrium seems to say “up and away,” with Licari citing the “verticality” of the room as his chief inspiration. The result is a water tower that appears to blast through the sky, the building forced into flight by spigots of spraying liquid. Licari’s choice to leave in so much negative space only adds to the sense of largeness and movement. In the same way that the defined space decides the actual composition, Licari’s workshop (laid out just adjacent to the piece) also seems to guide his decisions.

“I started using this to spray drips on the wall,” he explains, hoisting up an impressive-looking water gun, “and it just made sense to create a water tower.”

A recurring sensibility in Licari’s work, whether it is on paper or the walls of a museum, is one of motion, transition and even destruction. “Things are breaking down,” explains Licari, “But they are also rebuilding as parts are growing. There’s an energy to it that’s interesting.” Licari’s last major commission was at Portland, Ore.’s Disjecta gallery. After finishing here in Jacksonville, he’s off to Australia, where he’s been invited to this summer’s prestigious Biennial of Sydney. Along with 100 other artists, Licari will participate in the international festival of contemporary art, similar to Art Basel Miami.

Cordoned off from MOCA’s main lobby, Licari resembles a hip, contemporary version of a Sicilian muralist, a Michelangelo or Tiepolo blasting rock-and-roll on his iPod to conjure the muse. Halfway into his workday, his hair is already disheveled and he laughs about being an almost inadvertent spectacle in the main room of the museum. He gets a few inevitable questions from passersby, but most are respectful of what he is doing.

“People are interested in where this comes from,” he says, picking up his spray gun for another blast at the wall, adding to this temporary fable of height, whimsy and motion. “There are stories that happen to me when I make each mural, because other people are always involved.”

Dan Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com

Project Atrium: Mark Licari is on display through July 8 at Museum of Contemporary Art, 333 N. Laura St., Jacksonville. 366-6911.

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Jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller (pictured) and vocalist Carmen Bradford perform, along with an opening set by UNF’s Jazz Ensemble, on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. Miller began his career as a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and has performed with heavyweights Ron Carter, Joe Lovano and Tony Williams. Tickets are $22 and $30; $8 for students. 620-2878.

PERFORMANCE BOOK OF DAYS Lanford Wilson’s dark homage to Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” about a mysterious murder in a small town, is staged at 7:30 p.m. on April 12, at 8 p.m. on April 13 and 14 and 2 p.m. on April 15 at Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $10; $5 for students. Not recommended for those younger than 17 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. 646-2222.

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE Students from Flagler College’s theatrical arts department present a trio of family-themed plays at 7 p.m. on April 11, 12, 13 and 14 at the school’s auditorium, 74 King St., St. Augustine. Tickets are $5. 826-8600.

BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY The Tony-winning musical, chronicling the pioneering rock-and-roll legend, is staged at 8 p.m. on April 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17, and at 1:15 p.m. on April 14 and at 2 p.m. on April 15 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $42-$49. The show runs through June 3. 641-1212.

BURN THE FLOOR This fiery dance ensemble performs a history of dance at 7:30 p.m. on April 17 at the T-U Center’s Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $41-$61.

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THE GONDOLIERS Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera about romance and a case of mistaken identity in Venice is staged at 7:30 p.m. on April 12, 13 and 14 at Jacksonville University’s Swisher Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N. Tickets are $10; $7 for seniors and military; $5 for students. 256-7677.

HONKY TONK ANGELS This musical about three young singers trying to make it in Nashville is presented at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 at ThrasherHorne Center for the Arts, St. Johns River State College, 283 College Drive, Orange Park. Tickets range from $14-$32.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING University of North Florida’s Department of English presents Shakespeare’s classic comedy at 7:45 p.m. on April 13, 14 and 15 at UNF’s Robinson Theater, Bldg. 14A, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. Tickets are $15; $5 for students. 620-2273.

ROBERT DUBAC’S MALE INTELLECT: AN OXYMORON? Dubac’s one-man comedic show addresses the battle of the sexes at 7:30 p.m. on April 10, 11 and 12, at 8 p.m. on April 13, at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. on April 14 and at 2 p.m. on April 15 at Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $31.50-$41.50. 632-3373.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Amelia Community Theatre presents Tennessee Williams’ gripping Southern drama at 8 p.m. on April 12, 13 and 14 at 209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach. Tickets are $20; $10 for students. The play is staged through April 28. 261-6749.

STUDENT SHOWCASE AT FLAGLER Flagler College students perform scenes from “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?” and “The Children’s Hour” at 7:30 p.m. on April 16 at the school’s auditorium, 74 King St., St. Augustine. 826-8600.

SPUNK The 5 & Dime, A Theatre Company presents an original musical based on three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston at 2 and 8 p.m. on April 14 at the Carling Ballroom, 31 W. Adams St., Jacksonville. Advance tickets are $10; $15 at the door. spunkjax.eventbrite.com MAD COWFORD IMPROV This comedy troupe performs at 8 p.m. on April 14 and every Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Jacksonville. Admission is $5. 860-5451.

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THE IMPROV EFFECT This improvisational comedy group performs at 7 p.m. on April 16 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Admission is $15; $10 for military and students. 641-1212.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS AMATEUR NIGHT AUDITIONS The Ritz Theatre & Museum holds auditions from 5-6:15 p.m. on April 12 for its upcoming amateur night, on May 4, at 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville. 632-5555.

YOUTH AUDITIONS AT BEACH Players by the Sea holds auditions for middle and highschool-aged children at 2 p.m. on April 15 for its summer camp production of the musical “Once on This Island.”

The camp runs from June 11-30 and culminates in two performances on the main stage. The theater is located at 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach. 249-0289.

HIGH SCHOOLERS FOR PETER PAN The High School Summer Musical Theatre Experience seeks tumblers and gymnasts, orchestra musicians, actors, singers, dancers and technicians for its production of “Peter Pan,” running July 27-Aug. 5. Auditions are held from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on April 28 and 29 at Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville.

646-2347.

ST. AUGUSTINE MUSICAL SEEKS ACTORS Auditions are held for the interactive musical comedy “Bingo the Winning Musical” at 11 a.m. on April 22 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine. The cast calls for six females (ages 20-60) and one male (40s).

Bring 16 bars of an up-tempo, Broadway style song (no ballads), a recent headshot and résumé. The production runs from June 8-July 1. 825-1164.

FW ART SHOW SEEKS SUBMISSIONS The Folio Weekly Invitational Artist Exhibit seeks submissions of original works of art (paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculptures, mixed media) from May 21-June 10. Submit no more than three (3) pieces. Works are not to exceed 6’ tall x 4’ wide. Signed, hard copies or in-person deliveries will not be accepted.

Digital images of the completed work of art, with artist information (email/mail/phone, along with title/dimensions/ media/date for each piece), must be submitted to submissions@folioweekly.com. The show is held from Aug. 24-Dec. 2 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens.

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CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SEEKS ART Girl Scout Troop 531 and Wolfson Children’s Hospital are accepting original artwork and prints for their Rolling Artwork Library Cart. For details, email girlscouttroop531@ gmail.com. After April 20, email wchauxiliary@bmcjax.com STATE OF FLORIDA PUBLIC ART The 2012 Florida Public Art Year in Review accepts submissions through April 18 for the inaugural juried event.

For details and to submit work, go to callforentry.org JAZZ COMPETITION SEEKS PIANISTS The Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition accepts CD submissions for inclusion in this year’s competition, to be held on May 24 at The Florida Theatre. For details and guidelines, visit jaxjazzfest.com LATIN & BALLROOM DANCING LESSONS Boleros Dance Center features a dance class every Wed. at 10131 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville. Class fee for the sevenweek course is $130. 228-9931.

THEATRICAL ARTS Classes in theatrical performance, including song and dance, are held Mon.-Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Fees vary. 322-7672. theperformersacademy.com

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527-8694. thedanceshack.com MURRAY HILL ART CLASSES Six-week art classes for adults and children are held at The Murray Hill Art Center, 4327 Kerle St., Jacksonville. Adult classes are $80; $50 for children’s classes. 677-2787. artsjax.org

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Church, 849 Park St., Jacksonville. 355-4585.

INTERMEZZO SUNDAY CONCERT For Lawrence questions, This concert series features pianist Quinnett atplease call your advertising representative at 2:30 p.m. on April 15 at the Main Library’s Hicks PROOF Auditorium, IF POSSIBLE AT 268-3655 FAX YOUR 303 N. Laura St., Jacksonville. 630-2665.

WOODWINDS CONCERT promise of benefit sUpport Ask for Action JU student wind groups are featured at 3 p.m. on April 15 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville. 256-7677.

AN AFTERNOON OF MUSIC Soprano-pianist Nana Gelashvili and tenor Dr. Roger J. Geronomino are featured in a concert at 3 p.m. on April 15 at Flagler College’s Gamache-Koger Theater, Ponce de Leon Hall, 74 King St., St. Augustine. Admission is $15.

Proceeds benefit St. Augustine Youth Services. 794-1443, 829-6481.

FIRST COAST CHORALE This vocal ensemble performs classical and contemporary works at 5 p.m. on April 15 at St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 465 11th Ave. N., Jax Beach. 535-4779, 249-4091.

JAZZ VESPERS St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church holds candlelight Jazz Vespers at 5:30 p.m. on the third Sun. of each month, including April 15, at 37 Lovett St., St. Augustine. 829-8828.

CHORALE CONCERT Timothy Snyder directs the Jacksonville University Singers in a concert featuring works by Barber, Britten, Vecchi, Josquin and Lassus at 6 p.m. on April 15 at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Jacksonville. 387-5691.

STUDENT RECITALS AT JU Student recitals are held at 7:30 and 9 p.m. on April 16 and at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. on April 18 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N. 256-7677.

SPRING ORCHESTRA CONCERT The UNF Orchestra and LaVilla School for the Arts Chamber Orchestra perform at 7:30 p.m. at April 17 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville.

Tickets are $10. 620-2878.

JAZZ ON THE SOUTHSIDE The Jazzland Café features live music every Thur. from 6-9 p.m., every Fri. from 8 p.m. and every Sat. at 8 p.m. at 1324 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville. 249-1009.

JAZZ IN RIVERSIDE Live jazz is featured at 7 p.m. every Thur. at Kickbacks Gastropub, 910 King St., Jacksonville. 388-9551.

PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Jacksonville University piano students perform Mussorgsky’s classic work at 7:30 p.m. on April 10 at JU’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville.

256-7677.

FLAGLER COLLEGE SINGERS This singing group presents its spring concert at 6:30 p.m. on April 11 at Flagler College’s Rotunda, Ponce de Leon Hall, 74 King St., St. Augustine. 829-6481.

CLARINET RECITAL AT UNF Dr. Guy Yehuda conducts woodwind students from University of North Florida at 7:30 p.m. on April 11 at UNF’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. 620-2878.

JAZZ AT JU The Jazz Student and Faculty Jazz Concert is featured at 7:30 p.m. on April 11 at Jacksonville University’s Swisher Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville. 256-7677.

MULGREW MILLER WITH CARMEN BRADFORD Pianist Miller and vocalist Bradford are featured, along with a performance by students from UNF’s Jazz Ensemble, at 7:30 p.m. on April 12 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Hall, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville. Tickets are $22 and $30; $8 for students. 620-2878.

NORTH FLORIDA WOMEN’S CHORALE This 30-voice choir performs a concert of Latin American music at 7 p.m. on April 13 at Cathedral Basilica, 38 Cathedral Place, St. Augustine. 246-4152.

SPRING CHORAL FESTIVAL Dr. Cara Tasher conducts University of North Florida chorale groups at 7 p.m. on April 13 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 4171 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville. 737-8488.

PIANO AT FRIDAY MUSICALE Pianist Read Gainsford performs at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. on April 13 at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Jacksonville.

355-7584.

LIFE AND TIMES OF BEETHOVEN Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs chamber works and excerpts from Symphony No. 4 and Piano Concerto No. 3 at 7:30 p.m. on April 13 at the T-U Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville.

Tickets range from $19-35.

354-5547.

CELTIC HARP IN OLDEST CITY Celtic harpist Kathleen Finnegan performs at 2 p.m. on April 14 at Southeast Branch Library, 6670 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine. 827-6900.

JAZZ AT JAZZLAND The Jazzland Café presents Tiffany Green at 8 p.m. on April 13 and The John Lumpkin Trio at 8 p.m. on April 14 at 1324 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville. Admission each night is $10. 249-1009.

BEN FOLDS Singer-songwriter Folds performs with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. on April 14 at the T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 W. Water St., Jacksonville.

Tickets range from $30-$55.

354-5547.

TRIO AT UNITARIAN Violinist Swantje Biernacki, cellist Linda Minke and pianist Jeanne Huebner perform Elfirda Andrée’s “Piano Trio in G minor” at 10:45 a.m. on April 15 at Unitarian Universalist Church, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville.

725-8133.

MENDELSSOHN IN RIVERSIDE Andrew Clarke directs a 40-voice choir in a performance of Making the Nature “Seen”: The exhibit “Wild Florida,” featuring works by chorus and solo highlights from wildlife photographer Michael Cenci, is on display through May 14 at First Street Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” at 11 a.m. on April 15 at Riverside Presbyterian Gallery, 216-B First St., Neptune Beach. 241-6928.

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Spontaneous laughter is a sign of good health! The Mad Cowford Improv comedy troupe performs on April 14 and every Sat. at 8 p.m. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Jacksonville. Admission is $5. These local mirth-merchants also host comedy workshops and were the demented minds behind 2010’s locally produced mockumentary, “Gore-eography: The Making of Death Harmony.” 860-5451.

JAZZ AT TREE STEAKHOUSE Boril Ivanov Trio plays at 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum plays at 7 p.m. every Fri. at Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. 262-0006.

JAZZ AT GENNARO’S Live jazz at 7:30 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Gennaro’s Ristorante Italiano, 5472 First Coast Highway, Fernandina Beach. 491-1999.

JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Zac Chester performs on April 10, 13, 14 and 16-18, Jonathan Hooper plays on April 11 and 15, Aaron Marshall plays on April 12 and 13 and Ali CheRee and Amy Hendrickson perform on April 14. All sets start at 7 p.m. at Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie, 66 Hypolita St., St. Augustine. 825-0502.

ART WALKS & FESTIVALS ART & ABOUT This daylong event features arts and crafts vendors, live music, artist demonstrations, and kids’ activities from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on April 14 at Orange Park Town Hall, 2042 Park Ave. artguildoforangepark.com SECOND SATURDAY ARTRAGEOUS ART WALK The galleries of downtown Fernandina Beach are open from 5:30-8 p.m. on April 14 for this self-guided tour. 277-0717.

MID-WEEK MARKET Arts & crafts, local produce and live music are featured every Wed. from 3-6 p.m. at Bull Memorial Park, corner of East Coast Drive and Seventh Street, Atlantic Beach. 247-5800.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts & crafts and local produce are offered every Fri. from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive. 353-1188.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET The Arts Market is held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. beneath the Fuller Warren Bridge on Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville and features local and regional artists, strolling performers, bands and a farmers market. Admission is free.

554-6865, 389-2449. riversideartsmarket.com

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AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378. The exhibit “The Election Collection” runs through June. The permanent collection includes artifacts from Nassau County’s Spanish Mission period.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY CENTER 413 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville Beach, 241-5657. The exhibit “Jean Ribault and the French in 16th Century Florida: Rare Engravings and Historic Maps from the Michael and Dr. Linda Fisher Collection,” is on display from April 12-June 9.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. “Form and Figure,” featuring sculpture by Enzo Torcoletti and Joe Segal, is on display through April 13. The opening reception for the Spring Bachelor of Art and Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Portfolio Exhibition is held from 5-9 p.m. on April 19 and continues from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 20.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, 356-6857. “Impressionism and Post Impressionism from the High Museum of Art” is on display through May 6. “Richard Chamberlain: The Year of the Sheep” is displayed through July 8. “Beyond Ukiyo-e: Japanese Woodblock Prints and their influence on Western Art” runs through Aug. 9. “50 Forward: New Additions to the Permanent Collection” is on display through Aug. 15.

DOW MUSEUM OF HISTORIC HOUSES 149 Cordova St., St. Augustine, 823-9722. This historic site features nine houses dating from 1790 to 1910 along with a collection of artifacts and memorabilia.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Jacksonville, 356-2992. New works in watercolor and oil by Leigh Murphy are on display through April 27. “Civil War: The Beginning,” an exhibit of original letters and documents, is displayed through April 25. The permanent collection includes rare manuscripts. Open Tue.Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sat. from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874. Art, decorative arts and large collections of everything from china to seashells are on permanent display. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students. Ages 12 and younger are admitted free.

Open daily.

MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Road, Jacksonville, 268-0784. This museum at Walter Jones Historical Park features a maple leaf exhibit and is home to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Garden.

JACKSONVILLE MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER 2 Independent Drive, ste. 162, Jacksonville, 355-1101. The museum’s permanent collection includes steamboats and various nautical-themed art.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Jacksonville, 366-6911. The film “Creatively Speaking,” which chronicles the works of Nathalie Engdahl, Piotr Szewczyk and David Engdahl, is screened at 6 p.m. on April 12. Painter Carrie Ann Baade’s “Solar Midnight” is on display from April 12-May 27. The exhibit “Rainbow Artists,” featuring work created by autistic children from MOCA’s Rainbow Artists program, is featured through May 27.

“Project Atrium: Mark Licari” runs through July 8.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville, 396-6674. The BryanGooding Planetarium offers daily programs including children’s features, and weekend Cosmic Concerts.

Open daily.

RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Jacksonville, 632-5555. Amateur night auditions are held from 5-6:15 p.m. on April 12. Jazz vocalist Rachelle Ferrell performs at 8 p.m. on April 20.

Tickets are $40. An exhibit celebrating local AfricanAmerican athletes and sports figures, “More Than a Game: African-American Sports in Jacksonville, 1900-1975,” is currently on display. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for children, students and seniors. Open Tue.-Sun. ST. AUGUSTINE PIRATE AND TREASURE MUSEUM 12 S. Castillo Drive, St. Augustine. (877) 467-5863. This museum houses one of the largest collections of authentic pirate-related artifacts in the world, including the 17th century treasure chest of Captain Thomas Tew. ST. PHOTIOS GREEK ORTHODOX NATIONAL SHRINE 41 St. George St., St. Augustine, 829-8205. Dedicated to the first Greek people who came to America in 1768, the Shrine features artifacts along with Byzantine frescoes.

XIMENEZ-FATIO HOUSE MUSEUM 20 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 829-3575. This former 18thcentury boarding house offers tours as well as displays of historical artifacts.

GALLERIES 233 WEST KING 233 W. King St., St. Augustine, 910-8925. The exhibit “Bug Shots,” featuring the wildlife photography of Frank Berna, is on display through April.

ADRIAN PICKETT GALLERY 2 Independent Drive, Ste. 112, Jacksonville, 962-2540.

This artist-owned gallery features the charcoal works of Adrian Pickett.

ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 N. University Blvd., 256-7371.

The BFA Thesis Exhibition is displayed through May 2.

ARCHWAY GALLERY & FRAMING 363 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 2, Atlantic Beach, 249-2222.

Watercolors by Bonnie Yales are on display through April.

AVONDALE ARTWORKS 3568 St. Johns Ave., Jacksonville, 384-8797. Recent works

by Carole Mehrtens, Charlene Cross, Cookie Davis, Ken Stutes, Mac Truque, Myra Schick, Suzanne Strock, Ted Head and Trace Turner are on display through April.

THE ART CENTER PREMIERE GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Jacksonville, 355-1757. The group show “Space” is on display from April 12-May 17.

BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY/ BUTTERFIELD GARAGE TOO 137/137-C King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, 829-0078.

Recent work in stitching, weaving and dyeing by artists from FAN, the Fiber Artist Network, is featured through April 28.

CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ North Campus, 4501 Capper Road, Jacksonville, 632-3310. The Jacksonville Watercolor Society Spring Show is featured through April 27.

CORSE GALLERY & ATELIER 4144 Herschel St., Jacksonville, 388-8205. Recent paintings by Helen Farson, Leslie Thomas, Kevin Beilfuss and Eileen Corse are on display through April.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-0614. An exhibit of recent works by the Jacksonville Coalition for Visual Arts is on display from April 13-May 25.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. The exhibit “Wild Florida,” featuring works by wildlife photographer Michael Cenci, is displayed through May 14.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Road, Jacksonville. 535-7252. The show “Triple Threat,” featuring works by Matt Hebermehl, Michael Porten and Troy Wandzel, is shown through April 27.

GALLERY 1037 Located at Reddi-Arts, 1037 Hendricks Ave., Jacksonville, 398-3161. Recent works by Robert Leedy and Gary McElwee are on display through April.

HIGH TIDE GALLERY 51 Cordova St., St. Augustine, 829-6831. This gallery features works by 35 local artists including Kathy Frosio and Kyle Hunter Goodwin along with a selection of vintage surfboards.

JAXPORT GALLERY 2831 Talleyrand Ave., Jacksonville, 357-3052. The Jack Allen exhibit “Belts” is on display through May 3.

J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jacksonville Beach, 435-3200. The exhibit “Tripping the Line Fantastic,” featuring drawings by Tony Orrico and Barbara Sorenson, is on display from April 13-June 8.

P.A.ST.A FINE ARTS GALLERY 214 Charlotte St., St. Augustine, 824-0251. An exhibit of recent pen-and-ink drawings by Joseph Calabria is shown through April.

PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069. The exhibit “Spring Show,” featuring works by Angelika S. Luginbuhl, John Beard, Rebecca Mutz, Susanna Richter-Helman and Karen Sheridan, is featured through April.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. The exhibit “Regional Artists from the Tail End of St. Johns County,” featuring works by A.E. (Beanie) Backus, Joe Taylor, Charles Dickinson and Eddie White, is featured through May 6.

SIMPLE GESTURES GALLERY 4 E. White St., St. Augustine, 827-9997. Eclectic works by Steve Marrazzo are featured.

SOUTH GALLERY FSCJ’s South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, 646-2023. The Florida State College at Jacksonville Student Annual exhibit runs April 16-27. The awards ceremony is held at 6:30 p.m. on April 18.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 6 E. Bay St., Jacksonville, 553-6361. Tony Wood is the featured artist for April.

SPACE:EIGHT GALLERY 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838. Mitch O’Connell’s exhibit “Good Times” is displayed through May 30.

ST. JOHNS CULTURAL COUNCIL 370 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine, 471-9980. The exhibit “Clyde Butcher – Black and White Photography” is on display through April 17. “Music Movement and Signs” is on display through May 22.

STELLERS GALLERY AT SAN MARCO 1409 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville, 396-9492. An exhibit of paintings by John Bunker is on display through April.

STUDIO 121 121 W. Forsyth St., Ste. 100, Jacksonville, 292-9303. This artist cooperative features work by Tony Wood, Mary St. Germain, Terese Muller, Robert Leedy, Paul Ladnier, Joyce Gabiou and Doug Eng. VILLAGE GALLERY AND FRAMING 358B Stiles Ave., Orange Park. 264-7151. Recent works

by Sonya Cox, Carolyn Ann Day and Heidi Larson Lane are featured through April.

WATERWHEEL ART GALLERY 819 S. Eighth St., Fernandina Beach, 261-2535. An exhibit of recent paintings by Millie Martin is featured through April.

W.B. TATTER STUDIO GALLERY 76 A San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 823-9263. The latest Steampunk work by sculptor Jim Smith is on display through April.

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“I look just like Buddy Holly!” Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents “Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story” on April 11-15 and 17 at 8 p.m., on April 14 at 1:15 p.m. and on April 15 at 2 p.m. at 12000 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets range from $42-$49. The Tony-winning musical tells the story of the pioneering rock-and-roll legend who inspired such ardent fans as John Lennon and Weezer. The musical runs through June 3. 641-1212.

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ne of the most interesting and intense graphic novels I’ve read in a while is certainly “My Friend Dahmer” by John “Derf ” Backderf.

The book was a tremendous surprise to me, as it apparently has been for many readers. Since 2012 its publication on March 1, the book has been praised by everyone from Robert Crumb to Publisher’s Weekly and hit the bestseller list, pushing it into a second print run.

The award-winning Derf is one of the most widely published cartoonists in the U.S., with his weekly strip “The City” appearing in over 50 publications, including Folio Weekly. Over the course of 224 pages, “My Friend Dahmer” depicts the author’s teenage friendship with the future serial killer in suburban Ohio in the ’70s.

I really didn’t expect this book to make me feel empathy for one of the most evil men and notorious serial killers in American history, but “My Friend Dahmer” did the impossible.

While never sympathizing with Dahmer or his barbaric acts, Derf somehow makes an apparent monster seem a little more human.

And that is surely some kind of art. Folio Weekly spoke to Derf about his relationship with the teenage Dahmer.

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Folio Weekly: The original “My Friend Dahmer” received a decent amount of notoriety over the years. What made you decide to revisit the story and retell it as a long-form graphic novel?

Derf Backderf: That was always the plan! The history of this project goes back even further. It started out as sketchbook drawings and notes, immediately after Dahmer’s arrest in July 1991.

The story languished in sketchbook form until after he was killed in late 1994. Only then did I start drawing stories, six short stories over the next two years. One of these wound up in the anthology comic “Zero Zero” in 1997.

This generated some buzz in the comics press, so I then wrote a 100-page graphic novel.

This wasn’t much like the new book, which is over twice as long. It was very episodic, just a collection of short stories really, that documented what I knew at that time. I hadn’t done any research at all. It was just a straight memoir written off the top of my head. But

the original comic book, much to my surprise, turned into something of a cult classic.

F.W.: I was moved by the quite ordinary way you and your friends dealt with Dahmer when you were in high school together in the ’70s. At the time, how much did you realize that “Jeff ” was so crazy?

D.B.: We knew he was a freaky kid. There were chunks of this guy’s humanity that were missing at a very young age, and I noted that at the time, without really understanding what that meant, but I didn’t realize that he was a dangerous kind of freaky until the end of our friendship as high school wound down. And that was mainly because of the drinking, which was very dark and disturbing. At that point, I pushed him away, as did, one by one, my other friends. I’m grateful for those instincts, as unformed as they were.

F.W.: What do you think makes people so interested in hearing the real story of what a person like Dahmer was like?

D.B.: People are fascinated with the monsters that walk among us. How many books have been written about Jack the Ripper? What makes Dahmer particularly intriguing is that his origins are so very normal. Nice home, happy upbringing, at least when he was young, good schools, a quaint little hometown, everything. Yet from somewhere deep in his psyche, this evil gurgled up and took over his life completely. There was no reason for it. He could have been you or me.

F.W.: Looking back, is there anything that you or your friends think you could have done to help Jeff ?

D.B.: Oh, that’s hard to say with any certainty.

I think if his fate was solely in the hands of a group of small-town, teenage band nerds, then his future was inevitable. The question I ask, and have always asked, is: Where were the adults?

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This is an edited version of an interview that originally appeared on comicsbulletin.com

Spin Out! The Velo Fest gets into gear with a Community Bike Parade and Neighborhood Festival on April 13 at 5:30 p.m. on Castillo Drive, St. Augustine, ending at Flagler College West Lawn, downtown St. Augustine. Races on April 14 start at 7 a.m. The festival is held from 2-8 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, featuring live music, beer, and cycling fun. velofest.org

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COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES The Flagler College Community Lecture Series “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Glory: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of War” presents Tracey Eaton at 10 a.m. on April 10 in the college’s Flagler Room, 74 King St., St. Augustine. Eaton discusses “Afghanistan: Pursuing the Taliban.” Tickets are $5. Active military personnel may attend at no charge. For reservations, call 819-6282. flagler.edu SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH The Women’s Center of Jacksonville, the City of Jacksonville, and social service and victim-serving agencies meet at Hemming Plaza, 135 W. Monroe St., Jacksonville, at 10 a.m. on April 12 speak out about the impact of sexual violence.

Participants include the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office for the 4th Judicial Circuit of Florida, the Office of Mayor Alvin Brown, Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Naval Station Mayport. 722-3000. womenscenterofjax.org PAINT THE TOWN! Art with a Heart in Healthcare presents this evening of silent auctions, dining, music and dancing under the stars at 6:30 p.m. on April 13 at The Central Park of Pablo Creek Reserve, 5050 San Pablo Road S., Jacksonville. Tickets are $100. All proceeds benefit child services at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Nemours Children’s Clinic and Ronald McDonald House.

Tickets can be purchased at artwithaheart.info.

ART & ABOUT The third annual free neighborhood fine arts and music festival is held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on April 14 at Orange Park Town Hall, 2042 Park Ave. Artists of all mediums will display their arts and crafts. Performances by Orange Park School of Music, Yankee Slickers, Voodoo Soop, The Michael Kelly Strings, Sarah Sanders, Diminished Faculties and Nameless Guardian are featured. KIDtivities stations offer children’s hands-on art activities. artguildoforangepark.com BOARDWALK BASH The Boardwalk Bash is held from 5-8 p.m. on April 13 and every Fri. through Aug. 31 at The Spa & Shops at Omni Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island. 432-2202. omniameliaislandplantation.com COSMIC CONCERTS Laser shows include Laser Beatles at 7 p.m., Laser U2 at 8 p.m., Laser Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon at 9 p.m. and Laser Jimmy Buffett, Parrothead Party at 10 p.m. on April 13 in Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville. Online tickets are $5. 396-7062. moshplanetarium.org LINCOLNVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET The weekly market, held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. every Sun. at 399 Riberia St., St. Augustine, offers local and organic produce, baked goods, coffees, cheeses, prepared foods, crafts and jewelry at the south end of Lincolnville in Eddie Vickers Park. There’s a community garden, too. lincolnvillefarmersmarket.com FERNANDINA FARMERS MARKET Farm-direct produce is offered from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on April 14 and every Sat. through June 30 (except May 5) at the market, on the corner of Centre and Seventh streets, Fernandina Beach. Organic products, specialty foods, gourmet baked goods, jellies, relishes and marinades, and plants, including orchids, herbs and garden flowers are featured. fernandinafarmersmarket.com OLD CITY FARMERS MARKET Fresh produce, baked goods, plants, fresh seafood and even banjo pickers are on hand every weekend at the St. Augustine Amphitheater on A1A South in St. Augustine from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. every Sat. Admission is free. staugustinefm.com

POLITICS, BUSINESS & ACTIVISM

FRIENDS OF STUDY CIRCLES This recently formed nonprofit board’s inaugural kickoff meeting is held at 6:30 p.m. on April 10 at Unitarian Universalist Church, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville.

The film “Bullied: a student, a school and a case that made history,” is shown and then discussed. Admission is free.

923-6468.

ARMA MEETING Association of Records Managers and Administrators meet at 11:30 a.m. on April 17 at San Jose Country Club, 7529 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. Former Chapter President and Chairman of the Board, Tony Atkins, discusses Imaging Solutions, a constant concern for records administrators.

274-3341.

YULEE AREA COUNCIL This group gets together at 8:30 a.m. on April 10 at Chick-fil-A, 464004 S.R. 200, Yulee. Admission is free. islandchamber.com CHAMBER BEFORE HOURS The Ponte Vedra Chamber of Commerce gets together at 7:30 a.m. on April 11 at The Player’s Café, 262 Solana Road, Ponte Vedra. Admission is $7.50 for members, $10 for nonmembers. 285-2004.

SMALL BUSINESS COUNSELING Cathy Hagan, Certified Business Analyst with University of North Florida’s Small Business Development Center, meets with Northeast Florida business owners one-onone to discuss business planning, marketing and cash flow management from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on April 11 at AIFBY Chamber of Commerce, 961687 Gateway Blvd., Ste. 101G, Amelia Island. Admission is free. To schedule an appointment, call (800) 450-4624.

SOUTHSIDE BUSINESS MEN’S CLUB Jeff Bouchy, Jacksonville Sharks Arena Football, is the featured speaker at 11:30 a.m. on April 11 at San Jose Country Club, 7529 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. Admission is $20. For reservations, call 396-5559.

UNF SMALL BUSINESS CLASS Acquisition Conference & Trade Show is held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 12 at Small Business Development Center at University of North Florida, 12000 Alumni Dr., Jacksonville.

Government Contracting 101 is held from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. on April 18; fee of $40. 620-2476. sbdc.unf.edu JACKSONVILLE JOURNEY The oversight committee of this crime-fighting initiative meets at 4 p.m. on April 19 in Eighth Floor Conference Room 851, Ed Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St., Jacksonville. 630-7306.

LEGAL AID FREE CLINICS Jacksonville Area Legal Aid offers free clinics (no appointment needed) at 126 W. Adams St., Jacksonville.

Topics are: Bankruptcy at 5 p.m. on the first Thur. each month; Consumer Rights at 5 p.m. on third Wed.; Emancipation at 5 p.m. on the first Wed.; Child Support Modification at 5:30 p.m. on the second Thur. of each month; Dissolution of Marriage at 5:30 p.m. on the fourth Thur. of each month; Foreclosure and Home Ownership clinic at 5 p.m. on the second Wed. of the month; Custody/ Timesharing/Paternity at 5:30 p.m. on the third Tue. of the month. Small Claims Court at 5:30 p.m. on the second Tue. of each month at Duval County Courthouse, 330 E. Bay St., Room 505, Jacksonville. In Nassau County, a Consumer Law Clinic is offered at the Nassau County Courthouse in Yulee. A sign-up is required; call (904) 356-8371, ext. 307. jaxlegalaid.org

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BOOKS & WRITING

RIK FEENEY River City/Florida Writers present author Feeney at 7 p.m. on April 10 at Southeast Regional Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd., Jacksonville. He discusses “How to Sell Your Book in 30 Seconds.” 996-0325.

MS. MANHOOD Local author Ms. Manhood signs copies of the book, “Six Months of Manhood: Your Business Plan to Getting Women,” at 6:30 p.m. on April 11 at Cliff’s Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Road, Jacksonville. 645-5162. sixmonthsofmanhood.com D.G. STERN Author Stern signs copies of his new book, “There’s Always Tomorrow,” and books from his young readers’ Upton Charles Dog Detective series, at 1 p.m. on April 14 at Barnes & Noble, 10280 Midtown Parkway, St. Johns Town Center. Upton, a very smart Bichon Frise, signs his “pawtograph.” 928-2027.

CHARLES MARTIN Bestselling author Martin talks about and signs copies of his new novel, “Thunder and Rain,” at 7 p.m. on April 14 at The BookMark, 200 First St., Neptune Beach. 241-9026.

WRITING CRITIQUE First Coast Romance Writers offer this writers’ event from 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. on April 14 at West Regional Library, 1425 Chaffee Road, Jacksonville. Madeline Martin discusses “How to Use a Critique.” firstcoastromancewriters.com WRITERS CRITIQUE GROUP The group meets from 6-8:30 p.m. on the first Tue. each month at Mandarin Library, 3330 Kori Road, Jacksonville.

Admission is free. 428-4681. cdspublicity.com

COMEDY

SHAUN JONES Allstars at 8 p.m. on April 10. Shaun Jones appears at 8 p.m. on April 11, 12 and 13 and at 8 and 10 p.m. on April 14 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Road, Ramada Inn, Jacksonville.

Tickets are $6-$17. 292-4242.

SQUARE ONE STANDUP Moses West and Herman Nazworth host standup and spoken word at 9 p.m. every Tue. at Square One, 1974 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville. 306-9004.

JACKIE KNIGHT’S COMEDY CLUB Darryl Rhoades appears at 8:30 p.m. on April 13 and 14 at 3009 N. Ponce de Leon Blvd., St. Augustine. Tickets are $8 and $12. 461-8843.

UPCOMING

JAX ROLLER GIRLS DOUBLEHEADER April 21, UNF Arena SLOW FOOD FIRST COAST TOUR DE FARM April 22 BILL COSBY April 29, T-U Center’s Moran Theater TASTE OF TALENT 2012 May 5, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd RIVER CITY CHALLENGE May 5, Downtown Jacksonville THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP May 5-13, TPC Sawgrass SLASH May 9, The Florida Theatre WILCO May 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre

NATURE, SPORTS, OUTDOORS

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CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT Len Ministries charity golf tournament is held at 11:30 a.m. on April 13 at St. Johns Golf & Country Club, 205 St. Johns Golf Drive, St. Augustine. Proceeds benefit City Rescue Mission and Kairos Prison Ministry. 535-8507. lenministries.org DON’S FRIENDS 5K RUN & FUN FEST The third annual Don’s Friends 5K Fun fest kicks off with a disco party and costume contest from 5-9 p.m. on April 13 at St. Augustine Beach Pier, 350 A1A S. Race day starts with a 5K Run/Walk at 8:30 a.m. and a Standup Paddleboard Race at 11:30 a.m. on April 14. A cook-off, beer tent and kids’ activities are featured. Proceeds benefit the Don Ausman Foundation’s Alternative Break program. 687-5939. donsfriend.com TRAIL WALK GTM volunteer Tom Barry leads a 1.5 mile walk from 8:3010:30 a.m. on April 14 at the Environmental Education Center, 505 Guana River Road, Ponte Vedra. Meet at the trailhead pavilion. Wear comfortable closed-toe shoes. There is a $3 per vehicle parking fee. Reservations are required; call 823-4500.

YOUTH GROUP TOURNAMENT Registration for the golf tournament is at 11 a.m., shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. on April 14 at Country Club of Orange Park, 2525 Country Club Blvd. Admission is $100; proceeds benefit Cross Road Lutheran Church Youth Group. Putting and holein-one contests are featured. 505-8537. jaxgolfmag.com VELO FEST Community Bike Parade and Neighborhood Festival is held at 5:30 p.m. on April 13 on Castillo Drive, St. Augustine, ending at Flagler College West Lawn, downtown St. Augustine. Races start at 7 a.m. on April 14 in the historic district. The festival is held from 2-8 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, featuring live music, beer, and cycling fun. velofest.org RHYTHMIC CHAMPIONSHIPS First Coast Art and Sports Club hosts the 2012 Florida State

Rhythmic Championships on April 14 and 15 at World Class Gymnastics, 9545-1 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville. Admission is $8 for one day; $12 for both days. 254-8738. For a schedule and details, go to 2012floridastatechampionships. shutterfly.com.

WALK MS: FIRST COAST/ST. AUGUSTINE This 5K fundraiser is held on April 14 at 10 a.m. (8 a.m. check-in) at A. Philip Randolph Blvd., near the Historical Society, Jacksonville and at 5 p.m. (4 p.m. check-in) at R.B. Hunt Elementary School, 125 Magnolia Drive, St. Augustine.

Funds raised benefit the National MS Society, North Florida Chapter and go toward research, programs and services for the 18,000 people affected by multiple sclerosis in Northeast Florida. 332-6810. walkfln.nationalmssociety.org FISHING TOURNAMENT The fourth annual St. Johns Builders Council tournament is held at 6 a.m. on April 14 at Camachee Cove Marina, 3030 Harbor Drive, St. Augustine. Prizes, a cookout, drinks and live music are featured. Proceeds benefit Habitat for Humanity. stjohnsbuilderscouncil.com PET PALS WALK/RUN & FEST The annual event is held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on April 14 at Dog Wood Park, 7407 Salisbury Road, Jacksonville. Contests, games, and a fashion show are featured. proceeds benefit First Coast No More Homeless Pets.

BEACHES FINE ARTS SERIES DUATHLON The BFAST DU, featuring a new course, is held at 8 a.m. on April 15 at Nocatee Aquatic Center, 245 Little River Road, Ponte Vedra. The two-mile run, 13-mile bike ride and then another two-mile run. Proceeds from these fundraising races benefit the free concerts and educational outreach programs of Beaches Fine Arts Series, a nonprofit, 501-c3 organization.

Register online at active.com. 247-6570. bfasracing.org RUNNING THE BLUES The 22nd annual beaches 5K walk/run is held at 9:30 a.m. on April 14 on the beach, starting and finishing in front of the Red Cross Lifesaving Station at the east end of Beach Boulevard in Jax Beach. active.com JACKSONVILLE SUNS The local Southern League team continues its homestand against the Chattanooga Lookouts at 7:05 p.m. on April 10 and 13, 1:05 p.m. on April 11, 7:35 p.m. on April 12, and 6:05 p.m. on April 14 at the Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Jacksonville. Tickets are $7.50-$22.50. 358-2846. jaxsuns.com RUMBLE IN THE ANCIENT CITY Deadgame Fight School and the U.S. Marines present this Mixed Martial Arts event, featuring 15 MMA fights — including two title bouts — at 6 p.m. (doors at 5 p.m.) on April 14 at Ketterlinus Gym, 60 Orange St., St. Augustine. Tickets start at $20. Proceeds benefit St. Johns County Parks & Rec programs. 982-0099. rumbleintheancientcity.com FLORIDA SEA TURTLES Learn about the lifecycle of the sea turtle at 2 p.m. on April 14 at the multi-use trail pavilion, south beach area on Little Talbot Island, 12157 Heckscher Drive, Jacksonville. No reservations are necessary and the program is free with regular park admission. 251-2320. floridastateparks.org LEARN TO ROW Jacksonville Rowing Club offers classes in sweep rowing starting on May 5 at 9 a.m. on Sat. and Sun. No experience or equipment is necessary. Adult memberships and youth programs available. 304-8500. jaxrow.org PING PONG TOURNAMENT A ping-pong tournament is held at 7 p.m. every Tue. at Green Room Brewing, 228 Third St. N., Jax Beach. 201-9283.

COMMUNITY INTEREST

HEALTHY LIVING WORKSHOP SERIES The Women’s Center of Jacksonville offers this free workshop series from 6-8:30 p.m. on April 11 at 5644 Colcord Ave., Jacksonville. The series is held every Wed. through May 16.

To register, call 722-3000 ext. 227.

SEA TURTLE PATROL VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION The season kickoff meeting and volunteer orientation is held from 6-8:45 p.m. on April 12 at Beaches Branch Library, 600 Third St., Neptune Beach. 613-6081.

WINE TASTING BENEFIT the Ponte Vedra Woman’s Club holds a wine tasting from 5:30-7 p.m. on April 12 at Urban Flats, 330 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach. Tickets are $25. proceeds benefit local charities and scholarship programs. 687-5286.

NAACP MEETING This group gathers at 7 p.m. on April 12 at 1725 Oakhurst Ave., Jacksonville. 764-7578. jaxnaacp@comcast.net AN OLD CITY GARDEN EVENT The annual fundraiser is held at 6 p.m. on April 13 at Dow Museum of Historic Houses, 149 Cordova St, St. Augustine.

Food, live music and live and silent auctions are featured.

Admission is $25. Proceeds benefit St. Johns County Youth and the 4-H Youth Development Program. 209-0430. stjohns. ifas.ufl.edu/4-H.shtml JUNIOR LEAGUE SCAVENGER HUNT The Jacksonville Junior League holds its annual River City Hunt at 1 p.m. on April 14 at Junior League of Jacksonville’s Riverside House, 2165 Park St. Proceeds benefit JLJ programs. Register at jljacksonville.org

FARM DAYS The Florida Agricultural Museum celebrates Florida farming and rural traditions from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 14 and 15 at 7900 Old Kings Road, Palm Coast. Canning, tractor pulls, craft demonstrations, hands-on activities, cast-iron cooking, horses and cows are featured. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for kids.

(386) 446-7630. myagmuseum.com COA FASHION SHOW Old Hollywood is the theme for this fourth annual show held at 12:30 p.m. on April 14 at Marsh Creek Country Club, 169 Marshside Drive, St. Augustine. Raffles, door prizes and entertainment by Lee Weaver are featured. Tickets are $25.

Proceeds benefit COA programs. 209-3687.

ROSE LOVERS’ GATHERING The fourth annual free gathering is held from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on April 14 at Angel Gardens, 14228 N.W. 222 Place, Alachua.

(352) 359-1133.

RIVERKEEPER HAIR CUT-A-THON This fundraiser is held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on April 15 at Panache, 2758 Racetrack Road, Ste. 403, Julington Creek. Stylists have donated their time to offer $15 hair cuts and services including any haircut for men, women and children with full style and care consultation, shampoo and conditioning treatment, stress-relieving head and neck treatment, haircut, blow-dry and style. Proceeds benefit the St. Johns Riverkeeper, a local non-profit that works on behalf of the community for clean and healthy waters in the St. Johns River. 209-1320. getpanache.com BARK IN THE PARK The Safe Animal Shelter holds its third annual Bark in the Park from 1-5 p.m. on April 15 at Orange Park Town Hall Park, 2042 Park Ave. Music, a pooch parade, a bake sale, contests and prizes, demonstrations by Clay County Sheriff’s Canine Unit and Southeastern Guide Dogs Puppy Raisers, doggie treats and a party favor for canine participants are featured. The suggested donation is $5 per pet. animalrescuemovement.org BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION The Jacksonville Beekeepers Association swarms together at 7 p.m. on April 16 at Duval County Agricultural Center, 1010 N. McDuff Ave. Ken Roden, Operations Supervisor of Duval Mosquito Control Division, discusses spraying and Ray Claxton, Assistant Apiary Inspector, discusses what the options are when the hive queen is missing. Individual membership is $15 and family membership is $20.

768-3484. jaxbees.com CIS NASSAU BENEFIT “The Kindness of Strangers” Party and Play are held at 7 p.m. on April 17 at Amelia Community Theatre, 209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach. A performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” is at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50. Proceeds benefit Communities In Schools Nassau County programs. 321-2000. cisnassau.org

KIDS

PRE-K DAY AT MOSH Special programming for preschool-aged children (ages 3 and older) and their caregivers is offered from 9-11 a.m. on April 11 at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Jacksonville. Admission is $5, which includes a 10 a.m. planetarium show, “The Little Star That Could.” 396-6674 ext.

226. themosh.org ST. JOHNS COUNTY LIBRARY PROGRAMS Storytimes for babies and toddlers are every Tue. at Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Sea Grove Main St., St. Augustine, 209-3730.

CLASSES & GROUPS

SPRING GARDENING WORKSHOP Duval County Extension Office/UF IFAS holds this workshop from 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on April 11 at Mandarin Garden Club, 2892 Loretto Road, Jacksonville. Tips to save water, plants for color and shade gardening are discussed. Fee is $5. A class on Pressure Canning of Green Beans is held at 9 a.m. on April 14 at Jacksonville Canning Center, 2525 Commonwealth Ave., at a fee of $20. To register, call 255-7450.

BUTTERFLY GARDENING 101 Learn the basics of butterfly gardening from a Florida Master Naturalist at 1 p.m. on April 14 at Tree Hill Nature Center, 7152 Lone Star Road, Jacksonville. Fee is $5 for members; $10 for non-members. 724-4646. treehill.org FREETHOUGHT SOCIETY The group meets at 6:30 p.m. on April 16 at Unitarian Universalist Church, 7405 Arlington Expressway, Jacksonville. Dr. David Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida, discusses “The Politics of Harry Potter.” 419-8826. firstcoastfreethoughtsociety.org TOAST OF JAX TOASTMASTERS CLUB This group gathers every Sat. at Ramada Inn, 3130 Hartley Road, Jacksonville. 707-7158. toastofjax.org CLUTTER WORKSHOP Conquer Your Clutter is held from 1:30-2:40 p.m. on April 12, 16 and 19 at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2487 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine Beach. Class fee is $45 in advance, $50 at the door. thedeclutterdiva.com BUDDHIST CENTER Prayers for World Peace are from 1011:30 a.m. every Sun. at Maitreya Kadampa Buddhist Center, 85 Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach. Meditation is held at 7 p.m. every Mon. Chanted prayers and meditations are at 7 p.m. every Wed. 222-8531. Meditation and Practical Buddhist Teaching is at 6:30 p.m. every Mon. at Discovery Yoga, 3 Davis St., St. Augustine, 222-8531. Fee is $9; $5 for students.

Meditations for Relaxation and Healing is at 12:15 p.m. every Wed. at The Elements, 12795 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville, 619-1587. Fee is $5. MeditationInJacksonville.org NAMI SUPPORT GROUP National Alliance on Mental Illness meets from 7-8:30 p.m. every first and third Thur. each month at Ortega United Methodist Church, 4807 Roosevelt Blvd., Jacksonville. Admission is free. 389-5556. ortegaumc.org DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT GROUP The DBSA support group meets from 5:30-7 p.m. every Wed. at River Point Behavioral Health’s Outpatient Building, 6300 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville. 343-6511 or 964-9743.

Q-GROUP ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS This free, open discussion is held at 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri. at Quality Life Center, 11265 Alumni Way, Jacksonville. alcoholicanonymous.org DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE This support group meets from 6-7:30 p.m. every Tue. at Baptist Medical Center, 800 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville. For more information, call 616-6264 or 294-5720.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Do you have a drug problem?

Maybe they can help. 358-6262, 723-5683. serenitycoastna. org, firstcoastna.org NICOTINE ANONYMOUS (NIC-A) Want to quit smoking or using other forms of nicotine? Nic-A is free, and you don’t have to quit to attend the meetings, held at 6:30 p.m. every Wed. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1415 S. McDuff Ave., Westside. 404-6044. nicotineanonymous.org NAR-A-NON This group meets at 8 p.m. every Tue. and Thur. at 4172 Shirley Ave., Avondale. 945-7168.

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Try the punch! Deadgame Fight School and the U.S. Marines present the Mixed Martial Arts event, “Rumble in the Ancient City,” featuring 15 MMA fights — including two title bouts — at 6 p.m. (doors at 5 p.m.) on April 14 at Ketterlinus Gym, 60 Orange St., St. Augustine. Tickets start at $20. Proceeds benefit St. Johns County Parks & Rec programs. 982-0099. rumbleintheancientcity.com

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DINING GUIDE KEY

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE

(In Fernandina Beach unless otherwise noted.)

THE BEECH STREET GRILL Fine dining in a casual atmosphere. The menu includes fresh local seafood, steaks and pasta dishes created with a variety of ethnic influences.

Award-winning wine list. FB. L, Wed.-Fri.; D, nightly; Sun. brunch. 801 Beech St. 277-3662. $$$ BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ F At the foot of Centre Street, the upscale restaurant overlooks the Harbor Marina. The menu includes daily specials, fresh Florida seafood and an extensive wine list. FB. L & D, daily. 1 S. Front St. 261-2660. $$$ BRIGHT MORNINGS The small café offers freshly baked goods. B & L daily. 105 S. Third St. 491-1771. $$ CAFÉ 4750 Chef de Cuisine Garrett Gooch offers roasted sea bass, frutti di mare soup, clam linguini, fresh gelatos. Dine inside or on the terrace. FB. B, L & D, daily. The Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Amelia Island. 277-1100. $$$ CAFÉ KARIBO F Eclectic cuisine, served under the oaks in historic Fernandina, features sandwiches and chef’s specials.

Alfresco dining. FB. L & D, Tue.-Sat.; L, Sun. & Mon. 27 N. Third St. 277-5269. $$ CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY F European-style breads, pastries, croissants, muffins and pies baked daily. 1014 Atlantic Ave. 491-4663. $ EIGHT Contemporary sports lounge offers burgers, sandwiches, wings and nachos. FB. D, Mon.-Fri.; L & D, Fri. & Sat. The Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Amelia Island.

277-1100. $$ FERNANDELI F Classics with a Southern touch, like a onethird-pound devil dog, Reubens and pulled pork. Sandwiches and wraps built to order from fresh cold cuts, tuna, egg and turkey salads. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 17B S. Eighth St. 261-0008. $ GENNARO’S RISTORANTE ITALIANO F Southern Italian cuisine: pasta, gourmet ravioli, hand-tossed pizzas. Specialties are margharita pizza and shrimp feast. Bread is baked on-site.

CM, BW. L & D, daily. 5472 First Coast Highway, Amelia Island, 491-1999. $$ HALFTIME SPORTS BAR & GRILL F Sports bar fare includes onion rings, spring rolls, burgers, wraps and wings. Plenty of TVs show nearly every sport imaginable. BW. L & D, daily. 320 S. Eighth St. 321-0303. $ HAPPY TOMATO COURTYARD CAFE & BBQ Pulled pork sandwich, chicken salad and walnut chocolate chunk cookie, served in a laid-back atmosphere. BW. CM. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 7 S. Third St. 321-0707. $$ JACK & DIANE’S F Casual cafe offers steak & eggs, pancakes, Cajun scampi, etouffée, curry pizza, vegan black bean cakes, shrimp & grits, hand-carved steaks. FB. B, L & D, daily. 708 Centre St. 321-1444. $$ JOE’S 2ND STREET BISTRO Elegant island atmosphere. NY strip steak with sauces, Maine crab cakes, seafood fricassee and roast chicken penne pasta. BW. CM. D, nightly. 14 S. Second St. 321-2558. $$$ KABUKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR F Teppanyaki masters create your meal; plus a 37-item sushi bar. BW. D, Tue.-Sun. Amelia Plaza. 277-8782. $$ KELLEY’S COURTYARD CAFE F She crab soup, salads, fried green tomatoes, sandwiches and wraps are served indoors or out on the patio. Vegetarian dishes are also offered. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 19 S. Third St. 432-8213. $ LULU’S AT THE THOMPSON HOUSE F An innovative lunch menu includes po’boys and seafood “little plates” served in a historic house. Dinner features fresh local seafood. Nightly specials. BW. L & D, Tue.-Sat., brunch on Sun. Reservations recommended. 11 S. Seventh St. 432-8394. $$ MONTEGO BAY COFFEE CAFE Locally owned and operated, with specialty coffees, fruit smoothies. Dine in or hit the drivethru. B & L, Mon.-Sat. 463363 S.R. 200, Yulee. 225-3600. $ MOON RIVER PIZZA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Northernstyle pizza by the pie or the slice. Choose from more than 20 toppings. Owner-selected wines and a large beer selection.

BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 925 S. 14th St. 321-3400. $ THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE Organic eatery, juice bar. Extensive menu features vegetarian, vegan items. Daily specials: local seafood, free-range chicken, fresh organic produce. CM. B & L, Mon.-Sat. 833 TJ Courson Rd. 277-3141. $$ O’KANE’S IRISH PUB F Rustic, genuine Irish pub up front, eatery in back, featuring daily specials, fish-n-chips, and soups served in a sourdough bread bowl. FB. L & D, Mon.-Sun. 318 Centre St. 261-1000. $$ PEPPER’S MEXICAN GRILL & CANTINA F The family restaurant offers authentic Mexican cuisine. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 520 Centre St. 272-2011. $$ PICANTE GRILL ROTISSERIE BAR F Flavors of Peru and Latin America are in the dishes served in a modern

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atmosphere. Authentic Peruvian cebiche and homestyle empanadas. BW, CM, TO. L & D tue sat. 464073 S.R. 200, Ste. 2, Yulee. 310-9222. $$ PLAE *Bite Club Certified! In Omni Amelia Island Plantation’s Spa & Shops, the cozy venue offers an innovative and PLAEful dining experience. L, Tue.-Sat.; D, nightly. 277-2132. $$$ SALT, THE GRILL Best of Jax 2011 winner. Elegant dining featuring local seafood and produce, served in a contemporary coastal setting. FB. D, Tue.-Sat. The Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Amelia Island. 491-6746. $$$$ SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL F Oceanfront dining; local seafood, shrimp, crab cakes, outdoor beachfront tiki & raw bar, covered deck and kids’ playground. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 1998 S. Fletcher Ave. 277-6652. $$ THE SURF F Dine inside or on the large oceanview deck.

Steaks, fresh fish, shrimp, nightly specials. Late-night menu.

FB. L & D, daily. 3199 S. Fletcher Ave. 261-5711. $$ TASTY’S FRESH BURGERS & FRIES F The name pretty much says it all. Tasty’s offers burgers (Angus beef, turkey or veggie) and fries (like cheese fries, sweet potato fries), along with dogs, shakes, floats and soup. L & D, Mon.-Sat. CM, BW. 710 Centre St. 321-0409. $ T-RAY’S BURGER STATION F A favorite local spot; Best of Jax 2011 winner. Grilled or blackened fish sandwiches, homemade burgers. BW, TO. B & L, Mon.-Sat. 202 S. Eighth St. 261-6310. $ 29 SOUTH EATS F Part of historic Fernandina Beach’s downtown scene. Award-winning Chef Scotty serves traditional world cuisine with a modern twist. L, Tue.-Sat.; D, Mon.-Sat.; Sun. brunch. 29 S. Third St. 277-7919. $$

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

EAST COAST BUFFET F A 160+ item Chinese, Japanese, American and Italian buffet. Dine in, take out. FB. L & D, Mon.Sat.; Sun. brunch. 9569 Regency Sq. Blvd. N. 726-9888. $$ KABUTO JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR Steak & shrimp, filet mignon & lobster, shrimp & scallops, a sushi bar, teppanyaki grill and traditional Japanese cuisine. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 10055 Atlantic Blvd. 724-8883. $$$ LA NOPALERA Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Intracoastal.

8818 Atlantic Blvd. 720-0106. $ NERO’S CAFE F Traditional Italian fare, including seafood, veal, beef, chicken and pasta dishes. Weekly specials are lasagna, 2-for-1 pizza and AYCE spaghetti. CM, FB. L, Sun.; D, daily. 3607 University Blvd. N. 743-3141. $$ REGENCY ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR Generous portions and friendly service in a nautical atmosphere. Fresh fish, specialty pastas, fresh oysters and clams. BW. L & D, daily. 9541 Regency Square Blvd. S. 720-0551. $$ TREY’S DELI & GRILL F Fresh food served in a relaxed atmosphere. Burgers, Trey’s Reuben, deli sandwiches, pork, steaks, seafood, pies. Prime rib specials every Fri. night. CM, BW. L & D, Mon.-Fri. 2044 Rogero Rd. 744-3690. $$ UNIVERSITY DINER F The popular diner serves familiar breakfast fare and lunch like meatloaf, burgers, sandwiches: wraps, BLTs, clubs, melts. Daily specials. BW. B & L, Sat. & Sun.; B, L & D, Mon.-Fri. 5959 Merrill Rd. 762-3433. $

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BISCOTTIS F Mozzarella bruschetta, Avondale pizza, sandwiches, espresso, cappuccino. Revolving daily specials.

B, Tue.-Sun.; L & D, daily. 3556 St. Johns Ave. 387-2060. $$$ THE BLUE FISH RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR Fresh seafood, steaks and more are served in a casual atmosphere. Halfportions are available. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 3551 St. Johns Ave., Shoppes of Avondale. 387-0700. $$$ BRICK RESTAURANT F Creative all-American fare like tuna tartare, seaweed salad and Kobe burger. Outside dining. FB. L & D, daily. 3585 St. Johns Ave. 387-0606. $$$ THE CASBAH F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Middle Eastern cuisine is served in a friendly atmosphere. BW. L & D, daily.

3628 St. Johns Ave. 981-9966. $$ ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE F Gauchos carve the meat onto your plate from serving tables. FB. D, Tue.-Sun., closed Mon. 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40. 388-4884. $$$ THE FOX RESTAURANT F A local landmark 50+ years. Ian & Mary Chase serve classic diner-style fare, homemade desserts.

B & L daily. 3580 St. Johns Ave. 387-2669. $ GINJO SUSHI JAPANESE RESTAURANT New at Shoppes of Avondale, Ginjo serves traditional Japanese fare and sushi.

Sake, BW. L & D, daily. 3620 St. Johns Ave. 388-5688. $$ GREEN MAN GOURMET Organic and natural products, spices, teas, salts, BW. Open daily. 3543 St. Johns Ave. 384-0002. $ MOJO NO. 4 F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches. 3572 St. Johns Ave. 381-6670. $$ ORSAY Best of Jax 2011 winner. The French/American bistro focuses on craftsmanship and service. FB. D, Mon.-Sat.; Brunch & D, Sun. 3630 Park St. 381-0909. $$$ TOM & BETTY’S F A Jacksonville tradition for more than 30 years, Tom & Betty’s serves hefty sandwiches with classic car themes, along with homemade-style dishes. CM, FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4409 Roosevelt Blvd. 387-3311. $$ ’town F Owner Meghan Purcell and Executive Chef Scott Ostrander bring farm-to-table to Northeast Florida, offering American fare with an emphasis on sustainability. FB. L & D,

The crew at Zodiac Grill serves Mediterranean cuisine, American favorites and a popular lunch buffet on West Adams Street in downtown Jacksonville.

Mon.-Sat. 3611 St. Johns Ave. 345-2596. $$

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AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches. 8060 Philips Hwy. 731-4300. $ ANCIENT CITY SUBS Locally owned-and-operated by Andy and Rhonna Rockwell, this St. Augustine-themed sandwich shop, newly relocated to Baymeadows, serves gourmet subs — toasted, pressed or cold — and salads. CM, TO. Mon.-Sat. 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 207. 446-9988. $ BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA F Family-owned&-operated New York-style pizzeria serves hand-tossed, brick-oven-baked pizza, traditional Italian dinners, wings, subs.

Delivery. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3.

519-8000. $$ CAFE CONFLUENCE F The European coffeehouse serves Italian specialty coffees and smoothies, along with paninis, salads and European chocolates. Outdoor dining. BW. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 8612 Baymeadows Rd. 733-7840. $ CHA-CHA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT F Owner Celso Alvarado offers authentic Mexican fare with 26 combo dinners and specialty dishes including chalupas, enchiladas, burritos.

FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 9551 Baymeadows Rd. 737-9903. $$ CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F Chicago-style deepdish pizzas, hot dogs, Italian beef dishes from the Comastro family, serving authentic Windy City favorites for 25+ years.

CM, FB. L & D, daily. 8206 Philips Hwy. 731-9797. $$ DEERWOOD DELI & DINER F The ’50s-style diner serves malts, shakes, Reubens, Cubans, burgers, and traditional breakfast items. CM. B & L, daily. 9934 Old Baymeadows Rd. 641-4877. $$ THE FIFTH ELEMENT F Authentic Indian, South Indian and Indochinese dishes made with artistic flair. Lunch buffet includes lamb, goat, chicken, tandoori and biryani items. CM. L & D, daily. 9485 Baymeadows Rd. 448-8265. $$ GATOR’S DOCKSIDE F See Orange Park. 8650 Baymeadows Rd. 448-0500. $$ INDIA RESTAURANT F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Extensive menu of entrées, clay-oven grilled Tandoori specialties and chicken tandoor, fish, seafood and korma. L, Mon.-Sat., D, daily. 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8. 620-0777. $$ LARRY’S GIANT SUBS F With locations all over Northeast Florida, Larry’s piles subs up with fresh fixins and serves ’em fast. Some Larry’s Subs offer B & W and/or serve breakfast.

CM. L & D, daily. 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9 (Goodby’s Creek), 737-7740; 8616 Baymeadows Rd. 739-2498. larryssubs.com $ LEMONGRASS F Upscale Thai cuisine in a metropolitan atmosphere. Chef Aphayasane’s innovative creations include roast duckling and fried snapper. BW. R. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Mon.Sat. 9846 Old Baymeadows Rd. 645-9911. $$ MANDALOUN MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE *Bite Club Certified! F The Lebanese restaurant offers authentic cuisine: lahm meshwe, kafta khoshkhas and baked filet of

red snapper. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 9862 Old Baymeadows Rd. 646-1881. $$ NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The organic supermarket offers a full deli and a hot bar with fresh soups, quesadillas, rotisserie chicken and vegan sushi, as well as a fresh juice and smoothie bar. 11030 Baymeadows Rd. 260-2791. $ OMAHA STEAKHOUSE *Bite Club Certified! Center-cut beef, seafood, sandwiches served in an English tavern atmosphere. The signature dish is a 16-ounce bone-in ribeye. Desserts include crème brûlée. FB. L & D, daily. 9300 Baymeadows Rd., Embassy Suites Hotel. 739-6633. $$ PATTAYA THAI GRILLE F Traditional Thai and vegetarian items and a 40-plus item vegetarian menu served in a contemporary atmosphere. BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1. 646-9506. $$ PIZZA PALACE F See San Marco. 3928 Baymeadows Rd. 527-8649. $$ STICKY FINGERS F Memphis-style rib house specializes in barbecue ribs served several ways. FB. L & D, daily. 8129 Point Meadows Way. 493-7427. $$ UDIPI CAFE Authentic South Indian vegetarian cuisine. L & D, Tue.-Fri. 8642 Baymeadows Rd. 402-8084. $ VINO’S PIZZA F See Julington. L & D, daily. 9910 Old Baymeadows Rd. 641-7171. $

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A LA CARTE Authentic New England fare like Maine lobster rolls, fried Ipswich clams, crab or clam cake sandwich, fried shrimp basket, haddock sandwich, clam chowdah, birch beer and blueberry soda. Dine inside or on the deck. TO. L, Fri.-Tue. 331 First Ave. N. 241-2005. $$ AL’S PIZZA F Serving hand-tossed gourmet pizzas, calzones and Italian entrees for more than 21 years. Voted Best Pizza by Folio Weekly readers from 1996-2011. BW. L & D, daily. 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 249-0002. $ ANGIE’S SUBS F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Subs are madeto-order fresh. Serious casual. Wicked good iced tea. 1436 Beach Blvd. 246-2519. $ BEACHSIDE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & MARKET F The full fresh seafood market serves seafood baskets, fish tacos, oyster baskets, Philly cheesesteaks. Dine indoors or outside. Beach delivery. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 120 S. Third St. 444-8862. $$ BONGIORNO’S PHILLY STEAK SHOP F South Philly’s Bongiorno clan imports Amoroso rolls for Real Deal cheesesteak, Original Gobbler, clubs, wraps, burgers, dogs. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 2294 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach. 246-3278. $$ BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q F Baby back ribs, fried corn, sweet potatoes. BW. L & D, daily. 1307 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach.

270-2666. 1266 S. Third St. 249-8704. bonosbarbq.com $ BUDDHA THAI BISTRO F Authentic Thai dishes made with fresh ingredients using tried-and-true recipes. FB, TO. L & D, daily. 301 10th Ave. N. 372-9149. $$

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The Gallery’s kid sister at the beach each is mostly take-out; same great chow, fast service. 1333 N. Third St. 242-8226. $ CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA F Homemade-style Mexican items are fajitas, enchiladas and fried ice cream, plus margaritas. FB. D, nightly. 127 First Ave. N. 249-3322. $$ CASA MARIA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Springfield.

2429 S. Third St. 372-9000. $ CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F See Baymeadows. 320 N. First St. 270-8565. $$ CRAB CAKE FACTORY JAX *Bite Club Certified! F Chef Khan Vongdara presents an innovative menu of seafood dishes and seasonal favorites. FB. L & D daily. 1396 Beach Blvd., Beach Plaza. 247-9880. $$ CRUISERS GRILL F Best of Jax 2011 winner, serving burgers, sandwiches, nachos, tacos, quesadillas and cheese fries. 319 23rd Ave. S. 270-0356. $ CULHANE’S IRISH PUB *Bite Club Certified! Four sisters own and operate the authentic Irish pub, with faves Guinness stew, lamb sliders and fish pie. L, Fri.-Sun.; D, Tue.-Sun.; weekend brunch. FB, CM. 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach.

249-9595. $$ CYCLONES TEX-MEX CANTINA F Freshly made Tex-Mex favorites, including fajitas, enchiladas, tacos, burritos, tamales and taco salad. Lunch combos include Mexican rice and beans. FB. L & D, daily. 1222 S. Third St. 694-0488. $$ DICK’S WINGS F The casual NASCAR-themed place serves 365 varieties of wings. The menu also features half-pound burgers, ribs and salads. BW, TO. L & D daily. 2434 Mayport Road, Atlantic Beach, 372-0298. 311 N. Third St., 853-5004. $ DWIGHT’S The Mediterranean-style bistro features fresh local seafood, filet mignon, mixed grill and an extensive wine list. D, Tue.-Sat. 1527 Penman Rd. 241-4496. $$$$ ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY F The Best of Jax 2011 winner serves gastropub fare: soups, salads, flatbreads and sandwiches, like BarBe-Cuban and beer dip. Daily specials. CM, BW. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217. 249-2337. $ EUROPEAN STREET F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See San Marco. 992 Beach Blvd. 249-3001. $ FIONN MacCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Casual dining with uptown Irish flair, including fish and chips, Guinness beef stew and black-and-tan brownies. FB, CM. L & D, daily. 333 N. First St. 242-9499. $$ THE FISH COMPANY *Bite Club Certified! F Fresh, local seafood is served, including Mayport shrimp, fish baskets and grilled tuna and there’s an oyster bar. L & D, daily. CM, FB. 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, Atlantic Beach. 246-0123. $$ HOT DOG HUT F Best of Jax 2011 winner. All-beef hot dogs, sausages, hamburgers, crab cakes, beer-battered onion rings and French fries. B. L, daily. 1439 S. Third St. 247-8886. $ ICHIBAN F Three dining areas: teppan or hibachi tables (watch a chef prepare your food), a sushi bar and Westernstyle seating offering tempura and teriyaki. FB, Japanese plum wine. L & D, daily. 675 N. Third St. 247-4688. $$ LYNCH’S IRISH PUB The full-service restaurant offers corned beef & cabbage, Shepherd’s pie, fish-n-chips. 30+ beers on tap. FB. L, Sat. & Sun., D, daily. 514 N. First St. 249-5181. $$ MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Southside. 1080 Third St. N. 241-5600. $ METRO DINER F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See San Marco.

1534 N. Third St. 853-6817. $$ MEZZA LUNA F A Beaches tradition for 20-plus years.

Great food, from gourmet wood-fired pizzas to contemporary American cuisine. Inside or patio dining. Extensive wine list. CM, FB. D, Mon.-Sat. 110 First St., Neptune Beach. 249-5573. $$$ MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Traditional slow-cooked Southern barbecue served in a blues bar. Faves are pulled pork, Texas brisket, slow-cooked ribs. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 1500 Beach Blvd. 247-6636. $$ MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN F For 25-plus years, Monkey’s has served pub grub, burgers, sandwiches, seafood and wings.

Dine inside or out on the patio. FB. L & D, daily. 1850 S. Third St. 246-1070. $ NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE F Best of Jax 2011 winner.

Executive Chef Kenny Gilbert’s cuisine features local fare and innovative dishes, served in an island atmosphere. Dine inside or out on the tiki deck. FB. L & D, Wed.-Sun.; D, nightly. 2309 Beach Blvd. 247-3300. $$ NORTH BEACH BISTRO *Bite Club Certified! Casual dining with an elegant touch, like slow-cooked veal osso buco; calypso crusted mahi mahi with spiced plantain chips. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach.

372-4105. $$$ OCEAN 60 A prix fixe menu is offered. Continental cuisine, with fresh seafood, nightly specials and a changing seasonal menu.

Dine in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. D, Mon.Sat. 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 247-0060. $$$ PACO’S MEXICAN GRILL Serving Baja-style Mexican cuisine, featuring carne asada, tacos, burritos, fish tacos and shrimp burritos. CM, FB. B, L & D, daily. 333 N. First St. 208-5097. $ THE PIER RESTAURANT F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The oceanfront place offers fresh, local fare. Upstairs, it’s Chef’s Menu, with stuffed flounder, pork tenderloin, appetizers.

Downstairs bar and patio offer casual items, daily drink specials. CM, FB. D, daily; L & D, weekends; brunch, Sun. 412 N. First St. 246-6454. $$ PHILLY’S FINEST F Authentic Philly-style cheesesteaks made with imported Amorosa rolls. Hoagies, wings and pizza ... cold

beer, too. FB. L & D, daily. 1527 N. Third St. 241-7188. $$ POE’S TAVERN F American gastropub offers 50+ beers with an emphasis on craft and local/regional selections. Gourmet hamburgers, handcut fries, fish tacos, quesadillas, Edgar’s Drunken Chili and daily fish sandwich special. L & D, daily. FB, CM. 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic promise Beach. 241-7637. of $$ benefit RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD GRILL F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The Beaches landmark serves grilled seafood with a Cajun/Creole accent. Hand-crafted cold beer. FB. L & D, daily.

207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 241-7877. $$ SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK F Best of Jax ’11 winner. Specialty menu items include signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. Casual, trendy open-air space. FB, TO, CM. L & D, daily. 1018 N. Third St. 372-4456. $$ SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE F Best of Jax 2011 winner. 111 Beach Blvd. 482-1000. $$ SUN DOG STEAK & SEAFOOD *Bite Club Certified! F Eclectic American fare, art deco décor with an authentic diner feel. FB. L & D, daily; Sun. brunch. 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach. 241-8221. $$ TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA F Fresh, Baja-style Mexican fare, with a focus on fish tacos and tequila, as well as fried cheese, bangin’ shrimp and verde chicken tacos. Valet parking. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 1183 Beach Blvd. 249-8226. $$ VOO-SWAR RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Traditional soul food includes smothered ork chops, collard greens, meatloaf, barbecue, pulled pork. FB, CM. L & D, MOn.-Sat. 51 Roberts St., Atlantic Beach. 713-5551. $ THE WINE BAR The casual neighborhood place has a tapasstyle menu, fire-baked flatbreads and a wine selection. Tue.Sun. 320 N. First St. 372-0211. $$

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Southwest cuisine, traditional American salads. Burritos and more burritos. Onsite art gallery. FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 21 E. Adams St. 598-2922. $ CAFÉ NOLA AT MOCA JAX On the first floor of Museum of Contemporary Art, Cafe Nola serves shrimp and grits, gourmet sandwiches, fresh fish tacos, homemade desserts. FB. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Thur. 333 N. Laura St. 366-6911 ext. 231. $$ CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILLE F See Baymeadows. The Jacksonville Landing. 354-7747. $$$ CITY HALL PUB A sports bar vibe: 16 big-screen HDTVs. Angus burgers, dogs, sandwiches, AYCE wings buffet. FB. Free downtown area lunch delivery. L & D, daily. 234 Randolph Blvd.

356-6750. $$ DE REAL TING CAFE F The popular restaurant offers a Caribbean lunch buffet Tue.-Fri. FB. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 128 W. Adams St. 633-9738. $ FIONN MacCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT New location.

See Beaches. FB, CM. L & D, daily. The Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176. 374-1247. $$ INDOCHINE Best of Jax 2011 winner. Serving Thai and Southeast Asian cuisine in the core of downtown. Signature dishes include favorites like chicken Satay, soft shell crab, and mango and sticky rice for dessert. BW, FB, TO. L, Mon.-Fri., D, Tue.-Sat. 21 E. Adams St. 598-5303. $$ JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE Family-owned-and-operated.

Jenkins offers beef, pork, chicken, homemade desserts. L & D, daily. 830 N. Pearl St. 353-6388. $ TRELLISES HYATT REGENCY The American cuisine restaurant offers a breakfast buffet with made-to-order omelet station and a la carte items. Signature lunch and dinner entrees include grouper salad, Angus burgers, Reubens, French onion grilled cheese, seafood and steaks. Wed. night Pastabilities.

CM, FB. B, L & D, daily. 225 East Coastline Dr. 634-4540. $$$ KOJA SUSHI F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Sushi, Japanese, Asian and Korean cuisine. Indoor and outdoor dining and bar.

FB. L & D, daily. The Jacksonville Landing. 350-9911. $$ NORTHSTAR SUBSTATION F This place features brick-ovenbaked pizzas, grinders, wings, Philly cheesesteaks, custom sandwiches and fries served in a laid-back setting. FB, 27 beers on draft. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 119 E. Bay St. 860-5451. $ OLIO MARKET F Freshly prepared sandwiches, salads, soups and entrées. In the Churchwell Lofts building, Olio partners eclectic tastes with Old World ambiance in a casual renovated space. L, Mon.-Fri.; late Art Walk. 301 E. Bay St. 356-7100. $$ SKYLINE DINING & CONFERENCE CENTER Weekday lunch includes salad bar, hot meals and a carving station. L, Sun. upon request. FB. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 3550. 791-9797. $$ VITO’S ITALIAN CAFE F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Authentic Italian oven-baked pasta dishes, pizza, veal, chicken and seafood items made with fresh ingredients. CM, FB. L & D, daily. The Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 174. 355-0064. $$ ZODIAC GRILL F Serving Mediterranean cuisine and American favorites, with a popular lunch buffet. FB. L & D, daily. 120 W. Adams St. 354-8283. $

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NAME: Andy Rockwell

Walter Coker

RESTAURANT: Ancient City Subs, 8060 Philips Highway, Ste. 207, Southside BIRTHPLACE: St. Augustine YEARS IN THE BIZ: 22 FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than my own): The Quay, Key Largo FAVORITE COOKING STYLE: All cultures.

FAVORITE INGREDIENTS: Datil pepper sauces and Cuban marinated pork.

IDEAL MEAL: Fried oysters and homemade chicken and dumplings; bananas Foster for dessert.

WOULDN’T EAT IF YOU PAID ME: Rhubarb or celery.

INSIDER’S SECRET: If we were all the same, there would be only one sandwich on the menu.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING: We don’t discuss celebrity customers.

CULINARY GUILTY PLEASURE: Flan.

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET F See Riverside. B, L & D, Mon.-Sat.; L, Sun. 1915 East West Pkwy., 541-0009. $ LA NOPALERA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Intracoastal.

1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100. 215-2223. $ MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Southside. 1800 Town Center Pkwy. 541-1999. $ MOJO SMOKEHOUSE F Best of Jax 2011 winner. FB. L & D, daily. 1810 Town Ctr. Blvd. 264-0636. $$ WHITEY’S FISH CAMP F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The renowned seafood place, family-owned since 1963, offers AYCE freshwater catfish. Also steaks, pastas. Outdoor waterfront dining. And you can get there by car, boat or bike.

CM, FB. L & D, daily. 2032 C.R. 220. 269-4198. $

INTRACOASTAL

AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches. 14286 Beach Blvd. (at San Pablo Rd.) 223-0991. $ AROY THAI FUSION The new restaurant offers authentic Thai cuisine, including pad Thai, Thai fried rice and traditional curry dishes. Daily happy hour, FB, TO. L & D, daily. 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40. 374-0161. $$ BIG DAWG’S SPORTS RESTAURANT F The family-friendly casual sports place has wings, burgers, sandwiches, wraps and specialty salads. Kids get a Puppy Chow menu. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 12630 Beach Blvd., Ste. 4. 551-3059. $$ BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas and desserts in a family atmosphere. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36. 223-6913. $ CLIFF’S ROCKIN’ BAR-N-GRILL F Cliff’s features 8-ounce burgers, wings, steak, seafood, homemade pizza and daily specials. FB. L & D, daily. Smoking permitted. 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, Cobblestone Plaza. 645-5162. $$ EL RANCHITO Latin American cuisine includes dishes from Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. BW, CM, TO. L & D, daily. 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 22. 992-4607. $$ GOOD FOOD COMPANY The fine-dining restaurant and full-service catering company emphasizes using quality raw ingredients to create menus based on local, seasonal and organic products, served in an elegant atmosphere. L & D, Tue.-Sat. 13475 Atlantic Blvd. 329-2407. $$ ISTANBUL MEDITERRANEAN & ITALIAN CUISINE F A varied menu offers European cuisine including lamb, beef and chicken dishes, as well as pizza and wraps. BW. L & D, daily.

13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 26. 220-9192. $$ JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE & STEAKHOUSE F The menu includes wings, hamburgers, Ahi tuna and handcut steaks. CM, FB. Daily. 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22. 220-6766. $ LA NOPALERA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Family-ownedand-operated, serving authentic Mexican cuisine, like tamales, fajitas, pork tacos, in a casual family atmosphere. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 14333 Beach Blvd. 992-1666. $ MILANO’S RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA Homemade Italian cuisine, breads, pizzas, calzones and specialty dishes. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 4. 646-9119. $$ MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT See St. Johns Town Center.

13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1A. 821-9880. $ THAI ORCHID F The restaurant serves authentic Thai cuisine made with fresh ingredients, including pad Thai, Thai curry dishes and rice dishes. BW. L & D, daily. 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 4. 683-1286. $$ TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL F Wings, gourmet pizza, fresh seafood and specialty wraps. FB. D, Mon.-Fri.; L & D, Sat. & Sun. 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5. 223-6999. $$

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JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS

BLACKSTONE GRILLE The menu blends flavors from a variety of cultures and influences for modern American fusion cuisine, served in a bistro-style setting. FB. L & D, Mon.-Fri., D, Sat.; Sun. brunch. 112 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 102. 287-0766. $$$ BRUCCI’S PIZZA F See Intracoastal. 540 S.R. 13, Ste. 10, Fruit Cove. 287-8317. $$ HAPPY OURS SPORTS GRILLE F Wings, big salads, burgers, wraps and sandwiches. Sports events on HDTVs. CM, FB. 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101. 683-1964. $ PIZZA PALACE F See San Marco. 116 Bartram Oaks Walk.

230-2171. $ VINO’S PIZZA Vino’s Pizza – with four Jacksonville locations – makes all their Italian and American dishes with fresh ingredients. L & D, daily. 605 S.R. 13, Ste. 103. 230-6966. $ WAKAME JAPANESE & THAI CUISINE F The fine dining restaurant offers authentic Japanese and Thai cuisine, including a full sushi menu, curries and pad dishes. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 108. 230-6688. $$

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches. 11190 San Jose Blvd. 260-4115. $ AW SHUCKS F The seafood place offers an oyster bar, steaks, seafood, wings, pasta. Faves: ahi tuna, shrimp & grits, oysters Rockefeller. Sweet potato puffs are the signature side. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd. 240-0368. $$ THE BLUE CRAB CRABHOUSE F A Maryland-style crabhouse featuring fresh blue crabs, garlic crabs, and king, snow and Dungeness crab legs. FB, CM. D, Tue.-Sat.; L & D, Sun. 3057 Julington Creek Rd. 260-2722. $$ BRAZILIAN JAX CAFE Authentic Brazilian dishes include steaks, sausages, chicken, fish, burgers and hot sandwiches made with fresh ingredients. Traditional feijoada (black beans and pork stew with rice, collards, orange salad and toasted yucca flour with bacon) is served every Sat. TO. B, L & D, Mon.-Sat. 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 20. 880-3313. $$ BROOKLYN PIZZA F The traditional pizzeria serves New York-style pizza, specialty pies, and subs, strombolis and calzones. BW. L & D, daily. 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 288-9211. 13820 St. Augustine Rd., 880-0020. $ CLARK’S FISH CAMP F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Clark’s has steak, ribs, AYCE catfish dinners, 3-pound prime rib.

Dine in, out or in a creek-view glass-enclosed room. FB. D, Mon.-Fri.; L & D, Sat. & Sun. 12903 Hood Landing Rd. 268-3474. $$ DON JUAN’S RESTAURANT F Authentic Mexican dishes prepared daily from scratch, served in a casual atmosphere.

FB, CM. L & D, daily. 12373 San Jose Blvd. 268-8722. $$ GIGI’S RESTAURANT Breakfast buffet daily, lunch buffet weekdays. The Comedy Zone (Best of Jax 2011 winner) has an appetizer menu. FB. B, L & D, daily. I-295 & San Jose Blvd.

(Ramada Inn). 268-8080. $$ (Fri. & Sat. buffet, $$$) HALA CAFE & BAKERY F See Southside. 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd. 288-8890. $$ HARMONIOUS MONKS The American-style steakhouse features a 9-oz. choice Angus center-cut filet topped with gorgonzola shiitake mushroom cream sauce, 8-oz. gourmet burgers, fall-off-the-bone ribs, wraps, sandwiches. FB. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30.

880-3040. $$ KOBE JAPANESE RESTAURANT The fusion-style sushi

restaurant offers oyster shooters, kobe beef shabu-shabu, Chilean sea bass and filet mignon. BW & sake. L & D, daily.

11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 8. 288-7999. $$ MAMA FU’S ASIAN HOUSE MSG-free pan-Asian cuisine prepared to order in woks using fresh ingredients. Authentic Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Thai dishes. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 11105 San Jose Blvd. 260-1727. $$ MANDARIN ALE HOUSE Laid-back atmosphere; 30-plus beers on tap. FB. L & D, daily. 11112 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 19.

292-0003. $$ METRO DINER F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See San Marco.

12807 San Jose Blvd. 638-6185. $$ NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Organic supermarket with full deli and salad bar serving wraps, quesadillas, chopped salads, vegetarian dishes. Fresh juice and smoothie bar. Indoor and outdoor seating. Mon.-Sat. 10000 San Jose Blvd. 260-6950. $ PICASSO’S PIZZERIA F Specializes in hand-tossed gourmet pizza, calzones, homemade New York-style cheesecake and handmade pasta. Fresh local seafood and steaks. BW, CM, TO. L & D daily. 10503 San Jose Blvd. 880-0811. $$ THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL This casual, familyfriendly eatery serves pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials and pasta dishes. FB, CM. L & D, daily. 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12. 683-3773. $$ SIMPLE FAIRE F Breakfast and lunch favorites, featuring Boar’s Head meats and cheeses served on fresh bread. Daily specials. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 3020 Hartley Rd. 683-2542. $$ TANK’S FAMILY BAR-B-Q Owned and operated by the Tankersley family, the barbecue place offers made-from-scratch Southern-style fare, featuring their own sauces. CM, BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 11701 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 23. 351-8265. $$ VINO’S PIZZA F See Julington. L & D, daily. 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr. 268-6660. $ WHOLE FOODS MARKET F 100+ prepared items at a fullservice and self-service hot bar, soup bar, dessert bar. Madeto-order Italian specialties from a brick oven pizza hearth. L & D, daily. 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 22. 288-1100. $$

ORANGE PARK

ARON’S PIZZA F The family-owned restaurant offers eggplant dishes, manicotti and New York-style pizza. BW, CM, TO. L & D daily. 650 Park Ave. 269-1007. $$ GATOR’S DOCKSIDE F For 18-plus years, the sports-themed family restaurant has served wings, ribs, entrees, sandwiches.

FB. L & D, daily. 9680 Argyle Forest Blvd. 425-6466. $$ THE HILLTOP CLUB She-crab soup, scallops, prime beef, wagyu beef, chicken Florentine and stuffed grouper. Chef Nick’s salmon is a favorite. FB. D, Tue.-Sat. 2030 Wells Rd. 272-5959. $$ JOEY MOZARELLAS The Italian restaurant’s specialty is a 24-slice pizza: 18”x26” of fresh ingredients and sauces made daily. CM, TO. L & D, daily. 930 Blanding Blvd. 579-4748. $$ PASTA MARKET & CLAM BAR F Family-owned-andoperated. Gourmet pizza, veal, chicken, mussels, shrimp, grouper. The pastas: spaghetti, fettuccine, lasagna, calzones, linguini, ravioli, made with fresh ingredients, homemade-style.

CM, BW, sangria. 1930 Kingsley Ave. 276-9551. D, nightly. $$ POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA F Pizzas are baked in coal-fired ovens. Popular pizzas include Health Choice and Mozzarella.

Coal-fired sandwiches and wings, too. BW. L & D, daily. 2134 Park Ave. 264-6116. $$ THE ROADHOUSE F Burgers, wings, deli sandwiches and popular lunches are served. FB. L & D, daily. 231 Blanding Blvd. 264-0611. $ THAI GARDEN F Traditional Thai cuisine made with fresh ingredients, served in a relaxed atmosphere. Curry dishes and specialty selections with authentic Thai flavors. BW. L, Mon.Fri.; D, nightly. 10 Blanding Blvd., Ste. A. 272-8434. $$

PONTE VEDRA, NE ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA F See Beaches. BW. L & D, daily. 635 A1A. 543-1494. $ AQUA GRILL Upscale cuisine includes fresh seafood, Angus steaks, Maine lobster, vegetarian dishes. Outdoor patio seating. FB. L, Mon.-Sat.; D, nightly. 950 Sawgrass Village Dr. 285-3017. $$$ THE AUGUSTINE GRILLE *Bite Club Certified! Chef Brett Smith’s global cuisine is seasonal and local. Selections include prime steaks, New York strip, lamb and lobster Napoleon.

FB, CM. D, nightly. 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., Sawgrass Marriott.

285-7777. $$$ BRUCCI’S PIZZA F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas, paninis, desserts. Family atmosphere. CM. L & D, daily.

880 A1A, Ste. 8. 280-7677. $$ CAFFE ANDIAMO Traditional Italian cuisine features fresh seafood, veal, homemade pastas and wood-fired pizza prepared in a copper clad oven. An extensive wine list is offered in a cosmopolitan atmosphere. Dine indoors or Out on the terrace. L & D, daily. 500 Sawgrass Village. 280-2299. $$$ LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE F On the Intracoastal Waterway, LuLu’s can be reached by car or by boat. Seafood, steaks and pasta dishes with a sophisticated flair. FB. L & D, daily; Sun. brunch. 301 N. Roscoe Blvd. 285-0139. $$ NINETEEN AT TPC SAWGRASS In Sawgrass’ Tournament Players Club, Nineteen features more than 230 wines and

freshly prepared American and Continental cuisine, including local seafood, served inside or al fresco on the verandah. L & D, daily. 110 Championship Way. 273-3235. $$$ PUSSER’S BAR & GRILLE *Bite Club Certified! F Freshly prepared Caribbean cuisine, including red snapper Ponte Vedra Jamaican grilled pork ribs and barbecued salmon tower.

Tropical rum drinks feature Pusser’s Painkiller. FB. L & D, daily.

816 A1A N., Ste. 100. 280-7766. L, $$; D, $$ RESTAURANT MEDURE Chef Matthew Medure offers eclectic cuisine of local and imported seafood with Southern and Asian influences. F/B. D, Mon.-Sat. 818 A1A N. 543-3797. $$$ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE Best of Jax 2011 winner. See San Marco. 8141 A1A. 285-0014. $$$$ 619 OCEAN VIEW Dining with a Mediterranean touch, featuring fresh seafood, steaks and nightly specials. FB, CM. D, Wed.-Sun. 619 Ponte Vedra Blvd., Cabana Beach Club.

285-6198. $$$ URBAN FLATS See St. Johns Town Center. FB. L & D, daily.

330 A1A N. 280-5515. $$

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE

AJ’S ON PARK STREET F AJ’s is a casual barbecue spot serving smoked St. Louis-style ribs, pulled pork, smoked brisket, seafood and dishes made with a Latin touch. L & D, Mon.-Fri. 630 Park St. 359-0035. $$ ALPHADOG GRILL F This fun place in Riverside features gourmet hot dogs — like Ragin’ Cajun (andouille sausage covered in jambalaya) and The Hippie (veggie dog) — and sausages, grilled chicken wraps, soups, salads, appetizers and wings. L & D, daily. BW. 2782 Park St. 374-8715. $ AL’S PIZZA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches. 1620 Margaret St. 388-8384. $ BAKERY MODERNE F The neighborhood bakery has classic pastries, artisanal breads, seasonal favorites, made from scratch, including petit fours, custom cakes. B & L, daily. 869 Stockton St., Ste. 6. 389-7117. $ BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS The new spot offers artisancrafted, small-batch roasted specialty coffees from its certified organic roastery and brew bar, including lattes, local pastries, craft beers. BW. 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2. 855-1181. $ CARMINE’S PIE HOUSE F The Italian eatery has pizza by the slice, gourmet pizzas, appetizers, classic Italian dishes (calzone, stromboli, subs, panini) and microbrews in a casual atmosphere. BW, CM, TO. 2677 Forbes St. 387-1400. $$ COOL MOOSE F Classic sandwiches, eclectic wraps and desserts. An extensive gourmet coffee menu with Green Mountain coffees and frozen coffee drinks. B & L, daily.

Brunch, Sun. 2708 Park St. 381-4242. $ EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See San Marco. 2753 Park St. 384-9999. $ GATOR’S DOCKSIDE F See Orange Park. 6677 103rd St., Westside, 777-6135. $$ GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET F A deli, organic and natural grocery, and juice & smoothie bar offers teas, coffees, gourmet cheeses; natural, organic and raw items. Grab-andgo sandwiches, salads and sides. Craft beers, organic wines.

B, L & D, Mon.-Sat.; L, Sun. 2007 Park St. 384-4474. $ HJ’S BAR & GRILL Traditional American fare: burgers, sandwiches, wraps and platters of ribs, shrimp and fish. CM, FB. L & D, Sat. & Sun., D, Mon.-Fri. 8540 Argyle Forest Blvd., Ste. 1. 317-2783. $$ HOVAN MEDITERRANEAN GOURMET F Dine inside or on the patio. Mediterranean entrées include lamb, and beef gyros. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 2005-1 Park St. 381-9394. $ JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILL F A Riverside tradition, serving 60+ fresh deli and grill items, including hot sandwiches. L, Mon.Fri. 474 Riverside Ave. 356-8055. $ KICKBACKS GASTROPUB F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The neighborhood spot serves favorites 20 hours a day, every day.

655+ bottled beers, 84 on tap. Outdoor seating. CM. 910 King St. 388-9551. $$ MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Smoked meats include wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homemade-style sides include green beans, baked beans, red cole slaw, collards. BW, CM. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551. $$ MOON RIVER PIZZA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Amelia Island. 1176 Edgewood Ave. S. 389-4442. $ MOSSFIRE GRILL F Southwestern menu with ahi tuna tacos, goat cheese enchiladas and gouda quesadillas. Dine inside or on the patio. FB. L & D, daily. 1537 Margaret St. 355-4434. $$ MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT See St. Johns Town Center.

1661 Riverside Ave., Ste. 128. 900-1955. $ O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB F Innovative Irish fare and traditional faves are offered, like lambburger with Stilton crust, Guinness mac & cheese, Shepherd’s pie and fish-n-chips — plus 18 beers on tap. L, daily except Mon.; D, daily. CM, FB. 1521 Margaret St. 854-9300. $$ PELE’S WOOD FIRE Chef Micah Windham uses a wood-fired oven to create traditional, authentic Italian fare with a modern twist. FB, TO. L & D, daily. 2665 Park St. 955-1278. $$ PERARD’S PIZZA & ITALIAN CUISINE F Traditional Italian fare with fresh sauces and dough made from scratch daily.

Large selection of gourmet pizza toppings. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 11043 Crystal Springs Rd., Ste. 2. 378-8131. $ PERFECT RACK BILLIARDS F Upscale billiards hall has burgers, steak, deli sandwiches, wings. Family-friendly, nonsmoking. BW, CM. L & D, daily. 1186 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray

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920 Margaret St., 5 Points. 598-1212. $$ SAKE HOUSE F Japanese grill and sushi bar features sushi, sashimi, katsu, tempura, hibachi and specialty rolls. CM, BW, sake. L & D, daily. 824 Lomax St. 301-1188. $$ SUMO SUSHI F Authentic Japanese fare, traditional to entrees and sushi rolls, spicy sashimi salad, gyoza (pork dumpling), tobiko (flying fish roe), Rainbow roll (tuna, salmon, yellowtail, Calif. roll). BW, CM. L & D, daily. 2726 Park St. 388-8838. $$ SUSHI CAFÉ A variety of sushi, including the popular Monster Roll and the Jimmy Smith Roll, along with faves like Rockn-Roll and Dynamite Roll. Sushi Café also offers hibachi, tempura, katsu and teriyaki. BW. Dine indoors or on the patio.

L & D, daily. 2025 Riverside Ave. Publix Plaza. 384-2888. $$ TASTI D-LITE Health-conscious desserts include smoothies, shakes, sundaes, cakes and pies, made with fresh ingredients with fewer calories and less fat. More than 100 flavors. Open daily. 1024 Park St. 900-3040. $ TWO DOORS DOWN F Traditional faves: hotcakes, omelets, burgers, pork chops, liver & onions, fried chicken, sides and desserts. CM, TO. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 436 Park St. 598-0032. $ WASABI JAPANESE BUFFET F AYCE buffet. Sushi bar, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, tempura, steak, seafood. BW. L & D, daily. 1014 Margaret St., Ste. 1, 5 Points. 301-1199. $$

ST. AUGUSTINE

A1A ALE WORKS F The Ancient City’s only brew pub taps seven hand-crafted ales and lagers. A1A specializes in innovative New World cuisine. FB. L & D, daily. 1 King St. 829-2977. $$ AMICI ITALIAN RESTAURANT F A family-owned-andoperated Italian restaurant offers traditional pasta, veal, steak and seafood dishes. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 1915B A1A S., St. Augustine Beach. 461-0102. $$ ANN O’MALLEY’S F Fresh handmade sandwiches, soups, salads and perfectly poured Guinness. Favorites include Reubens and chicken salad. CM, BW, Irish beers on tap. L & D, daily. 23 Orange St. 825-4040. $$ BARLEY REPUBLIC IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE This new Irish bar and pub in historic downtown offers burgers, sandwiches, shepherd’s pie and bangers and mash. BW. L & D, daily. 48 Spanish St. 547-2023. $$ BARNACLE BILL’S F For 30 years, the family restaurant has served seafood, oysters, gator tail, steak and fried shrimp. FB, CM, TO. L & D daily; 14 Castillo Drive, 824-3663. $$ THE BLACK MOLLY BAR & GRILL Fresh, local seafood, steaks and pasta dishes in a casual atmosphere. FB, CM. L & D daily.

504 Geoffrey St., Cobblestone Plaza. 547-2723. $$ BORRILLO’S PIZZA & SUBS F Specialty pizzas are Borrillo’s Supreme (extra cheese, pepperoni, sausage), white and vegetarian pizzas. Subs and pasta dinners. L & D, daily. 88 San Marco Ave. 829-1133. $ CAFÉ ATLANTICO Traditional and new Italian dishes served in an intimate space. Master Chef Paolo Pece prepares risotto alla pescatora, with shrimp, scallops and seasonal shellfish, in a parmesan cheese basket. BW. D, nightly. 647 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach. 471-7332. $$$ CAFÉ ELEVEN F Serving eclectic cuisine like feta spinach egg croissant, apple turkey sandwich, pear-berry salad. Daily chef creations. BW. B, L & D, daily. 501 A1A Beach Blvd.

460-9311. B, $; L & D, $$ CAP’S ON THE WATER F The Vilano Beach mainstay offers coastal cuisine – tapas platters, cioppino, fresh local shrimp, raw oyster bar – indoors or on an oak-shaded deck. Boat access. FB. L, Fri.-Sun., D, nightly. 4325 Myrtle St., Vilano Beach. 824-8794. $$ CARMELO’S PIZZERIA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Authentic New York style brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh baked sub rolls, Boars Head meats and cheeses, fresh salads, calzones, strombolis and sliced pizza specials. BW. L & D, daily. 146 King St. 494-6658. $$ CELLAR 6 ART GALLERY & WINE BAR Wolfgang Puck coffees, handmade desserts and light bistro-style fare amid local art. BW. Mon.-Sat. 6 Aviles St. 827-9055. $$ CREEKSIDE DINERY Creekside serves beef, chicken and seafood, with an emphasis on low-country cooking. Outdoor deck with a fire pit. FB. D, nightly. 160 Nix Boatyard Rd. 829-6113. $$ CRUISERS GRILL F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches.

3 St. George St. 824-6993. $ THE FLORIDIAN The downtown restaurant serves innovative Southern fare, made with local farmers’ local food. Signature items: fried green tomato bruschetta, ’N’grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. L & D, Wed.-Mon. 39 Cordova St. 829-0655. $$ GYPSY CAB COMPANY F Best of Jax 2011 winner.

International menu features large portions, reasonable prices.

FB. L & D, daily. 828 Anastasia Blvd. 824-8244. $$ HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILLE F In a historic, two-story house, the New Orleans-style eatery has fresh seafood, steaks, jambalaya, etouffée and shrimp. FB. L & D, daily. 46 Avenida Menendez. 824-7765. $$ HOT SHOT BAKERY & CAFE Freshly baked items, coffees and hand-crafted breakfast and lunch sandwiches; Datil B. Good hot sauces and pepper products. B & L, daily. 8 Granada St. 824-7898. $

KINGS HEAD BRITISH PUB F Authentic Brit pub serves fish & chips, Cornish pastie and steak & kidney pie. Tap beers are Guinness, Newcastle and Bass. BW. L & D, Wed.-Sun. 6460 U.S. 1 (4 miles N. of St. Augustine Airport.) 823-9787. $$ THE MANATEE CAFÉ F Serving healthful cuisine using promise of benefit organically grown fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes. B & L, daily. 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 106, Westgate Plaza. 826-0210. $ MANGO MANGO’S BEACHSIDE BAR & GRILL F Caribbean kitchen has comfort food with a tropical twist: coconut shrimp and fried plantains. BW, CM. Outdoor dining. 700 A1A Beach Blvd., (A Street access) St. Augustine Beach. 461-1077. $$ MILL TOP TAVERN F A St. Auggie institution housed in an 1884 building, serving nachos, soups, sandwiches and daily specials. Dine inside or on open-air decks. At the big mill wheel. FB. L & D, daily. 19 1/2 St. George St. 829-2329. $$ OASIS RESTAURANT & DECK F Just a block from the ocean, with a tropical atmosphere and open-air deck. Steamed oysters, crab legs, burgers. CM, FB. B, L & D, daily. 4000 A1A & Ocean Trace Rd., St. Augustine Beach. 471-3424. $ THE PRESENT MOMENT CAFÉ Best of Jax 2011 winner. The cozy café serves organic, vegan and vegetarian dishes, pizza, pastas, hummus and milkshakes — all prepared without meat, dairy, wheat or an oven. Organic BW. TO. B, L & D, Mon.Sat. 224 W. King St. 827-4499. $ PURPLE OLIVE INTERNATIONAL BISTRO F Family-ownedand-operated, offering specials, fresh artisan breads. Soups, salad dressings and desserts made from scratch. BW. D, Tue.Sat. 4255 A1A S., Ste. 6, St. Augustine Beach. 461-1250. $$ RAINTREE Located in a Victorian home, Raintree offers a menu with contemporary and traditional international influences. Extensive wine list. FB. D, daily. 102 San Marco Ave. 824-7211. $$$ THE REEF RESTAURANT F Casual oceanfront place with a view from every table. Fresh local seafood, steak, pasta dishes and daily chef specials. Outdoor dining. FB, CM, TO. L & D daily. 4100 Coastal Hwy. A1A, Vilano Beach. 824-8008. $$ SOUTH BEACH GRILL Located off A1A, the two-story beachy destination offers casual oceanfront dining and fresh local seafood. Dine indoors or out on a beachfront deck. FB. B, L & D daily. 45 Cubbedge Road, Crescent Beach. 471-8700. $ SPY GLOBAL CUISINE & LOUNGE In the historic district, Spy features James Bond-themed sushi and Mediterraneaninfluenced global cuisine on the seasonal menu, including fresh — never frozen — Hawaiian seafood. Dine indoors or out on the patio. Upstairs lounge, too. Great selection of chilled sakes. BW, CM. D, nightly. 21 Hypolita St. 819-5637. $$$ SUNSET GRILLE Seafood-heavy menu, consistent Great Chowder Debate winner. Specialties are baby back ribs, lobster ravioli, coconut shrimp, datil pepper wings. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 421 A1A Beach Blvd. 471-5555. $$$ THE TASTING ROOM, WINE & TAPAS Owned by Michael Lugo, the upscale contemporary Spanish restaurant fuses innovative tapas with an extensive wine list. L, Wed.-Sun.; D, nightly. 25 Cuna St. 810-2400. $$

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BAHAMA BREEZE ISLAND GRILLE Fresh seafood, chicken, flame-grilled steaks and hand-crafted tropical drinks made with flavorful ingredients inspired by the Caribbean. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 10205 River Coast Dr. 646-1031. $$$ BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE With four dining rooms, BlackFinn offers classic American fare: beef, seafood, pasta, chicken, flatbread sandwiches. Dine indoors or on the patio.

CM, FB. L & D, daily. 4840 Big Island Dr. 345-3466. $$ FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Best of Jax 2011 winner for Best Burger in St. Augustine and OP/Fleming Island. Burgers made with fresh ground beef and there’s a wide selection of toppings, including fried onions, jalapeños or sautéed mushrooms. Fries, Kosher hot dogs and soft drinks, too. L & D, daily. 4413 Town Center Pkwy., Ste. 401. 996-6900. $ LIBRETTO’S PIZZERIA & ITALIAN KITCHEN F Authentic NYC pizzeria serves Big Apple crust, cheese and sauce, along with third-generation family-style Italian classics, fresh-from-theoven calzones, and desserts in a casual, comfy setting. L & D, daily. 4880 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1. 402-8888. $$ MITCHELL’S FISH MARKET F A changing menu of more than 180 items includes cedar-roasted Atlantic salmon and seared salt-and-pepper tuna. FB, CM. L & D, daily. 5205 Big Island Dr., St. Johns Town Ctr. 645-3474. $$$ MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT Best of Jax 2011 winner. Nonfat, low-calorie, cholesterol-free frozen yogurt is served in flavors that change weekly. Toppings include a variety of fruit and nuts. 4860 Big Island Dr. 807-9292. $ THE ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE F The recipes, unique to the Pancake House, call for only the freshest ingredients. CM. B, L & D, daily. 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr. 997-6088. $$ RENNA’S PIZZA F Renna’s serves up New York-style pizza, calzones, subs and lasagna made from authentic Italian recipes. Delivery, CM, BW. 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 125, St. Johns Town Center. 565-1299. rennaspizza.com $$ SUITE Best of Jax 2011 winner. St. Johns Town Center premium lounge and restaurant offer chef-driven small plates and an extensive list of specialty cocktails, served in a sophisticated atmosphere. FB. D & late-nite, nightly. 4880 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1. 493-9305. $$ WASABI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR F Authentic Japanese cuisine, teppanyaki shows and a full sushi menu.

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CM. L & D, daily. 10206 River Coast Dr. 997-6528. $$ WHISKY RIVER F Best of Jax 2011 winner. At St. Johns Town Center’s Plaza, Whisky River features wings, pizza, wraps, sandwiches and burgers served in a lively car racing-themed atmosphere (Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s the owner). FB. CM. L & D, daily. 4850 Big Island Drive. 645-5571. $$

SAN JOSE

ATHENS CAFÉ F Serving authentic Greek cuisine: lamb, seafood, veal and pasta dishes. BW. L & D, daily. 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7. 733-1199. $$ CRUISERS GRILL F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches.

5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1. 737-2874. $ DICK’S WINGS F NASCAR-themed family style sports place serves wings, buffalo tenders, burgers and chicken sandwiches. CM. BW. L & D, daily. 1610 University Blvd. W. 448-2110. dickswingsandgrill.com $ MOJO BAR-B-QUE F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The Southern Blues kitchen serves pulled pork, brisket and North Carolina-style barbecue. TO, BW. L & D, daily. 1607 University Blvd. W. 732-7200. $$

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

BASIL THAI & SUSHI F Offering Thai cuisine, including pad Thai and curry dishes, and sushi in a relaxing atmosphere. L & D, Mon.-Sat. BW. 1004 Hendricks Ave. 674-0190. $$ b.b.’s F Best of Jax 2011 winner. A bistro menu is served in an upscale atmosphere, featuring almond-crusted calamari, tuna tartare and wild mushroom pizza. FB. L & D, Mon.-Fri.; brunch & D, Sat. 1019 Hendricks Ave. 306-0100. $$$ BISTRO AIX F French, Mediterranean-inspired fare, awardwinning wines, wood-fired pizzas, house-made pastas, steaks, seafood. Indoor, outdoor dining. FB. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, nightly. 1440 San Marco Blvd. 398-1949. $$$ CHECKER BBQ & SEAFOOD F Chef Art Jennette serves barbecue, seafood and comfort food, including pulled-pork, fried white shrimp and fried green tomatoes. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 3566 St. Augustine Rd. 398-9206. $ EUROPEAN STREET F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Big sandwiches, soups, desserts and more than 100 bottled and on-tap beers. BW. L & D, daily. 1704 San Marco Blvd.

398-9500. $ THE GROTTO F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Wine by the glass. Tapas-style menu offers a cheese plate, empanadas bruschetta, chocolate fondue. BW. 2012 San Marco Blvd.

398-0726. $$ HAVANA-JAX CAFÉ/CUBA LIBRE BAR LOUNGE *Bite Club Certified! F Authentic Latin American fine dining: picadillo, ropa vieja, churrasco tenderloin steak, Cuban sandwiches. L & D, Mon.-Sat. CM, FB. 2578 Atlantic Blvd.

399-0609. $ LAYLA’S OF SAN MARCO Fine dining in the heart of San Marco. Traditional Middle Eastern cuisine, served inside or outside on the hookah and cigar patio. BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat.; D, Sun. 2016 Hendricks Ave. 398-4610. $$ MATTHEW’S Chef’s tasting menu or seasonal à la carte menu featuring an eclectic mix of Mediterranean ingredients.

Dress is business casual, jackets optional. FB. D, Mon.-Sat. 2107 Hendricks Ave. 396-9922. $$$$ METRO DINER F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Historic 1930s

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diner offers award-winning breakfast and lunch. Fresh seafood and Southern cooking. Bring your own wine. B & L, daily. 3302 Hendricks Ave. 398-3701. $$ THE OLIVE TREE MEDITERRANEAN GRILLE F Homestyle healthy plates: hummus, tebouleh, grape leaves, gyros, potato salad, kibbeh, spinach pie, Greek salad, daily specials. L & D, Mon.-Fri. 1705 Hendricks Ave. 396-2250. $$ PIZZA PALACE F All homemade from Mama’s award-winning recipes: spinach pizza and chicken-spinach calzones. BW. L & D, daily. 1959 San Marco Blvd. 399-8815. $$ PULP F The juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees; 30 kinds of smoothies, with flavored soy milks, organic frozen yogurt, granola. Daily. 1962 San Marco Blvd.

396-9222. $ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE Consistent Best of Jax winner.

Midwestern prime beef, fresh seafood, upscale atmosphere.

FB. D, daily. 1201 Riverplace Blvd. 396-6200. $$$$ SAKE HOUSE See Riverside. 1478 Riverplace Blvd.

306-2188. $$ SAN MARCO DELI F Independently owned & operated classic diner serves grilled fish, turkey burgers. Vegetarian options. Mon.-Sat. 1965 San Marco Blvd. 399-1306. $ TAVERNA Tapas, small-plate items, Neapolitan-style woodfired pizzas and entrées are served in a rustic yet upscale interior. BW, TO. L & D, Tue.-Sat. 1986 San Marco Blvd.

398-3005. $$$ VINO’S PIZZA F See Julington. This location offers a lunch buffet. L & D, daily. 1430 San Marco Blvd. 683-2444. $

SOUTHSIDE

AROMAS BEER HOUSE Customer faves are ahi tuna with a sweet soy sauce reduction, backyard burger, triple-meat French dip. FB. L & D, daily. 4372 Southside Blvd.

928-0515. $$ BISTRO 41° F Casual dining features fresh, homemade breakfast and lunch dishes in a relaxing atmosphere. TO. B & L, Mon.-Fri. 3563 Philips Hwy., Ste. 104. 446-9738. $ BLUE BAMBOO Contemporary Asian-inspired cuisine includes rice-flour calamari, seared Ahi tuna, pad Thai. Street eats: barbecue duck, wonton crisps. BW. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Mon.-Sat. 3820 Southside Blvd. 646-1478. $$ BOMBA’S SOUTHERN HOME COOKING F Southern homestyle fare, featuring fresh veggies. Outside dining. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 8560 Beach Blvd. 997-2291. $$ BUCA DI BEPPO Italian dishes served family-style in an eclectic, vintage setting. Half-pound meatballs are a specialty.

CM, FB. L & D, daily. 10334 Southside Blvd. 363-9090. $$$ CORNER BISTRO & WINE BAR F Casual fine dining.

The menu blends modern American favorites served with international flair. FB. L & D, Tue.-Sun. 9823 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 1. 619-1931. $$$ CRUISERS GRILL F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Beaches.

9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 11. 646-2874. $ EL POTRO F Family-friendly, casual El Potro has fresh, made-to-order fare. Daily specials, buffet most locations.

BW. L & D, daily. 5871 University Blvd. W., 733-0844. 11380 Beach Blvd., 564-9977. elpotrorestaurant.com $ EUROPEAN STREET F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See San Marco. 5500 Beach Blvd. 398-1717. $ FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Best of Jax 2011 winner. See St. Johns Town Center. 9039 Southside Blvd., 538-9100. $

THE FLAME BROILER Serving food with no transfat, MSG, frying, or skin on meat. Fresh veggies, steamed brown or white rice along with grilled beef, chicken and Korean short ribs are featured. CM, TO. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 103. 619-2786. $ GENE’S SEAFOOD F Serving fresh Mayport shrimp, fish, oysters, scallops, gator tail, steaks and combos. L & D, daily.

11702 Beach Blvd. 997-9738. $$ HALA CAFE & BAKERY F A local institution since 1975 serving house-baked pita bread, kabobs, falafel and daily lunch buffet. TO, BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4323 University Blvd.

S. 733-5141. $$ ISLAND GIRL WINE & CIGAR BAR F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Upscale tropical vibe. Walk-in humidor, pairing apps and desserts with 25 wines, ports by the glass. 220+ wines by the bottle; draft, bottled beer. L & D, daily. 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115. 854-6060. $$ JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE See Downtown. 2025 Emerson St. 346-3770. $ JOHNNY ANGELS F The menu reflects its ’50s-style décor, including Blueberry Hill pancakes, Fats Domino omelet, Elvis special combo platter. Shakes, malts. B, L & D, daily. 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120. 997-9850. $ LA NOPALERA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. See Intracoastal.

8206 Philips Hwy. 732-9433. $ LIME LEAF F Authentic Thai cuisine: fresh papaya salad, pad Thai, mango sweet rice. BW. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, Mon.-Sat. 9822 Tapestry Park Cir., Stes. 108 & 109. 645-8568. $$ MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Tossed spring water dough, lean meats, veggies and vegetarian choices make up specialty pizzas, hoagies and calzones. FB. L & D, daily. 9734 Deer Lake Court (at Tinseltown). 997-1955. mellowmushroom.com $ OTAKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE F Family-owned with an open sushi bar, hibachi grill tables and an open kitchen. Dine indoor or out. FB, CM, TO. L, Mon.-Fri.; D, nightly. 7860 Gate Parkway, Stes. 119-122. 854-0485. $$$ SAKE SUSHI F The restaurant offers sushi, hibachi, teriyaki, tempura, katsu, donburi and noodle soups. Popular rolls include Fuji Yama, Ocean Blue and Fat Boy. FB, CM. L & D, daily. 8206 Philips Hwy., Ste. 31. 647-6000. $$ SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY F Innovative menu of fresh local grilled seafood, sesame tuna, grouper Oscar, chicken, steak and pizza. Microbrewed ales and lagers. FB. L & D, daily. 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., Tinseltown.

997-1999. $$ SOUTHSIDE ALE HOUSE F Steaks, seafood, sandwiches. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 9711 Deer Lake Court. 565-2882. $$ SPECKLED HEN TAVERN & GRILLE F The stylish gastropub has Southern-style cuisine with a modern twist: Dishes are paired with international wines and beers, including a large selection of craft and IPA brews. FB. L & D, daily. 9475 Philips Hwy., Ste. 16. 538-0811. $$ SUNSET 30 TAVERN & GRILL F Best of Jax 2011 winner.

Located in Latitude 30, Sunset 30 serves familiar favorites, including seafood, steaks, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pasta and pizza. Dine inside or on the patio. FB. L & D, daily.

10370 Philips Hwy. 365-5555. $$ TAVERNA YAMAS *Bite Club Certified! The Greek restaurant serves char-broiled kabobs, seafood and traditional Greek wines and desserts. FB. L & D daily. 9753 Deer Lake Court. 854-0426. $$ THE THIRSTY IGUANA CANTINA TAQUERIA Classic Mexican fare includes quesadillas, tacos, burritos, chimichangas, enchiladas and fajitas, as well as some killer nacho choices, made with fresh ingredients. L & D, daily. TO, FB, CM. 7605 Beach Blvd. 647-7947. $$ TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA F Premium New York-style

pizza from a brick-oven — the area’s original gluten-free pizzeria. Plus calzones, soups and salads; Thumann’s noMSG meats, Grande cheeses and Boylan soda. BW. L & D, Mon.-Sat. 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2. 565-1999. $$ URBAN FLATS F Ancient world-style flatbread is paired with fresh regional and seasonal ingredients in wraps, flatwiches and entrées, served in a casual, urban atmosphere. An international wine list is offered. CM. FB. L & D, daily. 9726 Touchton Rd. 642-1488. $$ URBAN ORGANICS The local produce co-op offers seasonal fresh organic vegetables and fruit. Mon.-Sat. 5325 Fairmont St. 398-8012. $ WASABI JAPANESE BUFFET F AYCE sushi and two teppanyaki grill items are included in buffet price. FB. L & D, daily. 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C. 363-9888. $$ WILD WING CAFÉ F Serving up 33 flavors of wings, as well as soups, sandwiches, wraps, ribs, platters and burgers. FB. 4555 Southside Blvd. 998-9464. $$ YUMMY SUSHI F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Teriyaki, tempura, hibachi-style dinners, sushi & sashimi. Sushi lunch roll special. BW, sake. L & D, daily. 4372 Southside Blvd.

998-8806. $$

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

BOSTON’S RESTAURANT & SPORTSBAR *Bite Club Certified! F A full menu of sportsbar faves; pizzas till 2 a.m. Dine inside or on the patio. FB, TO. L & D, daily. 13070 City Station Dr., River City Marketplace. 751-7499. $$ CASA MARIA F Best of Jax 2011 winner. The family-owned restaurant serves authentic Mexican fare, including fajitas and seafood. The specialty is tacos de azada. CM, FB. L & D, daily. 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104. 757-6411. $$ FIVE GUYS BURGERS & FRIES Best of Jax 2011 winner. See St. Johns Town Center. 13249 City Square Dr., 751-9711. $ JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE See Downtown. 5945 New Kings Rd. 765-8515. $ JOSEPH’S PIZZA & ITALIAN RESTAURANT F Gourmet pizzas, pastas. Authentic Italian entrees. BW. L & D, daily.

7316 N. Main St. 765-0335. $$ MILLHOUSE STEAKHOUSE F A locally-owned-and-operated steakhouse with choice steaks from the signature broiler, and seafood, pasta, Millhouse gorgonzola, homemade desserts.

CM, FB. D, nightly. 1341 Airport Rd. 741-8722. $$ SALSARITA’S FRESH CANTINA F Southwest cuisine made from scratch; family atmosphere. CM, BW. L & D, daily. 840 Nautica Dr., Ste. 131, River City Marketplace. 696-4001. $ SAVANNAH BISTRO Low Country Southern fare with a twist of Mediterranean and French inspiration, offered in a relaxing atmosphere at Crowne Plaza Airport. Favorites include crab cakes, NY strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi. CM, FB. B, L & D, daily. 14670 Duval Rd. 741-4404. $-$$$ SWEET PETE’S This all-natural sweet shop offers a variety of candy and other treats made the old-fashioned way: all natural flavors, no artificial anything. Several kinds of honey, too. 1922 N. Pearl St. 376-7161. $ THREE LAYERS CAFE F Best of Jax 2011 winner. Lunch, bagels, desserts, and the adjacent Cellar serves fine wines.

Inside and courtyard dining. BW. B, L & D, daily. 1602 Walnut St., Springfield. 355-9791. $ 3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL F Salads, sandwiches, pizza, fine European cuisine. Nightly specials. 2467 Faye Rd., Northside. 647-8625. $$ UPTOWN MARKET F In the 1300 Building at the corner of Third & Main, serving fresh fare made with the same élan that rules Burrito Gallery. Innovative breakfast, lunch and deli selections. BW, TO. 1303 Main St. N. 355-0734. $$

WINE TASTINGS

ANJO LIQUORS 5-8 p.m. every Thur.

9928 Old Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-2656 AROMAS CIGAR & WINE BAR Call for schedule.

4372 Southside Blvd., 928-0515 BLACK HORSE WINERY 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tue.-Thur., 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 420 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park, 644-8480 BLUE BAMBOO 5:30-7:30 p.m., every first Thur.

3820 Southside Blvd., 646-1478 DAMES POINT MARINA Every 3rd Wed. 4518 Irving Rd., Northside, 751-3043 THE GIFTED CORK Tastings daily.

64 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 810-1083 THE GROTTO 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726 MONKEY’S UNCLE LIQUORS 5-8 p.m. every Fri. 1850 S. Third St., Jax Beach, 246-1070 OCEAN 60 6-8 p.m every Mon. 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 O’KANE’S IRISH PUB 6:30 p.m. every 3rd Tue. 318 Centre St., Fernandina Beach, 261-1000 PUSSERS CARIBBEAN GRILL 6 p.m. every second Fri. 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-7766

RIVERSIDE LIQUORS 5-8 p.m. every Fri. 1035 Park St., Five Points, 356-4517 THE TASTING ROOM 6-8 p.m. every first Tue. 25 Cuna St., St. Augustine, 810-2400 TASTE OF WINE Tastings daily.

363 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 9, Atlantic Beach, 246-5080 TIM’S WINE MARKET 5 p.m. every Fri., noon every Sat. 278 Solana Rd., Ponte Vedra, 686-1741 128 Seagrove Main St., St. Augustine Beach, 461-0060 III FORKS PRIME STEAKHOUSE 5-6:30 p.m. every Mon. 9822 Tapestry Circle, Ste. 111, SJTC, 928-9277 TOTAL WINE & MORE Noon-6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. 4413 Town Center Pkwy., Ste. 300, 998-1740 URBAN FLATS 5-8 p.m. every Wed. 9726 Touchton Rd., Tinseltown, 642-1488 WHOLE FOODS MARKET 6 p.m. every Thur.

10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 288-1100 THE WINE BAR 6-8 p.m. every Thur.

320 First St. N., Jax Beach, 372-0211 WINE WAREHOUSE 4-7 p.m. every Fri. 665 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 246-6450 4434 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 448-6782 1188 Edgewood Ave. S., Riverside, 389-9997 4085 A1A S., St. Augustine Beach, 471-9900

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The Hole Thing

Like most states with active trade associations of barbers and beauticians, Iowa strictly regulates those professions, requiring 2,100 hours of training plus continuing education — but also like many other states, Iowa doesn’t regulate body piercers at all (though it forbids minors from getting tattoos). Thus, the puncturing of body parts and insertion of jewelry or other objects under the skin can be done by anyone, with or without formal training, under no one’s watchful eye except the customer’s. A few cities’ ordinances require a minimum age to get pierced. Said one professional piercer in a March Des Moines Register report, “The lack of education in this industry is scary.”

Government in Action

Controlling the Waters: A February bill in the Wyoming legislature to prepare the state for possible secession authorized a task force to consider establishing a state army, navy, marine corps and air force, and one amendment added the consideration of purchasing an aircraft carrier. Wyoming is, of course, landlocked, but it does have the 136-square-mile Yellowstone Lake, though it’s high up in the Teton mountains. The aircraftcarrier amendment was defeated even with 27 representatives’ votes.

In February, Texas announced it would deploy six gunboats to patrol the Mexican border’s Rio Grande river. Said a state Department of Safety official, “It sends a message: Don’t mess with Texas.”

With a National Institute of Justice grant, Houston’s Police Department was able to learn just how embarrassingly bad it had been investigating rape cases. In February it conceded that, as of December, it had on hand 6,663 untested rape kits (some from the ’80s) taken from rape victims at the time of the crime but then apparently ignored. Not all are significant: In some rapes, a perpetrator has already confessed or been convicted; still other victims recanted; and in still others, the statute of limitations has run out.

After every snowfall in recent years, Doug Rochow of Ottawa, Ontario, has routinely taken his shovel and cleared two paths in a park near his home — the park’s apparently a low priority for municipal snow-clearing. But in March, the city ordered him to stop. Rochow said his aim was to keep people from being hurt on uncleared paths, thus maybe saving the city money on lawsuits. The city’s reverse-logic position, according to a Toronto Star item, was that if Rochow cleared the paths, more people would use them, increasing the city’s exposure to lawsuits.

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It wasn’t on a scale with an infinite number of orangutans using an infinite number of iPads, but the conservation group Orangutan Outreach has begun to supply certain zoos with iPads, hoping to encourage apes’ creativity and social networking. At the Milwaukee Zoo, a handler holds the device while an orangutan operates a painting app with its fingers. “Orangutans like to paint, and they’re capable of using this [tablet],” he said, adding the benefit that “there’s no paint to eat.” At Memphis Zoo recently, said an Outreach official, apes seem happy when they recognize

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Police Report

“[E]very single cop in the state has done this.

Chiefs on down.” That practice, referenced by an unidentified Minnesota law enforcement officer, is the personal use of the police database supposedly off-limits for all except official business. According to an imminent lawsuit (reported by Minneapolis’ City Pages weekly), former officer (and apparently still a “hottie”) Anne Marie Rasmusson, 37, learned 104 officers in 18 Minnesota agencies had accessed her driver’s license record 425 times.

Rasmusson’s lawyer said the reality is, officers tend to treat the confidential database more like a “Facebook for cops.”

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In January, police in Bridgeville, Pa., investigated a series of vehicle break-ins, including one of a car belonging to Kathy Saunoras, who reported only her dentures were taken.

In February, Evelyn Fuller, 49, was charged with robbing First National Bank in Waynesburg, Pa. — a crime necessitated, she told a police officer, because she needed money for new dentures.

Least Competent Criminals

Greedy: According to police in Lake Ariel, Pa., alleged burglar Christopher Wallace loaded his van with goodies from a home’s first floor, but instead of calling it a night, he re-entered to check out the second floor. Wallace was later rushed to the hospital after accidentally falling out a second-floor window, resulting in a broken back, hip and arm.

Recurring Themes

Fathers of Our Country: NOTW has reported on several prolific men who sell sperm to sperm banks, to be selected from catalogs by multiple mothers-to-be seeking high-quality breeding (and one case of a middle-aged physician who collected women’s money to find donors but then decided to self-supply his clients). Fremont, Calif., computer-security worker Trent Arsenault, 36, is America’s most notorious “rogue” donor, offering his output absolutely free to same-sex and low-income clients who have difficulty procuring through sperm banks. He’s so far fathered at least 15 children. Since 2010, the federal Food and Drug Administration has been trying to shut him down as an unregistered “manufacturer” of body tissue who must therefore adhere to federal safety regulations. Arsenault, according to a profile in New York magazine in Feb., is the son of disapproving parents (father, a Pentecostal minister), and is a virgin.

Undignified Deaths

On March 3, police in Kantale, Sri Lanka, found the body of Janaka Basnayake, 24, who, with the help of friends, buried himself in a 10-foot-deep trench at an attempt to set a “world record” for the longest time buried alive.

Clearly, his six-and-a-half hours underground was too ambitious. An Associated Press report noted it was “unclear” whether an “official” record exists in this category. Associated Press via Huffington Post, 3-5-2012 Chuck Shepherd WeirdNews@earthlink.net April 10-16, 2012 | folio weekly | 49

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some people misunderstand the do-it-now fervor of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Prove them wrong in the weeks ahead.

Launch into interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow natural energy to be hemmed in by theories and concepts. But be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance. Consider the chance your original vision of the future may need to be tweaked a bit as you translate it into concrete details.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s a possibility a pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow. It’s small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow’s definitely here and available to enjoy. Of course, you’d have to do some more work on yourself to gather the fullness of that enjoyment. The potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow’s less valuable than the pot of gold. What if the rainbow’s the real prize?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It’s eternity in a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I’d add. The unfortunate fact of the matter? A lot of folks let other, lesser things turn the crank handle — like a compulsive yearning for money, power and love. Check in with yourself soon and determine what’s been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get adjusted. In the months ahead, it’s crucial to run on the cleanest, purest fuel.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For a white guy from 19th-century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he traveled in Africa, he referred to what were called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the weeks ahead, be inspired by Livingstone as you expand the notion of who your allies are. Like, consider them to be your colleagues if they just try to influence the world the same way you do, even if they’re in different jobs or spheres. What’s your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network and scout around for confederates who may connect you to exotic new perspectives and unimagined resources.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The California flag has the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal.

Yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there a discrepancy like that in your life? Do you still act as if a particular symbol or icon is important, even though it has no practical presence? If so, it’s a good time for attitude update.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cartoon character Felix the Cat debuted in 1919. He was a silent film-era movie star, and appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which let him do many things he couldn’t do before. I think you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks not on your radar until you matured to where you are now. To ensure you get that bag, you’ll have to ripen a bit more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: She’s turned out to be a stellar human being.

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so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked a friend with six kids how he managed to pull off that difficult feat. He told me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.” I offer this to encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favor quality over quantity.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect there to be curious goings-on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea may save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony? Handle such big doses of flippety-flop and oopsie-loopsie? For extra credit, here are two more odd blessings to capitalize on: an unlikely expert’s humble teaching and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some of our pagan forbears imagined they had a duty to aid nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. Wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you help crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, doing such a ceremony may stimulate your own creativity. In accordance with astrological omens, slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, alone or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to grow in the months ahead. Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Once upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman, Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her amorous affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But I was flat broke. What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling a precious childhood heirloom, my collection of 6,000 vintage baseball cards. This may inspire you to do something comparable. Sacrifice an outmoded attachment, juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy to empower the future of love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We all know spiders are talented little creatures. Their silk is strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. Even though they have admirable qualities, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have personal integrity or relationship skills to be trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Think about it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I expect you’ll experience a form of that phenomenon soon.

Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait — before you jump to conclusions and curse me for this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that’ll get knocked out of you will be one that needed to be knocked out, one that was causing confusion in your gut-level intuition. In other words, you’re lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterward, and you’ll see things more clearly.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

BITCHIN’ TRUCK You drive the black and pink “Bitchin’” truck. Radiant smile and a sparkle in your eyes that is impossible to ignore. Me: Sitting next to you at the bar. Care to share some more coconut tequila? When: March 9. Where: Tacolu. #1312-0410 CLEAN CUT DAD WITH SONS Pushy mom always on the lookout for nice man for her daughter. I saw you at McDonald’s on a Saturday with your two sons. You were sitting at the stools facing the playground and I remarked to my daughter that you were handsome.

My daughter pretended not to notice but I could tell she thought the same. If you noticed us at all (I have grey hair, red glasses; my daughter is 40something with dark hair and had her young daughter with her, at the table front of you).

If interested, write back. When: March 3. Where: McDonald’s Collins & Blanding. #1311-0410 DELICOMB!!

You: Tall, black hair, fun looking, gorgeous man, stepping out of his BMW. Me: Gorgeous ;) petite brunette, having breakfast outside. Loved that smile and the way your jeans look on you!

Call me so we can enjoy a deli-comb together! When: March 30. Where: Delicomb! #1310-0410 SAW YOU WITH YOUR SON And I was with my son. I was hoping we could play together like our kids did. You: Dark brown hair, nice legs, beautiful eyes. Me: Med. build, early 30s, tattooed. If you see this, I’ll be up there this weekend. ttyl xoxo. When: 3 weeks ago.

Where: Parental Home Rd. #1309-0410 HELLO DVM! I almost forgot why I was even there when you entered the room. You called my pup handsome, helped his eye, and made my day. I couldn’t stop watching you talk... I’d like to talk some more. Maybe a trip to the dog park?? When: March 28. Where: Animal Emergency of St. Johns. #1308-0410 ZOE’S RAVISHING REDHEAD You: Redhot redhead eating a spinach wrap. Me: Intimidated & mesmerized. Walked by 3 times before I could work up the nerve to approach. Used the line “Don’t I know you from somewhere?” but you didn’t respond well. I’d realllly like to get to know you. We missed our first opportunity but I’ll make sure there are more. When: March 28. Where: Zoe’s in Riverside. #1307-0410 HNA – BEAUTIFUL SULTRY ATTORNEY! I know that you are there about 5 days a week, several times a day. I have seen you there on many occasions. I want to grow closer to you! I want you to represent me! Let me know if you feel the same! When: 5 days/wk. minimum. Where: Starbucks San Marco. #1306-0410 LONG-HAIRED RASTA IN JAGS JEEP My battery was dead and you recharged it. Sexiest man I have ever seen. I would love the chance to go topless in your Wrangler. Hoping you feel the same. When: Feb. 15. Where: Jax Beach. #1305-0403 FOR JW (SORRY) I gazed into another’s soul and saw mine looking back and when I moved from left to right my footsteps soul did track. In this soul I also saw something I wasn’t glad to see Someone with whom I could stay and love into infinity.

To Fly! To run! To roam! To flee! Is what my heart was asking for. So on this kindred soul to me I had to close the door.

— eternally your muse in another life. MW When: March 17. Where: Outside of a bar. #1304-0403 YOU CAUGHT MY EYES I Saw U at MHC, and my heart couldn’t stop racing. You were so cute with your long brown hair and pretty smile, I just wanted to hold you in my arms. U had on orange shirt and black pants at the front desk, we started talking and I didn’t want to stop, but u had to leave early taking a trip to JFK, I wanted to at least get your name and number so we can talk, you left and I couldn’t stop thinking of u. Email me please if we can talk. When: March 28. Where: MHC. #1303-0403 CUTIE ON A NINJA You: Black Kawasaki Ninja. Me: Black Honda Shadow, diggin your style. Us: Hair blowing in the wind while we cruise down Beach Blvd. on our sweet rides. Pesky light cut our chit

chat short. Let’s get together and ride to the beach. See you on campus! When: March 27 @ 9:30 p.m. Where: Beach & Kernan. #1302-0403 SWING DANCING MAN You had a gray plain T-shirt, with a shark tooth surf necklace, blue jeans with nice fade, and black dancing shoes, and stunning brown eyes. You move amazingly well, very impressive. Me: With black T-shirt with palm trees and jeans.

I sure would love to take private lessons, and dance with you.

Hope to see you again. When: March 23. Where: Orange Park/ Beyond Just Dance. #1301-0403 GROCERY SHOPPING DAD You: Handsome with dark hair and beautiful blue eyes, grocery shopping with your daughter. I first saw you in the produce department looking at me. We eventually exchanged a few flattering words and like the cart you were pushing, you raced off. Me: Petite brunette, with brown eyes and pink cheeks from being slightly embarrassed. I was wearing gym clothes. Regretfully leaving without exchanging numbers.

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First saw you sitting on the floor in the chips aisle... then again outside... (around 8:15 a.m.) You were wearing a light blue polo shirt & shorts. I’m kicking myself for not getting your number. If you are reading this, what was I wearing &/or driving? When: March 11. Where: Walmart on Philips Hwy. @ 8:15 a.m. #1299-0320 YOBE FROZEN YOGURT At 8 p.m. went in looking crazy with my white Polo hoodie covering my head, pink FSCJ shorts and some flip flops. Me and my kiddie bop grabbed some frozen yogurt and I saw your handsome face, with slicked black hair, you had on shorts with a plaid blue and white button-up, with a friend wearing a cap. You decided to eat outside. Don’t know if you noticed but I sure was looking from the corner of my eyeball lol. When: Feb. 29. Where: Orange Park Yobe Frozen Yogurt. #1298-0320 HANK WILLIAMS JR. CONCERT You were hanging out behind the guy in charge of the lights.

You were also wearing a T-shirt that read Georgia across the front. I had long blonde hair and you were amused that I hunt in Georgia. I left in a hurry. Don’t let me get away, lol. When: March 3. Where: Hank Williams Jr. Concert. #1297-0320 MUSCULAR MOUNTAIN MAN You: Tall blonde grizzly hunk that comes to the gym on his

lunch break. Me: Big rack with a bigger back. I’ve seen you get into a black older model F-150 with window decals on the back. Also I know we share a love for the Avett Brothers.

I hope that one day we can lie underneath a tree together, play guitar, sip some apple pie moonshine and listen to the birds. Will you be my Tim Tebow? When: About twice a week during lunchtime. Where: Athlete’s Choice N. Main St. #1296-0313 JOHN SMITH SEARCHING FOR POCAHONTAS Saw you just around the river bend. Watched you tattoo a stuffed giraffe and my life hasn’t been the same since. Would love to paint the colors of the wind with you. When: March 5.

Where: Jerry’s Sports Grille. #1295-0313 BANGIN’ LIBRARIAN You: Blue eyes, short bangs & a green collared dress with sexy side cutouts. Me: Plaid button-up and cords. I saw you shelving DVDs. We met eyes for a few seconds and I thought to come over and ask you for a little assistance, but I was slightly intimidated. Let’s see how tough you truly are.

Drinks? When: March 1. Where: Jacksonville Public Library, Willow Branch. #1294-0313 FOREVER’S MESSENGER We exchanged few words, you complimented my pants. You: Adorable brunette with messenger bag. Me: Blushing, excited employee in beanie wishing I had said more. I’ve seen you around and I’d like to put a name to that face. When: Feb. 25.

Where: Avenues Mall. #1293-0313 TO THE MAYOR OF CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE You stole my heart from the couch. And I have never let you out of my heart. You will always be in it no matter if you’re there or not, so let’s get back on that lonely couch and when we wake, let’s go for a bike ride on the beach. When: Feb. 2011. Where: Camp Crystal Lake Herschel St. #1292-0313 SEXY TATTOOED WHISKY RIVER BARTENDER I saw you staring all night at me when I was working. We had a moment while you were DJing when I finally caught your gaze. You’re on repeat in my mind all day. Let’s make music!

Where: In the bush. When: Feb. 29. Where: Whisky River/ Suite. #1291-0313 RUNNING RIOT You: Pretty, petite blonde always running and laughing with your friend in Riverside. Me: Tall, tan and athletic dying to know what’s so funny. When: Jan. 26. Where: Riverside. #1290-0306 SHORT HEALTHY BRUNETTE CUTIE RE: TRIVIA All of my friends have been facebooking me and texting me funny things about your “sexy trivia man” ad, question is, will you reveal yourself so I know what exactly “healthy”

means please. When: ??? Where: Monkey’s Uncle Jax Beach. #1289-0306 PETE’S BAR You, sitting at the bar with your friends drinking whiskey.

I walked in and saw you right away. We talked and you charmed me, I went to play some foosball and you left, leaving me wondering if I’ll ever see your charming self again. Let’s talk again! When: Feb. 25. Where: Pete’s Bar. #1288-0306 STARBUCKS DREAM GIRL You: Short reddish hair, blue bandana, red shoes, backpack.

Me: Maroon zip-up, grey beanie, black hair with buzzed side.

We made eye contact before you sat with your back to me. I’d like to see more of the front. Let me buy you your next coffee?

When: Feb. 26. Where: Riverside Starbucks. #1287-0306 HOPE YOU NOTICED You were in St. Bart’s and I walked in with the girl. You didn’t look up but I could tell you were paying attention. There was more to me than meets the eye; I can’t wait to get your attention with the real me. Me: Slim, Irish. You: Tall, too intelligent. Care to meet by the pool? When: Feb. 20. Where: St. Bart’s. #1286-0306 TATTOOED GRAPHIC DESIGNER Hey u with the giant “kitty” on your side, we have the same artist and share an interest in photography. I was sitting on the ground in the art bldg. watching Ghostbusters and writing a paper, u can ask me out on a date! I think you’re hot! Hope to see u soon, maybe at the tattoo shop! When: Mondays and Wednesdays. Where: University of North Florida. #1285-0306 WAFFLE HOUSE OFF 17 You: With your lazy eye and tangled bleached platinum hair, I was constantly wondering if you were looking at me or staring into my soul. Me: Chain smoking cigarettes and watching you like a tiger hunting its prey. I will wait for you at the Waffle House. Please don’t make me eat my heart shaped pancakes alone. When: Feb. 23. Where: Waffle House. #1284-0306 BLACKJACKS BBQ BEAUTY You (girl) work at Blackjacks and have tattoos. I (guy) eat at Blackjacks and have tattoos... so far we’re 2 for 2. When: Feb. 14. Where: Blackjacks Baymeadows. #1283-0221 MYSTERIOUS COAT AND CHEEKBONES I saw U at St. Bart’s, cooking something up in the lab.

Mutual friend introduced us. You told me my life story just by observing the evidence. I believe my heart was stolen.

Please take my case? You: Tall, dark-haired man in long coat and blue scarf. Me: Soldier with blonde hair who called you brilliant. When: Feb. 10. Where: St. Bart’s. #1282-0221

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Should Jacksonville incinerate its garbage?

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hile it is very interesting what happens to our garbage after it leaves the curb (Folio Weekly, “Waste Land,” March 27), the article does suggest one unasked question. What solution is better: a landfill or incineration?

This debate occurred in 1990 and, due to environmental concerns, the landfill solution won out. Since that decision, there have been improvements in technology that make the landfill seem to be the greater evil.

Before looking further at waste disposal, the issue of recycling needs to be addressed.

Jacksonville took a lead in recycling many years ago. The city does a good job of recycling waste; however, there is a lot of waste that cannot be recycled. The March 27 article stated that the state of Florida had set the goal of recycling 75 percent of all garbage. That goal is probably impractical.

Garbage that is embedded with food cannot be recycled. Neither can a lot of other household items. We will be lucky to recycle 30 to 40 percent of our garbage. That being said, we have the issues of which method of final disposal is better for the environment and which is more economically feasible? In 1990, we looked at incineration.

At the time, it was proposed that Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) build an incineration plant to dispose of garbage. Two issues came up. First, the city garbage fee and the $370 million cost for the plant which would provide about 300 megawatts (MW) of energy.

Second, pollutants from the plant. There was concern that heavy metals in the garbage would be released with the ash. Even with stateof-the-art (for 1990) pollution controls, the emissions would possibly be unsafe.

One possible solution to building a new plant was not mentioned at the time. The St. Johns River Power Park (SJRPP) had been designed so that in addition to burning coal, it could burn garbage. Donald Jordan, a former St. Johns County Commissioner (now deceased), had sat on the citizens’ planning board (which among other things reviewed plans for SJRPP), and learned through their meetings that with some fine tuning, the plant would be able to use garbage as a fuel. JEA apparently never pursued this avenue.

Since the incineration plant was killed, the city went with the landfill option. This option has since cost us several hundred million dollars. It also uses up almost 1,000 acres of land and could be a threat to the safety of water in the area. During the interim, technology for controlling pollution from incineration has improved immensely. This new technology includes improved scrubbers and after-burners.

The most expensive fuel for JEA is coal. In order to power a 1,000MW plant for one year, the cost of coal is approximately $250 million.

The SJRPP generates about 1,250MW, so its fuel

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Burning Question

cost would be about $312.5 million. This is money that could reduce costs for the ratepayers or be used to harden JEA’s transmission system against possible future hurricanes. How much garbage is available to burn for energy?

We only need to look to the 20 to 25 surrounding counties as a source of fuel.

Most of them have landfills and most charge a tipping fee of at least $15 per ton. Some counties such as Clay ship their garbage to a landfill in Georgia. Are these methods of disposal really costeffective? What if JEA agreed to accept their garbage without a tipping fee?

By refusing to charge a tipping fee, JEA could save waste haulers enough money to encourage all garbage to be hauled to SJRPP. How about the costs of converting SJRPP to burn garbage?

Those costs would be minimal. As scrubbers have improved, JEA has upgraded the systems at SJRPP. Our plant is considered to have stateof-the-art systems for removing sulfur dioxides and ash. What about the heavy metals?

After-burner technology has improved immensely since 1990. New plasma afterburners will remove almost all heavy metals from the exhaust gases. The waste metal can be sold (the Chinese will purchase such waste). Of course, we would need two after-burners (one for each boiler) at $40 million each. But when we look at the fuel savings, the $80 million in capital investment is not that much. This can be covered by JEA’s annual operations budget.

We probably can obtain enough garbage to generate about 70 percent of the power from waste. The remainder would still be from coal. This lowers the fuel cost to $93.75 million. Recyclables that end up with the fuel would need to be removed before the garbage reaches the boiler. This may cost another $10 million or so. In addition, there is the $305.5 million contract with Trail Ridge Landfill. This comes out to about $11.75 million per year.

If the JEA pays this along with a tipping fee on the small amount of garbage that cannot be burned or recycled, the cost is nominal compared to $312.5 million in fuel cost for burning 100 percent coal. Subtract out an annual cost for burning a mixture of coal and garbage of $115.5 million, and the net savings is $197 million.

As long as we properly address the environmental concerns, burning garbage at JEA’s SJRPP makes sense. These savings could be passed on to the ratepayers in lower electric

costs or could be used to bury an additional 66 miles of electric lines per year. The incineration of garbage makes economic sense, from a power generation standpoint.

From the standpoint of communities in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia who

There is still carbon dioxide, which is produced no matter what method of disposal is used.

There are methods to sequester carbon, but they are expensive and use a lot of energy. We are much better off burning the waste that we create anyway, which is non-recyclable, rather

When you consider that the fuel is waste that otherwise needs to be buried, from an efficiency standpoint, it makes sense to incinerate garbage for power production. collect garbage and take it to a landfill, the savings in tipping fees make sense. While we still have collection costs, the system will be much more efficient. How does the process stand up ecologically?

A landfill uses a space of about 1,000 acres.

The Trail Ridge Landfill uses about .2 percent of the land area in Duval County. The March 27 article mentions risks of water contamination.

Even the best linings can sometimes leak. The risk of contamination occurring at some point is very high. When we multiply this risk by the number of landfills in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia (note: the Floridan aquifer also flows under Southeast Georgia), the risk could be unacceptable.

Again, Folio Weekly’s cover story mentions methane produced as landfill garbage decays.

While this is burned off, it still produces some greenhouse gases. If some of the methane is not burned, then it becomes a problem, since methane traps much more solar heat than carbon dioxide (produced from the burn-off ).

The pollution control methods used in incineration eliminate most of the pollutants.

than burning coal.

The amount of electric power that can be produced nationwide by burning garbage is 7 percent. When you consider that the fuel is waste that otherwise needs to be buried, from an efficiency standpoint, it makes sense to incinerate garbage for power production.

This must be done using the latest pollution control technology.

It is time for JEA to revisit the possibility of garbage incineration. They should consider SJRPP instead of a new stand-alone facility.

They should also incorporate plasma afterburners and other state-of-the-art pollution control technology in their plans. After coming up with a plan to mitigate pollution, they should then conduct due diligence in making sure there will be less pollution than from the current operation of SJRPP. If these criteria are accomplished, garbage incineration would be an efficient and economical addition to Jacksonville’s energy mix.

Bruce A. Fouraker

Fouraker lives in Jacksonville.

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