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EDITOR’S NOTE Two kittens teach big lessons in unconditional love. p. 4 NEWS Northeast Florida shelters warn that rising numbers of homeless animals force more euthanizations. p. 6 BUZZ Tethering pets, preparing for hurricane season, a rare rhino, Riverside trolley changes, a new flight to the Bahamas and 2 more feet for the St. Johns River channel. p. 6 BOUQUETS & BRICKBATS Jacksonville Beach brawlers, Gov. Rick Scott and Jack and Luke Edwards. p. 7 DEEMABLE TECH Can you make the Kindle stop syncing? p. 8 THE SPECKTATOR What if we cast “The Bachelor” with local talent? p. 8 ON THE COVER Those who appreciate high-quality eggs – or just a different kind of pet – are flocking to backyard chicken coops, but some have to fight city codes. p. 10 Photos of our readers’ cutest, funniest and scariest pets. p. 13 A guide to pet services. p. 13 OUR PICKS Goin’ Coastal BBQ Championships & Music Festival, I Love Music Tour, The Menzingers, “Scooby-Doo Live!,” “A Woman’s View” and WWE Live. p. 24 MOVIES “Now You See Me”: The illusions aren’t real, but the colorful cast and fresh angle elevate it from a contrived con movie. p. 26 “After Earth”: Will Smith is to blame for relegating star duties to his son in silly sci-fi story. p. 27

Last year’s winning team offers tips on surviving the 48-Hour Film Project. p. 28 MUSIC British punk icon Billy Idol’s rebel yell still resonates with fans. p. 33 Boston-based band David Wax Museum melds traditional Mexican music with American folk. p. 34 The Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett, inspired by the commitment of fans, takes his effort on the latest album even higher. p. 35 SPORTSTALK This could be the Jaguars’ star running back Maurice Jones-Drew’s last hurrah. p. 42 ARTS Japan’s Hiromi Moneyhun creates intricate art that entices viewers to want to touch. p. 43 Kathy Stark doesn’t paint the town, she paints the parks. p. 44 BITE-SIZED Fuel up on Venezuelan-inspired breakfast, lunch and dinner at Tres Leches. p. 50 BACKPAGE Improving educational outcomes for girls creates a ripple effect in society. p. 63 MAIL p. 5 MOVIE LISTING p. 29 THE EYE p. 31, 32, 45, 51 LIVE MUSIC LISTING p. 37 ARTS LISTING p. 46 HAPPENINGS LISTING p. 49 DINING GUIDE p. 52 CLASSIFIEDS p. 58 CROSSWORD p. 59 FREEWILL ASTROLOGY p. 60 I SAW U p. 61 NEWS OF THE WEIRD p. 62 Cover design by Elaine Damasco JUNE 5-11, 2013 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 3

Purrrfect Companions

Editor’s Note

Two kittens teach big lessons in unconditional love

e all just want to be loved for who we are, without limitations, without conditions. If we are lucky, our parents surround us with it from the time we are born. If we are extremely fortunate, we find it in a spouse. And if we are blessed, we exchange it with our children. Some people search for unconditional love their whole lives. Some people just adopt a pet. A pet cannot replace any of these relationships, but a furry, feathered or scaly friend can offer love no less infinite. After months of handwringing about when the right time was to get a pet for our daughter, we surprised her with a trip last December to the Home for the Holidays Pet Adoption Event at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds, where 1,200 dogs and cats from 14 shelters and rescue groups were available. We were quickly drawn to a pair of two-month-old kittens, a brother and sister who were nearly identical tuxedo domestic shorthairs. The only way you could tell them apart was the black spot on the girl’s nose, which inspired Jacksonville Humane Society volunteers to name her Dot. Her brother was Scout. After cuddling them for a few minutes, we were ready to invite them into our home — and our hearts. For our daughter, the kittens fill many roles: siblings, playmates, children, living dolls. Dot and Scout help wake her in the

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morning by attacking her feet under the covers, and they settle down to sleep with her at night. They endure goodbye bear hugs before she leaves the house for school. They greet her at the door when she returns. She fills their bowls, makes sure they get exercise and reads to them. Scout and Dot prefer stories about animals. We laugh when they sprint through every room in the house, tackling each other in comedic wrestling poses. They stare at the shower doors, occasionally pawing at the Scout and Dot snuggle in bed. Photo: Denise M. Reagan dripping water on the opposite side. They curl up beside us while we lounge on the couch puppy! Shelters have twice as many cats than and try to help while we type on our laptops. Cynthia Enuton: “I’ve always had a dog dogs, sometimes more. So don’t judge them and could never imagine my life without one. No matter how many times Scout tries prematurely. Go adopt a cat or two! I have two They give me innocent, unconditional love, to trip us or how many chairs they destroy fill an ordinary day with laughter, and worship and we are a perfect family!” or how often they wake us well before we Melissa Greene Lucero: “Patience! They the ground I walk on. But they also depend planned with their plaintive, squeaky meows are a lot of responsibility, but they give you a on me to take good care of them, love them, outside our bedroom door, we will love them. This is a copyright protected pr lot of unconditional love. They also take time walk them, and they trust me with their life. We will love them for those things, and so and money to care for them properly. Give Sharing love with a dog is a wonderful thing much more. And our love will grow as sure as advertising representative at themyour the love and respect that you would … a lifelong bondFor and questions, commitment.” please call they will grow from kittens to adults. FAXyou YOUR IF POSSIBLE AT want, and will bePROOF blessed. Also research Margaret Carner: “Dogs have taught me That’s what so many pet owners echoed how to live in and embrace the moment. Don’t the animal, especially if it is a particular breed. on social media when I asked what lessons Give them a forever home.” worry about the past or the future.” they’ve learned from their animals, the best David Mo Sian: “Our dog was our first things about living with pets and their advice James Lessick Jr.: “If you listen, they will son; we got him before we had kids. Patience, to someone who is thinking of getting a pet. tell they need.byIf you listen, by it is Sale Produced ptf don’t Checked PROMISE OF BENEFIT SUPPORT ASK FOR ACTIONyou what discipline, reward … responsibility.” Anya Aronson: “They become your sun, your fault.” Emily Knight-Smith: “Cats have the moon and stars! Never underestimate their That’s good advice for any relationship. reputation of being narcissistic: Nothing could knowledge. They will love you at your worst Denise M. Reagan be more wrong! My angels talk to me, cuddle, and best. And you will be very well trained to dreagan@folioweekly.com play and basically need all the attention of a do their bidding.” twitter.com/denisereagan

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Thank you for running your Editor’s Note on JAX2025 in the May 22 issue of Folio Weekly. Your comment on taking the bus to support the transportation initiative brings up two points regarding the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. One is negative, and one is positive. The first item covered will be the criticism of JTA and the timing of the bus routes. At a recent Chamber of Commerce event, I sat with Ida Gropper of Catholic Charities. Part of the service provided by Catholic Charities is to find jobs for those recently unemployed. Here is where the issue with JTA comes into play. There were several janitorial jobs available. They had people willing to work; however, they did not have automobiles to transport them. These individuals were able to take the bus to work in the late afternoon or early evening, but when they got off work at 2 a.m., there was no transportation available. The lack of laterunning buses is an issue that needs to resolved in order to help the unemployed. This is an issue to be addressed as JTA updates its system and evaluates the current bus routes and service levels. Hopefully, as JTA reviews these issues over the next few months, there will be resolution to the lack of late-night service. The second item was the two hours it took for you to get from Arlington to work on Philips Highway. JTA is expected to have a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT/MAX) system in place on Philips Highway by 2015. There also should be an Arlington route in place before 2020. These routes would have a 10-minute time between buses (headways) during peak hours (basically, 7-10 a.m. and 4-7 p.m.). During non-peak times, the headways would be 15 minutes. While it probably will take 30 to 40 minutes to run each route, the wait times will be less. In addition, there will be Park-n-Ride locations along the routes. The BRT/MAX routes will have fewer stops; however, Shad Road and Philips Highway would be a likely location for the first stop north of The Avenues. Of course, there will be Park-n-Ride lots at The Avenues and where J. Turner Butler Expressway dead-ends into Philips Highway. The BRT/MAX buses will also stop at a couple of Skyway stations to provide Downtown circulation for patrons. There are also plans for a Lem Turner BRT/MAX route and a Southwest BRT/MAX route. There are a few issues to be worked out regarding the Downtown portion of the BRT/ MAX routes; however, when these are resolved, the system will be a boon to those commuting anywhere along the routes and will speed up other bus routes that will be adjusted to feed riders to these planned routes. Bruce A. Fouraker Jacksonville

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NewsBuzz Tethering Pets Pets can no longer be tethered to a single point, under legislation approved by the Jacksonville City Council on May 28. The new rules require pets to be tied to a line running between two points that are at least 15 feet apart, such as trees. There is a 30-day warning period before owners are subject to $500 fines.

People, Get Ready With the start of hurricane season, Mayor Alvin Brown and leaders of the American Red Cross of Northeast Florida and Duval County Emergency Management are urging people to be ready to respond and recover from emergencies. While only brushed by several tropical storms last year, Northeast Florida got a small taste of what heavy rainfall and high winds can do. Go to JaxReady.com to get details on building a hurricane kit with 72 hours of food, water and supplies.

Adoption Emergency

Northeast Florida shelters warn that rising numbers of homeless animals force more euthanizations

Rare Rhino

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White Oak has announced the birth of a rare greater one-horned rhinoceros. Officials believe the female rhino weighs about 85 pounds, even though she won’t hold still for measurements. The new rhino, born May 9, is the daughter of Chitwan and Patrick, the first GOH rhino to be born in captivity in the United States. The calf is the second GOH rhino born at White Oak. White Oak is currently home to 18 rhinos representing three species. For more information, go to whiteoakwildlife.org.

Riverside Trolley Changes Riders planning to hop on the trolley through Downtown Jacksonville should be aware of some new changes. On June 3, the trolley discontinued operations north of The Jacksonville Landing to the St. James Building. A new service will run 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday between The Landing and Five Points, to serve the lunch crowd. Fares are 75 cents per trip for each rider, with the exception of those ages 60 and older, who ride free of charge. For more information, call JTA customer service at 630-3100 or go to jtafla.com.

Directly to the Bahamas There’s a new way to get to the Bahamas. Starting June 15, Silver Airways will begin weekly service from Jacksonville to Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas. The flight departs 10:30 a.m. Saturday and arrives in Marsh Harbour at 12:16 p.m. The return flight departs the islands at 12:46 p.m. Saturday, arriving back here at 2:54 p.m. For details, go to gosilver.com.

The Cost of 2 Feet The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to consider the option of making the St. Johns River channel 47 feet deep, in its upcoming study about deepening the harbor. Earlier, the Corps had recommended increasing the channel’s depth to 45 feet, but it has now agreed to consider JaxPort’s preferred depth of 47 feet. Those two extra feet could cost an additional $100-$200 million. The port of Savannah, one of JaxPort’s biggest competitors, is also seeking a 47-foot-deep channel. Both ports want deeper channels to handle the bigger cargo ships expected due to the widening of the Panama Canal.

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argo Moehring was smitten the minute she saw the black, white and brown dog in the city shelter. “I was in love,” Moehring said. “This was the dog. There was something about this dog. I think we made a match.” She and her boyfriend had looked at several other dogs at the shelter run by the city of Jacksonville’s Animal Care & Protective Services, but this Catahoula Cur, which she has named Astro after the dog on “The Jetsons,” was the one they chose. “It’s just like being in love. I’m nuts,” she said. “He is like a new member of the family.” Moehring, managing director of policy and planning at the Northeast Florida Regional Council, said it broke her heart to see so many dogs and cats living in the shelter, waiting for the right person to come along and pick them. She had debated for years on whether to bring a pet into her life and was both excited and saddened when she visited the shelter. “I had a moment. I teared up. I could only take one home. You want to take all of them home,” Moehring said. Scott Trebatoski, ACPS division chief, would like to see more happy pet owners as his agency partners with the Jacksonville Humane Society and First Coast No More Homeless Pets to push adoptions and foster care for the growing population of cats and dogs at the shelter. The number of new arrivals — about 100 dogs and cats a day — has renewed fears that more animals might have to be euthanized, delaying the shelter’s ultimate goal of becoming a no-kill shelter. To save their lives, these pets need owners or foster parents. At the city-owned shelter, adoptions have increased 89.5 percent, rising from 2,185 in 2007 to 4,141 in 2012. For the same five-year period, the number of animals that were euthanized is down 73.6 percent, from 19,189 in 2007 dropping to 5,069 in 2012. About 31 percent of the animals that entered the shelter last year were euthanized, making it difficult for the city to maintain its goal of saving 90 percent of the animals to be considered a no-kill shelter. “Over the past few years, we have made great strides in reducing euthanasia in Jacksonville. We still, however, face serious overcrowding issues,” Trebatoski said. “Our goal is to never have to euthanize an adoptable pet, but we need broad community support to reach that goal,” he said, adding that about 100 dogs per day enter the shelter,

A pitbull barks for attention at the city of Jacksonville’s animal shelter. Photos: Dennis Ho

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forcing them to put dogs in offices and every reasonable space.” The population of the shelter is cyclical, and more dogs and cats are surrendered to the shelter in late spring and early summer, increasing the chance they’ll be euthanized, he said. He urges people who have to get rid of pets to try to find neighbors or friends to adopt them. “This is the worst time of year to bring it to the shelter when the chance of survival is down,” he said. Lindsay Layendecker, who teaches English at the Florida Virtual School, donates hours helping at the shelter and is serving as a foster mom for four kittens and a dog. During her time fostering animals, Layendecker tries to find them good homes so they don’t have to return to the shelter. “I love to foster so much,” she said, adding that as soon as she places one foster pet, she’s always ready for another. Layendecker is a member of Friends of Jacksonville Animals, which works directly with the city shelter to assist with the costs of medical care, promote adoptions and reduce euthanasia. Another key component of the city’s animal control efforts is Feral Freedom, a program that picks up feral cats, sometimes known as community cats, sterilizes and vaccinates them, and returns them to the place they were picked up. They are tagged by cuts on their ears.

Margo Moehring adopted her dog, Astro, at the city of Jacksonville’s Animal Care & Protective Services shelter on the edge of Downtown.

The program was developed by Rick DuCharme, founder and director of First Coast No More Homeless Pets; he convinced the city not to euthanize healthy, feral cats. “When he first came to me, I was skeptical,” Trebatoski said. “But based on the evidence, it is working.” “We are seeing a 40 percent drop in those cats coming into the shelter,” he said. DuCharme said his organization takes all the cats that come into the shelter, spays or neuters them and places them back where they were first trapped.

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About 31 percent of the animals that entered the shelter last year were euthanized, making it difficult for the city to maintain its goal of saving 90 percent of the animals to be considered a no-kill shelter.

Trebatoski said that program has resulted in a big savings for the city, which previously had a policy of euthanizing all feral cats. DuCharme said there are no good figures on the number of feral cats roaming in the Jacksonville area. Estimates range from 70,000 to 200,000. “There is a decrease in cats and kittens every year in the shelter and less cat problems,” he said. In 2012, DuCharme’s organization performed sterilization procedures on 17,644 cats and 7,430 dogs. It was involved in 2,505 adoptions, said Cameron Moore, program director for First Coast No More Homeless Pets. The Jacksonville Humane Society, which receives most of its animals for adoption from the city shelter, is looking for 2,013 people to adopt dogs and cats with the hope of winning the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100,000 Challenge, said Denise Deisler, JHS executive director. It’s one of 50 shelters nationwide competing to beat last summer’s adoption record. The local humane society had about 1,000 adoptions last summer. “For us, it is going to be a challenge. Last year in June, July and August, we had phenomenal numbers,” Deisler said, noting the winner receives $100,000. “It is our goal to increase adoptions across the community,” she said.

St. Johns County Animal Control and Pet Center have a deal on cats. If you want a kitten or cat, Pet Center is offering a $30 adopt-oneget-one-free deal now. The cost of adopting a dog is $60. In the past year, St. Johns County received 4,502 animals and had 1,603 adoptions. They euthanized 2,800 animals, including 2,000 cats. Neither St. Johns County nor Clay County has a TNR program — Trap, Neuter and Release — for feral cats, officials said. There is a similar situation in Clay County, where 686 feral cats were euthanized in 2012. Through April of this year, Clay County has euthanized 187 feral cats. In 2012, there were 740 dog adoptions and 240 cat adoptions. In Nassau County, exact figures are not available on its animal control website. In a report for fiscal year 2011-’12, Joseph Novello reported that it reduced the euthanasia rate by 13 percent and live release rate by 13 percent, in addition to creating a feral cat program, which reduced the number of animals being euthanized. Ron Word rword@folioweekly.com SHARE YOUR ADOPTION STORIES

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Bouquets & Brickbats Brickbats to those responsible for the Memorial Day melee at Jacksonville Beach. Dozens caught the action on cellphone videos that went viral, but few called police. No arrests have been made and residents, businesses and officials are calling for changes to prevent future violence. Police Chief Pat Dooley says only two people were injured and he thinks gangs may be involved. He said the city is not going to tolerate the violence and unlawful activity at the beach. Bouquets to Jack and Luke Edwards, who were named Florida Champions of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The 5-year-old twins will serve as awareness ambassadors for Wolfson Children’s Hospital and UF Health of Jacksonville. This fall, Jack and Luke, along with each state’s champions, take an official ambassador trip to Washington, D.C., and Orlando. At birth, each of the boys weighed a little more than two-and-a-half pounds, staying in Wolfson’s neonatal intensive care unit for eight weeks. Brickbats to Gov. Rick Scott for being a little slash-happy with his veto pen. Among the projects he nixed were a $50 million coast-to-coast bike trail; Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown’s $500,000 Learn2Earn program, which gives high school students a look at college life, and $300,000 worth of improvements for the Clay County Courthouse. Scott vetoed about $386 million in spending. The $74.1 billion budget goes into effect July 1. JUNE 5-11, 2013 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 7

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Q: I love that the Kindle holds my furthest location, but my wife and I share one account. That makes things really annoying when she finishes a book, and I’m just starting it. Is there a way to reset the synchronization or just turn it off? A: When you read an e-book on a Kindle e-reader or app, Amazon peeks over your shoulder and keeps track of what page you’re on. That way, it can open your e-book to the last page you had open, even if you open your e-book on another device. But if you’re sharing an account with someone and trying to read the same book, it can get quite irritating. However, it’s rather easy to change it so that it stops doing that, if you know where to find it. Find out how on our blog at folioweekly.com/deemable.

ASK DEEMABLE TECH A QUESTION Ray Hollister and Tom Braun answer technology questions on their blog at folioweekly.com/deemable, on their podcast at deemable.com and on WJCT 89.9 FM Thursdays during “Morning Edition.” Have a question for Deemable Tech? Call 1-888-972-9868 or email questions@deemable.com.

Having watched “The Bachelor” since its debut in 2002 (feel free to judge – unless you watch “Dance Moms” or “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”), I think the latest season was the most boring ever. The tedium did serve a purpose, though, since it gave me time to re-imagine the show with local personalities handing out the roses. Coanchor of “The Morning Show” on WJXT, Bruce Hamilton is somewhat more “mature” than the typical bachelor, but he’s charming, witty and can talk about anything. Plus, producers wouldn’t have to spend money on teethwhitening or spray tans. At the other end of the spectrum, singer/songwriter Dalton Cyr would woo the ladies with his heartfelt songs and boyish good looks (yes, I know he’s only 12 years old, but the star of “The Baby Bachelor” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is still in diapers). And then there’s Jaxson de Ville. The drama quotient would go up considerably since he can’t speak, and the ladies would have to interpret his antics (speaking of which, how awesome would it be for him to zip-line or bungee-jump into a rose ceremony?). Check out the rest of my local picks for “The Bachelor” in what can only be described as my “most dramatic blog post ever” at folioweekly.com/specktator.

READ THE SPECKTATOR BLOG Kerry Speckman shares her unique perspective and observations on people, places and events around the First Coast and beyond. She’s the 2012 winner of Jacksonville Dancing With the Stars, so she’s got that going for her. Contact her at thespecktator@aol.com.

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PET LOVERS ISSUE

All Cooped Up Those who appreciate high-quality eggs – or just a different kind of pet – are flocking to backyard chicken coops, but some have to fight city codes

Stor y by Kara Pound / Photos by Dennis Ho

This Plymouth Barred Rock named Attila has her own waterbowl and lives with two other chickens in Elena Smith’s St. Augustine backyard.

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his might rub some furry-pet lovers the wrong way, but feathered friends are rising in popularity. Pets Weekly made raising backyard chickens one of its “Top 10 Pet Trends of 2013.” “We have noticed a marked increase in the number of people who keep chickens in an urban setting,” the February article reads. “What started as a rise in preppers keeping poultry for survival purposes has now become a statement by the general populace that we demand high-quality, safe food supplies.” BackYardChickens.com has a community of more than 160,000 chicken owners. Backyard Poultry magazine prints and distributes nationally an average of 75,000 copies per issue. According to Mother Earth News, pastured chickens lay eggs that contain four to six times as much vitamin D as typical supermarket varieties. The eggs have a third less cholesterol, a fourth less saturated fat, twothirds more vitamin A, two times more omega-3 fatty acids, three times more vitamin E and seven times more beta carotene. So what’s the big deal if a Northeast Florida resident wants to build a backyard coop and raise chickens for home egg consumption? If you live in St. Augustine, go for it. If you live in Jacksonville, it’s illegal and a neighbor ratting you out can result in some pretty heavy fines until you find a new home for your flock. This is exactly what happened to Jacksonville resident Lauren Trad. “In 2009, we went on a family vacation to Costa Rica and stayed on a working dairy farm,” Trad said. “The place had just built a coop and my daughters became obsessed with the chickens.” A few months later, Trad built her own backyard coop at her home in the San Jose area where she lives with her husband, Chris, and daughters Leena, 9, and Cassidy, 6. She acquired four hens, or female chickens, for her brood. Male chickens are called roosters. “My kids lost interest in a month or so, but I was completely hooked,” she said. “I’d go out and feed them scraps from the kitchen and talk to them.” It wasn’t long until Trad found out that backyard chickens are illegal to house on residential property in Jacksonville.

Lauren Trad feeds grass to a Plymouth Barred Rock named Pepper.

“Originally, I wanted someone else to get vocal about this ordinance, so we could change it,” Trad said. “I thought if I got vocal, then I’d be cited and they’d take away my chickens.” Trad’s biggest fear came true. It could have been a sighting by a neighbor or a city worker, but her hens were discovered. Trad received a citation saying she had 10 days to remove the coop and chickens from her home. If she didn’t comply, she’d be charged a $250 fine per day. Luckily for Trad and her fowl, her husband’s family owns Trad’s Garden Center on San Jose Boulevard. There have been wild chickens on that property since before the livestock ordinance was written in the 1960s, so the garden center is grandfathered in and allowed to host a coop and its residents. But not everybody welcomes feathered flocks with open arms. Jacksonville resident Roberta Thomas is adamant that livestock and poultry belong in agriculturally zoned areas. “I really resent the heck out of the city of Jacksonville attempting to rezone the property of my land or my single-family residential neighborhood,” Thomas said. “The city has designated areas where chickens are currently allowed. Those who want hens should move to the already-approved, already-zoned areas and raise their hens.” East Arlington resident Ethel “Eddi” Parsons agrees. She had a personal experience back in 2004 when her neighbors started housing chickens in their backyard. “We realized something was going on over there because of the odor,” Parsons said. “As soon as the chickens went, so did the odor.” A vocal opponent of changing the existing ordinance, Parsons suggested that people who want to raise chickens for fresh eggs should form a co-op and tend to them on agriculturally zoned property. On May 14, City Councilmembers Doyle Carter and Don Redman met with supporters and opponents to discuss a proposal to extend the ability to raise and keep hens for backyard egg production in residential zoned areas of the city. Dylan Reingold, a lawyer from the General Counsel’s office who specializes in land use and environmental law, drafted the legislation. As described in the meeting minutes, Carter and Redman showed concern regarding how far a chicken coop would be placed from the property line, as well as concern about poultry disease and waste. Redman stated that

the legislation should go before the Public Health & Safety Committee and the Land Use & Zoning Committee. Email and phone calls to Redman, Carter and Jacksonville City Planner Paul M. Davis were not returned by press time. On a warm, sunny day at Trad’s Garden Center, Lauren Trad, donned in a brown sundress and sandals, approached the coop and called out, “Hi, ladies.” Five of six hens ran over to her, looking for any scraps she might have brought for them. “Hi, ladies,” she cooed again. “Jacksonville used to be named Cowford,” Trad explained, picking small pieces of weeds and feeding them to her flock. “This was the crosstowns of cow country. In the 1960s, people wanted to get away from being known as agricultural hickdom, and so the government wrote ordinances regulating and restricting livestock on residential property.” According to the green-living resource Sustainable North Florida, “Currently, livestock is prohibited inside the city limits without agricultural zoning. But that hasn’t stopped chicken coops from showing up all over prestigious urban neighborhoods like Riverside, San Marco, Springfield and throughout the suburbs, as more families search for healthy, affordable, local, sustainable food options.” When Trad was cited for having her flock of backyard hens, she said it was time to get

vocal and fight the ordinance. “I was, like, ‘I’m going to be loud and obnoxious.’ ” In February 2011, Trad founded Hens in JAX, a grassroots, nonprofit organization aimed at gathering support to help propose — and pass — a new ordinance allowing hens in residential low density (RLD) zones and in conjunction with a single-family dwelling in residential medium density (RMD) zones. The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) recommends that the size of a flock house (coop) should be based on a minimum of 3 square feet of floor space for each bird. This means 25 chickens will require about 75 square feet of floor space. “Our current version of the proposal actually allows hens in conjunction with any single-family dwelling,” Trad said. The proposed ordinance would allow each residence to have eight hens. For properties larger than one acre, eight hens would be allowed per additional half-acre. Roosters — those noisy boys — would be allowed only in agricultural (AGR) and residential rural (RR) areas. Duval County residents can find the zone they live in through a property appraiser search at bit.ly/PropertyAppraiser. Elena Smith, a homeowner in St. Augustine’s historic Davis Shores neighborhood, doesn’t have to hide her hens or bribe nosey neighbors with fresh eggs. That’s because it’s not illegal to have chickens — even roosters — on residential property within city limits. “It shall be the duty of each and every person to keep all chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks and other domestic fowls in an enclosure to be built with such suitable materials as to keep such fowls in the enclosure, such enclosure shall only be situated upon private property,” according to the city of St. Augustine code of ordinances. “Keep in mind that the city code does not say ‘chickens are allowed,’ ” explained St. Augustine Vice-Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline, of the code that was established and enacted in 1964. “Instead, it just says chickens have to be in pens. It is assumed that chickens are allowed since they are not prohibited.” The Department of Agriculture reported recently that in four of America’s largest

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The chicken coop at Trad’s Garden Center in Mandarin is one of the few to be grandfathered into the previous ordinance, making it legal.

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cities — New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Denver — nearly one home out of 100 keeps chickens either for a fresh egg supply or as pets. Other cities that currently allow residents to keep backyard hens include Sarasota, Austin, Charlotte, San Francisco and Baltimore. Smith has been raising her St. Augustinebased flock of three hens since they were only a few days old. “They were living on the back porch until I felt comfortable enough to let them live in the coop in the wide outdoors,” she said. “The construction of the coop was fairly easy, for a structure already existed in my backyard; I just had to close in the front with chicken wire and attach a hinged door with locks.” Now two years old, Smith’s hens have forged relationships with her dogs and cat and spend time roaming freely in her pesticide-free yard. “I have wanted to have my own chickens and small ‘urban farm’ since I was a little girl and played with the animals on my cousin’s West Virginia farm,” she said. “I bought my house in this location because I knew that it was possible to keep chickens.” Chicken-keepers say there are many pros to allowing hens on residential property, but naysayers argue that chickens smell, are loud, carry disease and don’t belong in an urban or suburban setting. “I don’t want the overwhelming stench of broken eggs or chicken poop, the fleas, the mites, the communicable bird diseases, the cackling or noise, the eyesore coops in the front and back yards, the electrical wire eyesores strung across properties to the coops for light or heat like a trailer park camp,” explained Thomas of her opposition to the ordinance changes. HensinJax.com aims to dispel those “misconceptions.” “An average dog produces a lot more waste than a chicken. A well-kept coop has almost no smell,” the website explains. “Only roosters are loud, and we are not advocating for roosters.” “Chickens are no more likely to carry disease than any pet bird,” HensinJax.com states. “They are like my children, as much like all my animals,” Smith said. “But these ladies serve a purpose — they provide me with amazing eggs, bug/pest control in the yard, and entertainment. I do not have cable TV, and that helps keep me outside where I belong. My neighbors all love the chickens, and I think it adds such vibrancy to the neighborhood.” In the city of Jacksonville code of ordinances, a household pet is defined as “an

animal including, but not limited to: dog; bird; domesticated cat; rodent, such as a gerbil, guinea pig, hamster, domesticated mouse, and domesticated rat; domesticated or European ferret; rabbit; fish; nonvenomous reptile and amphibian; that is kept as subordinate to residential use for the purpose of providing human companionship.” The ordinance says poultry is not considered a household pet and describes poultry as “domesticated birds, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas and pigeons, that are usually raised for eggs and/or to provide food for humans.” Popular chickens for residential coops include the Buff Orpington hen, Barred Rock hen, Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns and New Hampshire Reds. “Rhode Island Reds have a great temperament and are great layers. That’s why I always preferred them,” Trad said. “Plymouth Barred Rocks are a little more skittish, but are great layers. The mix we have at the garden center is due to the hens that we have been asked to take in, more than anything else.” Trad’s flock at the garden center now includes six hens — Snowy, Big Buff, Feather Legs, Burrito, Pepper and Broody — all named by her two daughters. “They’re definitely creatures of habit,” Trad said. “They like structure — laying eggs around the same time each day. Each chicken lays about six eggs per week and takes one day off. Isn’t that what the Bible says?” The Trad family donates the eggs and fruits and vegetables grown on the property to United Community Outreach Ministry (UCOM), a Southside not-for-profit charitable organization that organizes food drives. “I can go to the grocery store,” Trad said, “but there’s a lot of people in our community who can’t.” Trad’s efforts to change the existing local ordinance to allow a limited number of hens to be kept on private property within Jacksonville have not gone unnoticed. She’s met with members of the City Council, has more than 740 likes on the Hens in Jax Facebook page and continues to garner support from Avondale to Springfield. “Nothing moves slower than government except city government,” Trad joked. “Chicken-keeping people have a lot of pride, and I feel confident that we’ll be able to change the ordinance to allow backyard hens on residential property.” Kara Pound themail@folioweekly.com

pet lovers PET STORES & RETAIL

BLAZIN’ REPTILES 10210 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 338-9111, blazinreptiles.net This independent pet store offers reptiles and amphibians: snakes, bearded and frilled dragons, leopard geckos, alligators, monitors, chameleons, tortoises, turtles, frogs and salamanders. And there are exotic mammals such as sugar gliders, hedgehogs, chinchillas, skunks, ferrets, guinea pigs, bunnies and hamsters. Supplies and accessories include aquariums, lighting, tanks, food, filters, and nifty stuff to dress up your pet’s habitat. CATOPIA 1078 Ninth St. N., Jax Beach, 242-0224, catopia.biz This full-service kitty resort and day spa caters to felines, who seem to think they deserve it more than most, with all sorts of perks and pamperings. HOUSE OF REPTILES 5501 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, San Marco, 348-2050, facebook.com/houseofreptiles The knowledgeable staff can help you with all your reptilian and amphibious animal needs, from the critters themselves (including mammals, too) to supplies, habitats, live food, dry goods and more. Open daily. MY CAPTIVATING CAVALIERS 7759 Plummer Road, Northside, 716-6162, mycaptivatingcavaliers.com AKC registered Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppies, with first set of shots, Florida Health Certificates and a one-year health guarantee, are available. Parents are heart and eye clear. All puppies are crate-trained, socialized and started on potty training. OCEAN REEF 1537 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 246-0999 This pet store, serving Jacksonville and the beaches for more than 29 years, specializes in saltwater fish, freshwater fish, reptiles and and reefs, corals and plants for tanks and aquariums. Birds and bird supplies are also offered. PAWFECTION BAKERY 8467 Windypine Lane, Ortega, 626-1676, pawfectionbakery.com Innovative wheat-free, soy-free and corn-free dog treats and cakes are made with fresh ingredients daily, right here in Jacksonville. PETCO 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, 824-8520, petco.com 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 260-3225 950 Marsh Landing Parkway, Ste. 145, Jax Beach, 273-0964 1900 Atlantic Boulevard, Intracoastal, 997-8441 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 215-7498 463713 S.R. 200, Yulee, 225-0014 This full-service pet store offers dog training and grooming, as well as a complete selection of supplies for both domestic and exotic pets. PETSMART 8801 Southside Blvd., Ste. 3, Southside, 519-8878, petsmart.com 10261 River Marsh Dr., Ste. 143, St. Johns Town Center, 997-1335 356 Monument Rd., Regency, 724-4600 1919 Wells Rd., Orange Park, 579-2362 9515 Crosshill Blvd., Ste. 113, Oakleaf, 777-8688 13141 City Station Dr., Northside, 696-0289 This pet store chain offers supplies and services for all kinds of pets – dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles – including a variety of food, healthcare items, collars, crates, grooming items, training books and pet clothing. And PetSmart has chinchillas, gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice and rats, too. PET SUPERMARKET 1020 Ponce de Leon Blvd. S., St. Augustine, 824-5876, petsupermarket.com 10485 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 886-9300 609 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 249-6884 835 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 276-4042 3760 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, 739-3310 4524 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 384-2006 This chain store has a large variety of items and brands, food, pest treatments, apparel, cages, tanks and in-store vaccination services for all kinds of pets. On weekends, most Pet Supermarkets partner with Safe Pet Rescue, offering various animals for adoption to good homes.

Pet: Tucker / Owner: Kayla Usner

PET WORLD 10400 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 13, Mandarin, 262-4646, petworldpets.com This holistic dog and cat spa and supply store, in business for more than 25 years, also features a full grooming salon and puppies and kittens for sale. The products are natural and additive-free. REDBONES DOG BAKERY & BOUTIQUE 809 Eighth St. S., Fernandina Beach, 321-0020, redbonesdogbakery.com The canine-centric bakery offers more than 30 varieties of homemade doggie treats, using only all-natural human-grade ingredients, as well as all-natural premium pet foods and supplements. The boutique features collars, leashes, toys, harnesses, spa products and oral health products. Open daily.

Pet: Archie / Owner: Jim Ward

SHERRIE’S PET SHACK Bayard Antique Village, 12561 Philips Hwy., Southside, 547-1144, facebook.com/sherriespetshack Sherrie’s Pet Shack Thrift & Gifts features new and gently used pet supplies and goodies and handcrafted animal-themed items and gifts. Sherrie’s buys, sells, trades and consigns. Donations are welcome. Proceeds benefit a different local animal rescue group each month. Pet adoptions and photographers, as well as pet artists and designers are on hand at various events. Pet: Bergies / Owner: Jordyn Jackson

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DAY CARE & BOARDING

BARK AVENUE PET RESORT 10427 Alta Dr., Northside, 757-3295, barkavenue-petresort.com This place is more than a kennel – Bark Avenue is an allinclusive luxury pet-care and boarding facility to pamper your pals when you’re away. Professional grooming, too. CAPTIVATING ACRES PET RESORT 7759 Plummer Road, Northside, 716-6162, captivatingacrespetresort.com This family-owned, 14-acre facility features indoor and outdoor runs for the pet boarded while the owners are away. All pets are required to be up to date on shots. An initial interview is necessary to access the pet’s temperament to make sure it’s a good fit. Pick-up and drop-off are available for an additional fee. Reservations are recommended. Pet: Aspen / Owner: Alana Brooks

DOGTOWN USA 6988 U.S. 1, St. Augustine, 347-2363, dogtownresorts.com DogTown USA is an all-indoor, climate-controlled facility dedicated to providing a safe, secure and friendly boarding, day-care and grooming facility for pets. FRESH PRINTS PET LODGE & DAY RESORT 3327 Peach Dr., Southside, 642-9988, freshprintspetresort.com This family-owned kennel caters to pets, with professional grooming, boarding, an off-leash dog park, birthday parties and special events for your furry (or not so furry) friends. Accessories and day care for dogs are also featured. JULINGTON CREEK ANIMAL WALK 12075 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 268-6731, jcaw.com This full-service pet resort offers lodging, day care, grooming and training. A nine-acre, off-leash dog park is also featured. PARK STREET PAWS 2728 Park St., Riverside, 619-5946 The full-service grooming salon and retail shop, with 30 years’ experience, offers cage-free day care and boarding. Cats are welcome, too. Walk-ins accepted until 2 p.m. PET PARADISE 5140 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, 396-7529, petparadiseresort.com 14272 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-0050 125 Ponce Harbor Dr., St. Augustine, 797-9770 The mission at Pet Paradise is to create a safe, clean and fun environment for all its four-legged guests. Perks include a doggie-treat-shaped pool and late-night potty breaks, pickup and drop-off services by appointment, as well as dog and cat grooming. The Pecan Park location is by the airport.

Pet: Louis Ursus Scott / Owner: Garrett Scott & Jessica Barber

Pet: Jaime / Owner: Kathy Stephens

PET RESCUE & ADOPTION

CATS ANGELS INC. SPCA P.O. Box 16072, Fernandina Beach FL 32035, 321-2267, catsangels.com This nonprofit, begun in 2001, helps with Fernandina’s overpopulation of felines, using the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Program. Volunteers keep the program going and donations of supplies and money to foster kittens and cats until they’re adopted are always welcome. They run a thrift store, too, at 709 S. Eighth St., Monday-Saturday. CLAY COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL 3984 S.R. 16 W., Green Cove Springs, 269-6342,

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Pet: Rhino / Owner: Ross Wood

animalcontrol@claycountygov.com Offsite adoption center: 1809 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island; foster line 529-4733; rescue/adoptions/foster email: tabitha.boyett@claycountygov.com Clay County, First Coast No More Homeless Pets and PetSmart Charities have teamed up to offer Spay Clay, a spay/neuter and rabies vaccination of all pets of low-income Clay County residents, for only $20. No required additional charges. Free weekly transports are also available. Volunteers always needed. FIRST COAST NO MORE HOMELESS PETS 6817 Norwood Ave., Northside, 425-0005, fcnmhp.org The mission of First Coast No More Homeless Pets (FCNMHP) is to eliminate the killing of dogs and cats in our community through free and low-cost spay/neuter programs. FCNMHP partners with city and county animal control departments, pet stores, veterinarians and animal hospitals to help ensure homeless animals find good homes. Many events are held throughout Northeast Florida to raise funds for the animals’ care, including Country Rocks the Beach, 3 p.m. June 22 at Ybor Alvarez Youth Complex, 3243 Bailey Rd., Fernandina Beach, featuring Craig Morgan, Dustin Lynch, The Lacs, Jamie Davis, Rion Page, Aaron Taylor and Lauren Elise; tickets are $30. Face-to-Face with Feral Freedom Target Zero Workshop is held 7:15 a.m. Oct. 9 at Hyatt Regency Riverfront, Downtown. FLAGLER HUMANE SOCIETY 1 Shelter Dr., Palm Coast, (386) 445-1188, flaglerhumanesociety.org FHS’s primary responsibility is to take in homeless animals, care for them and find them homes. To maximize efforts to place animals in the most appropriate homes, FHS has begun a new campaign, Plan Alive, aiming to eliminate the need to euthanize adoptable animals because of space and/or time limitations. FHS also offers a spay/neuter program, foster parent program and microchipping. Volunteers are welcome. Fundraisers and county licensing fees help fund the programs. FRIENDS OF JACKSONVILLE ANIMALS 2020 Forest St., Downtown, info@friendsofjaxanimals. com, friendsofjaxanimals.com This nonprofit is dedicated to working directly with Animal Care & Protective Services, to benefit the lives of shelter animals by assisting with fundraising, medical care, adoption and advocate for animal welfare. Efforts include enriching shelter environment and reducing the euthanasia rate. GLYNN COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES 4765 U.S. 17 N., Brunswick, Ga., (912) 554-7500, glynncountyanimals.org GCAS promotes responsible pet ownership, provides care for homeless animals and coordinates the adoption of as many animals as possible. Located one hour north of Jacksonville, GCAS is able to help Northeast Florida families adopt a rescued animal. JACKSONVILLE ANIMAL CARE & PROTECTIVE SERVICES 2020 Forest St., Riverside, 630-2489 Animal Care & Protective Services have hundreds of animals for adoption 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, 725-8766, jaxhumane.org This busy place hosts pet adoption events. During June, July and August, Jax Humane Society is among 50 shelters chosen nationwide to compete in the ASPCA/Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, a contest to see which community can come together to save the most pet lives this summer. JHS

Pet: Griffin / Owner: Melody Taylor

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Pet: Sophia / Owner: Katie Lubet

Pet: Rusty / Owner: Jenni Reid partners with PetSmart Charities, offering adoptions for $25 for spayed/neutered, vaccinated and microchipped pets. Animals older than 3 are free. Dog adoptions include heartworm preventive, while supplies last. Camp Paw Prints, 8 a.m.-noon weekdays, June 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, July 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 29-Aug. 2 and Aug. 5-9, is for campers ages 7-13, teamed and assigned a dog to be adopted. Campers teach basic obedience, exercise and groom the dog. The cost is $150 per week session per child, which includes a T-shirt, goodie bag, snacks and drinks and all activities and materials. LUCKY CAT ADOPTIONS P.O. Box 8490, Fleming Island FL 32006, 888-545-4167, luckycatadoptions.org The all-volunteer nonprofit cat rescue organization’s mission is to improve the welfare of stray and abandoned cats and kittens throughout the metropolitan area, through the rescue, rehabilitation and placement of homeless felines from animal shelters, found stray, abandoned, neglected and/or abused. MAYPORT CATS INC. 318-0789, mayportcats@yahoo.com This nonprofit organization tends to the feral and abandoned cats in Mayport fishing village, using the TNR program – Trap, Neuter and Release. The all-volunteer staff accepts donations of food, blankets, sheets and towels. A tax-deductible donation helps spay/neuter/vaccinate one local feral cat. NASSAU COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES 86078 License Rd., Fernandina, 491-7440, nassaucountyfl.com NCAS promotes and protects public safety and animal care through sheltering, adoption programs, education and animal law enforcement.

Pet: Mia / Owner: Alison Abernathy

THE OLD DOG HOUSE 1650 Margaret St., Ste. 302, PMB 137, Riverside, 419-7387, theolddoghouse.org This rescue group for older and senior dogs, located in Northeast Florida, is a nonprofit, 501c3 charity that always needs volunteers to take in these dogs. PIT SISTERS kym@pitsisters.org, pitsisters.org This local pitbull rescue organization focuses on saving animals from shelters throughout Northeast Florida. Volunteers help with rehabilitation, care and feeding of pitbulls until they can be adopted. SAFE ANIMAL SHELTER 2913 C.R. 220, Middleburg, 276-7233, safeanimalshelter.com The mission of this no-kill shelter is to provide a temporary safe haven for abused, abandoned, lost and unwanted cats and dogs until they can be adopted in a permanent home. SAS advocates spay/neuter as the only means to control animal overpopulation. Volunteers and donations are welcome.

TRAINING & GROOMING

A1A DOG TRAINING 1665 Old Moultrie Road, St. Augustine, 377-0037, a1adogtraining.com A1A Dog Training offers private canine problem-solving, group classes in obedience and agility and training for service and therapy dogs in Northeast Florida. GREEN DOG SPA 11048 Baymeadows Way, Ste. 7, 683-5301, greendogspa.com The full-service grooming salon, which practices a natural,

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Pet: BaileyRay Cyrus / Owner: Christine Hensley

Pet: Simba / Owner: Blake Coglianese

Pet: Koda / Owner: Lauren Wray

Pet: Goldie / Owner: Amy Gorman

Pet: Lloyd / Owner: Brenda Chobanian

Pet: Jaycee / Owner: Kathy Stephens

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Pet: Skrillex / Owner: Josue Cajas

Pet: Heidi / Owner: Matthew Manning

pet lovers Pet: Diesel / Owner: Emily Chait

Pet: Hunter / Owner: Nena Jones

Pets: Rocco & Lucky / Owner: Mary Pennington

Pets: Ditto, Chug & Darwin / Owner: Paul T. Fenn

Pet: Reba / Owner: Sherrie Coleman

Pet: Bella / Owner: Sarah Hand

Pet: Sally Rand / Owner: Kay Johnson

Pet: Desert Rose / Owner: Tracy Luke

Pet: Ariel / Owner: Belinda Wheeler Pet: Narcissus / Owner: David Montgomery

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Pet: Loso / Owner: Mike Klippel

Pet: Teddy Bear / Owner: Meagan Russel

holistic approach to dog and cat care, offers haircuts, spa packages, facials, body scrubs, pawdicures, aromatherapy, teeth-cleaning, de-shedding and special needs massages. The spa has accessories, treats, supplements and clothing. JIM’S DOGHOUSE, INC. 671 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 249-3272 For more than 37 years, Jim’s Doghouse has offered expert dog and cat grooming, tick dipping, bathing and supplies. K-9 HAIRSTYLES 1204 Third St. N., Jax Beach, 270-8494, k9hairstyles.com The professional dog groomers have been serving the Beaches for more than 12 years, specializing in grooming young, geriatric and difficult pets. Owner Michaelle Boyajian, a member of the National Dog Groomers Association of America with more than 30 years’ experience, offers earcleaning, hand-massaged bath, brush-out, gentle no-heat-fan coat dry, breed-specific haircuts, nail-trimming and filing, anal gland expression, dematting and tear stain removal. PRECIOUS PET 12041 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, Southside, 683-0187, preciouspetgroomingsalon.com Professional certified groomer Laura Assuncao offers grooming for all breeds of cats and dogs, featuring show styles, scissoring, shed-outs and shampooing, as well as teeth-cleaning, gland treatments and nail polishing. Tony Assuncao offers K9 dog training and obedience training. Precious Pet, in business for more than 22 years, boards pets, long-term or day care, and helps rescued dogs get adopted. SOCIETY PET SPA 1665 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 829-2737, staughumane.org The dog grooming salon offers everything from basic baths to breed-specific haircuts, pawdicures and facials. Proceeds benefit St. Augustine Humane Society’s charity programs.

VETERINARY & EMERGENCY SERVICES

THE ANIMAL CLINIC OF MANDARIN 9776 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 5, Mandarin, 262-2953, animalclinicofmandarin.com The full-service veterinary clinic, located in the heart of Mandarin, offers a variety of services, including boarding, X-rays, EKG, dentistry, skin care and geriatric care to surgeries. Heartworm, and flea and tick prevention, advice and medications are also featured.

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Pet: Goose / Owner: David & Emily Sutherland

ANIMAL HOSPITAL OF HODGES 13947 Beach Blvd., Ste. 105, Intracoastal, 992-1888, hodgesanimalhospital.com The veterinary hospital offers preventive care, boarding and emergency care. The knowledgeable team also makes house calls. An annual vaccine is $99; a complete annual checkup with blood work is $199. ATLANTIC EAST PET CENTER 519 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 246-8300, atlanticeastpetcenter.com Dr. John Green and Dr. Erin Bendick, at this full-service veterinary hospital patronized by locals for more than 35 years, offer surgical and therapeutic laser services to ensure your pet has comprehensive veterinary care. BARTRAM PARK ANIMAL HOSPITAL 13760 Old St. Augustine Rd., Julington Creek, 402-8222, bartramparkanimals.com Bartram Park Hospital, a full-service facility, offers well-pet plans, preventive care, vaccines and dental work, as well as medical or surgical intervention. It’s also a credentialed center for stem cell therapy (vet-stem). CLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 2230 Filmore St., Orange Park, 276-7729, clayhumane.org The Clay County Humane Society is a not-for-profit, low-cost spay and neuter clinic that provides all forms of affordable veterinary care. EMERGENCY & CRITICAL CARE PET HOSPITAL 14185 Beach Blvd., Ste. 7, Southside, 223-8000, 911-vet.com This pet hospital provides emergency and critical care services for the Northeast Florida pet community. They’re open nights, weekends and all major holidays. HERSCHEL ANIMAL CLINIC 4030 Herschel St., Avondale, 389-0364 Serving Northeast Florida since 1960, this clinic provides basic wellness and preventive veterinary services at affordable rates. HIRSCH ANIMAL HOSPITAL 220 Valley Circle, Ponte Vedra, 285-0023, hirschanimalhospital.com Cary Hirsch, DVM, and Martina Sander, DVM, have been providing professional services, using state-of-the-art equipment, for 11 years. The small-animal clinic services include skin allergy testing, Western and Eastern medical and surgical care, spay/neuter, vaccines, acupuncture, internal medicine, dental care, nutrition counseling (holistic and

pet lovers non-holistic diet plans), ophthalmology and eye, ear, nose and throat care, as well as boarding and grooming. OCEANVIEW VETERINARY HOSPITAL 1210 Third St. N., Jax Beach, 246-3600, oceanviewvet.vetsuite.com This full-service veterinary medical facility, using the most advanced treatment protocols, offers bathing, boarding, endoscopy, microchipping, surgery, vaccinations, dental care, nutrition counseling, parasite prevention and control, and wellness exams. Oceanview sees dogs, cats, ferrets, birds, reptiles, rabbits and small mammals and exotic pets.

Pet: Bella / Owner: Amy Gorman

Pet: Mr. Bill / Owner: Gina Kilchenman

PET DOCTORS OF AMERICA 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 42, Intracoastal, 223-5700, petdoctorsofamerica.com 1103 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 853-6223 Pet Doctors of America is a professional veterinary medical center that provides animal healthcare, focusing on patient care and customer service, as well as full-service boarding and grooming services. Open daily. ST. AUGUSTINE VETERINARY EMERGENCY CARE 2090 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 797-5770, staugveter.com The mission of this medical facility is to provide emergency animal care in a caring environment. The professional staff is committed to the well-being of every pet and the peace of mind of every pet owner. ST. FRANCIS ANIMAL HOSPITAL 2107 Mango Place, San Marco, 674-7223, saintfrancisanimalhospital.org St. Francis Animal Hospital is a nonprofit full-service animal hospital whose mission is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to owned pets. Open daily until 11 p.m., St. Francis’ services include emergency care, digital x-ray, surgeries, dentals and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Pet: Finnegan Geppetto Smith / Owner: Heather Smith

SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL CLINIC 100 Arlington Rd. S., Arlington, 328-1814, southsideanimalclinic.com The clinic helps pet owners searching for remedies to common health problems, like allergies, obesity, dietary and dental issues. Services include spay/neuter, vaccinations and

pet surgery, performed by skilled veterinarians.

DOG PARKS & ACTIVITIES

PAINTING WITH A TWIST 292 S.R. 312, St. Augustine, (386) 965-7066, paintingwithatwist.com/staugustine This is different – the pet owner paints a portrait of their pet in a class or at a party. Bring your own refreshments and have fun while professional art instructors guide even the worst artists to render a reasonable facsimile of the beloved Fido or Fluffy.

PET-FRIENDLY ESTABLISHMENTS

THE JACKSONVILLE LANDING 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188, jacksonvillelanding.com Yappy Hour is held six times a year. B.Y.O.D (Bring Your Own Dog) for costume contests, live music and canine-centric activities, held 2-5 p.m. Sept. 15, Oct. 13 and Dec. 8. O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB 1521 Margaret St., Riverside, 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com O’Brothers Irish Pub welcomes pets to their large outdoor patio, when accompanied by a human. Free unlimited water served in a private water bowl, plus possible access to their human’s “doggie” bag, based on the pet owner’s mood.

OTHER PET RESOURCES

AT THE VERY LEASH PET CARE SERVICES OF JAX 757 Camp Johnson Rd., Orange Park, 469-6647, attheveryleashjax.com The facility offers pet-sitting, dog-walking and poopscooping services.

BRING YOUR DOG TO CHURCH “Paws and Prayers” is celebrated 5 p.m. June 23 at Glynlea Grace United Methodist Church, 6429 Atlantic Blvd., Arlington. A live band performs at the outdoors service, and pet adoptions are featured. 724-6272.

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Pet: Sadie And Juicy / Owner: Lee Ann Thornton & Brian Siegmann

Pet: Sailor Jerry / Owner: Nikki Haywood

Pet: Zoey / Owner: Amber Mills

Pet: Sophie / Owner: Brian & Camelia Sheaffer

Pet: Nalah / Owner: Robin Johnson

Pet: Renny / Owner: Christy Mitchell

Pet: Sheriff Grimes / Owner: Sarah Strong

Pet: Brinkski / Owner: Jessica Stevens

Pet: Skips / Owner: Stephanie Soden

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Pet: Toki / Owner: Fitz Pullins

Pet: Felix / Owner: Taylor Wray

pet lovers Pet: Max / Owner: Scott Schau

Pet: Kai / Owner: Kristie Reeves

Pets: Duffer, Zoe, Abby & Frank / Owner: Sherri Chait

Pet: Augie / Owner: Cynthia Enuton

Pet: Layla / Owner: Taylor Wray

Pets: Mia & Phoebe / Owner: Susan Dunning

Pet: Fender / Owner: Dan & Jen Zuberer

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Pet: Clyde / Owner: Brittney Rose

Pet: Sparky / Owner: Danny Murphy

Pet: Grimes / Owner: Kyle Kromidas

Pet: Omega / Owner: Jordan Blasko

Pet: Vader / Owner: Jessy Bandy

Pet: KoKo Kitty / Owner: Tracy Luke

Pet: Pockets / Owner: Ashley Smith

Pet: Sputnik / Owner: Adriana Plasencia

Pet: Oliver / Owner: Dallas Mills

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Pet: Sophia / Owner: Shelly Ballaro

Pet: Shiroo / Owner: Grecia Valenzuela

GUARDIAN AD LITEM 214 N. Hogan St., Ste. 6004, Downtown, 255-8440, guardianadlitem.org Canine guardians ad litem, trained by Pet Therapy Inc., provide therapeutic comfort, social interaction and engagement for abused children. Volunteer with your pet to help local kids. MY PET EXPO 813-4214, mypetexpo.com TicToc Events presents My Pet Expo, the area’s first allinclusive pet-friendly expo, to be held noon-6 p.m. Oct. 20 at Morocco Shrine Auditorium, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Southside. More than 100 exhibitors in 16 categories are on hand. Onsite adoptions, dog trainers, pet care discussions and all manner of pet accessories are featured. PAW PRINTS PET CREMATORY 5570 Florida Mining Blvd. S., Ste. 610, Southside, 383-7387, pawprintspetcrematory.com The locally owned pet crematory Paw Prints is committed to providing professional and caring services at an affordable and reasonable cost for Northeast Florida’s pet community. PET PARENTS zazzle.com/petparents Customize shirts, mugs, calendars, key chains and other novelty items with your pet’s picture. Great for proud pet parents, dog park meet-ups and yappy hours. PURRS ’N’ WOOFS 1650 Margaret St., Ste. 302, PMB 137, Riverside, 316-3955, purrsnwoofs.com Professional, affordable in-home pet-sitting and dogwalking service for Riverside, Avondale, Ortega and Murray Hill neighborhoods. SUMMER SOCIAL ADOPTION BENEFIT 419-7387, theolddoghouse.org The adoption benefit is held 4-9 p.m. June 22 at Smitty’s Bar, 3553 Kori Rd., Mandarin. The Old Dog House, a local nonprofit, aims to help older dogs get adopted with this social gathering featuring raffles and activities. WAGS & WHISKERS 318-8518, wagsnwhiskerspetsitting.com The pet-sitting service handles a variety of pets in the home while the owners are away. Routines can be maintained, keeping the pet calm and happy. And you won’t have to bug and beg your friends and neighbors to help with walking, scooping or whatever with your pet. The businesses and organizations listed here are based on those places that completed our form, either online or by fax.

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Our Picks Reasons to leave the house this week

TASTE & TUNES GOIN’ COASTAL BBQ

CHAMPIONSHIPS & MUSIC FESTIVAL Fernandina Beach hosts its inaugural GBA Florida State Championship event, combining tasty barbecue with live music from Zach Deputy, kLoB and Grandpa’s Cough Medicine. A juried barbecue cook-off pits teams from the Southeast vying for prize money and entry into the World Food Championship in Las Vegas. Competition, June 7-8; live music, 6-10 p.m. June 8 at Central Park, 1218 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, $10 in advance, $15 at the gate, 753-0001, fbeachbbq.com, bbqga.org.

PRO WRESTLING WWE LIVE

Often described as a soap opera for men, pro wrestling also plays really well with kids. No doubt, many of those kids were happy to see John Cena (pictured) wrestle the WWE title away from The Rock at WrestleMania in April. Until Jacksonville gets to host WrestleMania (bids are in!), local fans can see Cena defend his title in a match against Ryback. The card, subject to change, includes the blindingly white Irishman Sheamus, Mark Henry, Daniel Bryan and the Divas. 5 p.m. June 9, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, $15-$95, 630-3900, jaxevents.com, ticketmasters.com.

VISUAL ARTS

A WOMAN’S VIEW

New York native Judith Williams returns to Avondale Artworks for an exhibit that includes her signature stylized landscapes and charcoalwash sketches of ballerinas. The exhibit “A Woman’s View” features new works. Reception with artist, 6-8 p.m. June 7, exhibit runs through June 30, Avondale Artworks, 3562 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, free (RSVP required), 384-8797, avondaleartworks.com.

PUNK THE MENZINGERS

The punk-infused rockers aim to prove Scranton, Pa., has produced more than “The Office.” Now based in Philly, The Menzingers execute a “high-energy inspirational sound.” Florida rockers Fake Problems, Philadelphia’s Restorations and Captain, We’re Sinking support. 7 p.m. June 8, Atticus Bar (formerly Phoenix Taproom), 325 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, $13, 798-8222.

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MUSIC FESTIVAL I LOVE MUSIC TOUR

The seven-city tour hits Downtown Jacksonville, to raise money and awareness for music education programs. Jacksonville’s Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Randy Winter (pictured from left), Josh Burke, Ronnie Winter and Joey Westwood – joins triple-platinum artist New Boyz. At least 10 others, including GudGud, Citi Boi, Sweet Lu and Bobby D, plus two high school marching bands and the Teal Sound Alumni Corps, share the love. 2 p.m. June 8, The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, free ($5 discount coupons; proceeds benefit music education), ilovemusictour.com. Photo: Justin Conant

MUSICAL SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES

Zoinks! Yipe! Jeepers! Jinkies! If you know those catchphrases, you get a Scooby snack. The puppy with a special place in pet lovers’ hearts takes Mystery Inc. to the stage along with Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma. When Scooby’s in the house, you can bet a g-g-g-ghost is lurking … but fear not, fans — Freddie Prinze Jr. isn’t. 2 p.m. June 9, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $22-$82, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.

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Movies

The Four Horsemen – Dave Franco (from left), Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Woody Harrelson – pull off heists, robbing from the rich and giving to their audiences in “Now You See Me,” directed by Louis Leterrier. Photo: Summit Entertainment

Magical Caper

The illusions aren’t real, but the colorful cast and fresh angle elevate it from a contrived con movie NOW YOU SEE ME ***@

Rated PG-13

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hough “Now You See Me” is filled with more magicians than we’ve seen in one movie in quite a while, don’t go to the theater thinking this is a film about magic. No, this is a caper film, with a little bit of payback thrown in for good measure. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco star as four street magicians recruited by a mysterious hooded figure, who wants them to stage a spectacular magic show. In return for the fame and notoriety they will achieve by executing these stunts, the Four Horsemen, as they are dubbed, must perform public magic acts in which they pull off three spectacular heists, each involving millions of dollars. This is complicated by the fact that after they pull off the first heist — a bank robbery in France while performing in Las Vegas — they will have to commit heists two and three under the scrutiny of the FBI, led by agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and Interpol agent Alma Dray (Melanie Laurent). They also are being pursued by opportunist Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), who makes a nice living debunking magicians and their acts. Exposing the Four Horsemen would be the crowning achievement in his career. Because they have movie magic on their side, their tricks aren’t really magic at all, just three con games being played out on a very public stage. The magic angle provides a fresh venue for a heist film, because you can watch only so many movies where a bunch of old bank robbers or con artists get together for one last, best score. The ensemble cast is strong from top to bottom. Eisenberg, Harrelson and Freeman fare best, because their characters are the most colorful of the bunch, giving each the opportunity to steal scenes. “Now You See Me” borrows heavily from its caper movie predecessors and doesn’t break much ground in that regard. It plays out a bit

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like a big-budget, movie-length version of an episode of “Leverage,” where they pull off a deception-filled heist in every episode. And having the Four Horsemen repeatedly make the FBI look foolish gets a bit tiresome after a while. Apparently, the folks at the FBI have never seen a con before or watched a con artist movie, because they keep getting duped, sometimes by some pretty obvious stunts. However, the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously, and if you don’t take it too seriously, either, it makes for a good time at the theater. With all good caper films, the ending is crucial because the audience shouldn’t be able to see it coming if the movie’s going to succeed. “Now You See Me” scores on that point, coming up with a solution that’s satisfying and fits the evidence provided earlier in the film, even if it is more than a bit whimsical regarding the willingness of the Four Horsemen to commit several major felonies in order to achieve infamy. John Hoogesteger themail@folioweekly.com

SLEIGHT OF HEIST “Now You See Me” echoes many classic caper movies. A few of our favorites that came to mind: “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1999): Like the Four Horsemen, wealthy art thief Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) isn’t in it for the money. And he, too, has the authorities running in circles trying to figure out his game, being played out in the open for all to see in this remake of the 1968 film. “The Score” (2001): More than just another heist movie, as criminal masterminds Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) and Jack Teller (Edward Norton) are both engaged in detailed deceptions. “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001), “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004), “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007): All three involve elaborate heists that require Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his ever-increasing cast of compatriots to get their foils – and the audience – anticipating one thing while they do another.

Movies

After they crash, Cypher Raige (Will Smith, left) is injured and Kitai (Jaden Smith) battles deadly creatures to find a distant rescue signal in “After Earth.” Photo: Columbia Pictures

Family Blunder

Will Smith takes the blame for relegating the star duties to his son in this silly sci-fi story AFTER EARTH *G@@

Rated PG-13

here will probably be worse movies than “After Earth” this summer, but not another on this scale. A big movie with a big star and a big budget, it’s also a big, big mess. Conceived by Will Smith as a family-bonding adventure flick for him and his real-life son Jaden, the story evolved into a science-fiction epic, with a silly script of ludicrous proportions, in which both Smiths are hopelessly stranded, like bugs in the proverbial amber. A quick overview of the plot (minus spoilers) is in order, if only as a warning to potential ticket buyers: After the Earth has been nearly destroyed yet again by pollution, mankind has settled on a distant world named Nova Prime where he battles the Ursa, aliens that look (naturally) like big bugs. The hero of the anti-alien troops is Cypher Raige (action-star Will Smith) whose secret weapon is his ability to suppress all fear, which the Ursa are able to sniff like pheromones. (All of this is covered in an extremely fuzzy prologue.) The toughest of the tough, Cypher comes back home after his latest triumph to reconnect with his adolescent son Kitai (Jaden Smith) who has some problems with guilt regarding the death of his older sister (Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lenny). Cypher’s efforts to bond with his son involve a space journey somewhere or other for some reason or other, none of which is important since they end up crashing (somehow) on Earth. For the rest of the movie, Kitai wanders around to find a distant rescue signal while his injured dad is confined to the wrecked ship. Having survived man’s pollution, Earth has evolved quite well on its own, breeding all sorts of deadly computer-generated creatures that are out to get the nervous Kitai. To make matters even worse, one of the Ursa is also on the prowl, the sole survivor of the crash in

addition to the Smith boys. So it’s up to Kitai to overcome his fear, survive his mini-odyssey, combat the Ursa and save Dad. Handpicked by ex-Fresh Prince Smith to direct “After Earth” is the unfortunate M. Night Shyamalan, one of the hottest writer/ directors in Tinseltown after “The Sixth Sense” (1999) and “Signs” (2002). Since those monstrous hits, however, the filmmaker has been struggling, hitting his nadir with “The Last Airbender” (2010). The good news for Shyamalan fans is that the new film is better than the last one, but (now for the bad news) not by much. Though he contributed to the loopy script by Gary Whitta (“The Book of Eli”), Shyamalan is not the main problem with “After Earth.” Will Smith must claim that honor since his is the guiding vision and impetus behind the movie. It’s nice that the superstar would want to make a father-son flick, relegating the star status to Jaden, but the elder Smith apparently forgot that audiences would rather see him right now doing the butt-kicking and wise-cracking, neither of which is much in evidence in “After Earth.” Instead, Jaden is left to carry the bulky baggage of the action and drama on his diminutive shoulders, a feat well beyond the resources of the ridiculous script and Shyamalan’s uninspired direction. Younger viewers might be wowed for a bit by the special effects, including a giant bird that alternately attacks and then befriends young Kitai, but more seasoned moviegoers will probably be unable to overlook the glaring plot holes and overt sentimentality that clutter the script. By the time the story plods to the climactic battle between Kitai and the Ursa — on a volcano, no less — what few surprises there are have been well exhausted amid the customary special effects. Science-fiction fans and moviegoers both were well-served by Tom Cruise’s “Oblivion” several weeks ago. By comparison, “After Earth” is an ineffectual wannabe. Pat McLeod themail@folioweekly.com JUNE 5-11, 2013 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27

Movies Like Clockwork

Last year’s winning team offers tips on surviving the 48-Hour Film Project

irst, take equal parts tears, panic, hard work and Red Bull. Then, add them to the pressure cooker that is the PRI Productions 48-Hour Film Project, set the timer and pray. If, at the end of the two days, your movie hasn’t imploded, what you end up with is far greater than the sum of its parts. This June marks the seventh year for the project in Jacksonville, one of 117 cities around the world set to participate. Here are the rules: All teams meet at one location at the same time. No one is allowed to have any material already written or shot. Out of a hat, each team draws a film genre, such as horror, romance, sci-fi or mystery. Every film must incorporate a few key details that are revealed at the meeting. Last year’s teams met at The Jacksonville Landing, where they learned the mandatory elements: eggs, a character named Claire who worked at a hotel and the phrase “I better not see this on Facebook.” After everything is assigned, the teams scramble to be the winner. They have exactly 48 hours to show back up at the same spot with their final product. Last year’s winning entry was the silent film “Nora,” about a man who tries to recreate memories from his marriage with a robot version of his dead wife. The short film managed to capture a great deal of emotional depth in a small amount of time and went on to the competition’s national level in Los Angeles. “It’s like running a marathon,” said Joel Russo, writer and editor of “Nora.” “You think you can’t make it and then you look back after you’re done and can’t believe how far you’ve come.” This summer, many will take on the challenge of the 48-Hour Film Project, but only teams with organization and determination will succeed. The team that created “Nora” shared its formula for success.

1. Brainstorm

You can’t control what genre you pull, but you can be prepared. Remember that you can’t have any material pre-written or filmed. Sit down with your team beforehand and discuss each genre. Don’t get too attached to just one idea: It might not work within the criteria parameters. “Plan to have your plan screwed,” Russo said. Keep it flexible. Try to create a story that will be adaptable to several genres at once.

2. Assign Roles and Stick to Them

“It keeps the fighting down. Everyone has a moment of ‘I’m going to kill everyone on this team and burn the house down,’ ” said the film’s writer, Andrew Langenbach. Know the strengths of each team member and allocate responsibility accordingly. When 28 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JUNE 5-11, 2013

Andy Cardy, Andrew Langenbach and Tim Driscoll worked on the team that created the winning film “Nora” in last year’s 48-Hour Film Project. Photo: Dennis Ho

everyone knows his or her role, the process of making a film in such a short amount of time becomes more fluid and efficient. “Let the people on your team who are good at something be good at it,” said Tim Driscoll, who played the main character in “Nora.” Sounds simple enough, but this is a common pitfall among new teams. Langenbach, a veteran of the project who participated in several teams over the years, said that everyone naturally wants to take the lead, which only results in problems. When everyone is the director, nothing gets done. “We assembled people who we knew could do certain things,” Driscoll said. “It’s important to know what your skill sets are and throw your ego out before you film.”

3. Practice

Once you have your team assembled, start filming something. Shoot footage using different angles or camera set-up. Have the actors run through a scene to test sound quality. “I would strongly encourage practicing something,” Driscoll said. “Take a day to shoot something, anything, to know what your strengths are ahead of time.”

4. Keep It Simple

“If you can’t tell the story without dialogue, it’s too complicated,” Russo said. Remember, there is a limited timeframe to realize the film. Driscoll said that being successful is all about mitigating the things that can go wrong. Keep the plot clear and straightforward. Shoot as few scenes as possible to get your story across to the audience.

5. Assess What You Have

Tell a story with what you have and about something with which you’re familiar. If you only have a hand-held camera, shoot a story that works with that equipment. If you only have a tri-pod, don’t write scenes that require a dolly. “Write about what you know instead of what you can imagine,” Driscoll said. If you can tell a story that’s closer to your own experiences, it will come off as more authentic and moving. What do you have immediate access to? If you don’t have access to an empty bank setting, don’t write in a bank robbery. If your team is made up of teenagers or 20somethings, try to focus on characters in the same age range, as opposed to

older ones. It’s about finding that balance between story and execution. “[48-Hour Film Project] is not the right time to try to be high-concept,” Russo said.

6. Focus on the Goal

The goal for every team will be different. For the “Nora” team, the objective was always the story. If someone on the team wanted to make a decision, the team had to make sure it was in line with the goal. “If I can’t defend what I’m doing in terms of the story, I lose. If you can’t express your gut instinct, we can’t go on it,” Driscoll said. Everyone on the “Nora” team agreed that story mattered above all else. To make the best movie they could and win the Jacksonville contest, ideas and details were sacrificed to make sure the story was as strong as possible. “When you take ego out of the equation, you can get your hands dirty,” Russo said.

7. Take a Breather

The stress will conquer you if you let it. Don’t be afraid to take a break, but keep it short. In “Nora,” Driscoll played opposite his own wife and acted out many scenes that were emotional for both of them. At one point, he had been crying in front of the camera for hours. After Driscoll was tapped out of saline, he called a timeout. A short break will replenish your creativity and stamina so you can see the project through. “Everyone has a breaking point,” Russo said. “Respect that.”

8. Be Realistic

“Constantly be open-minded. Pay attention to the story, pay attention to yourself,” Driscoll said. Your film will never be finished. It will never be perfect. It will never be flawless. There will always be that scene, that line, that shot you wanted to include but couldn’t. Accept it. Langenbach said that part of what it means to take on this challenge is to have honest expectations. His teammates agreed. “You don’t have time to second-guess yourself in 48 hours,” Russo said.

9. Stay Away from Sound

A film will live and die by its sound quality. The “Nora” team solved this issue by making a silent film. They were lucky enough to know a

JACKSONVILLE 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT REGISTERING June 11 is the deadline to register, $175 fee, jacksonville@48hourfilm.com, 48hourfilm.com/ jacksonville. Spots are given out on a first-come, first-served basis.

PARTICIPATING Kickoff is 6-7 p.m. June 14 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown. The final deadline for filmmakers to drop off their finished movies is 7:30 p.m. June 16.

WATCHING Premiere screenings are held June 18-20 and a Jacksonville 48HFP “Best of” screening is set for July 13 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown. Times and ticket prices are not yet finalized; check 48hourfilm.com for updates.

talented musician who was able to provide them with a soundtrack. If you have to shoot dialogue, do it inside, where you have a better ability to control interference. Historically, sound is the biggest issue teams have. If your beautiful-looking film sounds cheap or low quality, that’s all the audience will remember. “It’s all about what you hear first and see second,” Driscoll said.

10. Leave Time for Editing

The essential thing to keep in mind? Save time at the end for editing. Give your editor plenty of lead time and have that person edit during filming. That way, there isn’t a backlog of material that can’t get edited by deadline. This process worked well for other teams that Langenbach worked with in the past. But there’s always that one team that doesn’t take this into account. “The saddest thing to see is that, without fail, there is always that one dude that comes running down with their film after the deadline,” Langenback said. One of the tactics the “Nora” team used to avoid this was to lie to their editor about the deadline, he’d be done in ample time before the clock ran out — though they don’t recommend blatant misrepresentation as a sure-fire way to win. Carley Robinson themail@folioweekly.com

Movies **** ***@ **@@ *@@@

FILM RATINGS

THE SIXTH SENSE SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION THE 6TH DAY SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS

NOW SHOWING 42 ***@ Rated PG-13 • Regal Avenues Jackie Robinson, who wore No. 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, took us a long way toward recognizing the right of everyone to be equal. This film is beautifully acted by Chadwick Boseman as Jackie, Harrison Ford as Dodgers VIP Branch Rickey and Nichole Begarie as Jackie’s regal wife Rachel. AFTER EARTH *G@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Clay Theatre, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace Reviewed in this issue. AT ANY PRICE **@@ Rated R • Regal Beach Blvd. Dennis Quaid plays Henry Whipple, a doggedly determined farmer with sketchy ethics who wants to expand his agricultural efforts to mega proportions. Zac Efron is his son Dean, who wants to be the next Red Byron (Google it, you millennia-minded slackers). Henry’s farming practices come under investigation, however, and the two men must get along long enough to defend the whole operation. BLANCANIEVES **** Rated PG-13 • Sun-Ray Cinema The 2012 black-and-white silent film was Spain’s submission in the Best Foreign Language category for the Academy Awards. Based on “Snow White,” the fantasy is about a young girl whose bullfighter father is married to a mean woman – therefore, her evil stepmother. THE CROODS **G@ Rated PG • Regal Avenues A family of missing links is forced from their cave and into a whole new way of life – with fire, tools and shoes. The animated comedy’s cast voices include Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds.

Nick (Owen Wilson) and Billy (Vince Vaughn) try to make it at Google in “The Internship,” directed by Shawn Levy. Photo: 20th Century Fox

EPIC **@@ Rated PG • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Clay Theatre, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace The story, what there is of it, follows troubled teen Mary Katherine (voiced by Amanda Seyfried), or M.K. to her friends, as she visits her science-geek father Bomba (Jason Sudeikis). Her mother died years before, and Bomba’s convinced that tiny warrior people live in a forest near his home. M.K. chases her father’s three-legged dog into the woods, where she sees falling leaves that glow – when she

touches them, she shrinks to a miniscule size. Co-starring Beyoncé Knowles, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson and Christoph Waltz. FAST & FURIOUS 6 ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace The “Fast” franchise is all about custom cars, action sequences and now-familiar characters, including antihero Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and ex-cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker). In “Fast & Furious 6,” there are dozens of cars, constant action, an over-the-top villain and nearly every character who wasn’t killed in a previous movie. Much of the plot centers around a character who’s back from the dead. Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), the supercop introduced in “Fast Five” to be the foil for the popular gang of street racers, now wants to team up with Dominic, Brian and the rest of the gang to catch megacriminal Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). THE GREAT GATSBY **@@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace It’s 1922, and humble, naïve Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), a bond salesman in New York City, lives on Long Island next door to the sprawling mansion of ominous Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Jay’s using Nick, whose cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) was once Jay’s love – he hasn’t seen her in five years. Daisy’s married to Tom (Joel Edgerton), a

philandering millionaire whose affair with crazy golddigger Myrtle (Isla Fisher) is well known. At 143 minutes, it’s 20 minutes too long, and it’s a drag to have boring Nick narrate. He’s not compelling, his innocence has little perspective of value, and Maguire is forced to play down Nick’s charisma. It’s a shame, too – lost in the ennui are fine performances from Edgerton, Mulligan and DiCaprio. THE HANGOVER PART III *G@@ Rated R • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace, San Marco Theatre What a stale, sad way to end a trilogy. In “The Hangover Part III,” the follow-up to the hilarious 2009 original and the hit-and-miss 2011 sequel, an exotic animal is again featured (remember the tiger?). This time, Alan (Zach Galifianakis), an immature goon whose charms were exhausted at the end of the first film, has bought a giraffe. If you’ve seen the trailers, you know what happens. Unfortunately, the rest of “Part III” doesn’t get much better. After Alan’s father (Jeffrey Tambor) dies from a heart attack brought on by the giraffe incident, it’s decided Alan should spend time in a mental hospital. But he’ll go only if fellow Wolfpackers Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) tag along. THE INTERNSHIP Rated PG-13 • Opens June 7 The dynamic duo of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson is back, this time looking for a new career instead of crashing weddings. After being let go from their jobs – apparently some digital device can replace them – Billy (Vaughn) and Nick (Wilson) score internships at Google. Other new interns, however, are whipsmart technophiles who can outclick them

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Spock (Zachary Quinto, left) and Kirk (Chris Pine) have their hands full against several new threats in “Star Trek Into Darkness,” directed by J.J. Abrams. Photo: Paramount Pictures

AMELIA ISLAND Carmike 7, 1132 S. 14th St., Fernanddina Beach, 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 GREEN COVE SPRINGS Clay Theatre, 326 Walnut St., 284-9012 NORTHSIDE Regal 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 12, 1820 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 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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James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) watches and waits as the vicious outside world turns on his home in “The Purge,”directed by James DeMonaco. Photo: Universal Pictures

at every turn. The ex-salesmen make us laugh while they make fools of themselves. IDDARAMMAYILATHO *G@@ Not Rated • AMC Regency It’s an action-comedy-romance starring Allu Arjun, Brahmanandam and Steven Dasz. In Telugu. IRON MAN 3 ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace After saving the world in “The Avengers,” Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) suffers from anxiety. More villains are lining up to challenge him, including The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), who seems to enjoy killing innocent people, and scientist Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce). Downey keeps the story grounded and the action soaring as Stark/Iron Man, a genius casting decision that’s carried four films. MUD **** Rated PG-13 • Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Sun-Ray Cinema Two 14-year-old Southern boys, Ellis and Neckbone (think Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn), find a boat stuck in a tree and claim it as their hideaway on the Mississippi River. The boat, though, is home to Mud (a brilliant Matthew McConaughey), a fugitive hiding until he can reconnect with the love of his life, Juniper (an under-used Reese Witherspoon). Though Neckbone is suspicious of the worn-out, raggedy man, Ellis feels immediate sympathy for Mud and agrees to help him get food and such – with the promise that the boys eventually get the boat. NOW YOU SEE ME ***@ Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace, San Marco Theatre Reviewed in this issue. THE PURGE **G@ Rated R • Opens June 7 With its prisons overflowing, America has sanctioned a 12-hour period during which any and all crime is legalized. James Sandin (Ethan Hawke), his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids are held hostage in their home when neighbors break in and leave the family battling the monsters within themselves. STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS ***G Rated PG-13 • AMC Orange Park, AMC Regency, Carmike Amelia Island, Carmike Fleming Island, Cinemark Tinseltown, Epic Theatre St. Augustine, Regal Avenues, Regal Beach Blvd., Regal River City Marketplace, World Golf Village IMAX With months of speculation over the villain’s identity (is it or isn’t it Khan?), all you rabid “Star Trek” fans can finally

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see for yourselves. All Paramount Pictures and director J.J. Abrams have told us is that this time, it’s personal for Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) as the crew is “propelled into an epic chess game of life and death.” Joining Spock (Zachary Quinto), Bones (Karl Urban), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Sulu (John Cho) and Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) are Dr. Carol Marcus (Alice Eve) and that elusive villain, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI **@@ Not Rated • AMC Regency The Bollywood rom-dram stars Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor. In Hindi.

OTHER FILMS MOVIES BY THE BAY Ripley’s St. Augustine and St. Augustine Municipal Marina host a free summer movie series, beginning with “The Lorax,” 8:30 p.m. June 5 on the marina green space beside Bayfront Mini Golf, 111 Avenida Menendez. “Sleepless in Seattle” screens 8:30 p.m. June 7, “Space Jam” 8:30 p.m. June 12, “It Happened One Night” 8:30 p.m. June 14 and “Angels in the Outfield” 8:30 p.m. June 19. facebook.com/ saintaugustineripleys SUN DON’T SHINE The 2012 indie thriller directed by Florida State University graduate Amy Seimetz is screened 7:15 p.m. June 6 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0047. sunraycinema.com SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE The Tchaikovsky ballet – performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia – is broadcast 6:30 p.m. June 6 to theaters throughout the U.S., including Regal Avenues and Cinemark Tinseltown. fathomevents.com MOONLIGHT MOVIES The city of Jacksonville Beach continues the 12th annual free Moonlight Movies Series with “Ice Age” screening at 9 p.m. June 7 at SeaWalk Pavilion, located on First Street at the ocean in Jax Beach. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and a picnic; popcorn, candy and beverages are available. No alcohol, skateboards, bicycles, glass and animals (except qualified service animals), 247-6100 ext. 3, jacksonvillebeach.org. TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES WJCT’s “Electro Lounge” presents “The Philadelphia Story,” starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart, screening 7:30 p.m. June 11 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra. Tickets are $5 at the door, 209-0399, pvconcerthall.com. WORLD GOLF VILLAGE HALL OF FAME IMAX THEATRE “Star Trek Into Darkness: An IMAX 3D Experience” is screened along with “The Last Reef 3D,” “Flight of the Butterflies,” “Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West” and “To The Arctic 3D” at World Golf Hall of Fame Village IMAX

Theatre, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine. “Man of Steel” starts June 14. 940-IMAX, worldgolfimax.com. POT BELLY’S CINEMA “Safe Haven” and “The Company You Keep” are shown at Pot Belly’s, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 829-3101. HONEYDRIPPER Gypsy’s Corner Bar offers dinner and a movie, featuring “Honeydripper,” about musicians in 1950s Alabama, when blues gave birth to rock and roll, 8 p.m. June 12 (dinner 7 p.m.) and 7:45 p.m. June 26 (dinner 6:30 p.m.) at Gypsy’s Corner Bar, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, $8 plus meal price, 823-8700, stjohnsculture.com. JACKSONVILLE 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT The indie filmmaking competition that requires a producing a movie in less than two days – for most teams, that means no sleeping – holds its kickoff 6-7 p.m. June 14 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown. Absolute final deadline for filmmakers to drop off their movies is 7:30 p.m. June 16. Registration is $160; $175 after June 11. The finished products are screened June 18-20. jacksonville@48hourfilm.com, 48hourfilm.com/jacksonville. THE GODFATHER’S DAY FILM & FEAST Treat the father figure in your life to a screening of “The Godfather,” along with Italian-themed fare, like antipasto, lasagna and cannolis; $30 for food and film; $7.50 for just film. Vegan options are available (but ya gotta leave the cannoli). 1 p.m. June 16 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0047, sunraycinema.com.

NEW ON DVD & BLU-RAY ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH In this computer-animated adventure, Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is an astronaut who defends the alien planet Baab against the villainous Gen. Shanker (William Shatner). A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD In the fifth installment of the “Die Hard” series, John McClane (Bruce Willis) travels to Moscow to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to find out that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist. So the badass father and son team up against underworld forces. Yippee ki-yay mother Russia! IDENTITY THIEF Unlimited funds allow Diana (Melissa McCarthy) to live the good life in Miami. There’s only one problem: The ID she’s using to finance this lifestyle reads “Sandy Bigelow Patterson” (Jason Bateman), who lives halfway across the U.S. WARM BODIES After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other walking dead guys, and the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival.

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few hundred people came to watch the Jacksonville Axemen play the first game of the season against the Baltimore Blues at the University of North Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer field June 1. The Axemen, the defending national champions, routed the Blues 94-4.

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1. Aiden and Ron Guasto 2. Barbara and Dan Broyles 3. Bert and Pierce Barker 4. Chad and Ryan Collier 5. Chris Keller, Jonathan Treadway 6. Don and Betty Roller 7. Doug Dixon, Jacob Smith 8. Greg, Jeri and Mark Hurtt 9. Josh and Thaoly Dowdy 10. Kaitlyn, Lindsay and Justin Rothman

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he Bold City Brigade, a local nonprofit dedicated to building the Jacksonville Jaguars fan base, hosted a community event to benefit The Boselli Foundation June 1 at Intuition Ale Works. The Boselli Foundation, founded by former Jacksonville Jaguars lineman Tony Boselli, is a nonprofit organization that provides disadvantaged youth with after-school learning through Angi and Tony Boselliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Life Learning Centers. The community event was estimated to generate about $7,000 in proceeds. Text and photos by Aaleeyah Pringle

1. Mo Abdullah, Pascale Head 2. Tom Mallory, Paul Soud 3. David MacDonald, Kim Proebsting 4. Ev Krebs, Brittany Johnson 5. Ison and Toni Philips 6. Ray Cameron, Cristy Sotomayor, David Rogers

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British punk icon’s rebel yell still reverberates with fans BILLY IDOL 7:30 p.m. June 12 St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine Tickets: $35-$65 209-0367, staugamphitheatre.com

merican audiences might think of Billy Idol as the eternally sneering, spiky-haired rocker who dominated MTV in the 1980s and ’90s. But that assumption ignores large chunks of the legendary Englishman’s 35-year career. In the ’70s, William Michael Albert Broad was a punk pioneer — a Sex Pistols super-fan who briefly belonged to an early incarnation of Siouxsie and the Banshees before forming his own pop- and rock-influenced band, Generation X. When Idol went solo in 1981, he was an early adopter of music video technology, scoring major hits first on TV and then on radio with anthems like “Dancing with Myself,” “Mony, Mony,” “Rebel Yell,” “White Wedding” and “Cradle of Love.” And Idol’s 1993 album “Cyberpunk” — recorded on ProTools and packaged with a screensaver and email address — presaged the coming information revolution. Idol, now 57, has certainly endured his fair share of miserable moments, too. In 1989, Thailand’s military forcibly removed him from the country after a marathon three-week binge, and in 1990, he almost lost one of his legs after a serious motorcycle crash. Four years later, Idol nearly overdosed on GHB, collapsing outside a Los Angeles nightclub. Since that horrible low, Idol’s career has stabilized — he had a scene-stealing turn in the 1998 dramedy “The Wedding Singer,” reunited with longtime sideman Steve Stevens in 2001, and, just last month, headlined Google’s I/O tech conference.

Folio Weekly: This is your first U.S. tour in nearly a year, Billy. What do you have new in store for audiences? Billy Idol: We have two or three new songs, which we may possibly record in the autumn for an album, so these shows are a great opportunity to see the audience’s reaction. Hopefully, it’s exciting for old Idol fans and new ones. F.W.: Take us back to the mid-’70s when punk first broke in Britain. How exciting and liberating were those times? B.I.: Incredibly exciting. Th is whole new world opened up to people who were bored with hippies and fed up with glam rock and looking for something new that was going to speak for them. There was a feeling of this tidal wave when punk exploded in England — every sort of person could use it as a fresh start. It was like this undiscovered country — it wasn’t even called punk then!

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F.W.: MTV was an undiscovered country in the early ’80s, too — yet you embraced the new technology from the get-go. What spurred that decision? B.I.: In 1979, I hooked up with a manager, Bill Aucoin, who also managed KISS. Earlier in his career, he had been a TV producer, so he was very hooked into media. When I came to America in 1980-’81, he knew MTV was coming. It was very exciting because I was looking for a way to relaunch my solo career, and MTV gave me the platform. Plus, videos were really fun to do, although we used to call the two or three days [spent fi lming them] “video hell” — sheer, nonstop hell. [Laughs.] F.W.: Sounds like the wild lifestyle you led for many years. What finally convinced you to give up hard drugs? B.I.: Well, I had two children, and they woke me up to the fact that I wasn’t on my own anymore. And the last thing I wanted was to die on them. I had a lot of fun, but that wild lifestyle was taking its toll — I could see the honeymoon was over. That was difficult for me to accept, but the last thing I wanted to do was spend my life going in and out of rehab. That Amy Winehouse tune? I know exactly what she was talking about. You start to go, “Man, is it worth getting that stoned? I’m going to end up in a shithole of a place, and

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it’ll all be my own fault.” F.W.: You also wanted to keep your music career going, right? B.I.: I’m so privileged to do what I do — the audience has given me that chance. So to spit in their face and go, “I’m just going to destroy myself ”? That’s not me. The real me cares about what I’m doing and wants to deliver. The last thing I want to do is get so stoned that I’m fucked up at my performances. Plus, in the mid-’90s, I started to get in-ear monitors that allowed me to really hear what I was singing like. So I had no excuse to be fucked up. It’s better to go on straight — to be the real you. I respect the audience in lots of ways, and they deserve the best Billy possible. Th at’s what I want to give ’em in St. Augustine.

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resident Barack Obama visited Mexico in early May, appearing with his Mexican counterpart, President Enrique Peña Nieto, to highlight a new focus on economic cooperation. If our man Barry O. ever needs a cultural ambassador south of the border, however, he’d be wise to call on David Wax Museum, a Boston-based band that traffics in a spicy blend of Americana and traditional Mexican music like “son jarocho.” David Wax Museum — with core duo David Wax and Suz Slezak — aren’t just stiff-shirted ethnomusicologists plying their Mexo-American fusion trade. Instead, the band’s four independently recorded and released albums are full of up-tempo foot-stompers, breezy tropical head-bobbers and heartwrenching ballads — oh, and modern methods of playing traditional instruments, like the jarana and the quijada, which is made in Mexico from a donkey’s jawbone. Folio Weekly chatted with Suz Slezak about the band’s multicultural roots, its recent maturation and its DIY streak.

Folio Weekly: When David Wax Museum first formed, did you set up with the knowledge that you were going to tackle a heretoforeunexplored genre? Suz Slezak: We didn’t set out with the conscious intention of doing this Mexo-American fusion thing. But once we started performing the Mexican-inspired songs that David had been writing, we really found that the audience’s response to those tunes was incredible. So the energy we got back from the audience led our choice to focus more on that side of things. 34 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JUNE 5-11, 2013

F.W.: The band’s last album, “Knock Knock Get

Up,” came out in 2012. Will your current tour be more of a career retrospective? S.S.: It’s always tricky when you first release an album, because the fans don’t know the songs yet. One of the best parts of touring [a year after the album came out] is that our fans now sing along and get excited when they hear “Will You Be Sleeping” or “Harder Before It Gets Easier.” F.W.: Does the album feel like the major evolution that critics hailed it as? S.S.: It does feel like an album of growth for us. When we started the band, we were drawing on Mexican traditional music, which David had studied, and American folk, which I grew up playing. So we basically just played acoustic instruments on stage with a folk flair. But now with “Knock Knock,” we’re really experimenting more with electric instruments — guitar, bass and keyboard. Although we still do our gospel and Mexican songs, it’s really fun to include these new sounds. F.W.: You play the quijada, and David plays the jarana, two traditional Mexican instruments. How hard has it been to master these? S.S.: We are by no means experts. But because they’re folk instruments, they’re meant for anyone to be able to play some chords. I’ve been playing the quijada for five years, and I have a way to go; similarly, David has spent time studying to play jarana and definitely has basics under his fi ngers. But I think it takes a lifetime to really play them expertly. You have to grow up listening to them and, in some ways, have them in your blood. So we’re just novices in that regard. F.W.: After catapulting to fame following appearances at the 2010 Newport Folk Festival and 2011 South By Southwest festival, do you feel like the band has reached a plateau? S.S.: We never thought we’d get to where we are

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so fast. But it’s definitely a long road, and there are still plenty of places around the country we’ve never been; this tour is only our second time in Florida. So there’s so much more growth to be achieved. And that’s exciting — who would want to be at the top of their game? That would be no fun. F.W.: David Wax Museum has released all of its records independently. Have you received no interest from labels? S.S.: We’ve had interest, and we’re not opposed to going with a label in the future. But there’s a lot to be said for doing it independently: We own the music, we have total creative liberty, and it’s been wonderful to get our community of fans involved in financially supporting our recordmaking. They’re really involved in a way that lends a sense of ownership and excitement about the process. F.W.: Have you all ever considered traveling to Mexico and recording an album with local musicians there? Are there even local musicians working in the same traditional vein as David Wax Museum? S.S.: It’s one of our fantasies to take the band and a producer to work with Mexican musicians and do a record down there. And we’ve all immersed ourselves in Mexico before, which is inspiring. There are a lot of young musicians who are interested in “son jarocho,” one of the styles we draw from. I wouldn’t call it a renaissance, but there’s definitely growing interest among young people in these old styles of traditional Mexican music. That’s really exciting, for them and for us. Nick McGregor themail@folioweekly.com

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The Airborne Toxic Event is Anna Bulbrook (from left), Steve Chen, Mikel Jollett, Noah Harmon and Daren Taylor. Photo: Autumn DeWilde

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Frontman Mikel Jollett, inspired by the commitment of fans, takes his effort on the latest album even higher THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT with LEAGUES 7 p.m. June 10 Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jacksonville Beach, Tickets: $22 in advance 246-2473, freebirdlive.com

ikel Jollett didn’t get into music thinking he was going to change the world. “I wanted five fans. I wanted five people who were not related to me to like the songs,” he said. “I would have been happy with that.” Jollett, frontman and chief songwriter of the band The Airborne Toxic Event, has gotten far more than he ever bargained for. For one thing, the band quickly attracted quite a few more than five fans. Its first self-titled CD became one of 2009’s most popular debut albums behind its top-five alternative rock hit, “Sometime Around Midnight.” Its second album, 2011’s “All at Once,” gave the band another top-10 alternative rock hit with the song “Numb.” But where Jollett is even more surprised is in the unusually deep way his band’s songs have connected with fans. “If you got to an Airborne show, the whole front row is Airborne tattoos,” Jollett said. “We meet people, and they have lyrics tattooed on their sides or on their arms or whatever. Whenever I see that, which is on a nightly basis now, I’m a little bit taken aback, because it feels like something you want to live up to.”

Jollett’s level of commitment to his music, his band and the fans has never been more apparent than in the making of the group’s newly released album, “Such Hot Blood.” Jollett wasn’t phoning things in by any means on “All at Once,” but he came out of that project realizing he could put even more of himself into his music. “I learned that doing something that is evocative for people really requires your absolute, utmost attention,” he said. “I’m all in. That’s probably the thing I learned with ‘All at Once.’ There are no tricks. You really have to mean it body and soul.” After writing 100 songs for the band’s 2008 self-titled debut album and 60 songs for “All At Once,” Jollett only wrote the 10 songs that appear on “Such Hot Blood.” But the effort and depth in which he immersed himself in those 10 songs is telling. Jollett and his bandmates — drummer Daren Taylor, violinist Anna Bulbrook, standup bassist Noah Harmon and guitarist Steven Chen — spent a full year writing and recording the new album. “Most of these songs went through 10 or 11 drafts in different forms,“ Jollett said. “At the end of this long process, I felt as if I’d made 10 things I wanted to share with the world.” Once Jollett and his bandmates had the songs written, refined, rehearsed and knew their parts down cold, the band shifted its focus to capturing the energy of a live performance. To that end, the songs were recorded by the band playing

together in the studio — not by recording tracks instrument by instrument. “The idea was to have music that was really alive in the room, where we’d finish and say ‘Yeah, man, that was happening,’ ” Jollett said. The result of that year’s worth work and inspiration that went into “Such Hot Blood” is The Airborne Toxic Event’s richest, most musically varied album. After a debut effort that was consistently up-tempo and catchy, the group began to expand its range of tempos and musical settings on “All at Once.” But “Such Hot Blood” takes things to a new level. There are a couple of brisk tunes (“What’s in a Name?” and “The Secret”) that recall the first album, and “True Love” adds a rollicking folk dimension to the mix, while “Bride & Groom” has some Irish lilt in its folk-rock sound. The ballad “The Fifth Day” brings a bit of intimacy to the collection, while “Safe” and “The Storm” have an epic feel that could fit in on a Coldplay or Arcade Fire album. The closing track, “Timeless,” is one of the band’s finest songs yet, with its gentle melody building to an anthemic peak. Fans can expect four or five songs from “Such Hot Blood” to be in The Airborne Toxic Event’s shows on its summer tour. “What’s important is flirting with danger. You have to feel like it might all completely fucking fail,” he said. “That’s the idea of punk rock. It’s visceral.” Alan Sculley themail@folioweekly.com JUNE 5-11, 2013 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35

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GOO GOO DOLLS Popular trio from Buffalo, 8 p.m. June 5 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $40.50-$50.50, 355-2787. MISS MAY I, EVERGREEN TERRACE, AFFIANCE, DECIDED BY FATE American metalcore headlines 7 p.m. June 5 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jax Beach, $15, 246-2473. HEROES X VILLAINS, KENNEDY JONES Electronica meets trap, 9 p.m. June 5 at Pure Night Club, 8206 Philips Hwy., Southside, 800-694-1253. MUSIC BY THE SEA: Amy Alyssia & the Soul Operation The free concert series continues 7-9 p.m. June 5 at the Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach. Each week, an area restaurant offers its fare; this week itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amiciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Restaurant, 347-8007. JOHNATHAN SCALES FOURCHESTRA, ALEX VANS & THE HIDE AWAY, JACKSONVEGAS 1904 Music Hall presents an Art Walk showcase of local folk, alternative rock and jazz fusion artists, 7 p.m. June 5 at 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, free. CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Lis & Lon Williamson, Rick Kuncicky The duo of life partners play an array of music from old-time favorites to jazz, 7 p.m. June 6 at Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn, St. Augustine, free, 825-1004. THE FRONT BOTTOMS, WEATHERBOX, R-DENT The acoustic-dance-indie-punk band originating from New Jersey comes South on June 6 to Brewsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pit, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, $10, 223-9850. GRANDPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COUGH MEDICINE Local faves play outlaw bluegrass 8 p.m. June 6 at European Street, 1704 San Marco

Blvd., San Marco, $10, 399-1740. THE DROPPERS Alt folk/classic rock group pleases the ears, 9 p.m. June 6, Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, 277-8010. SOUNDS ON CENTRE Local band Beech Street Blues plays

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KINGS OF THE MIC TOUR Hip-hop artists LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Public Enemy and De La Soul take the stage 5 p.m. June 7 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $45-$85, 209-0367. DIXIE RODEO CD RELEASE Red Afternoon band members Tamara Colonna and Bill Gibson showcase their Americana, folk-rock and alternative country talents at Lillie’s Coffee Shop, 7-10 p.m. June 7 at 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922. DOPAPOD, DR. FAMEUS Brooklyn experimental funk headlines, 8 p.m. June 7 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jax Beach, $12, 246-2473. I LOVE MUSIC TOUR: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, New Boyz, Teflon Don, The Pinz, Jivell, Vagrant Undertow, Jungle City, Jatarra, Alexandra Amor, Jack Wynn, Jonra, Mbrace Bands perform at The Jacksonville Landing, hosted by the local I Love Music Foundation, 2 p.m. June 8 at 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, $7 suggested donation, 353-1188. TOOTS LORRAINE & THE TRAFFIC Smokin’ blues, jazz and swing band, 10 p.m. June 7 at Mojo No. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 381-6670. I WOKE UP EARLY FOR MY FUNERAL, HOMEFIELD ADVANTAGE This hard rock band fights for the future, 8 p.m. June 7 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., $8, 398-7469. CORBITT BROTHERS, HOMEMADE WINE, RUSTY SHINE Jacksonville brothers play Southern rock, 8 p.m. June 8 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473. CO-ALITION Local fusion band plays 9:30 p.m. June 8 at Dog Star Tavern, 10 N. Second St., Fernandina Beach, $5, 277-8010. JOSHUA WORDEN, GRAMMAR TREE Solo artist and producer blends original R&B, jazz, indie rock and electronic, 8 p.m. June 8 at Deep Search Records, 822 Lomax St., Riverside, 423-0969. SUNCHASE DRIVE, THE PULSE Local soft rock 8 p.m. June 8 at Maharlika Hall & Sports Grill, 14255 Beach Blvd., Intracoastal West, 992-1112. THE MENZINGERS, FAKE PROBLEMS, RESTORATIONS, CAPTAIN, WE’RE SINKING Pennsylvania punkers rock 7 p.m. June 8 at Atticus Bar (formerly known as Phoenix Taproom), 325 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, $13, 798-8222.

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FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS, HUNDREDTH, UPON THIS DAWNING, WOLVES AT THE GATE, SWORN IN The metalcore group jams for all to see 6 p.m. June 8 at Brewster’s Roc Bar, $10, 845 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 223-9850. THE PEYTON BROTHERS Bluegrass, folk musicians play 8 p.m. June 8 at European Street Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., Southside, $15, 399-1740. GOIN’ COASTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL: Zach Deputy, Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, kLoB Local favorites, 5:30 p.m. June 8 at Central Park in Fernandina Beach, $15. RHYTHM REMEDY Mellow vibes, 10 p.m. June 8 at Mojo No. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 381-6670. DR. SIRBROTHER, THE LOOLAH JAMES BAND Folk rock band, 8 p.m. June 8 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496. THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT, LEAGUES Los Angeles indie rock headlines 7 p.m. June 10 at Freebird Live, 200 First St. N., Jax Beach, $22, 246-2473. MUSIC BY THE SEA The free concert series continues with Funk Shui, 7-9 p.m. June 12 at the Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach. Each week, an area restaurant offers its fare; this week it’s Mango Mangos, 347-8007. STARSHIP ROMANCE, THE SUMMER SOUNDTRAP, MY ELECTRIC HEART, NO BLITZ “Colorado’s favorite dance band,” 6 p.m. June 10 at Brewster’s Pit, 845 University Blvd., Arlington, $10, 223-9850. BLACK TAXI New York rock band, 8 p.m. June 11 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7469. BILLY IDOL Adorably sneering English rocker who gave us “Rebel Yell” arrives 6 p.m. June 12 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $35-$65, 209-0367. NIGHT BEDS, JENNY O Nashville indie rockers play all night 8 p.m. June 12 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $10, 398-7496. JERRY CASTLE Rock ’n’ roll/country musician from Nashville, June 12 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown.

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DONAVON FRANKENREITER June 13, Freebird Live CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Big Pineapple June 13, Plaza de la Constitución THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH June 13, Original Café Eleven TONY O BAND June 13, Dog Star Tavern GRAVITY A, FORMER CHAMPIONS June 13, 1904 Music Hall MURIEL ANDERSON June 13, European Street San Marco DJ CLAY, ANYBODY KILLA June 13, Brewster’s Pit 7TH STREET BAND June 14, Mojo No. 4 DAVID WAX MUSEUM June 14, Underbelly THE SH-BOOMS June 14, 1904 Music Hall LEGIT, JUSTICE, SO SERIOUS, BLAINE BITCHES, PINKYKILLA June 14, Jack Rabbits FREDDY’S FINEST June 14, Dog Star Tavern DEAN JOHANESEN June 14, Burro Bar KTG June 14, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES June 14, Freebird Live COMMUNITY FIRST SEAWALK MUSIC FESTIVAL June 15, SeaWalk Pavilion SLIPPERY WHEN WET (Bon Jovi tribute) June 15, The Standard A BEACH FOR EVERYBODY BENEFIT: Leah Sykes & Arbor Park June 15, Murray Hill Theatre THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, 1975 June 15, Jack Rabbits NATURAL TRUTH June 15, Ritz Theatre BREAD & BUTTER June 15, Mojo No. 4 CONRAD OBERG June 15, European Street Café Southside BRONCHO June 15, Underbelly DRAGONETTE June 17, Jack Rabbits SHANA FALANA June 17, Burro Bar DESTROYER OF LIGHT June 18, Atticus Bar (formerly Phoenix Taproom) TWO GALLANTS June 18, The Original Café Eleven PLASTIC VISIONS June 18, 1904 Music Hall SUGAR PHIX June 19, Brewster’s Pit KENDRICK LAMAR June 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CAPITAL CITIES June 19, Jack Rabbits GRANDCHILDREN, YIP DECEIVER June 19, The Standard MUSIC BY THE SEA: Rob Peck & Friends June 19, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Mid-Life Crisis June 20, Plaza de la Constitución GRANDCHILDREN June 20, Jack Rabbits ELISHA PARRIS CD Release Concert June 20, Ritz Theatre ULYSSES OWENS JR., JOSHUA BOWLUS TRIO June 20, European Street San Marco EARTH, WIND & FIRE June 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE June 21, Dog Star Tavern ANBERLIN, STARS IN STEREO, CAMPFIRE OK June 21, Freebird Live PALM TREES & POWER LINES, HOPE FOR HEROES, SYSTEM RESET, HELIOS HAND June 21, Murray Hill Theatre KIM RETEGUIZ & THE BLACK CAT BONES June 21, Mojo No. 4 LESS THAN JAKE, HOSTAGE CALM, PENTIMENTO June 21, The Standard MANNA ZEN, BEFORE THE FIRE June 21, Jack Rabbits MUDTOWN, THE LAST SONS, THE SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY June 21, 1904 Music Call TEEN BATTLE of the BANDS June 22, Jax Main Library PAPADOSIO June 22, Freebird Live ULTIMATE ELVIS TRIBUTE June 22, Morocco Shrine Auditorium ASTRONAUTALIS, WILIE EVENS JR., BIG BUCK$ CREW June 22, 1904 Music Hall THE REND COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT June 22, Murray Hill Theatre

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Dixie Rodeo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bill Gibson (left) and Tamara Colonna â&#x20AC;&#x201D; rides in for a free concert to support their CD release June 7 at The Courtyard at Lillieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Neptune Beach. GRANDPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COUGH MEDICINE June 22, Mojo No. 4 GUTTERMOUTH, PINHOLE June 22, Jack Rabbits HONKY SUCKLE June 22, Dog Star Tavern PASSERINE June 22, European Street CafĂŠ Southside COUNTRY ROCKS THE BEACH: Craig Morgan, Dustin Lynch, The Lacs, Lauren Elise, Aaron Taylor, Rioon Paige, Jamie Davis June 22, Ybor Alvarez Sports Complex THE DIRTY HEADS, THE EXPENDABLES June 23, Freebird Live EARPHUNK June 25, 1904 Music Hall MIKE PINTO, TRUTHFUL LIES, NATURAL VIBRATIONS, THREE LEGGED FOX June 26, Freebird Live MUSIC BY THE SEA: Steam the Band June 26, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion GENERATIONALS June 27, Underbelly JACUZZI BOYS, QUEEN BEEF June 27, Nobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CANON, DJ WILL June 27, Murray Hill Theatre SCREAM OUT LOUD, LOST YEARS June 27, Jack Rabbits CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Bob & Joline & the Friends of Mine Band June 27, Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn EXCISION July 27, Aqua Nightclub GONZALA BERGARA QUARTET June 28, Original CafĂŠ Eleven ALEXIS RHODE, JACOB HUDSON, BETHANY STOCKDALE, GARRETT ON ACOUSTIC, DALTON STANLEY June 28, Murray Hill Theatre SMOKESTACK June 28, Mojo No. 4 BILLY BUCHANAN June 28, The Standard THE SHIFTERS June 29, Mojo No. 4 OVIDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WITHERING, SIRENS June 29, Burro Bar SOUL GRAVY June 29, Dog Star Tavern PIERCE PETTIS June 29, European Street CafĂŠ Southside MARY J. BLIGE June 30, Veterans Memorial Arena GRAPH RABBIT June 30, Burro Bar THE RICH HANDS July 1, Nobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ALESANA, THE COLOR MORALE, UPON THIS DAWNING, LIONS LIONS, MEGOSH July 2, Jack Rabbits DZEKO & TORRES July 3, Pure Nightclub DEECRACKS, DIRECT HIT!, THE JETTY BOYS, THE RESONANTS, THE TREATS July 3, Nobbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s THE RESOLVERS July 3, 1904 Music Hall

TGT: TYRESE, GINUWINE & TANK July 3, T-U Center MUSIC BY THE SEA: The Falling Bones July 3, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The All Star Orchestra July 4, Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn TOOTS LORRAINE & THE TRAFFIC July 5, Mojo No. 4 PARKRIDGE, A WAY WITHOUT July 5, Jack Rabbits ALTER EAGLES (Eagles tribute band) July 5, Freebird Live KATIE & THE LICHEN, OK VANCOUVER OK July 6, Burro Bar BIG TIME RUSH July 6, St. Augustine Amphitheatre EIGHT STORIES HIGH July 6, Dog Star Tavern MRS. SKANNOTTO July 7, Jack Rabbits PAN, ZULU WAVE, PHENOMENLOGY June 7, Burro Bar PERMISSION BAND June 7, Culhaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Pub MAC MILLER, CHOO JACKSON, THE COME UP July 7, Brewsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Megaplex RELIANT K, THE ALMOST, THE ROCKETBOYS, DRIVER FRIENDLY July 8, Freebird Live EVERYMEN, SS WEBB, MUDTOWN, THE DARLING SWEETS July 9, Burro Bar AUTHORITY ZERO, BALLYHOO, VERSUS THE WORLD, IMPLANTS July 10, Freebird Live KOJI, TURNOVER, IVY LEAGUE, HAVE MERCY July 10, Burro Bar MATT POND July 10, Jack Rabbits THE EMBER DAYS, IGNITENEXT, MICHAEL CRONIN July 10, Murray Hill Theatre MUSIC BY THE SEA: Restless Kind July 10, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The Falling Bones July 11, Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn 7TH STREET BAND July 12, Mojo No. 4 MOTIVE, THE DOG APOLLO July 12, 1904 Music Hall WE STILL DREAM, ON MY HONOR, ENGRAVED, VICES, WINTER WAVE, DEAD LEAVES July 12, The Standard GHOST OWL July 12, Freebird Live MOTIVE, THE DOG APOLLO July 12, 1904 Music Hall BREAD & BUTTER July 13, Mojo No. 4 GRAVITY A, FORMER CHAMPIONS July 13, 1904 Music Hall DANIELLE HOWLE July 13, Dog Star Tavern

THE MAINE, A ROCKET TO THE MOON, THIS CENTURY July 14, Freebird Live FATALITY July 15, Shantytown Pub MUSIC BY THE SEA: Grapes of Roth July 17, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion PACIFIC DUB July 17, Jack Rabbits DIVIDING THE SKYLINE July 18, Burro Bar TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, EVE TO ADAM July 18, Jack Rabbits GRANDPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COUGH MEDICINE July 19, Mojo No. 4 ANDREW McMAHON July 19, Freebird Live THE FRITZ July 19, Dog Star Tavern SEVEN SPRINGS, THE ELEVENTH HOUR, WORTH ROAD July 19, Murray Hill Theatre ARCHNEMESIS July 19, 1904 Music Hall SUBLIME with ROME, PENNYWISE July 20, St. Augustine Amphitheatre COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, RET. July 20, Dog Star Tavern THE SATURDARY GIANT July 21, Burro Bar THE ARISTOCRATS July 21, 1904 Music Hall TOAD THE WET SPROCKET July 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOJA, JOHN BROWNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BODY July 24, Maverickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s COUSIN DAN July 24, 1904 Music Hall MUSIC BY THE SEA: Bush Doctors July 24, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The Company July 25, Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS July 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PASSAFIRE, STICK FIGURE, TATANKA July 25, Freebird Live THE MONKEES July 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PATRICK HAGGERTY & MOJO CHILLEN July 27, Downtown Blues Bar & Grille, Palatka LAWLESS HEARTS July 27, Freebird Live PARKER URBAN BAND July 27, Dog Star Tavern VINYL THIEF, DR. SIRBROTHER July 27, 1904 Music Hall MUSIC BY THE SEA: Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t 2 Proud 2 Beg July 31, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion BROWN BAG SPECIAL Aug. 1, Dog Star Tavern CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Rob Ellis Peck & Friends Aug. 1, Plaza de la ConstituciĂłn DEAD JERRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Aug. 2, Dog Star Tavern SOUNDS ON CENTRE: Boukou Groove Aug. 2, Centre Street, Fernandina Beach

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PAPA MILLION Aug. 3, Dog Star Tavern LOUDERPALOOZA2: Shattermat, The Pinz, Status Faux, F.F.N., Xgeezer, Self Employed, Poor Richards, Thirteen22 Aug. 3, Burro Bar JUSTIN BIEBER Aug. 7, Veterans Memorial Arena MUSIC BY THE SEA: Mid Life Crisis Aug. 7, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Ancient City Slickers Aug. 8, Plaza de la Constitución ALABAMA Aug. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SENTROPOLIS, CHROMA, kLoB Aug. 9, Dog Star Tavern BLUE SUEDE SHOES: THE ULTIMATE ELVIS BASH Aug. 10, The Florida Theatre MUSIC BY THE SEA: Jimmy Parrish & The Ocean Waves Aug. 14, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: The Grapes of Roth Aug. 15, Plaza de la Constitución VICTORIA JUSTICE Aug. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MURRAY HILL THEATRE’S 18th ANNIVERSARY FEST Aug. 16, Murray Hill Theatre ROCK FOR KIDS PART II Aug. 16, Freebird Live MUSIC BY THE SEA: Smokin’ Mirrors Aug. 21, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion ASCEND THE HILL, THE WALKING TREE, LEAST OF THESE Aug. 21, Murray Hill Theatre SLIGHTLY STOOPID, ATMOSPHERE, THE BUDOS BAND, THE GROUCH & ELIGH, TRIBAL SEEDS Aug. 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Morris Duenow Aug. 22, Plaza de la Constitución JARS OF CLAY Aug. 23, Murray Hill Theatre YANKEE SLICKERS Aug. 24, Dog Star Tavern JASON AND THE PUNKNECKS, MUDTOWN, COUGAR BARREL Aug. 25, Burro Bar MUSIC BY THE SEA: Big Lonesome Aug. 28, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion CONCERTS IN THE PLAZA: Lonesome Bert & The Skinny Lizards Aug. 28, Plaza de la Constitución CARNAGE Aug. 28, Pure Nightclub MUSIC BY THE SEA: ET Swing Sept. 4, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion VAGABOND SWING Sept. 7, Dog Star Tavern

STEELY DAN Sept. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MUSIC BY THE SEA: Top Secret Band Sept. 11, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion AMELIA ISLAND BLUES FESTIVAL: Mud Morganfield, Ana Popovic, Zac Harmon, John Nemeth, Albert Castiglia, Ben Prestage, Roger “Hurricane” Wilson with the Shuffle Junkies, Josh Miller Band, Karl Davis Band, Blues in School Band Sept. 13-14, Centre Street & Harbor Front TROPIC THUNDER Sept. 14, Dog Star Tavern MUSIC BY THE SEA: Beach Street A Go-Go Sept. 18, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion REBELUTION, COLLIE BUDDZ, ZION-I Sept. 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BROWNBIRD RUDY RELIC, MUDTOWN, LONEWOLF OMB Sept. 22, Burro Bar THE CHOP TOPS Sept. 24, Jack Rabbits MUSIC BY THE SEA: Navy Dixieland Jazz Sept. 25, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion COLIN HAY Sept. 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CITY AND COLOUR Oct. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOUNDS ON CENTRE: Ben Prestage Oct. 4, Centre Street, Fernandina Beach BEN PRESTAGE “ONE MAN BAND” Oct. 4, Dog Star Tavern AARON CARTER Oct. 14, Jack Rabbits TOWER OF POWER Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre THE PIANO GUYS Nov. 7, The Florida Theatre MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER, MARTINA McBRIDE Nov. 9, Veterans Memorial Arena ANDREW ALTMAN CHRISTMAS JAM Dec. 21, Dog Star Tavern ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre

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CAFE KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269 Live music in the courtyard 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 5 p.m. every Sun. DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 The Droppers 9 p.m. June 6. Rebecca Day 5 p.m., The Jauntee 9:30 p.m. June 7. Co-Alition 9:30 p.m. June 8. Tony O Band June 13. Working Class Stiff with real vinyl 8 p.m. every Tue.

Solo artist Joshua Worden mixes indie rock, jazz, R&B and electronic June 8 at Deep Search Records in Riverside.

GENNARO’S ITALIANO SOUTH, 5472 First Coast Hwy., 491-1999 Live jazz 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Dan Voll 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Live music every weekend HAMMERHEAD BEACH BAR, 2045 S. Fletcher Rd., 491-7783 Buck Smith & Jim Barcaro every Thur. MERMAID BAR, Florida House Inn, 22 S. Third St., 491-3322 Open mic, 7:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur. O’KANE’S IRISH PUB, 318 Centre St., 261-1000 Dan Voll 7 p.m. June 11. Dan Voll 7:30 every Wed. Turner London Band 8:30 every Thur.-Sat. THE PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 Paul Ivey June 6. Ivey Brothers June 7. Schnockered June 8-9. Ace Winn June 10. Buck Smith June 11. Wes Cobb 9:30 p.m. every Wed. DJs every Fri. & Sat. Schnockered 9:30 p.m. every Sun. Buck Smith Project Band 9:30 p.m. every Tue. PLAE, 80 Amelia Circle, Amelia Island Plantation, 277-2132 Gary Ross 7-11 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. SALTY PELICAN, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811 Dan Voll 4 p.m. June 9 THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 DJ Rock June 5.Richard Stratton June 6. Richard Smith June 7. Larry LaMier 1 p.m., Hupp n Ray 6 p.m. June 8. Rebecca Day 1 p.m., Brian Ernst 6 p.m. June 9. Lance Neely June 10. Brenna Vick June 11

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

BREWSTER’S MEGAPLEX/PIT/ROC BAR/THE EDGE, 845 University Blvd. N., 223-9850 Big Boi & Killer Mike 7 p.m. June 6, Roc Bar. The Front Bottoms, Weatherbox, R-Dent 7 p.m. June 6, Pit. For the Fallen Dreams, Hundredth, Upon This Dawning, Wolves at the Gate, Sworn In 6 p.m. June 8, Roc Bar. Starship Romance, The Summer Soundtrap, My Electric Heart, No Blitz 6 p.m. June 10, Pit. Kills & Thrills 7 p.m. June 11. Live music every Wed.-Sat. MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

BRICK RESTAURANT, 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606 Bush Doctors every first Fri. & Sat. 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 Karaoke every Tue. DJ Free spins vintage every Fri. DJs SuZi-Rok, LowKill & Mowgli spin for Chillwave Madness every Mon. ELEVATED AVONDALE, 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700 Piano bar with various musicians 9:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. MOJO NO. 4, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670 Toots Lorraine & The Traffic 10 p.m. June 7. Rhythm Remedy 10 p.m. June 8. Live music every Fri. & Sat. TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 Live music every Fri. Karaoke every Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows Rd., 642-7600 DJ Albert Adkins spins every Fri. DJs Adrian Sky, Alberto Diaz & Chris Zachrich spin every Tue. DJ Michael Stumbaugh spins every Sat. GATORS DOCKSIDE, 8650 Baymeadows Rd., 448-0500 Karaoke with DJ Tom 9 p.m.-mid. every Tue. MY PLACE, 9550 Baymeadows Rd., 737-5299 Pop Muzik 9 p.m. June 8. Out of Hand every Mon. Rotating bands every other Tue. & Wed. OASIS GRILL & CHILL, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., 748-9636 DJs Stan, Mike Bend spin every Feel Good Fri.

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(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) BILLY’S BOATHOUSE GRILL 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Jimi Graves 5:30 p.m. June 6. Live music Wed.-Sun. BLUE WATER ISLAND GRILL, 200 First St. N., 249-0083 Uncommon Legends 2 p.m. June 9 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.

CASA MARINA, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 Jazz 6 p.m. every Tue. CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Permission Band 7:30 p.m. June 7. Red Afternoon 7:30 p.m. June 14. Karaoke with Hal 8 p.m. every Sat. John Thomas Group Jazz 6-8 p.m. every first Tue. ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY, 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337 Chris C4Mann June 6. Live music every Thur. FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Songwriters every Tue. Ryan Campbell every Wed. Wes Cobb Thur. Charlie Walker every Mon. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Miss May I, Evergreen Terrace, Affiance, Decided By Fate 7 p.m. June 5. Dopapod, Dr. Fameus 8 p.m. June 7. Corbitt Brothers, Homemade Wine, Rusty Shine 8 p.m. June 8. The Airborne Toxic Event, Leagues 7 p.m. June 10. Donavon Frankenreiter June 13. Live music every weekend GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 N. Third St., 201-9283 DiCarlo Thompson 8 p.m. June 8. Live music every Fri. & Sat. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 108 First St., Neptune Beach, 372-0943 Tony Paul Neal 8 p.m. June 6. Clayton Bush June 7. John Austill June 8. Live music every Wed.-Sat. KC CRAVE, 1161 Beach Blvd., 595-5660 Spade McQuade 8-11 p.m. June 5. Live music every Wed., Fri. & Sat. LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 Love Chunk June 7. Spade McQuade June 14. Damn Dirty Sham every Tue. Matt Still every Thur. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Dixie Rodeo CD release show 7 p.m. June 7. Just Jazz June 8 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Bread & Butter June 8. Dirty Pete June 9. Uncommon Legends every Wed. Ryan Campbell every Thur. Be Easy every Mon. Split Tone 10:30 p.m. every Tue. MAYPORT TAVERN, 2775 Old Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 270-0801 Karaoke every Fri. & Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., Ste. 2, 246-1500 Secondwind June 5. Antique Animals June 6. Wes Cobb June 7. Brian Ernst June 8. Brady Clampitt June 12. Live music every Wed.-Sun. MEZZA LUNA, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson 6 p.m. every Thur. MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Eric Sardinas 10 p.m. June 13 MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Wes Cobb 10 p.m. every Tue. DJ Austin Williams Karaoke 9 p.m. every Wed., Sat. & Sun. DJ Papa Sugar 9 p.m. every Mon., Thur. & Fri. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 Tony Novelly 7:30 p.m. June 7. Terry Whitehead 7:30 p.m. June 8. Live music Thur.-Sat. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Katie Fair every Wed. Javier Perez every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. THE PIER CANTINA & SANDBAR, 412 N. First St., 246-6454 Uncommon Legends 9:30 p.m. June 8. Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. June 7, 2:30 p.m. June 9. Live music POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637 Be Easy every Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Richard Smith June 5. 3 the Band June 6. Paul Lundgren Band 8 p.m. June 7-8. Storytellers June 9. Live music every Thur.-Sun. THE WINE BAR, 320 N. First St., 372-0211 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St., 1904jax.com Johnathan Scales Fourchestra, Alex Vans & The Hide Away, Jacksonvegas 7 p.m. June 5. Jerry Castle June 12. Gravity A, Former Champions June 13. Open mic every Tue. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 677-2977 Heyrocco, Opiate Eyes, The Resignators, Bad Kidz, Ascetic 9 p.m. June 5. Minor Decline, She Likes Todd, Status Faux 7 p.m. June 6. No Vaccine, Dead Baroque 8 p.m. June 7. Big Buck$ June 8. Merle Allin & the Murder Junkies, Grabbag, Whiskey Dick,

Live Music Mount the Stallion June 10. Live music every Fri. & Sat. DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth, 354-0666 DJ Synsonic spins every Tue. & Fri. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall Karaoke every Mon. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 176, 374-1247 Braxton Adamson 5-8 p.m., Chris C4 Mann Duo 10 p.m. June 7. The Gootch 8 p.m. June 8 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Hipp Street 8 p.m.-1 a.m. June 7. I Love Music Tour: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, New Boyz, Teflon Don, The Pinz, Jivell, Vagrant Undertow, Jungle City, Jatarra, Alexandra Amor, Jack Wynn, Jonra, Mbrace 2 p.m. June 8 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis spins house, gospel, deep, acid, hip-hop, Latin, tribal, Afrobeat, tech/electronic, disco, rarities 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. every Wed. DJ Vinn spins Top 40 every Thur. DJ 007 spins ultra house & top 40 dance every Fri. DJ Shotgun every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Bobby Laredo spins every Thur. & Sat. DJs Bryan & Q45 spin every Fri. NORTHSTAR THE PIZZA BAR, 119 E. Bay St., 860-5451 Open mic night every Wed. DJ SwitchGear every Thur. ATTICUS BAR (formerly PHOENIX TAPROOM), 325 W. Forsyth St., 798-8222 The Noctambulant, Nakhiel, Denied Til Death, Leprosy 8 p.m. June 7. The Menzingers, Fake Problems, Restorations 7 p.m. June 8. Kublai Khan 7 p.m. June 11. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SECRETS WINE BAR & LOUNGE, 521 W. Forsyth St. DJs Roy Luis & Albert Adkins spin mix and house 8 p.m. every Fri. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 353-6067 The Hermit Kings, New Strangers 9 p.m. June 7. Laurie Rider, Sean Clark, Chris Rider, Brad Lauretti 8 p.m. June 12. David Wax Museum June 14. Old Time Jam 7 p.m. every Tue. Fjord Explorer & Screamin’ Eagle every Ritual ReUnion Thur. ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Jay Decosta June 7. DJ BG June 8. Live music Wed.-Sat. MERCURY MOON, 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999 Driven 10 p.m. June 7. DJ Ty spins every Thur. Buck Smith Project every Mon. Blistur unplugged every Wed. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Open mic June 6. Boogie Freaks 9:30 p.m. June 7-8. Ace Winn 5 p.m. June 8. DJ BG 4 p.m. June 9. Deck music 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4 p.m. every Sun.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

BRUCCI’S PIZZA, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913 Mike Shackelford 6:30 p.m. every Sat. & Mon. CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Chaos InDisguise June 5. Lift June 7-8. Warning June 12. Karaoke every Thur. & Sun. Top 40 every Mon. & Tue. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE & STEAKHOUSE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22, 220-6766 Karaoke Dude every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat. MAHARLIKA HALL & SPORTS GRILL, 14255 Beach Blvd., 699-0759 Sunchase Drive, The Pulse 8 p.m. June 8 SALSA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46, 992-8402 Live guitar music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. & Sat.

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

APPLEBEE’S, 14560 St. Augustine Rd., 262-7605 Michael C 9:30 p.m. every Sat. AW SHUCKS OYSTER BAR, 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd., 240-0368 Open mic with Diamond Dave every Wed. Live music every Sat. CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 11475 San Jose Blvd., 262-4337 Karaoke 9:30 p.m. every Wed. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Jazz 7-9 pm., Karaoke 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Mon.-Thur. Dennis Klee & the World’s Most Talented Waitstaff Fri. & Sat. RACK EM UP, 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., Ste. 205, 262-4030 Live music, DJs, Karaoke and open mic

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

BLACK HORSE WINERY, 420 Kingsley Ave., 644-8480 Live music 6-9 p.m. every Fri., 2-6 p.m. every Sat. CHEERS BAR & GRILL, 1580 Wells Rd., 269-4855 Karaoke 9:30 p.m. every Wed. & Sat. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. LIVE BAR & LOUNGE, 2223 C.R. 220, 290-1733 Open mic with Ernie & Debi Evans 7 p.m. every Tue. POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA, 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116 Live music 7:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Live music 9 p.m. every Thur.-Sat.

PALATKA

DOWNTOWN BLUES BAR & GRILLE, 714 St. Johns Ave., (386) 325-5454 Biscuit Miller 8 p.m. June 8. Acoustic circle 2 p.m. every Sun.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 820 A1A N., Ste. E-18, 834-2492

Ace Winn June 6. Rick Arcusa June 7. Ron Rodriguez June 8. Live music every Wed.-Sat. LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE, 301 N. Roscoe Blvd., 285-0139 The Monster Fool 6 p.m. June 8. Mike Shackelford & Rick Johnson 7-10 p.m. every Fri. Tony Novelly 6 p.m. every Mon., 11:30 a.m. Sun. PUSSER’S CARIBBEAN GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 2807766 David Barber 6-10 p.m. June 6. Aaron Koerner 8 p.m.mid. June 7. Dopelimatic 8 p.m.-mid. June 8. Herd of Watts 4-8 p.m. June 9. SoundStage on the deck 4 p.m. every Sun. SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13, Ste. 113, 287-7226 Live music Thur.-Sat. SUN DOG BREWING CO., 822 A1A N., Ste. 105, 686-1852 Live music Wed.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

DEEP SEARCH RECORDS, 822 Lomax St., 423-0969 Joshua Worden, Grammar Tree 8 p.m. June 8 HAPPY HOURS, 952 Lane Ave. N., 683-0065 Karaoke 4 p.m. every Sun. HJ’S BAR & GRILL, 8540 Argyle Forest Blvd., 317-2783 Karaoke with DJ Ron 8:30 p.m. every Tue. & DJ Richie every Fri. Live music every Sat. Open mic 8 p.m. every Wed. INTUITION ALE WORKS, 720 King St., 683-7720 Live music every Taproom Tuesday KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor 9:30 p.m. every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. THE LOFT, 925 King St., loftthursdays.com DJs Wes Reed and Josh Kemp spin for PBR Party every Thur. METRO/RAINBOW ROOM Piano Bar, 859 Willowbranch Ave., 388-8719 Karaoke Rob spins 10 p.m. Sun.-Wed. DJ Zeke Smith spins Fri. DJ Michael Murphy spins 10 p.m. Sat. MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Uncle Kenny, Dread White 8 p.m. June 7. Lauren Slyman, Megan McCloud, Shaniah McGlaughlin, Blake Steinburg 7 p.m. June 8. Teen Summer bash Kickoff 6:30 p.m. June 9. Live music Fri. & Sat. RASCALS, 3960 Confederate Point Rd., 772-7335 Karaoke 8 p.m. every Thur. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 554-6865 Dalton Cyr, 11:45 a.m. June 8. Subterranean, Brother Nature 1:15 p.m., Ronin School of Music 2:45 p.m. River Stage YESTERDAY’S SOCIAL CLUB, 3638 Park St., 223-3822 Live music every Fri.-Sat.

ST. AUGUSTINE

A1A ALE WORKS, 1 King St., 829-2977 Live music June 5-8. Live music every Thur.-Sat. ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Open mic with Smokin’ Joe 7 p.m. every Tue. CELLAR UPSTAIRS, San Sebastian Winery, 157 King St., 826-1594 The Committee 7 p.m. June 7. The Willow Wacks 2 p.m., The Committee 7-11 p.m. June 8. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. June 9 CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993 Live music every Fri. & Sat. Chelsea Saddler every Sun. DOS COFFEE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Taylor Roberts & Co. every Fri. The Residents spin every Sat. HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Live music every Fri. KINGFISH GRILL, 252 Yacht Club Dr., 824-2111 The Fermin Spanish Guitar Band 5-8 p.m. every Salsa Sunday MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Open jam, house band 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 every Mon., Tue. & Thur. Elizabeth Roth 11 a.m. every Sun. MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Don David Trio 9 p.m. June 7-8. Colton McKenna 1 p.m. June 9. Donny Brazile 9 p.m. June 11. Todd & Molly Jones every Wed. Aaron Esposito every Thur. Go Get Gone 9 p.m. every Mon. MOJO BBQ OLD CITY, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264 Live music every Fri. & Sat. PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM, 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar 3-6 p.m. every Mon. SCARLETT O’HARA’S, 70 Hypolita St., 824-6535 Oh No! 9 p.m. June 6. Be Easy 9 p.m. June 7. Ken McAnlis 4 p.m., Root of All 9 p.m. June 8. Gary Campbell noon, Colton McKenna 7 p.m. June 9. Jeremy Austin 8 p.m. June 11. Chase Rideman 9 p.m. every Wed. Karaoke every Mon. THE STANDARD, 200 Anastasia Blvd., 342-2187 Country every Thur. Reggae Sun. Indie, dance, electro Tue. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210 W., 819-1554 Live music every Fri. THE TASTING ROOM, 25 Cuna St., 810-2400 Dennis Fermin Spanish Guitar Band 7:30-11:30 p.m. every Sat. Bossa Nova with Monica da Silva, Chad Alger 5-8 p.m. every Sun. TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Hootch June 7-8

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH

AMICI ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 1915 A1A S., 461-0102 Piano bar with Kenyon Dye 5-9:30 p.m. every Sun. JACK’S BARBECUE, 691 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-8100 Jim Essery 4 p.m. every Sat. Live music every Thur.-Sat.

THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311 The Tallest Man on Earth 9 p.m. June 13.

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

BAHAMA BREEZE, 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031 Live music every Tue.-Sun. BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE, 4840 Big Island Dr., 345-3466 Live music 5 p.m. every Wed., 9 p.m. Thur.-Sat. WHISKY RIVER, 4850 Big Island Drive, 645-5571 A DJ spins every Fri. & Sat.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

ENDO EXO, 1224 Kings Ave., 396-7733 DJ Manus spins top 40, dance every Sat. Open mic with King Ron & T-Roy every Mon. EUROPEAN STREET, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 399-1740 Grandpa’s Cough Medicine 8 p.m. June 6. Muriel Anderson 8 p.m. June 13. Jazz 8 p.m. every second Tue. HAVANA-JAX CUBA LIBRE, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609 MVP Band 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 I Woke Up Early For My Funeral, Homefield Advantage 8 p.m. June 7. The Loolah James Band, Ryan DePaolo, Dr. Sirbrother 8 p.m. June 8. Black Taxi 8 p.m. June 11. Night Beds, Jenny O. 8 p.m. June 12. Live music 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922 Patrick Evan & Bert Mingea or Mark O’Quinn every Thur. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815 Jennifer Chase 7:30 p.m. every Sat. RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY, 835 Museum Cir., 398-2299 Tony Paul Neal 5 p.m. June 7. Live music 6 p.m. every Fri. SQUARE ONE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 306-9004 Taalam Acey 9 p.m. June 11. Soul on the Square with MVP Band & Special Formula 8 p.m.; DJ Dr. Doom every Mon. DJs Wes Reed & Josh Kemp spin underground dance 9 p.m. every Are Friends Electric Wed. DJ Hal spins Karaoke every Thur. Mitch Kuhman & Friends of Blake every other Fri. DJs Rogue & Mickey Shadow spin every Factory Sat.

SOUTHSIDE

AROMAS CIGARS & WINE BAR, 4372 Southside Blvd., Ste. 101, 928-0515 Live jazz every Tue. Beer house rock every Wed. Live music Thur. Will Hurley every Fri. Bill Rice every Sat. BOMBA’S, 8560 Beach Blvd., 997-2291 Open mic: The Foxes 8 p.m. every Tue., George every Thur. Live music every Fri. DAVE & BUSTER’S, 7025 Salisbury Rd. S., 296-1525 A DJ spins every Fri. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 5500 Beach Blvd., 399-1740 The Peyton Brothers 8 p.m. June 8. Live music every Sat. ISLAND GIRL CIGAR BAR, 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 115, 854-6060 Bryan Ripper June 6. Lance Neely June 7. Evan Michael June 8. Live music every Thur.-Sat. JOHNNY ANGELS, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120, 997-9850 Harry & Sally 7 p.m. every Wed. Karaoke 7 p.m. every Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 997-1955 Brian Ernst June 7. Wes Cobb 8 p.m. June 8. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Open mic every Sun. PURE NIGHTCLUB, 8206 Philips Hwy., 800-694-1253 Heroes X Villains, Kennedy Jones 9 p.m. June 5 SEVEN BRIDGES, 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., 997-1999 Chuck Nash every Thur. Live music 10 p.m. every Fri. TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426 A DJ spins 8:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 X-Hale 9 p.m. June 7. Lyons Reggae SWAT Team June 8. DJ Frazetta every Thur. David Luthra 5 p.m. every Fri. Live music Fri. & Sat. YAMAS HOOKAH, 9753-B Deer Lake Court, 389-2077 Live music 8:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Ghost Radio 4 p.m. June 8 SKYLINE SPORTSBAR, 5611 Norwood Ave., 517-6973 Bigga Rankin, Cool Running DJs every Tue. & first Sun. Fusion Band & DJ every Thur. DJ Scar spins every Sun. THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Al Poindexter for open mic 7 p.m. June 6 3 LIONS SPORTS PUB & GRILL, 2467 Faye Rd., 647-8625 Open mic every Thur. Woodie & Wyatt C. every Fri. Live music every Sat. TUCKERS HWY. 17 TAVERN, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Cupid’s Alley 8 p.m. June 7. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Get your band or solo act listed: send band name, time, date, venue, street address, city, admission price, and a contact number we can print, to A&E Editor David Johnson, Folio Weekly, 9456 Philips Hwy., Ste. 11, Jacksonville FL 32256 or email events@folioweekly.com. Deadline is 4 p.m. Tuesday eight days before publication.

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to note that Maurice Jones-Drew cut his dreads within days after being drafted by the Jaguars in 2006. My theory then (and now): Jones-Drew was making a naked grab for endorsement dollars in a market that’s never been wholly receptive to the stylistic flourishes of Jaguar players. Despite cutting his dreads, Jones-Drew overcame my initial concerns about his lack of size and midcareer questions about his ability to come back from injury to become one of the best running backs of his generation (despite whatever happened at the recent Reggae Sunday at St. Augustine’s Conch House). Problem is, that generation is about over. Jones-Drew is 28 years old — young for politicians and grandmothers; old for ballet dancers and NFL running backs. His age is especially significant when one considers how many on the Jaguars offense ran through him during Jack Del Rio’s time as coach (seems an epoch ago, even though Del Rio’s been gone only one season). Jones-Drew had a lot of work in that offense, which focused on the running game in a quarterback-driven league that stacked the rules in favor of passing offenses. As we know, the results of that work have been awesome on the stat sheet, but not so much in terms of that all-important win-loss column. The Jaguars have only won one playoff game in Jones-Drew’s career with them, after the 2007 season. Referees assisted on that 31-29 victory over the Steelers, I’d argue, by missing holding calls on what turned into the best highlight-reel scramble of David Garrard’s career. Even in that game, with a reduced role at tailback, JonesDrew tallied almost 200 all-purpose yards and earned co-MVP honors along with Garrard. The future seemed so bright, we had to wear shades. Since then, though, nothing in terms of playoff victories and national relevance. And no one’s forecasting much better for the upcoming season, either. We’ve heard the word “rebuilding” from local commentators more this year than we did from national observers in the wake of Katrina — and we can’t blame the Jaguars’ issues on George W. Bush, unfortunately. Rather, the blame falls at the feet

of the former coach and former owner, and so it is that new head coach Gus Bradley and owner/ demigod Shad Khan have a bit of breathing room to right the course of the franchise. And they’ll need it. In the AFC South alone, the Texans are always among NFL elite, and the Colts have one of the most exciting quarterbacks in the game (never mind the Titans). What does this mean for the Jaguars? Even getting a wildcard berth might be a problem this year … or next … or even the year after. Which raises the question: How much juice can we reasonably expect in the remainder of Jones-Drew’s career? Can we expect more from him than we could from Shaun Alexander, the doeverything Seahawks running back who led the league in several stats categories, then was washed up by 30? A running back’s tenure is short and sweet, dazzling and ephemeral. The longevity of nice guy Emmitt Smith, former Gator and Dallas Cowboy legend, is the exception, not the rule. Jones-Drew is still recovering from his painful Lisfranc injury, while working out in South Florida in the tradition of Fred Taylor, and the results so far might concern Jaguars fans who believe Jones-Drew is the whole offense. He still can’t run full speed, and even when he can, questions will linger in everyone’s mind but his. So far, MJD has overcome all odds, but his luck will run out. I am higher on Justin Forsett than a lot of other sports pundits, but the speedy and versatile Forsett has yet to prove himself as an NFL every-down back. Until he does, he won’t boost the confidence of Jaguars fans. Denard Robinson — the Michigan quarterback Gus Bradley seems to be using in a slash role — likewise provides matchup issues for defenders. Who’ll get those tough yards on third-and-short? On fourth-and-1? Is that guy on the roster if Jones-Drew isn’t ready to go? If not, he needs to be. I expect the Jaguars to do their due diligence and to bring in some backs in this preseason. (And, of course, there’s next year’s draft.) For the 2013 season, though, it may be too late. AG Gancarski themail@folioweekly.com twitter.com/aggancarski

Arts

Hiromi Moneyhun, whose materials are only black paper and an X-Acto Knife, only creates all her art at her dining room table in Jacksonville Beach. Photos: Dennis Ho

Exacting Art

Japanese-born artist creates intricate pieces that entice viewers to touch HIROMI MONEYHUN PAPER-CUT ART Through June 30 Haskell Gallery’s Connector Display Cases, Jacksonville International Airport

itting in front of the same piece of paper, making small cuts with an X-Acto Knife for weeks or months might not sound appealing. For Jacksonville Beach paper-cut artist Hiromi Moneyhun, however, the results are intricate and captivating. Born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, Moneyhun moved to Jacksonville in 2004 with her American husband whom she met while he was teaching English in her home city. A fulltime mom and wife, Moneyhun, who still has difficulty understanding and speaking English, said she creates her art “every minute during the day when I’m not doing everything else.” Papercutting is defined simply as the art of cutting paper designs. The oldest surviving paper cut is a symmetrical circle from the 6th-century Six Dynasties period found in Xinjiang, China. Now, the art form is recognized in cultures around the world — from Indonesia and Israel to Mexico and the U.S. Well-known paper-cut artists include Joanna Koerten, Hans Christian Andersen, Lotte Reiniger, Jad Fair, Jeanette Kuvin Oren and Kara Walker. In March, Moneyhun took part in “Cut Paint Draw: An Exhibition of Art with Hiromi Moneyhun, Sharla Valeski and Bruce Musser” at CoRK Arts District in Riverside. In April, she joined One Spark as entry No. 214 hosted by Southlight Gallery (she received 189 votes). Her exhibit at Haskell Gallery’s Connector Display Cases at Jacksonville International Airport (located before airport security) is on display through June 30. “The mounting was kind of challenging,” Moneyhun said. “My husband had a good idea to use an old surfboard to make marshmallowlooking Styrofoam pieces, put them on the column and then pin the paper-cut onto the

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Styrofoam so it looks like it’s floating. You can see my art from the front, side and back — it looks like the image is on the glass itself.” Growing up in Kyoto, Moneyhun was always an artistic child. First drawing and then, in her teens, establishing her own paper-cut style. “With no formal art training, Hiromi has developed a unique homegrown artistic voice that combines traditional Japanese visual art forms with the super-modernity now found in all of Japan’s biggest cities,” the artist’s website says. “The most obvious reference is to Edo Period Japanese woodblock prints (moku hanga), which had a major influence on her budding artist’s mind early on.” As with woodblock prints, Moneyhun’s three-dimensional paper-cut creations require a multistep process. “First, I draw the image using black pen,” she explained. “I usually make a copy of the finished image and then cut the copied paper. I use drawing paper — nothing special — and cut out with an X-Acto Knife. That’s it. It’s a simple process.” Moneyhun’s small pieces, about 5 inches by 7 inches, take roughly a week. Larger pieces — sometimes bigger than 60 inches by 30 inches — can take upwards of a month or longer. If she messes up significantly, the piece goes in the garbage. “A tiny mistake, and I can keep going,” Moneyhun said. “Only one piece has ever gone into the trash can.” Blessed with hands as steady as a surgeon’s, Moneyhun plies her craft, which continues to garner attention around Northeast Florida. The artist has an upcoming exhibit — her first solo show — in October at FSCJ’s Kent Gallery, for which she will be creating a whole new body of work. “I am creating two new series,” Moneyhun

said. “This show will be on a much bigger scale. One series is paper-cut images of my 9-year-old daughter, Nia, and the other is about traditional Japanese images. I might just use one series for the show, but I’m not sure which one.” Wildlife, like a rhinoceros and giraffe, family portraits and a retro TV series are a few of the paper cuts Moneyhun’s completed in the past. Her JIA creations are amazingly intricate figures — black cutouts greeting thousands of travelers daily. The work is comparable to an elaborate doily, and it’s hard not to want to reach out and graze your hand across the glass. “I’m really lucky to be able to do what I love,” Moneyhun said. “I will continue to work on my craft and show my work anywhere I can.” Kara Pound themail@folioweekly.com

Moneyhun’s larger pieces can take more than a month to complete.

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Arts Watercolors in the Wild

Kathy Stark doesn’t paint the town, she paints the parks THE WILDERNESS OF NORTH FLORIDA’S PARKS Art Walk 5-9 p.m. June 5 Southlight Gallery, 6 E. Bay St., Downtown 438-4358, southlightgallery.com kathystark.com Facebook: The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks

ny local resident knows that road construction is a constant in Jacksonville, but many in this area don’t know that hidden behind all those orange cones is the nation’s largest urban park system, with more than 80,000 acres spread among more than 300 parks. But artist Kathy Stark knows. Her passions for art and nature, specifically the wilderness of North Florida, became fused in her quest to raise awareness about the parks, their beauty and the nonprofit organizations that preserve and protect them, including St. Johns Riverkeeper, North Florida Land Trust, Greenscape and Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation. Stark launched a project to paint watercolors of 15 to 20 of Jacksonville’s parks. Stark will complete the paintings as time and funding allow, while also creating a coffee table book to feature the paintings and sketchbook pages with the history of the parks and information about those nonprofit groups. Stark plans to create a traveling exhibit that will include print versions of her original paintings and pages from the book in a bigger format. “The idea is to create large-scale pages so people can walk through the book,” said Shannon Blankinship, outreach director for St. Johns Riverkeeper. Stark said she wants to include GPS coordinates for the locations in her paintings so that people could trek to those spots and “prove” they found and visited them. This interactive element could become an ongoing

Paintings from Kathy Stark’s “The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks” series appear at Southlight Gallery in Downtown Jacksonville. Photo: Michael Dunlap

contest, with prizes from local outfitters such as hiking water bottles or fanny packs. “It would be a way to motivate people to go the parks and make it fun,” Stark said. Stark is partnering with Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation to establish a “Park Depot,” a place for people to learn about the parks, the nonprofit groups and her artwork. Other artists’ and photographers’ work featuring Jacksonville’s parks could be exhibited there, as well as information about the nonprofit groups. “If the ‘Park Depot’ happens, we could have an ongoing amateur park photo contest and show those photos during Art Walk,” Stark said. She said she’d want to secure four or five different locations around Jacksonville for a possible rotating “Park of the Month” wall. “Kathy’s project is on point with our goals and, obviously, we’re on board with anyone who wants to promote the parks,” said Maria Mark, executive director of Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation. Stark entered her work as a One Spark

“North Florida, Theodore Roosevelt Area, Series #1” by Kathy Stark.

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project and received $1,135.11 from crowd fund votes and $624.65 in personal contributions. She displayed her work at the River City Challenge & Eco-Fest in April and at a North Florida Land Trust screening of the documentary “Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition” in May. Bonnie Barnes, executive director of North Florida Land Trust, said Stark’s project has the potential to combat obesity and other health issues in Jacksonville. “Kathy’s book can help instill in families the desire to get outdoors and become more healthy,” Barnes said. So far, Stark has painted five watercolors of four parks: Theodore Roosevelt Area (in Arlington near Fort Caroline), Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park, Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park and Cumberland Island National Seashore. These are currently on display at Southlight Gallery. Her next painting will be of Little Talbot Island. Stark has a proposed list of 33 parks, all within an hour or less of Downtown Jacksonville. At the June 5 First Wednesday Art Walk,

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Stark’s art will be accompanied by a map of the proposed list of parks; visitors can vote to prioritize the ones she paints next. Stark is working with a team, which includes John Ragsdale, the project adviser; Joe Eberly, the business plan adviser; and Wayne Wood, the book designer. Family, friends, art collectors and enthusiasts have helped greatly in supporting the project, as has the funding Stark received from One Spark. Stark is looking for grants that might help fund the project and financial support from those who visit her displays. “The trick for an artist is to be able to focus on a theme as this in a concentrated, consecutive amount of time,” Stark said. “This is particularly how support from people interested in the project helps.” Katelyn Leboff themail@folioweekly.com

This is a mockup for a sketchbook page, featuring Tillie Fowler Regional Park. A coffee table book explaining the features and history of the parks is planned.

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he Riverside Arts Market was a hit June 1 with perfect weather and a cool breeze in the shade of the Fuller Warren Bridge. Hundreds milled about the vendorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; tables and tents, listened to the live music of Sweet Scarlett and Lacy Green, ate a variety of food and enjoyed the beauty of the St. Johns River. Text and photos by Katelyn Leboff

1. Clark and Nan McCue 2. Jo and Baird Petrie 3. Emily and Frankie Lucas 4. Debbie and Bill Joyce 5. Gary Becka, Roy Peak 6. Lacy Green serenades the crowd

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PERFORMANCE

MURDER AMONG FRIENDS Loretta Swit, of “M*A*S*H” fame, stars as Angela Forrester in the comedy murder mystery, staged 8 p.m. June 5-9, 1:15 p.m. June 8 and 2 p.m. June 9 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $46-$53, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL The 1953 Broadway drama that became a 1985 hit film is staged 8 p.m. June 6-8 at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, $20, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org. DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES REALLY REFLECT UP? A musical about a teenager in a ’50s Catholic school “dealing with puppy love, patron saints and sex education,” with music and lyrics by James Quinn and Alaric Jans, is staged June 6-20 at Limelight Theatre’s Matuza Main Stage, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $10-$25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org. SPOKEN WORD Local poets and wordsmiths sound off 7 p.m. June 6 and every first Thur. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com. AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE RITZ Modeled after Harlem’s “Amateur Night at the Apollo,” the host searches are held 7:30-10:30 p.m. June 7 and every first Fri. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $5.50, 632-5555. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL Theatre Jacksonville presents the musical comedy of “friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era,” with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, 8 p.m. June 7-8, 14-15, 21-22; 2 p.m. June 9 and 16; and 7:30 p.m. June 13 and 20 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $25, 396-4425, theatrejax.com. MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS LIVE! Covering everything from dating and marriage to the bedroom, this one-night-only comedy is staged 8 p.m. June 8 at the T-U Center’s Terry Theater, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $45, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org. SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! MUSICAL MYSTERIES The mystery-solving cartoon characters hit the Moran Theater stage with music, antics and Scooby snacks, 2 p.m. June 9 at the T-U Center, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, $22-$82, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org. MURDER IN THE OLDE CITY A “powerful tale of murder, scandal, love and deceit” in 1880s St. Augustine is staged 5:30 p.m. June 9, 23 and 30 at Raintree Restaurant, 102 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $40, 824-7211. JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAM COAT Alhambra Theatre & Dining stages the story of Joseph from the Bible as told by the musician behind “Jesus Christ Superstar,” 8 p.m. June 12-16, 18-23, 25-30, July 2-3, 5-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-28, 30-Aug. 4 (doors 6 p.m.); 1:15 p.m. June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27 and Aug. 8 (doors 11 a.m.); 2 p.m. June 16, 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28 and Aug. 4 (doors noon) at 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$59, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. FATHER OF THE BRIDE The Amelia Community Theatre presents the stage play that inspired the Steve Martin classic – or the Spencer Tracy classic – 8 p.m. June 13-15, 20-22 and 27-29 and 2 p.m. June 23 at 209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, $10-20, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. THE THREE MRS. FLAGLERS The dinner theater show, celebrating the 125th anniversary of Hotel Casa Monica, is staged 6:30 p.m. June 13 at the hotel, 95 Cordova St., St. Augustine, $49 (reservations required), 827-1888, casamonica.com. DOG SEES GOD Bert V. Royal’s “unauthorized parody” about the death of a young man’s dog and his begging of life’s greater questions afterward is staged 8 p.m. June 14-15 and 19-22 and 11 a.m. June 15 and 22 at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, $20, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM The St. Augustine Ballet presents the Shakespearean comedy 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. June 15 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $25-$30, 824-1746, saintaugustineballet.com. ANYTHING GOES The Orange Park Community Theatre performs Cole Porter’s musical about passengers aboard the SS American en route to England, 8 p.m. June 14-15, 21-22, 27-29 and 3 p.m. June 16, 23 and 23 at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, $20, 276-2599, opct.org.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

FREE KIDS’ DANCE CLASS Classes for ages 7-11 are held 4:30-5:15 p.m. June 5 and every Wed. at Dance Trance, 214 Orange St., Neptune Beach, free, 246-4600, dancetrancefitness.com/dtkidz. SENIOR DAY The Museum of Science & History offers Northeast Florida’s

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senior citizen community a cookie and coffee reception, a program in Bryan-Gooding Planetarium and a chance to tour the museum, 9:45 a.m. June 5 at 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, $6, 396-6674, themosh.org. LUNCH & LIT The Jacksonville Public Library presents a lunchtime discussion of Orhan Palmuk’s “Snow,” noon June 7 in Rm. G-4 at Main Library, 303 Laura St. N., free, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org. COMMUNITY HU SONG The songs are offered 11 a.m. June 9 and 23 at Eckankar Center, 6636 Arlington Road, Arlington, 725-7760 and 7 p.m. June 26 at Pablo Creek Library, 13295 Beach Blvd., 725-7760. THEATRE JAX AUDITIONS Theatre Jacksonville auditions for four men and two women in principle roles, and supporting and ensemble roles, in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” 6 p.m. June 9 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco. The production is staged Aug. 23Sept. 7 at the theater, theatrejax.com. DROP-IN ART Children ages 5-10 can see galleries and gardens and experiment with different art processes, 5-6 p.m. June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Aug. 6 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. JACKSONVILLE ROARS INTO THE 1920S Speaker Emily Retherford Lisska shares stories from the First Coast in the 1920s, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 13 at Fleet Landing Clubhouse, 1 Fleet Landing Blvd., Atlantic Beach, free, 420-4200, bit.ly/17ypG9F. AMATEUR NIGHT AUDITIONS Auditions for the host searches are held 5 p.m. June 13 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555. ART ADVENTURES The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens offers classes in “painting, printmaking, collage and construction with changing themes,” 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. June 15 at 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers, 356-6857, cummer.org. ADULT DANCING Ballet, stretch, flamenco, belly dancing, clogging and ballroom classes are held June 17-Aug. 17 at Boleros, 10131 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville, 721-3399, boleros.cc. BEGINNERS’ DANCE CLASSES These classes are held 5:45-6:45 p.m. every Wed. and Mon. at Dance Trance, 214 Orange St., Neptune Beach, first class is free, 246-4600, dancetrancefitness.com. BELLY DANCING Belly Dance with Margarita 4 p.m. every Thur. and 10:30 a.m. every Sat. at Boleros Dance Center, 10131 Atlantic Blvd., Arlington, 721-3399. K.A.R.M.A. CLASS A Kindling Auras & Radiating Musical Awareness group vocal session, focusing on mental clarity, visualization, harmonizing and blending, breath and energy control, is held 6-7 p.m. every Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Spring Park. Registration is requested; 322-7672, elementsofonelove@gmail.com. JAX CONTRA DANCE A band and caller lead folk dancing at 8 and 11 p.m. every third Fri. of the month at Riverside Avenue Christian Church, 2841 Riverside Ave., $7, 396-1997. ART THERAPY CLASSES Art classes are held 6-9 p.m. every Tue. at Diversions, 210 N. Laura St., Downtown, $30 includes supplies, 586-2088, email daniel@diversionsjax.com. ST. AUGUSTINE CHORUS AUDITIONS Auditions for singers for “On Broadway! Act II” are held 6:50-9 p.m. every Tue. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 215 St. George St., St. Augustine. Music distributed during the first few weeks of rehearsals at 6:30 p.m., membership fee: $25, 808-1904, staugustinecommunitychorus.org. JAZZ, DANCE AND TECHNIQUE The classes continue every Tue. at Dance Trance, 1515 San Marco Blvd., 390-0939, dancetrancefitness.com. DANCE CLASSES The Dance Shack offers several classes for all ages and skill levels every Mon.-Fri. at 3837 Southside Blvd., Southside, 527-8694, thedanceshack.com. DRAMATIC ARTS AT THE BEACHES Classes and workshops in theatrical performance for all ages and skill levels are held Mon.-Fri. at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, fees vary, 249-0289. THEATRICAL ARTS Classes in theatrical performance, including song and dance, are held Mon.-Fri. at The Performers Academy, 3674 Beach Blvd., Spring Park, fees vary, 322-7672, theperformersacademy.com. MIXED MEDIA ART CLASSES Art classes are held weekly at Studio 121, 121 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, at $20 per class or $100 for six weeks, 568-2146, teresemuller.com. MURRAY HILL ART CLASSES Six-week art classes are offered at Murray Hill Art Center,

Guitarist Peter Michael (pictured), a former member of Yellowcard, takes on a new project while performing with a string quartet comprising Edward Latimer, Jonathan Lindsey, Philip Pan and Jon Engel on June 5. Singer-songwriter Jessica Pounds of Canary in the Coalmine joins Michael at a First Wednesday Art Walk concert in the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s theater in Downtown. 4327 Kerle St., Murray Hill; adult fee is $80; $50 for kids, 677-2787, artsjax.org.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

PETER MICHAEL AND STRING QUARTET The Jacksonville native and guitarist for punk band Inspection 12 performs a classical pop concert that he calls “New American Songbook” with a string quartet of Edward Latimer, Jonathan Lindsey, Philip Pan and Jon Engel. Singersongwriter Jessica Pounds – of Canary in the Coalmine – also performs during First Wednesday Art Walk, 7 p.m. June 5 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s theater, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. PROMENADE CONCERT Percussionist Tony Steve, pianist Bob Moore and bass clarinetist Joe Yorio perform for First Wednesday Art Walk, 7 p.m. June 5 at the Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free, 630-2664, jplmusic.blogspot.com. SOUND EFFECTS The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville hosts an interactive night of music – including works by John Williams, Nino Rota, Arvo Parte and Debussy – performed by flutist Rhonda Cassano, violinist Philip Pan and pianist Christine Yoshikawa, with the musicians sharing their thoughts on the pieces with the audience, 7 p.m. June 6 at 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, free with RSVP, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. SUMMER JAZZ SERIES The 12th annual Summer Jazz Series is held 5-9 p.m. June 9 and July 14 at SeaWalk Pavilion, by the ocean in Jax Beach. Phil Perry and Joey Sommerville headline the July 9 concert; Jeff Lorber and Everette Harp headline July 14, free, jacksonvillebeach.org. RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS COFFEE CONCERTS Final concert of four by the Ritz Chamber Players, 2-3 p.m. June 11 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. VESPERS St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church holds Candlelight Vespers featuring jazz and other genres, 5:30 p.m. June 16 and

every third Sun. of the month, at 37 Lovett St., St. Augustine, 829-8828, stcypriansepiscopalchurch.org. JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Live jazz is featured nightly at Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie, 66 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 825-0502. JAZZ IN RIVERSIDE Trumpeter Ray Callendar and guitarist Taylor Roberts are featured 9:30 p.m. every Thur. at Kickbacks Gastropub, 910 King St., Riverside, 388-9551. JAZZ IN MANDARIN Boril Ivanov Trio plays 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum plays 7 p.m. every Fri. at Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 262-0006. JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE The House Cats play 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. every Sat. at Stogies Club & Listening Room, 36 Charlotte St., St. Augustine, 826-4008. JAZZ IN ARLINGTON Jazzland features live music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. and 8 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at 1324 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 240-1009, jazzlandcafe.com.

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK An art walk, featuring 30-40 galleries, museums and businesses and spanning 15 blocks, is held 5-9 p.m. June 5 and the first Wed. of every month in Downtown Jacksonville. For an events map, go to downtownjacksonville.org/ marketing; iloveartwalk.com. MID-WEEK MARKET Arts and crafts, local produce and live music are featured 3-6 p.m. June 5 and every Wed. at Bull Memorial Park, corner of East Coast Drive and Seventh Street, Atlantic Beach, 247-5800. FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is held June 7 and the first Fri. of every month, with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065. DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. June 7 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2

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“Asphalt” is among the posters by Stephanie Shieldhouse and Staci Bu Shea at “Letterpress Poster Exhibition” on display through July 14 at Bold Bean Coffee Roasters in Riverside. Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional artists, strolling performers, bands and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 8 and every Sat., free, 554-6865, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. SECOND SATURDAY ARTREAGOUS ART WALK The galleries of downtown Fernandina Beach are open for self-guided tours, 5:30-8:30 p.m. June 8 and the second Sat. of every month, 277-0717, ameliaisland.com. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open late, 5-9 p.m. June 20 and every third Thur. of the month, at various venues from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center. For a list of participating galleries, call 249-2222. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT The self-guided tour features galleries, antique stores and shops open 5-9 p.m. June 29 and every last Sat. of the month in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152.

MUSEUMS

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. “Shrimp Festival: 50 Years and Counting,” an exhibit celebrating the local festival held since 1964, is on display through June. The children’s exhibit, “Discovery Ship,” allows kids to pilot the ship, hoist flags and learn about the history of Fernandina’s harbor. CAMP BLANDING MUSEUM 5629 S.R. 16 W., Camp Blanding, Starke, 682-3196, campblanding-museum.org. Artwork, weapons, uniforms and other artifacts from the activities of Camp Blanding during World War II are displayed along with outdoor displays of vehicles from WWII, Vietnam and Desert Storm. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler. edu/crispellert. “Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring,” an exhibit of Daniel Heyman’s works, is displayed through June 14. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. “Future Retro: The Great Age of the American Automobile” – an exhibit of drawings from the collection of Jean S. and Frederick A. Sharf in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is on display through Sept. 8. Also featured are classic automobiles, organized by Bill Warner of Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. “La Florida,” presenting native and Spanish colonial artifacts celebrating 500 years of Florida art, runs through Oct. 6. JACKSONVILLE MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER 2 Independent Drive, Ste. 162, Downtown, 355-1101, jacksonvillemaritimeheritagecenter.org. The museum’s permanent collection includes steamboats, various nauticalthemed art, books, documents and artifacts. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jaxfrm.html. Local artist Helen Hoffman’s exhibit of oils, pastels and giclees is displayed through June 28. “The Boy

Scouts in America,” an exhibit of original manuscripts on the history of the Boy Scouts, is on display through Aug. 27. “The Great Depression,” an exhibit of original manuscripts on the Depression of the early 20th century, runs through Aug. 27. The permanent collection includes other rare manuscripts. LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. The permanent collection features relics from America’s Gilded Age, exhibited on three floors. MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Road, Mandarin, 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net. Exhibits regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Civil War vessel Maple Leaf are on display, as well as works by Mandarin artists. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville. com. “Traces: Recent Work by Lari Gibbons” runs through Aug. 18 at MOCA’s UNF Gallery of Art. “Inside/Out” – an exhibit of selected works from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, including Alexander Calder’s mobile “Red Triangles” and “Polygons” and Melanie Pullen’s “Full Prada” – is on display through Aug. 25. Sarah Emerson’s mural, based on her imaginary interpretation of Aokigahara, Japan’s suicide forest, concludes the second season of Project Atrium and is displayed through July 7. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. “Be the Dinosaur: Life in the Cretaceous” – an interactive summer exhibit using video-game technology – runs through Sept. 3. RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com. “Through Our Eyes” celebrates 20 years of African-American art with the exhibit “20/20 Perfect Vision,” featuring works of 20 artists, through June 30.

GALLERIES

ABSOLUTE AMERICANA ART GALLERY 77 Bridge St., St. Augustine, 824-5545, absoluteamericana.com. Romero Britto’s sculptures and limited-edition prints are featured. AMIRO ART & FOUND GALLERY 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460, amiroartandfound. com. Steve Lohman’s work is featured in “Twist and Shout: Steel and Wire Sculptures” with an opening reception held 5-9 p.m. June 7 during First Friday Art Walk. The exhibit is on display through June 28. THE ART CENTER PREMIERE GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org/premier.html. “Outside/In,” a collaborative juried exhibit of works by members of the Art Center and Art Guild of Orange Park, is on display through July 11. BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, Riverside, 855-1181. “Letterpress Poster Exhibition” is displayed through July 14. CLAY & CANVAS STUDIO

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CJ Katz (left) and Charlie Peterson perform in St. Augustine Ballet’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” presented for two shows June 15 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium. Photo: Julie Guintard 2642 Rosselle St., Ste. 6, Riverside, 501-766-1266. Works by Tiffany Whitfield Leach, Lily Kuonen and Rachel Evans may be viewed by appointment. CORSE GALLERY & ATELIER 4144 Herschel St., Riverside, 388-8205, corsegalleryatelier. com. Permanent works on display feature Kevin Beilfuss, Eileen Corse, Miro Sinovcic, Maggie Siner, Alice Williams and Luana Luconi Winner. ETHAN ALLEN DESIGN CENTER 4939 Big Island Dr., St. Johns Town Center, 292-1700. The Northeast Florida Sculptors’ juried exhibition “in situ” runs through June 7. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. The 11th annual Sea Turtle Show showcases artwork in clay, metal and glass, as well as jewelry and photographs by national, regional and local artists, through July 1. THE GALLERY AT HOUSE OF STEREO 8780 Perimeter Park Ct., Ste. 100, Southside, 642-6677, houseofstereo.com. The gallery features painting, art glass, photography, wood crafts, pottery and sculpture. GEORGIA NICK GALLERY 11A Aviles St., St. Augustine, 806-3348, georgianickgallery. com. The artist-owned studio displays Nick’s sea and landscape photography, along with local work by oil painters, a mosaic artist, potter, photographer and author. HASKELL GALLERY & DISPLAY CASES Jax International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546. Laird’s “Cphace Series” – infrared captures printed on archival metallic paper – are on display through June 30 in the Haskell Gallery. Hiromi Moneyhun’s t hree-dimensional paper-cut art is shown in connector display cases.

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PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. Works by Claire J. Kendrick (“Botanical Series” oil paintings), Mary L. Gibson, Thomas Brock and Tony Gill are shown through June 30. REDDI ARTS 1037 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-3161, reddiarts.com. The Members Show, an exhibit of paintings by local and regional pastel artists of the First Coast Pastel Society, runs through June 28. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Administration Building, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 808-7330, stjohnsculture.com. “Water Lines,” an exhibit of Dan Famiglietti’s works inspired by coastal waters, runs through July 2. SOUTH GALLERY Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-2023, fscj.edu/mydegree/ campuses/wilson-center/venues/gallery.php. “Book of Days,” an exhibit of Donald Martin’s works in drawing, book arts, sculpture, painting and prints inspired by European daily devotionals in the late Middle Ages, is displayed through June 20. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 6 E. Bay St., Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. Live music and Bustin Dance Salsa for First Wednesday Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. June 5. Works in painting, photography and other media by more than 30 local artists and photographers are featured. SPACE:EIGHT GALLERY 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838, spaceeight. com. “Dog Days,” an exhibit of works by artist and Emory University professor Sarah Emerson, is on display June 7-July 31.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org. “Ancient City Mosaic,” a juried exhibit of 450 pieces depicting impressions of St. Augustine, is featured at all six St. Johns County Public Libraries. The pieces will be strung together and hung in grid format, displayed June 15-Aug. 10 at St. Augustine Art Association. The permanent collection features 16th-century artifacts detailing Sir Francis Drake’s 1586 burning of St. Augustine. ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR CENTER 10 S. Castillo Dr., St. Augustine, 825-1000. “Picasso Art & Arena,” an exhibit showcasing 39 pieces of Pablo Picasso’s work from the Fundación Picasso Museo Casa Natal in Málaga, Spain, is on display through Aug. 11. TAPA THAT 820 Lomax St., Riverside, 383-5650,tapathat.com. Local Artists Coming Together presents an “Artful Evening Series” pop-up gallery show, 6-10 p.m. June 9. Featured artists include Dan Davis, Michelle Green, Rob Hardin, Tony Miller and Ashon Wynn with musical guests Keith and Allison Kimball. UNF GALLERY OF ART 1 UNF Drive, Bldg. 2, Ste. 1001, Southside, unf.edu/gallery. “Commute,” an exhibit of recent work by UNF graduate and realist painter Scott Bell, is on display through July 3; a reception is held 5-7 p.m. June 6. “Florida-Twenty Seven: Two Decades of Watching” – an exhibit of Florida photography by Bob Willis – is displayed through July 2. For a complete list of galleries, log on to folioweekly.com. To list your event, send info time, date, location (street address, city), admission price and contact number to print to David Johnson, 9456 Philips Hwy., Ste. 11, Jacksonville FL 32256 or email events@folioweekly.com. The deadline is 4 p.m. Monday, nine days before publication.

Happenings EVENTS

WINE ESSENTIALS A tasting of seven wines and a discussion about wines from the Loire River is held 6:30-9 p.m. June 5 at University of North Florida’s Herbert University Center, 12000 Alumni Drive, Southside, $69, 620-4200, bit.ly/18rFY2L. GET YOUR KICKS ON ‘ROUTE 66’ Flagler College and the city of St. Augustine screen a 1964 episode of the classic 1960s TV series, “This is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You” – which was filmed in St. Augustine and Flagler College’s Hotel Ponce de Leon – at 7 p.m. June 6 at Plaza de la Constitución, at Cathedral and King streets. Locals who were used as extras in the episode are being asked to come to the screening to be recognized. Admission is free. 819-6205. COSMIC CONCERTS Laser shows are Jimmy Buffett 7 p.m., Laser Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 8 p.m., Laser Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon 9 p.m. and Laser Pink Floyd: The Wall 10 p.m. June 7 in Bryan-Gooding Planetarium, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank. Online tickets are $5. Saturday cosmic concerts, held noon and 5 p.m., feature physical science, paleontology, history, entertainment, earth science and astronomy. 396-7062. moshplanetarium.org RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET It’s Kids Day, so Miss Marie’s Kids presents Disney Spectacular at 10:30 a.m., Dalton Cyr plays 11:45 a.m., Florida Conservatory of Music presents Subterranean and Brother Nature at 1:15 p.m., and kids from Ronin School of Music perform 2:45 p.m. June 8 at the market, 2623 Herschel St., Riverside. Local and regional art and a farmers market are also featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. Free. 389-2449 . riversideartsmarket.com STRIKE OUT VIOLENCE The charity bowling tournament is held noon-4 p.m. June 8 at King Pin Bowling Center, 5310 Lenox Ave., Westside. Tickets are $20 in advance, which covers two hours of unlimited bowling, raffle tickets, pizza and a soft drink. A grand raffle is featured. Proceeds benefit D.I.P. Foundation’s House of H.O.P.E. (Hearts of Peace & Edification). 394-0895. dipfoundation.org FREEDOM CONCERT To celebrate Fil-Am Independence Day, the Filipino-American band Sunchase Drive appears for a dinner show, 7 p.m.midnight June 8 at Maharlika Hall & Sports Grill, 14255 Beach Blvd., Southside. The Pulse band also performs. Tickets are $25, which includes a full course dinner. 699-0759. COMMUNITY FORUM A health/wellness restoration center for veterans at Marineland is discussed 5-7 p.m. June 9 at Whitney Lab Auditorium, 9505 Oceanshore Blvd., Marineland. Admission is free. 525-3042. 401-0153. vva1046.com, gratitudeamerica.org/marineland DEMENTIA DISCUSSION Dr. Amudha Perumal and Dr. Prita Madkaiker are the featured speakers 4-6 p.m. June 9 at Jax Bahai Center, 5034 Greenland Rd., Southside. A cross-table interactive discussion follows their lecture. 810-7626. motherscry.net HOT TOPICS LUNCHEON Nikolai P. Vitti, Superintendent of Duval County Public Schools, is he featured speaker 11:30 a.m. June 12 at University Club, 1301 Riverplace Blvd., Southbank. Admission is $25. 613-9480. FERNANDINA BEACH MARKETPLACE Fresh baked goods, organic vegetables and jellies, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat. at North Seventh Street, Fernandina Beach, 557-8229, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com AMELIA FARMERS MARKET Farm-direct fruits and vegetables 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat. at The Shops of Omni Amelia Island Plantation, 6800 First Coast Highway, Amelia Island, 491-4872, ameliafarmersmarket.com. ST. JOHNS RIVER FARMERS MARKET Local produce, arts and crafts 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every Sat. at Alpine Groves Park, 2060 S.R. 13, Switzerland. 347-8900. FARMERS MARKET OF SAN MARCO Fresh local and regional produce, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. every Sat. at 1620 Naldo Ave., Swaim Memorial United Methodist Church parking lot, San Marco. Family fun day is the third Sat. 607-9935. ANCIENT OAKS ARTS & FARMERS MARKET An open-air farmers market, held noon-4 p.m. every other Sun. at Mandarin Community Club, 12447 Mandarin Rd. 607-9935.

POLITICS, ACTIVISM, BUSINESS

GREAT DECISIONS The future of the euro is discussed, and a documentary is screened, 6:30 p.m. June 6 at Southeast Branch Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd., Southside. The featured speaker is Oliver Schnusenberg. 630-4655. JACKSONVILLE JOURNEY The oversight committee of this crime-fighting initiative meets at 4 p.m. June 20 in the Eighth Floor Conference Room 851, Ball Building, 214 N. Hogan St., Downtown. 630-7306. coj.net

BOOKS & WRITING

RUTHIE SHELTON Author Shelton (“Inside the Shelton Gang”) has a book signing 5-8 p.m. June 5 at Chamblin Bookmine, 215 N. Laura St., Downtown, 477-9416. SUSAN EUBANKS STEPP Local author Stepp signs copies of her book, “Honest Advice for Teachers,” 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Chamblin’s Uptown Café & Book Store, 215 Laura St., Downtown, during First Wednesday ArtWalk. 674-0868. LUNCH & LIT Turkish author Orhan Palmuk’s novel, “Snow,” is discussed noon June 7 at Conference Center Level, Room G-4, Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown. Bring a lunch. jaxpubliclibrary.org FIRST COAST ROMANCE WRITERS The workshop Vision Boarding with Michelle Dawn is held 10:15 a.m. June 8 at Argyle Branch Library, 7973 Old Middleburg Rd. S., Westside. 573-3164. firstcoastromancewriters.com MEET THE AUTHORS FWA Clay County Writers presents local authors Chris Hejmanowski, M.D., “Collider,” Ron P. Whittington, “Second Strike,” Kathleen Walls, “Finding Florida’s Phantoms,” at 6:30 p.m. June 11 at Black Horse Winery, 420 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park. 644-8480. wordspringconsulting.com WRITERS’ THEATER PARTNERSHIP The four-part program is held 6 p.m. June 11, July 9, Aug. 13 and Sept. 10 at Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Seagrove Main Street, St. Augustine. If you have an original work you’d like the Writers’ Theater to read aloud, contact Jennifer Latka at rogersandlatka@yahoo.com. 209-3730. WILL SCHWALBE Bestselling author Schwalbe reads and signs copies of his memoir, “The End of Your Life Book Club,” 7 p.m. June 14 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026 . LIBRARY SEEKS RESIDENT INPUT Residents interested in providing input on St. Johns County Library’s system’s long range planning, including desirable future services and programs, are encouraged to complete a brief survey available through Sept. 30 at sjcpls.org or in person at any library branch or bookmobile location. Participant feedback on such topics as facilities, outreach, technology and service will help staff maximize the library systems’ resources for the benefit of residents countywide. To learn more about services currently offered at your local library branch, go to sjcpls.org/content/branches.

COMEDY

COMEDY CLUB OF JACKSONVILLE Improv Effect is 7:15 p.m. June 6. Isaac Witty appears 8:04 p.m. June 6, 8:34 p.m. June 7 and 8:04 and 10:18 p.m. June 8 at the new club, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, Southside. Tickets range from $6-$25. Danny Johnson 6 p.m. June 8. 646-4277. jacksonvillecomedy.com MIKE LAWRENCE The former fast-food server appears 8 p.m. June 5-7, and 8 and 10 p.m. June 8 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Road (in Ramada Inn), Mandarin. Tickets are $10, $12 and $14. Comedy Showcase is 8 p.m. June 11-12. 292-4242. comedyzone.com THE GYPSY COMEDY CLUB Phill Perrier and Cliff Williams appear 8:30 p.m. June 8-9 at 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine. Tickets are $10 and $12. 461-8843. MAD COWFORD Mad Cowford Improv performs 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown. Admission is $5. 860-5451. THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE Brian Foley hosts various comedians 7-8 p.m. every Sun. at Three Layers Café, 1602 Walnut St., Springfield. 355-9791. SQUARE ONE STANDUP Moses West and Herman Nazworth host standup and spoken word 9 p.m. every Tue. at Square One, 1974 San Marco Blvd., San Marco. 306-9004.

NATURE, SPORTS, OUTDOORS

GUIDED TRAIL WALK A trail walk at River to Sea Preserve, 9 a.m. June 5 along a mile-and-half trail through coastal hammock to Matanzas River. Meet in the parking lot of River to Sea Preserve, A1A, south end of Marineland. Wear comfortable, closed toe shoes. RSVP at gtmnerrmarinelandtrail.eventbrite.com. 823-4500. JACKSONVILLE SUNS The Suns wrap up a homestand against the Mobile BayBears, 1:05 p.m. June 5 (Businessperson’s Special) and 7:05 p.m. June 6 (John Rocker appearance, Thursday Throwdown) at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Downtown. The Suns will (we hope) beat the Biscuits 7:05 p.m. June 13 (Thursday Throwdown), June 14 (Report Card Night, Mr. Belding), and 15 (Blood Drive, Mike Stanton Jersey Pen & Pencil Holder Giveaway). The Biscuits are still here, 3:05 p.m. June 16 (Catch on the Field with Dad, Kids Run

The Florida Surfing Association welcomes young surfers for the first event in Super Grom Surf Fest Series on the morning of June 8 at Jacksonville Beach Pier, given acceptable surfing conditions. The two other events are held July 6 and Aug. 3. the Bases) and 12:05 p.m. June 17 (Camp Day). Tickets are $7.50-$25.50. 358-2846. jaxsuns.com BEACHES FINE ARTS SERIES TRIATHLON The second triathlon is held 7 a.m. June 8 at Naval Station Mayport, featuring a quarter-mile swim, 16.8-mile bike race and 3.4-mile run. Proceeds benefit BFAS programs. The Kids Triathlon is held June 23 at Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach. Get ready for the July triathlon, which also features the Olympic distances – .93-mile swim, 25.2 mile bike, 6.2 mile run – for the hardcore athletes. 270-1771. bfasracing.org GOPHER TORTOISE To celebrate Great Outdoors Month, a park ranger discusses the noble reptile, 2 p.m. June 8 at Ribault Club, Ft. George Island Cultural State Park, 11241 Ft. George Road, Ft. George Island. No reservations are necessary and the program is free. 251-2320. floridastateparks.org/littletalbotisland SUPER GROM SURF FESTIVAL I The fifth annual Super Grom Series, for surf rats ages 10 and younger, kicks off 9 a.m. June 8 at Jax Beach Pier, 100 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach. It’s free to compete, free to watch. Entries are first-come, first-served. If you don’t get in on this one, don’t freak; two more Super Groms follow, July 6 and Aug. 3, to give everyone a chance. 626-9090. floridasurfing.org JAX ROLLERGIRLS The Jacksonville RollerGirls play a doubleheader 6 p.m. June 8 at University of North Florida’s Arena, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road S., Southside. New Jax City Rollers vs. Magic City Misfits and River City Rat Pack takes on Atlanta’s Sake Tuyas. Tickets are $11 in advance, $13 at the door; kids 10 and younger are free. jacksonvillerollergirls.com GTM RESEARCH RESERVE The Second Saturday Trail Hike is held 8:30-10:30 a.m. June 8; a 1.5-mile guided walk through Guana Trails. Meet at GTMRR’s Trailhead Pavilion west of Guana Dam. $3 per vehicle parking fee. RSVP at 823-4500. “More Than You Wanted to Know About …” is held 11 a.m. June 8 at GTM Research Reserve’s Environmental Education Center, 505 Guana River Rd., South Ponte Vedra. This month’s topic is pollinators and the environment. 823-4500. JACKSONVILLE UNITED FC PRO SOCCER The local National Premier Soccer League pro soccer team takes on the Cape Coral Hurricanes 8 p.m. June 15 at Patton Park, 2850 Hodges Blvd., Southside. Tickets start at $5; a season pass is $20 for adults; $10 for kids 5-10. jacksonvilleunited.com DINOTREK Exhibits are open at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, 370 Zoo Parkway. Lifelike animatronic “dinosaur” creatures are featured. Admission is $3 for members, $3.50 for nonmembers, plus Zoo admission. Open until 6 p.m. weekends and holidays through Labor Day. 757-4463. jacksonvillezoo.org

KIDS

SCOOBY-DOO LIVE! Scooby-Doo Live! Musical Mysteries is staged 2 p.m. June 9 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Art, 300 W. Water St., Downtown. 630-3900. jaxevents.com ADVENTURES IN THE ESTUARY SUMMER CAMP GTM Research Reserve offers this camp 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 10-14 at Environmental Education Center, 505 Guana River Road, Ponte Vedra. Kids ages 7-10 get a hands-on adventure in the estuary, conducting real estuarine science. To register, go to gtmnerrcamp.eventbrite.com. MUSIC CAMPS First Coast Community School offers music camps, including World of Music for kids ages 5-7, held 3-4 p.m. every Tue., June 11-July 30, at FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Bldg. N-102, Southside. Rock It Out guitar camp in grades 5-9 is held 9 a.m.-noon June 24-28; Intermediate Level Orchestra Camp and Piano Camp for kids in grades 5-9 are held 8 a.m.noon July 8-19; Intermediate Band Camp for kids in grades 6-9 is held 8 a.m.-noon July 22-Aug. 2; Beginning Piano Camp for kids in grades 2-6 is held 8 a.m.-noon July 22-Aug. 2 and All State High School Boot Camp for kids in grades 9-12 is held 1-4 p.m. July 22-Aug. 2. For fees and details, call 646-2004 or go to fccmusicschool.org.

JACKSONVILLE SUNS BASEBALL CAMP The camp is held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. July 11-12 for kids ages 7-12 at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Downtown. Camp fee of $90.95 includes lunch both days, a T-shirt, ball cap and ticket to a game. 358-2846. ICE SKATING CAMPS Kids of all skill levels learn to skate or work on ice-skating skills at Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex Skating Academy, 3605 Philips Highway, Southside. On and off ice skating instruction, age-appropriate activities, a lunch program, and extended care available. Campers receive a swag bag. Camp themes are Movie Madness June 3-9; ToonTown, June 10-14; Star Wars Celebration, June 17-21; Disney Magic, June 24-28; Motown Mania, July 15-19; Princess & Super Heroes, July 22-26; Divalicious, July 29-Aug. 2 and Music Explosion, Aug. 12-16. 399-3223. jaxiceandsportsplex.com STREET DANCE CLASS Kids’ street dance classes are offered 4:30-5:15 p.m. every Wed. at Dance Trance, 214 Orange St., Neptune Beach. 246-4600. dancetrancefitness.com KUMON ACADEMIC CAMP Kumon offers academic enrichment programs to help children move beyond grade levels. 2039 Park St., Riverside, 381-1200; 9978 Old Baymeadows Road, Ste. 2, Baymeadows, 642-9566; 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 18, Mandarin, 268-8861; 280 Solana Road, Ponte Vedra Beach, 285-7775; 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 27, Arlington, 744-2445. kumon.com

CLASSES & GROUPS

BLOGGING FOR BUSINESS & PLEASURE Sharon Y. Cobb offers this workshop 9 a.m.-5 p.m. June 8 at University of North Florida’s University Center, 12000 Alumni Drive, Southside. Admission is $99. 620-4200. learnjacksonville.com GENEALOGY CLASS Jacksonville Genealogical Society, Inc. offers this beginners’ class 10:15 a.m. June 8 and 22 at Bartram Trail Library, 60 Davis Pond Blvd., Fruit Cove. Free. Certificates of Completion are given to those who attend at least three of the four classes. Register by sending an email to education@jaxgen. org with your name, address, and phone number. NAACP MEETING The monthly membership meeting is held 7 p.m. on June 13 at 1725 Oakhurst Ave., Ste. 401, Jacksonville. 764-7578. jaxnaacp@comcast.net GEARS FOR YEARS Keep It Together Florida Inc. and St. Johns County present this program, which collects bicycles for kids in need. They need donations – children’s bikes, spare parts, tire tubes, chains seats, handle bar grips, bike locks and new helmets – and volunteers to help refurbish bikes and help at the June giveaway. gearsforyears.org OLD TIME JAM Mountain-type folk music is played 7 p.m. every Tue. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown. Open to players of all skill levels. Admission is free. facebook.com/ JacksonvilleOldTimeJam OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with compulsive overeating or food addiction? Overeaters Anonymous holds Newcomer meetings 6 p.m. every Wed. at Arlington Congressional Church, 431 University Blvd. N., Arlington and 6 p.m. every Mon. at Orange Park Presbyterian Church, 1905 Park Ave., Orange Park. 376-7303. oanfi.org To have events or club meetings listed, email time, date, location (street address, city), admission price and contact number to print to events@folioweekly.com or click the link in our Happenings section at folioweekly.com. Deadline is 4 p.m. Wed. for the next Wed. publication.

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The outer corncake of the homemade arepa is sturdy enough to support the butter, black beans and queso blanco tucked inside. Photos: Caron Streibich

So Much More Than Sweets

Fuel up on Venezuelan-inspired breakfast, lunch and dinner at this Riverside gem TRES LECHES 869 Stockton St., Riverside 551-4375, treslechesdesserts.com The ahi and orzo salad debuted on the third Saturday three-course brunch menu. Flown in from the West Coast, the ahi was fresh and flavorful.

A case displays quiches, sandwiches and other selections of the day.

Tres Leches opened at the corner of Stockton and Myra streets in historic Riverside eight months ago, after relocating from Springfield.

Oranges are hand-squeezed in-house for a flavorful cup of fresh orange juice.

The Mediterranean mousse, served with a stack of crisp crostini, is reminiscent of a flavorful, Greek-inspired five-layer dip. Simple yet delicious, this thin cookie was topped with creamy lemon mousse, freshly chopped mint and strawberry slices.

ow can you not love a restaurant that shares its name with a delicious dessert made from three different milks? Owners Eddie and Irene Sweda opened Tres Leches at the corner of Stockton and Myra streets in historic Riverside eight months ago, after relocating from Springfield. Selling more than just sweets, Tres Leches is open for breakfast, lunch and a light dinner. The Swedas’ passion for creating good food is contagious, and Irene Sweda’s tried-and-true Venezuelan recipes are made from scratch. One standout that I haven’t had anywhere else in Northeast Florida is the arepa: a round hand-held corn cake that encases your choice of fixings. I’ve found that butter, black beans and queso blanco make for a nice light breakfast or lunch. It’s a bit messy, but the outer corn cake proves sturdy enough to support the fillings. (Insider tip: You can order breakfast items like egg and cheese as fillings.) Wash it down with Tres Leches’ freshly made House Lime-n-ade that’s refreshing and not too sweet. The menu features pastries, quiches, artisan breads, sandwiches, cakes and homemade soups. I stumbled upon something on my last visit that’s worth sharing: On the third Saturday of each month, Tres Leches offers a $15 three-course brunch, with a choice of coffee, tea or fresh-squeezed orange juice (with complimentary refills). I tried the brunch recently and was impressed. First up was a spreadable Mediterranean mousse with a stack of crisp

Tres Leches offers a variety of quiches, including asparagus, leek and gruyere.

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crostini. The mousse reminded me of a Greekinspired, five-layer dip that had been blended together. The feta, olives, onion, cucumber, yellow squash, sun-dried tomatoes, peppers and spices fused perfectly. From the three entrée options, I chose the asparagus, leek and gruyere quiche, but I also snagged a few bites of the tuna and orzo salad. The tuna, flown in from the West Coast, was fresh and flavorful. Full from the first two courses, I was pleasantly surprised by the simplicity of the dessert: A trio of lemon mousse, chopped strawberries and fresh mint sat atop a thin, crisp cookie. Delicious! With seating inside for roughly 20 and a few seats outside, the restaurant plans to add more outdoor seating in the fall. Specializing in homemade sweets, Tres Leches has an expansive dessert case featuring tres leches cake, marquesa de chocolate, strawberry meringue cake, French macaroons and meringue cookies polvorosas (wedding cookies). You might want to grab something to take with you. Caron Streibich Folio Weekly Bite Club host biteclub@folioweekly.com

Tres Leches’ dessert case is always full of Chef Irena Sweda’s favorite creations. Go for the marquesa, a traditional Venezuelan cake made of thin layers of cookies.

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t the May 31 Jacksonville Humane Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shelter Stars, pups, walkers and the crowd were dressed to impress to help raise awareness for the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100,000 Challenge. Fifty shelters across the country are competing for the largest percentage increase in summer adoptions to win the money. Denise Deisler, JHS executive director, told the crowd that 10 years ago 35,000 dogs and cats made it into Jacksonville shelters, and less than half made it out alive. Last year, fewer than 20,000 animals entered shelters, and more than 75 percent were adopted, placed with foster homes or returned to owners. The goal of JHS and shelters across Jacksonville is to be the largest no-kill city in the nation. Last summer, JHS adopted out 1,101 animals. Its goal is to find homes for 2,013 cats and dogs in June, July and August of this year.

Text and photos by Katelyn Leboff

1. Mervin Denny, Linda Stein, Irene Lazzara, Diane Hiott, Betty Fenelon, Andrea Tulley, Denise Deisler Michelle Morrison, Nadia Gordon 2. Mary Lesperance 3. Bonita Juhl 4. Jenn Ruliffson, Megan Kelley 5. Goose 6. Grace and James Osborne 7. Rosalie Scarborough, Barbara Barrett 8. Sweet Pea

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Dining THE STEAKHOUSE AT GOLD CLUB 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500. F 2012 BOJ winner. Daily lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffet Thur. & Fri. $$$ L D Daily UNIVERSITY DINER 5959 Merrill Rd., 762-3433. Breakfast and lunch: meatloaf, burgers, sandwiches, wraps, BLTs, clubs, melts. Daily specials. $$ B L Daily

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

Jessica Castillo (left) offers pancit bam-i and Chloe Ysabelle Cezar (right) offers a beef lumpianitas platter and chicken and pork barbecue kabobs at Maharlika Hall & Sports Grille in Intracoastal West. Photo: Dennis Ho

DINING GUIDE KEY

Average Entrée Cost: $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up = Beer, Wine = Full Bar = Children’s Menu = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner *Bite Club Certified! = Restaurant hosted a free Folio Weekly Bite Club tasting. Join at fwbiteclub.com 2012 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE (Venues are in Fernandina Beach unless otherwise noted.)

29 SOUTH EATS 29 S. Third St., 277-7919. F In historic district, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional world cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITO’S 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505; 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240. Southwestern fare, made-to-order burritos, tacos, quesadillas, nachos. $ L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Upscale on the water in historic area. Southern hospitality; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ L D Daily BRIGHT MORNINGS 105 S. Third St., 491-1771. Small café behind Amelia SanJon Gallery. $$ B R L Thur.-Tue. CAFE KARIBO 27 N. Third St., 277-5269. F In a historic building, family-owned spot serves homemade veggie burgers, fresh seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Karibrew Pub. $$ L D Tue.-Sat.; L Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663. F European-style breads, pastries, croissants, muffins, pies; most breads without fat or sugar. $ B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 802 Ash St., 310-6049. Fine-dining place serves New York strip, ribeye, Dover sole, Chilean sea bass. $$$ D Nightly HALFTIME SPORTS BAR & GRILL Owner Jon Walker 320 S. Eighth St., 321-0303. Sports bar fare: onion rings, spring rolls, burgers, wraps and wings. $ L D Daily THE HAPPY TOMATO COURTYARD CAFE & BBQ 7 S. Third St., 321-0707. F Historic district spot has sandwiches, pulled pork, smoked turkey, ribs. $ L Mon.-Sat. JACK & DIANE’S 708 Centre St., 321-1444. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun home. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan and vegetarian selections. $$ B L D Daily KABUKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR 1147 Amelia Plaza, 277-8782. Certified Angus steaks and fresh seafood all MSG-free. Sushi bar, teppanyaki grill. $$ D Tue.-Sun. KELLEY’S COURTYARD CAFÉ 19 S. Third St., 432-8213. In historic district, family-owned-and-operated spot serves sandwiches, wraps, soups, vegetarian options and down-home favorites, like fried green tomatoes. $ L D Mon.-Sat. LULU’S AT THE THOMPSON HOUSE 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394. F Po’boys, seafood little plates served in a historic house. Fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations recommended. $$ R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat.

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MOON RIVER PIZZA 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400. F See Riverside. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Mon.-Sat. MURRAY’S GRILLE 463852 E. S.R. 200/A1A, Yulee, 261-2727. Seafood, pastas and barbecue; hand-cut steaks, grouper Elizabeth and homemade Key lime pie. $ L D Daily THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141. Snail of Approval winner; casual organic eatery and juice bar in Nassau Health Foods has all-natural, organic items, smoothies, veggie juices, coffees and herbal teas. $$ B L Mon.-Sat. PEPPER’S MEXICAN GRILL CANTINA 530 Centre St., 277-2011; 96096 Lofton Square Court, Yulee, 491-6955. F This casual, family-friendly restaurant features daily specials. $$ L D Daily PLAE 80 Amelia Village Circle, Amelia Island, 277-2132. Bite Club certified. In the Spa & Shops at Omni Amelia Island Plantation, the bistro style venue offers whole fried fish and duck breast, artistic décor. $$$ D Nightly SALT, THE GRILL 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, 491-6746. 2012 BOJ winner. Chef de Cuisine Richard Laughlin offers cuisine made with simple earth and sea elements in a coastal setting. $$$$ D Tue.-Sat. SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL 12 N. Front St., 277-3811. ICW view from second-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys and the original broiled cheese oysters. $$ L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652. F Oceanfront, Caribbean-style spot serves handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Kids’ beachfront area, open-air second floor and balcony. $$ L D Daily THE SURF RESTAURANT & BAR 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711. F Oceanview dining, inside or out on the deck. Steaks, fresh fish, nightly specials; Sunday lobster special. $$ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily TASTY’S FRESH BURGERS & FRIES 710 Centre St., 321-0409. F In historic district. Fresh meat, hand-cut fries, homemade sauces and soups and hand-spun shakes. $ L D Daily TIMOTI’S FRY SHAK 21 N. Third St., 310-6550. F Casual seafood place features fresh, local wild-caught shrimp, fish, oysters, blackboard specials. $ L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2012 BOJ winner. This spot in an old gas station is known for its blue plate specials. $ B L Mon.-Sat.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

AJ’S BAR & GRILL 10244 Atlantic Blvd., 805-9060. Burgers, wings. $$ L D Daily CLEOTA’S SOUTHERN AMERICAN CUISINE 2111 University Blvd. N., 800-2102. F Locally owned and operated. Southern fare in a family spot: fried green tomatoes, fried chicken, shrimp & grits, mac & cheese, gourmet desserts. $ L D Tue.-Sun. COTTEN’S BAR-B-QUE 2048 Rogero Rd., 743-1233. Fred Cotten Jr. has been making pit-cooked barbecue for 25+ years. $ L D Daily GRINDERS CAFE 10230 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 8 & 9, 725-2712. 20+ years of homestyle veggies, burgers, meatloaf, pork chops, seafood and desserts. $ B L Daily THE HOT DOG SPOT & MORE 2771 Monument Rd., Ste. 32, Regency, 646-0050. Sausages, all-beef hot dogs, wings, Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, all cooked to order. $ L Daily KABUTO JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR 10055 Atlantic Blvd., 724-8883. Steak, filet mignon, lobster, shrimp, sushi, teppanyaki, traditional dishes. $$$ L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 9541 Regency Square Blvd. S., 720-0551. See Southside. $$ L D Daily THE MUDVILLE GRILLE 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 1, 722-0008. Friendy family sports spot serves steaks, wings, burgers. $ L D Daily NERO’S CAFÉ 3607 University Blvd. N., 743-3141. F Traditional Italian-style fare, nightly dinner specials, veal, seafood, pasta, New York-style pizzas. $$ D Nightly RACK ’EM UP BILLIARDS 1825 University Blvd. N., 745-0335. Cigar and hookah lounge has a full kitchen. $ D Nightly

BAGEL LOVE 4114 Herschel St., 634-7253. F Bagels, sandwiches, subs, bakery items. $ B R L Daily BISCOTTIS 3556 St. Johns Ave., 387-2060. F 2012 BOJ winner. Innovative pizzas, dessert selection. $$$ B R L D Daily THE BLUE FISH RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR 3551 St. Johns Ave., 387-0700. F Fresh seafood, steaks, chops, small plates in a casual place. Gluten-free entrées, oyster bar. Reservations recommended. $$ R Sun.; L Mon.-Sat., D Nightly BRICK RESTAURANT 3585 St. Johns Ave., 387-0606. F Soups, sandwiches, burgers, lamb chops, seafood entrees, veggie burger, desserts. $$$ L D Daily THE CASBAH CAFE 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966. F 2012 BOJ winner. Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine on the patio or in hookah lounge. $$ L D Daily ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40, 388-4884. F Celebrating five years, the churrascaria features gauchos who carve the meat to your plate from serving tables. $$$ D Tue.-Sun. FLORIDA CREAMERY 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386. Premium ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes, Nathan’s hot dogs. Low-fat, sugar-free items. $ L D Daily THE FOX RESTAURANT 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare, homemade desserts. Breakfast all day; burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ L D Daily THE FRINGE EATERY 934 Edgewood Ave. S., 402-6446. Steampunk gallery and performance space serves soups, wraps, coffees and teas. $$ Tue.-Sun. GREEN MAN GOURMET 3543 St. Johns Ave., 384-0002. F Organic, natural products, spices, teas, salts. $ Daily MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2012 BOJ winner. Southern blues kitchen has pulled pork, Carolina barbecue, chicken-fried steak, Delta fried catfish, shrimp & grits. $$ B L D Daily ORSAY 3630 Park St., 381-0909. 2012 BOJ winner. French/ American bistro serves steak frites, mussels, Alsatian pork chops; local organic ingredients. $$$ R D Mon.-Sat. SAKE HOUSE #5 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 3620 St. Johns Ave., 388-5688. See Riverside. $$ L D Daily TERRA 4260 Herschel St., 388-9124. Comfy spot serves local, sustainable and world cuisine in a simple, creative style. Small plates include chorizo stuffed mushrooms, pork belly skewers; entrés include lamb chops, seared tuna and ribeye. Lunch menu features sandwiches. Craft beers. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. TOM & BETTY’S 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311. F 40+ years; the car-themed menu has sandwiches, burgers, pot roast. $ L D Tue.-Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F See Intracoastal. $ L D Daily ANCIENT CITY SUBS 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 207, 446-9988. F Owned-and-operated by Andy and Rhonna Rockwell, St. Augustine-themed shop serves gourmet subs toasted, pressed or cold. $ L D Mon.-Sat. BOWL OF PHO 9902 Old Baymeadows Rd., 646-4455. Fresh Thai, Vietnamese dishes, authentic ingredients; egg rolls, grilled pork, chicken, lotus root salad, fried rice. Boba. $$ L D Daily BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA 10920 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3, 519-8000. F Family-owned-and-operated Italian place serves calzones, stromboli, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs, desserts. $$ L D Daily DEERWOOD DELI & DINER 9934 Old Baymeadows Rd., 641-4877. F ’50s-style diner serves burgers, Reubens, shakes, Coke floats. $ B L Daily IZZY’S PIZZERIA & SPORTS BAR Owner Javier Roldan 8206 Philips Hwy., 731-9797. Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas, hot dogs and a variety of Italian dishes. $$ L D Daily THE FIFTH ELEMENT 9485 Baymeadows Rd., 448-8265. F Authentic Indian, South Indian and Indochinese fare, lunch buffet of lamb, goat, chicken dishes, tandoori, biryani items. $$ L D Daily GATORS DOCKSIDE 8650 Baymeadows Rd., 448-0500. Sports-themed family restaurant serves grilled wings, ribs, sandwiches. $$ L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777. F 2012 BOJ winner. Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curry and vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740; 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 2012 BOJ winner. They pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. $ B L D Daily LEMONGRASS 9846 Old Baymeadows Rd., 645-9911. F Thai cuisine; Chef Aphayasane’s creations include crispy whole fish with pineapple curry reduction, and The Amazing. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. MANDALOUN MEDITERRANEAN LEBANESE CUISINE 9862 Old Baymeadows Rd., 646-1881. F Bite Club certified. Owner Pierre Barakat offers authentic Lebanese cuisine, charcoal-grilled lamb kebab. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. MEDITERRANIA RESTAURANT 3877 Baymeadows Rd., 731-2898. Family-owned-and-operated Greek/Italian place. Fresh seafood, veal, lamb. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. F 2012 BOJ winner. Fresh, organic; vegetarian, vegan, raw food, gluten-free, sandwiches, deli, hot bar dishes, chopped salad bar, wraps, baked goods. Juice, smoothie & coffee bar. $ B L D Daily OMAHA STEAKHOUSE 9300 Baymeadows Rd., 739-6633. Bite Club certified. English tavern in Embassy Suites Hotel; center-cut beef, fresh seafood, sandwiches, signature 16-ounce bone-in ribeye. $$ L D Daily ORANGE TREE HOT DOGS 8380 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 4, 733-0588. 2012 BOJ winner. Hot dogs w/ slaw, chili, cheese, onion sauce, sauerkraut; pizzas. $ L D Mon.-Sat. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506. F Traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai, curries, seafood, noodles and soups. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 527-8649. F See San Marco. $$ L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. F 2012 BOJ winner. Sports bar fare; 20+ beers on tap. $ L D Daily STICKY FINGERS 8129 Point Meadows Way, 493-7427. F Memphis-style rib house smokes ribs, barbecue, rotisserie chicken over aged hickory wood. $$ L D Daily STONEWOOD GRILL TAVERN 3832 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 3, 739-7206. See Beaches. $$ L D Daily THREE F(X) ICE CREAM & WAFFLES 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 6, 928-9559. Ice cream made-to-order. Milk: whole, soy, almond; toppings; in taiyaki Asian waffles. $ B R L Daily TONY D’S NY PIZZA & RESTAURANT 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 322-7051. Authentic New York pizza, pasta. $ L D Daily

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

1ST OCEAN GRILLE 333 First St. N., 595-5965. F Modern American fare features seafood, steaks. $$$ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily A LA CARTE 331 First Ave. N., 241-2005. Authentic New England fare: Maine lobster rolls, Ipswich clams, crab cake sandwich, shrimp basket, clam chowdah. $$ L Thur.-Tue. AL’S PIZZA 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002. F See Intracoastal. $ L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. F Home of the original baked sub, hot or cold subs, fresh ingredients, for 25+ years; blue-ribbon iced tea. $ L D Daily BAGEL WORLD 2202 Third St. S., 246-9988. F 2012 BOJ winner. Cozy place has a breakfast special (eggs, ham and cheese), coffees and juices. $ B L Daily BEACH HUT CAFÉ 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. F 25+ years. Breakfast all day; hot plate specials. $ B R L Daily BEACHSIDE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT & MARKET 120 Third St. S., 444-8862. F Full fresh seafood market serves seafood baskets, fish tacos, daily fish specials and Philly cheesesteaks. Open-air upstairs deck. $$ L D Daily BLUE WATER ISLAND GRILL 205 First St. N., 249-0083. This casual spot features American fare with a Caribbean soul. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 1266 Third St. S., 249-8704; 1307 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 270-2666. F See San Marco. $ L D Daily BREEZY COFFEE SHOP CAFE 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211. F Casual spot has baked goods, espressos, coffees; vegan and gluten-free options. $ B R L Daily BUDDHA THAI BISTRO 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444. F The proprietors are from Thailand, every dish is made with fresh ingredients from tried-and-true recipes. $$ L D Daily BURRITO GALLERY EXPRESS 1333 Third St. N., 242-8226. F 2012 BOJ winner. See Downtown. $ L D Daily CAMPECHE BAY CANTINA 127 First Ave. N., 249-3322.F 2012 BOJ winner. Chili rellenos, tamales, fajitas, enchiladas, fish tacos, fried ice cream. $$ D Nightly CASA MARIA 2429 Third St. S., 372-9000. F See Springfield. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Daily CASA MARINA RESTAURANT 691 First St. N., 270-0025. Tapas, crab cakes, Kobe sliders, burgers, tacos. Penthouse Lounge, verandah, oceanfront courtyard. $$$ R Tue.-Fri.; D Nightly CINOTTI’S BAKERY, DELI & BOUTIQUE 1523 Penman Rd., 246-1728. Since 1964. Cakes, pies, breads, desserts, bagels, chicken salad, sandwiches. $ B R L Tue.-Sat. CRUISERS GRILL 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356. F 2012 BOJ winner. Locally owned & operated 15+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, award-winning cheddar fries. $ L D Daily

The Mustard Seed Cafe

Located inside Nassau Health Foods, The Mustard Seed is Amelia Island’s only organic eatery and juice bar, with an extensive, eclectic menu featuring vegetarian and vegan items. Daily specials include local seafood, free-range chicken and fresh organic produce. Salads, wraps, sandwiches and soups are available — all prepared with Paul Maley’s impeccable style. Popular items are chicken or veggie quesadillas, grilled mahi, or salmon over mixed greens and tuna melt with Swiss cheese and tomato. Open for breakfast and lunch, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon.-Sat. nassauhealthfoods.net

833 T.J. Courson Road 904-277-3141

Lulu’s at The Thompson House

Lulu’s owners Brian and Melanie Grimley offer an innovative lunch menu, including po’boys, salads and seafood “little plates” served in the gardens of the historic Thompson House. Dinner features fresh local seafood (Fernandina shrimp is the focus every Thursday), and nightly specials. An extensive wine list and beer are available. Open for lunch and dinner Tue.-Sat., brunch on Sun. Reservations are recommended.

11 S. Seventh Street 904-432-8394

PLAE Restaurant & Lounge

Located in the Spa & Shops at Amelia Island Plantation, PLAE serves bistro style cuisine. The full bar lounge at PLAE has become an instant classic, with artistic décor and live entertainment nightly. Now you can PLAE during the day, too! Open for lunch Tue.-Sat. 11:30 a.m.-2:30p.m. Open at 5:30 p.m. for dinner daily; reservations accepted.

80 Amelia Village Cir. 904-277-2132

Moon River Pizza

Moon River Pizza treats customers like family. Cooked in a brick oven, the pizza is custom-made by the slice (or, of course, by the pie). Set up like an Atlanta-style pizza joint, Moon River also offers an eclectic selection of wine and beers. Open for lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Dine in or take it with you.

925 S. 14th Street 904-321-3400

The Surf

Enjoy a casual beach atmosphere in the full-service restaurant, bar and huge oceanview deck. Extensive menu features delicious steaks, fresh seafood and nightly specials. Also featuring salads, wraps, burgers, seafood baskets and our famous all-youcan-eat wing specials (Wed. & Sun.). Take-out available. Open at 11 a.m. daily for lunch, dinner and late-night menu. Entertainment nightly and 29 TVs throughout.

3199 S. Fletcher Ave. 904-261-5711

Halftime Sports Bar and Grill

The place to be on the island for sports TV — NCAA, MLB, NFL and all your favorites. Starters feature pulled pork cheese fries and soon-to-be-famous wings. The roster includes our famous All-star fish tacos, an impressive Angus burger and Gourmet quarter-pound hot dog. Try out our draft beer lineup of the best domestic and craft selections. Stop by, hang out & click halftimeameliaisland.com.

Cafe Karibo

Homemade sandwiches, salads and soups are served in a relaxed atmosphere in this charming building in the historic district. Delicious fresh fish specials and theme nights (Pad Thai and curry), plus vegetarian dishes, are also featured. Karibrew Brew Pub & Grub — the only one on the island — offers on-site beers and great burgers and sandwiches.

27 N. Third Street 904-277-5269

The Salty Pelican

Overlooking the Sunset and the Intracoastal Waterway from our upstairs bar, The Salty Pelican offers oneof-a-kind views, an outdoor atmosphere, and features local, fresh seafood. This casual restaurant offers fish tacos, broiled oysters, oyster and shrimp po’ boys, meaty wings, and a delicious hamburger. Join us to watch all the games on our 14 TV’s, live entertainment on the weekends, or enjoy a draft beer — we have 17 on tap. Open 11 a.m. to midnight Mon.-Sat., Sun., open at 10 a.m. for Sunday Brunch.

12 N. Front Street 904-277-3811

Brett’s Waterway Café

Overlooking Fernandina Harbor Marina, Brett’s offers an upscale atmosphere with outstanding food. The extensive luncheon and dinner menus feature daily specials, fresh Florida seafood, chicken and aged beef. Cocktails, beer and wine. Casual resort wear. Open at 11:30 a.m. daily.

Fernandina Harbor Marina at the foot of Centre Street 904-261-2660

T-Ray’s Burger Station

T-Ray’s offers a variety of breakfast and lunch items. In addition to an outstanding breakfast menu, you’ll find some of the best burgers you’ve ever put in your mouth. The Burger Station offers a grilled portabello mushroom burger, grilled or fried chicken salad and much more. The spot where locals grab a bite and go! Now serving Beer & Wine. Open Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Closed Sundays.

202 S. Eighth Street 904-261-6310

Jack & Diane’s

The locals’ favorite hangout! Dine inside or on the patio of this cozy, renovated 1887 shotgun home in historic downtown Fernandina. From the crab & shrimp omelet to the steak & tomato pie, “The tastiest spot on Centre” offers food with attitude and unexpected flair. Live music elevates your dining experience to a new level. Come for breakfast, stay for dinner! You’ll love every bite!

708 Centre Street 904-321-1444

Sliders Seaside Grill

Oceanfront dining at its finest. Award-winning crab cakes, fresh daily seafood specials and homemade desserts. Sliders has Amelia Island’s only waterfront Tiki Bar, as well as a children’s playground and live music every weekend. The dining experience is complete with brand-new second-story banquet facilities, bar and verandah. Open at 11 a.m. daily, with happy hour from 4-7 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Make Sliders Seaside Grill your place to be for friends and family, entertainment and the best food on the East Coast. Call for your next special event.

1998 S. Fletcher Ave. 904-277-6652

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CULHANE’S IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595. Bite Club certified. Upscale Irish gastropub. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef. $$ R S/S; D Tue.-Sun. D&LP SUBS 1409 Third St. S., 247-4700. Subs, gourmet salads, wings, pizza, pasta. $ L D Daily DAVINCI’S PIZZA 469 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-2001. Family-owned-and-operated. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 2434 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 372-0298. NASCAR-themed place has 365 varieties of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs, salads. $ L D Daily DIRTY REDS 1451 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 372-9438. F This new spot serves casual Cajun/Creole/Southern fare: shrimp & grits, po’boys, smoked ribs & brisket, red beans & rice. Sides: mac-n-cheese, collards, corn maque choux, candied yams, smoked baked beans. $$ D Tue.-Sun. DWIGHT’S MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO 1527 Penman Rd., 241-4496. Hand-rolled pasta, grilled vegetables. Owner/ Chef Dwight DeLude uses an exhibition kitchen. Reservations suggested. $$$$ D Tue.-Sat. EL POTRO 1553 Third St. N., 241-6910. Everything’s fresh and made-to-order. Daily specials, buffet. $ L D Daily ELEVEN SOUTH 216 11th Ave. S., 241-1112. New American eclectic cuisine, a mesquite grill and courtyard dining. $$$ L Tue.-Fri.; D Daily ELLEN’S KITCHEN 1824 S. Third St., Pablo Plaza, 246-1572. F Since 1962. Breakfast all day; sandwiches. $ B L Daily ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337. F Gastropub fare: soups, flatbreads, specialty sandwiches. $ L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 922 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. Classic Reuben, sandwiches. $ L D Daily THE FISH COMPANY RESTAURANT 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, Atlantic Beach, 246-0123. F Bite Club certified. Oyster bar. Fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, oysters, crabs, lobster. Oyster Nights Tue. & Wed. $$ L D Daily THE HALF MOON RAW BAR 1289 Penman Rd., 372-0549. Oysters, shrimp, clams, crawfish, daily chef’s specials. And they open your oysters. $$ L D Sat. & Sun.; D Tue.-Fri. HOT DOG HUT 1439 Third St. S., 247-3641. F Dogs, burgers, sausages, beer-battered onion rings, fries. $ B L Daily ICHIBAN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE 675 Third St. N., 247-4688. F Three areas: teppan or hibachi tables, sushi bar; Western-style seating. Tempura, teriyaki. Plum wine. $$ D Nightly JOSEPH’S PIZZA & ITALIAN RESTAURANT 30 Ocean Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 270-1122. F Familyowned-and-operated. Pasta, gourmet pizzas, veal. $$ L D Daily LANDSHARK CAFE 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024. F Locally owned and operated. Fresh, right-off-the-boat local seafood, fish tacos, houseground burgers, wings, handcut fries and tater tots; daily specials. $$ L D Daily; R Sun. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR 200 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 249-2922. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, desserts. $$ B L D Daily KC CRAVE 1161 Beach Blvd., 595-5660. Chris Jones and Andy Viola offer American fusion: shareable fine fare expertly served in a polished-casual atmosphere. Buzzworthy bar, specialty drinks. $$ R Sun.; D Tue.-Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB 514 N. First St., 249-5181. F Corned beef & cabbage, shepherd’s pie, fish & chips. Beer & ale on tap. $$ L D Daily MARIO’S AT THE BEACH 1830 Third St. N., 246-0005. Family-friendly spot has New York-style pizzas, stromboli, pasta, , veal, shrimp, vegetarian dishes. $$$ L Mon.Sat.; D Nightly MARLIN MOON GRILLE 1183 Beach Blvd., 372-4438. F In the old TacoLu. Fresh crab cakes – owner Gary Beach’s from the Eastern Shore – and fresh-cut fries. $$ D Wed.-Mon. MAZA NEW AMERICAN CUISINE 7251 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-6292. All-American fare, as well as dishes of various ethnic cuisines, like lamb shanks, pork belly, sushi rolls, chicken tandoori, foie gras and homemade gyros. $$$ L D Mon.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600. F Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. Gourmet pizzas, hoagies. Mighty Meaty pizza to vegetarian Kosmic Karma. $ L D Daily METRO DINER 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F 2012 BOJ winner. The upscale diner serves breakfast, plus meatloaf, chicken pot pie and homemade soups. $$ R B L Daily MEZZA LUNA PIZZERIA RISTORANTE 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573. F Near-the-ocean eatery. 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. See Avondale. F 2012 BOJ winner. $$ B L D Daily MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070. F Burgers, sandwiches, seafood, wings. $ L D Daily M SHACK 299 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-2599. F Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. $$ L D Daily NORTH BEACH BISTRO 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, Atlantic Beach, 372-4105. Bite Club certified. Casual neighborhood eatery serves hand-cut steaks, fresh seafood, tapas menu. $$$ R Sun.; L D Daily

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PHO A NOODLE BAR 117 W. Adams St., 353-0320. Authentic Vietnamese and Thai dishes: egg rolls, potstickers. Pho bowls: standard, vegan, pho tom yum, sukiyaki, kelp noodle substitute. Boba, teas, coffee. $ L Mon.-Fri. D Wed.-Sat. THE SKYLINE DINING & CONFERENCE CENTER 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 4200, 791-9533, ext. 241. On Bank of America’s 42nd floor, this cafe offers a riverview. $$ L Mon.-Fri. TRELLISES RESTAURANT 225 E. Coastline Dr., Hyatt, 634-4540. American à la carte dining: original fresh seafood, regional dishes, buffet, breakfast. $$$ B L Daily ZODIAC GRILL 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283. F American and Mediterranean favorites in a casual spot; panini, vegetarian. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. $ L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

Ida Farah shows the Pita Stop special – grape leaves, kibbe, meat pie, spinach pie, tabouleh, hummus and tzatziki sauce – and assorted Mediterranean pastries at Farah’s Pita Stop Café on the Southside. A vegetarian version is available. Photo: Dennis Ho NORTH BEACH FISH CAMP 100 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-3474. Oceanview roof-top bar. Creative Southern fare, fresh seafood and bread pudding. $$ L Wed.-Sun.; D Nightly OCEAN 60 RESTAURANT, WINE BAR & MARTINI ROOM 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060. 2012 BOJ winner. Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, dinner specials, seasonal menu. $$ D Mon.-Sat. OLD FLORIDA FISH CAMP & SEAFOOD SHACK 2510 Second Ave. N., 334-8408. This new spot offers island waterfront dining featuring fresh local seafood. Dine inside or on the patio. Airboat & dolphin tours. $$ L D R Wed.-Sun. THE PIER CANTINA & SANDBAR 412 N. First St., 246-6454. Casual oceanfront place has a Mexican-influenced menu. Downstairs Sandbar. $$$ L D Daily POE’S TAVERN 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. F American gastropub. 50+ beers. Gourmet burgers, handcut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Center, Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. F 25+ years.Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. $$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 592 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 273-3113. F Casual, authentic New York-style pizzeria offers calzones, antipasto, parmigiana. By the slice or full pie. $$ L D Daily ROYAL PALM VILLAGE WINE & TAPAS 296 Royal Palms Dr., Atlantic Beach, 372-0052. F Locally owned and operated. 1,200+ fine wine, 200 bottled beers, 15 microbrewed drafts pair with tapas. $$ D Mon.-Sat. SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456. F 2012 BOJ winner. Signature tuna poke bowl, sushi, tacos, local fried shrimp, an open-air space. $$ L D Daily SEAFOOD KITCHEN 31 Royal Palms Dr., Atlantic Beach, 241-8470. 20+ years, no-frills atmosphere. Fresh local seafood. $ L D Daily SINGLETON’S SEAFOOD SHACK 4728 Ocean St., Mayport Village, 246-4442. F Casual spot by the Mayport ferry since the ’60s. Fried shrimp, blackened or grilled fish. Enclosed riverfront porch. $ L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE 218 First St., Beaches Town Center, Neptune Beach, 246-0881. F Beach-casual. Fresh fish, fish tacos, gumbo, Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ D Nightly SMASHBURGER 630 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 241-2666. Do-it-yourself burgers and chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, sides and fries. $ L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000. F 2012 BOJ winner. Sportsbar fare, 20+ beers on tap. $ L D Daily SOUP’S ON JACKSONVILLE 645 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 387-9394. BOJ winner. Soups, sandwiches, seafood, vegetarian/vegan items. $ L D Daily STONEWOOD GRILL TAVERN 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 285-2311. Classic American menu. $$ L D Daily SUN DELI 1011 S. Third St., 270-1040. F 2012 BOJ winner. Reubens, corned beef, salami, liverwurst. Radical Side (tuna salad, egg salad, cheese) or 9.0 (Philly steak, cheese, chopped bacon, pepperoni, blackened seasoning). $ L D Mon.-Sat. TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-8226. F 2012 BOJ winner. In the old Homestead, Baja-style. Mexican fare: fish tacos, Bangin Shrimp, verde chicken tacos and fried cheese that isn’t fried. $$ R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri. 3RD STREET DINER 223 Ninth Ave. S., 270-0080. F Greek/American fare served Yankee style for 11+ years. A variety of quality, homestyle dishes: gyros, ribs, lamb, liver & onions. $ B L D Daily TOMO JAPANESE RESTAURANT 1253 Penman Rd.,

372-4369. F Fresh, authentic, upscale, Japanese-owned. Handmade sushi, hibachi grill items, homemade-style dishes. $ D Nightly WIPEOUTS GRILL 1585 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508. F Casual, beachy sports spot serves burgers, wings, fish tacos. $ L D Daily ZETA 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727. New place features tapas and sharing plates, flats, salads, sandwiches, burgers. Latenight upscale urban fusion. $$ L Sat. & Sun.; D Tue.-Sun.

DOWNTOWN

(Jacksonville Landing venues are at 2 Independent Drive)

BENNY’S SANDWICH SHOP 121 W. Forsyth St., 634-1525. For 27 years, Benny’s – in an old bank vault – has made everything from scratch. Favorites: taco salad, creamy potato soup. $ B L Mon.-Fri. BENNY’S STEAK & SEAFOOD Ste. 175, Jacksonville Landing, 301-1014. Continental cuisine. Signature dish: Filet Christian. $$$ L D Daily BIG PETE’S OLD STYLE PIZZERIA 118 N. Julia St., 356-2680. All from scratch: pizza, calzones, baked ziti, wraps. Barbecue. $$ L D Mon.-Fri. BRAZILIAN CORNER 100 E. Forsyth St., 633-9028. Authentic fare: churrasco misto (steak & sausage), muqueca de peixe (fish in coconut milk), plus burgers, subs, paninis, sandwiches. Brazilian coffee. $ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BURRITO GALLERY & BAR 21 E. Adams St., 598-2922. F 2012 BOJ winner. Southwestern cuisine. Burritos: ginger teriyaki tofu and blackened mahi. $ L D Mon.-Sat. CAFÉ NOLA 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911. Museum of Contemporary Art. Shrimp & grits, gourmet sandwiches, fresh fish tacos, desserts. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Thur. & ArtWalk CASA DORA 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Owner/chef Sam Hamidi has served Italian fare for 35+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. CHOMP CHOMP 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F This spot has eats at moderate prices – most under $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi, barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. CURRENTS LOUNGE 225 E. Coastline Dr., Hyatt Regency, 634-4043. Apps, café fare, desserts. $$ B L D Daily DE REAL TING CAFÉ 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738. F Caribbean place features jerk or curried chicken, conch fritters, curried goat and oxtail. $ L Tue.-Fri.; D Fri. & Sat. EINSTEIN BROS. BAGELS 225 E. Coastline Dr., 634-4579. See Arlington. $ B L Daily FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB/RESTAURANT Ste. 176, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1547. 2012 BOJ winner. Casual fare in an uptown Irish atmosphere: fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ L D Daily INDOCHINE 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303. 2012 BOJ winner. Thai and Southeast Asian cuisine; signature dishes are chicken Satay, soft shell crab, sticky rice. $$ L D Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE 830 N. Pearl St., 353-6388. For 56+ years, family-owned Jenkins Barbecue has served down-home barbecue. Drive-thru. $ L D Daily KOJA SUSHI Jacksonville Landing, 350-9911. F 2012 BOJ winner. Sushi, sashimi; Japanese, Asian and Korean cuisine; hard-to-find items like baby octopus salad. $$ L D Daily LE SHEA’S HOMESTYLE EATERY 119 W. Adams St., 3545685. Southern and soul food: meat loaf, fried chicken, burgers, spaghetti, sides. $ L Mon.-Fri. NORTHSTAR PIZZA BAR & SUBSTATION 119 E. Bay, 8605451. Brick-oven-baked pizza, grinders, wings, cheesesteaks, sandwiches. 27 beers on tap. $ L D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100. F Made-fromscratch soups, sandwiches; they cure their own bacon and pickle their own pickles. $$ B R L Mon.-Fri.

BRICK OVEN PIZZERIA & GASTROPUB 1811 Town Center Blvd., 278-1770. F The brand-new family-owned-andoperated spot offers freshly made New York and Chicagostyle pizzas, specialty burgers, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, craft beers. $$ L D Daily KANKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE/SUSHI BAR 2009 East-West Pkwy., 269-3003. Teppanyaki tables, sushi tables, sushi bar. Steaks and seafood. $$ D Nightly MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Daily MERCURY MOON GRILL BAR 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999. F Wings, signature sandwiches, Philly cheesesteak, fried fish sandwich, half-pound Moon burger. $ D Nightly MOJO SMOKEHOUSE 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F See Avondale. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ B L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL 1605 C.R. 220, 278-9421. F Burgers, sandwiches and entrees. $$ L D Daily WHITEY’S FISH CAMP 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198. F Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. $ L D Tue.-Sun.; D Mon. YOUR PIE 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771. F Owner Mike Sims’ concept: Choose from three doughs, nine sauces, seven cheeses and 40+ toppings and make your own pizza pie. $$ L D Daily

INTRACOASTAL WEST

ABE’S PIZZA GRILL 12192 Beach Blvd., 425-3983. Italian dishes, lasagna, parmigiana, pizza, subs, pasta, wings. $$ L D Daily AL’S PIZZA 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F Celebrating 20+ years and seven locations, Al’s offers a selection of New York-style and gourmet pizzas, salads. $ L D Daily AROY THAI FUSION 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 374-0161. Authentic Thai cuisine, pad Thai, Thai fried rice and traditional curry dishes. $$ L D Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly BITTER SWEET BAKERY & EATERY 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 223-0457. Desserts, sandwiches, breakfast to-go. $$ B L Tue.-Sun. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 3303 San Pablo Rd. S., 223-1391. F See San Marco. $ L D Daily BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 36, 223-6913. F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas, desserts, family spot. $ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly CASTILLO DE MEXICO 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 19, 998-7006. F An extensive menu served in authentic Mexican décor. Weekday lunch buffet. $$ L D Daily CLIFF’S ROCKIN BAR-N-GRILL 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162. F Burgers, wings, seafood, pizza, daily specials, handcut 12-ounce New York strip. $$ L D daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. See Beaches. $ L D Daily EL RANCHITO 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 22, 992-4607. F Authentic – really – Latin American cuisine: dishes from Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. $$ L D Daily EPIK BURGER 12740 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 105, 374-7326. Burgers made from grass-fed beef, ahi tuna, all-natural chicken and vegan are created with innovative recipes; gluten-free options. $ L D Mon.-Sat. FIRST WATCH 13470 Beach Blvd., 223-0909. French toast, eggs, pancakes, crepes, waffles, sandwiches. $ B L Daily FUJI SUSHI 13740 Beach Blvd., 992-8998. Fuji Sushi offers dine-in and take-out Japanese fare. $ L D Daily iPHO 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 330-0309. New, familyowned spot has curry dishes, noodle bowls, rare beef salad. Everything’s homemade-style. $ L D Tue.-Thur. JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 22, 220-6766. F Hand-cut steaks, wings, burgers. $ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily MAHARLIKA HALL & SPORTS GRILL 14255 Beach Blvd., Ste. E, 699-0759. This Filipino-American restaurant and market features popular items like pancit bami, lumpia, turon strudle and halo halo with ice cream. $-$$ R L D Daily

Dining GRILL ME!

A WEEKLY Q&A WITH PEOPLE IN THE FOOD BIZ

NAME: Oktay Kinoglu RESTAURANT: Anatolia Grill & Bar, 9825 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin BIRTHPLACE: Turkey YEARS IN THE BIZ: 13 FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Al’s Pizza FAVORITE COOKING STYLE: Italian, Mediterranean FAVORITE INGREDIENTS: Eggplant and basil IDEAL MEAL: Lamb shank with grilled eggplant. INSIDER’S SECRET: The secret to any good meal is a good marinade. CELEBRITY SIGHTING AT MY RESTAURANT: Ulkü Adatepe, the daughter of Turkey’s first president. CULINARY GUILTY PLEASURE: Baklava

MAMA MIA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA 12220 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1122. Lunch specials. Veal, seafood, New York-style and Sicilian-style pizzas. $ L D Tue.-Sun. MAMBOS CUBAN CAFE & PIZZERIA 13770 Beach Blvd., Ste. 9, 374-2046. 2012 BOJ winner. Authentic ropa vieja, bistec, pollo, picadillo, lechon asada. $$ R L D daily MARKER 32 14549 Beach Blvd., 223-1534. ICW view. American eclectic: fresh, local seafood, shrimp & Andouille fettuccini, broiled oysters, yellow fin tuna poke. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. MILANO’S RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA 12620 Beach Blvd., Ste. 21, 646-9119. Casual, family-owned. Homestyle Italian fare, New York-style pizzas, veal, baked dishes. $$ L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 3238 Hodges Blvd., 821-5687. See Southside. $$ L D Daily MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE 12777 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 5, 221-1090. F Wings, burgers in a sporty atmosphere. $ L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT 13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1A, Intracoastal, 821-9880. See St. Johns Town Center. Daily. PEPPER’S MEXICAN GRILL CANTINA 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 1, 221-2300. F Casual, family-friendly place features daily specials. $$ L D Daily SALSAS MEXICAN RESTAURANT 13500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 46, 992-8402. F Authentic, fresh Mexican fare made from scratch. Daily specials. $$$ L D Daily SHANE’S RIB SHACK 13546 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 992-0130. Burgers, pork, ribs, chicken tenders, wings, beans, fried okra, corn, collards, Brunswick stew. $$ L D Daily SIENA’S AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE 13170 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 26, 220-9192. Italian cuisine: lasagna, calzones, stuffed shells, pizza and wraps. $$ L D Daily TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, specialty wraps. $$ L D Tue.-Sun.; D Sun. & Mon. VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd., 647-6575. See Julington. $ L D Daily XTREME WINGS 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 108, 220-9464. F Family sports grill has wings, burgers, sandwiches and wraps. $ L D Daily

JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS

BENITO’S ITALIAN CAFE & PIZZERIA 155 Hampton Pt. Dr., 230-8292. Family spot. Authentic Italian cuisine, veal, seafood entrées, pasta, specialty pizzas. $$ L D Daily BLACKSTONE GRILLE 112 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 102, 287-0766. Modern American fusion cuisine, served in a bistro-style setting. $$$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 100 Bartram Oaks Walk, Fruit Cove, 287-7710. See San Marco. $ L D Daily BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS 540 S.R. 13, Ste. 10, Fruit Cove, 287-8317. F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas and desserts in a family atmosphere. $ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly CLARK’S FISH CAMP 12903 Hood Landing Rd., 268-3474. F Gator, turtle, steak, ribs and daily all-you can-eat catfish dinners. Dine indoors, outdoors, or in a glass-enclosed room. $$ L D Daily JENK’S PIZZA 2245 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 112, 826-1555. Familyowned-and-operated. Subs, New York-style pizzas, calzones, Italian dishes. $ L D Daily THE NEW ORLEANS CAFÉ 12760 San Jose Blvd., Julington Creek, 880-5155. Creole-style cafe. French bread po’boys, muffalattas. On Julington Creek. $ L D Tue.-Sun. PIZZA PALACE 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F See San Marco. $$ L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554. F 50+ premium domestic, import beers on tap. Starters, burgers, sandwiches, entrees. $$ L D Daily VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 605 S.R. 13, Ste. 103, 230-6966. F Hand-tossed New York- and Sicilian-style pizzas. Baked

dishes, subs, stromboli, wings, wraps. $ L D Daily WAKAME JAPANESE & THAI CUISINE 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 108, 230-6688. F Fine dining; authentic cuisine, full sushi menu, curries, pad dishes. $ L D Daily

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F See Intracoastal. $ L D Daily ANATOLIA GRILL & BAR 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 329-1336. F The Turkish restaurant serves authentic Italian/Mediterranean cuisine, like flatbreads, calzones, pasta, shishkabobs, seafood, wraps, salads. Specialties: Musakka, falafel, lamb shank. $$ L D Daily ATHENS CAFÉ 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), favorites, Greek beers. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. AW SHUCKS 9743 Old St. Augustine Rd., 240-0368. F Seafood place has an oyster bar, steaks, seafood, wings, pasta. Favorites: ahi tuna, shrimp & grits, oysters Rockefeller, pitas, kabobs. $$ L D Daily THE BLUE CRAB CRABHOUSE 3057 Julington Creek Rd., 260-2722. F Fresh Maryland-style steamed blue crabs, crab legs, steamed or fried oysters. Covered deck; daily specials. $$ L D Tue.-Sat. BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 12620 Bartram Park Blvd., 652-2989; 9820 San Jose Blvd., 268-2666. F See San Marco. $ L D Daily BRAZILIAN JAX CAFE 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 20, 880-3313. F Authentic dishes: steaks, sausages, chicken, fish, burgers, hot sandwiches. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 2889211; 13820 St. Augustine Rd., Bartram Park, 880-0020. F Brooklyn Special is a favorite; calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $ L D Daily DON JUAN’S RESTAURANT 12373 San Jose Blvd., 268-8722. F Friendly, family-oriented service, with a touch of Old Mexico. $ L D Daily ENZA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin Landing, 268-4458. Family-owned place offers casual fine dining, Italian cuisine, veal, seafood. Daily specials. $$$ D Tue.-Sun. GIGI’S RESTAURANT 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300. In the Ramada; prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri. and Sat., blue-jean brunch on Sun., daily breakfast buffet, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ B R L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040. F American steakhouse features a 9-ounce choice Angus center-cut filet with gorgonzola shiitake mushroom cream sauce, 8-ounce burgers, ribs, wraps, sandwiches. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. KANKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE/SUSHI BAR 11154 San Jose Blvd., 292-2400. Teppanyaki and sushi tables, sushi bar, steaks and seafood. $$ D Nightly KOBE JAPANESE RESTAURANT 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 8, 288-7999. Fusion-style sushi place has oyster shooters, kobe beef shabu-shabu, Chilean sea bass. Sake. $$ L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F See San Marco. BOJ winner. $$ L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily MAMA FU’S ASIAN HOUSE 11105 San Jose Blvd., 260-1727. MSG-free pan-Asian cuisine made to order in woks using fresh ingredients. Authentic Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai dishes. $$ L D Daily METRO DINER 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2012 BOJ winner. In a historic 1930s building, the upscale diner serves meatloaf, chicken pot pie, homemade soups. $$ R B L Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 11112 San Jose Blvd.,

Ste. 19, 292-0003. See Southside. $$ L D Daily MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN 10503 San Jose Blvd., 2601349. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950. F 2012 BOJ winner. Fresh, organic ingredients in vegetarian, vegan, raw food and gluten-free options, gourmet artisan sandwiches, deli and hot bar dishes, chopped salad bar, gluten-free baked goods. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. $ L D Mon.-Sat. PICASSO’S PIZZERIA 10503 Blvd., 880-0811. F Handtossed gourmet pizza, calzones, New York-style cheesecake, pasta. Fresh local seafood, steaks. $$ L D Daily RACK EM UP BILLIARDS 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., Ste. 205, 262-4030. This cigar and hookah lounge has a full kitchen, subs. 200+ imported, domestic beers. $ D Nightly THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773. F Casual, family-friendly eatery serves pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, pasta dishes. $$$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 11111 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 292-2300. F See Beaches. $$ L D Daily SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 12485 San Jose Blvd., 288-7928. F See Riverside. $ L D Daily TANK’S FAMILY BAR-B-Q 11701 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 23, 351-8265. F Owned and operated by the Tankersleys. Made-from-scratch Southern-style fare. $$ B L D Tue.-Sat. TIJUANA FLATS 13820 Old St. Augustine Rd., 262-0484. See Baymeadows. $ L D Daily VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 4268 Oldfield Crossing Dr., 268-6660. F See Julington. $ L D Daily WHOLE FOODS MARKET 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 22, 288-1100. F Prepared-food department offers 80+ items; full-service and self-service hot bar, salad bar, soup bar, dessert bar; pizza, sushi and sandwich stations. $$ L D Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 9825 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 46, 262-3955. F See Orange Park. $ L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG (Venues are in Orange Park unless otherwise noted.)

ARON’S PIZZA 650 Park Ave., 269-1007. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti and New York-style pizza. $$ L D Daily BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 1765 Town Center Blvd., Eagle Harbor, 269-8870. See San Marco. $ L D Daily BUFFALO WILD WINGS GRILL BAR 1940 Wells Rd., 215-4969. F Buffalo-style wings, 14 sauces (mild to better-be-ready blazin’), wraps, burgers, ribs. $$ L D Daily CAMICAKES 1910 Wells Rd., 541-1099. Gourmet cupcakes: sweet potato, red velvet, mint chocolate and The Elvis, banana, peanut butter, chocolate frosting. $$ Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily GATORS DOCKSIDE 9680 Argyle Forest Blvd., 425-6466. F Sports-themed family restaurant has grilled wings, ribs, sandwiches. $$ L D Daily THE HILLTOP 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup. Homemade desserts. $$$ D Tue.-Sat. HOOTERS 1749 Wells Rd., 215-5858. F Wings, steamed shrimp, oysters, burgers, seafood, sandwiches. $$ L D Daily HURRICANE GRILL WINGS 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 1, 644-7315. See Avondale. $ L D Daily JERSEY MIKE’S SUBS 410 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 9, 272-0037. Wraps, subs, sandwiches. $ L D Daily JOEY MOZZARELLA’S 930 Blanding Blvd., Ste. D, 579-4748. F Calzones, stromboli and lasagna are customer favorites; pizza pies available stuffed. BYOB. $$ L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 9734 Crosshill Blvd., Argyle, 908-4250; 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776; 1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100, 215-2223. See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370; 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827; 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553; 1404 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 1756 Wells Rd., Ste. A, 278-4600. See Southside. $$ L D Daily NIRVANA CAFÉ 1910 Wells Rd., 278-5880. F Sandwiches, homemade-style paninis, European specialties and freshsqueezed juices. $$ B L D Daily PASTA MARKET & CLAM BAR 1930 Kingsley Ave., 276-9551. Family-owned-and-operated place has gourmet pizzas, veal, chicken, mussels, shrimp, grouper. Pastas: spaghetti, fettuccine, lasagna, ziti, calzone, linguini, ravioli. $$ D Nightly POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116. Family-owned-and-operated; pizzas made in coal-fired ovens. Espresso, cappuccino. $$ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 6001 Argyle Forest Blvd., Ste. 16, 771-7677. F See Beaches. $$ L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611. F Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas. 75+ import beers. $ L D Daily

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SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 1976 Kingsley Ave., 272-4606. F See Riverside. $ L D Daily SWEET TOMATOES 1625 Wells Rd., 269-6116. Salad bar has four tossed salads, vegetables and deli items, pasta salads, dressings, soups, pizza and desserts. $ L D Daily TEXAS ROADHOUSE 550 Blanding Blvd., 213-1000. F Steaks, ribs, seafood and chops. Daily specials. $ L D Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 950 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 1, 272-1419. F Barbecue plates, barbecue salads and pulled pork sandwiches. All-you-can-eat specials. $ L D Daily

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619 OCEAN VIEW 619 Ponte Vedra Blvd., 285-6198. Fresh seafood, steaks, nightly specials. $$$ D Wed.-Sun. AL’S PIZZA 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F See Intracoastal. $ L D Daily AQUA GRILL 950 Sawgrass Village Dr., 285-3017. Fresh local seafood, aged prime steaks, vegetarian entrées. Climatecontrolled lakefront patio seating. $$$ L D Daily THE AUGUSTINE GRILLE 1000 PGA Tour Blvd., 285-7777. Bite Club certified. Steaks, New York strip, lamb, lobster Napoleon, Hawaiian tuna. $$$ D Nightly BOGEY GRILLE 150 Valley Circle, Ponte Vedra, 285-5524. Wings, quesadillas, chicken, burgers. $$ L D Daily BRUCCI’S PIZZA, PASTA, PANINIS 880 A1A, Ste. 8, 280-7677. F Authentic New York-style pizza, Italian pastas and desserts. $ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly CAFFE ANDIAMO 500 Sawgrass Village Dr., 280-2299. Fresh seafood, veal, steak and pizza made in a copper woodburning oven; daily specials. $$ L D Daily FOX’S PIZZA DEN 4360 Palm Valley Rd., 285-1292. F Familyowned-and-operated. The Wedgie sandwich on a pizza crust, and sandwiches, pizzas, stromboli. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. JJ’S LIBERTY BISTRO 330 A1A N., Ste. 209, 273-7980. Authentic French cuisine. The scratch kitchen has fresh soups, stocks, sauces and pastries. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily LULU’S WATERFRONT GRILLE 301 N. Roscoe Blvd., Palm Valley, 285-0139. F On the ICW, get there by land or water. Fresh seafood, hand-cut steaks, burgers. Screened waterfront porch. $$ L D daily MULLIGAN’S PUB 43 PGA Tour Blvd., 285-1506. F At Hilton Garden Inn. Favorites and Irish dishes. $$ D Nightly NINETEEN AT TPC SAWGRASS 110 Championship Way, 273-3235. American, Continental fare, local seafood. $$$ L D Daily PALM VALLEY FISH CAMP 229 N. Roscoe Blvd., Palm Valley, 285-3200. F The Groshells serve dishes made with fresh ingredients; daily specials. $$$ L D Tue.-Sun. PUSSERS BAR & GRILLE 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766. Bite Club certified. Caribbean cuisine and regional favorites: Jamaican grilled pork ribs, Trinidad smoked duck, lobster macaroni & cheese dinner. $$ L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE 818 A1A N., 543-3797. Chef David Medure creates dishes and small plates. $$$ D Mon.-Sat. RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 814 A1A N., Ste. 103, 285-0014. BOJ winner. Midwestern custom-aged U.S. prime beef, fresh seafood, live Maine lobster. Reservations,. $$$$ D Nightly SAUCY TACO 450 S.R. 13, Ste. 113, 287-7226, St. Johns. F The new casual spot offers a variety of tacos, including fried chicken, Irish and All-American, plus all the usuals. Tortas, Mexican pizza, salads, 40 draft beers. $$ L D Daily SUN DOG BREWING CO. 822 A1A N., Ste. 105, 686-1852. F Lobster dip, turkey-bacon-n-brie sandwich, chargrilled meatloaf sandwich. $$-$$$ R Sun.; L D Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515. Upscale, casual restaurant offers appetizers, entrées. $$$ L D Daily WOK N ROLL 3791 Palm Valley Rd., Ste. 203, 543-7666. Authentic Chinese cuisine. $ L D Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 226 Solana Rd., Ste. 1, 280-1110. F See Orange Park. $ L D Daily

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE (Venues are in Riverside unless otherwise noted.)

13 GYPSIES 887 Stockton St., 389-0330. 2012 BOJ winner. Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes: tapas, blackened octopus, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ L D Tue.-Sat. AL’S PIZZA 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, Five Points, 388-8384. F See Intracoastal. $ L D Daily BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT 1534 Oak St., 355-3793. American favorites with a Southern twist, locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ R Sat. & Sun.; L Daily; D Mon.-Sat. BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS 869 Stockton Street, Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. F 2012 BOJ winner. Bold Bean features organic and fair trade coffees. $ B L Daily BONO’S BAR-B-Q 5229 Jammes Rd., 772-0050; 705 S. Lane Ave., 783-1404. F See San Marco. CARMINE’S PIE HOUSE 2677 Forbes St., 387-1400. F Pizza by the slice, classic Italian dishes – calzone, stromboli, subs, panini. Craft beers, microbrews. $$ B L D Daily COOL MOOSE CAFE & BISTRO 2708 Park St., 381-4242. F New England-style café. Full breakfast, classic sandwiches, wraps and soups. Gourmet coffee. $$ R L D Tue.-Sun. COZY TEA CAFE 1023 Park St., 5 Points, 329-3964. Afternoon

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tea: scones, soups, teas. Indian nights Fri., Sat. $ L Mon.-Sat. CRAZY EGG 954 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 524-8711. Burgers, sandwiches, steaks, prime rib, pork chops, shrimp & grits, specials; of fresh, local, organic ingredients. $ B L D Wed.-Fri.; B L Sat.-Tue. DERBY ON PARK 1068 Park St., 379-3343. Michael Williams and Zack Nettles offer burgers, sandwiches, steaks, fish & chips, meatloaf. $$-$$$ L D Tue.-Sun., R Sat. & Sun. DICK’S WINGS 5972 San Juan Ave., Westside, 693-9258. See Beaches. $ L D Daily DOMO CREPES ETC. 813 Lomax St., 619-2540. Cappuccino, crepes, soups and flatbreads. $$ B L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET Deli Supervisor Nicole Gurgiolo 2007 Park St., 384-4474. F The juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. Artisanal cheeses, craft and imported beers, organic wines, organic produce, meats, vitamins and herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches, and raw, vegan items. $ B L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 2753 Park St., 384-9999. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily GATORS BBQ 8083 Baymar St., Westside, 683-4941. F Award-winning barbecue pork, chicken, ribs, turkey and sausage. $ L D Mon.-Sat. GATORS DOCKSIDE 6677 103rd St., Westside, 777-6135. F Sports-themed family place serves grilled wings, ribs, sandwiches. $$ L D Daily HOVAN MEDITERRANEAN GOURMET 2005 Park St., Ste. 1, 381-9394. F Traditional Mediterranean fare: fresh hummus, baba ghannoush, gyros. Hookahs. $ L D Mon.-Sat. JERSEY MIKE’S SUBS 1615 Hendricks Ave., Riverside, 399-5006. See Orange Park. $ L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Breakfast; grilled wraps, gyros, grilled chicken salad. $ B L Mon.-Sat. KICKBACKS GASTROPUB 910 King St., 388-9551. F 2012 BOJ winner. Breakfast, lunch & dinner 20 hours a day; more than 655 bottled beers, 84 on tap. $$ B L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794; 7859 Normandy, 781-7600; 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500; 8102 Blanding, 779-1933; 6331 Roosevelt, Ste. 6, NAS Jax, 854-0057. F See Baymeadows. 2012 BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q 4838 Hwy. Ave., Westside, 389-5551. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, ribs. Homestyle sides: green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese and collards. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Thur. & Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, 389-4442. F 2012 BOJ winner. Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, served by the pie or the slice. $ L D Mon.-Sat. THE MOSSFIRE GRILL 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434. F Southwestern dishes: fresh fish tacos and chicken enchiladas. $$ L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300. F Traditional Irish fare in a casual pub: shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese and fish-n-chips. $$ L D Daily PELE’S WOOD FIRE 2665 Park St., 232-8545. Chef Micah Windham uses a wood-fired oven to create traditional, authentic Italian fare with an inventive, modern twist. $$ R L D Daily PERARD’S PIZZA & ITALIAN CUISINE 11043 Crystal Springs Rd., Ste. 2, Westside, 378-8131. Family-owned. Traditional fare, homemade sauces, lasagna, desserts. $ L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #1 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 824 Lomax St., 301-1188. F Traditional Japanese cuisine, fresh sushi, sashimi, kiatsu, teriyaki and hibachi. $$ L D Daily THE SALTY FIG 901 King St., 337-0146. Gastropub’s New American Southern fare: shrimp & grits, bourbon fig glazed quail, made with locally sourced produce, meats, seafood. $$ L D Daily SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 1923 S. Lane Ave., 786-0081; 4434 Blanding Blvd., 777-0730. Beef, pork, chicken, ribs cooked in a wood-fired pit; Vidalia onion rings, corn nuggets, beans, slaw. AYCE specials daily. $ L D Daily SOUP’S ON JACKSONVILLE 1526 King St., 387-9394. F See Beaches. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Daily SUMO SUSHI 2726 Park St., 388-8838. F Authentic Japanese dishes, entrees, sushi rolls, sashimi salad, gyoza (pork dumplings), and tobiko (flying fish roe). $$ L D Daily SUSHI CAFE 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888. F Sushi rolls: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll; hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. $$ L D Daily SWEET THEORY BAKING CO. 1243 King St., 387-1001. Small batch, all-natural, organic, allergy-friendly items made with no egg, dairy, soy or peanuts. Gluten-free options. $ Tue.-Sat. TAPA THAT 820 Lomax St., Five Points, 376-9911. Locally, organically grown ingredients; duck confit spring rolls, Cuban rice & beans cake. $$ L D Tue.-Sat. TASTI D-LITE 1024 Park St., 900-3040. A gazillion flavors, in cones, cups, shakes and smoothies. $ Daily TREECUP CAFE 829 Riverside Ave., Cummer Museum, 356-6857. Lunch items, locally roasted coffee, espresso

drinks.$ L Tue.-Sun. TRES LECHES 869 Stockton St., 551-4375. F Quiches, empanadas, arepas, bocadillos, sandwiches, soups and baked goods; chocolate marquesa, Caribbean lime pie and tres leches. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. TWO DOORS DOWN 436 Park St., 598-0032. F Hotcakes, omelets, burgers, sandwiches, chops, liver & onions, Southern fried chicken, desserts. $$ B L Mon.-Fri.

ST. AUGUSTINE

95 CORDOVA 95 Cordova St., 810-6810. In Casa Monica Hotel. The cuisine blends Moroccan, Asian, Mediterranean, Caribbean and European influences. $$$ R Sun.; B L D Daily A1A ALE WORKS 1 King St., 829-2977. F Two-story brew pub, Bridge of Lions view, has six kinds of beer and serves New World cuisine, inside or on the balcony. $$ L D Daily A1A BURRITO WORKS TACO SHOP 114 St. George St., 823-1229. Baja-style tacos, vegetarian bean burritos, fish tacos, hormone-free meats, homemade guacamole. $ L D Daily AL’S PIZZA 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F See Intracoastal. $ L D Daily ANN O’MALLEY’S PUB 23 Orange St., 825-4040. F Soups, sandwiches. Porch dining. Irish beers on tap. $$ L D Daily AVILES RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-9727. Hilton Bayfront Hotel. Progressive global cuisine. $$$ B L D Daily BACK 40 URBAN CAFÉ 40 S. Dixie Hwy., 824-0227. Fresh, local seafood, Caribbean-style wraps, upside-down chicken potpie, in an 1896 building. $ L Sun.; L D Mon.-Sat. BARLEY REPUBLIC IRISH PUBLIC HOUSE 48 Spanish St., 547-2023. Historic downtown pub has burgers, sandwiches, shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash. $$ L D Daily BARNACLE BILL’S 14 Castillo Dr., 824-3663. F Family spot has seafood, gator tail, steak, shrimp. $$ D Nightly THE BLACK MOLLY BAR & GRILL 504 Geoffrey St., 547-2723. Fresh, local seafood, steaks, pasta. $$ L D Daily BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 2420 U.S. 1 S., 794-9424. See San Marco. $ L D Daily BORRILLO’S PIZZA & SUBS 88 San Marco Ave., 829-1133. F John Zappa’s New York-style spot serves subs, pasta dishes, and pizzas by the pie or slice. $ L D daily CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA 146 King St., 494-6658. F 2012 BOJ winner. New York-style brick-ovenbaked pizza, fresh baked sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, stromboli, garlic herb wings. $$ L D Daily CASA MAYA 17 Hypolita St., 217-3039. Mayan fare, vegetarian and meat. Juice bar, daily specials. $$ B L D Wed.-Sun. CELLAR 6 ART GALLERY & WINE BAR 6 Aviles St., 827-9055. Bite Club certified. Wolfgang Puck coffees, handmade desserts, light fare. $$ Daily CONCH HOUSE 57 Comares Ave., 829-8646. Signature dishes: Cracker combo platter, fried shrimp. Tiki huts over Salt Run Creek. $$$ D Nightly CREEKSIDE DINERY 160 Nix Boatyard Rd., 829-6113. Beef, chicken, seafood, low-country cooking. Outdoor deck, fire pit. $$ D Nightly CRUISERS GRILL 3 St. George St., 824-6993. F 2012 BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. See Beaches. $ L D Daily DOS COFFEE & WINE 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421. F Handcrafted pourovers, Convive Roastery beans. A variety of pressed sandwiches, build-your-own cheese boards. $$ B L Daily FLAVORS EATERY 125-C King St., 824-4221. Quesadillas, pizza, smoothies. Indoor/outdoor dining. $ L D Mon.-Sat. FLORIDA CRACKER CAFÉ 81 St. George St., 829-0397. Scallops, shrimp, gator tail. $$ L D Daily THE FLORIDIAN 39 Cordova St., 829-0655. Southern fare, with fresh ingredients from area farms: fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. Vegetarian options. $$$ L D Daily GAS FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT 9 Anastasia Blvd., Ste. C, 217-0326. F Fresh, local and homemade casual fare: meatloaf, veggie, traditional burgers, seafood, steaks, daily specials, desserts. $$ L D Tue.-Sat. GYPSY CAB COMPANY 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244. F 2012 BOJ winner. Local favorite spot. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken; also seafood, tofu, duck and veal dishes. $$ R Sun.; L D Daily HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILLE 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765. F New Orleans-style fresh seafood, steaks, jambalaya, etouffée, shrimp. $$ L D Daily HOT SHOT BAKERY & CAFE 8 Granada St., 824-7898. F Freshly baked items, coffees, sandwiches, Datil B. Good hot sauces and pepper products. $ B L Daily THE KING’S HEAD BRITISH PUB 6460 U.S. 1 N., 823-9787. F Ann Dyke serves British draught beers and ciders in 20-ounce Imperial pints, plus Cornish pasties, fish & chips. $$ L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT 155 Hampton Point Dr., 230-7879. See San Marco. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ L D Daily THE MANATEE CAFÉ 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 106, 826-0210. F Organic, vegetarian meals. Chef Cheryl Crosley has omelets, tofu Reubens, miso, hummus, tabouli. $ B L Mon.-Sat. MEEHAN’S IRISH PUB SEAFOOD HOUSE 20 Avenida Menendez, 810-1923. F Burgers, seafood, raw bar, steak

O’Shay’s, Dubliner chicken, Irish Benedict. $$$ Daily THE MILLTOP TAVERN 19 1/2 St. George St., 829-2329. F Homemade soups, sandwiches, daily specials. Dine under trees on two-story porch. $ L D Daily MOJO OLD CITY BBQ 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F See Avondale. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ B L D Daily MOJO’S TACOS 551 Anastasia Blvd., Anastasia Island, 829-1665. F Family-owned spot offers double-decker-style tacos, burritos. $ L D Daily NALU’S TROPICAL TAKE-OUT 926 Santa Maria Blvd., 7940405; 1020 Anastasia Blvd., 501-9592. F Fresh island-style beef, chicken, fish, vegetarian tacos, burritos. $ L D Daily NED’S SOUTHSIDE KITCHEN 2450 U.S. 1 S., 794-2088. F Casual islandy spot has Mediterranean dishes, tacos, shrimp & grits, vegetarian options. Drive-thru. $ L D Mon.-Sat. OUTBACK CRABSHACK 8155 C.R. 13 N., 522-0500. Crabs, shrimp, gator tail, conch fritters, steaks. $$ L D Daily PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818. F 2012 BOJ winner. Chef Mas Liu creates authentic sushi: Crazy Girl (shrimp tempura, asparagus, salmon); Mango Tango (salmon, crab, tuna, flying fish egg, mango sauce). Sake, sashimi. $$-$$$ L D Daily PIZZALLEY’S 117 St. George St., 825-2627. F 2012 BOJ winner. Wings, pizza. $$ L D Daily PIZZALLEY’S CHIANTI ROOM 60 Charlotte St., 825-4100. Homemade Italian ristorante fare. $$ L D Daily THE PRESENT MOMENT CAFÉ 224 W. King St., 827-4499. F 2012 BOJ winner. Organic, vegan, vegetarian dishes, pizza, pastas, hummus, milkshakes; made without meat, dairy, wheat or an oven. $$ B L D Mon.-Sat. RAINTREE RESTAURANT 102 San Marco Ave., 824-7211. Steak and seafood. Reservations accepted. $$ D Nightly RHETT’S PIANO BAR & BRASSERIE 166 Hypolita St., 825-0502. Freshly made-to-order items include American espresso-rubbed filet, pistachio-crusted lamb chops. A petite menu is also offered. $$$$ D Tue.-Sun. SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 1720 U.S. 1 S., 824-3220; 2720 S.R. 16, 824-3315. See Riverside. $ L D Daily THE TASTING ROOM, WINE & TAPAS 25 Cuna St., 810-2400. Upscale contemporary Spanish place pairs tapas with wines. $$$ Daily WOODY’S BAR-B-Q 135 Jenkins St., Ste. 106, 819-8880. See Orange Park. $ L D Daily YOGURT MOTION 163 Palencia Village, Ste. 102, 610-2220. Non-dairy frozen yogurt (with no table sugar, lactose, chemicals or preservatives) in a variety of flavors. $ Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH

(Venues are in St. Augustine Beach unless otherwise noted.)

A1A BURRITO WORKS TACO SHOP 671 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-7451. F See St. Augustine. $ L D Daily AMICI 1915B A1A S., 461-0102. F Family-owned-andoperated. Pasta, veal, steak, seafood. $$ L D Daily CAFE ATLANTICO 647 A1A Beach Blvd., 471-7332. Traditional, new dishes. Chef Paolo offers risotto alla pescatora: shrimp, scallops, shellfish in a cheese basket. $$$ D Nightly CAP’S ON THE WATER 4325 Myrtle St., Vilano Beach, 824-8794. F Coastal cuisine: fresh local shrimp, raw oyster bar. Boat access. $$ L D Daily FA CAFÉ 303 A1A Beach Blvd., 471-2006. F Daily specials: jerk fish and mango wrap. $ L D Tue.-Sun. THE GROOVE CAFE 134 Sea Grove Main St., 547-2740. Steaks, fresh local seafood. $ L D Tue.-Sun. HURRICANE GRILL WINGS 4225 S. A1A, Ste. 13, 471-7120. See Avondale. $ L D Daily JACK’S BBQ 691 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-8100. Old-fashioned pit barbecue. Tiki bar, deck. $ L D Daily MANGO MANGOS 700 A1A Beach Blvd., 461-1077. Caribbean kitchen has comfort food with a tropical twist: coconut shrimp, fried plantains. Outdoor seating. $$ L D Daily THE ORIGINAL CAFE ELEVEN 501 A1A Beach Blvd., 460-9311. F Coffee drinks, vegetarian meals, Southern comfort dishes. $ B L D Daily PURPLE OLIVE INTERNATIONAL BISTRO 4255 A1A S., Ste. 6, 461-1250. F Family-owned-and-operated. Local seafood, prime beef, lamb, vegetarian. Artisan breads. $$ D Tue.-Sat. THE REEF 4100 Coastal Hwy., Vilano Beach, 824-8008. F Casual oceanfront place has fresh local seafood, steak, pasta dishes and chef specials. $$$ R Sun.; L D Daily SOUTH BEACH GRILL 45 Cubbedge Rd., Crescent Beach, 471-8700. Two-story beachy spot has casual oceanfront dining and fresh local seafood. $ B L D Daily STEPHEN’S SOUL FOOD 101 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-7000. Slow food made with fresh, local ingredients: fried perch with grits and fresh tomato. $ B L Tue.-Sat. SUNSET GRILLE 421 A1A Beach Blvd., 471-5555. Key West-style place serves fresh local seafood, steaks and sandwiches. Open-air counters. $$$ L D Daily

ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER

BAHAMA BREEZE 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031. Caribbean-inspired: lobster quesadillas, beef patties, Creole baked goat cheese, tropical drinks. $$$ L D Daily BLACKFINN AMERICAN GRILLE 4840 Big Island Dr., 345-3466. Classic American fare: beef, seafood, pasta and flatbread sandwiches. $$$ R L D Daily

Dining CANTINA LAREDO 10282 Bistro Dr., 997-6110. Authentic Mexican dishes, daily fish specials, grilled chicken and steaks. $$ R L D Daily THE CAPITAL GRILLE 5197 Big Island Dr., 997-9233. Dryaged, hand-carved steaks, fresh seafood, with local, seasonal ingredients. 350 wines. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly LIBRETTO’S PIZZERIA & ITALIAN KITCHEN 4880 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1, 402-8888. F Authentic NYC pizzeria has Big Apple crust, cheese and sauce; classics, calzone, desserts. $$ L D Daily MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY 10367 Midtown Pkwy., 380-4360. Italian-American fare, pasta, steaks, seafood, chef’s specials, desserts made in a scratch kitchen. $$$ L D Daily MIMI’S CAFE 10209 River Coast Dr., 620-0660. Signature quiches, salads, sandwiches, chicken pot pie, beef bourguignon and roasted turkey breast are served in a French cottage-themed spot. $ B L D Daily MITCHELL’S FISH MARKET 5205 Big Island Dr., 645-3474. The changing menu has 180+ fresh items: cedar-roasted Atlantic salmon, kung pao calamari and seared rare salt-andpepper tuna. $$$ L D Daily MY MOCHI FROZEN YOGURT 4860 Big Island Dr., 807-9292. Non-fat, low-calorie, cholesterol-free frozen yogurts, including tart and non-tart flavors; 40-plus toppings. Daily. P.F. CHANG’S 10281 Midtown Pkwy., Ste. 137, 641-3392. 2012 BOJ winner. Traditional chicken, duck, pork, beef, lamb dishes, vegetarian plates, gluten-free items. $$ L D Daily THE PITA PIT 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 5, 579-4930. See Beaches. $ B L D Daily QDOBA MEXICAN GRILL 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 149, 807-9161. F Fresh, custom-made, DIY meals. Choose an entrée – tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos – then toppings – vegetarian beans, meats, veggies, salsas, guacamole, sauces and cheeses. $ L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA 4624 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 125, 565-1299. F See Beaches. $$ L D Daily SAKE HOUSE #3 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 10281 Midtown Pkwy., Ste. 119, 996-2288. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SEASONS 52 5096 Big Island Dr., 645-5252. Grill and wine bar has a seasonally changing menu. $$ L D Daily SEASONS OF JAPAN 4413 Town Center Pkwy., 329-1067. Japanese and hibachi-style fare, sushi. $$ L D Daily WASABI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE & SUSHI BAR 10206 River Coast Dr., 997-6528. Authentic Japanese cuisine, teppanyaki shows, sushi. $ L D Daily WHISKY RIVER 4850 Big Island Dr., Ste. 3, 645-5571. F 2012 BOJ winner. Southern hospitality fare features burgers, hot wings, pizzas and pulled pork. Drink specials. $ L D Daily

SAN JOSE, LAKEWOOD, UNIVERSITY WEST

CRUISERS GRILL 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874. F See Beaches. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily EMPEROR’S GENTLEMEN’S CLUB 4923 University Blvd. W., 739-6966. The upscale steakhouse features steaks, burgers, seafood and wings. $$ L D Daily FUSION SUSHI 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688. F Brandnew upscale sushi spot serves a wide variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki and kisatsu. $$ L D Daily JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE 2025 Emerson St., 346-3770. Family-owned place serves down-home barbecue, smoky chicken, crinkle-cut French fries. Drive-thru. $ L D Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F See Avondale. 2012 BOJ winner. $$ B L D Daily SONNY’S REAL PIT BAR-B-Q 5097 University Blvd. W., 737-4906. See Riverside. $ L D Daily STEAMIN’ 9703 San Jose Blvd., 493-2020. Classic diner serves steam burgers, fat dogs and chili, more than 50 craft beers. $ B Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK, ST. NICHOLAS

BASIL THAI & SUSHI 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190. F 2012 BOJ winner. Sushi, Thai cuisine, ginger-infused salad, Pad Thai, curry dishes, ebi roll, sashimi, daily specials. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. bb’s 1019 Hendricks Ave., 306-0100. F Changing selection of fine cheeses, espresso martinis. $$$ R L D Mon.-Sat. BEACH ROAD CHICKEN DINNERS 4132 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 398-7980. Since 1939. Fried chicken, okra, sweet corn nuggets, country-fried steak, gizzards and livers, peas, slaw, biscuits, cobbler, fish, shrimp. $ L D Tue.-Sun. BISTRO AIX 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949. F Frenchand Mediterranean-inspired fare in an urban-chic atmosphere. The menu changes seasonally. $$$ L D Daily BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 4907 Beach Blvd., 398-4248. F Slow-cooked meats, sauces, for 60+ years. Baby back ribs, barbecue salad and chicken breast sandwiches. $ L D Daily

CHART HOUSE 1501 River Place Blvd., Southbank, 398-3353. Fresh fish, seafood and prime rib. $$$$ D Nightly CHECKER BBQ & SEAFOOD 3566 St. Augustine Rd., 398-9206. F Chef Art Jennette serves barbecue, seafood, comfort food: Trailer Trash Special is a pulled-pork sandwich, 15 fried shrimp, fries and fried green tomatoes. $ L D Mon.-Sat. CURRENTS RIVERVIEW BISTRO 841 Prudential Dr., 306-9512. Breakfast, sandwiches, pizza, soups, quesadillas, burgers, cheesesteaks, daily hot entrée specials. $ B L Mon.-Fri. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 737-7477. Diner fare: pancakes, sandwiches, burgers. $ B L Daily THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. 2012 BOJ winner. Tapas, cheese plates, empanadas, bruschettas, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ Tue.-Sun. HAVANA-JAX CAFE/CUBA LIBRE BAR 2578 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 399-0609. F Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches in a clean, bright café. Black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, roast pork. $ L D Daily HIGHTIDE BURRITO COMPANY 1538 Hendricks Ave., 683-7396. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Salsas, marinades, tortillas, beef, pork, fish, burritos, tacos, tortas. $ L D Daily LA NOPALERA 1631 Hendricks Ave., 399-1768. F 2012 BOJ winner. Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. $$ L D Daily MAPLE STREET BISCUIT COMPANY 2004 San Marco Blvd., 398-1004. Pulled pork, fried chicken, bacon; goat cheese, dill pickles, pepper jelly, collards, fried eggs, on a fresh biscuit, sauces, gravies, dressings. $ B L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. MATTHEW’S 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship restaurant offers fine dining in a refined, European-style atmosphere. Artfully presented cuisine, small plates. Reservations recommended. $$$$ D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701. F 2012 BOJ winner. Upscale diner serves meatloaf, chicken pot pie and homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily THE MUDVILLE GRILLE 3105 Beach Blvd., St. Nicholas Plaza, 398-4326. Family sports place; steaks, wings. $ L D Daily THE OLIVE TREE MEDITERRANEAN GRILL 1705 Hendricks Ave., 396-2250. F Homestyle plates, hummus, tabouleh, grape leaves, gyros, Greek salad. $$ L D Mon.-Fri. PIZZA PALACE GM Hala Demetree 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815. F The family-owned restaurant serves homestyle cuisine: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining. $$ L D Daily PULP 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222. The juice bar has fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees, smoothies with flavored soy milks, organic frozen yogurts, granola. $ B L D Daily RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 1201 Riverplace Blvd., Crowne Plaza, Southbank, 396-6200. 2012 BOJ winner. Midwestern custom-aged U.S. prime beef, fresh seafood and live Maine lobster. Reservations suggested. $$$$ D Nightly SAKE HOUSE #2 JAPANESE GRILL SUSHI BAR 1478 Riverplace Blvd., Ste. 101, 306-2188. F See Riverside. $$ L D Daily SAN MARCO DELI 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. F 2012 BOJ winner. Independently owned and operated. Grilled fish, turkey burgers, vegetarian options. $ B L Mon.-Sat. THE SOUTHERN GRILL 800 Flagler Ave., Southbank, 858-9800. Veggie platters, sandwiches, melts, wraps, omelets, egg combos and pancakes. $$$ B L Mon.-Sat. TAVERNA 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005. European cuisine influenced by the flavors of Italy and Spain. Tapas, small-plate items, Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas, home-style pastas, entrées. $$$ D Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Sun. VINO’S PIZZA & GRILL 1430 San Marco Blvd., 683-2444. F See Julington. $ Daily

SOUTHSIDE

360 GRILLE 10570 Philips Hwy., 365-5555. Inside Latitude 30, the Grille serves familiar favorites, including seafood, steaks, sandwiches, burgers, chicken, pasta, soups and pizza. Dine inside or on the patio. L D Daily. $$ BAYARD CAFE 12525 Philips Hwy., Ste. 201, 551-3026. Casual, family-owned spot has breakfast all day, soups, daily specials, desserts, lattes, espressos. $ B L Daily BISTRO 41° 3563 Philips Hwy., Ste. 104, 446-9738. F Breakfast and lunch, daily specials, burgers, salads, paninis, gyros, fresh homemade soups, served in a relaxing spot. $ B L Mon.-Fri. BLUE BAMBOO RESTAURANT & WINE BAR 3820 Southside Blvd., 646-1478. Southern specialties, Asian comfort food by owner/chef Dennis Chan. Red curry shrimp & grits, Singapore street noodles. Saketinis. $$ L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat.

BONO’S PIT BAR-B-Q 10065 Skinner Lake Dr., 998-1997; 10645 Philips Hwy., 886-2801; 5711 Bowden Rd., 448-5395. F See San Marco. $ L D Daily BUCA DI BEPPO 10334 Southside Blvd., 363-9090. Fresh Italian fare in three generous sizes served family-style in an old-Italy setting. $$$ L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F See Beaches. $ L D Daily FARAH’S PITA STOP CAFE 3980 Southside Blvd., Ste. 201, 928-4322. Middle Eastern cuisine: sandwiches, soups, entrées, desserts, pastries and mazas (appetizers). $ B L D Mon.-Sat. THE FLAME BROILER 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 103, 619-2786; 7159 Philips Hwy., 337-0007. F Healthy, inexpensive fast food with no transfats, MSG, frying, or skin on meat. Fresh veggies, beef, chicken, short ribs. $ L D Mon.-Sat. GREEK ISLES CAFE 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 116, 564-2290. Authentic cuisine, breads, desserts, Italian dishes, seafood. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. III FORKS PRIME STEAKHOUSE 9822 Tapestry Park Circle, Ste. 111, 928-9277. Classic steakhouse, with a savvy menu of USDA prime beef, seafood, local favorites. $$$$ D Mon.-Sat. JOEY BROOKLYN FAMOUS PIZZERIA 7860 Gate Pkwy., Ste. 107, 683-8737. Fresh dough , cheeses, meatsc toppings. Wings, Italian dishes. $$ B L D Daily JOHNNY ANGEL’S 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 120, 997-9850. F ’50s-style décor. Blueberry Hill pancakes, Fats Domino omelet, Elvis special combo platter, burgers and hand-dipped shakes. $ B L D Daily LIME LEAF 9822 Tapestry Park Cir., Stes. 108 & 109, 645-8568. F Thai cuisine: fresh papaya salad, pad Thai, seared ahi tuna, crispy duck, mango sweet rice. $$ L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly MANGIA ITALIAN BISTRO & BAR 3210 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 551-3061. F Chef/owner Tonino DiBella offers authentic fine Italian dining: seafood, chicken, veal, steaks, pasta, New York-style pizza, desserts. $$$ L D Mon.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS 9734 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 997-1955. F See Beaches. Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. $ L D Daily MILLER’S ALE HOUSE & RAW BAR 9711 Deer Lake Court, 565-2882. Generous portions, friendly service in a nautical atmosphere. Customer favorites: fresh fish, specialty pastas, oysters, clams. 32 draft beers. $$ L D Daily MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900. F Smoked meats: wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homestyle sides: green beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ L D Daily NEWK’S EXPRESS CAFE 9047 Southside Blvd., Ste. 1, 527-2402. F Sandwiches, salads, homemade dressings, California-style pizzas, desserts. $ L D Daily OTAKI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE 7860 Gate Pkwy., Stes. 119-122, 854-0485. F Sushi bar, hibachi grill tables and an open kitchen. $$$ L D Daily SAKE SUSHI 8206 Philips Hwy., 647-6000. F Sushi, hibachi, teriyaki, tempura, katsu, donburi, noodle soups. Popular rolls: Fuji Yama, Ocean Blue and Fat Boy. $$ L D Mon.-Sat. SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., 997-1999. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas and awardwinning ales and lagers. $$ L D Daily TASTE FOOD STUDIO 9726 Touchton Rd., 415-2992. Highend, high quality, scratch-made upscale dishes with a new twist on global cuisine, American favorites. $$$ L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426. Bite Club certified. 2012 BOJ winner. Char-broiled meats, seafood and traditional Greek specialties, desserts. $$ L D Daily TILTED KILT PUB EATERY 9720 Deer Lake Court, 3798612. Pub fare, wings, salmon and shepherd’s pie. $$ L D Daily

TOMBO’S BACKPORCH BARBECUE 8929 Philips Hwy., 363-0990. F Southern comfort items, barbecue salad, full breakfast menu. $ B L Mon.-Sat. TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999. F New York-style, brick-oven-cooked gluten-free pizzas, calzones, sandwiches made to order, with Thumanns no-MSG meats, Grande cheeses. $ L D Mon.-Sat. TOSSGREEN 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 12, 619-4356. F Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls of fresh fruits, vegetables, 100% natural chicken breast, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, nuts, cheeses, dressings, sauces, salsas. Frozen yogurt. $$ L D Daily WATAMI ASIAN FUSION 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 363-9888. F Buffet: all-you can-eat sushi, 2 teppanyaki items. Jaguar, dynamite, lobster and soft-shell crab rolls. $ L D Daily WHICH WICH? 4352 Southside Blvd., Ste. 4, 527-1999. 51 sandwiches, vegetarian, Weight-Watchers, buffalo chicken, grinder, gyro and black bean patty. $ B R L Daily WILD WING CAFÉ 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464. F 33 wings, sandwiches, wraps, ribs, burgers. $$ L D Daily YUMMY SUSHI 4372 Southside Blvd., 998-8806. F Teriyaki, tempura, hibachi-style dinners, sushi, sashimi, 30+ specialty rolls. Lunch roll specials Mon.-Fri. Sake. $ L D Daily

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

BOSTON’S RESTAURANT & SPORTSBAR 13070 City Station Dr., River City Marketplace, 751-7499. F Bite Club certified. Pizzas, pasta, wings, burgers and steak. $$ L D Daily CASA MARIA 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411. F 2012 BOJ winner. Family-owned-and-operated. Authentic Mexican fare: fajitas, seafood dishes, hot sauces. $ L D Daily JENKINS QUALITY BARBECUE 5945 New Kings Rd., 765-8515. For 56+ years, family-owned Jenkins has served barbecue. Drive-thru. $ L D Daily JOSEPH’S PIZZA & ITALIAN RESTAURANT 7316 N. Main St., 765-0335. F Family-owned-and-operated for 57 years. Pasta, gourmet pizzas and veal entrées. $$ L D Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. F See Baymeadows. BOJ winner. $ B L D Daily MILLHOUSE STEAKHOUSE 1341 Airport Rd., 741-8722. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Choice steaks from the signature broiler, seafood, pasta dishes and Millhouse gorgonzola, homemade desserts. $$ D Nightly RENNA’S PIZZA 840 Nautica Dr., Ste. 117, 714-9210. F See Beaches. $$ L D Daily SALSARITA’S FRESH CANTINA 840 Nautica Dr., Ste. 131, River City Marketplace, 696-4001. F Southwest fare made from scratch daily. $ L D Daily SANDOLLAR RESTAURANT 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449. On the St. Johns. Seafood, steaks, chicken and pasta. Deck. Seafood buffet every Wed. $$ R Sun.; L D Daily SAVANNAH BISTRO 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, with a twist of Mediterranean and French inspiration, crab cakes, New York strip, she crab soup and mahi mahi. At Crowne Plaza Airport. $$$ B L D Daily STICKY FINGERS 13150 City Station Dr., River City Marketplace, 309-7427. F Memphis-style rib house, ribs, barbecue and rotisserie-smoked chicken. $$ L D Daily THREE LAYERS CAFE 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791. F Desserts, pastries, light lunches, bistro salads. $ B L D Daily UPTOWN MARKET 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734. F Bite Club certified. Innovative farm-to-fork breakfast and lunch dishes, fresh specials. Mimosa brunch Sat. & Sun. $$ B L Daily, D Thur.-Sat.

WINE TASTINGS ANJO LIQUORS 5 p.m. every Thur. 9928 Old Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-2656 BLACK HORSE WINERY 3-7 p.m. Mon.-Thur., 2-10 p.m. Fri. & Sat., 2-6 p.m. Sun. 420 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park, 644-8480 BLUE BAMBOO 5:30 p.m. every first Thur. 3820 Southside Blvd., 646-1478 THE GIFTED CORK Daily. 64 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 810-1083 THE GROTTO 6 p.m. every Thur. 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726 MONKEY’S UNCLE LIQUORS 5 p.m. every Fri. 1850 S. Third St., Jax Beach, 246-1070 OCEAN 60 6 p.m. every Mon. 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 RIVERSIDE LIQUORS 5 p.m. every Fri. 1035 Park St., Five Points, 356-4517 ROYAL PALM VILLAGE WINES & TAPAS 5 p.m. every Mon., Wed. & Fri. 296 Royal Palms Drive, Atlantic Beach, 372-0052 THE TASTING ROOM 6 p.m. every first Tue. 25 Cuna St., St. Augustine, 810-2400

TASTE OF WINE Daily. 363 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 9, Atlantic Beach, 246-5080 TIM’S WINE MARKET 5-7 p.m. every Fri., noon-5 every Sat. 278 Solana Rd., Ponte Vedra, 686-1741 128 Seagrove Main St., St. Augustine Beach, 461-0060 III FORKS PRIME STEAKHOUSE 5-7 p.m. every Winedown Wed. 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 WINE WAREHOUSE 4 p.m. every Fri. 665 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 246-6450 4434 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 448-6782 W90+ 5 p.m. every Fri. 1112 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 413-0027 9210 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 4, Mandarin, 503-2348 3548 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 413-0025

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The longest natural arch in the world is the Fairy Bridge in Guangxi Province, China. The 400-footwide limestone span crosses the Buliu River. No one outside of China knew about it until 2009, when an American explorer spied it on Google Earth. The Fairy Bridge is your metaphor this month. Astrological omens say there’s a good chance you’ll find something like a natural, previously hidden bridge. Be alert for a link between things you didn’t know were connected. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope you’ve become a master of sticky, intricate details, working harder and smarter than you have in a long time. Have you been grunting, sweating and exerting on behalf of good causes? Say you have. And say you’re willing to do so a while longer. Your demanding tasks aren’t finished. Your efforts’ full reward may not be available unless you push beyond the point you think is your fair share. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How free do you want to be? A tiny bit, hemmed in by comfortable complications requiring you to rely on white lies? Or moderately free in ways not too demanding – politely, sensibly free? Maybe you feel brave and strong enough to flirt with breathtaking liberation; pure, naked freedom bringing you to the edge of wild abandon, asking you to exercise more responsibility. I’m not saying which kind you should choose – it’s best if you make a conscious choice. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In August 1961, East Germany’s Communist government built the Berlin Wall, a thick concrete barrier made to keep East Berlin’s oppressed citizens from escaping to freedom in West Berlin. The barrier was policed by armed guards. Traffic between the two Berlins was very difficult for the next 28 years. Then, a miracle: East German authorities relinquished their stranglehold, tentatively allowing East Berliners to travel to West Berlin. Soon the “Mauerspechte,” or wall woodpeckers, showed up, armed with hammers and chisels, and began chipping away at the Wall. Two years later, most of it was demolished. I assign you to be your sphere’s wall woodpecker. It’s time to crush a barricade.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This slogan captures the spirit I bring to my horoscope writing: “I live in the future so that you don’t have to.” 2012 Right now, it doesn’t apply to you. From what I can tell, you’re visiting the future as much as I am. I wonder, though: Are you time-traveling just to run away from the dilemmas facing you in the present, or are you taking advantage of the jaunts to get revelations to help solve those dilemmas once you return?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know there are different kinds of stress, right? Some varieties wear out and demoralize you; others excite and motivate you. Some lead you from long-term goals; others propel you closer. The weeks ahead are an excellent time to fine-tune your ability to distinguish between them. The more you cultivate and seek the good kind, the less susceptible you are to the bad. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Studies show people spend 87 percent of their time inside buildings and six percent in enclosed vehicles. In other words, they’re roaming around outside enjoying the wind, sky and weather only 60 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JUNE 5-11, 2013

7 percent of their lives. You’re going to have to do better than that next week. To ensure your mental hygiene stays robust, try to expose yourself to natural elements at least 9 percent of the time. If you hike that to 10 percent or higher, you stand a good chance of having a spiritual epiphany to fuel you for months. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Resurrection is your specialty. Better than any other zodiac sign, you can summon the power to be reborn. It’s your birthright to reanimate expired dreams, feelings and experiences to make them live again in new forms. Your sacred totem is the mythical phoenix, which burns itself in a fire of its own creation and regenerates from the ashes. The big news? I’ve rarely seen you with more skill to perform these rites than you have right now. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Octavio Paz spoke to a lover in his poem “Counterparts”: “In my body you search the mountain for the sun buried in its forest. In your body I search for the boat adrift in the middle of the night.” What have you searched for in your lovers’ bodies? What mysteries and riddles have you explored immersed in their depths? Ruminate on these uncanny joys. Remember the breakthroughs you’ve had thanks to sex. Exult in the spiritual education you’ve gotten through lust and sensuality. Go out and stir up fresh epiphanies. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you know what minced oaths are? They’re rarely used now. If you went back 100 years, though, you’d hear them often. They were sanitized swear words, peculiar exclamations to let folks have the emotional release of profanities without causing a ruckus among those listening. “Bejabbers!” was one. So were “thunderation!, “dad-blast!” and “consarn!” One of my favorite minced oaths: “By St. Boogar and the saints at the backside door of purgatory!” I bring this up because I suspect it’s a minced oath kind of week for you. I mean, you’ll have every right to get riled up, and you should express your feelings, but not in ways that create problems. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s only one correct way to spell the English word “beauty,” but that wasn’t true centuries ago. Before the advent of the printing press, orthographic anarchy prevailed for many words. Some of beauty’s variations included bewte, beaute, beaultye, beuaute, bealte, bewtee and beaultye. I think it would be fun and healthy to take a respite from having to slavishly obey standardized rules. Not just those that apply to spelling, but others, too. What can you get away with? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov,” the lead character says, “There is nothing nobler, stronger, healthier and more helpful in life than a good remembrance, particularly a remembrance from childhood. A beautiful, holy memory preserved from childhood can be the single most important thing in our development.” It’s to get you in the right frame of mind for this week’s featured activity: remembrance. One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to reminisce about old days and old ways, to enhance your physical health and purify your emotional hygiene. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

CHAMBLIN BEAUTY I see you over there with an armful of books. You: Black leggings, black shirt, looking beautiful and intelligent. We made eye contact as you passed by; you smiled. If you remember me then maybe it was real. What do you like to read? Maybe I’ll like it, too. When: May 29. Where: Chamblin Book Mine @ Roosevelt. #1243-0605 SUNDAY MORNING BRUNCH You: Dark-haired, blue-eyed & beautiful during brunch. Me: Balding & awkward, but absolutely in awe of you. Would love to see you there again & try to hit it off. When: May 5. Where: Corner Bistro. #1242-0529 HELPFUL RAM GIRL To the person in the knit dress – meet me where they were handing out flyers. I’d love to take a walk with you. You, me and my pup. When: March 7. Where: Riverside Arts Market. #1241-0529 YOUR SMILE WITH A SPARK You: A beautiful smile that matched your eyes. You came into my work and I couldn’t stop smiling because of your smile. You wore a flannel shirt; butterfly clip in your hair. I helped you out to your silver Nissan. Wish I’d gotten your name. You were good company in that short time. I hope to see you again. When: May 19. Where: Publix. #1240-0529 OMG… YOU KILLED IT ISU First in produce; you walked by, we exchanged glances. Your attire said you were just out of church. ISU again in parking lot; we headed in the same direction. Your ride, a gray Acura TL, said you’re a boss in your own right. I’m still lusting, wishing you’d turned into development off Pulaski. Praying I see you again. When: May 19. Where: Winn-Dixie @ Main & New Berlin. #1239-0529 FIREWORKS I saw you 18 years ago. Your smile and dimples curved my toes and captured my heart. Do you think we can go for another 18 years? Give me a call. I’ll be waiting. When: July 1994. Where: Famous Amos. #1235-0522 SHAPELY SHOPPER You: Beautiful brunette, amazing legs. Me: Black-bearded, enthralled. I said you looked familiar and asked how we knew each other. Instead of saying to get to know each other better, I tried to win you over with humor; but fell between Gallagher and Carrot Top, so exited the stage. L’esprit d’escalier. Maybe we could make fun of my clumsy attempt over dinner? When: May 6. Where: Homegoods. #1234-0515 JELLO SHOTS & CHEESCAKE Me: Purple shirt, black shorts, long brown hair. You: Dirty blonde, headphone, work uniform. My friend and I looking at jello, you turned around and started talking to us about jello shots ... ran into you again by paper towels. You work at Cheesecake Factory. Never got your name :) too scared to ask you to my party. Coffee sometime? When: May 8. Where: Publix Town Center. #1235-0515

“GETTING IN THE WAY” OF MY DERBY DAY You: At Derby Park wearing turquoise, serving. Get in my way one more time and I’ll have to ask you your name. When: May 4. Where: Derby Park. #1233-0508

WHITE TRUCK & SUSPENDERS You: Sort of tall cowboy/1960s BABE in a white T-shirt, khakis, suspenders. Me: Awestruck, mildly homelesslooking girl in an extremely large wool sweater and glasses. ISU early this morning at my friends’ rainy garage sale. If you come back, you can take all of this shit to the Goodwill for us! Sexy! When: April 20. Where: Davis St. @ Neptune Beach. #1226-0501

BEAUTIFUL BLOND ISU sitting at the end of the bar reading Folio Weekly’s ISUs. I was with my daughter and son-in-law. When you got ready to leave, you stopped by and whispered in my ear “You’re hot!” I felt the same way toward you; would love to get together and have some fun. Look forward to hearing from you. I’m sure we could. When: March 16. Where: Landshark Cafe. #1232-0508

MUFFIN FOR THE MUFFIN TOP You bought bagels, laughed at my muffin top comment, we talked about “Eat Pray Love.” You: Jeans, flipflops, with great personality, wildly handsome. Me: Blonde, with orange shirt & jeans and unforgettable laugh. You drive a Silver Mazda. Don’t know why I didn’t give you my card – I was captivated! I know we’d have big fun! When: April 19. Where: Panera @ South Beach. #1225-0501

BACONALIA MAN You: Green T-shirt, ripped pants, excited about eating bacon, dropping it on your shirt which left a stain. Me: Watching you and smiling about your carefree style. I loved you from the minute I saw you. Can picture us growing old, enjoying our breakfasts for dinner while reading the newspaper together. When: April 24. Where: Denny’s @ Atlantic Blvd. #1231-0508

DRIVING ME WILD ISU driving others around in a golf cart. I’d like to give you a ride you’ll never forget. Your bearded face has been doing donuts in my mind all day! If I made your heart race like you made mine, let’s take a joyride sometime soon! When: April 13. Where: St. Johns Town Center. #1224-0424

on side, then lost ya! I wanna meet the sexy lady who smiled! When: May 13. Where: Kangaroo @ Beach Blvd. #1238-0515

UPS DRIVER You used to deliver packages to my place of work but then got transferred to a different area in Jax. We never really talked (just smiled and waved) but then saw each other at Jimmy Johns, where we did. I have no idea if you are single but if you are and interested, I hope you reply. When: April 1. Where: Jimmy Johns @ Riverside. #1230-0501 THAT MOMENT CAN LAST A LIFETIME I like pizza, I love beer and wine, good company, the love of my family and friends, the look in my children’s eyes, the way my grandchildren call me. I love to travel; good restaurants, really good food, a good book, hip-hop and the look in your eyes that will last me lifetimes. I’ll see you in my dreams. Love is freedom. When: April 1. Where: At a fair. #1229-0501 AUBURN WOODWIND CUTIE You said they wouldn’t allow your kind, but you can add jazz to my symphony any time. You: Red hair, clarinet. Me: Blonde fuzz, Red Bull buzz. I just couldn’t ask then. When: April 20. Where: JCA of Jacksonville. #1228-0501 LITERATE IGGY POP Pushing poems downtown, you’re more fun than the boneshaker and twice as interesting. Happy to have met you. When: April 18. Where: One Spark. #1227-0501

YOU WERE MY CASHIER I have a reddish-blonde ponytail and I wore a visor, tank top and bermuda shorts. We talked about Bob Dylan on “The Voice,” “American Idol” singing, the theater, California, and the importance of family. If you are single, maybe we could get together. When: April 9. Where: Marshall’s @ Jax Beach. #1223-0424 WE TALKED AND SIGNED You: Blonde, glasses, buying roses for your daughter. Me: Long, blonde hair, chatty. Wrote my number on a scrap of paper, easy to lose. Would still like a drink with you while talking about Florida School for Deaf and Blind, or tell me that you’re involved? When: March 27. Where: Publix @ Roosevelt. #1222-0417 GORGEOUS UNDER A LIGHT Although upset, the light shined on your radiant skin illuminating a sight the world will never see again. I’m offering peace, love, assurance and protection. Signed: I Only See You. When: April 10. Where: The Guest Bedroom. #1221-0417 LIMPING AT THE DOG PARK I Saw U limping into the dog park, with unparalleled grace and beauty. In your hand a pink leash with the most noble and elegant dog I’ve ever seen. After the dog park, I encountered several “Bad Habits” with you. Since that fateful day I cannot get you off my mind. When: March 9. Where: Dogwood Park. #1220-0410

HANDSOME SMILE MADE MY DAY You: Medium height, dark hair, brown/tan shirt and shorts. Me: Long dark brown/auburn hair, blue top and jeans. Exchanged smiles in passing, at checkout and glances in the parking lot. Maybe next we can exchange hellos. When: April 6. Where: Orange Park Walmart. #1219-0410 SUBWAY BEAUTY You: Beautiful blonde bombshell, wearing your military uniform and with a friend. Me: Black slacks, black shoes, orange T-shirt. I really would like to go back and give you my number. Tell me what your friend was wearing and what branch of the service you’re in and we can go from there. When: March 29. Where: Oakleaf Subway. #1218-0410 BEHIND YOU CHECKING OUT Watched you check out at register about 6 p.m. You paid half cash with single bills and used your card for the balance, then joked with the cashier (what was the name on that card). Wish I would have asked your name. Me: Bald and wearing a black shirt and a big smile. When: March 25. Where: Winn-Dixie. #1217-0403 HAIL TO THE CHIEF You: Standing with all your friends at the I Hope You’re a Doctor show. You were wearing a throwback Jacksonville Bulls shirt and some faded blue jeans. I see your face every time I hear Miami Tree on the radio. XOXO. When: Dec. 2012. Where: Riverside. #1216-0403 SEXY MOTORCYCLE MAN I can remember the roar of your bike as you crossed my line of sight. It’s so stuck in my head, can’t wait till next time we rendezvous! Happy birthday xoxo. When: March 24. Where: San Pablo. #1215-0403 17 We met at Jax Beach, after a brief tour of Beach Blvd. You: Blue eyes, beautiful hair, genuine smile, wearing black with a bird on your arm and your heart on your sleeve. I fell for you instantly. Me: Curvy, long untamed hair, also in all black, a kindred spirit. I’m in love with you. Let’s take another tour. When: Sept. 17, 2012. Where: Jax Beach. #1213-0327 SUN & STARS OF APOLLO You tried to engage me at the bar but I shied away from the sun. Kitties are drawn to light, even if you sing like a Creep. You had me at linguistics. I hope to be the moon of your life, shekh ma shierak anni. Will you accept a new TittyTat to play with? When: Feb. 22. Where: European Street San Marco. #1212-0327

TALL BLONDE PIXIE You: Tall, soprano, blonde pixie hair, turquoise dress, a beautiful smile and sexy hazel eyes. Me: Hunky suitwearing oboist looking for a duet partner and a date to prom. We could make music all night ;) So how about it... will you be my prom date? When: May 18. Where: EverBank Field. #1236-0515 GORGEOUS BUSINESSMAN IN PINK You: Grey dress pants, pink/white buttondown shirt, not too tall, brown hair. Me: Blue work scrubs, glasses, wavy hair, brace on my left hand. You smiled at me. I couldn’t help stare as you talked on your phone. I joked with my friend about giving you my number, but didn’t have the guts. See you again soon? When: May 10. Where: Arby’s, Southside Blvd. #1237-0515 I WAVED, YOU WAVED You were driving a red car and smiled. I was driving a silver car and smiled back. We exchanged waves. You pulled in gas station, I followed, then you went inside, I had to park

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NewsNews of theof the Weird Weird Low Fashion Meets Islam on Turkish TV

Five self-proclaimed devout, conservative Muslim women host the TV series “Building Bridges” on channel A9, presenting the seemingly contradictory case against the female headscarf and Turkey’s turn to secularism. A May report on Slate.com noted the five are “mostly bottle blonds … [with] neon lipstick” wearing “brightly colored satin pantsuits and T-shirts with designer brand names stretched over their chests.” “Building Bridges” in principle supports interfaith dialogue but guests, noted Slate, “often appear … with their eyebrows arched in the manner of a serious person certain he is the victim of a practical joke.”

Solid Gold Smuggler

Abdullah Riyaz, 50, was arrested at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, in April when he seemed to be uncomfortable sitting in the waiting area. Officials found four “biscuits” of solid gold in his socks but thought there might be more, and after nature took its course, found Riyaz to be one of those rare humans with the ability to brag that he once excreted gold (eight more “biscuits”).

Jew in a Bag

In April, a report circulated that an apparently Orthodox Jewish man (likely a “Kohen”) tied himself up, head to toe, in a plastic bag on an airline flight — likely because his teachings say flying over a cemetery yields “impurities.” NOTW noted a similar report in 2001. Airlines made accommodations in the past, even in the face of criticism that a man in a plastic bag is a safety hazard. Exceptions to the Kohen belief: Accidental tears in the bag are excused, but pre-punched airholes aren’t, Kohenim unaware of the cemetery overflight in advance don’t need protection and dead family members yield no impurities.

A Little Bling for Your Afterlife

The annual Chinese “tomb sweeping” celebration has been noted a few times here; since 2008, it’s had a resurgence since the government reinstated it as an official holiday. The theory is, folks bring valuable items (such as jewelry) to ancestors’ gravesites and bury them with the body, which upgrades the relative’s afterlife. Now, though, practitioners seem convinced paper images of items are sufficient (and, of course, less expensive). Many just leave signed (and generous!) checks for the dead, according to an April New York Times item; others bury representations of “mistresses” to go with presumably frisky corpses.

Caging Coffee-pooping Cats

NOTW heard of kopi luwak in 1993 — coffee beans sold as gourmet because they’d been swallowed by certain Asian civet cats and recovered from feces and washed. Since then, as Internet news of kopi luwak has spread, it’s no longer obscure, and in April, environmental-activist website MongaBay. com warned that, based on increased demand, civet “farms” had sprung up in Indonesia, where civets were caged their entire lives solely for access to their poop. While none of the main kopi luwak civet species is formally “endangered,” activists warned populations are dwindling for, said one, “the most ridiculous threat … to any wildlife I have seen yet.”

Letting Go of a Long-lived Lie

The chairman of the National Showcaves Center, a Welsh national park, aiming to halt a recent downturn in tourism, threatened in April to sue the U.K. National Weather Service for its “all too [frequent] … gloom and doom reports.” The NWS called for snow and cold weather over Easter weekend, but no snow fell and the cold weather was tempered by sun and blue skies. He also suggested adding “health”-type warnings to forecasts, e.g., beware that weather reports might be wrong.

In one of the more prominent recent “that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it” cases, Vicky Pryce, 60, finally gave up in March and admitted to a judge that her husband, not she, was driving their speeding car in 2003. She was married at the time to high-ranking British government official Chris Huhne, whose license would’ve been suspended had he been driving — and so, she volunteered. The couple’s 10-year ruse inspired two trials, ending without decision. Huhne “rewarded” Pryce for her loyalty in 2010 by having an affair. The couple divorced; they’ll be imprisoned separately for perverting justice.

Officers’ Barks Are Worse Than Their Bites

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Infuriated by Forecasts

In New Haven, Conn., in March, police trapped two car-theft suspects in a multifamily building, where occupants were hiding from the suspects, necessitating urgency in ending the siege. Officers ordered a K-9 unit but were told it would be delayed. In a tactic departments sometimes use, cops still threatened to release the dogs immediately — to make the threat credible, officers began barking. The suspects quickly gave up, rather than face vicious canines.

Faith-healers Let Second Son Die

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severe diarrhea and pneumonia, again treated only by prayer. They were arrested and the other kids were taken from the home. The medical examiner called Brandon’s death a homicide; the couple also faces five to 10 years in prison for violating probation.

Herbert and Catherine Schaible, members of Philadelphia’s First Century Gospel Church and believers in faith-healing instead of medical care, were convicted in 2011 in the bacterialpneumonia death of their 2-year-old son Kent. As a probation condition, they promised medical care for their remaining eight children, but in April, youngest son Brandon died after

“Recovered memory” was a popular psychotherapy diagnosis in the 1980s, ultimately responsible for jail sentences for priests, parents and school officials after patients suddenly somehow “remembered” long-suppressed bizarre and vicious (and sometimes “satanic”) sex crimes that never happened. Elizabeth Loftus, of University of California, Irvine, and other skeptics have since proved false memories can be created and are now concentrating on fashioning them to benefit us — to lose weight, to stop smoking, to curb drinking. An April Time magazine report noted that “up to 40 percent” of people could be convinced they’d had bad experiences with a certain behavior and that, properly identified, those folks could be taught to avoid it. “We do have a malleable memory,” Loftus said. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

Backpage Editorial aimed at furthering the education of girls right here on the First Coast. Her name is Alex and she, like the girls in other countries, was in danger of becoming a woman whose opportunities, financial future and even self-worth were limited by a lack of education. Luckily for Alex, she found help at a special Jacksonville nonprofit, PACE Center for Girls, which has helped her achieve her high school degree and a chance at a better future. This is her story. Alex moved to Jacksonville at age 6, along with her single mother who struggled to create a supportive family for her only child. As a youngster, Alex was extremely precocious and had early dreams of becoming a marine biologist or foreign language interpreter for an American embassy. She loved all languages and

same-age peers had graduated high school. Today Alex, now 21, is a student at Florida State College at Jacksonville and will transfer to the University of North Florida next year. She is proud of all she’s accomplished thanks to PACE and hopes to graduate with a degree in education, which she wants to use to help other at-risk teens. Alex credits PACE with her transformation. “It gave me the opportunity to have the future I envisioned for myself,” she said. That’s Alex’s story. Sadly, there are hundreds of at-risk girls like the teenaged Alex all across the First Coast. According to 2012 statistics for Duval County gathered by Jacksonville Community Council Inc., the dropout rate for girls is 2.4 percent. That means that 464 teen girls in Duval County

Education for girls is important both locally and globally. Girls who realize their full potential academically become women who can sustain a higher standard of living for their families, improving the well-being of their larger communities.

The Girl Effect

Improving educational outcomes for girls creates a ripple effect in society HOW YOU CAN HELP

The 24-member Blueprint for Leadership group for 2013 volunteers a day of service to refurbish PACE’s eight classrooms on June 10. The event is not open to the public, but you can help supply classrooms with the needed educational materials by contributing at 2013paceproject.com.

hroughout the world, the voices of women and girls have often been silenced as nations and societies have failed to offer them the educational opportunities they need to succeed. Their stories are fraught with disappointment, courage and danger. Often, we know them by only their first names. For example, there is Malala, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head in 2012 after campaigning for a girl’s right to attend school. Cambodia’s Sokha was orphaned and forced to pick through garbage

for food, but she has persevered in her fight to get an education. Nepal’s Suma, who was forced into labor at the age of 6, taught herself to read and write music and now advocates for other girls to attend school. But Third World countries aren’t the only places where support for girls’ education is needed. Right here in Jacksonville, girls too often fail to reach their full potential. It hurts the at-risk girls, who may be excluded from higher-paying jobs because they didn’t finish high school, and it damages the community at large, as a family’s financial well-being is diminished when a woman lacks an education. Indeed, according to one 2004 report, a woman can expect a 10 to 20 percent rise in earning power with each year of school completed after elementary school. Let me tell you a story of one Jacksonville girl who was saved by an inspiring organization

taught herself Latin, reading by the glow of a digital watch under her covers after bedtime, even before she reached middle school. But then Alex hit high school and she began drinking and experimenting with drugs. She still kept her grades up during her sophomore year, often enrolling in honors and advanced classes. Her drinking, however, soon extended to her in-school time, and one day she and a group of friends left their private school campus to grab lunch at a local restaurant. Upon her return to school, she was expelled and failed her sophomore year. She enrolled in public school the next year in an attempt to finish the 10th grade, but her drinking had escalated even more. She brought bottles of wine to school, drinking with friends in the bathroom. There were only a few school days that Alex didn’t skip at least one period. By this time, she knew she was an alcoholic and was having serious bouts of depression and anxiety. Alex admits that she simply gave up. Her grades fell, and she once again failed her sophomore year. The once-star student and Latin reader was now two years behind her peers and in danger of dropping out of school altogether. Her mother succeeded in getting Alex enrolled in a special therapeutic school in South Florida, designed to help troubled teens, but Alex admits she never gave it a chance to work. After six months, she was sent back to Jacksonville. It was then, finally, that PACE got involved. Seventeen-year-old Alex enrolled in PACE in October 2008, prepared to experience another failure. Yet what she found were caring teachers and counselors who were skilled in helping girls like her achieve their academic dreams. In fact, PACE specializes in taking at-risk girls, ages 12 to 17, who are at least one year behind academically in school and turning their lives around. Teachers reignited Alex’s love of learning and counselors quelled her fears and self-doubt. She took off like the star student she once was, graduating with her GED two months before the remainder of her

dropped out of high school last year. But now you can help. HandsOn Jacksonville’s Blueprint Project for Leadership has launched a campaign to supply PACE with the classroom materials it needs to help students like Alex. Because PACE is not a county school, it must rely upon donations and grants to furnish its classrooms. Realizing the need for hands-on educational materials, Blueprint members asked teachers in the eight classrooms at PACE to compile wish lists of items, ranging from microscopes to posters of successful women. The group’s goal is to grant as many of those wishes as possible. The group has set up a website, 2013paceproject. com, where donors to the project can make contributions, which are 100 percent tax deductible. The teachers’ wish lists are also posted on the site. Education for girls is important both locally and globally. Girls who realize their full potential academically become women who can sustain a higher standard of living for their families, improving the well-being of their larger communities. Every dollar spent on girls’ education reaps an exponential return for society. In fact, a CARE report labeled it the “Girl Effect” — the notion that a focus on improving educational outcomes for girls creates a ripple effect in society, improving the quality of life for everyone. Investing in girls can, quite literally, change the world. Help us change Jacksonville by investing in girls locally. Please give to Blueprint’s campaign to aid PACE’s girls. Give courageous, talented girls like Alex — and hundreds more like her — a chance at a brighter future. Paula Horvath

Horvath, a faculty member at the University of North Florida, is a member of the 2013 Blueprint for Leadership class.

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