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PREDICTING THE 904 IN 2016 PREDICTING THE FUTURE IN 2016 — ABSENT any acumen related to mathematical modeling — is a fool’s errand. Even before people like Nate Silver — creator of the FiveThirtyEight blog and clairvoyant of presidential election results — proliferated the use of regression analysis and advanced predictive models to accurately forecast everything, from which teams will participate in the college football playoffs to which teams will participate in the professional football playoffs (OK, it’s mostly just sports), there was little need for the futuregazing of fraudulent psychics (wow, that’s redundant). And there’s even less of a need for the predictions of an alternative newsweekly magazine editor. However, unlike the federally indicted Jamaican-money-ripping-off-peoplewho-thought-she-was-a-Jamaican-wizard Miss Cleo, I’ll offer these localized predictions absent any illusions of financial return (you can, however, read them aloud in a Jamaican accent, if you wish). CORRINE BROWN REMAINS IN JACKSONVILLE: After her district was redrawn (see: inverted) to run west from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, the 12-term U.S. Representative’s Hail Mary of a federal lawsuit will be dismissed, due to a failure to prove that the new districts rob minority voters of their ability to elect a candidate of their choosing. Despite speculation that she would run in Orlando (District 10), Brown will outlast both the opportunistic Al Lawson and ambitious Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in District 5, proving she is the most badass politician from here to ’Nole Country. Go Gata! TENS OF THOUSANDS LEAVE FACEBOOK (ONLY TO RETURN BEFORE YEAR’S END): Thousands of older folks have already announced they’ll be taking a year off from social media, disabling their accounts in the waning days of 2015 (though most stuck around long enough to see who, if anyone, gave a fuck). However, relieved of the burden of knowing their college Lit professors and weird cousins are likely spying on them, Millennials (who left years ago) will return in droves. And by August, those who painstakingly pried themselves away will be lured back, partly by a need to share the exploits of their recent all-inclusive stay at Sandals Jamaica, and partly by the inherent deprivation of not being able to discern which Mean Girls character they are without the aid of a shared Buzzfeed quiz. RON DeSANTIS WINS MARCO RUBIO’S VACATED SENATE SEAT: Writing for The Economist’s annual prediction issue, Gideon Rachman argued that 2016 would be the year macho men — in the mold of shirtless, horseback-riding Vladimir Putin — would return to Western politics. And Ponte Vedra resident and former Navy Jag Congressman Ron DeSantis looks like the manliest in a manly field of Senate candidates that includes Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez Cantera (R) — who’s puffed out his chest on foreign policy issues and turned up the heat by calling President Obama weak on radical Islam — and Rep. Alan Grayson (D) — who’s turned up the heat by inviting supporters to climb naked over hot coals in his honor. Deemed the favorite by Tampa Bay Times political columnist Adam C. Smith, DeSantis has two Ivy League degrees, a yacht-load of wealthy bundlers, and a 2012 endorsement from the most macho-est macho man in all the macho land, Donald Trump. He 4 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 6-12, 2016
even wrote a book (OK, writing is not all that macho), Dreams From Our Founding Fathers, slamming Obama (macho) while expounding the virtues of America’s rich, white, male founders (mucho macho!).
JACKSONVILLE’S URBAN CORE WILL GET A NEW HASHTAG: Sure, there are a few upscale restaurants on the way (Cowford Chophouse, a new concept from the folks behind Black Sheep, and, fingers crossed, The Bullbriar) and a couple new nightlife spots (Levels and a TBD Underbelly revamp), but until the city’s Downtown gets a new hashtag … let’s face it … shit ain’t real. I’m sure those behind TruJax — which seeks to tell the world how badass the city is — are working on a hashtag. However, while one of my two suggestions, #downtownisrelativelymorefunthanithasbeeninthepast, exceeded the well-established character limit for hashtags by a mile, the poignant and literal #downtownisonwater is gaining steam as an alternative to the much-maligned #downtownisonfire. So tag all your posts — your Main Street Bridge pics, your aquatic Avondale Instas, your candids aboard Kismet (#imonshadkhansyachtyall), your Southbank Riverwalk snaps — with #downtownisonwater. Together we can change the world. THE AMPHITHEATER WILL BE MEH. WHILE ONE SPARK WILL BE MEH!: It’s all about expectations and, at a price tag of $90 million, the bed-tax subsidized amphitheater will treat its capacity crowds to underwhelming performances by classic rock dinosaurs like Eddie Money, a Steve Perryless Journey, and whatever collective of pudgy white men don the denim and fringe and moonlight as Lynyrd Skynyrd. Meanwhile, the scaleddown One Spark Festival, after initiating a much-needed vetting process for creator projects, will award undisputedly worthy participants in all categories, including the ever-contentious music category. Also, no Bling Bullets this year. So … win! GANCARSKI’S “FIGHTIN’ WORDS” WILL INSPIRE ACTUAL FISTICUFFS: In 2015, Folio Weekly Magazine “Fightin’ Words” columnist A.G. Gancarski emasculated Jag-bros with his “Shad Khan owns you” piece, and irked many a beach-bro with his “Guitar Zero” column, causing all to ponder complicated issues like the ROI on taxpayer-subsidized entertainment facilities and the negative societal effects of white privilege, before they responded with well-thought-out letters to the editor (just kidding; they took to Twitter and let Gancarski have it). In 2016, a yet-to-be-imagined Gancarski think-piece will lampoon Kelly Slater’s Lemoore, California wave pool, calling it “the death knell to the illusion of surfing as a countercultural pursuit,” while also ridiculing the 11-time World Champ, and favorite son of the Sunshine State, saying he’s “the beneficiary of a judging-pool gone gaga over a surf-celebrity.” This will lead to increased aggression in the lineups of Northeast Florida’s famed breaks, resulting in frequent parking lot skirmishes between those on opposing sides of the argument. As a response, by year’s end, the phrase “Gancarski Don’t Surf ” will become a recognizable spray tag around the region. Matthew B. Shaw mshaw@folioweekly.com twitter/matthew_b_shaw
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RE: “PLEASE DON’T SAY THESE WORDS IN 2016,” BY MATTHEW B. SHAW, DEC. 30 Mr. Shaw, I enjoyed your article “Please don’t say these words in 2016.” Please allow me to add one more to your list: First annual – There is no such thing as a “first annual.” However, we see this term used for events all the time. To say something is annual is saying that it is happening yearly. But the reality is, if you are holding an event for the first time, there is no guarantee you will be holding it again the next year. Based on this, you cannot say something is annual until you have done it the year before. Furthermore, the AP Stylebook states: “An event cannot be described as annual until it has been held in at least two successive years.” There can be a “first,” an “inaugural,” and a
“first-in-what-we-hope-will-be-an-annual,” but there cannot be a “first annual.” Keep up the great work. David Zuckerman via email
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RE: “AFTER THE CLIMATE DEAL,” GUEST EDITORIAL, DEC. 30 After reading and digesting the adolescent pablum [sic] in this piece by the “Environmental Youth Council” (they misspelled “Fascist”), I feel compelled to ask this question: Was this an Onion parody? Jeff Karr via email [Ed note: When used referring to mushy food, it’s pablum. When one speaks of banality, it’s pabulum.]
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO FLORIDA BLUE FOUNDATION The philanthropic affiliate of Florida Blue awarded a $150,000 grant to Ability Housing of Northeast Florida – whose mission is to provide quality, affordable, community inclusive housing for individuals and families at risk of homelessness and adults with disabilities – to support “The Solution That Saves,” a statewide pilot program aimed at collecting data on the impacts of providing permanent supportive housing to high utilizers of crisis services. BRICKBATS TO DEFENDJAXFAMILIES.ORG The website, which is unattributed except to identify its creators as a “broad alliance of Jacksonville citizens,” calls the push to expand the city’s human rights ordinance to include the protections for its LGBT population “a special preference law” and carries a host of useless tabs, including one that reads “No Men in Women’s Bathrooms” and another titled “watchful leftism” where they’ve posted an editorial in which a Folio Weekly Magazine columnist called the domain “a hot mess of a website.” KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A PROVERBIAL BRICKBAT? Send your submissions to mail@folioweekly.com. Submissions should be a maxium of 50 words and directed toward a person, place, or topic of local interest.
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Ballet, like sitting in a dimly lit room, eating a gigantic wheel of brie while watching Murder, She Wrote, is always in season. And we are certain that Jessica Fletcher (née Angela Lansbury) would urge us to see Tchaikovsky Spectacular Ballet, featuring the 55-person State Ballet Theatre of Russia performing selections from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. Westsider note: Stomping along with this performance and yelling “Freebird!” are highly discouraged. 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, Downtown, $22.95-$82.75, artistseriesjax.org.
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THE CALIDORE STRING QUARTET It’s no secret the staffers here at Folio Weekly Magazine enjoy two things: the puerile, blood-soaked music of late, filthcore punk GG Allin – and chamber music quartets. So imagine our delight when we saw that The Calidore String Quartet was gracing our town with its well-respected presence. The internationally renowned group of twentysomethings has won virtually all the major American chamber music competitions – but can they navigate the chordal-melodic majesty of Allin’s “Legalize Murder”? Find out at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd’s Craig Hall, Riverside, $30; $10 students, riversidefinearts.org.
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explain, the career of Marco Benevento is a slippery task. Since the late ’90s, the New York-based pianist/multi-instrumentalist/producer has released music that runs the gamut from full-blown psych rock to introspective pop material, while collaborating with artists like avant garde jazz great Joanne Brackeen and Tortoise member John McEntire. Cool show coming through town, kinda under the radar, and surely worth your time and precious shekels. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1904 Music Hall, Downtown, $15 advance; $20 day of, 1904musichall.com.
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PAINT THE TOWN FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK Celebrate the New Year and the 150th anniversary of Hemming Park at the (ahem) inaugural First Wednesday Art Walk of 2016. If you’re a local, you know the drill and the numbers: 15 blocks featuring 50-plus galleries, museums, bars and eateries, free concerts and dozens of artists. If you’re new to Duval, head Downtown tonight and you’ll see that all the fuss about this great place is for reals. 5-9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, Downtown Jacksonville, iloveartwalk.com. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 6-12, 2016
PUNKS O’ PLENTY LOUDERPALOOZA 2
If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that New Year’s resolutions were made to be brutally broken as quickly as possible. At least what’s the Buddha said. Maybe it was Jesus. Anyway, Louderpalooza 2 gives you two full days to decimate your silly attempts at self-improvement with a roster of local and regional punk, garage, and thrashed-out bands including The Wastedist (pictured), Southern Alabama Pie Cookoff, Concrete Criminals, Community Cervix, Grabbag, Running Rampant, The Mother Gooses (full disclaimer: featuring FWM editor/bossman Matthew B. Shaw on bass and vox!), Status Faux, Gross Evolution, Powerball, Mr. Never & The Scars, 1.8.7., The Happy Faced Mistakes, Skatter Brainz, and The Sweaters. 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9 & Sunday, Jan. 10, Burro Bar, Downtown, burrobarjax.com.
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FIGHTIN’ WORDS
CHRISTIANITY IS DYING And THE REPLACEMENTS are getting desperate
CHRISTIANITY IS A DYING RELIGION IN THE United States. In many churches, the demographics skew ever older and grayer, with schisms on issues of the day, such as gay marriage. When church bodies, from Methodists to Catholics, gather for their global conclaves, the agenda is now more likely to be shaped by population clusters far removed from where these churches were founded centuries (or millennia) ago. Variants of the “American Christianity is dying” theme can be heard in pulpits and read in magazine articles, and it’s hard to imagine what turns that around. Jacksonville is no exception. Those who’ve been here for some time will remember the stranglehold that First Baptist Church held on this town decades back. That FBC grip is still significant, but less so every day as new populations surge in, brought to Jacksonville by corporate relocations, military transfers, or a feeling that Jacksonville offers more opportunities than their stifling small towns. Those new transplants don’t have institutional memory, and the lack of that is mirrored in some corners of the media, especially television, staffed by folks here for a year or two before they (if all goes well, and they’re pretty enough) move to a bigger market. Looking at you, Victor Blackwell! Remember 2012? Back then, the watereddown version of the HRO bill was voted down, 10-9 in Jacksonville City Council. And First Baptist Church invited those 10 lions of the legislative branch to stand up to be applauded at one Sunday service, as any interested party can see on YouTube. The pews: half-full. And many councilmembers, including church member Clay Yarborough and current referendumpusher Bill Gulliford, had somewhere better to be than basking in the healing balm of FBC. Last year, during the HRO Community Conversation at Edward Waters College, the good white folks of First Baptist Church had an existential problem. They didn’t want to drive to and (gasp) park their cars at EWC. So FBC shuttled them there from its Downtown Jax parking garage. It was amusing to see them filing out, on cue, before the program ended, to where their shuttles waited. This illustrates the problem FBC has. It would like to run this town. But the numbers aren’t really in its favor anymore. Luckily, there are useful idiots working on its behalf, at least in terms of the issues church members value. We see it on the HRO issue, specifically with the DefendJaxFamilies.com website. Thank God for random, unsigned websites stepping into the void and defending Jacksonville families when no one else will. “Defend Jax Families
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is a continuation of the 2012 Protect First Liberties effort, which helped defeat the 2012 LGBT favoritism ordinance,” claims this outfit, which asserts that “Jacksonville is the next city in the crosshairs of the national LGBT attack machine … the unholy LGBT alliance.” The site also promulgates a series of fallacious farragoes that are nothing new to those following this debate, such as “the morality and the social fabric of the Community will decline” and, of course, “men alleging a female gender will be free to enter women and children’s, dressing, locker, shower and restrooms in public facilities — an unstoppable crime opportunity, which will be exploited by sexual predators.” As in Houston, Texas, the key to this effort is to whip the poorly educated into a froth of confusion. Speaking of Houston, a pointman for the anti-LGBT effort locally is Pastor Ken “Overseer” Adkins, notable because months back, Adkins (after Folio Weekly Magazine contributor Shelton Hull wrote an article about some initiative of his) made a lot of public noise about supporting HRO expansion. He gave an impassioned speech in front of City Council, and an equally impassioned Facebook post, along the lines of “Shelton Hull helped me see the error of my ways on the HRO.” Now? Adkins is gay-bashing with the best of them, referring to members of the LGBT community as “sissies” and worse, and referring to local activist Jimmy Midyette as “Massur Jimmy,” in reference to the Human Rights Campaign contracting with Pastor RL Gundy (a former opponent of the measure) for “political consulting” work. He also has made a practice of libeling Councilman Tommy Hazouri in Facebook memes, depicting Hazouri watching people using the bathroom, and falsely quoting Hazouri as saying “I love homosexuals” because “I like to watch.” Is this in “defense” of Jax families? As mainline Christianity dies out, we see the replacements. The “rock and roll” churches that attempt “gay conversion therapy.” And the storefront preacher charlatans, along with the “respectable” preachers in Jacksonville’s worst neighborhoods who don’t minister where they live, but instead roll in in their Rolls Royces to collect the tithes. In this context, the HRO debate can be seen as another burst of empty symbolism, hucksters pushing a fake version of “family values” that never really existed, to justify oppression of people who definitely exist. And the worst part? Odds are that a significant proportion of the cowards on Council will legitimize this rancid and rank BS. A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski
JAGCITY
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“It’s evident to see how far we’ve come in many aspects of our game.” — Shad Khan
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The AFC South champs took the Jags to the woodshed. The 2015 season is now history, and what’s telling about this franchise is this: You can write anything you want to about the Jaguars’ on-field performance. I’ve been doing so since the days of Mark Brunell, Jimmy Smith, Tony Boselli, and Tom Coughlin. Through three coaches and more than a decade since, I’ve done so. And never, not once, have I gotten any adverse feedback for what I wrote about the team’s performance.
of the fridge. Two sacks in the first quarter for the Texans set the tone for eight total Texans sacks of Blake Bortles. And Jags’ OT Luke Joeckel? Preparing for his post-playing career as a turnstile. The Jaguars, so amazingly well-coached that they announced retaining Gus Bradley so that the team could focus on this Houston game, were doing it all, all game long. Sergio Brown and Andre Branch out of position on defense. Joeckel and the rest of the line getting burned like forests during an August drought. Fun Fact No. 1: 20-3 was the halftime score. Bortles with 80 yards passing and a pick. Fun Fact No. 2: Until the 11:14 mark of the fourth quarter, the Jaguars had 108 total yards. Down by 17 in the fourth quarter, Bortles wasn’t done. Staring down Allen Robinson like he was going to ask him to couples skate, Bortles threw his signature: A Pick 6, putting an exclamation point on another meaningless Week 17. A team that started four QBs. A team that lost Arian Foster. A team that was down 42-0 in Miami before halftime.
On the field, that is. Off the field? A different matter. For some reason, the Jags’ management and ownership didn’t appreciate my writing about the slam-dunk nature of the $90M stadium renovations. They cast aspersions, reliable sources tell me. They mean-mouthed. The Jaguars made a decision, before this flop of a performance in Houston, to retain Gus Bradley. It’s their prerogative to do that, certainly. Khan told the media, in a statement, that it was clear the team was improving. Did they look improved on Sunday? Do people in Jacksonville believe that the Jags have an elite coach who can take this team deep in the playoffs? I seriously doubt it. And I can write that all day long and get no repercussions. Not like I’m writing about something important. You know, like $45M of city money. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski JANUARY 6-12, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
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“FROM MY FIRST DAY ON THE JOB, TEACHERS have been reaching out asking for additional instruments,” shares Jeffrey Smith, the new Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) director of arts. The Instruments For Change campaign, which asks the community to donate instruments sitting fallow and/or donate cash to purchase new instruments for local schools, arose from these requests. Duval County Public Schools partnered with the Jacksonville Symphony, Jacksonville Public Education Fund, Jacksonville Public Library and Florida Blue in order to encourage folks to supply the county’s growing number of band classes. According to DCPS, in 2010, there were 3,150 students enrolled in instrumental courses. Today, there are more than 6,350 students enrolled in instrumental courses (band, orchestra, guitar, and keyboard). From Dec. 1 through Dec. 19, the community responded to the dearth by taking trumpets, saxophones, guitars and even an accordion to designated sites throughout the city, and now all of the instruments are going right into the hands of eager students. Coordinated by Smith, the effort is meant to address a significant increase not only in the number of band and instrument classes offered and supported by the district, but also an increase in the number of students taking these classes. Additionally, the school system has been hiring music instructors at a rate not seen in well over a decade; every school in DCPS now has at least one music teacher, with some schools offering multiple disciplines and instructors. For Smith, this growth is a direct effect of the efforts made by DCPS Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti to bolster arts education in Duval County schools. “The district had realigned and reinvested funds for arts education in the budget,” says Smith, “but the need is even greater than that.” Estimated costs for a single school band program can reach upwards of $250,000, according to DCPS. Smith’s new position places him at the helm of all arts education, to include visual arts, dance and theater, yet, he states, the costs and needs are most significant in DCPS instrumental programs at this point. “The district has a number of instruments that are in need of vital repair. Instruments reach the end of their lifespan and must be replaced,” Smith says. Individual costs of some instruments can be prohibitive for a family or even a school. Replacing a tuba, for example, can cost around $2,500 — and that’s for an entry-level quality instrument. Other instruments, such as bassoons, can cost as much as $5,000; cellos 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 6-12, 2016
New DCPS Director of Arts Jeff Smith started Instruments For Change as a response to budgetary shortfalls. “The district had realigned and reinvested funds for arts education in the budget, but the need is even greater than that.” can cost $1,200, clarinets go for around $2,000. Music stands, instrument stands, cases and cleaning kits add up, too. The partners gathered wanted to create a homegrown initiative; they wanted the donors to feel a connection to the school where the instrument they donated was being played. They wanted the community to feel the exhilaration of sharing the gift of music and perhaps get a nice “thank you” in return. Amy Rankin, Jacksonville Symphony’s director of public relations, explained that “for [JSO’s] December concert series, folks who brought in an instrument received a voucher for our Sunday matinee concerts.” For Rankin, the current band and instrument classes offered in Duval County schools are helping create the future audience for the symphony. “As a community, we have an opportunity to affect and influence the emotional well-being of young people. We have the ability to help them experience the joy of music,” Rankin adds. At the end of the December collection period, the Instruments For Change initiative had accumulated nearly 50 instruments from the community. Smith and his team will need to assess the state of each individual instrument and then decide which are ready to be played and which are in need of repair. Smith says, “An instrument that is not played regularly can fall into disrepair quickly.” Moving forward, the stakeholders, evermobilized by this initial collection, look to repeat the drive biannually, aiming for a May repeat in 2016. According to Smith, band programs and instrumental classes are only going to increase under his watch and folks can drop off instruments or monetary donations to repair instruments at his office any day, any time. When asked if there have been any unique instruments donated during the collection period, Smith shares, “We received a hammer dulcimer and an accordion in the same day.” In the near future, those unusual music makers just might be put to good use by a curious student. Folks interested in donating can call the DCPS Arts office anytime at 904-855-3349 ext. 2, email Jeffrey Smith at smithjl@duvalschools. org or go to duvalschools.org/arts. Josué Cruz mail@folioweekly.com
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Inspired by Cosby accusers, a group of St. Augustine women FIGHT THE STIGMA of sexual assault
FINDING STRENGTH WHERE DO SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS TURN when the criminal justice system can’t — or won’t — help them? Inspired by the women who presented a united front accusing once-beloved entertainer Bill Cosby of sexual assault, a group of St. Augustine women who say they were each assaulted by the same man are campaigning for change in how sexual assault survivors are perceived and how such crimes are investigated and prosecuted in their city. Katelynn Quarrels readily admits that she’s made some poor choices in her 24 years; consenting to sexual intercourse with her former roommate, Matthew Alan William Hare, is not one of them. On a hot autumn day, Quarrels, a slim, slight woman, speaks rapidly about the night of Feb. 19, 2012. Hare, 23, and his thengirlfriend, Catherine Marshall, were living with her at the time. “It was probably one of the best nights I ever had with my friends,” Quarrels says in the kitchen of her St. Augustine home. Quarrels says the evening of drinking concluded when she went to bed around 2:30 a.m. Sometime later, she awoke abruptly, with her clothes partially removed — she had the sense that someone had been in her bed. At first, she thought it was her boyfriend, Corey Harris.
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“I texted Corey, I was, like, ‘I just had the craziest dream’ … then I see Matt walk in my bedroom,” she says. “ … He tried to get back in my bed and that’s when I kind of realized something was going on. I shined the light from my phone in his face and said, ‘I don’t know what you think is happening, but you need to get out right now.’” She says she then realized that Hare had had sexual intercourse with her while she was asleep. “If I would’ve been drunk, what happened would’ve sobered me up,” she says. She told Harris what had happened when he arrived and he attacked Hare, who was in bed with Marshall. Then Quarrels and Harris left. Initially, Quarrels did not plan to report the alleged assault. “I didn’t want to acknowledge that had happened. It was really hard for me to fathom. That was really one of my good friends and it felt like I was losing that,” she says. She contacted police later that day. She says she was “flabbergasted” when “one of [the officers] said … it was not illegal for me to cheat on my boyfriend.” “I know it is their job to ask hard questions; I know it is their job to investigate. But I also know it is their job to treat you with
respect and sensitivity and when you report a sexual assault … I don’t think that you can assume someone is making a regrettable decision,” Quarrels says. Hare’s statement to police, dated Feb. 20, 2012, reads in part: “Me and Cat[herine Marshall] had a small argument and I left the room to go into Katelynn’s room. I walked in, got in bed with her and rubbed her arm to wake her.” He writes that Quarrels “playfully said, ‘How’d you get in here?’ after [sic] she opened her eyes and looked at me fully, we engaged in consensual sex, no resistance or fighting … ” Quarrels, always a deep sleeper, insists that she was not conscious and, thus, not capable of giving consent. She also questions why Hare, her friend’s boyfriend, with whom she had never been intimate, would climb uninvited into her bed. Hare later writes that he was “under the impression that she’s fully filing this under false pretenses to appease her boyfriend.” Quarrels and Harris, who are still together, deny this claim. Marshall recently sat down with Folio Weekly Magazine.
Marshall, 23, says that she and Hare fought that night because she refused his sexual advances. “He’s insatiable. He has to have it every day. Or you don’t love him and he cries and he throws a tantrum.” Sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, Marshall says, is one of Hare’s trademarks. “He would come at me when I was sleeping. Often,” she says. Another former girlfriend of Hare’s, who is not identified because she is a minor, wrote via Facebook messenger, “I would wake up to him touching me or having sex with me. At the time I didn’t mind because I looked at him as my boyfriend. Now I look back at everything because I’m truly disgusted.” Another underage girl says that last year Hare got her and her underage sister passedout-drunk on whiskey. She’d never been drunk before. “I don’t remember anything that happened, really. I just remember waking up and he was in my room and I didn’t have any clothes,” she says, adding that Hare was dating one of her friends — who also claims he separately, and repeatedly, assaulted her — and that she reacted accordingly.
Melissa Brown (far left), Katelynn Quarrels (center), and Catherine Marshall (right), have found inspiration in the nationally-publicized allegations against the famous comedian to bring assertions of their own sexual assault to legal authorities and the media. “He was, like, ‘You weren’t freaking out before, why are you freaking out now?’… he was trying to make it seem like it was my fault,” she says. She was 15. He would have been 22. She has not reported the incident to police. If proved, Hare could be convicted of lewd or lascivious battery just for having had intercourse with her. Melissa Brown, 25, recalled attending a party with Hare, her then-boyfriend, in July 2011. “He wanted to hook up and I told him not unless he had a condom and he got angry and started yelling and screaming and pulling
file charges against Hare last summer and numerous efforts to gather support, her case has gone nowhere. “[The cops] said he didn’t deny anything. He just said that if you press charges on him, he’ll press charges on Corey.” Nearly every single woman who says she was assaulted by Hare also said that afterward, he would threaten to call the police on them for underage drinking, battery, trespassing, drugs, etc.; anything he could leverage to keep them quiet. “He’s notorious for, even the couple months we were together, [saying], ‘Don’t you dare call
“He’s insatiable. He has to have it every day. Or you don’t love him and HE CRIES AND HE THROWS A TANTRUM.” on me. I told him, ‘No, get out,’” she says. “ … He grabbed the sheet … and wrapped it around my face. He punched me in the face.” Brown says she fought him off and ran. She did not report the incident to police. In all, seven women told FWM that they were assaulted by Matthew Hare. On Oct. 15 at 3:25 p.m., FWM posted a message on a private Facebook group founded by Hare’s alleged victims, Silence Hides Violence, seeking to speak with women who were assaulted by Quarrels’ alleged attacker (he was not identified by name). At 5:29 p.m. that day, I received this voicemail at the phone number provided in the post: “Hello, this voicemail is being recorded for solely legal purposes and can be subpoenaed in court if necessary … Good afternoon, my name is [omitted]. I am the wife of Matthew Hare, the person whom you, alongside with Katelynn Quarrels, is attempting to create this news narrative article about an assault case. This is something we have dealt with individually, personally and legally prior with the police. They have declaratively decided to be in … [mumbling] … Matthew Hare, defendant’s honor through legal documentation and nothing further. No legal action has been taken against Matthew and publishing aforementioned article on their behalf is only slanderous against the police and the defendant in question. I strongly advise against being coerced to publish any article related to this specific event. If you have any questions, contact my attorney [omitted].” FWM called the attorney and learned that another attorney in the firm represents Hare in a pending criminal case. (He’s currently facing charges of battery and contributing to the delinquency of a child.) That second attorney did not respond to multiple requests for comment. FWM left multiple messages at the number from which the young woman called, seeking comment from her and/or Hare. Neither returned the messages. FWM also knocked on the door of a yellow, two-story duplex near downtown St. Augustine, where sources say the Hares reside. There was no answer. FWM left a note requesting comment. No one responded. Quarrels’ case unraveled almost immediately. In spite of attempting to re-
the cops, I’ve got this on you,’” says Brown. But they’re not keeping quiet now. Last summer, Quarrels created a Change.org petition for St. Augustine City Manager John Regan and Chief of Police Loran Lueders “to put in place rigorous sexual assault sensitivity training and investigation guidelines.” The petition quickly racked up more than 1,000 signatures. In response to FWM’s request for comment, Lueders says via email, “My officers already receive sensitivity and sexual assault training and we have protocols in place for investigating sexual assault.” Quarrels also formed the group Silence Hides Violence “to support anyone that has ever been a victim of a sexual assault, domestic violence or what ranges in between.” As of this writing, that group has 256 members. Sexual assault is one of the most difficult crimes to prosecute, largely because victims are reticent to come forward and be labeled “the rape girl.” Inspired by the bravery exhibited by the accusers of celebrity non grata Bill Cosby, these women are using their voices to fight the stigma that has kept so many others silent. Quarrels says, “I decided to share my story. It was around the time the Bill Cosby sexual assault [accusations] had happened. It was actually really inspiring. A group of women who stood in solidarity and they were willing to say things regardless of what anyone believed.”
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UPDATE: After months of trying to contact Hare, on Monday, Jan. 4 FWM received the following response from Hare’s attorney, Daniel K. Hilbert, via email: “Mr. Hare vehemently denies any and all accusations leveled by Ms. Quarrels, Ms. Brown and Ms. Marshall and believes they are false and without merit.” On Hare’s behalf, Hilbert subsequently denied all additional accusations thusly, “Mr. Hare similarly denies the allegations that have been included in your response email to specifically include the pending charges.” Claire Goforth mail@folioweekly.com JANUARY 6-12, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 13
Was the wrong GAINESVILLE NURSERY given the only license to grow CHARLOTTE’S WEB in Northeast Florida?
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GAINESVILLE NURSERYMAN ALAN SHAPIRO JUST WANTS TO GROW SOME POT.
Low-THC marijuana, meant for medical purposes, that is.
But his company, San Felasco Nurseries Inc., may be shut out of the business, despite receiving the highest score in Northeast Florida from the Florida Department of Health (FDOH). A three-person FDOH panel was convened to grade nurseries around the state and award five nurseries — one in each region — licenses to grow the so-called Charlotte’s Web. San Felasco, also known as Grandiflora, received the highest score out of any in this region, and Shapiro thought his nursery would be awarded one of the licenses. San Felasco, however, received a letter from the FDOH, claiming it had been disqualified because an employee had failed his level-two background check. Shapiro disputes that claim in his petition, filed in December saying there was a “discrepancy” in the background check in question, and that the FDOH had not given him an opportunity to correct the discrepancy. “The DOH’s disqualification decision was incorrect, and also violated the DOH’s own rules and procedures. This is a new process for the DOH, so it is understandable that mistakes can be made, but San Felasco Nurseries is hopeful the DOH will rectify the situation quickly so the patients of Florida
Gainesville’s San Felasco nursery (left) was disqualified in its bid to grow and distribute Charlotte’s Web because an employee failed his level-two background check.
can finally have access to the medicine they need,” wrote Jim McKee, an attorney for San Felasco, in an email through a public relations firm recently hired in the wake of increased media attention. Shapiro is one of 11 nursery owners to submit petitions in dispute of the department’s choices across all five regions of the state, further delaying the production and distribution of the drug to the state’s epilepsy and advanced cancer patients. The program is already more than a year behind schedule. When contacted by Folio Weekly Magazine, Shapiro declined to comment directly for this story, and declined requests to have our photographer visit his nursery. Daniel Banks — the San Felasco employee whose background check FDOH determined disqualified the nursery’s application — was slated to become the Research & Development Director for San Felasco if the nursery had received the license. He now lives in Colorado. Banks also submitted a petition, which echoes the argument in San Felasco’s petition, that his offense was not a disqualifying one, and even if it were, Banks’ record has been expunged, and can’t be used against him.
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MARIJUANA BIZ <<< FROM PREVIOUS The offense: A 2004 misdemeanor charge for possession of a depressant, stimulants, hallucinogenics or steroids, which, according to the petition, is not a severe-enough offense for disqualification, according to Florida statute. According to FDOH rules, each nursery applicant was required to provide a level-2 background check, which checks a person’s arrest and criminal record with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, for all its owners and managers. Until that and other requirements were met, no nursery was to be scored, according to the rules. San Felasco, however, was scored, and received the highest mark in the region, 3.975, beating second-place Chestnut Hill by nearly two-tenths of a point. The scores were calculated by averaging the scores of three judges, on a five-point scale, in five categories: cultivation, San Felasco (below) received the highest scores in the region from FDOH after beating out four other nurseries, including two in Jacksonville.
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processing, dispensing, financials and a medical director’s qualifications. The cultivation and processing categories carried the most weight. Receiving a score, Shapiro argued in his petition, implies that the department “had concluded that all owners and managers for San Felasco had passed level-2 background screening, as San Felasco would not have been permitted under the office’s rules to advance to the scoring phase absent such a determination.” But instead of receiving a congratulatory letter from the FDOH on Nov. 23, San Felasco’s owner received notice that the nursery hadn’t corrected the deficiencies in its application regarding a failed background check, as requested, and therefore was disqualified. In the petition, Shapiro claims San Felasco provided the department with requested information regarding the employee’s background check on Sept. 4, and followed up Sept. 15 and 24, to ensure everything had been resolved, and had received no response until the Nov. 23 letter.
The department awarded the Northeast Florida contract to Chestnut Hill Nursery (also called Chestnut Hill Tree Farm or Chestnut Hill Outdoors). San Felasco isn’t the only nursery taking issue with the department’s decisions, as Loop’s Nursery & Greenhouses of Jacksonville also each filed a petition. Chestnut Hill’s owner, Robert Wallace, served on the FDOH rulemaking committee formed early in 2015, which was tasked with creating the criteria nurseries needed to meet to receive a license. Also on that 12-person committee was Jill Lamoureux of CannLabs Inc., who was also listed as an advisor to Chestnut Hill in its application. Wallace is one of four nursery owners on that rulemaking committee whose nurseries were awarded licenses by the department. Loop’s received the third-highest score in the region, .4 behind San Felasco and .2 behind Chestnut Hill.
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MARIJUANA BIZ <<< FROM PREVIOUS The other two regional nurseries that applied for a license to grow medicinal marijuana, Hart’s Plant Nursery of Jacksonville and Bill’s Nursery of Homestead, received significantly lower scores and did not file petitions. In its petition, Loop’s applauds the department’s decision to disqualify San Felasco for the failed background check, and calls Chestnut Hill’s legitimacy into question. Loop’s claims that Chestnut Hill has not been a continuously operating nursery for 30 years, one of two preliminary requirements for each application to be considered. The other criterion was that each nursery have at least 400,000 plants growing on its property at the time it applied. Numerous attempts by FWM to reach owner David Loop and the attorneys listed on Loop’s petition directly for a period of at least two weeks have been unacknowledged. Shapiro argued the same point in his petition, claiming that Chestnut Hill has done business under a variety of names since the 1980s, but cannot claim to meet the 30-year continuity requirement. In its application, Chestnut Hill provided a document from the Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services that listed its initial registration date in November 1981, and a casually toned email from that department confirming that Chestnut Hill met the minimum requirements for the compassionate cannabis permits. While San Felasco (below) waits to learn the outcome of its petition, an estimated 125,000 people are still suffering from severe epilepsy and advanced cancers.
Shapiro further claimed Chestnut Hill changed names and let its nursery registration lapse in 1999 before being re-registered later under a different name. “The Office’s decision to accept applications from ... vendors who fail to meet the statutory minimum requirements of [state statute] while simultaneously disqualifying San Felasco for a purported failure to meet the minimum requirements of the statute, reflects an arbitrary and capricious process and result,” Loop’s petition says. Loop’s petition claimed that Chestnut Hill’s application contained “an intentional material misrepresentation of fact regarding its ability to offer qualified patients the Charlotte’s Web strain of low-THC cannabis.” Loop claims that Chestnut Hill does not have the ability to grow and distribute the drug, but did not specify why. Robert Wallace of Chestnut Hill declined to comment for the story, under the advice of his attorney. Loop’s was the only applicant with direct ties to Stanley Brothers, six brothers from Colorado who developed Charlotte’s Web by crossing a low-THC strain of marijuana, also known as “Hippie’s Disappointment,” with industrial-grade hemp. Loop’s claims to have worked with Stanley Brothers to develop standard operating procedures and “good agricultural practices specific to low-THC cannabis” in its petition. Loop claims his nursery is the only one licensed in Florida to legally cultivate and process the strain of low-THC cannabis known as Charlotte’s Web. On Nov. 23, Loop’s Nursery received a letter from DOH informing it that Chestnut Hill would be awarded the license to grow and distribute in Northeast Florida.
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The fight by advocates of medicinal marijuana — who hope legal low-THC medical marijuana in Florida can help treat the estimated 125,000 people who suffer from severe epilepsy and advanced cancers — ended when Governor Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act of 2014 into law. They certainly didn’t expect implementation of the law to take so long. When the law was signed, the plan was to have doctors prescribing the drug to qualifying patients on Jan. 1, 2015. But the first of many setbacks came that fall, when the FDOH’s first plan to select nurseries to grow and dispense the drug — through a lottery — was ruled “arbitrary and invalid” by a judge. Then, the department spent months putting together a rulemaking committee, held several hearings to determine who would
judge each nursery and how, and even had to replace the director of the overseeing office, the Office of Compassionate Use, midway through the process. The deadline was moved several times, and now, more than a year after the drug was supposed to become available, the department is still trying to decide what to do with 11 petitions and five nurseries left in limbo before it can continue setting up its infrastructure. FWM sent numerous emails to several FDOH offices, but received no response. However, the Florida Department of Health has provided the same canned statement to news organizations across the state on this issue when asked when or how it might be resolved.
“We remain committed to getting this product to children with intractable epilepsy and people with advanced cancer as safely and quickly as possible,” an FDOH spokesperson said in an October story in the Tallahassee Democrat. The stakes are high for what analysts have predicted to be a $780 million industry, and advocates are pushing hard for full-fledged medical marijuana to be legal next year, which could benefit even more potential customers. For now, the nurseries that could grow and distribute it, and those who suffer from pain, must still wait for answers. Greg Parlier mail@folioweekly.com
GERMINATING A CONTROVERSY
Legal low-THC medical marijuana in Florida could help treat the estimated 125,000 patients of severe epilepsy and advanced cancers. In June 2014, Governor Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medicinal Cannabis Act into law. More than a year later, medical marijuana has yet to be grown or distributed in the state of Florida.
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Eleven nurseries file 13 petitions disputing the licenses awarded for the five regions, including two petitions in Northeast Florida.
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
All nurseries that applied are notified by letter which ones have been awarded the licenses.
JULY 8, 2015
Nursery applications are due; recipients to be notified Aug. 8. That deadline was later moved to Oct. 31.
JUNE 17, 2015
Regulations for nursery selection process are finalized.
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2015
Florida Department of Health’s Office of Compassionate Use holds rule development workshops to determine how nurseries will be chosen.
JANUARY 16, 2015
Rulemaking committee formed, including five nursery owners.
JANUARY 1, 2015
Originally planned date for authorized physicians to begin prescribing low-THC marijuana to patients in need.
NOVEMBER 2014
Judge W. David Watkins of the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings rules the lottery plan was “not supported by logic, reason or facts. The proposed rule itself is arbitrary and invalid.”
AUGUST 2014
Florida Department of Health announces it will accept applications from nurseries that meet some minimum requirements, do a cursory screening of those applications, and hold a lottery to determine the five nurseries in the state to be granted permission to grow and distribute the drug. Department officials say the DOH doesn’t possess the expertise to compare business plans of nurseries for growing marijuana.
JUNE 2014
Gov. Scott signs bill allowing doctors to prescribe low-THC marijuana like a Charlotte’s Web strain.
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a chance to make any of her dreams or ideas fter the successes of Silver Linings come to fruition. Playbook and American Hustle, any Until now. combination of writer/director David O. Joy invents the “Miracle Mop,” a selfRussell, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro wringing and washable contraption that’s and Bradley Cooper is cause for excitement, unlike any mop ever slung around a kitchen and that’s exactly what we felt about Joy. floor. She goes to her father’s new girlfriend, You’ll walk into the theater, rightfully eager Trudy (Isabella Rossellini), for financial for a sharp script, compelling drama, a few help, but is unprepared for the hardships surprises, and some laughs. she will face — concept design, production, And you’ll leave Joy having experienced intellectual property, etc. just about none of the above. Several times, she’s on the cusp Lawrence stars as the titular JOY of losing it all, and her family Joy, a single mother whose **@@ has a terrible way of showing circumstances have inhibited Rated PG-13 support. To his credit, Russell her personal growth. She lives captures the plight of the small with her mother Terry (Virginia business owner well, including Madsen) and grandmother the pitfalls of startup headaches and getting Mimi (Diane Ladd), and as the film begins, bad advice — and following it. her father Rudy (De Niro) breaks up with The story is set in the 1980s, so when his girlfriend and decides to move into Joy’s Bradley Cooper pops up as Neil, a QVC basement, which happens to be where Joy’s executive responsible for launching the ex-husband Tony (Édgar Ramírez) currently network, you get a good idea how it’ll play resides. Only Joy’s best friend from out. There are some twists along the way, and childhood, Jackie (Dascha Polanco), is a reliable confidante in her otherwise chaotic you’ll root for Joy, but the frustration of her daily life. Flashbacks tell us Joy has always dismissive family — all of whom are onebeen smart and creative, but she’s never had dimensional personality types rather than
CLASSICS OF SUSPENSE THE RECENT RELEASE ON BLU-RAY OF OTTO Preminger’s last good film, Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), sent me to an even better, similarly themed movie released a year earlier. Like Bunny, Séance on a Wet Afternoon is about a very young girl gone missing in London. Both movies feature crisp black-and-white cinematography and were filmed on location, lending even greater realism to their respective stories. Looking back at each, we are provided with a time-capsule view of London on the cusp of the swinging ’60s. Capitalizing on a publicity gimmick introduced by Alfred Hitchcock for Psycho five years before, viewers were initially not allowed into screenings of Bunny Lake once the feature had started. The story is about a young American woman, Ann (Carol Lynley), whose daughter Bunny disappears on her first day at a private school in the heart of the city. Leading the investigation is Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier, in a terrific subdued performance). The first two acts of the film are suspenseful and nuanced as both viewer and police grow increasingly unsure whether Bunny Lake is even a real child. The unmarried Ann and her brother Steven (Keir Dullea) evoke plenty of doubt about their claims, but Preminger lets the cat out of the bag (so to speak) with more than 30 minutes to go, leading to a prolonged conclusion that retains suspense if not conviction.
The positive features of the film, in addition to the cinematography, include a stellar supporting cast of British stalwarts: Anna Massey, Clive Revill, and Finlay Currie. Olivier is brilliant and Noël Coward is wonderfully creepy as a salacious old pervert with an eye on the lovely Ann. The great Saul Bass provides opening and closing credits that are among his most inventive. On the downside, the two Americans in the cast (Lynley and especially Dullea) are not in the same league as their British counterparts. She is at least adequate, but Dullea is almost as much an automaton as he was in 2001. Another miscue (minor but curious) is the intrusion of the rock group The Zombies, in an early example of product placement. For all its faults, however, Bunny Lake Is Missing is two-thirds a very good film by one of the most important and iconoclastic directors of his era, whose many earlier and controversial successes include Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Advise and Consent, and The Moon Is Blue. English director Bryan Forbes, once an actor, began his career in the ’60s behind the camera with a string of critical and popular successes of great variety, including Whistle Down the Wind (which Andrew Lloyd Webber converted into a musical), The L-Shaped Room, King Rat, and The Wrong Box. His third film, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, remains one of the best. Unlike Bunny Lake, the plot of Séance is straightforward, but even more suspenseful.
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full-fledged individuals — make it hard to invest in the story. You get the sense Joy can’t win with them, and worse, can’t get them out of her way. Fantasy elements, such as Joy envisioning herself in a soap opera, and surreal moments, such as Joy’s mother suddenly in love with the Haitian plumber Toussaint (Jimmy Jean-Louis), have a Wes Andersonish quirkiness about them, but feel out of place — they come across as weird for the sake of being weird, which adds nothing of value. Per usual with Russell, the soundtrack is rife with pop hits and the writing is clever even if it doesn’t convincingly carry the narrative. Most of the actors are limited in what they can do with their characters, but De Niro steals more than one scene with great comic timing. It wouldn’t make sense to have more of this because its sole intention is comic relief, but thank goodness the scenes come when they do. Still, where’s the flair? The panache? You keep waiting for Joy to ooze with style and tempo, to win us over with its zaniness, to tell a thoroughly engaging, pressing drama. But it never happens. What we get instead are a few inspired performances (particularly from De Niro) and a half-baked story that lies flat on screen. Considering the wonderfully talented filmmakers, this is a disappointment. Dan Hudak mail@folioweekly.com
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Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough play middle-aged couple Myra and Billy, who contrive to kidnap a young girl and hold her for ransom. However, the real purpose of the scheme, as designed by Myra, is not to get money but to give the clearly unstable woman the opportunity to demonstrate her powers as a medium. The film’s focus, rather like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is the complex relationship of two people whose lives have been ripped asunder by the earlier death of a child. Myra dominates Billy, but he sustains her. Like the cluttered old house in which they live, however, the past can become a breeding ground for dangerous delusions, with tragic consequences. Besides the brilliant on-location photography, Séance is an actor’s showcase. Attenborough and Stanley are nothing less than brilliant, she undeservedly losing the Oscar to Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins, while he won its equivalent from BAFTA (the British Academy Awards). When you want to check out some classics in the New Year, don’t forget Bunny Lake Is Missing and Séance on a Wet Afternoon. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com JANUARY 6-12, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 19
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Having watched his father operate the business from a young age, Kuder understands who his customers are and how to accommodate them. “We don’t expect somebody who’s coming in to purchase something for their home to be knowledgeable about the industry,” he says. “Our job is to help point them in the right direction so they leave completely satisfied with their purchase.” That kind of service is reflected in Ray Ware’s customers. “We get a lot of repeat business from customers and we’re competitive with the Internet,” says Kuder. “We have to be.” While their Ortega location makes it a perfect place for the local homeowner to get high quality fixtures, Ray Ware’s business isn’t just confined to Northeast Florida. Generations of business means good relationships with contractors working on projects across the country. Whether it’s for the local shopper looking to jumpstart a DIY home improvement project, or a regional contractor seeking out doors, frames and hardware for contract, the folks at Ray Ware know even the smallest detail can make the biggest difference. “We have a huge section of cabinet knobs,” says Kuder proudly, “probably the best selection in the Southeast.”
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BLACK CREEK OUTFITTERS Matt Hite, Paddle Sports Manager 10051 Skinner Lake Dr., Southside 904.645.7003 • BlackCreekOutfitters.com __________________________________________ Describe Black Creek Outfitters in your own words. We’re an outdoor outfitter store that has an emphasis on paddle sports. We provide high quality customer service and a positive experience; where we carry kayaks, paddle boards, outdoor sportswear and yoga apparel, hiking and camping gear, and many other fun outdoor products. What sets Black Creek Outfitters apart from other outdoor equipment stores? Besides our high quality products and customer service, we have an extremely knowledgeable staff who are, themselves, users of all this gear. In addition, the shop is located on a lake where you can try anything out! I don’t know any other stores that can provide that kind of service and experience.
What are some of the best sellers at Black Creek? Hobie kayaks because of their efficient pedal-drive system — you can pedal hands free instead of paddle. Starboard and BIC SUP paddle boards because they are light, durable, and most importantly built with a quality construction. Clothing and foot wear like Olukai, Chaco, Outdoor Research, and Patagonia are a just few that stand out of the many brands we sell. Black Creek Outfitters doesn’t just sell gear, right? You teach classes, too? Yes, we do a lot of kayaking classes and even more with stand up paddle boarding. We have scheduled classes every weekend! Information on all our activities can be found our website.
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ative Sun, Jacksonville’s homegrown natural grocer, recently opened their third location in Jacksonville Beach. Like its Baymeadows Road and San Jose Boulevard counterparts, the new store specializes in natural and organic food sourced from local vendors in and around Jacksonville. Native Sun attributes its longevity and success to its efforts to deliver food standards that go above and beyond what competitors are willing to do. Their goal is to bring uncompromised quality and flavor to the grocery experience while balancing cost and value. They strive to deliver products that are organic, non-GMO, and free of artificial growth hormones, colors, flavors, sweeteners, and antibiotics.
The Native Sun deli emphasizes healthy convenience with fresh grab-and-go offerings including organic juices and smoothies, gluten-free baked goods, salads, wraps, and sandwiches as well as delicious hot meals perfect for quick lunches and dinners. For Owner Aaron Gottlieb, Native Sun’s prepared foods are all about “fresh items that are simple and delicious and meet the needs of customers regardless of their food choices.” 100% organic produce, grass-fed meats, sustainable seafood, premium health and beauty care, and the best local products available make Native Sun the perfect place to feed your passion for healthy living.
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FILM LISTINGS FILM RATINGS TERRY SOUTHERN **** TERRY GILLIAM ***@ TERRY BROOKS **@@ TERRY BOLLEA *@@@
SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN
SUN-RAY CINEMA Star Wars The Force Awakens and The Big Short screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. The Revenant starts Jan. 8.
THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ The Man from U.N.C.L.E and Learning to Drive screen. North by Northwest, noon and 6 p.m. Jan. 7. Life and The End of the Tour start Jan. 8. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Star Wars The Force Awakens and Secret Ocean screen at World Golf Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Johns, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.
NOW SHOWING
ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP Rated PG Those zany little fellas think their human buddy/manager Dave (Jason Lee) is going to leave them when he gets married. Hilarity and mass confusion ensue. Costars voices of Kaley Cuoco, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Matthew Gray Gubler, Justin Long (voicing Alvin), and Kimberly Williams Paisley. THE BIG SHORT **** Rated R This takes the mortgage crisis that precipitated the fallout and breaks it into small, digestible pieces that are easy to comprehend. Add some strong performances by A-list actors, creative flourishes and a few squirmy laughs and ta-da! one of 2015’s best. Based on Michael Lewis’ nonfiction bestseller, the story focuses on three groups of individuals who see the meltdown looming, even though the mortgage industry flourished in the early-to-mid-2000s. In 2005, San Jose money manager Michael Burry (Christian Bale) looked where others weren’t and saw adjustable rate mortgages were going to price regular folks out of their homes in a few years. Wall Street banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) enlists hot-headed hedge fund manager Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and his team so they can all make millions. Upstart money managers Jamie Shipley (Finn Wittrock) and Charlie Geller (John Magaro) bring in former banker Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) for financial assistance and guidance. The groups meld and rake it in. — Dan Hudak BROOKLYN Rated PG-13 Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) is a young Irish woman just moved to 1950s Brooklyn. She meets Tony (Emory Cohen) and falls in love. Then she has to go back to Ireland and has to pick – here or there? Costars Julie Walters, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Brid Brennan. CAROL ***G Rated R Reviewed in this issue. CONCUSSION Rated PG-13 Will Smith will always be a lil bit Fresh Prince to us, but here he plays forensic neuropathologist Dr. Bennett Omalu, who discovers an anomaly in the brain of a pro football player during an autopsy. He encounters seemingly insurmountable obstacles when he tries to get the truth about the violence and damage associated with concussions suffered by playing contact sports. Costars Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Paul Reiser and Arliss Howard. CREED Rated PG-13 Apollo Creed’s son Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) thinks he wants to be a boxer like his father, whom he never knew. So he looks for that lovable palooka Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in Philly. Costars Phylicia Rashad, Max Kellerman, Jim Lampley, Elvis Grant and Tessa Thompson. DADDY’S HOME Rated PG-13 The comedy pits Will Ferrell against Mark Wahlberg with borderline amusing results. Ferrell is regular guy Brad, new stepdad to Dylan and Megan (Owen Vaccaro, Scarlett Estevez), kids of his new wife Sara (Linda Cardellini). Wahlberg is their biological dad Dusty, a ripped, motorcycleriding, black-T-shirt-wearing hunk competing with Brad for the kids’ affections. Or is he? Costars Thomas Haden Church, Bobby Cannavale and Hannibal Buress. THE DANISH GIRL Rated R Two artists in Denmark fall in love, even as one of them is transitioning from male to female. This one has Oscar written all over it. Costars Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard; directed by Tom Hooper.
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THE FOREST Rated PG-13 There’s a place in Japan where folks go to kill themselves. Right off the bat, you know this is one peppy movie! Costars Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney and Eoin Macken; directed by Jason Zada. THE HATEFUL EIGHT Rated R Quentin Tarantino’s movie is about really bad guys with no moral boundaries. What a switch for him, huh? This one’s way out West, in the effing dead of winter, snow piled two miles high, in a cabin where desperate folks take refuge. Among these stellar individuals are ruthless bounty hunters, criminals and killers, steeped in typical Tarantino violence – so much so that it’s almost ho-hum to watch. Except Samuel L. Jackson is in this and he’s awesome. Along with SLJ are Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Masden, Bruce Dern, Belinda Owino and Channing EEEE! Tatum. JOY **@@ Rated PG-13 Reviewed in this issue. POINT BREAK Rated PG-13 Yes, my God, this is a remake of that eye-candy brain-pudding 1991 crap. Anyway, tyro FBI agent Utah (Luke Bracey) goes undercover blah, blah against extreme-sportsdude-professional-thief Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez). There are some nice waves, and snowboarding, rock climbing and some lunatics doing that wingsuit fl ying – which is just a death wish as far as we can tell – and lots of things blowing up. THE REVENANT **G@ Rated R “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight,” Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) tells his ailing son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck) at the start of director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film. The acting and cinematography are great, but there’s not one scene, moment, or even a glimpse of anything like happiness. Based on a true story, the whole thing’s a glum exercise in survival that only gets worse. DiCaprio is fur trapper Hugh, on a hunting trip under constant threat of attack by natives and French hunters. It’s the 1820s in a lawless land, and fur pelts are currency, which are easily, and often, stolen. Separated from the others, Hugh is mauled by a grizzly bear in a frightening, brutal and horrifying scene. His group tends to him, but it slows them down. Believing Hugh is near death, the captain (Domhnall Gleeson) asks Chip (Will Poulter) and Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) to stay with young Hawk and dying Hugh – and give the man a proper burial. Fitzgerald panics, kills Hawk and buries Hugh alive, then splits to catch up with the rest. What follows is nearly two hours of Hugh struggling to find the bastards who wronged him and exact his revenge. — DH SPOTLIGHT **** Rated R Inspired by a January 2002 report in The Boston Globe, about the sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church, the film follows the investigative Spotlight team researching Boston priests’ sexual abuse and the knowledge and cover-up by those in power, including Cardinal Bernard Law (Len Cariou). The Spotlight team includes editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) and reporters Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James). — DH STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS **G@ Rated PG-13 You know director J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens is in trouble from the opening action scene, a standard compound shootout that lacks the originality that so infused the saga begun in 1983. In fact, all of the action and visual effects are surprisingly mediocre – there’s nothing here that makes us say “wow.” It’s a letdown, considering how creative the movies have been. There are some notable surprises and good laughs (including genuinely funny moments from Han and the BB8), and some familiar faces pop up – it’s like seeing forgotten pals from high school at your 30th reunion. There is far too much left unexplained – information is deliberately not revealed that absolutely, positively should have been. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last living Jedi, has vanished. The villainous First Order wants Luke dead so it can reclaim the Galaxy from the Republic. General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), leader of the Resistance for the Republic, sends a pilot (Oscar Isaac) to the planet Jakku to find a clue to Luke’s hideout. The shootout begins soon thereafter. The heroes are Rey (Daisy Ridley), who is a local on Jakku, with an adorable droid called the BB8, and former stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega). Later, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) join the fight. The villains are the unimposing Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson), and Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis). Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker return as C-3PO and R2-D2, respectively, and Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o are under-utilized in small roles. — DH
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But note how Carol he way modern touches Therese pop culture on the shoulder remembers as they part, and 1950s America Therese closes her — as a time of eyes and seemingly prude women, melts into Carol’s gallivanting men, soft hand. All we and cultural norms need to know is that belied the suggested in this naughtiness lying behind closed otherwise passive doors — it was moment, and clearly a time of the phenomenal intolerance and performances exclusion. Things from Mara and had to be a certain Blanchett allow it orderly way, and all to feel pure. if they weren’t, The emotions ostracism was the become even more consequence. painfully prominent It is within this with Carter backdrop that Burwell’s musical writer and director score, which stays Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) with you. It’s notable for how it CAROL sets Carol, a moving love story punctuates otherwise mundane **@@ that’s wonderfully acted by Cate moments to heighten emotions, Rated R Blanchett and Rooney Mara. simultaneously suggesting Blanchett plays Carol, a loving melancholy and turmoil mother to Rindy (Sadie Heim) but throughout. It also makes you bored housewife to Harge (Kyle Chandler), feel the yearning Carol and Therese have for who she’s looking forward to divorcing. It’s one another, and as a result is one of the best Christmas season, so Carol ventures into New scores of 2015. York City from her spacious New Jersey home The camera work is straightforward, and to do some shopping. While in a department the costumes and production design are store, she meets Therese (Mara), a shy, waifish authentic, from the staid, modest attire to clerk and aspiring photographer. Therese’s the street signs, automobiles and furniture. boyfriend, Richard (Jake Lacy), wants to take Take note of what the women wear: Carol her to Europe and marry her, yet she hesitates. is often seen in lighter colors; her hairdo is Something is not quite right. As she spends styled in flowing blonde locks, suggesting time with Carol, she figures out why. a “look at me” extroversion and comfort Haynes’ story is in no rush to show us in a world that doesn’t accept her for what Carol and Therese physically involved, she is and wants. In contrast, Therese wears although Carol’s years-ago fling with her drabber, darker, less-flattering clothes, now-best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) visually fading into the background and clearly suggests what Carol desires. Instead reflecting her reserved nature by giving the of rushing it, Haynes and screenwriter impression that she’s completely “in the Phyllis Nagy have Carol and Therese spend dark” about who and what she is. time together. Bond. A simple caress of the The film is based on Patricia Highsmith shoulder here, a touch on the hand there novel’s The Price of Salt, which she wrote and intimacy is established. Eye contact lasts under a pseudonym in 1952 because of the longer, glances turn to glares that would be taboo content. Through the eyes of Todd awkward if they weren’t so … wanting. Soon Haynes, the story transforms into a stellar a deep emotional connection is established motion picture that tells its tale more through without them so much as kissing. actions and mannerisms than it does through The little things tell us everything. The first dialog. Carol is a patient, poetic and beautiful time we see Carol and Therese together, in the work that’s not to be missed. prologue before a flashback tells us how they Dan Hudak met, there’s an abrupt ending to their meeting. mail@folioweekly.com
EMOTION Director Todd Haynes’ latest is a masterful portrayal of ROMANTIC LONGING
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Giddyup and Go! The GALA OF THE ROYAL HORSES, featuring thoroughbred horses struttin’ their stuff, along with flamenco dancers, is presented at Veterans Memorial Arena Jan. 10, Downtown.
PERFORMANCE
The OLATE DOGS The performing pooches and their trainers, the Olate family, winners of America’s Got Talent perform 8 p.m. Jan. 11 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $32-$75, pvconcerthall.com. RAGTIME – THE MUSICAL The Tony Award-winning musical, about three people in turn-of-the-century (as in 20th century, kids!) New York whose lives intertwine, is staged 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 and 8 at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $54-$73, thcenter.org. BLOWN SIDEWAYS THROUGH LIFE Cass Willford stars in Claudia Shears’ one-woman show, which chronicles the ups and downs of life, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 10 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 2773455, $15, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR BALLET The 55-person State Ballet Theatre of Russia performs selections from Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker at 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $22.95-$82.75, artistseriesjax.org. HONKY TONK ANGELS This country-flavored musical, about a young girl who follows her dream of being a singer and heads to Nashville, is staged through Feb. 7. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch at noon, with Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu (Brunswick stew, fried chicken, collards, corn muffins, and honey bun cake); Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $35-$59 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
LA MER Guest artist, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, joins conductor Courtney Lewis and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring works by Fauré, Schumann, and Debussy, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 and 8 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $25$74, jaxsymphony.org. CALIDORE STRING QUARTET The internationally renowned string quartet, which has won grand prizes in many major American chamber music competitions, performs 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd’s Craig Hall, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, 389-6222, $30; $10 students, riversidefinearts.org. CLASSICAL AT FLAGLER Violinist Andrew Sords and pianist Eriko Izumida perform at 2 p.m. Jan. 10 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 74 King St., St. Augustine, 797-2800, $35, emmaconcerts.com. BEACHES FINE ARTS SERIES Organist Ken Cowan performs at 4 p.m. Jan. 10 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown; free, 2701771, beachesfinearts.org.
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THE VIVACE TRIO Music at Main presents the classical ensemble in concert, performing pieces by Debussy and Fauré, 3 p.m. Jan. 10 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com.
COMEDY
GREG MORTON Comic Morton, a veteran of Premium Blend and Comics Unleashed, is on 7:30 p.m. Jan. 6 and 7 and 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $12-$18, comedyzone.com. JOHN McCLELLAN Aggro funnyman McClellan performs at 8 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 at The Comedy Club Of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $8-$25, jacksonvillecomedy.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
AUDITIONS FOR OKLAHOMA! Northeast Florida Conservatory auditions for its upcoming March production of the beloved Broadway musical – you don’t have to declare if you’re a cowman or a farmer – 1 p.m. Jan. 9 at 11363 San Jose Blvd., Bldg. 200, Mandarin. Call backs are Jan. 10; 374-8639, nfconservatory.org. LIMELIGHT THEATRE AUDITIONS The theater auditions for its upcoming March production of A Facility for Living, 2-4:30 p.m. Jan. 10 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org. (NEU) SONICS MUSIC INITIATIVE Experimental saxophonist-composer Jamison Williams offers a six-week course of workshops with local and visiting improv musician-instructors, at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 101 W. First St., Downtown; sessions begin Jan. 30; neusonics.org. ONE SPARK APPLICATIONS One Spark 2016 accepts Creator applications; onespark.com. ARTS IN THE PARK ENTRIES The annual limited, juried April event held at Atlantic Beach’s Johansen Park seeks applications; coab.us.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
WEDNESDAY MARKET Produce, arts, crafts, food, live music, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 6, St. Johns Pier Park, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. COMMUNITY FARMERS & ART MARKET Art, crafts, jewelry, 4-7 p.m. Jan. 6, 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, 607-9935. WINTER RAM Some of Riverside Arts Market’s artists, food artists and local, seasonal produce are featured, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 9 and every Sat. through Feb. 26 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 3892449, riversideartsmarket.com. FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK This month’s theme is Celebrating 150 Years of Hemming Park; 5-9 p.m. Jan. CONTINUED ON PG. 26 >>>
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ARE EXPERIENCED? YOU Photography student Amanda Rosenblatt gains valuable insight into a WORKING ARTIST’S LIFE through MOCA’s residency program
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manda Rosenblatt became the second student to serve as Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s (MOCA) University of North Florida student-inresidence, from August through December 2015. Over the five-month period, she had the opportunity to glean a bit of knowledge from the team at MOCA and learn more about what it takes to not just survive, but thrive after graduation. As Rosenblatt puts it, “Working with the professors is important, but working with a real museum is invaluable.” Allegory of Fortune, the exhibit she was involved with while at the museum, open since early December, is on display through March 27, in the Florida Blue Education Gallery on MOCA’s fifth floor. Folio Weekly Magazine talked with Rosenblatt about the residency experience, MOCA’s encouraging environment, and her precognitive inspiration for her show.
Folio Weekly Magazine: Congratulations on the exhibit and the MOCA residency. What does it mean to you to have been selected? Amanda Rosenblatt: Thanks. Honestly, it was an honor. I worked really hard to complete the exhibit, and to be recognized for all of the hard work actually feels really good. There was this lengthy and intense application process … in the early part of 2015 and I know that there were plenty of great applicants, but I really wanted to secure the residency. As the second student-in-residence, you’re really in on the ground floor of this program. Absolutely. I feel like I was a part of the growth of this residency. This program is unique for undergraduates. I mean, these types of residencies are common at the grad level, and I am sure that there are others like it around, but for me it was all about working at a great museum with a great team of people and learning as much as I could from them. At MOCA, I had a space that I could have ownership over; I could leave backdrops up for lengths of time and I
ABOVE LEFT: Slaying from the series “The Masters Revisited,” 2014; ABOVE RIGHT: Amanda from the series “Dei Fiori,” 2015; AT RIGHT: Untitled Diptych No. 2 (2 of 2) from the series “Necessaries,” 2015. could work more with the models. It is such a different world from what goes on at the university. Is it difficult to learn about being a working artist while completing a degree? What was it about the experience that made it unique? Well, for one thing, working in a professional setting really helps you with time management and deadlines. At the museum, there were a ton of details to attend to in order to get the exhibit up. It really was an opportunity to learn how to operate as a professional artist. I’ve been doing photography since I was 14 years old. My family and friends have always been supportive, but I felt that part of the residency was showing people that there is no shame in being an artist and that, no, art will not leave you homeless. What were some of the ancillary responsibilities of being the student-inresidence? Did you have to show up to cut ribbons, kiss babies, and give a royal wave of the hand? No [laughs], there was none of that. And really, there were more opportunities than responsibilities. I got a chance to interact with MOCA patrons and MOCA visitors and share my process with them all, see their reactions and talk about my vision. One of the most important things I learned to do was talk about my work. In the classroom, the conversation is teacher-to-student. In the real world, it’s peer-to-peer, artist-to-art-lover. Tell me a bit about the actual exhibit. Well, the show is my take on tarot cards. I do portrait work and, after seeing a deck
of tarot cards, I wanted to add my vision to the history of tarot cards. The show is in no way meant to disrespect any person’s beliefs or spirituality. On the contrary, I want it to be a celebration. I couldn’t be happier with the show; it turned out like I wanted it to. Now, while technically my residence was up when the show opened a few weeks ago in early December, it’s great to know that the museum and the crowds will continue to interact with it through the spring. You’ve graduated and have an exhibit in one of the city’s premier spaces — so what’s next? I’ve always been interested in the fashion side of photography and the show will show some of that as well. So I plan to pursue fashion photography more. But, seriously, now that the degree is complete and the show is up, I just want to take a nap for a bit. Josué Cruz mail@folioweekly.com JANUARY 6-12, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25
+ EVENTS ARTS ARTS + EVENTS <<< FROM PG. 24 6 and every first Wed., featuring live music venues, and hotspots open after 9 p.m., spanning 15 blocks in Downtown Jacksonville. iloveartwalk.com.
MUSEUMS
BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum. org. Naval Station Mayport: Guardian of the Southern Frontier Exhibit runs through Feb. 12. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. The exhibit Conservation, Beautification, and a City Plan: Ninah Cummer and the Establishment of Jacksonville Parks is on display through Nov. 27. Julien De Casablanca: The Outings Project is on display through May 1. Rockwell Kent: The Shakespeare Portfolio exhibits through May 15. David Hayes: The Sentinel Series, sculptures of geometrically abstract, organic forms, displays through Oct. 2. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. Project Atrium: Ian Johnston, Johnston’s Fish Tales, themes of consumption and material waste, exhibits through Feb. 28. Smoke and Mirrors: Sculpture & The Imaginary, 3D and installation works by sculptors Chul Hyun Ahn, James Clar, Patrick Jacobs, Ken Matsubara, Daniel Rozin, and Kathleen Vance, exhibits through Jan. 24. Allegory of Fortune: Photographs by Amanda Rosenblatt, through March 27. THE RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com. The exhibit Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight is on display through Jan. 17.
GALLERIES
ARCHWAY GALLERY & FRAMING 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-2222, archwaygalleryandframing.com. Christmas in Florida is on display through mid-January.
FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com. Joe Segal – Permutations is currently on display. J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery. com. Christina Hope’s underwater photography, Water Angels, is on display through Jan. 21.
EVENTS
CHRIS BOHJALIAN Bestselling author Bohjalian discusses and signs copies of his new novel, The Guest Room, 7 p.m. Jan. 6 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com. POWER TO THE PURPLE The American Cancer Society holds the fundraiser, with live music by Lucky Stiff, an auction and raffle and food from Mojo No. 4, for Relay for Life, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 9 at Intuition Ale Works, 720 King St., Riverside; tickets $35; email cheyenne.overby@cancer.org or call 391-3618; proceeds benefit the ACS. GALA OF THE ROYAL HORSES Created by ringmaster Rene Gasser, this event features the noblest steeds around (!), horse dancing, and flamenco (people) dancing, kicks off at 4 p.m. Jan. 10 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $25-$60, ticketmaster.com. SISTERS IN CRIME Florida Sisters in Crime meet 10:15 a.m. Jan. 9 at Southeast Regional Library, 10599 Deerwood Park Blvd. FDLE Crime Lab Analyst Jamey Williamson speaks; floridasistersincrime.com. BRAD MELTZER Bestselling young readers author Meltzer discusses and signs copies of his book, I Am Martin Luther King Jr., 3 p.m. Jan. 10 at The BookMark, Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com.
EMMA Concert Association presents violinist Andrew Sords (pictured) and pianist Eriko Izumida, performing at 2 p.m. Jan. 10 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, St. Augustine.
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Chicago’s Ratboys MAKE FACES at you
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hey may be pioneers of “rodent rock,” but Ratboys are something else, too. They’re folky and indie and there’s a little twee in there as well (think Belle & Sebastian). Their latest, AOID, is a breezy voyage through songs about breakups and family and dead dogs. And while the themes and subject matter don’t appear earth-shattering, the delivery is what seals the deal. Lead singer Julia Steiner’s voice is eerie, nostalgic, and innocent, and the rest of the Rats — Dave Sagan on guitar, Will Lange on bass and Jordan Parel on drums — compliment her delivery with shiny melodies and a little bit of fuzz. Folio Weekly Magazine caught up with Julia to talk about some of the songs on the album, what exactly a Ratboy is and why she’s always making faces (to wit, see here: youtube.com/ watch?v=H3c_s7LUak8).
I watched a couple of your performances on YouTube, some with just you and an acoustic guitar. You seem to really invest in what you’re singing with your awesome facial gestures. Are you aware of that, and how deeply into the music do you go? I am definitely aware of the face thing because a lot of people tell me that. It just kind of happens. To be honest, I have a low register to my voice so I have to reach up for those higher notes, and that is what happens. At the end of the day, though, when I’m playing it’s all about that song. I try to cut out any thoughts or emotions about what else may be going on and pour myself into the performance. I wish it was something cool and theatrical, but it isn’t.
Folio Weekly: What works its way into your songs? There seems to be a lot of emotion tucked in with the music, even when the songs rock a little more. There’s tenderness there. Julia Steiner: I don’t know. It’s funny because a lot of the songs are from different points in my adolescent life. I wish I could say there is a chronological order to the album, but it’s not really. A lot of it is about my developing relationships over time. I like that word, “tenderness,” because one of my favorite things is to make sure the songs aren’t all encompassing. If I want to write an angry song or a sad song, I like to put the music behind it and sound really happy while the lyrics are depressing. “1914” is an example of that. That was one of the worst, lowest weekends of my life, but I didn’t want it to be completely obvious, and I wanted people to be able to enjoy the melody.
8 p.m. Jan. 11, Burro Bar, Downtown, $5 advance; $7 at the door.
RATBOYS, THE ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS, BOYSIN, X88B88
On “Postman Song,” you ask the subject if “they are a postman delivering letters or if they’re stuffing something better.” It starts out all saucy, but then it seems to turn into a song about someone with issues. What is going on here? That song is kind of the first song I ever wrote when I was younger. It stuck around, and the lyrics are a little silly, but it was always a goal of mine to record that. I wrote that song for my aunt. We were going through a little family tragedy in 2007 and she was at the center of that and I wanted to cheer her up and make her life. The message was about not shutting herself off and that we would all get through it together. I actually never played it for her and we were just together for Thanksgiving. I gave her a
copy of the album, and I meant to tell her it was on there and about her, but I forgot to. Hopefully I’ll tell her one day. On “MCMXIV” you sing, “All I Am is Just a Ratboy.” It sounds so sad. I love that you got sad out of it. It’s kind of strange, my friends gave me that nickname in high school … people called me that pretty regularly, and we came up with a whole musical idea and the main song we had was called “All I Am is Just a Ratboy.” That line stuck with me, and I used it as an inside joke. As for the song itself, it was an ego-death weekend for me. I wrote the song right when I got back and it was affirming what remained after the weekend. It was an “everything’s going to be fine” sort of thing. It was a breakup, and it’s not as dramatic as I’m making it out to be. But it was a breakup, and I had to leave immediately for a choir trip. I couldn’t deal with the problems, and I was in charge of the trip, so it was dramatic at the time. “Folk Song for Jazz” is touching. Is there family influence here, particularly with the line about your paternal grandfather? Absolutely. That song is about my dog. She died in March. It’s a couple of years old; I wrote it when she was alive. I don’t know where the “paternal grandfather” line came from — it just poured out. The song is about family and my dog and my house in Kentucky. What does a Ratboy do for fun? Oh my gosh, so many different things. We love to just chill and drink beer and hang out. We love sports. Football, hockey, fantasy sports … we’re into that. We obviously love to play music, but we’re also pretty big sports fans. There’s a strong legion of music and sports crossover. Danny Kelly mail@folioweekly.com JANUARY 6-12, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27
L.A. alt-rockers SILVERSUN PICKUPS (pictured) perform with The DOG APOLLO at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Jan. 10.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Jan. 6 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. BROADENING THE DAYLIGHT, SEARCHING SERENITY, NEVERENDER, JANE EYRE, TRAVERSE 7 p.m. Jan. 6 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. SHANE MYERS, LUKE PEACOCK, SHANNON OGDEN 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. FULL OF HELL 8 p.m. Jan. 8 Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $10. WILD ROOT, UNIVERSAL GREEN 8 p.m. Jan. 8, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. FRED EAGLESMITH TRAVELING STEAM SHOW 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $25 advance; $30 day of. PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE, INNER DEMONS, LOWERCASE G, OUTEREDGE 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8 advance; $10 day of. JOHN SEBASTIAN 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $36. DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY 10 p.m. Jan. 8 at Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. BREAD AND BUTTER 10 p.m. Jan. 8 & 9 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. Louderpalooza 2: THE WASTEDIST, SOUTHERN ALABAMA PIE COOKOFF, CONCRETE CRIMINALS, COMMUNITY CERVIX, GRABBAG, RUNNING RAMPANT, THE MOTHER GOOSES, STATUS FAUX, GROSS EVOLUTION, POWERBALL, MR. NEVER & THE SCARS, 1.8.7., THE HAPPY FACED
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MISTAKES, SKATTER BRAINZ, THE SWEATERS 7 p.m. Jan. 9 & 10, Burro Bar. STEVE FORBERT, SHANNON OGDEN 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9, Mudville Music Room, $20. NATE HOLLEY, CHARLIE WALKER 8 p.m. Jan. 9, Freebird Live, $8 advance; $10 day of. RESCUE DAWN, SHARP SLEEVES, DIVORCE CULTURE, THE HOOD RATS, VACANT RESIDENT 8 p.m. Jan. 9, Jack Rabbits, $5 advance; $10 day of. MDFL, APOCALYPTIC NOISE SYNDICATE, CUTE & CUDDLY KITTENS 8 p.m. Jan. 9 at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222. SILVERSUN PICKUPS, THE DOG APOLLO 8 p.m. Jan. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $30 advance; $35 day of. THE ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS, RATBOYS, BOYSIN, X88B88 8 p.m. Jan. 11, Burro Bar, $5 advance; $7 at the door. MARCO BENEVENTO 8 p.m. Jan. 12 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $15 advance; $20 day of. GALLOWS BOUND, OLD SALT UNION 8 p.m. Jan. 12, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $15 day of. MOTHERS, THE LITTLE BOOKS 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13, 1904 Music Hall, $8.
UPCOMING CONCERTS YO YO MA Jan. 14, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival OBNOX, X__X, THE MOLD, NOTEL Jan. 14, rain dogs. TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE, NEW BREED BRASS BAND Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE Jan. 15, Freebird Live Winter Jam: FOR KING & COUNTRY, MATTHEW WEST,
CROWDER, LAUREN DAIGLE, RED, NEWSONG, SIDEWALK PROPHETS, TEDASHIL, KB, STARS GO DIM, TONY NOLAN, WE ARE MESSENGERS Jan. 15, Veterans Memorial Arena KELLEY HUNT Jan. 15, The Original Café Eleven WINTER WAVE Jan. 16, Burro Bar PINK FLOYD LASER SPECTACULAR SHOW Jan. 20, The Florida Theatre STEVE POLTZ, GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS Jan. 20, The Original Café Eleven GALACTIC, THE RECORD COMPANY Jan. 20, Freebird Live THE TEMPTATIONS, THE FOUR TOPS Jan. 21, Florida Theatre GONZALO BEGARA QUARTET Jan 21, Original Café Eleven THE COLLEEN & JOSH SHOW Jan. 21, P. Vedra Concert Hall SHANNON & the CLAMS, GOLDEN PELICANS, THE MOLD Jan. 22, Burro Bar THE LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND Jan. 22, The Original Café Eleven JESCO WHITE, SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Jan. 23, Jack Rabbits CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVISITED Jan. 23, ThrasherHorne Center GRAHAM NASH Jan. 27, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DESTROYER of LIGHT, LA-A, BROTHERR Jan. 27, Burro Bar ANA POPOVIC Jan. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PATTI LaBELLE Jan. 28, T-U Center for the Performing Arts SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Jan. 28, The Florida Theatre CHERYL WHEELER Jan. 29, The Original Café Eleven CARRIE UNDERWOOD Jan. 30, Veterans Memorial Arena GAELIC STORM Jan. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PAPADASIO Jan. 30, Mavericks Live JOHNNY MATHIS Jan. 31, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY, HEATHER MALONEY Jan. 31, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall 2CELLOS Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre MOON TAXI Feb. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall YANNI Feb. 3, Times-Union Center Southern Soul Assembly: JJ GREY, ANDERS OSBORNE, MARC BROUSSARD, LUTHER DICKINSON Feb. 4, Florida Theatre UNDER the STREETLAMP Feb. 5 & 6, P.Vedra Concert Hall YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, TROUT STEAK REVIVAL Feb. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Greatest Hits Tour, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Feb. 10, Florida Theatre ROBERT RANDOLPH & the FAMILY BAND Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BLACKBERRY SMOKE Feb. 12, The Florida Theatre MARTY STUART & the FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Feb. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS, ANAIS MITCHELL Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre The JAMES HUNTER SIX Feb. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DAVE MASON’S TRAFFIC JAM Feb. 14, P.V. Concert Hall SURVIVORMAN LES STROUD Feb. 14, The Florida Theatre MELISSA ETHERIDGE Feb. 17, Thrasher-Horne Center DON WILLIAMS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre ST. PAUL & the BROKEN BONES Feb. 19, P.V. Concert Hall PROTOMARTYR, SPRAY PAINT, UVTV Feb. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre FOREIGNER Feb. 20, The Florida Theatre
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, The Ritz Theatre ADAM TRENT Feb. 21, The Florida Theatre GARY CLARK JR. Feb. 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHARLES BRADLEY & HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES Feb. 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall VINCE GILL, LYLE LOVETT Feb. 25, The Florida Theatre Experience Hendrix: BILLY COX, BUDDY GUY, ZAKK WYLDE, KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, JONNY LANG, DWEEZIL ZAPPA, KEB MO, ERIC JOHNSON, CHRIS LAYTON, MATO NANJI, NOAH HUNT, HENRI BROWN Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre PETER CASE Feb. 26, Mudville Music Room RICHARD MARX Feb. 27, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ALABAMA Feb. 28, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The ZOMBIES March 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOUTHERN CULTURE on the SKIDS March 3, Colonial Quarter IL VOLO March 3, The Florida Theatre BLACK VIOLIN March 3, The Ritz Theatre ROGER McGUINN March 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEVE MILLER BAND March 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre HERB ALPERT & LANI HALL March 4, The Florida Theatre JASON ISBELL, SHOVELS & ROPE March 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JANET JACKSON March 8, Veterans Memorial Arena GEORGE WINSTON March 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MERLE HAGGARD March 11, The Florida Theatre MOODY BLUES March 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RIHANNA March 12, Veterans Memorial Arena BLUE MAN GROUP March 12 & 13, Times-Union Center GORDON LIGHTFOOT March 16, The Florida Theatre THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND March 16, The Original Café Eleven Suwannee Springfest: JOHN PRINE, DEL McCOURY, JIM LAUDERDALE, DONNA THE BUFFALO March 17-20, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park GET THE LED OUT March 17, The Florida Theatre Festival of Laughs: MIKE EPPS, SOMMORE, EARTHQUAKE, GARY OWEN March 18, Vets Memorial Arena JOHNNY CLEGG & HIS BAND March 18, P.V. Concert Hall JOE SATRIANI March 19, The Florida Theatre THE FAB FOUR: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE March 19, P.V.C Hall ALAN DOYLE & BAND March 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GAITHER VOCAL BAND March 20, Times-Union Center CHICAGO, EARTH, WIND & FIRE March 23, Veterans Memorial Arena SETH GLIER March 24, The Original Café Eleven DURAN DURAN March 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, The Ritz Theatre LET IT BE: CELEBRATION OF THE BEATLES April 10, Florida Theatre AMY HELM April 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Wanee Music Festival: WIDESPREAD PANIC, GREGG ALLMAN, GOV’T MULE, LES BRERS, UMPHREY’S McGEE, BRUCE HORNSBY, STANLEY CLARKE April 14, 15 & 16 RITA WILSON April 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The BRONX WANDERERS April 16, The Florida Theatre BARRAGE 8 April 17, The Florida Theatre One Night of Queen: GARY MULLEN & the WORKS April 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall A NIGHT with JANIS JOPLIN April 21, The Florida Theatre Welcome to Rockville: ROB ZOMBIE, ZZ TOP, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, A DAY TO REMEMBER, MEGADETH, LAMB OF GOD, CYPRESS HILL, SEVENDUST, GHOST, ANTHRAX, CLUTCH, YELAWOLF, P.O.D., WE CAME AS ROMANS, MEMPHIS MAY FIRE, ISSUES, CROWN THE EMPIRE, SICK PUPPIES, BEARTOOTH, TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION, AVATAR, FROM ASHES TO NEW, THE GLORIOUS SONS, WILD THRONE, DISTURBED, SHINEDOWN, 3 DOORS DOWN, BRING ME THE HORIZON, SIXX:A.M., COLLECTIVE SOUL, PENNYWISE, POP EVIL, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, HELLYEAH, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, CANDLEBOX, FILTER, ESCAPE THE FATE, PARKWAY DRIVE, ENTER SHIKARI, MISS MAY I, WILSON, RED SUN RISING, LACEY STURM, MONSTER TRUCK, CANE HILL April 30 & May 1, Metropolitan Park THE 1975, THE JAPANESE HOUSE May 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ELLIS PAUL May 13, The Original Café Eleven SALT-N-PEPA, KID ’N PLAY, ROB BASE, COOLIO, TONE LOC, COLOR ME BADD May 21, St. Augustine Amphitheatre HERE COME the MUMMIES, NOAH GUTHRIE May 26, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JUSTIN BIEBER June 29, Veterans Memorial Arena TWENTY ONE PILOTS July 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER July 20, Veterans Memorial Arena
ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Live music every weekend
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Jan. 6. Jaxx or Better Jan. 9 CULHANE’S, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Kissass Karaoke every Fri. DJ Hal every Sat. Irish music Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 the Band Jan. 7. Bread & Butter 10 p.m. Jan. 8 & 9. Ryan Crary Jan. 10 FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 The Mobros 10 p.m. Jan. 10 FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Primitive Hard Drive, Inner Demons, Lowercase G, Outeredge 8 p.m. Jan. 8. Nate Holley, Charlie Walker 8 p.m. Jan. 9 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music every Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade every Sun. Back From the Brink every Mon. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Yamadeo Jan. 8 & 9. Live music every night MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Jazz Night Jan. 6. 5 O’Clock Shadow Jan. 7. Wes Cobb Jan. 8. Live music weekends MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Live music every weekend SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE, 218 First St., Neptune Beach, 246-0881 Live music most weekends WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508 Joe Oliff 7 p.m. Jan. 7. Live music 9:30 p.m. Jan. 8
Critics’ fave and renowned “songwriters’ songwriter” STEVE FORBERT (pictured) performs with SHANNON OGDEN at Mudville Music Room Jan. 9 in San Marco.
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Anton LaPlume Jan. 6. Tomboi, Hank & Cupcakes Jan. 8. Marco Benevento 8 p.m. Jan. 12. Mothers, The Little Books Jan. 13 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. Full of Hell 8 p.m. Jan. 8. Louderpalooza 2: The Wastedist, Southern Alabama Pie Cookoff, Concrete Animals, Community Cervix, Grabbag, Running Rampant, The Mother Gooses, Status Faux, Gross Evolution, Powerball, Mr. Never & The Scars, 1.8.7., The Happy Faced Mistakes, Skatter Brainz, The Sweaters 7 p.m. Jan. 9 & 10. The Island Of Misfit Toys, Ratboys, Boysin, X88B88 8 p.m. Jan. 11. Live music most weekends DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 BlackJack every Wed. DJ Brandon every Thur. DJs spin dance music every Fri. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall 9 p.m. every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, The Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Jan. 6, 9 & 13. Jig to a Milestone 8 p.m. Jan. 8. Chuck Nash 8 p.m. Jan. 15 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Red Beard & Stinky E 6-10 p.m. Jan. 6. Stevie/Dusty Varity Band 7 p.m.-mid. Jan. 8. Music Showcase 1-6 p.m., 7th Street Band 7 p.m.-mid. Jan. 9. Lisa & the Madhatters 6-10 p.m. Jan. 14. Monkey Wrench 7 p.m.-mid. Jan. 15
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA
ALLEY CAT SEAFOOD & BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Live music most weekends GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. SLIDERS, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Live music most weekends SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg every Tue. & Thur. Black Jack Band every Fri.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon.
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m.-2 a.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m.-2 a.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Appetite for Destruction, Medal Militia Jan. 15. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Bird & Stone, Speaking in Cursive 8 p.m. Jan. 6. Live music most weekends
FLEMING ISLAND
WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DJ Throwback every Thur. Deck music every Fri., Sat. & Sun.
INTRACOASTAL WEST
CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Live music most weekends JERRY’S Sports Grille, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8. Hard to Handle Jan. 9
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
DAVE’S MUSIC BAR & GRILL, 9965 San Jose Blvd., 575-4935 Monkey Wrench Jan. 9 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Duffy Bishop Jan. 6. Open jam 7 p.m. Mon.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
CLUB RETRO, 1241 Blanding Blvd., 579-4731 ’70s & ’80s dance 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DJ Capone every Wed. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael Tue.-Sat.
WORKING FOR A LIVING Practical ADVICE FOR MUSICIANS considering doing it full time
All this talk about New Year’s resolutions got me thinking about a resolution I made about four years ago – not for a new year, but for a new direction in life. I had just been laid off from a once-promising job at an online upstart. Having left a 15-year career on staff at Folio Weekly, jumping into web publishing was a risk, one that almost paid off. But it wasn’t to be, and in the fall of 2011, I found myself without a job. At the crossroads, with a wife in graduate school and a little girl who depended on me, I contemplated begging for my spot back at Folio Weekly, but I was drawn by the pull of my parttime work as a musician. It was not without some trepidation that I made the switch, and not without a struggle that I made it work. The important part of that sentence: I made it work. I thought my experience might be valuable to young (or even older) musicians who might be considering giving it a go as a full-time musician. So though I could probably (and just might) write a book about the subject, here’s some unsolicited advice on how to make it work. THE LOCAL MARKET Northeast Florida is not known for its entertainment industry, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stay busy and make money making music. Take advantage of the “smallness” of the pond and work to become a big fish. There’s a huge advantage we enjoy in Jacksonville that musicians in bigger cities battle against: In New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, Vegas, even Orlando, there are many more musicians competing for work. Granted, there’s more work to be had, but you’ll find that young musicians from Northeast Florida (especially local jazz programs’ hotshots) will leave town for fabled brighter pastures, creating constant openings for those who stay put. BE VERSATILE The more you can do, the more you will work. Though I’m a life-long drummer, I taught myself other instruments along the way, and when I first 30 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 6-12, 2016
THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Love Monkey 9 p.m. Jan. 8 & 9. Live music 10 p.m. every Wed. DJ Big Mike every Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grill, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Ryan Crary Jan. 6. Richard Smith Jan. 7. King Eddie & Pili Pili Jan. 9. Jaime Santana Jan. 9 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Jan. 6. Gary Starling Jan. 7. Barrett Jockers 6 p.m. Jan. 8. Way Back Wednesday Jan. 9. The Rubies Jan. 13
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Live music most weekends MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Strangerwolf, Graham Snuggs, Citizen 102 8 p.m. Jan. 8. J Collins, Ashton Taylor, Rachael Blount, Cole Tomlinson 8 p.m. Jan. 9 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Sink Tapes Jan. 9
ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Tony Scozzaro, The Committee Jan. 8. Billy Buchanan, The Committee Jan. 9. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Jan. 10 MILL TOP TAVERN, 19 St. George St., 829-2329 True Blue Jan. 8 & 9. Denny Blue Jan. 9. Live music every night THE ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Steam Show 8 p.m. Jan. 8 PAULA’S GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Denny Blue open mic jam 6-9 p.m. Jan. 6
took the leap into full-time musicianhood, I played bass in one band and slowly put together an acoustic solo act, just to make ends meet. I also expanded my private drum lessons enterprise to include piano, voice, bass and guitar. Now I work with bands three to four nights a week, perform as an acoustic solo act at least once a week and teach two days a week. I’ve also made connections with local educators and currently provide musical and arts education at local schools, churches, and libraries. Over time, I was hired for more and larger (and more lucrative) projects. I was commissioned to write a couple of musicals, wrote music for film and television, produced several bands in my home project studio, and even produced a show for automated penguins at a Chinese theme park. All of which pay well. Spreading your skills into areas outside of live performance means you will have options, and you will make contacts to capitalize on in the future. Of course, I still write this column each week, a column, it should be noted, that is all about music.
THE KNIFE
GET OFF THE HIGH HORSE Yeah, it’s great to make it in the music biz playing your amazing, artistic, and uncompromising brand of ___ (fill in the blank), but truth is, it probably ain’t happening for you. And though there’s no shame in working at the local coffee shop or taking a shitty landscaping job so you can tour every few months (more power to you), there’s also no shame in playing cover tunes while doing the same thing. Too many musicians go full-asshole when it comes to cover tunes, ridiculing the lack of integrity from which cover musicians suffer. They’re missing the big picture. You’re better off playing covers than you are slaving away for the man. It’s that simple. Playing covers for a living means you are constantly on your instrument, honing skills both as a player and as a business person, being afforded the flexibility to call in a sub when it’s time to bring your amazing original
TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Live music 9 p.m. Jan. 8 & 9. Elizabeth Roth every Sat. Keith Godwin & the Rio Grande Band every Sun.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Broadening The Daylight, Searching Serenity, Neverender, Jane Eyre, Traverse 7 p.m. Jan. 6. Wild Root, Universal Green Jan. 8. Rescue Dawn, Sharp Sleeves, Divorce Culture, The Hood Rats, Vacant Resident 8 p.m. Jan. 9. Gallows Bound, Old Salt Union Jan. 12 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Heather Pierson, Arvid Smith Jan. 7. Shane Myers, Luke Peacock, Shannon Ogden 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8. Steve Forbert Trio, Shannon Ogden Jan. 9
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS, ARLINGTON
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Samuel Sanders Jan. 7. Ivey West Jan. 8. Kelly & Ken Maroney Jan. 9. Live music most weekends WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Don’t Call Me Shirley 10 p.m. Jan. 8. Country Jam every Wed. Melissa Smith every Thur. Mojo Roux Blues every Sun.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 MDFL, Apocalyptic Noise Syndicate, Cute & Cuddly Kittens 8 p.m. Jan. 9. Cardinal Slinky Jan. 12. Live music most weekends THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Ao Mega 7 p.m. Jan. 11. Live music most weekends
THE KNIFE
music to the masses. And, if you’re lucky, your cover career will put you on stage in front of name artists who may hire you for paid work. It’s how I ended up playing with ex-Zappa veterans. It’s how my brother-in-law landed gigs with the Goo Goo Dolls and Faster Pussycat. That’s a hell of a lot better than getting up at 6 a.m. for your welding job. PRACTICE If you suck, no one will hire you. Mediocrity is reserved for the weekend player, those who manage to butcher “Mustang Sally.” If you’re going to be serious about making a living as a musician, get good – very good – at what you do. Be reliable, be responsible and take it seriously. Seriously. BE DILIGENT As an independent working musician, you will not have the benefit of employerprovided health insurance, and you will be taxed big time. Save up your earnings throughout the year to prepare for the tax burden (and write off everything), keep spreadsheets of your earnings and shop the ACA exchanges for good deals on insurance. This may be boring and timeconsuming, but it is damn important. FEAR IS THE KILLER There was a point early on when it didn’t look like I would be able to pull off the full-time musician thing. I remember sitting at a red light, talking to my wife on my cell phone, agonizing over joining the rat race since music jobs just weren’t coming fast enough. That would have meant giving up having days free. It meant giving up walking my kid to and from school, writing and recording original music in the mornings rather than late at night, and having the fl exibility to make my own schedule. It meant giving up. So I didn’t. I hung in there, budgeted myself and pushed through. Now I make my own rules, play and teach music when I want ... and even get to write about it every week. John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com
With locations in Fernandina Beach, San Marco, Ponte Vedra, Mandarin and Atlantic Beach, the friendly folks at local fave Beach Diner are always just a short hop from where you are. Photo by Dennis Ho
DINING DIRECTORY AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrest aurant.com. F Chef Scotty Schwartz’s traditional regional cuisine has modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. F Southwestern fare; burritos, tacos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner. com. Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BEECH STREET Bar & Grill, 801 Beech St., 572-1390, beech streetbarandgrill.com. In a restored 1889 home, Chef Charles creates with fresh, local ingredients. Local seafood, handcut Florida steaks, housemade pasta, daily specials, small plates, street food. $$$-$$$$ FB D Tue.-Sat.; Brunch, D Sun. BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F Family-owned; historic building. Veggie burgers, seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub next door. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY CO., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining, historic
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DINING DIRECTORY KEY
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com. 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE O. PARK. ELIZABETH POINTE Lodge, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian. Porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S at Thompson House, 11 S. 7th St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. PABLO’S Mexican Restaurant Grill & Cantina, 12 N. Second St., 261-0049. Chicken, carnes, fajitas, burritos, tacos, daily specials. Margaritas. $$$ FB K TO L D Daily THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F Near historic district. Sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PI INFINITE COMBINATIONS, 19 S. Third St., 432-8535, pi32034.wix.com/piinfinite. All bar service; NYC-style. Specialty pizzas, pie/slice, toppings: truffle mushrooms, little neck clams, eggs, shrimp. Courtyard. $$ BW TO L D Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish, duck breast. Outside. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. 2ndstory outdoor bar. Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, local shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront. Crabcakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily
T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2015 BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE O.PARK. The STEAKHOUSE @ Gold Club, 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500, jacksonvillegoldclub.com. Lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffets Thur. & Fri. $$$ FB L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386. Ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes, Nathan’s grilled hot dogs. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. 40+ years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. 2015 BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows, Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S Giant Subs, 3928 Baymeadows, 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows, 425-9142. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows, 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI Grille, 9551 Baymeadows, Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Family-owned Thai place serves traditional fare, vegetarian, new Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Lowsodium, gluten-free, too. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. TEQUILA’S Mexican Restaurant, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. F Authentic fare, made daily with fresh ingredients. Vegetarian dishes; daily drink specials. Nonstop happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, wines by glass/bottle, champagne cocktails. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, homestyle vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO D Tue.-Sat. WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. New gastropub has craft beers, burgers, handhelds, tacos, whiskey. $$ FB L D Sat. & Sun.; D Daily.
BEACHES
(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. F 2015 BOJ winner. Subs made with fresh ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE.
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DINING DIRECTORY ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884, espetosteakhouse.com. Just relocated, serving beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage; full menu, bar fare, craft cocktails, Brazilian beers. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 F 2015 BOJ winner. Latin American, tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE O.PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean spot, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine in, or patio. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Pulled pork, beef, chicken, Carolina-style, Delta fried catfish, sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637. Gastropub, 50+ beers, gourmet burgers, hand-cut fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30+ years, iconic seafood place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. Specialties: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & OYSTER BAR, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. 2015 BOJ winner. 20+ tap beers, TVs. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily SURFING SOMBRERO, 222 First St. N., 834-9377. New oceanfront place serves authentic fare – like paella. Drink specials. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily SURFWICHES SANDWICH SHOP, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. New craft sandwich shop has Yankee-style steaks and hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELI, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli has freshly made subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian items. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri.
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach, Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S, 14286 Beach, 223-0115. F ’15 BOJ. SEE O.PARK. LARRY’S, 10750 Atlantic, Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE O.PARK. TIME OUT Sports Grill, 13799 Beach, Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs. Late-nite menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’S Deli, 12926 Granbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN.
AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ATHENS Café, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S Wings, 10391 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-7087. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Diner: pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers. $ K TO B L Daily LARRY’S Subs, 11365 San Jose, 674-2945. F SEE O.PARK. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT Pizza & Grill, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. Casual, familyfriendly eatery. Pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, burgers, pasta, plus gluten-free-friendly items. $ FB K L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 1803 East West Pkwy., 375-2559. 2015 BOJ winner. NASCAR theme. 365 varieties of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern-style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 33+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups, salads. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. SNACSHACK, 179 College Dr., Ste. 19, 682-7622, snac
GRILL ME!
ANGELO BONDI Bella Vita Italian Restaurant 3825 Baymeadows Rd., Baymeadows BIRTHPLACE: Palermo, Italy YEARS IN THE BIZ: 25 FAVE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Caffe Andiamo, Ponte Vedra FAVE CUISINE STYLE: Sushi FAVE INGREDIENTS: Garlic, wine, and butter lemon sauce IDEAL MEAL: Pasta WON’T CROSS MY LIPS: Garlic (no kidding). CELEB SIGHTING at my restaurant: Mr. Martini, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman CULINARY TREAT: Limoncello cake and lasagna
THE CANDY APPLE CAFÉ & COCKTAILS, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafe.com. Sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun. CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has served genuine Italian fare 35+ years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri. SWEET PETE’S, 400 N. Hogan St., 376-7161. F All-natural sweet shop has candy made of all natural flavors, no artificial anything. Several kinds of honey. $ TO Daily ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Wed.-Sat. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.
FLEMING ISLAND
GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteys fishcamp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
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shack.menu. F Bakery and café has bagels, muffins, breads, cookies, brownies, snack treats. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S Wings, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswings andgrill.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for Americans; tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELICATESSAN, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American, Southern twist; locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. F 2015 BOJ winner. Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfive points.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Local craft beer, espresso, coffee, wine. Rotating drafts, 75+ can craft beers;
DINING DIRECTORY sodas, tea. Rotating seasonal menu: waffles, pastries, toasts, desserts, specialty coffees, craft beers. $$ BW K B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily. DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343. New American cuisine, upscale retro atmosphere in historic landmark building. Shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Wknd brunch. B, L D Tue.-Sun. EDGEWOOD Bakery, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. 68+ years, full-service. From-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, custom cakes. Espresso/pastry café: sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2015 BOJ winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Juice bar; organic fruits, veggies. 300+ craft/imports, 50 wines, meats, deli, raw, vitamins. Wraps, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Modern Italian cuisine served in the heart of Riverside. Handcrafted cocktails. $$-$$$ FB TO K L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617 Locally-owned, family-run; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, sandwiches. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S Smokehouse BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, chicken, ribs. Sides: beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire. com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas. HH Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS Irish Pub, 1521 Margaret, 854-9300, obroth ersirishpub.com. F Shepherd’s pie w/Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 1526 King, 503-4060. SEE
The GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd.,
398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plate, empanada, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S BAR & GRILLE, 3333 Beach Blvd., 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, drinks, burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails, seasonal menu, fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Sunday brunch. $$ FB L D Daily MEZZE Bar & Grill, 2016 Hendricks Ave., 683-0693, mezzejax.com. Classic drinks, basil martinis, 35 drafts, local/craft brews, Mediterranean cuisine. Hookah. Happy hour. $$ FB D Daily METRO Diner, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metro diner.com. F BOJ winner. Original upscale diner. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Ave., 399-8815, pizza palacejax.com. F Family-owned-and-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Outside dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Ave., 398-3005, tavernasan marco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; local produce, meats. Craft beers, craft cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN
ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun.
BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. F SEE AMELIA ISLAND. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. DIM SUM Room, 9041 Southside Blvd., 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S Smokehouse BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte. com. 2015 BOJ winner. European-style dining influenced by Italy, Spain, Mediterranean. Small plates, entrée-size portions, selections from charcuterie menu. $$$ BW TO R D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
DICK’S WINGS, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Ste. 101, 619-9828. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.
BITE-SIZED
After nearly two decades serving Southern fare, SOUTHSIDE restaurant still has secrets to divulge
ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. CARMELO’S Marketplace & Pizzeria, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats & cheeses, garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings & Grill, 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Updated Southern fare. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay 25+ years. Varied menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ONE TWENTY THREE BURGER HOUSE, 123 King St., 687-2790. From Carmelo’s owners. Premium burgers, made with beef from NYC butcher Schweid & Sons. Woodfired pizzas, ice cream bar, Old World milkshakes. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. SEE BEACHES.
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BASIL Thai & Sushi, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic Pad Thai, curry, tempura, vegetarian, seafood, stir-fry, specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox. com. F Mediterranean/French inspired; steak frites, oakfired pizza, raw bar seasonal selections. $$$ FB TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. EUROPEAN STREET Café, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. $ BW K L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily
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rain dogs, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2015 BOJ winner. Bar food. $ D SBRAGA & COMPANY, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 114, 746-0909, sbragadining.com. Chef Kevin Sbraga’s newest place offers a contemporary approach to local cultural influences. Go-to dishes: hog & hominy, fish fry, carrot ceviche. $$-$$$ FB TO L D Daily SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Healthy, light vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens or rice, change daily. Coffees, teas. $ Tue.-Sun. SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside, Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafe jacksonville.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. $$ BW L D Daily
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to accompany the homemade sauce, crispy bacon, FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT’S BELOVED 1911 and warm English muffin soaking up that lemony children’s novel The Secret Garden is a timeless Hollandaise. If you can’t stand poached eggs, it’s all classic. Similarly, after nearly 20 years in operation, good. Secret Garden can cook your eggs JourneySECRET GARDEN CAFÉ is a Jacksonville classic style: Any way you want them, that’s the way you – albeit, after a 2011 appearance on Chef Robert eat them. I’m not an admirer of poached eggs, but Irvine’s Food Network show Restaurant Impossible, I wanted to try the dish as it’s meant to be eaten. and a 2012 ownership change, it’s certainly an The creamy yolk works well with the sauce and updated classic. The café has faithful followings chewy tomato. The taste gets even better when the at its Southside and Beaches locations. The Beach breakfast potatoes blend with all rest, so be sure to Boulevard and Southside corner spot has been my order those on the side. go-to brunch place for years. In the mood for a breakfast to sustain you until Some noteworthy advice: Seat yourself, don’t dinner? Go for the Really Hot Mess ($10.70), which wait to be seated – that way you’re not that lone I imagine to be the preferred hangover cure for straggler taking up the space by the front door. Amy Schumer (my favorite hot mess). This dish (I used to be that straggler, due to my inherent is for those indecisive folks tempted by all the timidity.) Next, order coffee. The next step is breakfast favorites. True to form, it’s messy, but logical: Order some food. worth every cheesy bite. Toss scrambled eggs, I’ve never been a big breakfast fan, but what ham, bacon, and sausage over I like about Secret Garden is that SECRET GARDEN CAFÉ a bowl of breakfast potatoes. I can eat chicken and biscuits Ladle sausage gravy over 10095 Beach Blvd., while everyone else gets eggs everything, and top it all off with Southside, 645-0859, and waffles. I knew it was time a sprinkle of cheese. Ta-da! A secretgardencafe.net to explore a different page on the Really Hot Mess, resulting in menu when I started clucking at a really full stomach. I recommend crumbling a the door. biscuit into the mixture, then toss on a splash of My first leap into the gastronomical unknown hot sauce. Trust me on this. was an appetizer that wasn’t fried green Beach Boulevard’s Secret Garden Café tomatoes. The crab cakes at Secret Garden has a menu expansive enough to gratify any ($9.55), served on a bed of greens, are soft hungry eater. If the restaurant’s excellent take and meaty, with a creamy interior and a crispy on Southern favorites doesn’t bring you back for exterior. These cakes are versatile, too – they more, certainly its generous outlay of gravy will. work for breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner. Rebecca Gibson I continued my journey into uncharted territories mail@folioweekly.com with an entrée I’d never had any desire to try. The _____________________________________ time-honored Eggs Benedict gets an upgrade on Read about more of Rebecca’s local dining the Southside. The Secret Garden Bene ($8.75) adventures at somewhereinthecityjax.com. adds a Southern spin by frying up a green tomato
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Dear Davi, My dad and I had a little too much holiday cheer this season and we’ve put on some extra poundage. Any tips for getting back into shape for the New Year? Fond regards, Cooper Hi, Cooper, Getting fit always tops the list of New Year’s resolutions. My advice to you is to run. Running is an excellent way for you and your human to get in shape while spending quality time together. Before you hit the pavement, though, read these tips I found about running to ensure you have the most fun and the least worry while on a path together. CHECK WITH YOUR VET. Before you start running, it’s a good idea to be cleared by your veterinarian. Ask for advice on any special precautions to take, and dietary adjustments recommendations for your uptick in exercise. AGE MATTERS. Puppies, wait until you’re at least one year old before running. Your bones are still developing. Older pups: slow down the workout a tad to avoid injury and soreness. KNOW YOUR BREED. Some breeds are born to run long distances, others are good for short spurts. Small dogs or dogs with short snouts: Stick to fast-paced walking or programs with intervals of walking and running. EASE INTO IT. Like humans, dogs need to work up endurance. Begin with the distance you typically run in a day, even if it’s just a mile. Build from there by adding one mile every three to five runs until you’re at the target distance. Recovery between runs is important. I’m usually tuckered out after my two-mile loop and ready for a nap!
APP UP. WalkMyDog and MapMyDogWalk are a must for an active dog. They log the walks, track progress, and map favorite routes. Tell your human to upload these onto an iPhone or Android. LEASH UP. Wearing a leash keeps you safe and under control while running beside your human. Avoid retractable leashes. They provide too much distance and can tangle. A hands-free leash is a better choice. WARM UP. Take a few minutes to walk around to stretch your muscles and joints before a run. Take care of business before setting out, too. Who wants to make a potty pitstop mid-workout? DURING THE RUN. Tell your human to watch your pace, tail position, breathing, and gait while running together. Drooping tails and loud, labored pantings are signs you’re working too hard and should take a break. WATCH YOUR PAWS. Check the surface for heat and debris. Hot pavement can burn our pads and dirt from the road can get in between toes, causing irritation and even infection. Clean your paws with a warm, soapy rag after your run to take care of this problem. Also check for cuts and scrapes after your run. COOL DOWN. Take a few minutes to walk and explore while your body recovers from your workout. Don’t forget to replenish lost fluids and nutrients with a few healthy treats and a bowl of fresh water. You’ve earned it. Hope that helped. Davi mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Davi is a brown dachshund with an appetite for adventure. He loves sweet potato treats, playing at the park with friends, and exploring the unknown.
BEASTS OF BURDEN: PET TIP OF THE WEEK EAT LIKE A BIRD According to the Humane Society, most birds kept as pets should not be eating seed, as it’s considered fattening, even unhealthy. Instead they recommend a diet of a high-quality, organic pellet and a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, and grains. For more information, talk to your avian veterinarian.
U P C O M I N G FIRST COAST NO MORE HOMELESS PETS The city of Jacksonville has been considered a no-kill community for two years. First Coast No More Homeless Pets plans to sustain this success, however, all of the no-kill efforts and success are being threatened by proposed changes to its Feral Freedom Program. The FFP, implemented in 2008, allows First Coast No More Homeless Pets to take all community/feral cats that enter Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services and sterilize, vaccinate, ear tip and return them to their home territory. This program has and continues to save thousands of cats each year from certain death at Animal Care & Protective Services and frees up vital resources to be used on adoptable pets. Without 34 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 6-12, 2016
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this program, Jacksonville cannot remain no-kill. Feral Freedom was innovated in Jacksonville and since its inception has been replicated in dozens of communities nationwide. It continues to be a model program discussed at animal welfare conferences across the globe. A Washington, D.C., anti-cat group is telling the city that it cannot remain no-kill and save community cats. They have convinced City Councilmember Doyle Carter to hold a special meeting to consider changes to Feral Freedom. These changes could include not releasing spayed/ neutered cats back into the community. What would happen to these innocent cats? Call or write your Councilperson and tell them you want Jacksonville
to be a no-kill city and you want Feral Freedom to remain untouched. Ask that they increase funding for Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services and spay/neuter programs. Thank them for serving the community and their past support for animal welfare issues (find your district / find your Councilperson). Call or write to Counciilmember Carter specifically and tell him that same message. There is going to be a meeting about this issue, held at 3 p.m. Jan. 12 in City Hall, Conference Room A, Ste. 425, Downtown; RSVP to the meeting and attend – speak out in support of community cats and No-Kill Jacksonville. Contact info@fcnmhp.org or message First Coast No More Homeless Pets on Facebook. DOGGIE DIPS Fernandina Beach Parks & Recreation Department is sponsoring this fun swimming pool activity for dogs and their owners, held from 2-3 p.m. Jan. 30, Feb. 27, March 26 and April 23 at Atlantic Recreation Center, 2500 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach; and at MLK Center, 1200 Elm St., Fernandina Beach. The fee is $5 per dog. There are
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BIG MAMA Single Mom Needs a Life of Her Own My days of having kittens are over! My last litter was adopted and now I’m hoping someone special will see me and want to take me out for a night on the town. Discrimination is not for me – I love laps of all shapes and sizes. Let’s take things to the next level with some adoption paperwork today! For adoption information, visit jaxhumane.org
guidelines for this: No dog bullies, two dogs per owner maximum, and no humans in the pool. For details, call 904-310-3350 ext. 1. Proceeds support a free swimming lessons program for humans. FLAPJACK FUNDRAISER BREAKFAST Parrots Heads in Natural Settings holds a fundraiser 8-10 a.m. Jan. 16 at Applebee’s, 6251 103rd St., Westside; tickets are $10 for breakfast; proceeds benefit First Coast No More Homelss Pets. 693-2833, kathylb@bellsouth.net. BARK & BOWL IV It’s never too early to make plans with your best friend. The North Florida Chapter of the National Canine Cancer Foundation hosts a fun event that benefi ts dogs everywhere while striking out canine cancer, 6-9 p.m. Jan. 23 at Bowl America
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MAGGIE All My Friends Know the Low-Rider If you like goofy dogs, I’m the one for you! I look like a terrier but I’ve got legs like a basset hound. My favorite thing to do is wiggle and waddle when I see my human friends coming to visit with me. I love to play, too! If you’ve got toys, I’m yours! Come meet me and let’s get this wiggle going! For adoption detaiils, visit jaxhumane.org
Mandarin, 10333 San Jose Blvd., 571-5829. Bowling, drink specials, and raffle prizes. Donations are tax-deductible, 877-411-3436. PAWS PARK, WINGATE PARK Open 5 a.m.-10 p.m. daily (closed Thur. for maintenance) at 199 Penman Rd. S., Jax Beach, 247-6236. Membership is $50 – and here’s what you and your pup can enjoy: large dog area, small dog area, handicapped parking, restrooms, automatic watering bowls, benches, trees, poop bag dispensers and waste bins. To see your pet event here, send event name, time, date, location with complete street address and city, admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@ folioweekly.com – at least two weeks before the event.
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in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, it should be a non-umbrella year. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Around the world, an average of 26 languages go extinct every year. But it increasingly appears that Welsh wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be one of them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enjoyed a revival in the past few decades. In Wales, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taught in many schools, appears on road signs, and is used in some mobile phones and computers. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life? A tradition to be revitalized and preserved? A part of your heritage that may be useful to your future? A neglected aspect of your birthright that deserves reclamation? Make it happen in 2016.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Remember what your life was like during the first nine months of 2004? You fell just short of fulfilling a dream. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible you were too young to have the necessary power. Or maybe you were working on a project that turned out to be OK but not great, or pushing to create a new life but werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wise enough to make a complete breakthrough. Almost 12 years later, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve returned to a similar phase in a long-term cycle. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re better equipped to do what you couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t: create a masterpiece, finish a job, rise to the next level.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): 14th-century author Geoffrey Chaucer produced a collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales. It became a seminal text of English literature even though he never finished it. The most influential book ever written by theologian Thomas Aquinas was a work he gave up on before it was completed. Artist Michelangelo never put the final touches on some sculptures and paintings. Why bring this to your attention? Because 2016 will be a great time to wrap up long-term projects youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working on â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and to be at peace with abandoning those you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To become a skillful singer, you must learn to regulate your breath; to take in more oxygen than usual for extended periods, and do it to facilitate rather than interfere with sounds from your mouth. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beginning, it feels weird to exert so much control over an instinctual impulse, which youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always done unconsciously. You have to get beyond your self-conscious discipline to reach a point where the proper breathing happens easily and gracefully. Though you may not be working to be a singer in 2016, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have comparable challenges: 1. to make conscious an activity thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been unconscious; 2. to refine and cultivate it; 3. to let your consciously crafted approach become unselfconscious again.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc wine sold for $304,000. Three bottles of 1869 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild went for $233,000 each. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I think about these things as I meditate on your long-term future. Your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. It will be time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September 2017, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have ripened it as much as it can be.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ancient humans didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;inventâ&#x20AC;? fire, but learned of it from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes had a similar origin. Our ancestors used long vines of tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid and knot the vines together for more strength. This technology was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten, and carry. It was essential to the development of civilization. I predict 2016 will bring you opportunities with metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your task? Develop and embellish on what nature provides. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): British author Anthony Trollope (1815-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;82) had a day job with the postal service until he was in his 50s. For years he woke every day at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before going to work. His goal? Write two or three novels a year, a pace he almost achieved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A small daily task, if it really be daily,â&#x20AC;? he wrote in his autobiography, â&#x20AC;&#x153;will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.â&#x20AC;? Use his strategy in 2016. Be regular, disciplined and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Steinbeck won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence. When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d almost finished the manuscript, he and his wife went out. While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic. The new edition was Steinbeckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breakout book. In recent months youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received comparable assistance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though you may not see it was so until later this year.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Umbrellas shelter from rain, saving us from getting soaked and having bad hair. They also protect us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning. They can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do much of that in 2016. You need a lot of face-to-face encounters with life
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tree,â&#x20AC;? California poet Jane Hirshfield writes of a young redwood tree beside to a house. Watch out! It grows fast â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as much as three feet per year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Already the first branch-tips brush at the window,â&#x20AC;? she writes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.â&#x20AC;? This will be an apt metaphor in 2016. The expansion and proliferation youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve witnessed these last few months are likely to intensify. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly good, but may require adjustments. How do you respond as immensity taps at your life? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Centuries ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food. I see 2016 as a time when you could have a comparable success. Look at your life, and identify weed-like things that could, through transformative magic, be valuable assets. The process may take more than a year, but set in motion an unstoppable momentum to ensure success. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Imagine a beloved elder has been writing your life story in the form of a fairy tale. Your adventures arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rendered literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather through dream-like scenes with symbolic resonance. With this template, I predict a key plot development of 2016: Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll grow increasingly curious about a â&#x20AC;&#x153;forbiddenâ&#x20AC;? door â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always believed shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be opened. Your inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll consider finding the key for that door. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, you may even think about breaking down the door.
Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
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November, a 62-year-old customer at Ancient City Shooting Range in St. Augustine was hit in the lower abdomen by another shooter, 71; the victim was standing behind the target (“for some reason,” said a fire-rescue spokesman). The shooter thought the man was elsewhere on the property. (Jacksonville.com, 11-27-15)
NARCS FROM ABOVE? Oops! Jasper Harrison, 47, working inside a storage unit in Edgewater where he grows marijuana, heard a helicopter overhead on Dec. 9, panicked, and called 911 to turn himself in to preempt what he figured was a SWAT raid. The ’copter, from a local news station, was headed elsewhere, but police later arrested Harrison based on the 911 call. SHOWS QUICK-THINKING, THOUGH Police in St. Petersburg reported a December arrest of a 12-year-old boy whose rap sheet had “more than 20” arrests since age 9. While on a bicycle, he told an 89-year-old driver at a gas station that his tire was low; when the man got out to check, the boy hopped in the car and took off.
SHOULDA HAD A FLUX CAPACITOR AND A DeLOREAN A driver accidentally
plowed through two small businesses in Pensacola in December, creating so much destruction the manager of one said it looked like a bomb had hit (forcing both — a tax service and a casket company — to relocate). The driver told police he was attempting to “travel through time.” (From WTSP-TV, St. Petersburg, 12-15-15; WEARTV, Pensacola, 12-23-15)
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December, Canada’s supportive organization The Transgender Project released a biographical video of the former Paul Wolscht, 46 and father to seven children with ex-wife, Marie, describing his new life as not only a female but a 6-year-old female, Stephoknee Wolscht. She told the Daily Xtra (gay and lesbian news site) that not acting her real age (even while doing “adult” things like working and driving) enables her to escape “depression and suicidal
thoughts.” Among the trans-age’s favorite activities are coloring-book coloring, creating a play-like “kingdom,” and wearing “really pretty clothes.” Stephoknee now lives with the couple who adopted her. (From The Independent, London, 12-16-15)
LET’S GET MIKEY TO DO IT Thee, Not Me: American “millennials” (ages 18-29) continue a “long-standing tradition,” The Washington Post wrote in December, describing a Harvard Institute of Politics poll on their views on war. Following the recent Paris terrorist attacks, about 60 percent of U.S. millennials said additional American troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State, but 85 percent answered, in the next question, that no, they themselves were “probably” or “definitely” not joining the military. WELL, I FEEL SOOO MUCH SAFER NOW!
Breen Peck, 52, an air traffic controller who has had career troubles recently, was arrested during a traffic stop on New York’s Long Island in December when officers found illegal drugs in his car. “That’s meth,” he said. “I’m an air traffic controller.” “I smoke it to stay awake.”
NOT THE WAY MOM MAKES IT Two foreign students at the liberal arts Oberlin College complained in a recent school publication that the cafeteria selections — supposedly “inclusive” of world cultures — were actually denigrating other cultures by offering inferior versions of national dishes. Vietnamese student Diep Nguyen wrote the correct “banh mi” sandwich should be a “crispy baguette with grilled pork, pate, pickled vegetables and fresh herbs” and not, he complained, “ciabatta bread, pulled pork and coleslaw.” Said Japanese student Tomoyo Joshi, sushi with “undercooked rice and lack of fresh fish is disrespectful.” Cafeteria managers told The Washington Post they were proud of their commitments to other cultures, to local farming, sustainable foods and animaltreatment concerns. (Oberlin Review, 11-62015; Washington Post, 12-21-2015) Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
CHAMBLINS CHAMPION You had two enormous boxes of books. I held the door open for you. You: Blonde hair, glasses, great smile. Me: Tall, blonde. Would love to discuss literature sometime! When: Dec. 29. Where: Chamblins Uptown. #1585-0106 WELCOME TO ME! You: Tall in dress shirt and tie. I walked by to get your attention, but you were on Bible app on phone. Please come back next Sunday, and I will try again. When: Jan. 3. Where: Moe’s @ Avenues. #1584-0106 NEED TLC You: Raven-haired nurse; funky glasses, chatting with co-worker. Me: Curiously smitten; backpack, sling; visiting pre-op over year ago, saw you eating fresh. We have some FB friends in common. Who are you? When: Oct. ’14 & now. Where: St. Vincent’s Subway/FB. #1583-0106 LET’S RIDE TOPLESS TOGETHER You: Sexy, dark, handsome, sideways ballcap-wearer, BMW convertible. Me: Hot pink, caramel-covered sweetness, MB convertible. Pressed my horn, blew a kiss. Like a real one in the woods? You know where to fi nd me. When: Dec. 26. Where: Leaving UNF Nature Trails. #1582-1230 JAX BEACH EARLY MORNING PHOTOS Enjoying sunrise near 34th Ave.; struck up conversation. Asked to take photos of you. You: White shorts; got a little wet as waves caught you. Never gave you my card to send the pix. When: Sept. 28. Where: Jax Beach 34th Ave. S. #1581-1230 TATTOOED REDHEAD HOLDING ARCHAEOLOGY BOOKS After clarifying sweater was indeed women’s, you laughed at my remark about you fitting into clothes. Our interaction made my day. Judging from book cover, know carbon dating’s your thing. Coffee dating sometime? When: Dec. 11. Where: UNF Bookstore. #1580-1230 PUT MY FIRE OUT You: Cute fireman, glasses, looking at stuffed dinosaurs. Wish you’d put my burning desire for you out with your big fire hose. Me: Brunette, yoga pants, hoodie. Too shy to introduce myself. Wish I’d said hello. When: Dec. 9. Where: Publix off Kernan & Atlantic. #1579-1216 ALRIGHT NOW! You: Tall, handsome, sweet leaf. Me: Just a duck. Let’s play Jenga @ Across The Street! When: Dec. 1. Where: Post & Edgewood. #1578-1216 GOOD LUCK CHARM TEACHER You: Blonde, glasses, long red skirt and shirt, wrist tattoo, near where I studied for final, grading papers. We talked, you said good luck, get sleep. Me: Gray sweater, white collared shirt. Coffee, talk again? When: Dec. 3. Where: Bold Bean Coffee Roasters Riverside. #1577-1209 GIFT WRAP MY HEART You: Beautiful, tall, brunette, green eyes, longest eyelashes ever. Me: Secret admirer. We chatted; fell for little freckle by your left eye, infectious smile. Could listen to you talk gift-wrapping all day. Burger and fries? When: Last week. Where: MOSH. #1576-1209 PLUMBA A penguin sighting that can only compare to Anton Ego’s flashback in Ratatouille; you bring me back to a happier place. Sweaty palms for this lucky bear clearly indicate that we miss each other’s face. One434Evr. When: Anytime. Where: Anywhere. #1575-1209 GREEN SUNGLASSES I see you everywhere. Can I take your sunglasses and smack you with them? You’re too cute for your own good. You’ll never notice me though... When: Every day. Where: FSCJ. #1574-1209 FOUND UR GIFT CARD, DONATED Target gift card, “To: J_ From: W_” Used card and my $30, bought and donated socks to Salvation Army. Sorry didn’t find
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you; hope you understand & appreciate doing good for others. When: Nov. 22. Where: Southside Loop parking lot. #1573-1202 CELTIC CUTIE @ CELTIC FEST You hugged me. I gave you band picture. You left with your friends too soon. Been thinking about that meeting ever since. Would like to continue where we left off. When: Nov. 14. Where: Jax Beach Celtic Fest. #1572-1125 LAVENDERISH HAIR You: Cute, blondish lavender hair, print dress; dropped phone outside library reopening. Me: Riverside guy, glasses, blue shirt; picked up phone, chatted. Met again; you left. Wanted to talk more. Like to get acquainted further. When: Nov. 14. Where: Willowbranch Library. #1571-1125 LITTLE RIVER BAND CONCERT You: Tall, long-haired dude, very handsome. Chatted in box offi ce @ Florida Theatre. Me: Too shy to introduce myself. I’ll be @ Art Walk Nov. 19. If feeling’s mutual, bring me a flower. When: Nov. 5. Where: Florida Theatre. #1570-1111 FIRST WATCH HOT BREAKFAST You: Hot guy, adorable dog; sexy smile, gorgeous blue eyes, captured my heart. Me: In love with you. Hoping you’ll give me chance someday to be your Queen. Let’s run away to the islands together. When: Oct. 31. Where: First Watch Ponte Vedra. #1569-1104 IT MATTERS To me ... in my dreams. Remember still, our time. Your lips, your intoxicating scent. US, together. One night of bliss maybe? Mexican magic? When: Oct. 7. Where: Los Portalas. #1568-1104 MOM WANTS YOU Daughter and I outside Lynch’s. You: LEO on bicycle, handsome, great calves! Later, dealt with Walgreens drunk. Little shy … my daughter said to get your attention. Drinks, Super Troopers, Training Day … what’s your speed? When: Oct. 13. Where: Lynch’s Jax Beach. #1567-1028 YOU WAVED BACK GRINNING You: Bad-ass-looking guy, big black truck. Me: Soccer-mom-looking girl, silver minivan. Waved at you driving on 295-N, played a little cat-and-mouse, you got off on I-95-S. Let me prove looks can be deceiving. When: Oct. 3, 7-ish. Where: 295 North. #1566-1021 NOTHING MATTERS Self-hypnosis can’t stop me thinking from of you. No matter where I go and what I do, I still remember those beautiful eyes and the way my heart jumps when I see you. When: Oct. 6. Where: Luigi’s Pizza. #1565-1014 HOT MINI DRIVER You: Getting in red Mini near SunRay, hot white-rimmed glasses. Drake blasting from car as you almost hit in crosswalk; gave me a thumbs-up. Me: Tall skater nerd, Donuts For Jesus shirt. You Let’s hang out. When: Sept. 29. Where: Five Points. #1564-1014 TALL, DARK, HANDSOME, PATRIOTS FAN Jags/ Pats game. You: Pats shirt, jeans; with friends by bus watching game. Me: Short wavy auburn hair, Jags tank, cut-offs. Locked eyes as I went to sit. Heart skipped a beat at your handsomeness. Drinks on me, celebrate your win? :) When: Sept. 27. Where: Mellow Mushroom Jax Beach. #1563-0930 BOWL ME OVER Me: In the mood to be pinned. You: Lakers jersey. Bowling but said you’d rather play video games. Said you’re about to take a trip into Asia. Can we bowl balls together in Asia? When: Sept. 25. Where: Jax Lanes. #1564-0930 HUNGER GAMES Hungry; got hungrier you entered. Told me you were going east to eat genuine Asian. Wanted to talk more but you had to go because your cousin, Jimmy, owed you a quarter. Let’s eat out together? When: Sept. 14. Where: China Wok. #1562-0923
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