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BY AG GANCARSKI JOHN CRESCIMBENI and CHIP SOUTHWORTH have different ideas
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BY JOSUÉ CRUZ Two JAX BEACH LIFEGUARDS volunteer to help save refugee lives
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BY JULIE DELEGAL Florida lawmakers missed chances to make DEATH-PENALTY SENTENCING LAWS constitutional
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO TIA LOFT the domestic abuse survivor and survivor activist has pledged to run 2,016 miles in 2016 in an effort to raise awareness and funds for the Betty Griffi n House – a St. Augustine domestic abuse victim charity – and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s Hope Program. BOUQUETS TO SUN-RAY CINEMA the Five Points movie house known for its indie spirit was honored by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as the “Most VeganFriendly Theater in the U.S.” for it’s eclectic menu, which includes vegan pepperoni pizza and barbecue tofu bánh mì. BOUQUETS TO LOCAL MUSICIANS who are honoring the late music legend David Bowie in a most fi tting way. The concert, entitled Lets Dance: A Tribute to the Man Who Changed the World, will feature fi ve straight hours of Bowie tunes performed by 20 local bands on two stages. Food trucks will be on site and all proceeds benefit The American Cancer Society. The show kicks off at noon Saturday, Feb. 13 at Hemming Park in downtown Jacksonville. DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A PROVERBIAL BRICKBAT? Send your submissions to mail@folioweekly.com. Submissions should be a maximum of 50 words and concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest.
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FIGHTIN’ WORDS JOHN CRESCIMBENI and CHIP SOUTHWORTH have different ideas
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A FUN LITTLE #JAXPOL FIGHT, FIRST REPORTED on by First Coast News: Keith Haring’s Ghost Vs the Man Who Would Be Council Vice President. At issue: the Urban Arts Program, a seeming reaction to local painter Chip Southworth, who under the guise of “Keith Haring’s Ghost,” painted Haring-esque images on the drab exteriors of traffic control boxes. This was after what seemed like an eternity of public furor about graffiti tags and the like. Southworth got a rep, then got arrested, making philosophical points about public space and artistic expression that some ate up with a spoon and some rejected as jejune. However, there was a happy ending, in that city officials were on board with “streetscape enhancements” and public art that befit community standards. However, even back in 2014, there were those who urged caution, even as the scene felt it scored a rare, turning point victory. One such party: Lee Harvey, the original artistic provocateur of Jacksonville’s alternative scene late last century. Harvey passed on in 2014, yet his words of reaction to L’ Affaire Southworth in one of his last interviews bear mentioning. “Stalin approved of public art — as long as he was the subject,” he said from his home in New York City. “I’m not a big fan of what Jacksonville calls ‘public art.’ If it is approved by the city, then it becomes less art and more decoration.” Perhaps Southworth sees Harvey’s words as prescient now, given his contretemps with Councilman John Crescimbeni. Southworth believes that local artists merit consideration and set-asides. Crescimbeni, meanwhile, believes that Jacksonville’s search for appropriate public art should be more global in reach. The project includes seven utility boxes, but Southworth told First Coast News that hundreds in Jacksonville could get painted. Crescimbeni, calling Southworth a “rabble rouser,” cited his commitment to the “best possible public art that we put out in our city.” That public art was always going to be in accordance with community standards. And that community was going to be the perpetual governing class, the class of capital, of people with manners and vacation homes. Crescimbeni is right. Southworth, ultimately, is a rabble rouser in a tradition of local Jacksonville artists who are at war with the power structure, their work undergirded by an anarchic spirit. It’s that spirit that makes their work less palatable to an establishment that wants the creative class in theory, yet in practice holds that class, in its most elemental form, at arm’s length. As well, the era that bred people like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lee Harvey, and Chip Southworth is over. The rebellions against 20th-century commercialism seem passé in this era where consumerism and commodification are simply not resisted in the way they were a quarter century ago, when zines and punk rock split singles were the rage.
Whether Southworth gets what he wants out of this project is an open question. However, a less open question is that the spirit of Southworth’s art will resurface again. Yes, in his own work. But also in the work of others, of people influenced by him, of the rabble rousers of the era to come, challenging the status quo in ways that can’t immediately be forecast. An example of that contextual continuum: when Southworth embarked on his Keith Haring homage, it was nothing anyone could have predicted. Nothing that anyone would have expected when Haring was painting subway cars in the dead of night. The transitory impulse, somehow timeless. Haring would never have taken city money from Ed Koch‘s New York, either. Southworth tells Folio Weekly Magazine that he’s going to plead his case to the Downtown Investment Authority. While that’s a good start, it diminishes the unique role of Crescimbeni on Council, who is among the most powerful members of that body. Though he’s not Finance chair, he is among the leaders of the Finance Committee. There is a reason that he is a go-to quote for local media. Crescimbeni knows the process, and takes the long view; he first was elected to Council in 1991, and his longevity is only exceeded by Warren Jones and Denise Lee, both of whom have since moved on to other roles. Crescimbeni is also a political fighter… and winner. He won re-election despite being outspent by Richard Clark’s business partner, and despite having police and fire unions mobilized against him. He also, at this writing, has the inside track to the Council Presidency in two years; he has more signed-on supporters in the VP race than any of the other candidates running. As Council Prez, he will give Lenny Curry headaches on top of headaches. And Crescimbeni plays hardball. When he flashes his temper, it is like a sun lamp in a dark conference room. “I’ll personally make a deal with Councilman Crescimbeni; this has little to do with my ability, I have multiple pieces large in scale and in a variety of materials... If Crescimbeni thinks this is an entitlement program for me,” says Southworth. “I will pledge not to take any money from the program if he pledges to tour the City’s main studio complexes while artists are there working, meet them and see that much local art is on par with any city in the US and pledge to make only the boxes made legal for Council bill 2014-730 for local artist and that the boxes can be painted rather than wrapped. I’m putting my money were my mouth is… Mr. Crescimbeni: your turn!” In short, it’s going to be difficult, no matter what Southworth does, to overcome the will of one of the smartest and most effective politicians in Jacksonville. A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5
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Attention cinema buffs! The sixth annual St. Augustine Film Festival features a gala opening, parties, and screenings of 30 popular, foreign, indie, and documentary films (including, pictured, Never the Same). Friday, Jan. 29-Sunday, Jan. 31, films screened at Flagler College’s Gamache-Koger Theater, Lewis Auditorium, and at The Corazon Cinema and Café, St. Augustine, $10 per screening, $75-$125 for three-day pass, staugfilmfest.com.
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the dark hammer on the sludge/stoner/doom/you-name-it metal scene. Over the course of three releases, the four-piece has issued plenty of feedback drones and drop-tuning bliss. Check ‘em out. 8 p.m. with LA-A, Con Rit, Kill Matilda, Wednesday, Jan. 27, Burro Bar, Downtown, burrobarjax.com.
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that their folks were “playing nug-a-nug” while listening to the dulcet, clothes-melting singing of Johnny Mathis? “Chances Are,” at least a few! Mathis has sold more than 350 million records and adds his silky delivery to everything from jazz and pop to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway tunes. That smooth voice, the dim theatre… Folio Weekly Magazine highly recommends bringing your own contraceptives to this show. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $59.50-$89.50, floridatheatre.com.
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When Folio Weekly Magazine staffers aren’t sitting around playing “Whose Antidepressant is This?,” we like to recline on our communal futon and ponder which Patti LaBelle tune we like best. Is it “Lady Marmalade”? “You Are My Friend”? “New Attitude”? By Jove, this multiple-Grammy winning soul and R&B legend has released a slew of great hits and we give her big ups for being one of the earliest celebs to talk about AIDS awareness. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28 with Lyfe Jennings, at T-U Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, Downtown, $55-$99, ticketmaster.com. FRI
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3-D ART ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO Ukrainian-born sculptor and graphic artist Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964) was a pioneering Cubist, blending shard-like planes and negative space to create figures that exemplify modern art. The exhibit Archipenko: A Modern Legacy spans Archipenko’s entire career and features 50 sculptures, mixed media reliefs, and works on paper. Friday, Jan. 29-Sunday, April 17, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Riverside, cummermuseum.org.
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Ten reasons mandatory SCHOOL UNIFORMS are a bad idea AS PART OF HIS SWEEPING REFORM INITIATIVE, Duval County Superintendent Nikolai P. Vitti has a radical new plan for school children, one that he, and many parents, are convinced will cure the behavior and discipline issues we face in public schools. He has proposed, beginning in the fall of 2016, a mandatory school uniform policy for all schools with no exceptions, no opt-outs. Let’s remember that when this was proposed as a voluntary measure more than a decade ago, no one participated and it failed miserably, presumably because people, when it comes down to it, really don’t think it’s a terrific thing to force their kids into khakis and Polos everyday in hopes that some sartorial fairy dust will cure educational ills. It won’t, and everyone knows it. Right now, a school board rep is offering to parents and school officials a PowerPoint presentation touting the merits of school uniforms. I attended one such meeting recently, and pointed out a couple of flaws in the stats used to promote the proposal, the most glaring being that there is not one major national study that shows an improvement in discipline causally related to the employment of school uniforms, including a study done late last year by the University of North Florida right here in three Duval County schools. The school board representative said as much at the PowerPoint, stating that though schools have reported improvement in discipline following the introduction of uniforms, it was merely anecdotal correlation and not hard evidence. It could just as easily have been a new principal, she intimated. The other reasons she presented for employing school uniforms – school spirit and unity, ease of identification of students, convenience – are weak at best, disingenuous at worst. But the proposal is moving ahead as planned. I have made it my objective to stop it. And here are 10 reasons – real reasons – why. 1. THE BIG OPT OUT. When parents refused to participate in the voluntary school uniforms proposal was a clear indication that they, if not forced by a governmental body, would choose otherwise. Many of the arguments for uniforms are made by parents who cite “convenience” or “complacency.” Our children are not convenient, and complacency isn’t explicit support of the proposal. It’s simply saying, “Well, it’s mandatory. Might as well go with it.” This is not freedom. It’s a forfeiture of our collective rights at the expense of our children. 2. THE DUVAL SCHOOLS’ PROPOSITION ONLY AFFECTS ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS. That’s right. No high schools will be included, which is counter to many of the arguments made by the pro-uniform lobby (i.e. kids won’t be concerned about their clothingattendant status if they all “look the same”). This should raise some eyebrows. Elementary and middle school children may enjoy 8 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016
dressing up for school, but it’s in the high school years when both sartorial competition and true disciplinary issues become manifest. So I would ask, “If it’s so effective, and so important to our children’s welfare, why are high schools not included in the proposal?” I would like a serious answer to that question. 3. THE IDEA THAT WITH SCHOOL UNIFORMS, “ALL STUDENTS WILL LOOK THE SAME.” First of all, we aren’t all the same, and pretending to be is dangerous. Second, these children will go home and put on the very clothes they would have worn to school. The smoke screen of school uniforms is just that. Pretending these children are all the same, pushing the illusion of socio-economic equality because they look the same is not only a lie; it strips them of their individuality. This is what is done to military personnel and prisoners to control them. If we must resort to this type of behavior modification, the problems in our schools run deeper than clothing. And we all know they do. 4. CHILDREN WITH SENSORY ISSUES (SUCH AS AUTISM) WILL BE OSTRACIZED. Children like mine, a girl with tactile sensitivity issues, will have a difficult (and literally painful time) dealing with uniforms. In my family, our mornings have been incredibly difficult in the past when dealing with clothing that triggers my daughter’s tactile sensitivity. We have to clip socks and cut necks and arms of shirts to make them comfortable for her. I can’t imagine the difficulty we will have – and she will have, too, in tears and struggling – with cumbersome uniform standards. There is a “medical condition” opt-out, but for a girl like mine, she will be left with two choices: 1. Be uncomfortable and distracted throughout the day or 2. Be the only one in class not dressed like everyone else. Talk about feeling like an outsider because of something you can’t control. And for an autistic student, this means being pushed further away from a group you so deeply desire to be a part of. A terrible, humiliating message to send to any child. 5. ARTS SCHOOLS WILL BE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THE UNIFORMS POLICY. My child is enrolled in an art magnet, a feeder for La Villa School of the Arts, a school that, at least in theory, should place a high level of importance on personal expression, and clothing is an essential part of this for young people. When I asked Superintendent Vitti in an email about arts schools opting out, his response was: “No, they would not be exempt. Freedom of expression can be exercised through classwork, artwork, class discussion, and if necessary, color coordination of shirt colors and shoes or shoelaces, hair accessories, belt colors, etc.” Shoelaces ... A limited palette, wouldn’t you say? 6. LOW-INCOME PARENTS WILL BE BURDENED WITH GREATER EXPENSE. This has been talked
about a lot with regard to uniforms. Because it’s true. They’d be burdened not only by the expense of purchasing new uniforms but also in higher electric and water bills for more laundry, a practical concern of any household but specifically for lower-income homes. On top of typical street clothing (that kids would normally wear both in school and after), now parents must purchase government-approved clothing as well, an added expense on many levels. It’s a burden, not a blessing. 7. KIDS ALREADY HATE SCHOOL. LET’S MAKE THEM HATE IT MORE. Learning should be fun and interesting, but it seems institutions of higher education are hell-bent on making our children hate it. Standardized testing is now the bane of parents and children alike. Arts and music education and phys-ed have been slashed, taking much of the fun out of the school day. Rather than making strides in bringing those important things back, let’s instead impose a specious, draconian measure on children who are already slammed with more homework than I can ever remember having, and are receiving fewer and fewer enjoyable things to do at school every day. 8. OUR KIDS ARE PEOPLE, NOT ROBOTS, SOLDIERS OR EMPLOYEES. It is important to keep in perspective our children’s notions of freedom, self-expression and personal responsibility. If there is a discipline problem in our schools, it is not because they aren’t wearing uniforms. Study after study shows this. Kidding ourselves into thinking an anti-choice measure like school uniforms is a panacea is preposterous and takes our attention off the real issues. Our children should not be punished for something they haven’t done. It’s the wrong message to send to young minds. 9. YOU CAN ALREADY DRESS YOUR KIDS IN SCHOOL UNIFORMS. No one is stopping you. If it truly is easier and more convenient, then buy uniforms and dress your children in them. If your children are so recalcitrant that they need behavior modification through clothing management, then make it so. If it’s too difficult for you as a parent to give your child a choice of what to wear – which has been implied throughout this debate – then you have the option to dress them in your choice of uniform. Just don’t force my child – a well-behaved, attentive, and creative soul – to do the same. 10. THE WORD “MANDATORY.” That should scare anyone who values freedom. The school board is currently hosting inschool discussions and web-based survey about the mandatory school uniforms proposal. Come March and April, they are going to get down to brass tacks, culminating in an official vote. You can let your voice be heard at the school board website (duvalschools.org/Page/18159) or at the upcoming school board meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2 in the first Floor Board Room Cline Auditorium of the School System Administration Building on Prudential Drive, downtown Jacksonville. I will be there with my daughter, who of her own volition recently surveyed her third grade class. They all wrote letters to Dr. Vitti (which will be delivered to him) as a class exercise. The results: 11-4 against mandatory school uniforms. John E. Citrone mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ John E. Citrone is a musician, writer and music teacher who volunteers and hosts workshops for children in Duval County Public Schools, and at churches, schools, art camps and libraries around Northeast Florida.
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An interview with tattoo artist BRIAN DEWBERRY Folio Weekly Magazine: How’d you get started as a tattoo artist? Brian Dewberry: I started in 2008 as a floor guy. It’s an apprenticeship. If you do it the right way, it takes three years or so. What does doing an apprenticeship done “the right way” entail? You do as many tattoos as you can, and anything else you’re asked to do. The point of an apprenticeship is to make your life hell. If you pull through, you’ll do okay in the business. Why do an apprenticeship under someone instead of learning yourself? You can order a home tattoo machine off the Internet, which is an escalating problem. It’s a dangerous thing to be doing. The point of an apprenticeship is learning to do it right —how to be sterile, how to not cross-contaminate everything so people don’t come in contact with other people’s blood. Wouldn’t a home tattoo parlor be appealing to some people? It’s not sterile. Our place is as clean as a hospital. Cleaner, really, because a hospital is actually pretty gross, but we have all the necessary tools and wipes that kill HIV and hepatitis, for example. If you don’t have that, don’t have the means to know you’re totally sterile. And not that I’m a dirty person, but I wouldn’t get tattooed in my house. It’s an old house, who knows what’s growing in the walls or what you’re setting the machine on that will get all over your skin. It’s scary. Plus it’s illegal. What’s trendy in the tattoo world right now? Infinite symbols, bird silhouettes, anything you see on Pinterest 500 times. Heavy black and really thick outlines. Do you ever make suggestions against trendy tats?
We try to put it in the person’s mind that they’re going to have this 50 or 60 years; let’s make it look good, this isn’t just a picture for Instagram. I’m sure you’ve seen trends come and go. There’s always going to be fads, like tribals, semi colons. It’s easy to date a person’s tattoo. Like, ‘Oh, you probably got that in 2012 when everyone else was getting this and that.’ But now the Internet is just so big, nothing sticks around. It’s just one after another. Do first timers ever get cold feet? Oh, yeah. I think people are more nervous sometimes about coming in to talk to us about getting the tattoo than actually getting it. There’s a misconception that we’re going to be big assholes to you. What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever tattooed on anyone? I get that question a lot but there’s no real answer, because people tend to not want to spend money on a joke. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. Do you consider yourself an artist? No, not really. There’s a little bit of an art behind it, but it’s more of a skill, a trade, or a craft than anything else. Tell me about the first tattoo you did. The first tattoo I ever did was a cross on myself. I was 12 years old. First professional tattoo I did was a hand with a middle finger, on my friend, I think it was on his leg. What’s the next fad in tattoos? I think the next thing will be animal heads with four scenes inside them, I’ve already done a couple of those. Dennis Ho dho@folioweekly.com JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
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Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguards Vasili Pleqi and Nicole Emerson (inset) OVER THE SPAN OF TEN DAYS, BEGINNING IN January, Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguards Nicole Emerson and Vasili Pleqi joined a six-person ocean rescue team working near the Greek island of Lesvos. The island happens to be much closer to Turkey than it is to Athens, making it a de facto destination for the multitude of Syrian refugees escaping an ever-worsening civil war raging in their homeland. The team of lifeguards was compiled by the International Surf Lifesaving Association (ISLA), a non-profit organization based out of Huntington Beach, California, with a mission to “advance professional lifesaving development to areas in need around the globe,” according to the organization’s website. Greek, Turkish and Australian lifeguards joined Emerson and Pleqi in conducting dozens of rescues accounting for thousands of refugees. The discrepancy between the number of rescues and the number of actual people helped is so wide because, in many cases, small vessels are dangerously overloaded with people. “My first day there, a small boat was carrying over 200 people and almost capsized,” Emerson shares. She adds that there were no docks or piers upon which to safely tether. “The area where these boats were arriving was rocky and surrounded by cliffs; the water was very cold,” says Emerson. Precarious situations often became exacerbated by the fact that many of the people driving the boats had little to no experience as captains, and thus were unable to keep their vessels steady in the rough waters, even as the team of lifeguards tried to execute boat-to-boat transfers. “We were performing rescues in Nor’easter type conditions, sometimes at night” says Pleqi, who was born in Greece and is fluent in Greek. The five-year veteran of Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue, who is also a trained emergency medical technician (EMT), says that the plight of the refugees came onto his radar as he was watching the news. From there, he reached out via Facebook to lifeguards in Athens and on Lesvos and began sharing rescue techniques with them. “When I saw posted pictures of drowned refugees, it really bothered me, and I had to act,” Pleqi says. “This was my chance to help.” Most days were busy, Pleqi shares, and any downtime was spent updating and translating techniques for the local lifeguards. “Some of the simplest lessons were to smile at the people 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016
in the boats and give them a thumbs up to let them know you are there to help. They are frightened and most have not slept or eaten in days,” he notes. “Our job was to save people and keep people dry,” adds Emerson. She says the training she received and continues to augment with the Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue was critical to her being able to help. “I felt capable and prepared in the water at all times.” Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue Captain Rob Emahiser confirms that all his guards receive hundreds of hours of training and, at minimum, are trained as first responders for critical emergencies. “Emerson and Pleqi certainly have enough experience to get the job done,” Captain Emahiser says. “The Volunteer Lifesaving Corps has been training our guards to be the very best since 1912. All of us together added some cold water training to further prepare them and worked on IRB (inflatable rescue boat) transfers.” Other than the lifesaving skills they have honed over the years, Emerson and Pleqi took very little else with them. “I didn’t have any expectations because I didn’t know what I was going to find. I simply prepared for the worst and hoped for the best,” Emerson says. Prior to her departure, Emerson was shocked when a few people asked why she was going over there to help terrorists. Out of the many intense experiences surrounding this commitment she made to help others, statements like those were some of the most overwhelming for her, but that she countered those questions by stating that “we are all humans. These folks (refugees) were leaving everything behind, leaving a war zone and heading out into the unknown. There are no politics when I am up to my neck in freezing water and trying to keep a baby dry by holding it above my head.” For Pleqi, who began with Jacksonville Beach Ocean Rescue because he thought it would be a cool summer job, this opportunity was a chance to affect change on the world stage. “You simply have to take the politics out of it,” he says. Josué Cruz mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ A new lifeguard training class starts on February 9 at 9 a.m. at the Jax Beach Lifeguard headquarters, located at 2 Oceanfront North, Jacksonville Beach.
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DEBACLE FLORIDA LAW “DESTROYS THE deliberations process.” To find someone guilty of a crime — any crime —jurors have to agree unanimously. Not so to impose the death penalty. Not here in the sunshine state. And that’s why Florida’s death penalty sentencing procedure is in constitutional hot water. As Florida law stands now, after jurors find a defendant guilty of first-degree murder, they aren’t required to deliberate to the point of unanimity in order to sentence a murderer to death. They simply take a vote, and let the judge do the rest. Those split, majority-only sentencing votes reduce the jury’s role from fact-finder to adviser, the US Supreme Court said on January 12, which violates an individual’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in Hurst v. Florida, “The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death. A jury’s mere recommendation is not enough.” And juries find facts, traditionally, by reaching unanimous verdicts. So why didn’t the court mention the word “unanimous” in its opinion about juries as final fact-finders? “They frequently try to issue the narrowest opinion possible,” says Adam Tebrugge, an ACLU staff attorney based in Tampa. “There’s a strong argument that a 7-5 finding is not sufficient to find any facts,” he added. Tebrugge is referring to the split-vote recommendation on which a Florida trial court imposed the death penalty for Timothy Hurst, whose case just became a US Supreme Court landmark. Hurst’s case will now go back to the Florida Supreme Court, which will determine whether the unconstitutional sentencing procedure resulted in “harmless error.” It’s hard to see how violating the constitution could be harmless in a death penalty case, attorneys say. In capital cases in Florida, the “penalty phase” is a separate proceeding that occurs after the jury convicts a defendant of firstdegree murder. Aggravating elements of the crime are weighed against mitigating factors during the penalty phase. Florida law requires that judges give “great weight” to the jury’s analysis of those factors in the form of their sentencing “recommendation.” And that, according to SCOTUS’s January 12 ruling, is simply not enough to satisfy the Sixth Amendment. “If you don’t require a unanimous jury it destroys the deliberations process,” says ACLU staff attorney Adam Tebrugge, who is based in Tampa. “You just vote. You don’t even have to talk about it.” That argument appears to cut both ways, says local criminal defense attorney, D. Gray Thomas. He says “fear-mongers” in the legislature will point out that notorious serial murderers Ted Bundy and Eileen Wournos
were sentenced based on split, majority-only jury recommendations. But, Thomas concedes, had those jurors been required to actually deliberate instead of merely voting, they might have reached unanimity on Bundy’s and Wournos’ death sentences. THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE’S HISTORY OF INTRANSIGENCE Tebrugge and Thomas are not the first people who have noticed the difference between a majority vote and a unanimous one and how that difference changes the way juries behave. For a thorough analysis of the issue, see Alexandra Zayas’ 2013 article in the Tampa Bay Times. The Florida Supreme Court took note of the distinction in 2005, citing studies which said that the decision making process is more “thorough and grave” when jurors are required to reach unanimous decisions. The state’s high court recommended then that the Florida legislature take action to require penalty-phase verdicts be unanimous in order to impose capital punishment. The legislature declined. In 2006, The American Bar Association made the same recommendation. The legislature declined. In 2012, Sen. Thad Altman, R-Melbourne, introduced legislation to bring Florida’s death penalty sentencing system back into alignment with “hundreds of years” of common law, according to a 2013 article in the Tampa Bay Times. But, the Florida legislature declined once more to change the law to require unanimous jury verdicts to impose the death penalty. Right now, in light of the January 12 ruling, attorneys agree there is no constitutional means by which to sentence convicted murderers to death in Florida. A local coalition of faith and civic leaders in Jacksonville, Justice 4 Jacksonville, has asked State Attorney Angela Corey to halt all death penalty trials until the legislature fixes the sentencing laws. Corey said in a statement that she will not: “The death penalty is still a viable sentence in the state of Florida. We will follow the law, and in appropriate cases State Attorney Corey will still seek the death penalty. This opinion deals with procedural issues which will be addressed by the Florida Supreme Court and the Legislature.” Thomas does not disagree with Corey: “The court didn’t hold the death penalty unconstitutional, they found the procedure that gives the authority to the judge unconstitutional.” Corey’s cohort in Orlando, State Attorney Jeff Ashton, has asked judges in his circuit to halt death penalty prosecutions until the law is repaired.
ACLU Attorney Adam Tebrugge
Florida lawmakers missed chances to make DEATH-PENALTY SENTENCING LAWS constitutional MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS Asked which death row inmates could be affected by the high court’s ruling, Thomas says, theoretically, “all of them.” The penaltyphase procedure that gives the judge the final word was written into Florida law after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, which was in 1972. Relief should apply more definitively, he reasons, to any death row inmate who raised “Hurst-type issues” and who continue to have active appeals. “Relief,” he argues, should come in the form of death sentences commuted to life in prison. Whether the state can put justice on hold until it changes its laws is another question, attorneys say. Some defense attorneys would rather they not. “Some attorneys are asking, ‘Should I advise my client to plead guilty straight up right now?’” Thomas contends, noting that in the absence of a means by which to sentence people to death, defendants may want to go ahead and plead to life with no parole. Thomas also sees that the issue may not be limited to jury unanimity on the death penalty, but also on each fact that justifies the sentence, according to Sotomayor’s language in Hurst. “[Currently,] the judge identifies aggravating factors,” Thomas says. “But the judge doesn’t know what aggravating factors the jury had. There’s not an interrogatory verdict form.” “It’s absolutely clear that the US Supreme Court will conclude that you’ve got to have jury unanimity on one or more aggravating factors,” Thomas says. “The jury [still] needs to have the opportunity to grant mercy even if they have the lawful opportunity not to.” Correcting, in broad terms, the constitutionally invalid statutes regarding death penalty sentencing in Florida is on the legislature’s “must do” list. House judiciary chairman, Charles McBurney, R-Jacksonville, told the News Service of Florida that lawmakers were committed to making the changes necessary to bring the law in line with Hurst. Thomas wonders how those changes will work out, in practical terms, for different death row inmates. “Are those changes going to be allowed to apply retroactively to people who have challenges pending, or will it apply only to people charged after Hurst?” The result, he said, could be disastrous for death row inmates who were sentenced at the wrong time. “If I’m sentenced to death three years before the guy in the cell next to me on death row, he may get commuted while I don’t,” Thomas says. “Isn’t that the height of arbitrariness?” Julie Delegal mail@folioweekly.com JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 11
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As PBTS prepares to launch their game-changing NEW VOICES initiative for local playwrights, Northeast Florida’s OLIVIA GOWAN brings her original play Cotton Alley to life
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ever keep a story waiting. That’s what they say. The
story, in this case, is Olivia Gowan, an emerging playwright whose new piece, Cotton Alley, is enjoying its world premiere at Players by the Sea in Jacksonville Beach. Gowan, a young, vibrant woman, has arrived on time at the friendly bistro for our face-time interview, but, San Marco being situated as it is, in the midst of an unrepentant and equally
unpredictable spider’s web of railway traffic, I sit waiting at a train crossing about
five blocks away. Although the modern miracle of texting makes it possible for me
to offer my apologies and updates easily, it’s poor form, and I know it. Fortunately for me, Gowan’s beginnings in Macon, Georgia, inform her sense of propriety, and upon my arrival, her warm welcome demonstrates the kind of cordial Southern grace so typical in her work. She’s contentedly ordered a frosty libation while waiting, and instantly looks for a way to make sure I feel comfortable — a job usually delegated to the interviewer, not the interviewee. As our meeting progresses, we’re able to establish a connected, conversational tone that belies the fabricated reasons for the chat. Although we’re breaking bread and STORY
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spirits for a specific reason, it’s easy to be lulled into the idea that, in a different time, we might be sitting on the front porch, kvetching over a couple of mint juleps. Forgiveness and redemption, which are woven tightly through the fields and shotgun shacks and spiritual scars of fictional Pinebrooke, Georgia, in Cotton Alley, pretty clearly plays a big role in Gowan’s life as well. “I write to heal,” she says. “I used this story to understand my own self worth and how to forgive, move forward, and not allow the past to keep reoccurring into the next generation.”
Which makes perfect sense, of course, for this story that began with a sorry-I’m-late text from the wrong side of the tracks.
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Breaking out of the reoccurring paradigm and bringing new and vital life to the stage has been the driving aim of Joe Schwarz, PBTS’ executive director, throughout his 35-year career in the theater. From his
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ABOVE: Cotton Alley director John McTeirnan (left), producer and PBTS executive director Joe Schwarz, and playwright Olivia Gowan share their unique concepts of the play. RIGHT: Actor Lucas Hopper, who portrays bad boy Griff, jokes with Gowan and McTiernan on set.
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PROMISE <<< FROM PREVIOUS early days at his Common Stage Theatre in Woodstock, New York, to his tenure in Jax Beach, which began 14 years ago, new works by emerging playwrights, Schwarz’s dedication has championed new works by emerging playwrights. Now, formally personified locally in PBTS’ inaugural New Voices initiative, the drive and the dream have merged with reality. “It’s why I do theater,” Schwarz says. “I have always sought out works by diverse men and, in particular, women, as they are so incredibly under-published and under-produced.” To those who follow the local theater scene, this should come as no surprise. In fact, it might be said that the current wave of locally produced new works by local playwrights started with the swell produced at the Beaches’ community theater. Recent years have seen PBTS productions of plays by some now-notable hometown writers, including Al Letson (creator of NPR’s Peabody award-winning State of the Re:Union), Ian Mairs (the force behind Swamp Radio), Barbara Colaciello,
Jeff Grove, and Josh McTiernan (himself the director of Gowan’s Cotton Alley). When speaking about New Voices, and the buzz the initiative is creating already, just weeks after its announcement, Schwarz is precise. “[Producing original works by new writers] is nothing new to Players by the Sea.
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I’m a little flummoxed with the perceived ‘newness.’ [We’ve] been doing this important work for decades, long before it was a box to check on a grant application or a blog/ Facebook grandiloquence.” Indeed, he says, developing a formal program for local playwrights has always
been a part of the plan. “It’s what attracted me to Players by the Sea in the early nineties when I decided to move south and escape the brutal NY winters,” Schwarz notes, citing the
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Writing contest a continuation of theatre’s commitment to DEVELOPING LOCAL TALENT
success he had early on, creating a thriving environment for writers at Common Sense. “We would post an ad in the Dramatists Guild Newsletter requesting original scripts by women, and would receive over 100 properties to read. No Internet in those days! The mailbox would overflow! We’d spend three to four months vetting and considering works for readings and production, and present 4-5 readings and two full productions [in a single season].” Perhaps this is why, as he strongly notes that production of Cotton Alley is not a part
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PLAYERS PLAYERS BY THE SEA IS CELEBRATING ITS 50th birthday by offering its community, and two local playwrights, quite an extraordinary gift: the New Voices playwriting contest. After a half-century in the Bold New City, from recently offering the rock musical Hair to original productions by Al Letson, Barbara Colaciello, Ian Mairs, and others, the Jax Beach theatre is awarding two contest winners not only a place on their stage, but a year-long process of development. The theater’s Associate Director Bradley Akers says contestants should submit a twopage proposal and 10 pages of dialogue, but not a complete play. In fact, finishing the play will be part of the entire process. The antithesis of theatre is a theatre’s going stale, and it’s important the city make itself part of new American theatrical directions. “I love Edward Albee and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but theatre can’t survive alone on Albee and Arthur Miller,” Akers says. The young associate director is proud that Players has never shied away from tough topics. Nor, in fact, has he. When he was a student at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Akers’ theatre department staged Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project’s The Laramie Project about the murder of gay college student PBTS associate director Bradley Akers
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Matthew Shepard. The play depicts the reallife protests of Rev. Fred Phelps of Kansas’s Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for bitter homophobic sloganeering across the country. In turn, Phelps and his gang threatened a protest at Douglas Anderson, though they never showed up. Though edginess is not a requirement for winning proposals, Akers points out that Players has always faced its audiences with courage and a certain edge. “From 1966 to 2016, Players by the Sea has been constant in looking for work that sparks a discussion in our community. That’s how we plan a season.” In 2015, Olivia Gowan co-founded a playwrights’ group called the Groundling Scribes, and 2016 opens with her play Cotton Alley running at Players throughout January. It’s the third piece the group has produced that made its way to the stage, following Jason Woods’s St. George and the Dragon and Kelby Siddons’s To the Sea. Gowan says she’s excited about New Voices, that her group and the contest both come from a groundswell of creative excitement in Jax theatre. “It’s part of the same desire and goal,” she says. “We wanted the community to see the importance of local plays and the theatres to see how much we wanted this. Players by the Sea wanted it too. This effort is only going to grow.” Gowan describes her new play Cotton Alley as a Southern Gothic concerned with abandonment and healing and reflecting her love/hate relationship with the South. “There are some things about Southern life, I can breathe or smell or taste it, and in three seconds, tell you a story about it. But part of that storytelling is that the South has a lot of demons.” She jokes that writers are dangerous because they’re always looking for material. Others might be careful what kind of material they accidentally provide. “Lines people have said to me that hurt me or that make me laugh, I give those lines to my characters,” she says.
“I believe writing is PBTS executive director and NEW VOICES founder Joe Schwarz The greatest difficulty in writing is the personal mandate “to write from your vulnerability,” but perhaps even harder is removing yourself from the play when you’ve written it, handing it over to the interpretation of the directors and actors. “You have to build and have great trust,” Gowan says, “because your work can never stand on its own if you’re not able to let it go.” But these challenges are part of what makes New Voices such an impressive opportunity. It’s not just a writing contest, but also a chance for playwrights to work with “a team of professionals” from page to stage. The two winning playwrights will finish their plays, make revisions according to developments in process, and see it through to production in the spring of 2017. “They’ll learn how to bring the piece to life,” Gowan says, “how differently words sound on a stage than on a page, and then they’ll learn to let go, to become part of the team, the process, seeing how the directors, actors, sound technicians, and others transform it.” Winning playwrights will watch their work evolve through “living room-style” readings, public readings, auditions, and the guidance of a dramaturge. Akers says New Voices is a natural outgrowth of the theatre’s history. “We are community theatre,” he says. “For decades we’ve been about finding the new voice, the local voice, the voice from the community that has something to say to the community.” Players will accept submissions from the four-county area through March 1, and the winners will be announced on, well, April Fools’ Day. Though Akers hesitates to give too much advice for contestants, he suggests they think about the lifelong mission of Players by the Sea: “Be bold. Players by the Sea is bold. We want to make bold choices and do bold shows. And we want your new work to be bold.” Tim Gilmore mail@folioweekly.com
more natural, it taps into my spirituality MORE DEEPLY than acting. When I am confused, questioning or exploring, writing seems to be MORE INSTINCTUAL and second nature.” — COTTON ALLEY PLAYWRIGHT OLIVIA GOWAN
of the New Voices story arc, he is no less passionate about the work Gowan has created in Cotton Alley. “I have enormous respect for [Gowan] as an artist, and have enjoyed watching her grow. She is en extremely passionate and focused woman who sets goals and sees them through.”
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“Joe has been very open and positive from the beginning about supporting my work. He understands that community theatre is about supporting the local artist,” replies Gowan about her relationship with Schwarz through the Cotton Alley genesis. Indeed, such a positive working relationship between playwright and producer is critical when bringing new work to the stage, and theater, being perhaps the most collaborative of the fine arts, works best when everyone is on the same page, metaphorically speaking. When I ask Gowan about the process of mounting the show, she perks up, her cheeks
warming in tone. “Watching my words come to life is the reason I wrote in the first place,” she says with a teeth-bearing smile. “It is that moment in life that an artist waits for, that awe and that completeness of everything to make sense from the heart, to the mind, to manifestation.” But isn’t it tough, I ask her, as she was a real presence in rehearsals throughout the production process, to sit there, watching actors stumble over your carefully-chosen vocabulary, the play’s director painting his interpretation of your narrative, his sense of character motivation to the people you created? Are you more of a “helicopter mom” when it comes to your work, or are you, like, “Fly! Be free!” “I would say I am a ‘Fly! Be free!’ mom, but maybe you should ask my actors and BELOW: Actors Karen Overstreet (“Ginger”) and Paul Carelli (“J.T.”) discuss the finer points of character development with director McTeirnan. BOTTOM: On the set during rehearsal, Gowan discusses ideas and possibilities with the cast and crew. “Watching my words come to life is the reason I wrote in the first place.”
my director that question,” she chuckles. “Treating it biblically, to my definition, would mean you’re okay with lots of interpretations and some word interchanges — as long as you know the truth of the story and its subtext and heartbeat — I was okay with that.” There’s an ease to her when she speaks about it, and this fact may be more about seasoning than anything else. After graduating with her BFA in theatre from Valdosta State at age 21, Gowan moved to Los Angeles to pursue her goals as an actress and playwright. And although she says it was, at the time, more about getting out of Georgia than living the dream, there’s no denying that her time on the left coast was a tempering agent that allows her to achieve at her current level of success. And this is not Gowan’s first step into the pool of having her words come to life on stage. “I did manage to have a three one-acts and two full length plays produced in LA, and took extended classes at UCLA even though I didn’t fully commit to being a writer,” she
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THE LAND OF COTTON
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Mounting any full-length production is a daunting task, and can be even more challenging when dealing with a previously unproduced piece. Fortunately, Schwarz has the experience and the nose for what works and what doesn’t, as well as the love for emerging writers that spurs him to continue producing new works. The meeting of Gowan and Schwarz seems like a little piece of destiny for local theatergoers. Although he was already familiar with her as an actor, Schwartz recalls seeing the first blossoms of Cotton Alley in a scene at the PBTS Fringe Festival in 2011. “Although Cotton Alley was unpolished at that time, and
In the dim light of the house seating during a rehearsal, Gowan watches as the play slowly begins to come alive. the story was not fully fleshed out, I really enjoyed Olivia’s writing style. I knew she was a writer.” From this point, Schwarz took a more keen interest in helping shape the production for performance. While working with Schwarz, Gowan, dedicated to the project, dived in from her end, too. This meant, of course, endless writing and re-writing, as well as getting feedback from a playwright’s collective she formed called The Groundling Scribes. But a writer’s life is, in the end, a solitary one, and the writing process comes down to a few critical elements for her. “I think about my characters for awhile. I observe life around me for those characters’ lives to start to exist from the mind to the page,” she says. “Sometimes I drive for hours with the music blasting, or walk on the beach for miles, escaping into my thoughts.” She also finds that a certain routine works wonders. “I usually write in the mornings, and I can write up to 6-8 hours non stop. I begin the process by writing in a notebook with pen and then transfer it into a computer. And then after I finish some cohesive scenes I bring them to my writing group to hear them read out loud and to get feedback.” Regardless of the process, the proof is, as they say, in the performance when it comes to staging a play. And the production of Cotton Alley does ample justice to showcasing Gowan’s words, her work, and her way with language. Cut from the cloth of a steep Southern gothic tradition, her tale of wounded and wayward life in a tiny Georgia farming town, the show could easily be picked up and comfortably produced in other markets. But the story started here, with Gowan’s inspiration, and shepherded by Schwarz’s swarthy experience. As written, the characters and intentions come off the page nicely, and creep into the subconscious the way a well-written piece should. “Her writing is brilliant and informative,” echoes Schwarz. “It lacks any trace of ego. Olivia just tells the story with a careful economy or words. She makes brilliant choices with language. Her characters are rich and developed yet not overwrought. We leave Pinebrooke, Georgia, with questions. She doesn’t make up our minds for us. She tells her story and asks us to consider it and draw our own conclusions.” Chaz. Bäck cback@folioweekly.com
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t’s amazing, but not altogether surprising, that after two movies Po is still a disaster of a panda bear. He’s become a kung fu master and saved his village from dastardly villains more than once, yet he’s still an unorthodox klutz man-child who seems to destroy everything in his path. Perhaps expecting personal growth from an animated character is too much, but it’s a bit lazy for Po to begin Kung Fu Panda 3 with many of the same flaws he had in the first two films. I know Jack Black voices Po, and Black’s loveable buffoon screen persona has treated him well through the years, but with Po it’s as if there’s a rule that he has to start every movie inept in some way, only to overcome the ineptitude by accident in the course of saving the day. In this instance, Po has no idea how to take over training duties when Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) decides to retire. Enter cohorts Monkey (Jackie Chan), Crane (David Cross), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Tigress (Angelina Jolie) and Viper (Lucy Liu) for help, but of course there are bigger issues at hand.
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goings-on at schools for girls, the Citizen Kane of the bunch is undoubtedly Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Australian director Peter Weir’s film easily accommodates such adjectives as beautiful, provocative, intelligent, ambiguous, and mystifying. Though it has yet to be equaled, three more recent films (from France, England, and the U.S.) can at least lay claim to a similar concept— the weird goings on at exclusive girls’ schools. Innocence (2004), written and directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, takes place at an isolated school whose various buildings are connected by forest paths, the wooded complex ringed by high walls. The students are all pre-pubescent girls whose teachers, all female (including future Oscar winner Marion Cotillard), seem mainly interested in poise and dance. The girls are not allowed to leave the grounds nor to see anyone other than the staff. Parents are not a consideration. Indeed, the film opens with the newest student arriving at the school in a coffin, from which she is awakened by her classmates and then duly assigned her place and duties. The girls’ various questions about the larger world remain unanswered as they are prepared for whatever awaits them beyond. The film’s writer/director is married to the controversial Gaspar Noe (Enter the Void, Irreversible, and Love) and her source for the film is a novel by Frank Wedekind whose other works were the basis for the silent classic Pandora’s 20 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016
panda hold their own as newcomers amongst A supernatural villain named Kai (J.K. Simmons) is a bull trapped in the spirit world. the considerable ensemble; looking at the He seeks “Chi,” an apparently bottle-able cast, it’d be great to see these actors together energy that flows through all living things. in a live action film rather than an animated You know, like the Force. Kai succeeds in movie in which their skills are restrained by taking Master Oogway’s (Randall Duk Kim) the cartoonishness of their characters. Chi, and with it he ventures to the mortal To the filmmakers’ credit the story is a world to seek out the Chi of other kung fu natural extension of the franchise’s universe, masters. A collision course with Po is obvious, which temporarily obscures the fact that but not until after Po finds his own Chi, Kung Fu Panda 3 is a clear cash grab for which comes from his long-lost father (Bryan DreamWorks Animation after the first two Cranston) and scores of other pandas Po films earned a combined $380 million at the didn’t know existed. domestic box office. And like its The 3-D is fine but not predecessors it’s more silly than KUNG FU PANDA 3 necessary, as the action moves funny, which makes sense given **G@ quickly and isn’t necessarily its pre-teen target demo. Rated PG accentuated by the third So as expected, there’s not dimension. However, Hans much here for adults. But will Zimmer’s musical score is catchy, and those pre-teens like it? The screening I attended directors Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer was full of youngsters, and the only sound I Yuh find cuteness in new places this time, heard from them was consistent laughter, not particularly Po’s equally childish father and chatter. Sounded like an endorsement to me. the other pandas they encounter. Cranston, Dan Hudak Simmons, and Kate Hudson as a female mail@folioweekly.com
MAGIC LANTERNS Box (with Louise Brooks) as well as the recent Broadway musical Spring Awakening. All those names might well suggest the underlying sexual themes beneath the film’s ironic title. Beautifully photographed with marvelous performances by the young cast, Innocence is ultimately very disturbing in its implications (as it is meant to be). These young girls’ futures are not to be their own. The Falling (2015) stars Maisie Williams (Arya Stark in Game of Thrones) at a ‘60s girls’ school whose pupils are unaccountably (or maybe not) visited by a wave of sudden fainting fits. There are, of course, numerous subtexts attending the apparent malady, including sexual awakening, jealousies of all sorts, and rebellion against authority. Nonetheless, for most of its running time, the film does retain a disturbing ambiguity about what is really going on and why. Much like Picnic at Hanging Rock and numerous scenes in Innocence, lingering shots of the trees and surrounding natural habitat suggest an eerie resonance between the human and natural worlds. However, rather than relying on the symbolic as in Innocence or the inexplicable of Hanging Rock, writer/director Carol Morley finally opts for a more prosaic and psychological explanation to explain the drama and conflicts. What falling-off there is in the film is due more to Carol Morley’s script than her direction which, like the acting and cinematography, is engrossing. Florence Pugh, the radiant young girl whose death is the film’s central catalyst, is clearly going to be a big star. Maisie Williams
acquits herself well too, proving there is life beyond Game of Thrones. Like the prior two films, The Moth Diaries is also written and directed by a woman, in this case with the most impressive credentials of the three. Mary Harron’s earlier feature films include I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000), and The Notorious Betty Page (2005), all of which were critical favorites. That’s what makes The Moth Diaries (2011) disappointing, if not uninteresting. It could have been so much better. An exclusive girls’ academy somewhere in the American northeast welcomes into its roster a very strange new student named Ernessa Bloch (Lily Cole) who is either a vampire or a ghost or both. No doubt about the supernatural this time — in the long run, at least. No one believes the film’s tortured protagonist, of course, but events soon prove her right. The Moth Diaries is a slightly above-average horror film from a talented filmmaker whose middling screenplay fails to equal its promising premise. But don’t be too put off. There are a lot worse films out there, as genre fans clearly know. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
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SUN-RAY CINEMA Carol, Theeb, and The Revenant screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Kung Fu Panda 3 starts Jan. 29. THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Lamb 7:15 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28. Magnificent Seven noon and 7 p.m. Jan. 28. Viva Las Vegas 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 and King Creole 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Star Wars The Force Awakens, Rocky Mountain Express, Secret Ocean screen at World Golf Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Johns, 940-4133, worldgolfimax. com. The Finest Hours starts Jan. 29.
ST. AUGUSTINE FILM FESTIVAL Attention cinema buffs! The 6th Annual St. Augustine Film Festival features a gala opening, parties, and screenings of 30 popular, foreign, indie, and documentary films. Friday, Jan. 29-Sunday, Jan. 31, films screened at Flagler College’s Gamache-Koger Theater, Lewis Auditorium, and at The Corazon Cinema and Café, St. Augustine, $10 per screening, $75-$125 for threeday pass, staugfilmfest.com.
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13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Rated R Has Hillary signed off on this? A U.S. compound in Libya is attacked and one of the American ambassadors is killed. A military security team tries to keep themselves and the personnel around them alive. Costars Toby Stephens, John Krasinski – who’s so good you won’t see Jim Halpert at all – Freddie Stroma and Pablo Schreiber. ANOMALISA ***G Rated R In his latest, auteur Charlie Kaufman Being John Malkovich aims his surreal vision towards the realm of stop-motion animation. Michael Stone (David Thewlis), the protagonist of Anomalisa, is in many ways a very ordinary man. He may be successful in his field — the author of a popular how-to book on improving customer service — and he may get to stay in an upscale Cincinnati hotel room for his speech to a group of conventioneers. But he’s also vaguely dissatisfied with his marriage, and struggles with the tiny frustrations and indignities of life. When he meets Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a shy telephone customer service rep who is attending the conference to hear Michael speak — and whose own unique voice sounds to Michael something like salvation. While technical tricks of the animation will appeal to a wider audience, devotee’s of Kaufman’s work will surely enjoy this blend of heartfelt yearning and straight-up ennui. THE BIG SHORT **** Rated R This takes the mortgage crisis that precipitated the fallout and breaks it into small, digestible pieces easy to comprehend. There are strong performances by A-list actors, creative flourishes and a few squirmy laughs. Based on Michael Lewis’ nonfiction bestseller, the story focuses on three groups who see the meltdown looming, even though the mortgage industry was flourishing. 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 CAROL ***G Rated R Writer-director Todd Haynes sets this moving love story with a backdrop of ’50s America – a repressive, male-dominated time of intolerance and exclusion. Cate Blanchett is Carol, mother to Rindy (Sadie Heim) but bored housewife to Harge (Kyle Chandler), who she’s looking forward to divorcing. It’s Christmas time, so Carol goes into New York to shop. In a department store, she meets Therese (Rooney Mara), a shy, waifish clerk and aspiring photographer. Therese’s boyfriend, Richard (Jake Lacy), wants to take her to Europe and marry her, yet she hesitates. Something’s not right. As she spends time with Carol, she figures out why. The film is based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt, which she wrote under a pseudonym in 1952 because of the taboo content. Through the eyes of Haynes, the story transforms into a stellar motion picture that tells its tale more through actions and mannerisms than it does through dialog. Carol is a patient, poetic and beautiful work that’s not to be missed. — DH CONCUSSION Rated PG-13 Will Smith is Dr. Bennett Omalu, a forensic neuropathologist who discovers an anomaly in a pro football player’s brain 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, 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, 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, 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 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. Samuel L. Jackson is awesome. Costars Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Masden, Bruce Dern, Belinda Owino and Channing EEEE! Tatum. JOY **@@ Rated PG-13 Jennifer Lawrence stars as Joy, a single mom who lives with her mother Terry (Virginia Madsen) and grandmother Mimi (Diane Ladd). Her father Rudy (Robert De Niro) breaks up with his girlfriend and moves into Joy’s basement, which is where Joy’s ex-husband Tony (Édgar Ramírez) currently resides. Only Joy’s best friend from childhood, Jackie (Dascha Polanco), is a reliable confidante in her chaotic daily life. Joy has always been smart and creative, but she’s never been able to realize her dreams or ideas. Then she invents the “Miracle Mop,” a self-wringing, washable contraption unlike any mop ever slung around a kitchen fl oor. She goes to her father’s new girlfriend, Trudy (Isabella Rossellini), for financial help, but is unprepared for the hardships she will face – concept design, production, intellectual property, etc. Her family has a terrible way of showing support. Director David O. Russell captures the plight of the small business owner well. — DH THE MASKED SAINT Rated PG-13 A professional wrestler becomes a preacher in a small town, where he moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. Costars Brett Granstaff, T.J. McGibbon, Diahann Carroll and Roddy Piper. NORM OF THE NORTH Rated PG This opens Jan. 15, so we couldn’t get much info. Seems that somehow, Norm – who’s a lovable polar bear – and his lemming friends have travelled to the Big Apple instead of theoir usual habitat, the Arctic Circle. Norm is soon swept up in the marketing side of a large corporation that’s involved with profiting from that same frozen land. Voices by Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Bill Nighy, Colm Meany and Loretta Devine. 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 against extremesports-dude-pro-thief Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez). There are some nice waves, and snowboarding, rock climbing and some lunatics doing that wingsuit flying – 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 hint 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 RIDE ALONG 2 Rated PG-13 The guys are back! Ben (Kevin Hart) is about to get married, which will officially make James (Ice Cube) his brother-in-law. They’re trying to stop the flow of drugs up the East Coast by attacking it at the source – Miami. Violent hilarity ensues. Costars Tika Sumpter, Benjamin Bratt, Olivia Munn, Ken Jeong, Bruce McGill, and Tyrese Gibson. Rumor has it that Rick Ross, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh and T.I. have cameos. 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 without the originality that infused the saga begun in 1983. All the action and visual effects are mediocre. 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. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last living Jedi, has vanished. Villainous First Order wants Luke dead to 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 Luke’s hideout. The heroes are Rey (Daisy Ridley), a local on Jakku, with droid BB8, and ex-stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega). Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) join in. Costars Adam Driver, Domhnall Gleeson, Andy Serkis, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o. — DH
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ife is beautiful. Watching a seven-weekold baby fix his gaze at seemingly nothing, one gets the feeling that he’s seeing something those of us in the day-to-day world of sense and reason cannot. In the sphere where Theresa Caputo moves, it’s entirely possible that what she sees is most definitely not in our line of vision. The name may not ring a bell – but for sure you’ve sneaked a peek at her Sunday night reality show, TLC’s Long Island Medium. A medium is someone who claims to connect with those who’ve gone to their great reward, to be a conduit between the living and the dead. Caputo, born and raised in Hicksville, on Long Island, New York, can walk into a deli a hardware store or a car wash, simply seeking a pound of liverwurst, a shower drain flange or a Rain-X finish, and see, feel and/or sense what she calls Spirit. She then channels said Spirit through her chakras and is able to speak messages from deceased people who share a connection to the guy slicing the lunch meat, or the gal sorting screwdrivers or the kid rubbing Armor All into tires. Typically, she’ll begin the conversation by explaining that she’s able to speak to the dead, and that someone from beyond the veil has a message – no coy couching of the fact that a human being the person knew and loved is no longer walking the Earth. Quite naturally, the unsuspecting - let’s face it, the ambushed - innocent has a strong reaction to this approach. Caputo has been called a fake and a fraud by 20/20 and radaronline.com, but
Whether it’s real or fake, THERESA CAPUTO tells us some amazing stuff
examples from readings, but just as precise and just as astoundingly unbelievable.) Caputo also shares her home life with us in between taking part in Casual Encounters of the Holy Shit Kind. Her high-teased blonde shag, very long, flashy manicure and wardrobe reminiscent of ‘80s disco outfits are her trademarks, a style she embraces with an eff-you kind of pride. Her incredibly thick before her TV show even premiered, she was Yankee accent, with its hard “G” endings and booked up for two years of readings. So. mispronunciations that aren’t jarring so much On her TV show, she gets information from as they are endearing. She’s been married to a soul who’s passed, and then discusses it with husband Larry, an amiable, smartass bluethe soul’s loved one, face to face. She’ll meet collar kind of guy, for a quarter-century. Her someone, and then Spirit guides that person’s son Larry and daughter Victoria are not maderelative or close friend to connect with Caputo’s for-TV model children; they’re a little spoiled client. The medium, also a New York Times and yet don’t seem to believe they’re entitled. best-selling author (There’s More to Life Than If Theresa dishes out maternal criticism to This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories and either child – neither of whom lives at home Insight from the Other Side, You Can’t Make anymore; they’re adults – both are able to This Stuff Up: Life-Changing give as good as they get. Eventually, you come to Lessons from Heaven), THERESA CAPUTO LIVE! realize that the Caputo relates the messages to the THE EXPERIENCE 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30, Times-Union Center family is tight; Theresa’s still-Earthbound party For The Performing Arts’ Moran parents are a big part of through signs and symbols, Theater, Downtown, $48.90-$70, their lives and they all seem a kind of vocabulary she’s artistseriesjax.org. to love (or at least tolerate) worked out from her more the dogs the reality TV star than 10 years of sharing dotes on to such a degree that it borders on an what she refers to as her “gift.” The stuff she and the person getting the embarrassing level of obsession. reading talk about – facts about the way the This woman who can communicate with person died, the items family placed in the souls beyond this plane is brash, aggressive, casket before burial, the little secrets between showy and very determined to get her own brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters, way. She’s also funny, self-effacing (but mothers and sons, quirks and habits peculiar confident), loving, kind, and giving to others to the person in life – are things Caputo could in need of assurance in the face of the ultimate not possibly have known before the reading. fear – that their loved ones in the great Some grieving father slips a Cracker Jack beyond are at peace. She’s changed the minds toy in his young son’s shirt pocket before of many a skeptic, and helped others believe cremation ... who would know that? A beloved in an afterlife. But believe her or consider her grandmother always wore the drugstore line of work a bunch of hooey, you gotta admit knockoff of Chanel and passed it off as the she delivers the message in quite a style. real thing, and no one was ever the wiser – Marlene Dryden except Theresa Caputo. (These are not actual mdryden@folioweekly.com
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Young virtuoso guitarist GLADIUS, who plays a mix of classical, flamenco, Spanish, and pop favorites, performs Jan. 31 at Thrasher-Horne Center For The Arts in Orange Park.
PERFORMANCE
THERESA CAPUTO LIVE! THE EXPERIENCE Theresa Caputo, psychic medium and star of the hit TLC show, Long Island Medium, demonstrates her ability to talk to the dead at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at Times-Union Center For The Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $48.90-$70, artistseriesjax.org. MUTTS GONE NUTS Scott and Joan Houghton and present their talented performing pooches at 1:30 and 5:30 p.m. at Wilson Center for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside, 442-2929, $11$26.50, artistseriesjax.org. THEATER OF THE MIND: STORYTELLING Tale Tellers of St. Augustine present their latest storytelling production at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 471-0179, 825-1164, $10, limelight-theatre.org. CAMELOT Amelia Musical Playhouse presents a musical telling of King Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28, 29, and 30 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 277-3455, $20; $15 student; through Feb. 6, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. ORDINARY DAYS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre stages Adam Gwon’s musical, about four lives interconnecting in NYC, at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30 and 2 p.m. Jan. 31 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, $20; through Feb. 7, abettheatre.com. COTTON ALLEY Players by the Sea presents the world premiere of Olivia Gowan’s humorous play, about the relationship between a 19-year-old and a wayward, damaged mother, 8 p.m. Jan. 28, 29, and 30 at 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $23; $20 seniors, military, students, playersbythesea.org. WRONG TURN AT LUNGFISH Orange Park Community Theatre stages Garry Marshall and Lowell Ganz’s comedy, about a blind, bitter college professor who encounters a streetwise young woman who volunteers to read to him in the hospital, 8 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30 and 3 p.m. Jan. 31 at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, 276-2599, $18, opct.info. THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Theatre Jacksonville stages this musical, about a woman and her emotionally troubled young daughter traveling through Italy in the ’60s, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28, 8 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30 and 2 p.m. Jan. 31 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4425, $25, theatrejax.com. HONKY TONK ANGELS The 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. THE GRAPES OF WRATH Limelight Theatre presents its stage adaptation of John Steinbeck’s story, about the Joad family and their trek from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s Depression, at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28, 29, and 30, and 2 p.m. Jan. 31 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $15; through Feb. 14, limelight-theatre.org.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
FCSAA WINTER MUSIC SYMPOSIUM Dr. Nick Curry coordinates this three-day music festival at
7:30 p.m. Jan. 28-30 at University Of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/ coas/music/Calendar.aspx. MOZART’S GREAT MASS Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs works by Mozart and Stravinsky at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30 and 3 p.m. Jan. 31 at The Times-Union Center For The Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $25-$74, jaxsymphony.org. JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY CLARINET DAY JU clarinet students own the night at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, ju.edu/cfa/Pages/CFA-Events.aspx. GLADIUS Young virtuoso guitarist Gladius, who performs a mix of classical, flamenco, Spanish, and pop favorites, performs at 4 p.m. Jan. 31 at Thrasher-Horne Center For The Arts, 283 College Drive, Orange Park, 276-6750, $19, thcenter.org. 2CELLOS This two-man cello group, who play music ranging from U2, Michael Jackson, Sting, Coldplay to Nirvana, perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 2 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$59, floridatheatre.com. YANNI New Age superstar Yanni performs with a full orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at Times-Union Center For The Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $49.50-$140.50, artistseriesjax.org. INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT Guitarists Brian Gore, Lulo Reinhardt, Mike Dawes, and Andre Krengel perform a concert featuring a diverse array of genres at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, 389-6222, $35; $10 for students, riversidefinearts.org. JAZZ GUITAR IN ATLANTIC BEACH Guitarist Taylor Roberts is featured 7-10 p.m. every Tues. and Wed. at Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com.
COMEDY
COMEDY ALL-STARS AT THE COMEDY ZONE Local funny folks The Comedy All-Stars, featuring JPaw and Sid Porter, appear at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com. MITCH FATEL Funnyman Fatel, who has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, performs at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 and 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $18-$22, comedyzone.com. HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Local comics appear 9 p.m. Jan. 18 and every Mon. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
PLAYERS BY THE SEA NEW VOICES PROJECT Players by the Sea is currently accepting submissions of original works by local playwrights for their New Voices project. Two winners will be chosen; winning playwrights will work with a dramaturg to develop their pieces, which will then be featured in a stage production. Prize includes a $2,000 stipend. Deadline is March 1. For more info, go to playersbythesea.org/new-voices.html. THE ELBOW SEEKS BANDS FOR CD COMPILATION The Elbow, downtown’s official entertainment district, is accepting artist submissions for its new local music compilation, Amplified Vol. 2. All local bands of any genre
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ART WALKS & MARKETS
WEDNESDAY MARKET Produce, arts, crafts, food, live music, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jan. 20, 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. 20, 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. 30 and every Sat. through Feb. 26 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT The self-guided tour features galleries, antique stores and shops open from 5-9 p.m. Jan. 30 and every last Sat. in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152.
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. Archipenko: A Modern Legacy, featuring 80 works by modern sculptor Alexander Archipenko, is on display Jan. 29-April 17. 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.unf.edu. The exhibit The Other: Nurturing a New Ecology in Printmaking, featuring works by women printmakers, is on display through April 10. Project Atrium: Ian Johnston, Johnston’s Fish Tales, themes of consumption and material waste, exhibits through Feb. 28. Allegory of Fortune: Photographs by Amanda Rosenblatt, runs through March 27.
GALLERIES
THE ART CENTER The Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, Downtown, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. The group show Food Cravings is on display through March 14. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/ news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum. The exhibit Layout, featuring recent works by sculptor Krysten Cunningham, is on display through Feb. 27. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccvb.org. Celebrate 2016: Artist Member Exhibition is on display through Feb. 19. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Mermaid Magic is on display through April 5. FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery. com. Visual Artifacts Part Two – One Mind Two Realities, featuring recent works by multimedia artist Ambler Hutchinson, is on display through March.
J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery. com. The exhibit Friends, a group show featuring prints, painting, photography, and sculpture, is on display Jan. 29-March 17. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jaxfrm.html. The exhibit Evita, featuring a selection of the letters and journals of Eva Perón, the First Lady of Argentina, 1946-’52, is on display through May 1. Bright Interiors, Landscapes and Hauntingly Surreal Figures, featuring acrylic and mixed-media works by Troy Eittreim, is on display through Feb. 28. LIMELIGHT THEATRE 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 471-0179, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org. Paintings by Steven D. Anderson are on display through Feb. 14. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310. The exhibits Black, White and Shades of Gray, Mythos & Fauna, and Our Native Past: First Peoples are on display through Feb. 28.
EVENTS
ONEJAX LECTURE ON HRO OneJax Institute presents guest speaker Deweyne Robinson, Pastor of Called Out Believers in Christ (COBIC) Fellowship, discusses the all-inclusive Human Rights Ordinance, at 6 p.m. Jan. 28 at Intuition Ale Works, 720 King St., Riverside, 683-7720, intuitionaleworks.com. JACKSONVILLE EQUALITY FAIR The Jacksonville Coalition for Equality (JCE) presents this event featuring a state of the union address by JCE Chairperson Dan Merkan, special guests Councilman Tommy Hazouri and Bishop Lorenzo Hall, drinks, and hors d’ourves, from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Urban Oasis in Springfield, the home of Chevara Orrin and Marlon Hubbard, 2069 N. Market St; $100 suggested minimum donation; sponsorship starts at $200, all proceeds benefit the JCE’s efforts to update the HRO. RSVP at jaxequality.org. BLACK LIGHT TENNIS The United States Tennis Association-Florida Section (USTA Florida) and XGLOsive present the fluorescent, family geared event Black Light Tennis, from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 29 at the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation Tennis Center, 1096 W. Sixth St., Springfield, $27.37; register at xglomalfoundation. eventbrite.com. The event is then held from 6-9 p.m. Jan. 30 at The Southside Tennis Complex, 1539 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $22.09; register at xglosouthside.eventbrite.com. THE WOLFSON CHILDREN’S CHALLENGE This day of running for all skill-levels features a 55K Ultra Marathon, 55K Ultra Relay (both start at 7 a.m.), 30K Individual Run (starts at 8 a.m.), 1-Mile Fun Run (2 p.m.), along with daylong family festivities, Jan. 30 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, $20-$550; all proceeds benefit hospital equipment and fund a technology support endowment, register at wolfsonchildrenschallenge.org. WINTER WONDERLAND BLOCK PARTY This event, featuring live music, games, and food, is held from 4-7 p.m. Jan. 30 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, jaxevents.com. FOCUS CUMMER GALA FOCUS Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens presents its inaugural Celebrate! Gala, a black tie event featuring live music, cocktails and dinner, at 6 p.m. Jan. 30 at the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse, 110 Championship Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, $175; $150 non-members, cummermuseum.org/event/focus-celebrate-gala. AMELIA ISLAND RESTAURANT WEEK The eighth annual Amelia Island Restaurant Week, a 10-day gastronomic showcase, features a Coast Culinary Celebration, distillery tour, cooking class, and farmers market tour, along with 27 participating restaurants offering regular and prix fixe menus in a variety of styles and cuisine; through Jan. 31; for a full schedule of events and details, go to restaurantweek. ameliaisland.com. COCONUT HARLEY BENEFIT CONCERT The nonprofit The Gift Goes On Inc. holds this benefit concert for the Pardon Prison Tour, featuring raffles, silent auction and live music by Black Creek Ri’zin, Fratello, Second Shot and Jenny Snow & Broken Arrow, 2-7 p.m. Jan. 31 at Cliff’s Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Arlington, 645-5162; $10 donation; 21 and older only; facebook.com/events/1682085152068763/. PING PONG TOURNAMENT Green Room Brewing hosts a ping pong tournament every Tue. night, entries cut off at 7:30 p.m. start time. The $10 entry fee gets you one beer/beverage ticket; tickets awarded to the top four finishers. Double elimination, games to 21. USATT-rated opponents must give 5 points to unrated opponents. Green Room Brewing, 228 Third St. N, Jax Beach, 201-9283.
The United States Tennis Association-Florida Section (USTA Florida) and XGLOsive present the fluorescent, family-geared event Black Light Tennis, from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 29 at the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation Tennis Center, 1096 W. Sixth St., Springfield. The event is also held from 6-9 p.m. Jan. 30 at The Southside Tennis Complex, 1539 Hendricks Ave., San Marco
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FUTURE
BLUES ANA POPOVIC bridges the gap between the past and the present one killer lick at a time
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collection: Buddy Guy, Eric Gale, Taj Mahal… here’s a lot to like about Ana Popovic. the list goes on. A tireless road performer, The latest in a stellar line of nimble and she made her first inroads to America by way compelling modern blues-based artists of recording her second release in Memphis, who just happen to be women, Popovic’s 2003’s Comfort to the Soul. Produced by Jim specialty, it seems, is to lure the listener in Gaines, Comfort featured Popovic backed by with sinewy guitar lines, some vocals that are a band of top-tier Memphis musicians. In possessed by passion and then spring the trap; the past 15 years, Popovic has released seven setting fire to the senses, with that special studio albums, two live albums, and two live burst of blues energy. Like the best blues-based performance DVDs. With her latest release, artists, Popovic is better than merely being at Blue Room, she is joined by her her nine-piece one with her instrument; she has the gift for band, Mo’ Better Love. making time stand still. Popovic owns a string of awards and For any blues enthusiast it’s easy to spot nominations from here and abroad that, her source points once she gets going: Electric thankfully, mostly do not have the word “female” blues in the literal and figurative sense. in them. Not to deny the woman’s place, but in Listening to Popovic’s guitar work, one can praise of equanimity her gender simply has no hear the time she’s put into refining styles that real relation to her chops, song selections, or heretofore were considered fully evolved. That stature in the music biz. Stage presence, yes. Do is, how does one best a Roy Buchanan or a Jimi awards count? Perhaps, but they’re dubious at Hendrix or a Buddy Guy? These and many times. Popovic for instance has won Best Blues more stand in the shadows of her soloing and Live DVD and Best Live Performer at the ’06 graceful accompaniment. For this writer, that Living Blues awards, while also taking home would be enough, but she compliments, to a the very British sounding Best Overseas Blues lesser degree, with her vocals. De rigueur of Performer the same year. any performer, Popovic As much a symbol had the unenviable ANA POPOVIC for blues, soul and task of overcoming her WITH EMMA MOSELY BAND funk (and their myriad native Serbian accent to 8 p.m. Jan. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, offshoots and fusions), cultivate the standard $28-$32, pvconcerthall.com. the trajectory of Popovic earthier-than-thou voice stands as a testament to shadings required of the the evolution of the music blues/soul performer, be as well. Sit back and think for a moment on it man or woman. Like Jo Anne Kelly’s take on how this music descended upon, and found, Charlie Patton or Rory Block’s channeling of Bessie Smith, Popovic’s pipes run the spectrum new listeners, success, and launched yet another of sultry soft to hard edged, with Aretha career. This time a Serbian woman at that! somewhere in the middle. Roughly 80 years ago the blues migrated Evolving from Third World music status north from the Deep South to the urban north, 80 years ago to now the nearest thing to a flourished, and then transformed itself with universal language on this planet, the blues electricity. Then through a chance distribution flame singes virtually every style of pop deal, an independent Chicago label called music. It’s said to have many friends, but Chess found a new market in England through few lovers. Popovic’s dad, Milton Popovic, Pye, a small imprint willing to risk unleashing was one such lover. Ana Popovic was born these raw U.S. sounds on a UK audience. The in Belgrade, Serbia in 1976. From an early music flourished again, this time to a breed age she came to know the blues as the of English youngsters who, in turn, brought it proverbial top of the tree of the music played back to its American homeland, in the process in her house. She has gone on record to revitalizing the careers of its creators to a new state that the rich vein of the native Balkan generation. (Remember that Stevie Ray Vaughn was as much a product of The Yardbirds as he music (ironically studied by American blues was of B.B. King) The music continued to thrive scholars like David Lindley and Alan Wilson, as the ‘60s “blues boom” detonated, spreading among others) was nowhere in sight in her the blues around the world. Innovators and home. It was blues and jazz all the way. cross breeders like Jimi Hendrix breathed more Picking up the guitar at age 15, Popovic was life into the blues than before, revealing a host on her way, woodshedding into her first band, of new possibilities. And now three or four Hush, three years later. After becoming a local generations from the primordial Delta dirt, favorite, she moved to Holland in 1999 to study we’re gifted with an Ana Popovic. Two minutes jazz guitar and formed another band under her into her set and I’ll I guarantee you’ll know that own name. It’s been an upward spiral ever since. you’re getting the real thing. By 2000, Popovic had met and shared Arvid Smith the stage with many of the legendary names mail@folioweekly.com who tutored her by way of her dad’s record JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25
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FINEST
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES’ latest release maintains their reign as the kings of rock and soul
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another, a sight not seen since American t’s been said that it’s futile to talk about music, Bandstand left Philly a decade before. If Bruce to put it into mere words. “Talking about Springsteen was this scene’s Nelson Algren music is like dancing about architecture,” then Southside Johnny was its Satchmo, a the saying goes. I know many quotations and titan straddling with one foot in the old Leiber analogies, and it’s tough to get the point across -Stoller yakety sax world of boy meets girl, at times. But often the genius is to rely on extrathe other firmly set in a new northeast urban musical ideas to bring a clear picture. To my realism dealing with looming energy crisis and mind, one of the best has stuck with me from economic downturn. Yes, we’ll be together, but a ‘70s interview with Southside Johnny Lyons, wear my ring and it will be you and me against as he was reminiscing about his childhood days some very real odds. and what drew him to the Admittedly, it’s pointless soul side of music. He spoke to list any band member of how, on cold New Jersey SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND names as the band’s origins, winter nights, his parents THE ASBURY JUKES 8 p.m. Jan. 28, The Florida and shifting lineups would would softly play their jazz Theatre, Downtown, $29.50dumbfound a genealogist, and big band records after $49.50, floridatheatre.com. although Jon Bon Jovi was a putting the kids to bed. Lyons Juke for a while. But through could still hear the music it all, Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes through the air vents to his bedroom and in his have never strayed far from their vintage Stax own words, “Billie Holliday and Jimmy Rushing Soul Revue sound and Brill Building-esqe would come up with the heat.” That nailed it for songwriting. This is all the more evident on me loud and clear. “The Heart Always Knows,” from the new Soultime is the 20th release from Soultime release. It’s the kind of song whose Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes, not message is wasted on those who haven’t counting a handful of EPs, collaborations, known loss or are too young to have not yet and Lyons’ two solo albums. In a career given of themselves to truly meet another spanning four decades, he has made soul person. Production is magnificent and typical music the signature of what was once called of the other tracks on Soultime. The song is the “Jersey Shore” sound. Lyons came up at bathed in lilting string pizzicatos and the most a peculiar time in pop music history, circa romantic Spanish guitar this side of “Maria 1975-76, when music and the nation had Elena” – and are danceable at that. Think Doc sunk into the doldrums of self-examination. Pomus meets Xavier Cugat. Hard rock had blown itself out and a slew For out-and-out grit, look no further than of introspective, inoffensive, and mostly the instrumental “Klank.” Long underrated irritating “Me-Decade” singer/songwriters as a harmonica man, Southside Johnny puts were cashing in by telling us how to live his harp through the paces, leaving his horn - and we bought it. Our collective desire section running to catch up. It brought to was in forgetting the war that had divided my ears no less the intensity than the great the classes, generations, and ultimately the Magic Dick on the J. Geils Band’s “Whammer nation, and the resulting punk and disco Jammer.” Just try to sit still. crazes were yet to be visible on the horizon. The album’s blast off song, “Looking For A We were turning inward and longing to turn Good Time,” could be Southside Johnny and back the clock. Seemingly, out of nowhere, a scene The Asbury Jukes in a nutshell. The lyrics are emerged from the epicenter of Asbury Park, loose, joyous, a good-times-are-rolling feel New Jersey. Though glorified obliquely in song along with a strong dose of live and let live. The by Bruce Springsteen, it was his colleague focus of the song is the music, a stone natural Southside Johnny and his band’s residency at for Southside Johnny. When he’s looking for a good time it has to be the music. You can bet a club called The Stone Pony that cultivated that Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes a new audience; one that embraced the faded will always save the last dance for you. romantic notions of role-play in the courting Arvid Smith game and became known as the place where mail@folioweekly.com couples still slow danced and held on to one
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Georgia alt-rock kings DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN’ (pictured) perform with THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS, and GREAT PEACOCK at Jack Rabbits Feb. 3 in San Marco.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Jan. 27 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. DAN VOLL 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at Alley Cat Seafood, Beer House & Wine Boutique, 316 Centre St., Fernandina Beach, 491-1001. BIOHAZARD, SWORN ENEMY, COLDSIDE, ETERNAL SLEEP,
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CROSS ME 7 p.m. Jan. 27 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $15. PAT ROSE 7 p.m. Jan. 27 at Ragtime Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. RICHARD SMITH 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. GRAHAM NASH 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $49.50-$99.50. DESTROYER of LIGHT, LA-A, CON RIT, KILL MATILDA 8 p.m. Jan. 27 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown. BULLY, PALEHOUND, FAZE WAVE 8 p.m. Jan. 27 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $12. DECOY 7 p.m. Jan. 28, Ragtime Tavern. SAID CLEAVES 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28, Mudville Music Room, $10. PATTI LaBELLE, LYFE JENNINGS 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at T-U Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, 633-6110, $55-$99. ANA POPOVIC, EMMA MOSELY BAND 8 p.m. Jan. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $28-$32. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES 8 p.m. Jan. 28 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $29.50-$49.50. THE GOOCH 6 p.m. Jan. 29 at Slider’s Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, 277-6652. RUNA 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29, Mudville Music Room, $10. AXIOM, SUNZ OF SAMM, AUTOMATIK FIT, YOUNG FOR A DAY, FALL UPON FATE 8 p.m. Jan. 29, 1904 Music Hall, $8. SUPPRESSIVE FIRE, SATURNINE, WORSEN, OPPRESSIVE NATURE, CORRUPTED SAINT 8 p.m. Jan. 29, Burro Bar, $8. SHAWN COLVIN, LARRY CAMPBELL, TERESA WILLIAMS 8 p.m. Jan. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $43-$53. REVERIST, THE DOG APOLLO, NORTHE, WEEKEND ATLAS 8 p.m. Jan. 29, Jack Rabbits, $5 advance; $10 day of. CHERYL WHEELER 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $20 advance; $24 day of. TYLER DENNING BAND 9 p.m. Jan. 29 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611. SECOND SHOT 9:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. CAPTAIN OBVIOUS 10 p.m. Jan. 29 & 30 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. SIDEWALK 65 10 p.m. Jan. 29 & 30, Ragtime Tavern. PAPADASIO 6 p.m. Jan. 30 at Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $17. JOHN SPRINGER 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30, Alley Cat Seafood, Beer House & Wine Boutique. CARRIE UNDERWOOD, EASTON CORBIN, THE SWON BROTHERS 7 p.m. Jan. 30 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph, Downtown, 630-3900, $45-$75. PEYTON – WAITE TRIO 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30, Mudville Music Room, $10. HERD OF WATTS, JAMEYAL 8 p.m. Jan. 30, 1904 Music Hall, $7 advance; $10 day of. JOSH BRANNON BAND, JESSE MONTOYA, SWEET SWEET 8 p.m. Jan. 30, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. PINK FLOYD LASER SPECTACULAR SHOW 8 p.m. Jan. 30, The Florida Theatre, $15-$25. GAELIC STORM 8 p.m. Jan. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $29.50-$34.50. Pre-International Noise Conference: THE GLYPH, BELLRINGER, MOUTH MOUTH, FIVER’S STEREO, JAMISON WILLIAMS, LAGHIMA, NORSE SHIT BAND, JONATHAN HANCOCK, DAN KOZAK, DYLAN HOUSER, DUBB NORMAL, MICHAEL LANIER, CON RIT, APOCALYPTIC NOISE
SYNDICATE VS. CORVID CANINE, BEAT KIDS, TIM ALBRO 8 p.m. Jan. 30 at space:eight, 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838. RUNNING RAMPANT 9 p.m. Jan. 30, The Roadhouse. 5 O’CLOCK SHADOW 9:30 p.m. Jan. 30, Whiskey Jax. HOLLIDAY & DUFFY 7 p.m. Jan. 31, Ragtime Tavern. THE EXPENDABLES 7 p.m. Jan. 31, Mavericks Live, $21 advance; $25 day of. COLIN HAY, HEATHER MALONEY 8 p.m. Jan. 31, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $29.50-$39.50. JOHNNY MATHIS 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31, The Florida Theatre, $59.50-$89.50. AIONIOS, AXIOM, DENIED TIL DEATH 8 p.m. Jan. 31, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. TELEPATHIC LINES, JEREMY ROGERS, BURL, GHOST TROPIC 8 p.m. Jan. 31, The Present Moment Café, 224 W. King St., St. Augustine, 827-4499, $5. THE TREWS, GOODBOYS 8 p.m. Feb. 1, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. MIKE MAINS 7 p.m. Feb. 2, Burro Bar. RUNA 7 p.m. Feb. 2 at Culhane’s Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595, $15. JOHN KADLECIK BAND 8 p.m. Feb. 2, Jack Rabbits, $12 advance; $15 day of. MOON TAXI 8 p.m. Feb. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $17 advance (SRO); $22 day of. DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN’, THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS, GREAT PEACOCK 7 p.m. Feb. 3, Jack Rabbits, $20 advance; $25 day of. SONGWRITER SHOWCASE 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, Mudville Music Room, $10. PLEASURES 9 p.m. Feb. 3, Burro Bar.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Southern Soul Assembly: JJ GREY, ANDERS OSBORNE, MARC BROUSSARD, LUTHER DICKINSON Feb. 4, Florida Theatre OLD DOMINION Feb. 5, Mavericks Live UNDER the STREETLAMP Feb. 5 & 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Valor Jam for Veterans: The CORBITT BROTHERS, SECOND SHOT, BILLY BUCHANAN & FREE AVENUE Feb. 6, The Florida Theatre YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, TROUT STEAK REVIVAL Feb. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Greatest Hits Tour, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Feb. 10, The Florida Theatre BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE Feb. 10, The Green Room 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 2 CHAINZ, SMASH JACKSON, DJ SHIFT Feb. 12, Mavericks Live 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 WILD KRATTS LIVE! Feb. 15, The Florida Theatre MELISSA ETHERIDGE Feb. 17, Thrasher-Horne Center DON WILLIAMS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre MARTY FRIEDMAN Feb. 17, Jack Rabbits
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC 12th Annual Palatka Bluegrass Festival: PENNY CREEK BAND, SPECIAL CONSENSUS, FELLER & HILL AND THE BLUEGRASS BUCKAROOS, LONESOME RIVER BAND, THE SPINNEY BROTHERS, RHONDA VINCENT, RON THOMASON AND DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD, THE GRASCALS, THE BLUEGRASS BROTHERS, THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS Feb. 18-20, Rodeheaver Boys’ Ranch 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 SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, The Ritz Theatre MICHAEL FELDMAN’S WHAD’ YA KNOW? Feb. 20, The Florida 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, Florida Theatre PETER CASE Feb. 26, Mudville Music Room DAVID COOK Feb. 27, Mavericks Live JUAN WATERS Feb. 27, rain dogs. RICHARD MARX Feb. 27, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Seawalk Music Festival: GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, THE CORBITT CLAMPITT EXPERIENCE, FLAT LAND, HERD OF WATTS, PARKER URBAN BAND, SPICE & THE PO BOYS, SMOKESTACK, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND, FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL, CAT McWILLIAMS BAND FEB. 27-28, Seawalk Pavilion 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 JOE JACK TALCUM, COOLZEY, D&D SLUGGERS, DIGDOG March 3, rain dogs. ROGER McGUINN March 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEVE MILLER BAND March 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre COREY SMITH March 4, Mavericks Live HERB ALPERT & LANI HALL March 4, The Florida Theatre Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival: MUMFORD & SONS, KENDRICK LAMAR, SKRILLEX, BASSNECTAR, ROBERT PLANT AND THE SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS, ODESZA, DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, THE AVETT BROTHERS, FUTURE, MIGUEL, FETTY WAP, WEEN, and others March 4-6, Okeechobee JASON ISBELL, SHOVELS & ROPE March 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ROBERT PLANT & THE SENSATIONAL SHIFTERS, THE SONICS March 6, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JEWEL March 6, The Florida Theatre CREEPOID, HOLLY HUNT, FEVER HANDS, LA-A March 7, Burro Bar GEORGE WINSTON March 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE GODDAMN GALLOWS, MUDTOWN, SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY, CAINT NEVER COULD March 8, Burro Bar JIM BREUER March 9, 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 EMMETT CAHILL March 13, Culhane’s Irish Pub DUBLIN CITY RAMBLERS March 15, Culhane’s Irish Pub 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 Great Atlantic Festival March 19, Seawalk Pavilion THE FAB FOUR: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE March 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ALAN DOYLE & BAND March 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ABSU March 20, Burro Bar BILL GAITHER & GAITHER VOCAL BAND: DAVID PHELPS, WES HAMPTON, ADAM CRABB, TODD SUTTLES March 20, T-U Center Moran Theater SAOSIN March 22, Mavericks Live CHICAGO, EARTH, WIND & FIRE March 23, Veterans Memorial Arena SETH GLIER March 24, The Original Café Eleven THE LACS March 25, Mavericks Live BYRNE & KELLY March 29, Culhane’s Irish Pub DURAN DURAN March 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, The Ritz Theatre COODER, WHITE & SKAGGS March 31, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ACE FREHLEY, GEOFF TATE April 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Springing the Blues APRIL 1-3, Seawalk Pavilion DAILEY & VINCENT April 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STICK FIGURE April 8, Mavericks Live REBIRTH BRASS BAND April 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LET IT BE: Celebration of the Beatles April 10, Florida Theatre AMY HELM April 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PEARL JAM April 13-16, Veterans Memorial Arena 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 BILLY CURRINGTON, KELSEA BALLERINI April 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The BRONX WANDERERS April 16, The Florida Theatre BARRAGE 8 April 17, The Florida Theatre JESSE COOK April 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall One Night of Queen: GARY MULLEN & the WORKS April
20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall A NIGHT with JANIS JOPLIN April 21, The Florida Theatre Anjelah Johnson Presents: BON QUI QUI, GROUP 1 CREW April 30, The Florida Theatre ALABAMA SHAKES, DYLAN LeBLANC April 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 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 BILL MAHER May 14, The Florida Theatre NIGHT RANGER May 19, The Florida Theatre KING & THE KILLER May 20, Mavericks Live 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 Salt Life Festival June 18, Seawalk Pavilion JUSTIN BIEBER June 29, Veterans Memorial Arena TWENTY ONE PILOTS July 3, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER July 20, Veterans Memorial Arena
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA
ALLEY CAT Seafood & Beer House, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27. John Springer 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28. Live music most weekends GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck
California reggae-rockers THE EXPENDABLES perform at Mavericks Live on Jan. 31 in downtown Jacksonville.
Smith Thur. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 The Gooch 6 p.m. Jan. 29. Live music most weekends SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg every Tue. & Thur. Black Jack Band every Fri.
ARLINGTON
CLIFFS’ Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Joe Santana’s Kingfish Jan. 27, Foxfire & Open Mic Jan. 28. Love Monkey Jab. 29 & 30. Live music every Fri. & Sat.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. 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 Smokestack 9 p.m. Jan. 29 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 the Band Jan. 28. Captain Oblivious 10 p.m. Jan. 29 & 30. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. Jan. 31 FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr., AB, 246-4293 Live music most weekends GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 Matt Still Jan. 29. Brady Reich Jan. 30 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. Jasmine Caine 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Austin Park 10
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC p.m. Jan. 29 & 30. Live music every night MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Ivey West Jan. 30 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 372-4105 Maryann Hawkins 7 p.m. Jan. 28. Dan Coady 7 p.m. Jan. 29. Elizabeth Rogers 7 p.m. Jan. 30 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Pat Rose 7 p.m. Jan. 27. Decoy 7 p.m. Jan. 28. Sidewalk 65 10 p.m. Jan. 29 & 30. Holliday & Duffy 7 p.m. Jan. 31. Live music every weekend WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 247-4508 Live music most weekends
DOWNTOWN
Overset
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Biohazard, Sworn Enemy, Coldside, Eternal Sleep, Cross Me 7 p.m. Jan. 27. Axiom, Sunz of Samm, Automatik Fit, Young for a Day, Fall Upon Fate 8 p.m. Jan. 29. Herd of Watts, Jameyal 8 p.m. Jan. 30. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. Destroyer of Light, LA-A, Con Rit, Kill Matilda 8 p.m. Jan. 27. Suppressive Fire, Saturnine, Worsen, Oppressive Nature, Corrupted Saint 8 p.m. Jan. 29. Mike Mains 7 p.m. Feb. 2. Pleasures 9 p.m. Feb. 3 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 BlackJack every Wed. DJ Brandon every Thur. DJs spin dance every Fri. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall 9 p.m. Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, The Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Jan. 27. Chuck Nash 8 p.m. Jan. 29. Jimmy Solari 8 p.m. Jan. 30 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Fusion 7 p.m. Jan. 22. Groove Coalition 7 p.m. Jan. 23 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 Papadasio 6 p.m. Jan. 30. The Expendables 7 p.m. Jan. 31. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Live music 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 Rick Arcusa 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29. The Lyons Band 7:30 p.m. Jan 30
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
DAVE’S Music Bar & Grill, 9965 San Jose Blvd., 575-4935 Dancing Joe G Jan. 21. Live music most weekends HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine, 880-3040 Live music most weekends. Open jam 7 p.m. Mon.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Tyler Denning Band 9 p.m. Jan. 29. Running Rampant 9 p.m. Jan. 30. Live music 10 p.m. every Wed. DJ Big Mike every Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grill, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Ryan Crary Jan. 27. Live music most weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Jan. 27. Gary Starling Jan. 28. Robbie Litt Jan. 29. Latin All Stars Jan. 30
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 King of the Hill, The Commons, GFM, Vacant Resident, Marlin Dixon & The Fam Band Jan. 29. Katlin Hill Raphael Jones, Seckond Chaynce and Young Jonah, Prince William, Will B (878), Kiddz Church Jan. 30 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Live music most weekends
THE KNIFE SOCIAL MEDIA HAS BEEN ABUZZ THE LAST FEW weeks, mourning what seems like an unusual number of rock star deaths. It started with the demise of Scott Weiland (Dec. 3, 2015) and has continued unabated through Lemmy Kilmister (Dec. 28), Natalie Cole (Dec. 31), David Bowie (Jan. 10, 2016), Mic Gillette (trumpeter for Tower of Power, Jan. 17), Dale Griffin (drummer for Mott the Hoople, Jan. 17), and Glenn Frey (Jan. 18). Heck, by the time this column goes to press, Keith Richards may have also mounted the Big Escalator to the Sky. Wait, strike that. He’s either already dead or will never die. No one really knows for sure. This may seem like a torrent of notable passings, but if you look back, these ailing and aging rockers (and, in some cases, young substance abusers) have been dropping like flies for some time. Just last year alone, we said goodbye to “Filthy” Phil Taylor (Motorhead), Steve MacKay (The Stooges), Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon), hip-hop artist Sean Price, Dallas Taylor (drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Chris Squire (Yes), jazz innovator Ornette Coleman, B.B. King, Ben E. King, rapper The Last Mr. Big, Jack Ely (The Kingsmen), Percy Sledge, A.J. Pero (Twisted Sister), Andy Fraser (Free), Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night), Lesley Gore (“It’s My Party”) and gospel singer and composer Andraé Crouch. And that’s just the names you might recognize. There were dozens of other obscure musicians who kicked the bucket in 2015 that no one gave a shit about. So why is everybody making such a big stink about the latest casualties? Obviously, these musicians have touched us, their music and personalities striking a resonant chord for lifelong fans. And yes, they and their music should be remembered fondly. But do we really need all of the metaphysical mysticism? All of the goofball memes about the 67 Club? (A reference to the 27 Club, which remembers musicians who died at the age of 27 - a long list that includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, and even Amy Winehouse.) Do we really need this tripe about an all-star band in rock-and-roll heaven? Maybe it was acceptable when the song “Rock and Roll Heaven” became a hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1974. Rock was still relatively young, and the spate of early-age deaths of these musicians took everyone by surprise. But can’t we all grow up a little bit about this whole death thing? People die. Some of us believe there is an afterlife. Some of us - myself included - don’t. But to pretend that there is a band in heaven, including all of the musicians we love (and some we hate) is just too
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ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Jimi & Lisa, OH NO! Jan. 29, Jim Asselta, Mid-Life Crisis Jan. 30, Vinny Jacobs Jan. 31 MILL TOP TAVERN, 19 St. George St., 829-2329 Live music on the weekends ORIGINAL CAFÉ ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Cheryl Wheeler 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29. PAULA’S GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Live music most weekends TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Lisa & The Madhatters 9 p.m. Jan. 29 & 30. Live music most nights
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Bully, Palehound, Faze Wave Jan. 27. Reverist, The Dog Apollo, Northe, Weekend Atlas Jan. 29. Josh Brannon Band, Jesse Montoya, Sweet Sweet Jan. 30. Aionios, Axiom, Denied Til Death Jan. 31. The Trews, Goodboys 8 p.m. Feb. 1. John Kadlecik Band Feb. 2. Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, Thomas Wynn & The Believers, Great Peacock Feb. 3, MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Richard Smith 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27. Said Cleaves 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28. Runa 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29. Peyton – Waite Trio 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30. Songwriter Showcase 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS, ARLINGTON MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Second Shot 9:30 p.m. Jan. 29. 5 O’Clock Shadow 9:30 p.m. Jan. 30. Country Jam Wed. Melissa Smith Thur. Mojo Roux Blues Sun.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
MOLLY BROWN’S Pub, 2467 Faye Rd., 683-5044 Live music most weekends THREE LAYERS Cafe, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Oscar Mike 8 p.m. Jan. 29. Live music most weekends
STAIRWAY TO
HEAVEN touchy-feely for me. Not to mention completely unrealistic, even by the least realistic standards. I mean, first of all, if there is a heaven, there is also a hell, and a number of those dead rock stars are most certainly hanging out there. Can you imagine Bon Scott and Lemmy Kilmister tipping pints at The Cloud Bar with the original Sky Captain? Hell, no. They’re chasing flaming skirts with Ol’ Scratch on the shores of the Lake of Fire. And probably having a very good time doing it. Then we have the contentious egos of all those dead people. Musicians are notoriously narcissistic. Add to that the prospect of white robes and halos, and these people will be harder to deal with than ever. And remember, it’s not just Bowie and Frey up there. It’s everyone from Elvis and John Lennon to John Coltrane, John Bonham, and freaking Frank Sinatra, who by now has surely worked his way into the Holy Trinity. There are probably more dead rock stars than there are alive. That’s a lot of arrogant schmucks vying for the top spot in an all-star band. Just imagine the scenario. The “new guy” stumbling into the rehearsal room where Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix are collaborating.
THE KNIFE
Glenn Frey: Hey, whatcha doin’? Miles Davis: Who the hell is this mothafu ... Jimi Hendrix: Awww, man, Miles. Remember that cheeseball country-rock band The Eagles? This guy wrote all their terrible songs. Go easy on him. Miles: Oh, yeah, you’re the guy who wrote that piece of crap, “You Belong to the City”? Glenn: Um, yeah. But … but I also wrote “The Heat is On.”
Miles: Get the fuck outta here. Or Bowie slinking into a Lennon-Harrison reunion. Lennon: “Imagine there’s no heav …” Bowie: ‘Ello, gentlemen. Dig this. I just landed my first number one album, and I’m not even alive to enjoy it. Lennon: Rat bastards. They only really love you when you’re dead. Wash your hands before you touch me guitar, Mr. Fancy Pants Davey Jones. Harrison: Shhhh! Freddie Mercury’s coming. Look busy! It’s all as preposterous as it sounds, and though most people aren’t serious about an all-star rock band in heaven, many are. They truly think these dead rockers are hanging out together with spangled angel’s wings and electric harps, jamming into eternity, while God taps his giant foot and sprays the crowd with holy water when it gets too hot up front. In the abstract, though, they have a point. It’s the music that is eternal, and relative to the synthetic, mass-produced, formulaic garbage that we are forced to imbibe these days, those songs really do seem like heavenly relics, to be listened to with reverence and passed down for generations to come. Just don’t kid yourself into thinking you’re gonna meet Keith Richards. Not here. Not in heaven. Not ever. John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com
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Fresh, delicious oysters are just one of the amazing seafood treats at The Blue Fish Restaurant and Oyster Bar in Avondale. Photo by Dennis Ho
DINING DIRECTORY AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH 29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestau rant.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. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BEECH STREET Bar & Grill, 801 Beech St., 572-1390, beech streetbarandgrill.com. In restored 1889 home, Chef Charles creates with fresh, local ingredients. Local seafood, handcut Florida steaks, housemade pasta, daily specials, small plates, street food. $$$-$$$$ FB D Tue.-Sat.; Brunch, D Sun. BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ 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. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY CO., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily THE CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap.com. F $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily
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DINING DIRECTORY KEY
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com. 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameli aislanddavids.com. Fine dining, historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily HOLA CUBAN CAFÉ, 117 Centre St., 321-0163, holacuban cafe.com. F $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian. Porch. $$ 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. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesal typelicanamelia.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. 2nd-story
outdoor bar. Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, local shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront. Crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2015 BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK. The STEAKHOUSE @ Gold Club, 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500, jacksonvillegoldclub.com. Lunch and dinner specials, free HH buffets Thur. & Fri. $$$ 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. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. 40+ years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. 2015 BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ 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. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. BELLA VITA RISTORANTE ITALIANO, 3825 Baymeadows Rd., 646-1370, bellavitajax.com. F Authentic cuisine. $$ FB L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S Giant Subs, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI Grille, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Family-owned; traditional fare, vegetarian, new Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Lowsodium, gluten-free, too. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. TEQUILA’S Mexican Restaurant, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 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 KITCHEN & COCKTAILS, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub has craft beers, burgers, handhelds, tacos, whiskey. $$ FB L D Sat. & Sun.; D Daily.
BEACHES
(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.) AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. New York-style gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day HH Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily
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DINING DIRECTORY ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. F 2015 BOJ winner. Subs made with fresh ingredients for 25+ years. One word: Peruvian. Big salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884, espetosteakhouse.com. Just relocated, serving beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage; full menu, bar fare, craft cocktails, Brazilian beers. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 F 2015 BOJ winner. Latin American, tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 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 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine in, patio. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Pulled pork, beef, chicken, Carolina-style, sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637, poestavern.com. 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, saltlife foodshack.com. Specialties: signature tuna poke bowl, sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in modern openair 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. Oceanfront place serves authentic fare – like paella. Drink specials. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily SURFWICHES SANDWICH SHOP, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop; Yankeestyle steaks, hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELICATESSSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli has freshly made subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian items. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. THE CANDY APPLE CAFÉ & COCKTAILS, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafe.com. Sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun.
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
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-owned-andoperated. 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 GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE 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
CHEERS PARK AVENUE, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855. $$ FB L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 1803 East West Pkwy., 375-2559. 2015 BOJ winner. NASCAR theme. 365 varieties of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern-style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 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 shack.menu. F Bakery and café; bagels, muffins, breads, cookies, brownies, snack treats. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily
GRILL ME! ERIC WARD
Whitey's Fish Camp 2032 CR 220, Fleming Island BIRTHPLACE: Dallas, Texas YEARS IN THE BIZ: 25 FAVE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Kickbacks in Riverside FAVE CUISINE STYLE: Gourmet Tex-Mex FAVE INGREDIENTS: Cilantro, chili powder, shrimp, pork, beef IDEAL MEAL: Skirt steak with chimichuri sauce wahed down with a good craft beer. WON’T CROSS MY LIPS: Liver INSIDER’S SECRET: As a culinary manager, I live by "Price, product and service." CELEBRITY SIGHTING: Johnny Van Zant CULINARY TREAT: Salted caramel ice cream
CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has served genuine Italian fare 35+ years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ 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, thezodi acbarandgrill.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.
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AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F ’15 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. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELI, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, black sheep5points.com. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ 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
DINING DIRECTORY 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; sodas, tea. Rotating seasonal menu: waffles, pastries, toasts, desserts, specialty coffees, craft beers. $$ BW K B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily. DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343. New American cuisine, upscale retro air in historic landmark building. Shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ 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. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2015 BOJ winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Juice bar; organic fruits, veggies. 300+ craft/imports, 50 wines, meats, deli, raw, vitamins. Wraps, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Modern Italian cuisine. Handcraft cocktails. $$-$$$ FB TO K L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617. Locally-owned, family-run; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, sandwiches. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, chicken, ribs. Sides: beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ 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. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS Irish Pub, 1521 Margaret, 854-9300, obroth ersirishpub.com. F Stilton crust shepherd’s pie, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PATTAYA Thai Grille, 1526 King St., 503-4060. SEE BAYMEADOWS. rain dogs, 1045 Park, 379-4969. ’15 BOJ. Bar food. $ D SBRAGA & COMPANY, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 114, 746-0909, sbragadining.com. Chef Kevin Sbraga has a contemporary approach to local 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. ’15 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. $$ BW L D Daily
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BASIL Thai & Sushi, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic Pad Thai, curry, tempura, vegetarian, seafood, stir-fry, specials. $$ 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. $$$ FB TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. EUROPEAN STREET Café, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. $ BW K L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusion sushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh
398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plate, empanada, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S Bar & Grille, 3333 Beach Blvd., 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. F ’15 BOJ winner. Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, 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/ crafts, Mediterranean cuisine. Hookah. HH. $$ FB D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metro diner.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Original upscale diner. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ 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, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned-&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Dine outside. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SCORES, 4923 Univ. Blvd. W., 739-6966. $$ FB D Nightly. 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, thedimsu mroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717.
HUSTLE AND
2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. JC HOMEMADE PASTRIES Filipino Cuisine & Karaoke, 12192 Beach Blvd., Ste. 3, 619-4303. Authentic Filipino fare. $$ Fri.-Sun. TO. LARRY’S Giant Subs, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S Smokehouse BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte. com. 2015 BOJ winner. European-style, influenced by Italy, Spain, Mediterranean. Small plates, entrée-size portions, selections from charcuterie menu. $$$ BW TO R D Daily STICKY FINGERS SMOKEHOUSE, 8129 Point Meadows Way, 493-7427, stickyfingers.com. Memphis-style hickorysmoked ribs, wings, pulled pork, barbecue – five legendary sauces and a dozen sides. $$$ FB K TO L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ 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, daily specials, enchiladas. HH; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.
MOLLY BROWN’S PUB & GRILL, 2467 Faye Rd., 683-5044. F $$ FB TO L D Daily
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ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. CARMELO’S Marketplace Pizzeria, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats & cheeses, garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ 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, 72 Spanish 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. Wood-fired 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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CHARIOTS OF FUR Ready to run a 5K? Register to participate in the Chariots of Fur Beach Run 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6 at SeaWalk Pavilion on Jax Beach. The Beach Run & Festival, also featuring a 1-mile fun run/walk, is an annual fundraising event that benefits the work of St. Francis Animal Hospital. Post-race festivities include live music, vendors, contests, food trucks, dogs available for adoption, kids’ activities, a raffle with great prizes and a silent auction. Visit ChariotsofFur5K.org for all the details.
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I’m looking for a mom-type because people say I have a face that “only a mother could love.” Now, I don’t know if that’s true, because I love everyone, so everyone must love me…right? What’s not to like? I’m a big, goofy dude who likes to play with other dogs. I got tricks for days – sit, down, shake, fetch – I know it all. Won’t you come and check me out at the Jacksonville Humane Society? You’ll never meet another dog like me! For adoption information, visit jaxhumane.org NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEKEND Have you recently adopted a homeless pet? PetSmart Stores throughout the region are handing out free adoption kits, featuring offers on food, litter, products and services. To score your free kit, just bring your adoption papers to the nearest PetSmart store and learn the details of this event, held Friday, Feb. 12 through Sunday, Feb. 14. 888839-9638, petsmart.com/adoptions. FIRST COAST ANGELS First Coast No More Homeless Pets hosts a charity event of dinner and drinks 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25 at Cassat Avenue Clinic, 464 Cassat Ave., Jacksonville; tickets $103.49-$709.95, 520-7900, fcnmhp.org, eventbrite.com. The event benefits FCNMHP’s Angel Fund and the completion of the new Cassat Clinic, opening this spring. With the capability to serve three times as many pets, the new clinic is a significant milestone in spreading its no-kill mission. FCNMHP started the program to combat economic euthanasia, a statistic documenting the number of pets euthanized every year from lack of funds. These pets could be saved, as many of their aliments are treatable – just expensive.
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INDOOR PARKOUR: Get his move on by setting up an indoor obstacle course made of pillows, boxes, broomsticks, and blankets. Have your dog jump, crawl, and move around furniture and objects for an exciting activity. Playtime is all about togetherness, so use this time to strengthen your bond and leave your pup feeling happy and exhausted.
TUG OF WAR: Minute for minute, this is one of the most intense forms of exercise for dogs. It burns lots of energy, strengthens self-control and teaches them to listen even when they’re amped. The good news? You don’t need a ton of room to play. Just remember to follow the rules and have plenty of space between your dog and that breakable lamp on the table.
COME WHEN CALLED: Reinforce his recall by practicing this. Call your dog to come, put him in sit/ stay, and then move away. After a minute or so, call him to come again, and repeat. Try to move further away and boost the wait time before calling him to you. This game is great for practicing patience and teaching him to wait for your commands.
NAME GAME: Dogs love having a job to do, even if it’s something as simple as fetching a newspaper. Teach him the names of some items you want him to fetch and reward him with a treat when he brings it back. Piece of cake, right? Remember, dogs learn the same way as humans, by repetition – so practice, practice, practice!
FIND IT: Same as hide and snack, but without the treats. Show your dog a favorite toy. Lead him to another room or have him sit while you hide it from his view. Make the hiding place obvious at first. Then tell him to find it. You might have to help him at first. When he finds the toy, reward him with a treat and praise. Hide the toy in more challenging places as the game continues. This game is so much fun you won’t even need treats after a couple of rounds. Davi mail@folioweekly.com _______________________________________
HIDE AND SNACK: This is one of my all-time favorites, because treats! Have your dog sit while you set up a trail of treats around the house. Choose easy-to-find spots at first, but as he catches on, make the hiding places more challenging. When you are ready, say, “Find it!” and let his schnozz sniff out the goodies.
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 SHELTER FROM THE STORM If you’ve ever considered owning a pet, but are still unsure about adopting from a shelter, The Shelter Pet Project (theshelterproject.org) is a great resource. A collaborative effort between The Humane Society of the United States and Maddie’s Fund, The Shelter Project wants to make shelters the first place potential adopters turn when looking to get a new pet. The website breaks down misconceptions about shelter pets and can even help you find adoptable pets in your area. Check it out.
Humane Society wants you to enroll as a volunteer in Kitten University – be a big part of folks making a difference in the lives of kittens who will grow up to be loving cats. Give a few hours a week of TLC to the wee ones and get love back in return. Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, 765-8766, jaxhumane.org. 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. Saturday, 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 guidelines for this: No dog bullies, two dogs per owner maximum, and no humans in the pool. For details, call 310-3350 ext. 1. Proceeds support a free swimming lessons program for humans. 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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PEACE, ALONE TIME, U.S. NAVY, NIGHTINGALES & TRUTHS ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know Emily BrontĂŤâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel Wuthering Heights? At one point, heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interested in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.â&#x20AC;? A typical Aries is more aligned with Catherine than Edgar. Consider making a temporary compromise in the weeks ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At last, we agreed to try both,â&#x20AC;? Catherine concluded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and then we kissed each other and were friends.â&#x20AC;? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People turn to Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to give them the stability they see in you. Be proud of this service! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a key part of your appeal. Sometimes, you need to demonstrate your stalwart dependability isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t static and stagnant â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flexible and adaptable. The weeks ahead are an excellent time to emphasize your superpower. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When winter comes, pine trees near mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and drink in minerals afloat on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, this is your preferred method for nourishment in the weeks ahead. For the time being, look UP to get what you need. Be fed by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration, and high-minded people. CANCER (June 21-July 22): We all go through phases when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at odds with those we love. Maybe weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re mad at them, or feel hurt, or canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comprehend what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through. The test of our commitment? How we act when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in these moods. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I agree with author Steve Hall: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.â&#x20AC;? The next few weeks are an important time to practice this with extra devotion, not just for the sake of folks you care about, but for your physical, mental, and spiritual health. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): After fighting and killing each other for years, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The treaty was optimistically called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Endless Peace.â&#x20AC;? Sadly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;endlessâ&#x20AC;? turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. Your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace between now and March 15, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to last a long time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.â&#x20AC;? Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, now offered to you, in time for your Season of Correction & Adjustment. The weeks ahead will be a good time to get smarter about evaluating allies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and maybe even an adversary. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find it relatively easy, even fun, to overcome misimpressions and deepen incomplete understandings. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a
turning point crucial to Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.â&#x20AC;? This milestone was just six months after Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I predict that in the second half of 2016, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll claim a victory to make up for a loss or defeat you endured at the end of 2015. Lay the groundwork for future triumph now. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had lots of friends, and they often came to visit uninvited. He found it hard to tell them to go away and leave him alone, yet he hated to be interrupted while working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours in his bathroom, usually soaking in the tub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, and many other plays. Consider a comparable gambit. Carve out quality alone time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): â&#x20AC;&#x153;I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;? The reminiscence is from a character in Khaled Hosseiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel The Kite Runner. Do the opposite: Say words that need to be said. Articulate what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re burning to reveal. Speak truths to put life on a course in closer alignment with pure intentions. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some traditional astrologers say Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest you take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve accumulated. To ensure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve strength by withholding or even hiding your power. There may be grains of truth in this, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only part of the story. In the weeks ahead, you wield clout with authority. No strategic self-suppression; instead, be expansive and unbridled as you carry out needed foundation work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems that the whole time youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re living this life, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking about a different one instead,â&#x20AC;? wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in High Tide. Ever done that? Probably. Most of us have. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the bad news. The good news? The next few months bring excellent opportunities to forever quit this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing. Get the hang of what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to accept and embrace your life. Get started. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even nightingales canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fed on fairy tales,â&#x20AC;? says a character in Ivan Turgenevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and are invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat dreamy stories. Right now, you require dreamy stories, rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as your daily bread. Your soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hunger has reached epic proportions. Time to gorge. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
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The public art statues unveiled in January by Ft. Myers Mayor Randy Henderson included sculptor Edugardo Carmona’s metal structure of a man walking a dog, with the dog “lifting his leg” beside a pole. Only after inspecting the piece more closely did many observers realize that the man, too, was relieving himself against the pole. Carmona described the work as commentary on man and dog “marking their territory.”
TEAM SPIRIT
A recent anonymously authored “confidential” book by a National Football League player reported that “linemen, especially,” relieve themselves inside their uniforms during games, “a sign that you’re so into the game” that you “won’t pause [even] to use the toilet.”
JUST LIKE MOMMA USE TO MAKE
In December, popular Nell’s Country Kitchen in Winter Haven was shut down again (for “remodeling,” the owner said) after a health inspector found it had been operating for two weeks without its own running water — with only a garden hose connection, across its parking lot, to a neighbor’s spigot. It also closed for a day earlier in 2015 because of mold, roach activity and rodent droppings — though management insisted business immediately picked up the day they reopened.
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR DIDN’T ORDER
In November, a perhaps-exasperated Centers for Disease Control tried once again to tout a startlingly effective anti-HIV drug — after a recent survey revealed that a third of primarycare doctors said they’d never heard of it. So, FYI: Truvada, taken once a day, said the CDC, gives “better than 90 percent” protection from risky gay sex and better than 70 percent protection from HIV acquired from the sharing of needles. Truvada is the only FDAapproved retroviral drug for retarding HIV. but its maker, Gilead Sciences, has declined to advertise it for that purpose.
UNBALANCED JUSTICE
In 2004, abusive boyfriend Robert Braxton Jr. was charged with badly beating three children
of girlfriend Tondalo Hall, 20; injuries included bruises, fractured legs, ribs and a toe. Braxton got a deal from Oklahoma City prosecutors, pleaded guilty, served two years in prison, and was released in 2006. Hall’s plea “bargain” resulted in a 30-year sentence for having failed to protect her kids from Braxton, and she’s still in prison. In September 2015 (after a rejected appeal and a rejected sentence modification), the Pardon & Parole Board refused, 5-0, to even commute her sentence to a time-served 10 years.
HAIRY CHARITY
Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, finally brought his dream to life for 2016 — a calendar of photographs of “artistic” designs made by shaving images into his back hair. He said it took him about four months each for enough hair to grow back to give his designer-friend Tyler Harding enough to work with. January features “New Year” in lettering, with two champagne glasses; July has flag-like waving stripes with a single star. “Calend-hairs” are $20 each; Wolfe said proceeds go to an orphanage connected to his church.
BRAZEN STUPIDITY
Public relations spokesman Phil Frame, 61, was arrested in Shelby Township, Michigan, after the Sheriff ’s Office searched his computer and paper files turned up child pornography — on New Year’s Day. The Detroit News reported Frame had already been questioned about child porn in September by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and wasn’t intimidated enough (or was too lazy) to clear out his files. The Homeland Security investigation is ongoing.
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Neighbors in Inola, Oklahoma, complained in December and January about a Union Pacific train that had been parked “for weeks” while tracks up ahead were under repair. Not only does the train block a traffic intersection, its crossing signal rings constantly. “It’s annoying, yeah,” said one resident, apparently a master of understatement. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
HAD ME AT GO ’NOLES! Seminole/Armada games, losing beer pong, Pub subs, laughs, cheek kisses = last “first date” I want. You stole my heart; don’t want it back. The start of something sweet? Say you agree; stay forever! When: Oct. 3, ’15. Where: The Garage/Baseball Grounds. #1587-0120 WATER AISLE You: Commented on water price; beautiful blond hair, jeans, sweater, very warm and kind. Me: Gray hair, blue eyes, shirt, jeans. We both drink coffee; would love to share a cup with you. When: Jan. 9, morning. Where: Walmart@foursquare/U.S. 1 & Southside. #1586-0113 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 38 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JANUARY 27-FEBRUARY 2, 2016
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
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
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