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THIS WEEK // 3.01-3.07.17 // VOL. 29 ISSUE 48 COVER STORY

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OFF THE WALLS DIY venue THE SPACE GALLERY fills a VACANCY in the Urban Core PICTURED ON THE COVER: Local street artist Duval Destroyer’s contribution to the A More Perfect Union show at The Space Gallery.

STORY BY MATTHEW B. SHAW PHOTOS BY MADISON GROSS

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KING OF THE DRAGON-SLAYERS

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BY CLAIRE GOFORTH Gate RIVER RUNNER dons WHACKY GETUP for a good cause

RECESS DISTRESS

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BY A.G. GANCARSKI How the WEEK OFF from D.C. WENT WRONG for our Congressmen

GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE

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BY PAT McLEOD These OMINOUS FILMS cast a dark spotlight on the DARK LORD

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FROM THE EDITOR

KING OF THE

DRAGON-SLAYERS Gate River Runner dons WHACKY GETUP for a good cause EVEN AMIDST 20,000 RUNNERS AT THE 2016 Gate River Run, no one missed Carey Hepler.

In the kaleidoscopic crowd clad in neon-hued shoes, butt-hugging compression shorts, DayGlo KT Tape, and shirts with tongue-in-cheek quips like “If you’re behind me, you didn’t train either” (BTW, sick burn, strangers), Carey easily stood out, way out. You would, too, if you were wearing a giant replica of the Hart Bridge, known in River-Run-speak as the Green Monster.

Sure, there were others in costume — at the Gate River Run, tutus, tiaras and firefighters in full gear are far more common sights than you’d expect — but Carey’s getup took the cake in both uniqueness and OMFG-ness; as in, OMFG, how heavy is that? (Surprising answer from his lips to these somewhat skeptical ears: Not very. “It’s 8 feet long, so it’s kind of unwieldy,” he admitted, laughing.)

The other question that springs to mind is, OMFG, why?

The answer to that one will warm your heart. He does it for the homeless and for women trying to escape the sex trade. Yep, Carey Hepler runs 9.3 miles in an 8-foot-long contraption made of half-inch PVC pipes and zip-ties to draw attention to the annual shoe and T-shirt drive he and his brother have held at the Gate River Run every year since 2003.

And you thought donating five bucks to March of Dimes at the grocery store was generous.

Chatting over the phone on Feb. 27, Carey explained that the whole thing started when an article in Runner’s World opened his eyes to the huge need for shoes for the homeless. Inspired, he and his brother Brian collected a few hundred pairs at the River Run that first year.

Soliciting shoe donations from runners is actually genius. Most runners will go through two, maybe even three or more pairs each year.

But a shoe that’s no longer good enough to run in has a lot of life left for other purposes; over time, a runner can amass quite a collection of old shoes. (I currently have three pairs to give to the cause.)

That closet clutter can mean the world to a homeless person.

“I really found out when we went and dropped them off what a huge deal that was … [the homeless] literally say shoes are like gold,” Carey said.

Since 2003, the Hepler brothers have explored various creative ways to increase donations.

“I’ve been running in costume for years and trying to connect, draw attention to the shoe drive and it never really worked very well, until last year,” Carey said.

From 2003-’11, he ran in a Hawaiian getup complete with grass skirt; in 2012, he carried a huge pole with signs for his wife’s judicial campaign, which was so difficult to carry he

said “it about killed” him; in 2013-’14, he was outfitted in a One Spark getup; in 2015, he and a friend ran in an enormous model of the USS Adams. Then last year, he got the idea to build a replica of the Green Monster.

It was a home run. As Carey wrote to me a few weeks ago, “People wanted to put on the bridge. People wanted me to put on the bridge.

People wanted their kids to put on the bridge.”

And everybody wanted a picture — including yours truly, who happened to line up right behind Carey at the starting line last year.

Though the USS Adams was easily as elaborate, if not more, this costume captures fancy by capitalizing on Gate River Run lore.

Known as the Hart Bridge 364 days of the year, on race day the Green Monster earns its nickname by felling newbies, streakers and lifelong athletes alike. On either side of that mighty ascent you will come across bloodied, sick, sweat-soaked, heat-exhausted runners, their crumpled bodies a cautionary tale for any who underestimate the Monster. Hence, I say ‘slaying the dragon’ is a runner’s badge of honor.

The Hepler brothers have a tent outside the expo at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds where runners pick up their race packets on Thursday and Friday before the race; throughout the run, they continue taking donations at the booth that race directors 1st Place Sports let them use at no cost every year.

Brian isn’t able to join the race, so he keeps the operation running smoothly while Carey uses sweat equity to draw attention to the cause.

They donate the shoes to St. Francis Soup Kitchen and Downtown Ecumenical Services Council, both of which serve the local homeless population; they donate the T-shirts to Rethreaded, a local nonprofit that helps women escape the sex trade.

Each year for the past five years, the Heplers have averaged donations of 800 to 1,000 pairs of running shoes and 2,000 to 2,300 T-shirts; they’re hoping to shatter both records this year. That’s why on Saturday, March 11, Carey will once again become the Green Monster and join thousands of hopeful dragon-slayers on the streets of Jacksonville.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ T-shirt and shoe donations of all sizes and conditions are welcome. Learn more at Facebook. com/Shoes.and.TShirt.Donation.

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FESTIVAL O’ FISH ST. AUGUSTINE LIONS SEAFOOD FESTIVAL

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Who’s up for some crustacean mastication celebration?! The 36th annual St. Augustine Lions Seafood Festival includes seafood galore, 100 arts & crafts vendors, live performances

by Jim Stafford, The House Cats, Bill Doyle Quartet, Linda Cole, The Rusty Anchors and others, belly dancers, character actors, magicians and kid-geared fun. 3-9 p.m. Friday, March 3; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, March 4 and 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, March 5, Francis Field, $5; kids under 15 are free; no pets or coolers. Details at lionsfestival.com.

OUR PICKS TRUE BLUE TROUBADOUR CORY BRANAN

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The music and style of Memphisborn singer-songwriter Branan is as mercurial and inscrutable as his hometown. Labels like alt-country, rock and folk all seem to apply, until Branan releases another album that might evoke Waylon Jennings as much as acoustic Wilco. The 42-year-old’s latest release (his fifth), Adios, contains 14 songs of the man’s potent style, and includes guest vocals by Laura Jane Grace, of Against Me! 8 p.m. Sunday, March 5, with openers Christina Wagner and Speaking Cursive, at Nighthawks, Riverside, $12 advance; $15 day of, facebook. com/nighthawksjax.

REASONS TO LEAVE THE HOUSE THIS WEEK

DOWN THE STREET

1904 MUSIC HALL BLOCK PARTY The Urban Core boasts one true indie rock and hip-hop club: 1904 Music Hall. Owner Jason Hunnicutt wants local music heads to party down at the club’s fifth anniversary celebration, featuring three stages and live music by more than 30 bands. including Roosevelt Collier (pictured) and Unlimited Devotion performing the music of The Grateful Dead, Parker Urban Band, MZG, Vlad the Inhaler, DJ Triclops I, Bryce Alastair Band, The Good Wood Band, Blackwater Grease, DJ Don McCon, Cry Havoc, Master Radical, Mudtown, DigDog, Sunspots, Appalachian Death Trap and many more. 5 p.m. Saturday, March 4, Downtown at Ocean, Bay and Forsyth streets, free, 1904musichall.com.

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Hear some serious six-string action at the 24th annual Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ Great Guitar Gathering, with performances by the DASOTA Guitar Orchestra along with classical guitar virtuosi Pierre Bensusan (pictued) and Stephen Robinson. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 4, The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $25; proceeds benefit DASOTA’s guitar department, floridatheatre.com.

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RIGHT IN TIME LUCINDA WILLIAMS

A critics’ fave — to wit, her 15 Grammy Award nominations and three wins — Lucinda Williams earns even greater hosannas from her loyal fans, who dig deep into her catalog of tunes, which blend altcountry and Americana (before it was a thing) with truly poetic lyrics. If you want to hear a unique, personal fusion of gospel, grit, honky tonk and downhome grace, Williams’ return to the area, with her equally whip-smart band, is not to be missed.

8 p.m. Saturday, March 4, with openers Buick 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $43.50 (SRO), pvconcerthall.com.

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THE MAIL RE.: “Homeless Woman’s Open Letter to Lenny Curry,” by Wendy Jenkins, Feb. 15

OPEN LETTER ON OPEN LETTER

GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR CURRY. I JUST READ an article in Folio Weekly concerning a very wellwritten letter that was sent to your office from a homeless woman by the name of Wendy Jenkins.

She mentioned that the Jacksonville Day Resources Center was shut down. That facility helped many homeless with showers, computers, phone, housing assistance and more. I agree we can’t help everyone, but just supplying the bare necessities of life will give many homeless the leg up they need to again become productive members of our society. Good breeds good and, who knows, assisting one may allow them the opportunity to assist many others. I ask that you not turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to many who have fallen on hard times due to no fault of their own.

I’m willing to do my part to assist any way I can. I have had 15 years of working for a nonprofit organization and have had the opportunity to write, and had passed by city council, a $75,000 grant to build housing for low-income housing.

Please contact me to let me know what I can do to have Jacksonville Day Resource Center reopened and functional.

Thanks for your attention to this most important matter.

Taunya Teahjay via email

AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT

MOST OF US NEED TO TRY TO REMEMBER that we, too, are perhaps two paychecks away from being homeless ourselves. A resource center would be a huge help. A better attitude on the part of the non-homeless would help, too.

Judy Easley via Facebook

BETWEEN A ROCK AND THE SHITS

THE REAL QUESTION IS, HOW DO REAL PEOPLE, those without deep pockets or a political agenda,

successfully run for office? When we have people who understand what day-to-day life for a normal person is like in this city, we will start having positive changes.

I only voted for Curry, because the choice between him and his opponent was like the choice between diarrhea or constipation, and I cannot name one single positive thing he has done for this city. It’s the same old, same old.

Jennifer Anderson via Facebook

INCONVENIENT BUT NOT GONE

ALL THE RESOURCES ONCE FOUND IN THE day center (and more) can still be utilized by the public; they’re just spread around Downtown a bit, so it’s less convenient. The central point of contact to direct a homeless person to, should you need to, is Quest at 507 E. Church St. The article makes it seem like the services disappeared when the day center closed – they were all around before it opened, and are still available now.

Bill Hoff via Facebook

TWO CENTS WORTH A DOLLAR

THE CLOSING OF THE DAY CENTER HAD immediate effects. For those two years it was open, the begging lessened. There was a place to direct a newly arrived homeless person.

As someone who has spent a lot of time Downtown in the last 8 or 9 years, [I’ve seen] the city often put the “beautification” of Downtown ahead of the holistic health of the community. Peyton thought redoing Laura Street and spending money on stone rumble strips would “revitalize” the Hemming Park area, when in honesty, the day center allowed for more revitalization of the park and surrounding area than any other project.

Just my .02.

Monida Toups via Facebook

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO THE McKENZIE NOELLE WILSON FOUNDATION The McKenzie Noelle Wilson Foundation has committed $1 million over the next four years to McKenzie’s Academic Resource Centers (MARC) in Jacksonville, which provides tutoring, mentoring and developmental programs for more than 300 at-risk youth.

Through this commitment, Goodwill Industries of North Florida Career Services Department will partner with the foundation with a focus on operations and resource provision.

BRICKBATS TO JFRD On Feb. 26, Jacksonville Fire & Rescue Department Lieutenant John Lopez III was arrested for battery and attempted carjacking without a firearm. This follows the December 2016 arrest of then-JFRD firefighter Joshua Williams for stealing money from a fire station (he subsequently resigned); the December 2014 and March 2015 arrests of District Chief Jason Tidwell for driving under the influence; and the July 2014 arrest of Capt. Joseph E. Acosta for methamphetamine possession. We love fire and rescue workers as much as anyone, but that’s about five too many arrests in recent years.

BOUQUETS TO AMELIA ISLAND CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (CVB) At the Adrian Awards Gala on Feb. 21, the Amelia Island Convention & Visitors Bureau was recognized as an exceptional model of sustainable tourism by the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International and National Geographic Traveler. Out of more than 200 submissions, CVB’s entry “Clean Beaches and Sea Turtles” earned it the platinum spot in the Leader in Sustainable Tourism category. CVB also won one bronze and three silver awards.

DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest.

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FOLIO F OLIO VO V VOICES OICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS How the WEEK OFF from D.C. WENT WRONG for our Congressmen

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DISTRESS REPS. JOHN RUTHERFORD AND AL LAWSON are back in Washington, D.C., the recess week concluded.

They’re probably happy that’s the case.

Both Rutherford and Lawson lost control of their respective news cycles this week, and the people of Jacksonville are the poorer for it.

In deference to the tilt of the readership, let’s go with Rutherford first. His issue was simple enough: As has been the case in GOP districts throughout the nation, local activists sought to get a “town hall” meeting with him, so they could express their disquiet with myriad Trump administration policies.

Rutherford couldn’t do it. There is divergence on the narrative. Activists claim they were told he was too ill to do a town hall. His staff says that’s bullshit, that he was meeting with constituent groups, et cetera, just not in a town hall format.

Rutherford was busy when he was in town; he caught up with the state attorney and the sheriff, he spent a day at NAS Jax, and he spent an evening with a group of young Catholic professionals.

I was at that second event; Rutherford talked about his faith journey, how his understanding of God carried him through his law enforcement career, and how praying the rosary leveled his breathing during his January medical episode in the House of Representatives cloakroom.

It wasn’t a political event, it was a faith event, even though politics came in, such as an asynchronous contention that the Pulse attack in Orlando last June somehow influenced Rutherford’s decision to launch his congressional campaign the previous April … two days after Ander Crenshaw stepped down and much of the donor class coalesced behind Rutherford.

Rutherford took a few questions. The most spirited was from a woman who wanted to know where he stood on the Affordable Care Act. The answer seemed to be ‘repeal and replace,’ not just repeal, though the likelihood that he will be a leader on that issue is nil.

They wanted a town hall with Rutherford.

Instead, they conducted one in absentia, shouting questions, comments and concerns to an empty chair. They did get a staff meeting, though.

Should he have done a town hall? Probably not. It’s as safe a one-party seat as it’s been since Tillie Fowler took it from Charles Bennett. Still, it was a bad look, however transitory it might be.

AL LAWSON, MEANWHILE, HAS MORE serious issues.

For one, he may face a primary challenge from Alvin Brown, assuming he doesn’t try to

become mayor again if Mayor Curry becomes state CFO, has told friends he is interested in running in Congressional District 5. State Sen. Audrey Gibson, chair of the local Democratic Party with deep local connections, shouldn’t be ruled out either.

That said, Lawson is an incumbent the House leadership likes. And west of Macclenny, he’s strong. East of Macclenny, though, he needs help. And he didn’t help himself in Jacksonville last week.

For starters, Lawson decided to drop in at Eureka Garden Apartments on Monday, Feb. 20, President’s Day … rather than Tuesday, as his itinerary had indicated. Media scrambled to the Westside complex to hear his remarks, and find out why Lawson deviated from a schedule distributed to the press for planning purposes.

Whereas Mayor Curry and Councilman Garrett Dennis were listed as being with Lawson on Tuesday, Dennis had no clue that he was advertised, and was even more thrown when he found out that Lawson went to Eureka without him.

Curry, meanwhile, was away, camping with his family. He was in no position to come back. So Lawson worked Eureka alone. But there was still a chance for him to appear with the mayor.

Curry and Lawson had set up a neighborhood walk in Arlington for Tuesday afternoon. At the last minute, Lawson changed plans. Nobody knew why. For the second day in a row, Jacksonville politicians had to answer questions about Lawson’s inability to keep a schedule.

Curry noted that he’d offered to show Lawson around town, introduce him to the business community, essentially helping him acclimate to the local political culture that’s different from Tallahassee.

Lawson was too dense to take the help.

Curry has that capital-R Republican gear when it comes to state and national politics.

But when it comes to people on the city council, and people representing Jacksonville in Tallahassee or Washington, it is very much in the mayor’s interest to build a meaningful, productive relationship.

Lawson, a politician for decades, played himself. And missed a golden opportunity to look like something besides an outsider to Jacksonville area voters.

Who had it worse last week?

Definitely, Lawson.

For both Lawson and Rutherford, attention needs to be paid to what went wrong last week, and how to improve the process for the next recess week.

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VIBRATING OFF THE WALLS DIY venue THE SPACE GALLERY fills a vacancy in the Urban Core

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PHOTOS BY MADISON GROSS

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HE WALLS OF THE SECOND floor of the New York Steam Laundry building in Downtown Jacksonville are replete with long, snaking cracks and veins of escaping mortar among stacks of brown and grey bricks meticulously placed nearly a century ago. It’s early evening and only darkness is visible through a row of windows that face south across East Forsyth Street. One of the windows is hung with the aid of two rudimentary-looking two-by-fours.

Leaning against the room’s westward wall is a stack of several four-foot-by-four-foot canvases, each covered in broad strokes of purples and blues and thin drips of colors within the same spectrum. Strewn about are several smaller canvases displaying many similar markings, made with hushed oranges and muted blues, soft pinks and whites.

The rest of the cavernous room is virtually empty, however, save for scattered piles of empty picture frames, a blue velvet couch, a few folded easels, and a singular red handtruck. All these taken together, within the 5,000-square-foot space, the resultant pastiche is evidence of the last few years of local artist Wyatt Parlette’s work.

Tall and thin, Parlette has boyish features, belied by stubble surrounding the deep indent in his long chin. He thumbs through a stack of canvases — each aggressively scored and scratched with black and grey markings — before organizing them against the wall so that no space exists between each piece. After

taking a few sips of red wine from a small plastic cup, he unrolls four large dropcloth canvases saturated with layers of paint from a palette spread with various shades of skins, and puts them on the concrete floor, side by side. There appears to be a lifetime’s worth of epidermis on each cloth: flesh and bone, skin and lips, worn down from cuts, bruises, sun exposure and natural aging.

“With abstract work, you’re always starting with color theory and composition,” Parlette says. “Then, in between that, is the emotion.

You can throw your emotion on a canvas and it feels good.”

Seeing so many of Parlette’s pieces in one place, one notices he deploys a few mark-making techniques with a method approaching consistency, if not pattern.

“In middle school and high school, like everybody else, I was into graffiti script,” he says. “My friends and I would sit in class and make graffiti alphabets, make up our own tags, and whatever. I still think, subconsciously, I’ll make a line and it’s, like, ‘There’s my graffiti A!’” Many of the pieces will soon be on display in one form or another in the DIY gallery just below — The Space Gallery.

Space — an artist-run venue Parlette opened with fellow artist Matthew Bennett and Bennett’s wife Laura — is enjoying the kind of buzz that isn’t common for new galleries in Northeast Florida. Since opening in late October, the site has been host to four well-received shows that featured the works of dozens of artists, each show attracting larger and larger crowds. When those who run the gallery extended her an open invitation, in February former Cummer director Hope McMath curated her first show since last summer’s much-talked about LIFT exhibition.

McMath’s show at Space, A More Perfect Union, was an extension of LIFT, of sorts, as it spotlighted the issues addressed in the Cummer show, specifically social injustice and racial equity, and showcased some of the same artists, including Overstreet Ducasse, Princess Simpson Rashid and Chip Southworth.

The opening for More Perfect drew hundreds of interested art lovers and earned rave reviews on social media — and increased Space’s visibility across the region.

While it may seem like a swift ascension, Parlette’s March show, tentatively titled The Crucifixion of Self, is the culmination of years of planning, set in motion from the passenger seat of a U-Haul truck.

I Wyatt Parlette (left), Matthew and wife Laura (not pictured) Bennett run The Space Gallery.

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NSIDE THE SPACE GALLERY’S VAULT, artist Josh Gaston, gallery runners Matthew and Laura Bennett, and Parlette talk in near-whispers, pausing intently between each sentence.

“The vault makes you talk a certain way,” explains Matthew. “Because of the echo, people seem to instinctively talk lower and slower. It almost encourages thoughtful discussion. You have to pause and think more.”

“It’s so claustrophobic,” Gaston drawls.

Gaston, a woodworker and decorative concrete artist, was invited to participate in Crucifixion after contacting the gallery runners through Facebook. He’s here planning his installation.

“When you’re in [this vault], there’s no other stimulation. [The artwork] is in your face. It forces you to confront your emotions.

There’s no avoiding it.”

These targets are sporadically placed around the gallery at eye level symbolizing random acts of violence.

Plastered on the vault’s walls are hundreds of eroded beige flyers bearing the skeletal countenance of a small person staring through hollow, black-eye sockets. The image, taken from an early 1900s textbook, is of a member of an ethnic group known as the Philippine Negrito, which was ravaged by disease and ethnic cleansing by European colonists in the early 17th century.

breasts. She leans against a trash bin, svelte, muscular shoulders pressed backward as she stares contemplatively at something outside the frame. At her feet are three spray cans — one yellow, one blue, one red — labeled “justice,” “equity” and “truth,” respectively.

Behind her, two sentences read, “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful. Not something everyone knows how to love,”

“The last time we were here, I felt like the arts scene had a lot of momentum,” MATTHEW SAYS. “I started coming [Downtown] and meeting people. I felt like the scene was Downtown.

I really loved it.”

The installation is local street artist Duval Destroyer’s contribution to the A More Perfect Union show.

“I hadn’t originally thought of the vault as a place to hang art,” Bennett says. “But I was thinking that if we had Duval Destroyer’s work, it should be confronting and unavoidable. It should be in a space that’s kind of singular.”

Outside the vault, the gallery’s open floor plan is interrupted only by brick pillars and podiums holding sculptures by University of North Florida professor Jenny Hager-Vickery.

One area is occupied by a mixed-media installation by Ducasse; on the other side of the gallery hang paintings by Southworth and Rashid. The capacious space with colossally high ceilings (and enough exposed brick to make any avid Pinterest user weak in the knees) is filled with gorgeous, powerful and moving works.

Bennett’s contribution to the show is an oil painting of an African-American woman dressed as the D.C. Comics heroine Wonder Woman. The model wears a red corset with a gold, winged design pushing up her

a quotation from a poem by Somali poet Warsan Shire.

“I really love this piece,” Laura says. “And not just because my husband painted it.”

“One of the primary conversations around this piece was the story,” she continues. “This woman [the model] made a decision to not travel on her vacation day.

She had to work a later shift and she didn’t feel safe traveling at night.”

Laura looks at her husband. He smiles and nods.

“As a white person, I probably don’t have a great understanding of what she was going through,” she says. “With this painting, I was particularly concerned about a white man painting about a black woman’s experience. I was, like, ‘Dude, what the fuck do you know about this?’”

“My personality pushes against criticism,” Matthew interjects. “I take [Laura’s criticisms] into consideration, but ultimately it only strengthens my resolve.”

“And I’m probably his worst critic,” Laura says. “Only because I want him

to be understood. I want the artwork to be understood.”

“Like the [Warsan Shire] quote he used,” Laura continues. “I was really concerned about the perception of a white man including this [quote] in his painting. But that quote has been so powerful to so many people who’ve looked at the painting.”

“I think the quote applies to so many themes of the show,” Matthew says. “I think a lot of our problems with issues surrounding human rights and social justice stem from a lack of empathy and a lack of understanding.

If you can put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, even fall in love with them for a little bit, I think we’d all be in a much better place.”

“I always learn something about my husband through his paintings,” Laura says, smiling. “We’ve been together almost 23 years.”

or dismissive. But no one was all that helpful either.”

In the meantime, he produced two solo shows at Rain Dogs in Five Points. The first featured abstract work he’d created in Brooklyn. The second, called Rio De St. Johns, was of a much grander scale and included abstract and mixed-media pieces, as well as a truckload of found objects (trash he collected along the banks of the St. Johns River). Rain Dogs provided him a venue for thematic exhibitions of an individual artist, but he had greater ambitions.

“I’m very grateful that [Rain Dogs coowner] Christina [Wagner] allowed me to

show my work,” he says. “We are very lucky that there are so many business owners in this town who are willing to display the work of local artists. But I think artists in this community have gotten so used to showing their work in restaurants and cafés that we forget that that’s not all there is.”

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HE FLORIDA THEATRE CASTS A long shadow on East Forsyth Street. Save for two years in the early 1980s, the lights from the nearly 100-year-old theater’s ornate marquee have burned brightly even as the urban core has declined around it.

Though far less ostentatious than its historic neighbor, built in 1925, The New York Steam Laundry Building at 120 E. Forsyth St. is nearly as old.

The first floor housed the Old Republic Title Company for many years. In 2014, developer Mike Langton purchased the 11,000-square-foot property and removed the 1950s-office-style interior. Langton shopped the space around, trying to lure an upscale tenant for the bottom floor. While in negotiations with reality show Top Chef cheftestant Kenny Gilbert, Langton secured a

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N NOVEMBER 2014, PARLETTE AND his wife Rozy loaded a U-Haul with whatever was worth salvaging from their short stint in Brooklyn and headed south.

“Rozy was driving and I was looking at Facebook on my phone,” Parlette says, sitting on a stool at Space. “All my friends were going crazy over this Clay Yarborough thing,” he says, referencing the brouhaha over thenJacksonville City Council president’s letter urging that the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s funding be cut for including a nude photograph in its Project Atrium exhibit.

“I asked Rozy, ‘Are we making a mistake moving back?’”

“My head was spinning,” he continues. “We were going back to place where a nude photo in a contemporary art museum is controversial.”

In New York, he’d shown works at several galleries, including the Greenpoint Gallery in Brooklyn, and was eager to build on the momentum he’d built. However trepidatious, Parlette planned to hit the ground running.

He shared his vision with a few friends, including artist John Ross Tooke.

“We had some good ideas for an exhibition, but we didn’t want to put it somewhere just to put it up,” Parlette says.

Parlette’s time in Brooklyn coincided with the last few years of a much-publicized DIY movement in which warehouses and rundown buildings across the borough were hosting art and cultural events.

“I would go to these openings, all of them in nontraditional venues,” he says. “I was so inspired to see not just the quality of work on display night in and night out, but the commitment to theme. There were entire buildings transformed in service of the art on the walls.”

Parlette had taken a few curatorial studies courses while earning an art degree at UNF. And he was well aware of the vast number of empty, dilapidated buildings in Jacksonville’s urban core, as well as the headway the city was making filling those vacancies through programs like Off the Grid. He thought he’d be able to secure a site for a show and, possibly, a place to curate more shows, moving forward.

Parlette set up meetings with Cultural Council representatives. He traded emails with Downtown Vision Inc. He called on various landlords and real estate agents. He had many seemingly productive meetings, each time anticipating the best outcome.

But one by one, the doors closed.

“I’m not sure why it never gained any traction,” he says. “No one was rude

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six-figure loan from the Downtown Investment Authority to sweeten the pot. The deal fell through, however. Chef Gilbert ended up opening his restaurant on Southside Boulevard.

Consequently, 120 E. Forsyth remained dormant, its cracked, naked walls a reminder of Downtown’s embarrassingly slow rebirth.

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AURA AND MATTHEW MET AS 19-year-old undergraduates at Pennsylvania State University.

Matthew was studying painting.

Laura was in the U.S. Navy ROTC program.

“She was stalking me,” Matthew says, smiling.

“I would say I was somewhat curious and concerned,” Laura laughs.

According to Laura, she noticed Matthew seemed particularly keen on provoking

“The last time we were here, I felt like the arts scene had a lot of momentum,” Matthew says. “I started coming [Downtown] and meeting people. I felt like the scene was Downtown. I really loved it.”

When the Bennetts returned in 2013, Matthew says he was surprised to find that momentum had shifted away from the urban core. “The studios that were here for Off the Grid were mostly gone. Most of the artists had moved out to CoRK. And there just was not a central art location Downtown like there had been. The footprint had shrunk.”

As Matthew and Laura settled into their home in Arlington, Matthew was eager to get something going Downtown. But it wasn’t until the end of 2016 that an opportunity presented itself.

In the fall, a group of artists was invited to meet with realtor Margie Seaman of Seaman Realty & Management Co. According to Matthew, Seaman had multiple listings in Jacksonville’s urban core and, drawing on her experience leasing unique properties in New York City, was developing a creative approach to marketing these Jacksonville listings.

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one fire-and-brimstone-spewing campus preacher. Growing up in a strict Catholic household, Laura was intrigued by Matthew’s rebellious streak.

“It was certainly nothing I’d ever been exposed to,” she says.

“You mean you didn’t grow up yelling at preachers?” Matthew jokes.

“We’ve been together ever since,” Laura says.

After college, Laura’s Navy career took the couple around the globe and back, with multiple stints in Japan and Jacksonville. After the birth of the couple’s second child, Matthew took on the role of stay-at-home dad, continuing to create and show his artwork, while Laura ascended the military ranks, eventually retiring in 2014 as a lieutenant commander.

During the couple’s last tour in Jacksonville circa 2010, Matthew was making inroads in the Northeast Florida arts scene, showing regularly at galleries in St. Augustine. He took advantage of the Off the Grid program which allowed artists to show their works in vacant buildings during First Wednesday Art Walk and began working out of a studio on Bay Street.

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Nearly a dozen artists met at 120 E. Forsyth St. to tour the building and brainstorm ways to transform it into a temporary gallery.

“The original idea was going to be a coop,” Matthew says. “The meetings were hard, though. There were a lot of opinions and ideas.”

“This place was in rough shape,” Laura says. “It needed a lot of work and I’m not sure it was reasonable to ask the artists to provide the resources necessary.”

Even before the second meeting, Matthew says, many artists had lost interest.

However, someone still seemed energized by the possibilities.

“I had never met Wyatt before,” Matthew says of his first encounter with Parlette. “He came to the second meeting and people were throwing out ideas for what to do with the space. Wyatt stood up and was, like, ‘What if we only showed one artist at a time?’”

The room fell silent, Matthew remembers.

“We were all looking at him like he was crazy. Like, ‘Why would you even say that?’”

With the meeting falling apart, the artists dispersed. Both Parlette and Bennett ended up across the street at a bar, Dos Gatos. They

talked about life, art, the meeting and the space at 120 E. Forsyth.

“Wyatt was excited about it,” Matthew says.

“And that’s been my one stipulation when I work with people. I’m not snobbish as far as the artists being popular, or whatever. I just need them to be excited.”

“My experience has always been the co-op workspace thing,” Matthew continues.

“But Wyatt had a very clear vision of wanting to curate shows, make the shows cohesive, if not thematic.”

Matthew and Parlette were energized. But Laura still had reservations.

“We talked about it and I didn’t feel great,” Laura says of the property. “The other artists had backed out and Matt was thinking about taking it on himself. It was going to be a lot of work.”

Laura, having just retired from the Navy, was considering all of the directions her postmilitary career could take.

“Matt felt really inspired by this opportunity,” she says. “And I trusted him.

Plus, he’s been following me around for 20 years. I felt like I should be supportive of this.”

During shows, a woman painted gold to represent the currency of flesh will lay in this makeshift coffin such as those used in the slave trade.

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AYS AFTER THEIR DISCUSSION at Dos Gatos, Bennett and Parlette had the keys to 120 E. Forsyth St. in hand. With little else to limit what they were allowed to do with to the space (aside from an agreement to pay the electric bill), Parlette and the Bennetts went to work cleaning up the downstairs unit. They strung lights, cobbled together some furniture and used old drop cloths to cover a few sections of exposed wood framing.

During this period, the trio would exchange text messages. “I’m headed to the space,” one of them might say. “See you at the space,” was a consistent response.

When it came time to pick a name, the choice seemed obvious: The Space Gallery.

Laura, who postponed her post-retirement plans, including developing mindfulness training for both public and private organizations, to focus on the gallery, took over the business and marketing side, taking to social media and becoming the point of contact for local artists hoping to display their works.

She turned her attention to a weeklong billing of conferences taking place in the urban core — Jax Innovation Week, culminating with a TEDx event at The Florida Theatre.

“I thought if we could be open by then, […] it might be a good way of generating some interest in the gallery,” she says.

With the conference a mere three weeks away, they scrambled to get the venue ready.

“We came out of pocket quite a bit,” Matthew says. Bennett, who works part-time at Trader Joe’s, cut down to two days a week. “I was here all hours of the night just scrubbing the walls.”

Parlette contributed abstract expressionist pieces and Bennett shared representative oil paintings, and then they invited five other artists — Jan Tomlinson Master, Sylvi Herrick, Heather Blanton, Tony Rodrigues and Ross Tooke — to exhibit.

The ambitious timeline pushed everyone to the brink, but making the venue presentable in time for a soft opening during Jax Innovation Week did allow for at least one moment of serendipity.

“I’d never met Hope,” Matthew says of McMath, who was attending the TEDx conference. “I had this idea that she should

with artists aren’t always compatible and I don’t have enough experience to know everything is going to work out in the end.”

“The thing about Hope is, aside from being a genuinely joyous person, she’s passionate about things,” Matthew says. “She is the best advocate for artists in Jacksonville, hands down. It’s important to her for artists to succeed. Seeing her and the way she interacts and encourages artists, it’s what you would hope the director of the Cummer would be.”

The number of art enthusiasts for More Perfect more than doubled that of any of the exhibitions up to that point. When Matthew arrived to unlock the door at 4 p.m., people were already lined up outside.

“It was validating and intimidating,” he laughs.

“I brought a little clicker to count the numbers, but it was too overwhelming,” Laura adds.

BOVE THE GALLERY, Parlette rolls up his dropcloth canvases. He shows photos of the ostentatious décor of some European church, which he’s saved on his phone as inspiration for his Crucifixion show.

Over the course of three years, the concept for Crucifixion has grown, morphed, diverged and resettled. Parlette’s work will be joined by installations from Gaston, Ross Tooke and Christi Tamayo.

“We are still playing with the idea of crucifixion, but more in context of identity, personal suffering and sacrifice,” Parlette says.

Parlette’s been casting friends’ hands in plaster, making eerie candle-holders from gold-andblack hand-molds. He’s been stretching some of his pieces over canvases, pinching and pinning others and hanging them as ornate draperies.

As he works, the ecclesiastical themes of Crucifixion become more evident.

“Oh, there’s definitely pressure,” he says. “Hope’s thing was beyond our wildest expectations. So, now it’s, like, OK, this thing you’ve been stewing on for a couple of years, we are going to see if this has any merit to it.”

For some, The Space Gallery has filled a literal and figurative vacancy in the Downtown arts scene. The gallery’s success as a vibrant, inclusive community for artists has opened some eyes to the urban core’s potential.

I ask Parlette if he’s noticed that people who visit seem to love the venue itself, sometimes as much as the art that’s in it.

“Personally, I’m a fan of the white cube, where you take everything out and just leave the artwork,” he says, smiling.

“We have a really strong building,” Parlette says, scanning the room. “But I never want to take away from the art.”

He stares across the room, then looks up at the ceiling and lifts his hands, reminiscent of the way a priest might offer a blessing.

“Ultimately, a gallery elevates the art that is in it,” Parlette continues. “Laura and Matt and I, we want this place to elevate the work of the artists who show here. We want the art to be number one. We want the art to vibrate off the walls.”

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curate a show at our gallery. My feeling was, she might have some more to say since leaving the Cummer.”

Bennett invited McMath next door.

“It sounds really trite, but I loved the space,” McMath says. “Not only was the interior really interesting, but the exhibition that was up was really high-quality work and it was artists we don’t see that often.”

“I didn’t feel like I was in Jacksonville,” she continues. “It’s the kind of thing that we always assign to other cities — Brooklyn, Miami, Los Angeles.”

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HILE MCMATH began planning the show she would curate at Space, the Bennetts and Parlette facilitated two more shows. The December opening featured sculptures of fabricated steel, cast iron and bronze, and wood created by guest artist Ian Skinner.

The January show was a passion project of sorts for Matthew; it featured photography

by Tiffany Manning, Ana Kamiar, Leigh Ann McDaniel Sullivan, Toni Smailagic, Luis Rivera and Michael Glinski.

Turnout increased with each opening. And though part of that could have been attributed to free booze, there was a palpable momentum leading up to A More Perfect Union.

With LIFT scheduled to close in February, McMath had been thinking a lot about the conversations that exhibit had generated.

“I didn’t want the communities who got so behind [LIFT] to feel, like, ‘OK, this is now done,’” McMath says. “I wanted to find out how I could more independently continue to move some of that work ahead.”

In light of the tumultuous political environment surrounding the election of President Donald Trump, McMath also thought that many artists might already be in the process of expressing some of their frustrations.

“I sensed that artists really needed to be part of the conversation that many were having about the threats that we saw in regards to basic human rights, at the time,” she says. “I saw with The Space Gallery that it’d be possible to be responsive or reactive right in that moment to the things that were happening around us.

It wasn’t something that needed to go through a long vetting process. It wasn’t something we needed to spend a year planning, which you have to do at a museum. We could plan it in a matter of months and have stuff on the walls.”

Twenty-five artists submitted pieces for A More Perfect Union, with a few submitting more than four pieces. McMath had her curatorial work cut out for her, but she also had able and willing help.

“Wyatt and Matthew are artists in their own right and I thrive working with and around artists,” McMath says. “But also, Laura, Matthew and Wyatt became equal partners in thinking through all the aspects of the show.”

“Working with Hope has been invaluable,” Laura says. “Because of my military background, I can be pretty rigid. Deadlines and working

An opening reception for the exhibit The Crucifixion of Self is held 5:30-9:30 p.m. March 3, The Space Gallery, 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, thespacegalleryjax.com.

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un a Google search on “The Growlers interview” and you’ll ll find scores of similar results: Stories with headlines like, “It’s t’ss Impossible to Interview The Growlers,” ledes like, “I tried 10 times to connect with The Growlers,,” and some version of “Brooks Nielsen and I were this close to chatting!” The last example is all mine—The Growlers’’ lead singer and I traded a series of phone ne calls, text messages and smoke signals last week, even presumably passing each other somewhere on I-35 under the bright Texas morning sun, his band driving from Dallas to San Antonio the day I pulled in to Austin.

That sort of modern mysterioso is standard operating procedure for this sleazy Southern California surf-rock collective, however. Never ones to have their trippy, sun-fried aesthetic pinned down too accurately by critics, since the beginning The Growlers have moved at their own warp speed. They record, perform and, at times, even live in a converted warehouse studio deep in the industrial underbelly of Orange County.

In just a few years, they went from putting out hand-recorded demos for their rabid hometown fans to signing with Everloving Records, which released their first two adventurous full-lengths, Are You In or Out? and Hot Tropics, which cemented their self-coined “beach goth” genre as a lifestyle and, eventually, a music festival in their Costa Mesa home.

But out on the road, touring the country in a converted former California Church Teen Choir school bus, is where The Growlers made their name. A spirit of mad, drug-addled merry pranksterism always trailing behind them, nearly every

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STILL SUN-HEALED OCEAN-WRAPPED After a year of big changes and new directions, The Growlers hit St. Augustine for a SURE-TO-SELL-OUT show

crowd at every venue in every city gets whipped into a psychedelic frenzy by the band, Nielsen’s smoky, scratchy vocals floating effervescently over the chopped and screwed surf skronk of Matt Taylor, Kyle Straka, Anthony Perry and Scott Montoya.

Many fans consider that lineup and its 2014 masterpiece Chinese Fountain the apogee of Growlers excellence. After a recording session with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, an in-demand megaproducer with whom most young bands would kill to work, Nielsen and The Growlers famously scratched all the tapes because they were unhappy with their artistic direction—and started over again on their own. Because of that, Chinese Fountain retains the band’s woozy weirdness and trebly irresistibility, the whole five-piece firing on all loose yet lockstep cylinders. And where past albums trended darker and more desponding, Nielsen sang on Chinese Fountain of more matters of the heart— clearer, more tenderly, yet still with his

trademark hazy, smoke-stained elegance.

And the live shows? Shit, they were still suffused with psych-rock madness, each crowd a surge of energy waving their “swan hands” at this cult-like band.

Then came 2016’s City Club. Recorded without bassist Perry and drummer Montoya, produced and released by Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, the sound was a drastic departure from The Growlers of old—more slick synthesizers than skewed six-strings, Nielsen’s voice smoothed down to an icy croon instead of set free into its octave-reaching upper limits. A lot of people—fans, critics, fellow musicians—scratched their heads. When the band released a perfunctory statement about Perry and Montoya leaving The Growlers in September, a minor uproar flared up among the faithful, followed by wildly varying reports about the new rhythm section not being up to snuff.

Pair that with new press photos featuring Nielsen, Taylor and Straka in sleek City Club leather jackets and complaints that the band’s Beach Goth festival

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had grown recklessly over the last two years—logistical failures, fan complaints and venue issues, even as the lineup was enhanced exponentially by icons like Patti Smith in 2016—and it was clear The Growlers were most definitely striking out into new territory. The big question became, would their diehard fans follow them or not?

So far, the answer appears to be yes: The band has sold out every show on their current spring tour, from coast to coast, proving that increased professionalism can actually share space with that old Growlers chaos of their first decade.

In the one Growlers interview I could find that had been published in 2017, Brooks Nielsen told the Knoxville Daily Times, “There was something cool about almost falling apart at the seams. It was hit or miss on how well we were going to perform, but the vibe was pretty strong.

It was way more chaotic then, but now it’s getting a lot smoother, and we’re way more pro.”

So which version of The Growlers will show up when they hit the First Coast? Will they be burned out or on fire?

Considering the fact that the notoriously surf-obsessed band will see the ocean for the first time in two weeks when they pull in to the Amphitheatre’s palm-lined Backyard stage—and considering that this is their only Florida performance other than a stop at Okeechobee Music Festival—we’re guessing hell yes to the latter. As Brooks sings on “Pet Shop Eyes,” “All day healed by the sun and wrapped up in the ocean’s lip.” As long as The Growlers retain that spirit, they’ll always be loved in St. Augustine.

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iving in to temptation after a recent viewing of the 1958 film version of Damn Yankees! I began thinking about the devil in Hollywood movies. Call him what you will — Scratch, Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, etc. — the Big Bad Guy is often a terrifying villain, with Hitler and his Nazi minions as his only equal for sheer on-screen evil. On the other hand, Satan on film can also be good for a laugh sometimes.

Thus, a consideration of some of Azazel’s more memorable diabolic film appearances — the performers who’ve played the Fallen One and the movies themselves. Time and space limit me to those films in which the Devil has a major presence. So I give only a nod of approval, for instance, to Tim Curry (and Rob Bottin’s Oscar-nominated makeup) in Ridley Scott’s Legend (’85), and to Disney’s animated nightmarish vision in “The Night on Bald Mountain” segment of Fantasia (’40).

Back to the movie which sparked these infernal reveries: Damn Yankees! gave Ray Walston his best screen role ever as Mr. Applegate, a slick agent from Hell who, with leggy Gwen Verdon as Lola, makes baseball star Tab Hunter almost sign away his soul for victory over the Yankees. The former Broadway musical holds up on the big screen, as Walston gets some of the biggest laughs as well as a couple of good tunes.

In 1941, Walter Huston scored a welldeserved Oscar nomination as Mr. Scratch in The Devil and Daniel Webster, based on Stephen Vincent Benet’s short story. Huston’s sly devil puts defense attorney Daniel Webster to the test in a legal case of a farmer who’d sold his soul for prosperity. By appealing to the better instincts of the pernicious jury, comprising various miscreants from the nation’s history, Webster wins the day, though Mr. Scratch gets the last laugh, breaking the fourth wall with an evil eye and pointed finger at the viewer.

The funniest silver-screen devil has to be Peter Cook as George Spiggott in 1967’s version of Bedazzled. The nattily dressed tempter tries to snare the soul of hapless Stanley Moon (Dudley Moore) by granting him seven wishes, all of which poor Stanley wastes trying to win the love of Margaret (Eleanor Bron). Directed by Stanley Donen (who also helmed Damn Yankees! and Singin’ in the Rain), Bedazzled is a comic gem, with bits of the madcap absurdity later used by Monty Python. The 2000 remake with Brendan Fraser as the dweeb, and Elizabeth Hurley as the devil, is tepid by comparison.

Turning to more serious incarnations of His Satanic Majesty, three films soar far above the competition, like an Infernal Trinity if you will. And three of Hollywood’s best actors really do give the Devil his due.

In 1987, Jack Nicholson brought his signature diabolic leer to The Witches of Eastwick, as Daryl van Horne (aka the Devil), an enigmatic stranger who seems to be in town simply to seduce three

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friends — Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer — who unwittingly summoned him. Lots of laughs later, with a dash of horror and special effects, the nascent witches get their separate legs up on the devil, though he, in turn, leaves each with an adorable reminder of their steamy times together — a baby.

Based on John Updike’s novel, directed

by George (Road Warrior) Miller, Eastwick is more satire and comedy than drama and horror, but Nicholson is right in his element.

So was Robert De Niro the same year, as the viperous Louis Cyphre (Lucifer) who sets seedy private dick Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) on his way to damnation in Alan Parker’s terrific Angel Heart. With a meticulously styled beard and delicately sharpened nails, De Niro takes sinister to new levels. The movie, based on a terrific novel by William Hjorstberg (who wrote the screenplay for Ridley Scott’s Legend) is right up there with Rosemary’s Baby as one of the creepiest, most intelligent cinematic treatments on the consequences of making deals with the Devil.

Not to be outdone by Nicholson and De Niro, Al Pacino chews up the scenery as John Milton, head of a prestigious and satanic New York City law firm, tempting hotshot Gainesville attorney Kevin (Keanu Reeves, with a hitor-miss Southern accent and Gator ballcap) toward ruin and damnation in Taylor Hackford’s The Devil’s Advocate (’97). Like Angel Heart, Hackford’s graphic film eschews any comic bits, though Pacino/Milton loves to clown around — at the deadly expense of others. In one of her earliest roles, future Oscar-winner Charlize Theron, (Kevin’s sweet wife Mary Ann) is among those torn asunder by the Devil’s games.

According to philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle, “The devil has his elect.”

These movies have a place there.

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NOWSHOWING INTERCULTURAL FILM SERIES Films screen 2, 5 & 6:30 p.m. March 2, Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd.; 5:30 p.m. March 7, Deerwood Center, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., face-foundation.org/tourneesfilm-festival, fscj.edu.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Elle, I Am Not Your Negro and John Wick: Chapter Two run, 1028 Park St., 3590049, sunraycinema.com. Logan starts March 3.

CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Hitchcock films: The Lady Vanishes, 2 & 6:45 p.m. March 1 & 2. Neruda screens through March 2. Throwback Thursday runs All the Kings Men, noon; Cult Classic runs King Kong, 8 p.m. March 2. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

IMAX THEATER Dream Big: Engineering Our World, The Lego Batman Movie, A Beautiful Planet, Extreme Weather run, World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. Logan starts March 3.

ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM Flagler College’s Theatre Arts Department stages Stephen Sondheim’s musical farce, inspired by Roman playwright Plautus’ collected works, 7:30 p.m.

March 8-11; 2 p.m. March 12, Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 826-8600; tickets box office only on March 6, flagler.edu.

THE GOD GAME Theatre Jacksonville stages Suzanne Bradbeer’s dramedy about political hopefuls in the Beltway, 8 p.m. March 3 & 4, 2032 San Marco Blvd., 396-4425, $25; $20 seniors/military/students; through March 19, theatrejax.com.

THE LADIES MAN Douglas Anderson School of the Arts’ Theatre Department stages Charles Morey’s comedy about a tiny indiscretion that snowballs into zany mishaps, 7:30 p.m. March 2, 3 & 4, 2445 San Diego Rd., Southside, $20 adults; $10 students, datheatreboosters.org.

CLOSE TO YOU: THE MUSIC OF THE CARPENTERS The ’70s soft-rock siblings are celebrated in the musical revue, 3 & 8 p.m. March 4, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Terry Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $38.50-$48.50, fscjartistseries.org.

THE PRINCESS BRIDE: AN EVENING OF CARY ELWES Actor Elwes, aka “Westley,” shares behind-the-scene tales of the classic ’80s comedy-fantasy film; a moderated discussion follows the screening; 8 p.m. March 3, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $29.50-$100, floridatheatre.com.

SHOW BOAT Alhambra Theatre & Dining offers the musical about 40 years of performers, stagehands and dockworkers on a Mississippi River showboat, through April 2. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch noon, Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu; 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $35-$62 + tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. ’NIGHT, MOTHER The 5 & Dime stages a dark drama of a mother-daughter bond, 8 p.m. March 3 & 4; 2 p.m.

March 5, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, $20 at the door, the5anddime.org.

AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE RITZ Puttin’ on the Ritz talent show is 7:30 p.m. March 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $9, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

TAYLOR ROBERTS Jazz guitarist Roberts plays 7-10 p.m. every Wed., Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com. Roberts is in 4-9 p.m. every Thur. at the lobby bar; 6-10 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., Salt Restaurant, both in Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Fernandina, 277-1100, ritzcarlton.com.

BARITONE AND PIANO Baritone Sidney Outlaw and pianist Denise Wright perform, 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.

March 3, Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com.

CLASSICAL CORNERSTONES Jacksonville Symphony and pianist Shai Wosner play Weber, Bartok, Ligeti and Haydn, 8 p.m. March 3 & 4, T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-5547, $13.50-$77, jaxsymphony.org.

THE GREAT GUITAR GATHERING The 24th annual Douglas Anderson School of the Arts event features performances by DASOTA Guitar Orchestra and classical guitar virtuosi Pierre Bensusan and Stephen Robinson, 7:30 p.m. March 4, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., 355-2787, $25; proceeds benefit DASOTA’s guitar department, floridatheatre.com.

JU PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Jacksonville University’s Percussion Ensemble plays, 7:30 p.m. March 4, Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., 256-7386, arts. ju.edu/cfa/cfa-events.php.

BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN Innovative (and married) banjoists Fleck and Washburn pick away, 5 p.m. March 5, Omni Amelia Island Plantation’s Amelia Ballroom, 39 Beach Lagoon Rd., 261-1779, $60, ameliaislandchambermusicfestival.com.

LENTEN EVENSONG Tim Tuller directs the Cathedral Choir singing Purcell, Boyce, Hallock, Goss, DiLasso and Tompkins, 5 p.m. March 5, St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, 356-5507, jaxcathedral.org.

SPYRO GYRA Smooth jazz faves perform, 7 p.m.

March 5, Florida Theatre, 355-2787, $25-$35, floridatheatre.com.

TBA BIG BAND The local Big Band swings 7:30 p.m.

March 6, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com.

GARY STARLING GROUP, RUSSELL GEORGE Local jazz guitar great Starling and band are joined by violin virtuoso George, 7:30 p.m. March 8, Mudville Music Room, $10, raylewispresents.com.

COMEDY

FRED’S ALL-STAR COMEDIANS Local comics Kurt Allen, Ozrick Cooley, others, 7:30 p.m. March 1, The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com.

CHRIS PORTER The season 4 finalist of Last Comic Standing is on 7:30 p.m. March 2; 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.

March 3 & 4, The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $12-$15, comedyzone.com.

COREY HOLCOMB The comedian (Comic View, Def Comedy Jam) appears 8 p.m. March 2; 8 & 10:30 p.m.

March 3; 7 & 9 p.m. March 4, The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $25-$100, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Chris Buck MCs local comics 9 p.m. every Mon., Rain Dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.

SPLIFF’S OPEN MIC COMEDY The gastropub holds open mic comedy 9 p.m. every Tue., 15 Ocean St., Downtown, 844-5000.

COMEDY UNCORKED Patrick Dalton MCs local and regional comics 7 p.m. every Wed., The Wine Bar, 320 N. First St., Jax Beach, 442-0755, thewinebaruncorked.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ACTORS NEEDED Amelia Community Theatre auditions for the British farce, The Explorers Club, 3 p.m. March 4, 207 Cedar St., Fernandina. Eight men and one woman are needed; performances are June 8-24. ameliacommunitytheatre.org, 261-6749.

NORTHEAST FLORIDA ART GRANTS The Community Foundation’s application process for 2017 grants is open for nonprofits in Duval County, art ventures (individual artists), Dr. JoAnn Crisp-Ellert Fund (visual arts in St. Augustine). Details at jaxcf.org/apply.

NEW TOWN URBAN FARM Urban Geoponics and New Town are developing a large community garden at Pearce and West Third streets, in the New Town/Edward Waters area, Northside, to provide fresh produce and a hands-on, open-air center of learning for the community and area students. Urban Farm meets 10 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sun. Details, call Diallo-Sekou at 706-284-9808.

ART WALKS & MARKETS

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK The event, 5-9 p.m.

March 1, themed Shamrockin’ Downtown, has more than 21 live music venues, 21+ hotspots open past 9 p.m. and 60+ total stops, spanning 15 blocks; iloveartwalk.com.

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK Self-guided tour, with exhibits, live music and refreshments offered by 27 members of local art galleries, is 5-9 p.m. March 3, St. Augustine & St. Augustine Beach, 377-0198, artgalleriesofstaugustine.org.

CONSCIOUS MARKET GRAND OPENING A mingle of tastes and sips is held 7-11 p.m. March 4, Conscious Eats, 5913 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 5, Mandarin, 612-3934. Bring a donation of dried beans, rices, quinoas, other grains. Proceeds benefit Conscious Market/Character Counts programs.

WHITE HARVEST FARMS & FARMER’S MARKET Local organic, fresh produce, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. every Sat., 5348 Moncrief Rd., Northside, 354-4162; proceeds benefit Clara White Mission, clarawhitemission.org.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Opening day! Local and regional art, morning yoga, opening ceremonies, local music – The 77d’s, Brent Byrd & The Suitcase Gypsies – plus food artists and farmers market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 4 and every Sat. under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Free admission first Sat. each month. Academic Splendor: 19th-Century Masterworks from Dahesh Museum of Art displays through April 16. David Ponsler: Chasing Shadows displays through Oct. 4.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jax. html. An opening reception for Humanity: The Value of a Life, works by Jenny Hager, Lance Vickery, Rosana Casco, Troy Eittreim, Caitlin Flynn, Jane Griffo, Mal Jones, Cal Oglesby, Deborah Reid, Tracie Thornton and Ithiell Israel, is 5-8 p.m. March 3; exhibit runs through April 27.

The Long Distance Telephone, an original manuscript on the invention of the telephone and long distance line by Alexander Graham Bell, displays through April 26.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Science & History boat tours, 1 and 3:30 p.m. March 4 and every Sat., $15 adults, $12 children.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. The MOCA Student Residency Exhibition, works by MOCA’s inaugural student-in-residence Mary Ratcliff, displays through April 2. Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper and The Evolution of Mark-Making display through May 14. Frank Rampolla: The DNA of the Mark runs through April 2.

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FOLIO A+E : MUSIC

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fter World War II, youth culture in America was in rebellion. Rock ’n’ roll, fast cars, casual dress, surfing and other principles of recalcitrance were all established during this era. Still, there was an understood endpoint to the period in which it was acceptable for any person to identify with these juvenile archetypes.

Rock ’n’ roll was for teens. Surfing — to borrow a phrase from Johnny Utah — was practiced by “rubber people who don’t shave yet.” Even as rock ’n’ roll gave way to punk and surfing brought about skateboarding, the stereotypes linking these interests to adolescence persisted. Carelessly hurling your body against myriad hard surfaces or shouting vulgarities into a microphone, it seemed, required the kind of angst and audacity that only comes from a lack of experience or wisdom.

Only in the last decade or so have things started to change. The Rolling Stones continue to tour with the alacrity of bands half their age. Here in Northeast Florida, a survey of any lineup will show at least a few “grey-hairs” atop large, voluminous surf crafts. Kona Skate Park now hosts Old School Night, wherein grown men with creaking knees and beer guts shred the pool with pluck enough to rival any misguided youth.

As refusing to grow up has become the most Punk AF action one can undertake, local skate punk band The Concrete Criminals have been working hard to do just that.

Criminals drummer Lang Sheppard has been avoiding maturation for decades.

While living in Oahu in the early 2000s, Sheppard had plenty of time to surf and skate in between gigs documenting surf contests like The Triple Crown and the In Memory of Eddie Aikau for brands like Quiksilver.

Though some years past his post-teenageangst prime, Sheppard discovered many willing punk partnerships among the island’s saturated skate and surf scenes. He even started a band with legendary Z-boy, Jay Adams. Fittingly, the short-lived band was named TYTL (or Twenty Years Too Late).

After finding a receptive audience for these postpartum punk endeavors, Sheppard set about promoting a monthly showcase. OnceA-Month Punk! (OAMP) brought top-notch punks to The Waikiki Sandbox, including Misdemeanor and Old Habits Die Hard.

Eventually, Sheppard moved back to Jacksonville. Meanwhile, Criminals bassist Sean Piper’s former band Poor Richards was falling apart. Like Sheppard, Piper — a surfer, skater, surfboard shaper and musician — has a predilection for sticking with things that society expects us to cast away after a certain age (though the 34-year-old Piper does so with a full-time job and two young kids).

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PUNK BUTTONS Jax skate punks The Concrete Criminals say GROWING UP is for POSEURS

“I wasn’t done playing music when Poor Richards broke up,” Piper says. “I still wanted to play punk because, well, that’s all I’m good at.”

Piper was introduced to Sheppard through Rat Town Records founder and former Creeps drummer Danny Kneirman. After adding “Cousin” Matt Warren on vocals and David Larson on guitar, the quartet recorded the compilation Guilty as Charged. From Guilty’s opening track, “Gone Are the Days” (which features the refrain “Surf all day, skate all night!”), the band thrashes through all five songs in less than eight minutes, culminating with what may be the angriest PSA of all time, “Watch for Children.”

Songwriting for the Criminals is a product of the good kind of groupthink. Unscripted

Once-A-Month Punk!

THE WASTEDIST, T.J. HOOKERS, CONCRETE CRIMINALS

9 p.m. March 16; every third Thur. each month, Blue Water Daiquiri & Oyster Bar, Jax Beach, bluewaterislandgrilloysterbar.net

jamming might reveal a melody to which Piper and/or Warren will add lyrics, with Larsen and Sheppard adding fills, riffs and tempo changes.

There’s an ease to the creative process that’s no doubt helped along by mutual musical interests.

“Lang and I talk a lot about bands we like on the way from the beach to ‘The Crime

Lab,’” Piper says of the weekly drive to Warren’s house on Jacksonville’s Northside.

“We were both really inspired by skate punk bands like Suicidal Tendencies and JFA.” Though skating remained a consistent muse, the band’s second EP, 2015’s Drug Nation, shows there’s a willingness to attack more mature subject matter, including rampant opiate addiction plaguing rural areas of the U.S. True to form, however, Drug Nation also features the anthemic “Growing Up is for Poseurs” — a song that might as well be the band’s mantra.

“I feel like I’m less mature now than I was when I was a teenager,” Piper laughs. “I’m still getting tattoos and playing in punk bands and shaping surfboards. You’re supposed to grow out of that stuff. I feel like Benjamin Button.”

Since forming, the Criminals have had the chance to play with some of their idols, opening for punk icons Battalion of Saints, The Vibrators, Agnostic Front, D.R.I. and Reagan Youth. They’ve also inundated themselves in the relatively vibrant local skate-punk scene, cutting a split seveninch vinyl with The Wastedist in late 2016.

While mostly traversing familiar terrain on songs like “Slappy Seconds” and “Roll On,” the three-track offering also introduced a few politically charged themes. Opening with a customized recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance over Piper’s furious bass riff, “American Despair” includes a fiery critique of the military industrial complex. Piper wrote the song while serving his second tour of duty during the American invasion of Iraq in ’03.

“I actually wrote a lot of stuff while I was there,” says Piper, a Citadel graduate and a former captain in the U.S. Army. “I saw a lot of wasteful and just senseless shit. I didn’t believe in the war and I was having a hard time with it.”

With its upcoming release Coping Mechanism, the Criminals hope to bridge the gap between some of the more flippant, esoteric skate-punk tunes and the flippant political ones.

In the meantime, Sheppard is bringing Once-A-Month Punk! to Jax Beach. With the Criminals serving as the de-facto house band at Blue Water Daiquiri & Oyster Bar, OAMP features local and touring acts every third Thursday of each month. The first OAMP on March 16 celebrates the opening of the new public South Beach skate park in Jax Beach.

“The name is kind of kitschy,” Sheppard says of OAMP. “But the idea is that it’s for everybody — nerds, kooks, weirdoes, punks, metal heads, old, young — it doesn’t matter.

Just come have fun.”

Matthew B. Shaw mail@folioweekly.com

ARTS + EVENTS GALLERIES

THE ART CENTER GALLERY Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. Juried exhibit Unity in Diversity, through March 2.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crispellert-art-museum. An opening reception for Head Space, Jamie Isenstein’s sculptures and photographs, is 5-9 p.m. March 3; artist walkthrough, 4 p.m. The exhibit displays through April 15.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Intimate and Exceptional runs through March 24.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Mermaid Magic VI displays through April 4.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com. Marcus Kenney’s exhibit Dope displays through March.

LARIMER ARTS CENTER 216 Reid St., Palatka, 386-328-8998, artsinputnam.org. Fragments Times Three, works by Robert Hall, Gayle Prevatt and Enzo Torcoletti, is on display.

LOST ART GALLERY 210 St. George St., St. Augustine, 827-9800, lostartgallery.com. Bulla Cubana, a celebration of art, music and dance benefiting St. Augustine’s Sister City, Baracoa, Cuba, exhibits works by four Cuban artists, 5-9 p.m. March 3. Live music by Jax English Salsa Band with Cuban vocalist Barbara Martin, and a performance by Jessie Dominguez, principle dancer of the National Ballet of Cuba & Dance Alive, 7-10 p.m.; $20 admission benefits Baracoa. Cash bar.

MAKERSPACE GALLERY Main Public Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org/ jax-makerspace. Kesha – A Black Female Experience of Identity & Race, works of 14 female African-American artists, through April 23.

MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, 217-0637, monyarowegallery.com. Room Air Conditioner, Ann Toebbe’s works display through March 5.

PLUM GALLERY 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. Works by Wendy Tatter, George Ann Gillespie and Jackie Kramer display through May. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, 438-4358, southlightgallery. com. Architects of Art, works by eight local artists,through March.

THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, thespacegalleryjax.com. An opening reception for The Crucifixion of Self is 5:30 p.m. March 3.

SUBLIME ORIGINAL GALLERY The DeLO, 420 Broad St., Downtown, 901-5515, sublimeoriginal.com. The group show Abstraction is on display.

VANDROFF ART GALLERY Jewish Community Alliance, 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 730-2100, jcajax.org.

The opening for Power of Perspective, Nena Tahil’s silk paintings, is 2 p.m. March 5.

EVENTS

NAN BOYCE The author discusses and signs copies of her book, Old Bones, 7 p.m. March 1, The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com.

HOME & PATIO SHOW Exhibitors showcase their wares, and there are speakers, cooking demos and workshops, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. March 2 & 3; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. March 4; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. March 5, Prime Osborn Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown, $11; $5 seniors & kids 6-12; military free March 3; all details and tickets at jacksonvillespringhomeshow.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE LIONS SEAFOOD FESTIVAL The 36th annual Seafood Festival has seafood galore, 100 arts & crafts vendors, live music by Jim Stafford, House Cats, Bill Doyle Quartet, Linda Cole, Rusty Anchors and others, belly dancers, character actors, magicians and kid-geared fun, 3-9 p.m. March 3; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. March 4; 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

March 5, Francis Field, 25 W. Castillo Dr., $5; kids under 15 free, no pets or coolers; details at lionsfestival.com.

WILL SCHWALBE The author discusses and signs copies of his book, The End of Your Life Book Club, 7 p.m. March 3, The BookMark, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com.

CLAY COUNTY STRAWBERRY FEST Family-friendly activities, hula hoop contest, petting zoo, sack races, Berry Cute Baby contest, train rides … and strawberries, fixed every way possible. Free parking.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 4 & 5, Clay County Fairgrounds, 2497 S.R. 16 W., Green Cove Springs, 386-860-0092, claycountyfest.com. Adults/kids over 2, $7; under 2, free. $1 off with canned good.

SPEAKEASY SPIRITS TASTING & CIGAR SAMPLING PARTY The Florida Theatre celebrates its 90th anniversary with tasty hooch from local distilleries, gourmet food, live music and an outside cigar lounge, 7 p.m. March 4, 927 Events, 927 W. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $50-$100; 1920s attire suggested, floridatheatre.com.

LIGHTHOUSE & MUSEUM FESTIVAL The Junior Service League’s annual festival, this year celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Frensel Lens restoration project, is 4-8:30 p.m. March 4, St. Augustine Lighthouse, 81 Lighthouse Ave., 829-0745, staugustinelighthouse.org. The fest after the races has games, live music, refreshments and awards.

Check website for details.

JACKSONVILLE GIANTS The local ABA basketball team plays the St. Pete Tide, 7 p.m. March 4, and 5 p.m. March 5, Edward Waters College gymnasium, 1658 Kings Rd., Jacksonville. Check jacksonvillegiants.com for details.

FSCJ WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: NANCY HOGSHEAD-MAKAR The Olympic champion, CEO of Champion Women, a nonprofit focused on Title IX issues of sexual harassment, abuse and assault in sport, employment, pregnancy and LGBT inequity, speaks at 12:30 p.m. March 6, FSCJ’s South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., 632-5016, fscj.edu.

CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE AWARDS The Council holds its 41st annual Arts Awards fundraiser, honoring 2017’s recipients Ebony PayneEnglish, Mark McCombs, Christopher Lazzara, Dustin Harewood, Diane Brunet-Garcia and PNC Bank, 6 p.m.

March 6, 300 Water St., Downtown, 358-3600; tickets start at $175, culturalcouncil.org/events. __________________________________________ To list an event, send time, date, location (street address, city), admission price, contact number to print to Daniel A. Brown; email dbrown@folioweekly. com or mail 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Items run as space is available. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. printing.

BÉLA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN

Enjoy an evening of innovative music with the Grammy-winning husband and wife duo Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, when they perform March 5 at Omni Amelia Island Plantation.

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FOLIO A+E : ARTS Jamie Isenstein explores polarities and what is BETWEEN THE OPPOSITES

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amie Isenstein deals in dualities. Through various media, the New York-based artist explores her interest in life and death, truth and illusions, forces in oppositions.

Within her art, Isenstein discovers and reveals kind of new development born within the inverse. “My work often does start with dualities but ultimately ends up breaking down opposing categories to create something new,” says Isenstein “For example, many of my sculptures are a combination of static, perhaps dead, objects and live, active ones, such as the sculptures that meld my own body with found objects or furniture.”

The works demands a shift in one’s perceptions “Another dichotomy I consider in my work is the relationship between illusion and truth, which is a classic concern in the study of art,” says Isenstein. “They seem like opposites, but both are subjective and that relates them – illusion is in the eye of the beholder, but so can be said about truth.”

In previous work, Isenstein often placed herself in compositions. While her upcoming exhibit Head Space, featured at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum focuses on the body, Isenstein is not directly featured in the show’s estimated 18 to 20 pieces. “Although I am not using my body specifically in the CEAM show, the body is there, though represented by objects,” Isenstein explains. In this exhibit, “disguises, automatons,” even the viewer, replace the artist. “So many of the works in the show have objects that have a relationship to the body in some way – fans act as hands, books become eyes, wigs reference mortality and masks wear masks as if they, themselves want to be disguised.”

Works from Head Space include the sculptures Eye Books and Para Drama (both 2015), pieces that use books, gloves and oscillating fans to form “improvised automatons.” The photo series Masks Wearing Masks (2015), with their faces of Halloween masks hidden behind even more masks, leave the viewer unsettled and amused, here reinforcing Isenstein’s skills of toggling humor with menace.

“Often because I play with questions of mortality and create confusions of what is living and what is not, my work ends up having an uncanny and unsettling quality,” says Isenstein. “Work that talks about heavy subjects such as death or alienation from our bodies or our labor are easier for me to approach when I use humor. I guess I also have a black sense of humor that is revealed in my work – though usually unintentionally!”

Vanity Vanitas (2016-17) features three wigs made of either candles, a mirror or sand, each placed atop a mannequin bust, all referencing Baroque symbols of mortality.

Other works include the new series of photos, Body of Mirrors, and sculptures, Gallery of Ice Cream. Both use curved mirrors to trigger ideas of distortions of the body.

Photography, sculpture, video and performance can be used to convey Isenstein’s thoughts. However, ideas guide her to pick a medium, rather than ideas springing from working with the medium. “I am more interested in getting ideas across than a specific medium so I chose the medium based on which one would best convey an idea,” says Isenstein.

Regardless of materials, Isenstein enjoys an estimable career. She’s been featured in 90-plus international solo and group exhibits, including last year’s solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum. Isenstein’s work has been chronicled in an array of media outlets, ranging from Artforum to The New Yorker.

In the last decade or so, terms like “repurposing” and “reappropriating” have been in play. “Mark making” has now topped the charts as a current art descriptor. Trends aren’t necessarily bad, but by their very nature their obsolescence is necessary – and certain. Jamie Isenstein’s work is certainly not trendy. It’s refreshingly void of any “updates” or an art page refresh. In focusing on the subtle and gross, opposite ends and in between, she creates inclusive work, not inscrutable barriers.

Dualities and deceptions can point to our commonalities. Whether Isenstein places herself directly in her work or not, as a material or story, she still discovers a panoramic view of her place in a larger composition “I have often used myself physically and representationally in my artwork, though not always. And although I sometimes use myself in my work, I don’t consider the work self-reflective in a literal sense in that I don’t address direct personal experience,” says Isenstein. “Rather I use myself to consider how the self is reflected in society and culture and as a participant in the business of being human.”

Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ The opening reception for Jamie Isenstein’s Head Space is held from 5-9 p.m. March 3; artist walkthrough at 4 p.m., Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellertart-museum; displays through April 15.

Miami sassy rockers JACUZZI BOYS (pictured) perform with GOLDEN PELICANS and The COSMIC GROOVE March 6 at Planet Sarbez, St. Augustine.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. March 1, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247.

GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD, BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION, HOLEY MISS MOLEY 8 p.m. March 1, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $15-$20.

THE EXPANDERS 8 p.m. March 1, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $10.

MARC COHN 8 p.m. March 1, PVC Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $39.50-$49.50.

CHEW, THE COSMIC GROOVE, LADY DUG, TRASH FESTIVAL, PUDDLED 9 p.m. March 1, Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188, $5.

JIMMY EAT WORLD 6 p.m. March 2, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $29.50.

JACOB HUDSON ALBUM RELEASE 8 p.m. March 2, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $8 advance; $10 day of.

STANK SAUCE 8 p.m. March 2, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969.

RICK SPRINGFIELD 8 p.m. March 2, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39-$79.

PIERCE PETTIS, JAMIE DeFRATES 8:30 p.m. March 2, The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $15 advance; $18 at the door.

3 THE BAND 9 p.m. March 2, Flying Iguana Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

36th annual St. Augustine Lions Seafood Festival: JIM STAFFORD, HOUSE CATS, BILL DOYLE QUARTET, LINDA COLE, RUSTY ANCHORS, more March 3, 4 & 5, Francis Field, St. Augustine, lionsfestival.com.

CAS HALEY, BUMPIN’ UGLIES, DJ JAY SENSI 8 p.m. March 3, The Original Café Eleven, $15 advance; $20 at the door.

Rock the Globe: SHAGGY, SKINNY FABULOUS, THE KATZ DOWNSTAIRS, DE LIONS OF JAH, more 6-11 p.m. March 3, Metropolitan Park, 1410 Gator Bowl Blvd., Downtown, $10 advance; $15 gate; 21+ only; rocktheglobejax.com.

OLD HEAVY HANDS, JOSH CARD, TYLOR SEATON, ELIZABETH MONAHAN 8 p.m. March 3, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside.

PEYOTE COYOTE, GOV CLUB, DJ PATEN LOCKE 8 p.m.

March 3, Rain Dogs.

PASSAFIRE, UNIVERSAL GREEN 8 p.m. March 3, Jack Rabbits, $15.

THE WEIGHT (members of The BAND) 8 p.m. March 3, PVC Hall, $33-$43.

ASTARI NITE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOYAMOYA 9 p.m. March 3, 1904 Music Hall, $15 advance; $20 day of.

FOSTER CARE, SANDRATZ, CURLEYS AND MOLD 8 p.m.

March 3, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222, $5.

2CHAINZ 9 p.m. March 3, Mavericks Live, $45-$65.

BOOGIE FREAKS, PARTY CARTEL 9:30 p.m. March 3, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208.

OF GOOD NATURE, HOLEY MISS MOLEY 10 p.m. March 3, The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611, $5.

Riverside Arts Market: Morning Yoga (9 a.m.), Opening Ceremonies (10:30 a.m.), THE 77D’s, BRENT BYRD & THE SUITCASE GYPSIES 10:45 a.m. March 4, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449.

1904 Music Hall Fifth Anniversary Party: ROOSEVELT COLLIER & UNLIMITED DEVOTION (playing Grateful Dead music), PARKER URBAN BAND, MZG, VLAD THE INHALER, DJ TRICLOPS I, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND, THE GOOD WOOD BAND, BLACKWATER GREASE, DJ DON McCON, CRY HAVOC, MASTER RADICAL, MUDTOWN,

DIGDOG, SUNSPOTS, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP, TERRAIN, GINGER BEARD MAN, BONNIE BLUE, DJ REASON V. GOLDFINGER, LURK CITY, COMBUSTIBLE, MAN DARINO, CHIEFORIA, JAPANESE PNUT, TRAIL DIVER, CARMINATRIXX, COSMIC HIGHWAY, BOBBY NEWPORT, OBSERVATORY, ASKMEIFICARE, RISHAVAH, THE COSMIC GROOVE, FIERCEKIND, A VIBRANT LYE, TROPIC OF CANCER 5 p.m. March 4, Downtown at Ocean and Bay and Forsyth Streets, free.

SECRET KEEPER, VESSELS, MOTIVES, LIVE FOR WHAT LASTS, JANE EYRE, PICKED LAST 4 p.m. March 4, Nighthawks, $8 advance; $10 day of.

THE GROWLERS 7 p.m. March 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $25 (SRO).

OUTSIDE TRACK 7:30 p.m. March 4, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $15.

DOROTHY, THE GEORGIA FLOOD 8 p.m. March 4, Jack Rabbits, $12.50.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS, BUICK 6 8 p.m. March 4, PVC Hall, $43.50 (SRO).

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN 8 p.m. March 4, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $49-$89.

LE ORCHID, GEEXELLA, THE BLACK PINE 8 p.m. March 4, Rain Dogs.

SPLIT TONE, BRITTANY LAWRENCE BAND 9:30 p.m.

March 4, Whiskey Jax. ROGER THAT 10 p.m. March 4, The Roadhouse, $2.

THE RESONANTS, BROWN PALACE, CAFFIENDS 10 p.m.

March 4, Shanghai Nobby’s.

9TH STREET STOMPERS 10 p.m. March 4, Prohibition Kitchen, 119 St. George St., St. Augustine, 209-5704.

EL TEN ELEVEN, MYLETS 8 p.m. March 5, The Original Café Eleven, $15 advance; $18 at the door.

KT TUNSTALL, KELVIN JONES 8 p.m. March 5, PVC Hall, $40-$45.

CORY BRANAN, CHRISTINA WAGNER, SPEAKING CURSIVE 8 p.m. March 5, Nighthawks, $12 advance; $15 day of.

FULL MEASURES, REFOCUS, WATCHDOGS, CEMETERY CIRCLES, HOLLOW POINT 8 p.m. March 5, Rain Dogs.

BLOODSHOT BILL, THE WILDTONES, RIVERNECKS 9 p.m.

March 5, Planet Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632, $3.

SEVEN SERPENTS, IRON BUDDHA 8 p.m. March 6, Shantytown Pub. JACUZZI BOYS, GOLDEN PELICANS, THE COSMIC GROOVE 9 p.m. March 6, Planet Sarbez, $10.

NOMADIC, ALUKAH 8 p.m. March 7, Nighthawks.

OCEAN DISCO 9 p.m. March 7, Shanghai Nobby’s.

WRECKLESS ERIC 8 p.m. March 7, Rain Dogs, $10.

PASADENA, ROOT OF ALL 8:30 p.m. March 8, The Original Café Eleven, $10 advance; $15 at the door.

THE ENGLISH BEAT, THE SKATALITES 8 p.m. March 8, PVC Hall, $27 advance (SRO); $32 day of.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

EARTH, WIND & FIRE March 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DEVON ALLMAN March 9, Mojo Kitchen GALLAGHER March 9, Mavericks Live ANN FENNY, GRANT PEEPLES March 9, Mudville Music Room TAJ MAHAL, WHETHERMAN March 10, PVC Hall HOCKEY DAD, BOYSIN March 10, Nighthawks Hater Freedom Fest One: DJMATSMITH, DJ SHOTGUN, DJ SNOW & DUMBTRON, DJ EMCEE, DJ MERCEE, STEAM MECHANICS, DJ PUERTO ROK, STRIFE March 10, 1904 Music Hall

CATHERINE RUSSELL March 10, Ritz Theatre LOW MAIN, VLAD THE INHALER, DJ CRY HAVOK March 10, Rain Dogs St. Augustine Celtic Music & Heritage Festival: EMISH, SEVEN NATIONS, ALBANNACH, DUBLIN CITY RAMBLERS, EMMET CAHILL, THE REAL McKENZIES, WHISKEY OF THE DAMNED, JIG TO A MILESTONE March 10, 11 & 12, Francis Field Burger Records/Volcom Revolution: THE MOTHER GOOSES, STEVEN MARSHEK GROUP, THE YOUNG STEP, DARK HORSE SALOON March 11, The Space Gallery R. KELLY March 11, Veterans Memorial Arena Hater Freedom Fest Two: HATER FREES, DJ SNOW, DJ JUPITA, #KRACKAJAXX March 11, Nighthawks KODO March 11, Florida Theatre JUKEBOX ROMANTICS March 11, Rain Dogs FLAGSHIP ROMANCE March 11, Mudville Music Room JAVIER COLON March 11, The Original Café Eleven ROBERT EARL KEEN & HIS BAND March 11 & 12, PVC Hall CLINT BLACK March 12, Florida Theatre FOR SALE YOUTH March 12, Nighthawks LIL DEBBIE, POTLUCK, CHAYO NASH, MATTHEW CARTER March 12, Jack Rabbits NEWSBOYS March 12, T-U Center AUDRA McDONALD, JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS March 12, T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall TRAPDOOR SOCIAL, BANQUET March 12, Rain Dogs CITY AND COLOUR March 13, Mavericks Live ROZAMOV, UNEARTHLY CHILD, GHOSTWITCH March 13, Shantytown Pub DEPTHS OF HATRED, SO THIS IS SUFFERING, LORELEI March 13, Nighthawks TED VIGIL March 13, Alhambra Theatre BAD SUNS, FROM INDIAN LAKES March 14, Jack Rabbits DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET March 14, PVC Hall NICE TRY March 14, Nighthawks Once a Month Punk: THE WASTEDIST, T.J. HOOKERS, CONCRETE CRIMINALS March 16, Blue Water Daiquiri & Oyster Bar CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, Florida Theatre DARKE COMPLEX March 15, Nighthawks ANVIL, NIGHT DEMON, HOLLOW LEG, GRAVE SHADOW, RHYTHM OF FEAR March 16, Nighthawks IGOR & the RED ELVISES March 16, Café Eleven Anastasia Music Festival: THE DEL McCOURY BAND, DAVE GRISMAN’S BLUEGRASS EXPERIENCE, SAM BUSH, ELEPHANT REVIVAL, FRUITION, CABINET, JEFF AUSTIN BAND, THE TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, MANDOLIN ORANGE, JOE PUG, SIERRA HULL, THE BROOMESTIX, DUSTBOWL REVIVAL, JON STICKLEY TRIO, GRITS & SOUL, NIKKI TALLEY, TAYLOR MARTIN, STEVE PRUETT March 16, 17 & 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GET THE LED OUT March 17, Florida Theatre ST PADDY’S PUNK/PUKE PARTY March 17, Rain Dogs THE CHIEFTAINS, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY March 17 & 18, T-U Center TORTOISE March 18, Jack Rabbits Rhythm in the Night: IRISH DANCE SPECTACULAR March 18, Thrasher-Horne Center MADAM BEBE DELUXE March 18, Rain Dogs THE HEAVY PETS, BACKUP PLANET March 18, The Original Café Eleven THE CHIEFTAINS, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY March 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SEAWAY March 20, Nighthawks

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ADAM SAVAGE, PILOBOLUS SHADOWLAND March 21, Florida Theatre THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS March 21, Veterans Memorial Arena 24-Karat Gold Show: STEVIE NICKS, PRETENDERS March 23, Veterans Memorial Arena LIL & ED, THE BLUES IMPERIALS, PAUL ZERRA March 23, Original Café Eleven BLIND TIGER March 23, Rain Dogs Suwannee Spring Reunion: DONNA THE BUFFALO, JERRY DOUGLAS, THE PETER ROWAN BAND, JIM LAUDERDALE, MORE March 23, 24 & 25, Suwannee Music Park I Love The ’90s Tour: VANILLA ICE, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, SUGAR RAY’S MARK McGRATH, BIZ MARKIE, ALL-4-ONE, YOUNG MC March 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GABRIEL IGLESIAS March 24, Florida Theatre MIKE LOVE March 24, Jack Rabbits ARTIS(TREE) March 24, Nighthawks 1964: THE TRIBUTE March 25, St. Augustine Amphitheatre FOLK IS PEOPLE, MATHEW HARRISON, TERRAIN, JACKIE STRANGER, BILLY & BELLA, HORROR CLUB, THOSE LAVENDER WHALES March 25, Rain Dogs EMPOROS CD RELEASE March 25, Nighthawks AIR SUPPLY March 26, Florida Theatre RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER March 26, PVC Hall SPRING RECORD FAIR March 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RAMONA QUIMBY March 26, Music in the Box at Limelight Theatre MICHELLE BERTING BRETT March 27, Alhambra Theatre NIHIL March 27, Shantytown Pub MODERN BASEBALL, KEVIN + THE GOD DAMN BAND, SORORITY NOISE, THE OBSESSIVES March 28, Mavericks Live IAN SWEET March 28, Nighthawks GEOFF TATE March 29, Jack Rabbits Sunny’s Punk Rock Burlesque Birthday Party: TENTACOOLS, DIGDOG, FLAG ON FIRE, ANITA NIGHTCAP, JESSABELL, IVY LES VIXENS, JACKIE STRANGER March 29, Nighthawks RISING APPALACHIA March 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SWAMP CABBAGE March 30, Mudville Music Room NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND March 30, PVC Hall DINOSAUR JR. March 31, Mavericks Live RICKY DREAMZ, SUPASTAR, DANVILLEWORLD SMITH March 31, Rain Dogs CAVEMAN CULT (Torche, Reapermanser, Shitstorm, Ex-Mehkago NT) SHADOW HUNTER, WORSEN, DEAD CENTRE, SATURNINE March 31, Nighthawks JIM BRICKMAN March 31, The Ritz Theatre HOME FREE March 31, Florida Theatre Rhythm & Ribs: LAURA REED, THE HIP ABDUCTION, TAKE COVER, GO GET GONE, THE KILWEIN FAMILY TREE-O, ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N., EAGER BEAVER, BISCUIT MILLER March 31, April 1 & 2, Francis Field, St. Augustine MATTYB, THE HASCHAK SISTERS March 31, PVC Hall Fool’s Paradise: LETTUCE, JOE RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD, THE FLOOZIES, MANIC SCIENCE, THE MAIN SQUEEZE, ORGAN FREEMAN, OTEIL BURBRIDGE, MORE March 31 & April 1, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RICK THOMAS April 1, PVC Hall XIU XIU April 1, The Sleeping Giant Film Festival, Sun-Ray Cinema SWILL CD RELEASE, WASTEDIST, GROSS EVOLUTION, WALK WITH WOLVES April 1, Harbor Tavern JACK BROADBENT April 1, The Ritz Theatre MADAM BEBE DELUXE April 1, Rain Dogs SETH GLIER April 1, Café Eleven BLACK DRUM April 1, Nighthawks STEVE MILLER BAND, LOS LONELY BOYS April 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TINDER BOX CIRCUS SIDESHOW April 2, Nighthawks THE WOOD BROTHERS April 3, PVC Hall CAROUSEL KINGS, ABANDONED BY BEARS, BAD CASE OF BIG MOUTH April 4, Nighthawks ANA POPOVIC April 5, PVC Hall ABSOLUTE SUFFERING April 5, Nighthawks WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE April 6, Clay County Fair LEO KOTTKE, KELLER WILLIAMS April 6, Florida Theatre GOV CLUB, DEAF POETS April 6, Rain Dogs THE WAILERS REUNITED PROJECT April 6, PVC Hall TRICK DADDY, BUN B, JUVENILE, PASTOR TROY April 7, T-U Center LE ORCHID April 7, Nighthawks MAS APPEAL, MIDDAS April 7, Rain Dogs Springing the Blues: COCO MONTOYA, TORONZI CANNON, ALBERT CUMMINGS, MATT SCHOFIELD, MORE April 7, 8 & 9, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach LITTLE RIVER BAND, JACKSONVILLE ROCK SYMPHONY April 8, Florida Theatre STEVIE RAY STILETTO MEMORIAL SHOW April 8, Nighthawks TGTG, BUZZ BUZZ, CHARLIE SHUCK April 8, Rain Dogs ALAN JACKSON, LEE ANN WOMACK April 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Legends of Southern Hip Hop: SCARFACE, MYSTIKAL, 8 BALL & MJG, ANDRAE MURCHINSON April 8, Ritz Theatre STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN April 8, Clay County Fair SHOVELS & ROPE, MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ April 8, PVC Hall NuSoul Revival Tour: MUSIQ SOUsLCHILD, LYFE JENNINGS, AVERY SUNSHINE, KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL April 8, T-U Center BUDDY GUY, THE RIDES (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Barry Goldberg) April 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre

Riverside Arts Market kicks into gear this year with free morning yoga, opening ceremonies and live music by The 77D’s and BRENT BYRD and THE SUITCASE GYPSIES (pictured). March 4 under the Fuller Warren bridge.

THE HILLBENDERS (play The Who’s “Tommy”) April 9, Florida Theatre BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS April 11, Florida Theatre PORTUGAL. THE MAN, HBBEENDOPE, DJ BLACK DANIELS April 11, PVC Hall THE LONELY HEARSTRING BAD April 11, The Original Café Eleven FORTUNATE YOUTH, JOSH HEINRICH & SKILLINJAH FOR PEACE BAND, IYA TERRA April 12, Jack Rabbits Political Mass Soapbox Session hosted by Sunny Parker: GUTTERBOY, HEAVY FLOW (Benefit for JASMYN) April 12, Nighthawks ALL THEM WITCHES, RANCH GHOST April 12, Café Eleven SURFER BLOOD April 14, Jack Rabbits CHRONIXX April 14, Mavericks Live THE GRASCALS April 14, The Original Café Eleven PERIPHERY, THE CONTORTIONIST, NORMA JEAN, INFINITY SHRED April 15, Mavericks Live Here Comes the Funny Tour: ADAM SANDLER, DAVID SPADE, NICK SWARDSON, ROB SCHNEIDER April 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS April 16, PVC Hall CHRIS BOTTI April 18, Florida Theatre CHRIS BROWN, 50 CENT, O.T. GENESIS, FABOLOUS, KAP G April 18, Veterans Memorial Arena MALCOLM HOLCOMBE April 20, Mudville Music Room BOSTON April 20, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Wanee Music Festival: BOB WEIR & THE CAMPFIRE BAND, TREY ANASTASIO BAND, WIDESPREAD PANIC, GOV’T MULE, DARK STAR ORCHESTRA, DR. JOHN & THE NITE TRIPPERS, JJ GREY & MOFRO, LES BRERS (Jaimoe, Oteil Burbridge, Marc Quinones, Jack Pearson, Pate Bergeron, Bruce Katz, Lamar Williams Jr.), JAIMOE’S JASSSZ BAND, BLACKBERRY SMOKE, LEFTOVER SALMON (music of Neil Young), MATISYAHU, THE GREYBOY ALLSTARS, KELLER WILLIAMS’ GRATEFUL GRASS, PAPADOSIO, TURKUAZ, PINK TALKING FU (music of David Bowie & Prince), PINK TALKING FISH, KUNG FU, DJ LOGIC, BOBBY LEE ROGERS TRIO, DEVON ALLMAN BAND, THE MARCUS KING BAND, YETI TRIO, BROTHERS & SISTERS April 20, 21 & 22, Suwannee Music Park MJ LIVE! April 20, 21, 22 & 23, Thrasher-Horne Center TOWER OF POWER April 22, Florida Theatre ERNEST STREET MAFIA, GHOSTWITCH, TAIL LIGHT REBELLION April 22, Nighthawks WORDSWORTH, FF JBMUSIC TEAM, TWAN, HIGHER LEARNING, DARYL, BOAT SIMMS, BEN PHRASES, MC SPLITSOUL April 22, Rain Dogs.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS April 23, Veterans Memorial Arena NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS April 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MARSHA AMBROSIUS, ERIC BENÉT April 26, Florida Theatre TRACE ADKINS April 27, Thrasher-Horne Center BIANCA DEL RIO April 29, T-U Center LYDIA CAN’T BREATHE April 29, Jack Rabbits UMPHREY’S McGEE, BIG SOMETHING April 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Welcome to Rockville: SOUNDGARDEN, DEF LEPPARD, A PERFECT CIRCLE, THE OFFSPRING, MASTODON, CHEVELLE, SEETHER, PAPA ROACH, THREE DAYS GRACE, PIERCE THE VEIL, COHEED & CAMBRIA, ALTER BRIDGE, THE PRETTY RECKLESS, AMON AMARTH, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, HIGHLY SUSPECT, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, IN FLAMES, GOJIRA, IN THIS MOMENT, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, ALL THAT REMAINS, NOTHING MORE, RIVAL SONS, BEARTOOTH, EVERY TIME I DIE, ATTILA, STARSET, DINOSAUR PILE-UP, I PREVAIL, KYNG, CROBOT, VOLUMES, SYLAR, FIRE FROM THE GODS, AS LIONS, BADFLOWER, GOODBYE JUNE, FRANK CARTER & THE RATTLESNAKES, COVER YOUR TRACKS, THE CHARM THE FURY April 29 & 30, Metropolitan Park

DONNY BRAZILE April 30, Music in the Box at Limelight Theatre CHRISTOPHER CROSS May 3, PVC Hall STEVE WINWOOD May 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WHETHERMAN CD RELEASE May 5, Mudville Music Room ERIC CHURCH May 5, Veterans Memorial Arena BASTILLE May 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOHN LEGEND, GALLANT May 14, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE HEAD AND THE HEART May 17, Florida Theatre SAY ANYTHING, BAYSIDE May 23, Mavericks Live MAYDAY PARADE, KNUCKLE PUCK, MILESTONES May 24, Mavericks Live IDINA MENZEL (“Elsa” from “Frozen”) May 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BRIT FLOYD May 26, Florida Theatre Daily’s Place Opening: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, TRAIN, O.A.R., DAVE MATTHEWS & TIM REYNOLDS May 27-30 Downtown BEACH HOUSE May 28, PVC Hall

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. March 1. John Springer March 2 & 4. Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. every Wed. John Springer every Thur. & Sat. EMERALD GOAT IRISH PUB, 96110 Lofton Sq., 441-2444 Love Chunk 9 p.m. March 4 LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Tad Jennings 6:30 p.m. March 2. CZ 6 p.m. March 3. Mark O’Quinn, Pili Pili, Davis Turner March 4. JC & Mike 6 p.m.

March 5 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Katfish Lee 2 p.m. March 1 & 2. Bush Doctors March 3 & 4

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. every 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 Thur.-Sat.

THE BEACHES

(All venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted) 1ST STREET LOFT, 502 N. First St., 241-7848 Amanda Liesinger 7 p.m. March 2 BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Billy Bowers 5 p.m. March 1. Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. March 1. Live music on weekends CASA MARINA HOTEL, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 The Chris Thomas Band March 1 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 The Outside Track Band 7 p.m. March 5. DJ Hal every Fri. & Sat. Michael Funge 6:30 p.m. every Sun. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. March 2. Samuel Sanders 10 p.m. March 1. Darren Corlew March 5 FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr. E., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Flatfoot 56 March 8 GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 El Dub March 3 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Murray Goff Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. every Sun. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Yamadeo 10 p.m. March 3. Dirty Pete 10 p.m. every Wed. Split Tone every Thur. Chillula every Sun. Be Easy every Mon. N.W. Izzard every Tue. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 El Dub 9 p.m. March 2

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Devon Allman March 9 OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts 7 p.m. March 1 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Live music every Wed.-Sun. SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Cowboy Rolex 8 p.m. every Thur.

SOUTHERN GROUNDS & CO., 200 First St., NB, 249-2922 Jazz Corner 6 p.m. every Tue. WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Boogie Freaks March 3. Split Tone March 4. Murray Goff 6 p.m. every Wed. ZETA BREWING, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.

CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Acoustic music 6:30 p.m. every Sat. J’S TAVERN, 711 Osborne St., St. Marys, 912-882-5280 Two Dudes from Texas March 3. Live music most weekends

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Holey Miss Moley 8 p.m.

March 1. Jacob Hudson Album Release 8 p.m. March 2.

Precon, Astari Nite, Entertainment, Moyamoya March 3.

Roosevelt Collier & Unlimited Devotion (Grateful Dead Set), Parker Urban Band, Vlad The Inhaler, MZG, DJ Triclops, Bryce Alastair Band, The Good Wood Band, Blackwater Grease, DJ Don McMon March 4 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. March 3 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon every Thur. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jacksonville Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. March 1 HOURGLASS PUB, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Man Darino March 1. Open mic every Sun. Mal Jones every Mon. Drum & Bass every Tue. INTUITION ALE WORKS, 720 King St., 683-7720 Live music 6 p.m. every Thur.

JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Brent Byrd & the Suitcase Gypsies 8 p.m. March 3. Boogie Freaks 8 p.m. March 4. Conch Fritters March 5 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Jimmy Eat World March 2. 2Chainz 9 p.m. March 3. Gallagher March 9.

Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc, Some Dude 9 p.m. Glitz Wed. Q45, live music Wed. EDM every Thur. Eric Rush every Fri. DJ IBay every Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay every Sun. THE VOLSTEAD, 115 W. Adams St., 414-3171 Go Get Gone 9 p.m. March 1. Swing Dance Sundays 7 p.m.

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS GRILL & BAR, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Darrell Rae 6 p.m. March 1. Law & Order March 2.

Mikey Clams, Fat Cactus March 3. Ken McAnlis, Down Pine March 4. Redfish Rich March 5. Live music most every night MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Felix Chang 8:30 p.m. March 2. Dopelmatic 8:30 p.m. March 3.

Radio Phillips 8:30 p.m. March 4. Live music most weekends WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 The Remains 9 p.m. March 3. X-Hale 9 p.m. March 4. The 77d’s 3 p.m. March 5. Live music every Thur.-Sun.

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 6455162 The Atwell Brothers March 1. A1A North 10 p.m. March 1. Warning 10 p.m. March 1. Open mic every Tue. JERRY’S Sports Bar & Grille, 13170 Atlantic, 220-6766 Yowsah 7:30 p.m. March 3. Lucky Stiff 7:30 p.m. March 4

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci March 1 & 5 TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Live music every weekend

ORANGE PARK + MIDDLEBURG

DEE’S Music Bar, 2141 Loch Rane, Ste. 140, 375-2240 DJ Toy every Wed. Clint McFarland every Thur. Live music every Sat. DJ Frank every Tue. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Of Good Nature, Holey Miss Moley 10 p.m. March 3. Roger That 10 p.m. March 4 & 5. Live music every weekend SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline 9 p.m. March 1. Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. March 2

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music Fri. & Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker March 1. Gary Campbell March 2. Robbie Litt March 3. Latin All Stars March 4. Billy Bowers March 8

RIVERSIDE + WESTSIDE

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Live music weekends BRIXX, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928 Live music every Thur. & Fri. HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Live music every Fri. LIMES LIVE, 11265 S. Lane Ave., 444-2709 DJ Badluck March 9 MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Kings & Saints 7 p.m. March 4 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. The Attack, Bunny Gang, Flag On Fire March 3. Secret Keeper, Vessels, Motives, Live For What Lasts, Jane Eyre, Picked Last 4 p.m. March 4.

Cory Branan, Christina Wagner, Speaking Cursive March 5.

Nomadic, Alukah 8 p.m. March 7 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Stank Sauce March 2. Peyote Coyote, Gov Club, DJ Paten Locke March 3. Le Orchid, Geexella, The Black Pine March 4. Full Measures, Refocus, Watchdogs, Cemetery Circles, Hollow Point March 5. Wreckless Eric 8 p.m. March 7 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Morning Yoga (9 a.m.), Opening Ceremonies (10:30 a.m.), The 77D’s, Brent Byrd & The Suitcase Gypsies 10:45 a.m.

March 4 SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362 Ace Winn March 2 UNITY PLAZA, 220 Riverside Ave. Live music every weekend

ST. AUGUSTINE

CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 The Committee March 3 & 4. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. March 5 DOS COFFEE & WINE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Live music every weekend MARDI GRAS, 123 SAN MARCO AVE., 823-8806 Tom Bennett 9 p.m. March 3. Frazzled March 4. Fre Gordon, acoustic open mic 7 p.m. every Sun. Justin Gurnsey, Musicians Exchange 8 p.m. every Mon. ORIGINAL CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Pierce Pettis, Jamie DeFrates 8:30 p.m. March 2. Cas Haley, Bumpin’ Uglies, DJ Jay Sensi 8 p.m. March 3. Pasadena, Root of All 8:30 p.m. March 8 PLANET SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Bloodshot Bill, The Wildtones, Rivernecks 7:30 p.m. March 5. Jacuzzi Boys, Golden Pelicans, The Cosmic Groove 9 p.m.

March 6 PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George St., 209-5704 9th Street Stompers 10 p.m. March 4 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Chew, The Cosmic Groove, Lady Dug, Trash Festival, Puddled 9 p.m. March 1. The Resonants, Brown Palace, Caffiends 10 p.m. March 4. El Ten Eleven, Mylets 8 p.m. March 5.

Ocean Disco 9 p.m. March 7 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jazzy Blue 7 p.m.

March 2 & 4. Jax English Salsa Band 6 p.m. March 5. Bluez Dudez March 7. Open mic 7:30 p.m. every Wed. TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Blistur 9 p.m. March 3 & 4. The Down Low every Wed. JP Driver every Thur. Elizabeth Roth every Sat. Those Guys every Tue.

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 The Expanders 8 p.m. March 1. Passafire, Universal Green 8 p.m. March 3. Dorothy, The Georgia Flood 8 p.m.

March 4. Lil Debbie, Potluck, Chayo Nash, Matthew Carter March 12 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Outside Track 7:30 p.m. March 4. Ann Fenny, Grant Peeples March 9. Flagship Romance March 11

SOUTHSIDE + BAYMEADOWS

CORNER BISTRO & WINE BAR, 9823 Tapestry Park Circle, 619-1931 Matthew Hall 8 p.m. every Thur.-Sat. GREEK STREET Café, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Whetherman March 2. Paul Ivey March 3. Ryan Campbell March 4 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Party Cartel March 3. Brittany Lawrence 9:30 p.m. March 4.

Melissa Smith open mic every Thur. Blues jam every Sun. Murray Goff, Country Jam every Wed.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

BOSTON’S, 13070 City Station Dr., 751-7499 Shayne Rammler 9 p.m. March 2 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843 Live music most every weekend SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Live music every Fri.-Sun. SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Foster Care, Sandratz, Curleys And Mold 8 p.m. March 3. Seven Serpents, Iron Buddha March 6. Live music every weekend

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FOLIO DINING Downtown Jacksonville's SPLIFFS GASTROPUB offers a dank (wink wink) combination of light, healthy fare and rich comfort food.

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant.com. Historic downtown bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa The AMELIA TAVERN, 318 Centre St., 310-6088, theameliatavern.com. Contemporary hand-crafted, locally sourced comfort fare: local shrimp, small/big plates, organic greens, sandwiches. $$ FB TO D M; L & D Tu-Sa; Brunch Su. 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. $ K TO B R L Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end. Southern hospitality, upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com.

F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap. com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly

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D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted Free Folio Weekly Bite Club Event F = Folio Weekly Distribution Spot

K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch

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DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324, greenturtletavern.com. Legendary hangout in a historic shotgun shack; Chicago-style Vienna beef hot dogs, pub fare, cold beer, bourbon selection, chill vibe. $ FB L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe. com. F Renovated 1887 shotgun house. Faves: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese, crêpes. Vegan items. Inside or porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545. New Puerto Rican place. Chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza. net. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa NANA TERESA’S BAKE SHOP, 31 S. Fifth St., 277-7977, nanateresa.com. Everything’s made with organic ingredients when possible. Cupcakes, cakes, pies, cheesecakes, cookies, pastries, specialties. $ TO Tu-Su PABLO’S MEXICAN CUISINE, 12 N. Second St., 261-0049, pablosmg1.com. In historic district; authentic Mexican fare: chimichangas, fajitas, burritos, tacos, daily specials, vegetarian. $$ FB K TO D M-Thu; L & D F-Sa The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s global menu uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

2nd-story outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Oceanfront.

Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood.

Open-air 2nd floor balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily TASTY’S BURGERS & FRIES, 710 Centre St., 321-0409, tastysamelia.com. In historic district, fresh fast-food alternative. Fresh meats, handcut fries, homemade sauces/ soups, handspun shakes. $ BW K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa TROPICAL SMOOTHIE Café, 463909 S.R. 200, Ste. 6, Yulee, 468-7099, tropicalsmoothie.com. Flatbreads, sandwiches, wraps. Smoothies: classic, superfoods, supercharged, indulgent. $ TO B L D Daily

ARLINGTON + REGENCY

DICK’S WINGS, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19, 745-9300. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802.

F SEE ORANGE PARK. SID & LINDA’S Seafood Market & Restaurant, 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 109, 503-8276. Pick a whole fresh fish,

DINING DIRECTORY AVONDALE + ORTEGA

CHOMP CHOMP, 4162 Herschel St., 329-1679. Relocated.

Chef-inspired: The Philadelphia Experiment (sweet pork over arugula), panko-crusted chicken, burgers, Waldorf salad, bahn mi, Southern fried chicken, The Come Up (portabella mushroom, green tomato salsa, almonds). Curry Chomp chips, pasta salad.

HH. $ BW L D Mon.-Sat. The FOX RESTAURANT, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669.

Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh fare, homemade desserts. Breakfast all day; signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ BW K 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-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 40+ years.

Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. French/ Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south. kitchen. Southern classics: crispy catfish w/ smoked gouda grits, family-style fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajaxcom. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN.

The FISH COMPANY Restaurant, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, AB, 246-0123, thefishcojax.com. Bite Club. Oyster raw bar, fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, crab, lobster. Homestyle desserts. Patio; all-day HH Sun. $$ FB K TO L D Daily FLAMING SEAFOOD & SHAO KAO BBQ, 1289 Penman Rd., 853-6398. The place (is it Chinese? Barbecue? Seafood?) serves meats and vegetables, spiced, skewered on bamboo sticks – like Chinese street food. $ BW TO L D Daily FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman cuisine, large Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen.

Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcup hashhouse.com. Locally sourced, locally roasted coffees, glutenfree, vegan, vegetarian; no GMOs/hormones. $ K TO B R L 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. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MSHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, shackburgers.com.

Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in/out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. PARSONS SEAFOOD RESTAURANT, 1451 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 595-5789, parsonsseafoodrestaurant.com. The landmark place moved; still serving local seafood dishes, sides, specialty fare. $$ FB K TO L D Tu-Su POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub serves 50+ beers, burgers, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN SEAFOOD & GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30+ years, iconic seafood place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. Specialty items, tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ 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. Brunch Sun. $$ FB K L Sa/Su; D Nightly SURFWICHES SANDWICH SHOP, 1537 Penman Rd. N., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop. Yankee-

GRILL ME!

DEBRA CRUZ

Akels Deli

50 N. Laura St. Ste. 125 • Downtown Born in: Miami, FL Years in the Biz: 10 Fave Restaurant: Olive Garden Fave Cuisine Style: Spanish Food Will Not Cross My Lips: Texture, seafood Go-To Ingredients: Meat Ideal Meal: Spanish Empanada Will Not Cross My Lips: Texture, seafood Insider's Secret: Behind you Celeb Sighting in Your Bar: Farah & Farah Culinary Treat: Cheesecake The WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/ bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. Casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option. Top-shelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub. Craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NY-style-gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. 28+ years. All day HH M-Thu.$ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. Fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BEACH DINER, 501 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-6500. SEE AMELIA. BEACH HUT CAFÉ, 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. 28+ years.

Full breakfast menu all day (darn good grits); hot plate specials Mon.-Fri. $ K TO B R L Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. CRUISERS GRILL, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F SEE RIVERSIDE. FAMOUS TOASTERY, 311 N. Third St., 372-0712, famoustoastery. com. Corned beef hash, gluten-free pancakes, omelets, toast.

Wraps, Bloody Marys, mimosas, peach Bellini. $$ FB K TO B L Daily

style steak sandwiches and hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily THIS CHICK’S KITCHEN, 353 Sixth Ave. S., 778-5404, thischicks kitchen.com. Farm-to-table; healthful, locally sourced clean meals.

Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian options. $$ TO L D W-Sa V PIZZA, 528 First St. N., 853-6633, vpizza.com. Traditional Neapolitana artisan pizza from Naples – Italy, not Florida, made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily

CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA

CAPTAIN STAN’S Smokehouse, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Barbecue, sides, hot dogs, burgers, desserts.

Dine in or out on picnic tables. $$ FB K TO L & D Tu-Sa MALSONS BBQ, 1330 Boone Ave., Kingsland, 912-882-4355.

Real barbecue – smokers onsite. Burgers, wings, plates, ribs, sausages, beans. Dine in or out. $ K TO L & D Daily SALT.PEPPER.THYME, 105 N. Lee St., Kingsland, 912-510-0444, saltpepperthyme.net. Varied American Southern fare. Dine in or out. $$ BW K TO L W; L & D Th-S STEFFENS Restaurant, 550 S. Lee St., Kingsland, 912-729-5355, steffensrestaurant.com. Southern scratch-made menu. $-$$ K TO B, L & D M-Sa; B & L Su

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYC-style deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F The BANK BAR B Q & BAKERY, 331 W. Forsyth St., 388-1600, thebankbbq.com. 28 years’ experience means barbecue done right. Onsite bakery has specialty cakes. $ TO L & D M-F CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan, 353-9717, thecandyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/ French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth, 356-8282, casadoraitalian.com.

F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa

BITE-SIZED No passport needed to CURE your Mexican food craving

photo by Brentley Stead

get it cooked to order. Dine in, take out. Housemade sauces. $$ K TO L D Daily

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BORDER

ROLLL U UP P TO LLOS OS LLOROS OROS M OR MEXICAN EXIC EX ICAN IC AN R RESTAURANT ESTA ES TAUR TA URAN UR ANTT AN for some American-style Mexican. The spacious place is ideal for large groups and can handle rowdy groups of kids, or adults, quite well.

Lively Latin music plays in the background as you review the menu and, trust me, there are plenty of choices. A lovely waitress greets you with a smile and fresh salsa, which arrives at the table in a small carafe (I’d never seen one like this; it was extracute) along with a heaping portion of chips.

Los Loros might seem like a national chain mega-restaurant, but every sauce is made inhouse. Combo dinners ($8.30, $8.80) include lots of good stuff. For example, No. 29 includes two burritos with a choice of rice or beans, No. 26 has one enchilada, one chile relleno and one chile con queso with beef. With entrées like that, you’ll be fat and happy at the end of the meal.

We started with the lunch Steak Fajita ($8.99) with peppers and onions. In terms of taste anticipation, fajitas are such a satisfying dish; as soon as you put in the order, your ears perk up at every noise. Your head turns when you hear that sizzle and snap of meat and veggies in the cast-iron skillet – before you even realize it’s

BITE-SIZED

LOS LOROS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

5210 Baymeadows Rd., 367-0437, 367-8633, loslorosjax.com yours. When your fajita is finally set before you, you may squeal a little at the accompanying sides: rice, beans, flour tortillas, lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and sour cream. The flavorful, tender bite-size morsels of steak are nicely seared with grilled tomatoes, onions and bell peppers. The rice and beans are unremarkable, but the little fried tortilla cup filled to the brim with fresh, chunky salsa is adorable. The tortilla shell keeps it from mixing with the beans and rice, which any good food separator (Sheldon Cooper, we’re looking at you) will appreciate. Use the soft tortilla shells for your fajitas, or just dig in.

The Chef’s Special Burrito ($7.95) is just as mammoth as you’d expect, and a great price.

As it’s placed on the table, it’s like the heavens opened up and blessed you with a burrito baby.

Each forkful of well-grilled chicken and steak is made complete with shredded cheese, peppers and onions. A bowl of housemade tomatillo sauce adds an extra punch.

The Tacos de Puerco trio ($8.50) was uncomplicated and delicious. With flour shells, shredded pork, pico de gallo and lettuce, the only thing I wanted was a little pickled onion to go with it. You do get a side of rice and beans, which finishes the dish nicely.

We were on the fence about dessert until we saw the Churros ($3.99); you can choose a “stuffed” option. Pick either caramel and strawberry or stick with plain. We opted for caramel because it seemed the most traditional to me … I have some dignity, you know. Each order includes four churros hot out of the fryer.

Delightfully crisp with an appropriate amount of filling made it nearly impossible to share.

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DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED P INT-S SIZED The Bier’s always cold in HELEN

SIGHTS AND SUDS

TRAVEL AFFORDS OPPORTUNITIES TO SPREAD your wings, trying new things, whether a new beer, a new restaurant or a new festival. A long weekend in the North Georgia Mountains recently provided me with such opportunities.

For those with German roots longing for a place reminiscent of their homeland, there’s no better place than Helen, Georgia. When the former logging and gold-mining town began a decline in the 1960s, city leaders adopted a zoning ordinance requiring all buildings to conform to Bavarian Alpine appearance. The result? A charming Alpine village nestled on the banks of the Chattahoochee River replete with German bakeries, restaurants and, most important, a biergärten.

King Ludwig’s Biergärten on Helen’s main thoroughfare has an impressive list of German beers – including the watering hole’s namesake Konig Ludwig – and several craft brews by the pint, stein or pitcher. Plastic steins can be purchased and refilled at a discounted rate in most Helen restaurants serving beer. In warmer months, patrons share picnic tables and drink while noshing authentic outsized Bavarian pretzels; beer cheese on the side.

About an hour east of Helen on U.S. 76 in Georgia’s wine country is Clayton, a rustic town full of shops geared toward tourists and wine drinkers. An enterprising couple, Jabe and Barbara Hilson, have opened a tasting room for their wines, with a second bar that has beer tastings. When we were there, the taps at Noble Wine Cellar’s tasting room were taken over by a Charlotte brewery, The Unknown Brewing Company. The tasting featured four beers – session ale, ginger wheat, IPA and stout – all worth trying and several worth seeking out again.

Just a block down the street from Noble Wine Cellar, at the corner of Main and Hiawassee, is a converted service station now home to Universal Joint, a spot with traditional pub fare and excellent beers. The beer list included a number of outstanding brews that paired nicely with the burgers and such served there. The visit was even more memorable because the amiable bartender easily handled our boisterous party with the right amount of humor and sass.

Back in Helen that night, we went to one of village’s many festivals, the Fasching Festival (think German Mardi Gras) at the Festhalle.

Costumed revelers streamed inside as festive German tunes carried across the night air. It seemed that everyone knew each other, but we never felt like outsiders. Indeed, as I stood in line in my lederhosen – yes, I own an authentic pair – grasping my refillable beer mug, many struck up conversations. I was even approached by the Chamber of Commerce president, who invited us to return for Oktoberfest in the fall.

Throughout our weekend adventures, beer was a common stream. It was the impetus that propelled our exploration of the area and the subject of many conversations that led to recommendations for future visits. Because of that and my German ancestry, I will definitely be back.

PINT-SIZED

TRIP TO HELEN HIGHLIGHTS: • King Ludwig’s Biergärten, 8660 N. Main • St., Helen • Noble Wine Cellar, 58 N. Main St., Clayton • Universal Joint Clayton, 109 N. Main St. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com 32 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | MARCH 1-7, 2017

FIONN MACCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine. Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa LANNA THAI SUSHI, Jax Landing, Ste. 222, 425-2702, lannathaijax.com. Fresh herbs, spices, sushi, shrimp, specials.

HH. $$ FB K TO L M-F; D Nightly OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND COFFEE COMPANY, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866-395-3954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN GRIND EXPRESS, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet.

Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1803 East-West Parkway, 375-2559.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. TAPS BAR & GRILL, 1605 C.R. 220, Ste. 145, 278-9421, tapspublichouse.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 50+ premium domestic, import tap beer. Burgers, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.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 Tu-Su; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 32, 223-0115.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. GERMAN SCHNITZEL HAUS, 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 221-9700, germanjax.com. Authentic German/fusion fare: schnitzels, plus bratwurst, stroganoff, käsesspätzle. 13 German beers in bottles, on tap. Bar bites, cocktails. Outdoor BierGarten.

HH Tu-Thur. $$ FB L & D Tu-Su LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980.

F SEE ORANGE PARK SURFWICHES SANDWICH SHOP, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 559-5301. SEE BEACHES.

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 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. BARKING SPIDER PUB, 10092 San Jose Blvd., 260-3102.

Casual laid-back hang. Bar fare: hot dogs, chicken fingers, Philly cheesesteaks, burgers, cheese sticks. HH. $ FB D Nightly BEACH DINER, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 683-0079. SEE AMELIA. CRUISERS GRILL, 5613 San Jose Blvd., 737-2874. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134. 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 10391 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-7087. 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE ORANGE PARK. ENZA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458, enzas.net. Family-owned; Italian cuisine, veal, seafood, specials. $$$ FB K TO D Tu-Su FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477.

Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/ wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE FLEMING ISLAND. V PIZZA, 12601 San Jose Blvd., 647-9424. SEE SAN MARCO. WHOLE FOODS MARKET, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. Prepared-food dept. 80+ items, full & self-service bars: hot, soup, dessert. Pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. Grapes, Hops & Grinds bar. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily

ORANGE PARK

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

NASCAR-themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus half-pound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com.

Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups.

Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO.

The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily The URBAN BEAN COFFEEHOUSE CAFÉ, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned&-operated. Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. BEACH DINER, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. M SHACK NOCATEE, 641 Crosswater Parkway, 395-3575.

SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. TRASCA & CO. EATERY, 155 Tourside Dr., Ste. 1500, 395-3989, trascaandco.com. Handcrafted Italian-inspired sandwiches, craft beers (many locals), craft coffees. $$ BW TO L R D Daily

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting singleorigin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfivepoints.com. F Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine. Rotating drafts, 75+ can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa BRIXX WOOD FIRED PIZZA, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. Pizzas, pastas, soups. Gluten-free options. Daily specials, BOGO pizzas 10 p.m.-close. $$ FB K TO L D 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 Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based beverages, sandwiches, gourmet desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343, derbyonpark.net.

New American cuisine, upscale retro, historic building. Oak Street Toast, shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily FIVE POINTS TAVERN, 1521 Margaret St., 549-5063, fivepoints tavern.com. New American cosmopolitan place serves chefcurated dishes in a relaxed environment. $$ FB TO L & D Tu-Su GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnobwithus.com. Unity Plaza. Global inspiration, local intention – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO R L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com.

Authentic Italian cuisine; wood-fired pizzas, pasta, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual; made-to-order sandwiches, wraps. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617. Locally owned, family-run. Made-from-scratch: pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tu-Su LARRY’S SUBS, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LITTLE JOE’S Café, 245 Riverside Ave., Ste. 195, 791-3336.

Riverview café. Soups, signature salad dressings. $ TO B L M-F METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. SEE BEACHES. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Local-centric bar food: boiled peanuts, hummus, chili, cheese plate, pork sliders, nachos, herbivore items. $ D Nightly SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Fresh vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/ rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki.

Inside/patio. $$ BW L D Daily TAMARIND THAI, 1661 Riverside Ave., Ste. 123, 329-3180.

SEE DOWNTOWN.

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaugcom. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GAS FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT, 9 Anastasia, Ste. C, 217-0326. Changing menu; fresh, local, homemade. Meatloaf, veggie/traditional burgers, seafood, steaks; seasonal, daily specials, made-from-scratch desserts. $$ BW K TO L D Tu-Sa GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 33+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2016 BOJ Winner. SEE BEACHES. O’LOUGHLIN PUB, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. Family-ownedand-operated. Authentic fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A, 217-3256. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cubanstyle, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

BEACH DINER, 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. SEE AMELIA. The BEARDED PIG SOUTHERN BBQ & BEER GARDEN, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Barbecue joint Southern style: brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com.

F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally.

250+ wines. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 1905 Hendricks Ave. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500.

SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE DOWNTOWN. KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodinercom. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily PIZZA PALACE RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Dine outside. HH. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarcocom. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily V PIZZA, 1406 Hendricks Ave., 527-1511, vpizza.com.

Serving true artisan Neapolitana pizzas, fresh ingredients. $$ FB to L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Open 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su The CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717.

SEE RIVERSIDE. GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, nachos.

Award-winning wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE BEACHES. MSHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. SEE BEACHES. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovintecom.

Italy, Spain, Mediterranean. Small plates, tapas, charcuterie: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese, lobster ravioli.

240-bottle/wines, 75/glass; craft spirits. $$ FB R, Su; D Nightly TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Charbroiled kabobs, seafood, desserts. Greek wines, daily HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside, Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Salads, burritos, bowls; fruit, veggies, chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu. $$ K TO L D Daily

DINING DIRECTORY SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

ANDY’S GRILL, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmers market.com. Inside Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. BARZ LIQUORS & FISH CAMP, 9560 Heckscher Dr., 251-3330.

Authentic fish camp, biker-friendly, American-owned. Package store. $ FB L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., 619-9828. 450077 S.R. 200, 879-0993. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE O. PARK.

CHEFFED-UP

HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Authentic fajitas, burritos, specials, enchiladas, more. HH; sangria.

BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999.

SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 15170 Max Leggett Parkway, 757-8843. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

SEE BEACHES.

When life gives you LEMONS, cook something DELICIOUS

CHEFFED-UP

FORGET

THE LEMONADE LEMONS, LEMONS, LEMONS. I HAVE SO many stinkin’ lemons, I’m starting to feel like the old woman who lived in a shoe. I have so many lemons, I don’t know what to do. I can’t even recall how many Mondays in a row I’ve spent processing lemons. Whether preserving them for citron confit, which I sell in my store, or making limóncello, which I consume or allow a few lucky souls to sample, I’m getting tired of seeing the darn things. Yet I never tire of tasting these little jewels or looking for different ways to include them in my cuisines.

A perfect example is lemon risotto.

As I happened to have a bag of Congaree and Penn’s middlins stashed in my pantry, I knew something delicious was on the horizon. The big question was what to serve with the rice, so hi ho, hi ho, off to the grocery store I go (or went). There, chicken thighs inspired me. After a little pondering, it struck me that stew would pair really well with risotto. I now had a new nagging question: What kind of chicken stew would be appropriate for my culinary mood?

Because the middlins are locally grown, I narrowed my dinner choices down to American Southern cuisine. Next, I began to think of traditional Southern stews that showcased the humble chicken. My first thought? Country Captain, a Charleston, South Carolina stew that’s essentially an Indian-style chicken curry highlighting sweet, spicy and aromatic flavor profiles. I opted to save that one for another day, though.

Next, chicken and dumplings crossed my mind but … naah. How about chicken pot pie?

Ya … but not with risotto. There’s Brunswick stew, a seasonal dish with fresh corn and field peas, but that’s not happening in February.

Finally it came to me: a bog! Yes, a chicken bog was just right for that lovely, lemony, middlins risotto. I began preparing white risotto in the usual way, then cut a whole lemon into several small pieces (removing and throwing away as many seeds as I could) and stirred the pieces into the rice with the first batch of stock.

The result was pretty damn special. I promise to educate you on a Cheffed Up

Chicken Bog in the future. Why? Because I’m a giver. Meanwhile, enjoy using local lemons in this week’s recipe!

CHEF BILL’S LEMON RISOTTO Ingredients: • 1/4 Medium onion, fine brunoise • 2 Cups Congaree and Penn middlins • 3 Oz. dry vermouth • 8 Cups or more chicken broth • 1 3-inch piece of Parmesan rind • 1 Large-size or two regular-size lemons, • cut into 8 pieces, seeds removed • 1/4 Cup chopped mixed herbs, • your choice • Whole butter in cubes • Lots of Parmesan cheese • Truffle salt, black pepper to taste Directions: 1. Slowly sweat the onions until soft and • translucent. Do not brown.

2. Bring chicken broth to a slight boil.

3. Add the rice and toast.

4. Add the white wine to just the top of • rice. Add lemon pieces. Simmer to absorb.

5. Begin seasoning with salt and pepper.

6. Add enough stock to the rice to cover • it by 2 inches. Do not lose the simmer.

• Stir occasionally; do not allow to • dry out or stick. Add a second addition • of stock to cover by 2 inches. Stir.

• Continue to season.

7. When stock is absorbed, check the rice • for doneness; it should be al dente. If • too hard, add more stock.

8. Remove from heat and beat in the • butter, cheese and herbs.

9. Taste; adjust seasoning if needed.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cheffedup@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Amelia Island Culinary Academy in Fernandina Beach, at cheffedup@folioweekly.com to find inspiration and get you Cheffed Up! MARCH 1-7, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 33

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FOLIO LIVING

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DEAR DAVI

LOVERS’

GUIDE

Walks benefit you and your best FURRY FRIEND

CURE

CABIN FEVER

Dear Davi, What’s up with my human rushing through my walks and not giving me time to check my pee-mail?

Bailey the Beagle Bailey, Depriving a dog of his daily reality check is unjust. People, take note: Just like fish need to swim and birds need to fly, dogs need to walk. The outings are a canine’s connection to the world. We sniff out the news, whiff kith and kin, and gather information about how our territory has changed since the last time we walked that route.

In the wild, wolves start every day with a walk to hunt, patrol their territory and mark their boundaries. It’s a routine that’s essential for survival. This instinct to step out and explore is a basic need hardwired into all dogs.

So a romp in the backyard or even a free run in the dog park isn’t a substitute for a good walk. The mental stimulation we get from a walk satisfies our instinct to hunt and explore our territory on the move. We investigate smells along the way, mark our territory and keep an eye out for intruders, like squirrels and cats.

Though most dogs like everything about a walk, there are at least three walker categories, based on what they most love about outings. Most dogs have a combination of these traits, but one activity usually stands out more than the others. I’m definitely a sniffer! Which are you?

THE RUNNER These canines crave exercise, so they want to move along at a quick clip.

They might pull on the leash at first, but once they get into a rhythm and burn off some energy, they’ll settle down and keep a more reasonable pace.

THE SNIFFER It’s rare to find a dog who doesn’t love to sniff on their walks, but for

many, like me, it’s No. 1. These curious canines seek mental stimulation and are eager to explore everything that lies beneath their snout. They’re nosey and want to know what other dogs have been there, whether they’re old or young, and what they had for lunch.

THE GREETER There are some dogs whose main purpose on walks is to mingle. They’re the table-hoppers who stand tall and greet every passerby with a friendly wag. They want to say hello to other dogs, even the occasional cat, and are bummed if the kindness is not returned. Like human socialites, they like to patrol the area, wanting to know all the juicy 4-1-1, but they’re more interested in marking territory than making friends.

When it’s time to go, you better know which walk to walk.

EXPLORATORY. A stimulating stroll that lets you sniff, smell and meander through your surroundings.

PURPOSEFUL. A short jaunt to relieve yourself or retrieve something.

TRAINING. A leashed walk meant to improve leash manners, learn obedience commands and practice socialization.

Grab your leash and join the Jacksonville Humane Society 9 a.m-1 p.m. Saturday, March 4 (walk begins at 10:30 a.m.) at The Jacksonville Landing, Downtown, for Mutt March, the area’s largest pet walk and festival. $30/walker; $15/walker ages 5-17; $25/ walker for teams of four or more; proceeds benefit JHS, jaxhumane.org/muttmarch.

Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi may have the shortest legs in town, but what he lacks in stature he makes up for in sass.

PET TIP: DON’T DO ME LIKE THAT WHEN KIDS GO AWAY TO COLLEGE, THEY OFTEN GET A PET TO HELP WITH loneliness or homesickness.

Flash-forward four (or, like a few FW folks, six) years on and the now-adults are movin’ on — jobs, credit cards, doing their own laundry, etc. And comforting kitten Bella or loyal Max the pup are left behind, like so many empty kegs and dining hall chits.

Where do Jack and Tiger — or sinister-looking Izzard the iguana — end up?

The local no-kill animal shelter if they’re lucky; the dumpster if they’re not.

Prevent this disgrace and take the Humane Society’s advice: Plan ahead. Mom bans boas in her house? Find a rescue program between the dorm and her driveway.

Dad’s allergic to ferrets? Several reputable rescue organizations are happy to help relocate Frances; there may be a small fee, but it’s worth it to keep Daddyo still willing to let you crash at his digs for a month or so. Google or go to jaxhumane.org.

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PET EVENTS MUTT MARCH • Jacksonville Humane Society holds its annual fundraiser walk and festival, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. March 4 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown. Live music, a kids’ fun zone and a silent auction are featured. Proceeds benefit the society’s programs for homeless animals. 725-8766, jaxhumane.org.

YAPPY HOUR • Redbones Gourmet Dog Bakery & Boutique presents this benefit, from 2-6 p.m.

March 4 at Locals Cocktails Lounge, 869 Sadler Rd., Amelia Island, 775-5963. Bring your pooch and enjoy two-for-one cocktails, live music by Earnest Gonzalez, prizes and raffles. Proceeds benefit Friends of Animals Nassau.

ADOPTABLES

BRAD KITT

IT’S KITT, NOT PITT • Just like heartthrob Brad Pitt, I’m your teenage dream come true! Look into my big green eyes — you can’t pass up this loveable face.

I’m looking for a nice home where I can continue the making of my kitty films! If you can fulfill this dream, feel free to adopt me; come to 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, today. Jax Humane Society is open 7 days a week.

MEET THE CRITTERS • Bring the family and meet critters with scales, tails, and other traits during the free event to explore the world of pets.

1-3 p.m. March 4, Petco, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach, 273-0964, petco.com.

PETCO ADOPTIONS • Adoptable Cats Meet & Greet, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. March 1, 2 and 3 at Petco, 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 215-7498, petco. com. Pet Solutions, noon-4:30 p.m. March 4.

KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Adoptions, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. March 4 and 5, 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org.

ADOPTABLES

PUPPERS

PUPPERS THE PUP • I’m a sweet girl looking for an even sweeter family! I have a bit of a spending habit; one can never have too many fancy collars, amirite?

If you can support me and my luxurious tastes, visit jaxhumane.org/adopt to learn more about me! I’d love to woof out in style with my new family!

FREE PUPPY PLAYTIME • Half-hour session, 2-2:30 p.m. March 4, for puppies ages 8 weeks to six months to learn social skills from a Petco Positive Dog Trainer. Petco, 463713 S.R. 200, Yulee, 225-0014, petco.com. The Adult Level 1 Group Class for puppy training is 7-8 p.m.

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PET ADOPTION • 60+ cats and kittens, 40+ dogs and puppies need homes; Wags & Whiskers Pet Rescue, 1967 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 797-1913, 797-6039, petrescue.org. All are spayed/neutered and up-to-date on shots. ___________________________________ To list an event, send the name, time, date, location (complete street address, city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@ folioweekly.com – at least two weeks ahead.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet Rainer Maria Rilke bemoaned the fact that so many of us “squander our sorrows.” Out of self-pity or lazy self-indulgence, we wallow in memories of experiences that didn’t turn out the way we wanted. We paralyze ourselves with repetitions of depleting thoughts. An alternative: Use our sadness and frustrations to transform ourselves. Treat them as fuel to motivate our escape from what doesn’t work, inspire our determination to rise above what demoralizes and demeans. Now is a great time to do exactly that.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a good time to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence.

Any posse or tribe you’re part of benefits from your thoughtful intervention. Go out there and build up group morale. Assert your healing ideals with panache. Tamp down insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense. You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate dormant potential of collective efforts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s time for Bliss Blitz — a new holiday just for Scorpios. To celebrate it properly, get as buoyant as you dare, be greedy for euphoria, launch a sacred quest for pleasure. The big question: Can you handle this much relief and release? Are you strong enough to open up to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs? Some of you may not be prepared. You may prefer to stay ensconced in a protective sheath of cool cynicism.

If you can bear the shock of unprecedented exaltation and jubilation, risk it. Experiment with the Bliss Blitz’s unruly happiness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were ever going to be awarded an honorary PhD from a top university, it’d be in the next few weeks. If there were even a remote possibility that you’d someday be given a MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grant, now would be the time. Likewise if you had hopes to be selected as one of “The World’s Sexiest Chameleons” or “The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on Earth” or “The Planet’s Most Virtuoso Vacillators,” the moment is now. If none of those things happens, your reputation and status will still be on the rise.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re wandering into places you’ve always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about. Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, keep exploring. You’ve also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be off-limits. As long as you don’t overreach, dream boldly, even brazenly. You seem to be in the mood for big thinking — there are more revolutionary activities to consider: dissolve nonessential wishes, transcend shrunken expectations, escape the boring past, bust irrelevant taboos.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I did a good job of raising my daughter. She turned out to be a thoughtful, intelligent adult with high integrity and interesting skills. Not sure my parenting would have been as effective if I’d had more kids.

I discussed this issue with my friend Nathan. His six kids are all grown, too. “How did you do it?” I asked. “Having just one child was a challenging job for me.” “I’ll tell you my secret,” Nathan confided.

“I’m a bad father. I didn’t work very hard raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it.” In the weeks and months ahead, pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan’s. Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her poem “Not Anyone Who Says,” Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who say, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love.”

She disparages the passion of anyone who asserts, “I’m going to choose slowly.” She champions those “chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable.” Her preferred formula sounds glamorous, dramatic and romantic — especially the powerful and beautiful part. But in practice it rarely works out well — maybe 10 percent of the time — mostly because of the uncontrollable and unsuitable part. Now’s not one of those times. Be careful and smart in matters of love; choose slowly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book The Horologicon, Mark Forsyth gathered “obscure but necessary” words he dug out of old dictionaries. One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you now. It’s “snudge,” a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing busy or in a productive activity, when in fact you’re just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. It’s important for mental and physical health to do a lot of nothing and bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It’s important for mental and physical health to do this on the sly as much as possible; avoid being judged or criticized.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish your breakfast cereal was in boxes decorated with Matisse and Picasso paintings. I wish songbirds would greet you each morning with sweet tunes. I wish you’d see you have more power than you realize; that you knew how uniquely beautiful you are. I wish you’d be happy with the small miracles happening all around; that when you make a bold move to improve your life, everyone greets it with curiosity and excitement. And I wish you’d let your imagination go half-wild with fascinating fantasies during Capricorn wishing season.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “You’re a different human being to everybody you meet,” says novelist Chuck Palahniuk.

Now’s an excellent time to contemplate intricacies and implications of that amazing truth, and start taking advantage of how much freedom it gives.

Say these statements aloud and see how they feel: 1. “My identity isn’t as narrowly circumscribed as I think.” 2. “I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character.” 3. “I’m too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person.” 4. “Consistency is overrated.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your immediate future is too good to be true. Or at least that’s what you and your famous self-doubt may believe if I told you about favorable developments in the works. So I’ve made up some fake anxieties to keep your worry reflex in gear so it won’t sabotage the real stuff. Beware of dirty limericks, invisible ladders, upside-down rainbows and psychic bunny rabbits. Be on guard against accountants wearing boxing gloves and celebrities telling you classified secrets in your dreams.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD U-S-A! U-S-A!

Discouraging the marriage of children in developing nations has been U.S. foreign policy for years. In February, a datacollecting watchdog group in America reported 27 U.S. states have no minimum marriage ages and estimates an average of almost 25,000 children ages 15 and younger are permitted to marry every year (“estimates” because some states don’t keep records by age). Child marriage is often allowed here if parents approve, though no such exemption is made in foreign policy, largely to curb developing nations’ “family honor” marriages — which often negate girls’ hopes for self-actualizing. However, “family honor” is still, in some states, the basis for allowing U.S. child marriages, such as with “shotgun” weddings.

national bank, in the amount of $7 billion. He pleaded guilty in February in Lakeland. He said he thought he “deserved” the money.

INVISIBLE MONEY

Katherine Kempson, 49, deciding to pay “cash” for a $1.2 million home, forged (according to York County, Pennsylvania, deputies) a “proof of funds” letter from the Members 1st credit union. Home sales are highly regulated formalities, and several attempted “closings” were halted when her money continually didn’t show up. One deputy told a reporter, “I’m guessing she probably didn’t think it through.”

I WAS MAKING A POINT …

Glenn Schloeffel, vice president of Central Bucks school board in a Philadelphia suburb, recommended science books be viewed skeptically on “climate change” because teenage “depression” rates have been increasing. Surely, he said, one factor depressing students is reading all that alarming climate-change data.

The highest bail amount ever ordered in America — $4 billion for murder suspect Antonio Willis — was briefly in play in Killeen, Texas, in February, set by Bell County’s elected Justice of the Peace Claudia Brown. Bail was reduced 10 days later to $150,000 by a district court judge, prompting Brown to acknowledge that she set the “$4 billion” to call attention to Texas’ lack of bail standards, which especially punishes indigent arrestees with little hope of raising even modest amounts when accused of minor crimes.

YOU HAD ME AT HELLO

SO IT’S GOOD FOR US NOW?

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An art collective in a Los Angeles storefront re-created (for a two-week run in January) a retro video store that featured only boxed VHS editions of the movie “Jerry Maguire” — about 14,000 copies.

RULES IS RULES

Seattle’s Real Estate Services rental agency informed the family of the late Dennis Hanel that it would not return Hanel’s security deposit after his January death because Hanel hadn’t given the lease-required “notice” giving up his apartment. He had cancer, but died of a heart attack. Washington state law requires only that the landlord provide an explanation why it’s keeping the deposit.

MO’ MONEY, MO’ …

John Haskew, who told investigators he was “self-taught on the banking industry,” evidently thought he might succeed making bogus wire transfers to himself from a large (unidentified)

Researchers including Rice University biochemist John Olson revealed in a February journal article that one reason a man avoided anemia even though he had a gene mutation that weakened his hemoglobin was because he’s been a tobacco smoker — that the carbon monoxide from smoke had been therapeutic.

His daughter, with the same gene mutation, did develop anemia since she never smoked (though Olson suggested other ways besides smoking to strengthen hemoglobin, such as by massive vitamin C).

LOOKING FOR THAT CHANEL LBD

Judith Permar, 56, was found dead, stuck in a clothing donation drop-off box in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, in February. Her demise, police said, was the result of trying to “steal” items. She’d driven to the drop-off box in her Hummer.

Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

Folio Weekly can help you connect with that surfer hunk you almost talked to at the Young Vegan Professionals meet-up, or that gum-crackin’ goddess at Target who “accidentally” dropped a jasmine-scented kazoo in your cart. Go to folioweekly. com/i-saw-u.html, fill out the FREE form correctly (40 words or fewer, dammit) by 5 p.m. Friday (for the next Wednesday’s FW) – next stop: Bliss!

It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day! As they say in Ireland, “Folíonn grá gráin.” (Google it.) FW’s jaded editorial staff has a sure- ire way to attract the opposite/same/undetermined sex!

One: Write a ive-word headline so the person recognizes the moment y’all shared.

Two: Describe the person, like, “You: Flaming red hair, sprightly, very short.”

Three: Describe yourself, like, “Me: Flaming red, dancing a jig, with a pot o’ gold.”

Four: Describe the moment, like, “ISU near the end of a rainbow.”

Five: Meet, fall in love, reserve a church*. No names, emails, websites, etc. And fer chrissake, it’s forty (40) words or fewer. Get a love life with Folio Weekly ISUs! SEXY ITALIAN IN PRIMELENDING SHIRT You were funny (sarcastic), had sexy voice, and you were wearing all black. Hands down the most amazing man I’ve ever met. I love you always.

When: Feb. 25. Where: Downtown. #1645-0301 BROWN HAIR, SITTING BEHIND ME You: Curly brown hair. Shared some laughs and a DUI. Me: Floral dress, great jokes. Thought we shared a moment; you were called back too soon.

Hope to see you March 7th, same spot, 4:15 p.m.

When: Feb. 2. Where: Ocean Street. #1644-0208 HANDSOME DOG LOVER, CLEVER SMILE ISU at bar, your eyes said hello. At store, you smiled at me. Walked your dog, I drove by, thought, “Is this déjà vu … ?” You waved, same handsome smile. Who are you; meet again?

When: Jan. 27. Where: Alexandria Oaks Park, Winn-Dixie, Grape & Grain. #1643-0201 COOKBOOK CUTIE You: Sexy AF chef’s coat; warmed my kolache before you put it in BREW oven; asked my name, I spilled my beer. Me: Dark, mysterious, torn “sex me up” shirt. Hope you’ll get me breakfast in bed.

When: Jan. 12. Where: BREW. #1642-0201 CHOCOLATE THUNDER You: New hire at my old job; immediately caught my eye; tall, dark, handsome BUT rotund sealed deal; innocent until first movie date; rest is history.

Me: Strategic approach – 12-step hot sausage program, gifs transfer. Happy V-day CT! When: Sept. 26, 2016. Where: West Jax. #1641-0201

ENGLISH MUFFIN HELLO, COOL MOOSE U: Carmine’s shirt, prettiest art admirer ever. Me: Tattooed brow, food maker. Made your hello with a smiley-face flag. Art is an experience we can enjoy together. When: Dec. 7. Where: Cool Moose Café Riverside. #1636-1214 DAYCARE DAD ISU when I drop off my daughter.

You drop off your little one. Coffee? You: Tallish, tattoos, work boots you take off before entering baby room, absolutely adorable; single? Me: Red hair, always hoping I see you. When: Almost every day. Where: Kids World Academy. #1635-1214 CROSSWORD QT You had orange socks and an orange Element. You got a cappuccino (or two) and started with a crossword. Your laptop had an Equality sticker on it … either you really like math, or we should meet. Maybe both. When: Nov. 29.

Where: Bold Bean, Riverside. #1634-1207 CARMELO’S SILVER FOX You: Tall, handsome, older gentleman, exceptional British accent! Me: Tall brunette who visits frequently. You’re flirty, but let’s make it official! Tea time? When: Nov. 11. Where: Carmelo’s Pizzeria, St. Augustine. #1633-1207 MY HOT, SEXY NEIGHBOR You: Tall, white sports jersey (No. 12, I think), flag tattoo. Me: Brunette, sunglasses, busty. While checking mail ISU on balcony playing darts, smoking cigar. Welcome to the neighborhood. Throw your dart at me anytime. When: Oct. 25. Where: Coquina Bay Apartments. #1632-1026

M SHACK RIVERSIDE COOK ISU every day at work; you’re a cook, I’m a waitress. You’re so hot but I don’t have the courage to tell you. Single? If so, please reply.

Love to chat sometime. Signed, Too Nervous.

When: Every day. Where: Riverside. #1640-0111

CUTE BARTRAM PARK RUNNER We’ve seen each other. You: Dark hair, blue-eyed hottie, running. Me: Dark blonde, ponytail, walking.

Today you said, “Sorry about that.” I smiled, not sure of meaning – sorry about crude car guys.

Points – you’re a gentleman. Single? When: Oct. 17. Where: Bartram Park. #1630-1026

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU You: I knew you before you were born. Me: God I am here for you always, just call on me. I died for you, so live for me and find the peace you seek. When: Jan. 1, 2017. Where: Everywhere. #1639-0111

SALMON POLO, RIVERSIDE PUBLIX Going to check-out – bam! ISU. Handsome man. Facial hair.

Fit. Smiled, made eye contact. Thought, “I’ll never see him again.” I pull from lot; you walk in front; noticed your right arm tattoo. No bags? When: Oct. 3. Where: Riverside Publix. #1629-1012

WE SAVED A TURTLE Day after Christmas. We were trying to save a turtle on Baymeadows in front of SunTrust. My dad and I drove you and turtle to pond. Wished I got more than just your name. When: Dec. 26.

Where: By SunTrust Bank, Baymeadows Rd. #1638-0104

BRUNETTE BEAUTY WALKING TO BEACH Tall walking her most white with mixed colored medium-sized dog. Snake-design comfortable pants, gorgeous body. Me: Waking up, starting day. You were first thing I saw from inside my house. Let’s walk together! When: Sept. 30.

Where: Davis St., Neptune Beach. #1628-1005

ZOO CAROUSEL DADDY On carousel with my son. ISU behind me with your son. You: Male, tall, blondish, beautiful blue eyes. Me: Female, busty brunette. Should’ve talked on the ride; my kid was screaming. Wanna play date? When: Dec. 21.

Where: Jax Zoo Carousel. #1637-0104

BUD LIGHT/MARLBORO MAN You: Handsome man working the grill, drinking Bud Light and cooking some good-looking meat on Saturday. Me: Drinking Captain and Coke and fighting the desire to take advantage of you. Hoping you “grill” again soon!

When: Aug. 27. Where: Downtown. #1627-0928

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How one UNF student is FIGHTING BACK against the disease LIKE MOST COLLEGE STUDENTS, ALZHEIMER’S wasn’t something I thought about. In fact, I knew little about the disease other than it robbed people of their memories. Then I started talking to a friend who works for the Alzheimer’s Association and thought maybe interning there would be my chance to gain experience and do something for those who need help. It felt invigorating and empowering to think of beginning a career this way. At that point, I didn’t really know Alzheimer’s disease intimately.

I called my family to share the news of the internship; in that conversation, they told me about my grandfather’s recent diagnosis.

BAM! Alzheimer’s sucker-punched me. The day I began the internship, I simultaneously came face-to-face with Alzheimer’s and gained a clear sense of purpose for my career. This was the day I began to lose someone I love to this insidious dementia disease, the day I discovered a new form of heartbreak that millions have experienced before I ever did — the very people I hoped to serve.

Now my grandfather, a person who helped shape my world, can no longer remember his favorite moments, like the fact that he was the first human being ever to hold me when I was a baby. Soon he will not recognize my face.

This experience has taught me precisely how Alzheimer’s affects more than just the individual who has the disease. It is a devastating force multiplied, affecting everyone caring for, or about, the person with Alzheimer’s; a spreading progression, as it touches more and more people. And I’ve learned how everyone, including the person with Alzheimer’s, will try to hold on to memories that are constantly slipping away into a dark and viscous abyss of amyloid plaques and tangles. The loving moments

we’ve shared as a family are the moments I fight for every day. What are we as humans, if not the compilation of love and life we have shared with one another?

I work harder and with newfound passion so others won’t experience the despair I now know when my beloved grandfather forgets my name. I fight to protect families like mine, who are watching loved ones’ minds and memories disappear under the harsh, crumbling weight of stress a family endures as they watch the person they love disappear — not actually dying, but becoming an entity neither they nor he can recognize. I fight for the precious memories that took a lifetime to collect as they painfully and nightmarishly vanish. I fight because the day I joined the Alzheimer’s Association was also the first day I started on this path that leads to my grandfather not knowing when he is talking to me, and that I am his grandson who loves him.

He will forget, but I will fight so there may be a generation of young people who remember. Our generation must make Alzheimer’s a priority; it’s the only way we may be able to change our fate of inheriting this terrible disease. By making it a priority, we could make the disease itself a memory.

I want my congressman, U.S. Representative John Rutherford, to prioritize a discussion and consideration about Alzheimer’s on Capitol Hill. I strongly encourage my fellow Floridians to remind President Donald J. Trump and members of Congress of their commitment to continue the progress we’ve made.

Evan Holler mail@folioweekly.com

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__________________________________________ Holler is a University of North Florida student.

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