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HIPPIES Explore a coastal Georgia microculture that’s part SOCIAL EXPERIMENT, part ETHOS, part BRAND and mostly ENIGMA. STORY BY JAKE GERKIN

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DRIVING THE 401(K)URRY [5] BY CLAIRE GOFORTH Is the mayor’s pension reform plan a PEEL TRIDENT or a FORD SHELBY?

¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN! [24] BY NICK MCGREGOR Worldwide Burger Records-affiliated REVOLUTION DAY comes to town this week

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BY KARA POUND TRICIA BOOKER’S memoir is a candid, heartfelt account of the struggles and joys of family life

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FROM THE EDITOR Is the mayor’s pension reform plan a PEEL TRIDENT or a FORD SHELBY?

DRIVING THE 401(K)URRY WE THE PEOPLE DE DESE DESERVE SERV RVEE AN A ACCOUNTING CCOUNTING of the costs to overhaul Jacksonville public workers’ retirement plans before it’s too late. Right now, we’re barreling toward the mayor’s self-imposed March 15 deadline for police and firefighters to OK the deal that’s on the table–and the taxpayers of Duval County are flying blind about how much his plan to “fix” our pension debt crisis is going to cost us. Citing an exemption that allows them to withhold work product that results from collective bargaining sessions like it’s some kind of state secret, and not a bill that you and I will be paying for decades, Mayor Lenny Curry’s office has been mum on the price tag for his plan, which I’ve taken to calling the 401(k)urry. Here’s what we do know about the 401(k)urry: police and fire personnel are being offered one-time 3 percent lumpsum payments when the deal is signed, 20 percent pay raises over three years, a bump in pension benefits for current employees, and the city is to contribute 25 percent of the salaries of new employees who will all be enrolled in a 401(k) plan. These are a lot of little numbers that together add up to a big, smelly, mysterious pile. We know it stinks, but we don’t know exactly what’s in it. As the mayor is so sketchy about the specifics that he’s started to look like a used car salesman, I’ve taken the liberty of making a few rough calculations based on what little we do know about the 401(k)urry and the city’s proposed fiscal year 2017 budget. JACKSONVILLE SHERIFF’S OFFICE Salaries $195,647,581 +20 percent raise 39,129,516 +25 percent 401(k) contribution 48,911,895 TOTAL $283,688,992 Actual FY2017 salaries + pension $317,558,569 JACKSONVILLE FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENT Salaries 94,621,166 +20 percent raise 18,924,233 +25 percent 401(k)contribution 23,655,291 TOTAL $137,200,690 Actual FY2017 salaries + pension $171,859,999 As you see, it’s easy to calculate how much it would cost if we were to give all police and fire personnel a 20 percent raise and enroll them in a 401(k), with the city contributing 25 percent of their salaries. (It also bears mentioning that we might be paying out a cool $8.7 million next year for that 3 percent lumpsum payment.) Though these are not the true and complete costs of the 401(k)urry, because the

raises are a phased in and it will be decades before all those enrolled in the pension fund retire, these numbers are useful to help put the plan into perspective. And, quite frankly, it’s the best most of us can do, ’cause unless we see the data, formulas and projections, such as actuarial tables, departments’ retention rates, employees’ ages, projected retirement dates, etc., it is impossible to know exactly how much this hoss is going to cost us. Therein lies the problem. Without real numbers to work with, no one knows if this is financially responsible or if it is yet another way of slowing, but not stopping, the city’s inevitable tumble off a fiscal cliff and into, say, bankruptcy. It is at least arguable that the 401(k)urry will ultimately cost the taxpayers less than we would pay if we just kept our current pension plan—the mayor does keep saying so, after all—but we don’t have any way of knowing whether this is true. This is why the Police & Fire Pension Fund board of trustees has been dragging its heels on signing off on the 401(k)urry. After taking heat from every direction for a cool decade or so, they’re hesitant to sign on the dotted line without first learning if the contract will cause police and firefighters to be the reason we can’t have nice things, like phased-out septic tanks and safe infrastructure (I can’t be the only one who’s literally waiting for the Mathews Bridge to come a-tumbling down), for another few decades. To be fair, PFPF is probably also not loving the idea of seeing their sphere of power slowly erode as their fund shrinks until, like the last drop of sunshine at twilight, it vanishes into darkness. As to the former, who could blame them? Would you want to read headlines of the “Police and Firefighters Screw the City Budget … Again” ilk for 10 more years? ’Cause one of the things we do know is that after the deal is inked, it’s going to be extremely difficult to change the terms for up to a decade. The Fraternal Order of Police voted to approve the 401(k)urry last week, so the next step is for the local International Association of Fire Fighters’ votes on March 13, 14 and 15, and for the PFPF board of trustees to agree to certain of the deal’s parameters. Honestly, they’ll all probably approve it. Lump-sum payments and 20 percent raises go a long way toward making a ‘no’ into a ‘yes.’ So in the end, we’ll get the keys to a brand new retirement plan. Time will tell if the 401(k)urry is a lemon or a classic, but it’d feel a helluva lot better if we got to see under the hood before we drove it off the lot. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com MARCH 8-14, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5

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AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE

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The 22nd annual Concours d’Elegance and Concours Week honors four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, Al Unser Sr. and celebrates the Jaguar D-Type sports car, along with streamliners, The Cars of Marmon, Brumos Racing, Japanese Power, and The Cars of the Movies, more than 300 rare vehicles, live and silent auctions, ride and drive experiences, road tours, book signings, seminars, luxury car displays, automobilia vendors, gala dinners and cocktail receptions. Friday, March 10-Sunday, March 12, various Fernandina Beach sites. For details and to purchase tickets, go to ameliaconcours.org.

OUR PICKS OVERUSE OF THE WORD “SHAM”-ROCK! ST. AUGUSTINE CELTIC MUSIC & HERITAGE FESTIVAL

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Looking for a reason to celebrate your Irish roots, while wearing a little green hat and paste-on orange beard? Look no further! The seventh annual St. Augustine Celtic Music & Heritage Festival includes Highland games, a parade, whiskey tasting, clans, traditional foods, vendors, kids’ stuff, and live music from Emish, Seven Nations, Albannach, Dublin City Ramblers, Emmet Cahill, The Real McKenzies, Whiskey of the Damned and Jig to a Milestone (pictured). Friday, March 10-Sunday, March 12 at various St. Augustine sites; for details and performance times, go to celticstaugustine.com.

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LAID BACK &ROBERT LYRICAL EARL KEEN

For the last 30 years, Texas-born singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen has both thrilled and baffled music critics, since he likes to throw curveballs that defy accepted views about country, rock and all in between. But Keen isn’t writing for music scribes; judging by his mercurial ways, he probably isn’t writing for the fans, either. With 20 albums under his belt (nary a stinker in the bunch), Keen has tight ties with Lyle Lovett and was a one-time hombre of Townes Van Zandt. The 61-year-old Keen has covered myriad musicians from Jimmie Rodgers to Richard Thompson. Locals have two nights to check out this truly singular talent with his equally boss band; don’t miss out. 8 p.m. Saturday, March 11 and Sunday, March 12, with opener Ben de la Cour, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $46.50-$56.50 each night, pvconcerthall.com.

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Dr. Temple Grandin is considered the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. An expert on animal science and behaviors, and the author of Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism and subject of a documentary of the same name, Dr. Grandin discusses a variety of topics related to autism, including animal behavior, religion and visual thought, Tuesday, March 14, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Westside; and 7-8:30 p.m., FSCJ’s Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, Southside, fscj. edu/authorseries.com.

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THE MAIL NO PAYCHECKS FOR DEMOCRATS

RE.: “Pay Me to Protest,” FolioWeekly.com, by Tara Masih, Feb. 3; and “A Progressive Counterrevolution in Northeast Florida?” by J. Scott Gaillard, Jan. 11 EVEN I AM SURPRISED AT HOW GULLIBLE some of your readers actually are: That these naïvetés are unaware that the Democratic Party (and other fringe groups) pay protesters to protest is truly amazing. This fact has been documented time and time again, as far back as I remember, back to the 1960s, and more than one “activist” has published his or her own memoirs including details of monies received. Apparently FW readers also believe that if peeps are being paid, then they, too, can land the same sort of job. Sorry, dupes, it doesn’t work that way: To be paid as a political organizer and specifically to get paid for protesting, you have to be capable of generating a following: The schmucks who merely show up for these events aren’t paid; it is the organizers who get personal payment for their services, paid as well as receiving working capital. FW recently published an article on the five DNC “activists,” who you can bet are being paid. Anyone who thinks that people organize, plan, cater and otherwise fund protests out of misplaced altruism are as naïve as the tyros who believe in the tooth fairy; at least the tooth fairy does something socially useful. It’s just these schmucks at the bottom who show up for these pig parties that don’t get paid and why should they? They come anyway. Stan Radzewicz via email

HATEFUL STRANGERS IN A LOVING LAND

RE.: “HR-NO?” FolioWeekly.com, by Claire Goforth, Feb. 22 WHAT SAD LIVES THESE PEOPLE MUST LEAD to take time out of their days to fight for the right

to treat one, cherry-picked, minority group of humans over other ones. Jesus would be appalled at their hateful heart and say, “You’re a stranger to me.” Whitney Kane via Facebook

POWER TO THE (LOCAL) PEOPLE

RE.: “HR-NO?” FolioWeekly.com, by Claire Goforth, Feb. 22 LENNY CURRY, DON’T BE A BIGOT, DON’T BE swayed by two groups on Facebook who have fewer than 60,000 likes. They are nobodies who are not even based in Jacksonville. Listen to your constituents, including this one Christian moderate who voted in your election. Discrimination does not belong anywhere in this city. Jennifer Anderson via Facebook

ENVY OF AN ENDANGERED EXPERIENCE

RE.: “The Trail of American Crocodile Tears,” by Claire Goforth, Feb. 22 I ENVY YOUR RARE EXPERIENCE OF SEEING A Florida panther in the wild. I hope your column achieves wide national exposure. D. Gray Thomas via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO BEVERLY AND JACK KEIGWIN Jacksonville University recently announced the newly established Keigwin School of Nursing, made possible by extremely generous gifts of $3 million from Beverly and Jack Keigwin. The donation, the largest in the nursing school’s 36-year history, will enable JU to improve on the already-high-quality instruction available to students at the school, which JU reports enjoys one of the highest employment placement rates in the region. BRICKBATS TO ROBERT MUSCO According to documents obtained by Folio Weekly via a public records request, the recently retired Green Cove Springs Chief of Police Robert Musco stepped down after a female, African-American officer in the department filed a complaint stating that he’d repeatedly called her his “token,” including in front of other members of the department. According to the complaint, Musco also told the officer, “Columbus Day was taken from us for Martin Luther King Day,” and subsequently asked her superior officer to “calm her down” and to get her to drop her actions against him. BOUQUETS TO THE JACKSONVILLE GIANTS Defending ABA National Champions the Jacksonville Giants finished the season with a 20-2 record after crushing the St. Petersburg Tide last weekend. Unbeaten so far in 2017 (really!), with this win, the Giants clenched the division and secured a first-round bye in nationals. The ABA Championship Series begins March 29 in Baltimore. 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. 8 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | MARCH 8-14, 2017

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I’M AN OLD MAN NOW, CLOSER TO MY SPARSELY attended funeral than I am to my birth in a government-run facility. However, there has been a constant throughout my misspent life: the Drug War, the propaganda that’s fueled it, and the damage wrought to our collective spirit. Fifth grade: a school newsletter sending home scare stories about sheets of acid with Disney characters on them. These never surfaced in our school, of course. But apparently, they were somewhere. Sixth grade: a health class film, a Drug Scare short soundtracked by a psychedelic circus version of “Frère Jacques,” with the lyrics “Marijuana, Marijuana … LSD, LSD ….” That was supposed to be scary. However, for bored kids in a government school, it was much more memorable than dumbed-down social studies books. High school: The “zero drug tolerance” road signs began popping up, while all the stoner kids wore D.A.R.E. shirts—ironically. Sometime after that, piss tests became obligatory, a precursor to a world where surveillance and biometric monitoring grow more sophisticated all the time. Along with that, pop culture promoted the Dionysian cultures of commercial rap and rave and all that followed—the kind of thing that stuffed the jails and made serious money for the folks with private prison stocks for decades to come. The Drug War was always in bad faith. From Harry J. Anslinger onward, a farrago of scare stories and poorly executed arguments and the occasional Gary Webb story about how U.S. intelligence was involved in the drug trade revealed the utter hypocrisy of mendacious, booze-bloated politicos saying that a corporate cartel’s poison du jour was FDA and DEA approved, while a plant that grew in the ground merited a SWAT team response. Drug reform has been slow in coming, but it has come. Out west, past the old Jim Crow states like the one we live in, weed has been decriminalized on the state level. So far, so good. Here, we have medical cannabis—statecontrolled, of course, like it’s toilet paper in the U.S.S.R. or Lay’s potato chips in Zimbabwe. Of course, we have an attorney general now—Moscow Jeff Sessions—who’s looking to reassert federal prerogatives on weed, taking advantage of a flaccid policy drift from the Obama administration to define policy like it was in the last decade. We don’t have the money to do enforcement like it’s 1985; in large part because we are paying the pensions and the health care for those who did it back then.

Unintended consequences. Meanwhile, we have a crisis that merits an actual war on drugs—and we are too resourcepoor to deal with it. Consider the opioid overdose crisis, as it was billed on an invitation to a community conversation to be hosted by Councilman Bill Gulliford Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Gulliford has made noise about this of late— and with salient reason. The overdose rate is triple the homicide rate. They die from crushed-up and snorted pills, and they die from carfentanil/heroin cocktails. It’s so bad, Gulliford says, that the fire and rescue department has already blown through its Narcan budget for the entire year. Narcan is the antidote. Part of the reason they’ve burned through the budget for it is because people recover, feel normal, and then score and get their fix again. That’s the concentric circle of a junkie’s life: a walk inward, always, because the outer reality is pure hell: poverty, deception, poor education, spiritual barrenness, transactional relationships, and the self-loathing miasma of knowing, always, that you are a pawn—and that the opioid offers the only diversion. The government forfeited moral authority in the drug war, sadly, with the bad faith bargain it struck with its citizens. The last quarter-century, the last half-century, we find ourselves working longer and ending up poorer than our parents. Literacy went down. Quality of life went down. Life expectancy went down. People shoot up, snort up precisely because they see how it goes. How it went for whoever raised them. How it went for them in these minimum-security prisons we call schools. They get hooked and they die because they realize they’re 25, 35, 50, whatever—and it’s not going to get any better. They were halftrained for a world too specialized to even use them up and dispose of them properly. Drug addiction is a portal to despair. And the “opioid overdose crisis” is a manifestation of that, not so much the chickens come home to roost as a long shot of the processing plant. There is no government solution to those conditions, because government—city, state or federal—has too many “stakeholders” invested in the status quo to have an honest discussion about root causes—and a longterm government conspiracy to brew them up, across decades and generations, until poverty and despair became the calling cards of our ever-expanding underclass. A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com @AGGancarski

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FOLIO COMMUNITY : NEWS Local refugee children at a Catholic Charities event.

SEEKING REFUGE Local REFUGEES question whether they’re still WELCOME IN AMERICA

TALL AND LEAN, PATRICK MANSON ROSE from his seat at the back of a conference room at World Relief Jacksonville. A refugee from Uganda, he spoke in crisp English to an audience of around 40 bishops, volunteers and advocates, who, on Valentine’s Day, had gathered to hear the latest updates on the work of the refugee resettlement agency. Since his arrival in the Oval Office, President Trump has inked two executive immigration orders that have stunted agencies and the refugees they serve. The initial order, on January 27, instituted a 120-day moratorium on all refugee arrivals, barred Syrians indefinitely and shrank the admissions cap from 110,000 to 50,000. On March 6, the president issued a second immigration travel ban, after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in February, moved to suspend the first. The new order, to take effect on March 16, lays out more detailed restrictions in a bid to escape any litigation. It commands the Secretary of State to halt travel to the country and the Secretary of Homeland Security to defer status decisions for 120 days for all refugees. During that period, the federal refugee program is to go under review and, possibly, wangle new screening procedures. The cap does not bulge from the 50,000 mark. “I think Trump [was] just anxious to get started without doing the research, that it needed to go under,” said Elaine Carson, outgoing director of World Relief Jacksonville, of the initial order, “I have heard several news reports now that he has learned from it. But many people are suffering because of it.” For Manson, who hopes to bring his young son and daughter to the States, current circumstances further prolong the separation from his children. He said his children recently prepared for one of many interviews refugee applicants are required to do, only to be told it had been cancelled. Manson is not alone in this ordeal. A Sudanese refugee with Catholic Charities, whose resettlement agency asked that he be identified by only his first name, Adouma, expected his wife to soon join him after three years of legal processing. Although entry resumed after courts suspended Trump’s order, Adouma now dreads their reunion may never happen. Many of the 3,238 refugees Jacksonville welcomed in the last five fiscal years out of Florida’s total of 13,752 (not counting Cuban

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and Haitian parolees), harbor the same concerns. The three refugee resettlement agencies in the city—World Relief, Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities—have no means of allaying their worries. “I have seen some video, heard some of our colleagues share about how tough it is to deliver that news to [refugees], that their family is no longer able to come, at least not for now,” said Travis Trice, church mobilizer at World Relief. “When you just built up, you waited years—and I mean years—for someone to come.” Amid concern for family members, whose cases have stalled, creeps in refugees’ fears for their own fate in the States. Some, especially Muslims and even green card holders, question their welcome here, and wonder whether they will be deported. Those who escaped prosecution in their native lands may sense a target on them again, said Siamand Ando, a caseworker providing integration assistance at Catholic Charities. The ones who left dictatorships conceive the U.S. president’s authority as unlimited. Ando reminds them this is not the case. There are check and balances. There is Congress. There are courts. “They feel like they are facing, at least for this moment, an unknown future. What will happen? This is the worst thing that people experience in their life. I mean, they came because they had a fear. Right now, I can see that at least a number of refugees have fears—they do not know what is going on,” said Ando.

Ando is himself an Iraqi refugee who came to the States in October 2010, the beginning of fiscal year 2011. For each fiscal year, the president, in consultation with Congress, stipulates the quotas of refugee admissions. In fiscal 2011, together with Ando, a little more than 56,000 refugees came to America, around 600 from Iraq. Some eight months after Ando arrived in Jacksonville, the Kentucky case broke. Two Iraqi refugees residing in Bowling Green, Kentucky were arrested and convicted of attempting to provide money and weapons to Al Qaeda in Iraq. In an investigation into Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shereef Hammadi’s ties with the terror group, the FBI found the former’s fingerprints on an unexploded IED in Iraq. Both men attested to carrying out attacks on U.S. soldiers in their native country. As a result, the Obama Administration revamped the program, re-vetting refugees and placing restrictions on the process for Iraqis. Even though President Trump has likened his executive order to his predecessor’s action, the comparison rings inaccurate. “We did continue to receive Iraqi refugees every month during that slowdown and it was just Iraq,” said Trice. “This time around it [was] a complete shutdown from all refugees from every country. And I guess the issue that we have [is that] there is no incident that justifies this. Because if there was, you know, we are pro-security, too. We want [the refugee resettlement program] to be a safe and secure process and we are not for open borders, we believe in the rule of law.” Since 1975, when President Gerald Ford signed the Refugee Assistance Act after the Vietnam War, prompting a wave of asylumseekers, the U.S. has admitted more than three million refugees. In the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the tally steeply dipped, only to cautiously climb to a little less than 85,000 last year, which nonetheless represents a sliver of the world’s refugees, which now number in excess of 20 million, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 2017, as prolonged hostilities rage in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, the

Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar (Burma), among other places, the nine national voluntary resettlement agencies geared up to receive 110,000 individuals. In Jacksonville, World Relief prepared and budgeted to assist 600 refugees, Catholic Charities 200, and Lutheran Social Services close to 300. Then, over a quarter into the fiscal year, when some 32,000 refugees had already been resettled, the president slashed the cap, leaving only 18,000 to be let in until October. “It’s difficult to think that we are experiencing the largest forced migration crisis in recorded history and we have possibly temporarily stopped the process,” said Michelle Karolak, director of the refugee program at Catholic Charities. “I worry that in a few months we would be expected to ‘startup’ again but would not be in a position to do so. There are so many moving parts in the U.S. Refugee resettlement program. One hiccup can add years to the process.” The process is long and complex for refugees and the local agencies that serve them. Once granted refugee status by the United Nations and referred for resettlement to the States, applicants spend between two to five years— some even more—in interviews, background checks and health exams, carried out by the Departments of Homeland Security, State and Health and Human Services. Trice said some refugees describe the vetting as mental torture. “No other traveler gets the kind of scrutiny the refugee does,” said Nancy Hale, director of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, which provides legal assistance to refugees. Once a refugee lands in the country—on a federal travel loan they are expected to repay—agencies step in. They meet new arrivals at the airport. Drive them to and from medical appointments. Secure housing. Provide orientation classes that teach any number of new things, from how to use deodorant to job interview skills. They enroll children at school. Show them how to ride the bus—their initial mode of transportation. Manage various applications—for food and cash and health assistance. Help adults gain employment. It is a lot to be learned and done.

Adjusting to the American customs and mores “might be really difficult because it might create what we call acculturative stress or some mental [issues],” said Roland Wasembeck, paralegal at JALA. Despite the shock their new environs may trigger, the goal for refugees is to reach selfsufficiency in 90 days. For that period, the federal government extends a one-time stipend of up to $1,125 per refugee to cover their costs. “If a family of two is resettled, you could see how those funds might not last very long once rent and deposits are paid,” said Karolak. Although, according to the Sun Sentinel, Florida’s resettlement agencies receive about $260 million a year from the federal government, they often depend on charity, volunteerism and various grant schemes to fulfill their administrative expenses and meet refugees’ needs, which stretch further than their first three months here. As Trump’s executive order postulated fewer newcomers, it also meant less money and less work for resettlement offices. World Relief Jacksonville temporarily ceased taking donations—there was no one for funds to go to. It laid off several of its 26-member staff, many of whom were once refugees themselves and among them speak 22 languages. The scene at other offices is no different. If the flow of refugees does not resume, says Akbar Hakimzoda of the English department of Catholic Charities, the agency may be pressed to roll back its English adult classes, which currently are held at five locations around the city and are attended by some 400 refugees from all three local resettlement organizations. “The refugees that have been here for a longer time will not have the possibility to attend classes because we will not have budget and everything will be closed,” said Hakimzoda. Such a prospect would impede refugees’ integration and success that largely hinges on speaking English, he said. Sponsored by the state, the English project runs into another hurdle—Florida House Bill 427, which on Feb. 16 passed the House subcommittee of Children, Families and

Seniors. The proposal was initiated in January by State Rep. David Santiago’s (R-Deltona) concerns over security, mainly about Syrian refugees. If it becomes law, the bill would turn Florida into one of more than a dozen states, including Texas, Kansas and New Jersey, to withdraw from the federal refugee program. It would not shut refugees out of Florida, but it would remove the state as a middleman between the federal government and regional nonprofits. It would also clinch state aid to initiatives like Catholic Charities’ English lessons. “Refugees that are admitted to the United States can move anywhere. Just because we are not going to accept the funding and the initial resettlement spots,” said Ericka Curran, immigration attorney and professor at Florida Coastal School of Law, “it doesn’t mean that refugees who are permitted in the United States are not going to come and live in our state.” “You cannot bar refugees from your state, you just [don’t] accept the funding, which then leaves us as a state without the sufficient support to help them get the jobs, get the training, get the English—all those things that they need to be successful in the United States.” As immigration policies shift on the federal and state levels, refugees search for a bright future. Fleeing danger, they come to the country of freedom to forge a new life, to work, to give their kids a bright future, to foster ties and give back. And this is not easy. “It is very important that our country continues to accept refugees,” said Hale. “There is a tremendous need to help people who have had to deal with horrible situations. They cannot go home and they come to the U.S. and this ends up being their home. And these are people that we see all the time. “They want to become citizens because they love this country. They have come from countries where there is turmoil and hatred and killing people and torturing people and they come to what is a relatively calm city and a relatively calm country. They finally have an opportunity to live a decent life.” Dima Vitanova mail@folioweekly.com

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THE SWAMP

HIPPIES

Curtis McCarthy

Explore a coastal GEORGIA MICROCULTURE that’s part social experiment, part ethos, part brand and mostly enigma found him slumped at a bar-top. His eyes shifted and darted across the room and his mind seemed to be making manic calculations while he sucked contentedly on his mystery drink. It was the Swamp Hippie, or at least one of them. Seeing him is like discovering some deepseated psychological rift in the collective psyche of American culture. It’s hard to know what to make of him. His appearance is a cross between

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Duck Dynasty and Woodstock circa 1969. Clad in dirt-stained jeans, a blue-and-green tie-dye shirt with “Swamp Hippie” scrawled across it in Scooby-Doo calligraphy, and barefoot, it’s easy to imagine that animal control has a long-standing investigation on him. For all anyone knows, he is a longforgotten Project MKUltra lab experiment running amok amid the poor hapless residents of St. Simons Island. His name is Curtis McCarthy, and he is the de facto creator of Swamp Hippie. What is Swamp Hippie? Like Curtis, it’s a bit

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of an enigma, both a kind of brand and an ethos. For Curtis, it’s a social experiment as well as a movement celebrating local music and good times. “Too often anymore, the only thing that seems to draw our attention is violence and negativity. So I figure, why not create something that makes people happy?” said McCarthy. “I’m just tired of all the bad news. No one preaches good news, happiness. We don’t. That’s part of what Swamp Hippie is about. It’s also a kind of social experiment,

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but it’s mostly to help people, to just celebrate life. “It’s like what Jesus and Paul did. Now, I’m not a religious person, but look at what they did. They didn’t go out and tell people what they were doing wrong. They just gave them a look at what they could have if they did it right.” According to McCarthy, Swamp Hippie owes its origins to Sapelo Island, and the Gullah-Geechee people who live on the island. “Well, we was sittin’ over there on Sapelo [Island],” McCarthy regaled us, in his panhandle-inflected tone. “And the Geechee people already call us ‘swamp hippies’ anyway, but a buddy [Scott Perkins] and I were just sittin’ over there, havin’ just caught us some crabs, and he leans over to me and asks what we could do to keep livin’ this kinda life. “I said, ‘What? You wanna be famous? I could do it. I don’t really want to. I’m about ready to retire, I’m ready to go live in the woods, but I’ll tell you what, if you go over there by that bathroom and hold the hose over your head, I’ll take your picture. We can make a thing of this. As if we had a sighting of the Swamp Hippie off Sapelo.’

where local artists, musicians and those in the know can commune with one another in enlightened camaraderie. It’s a 21st-century revival of Ken Kesey’s La Honda house, minus the prolific quantities of LSD and biker meth. “I actually just closed on a piece of property out there on Sapelo,” said McCarthy. “It’s actually perfect for my operations. Besides the Geechee, only about 12 people live there. There ain’t no cops. There ain’t no law, and the only way to get there is by ferry boat … “So that’s what I’m gonna go do. I’m gonna go live on Sapelo and I have no intention of making any money from what I do. I’m gonna let all the Geechee people make the money.” Despite his unwashed appearance, there’s a lot more to McCarthy than what you see. Born and raised on Georgia’s St. Simons Island, he has gone from top real-estate salesman for Century 21 to restaurateur to owning two photography studios for the last 20 years. “I was a photographer in a suit out on Amelia Island Plantation for about 20 years,” said McCarthy. “I’d do all the portraits and group and beach photos for a lot of the guests

Curtis McCarthy (center) says ‘Swamp Hippie’ owes its origins to Sapelo Island, as well as the Gullah-Geechee people that live on the island. Also pictured Lee O’Neal (left) and Greg Hester. “It was kinda like how Orson Welles did his ‘War of the Worlds’ back in 1938, except I jus’ borrowed from a bunch of folktales ’bout giants that supposedly lived in North America back in the 1500s. Really, I just took these old stories and replaced ‘giants’ with ‘Swamp Hippie’ and posted them on Facebook and stuff. “I figured it’s about time [for] Sapelo [to] have its own mythical creature anyway. The Scots got the Loch Ness Monster, Nepal’s got the Yeti—we got the Swamp Hippie. So we just started making up random stuff, made a few T-shirts and it just kinda took off from there.”

apelo Island is currently home to one of the last remaining communities of Gullah culture and tradition. There are people in this small island community who have rarely left its shores, and their self-imposed isolation has made them one of the last factions of a Southern culture that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. For Curtis McCarthy, this is something worth preserving, and the future of Swamp Hippie, at least for him, rests on the island. His plans are to build a kind of compound

that visited. It’s called the Omni now, but when I was there it was Amelia Island Plantation. “Well, I didn’t actually work for the Plantation, but I’d act like I was an employee, ya know. You see, my wife and her friend owned Sea Island Photography out on St. Simons, so I decided to go down to Fernandina and do the same thing there.” McCarthy closed his studios in 2008 after the sub-prime mortgage collapse of the housing market. “The economy just tanked,” said McCarthy. “A lot of our big money was groups … and when I say ‘groups,’ I mean big corporations. All these big corporations was comin’ in and spendin’ money at the resort. Well, in 2008, that all came to a halt. It just stopped.” McCarthy has been semi-retired ever since, and now occupies his idle hours promoting and growing the Swamp Hippie brand. Still, it’s easy to be confused as to what he means when he calls the Swamp Hippie a “social experiment.” “My question is, how can we look at the same thing and come up with totally different

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“So that’s what I’m gonna go do. I’m gonna go live on Sapelo and I have no intention of making any money from what I do. I’m gonna let all the Geechee people make the money.” Curtis McCarthy

urtis McCarthy, in the midst of the crowd, bobbed barefooted like a mad, unshaved shaman, utterly transported by the sound. Not a single person spoke. The layout was small and cozy, tables and sofas for the lovers and the die-hard music enthusiasts. This is not a place for trivial conversation, this is high-art, a place for worship—nearing religious fervor. In the front, Tammy Schulz took donations for the venue and spoke briefly about Swamp Hippie. “This is what it’s all about. Swamp Hippie,” said Tammy. “It’s trying to bring attention and recognition to the local culture we have here. “… It originally started as a kind of joke between Scott and Curtis. Some of the

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interpretations of it? … You know, I did this as a test—with Swamp Hippie—it’s a test,” McCarthy philosophized. “We’re all different, every single one of us, and therefore what you see, and what I see, are not the same … You can not see what I see by the very fact that you are not looking through the same prism of experience that I am. “The best way for you to understand is to come with me to The Blue Door. It’s a little music venue here in Brunswick, Georgia. You’ll understand when you go.” The Blue Door or “Live at The Blue Door”—its official name—is a former art studio/storage unit turned music venue in the heart of a Georgia slum. Up and down the streets are steeled windows, grim housing projects and cheap liquor stores. The venue’s building isn’t much better. Besides a large garage with a truck-loading platform and two blue doors on the side, the stucco-white edifice—at least from the outside—is anything but welcoming. Slowly rolling in, we see the only available parking is in the dark, unlit alley beside the whitewashed building. As I walk to the entrance, faint bluesybass reverberated off the pavement and good, strong herb hung heavy in the cool night air. Outside, young, upcoming folk-musicians smoked dabs and debated the technicalities of the night’s performance, while madmen and lusting women circulated listlessly from group to group. Inside, the stage glowed Technicolor while the sweating members of The Karl Davis Band laid siege to the senses. Vigorous and virile in blue jeans and suspenders, lead singer Karl Davis howled harmonious waves as sax man Michael Hulett, taller than the rest, blasted a glittering war horn for everything it had. The whole ensemble surged with power and logic and subtlety.

Geechee people used to call them swamp hippies and they thought that was a catchy name. Next thing you know, here we are.” “This is really about going back to the basics, to simply having a good time and enjoying our local culture for what it is. It’s about forgetting all the politics and tensions of the day. Anymore, people are just so stressed out and angry all the time. This is about calming down and letting the nonsense go. It’s about celebrating out differences, not fighting amongst each other.” Multiple bands were playing that night: The Karl Davis Band, Custard Pie (a psychedelic-folk-rock band) and a whole eclectic collection of solo musicians who interchanged with and added to the main acts in seemingly random moments of inspiration. At one point, Scott Perkins, Curtis’ silent partner, clopped over to me and whispered “This is it, man! This is what it’s all about,” as he nodded toward the stage. It was here I understood what McCarthy was talking about when he spoke about Swamp Hippie being a “social experiment.” I grokked why he went on about the nature of perception and the whole phenomenological foundation of our experiences and judgments. For every person there, Swamp Hippie represented something different. For McCarthy, it was about having a good time. For Schulz, it was about supporting local culture. For Perkins, it was simply rapture in the moment. They were all sharing the same experience, yet having completely different experiences at the same time. Curtis had made his point. Jake Gerken mail@folioweekly.com

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all it Siberian surf rock, Baltic rockabilly, Ukrainian reggae, or a disco-fueled rejuvenation of Russian folk music—there’s no resisting the primal power of Igor & The Red Elvises’ music. Frenetic and catchy, ferocious and crowd-pleasing, the unique blend was first concocted in 1995 by Russian émigrés Igor Yuzov, Oleg Bernov and Zhenya “Rock” Kolykhanov, all of whom had grown up in the Soviet Union before moving to the U.S. to pursue their dreams. The Red Elvises earned their stripes performing Balkanized versions of early American rock ’n’ roll on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, and blew up even more around Y2K, thanks to some well-timed TV opportunities (Melrose Place, a Penn & Teller special, Beverly Hills, 90210) and a marathon work ethic (10 full-length albums in eight years). But from the very beginning, The Red Elvises shone brightest on stage, where they lived up to their rapidly growing reputation as the ultimate party band. “There’s something about the vibe— it makes you jump up and down and dance around,” Igor Yuzov tells Folio Weekly. “That was my first impression of rock ’n’ roll, the energy. We’re trying to keep that energy alive and give people a chance to enjoy their life.” And why Elvis, who Yuzov jokingly claims came to him in a dream, urging him to devote his life to rock ’n’ roll? “He had this young energy,” Yuzov says. “He was a symbol of early rock ’n’ roll, when it had a certain naïveté and freedom; it wasn’t stuffy. Everyone could see the power of Elvis.” After 10 years of nonstop touring, across America and also throughout Russia, the grueling pace caused several lineup changes: longtime touring drummer Avi Stills departed, whittling the band back to its core all-Russian trio of Yuzov, Bernov and Kolykhanov. In 2002, Kolykhanov announced his departure; in 2009, Bernov left to join the circus (for real—he played a clown in the traveling revue Slava’s Snowshow). That led to more additions, subtractions, shifts and reboots, with Bernov returning from time to time, Sarah Johnson joining on saxophone,

IGOR & THE RED ELVISES

8:30 p.m. March 16, The Original Café Eleven, St. Augustine, $12 advance; $15 day of, originalcafe11.com

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Igor & The Red Elvises bridge the RUSSO-AMERICAN DIVIDE with wild musical blend Jasmin Guevara providing a steady beat on drums, and other talented musicians like Tim Hayn, Beth Garner, Oleg Gorbunov and Elena Shemankova, coming in and out of the fold. “I think this is our best lineup ever,” Yuzov says.

“We’ve been together for a year or so, and hopefully we’ll stay like this. I love touring. That’s what life is about: enjoying life, playing music, and bringing joy to people who come to our shows. Also, you have to stay in shape. If you take time off, it’s hard to get back into it. That’s why we try to tour as much as possible.”

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That’s no joke: Yuzov and crew will play 26 shows in March’s 31 days, including 15 shows in Florida and eight in the Keys alone. “We love it here,” Yuzov says. “We have a very strong following of supporters and love coming back to Florida. Especially to the Keys. In St. Augustine, we’ve only played a drive-in party at a boatyard; this will be our first club show. So hopefully people will come!” When you do go, Northeast Florida, make sure you chip in a few extra dollars toward the crowdfunding campaign for Igor & The Red Elvises’ next album, She Works for the KGB. “It’s our first project done like this, where we raise money from our fans,” Yuzov admits. “But they have helped us so much over the years that it’s really a thank you to them. I’m very glad that so many have already helped out.” And what of the whole KGB connection—what of the fact that Americans are talking about Russia and its complicated political relationship with the U.S. more than ever in 2017? “I’m not a politician,” Yuzov says bluntly. “For me, it’s really hard to say. Whatever happens, I hope the relationship will improve and be better for both sides.” Yuzov will get plenty of chances to explore the intricacies this year: He played a couple of shows in Moscow in February and will return to Kostroma and Safonovo for a week in May, followed by a jazz festival in Voronezi in July. “Russians love rokenrol,” Yuzov says, using the slang term he’s given to an album recorded entirely in Russian and the ongoing International Rokenrol Party Touring 8 Days a Week. “They love American music. What’s funny is that to them, we’re an American band, where here in America, people think we’re a Russian band. I guess we’re something in between.” Laughing, he adds, “There are lots of Western musicians touring in Russia these days—it’s not forbidden fruit like it was in the ’80s. I’ll probably see bigger American bands in Moscow this year than I will in Los Angeles.” Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

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SWEET

REVENGE Two inventive auteurs dole out CINEMATIC PAYBACK

evenge is a dish best served with hot buttered popcorn … at least when it comes to these two 2014 international treats from opposite ends of the globe. From the warm climes of the Southern Hemisphere, the Argentinian anthology film Wild Tales demonstrates the Latin temperament at its most fiery when it comes to vengeance. In Order of Disappearance goes to the snowy depths of Norway, where ruthlessness in the name of revenge is, if anything, even more brutal. Paradoxically, both films are seasoned with a sly sense of humor. Written and directed by Damián Szifrón, the six separate, wildly different segments that comprise Wild Tales are untitled until the closing credits, flowing one into another with no connection other than the theme of payback. Aside from the usual production logos, the film opens with no opening titles or credits whatsoever. A young woman boards a plane and engages in idle chitchat with an older passenger, who’s trying to hit on her. At the mention of a common acquaintance named “Pasternak” (also the title of the episode), other passengers begin to home in on the conversation, discovering in short order that everyone aboard has had an unhappy relationship of one kind or another with the same gentleman. And, at present, he’s locked in the cockpit. It’s only with a terrific freeze-frame at the end of “Pasternak” that the opening titles begin to roll. The Rats takes place in a small diner where a young waitress discovers her sole customer is a mob boss, who’s responsible for ruining her family. Though she’s uncertain what to do, the cook (an older woman less concerned with moral niceties) decides to take matters into her own capable hands. “The Strongest” (possibly the best of the excellent half-dozen) graphically illustrates the consequences of road rage. The second three entries, each considerably longer than those in first group, are more character-driven, though the original plots are unusual. In “Little Bomb,” a demolition engineer gets frustrated when his car is towed, forcing him to miss his daughter’s birthday party. As we find out, he’s a man who does not bow to officialdom. “The Proposal” shows a very rich man trying to decide what to do after his son is found guilty of a hit-and-run, killing a pregnant woman. His legal advisors, lawyers, and his wife all have plans as to how to deal with the unpleasantness, though none could be prepared for the ultimate resolution. Finally, “Until Death Do Us Part” focuses on an expensive and joyous wedding reception that quickly turns to riotous mayhem when the bride finds her husband flirting with an old love. A wedding planner’s nightmare but a filmgoer’s delight, the closing story is a fitting end to the series of Wild Tales, each written with wit and acid, wonderfully acted, and directed with aplomb and flourish by Szifrón,

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whose film was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. Up north in Norway’s snowy drifts, In Order of Disappearance opens with a middle-aged Nils Dickman (Stellan Skarsgård) being honored by his small community as Citizen of the Year. Nils is the guy who drives the massive snowplow, keeping the surrounding countryside’s roads open. Even as he’s being honored for his civic contributions, however, his son is murdered by a ruthless gang of dope dealers who make the death look like an overdose. Refusing to accept the official verdict, Nils is determined to find out what really happened, hunting down the henchmen directly responsible–all the way up to suave, sophisticated and thoroughly vicious crime lord Greven (Pål Sverre Hagen). Unlike Liam Neeson in the Taken flicks, Nils is an amateur, learning as he goes but growing more and more efficient with his revenge. His efforts, however, accidentally ignite a similar war of vengeance between Greven’s Nordic gang and a rival Serbian drug lord (Bruno Ganz), the resulting body count escalating exponentially. Rather than a choreographed bloodfest in the mold of John Wick or Taken, director Hans Petter Moland gives his major players complicated back stories, all of them involving love of family. Each of them is a distinct personality rather than a stereotype, and the performers (good and bad guys alike) are simply terrific. After the opening title, each of the film’s cast is identified by a memorial cross, Star of David, etc. upon his character’s demise, literally “in order of disappearance.” Despite its violence (more realistic than graphic), the film is not without a wry sense of humor. Samuel Johnson, the great English lexicographer, argued that “revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.” Whatever the distinction, these two films cover all the bases. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOWSHOWING SUN-RAY CINEMA John Wick: Chapter Two and Logan run, 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema. com. The Salesman starts March 10. CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Hitchcock films: Charade, March 10-16. Moonlight screens through March 16. Sabotage runs through March 9. Throwback Thursday runs Adam’s Rib, noon; Cult Classic runs Labyrinth, 8 p.m. March 9. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Logan, Dream Big: Engineering Our World, Walking with Dinosaurs, Flight of the Butterflies, Kong: Skull Island and Extreme Weather run, World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

DANCEWORKS SPRING CONCERT Florida State College at Jacksonville’s (FSCJ) student dance company, danceWORKS, celebrates 20 years at its annual Spring Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m. March 9 & 10, Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ’s South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., 646-2222, $10; $5 advance with FSCJ student ID, fscjartistseries.org. BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS Jacksonville University’s theater department and players on the JU Dolphin football team (no, you’re not hallucinating) mount a production of the hit comedy, about the trials and tribulations of a Texas brothel—you know, back when human sex trafficking was apparently “humorous”—7:30 p.m. March 9, 10 & 11; 3 p.m. March 12, JU’s Swisher Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10 adults; $5 seniors/military/ non-JU students; free JU students/faculty/staff; arts. ju.edu/cfa/cfa-events.php. TED VIGIL-JOHN DENVER TRIBUTE Get a “Rocky Mountain High” with John Denver tribute artist Vigil, 6 p.m. March 13, Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $64, alhambrajax.com. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Amelia Musical Playhouse stages a darkly comic production about a big plant with an even bigger appetite—for human flesh!—7:30 p.m. March 9, 10 & 11, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 277-3455, $20; $15 students; through March 25, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. CELTIC WOMAN Begorrah! And other accepted Irish clichés! The musical group Celtic Woman, a multimedia mix of music and dance featuring the voices of Susan McFadden, Máiréad Carlin and Éabha McMahon, with violinist Tara McNeil and a full band, perform 8 p.m. March 10, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $50.75-$142.50, fscjartistseries.org. KODO The internationally renowned Japanese drumming troupe performs 8 p.m. March 11, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $25-$45, floridatheatre.com. 4000 MILES Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre stages Amy Herzog’s drama, about a 21-year-old dude and the complex relationship between him and his free-wheelin’, 91-year-old granny, 8 p.m. March 10 & 11, Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., 249-7177, $20; through March 26, abettheatre.com. 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; flagler.edu. THE GOD GAME Theatre Jacksonville stages Suzanne Bradbeer’s dramedy about political hopefuls in the Beltway, 7:30 p.m. March 9, 8 p.m. March 10 & 11 and 2 p.m. March 12, 2032 San Marco Blvd., 396-4425, $25; $20 seniors/military/students; through March 19, theatrejax.com. SHOWBOAT 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. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH The 5 & Dime stages Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tale, about a family living in an age of war, floods and the Ice Age, 8 p.m. March 10 & 11; 2 p.m. March 12, 112 E. Adams St., Downtown, $10, the5anddime.org.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

RIVER CITY RHYTHM KINGS These local jazz cats play, 7:30 p.m. March 9, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com. ORANGE PARK CHORALE The Orange Park Chorale performs a concert of works by Mozart, Bach, Steven Foster and others, 7:30 p.m. March 10, Grace Anglican Church, 5804 U.S. 17, Fleming Island. An encore presentation is held 3 p.m. March 12, Hendricks Baptist Church, 4001 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 273-4279, orangeparkchorale.com. CATHERINE RUSSELL Celebrated jazz vocalist Russell performs, 8 p.m. March 10, The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $35-$40, ritzjacksonville.com. CLAIRE ROCHE AT FLAGLER Flagler College’s Irish Ways Radio Programme presents “An Evening with Irish Ways’ William Ramoutar and Claire Roche,” with a live performance by acclaimed Irish vocalist Roche, 7:30 p.m. March 11, Flagler College’s Solarium, 74 King St., St. Augustine, $15 cash only, limited space, flagler.edu, facebook.com/irish-ways-radio-programme. ST. AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY CHORUS The chorus performs selections from hit musicals including Fiddler on the Roof, Ragtime and Les Misérables, 7:30 p.m.

March 11; 3 p.m. March 12, Ancient City Baptist Church, 27 Sevilla St., 316-4364, $15 advance; $20 at the door, $5 military/students, staugustinecommunitychorus.org. JSYO MAJOR/MINOR Jacksonville Symphony and members of the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra perform a concert, 8 p.m. March 11, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 3545547, $8 advance adults; $3 advance children; $10 adults day of; $5 children day of, jaxsymphony.org. BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS AND MORE Violinist Dr. Simon Shiao, pianist Michael Mastronicola and UNF music students perform works by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and Ives, 6 p.m. March 12, All Saints Episcopal Church, 4171 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 737-8488, allsaintsjax.org. JAX CHILDREN’S CHORUS & AUDRA McDONALD The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus is joined by Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning opera singer and classical vocalist McDonald, 7 p.m. March 12, T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 353-1636, $49-$115, jaxchildrenschorus.org. CHRISTIANA TRIO The acclaimed chamber ensemble performs 5 p.m. March 12, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 2600 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, 261-1779, $40, ameliaislandchambermusicfestival.com. VEXATIONS Pianists tackle the rarely performed Erik Satie piece Vexations, a nonstop, continuous work that spans 20 hours, with 840 uninterrupted repetitions of a one-minute line of music, from 7 a.m. March 15 to 3 a.m. March 16, at University of North Florida’s Carpenter Library, 1 UNF Drive, Southside. 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 at Ritz-Carlton, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy., Fernandina, 277-1100, ritzcarlton.com.

COMEDY

DEON COLE Emmy Award-nominated writer for his work on Conan and star of current ABC show Blackish, Cole appears 7:30 p.m. March 8; 7:30 & 10 p.m. March 9 & 10, The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $25, comedyzone.com. GALLAGHER Watermelon-smashing baby-boomer yuckster Gallagher appears, 7 p.m. March 9, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $15-$50, mavericksatthelanding.com. ANDY WOODHULL Comedian Woodhull (The Tonight Show: Starring Jimmy Fallon, Gotham Comedy Live, Comics Unleashed) appears 8 p.m. March 9, 10 & 11, The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $15-$35, 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

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

CONSCIOUS MARKET A mingle of tastes and sips is held 7-11 p.m. March 11 and every Sat., 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 Local, regional art, morning yoga (9 a.m.), local music–Mere Woodard, Savanna Leigh Bassett and Folk Is People 10:30 a.m.–food artists, farmers market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 11 and every Sat. under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. MARCH 8-14, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 23

FOLIO A+E E : MUSIC MUS SIC Worldwide Burger Records-affiliated REVOLUTION DAY comes to town this week

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opened for any bands or gone out of town, yet t this point in the great American the shows seem to be getting better. experiment, it’s clear that some kind of revolution is coming. What it looks Will the recording be significantly different like, which side of the political aisle it comes than it was for 2011’s album Greetings from, and how it plays out are still very much From Darkhorse Saloon? up in the air. But one thing’s for certain: The We’re going to possibly try recording to Burger Revolution will be at Downtown tape—I have a friend who recently got one Jacksonville’s The Space Gallery on March of those sick old consoles from a guy who 11. Falling smack-dab in the middle of the rebuilds ’em in Tennessee. We’ll have to do glorious month of March, it’s going to be some research, though—might to have to sweaty, it’s going to cause bodies to move send the recorded tape off to get it mixed and and—given the excellence of the bands on mastered. I want to find someone in that field the bill—it might result in blown eardrums. who’s done what we want. I’ve found that it’s Originating from the non-partisan effort impossible to communicate a sound like that to make rock ’n’ roll great again, that’s a to somebody. revolution everyone can get behind. Co-organized by Folio Weekly How did this whole Burger Revolution thing contributor Matthew B. Shaw of raw surf come about? rock band The Mother Gooses, Jacksonville Daniel Terry from Volcom messaged Beach native Daniel Terry of Volcom me. I didn’t even know what the Burger and Lagunitas Brewing Co., this Burger Revolution was, but I guess Daniel is friends Revolution show falls on the same day as a with the Burger guys Sean [Bohrman] and few hundred others spread around the globe. Lee [Rickard] out in California, and he It’s all part of the Southern California record was, like, “We should all get on this Burger label’s egalitarian mission: “This is the annual Revolution thing.” We all ended up having Burger Records event where YOU are part of a beer together and shooting the shit; next the action,” Burger’s website says. “You can thing you know, Matt Shaw organized the throw a show with any bands you like and whole thing. we’ll present it and hype it under the Burger Revolution banner.” Let’s get your thoughts on each band, speedAside from the aforementioned Gooses, round style—The Mother Gooses, go! St. Augustine psychedelics The Young Step, I like The Mother Gooses because they go NYC-via-Duval Renaissance man DJ Tony back to the original style of real surf rock. It’s Prat and thoughtful Jacksonville rockers super-minimal and all about that surf guitar Steven Marshek Group, this particular twang—just fun, dance-y stuff. Burger Revolution show is remarkable because it presents brawny local desert The Young Step? rock dudes Darkhorse Saloon—a quartet They’re pretty awesome. It reminds me of described in these esteemed pages many moons ago as bringing the “same syrupy the Talking Heads a lot—weird stuff, but swagger as proto-stoner rockers like Kyuss I like all of it. It’s cool to see a band get and Masters of Reality”—as they prepare to outside of a particular genre and stretch it enter a new era. as much as they can. I We spoke with haven’t seen them yet Burger Revolution: howling frontman so I’m excited to for STEVEN MARSHEK GROUP, THE Mike Fitzgerald, a the first time. YOUNG STEP, THE MOTHER GOOSES, solid surfer, tileDARKHORSE SALOON, DJ TONY PRAT Steven Marshek laying master and 8 p.m. March 11, The Space Gallery, Downtown, Group? shredding guitar all ages; free show, thespacegalleryjax.com I also haven’t seen him player, to learn more. yet, but he used to play in this band The Lifeforms that I was a big fan Folio Weekly: So what’s up with Darkhorse of and I’ve heard really good things about him Saloon these days, Mike? now. I heard he goes apeshit on stage. Mike Fitzgerald: We’re only playing out once a month or so, but we do have a bunch How good of a fit is that for The Space of new material ready to record. It’s leaning Gallery, where Burger Revolution is held? a little sludgier and drawn-out, with more It’s kind of like our own space, so it will instrumental stuff, even though we’ll still hopefully be more of a party vibe. It’s all ages have some catchier ones. Our bass player’s and BYOB, which should be fun. starting to write, getting stuff from directions, Nick McGregor whereas I used to write everything. It’s mail@folioweekly.com changing a little bit. The shows haven’t

ARTS + EVENTS ARTRAGEOUS ART WALK Downtown Fernandina Beach galleries open for self-guided tours, 5:30-8:30 p.m. every second Sat., 277-0717, ameliaisland.com.

MUSEUMS

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Atlantic Beach: From the Continental to a Coastal Community displays through June 11. 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. 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, 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 11 and every Sat., $15 adults, $12 kids. 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.

GALLERIES

THE ART CENTER GALLERY Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. Dinner with an Artist, featuring Pablo Rivera, is 7 p.m. March 11; $20. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crispellert-art-museum. The exhibit Head Case, Jamie Isenstein’s sculptures and photographs, 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. GALLERY 725 725-5 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 345-9320, gallery725.com. Famed pop artist Peter Max is the gallery’s featured guest 6-8 p.m. March 11 and 1-4 p.m. March 12; RSVP required. 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. 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. 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. Eve Albrecht is the featured artist for March. Architects of Art, works by eight local artists, runs through March. THE SPACE GALLERY 120 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, thespacegalleryjax.com. The Crucifixion of Self displays through April 15. VANDROFF ART GALLERY Jewish Community Alliance, 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 730-2100, jcajax.org. Power of Perspective, Nena Tahil’s silk paintings, is on display through March.

GATE RIVER RUN More than 20,000 runners lace up and vie for $85,000 in prize money at The GATE River Run, the largest 15K race in the United States, which includes a 15K run/walk, 15K disabled athlete divisions, 5K charity run, challenge mile, junior River Run, and Diaper Dash, along with live music and, most important–120 kegs of beer! 8:30 a.m. March 11, EverBank Field, Downtown, $35-$55, junior River Run and challenge mile are free; for a full schedule and to register, go to 1stplacesports.com/grr.html. HAIR BEAUTY & WELLNESS EXPO The sixth annual North Florida Simply Natural Hair Beauty & Wellness Expo, featuring stylist showcases, natural hair and holistic workshops, expert panel, entertainment, fashion show, lip-sync contest, giveaways and product samples, is 11 a.m.-7 p.m. March 11, Morocco Shrine Center, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Southside, 407-733-0705, $15, eventbrite.com. ST. AUGUSTINE CELTIC MUSIC & HERITAGE FESTIVAL The seventh annual Celtic Music & Heritage Festival includes Highland games, a parade, whiskey tasting, clans, traditional food, vendors, kids’ stuff, and live music from Emish, Seven Nations, Albannach, Dublin City Ramblers, Emmet Cahill, The Real McKenzies, Whiskey of the Damned and Jig to a Milestone, March 11-13, various St. Augustine sites; details at celticstaugustine.com. JURASSIC QUEST This dinosaur happy event, featuring 80 animatronic life-size dinosaurs, animatronic dinosaur rides, fossil digs, science, paleontology and fossil stations, films, dinosaur bounce houses and bungee pull, crafts, face-painting, green-screen photo dinosaur Jeopardy!, is held 9 a.m.-8 p.m. March 11 and 9 a.m.7 p.m. March 12, Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown, 630-4000, $25; kids ages 2-12 $20; $29 kids’ VIP, seniors $20, jurassicquest.com/ jacksonville.html. DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN Dr. Grandin, considered the most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world, author of Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism and subject of the documentary of the same name, discusses a variety of topics related to autism, including animal behavior, religion and visual thought, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. March 14, FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Room F128, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., and 7-8:30 p.m., FSCJ’s Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., 632-5016, fscj.edu/author-series.com. WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH EVENT The Jacksonville Area National Organization for Women holds its 15th annual Women’s History event, featuring BookMark owner Rona Brinlee, speaking about books mostly by and about women, 6:30 p.m. March 15, The BookMark, 241-9026; light refreshments available, bookmarkbeach.com. TRICIA BOOKER Author, longtime (and old school) Folio Weekly writer and literary badass Booker discusses and signs copies of her new book, The Place of Peace and Crickets: how adoption, heartache, and love built a family, 7 p.m. March 18, The BookMark, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com. __________________________________________ 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.

JOKIN’ AROUND

An Emmy Award-nominated writer for his work on Conan and star of ABC show Blackish, comedian DEON COLE appears March 8-10 at The Comedy Zone, Mandarin.

EVENTS

AMOR TOWLES Author Towles discusses and signs copies of his new book, A Gentleman in Moscow, 7 p.m. March 9, The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com. AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE The 22nd annual Concours d’Elegance and Concours Week honor four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser Sr., celebrates the Jaguar D-Type, along with streamliners, The Cars of Marmon, Brumos Racing, Japanese Power, and The Cars of the Movies, more than 300 rare vehicles, live and silent auctions, ride and drive experiences, road tours, book signings, seminars, luxury car displays, automobilia vendors, gala dinners and cocktail receptions, March 10-12 at various Fernandina Beach sites; for details and tickets, go to ameliaconcours.org. MARCH 8-14, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25

FOLIO A+E : ARTS

A LOVE

SUPREME

Tricia Booker’s memoir is a candid, heartfelt account of the STRUGGLES AND JOYS of family life

eing a parent is hard, raising a family takes patience and making sure you’re checking in with your spouse on a daily basis seems impossible at times. These are just a few of the internal thoughts local author Tricia Booker examined while writing her first book, a memoir titled, The Place of Peace and Crickets: how adoption, heartache, and love built a family. A Ponte Vedra Beach resident, an award-winning journalist who now teaches journalism at the University of North Florida, and a longtime off-and-on contributor to Folio Weekly, Booker chatted with us about the struggles and immense joys of international adoption with her family; Bob (the husband), Nico (the son), who has anxious-attachment disorder from his early months living in a hands-off orphanage in Guatemala, and Scout and Neale (the daughters). Without giving too much away, let’s just say that this memoir will make you check yourself—as a human, a parent and an allaround member of our crazy world .

Folio Weekly: You’ve been a writer for most of your life. How surreal is it to finally have your first book coming out? Tricia Booker: It’s surreal enough that I don’t quite believe it. I dreamed last week that when I finally saw a copy, it was printed up like a reporter’s notebook with spirals and flipped over the top. And of course, I routinely tell myself it’s an enigma, and I won’t ever write anything worth a damn again.

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contract, Bob and I sat down with the kids and talked about it. I think they’re nervous, but proud. Nico is worried people will think badly about him, but we’ve talked it through, and I’ve explained to him that in the end, people will be awed by how insanely brave and strong he has been. And I think people will be helped by reading about our struggles. The book is published by Twisted Road Publications, a small, independent Florida company. Tell me about finding a publisher and how you chooe Twisted Road was the one. I did it sort of backwards … the publisher approached me. One of my writer friends had just published her first novel through Twisted Road (twistedroadpublication.com), and told the publisher, Joan Leggitt, about my blog. She took me to lunch and told me I should write a book, and that she wanted to be the first to read it. We went from there. So I was lucky. Having said that, the publishing world is brutal these days. My friends tell stories about the “encouraging rejections” they’ve received, and the number of agents they’ve queried. I might have to deal with that eventually, but I hope not.

Did you have any specific “goals” or “missions” in writing this book, such as awareness of anxious-attachment disorder, international adoption struggles, service dog training, and the like? Well, I guess my primary objective is to make sure parents know they’re not alone when they’re struggling with special needs kids. The book is a memoir. Were there My son’s anxious-attachment disorder and trepidatious times writing insanely personal conditions like ADHD, depression, bipolar … things about your and these things are invisible your family’s lives? disabilities, but they 7 p.m. March 18, The BookMark, I never worried about are disabilities all the Neptune Beach, bookmarkbeach.com. the stuff I wrote about same. And it’s really, 4-6 p.m. March 25, Genung’s Fish Camp, me, or even about Bob, really hard. But I also St. Augustine, genungsfishcamp.com. because he’s my most want parents to learn 1-4 p.m. March 26, The Book Loft, Fernandina stalwart supporter. But to never give up. We Beach, facebook.com/thebookloftamelia. I did think about the searched for answers for 7 p.m. March 30, JaxByJax Readings: kids—especially Nico. eight years before we CoRK Arts District, Riverside, corkartsdistrict.com. In the end, I decided figured everything out, that hiding who we are and we did a lot wrong to avoid being stigmatized is exactly what leads in the process. But we never quit on our kid, no to stigmas. I’m a truth-teller—that’s just the way matter how discouraged and exhausted we got. We never quit. I’ve evolved. Raising a family isn’t always pretty and fun. It’s often messy and hard and hurtful. Have you been approached by other parents My son’s attachment disorder should no more looking into international adoption? stigmatize him than my chronic depression People approach me all the time about it. I tell should stigmatize me. Now, I will tell you to that them to do their research, be patient—although end, I am maniacally protective of my son’s right I never was—and to never adopt a child out to be who he is. I talk to his teachers, I bring in of guilt or pity. If you adopt a child because his dog to make sure the kids see how cool it is, you think, “It’s the right thing to do,” you’ll I befriend parents so they know how awesome subconsciously expect them to feel grateful my son is. I haven’t just labeled him and sent for every damn thing you do for them. These him off to navigate the world. I guess you could kids aren’t lucky. It’s not lucky to be born to a say that for now, I’m co-captaining his ship. mother who can’t care for you, abandoned, then whisked overseas away from your ethnic culture Did you sit down and talk to your kids to be raised in a community of strangers who and husband about the book to gauge their continually ask you where you’re from. feelings before writing it? Kara Pound No, because writing it was just something I mail@folioweekly.com had to do. But before I signed the publishing

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, EARTH, WIND & FIRE, renowned for their blending of R&B, soul, funk and rock, perform March 9 at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

JOE BONAMASSA 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $$82.50-$152.50. SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Feb. 22, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247. NEVER LET THIS GO, ARROWS IN ACTION 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. THE PINE HILL SAINTS, SERIOUS SAM BARRETT 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside. COLIN HAY, CHRIS TRAPPER 8 p.m. Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $43-$53. PENNY & SPARROW 8:30 p.m. Feb. 22, The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 4609311, $15 advance; $18 at the door. CESCHI, SKYVIEW, SPARS 8 p.m. Feb. 23, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $10-$12. SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, KOLARS 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Jack Rabbits, $20. YASHIRA, CRYSTAL BALLS, DOZIER, TOILER 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969, $7. MACK The KNIFE 8 p.m. Feb. 23, Nighthawks. LOVEBETTIE, PACO LIPPS 8:30 p.m. Feb. 23, Original Café Eleven, $12 advance; $15 at the door. 3 The BAND 9 p.m. Feb. 23, Flying Iguana Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. EILEN JEWELL 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10. JONATHAN RICHMAN, TOMMY LARKINS 8 p.m. Feb. 24, Jack Rabbits, $15. ELIZABETH COOK & DALE WATSON 8 p.m. Feb. 24, P.V. Concert Hall, $42.50-$49.50. CAT McWILLIAMS BAND, BREAK EVN BAND 9:30 p.m. Feb. 24, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. PHUK THE POLITICS 9 p.m. Feb. 24, 1904 Music Hall, $7. WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, TRIAL BY STONE 10 p.m. Feb. 24, The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611, $10. SAMUEL SANDERS 10 p.m. Feb. 24 & 25, Flying Iguana. PEPPER, LESS THAN JAKE, The ATTACK, The BUNNY GANG 6:15 p.m. Feb. 25, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $29.50-$39.50. LUKE BRYAN, BRETT ELDREDGE 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $48.75-$342.90. UNIVERSAL GREEN EP RELEASE PARTY 8 p.m. Feb. 25, 1904 Music Hall. Political Mass Soap Box Session; host Sunny Parker: STUCK LUCKY The LAST SONS, FRIENDLY FIRE, DUVAL SPIT, TOUGH JUNKIE, PUDDLED, METAMAV 8 p.m. Feb. 25, Rain Dogs. VON STRANTZ 8 p.m. Feb. 25, Nighthawks. THE MOVEMENT, COLIN PATERSON, SOL RYDAH 8 p.m. Feb. 25, Jack Rabbits, $8. GO GET GONE 9 p.m. Feb. 25, The Volstead, 115 W. Adams St., Downtown, 414-3171. BOOGIE FREAKS, BE EASY 9:30 p.m. Feb. 25, Whiskey Jax. LEE BLAKE, DARRELL RAE, SCOTT McGINLEY 10 p.m. Feb. 25, The Roadhouse, $6. Community First SeaWalk Music Festival: CRAZY DAYSIES, MAMA BLUE, CONRAD OBERG, TOP SHELF PEOPLE, PARKER URBAN BAND, SPLIT TONE Noon-8 p.m. Feb. 25, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach, free event; VIP $30, jaxbeachfestivals.com. Community First SeaWalk Music Festival: WHETHERMAN, THE FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL,

BILLY BUCHANAN, BRADY CLAMPITT, JOSH TURNER Noon-6:20 p.m. Feb. 26, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach, free event; VIP $30, jaxbeachfestivals.com. AGENT ORANGE, GUTTERMOUTH, The QUEERS, The ATOM AGE 6 p.m. Feb. 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party, $22 advance’ $27 day of. THAT 1 GUY 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, 1904 Music Hall, $15. DENNIS DeYOUNG, JACKSONVILLE ROCK SYMPHONY 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39-$79. ERICA BLINN, VAN DARIEN, SOFILLA, THE DIZZEASE, JAY ROGUE & THE STOOGES 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, Planet Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632, $3. THE BIG LONESOME 8 p.m. Feb. 26, Jack Rabbits, $8. EXPIRE 8 p.m. Feb. 26, Nighthawks. CHRISTIAN LOPEZ 8 p.m. Feb. 26, Jack Rabbits, $10. SCOTT KELLY (of Neurosis, solo acoustic) CAVE of SWIMMERS, JACKIE STRANGER, GHOSTWITCH 8 p.m. Feb. 26, Rain Dogs. HUMMING HOUSE, SHEA BIRNEY 8:30 p.m. Feb. 26, The Original Café Eleven, $12 advance; $15 at the door. JUSTIN HAYWARD, MIKE DAWES 7 p.m. Feb. 27, P.V. Concert Hall, $63-$73. SHAWN MULLINS 8 p.m. Feb. 27, Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $40; $75 VIP. WALKER LUKENS 7 p.m. Feb. 28, Jack Rabbits, $8. BIG MEAN SOUND MACHINE, DR. SCIENCE 8 p.m. Feb. 28, 1904 Music Hall, $8-$10. AMOS LEE 8 p.m. Feb. 28, The Florida Theatre, $39.50-$59.50. GIANT PANDA GUERILLA DUB SQUAD, BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION, HOLEY MISS MOLEY 8 p.m. March 1, 1904 Music Hall, $15-$20. THE EXPANDERS 8 p.m. March 1, Jack Rabbits, $10. MARC COHN 8 p.m. March 1, P.V. Concert Hall, $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.

UPCOMING CONCERTS PIERCE PETTIS March 2, Café Eleven RICK SPRINGFIELD March 2, Florida Theatre STANK SAUCE March 2, Rain Dogs JIMMY EAT WORLD March 2, Mavericks Live THE WEIGHT, members of The BAND March 3, PVC Hall 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 CARY ELWES March 3, Florida Theatre PRECON, ASTARI NITE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOYAMOYA March 3, 1904 Music Hall PEYOTE COYOTE March 3, Rain Dogs THE ATTACK, BUNNY GANG, FLAG ON FIRE March 3, Nighthawks OUTSIDE TRACK March 4, Mudville Music Room OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN March 4, T-U Center 1904 Music Hall Fifth Anniversary Party: 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, Downtown at Ocean Street LUCINDA WILLIAMS & HER BAND March 4, PVC Hall DOROTHY, The GEORGIA FLOOD March 4, Jack Rabbits 9TH STREET STOMPERS March 4, Prohibition Kitchen

THE GROWLERS March 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party LE ORCHID March 4, Rain Dogs SPYRO GYRA March 5, Florida Theatre CORY BRANAN March 5, Nighthawks KT TUNSTALL March 5, PVC Hall BLOODSHOT BILL, The WILDTONES, RIVERNECKS March 5, Planet Sarbez FULL MEASURES March 5, Rain Dogs SEVEN SERPENTS, IRON BUDDHA March 6, Shantytown Pub WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY, DWIGHT YOAKAM March 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE ENGLISH BEAT, The SKATALITES March 8, PVC Hall PASADENA March 8, Café Eleven 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 CATHERINE RUSSELL March 10, Ritz Theatre 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 R. KELLY March 11, Veterans Memorial Arena KODO March 11, Florida Theatre FLAGSHIP ROMANCE March 11, Mudville Music Room ROBERT EARL KEEN & HIS BAND March 11 & 12, PVC Hall CLINT BLACK March 12, Florida Theatre 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 CITY AND COLOUR March 13, Mavericks Live ROZAMOV, UNEARTHLY CHILD, GHOSTWITCH March 13, Shantytown Pub TED VIGIL March 13, Alhambra Theatre BAD SUNS, FROM INDIAN LAKES March 14, Jack Rabbits DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET March 14, PVC Hall CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, Florida Theatre ANVIL, NIGHT DEMON, GRAVE SHADOW, HOLLOW LEG, 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 THE CHIEFTAINS with JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY March 17 & 18, T-U Center TORTOISE March 18, Jack Rabbits Rhythm in the Night: IRISH DANCE SPECTACULAR March 18, T-U Center THE CHIEFTAINS with JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY March 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ADAM SAVAGE, PILOBOLUS SHADOWLAND March 21, Florida Theatre THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS March 21, Veterans Memorial Arena

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24-Karat Gold Show: STEVIE NICKS, PRETENDERS March 23, Veterans Memorial Arena 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 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 AIR SUPPLY March 26, Florida Theatre RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER March 26, PVC Hall SPRING RECORD FAIR March 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 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 GEOFF TATE March 29, Jack Rabbits PUNK ROCK BURLESQUE with FLAG ON FIRE 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 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 JACK BROADBENT April 1, The Ritz Theatre SETH GLIER April 1, Café Eleven STEVE MILLER BAND, LOS LONELY BOYS April 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ANA POPOVIC April 5, PVC Hall WYNONNA & the BIG NOISE April 6, Clay County Fair LEO KOTTKE, KELLER WILLIAMS April 6, Florida Theatre THE WAILERS REUNITED PROJECT April 6, PVC Hall TRICK DADDY, BUN B, JUVENILE, PASTOR TROY April 7, T-U Center Springin’ 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 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 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 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 April 12, Café Eleven SURFER BLOOD April 14, Jack Rabbits CHRONIXX April 14, Mavericks Live PERIPHERY, The CONTORTIONIST, NORMA JEAN, INFINITY SHRED April 15, Mavericks Live DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS April 16, PVC Hall CHRIS BOTTI April 18, Florida Theatre 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

Blue Genes: DEVON ALLMAN (yes, son of Gregg) brings his own take on blues-style rock March 9 at Mojo Kitchen, Jax Beach.

KING BAND, YETI TRIO, BROTHERS & SISTERS April 20, 21 & 22, Suwannee Music Park MJ LIVE! April 20, 21, 22 & 23, T-U Center TOWER of POWER April 22, Florida Theatre ERNEST STREET MAFIA, GHOSTWITCH, TAIL LIGHT REBELLION April 22, Nighthawks 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, T-U 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 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 TRAVIS SCOTT May 6, St. Augustine Amphitheatre 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 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 FUTURE ISLANDS June 2, PVC Hall MURDER JUNKIES, GROSS EVOLUTION, DEATHWATCH ’97 June 8, Rain Dogs Happy Together Tour: FLO & EDDIE (The Turtles), CHUCK NEGRON, The ASSOCIATION, The BOX TOPS, The COWSILLS, RON DANTE June 11, Florida Theatre THIRD EYE BLIND, SILVERSUN PICKUPS June 11, Daily’s Place Downtown THE GIPSY KINGS June 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Sad Clowns & Hillbillies: JOHN MELLENCAMP, EMMYLOU HARRIS, CARLENE CARTER, LILY & MADELEINE June 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MISS D & HER DANCING DOLLS June 30, Florida Theatre CHICAGO, The DOOBIE BROTHERS July 1, Daily’s Place Downtown DIERKS BENTLEY, COLE SWINDELL, JON PARDI July 13, Daily’s Place Downtown PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE, FIREFALL, ORLEANS July 14, Florida Theatre JASON ISBELL & the 400 UNIT, STRAND OF OAKS July 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre REBELUTION, NAKHO, MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, COLLIE BUDZ, HIRIE, DJ MACKLE July 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CIRQUE DU SOLEIL’S OVO Aug. 2-6, Veterans Memorial Arena POSTMODERN JUKEBOX, STRAIGHT NO CHASER Aug. 2, Daily’s Place Downtown FOREIGNER, CHEAP TRICK, JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE Aug. 3, Daily’s Place Downtown TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL Sept. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena ZAC BROWN BAND Sept. 21, Daily’s Place Downtown

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Feb. 22. John Springer Feb. 23 & 25. Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. every Wed. John Springer every Thur. & Sat. 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. Feb. 23. Cliff Dorsey 6 p.m. Feb. 24. Mark O’Quinn, Pili Pili, Davis Turner Feb. 25. JC & Mike 6 p.m. Feb. 26 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Katfish Lee 2 p.m. Feb. 22, 23 & 26. Bush Doctors Feb. 24

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. Feb. 23 BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Billy Bowers 5 p.m. Feb. 22. Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. Feb. 22. Live music on weekends CASA MARINA HOTEL, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 The Chris Thomas Band Feb. 22 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 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. Feb. 23. Samuel Sanders 10 p.m. Feb. 24 & 25. Darren Corlew Feb. 26 GREEN ROOM BREWING, 228 Third St. N., 201-9283 El Dub Feb. 24 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. HARBOR TAVERN, 160 Mayport Rd., AB, 246-2555 Concrete Criminals, Loose Bearings 8 p.m. Feb. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Evan Michael & the Well Wishers 10 p.m. Feb. 24. Meet the Martians 10 p.m. Feb. 25. 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 Bonnie Blue 9 p. m. Feb. 23. Anton LaPlume 9 p.m. Feb. 24 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. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060 Taylor Roberts 7 p.m. Feb. 22 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 Bill Ricci Feb. 23. Cat McWilliams 9:30 p.m. Feb. 24. Boogie Freaks Feb. 25. 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 Wes Cobb Feb. 24. Two Dudes from Texas March 3. Live music most weekends

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC

Local heavy psych-trio UNEARTHLY CHILD (pictured) perform with ROZAMOV and GHOSTWITCH March 13 at Shantytown Pub, Springfield.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Ceschi, Skyview, Spars 8 p.m. Feb. 23. Phuk The Politics 9 p.m. Feb. 24. Universal Green EP Release Party 8 p.m. Feb. 25. That 1 Guy Feb. 26. Big Mean Sound Machine, Dr. Science 8 p.m. Feb. 28. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Big Sam’s Funky Nation March 1. Precon, Astari Nite, Entertainment, Moyamoya March 3 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Feb. 24 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. Feb. 22. Tuatha Dea 8 p.m. Feb. 24. Chuck Nash 8 p.m. Feb. 25. HOURGLASS PUB, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Open mic every Sun. Mal Jones every Mon. Drum & Bass every Tue. INTUITION ALE WORKS, 720 King St., 683-7720 Junco Royals 6 p.m. Feb. 23. Live music 6 p.m. every Thur. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Kenny Holliday Rock 8 p.m. Feb. 24. Austin Park 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Feb. 25 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. 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. Feb. 25. Swing Dance Sundays 7 p.m.

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS GRILL & BAR, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Fond Kiser 6 p.m. Feb. 23. Live music most every night MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Kristen Lee 8:30 p.m. Feb. 23. Wes Cobb 8:30 p.m. Feb. 25. Felix Chang 8:30 p.m. March 2. Live music most weekends WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Austin Park 9 p.m. Feb. 24. Southern Ruckus 9 p.m. Feb. 25. Cassidy Barden 3 p.m. Feb. 26. Live music every Thur.-Sun.

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 The Atwell Brothers Feb. 24. A1A North 10 p.m. Feb. 26. Warning 10 p.m. Feb. 27. Open mic every Tue. JERRY’S Sports Bar & Grille, 13170 Atlantic, 220-6766 Party Cartel 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24. Rick Arcusa 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25

NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. The Pine Hill Saints, Serious Sam Barrett 8 p.m. Feb. 22. Mack The Knife 8 p.m. Feb. 23. Von Strantz Feb. 25. Expire Feb. 26. The Attack, Bunny Gang, Flag On Fire March 3 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Yashira, Crystal Balls, Dozier, Toiler 8 p.m. Feb. 23. Political Mass Soap Box Session: Sunny Parker, Stuck Lucky The Last Sons, Friendly Fire, Duval Spit, Tough Junkie, Puddled, Metamav 8 p.m. Feb. 25. Scott Kelly (of Neurosis, solo acoustic) Cave of Swimmers, Jackie Stranger, Ghostwitch Feb. 26. Stank Sauce March 2. Peyote Coyote March 3 UNITY PLAZA, 220 Riverside Ave. Live music every weekend

ST. AUGUSTINE

CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Billy Buchanan, Mr. Natural Feb. 24. SMG, Beautiful Bobby Blackmon & the B3 Blues Band Feb. 25. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Feb. 26 DOS COFFEE & WINE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Live music every weekend MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Salty Dawg 9 p.m. Feb. 24. Royal Johnson Feb. 25. 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 Penny & Sparrow 8:30 p.m. Feb. 22. Lovebettie, Paco Lipps Feb. 23. Humming House, Shea Birney 8:30 p.m. Feb. 26. Pierce Pettis March 2 PLANET SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Erica Blinn, Van Darien, Sofilla, The Dizzease, Jay Rogue & The Stooges 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Chew, The Cosmic Groove, Lady Dug, Trash Festival, Puddled 9 p.m. March 1 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Pl., 342-0286 Jazzy Blue 7 p.m. Feb. 23. Jax English Salsa Band 6 p.m. Feb. 24. Jazzy Bluez, Alex Richman Band Feb. 25. Bluez Dudez Feb. 28. Open mic 7:30 p.m. every Wed. TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Cottonmouth 9 p.m. Feb. 24 & 25. The Down Low every Wed. JP Driver every Thur. Elizabeth Roth every Sat. Those Guys every Tue.

SAN MARCO

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Feb. 22 & 26 TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Live music every weekend

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Never Let This Go, Arrows In Action 8 p.m. Feb. 22. Southern Culture On The Skids, Kolars Feb. 23. Jonathan Richman, Tommy Larkins Feb. 24. The Movement, Colin Paterson, Sol Rydah Feb. 25. The Big Lonesome 8 p.m. Feb. 26. Jason Navo 8 p.m. Feb. 27. Walker Lukens 7 p.m. Feb. 28 Christian Lopez Feb. 27. The Expanders 8 p.m. March 1 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Eilen Jewell, Mike Shackelford 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24. Outside Track March 4

ORANGE PARK + MIDDLEBURG

SOUTHSIDE + BAYMEADOWS

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 Sidecar Ginny Feb. 22. DJ Big Mike Feb. 23. Whole Wheat Bread, Trial By Stone 10 p.m. Feb. 24. Lee Blake, Darrell Rae, Scott McGinley 10 p.m. Feb. 25. Live music every weekend SHARK CLUB, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline 9 p.m. Feb. 22. Tom Bennett Band 9 p.m. Feb. 23

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music Fri. & Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Feb. 22. Samuel Sanders Feb. 23. Robbie Litt Feb. 24. Latin All Stars Feb. 25

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

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 Charlie Walker Feb. 23. Whetherman Feb. 24. Cortnie Frazier Feb. 25 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Break Evn Band 9:30 p.m. Feb. 24. Be Easy 9:30 p.m. Feb. 25. 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. Feb. 23 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 Live music every weekend

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FOLIO DINING New to Avondale, SOUTH KITCHEN & SPIRITS offers a plethora of down-home dishes, with an uptown style.

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

DINING DIRECTORY KEY AVERAGE ENTRÉE COST $ $$

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10- 20

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20-$35 > $35

ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine

L = Lunch

FB = Full Bar

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-

BIG SHOT!

CLAIN MANTHEI

Green Room Brewing

228 Third St. N. • Jax Beach Born in: Ponte Vedra Beach Years in the Biz: 11 Fave Bar: Old Monkey's Uncle / Lynch's Irish Pub Fave Cocktail Style: Straight up Will Not Cross My Lips: Shit beer Go-To Ingredients: Whiskey Hangover Cure: More whiskey Insider's Secret: People are attracted to people with charisma. Be pretty and have a personality. Celeb Sighting in Your Bar: Mitch Fjeran (look him up) When You Say "The Usual" You Mean: A pint and a shot of whiskey 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 Flying Iguana na ffuses uses FABULOUS FARE from both sides of the border

photo by Brentley Stead

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

MIXED

MEXICAN

WITH TINY SHOPS, BY-THE-SEA PROXIMITY and friendly residents, Neptune Beach could be the beach town in an idyllic summer teenage romance novel. Flying Iguana Taqueria & Tequila Bar is situated smack-dab in the middle of this picturesqueness. Despite its Americana/Mexican, self-described “Latin Fusion” vibe, you’ll still get house chips and red and green salsas. The chips have a special seasoning that locals call Cheeto dust. Our server hinted that it’s a combo of several secret things, but she did let slip that nutmeg and maybe cinnamon and cumin were involved. I agree on the cumin and she might be on to something with the rest. It’s definitely different from the usual taco or lime seasoning on most house chips. Every meal should start with guac, and if it’s on the menu, I’m probably going to order it. The Flying Guacamole was large and filling, even for $9.50. The guac is in a large mortar/pestle bowl with plenty to share—no tiny cup here. With minced jalapeno added in, it has a bit of a kick, most welcome. I was told the servers make it tableside indoors, but we were happy to forgo that in favor of gorgeous seating in the warm sunshine. Part of the establishment’s name is “tequila bar,” for good reason—there are plenty of tequilas here (we lost count at 80). The range of margaritas, from blood orange to watermelon, is unrivaled, and a house margarita ($8) is more than enough. (Happy hour and $5 house margs start at 3 p.m.) These really are about the best “bottom shelf” margaritas in town; they’re served in a traditional glass or, as it’s formally known in my house, a margarita chalice. Flying Iguana’s Banhi Mi Mexico ($9) is a cool mix of Vietnamese and Mexican flavors. The clean crunch of pickled cucumbers, carrots and onion complimented the marinated chicken and slightly rich chipotle aioli. My only complaint was that the chicken pieces were a little larger than I expected, but that’s just a preference. The lunchtime tortas are served, with a side salad, until 3 p.m.

BITE-SIZED

FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR

207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com There’s a wide array of traditional and nontraditional tacos. Crispy Pork Belly ($4.50), with its rum ’n’ coke glaze, is a perfect example of nontraditional, as is the locally sourced veg delight Farm-to-Taco ($4) with roasted vegs, avocado and two salsas. We were most excited for the Carnitas Taco ($3.50) and Flying Fish Taco ($4.50). To be honest, I prefer the crispy carnitas often found at standard Mexican spots to the juicier, slightly soggy, version at Iguana. But it’s finished with fresh cilantro and pickled red onion, my favorite taco topping. The Flying Fish Taco features a nice cut of mahi, with crunchy cabbage and drizzled with a traditional Peruvian aji sauce that usually accompanies ceviche, which they also serve. Flying Iguana offers “Latenight Moonbites,” food and drink specials, as well as a decent Sunday brunch, with live music. If you’re not stuffed, order Tres Leches Bread Pudding ($7) with apples, whipped cream and pomegranate syrup or just one more margarita—it is a tequila bar, after all. Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com MARCH 8-14, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 31

DINING DIRECTORY PINT PINT-SIZED T-S SIZED Begorrah! The history of GREEN BEER

WHALE OIL BEEF

HOOKED

(SAY IT FAST) GREEN BEER IS A STAPLE OF ST. PATRICK’S Day celebrations around the world. Who came up with the idea of taking a perfectly good beer and turn it an unnatural shade of green? By many accounts, green beer can be traced back to 1914 New York City. In the mostly Irish neighborhoods of the Bronx, coroner and toastmaster Dr. Thomas Hayes Curtin, an Irish immigrant, debuted his invention at a social club during a St. Patrick’s Day feast. Guests were astonished and delighted at the wondrous quaff before them. “No, it wasn’t a green glass, but real beer in a regular colorless glass,” wrote Charles Henry Adams in his syndicated column “New York Day By Day.” “But the amber hue was gone from the brew and a deep green was there instead.” Pressed for details of how the green brew was created, Adams reported that Curtin would only say the effect was achieved by adding a single drop of “wash blue”–an iron-based wash additive used to whiten clothes–to a certain volume of beer. He didn’t divulge the exact amount of the toxic substance, but it was presumably a largeenough quantity of beer to dilute the poison. Curtin is often credited with the invention but, four years earlier, in 1910, the Spokane Press made mention of green beer. Under a headline proclaiming, “Green Beer Be Jabbers!” (“be jabbers” is a mild oath of excitement), the paper reported that a local bar had served green beer. No mention how the beer was colored. “It is a regular beer,” the article described, “apparently it has not been colored locally. It tastes like beer and looks like paint, or rather like the deep green waves in mid-ocean with the sun striking them through.” The story went on to say that the bartender was the only person who knew how the beer became green and he wasn’t talking. “All day he has been drawing from one of the regular taps,” the article said. “And no one has seen him dump in any arsenic.” A comforting thought, that. The idea of serving green beer may have come from an old Irish tradition called “drowning the shamrock,” or dropping a shamrock in whiskey before drinking it. The custom is meant to bring good luck to the imbiber because of the religious symbolism ascribed to shamrocks. Legend has it that St. Patrick used the shamrock as a prop to explain the holy trinity– the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost–to Ireland’s King Laoghaire in the early days of the Catholic Church. The holiday now celebrated as St. Patrick’s Day began as a holy feast day to mark the saint’s death on March 17, 461. Because the feast falls in the middle of Lent, when Catholics are supposed abstain from meat and alcohol, the church lifted the restrictions for the day, giving rise to over-consumption. Whether green beer began in New York or Spokane, one thing is certain: There will be plenty of it flowing next week for celebrants of all faiths–or none–of St. Patrick’s Day. And relax–in 2017, beer’s tinted green with food coloring rather than poison. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

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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.

Dine like royalty at THE CLUB Level

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ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT BEING a professional chef is the opportunity to exercise your creativity. This doesn’t happen as often as many of y’all might think. The daily routine required to run a professional kitchen involves unimaginably tedious, monotonous administrative work. Fortunately, the hospitality industry is filled with operations where working chefs can refine their craft and create delicious, clever, attractive, inspiring cuisine. Expensive, upscale four- and fivediamond hotel properties are the places to be for chefs who really want to play with food. The reason, of course, is money. These are the types of properties where the guests are not only willing but happy to spend copious amounts of cash for luxurious accommodations, exceptional personal service and delectable, well-presented, creative cuisine. In other words, these are very cool places to Chef Up your game, especially as a garde manger chef. The chef garde manger is responsible for supplying food to hotel areas outside the restaurants. These include guest room amenities (VIPs are the most fun), buffets and, everyone’s fave, “The Club.” For those of you not in the know, The Club is a section, usually the top floor of a swanky hotel, reserved for special guests. What makes them special? They pay a huge up-charge for the privilege, for which they receive some of the most fantastic amenities imaginable. First, Clubs offer the guests a dedicated concierge just for them, which means that all concierge services as well as any front desk service are just steps from your room with no waiting (in large hotels this is a huge deal). Next, a Club has a lounge—and not just any lounge, but one with extremely upscale fare and beverages. These are provided at no extra cost. Yeah, baby—this is how the other half lives. Typically, there are four unique meals each day. The first is breakfast, super convenient, as it’s right down the hall. The next is lunch service; usually this is where

the kitchen’s skill begins to shine. The menu offered is usually designed to be light, healthful and beautiful. One of my personal favorites is the tea sandwich. Then around 5 p.m. come the appetizers. These can be anything the garde manger kitchen can dream up. They’re usually individual amuse bouche items—bite-sized fare you can eat a thousand of without getting full. The idea is, the guest enjoys a few samples, goes out to dinner, then returns for dessert. Desserts are all little individual delicacies, usually accompanied by a nice cheese selection. Most important, top-shelf liquors are presented at this time. How often do you get the opportunity to sample super-expensive liquors? Oh, did I mention that beverages are available throughout the day? Believe me, this is the way to enjoy an upscale hotel. Try the Hawaii Club at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort if you doubt me—or make this little tuna recipe to get in the mood.

CHEF BILL’S TUNA TARTARE Ingredients: • 1 Pound tuna, cleaned and brunoise • 10 Oz. English cucumber, • seeded, brunoise • 2 Shallots, minced • 1 Tbsp. soy sauce • 2 Tbsp. chives, sliced • 1/2 Avocado, brunoise • 3 Oz. extra virgin olive oil Directions: 1. Gently mix the dry ingredients. Hold for service. 2. Mix wet to dry to order. Until we cook again,

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Alford, Don’t worry, com-paw-dre. Florida lawmakers have filed a bill that will make it ruff for convicted animal abusers to buy or adopt more pets. Under House Bill 871, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would create and maintain a public registry, listing anyone convicted of animal cruelty in the state. The bill would require all pet shops, breeders and shelters to check the registry before selling or adopting out animals. A person who fails to check the registry before selling or transferring an animal could face fines. State Representative Jared Moskowitz is behind the bill. “People who have been convicted of animal abuse shouldn’t be sold more animals,” stated Moskowitz. “Making data available as a resource to pet dealers is a commonsense and transparent solution that ensures the safety of Florida’s animals.” Those convicted once will have their name and mugshot posted on the registry for two years. If they’re convicted again, their information will remain for another five years. Failure to register is punishable by time in the doghouse or a fine of up to $1,000. Local representative Jason Fischer, a cosponsor of HB 871, says it’s a bill he hopes will pass. “Animals might not be human beings, but they are living beings,” Fischer said. “For a lot of people, our animals are like family.” The bill also asserts that, beginning in 2019, the state would be required to annually send letters to registered breed associations, urging its members not to

give or sell animals to those on the animal cruelty registry. If passed, HB 871 would take effect starting July 1, 2017. Some animal advocates say the registry wouldn’t go far enough to prevent abuse, since it lists only convictions, not those who have been accused of abuse—still, it’s a good start. As of now, Tennessee is the only state with a statewide registry. Only two counties in Florida, Marion and Hillsborough, have local county registries. While county registries can only prohibit someone from buying or adopting an animal in that specific county, statewide registries will prohibit these abusers from buying and adopting throughout the entire state. If each state enacted a similar bill, animal abuse could be combated on a much higher level. That would be a big win for animals everywhere. I, for one, think animal abuse registries are a great tool for tracking animal abusers and protecting our fur friends from the bad guys, but they’re certainly not a substitute for reporting animal cruelty cases to proper authorities. If you suspect animal abuse or neglect, take immediate action and report it. Time is critical. If you’re not sure if what you suspect is considered animal cruelty, abuse, or neglect, report it. The appropriate authorities will investigate and determine the best course of action. No animal deserves to suffer and your quick action may save an animal’s life. Read about HB 871 at flsenate.gov/ Session/Bill/2017/0871/ByVersion. Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund isn’t in the Florida legislature, but he’s paw-fect for the job.

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IT’S NOT EASY TO KNOW WHERE ATLANTIC BEACH ENDS and Neptune Beach begins if you’re walking on the beach. If you’re romping around with your dog, however, you’d better be certain— Atlantic Beach Animal Control and the AB cops are out to catch leash law violators. Dogs can be on the beach all day, but they must be on a leash; however, if both the dog and the owner are in the water, the dog can be off-leash. Just where the “in the water” demarcation lies is a little iffy—ankle-deep? Calf-high? Barely wet on the soles of one’s feet/paws? The Animal Control folks are patrolling at different times, in different places and in different ways, so make it easy on yourself and Fideaux—leash the dog and pick up the poop.

PET EVENTS DOG DAYS POOL PARTY • The monthly event is held noon-4 p.m. March 12 at Ancient City Brewing, 3420 Agricultural Center Dr., Ste. 8, St. Augustine, 429-9654, ancientcitybrewing.com. Live music by Second Hand. Proceeds benefit Swamp Haven Rescue, a nonprofit focusing on rescuing death row dogs from area shelters. WILD WONDERS • The hands-on nature program, featuring creatures educator Mike Rossi brings for his “Warm Fuzzies & Prehistoric Pets,” is held 1 p.m. March 11 at Dutton Island Preserve, Dutton Island Drive West, Atlantic Beach, coab.us.

ADOPTABLES

MAX

MELLOW MAX • I’m just a mellow tabby looking for a relaxed family who’ll enjoy all the cuddles I bring to the sofa. I love lavish meals in my kitty bed, so if you like breakfast in bed, we’ll get along just fine! If you’re interested in me, don’t hesitate to find out more about me at jaxhumane.org/adopt. I can’t wait to meet my new loving family!

FREE PUPPY PLAYTIME • Half-hour session, 9:15-9:45 a.m. March 11, for puppies ages 8 weeks to six months to learn social skills from a Petco Positive Dog Trainer. Petco, 11111 San Jose Blvd., 260-3225, petco.com. Adoptable Pets Meet & Greet is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 11 and 12; Pet Solutions, noon-4:30 p.m. March 11. PET SOLUTIONS • Find out stuff you need to know about your pet, noon-4:30 p.m. March 11 at Petco, 11900 Atlantic Blvd., 997-8441. 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 11, Petco, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Jax Beach, 273-0964, petco. com. Adoptable Cats Meet & Greet, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. March 11. KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Adoptions, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. March 11 and 12, 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org.

ADOPTABLES

ROMEO

WHERE ART THOU ROMEO • If you’re wondering where the Romeo to your Juliet has been all these years, you’ve found me! I’m at Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, waiting for the love of my life. I’m a happy-go-lucky pup who just wants to be with you forever. If you take me as yours, despite my family name, you won’t regret all the happy times we’ll have together. Not to mention all the treats we can binge eat!

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 MARCH 8-14, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): As soon as you can, sneak away to a private place where you can be alone–preferably a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen, heard or judged. When you get there, launch into a session of moaning and complaining. Out loud. Wail and whine about everything making you sad, puzzled and crazy. For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms. Whirl around in figure-eights. Breathe extra-deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart. Keep going until you get the relief that’s on the other side.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was his fervent desire, and it came true. Telling you this because your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. Good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the second truth in the weeks ahead. On one hand, you’ll be closer than you’ve been in many moons to ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming rewards and accepting responsibilities that come with opportunities. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Seek intimacy with experiences that are dewy and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages–and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism to free you from at least some regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to live to the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the weeks ahead may be important to that project. A window to longevity will open, a chance to gather clues about actions to take and meditations to remain vital for 10 decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. If you’d like to be deeply receptive to secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes. Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. It’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, review flirtation strategies. Start with the eyebrow flash. Follow up with a subtle, flicking lick of the lips. Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Touch nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. Very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing. If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s talk about a compassionate version of robbery. Thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable

things you love. They pilfer stuff you don’t really need but are reluctant to release. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that’s been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel may sneak into your imagination and burglarize debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you grasp as if they were bars of gold. Want to benefit from this? Ask and you shall receive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment those who fail to give them what they want. They may, however, have urges to achieve TOTAL DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won’t see them as golden gods or goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. They sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that’s the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Keep these thoughts close to your heart in the next few weeks. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (14831546), a revolutionary who helped break the Catholic Church’s stranglehold on the European imagination. You’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising best incited by music. Gather tunes that have inspired you over the years, and go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. It’s time to overthrow anything about your status quo that’s jaded, lazy, sterile or apathetic. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be six years old for the rest of your life,” says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson? Still learning? If you’d like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity–plus conundrums, incongruity and anomalies–there will be lots of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad! Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers six percent of the Earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environs. The secret of its success is symbiosis. Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. Regard lichen as your spirit ally in the weeks ahead. You’re primed for sterling symbioses. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you usually wear adornments, accessories and fine disguises, don’t do so for the next two weeks. Instead, try an unembellished, what-yousee-is-what-you-get approach to your appearance. If, on the other hand, you don’t wear adornments, accessories and fine disguises, embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. You may ask: How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? There’s a more sweeping mandate behind it all: tinker and experiment with how you present yourself … play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED

Despite California’s 2015 law to improvethe fairness of its red-light cameras, the Fremont (pop. 214,000, just north of San Jose) reported earning an additional $190,000 more each month last year by shortening the yellow light by two-thirds of a second at two intersections. Tickets rose 445 percent at one, and 883 percent at the other. In November 2016, for “undisclosed reasons,” the city raised the speed limit on the street, “allowing” it to reinstate the old 0.7-second-longer yellow light.

LOCAL WOMAN TRIUMPHS FINALLY

Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville, convicted and given a 20-year sentence in 2012 for firing a warning shot into a wall to fend off her abusive estranged husband, finally had the charges dropped in February. The persnickety trial judge determined that Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law did not apply, even though the husband admitted he was threatening to rough up Alexander and she never aimed the gun at him. With that defense not allowed, Alexander was doomed under Florida’s notorious 20-year mandatory sentence for aggravated assault using a gun.

DID I MENTION I SWIPED THE CROWN JEWELS?

Doris Payne, 86, was arrested again for shoplifting—this time at an upscale mall in an Atlanta suburb in December—but according to a 2013 documentary, “careerwise,” she’s stolen more than $2 million in jewelry from high-end shops around the world. No regrets, she said on the film, except “I regret getting caught.” Said her California-based lawyer, “Aside from her ‘activities,’ she is a wonderful person with a lot of fun stories.”

WADING POOLS! MORE WADING POOLS, STAT!

When disaster strikes, well-meaning people are asked to help, but relief workers seem always bogged down with inappropriate donations (which take time and money to sort, store and discard; instead, all charities recommend “cash”). A January report by Australia’s principal relief organization praised Aussies’ generosity in spite of contributions of high heels, handbags, chain saws, sports gear, wool clothing and canned goods—much of

which goes to landfills. Workers in Rwanda reported getting prom gowns, wigs, tiger costumes, pumpkins and frostbite cream.

GOTCHA!

Alvin Neal, 56, is the most recent bank robber to begin the robbery sequence (at a San Diego Wells Fargo branch) after identifying himself to a teller by swiping his ATM card through a machine at the counter. He was sentenced in January. Also failing to think it through were men who decided to snatch about $1,200 from Eastside Grillz tooth-jewelry shop in St. Paul, Minnesota, in February. They fled despite two of them having already provided ID and one having left a mold of his teeth.

NO, KIDS, NOT SANTA

Matthew Mobley, 41, was arrested in Alexandria, Louisiana, in February (No. 77 on his rap sheet) after getting stuck in the chimney of a business he was breaking into.

RETURN TO SENDER?

Former postal worker Gary Collins, 53, of Forest City, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in February to hoarding deliverable U.S. mail as far back as 2000.

LUCKIEST (BEWILDERED) ANIMALS

In December, Clark, a 400-pound black bear at the Palm Beach zoo got a root canal from dentist Jan Bellows, to fix a fractured tooth. In January, Zelda, a pet ferret in Olathe, Kansas, got a pacemaker from Kansas State University doctors, who said Zelda should be able to live a ferret’s normal life span. In January, Bert, a prolific male African tortoise, of Norwich, England, who developed arthritis from excessive “mounting,” was fitted with wheels on the back of his shell to ease stress on his legs.

THEY OUGHT TO RELOCATE

In January, a vehicle flew off a Parkway West exit ramp in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, plowing into Snyder Brothers Automotive parking lot; it’s the eighth crash in nine years. Leonard Miller, 88, picked up debris from his Lanham, Maryland, home after a speeding car smashed into it—the fifth time it’s happened. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

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ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN combatting Donald Trump’s political rise has been the inability of his detractors to pinpoint what makes Trump so bad, anyway. His populist and anti-establishment sentiments have received approval like never before, leaving critics dumbfounded and defeated. Citizens who feel the need to protect their country from Trump’s regressive comments and actions are at a disadvantage: How can one attack him, without fully understanding what he stands for and means to his supporters? This inability to effectively derail Trump does not come from a lack of effort; many liberals have come after his past business transactions, racist suggestions, and sexist history, but to no avail. It seems that, no matter how much we point out his glaring flaws, Donald Trump retains faithful and passionate supporters. But we cannot lie down in defeat. We must be vigilant in our efforts to prove the unhealthiness of Donald Trump’s ideas and policies. Perhaps we have to go deeper in our analysis in order to find the thing that makes him so dangerous. I propose that we target Trump from a moral and ethical standpoint. We must first consider Trump’s primary motives. For instance, it is apparent that Trump has a large sense of ambition, but we must question this ambition. Is it the product of desire to do good or a staple of his toxic egotism? He seems disproportionately focused on self-success, which makes it doubtful that he would put the well-being of his country before the preservation of his legacy. We see Trump’s glaring self-advertisements in things like the Trump Plaza, Trump Tower and the 17 Trump golf courses around the world. This success has encouraged Donald Trump to believe that he can, in fact, do anything, including being the president of our country. It could be said that this is true of many financially prosperous executives and business people, and that may be so, but should skilled self-representation qualify someone to lead our government? Consider Trump’s claim that he will create better trade deals in which America will “win.” This type of aim is acceptable in business dealings, but not in diplomacy. In the free market, the goal is to make the most money possible, so any tactic—legal tactic, that is— should be implemented to make a profit. But in international agreements among governments, the goal should be to advance

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all involved Trump’s ban will countries and their fuel the passions citizens, resulting of radical Islamic in a collective groups and thus humanitarian win, decrease the safety not a personal one. of Americans. In fact, Trump’s Trump’s faulty intense focus on justification for “beating” the other an explicitly countries points discriminatory to another major policy illustrates problem within his his favoritism for system of beliefs: his the well-being sense of superiority of few, if any, and discrete Americans over the endorsement of need to help the valuing some lives most needy citizens over others. of the world. Trump’s Trump’s policies inauguration speech and beliefs also “There seems to be no outlined a new demonstrate poor type of American ethics. Trump motivation for Trump’s exceptionalism: has consistently RAGING PATRIOTISM other instead of creating berated the media than an overriding desire a hub of progress for creating and prosperity to be “fake news” and to be IN POWER.” a model and leader lying when it of the world, Trump reports negative wants to promote news about his America out of a belief that we are simply administration. His assistant Steve Bannon better than the rest of the world. has declared the media the “opposition In regard to Trump’s ‘America first’ policy, party.” Not only is this undemocratic, it also one may ask: to what end? There seems to be directly undermines free speech and the no motivation for Trump’s raging patriotism spread of information. other than an overriding desire to be in If the media truly is the opposition power. He cannot possibly embrace all people party for the Trump administration, then of the world because that would undermine shouldn’t we be concerned about Trump’s the principles of competition that so obviously true objectives? It is generally accepted that guide his life. we all should have a hand in our democratic This belief in American superiority can process and, in order to make our mass policy be seen in Trump’s recent immigration ban collaboration possible, a media that provides on seven majority Muslim countries. This information freely. By this, I mean a state in ban has absolutely no bearing to actual world which all citizens are able to contribute to the affairs, but rather constitutes a declaration pursuit of progress, where every person can of American exceptionalism. It’s not as if influence the laws of the land. This system the Obama Administration had an extreme incorporates all views and combines them in policy of admitting refugees whom Trump order to create a representative and effective felt needed to be dialed back. In fact, vetting plan of action. processes for immigrants from these seven By denouncing the media, Trump is countries were already extensive. challenging this American ideal. It seems Nor were there calls from Trump’s own like Trump wants an America run by him party to enforce this ban. Trump upheld and his small group of elites. This again points back to a serious concern regarding that he was protecting American lives, but Trump’s motives for running and being there is no overwhelming evidence that president: He does not want to be the this order would do anything to prevent representative for the common man, but terrorism on American soil. If anything,

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rather to be the idolized leader who is never doubted. This belief is in direct contrast to the principles of American democracy and a blatant insult to the hard-working citizens of the United States who have the right for their opinions and desires to be incorporated into our system of governance. The fact that Trump adamantly opposes any criticism illustrates his belief in his own greatness. Sure, the president is allowed to defend himself, but Trump’s responses to the media indicate an unwillingness to listen and consider the views of others. Every day, Donald Trump says and does things that perpetuate his selfimportance and demonstrate his utter disregard for truth and honesty. Of course, this would be objectionable for any person, but it is flat-out corrupt to do so as president of the United States. The whole world watches every move he makes and those with similarly corrupt ideals get dangerous confirmation. Trump can no longer pass off his questionable comments and nonsensical speculations as mere talk, because that talk will influence the behaviors of people across the globe. Yet that’s exactly what he does; repulsed by political correctness, Trump continues to say whatever he wants, whenever he wants, because he doesn’t believe he could possibly say anything that’s wrong or unjustified. This is another example of Trump’s self-righteousness and complete lack of humility, two qualities that could possibly blend into the behaviors of the American children growing up with this man as their president. Ultimately, the danger of Trump is less about what he’ll do in the next four to eight years, and more about the lasting effect he’ll have on American society. Our president’s philosophy values self-indulgence over what will spur progress for the world at large, and we must challenge this philosophy to ensure that it does not become the norm. In the age of Donald Trump, we must maintain belief in the collective good and our ability to create prosperity without compromising anyone’s well-being or minimizing anyone’s problems. Carter Delegal mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Carter is a senior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts public high school. MARCH 8-14, 2017 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 39