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RANDY FOR PRIVACY?

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IT’S BEEN A FEW MONTHS SINCE I SAW CITIZEN FOUR — the documentary on former NSA contractor Ed Snowden’s massive leak of classified surveillance files — but every time the privacy vs. national security debate ramps back up, I’m immediately reminded of the tension that looms over almost every scene. The audience knows that for his actions — informing the American public that their government (often with the help of some otherwise trustworthy companies) is collecting troves of information on virtually every citizen — Snowden became the most wanted man in the world. Whether Snowden is entering a password on his laptop, or putting on a disguise in anticipation of fleeing Hong Kong (see: shaving away his earnest attempt at facial hair), the filmmakers play upon the audience’s knowledge to create that tension.

Only problem: Two years later, no one seems to give a shit. In fact, it’s unclear anybody ever did (Pew polling immediately following Snowden’s leak showed 45 percent of Americans agreed the government should be able to “monitor everyone’s email and other online activities if officials say this might prevent future terrorist attacks”).

For all the international high-drama the filmmakers created, this fact is a kind of unacknowledged reality that threatens to unwind all of that tension. We are still, willingly, allowing much of our personal information to be collected by our government.

Until last week, when we weren’t (momentarily, at least). Unable to reach an agreement, the U.S. Senate allowed provisions of the oft-maligned Patriot Act — specifically, the bulk collection of metadata from U.S. citizens — to lapse. While many Americans seem to have forgotten about the legislation, Congress debated the bill past its midnight expiration date on the last day of May. And the campaign to awaken the masses from their digital fortress of complacency and roll back the federal government’s intrusion into its citizens’ personal privacy has created some strange bedfellows.

The original provocateur in this whole thing was the 31-year-old Snowden. However, due to an aggressive smear campaign, he remains a household name even though few can remember what he did or how or why he did it (like the Erik Estrada of high treason). Oddly enough, the person who has picked up Snowden’s flag and waved it with the most enthusiasm is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. As you may recall, Paul — whose father saw his own popularity surge by advocating libertarian ideals — hitched a ride on the Tea Party crazy train to his current position as a party leader. He’s done his share of playing to his base in the past.

As a solution to the 2011 budget crises, he floated a proposal to end all foreign aid. He introduced the “fetal personhood bill” that, according to NARAL ProChoice America, would outlaw abortion, and

could lead to prohibitions on many forms of birth control, stem-cell research, and in-vitro fertilization. He even once pondered the slippery slope of marriage equality laws with “reformed” lunatic Glenn Beck, wondering aloud if people might “take it one step further,” asking, “does it have to be humans?”

Stances like these made Paul a Tea Party darling, but he’s distanced himself from such talk since weighing his national profile.

Despite his inching toward the center, Paul’s feet remain dug in on personal privacy; after all, it offers a platform for posturing. And since the general public doesn’t seem to care, he risks pissing off only establishment Republicans.

Then came the Patriot Act fight. After spending more than 10 hours filibustering Patriot Act legislation on May 20, Paul again shined the spotlight on himself during the Senate session on May 31, reportedly making quite the scene — interrupting colleagues, objecting when other speakers had the floor, and unleashing every tool from his arsenal of procedural impediments.

Many have dismissed Paul and his actions of late as political strategy — in April, he announced he’d be seeking the Republican nomination for president, making him the 263rd mainstream conservative to do so that month.

Well, it worked. No, not the protection of personal privacy part (a watered-down version of the proposal, called the USA Freedom Act — one that requires phone companies to continue bulk collection, but insists on special procedures for requesting said data — passed the House on Tuesday and will be signed into law by President Obama shortly thereafter).

Paul lost that fight. But the presidential campaign? Well, several news outlets are reporting that Senator Paul’s grandstanding lent significant momentum to the campaign of candidate Paul.

Time and again, the congressional Republicans most consistently admired by right-leaning voters have been the ones who try to subvert the agenda of Obama’s executive branch at every turn. Specific to issues of privacy and government overreach, Paul’s actions may have been in support of a worthy cause, but it is abundantly clear he made the choice to stand firm on the issue when it was politically expedient to do so. After all the posturing, the word privacy is just as complicated as it was before and voters likely care about it as little as they did in 2013, in the wake of the Snowden leak.

To this day, there is no evidence that the enhanced government surveillance allowed by the Patriot Act — and the forfeiture of privacy it entails — has made us any safer. We know just as much about the leading Republican candidate for president as we did before all the grandstanding. On all topics, most Americans couldn’t care less.

Matthew B. Shaw mshaw@folioweekly.com twitter/matthew_b_shaw

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IT WAS A GREAT ELECTION and the people listened better than expected in most cases. Nothing wrong with an election that sends Kim Daniels packing.

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LENNY WAS RAISED IN A TWO-PARENT household in Middleburg. Brown grew up on the Northside with a single mother. Lenny was undersized for high school football. Brown almost dropped out of college because he

THE SPRAWL WHO POLICES THE POLICE?

couldn’t afford it. It’s amazing how Lenny Curry was able to overcome the odds to become John Peyton lite.

He had no track record to run on but, then again, neither did Brown four years ago. New City Council prez Greg Andersen said he thinks Lenny is gonna be a great mayor. Outgoing City Council prez Bill Gulliford/Clay Yarborough had nothing but open disdain for Brown. In retrospect, Brown didn’t have much of a chance. Brown couldn’t be everything to everyone despite his best efforts to be a centrist. frankiem1 via folioweekly.com If you would like to respond to something that appeared in the pages of Folio Weekly, please send an email (with your name, address and phone number for verification purposes only) to mail@folioweekly.com.

News + Notes from across Northeast Florida

COULD CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARDS HAPPEN IN Jacksonville? Don’t hold your breath.

They were an issue, of sorts, during the just-concluded campaign for sheriff. Ahead of the First Election, Tony Cummings made the case for them at multiple forums. The implementation of the review boards, in his reckoning, would be fashioned after the Seattle model.

How’d he do? He received south of 6 percent of the votes cast. And he refused to endorse either of the two candidates who made the runoff, neither of whom supported civilian review boards.

This is not to say that there won’t be some meaningful move toward reform in this vein.

Back in March, now-Sheriff-elect Mike Williams said that he intended to challenge a 2010 court ruling that closed the boards that review police-involved shootings. Currently, the process can take up to nine months — and it is not a transparent process. This begets a lack of trust, he said. He said this was a Day One priority. Day One is rapidly approaching, and for some citizens, it’s already passed.

The lack of trust is manifested whenever there is a police-involved shooting; a recent example, the shooting of D’Angelo Stallworth on May 12 at a Westside apartment complex.

Stallworth was shot six times in the back, by officers who were on the scene to serve an eviction notice at the apartment next door.

At a rally in support of Stallworth’s family at The Jacksonville Landing on May 30, the family’s attorney, Eric Block, told WJXT TV4 that “We commissioned an independent autopsy, out of town with a doctor we don’t know. We’ve got those results; why haven’t we been able to get the results of the Duval County official autopsy?”

Meanwhile, he was quoted in Fight Back News as saying that “there’s a dispute over a gun; JSO says they found a gun on the balcony.

This is the fifth or sixth time something like this has happened in Jacksonville this year.”

One of those other times happened in March, when Devanta Jones was shot at the Cleveland Arms apartment complex. As Folio Weekly reported at the time, the locals believed that the police shot Jones while he was on the ground and that there was a cover-up going on.

Locals lack recourse through a civilian review board, and they are not likely to gain it anytime soon. A big part of the reason why is the sheriff is popularly elected. If the Jacksonville Sheriff were an unelected employee of the city, a civilian review board could be imposed by city government. The JSO isn’t likely to impose one on itself, especially with the Fraternal Order of Police

opposing it. Not with an FOP-endorsed candidate taking over as mayor.

Could this be an issue this summer?

We have seen a spike in violent crime and murder in recent years. Of course, the crime is largely — though not exclusively — concentrated in certain parts of town. The same is true for police-involved shootings.

The Cleveland Arms incident earlier this spring brought protesters to the fore, and the police on hand prepared for the worst, by choking off entrance points around the immediate vicinity. A common thread among the protesters was the assertion that there was no recourse for their concerns.

In cities such as Las Vegas, New York, Fort Lauderdale, and the aforementioned Seattle, police departments see salutary effects from civilian review boards, in terms of citizen engagement, that come at the expense of other mythologies.

For example, the most recent report from the New York City civilian review board uncovered 26 instances of officers lying about their cases: a total that was equal to the previous four years combined. While this is momentarily embarrassing for the department and the officers, the upside is the increased accountability overall.

In Jacksonville, political capital and willpower to develop civilian review boards are lacking. Without trust and accountability, it could be a long summer. If the worst should happen, perhaps we’ll see a more concerted effort by citizens to make politicians heed this call.

AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski

#DOWNTOWNISUNDERWATER

ASK A TOURIST VISITING ANYWHERE in Northeast Florida why they chose to come to this small dot on the globe and the majority will say something about the scenic waterways — beaches, Intracoastal Waterway, springs, rivers and tributaries. These pre-installed tourist attractions are good for our collective pocketbook, but if a growing consensus of global scientists are proved correct regarding the impact of climate change and rising sea levels, those same waterways, combined with a lack of vertical geography, will put residents of the region in harm’s way.

“We’re way behind the ball,” says Marc Hudson, land protection director with North Florida Land Trust. “Jacksonville really needs to come to bear on the issue; much of our riverfront is definitely susceptible to serious

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THE SPRAWL <<< FROM PREVIOUS storm surges, including newly proposed billion-dollar developments like the Shipyards, and with many tributaries to the St. Johns spread throughout our community, the possibility for impacts is wide-ranging.”

Sea level rise may bring to mind an image of water breaching the sea wall around homes on the river, but that picture is only a rough sketch of the magnitude of the seriousness Northeast Florida faces. Buried utilities, such as power, sewage, and water lines, don’t interact well with saltwater. Toxic brownfields that end up underwater pose a number of health and safety concerns, as do buried petroleum storage tanks and other pockets of buried chemical waste. Most stressing will be the impact on the community’s drinking water.

Saline intrusion into the aquifer will make some well water undrinkable. In short, it will be a struggle of resources.

The issue of sea level rise falls into two categories: gradual sea level rise and severe events. A Hurricane Sandy or Katrina type of event leaves thousands of people in distress, not to mention the economic damage levied. No matter the caliber of accounting skills mayorelect Lenny Curry has under his belt, a storm recovery could tick into the billions of dollars.

“We are facing multiple, urgent problems that need to be addressed,” says Sarah Boren, executive director for the U.S. Green Building Council, a nonprofit focused on sustainability.

“Inaction is not an option anymore. We have the pro-business innovative solutions right now at our fingertips.”

The dialogue on climate change and increasing sea level rise is starting to bubble; the goal is to bring it to a boil. In response to an action item contained in First Coast Vision — a 50-year plan for the seven-county district — a new group was created by the North Florida Regional Council (NFRC). On its website, NFRC asked the community for input and opinions concerning climate change.

Sea level rise was overwhelmingly what the community asked the council to look into.

NFRC created P2R2, a new group focusing on resiliency (the buzz word for preparing for and combating the effects of sea level rise) through connecting the public and private sectors, made its soft launch in May with an

op-ed in The Florida Times-Union, and its hard launch kicks off on July 16 at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, in conjunction with Regions Bank. The group will announce its action items, its process, its partners, and how the community can get involved. P2R2 will be a working an arm to create incentives and to get companies to think about long-term plans for doing business in Northeast Florida.

The Regional Community Institute of Northeast Florida Inc. — a nonprofit created

by NFRC — weighed in on some policy issues.

One of them was to focus on what could be accomplished without waiting for national or international solutions to appear and to get the business community on board. Without the business sector behind the push, sea level conversations (and the larger climate change conversation) would be just another party of one led by conservationists. After all, the political will follows the business sector.

“It’s not a partisan issue. It’s an issue of the community. Are we preparing ourselves, whether it be for sea level rise or the aftermath after of a hurricane or a man-made disaster?” asks Brian Teeple, chief executive officer of NFRC. “If we are resilient, then we bounce back from or avoid bad things. That makes us unique, and I think it makes a very attractive place for us to live. Frankly, if you’re on the economic development side, it makes us a very attractive place to do business, too. It’s not a Republican versus Democrat issue. It’s not a developer versus conservationist issue.”

And while it may not be a partisan issue, in theory, the reality is that our gubernatorial leadership is not only inactive about climate change, but censoring state workers from speaking about it publicly.

Recently, Dutch sea level rise expert Henk Ovink — who’s currently working with the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force to make the Northeast portion of the United States more resilient after Hurricane Sandy caused an estimated $65 billion-ticket in damage — told the Miami New Times, “It’s scary that the state of Florida briefed staff not to talk about climate change. When you think about future risks and how to deal with them, that is not the right approach. You have to address those issues and come up with a strategy. It’s an opportunity.”

Keith Marks kmarks@folioweekly.com

BRICKBATS & BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO SGT. BRADLEY SHIVERS who, according to a police report as well as a long and widely shared Facebook post, shot and killed his neighbors’ dog in front of his wife and children. As reported by the Times-Union, the dog’s owner, Chelsea Pavish, has launched a social media campaign to spread awareness of the incident, in which Shivers tried to fend off the 40-pound basset hound-mix with a rake, before retrieving his firearm and shooting the dog as his family swam in their backyard pool.

BOUQUETS TO THE UNF MUSIC PROGRAM for earning two prestigious awards from Downbeat Magazine’s 38th annual Student Music Awards. Getting just one is an honor, but the program took home two awards honoring Jazz Ensemble 1 in the Large Jazz Ensemble category and vocalist Lisa Kelly in the Vocal Jazz Soloist category.

BOUQUETS TO TADLOCK ROOFING The Northeast Florida company presented a free roof, installation, and lifetime warranty to New Town resident Ella Singleton. The presentation of the new roof on Singleton’s urban core home kicks off a long-term partnership between Tadlock and Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville.

BOUQUETS TO RIDING INTO HISTORY The motorcycle exhibition will donate proceeds from its 16th annual event to K9s For Warriors, a Ponte Vedra-based nonprofit (featured in this week’s cover story, p. 10) that provides service canines to warriors suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injury and/or military sexual trauma as a result of military service post 9/11. It’s anticipated the fund will provide four service dogs for four veterans.

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NEWS

FAITH IN THE FUTURE

When the religion of the student-chosen baccalaureate keynote speaker earned her A DISINVITE FROM THE HOST CHURCH, the class of 2015 erred on the side of inclusion

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s they moved toward graduation, Fletcher High School’s class of 2015 faced a decision.

Just five days before a student-planned baccalaureate church service at Beach Church Jax (the former Beach United Methodist Church) in Jacksonville Beach on May 31, youth pastor Ryan Sweat informed them that the speaker they’d chosen to give the keynote address was unacceptable.

The church’s website, Beachchurchjax.com, lists three qualifiers for church attendance: “No dress codes. No pretense. ALL are welcome.” The church, however, gave the students stipulations for choosing a speaker. The woman the student council invited to speak is Jewish. If the ceremony was to be held at Beach Church Jax, Donna Orender would have to be disinvited.

One of the student council members texted Orender that there was a problem. The student was mortified. They’d invited her and now they were to disinvite her. Orender contacted Sweat.

She says she tried to assure him she would say something that would be appropriate across faiths, but it wasn’t the message that mattered.

“I have been told that you could be of the Jewish faith,” Orender recounted the conversation with Sweat in a blog post. She quoted him as saying, “Ma’am, if I am going to let people use my building at no cost, and we are going to help them, then I must fulfill my mission of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

As a Jewish person, Orender wrote, “I had been unceremoniously dismissed.”

There was good reason the class originally chose Donna Orender as the baccalaureate keynote speaker.

She was an athletic phenomenon at her Long Island high school where she lettered in five sports. She was All-American in basketball at Queens College, City University of New York. She played professional basketball with the first Women’s Pro Basketball League where she was an All-Star player during the league’s three seasons.

Orender then worked for the Professional Golf Association (PGA Tour) as senior vice president of strategic development.

And in 2005, she was named president of the Women’s National Basketball Association.

That same year, Fox Sports Network named her the seventh most powerful woman in sports. She was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2006 and into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. After leaving the WNBA in 2010, she founded the women’s leadership nonprofit Generation W to educate women become leaders and agents of change.

For years, the baccalaureate service was planned by teachers and administrators at D.U. Fletcher, part of the Duval County Public Schools system. Last year, per instruction from the district, students were tasked with the planning of the service, including inviting a keynote speaker. Orender learned the student council voted to invite her to speak in a text sent to her by Jacob, a member of the Fletcher H.S. 2015 graduating class. Although Orender has given speeches, including one at the White House, she cried. And then she was stunned.

Clockwise from top left: Beach Church (formerly Beach United Methodist Church); Beach Church Youth Pastor Ryan Sweat; Former WNBA player and Fletcher H.S. Baccalaureate keynote speaker Donna Orender.

“I went from incredible joy, elation, honor and humility to abject horror,” Orender told Folio Weekly.

Katie Armstrong, whose son Chandler is a member of the graduating class and is friends with Orender and Jacob, says she was outraged.

“This is a multicultural, multidimensional class. To have a baccalaureate for one specific religion seems to be a policy of exclusion and not of inclusion,” Armstrong says. “They missed a golden opportunity to show their true Christian spirit. I think the Beach Church and its youth minister owe the Fletcher class of 2015 and Ms. Orender an apology.”

But faced with a tough decision and volatile situation beyond their years, the student council made a decision that gives Orender great hope. With only three days before the ceremony on May 31, the students moved the ceremony to First Baptist Church of Jacksonville Beach. The church welcomed the class and their choice of a speaker.

“Our decision to leave the previous church was because we felt [that] to have only a Christain speaker discriminated against our chosen speaker Donna Orender and anyone else who is not of Christian faith who would attend this service,” Fletcher senior class vicepresident Georgia Pinner texted Folio Weekly.

“The class of 2015 chose to do what is right, and in that process validated all of our confidence in our youth and what is in store for them, and in store for us, and for the whole community and the nation — by emphasizing the importance of the values of inclusion,” Orender says.

The United Methodist canon speaks of tolerance toward all faiths, according to an excerpt from the Book of Discipline that the Florida United Methodist Conference in Lakeland sent to Folio Weekly. The Beach Church says its rejection of Orender wasn’t about anti-Semitism and the issue wasn’t exclusion or inclusion. It was about tradition.

Communication coordinator Laura Ali says that the conflict arose because the church, as the host of the service, required that the students adhere to a traditional baccalaureate service, which is a Christian service. She emailed a history of the service that dates its origins back to a Christian service held at Oxford University in 1432. The Beach Church

stipulated that the students must choose a Christian speaker if the service was to be held there, and the church maintained the authority to nix the students’ choice.

Ali says the Fletcher students seemed to have a misunderstanding of the baccalaureate tradition. “It’s not just an extra ceremony for the student body,” she says. “It is a Christianbased worship service and celebration of students.” Ali acknowledged that Orender probably gave an inspiring address, but one she regarded as appropriate for a graduation ceremony where the point is motivation and inspiration. “I would go,” she says. “I would find some senior and tag along to hear her speak.

But the baccalaureate is a service of worship, a Christian service and celebration.”

After Folio Weekly contacted the Methodist Conference, Beach Church senior pastor Jerry Sweat, the father of youth minister Ryan Sweat, sent a written statement. But it wasn’t clear if the misunderstanding he refers to was that Orender wasn’t allowed to participate in a service at the church or if he meant that students didn’t fully appreciate the strictures the baccalaureate tradition dictated.

“On behalf of the Beach Church, I want to certainly affirm that while this particular issue arose over miscommunication that took place between the students and the church, we apologize for the misunderstanding that followed,” he wrote. “As a church that has been part of the beaches for over 75 years, we have always looked to be a people of love and service in our community and have truly sought to open our doors and our hearts to all people.”

Orender saw the love in the Fletcher class of 2015. And that made everything right.

She says their decision is character-forming, the kind that will resonate through a person’s life. She changed her speech to acknowledge the importance of it. “These kids should be lauded and applauded,” she says. “I told them, ‘You are amazing. You are brave and courageous. You are beautiful.’” Orender believes the students’ actions enlarged the ceremony and she expects the change will stick.

“They set a great trajectory for this ceremony going forward,” she predicts.

Susan Cooper Eastman sceastman@folioweekly.com

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F O L I O W E E K LY ’ S 2 0 1 5 P E T L O V E R S I S S U E

TO THE RESCUE NORTHEAST FLORIDA RESIDENTS DISPLAY LOYALTY, SACRIFICE, AND COURAGE. AND THEIR HUMAN COMPANIONS ARE QUITE INCREDIBLE, TOO!

Is it possible to commit to a friendship without strings attached? To fall deeply in love with someone without ever considering other options? Is there really such a thing as an on-call therapist?

Does a caregiver exist who is truly tireless?

Homo sapiens – in an effort to be our best bipedal, erectly postured, complex social structured selves – project lofty and inspiring traits upon our species’ finest. However, it may be that our domesticated animal kingdom companions hold the only legitimate claim to the personification of such traits.

In the pages that follow, you’ll read about a few from the genus canis (dogs) and genus felis (cat) whose loyalty, compassion, dedication, and selflessness have inspired their companions from the genus homo (humans) to do incredible work for others. And as part of Folio Weekly’s Pet Lovers Issue, we’ve provided our annual listing of helpful, local information to be used in service of the selfless, tireless, no-strings-attached loves of your lives.

CLOUD K9 K9s For Warriors combats

trauma with companionship

by Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com

________________________________________ AFTER TWO STINTS IN IRAQ as a private contractor working with bomb-detection dogs, Brett Simon returned home to the States and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder — commonly referred to as PTSD. “I came back and my family started noticing that I was a lot different as far as how I interacted with people,” says Simon. “It took a while for anyone to put a finger on it because I was a really good actor. Like a lot of our veterans, I could get through the day. I’m a tough guy, don’t worry about me.”

Over the past five years, Simon has fused his expertise working with canines with his experience working in a combat zone to help establish K9s For Warriors, a privately funded nonprofit organization based in Ponte Vedra Beach that provides service animals to injured veterans.

Currently, Simon is the Director of Canine Operations, a position he’s held since 2010.

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founder, Shari Duval.

“And her research and talking to people and asking, ‘What’s the best route to help my son?’”

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Simon spent nearly 17 years working as a police officer with a majority of the time devoted to Miami Township Police Department’s Canine Unit. He trained and handled dogs in narcotic detection and tracking and patrol techniques.

Upon his retirement in January 2005, Simon was hired as a civilian contractor through the Department of the Army. He was stationed with the Stryker Brigade in Mosul — a city of more than a million people, north of Baghdad — for nine months.

“At the time, that I’m aware of, we took the first 15 cross-trained dogs to Iraq,” Simon says. “They were cross-trained for tracking and explosives. So anybody that fired from a mortar site or someone fleeing from a patrol that was out, I would take a dog with me and try to locate those people.”

Working with canines and bonding with active-duty military men and women, Simon excelled in Iraq. But, upon returning to Ohio, he struggled. It was a good two years before he sought any kind of help for PTSD; when

“We lose 22 veterans a day to suicide from Vietnam [War] all the way forward to the conflict we’re in now — the Iraqi and Afghanistan campaigns.”

— Brett Simon, k9s for warriors

he finally did, it eventually included therapy and medication.

“I got myself back on track and in 2009, I got a call back to Iraq with an explosives dog, only,” he explains. “We searched vehicles that were coming onto the operating base, which was in southern Iraq near Babylon.”

This second stint overseas lasted eight months. When Simon again returned to America, he decided to move south and join his mom in Northeast Florida. Together, they founded K9s For Warriors in 2010.

“It took me a little while to be able to confront myself and just deal with the issues that were in front of me, but I did,” Simon says of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms like anxiety and nightmares. “The diagnosis never goes away, but it’s obviously manageable to run a facility like K9s For Warriors.”

K9s For Warriors provides service dogs to veterans and active military members diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder,

traumatic brain injury (TBI) and/or military sexual trauma as a result of serving in post-9/11 combat situations.

“In my opinion, K9s For Warriors is a lifesaver for our veterans,” says Simon.

“We lose 22 veterans a day to suicide from Vietnam [War] all the way forward to the conflict we’re in now — the Iraqi and Afghanistan campaigns. Losing 22 veterans a day is unacceptable.”

Simon says that in the 160-plus canine and military personnel teams that the organization has graduated, not one member has been lost to suicide.

“Here, we show veterans that there’s another avenue and that’s with a service animal,” he explains. “It gives them the responsibility of taking care of something again. It gives them the confidence to go out into public. They have someone to give them unconditional love and not judge them

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465 S.R. 13, Fruit Cove, 230-1144 The chain store, with experienced friendly staff at each location, has a variety of items and brands, food, pest treatments, apparel, cages, tanks and in-store vaccination services for all kinds of pets. Pet care training for kids is offered on the website; we were intrigued by the Interactive Fish Training. Many Pet Supermarkets offer in-store vaccinations, too.

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CATOPIA 1078 Ninth St. S., Jax Beach, 242-0224, catopia.biz This full-service kitty resort and day spa caters to felines, who seem to think they deserve it more than most, with all sorts of perks and pamperings. Nail trims, flea preventive care, haircuts with styling, ear cleanings and healthcare are featured. (We always figured cats styled their own hair, what with all that licking.)

HOUSE OF REPTILES 5501 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, San Marco, 348-2050, thehouseofreptiles.com The knowledgeable staff here can help with all your reptilian and amphibious animal needs, from acquiring the critters themselves (including invertebrates and mammals, too) to supplies, habitats, live food, dry goods and more. Open daily.

JOLLY’S REEF SHACK 3610 Blanding Blvd., Westside, 772-1600, jollysreefshack.com Family-owned-and-operated for seven years, this shop offers freshwater and saltwater fi sh, corals, decorations, life-like base rocks and custom stands.

MY CAPTIVATING CAVALIERS 7759 Plummer Rd., Northside, 716-6162, mycaptivatingcavaliers.com AKC-registered Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppies, with first set of shots, Florida Health Certificates and a one-year health guarantee, are available. Dams and sires are heart and eye clear. All puppies are crate-trained, socialized and started on potty training.

OCEAN REEF 1537 Atlantic Blvd., Stes. 33, 37, 39 & 41, Neptune Beach, 246-0999 Owner Mike Brainard has expanded this Beaches landmark pet store – it’s now stretched over four storefronts, serving Northeast Florida and the beaches for more than 19 years (30 overall). Ocean Reef specializes in saltwater fish, freshwater fish and reptiles and reefs, corals, plants and all manner of aquatic supplies for tanks and aquariums.

PAWFECTION BAKERY 8467 Windypine Lane, Ortega, 626-1676, pawfectionbakery.com Innovative wheat-free, soy-free and corn-free dog and cat treats and cakes are made with fresh ingredients daily, right here in Jacksonville. There are scads of other stuff, too: bandanas, beds, chews, collars, leashes, costumes, clothing and accessories, plus people things, like mugs and magnets.

(Is it just us, or do dogs and cats always look embarrassed wearing clothes?)

PETCO 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 260-3225, petco.com 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., Ste. 145, Jax Beach, 273-0964 11900 Atlantic Blvd., Intracoastal, 997-8441 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 215-7498 463713 S.R. 200, Yulee, 225-0014 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, 824-8520 These full-service pet stores offers dog training, grooming, vaccination clinics and adoption meet-and-greets as well as a complete selection of supplies for both domestic and exotic pets. Seminars on pet-care topics are held regularly; check with the Petco nearest you for details. (Training is temporarily unavailable at Atlantic Boulevard location.)

PETSMART 8801 Southside Blvd., Ste. 3, Southside, 519-8878, petsmart.com 10261 River Marsh Dr., Ste. 143, St. Johns Town Center, 997-1335 356 Monument Rd., Regency, 724-4600 1919 Wells Rd., Orange Park, 579-2362 9515 Crosshill Blvd., Ste. 113, Oakleaf, 777-8688 13141 City Station Dr., Northside, 696-0289 1779 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 495-0785 This pet store chain offers supplies and services for all kinds of pets – dogs, cats, fish, birds, reptiles – including a variety of food, healthcare items, collars, crates, grooming items, training books and pet clothing. PetSmart has chinchillas, gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice and rats, too. Services include boarding, grooming, training, vet services and Doggie Day Camp.

PET SUPERMARKET 1020 Ponce de Leon Blvd. S., St. Augustine, 824-5876, petsupermarket.com 10485 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 886-9300 609 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 249-6884 835 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 276-4042 3760 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, 739-3310 4524 St. Johns Ave., Avondale, 384-2006 1416 Sadler Rd., Fernandina, 277-4115

PET WORLD 10400 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 13, Mandarin, 262-4646, petworldpets.com This holistic dog and cat spa and supply store, in business for more than 25 years, also features a full grooming salon and puppies for sale. The products are natural and additivefree. Treats include cookies, cakes, biscuits and chews. The boutique stocks shampoos, treatments, candles and sprays.

Leashes, collars, harnesses, bedding and crates are available.

PET WORLD 3350 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 797-2582 For more than 25 years, the independent pet store has offered a full line of supplies, with an emphasis on aquatics. Fresh and saltwater fish, birds, reptiles, support products and supplies are available. Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; noon-5 p.m. Sun. REDBONES DOG BAKERY & BOUTIQUE 809 Eighth St. S., Fernandina Beach, 321-0020, 800-693-1315, redbonesbakery.com The canine-centric bakery offers more than 30 kinds of homemade-style doggie treats, using all-natural human-grade ingredients, as well as all-natural premium holistic organic pet foods and supplements. The boutique sells collars, leashes, toys, harnesses, spa products and oral health products. Free dog washes and adoptions are also held. Open daily.

Treat your dog to a vacation while you’re away!

• BRAND NEW 10,000 sq. ft. facility • All-inclusive Luxury Boarding • Attendant on-site 24 hours a day • Grooming Services & Day Care • Recreational Yards & • Web Cams for Checking on Your Pooch

DAY CARE & BOARDING

BARK AVENUE PET RESORT 10427 Alta Dr., Northside, 757-3295, barkavenue-petresort.com This place is more than just a kennel – Bark Avenue is an allinclusive luxury pet-care and boarding facility to pamper your pals when you’re away, featuring all the amenities you’d want.

Professional grooming, too.

BARK ON PARK 1021 Park St., Riverside, 356-4530, thebarkboutique.com The upscale urban dog retreat and boutique offers everything canine, from products – food, collars, leashes, beds and blankets – and grooming to daycare, boarding and training.

CAPTIVATING ACRES PET RESORT 7759 Plummer Rd., Northside, 716-6162, captivatingacres.com This family-owned, 14-acre facility features indoor and outdoor runs for the pet boarded while the owners are away.

All pets are required to be up to date on shots. An initial interview is necessary to access the pet’s temperament to make sure it’s a good fit. Pick-up and drop-off are available for an additional fee. Reservations are recommended.

Relaxing for your dog & convenient for you when you’re away!

Call today to reserve a spot!

904.757.3295 • barkavenue-petresort.com 10427 ALTA DRIVE • JACKSONVILLE, FL

DOGTOWN USA 6988 U.S. 1, St. Augustine, 347-2363, dogtownresorts.com 11740 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 337-9840 This all-indoor, climate-controlled facility is dedicated to providing a safe, secure and friendly boarding, day-care and grooming facility for pets.

FRESH PRINTS PET LODGE & DAY RESORT 3327 Peach Dr., Southside, 642-9988, freshprintspetresort.com The family-owned kennel caters to pets, with professional grooming, boarding, an off-leash dog park, birthday parties and special events for your furry (or not so furry) friends.

Accessories and day care for dogs are also featured.

JULINGTON CREEK ANIMAL WALK & HOSPITAL 12075 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 300 (resort), Mandarin, 338-9480, jcaw.com 12075 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 100 (hospital), 268-6731 The full-service pet resort offers lodging, day care, grooming and training. A nine-acre, off-leash dog park is also featured.

The hospital features six veterinarians and offers pet wellness, internal medicine, radiography and emergency care.

PET PARADISE 5140 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, 396-7529, petparadiseresort.com 14272 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-0050 125 Ponce Harbor Dr., St. Augustine, 797-9770 The mission at Pet Paradise is to create a safe, clean and fun environment for all its four-legged guests. Perks include a doggie-treat-shaped pool and late-night potty breaks, pickup and drop-off services by appointment, as well as dog and cat grooming. The Pecan Park location is by the airport.

PURRS ’N’ WOOFS 1650 Margaret St., Ste. 302, Riverside, 316-3955, purrsnwoofs.com Professional, affordable in-home pet-sitting and dog-walking service for Riverside, Avondale, Ortega and Murray Hill neighborhoods.

PET RESCUE & ADOPTION

COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE The third annual Pit Sisters fundraiser is held 6-10 p.m. June 20 at Florida Coastal School of Law Atrium, 8787 Baypine Rd., Southside, pitsisters.org. The nonprofit is “dedicated to giving voices to the most misunderstood dogs.” The event features hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine and liquor, silent auctions and

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TO THE RESCUE <<< FROM PREVIOUS if they’re having a bad day. It brings back independence and dignity.”

Now married and father to an eight-yearold son, it took Simon a while to realize that he would also benefit from the companionship of a service dog.

“I was having a hard enough time taking care of myself, let alone another living being,” he says. “It’s funny, even after we opened K9s [For Warriors], I still didn’t think about getting a dog for another three or four months until I found the one that I wanted for myself.”

Reagan, a female Belgian Malinois named after President Ronald Reagan, found her home with Simon on Veterans Day 2011. She was a gift from a friend.

“One night, out of the blue, my wife looked over at me and said, ‘You’re a much nicer person now that you have your dog,’” Simon remembers. “She noticed that change in a matter of just two weeks of [my] bringing an animal back into my life.”

With his wife, his child and his companion Reagan by his side, Simon has found comfort in his role as Director of Canine Operations at K9s For Warriors. His responsibilities include nearly everything dog-related — from managing the training teams to matching up the right canine with the right veteran.

And he’s excelled.

The program, which utilizes 90 to 95 percent rescue and owner-surrendered breeds like golden retrievers, lab mixes and labradoodles, has placed pups all over, from Germany to Hawaii to Texas. Currently, the K9s matching program has a one-year waiting list.

“There might be something that spooks a veteran that wouldn’t even phase a civilian, like walking through an alleyway,” says Simon. “With a service animal by their side, their mental state is in a much better place.

They have a commitment and unconditional love from a dog that helps them — because that’s what our military guys are about, helping each other out.”

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ABecoming WINKY AND A NOD a foster family

made the Nowickis the most popular family on the block Susan Cooper Eastman sceastman@folioweekly.com

________________________________________ WHEN REBECCA NOWICKI PICKED UP a nineday old kitten from Animal Care & Protective Services in March, she didn’t think the brownand-gray tabby would make it through the night. The kitten screeched with hunger and shivered. When Rebecca put her finger in the kitten’s mouth, it felt like ice, she says. She put the kitten inside her shirt on the ride back to her Avondale home to try to keep him warm.

“We stayed up all night with him,” she says.

When she called Animal Care in the morning, the staff was surprised. They didn’t think he’d make it either. “He lived?” one asked.

The Nowickis named the tabby kitten Winky. He was the first kitten that the Nowickis fostered. He had been found with a litter of six other kittens and a mama cat. They also fostered the litter and helped to find most of them homes.

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Winky, who’s now three months old, was adopted by a classmate of the Nowickis’ 10-year-old daughter Lulu.

The girl lives nearby on Richmond Street. Winky shares the Sharp household with a golden retriever named Blondie and is one very happy kitten, according to Sally Sharp.

“He is just an extraordinary cat,” she says.

With kitten season at its peak, Animal Care & Protective Services is looking for more families like the Nowickis to join the “Kitten Army,” says foster coordinator Becca Willard. ACPS currently has more than 600 kittens in foster care, with another 20 to 30 new kittens arriving every day, Willard says. Foster families care for newborn kittens until they are old enough to be spayed and neutered, then micro-chipped and adopted. To see the animals in foster care, check out the Jacksonville Foster Pet Showcase page on Facebook.

The Nowickis decided to join the Foster Army after Lulu suffered a broken femur during a horseback riding competition on March 14. Lulu required immediate surgery and faced a long, painful convalescence.

A family that the Nowickis stayed with in Tampa while Lulu had surgery were fostering kittens and Lulu asked her mother if they could foster kittens, too. Rebecca thought caring for kittens — with the assistance of her two younger sisters and older brother — might help Lulu weather the ordeal.

“At that point I would have said yes to anything,” she says.

While Lulu convalesced, first in a wheelchair, and then, as she says, “crutching around,” caring for Winky and the other kittens kept her spirits up. “It made it [my recovery] not so boring as it might have been,” says Lulu.

“And watching the kittens is funny,” adds sister Cecilia, 8.

In addition to providing care, Rebecca has made it her mission to try to find homes for the kittens the family fosters. They are currently caring for nine kittens, a mama cat and an eight-week old puppy called Mason.

Neighborhood children are eager to visit the animals. “We’ve become a destination,” says Rebecca Nowicki, laughing. She also carts the kittens and Mason to pick up children for play dates, to her son John’s baseball games, as well as out to the barn where the family boards their horses. There’s always kids around who want to hold a kitten or a puppy, she explains. Or as the father of one of her children’s friends commented, “I know what you’re doing, Devil.”

Nowicki says the family will keep fostering kittens, especially during kitten season, which dovetails nicely with summer vacation.

“I grew up on a farm,” said Nowicki. “We had kittens and lots of other animals, and I was kind of sad my children didn’t have that experience and that responsibility. Fostering

“We stayed up all night with him.” When she called Animal Care in the morning, the staff was surprised. They didn’t think he’d make it either. “He lived?”

— rebecca nowicki

kittens is like the best of both worlds. They are getting that little bit of farm life in the city.”

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AKITA HAPPINESS When it comes to loyalty, Dorie Sparkman could probably teach a dog a thing or two Keith Marks kmarks@folioweekly.com

________________________________________ LOYAL, COURAGEOUS, AND DIGNIFIED — adjectives used to describe the temperament of a hardy breed of dog originally from Japan, the Akita. Fitting words also used to describe the Akita’s best friend this side of the Mississippi: Dorie Sparkman.

Sparkman never had children of her own; her children were the Scout troop she led for 25 years, the dogs she rescued and trained for over 40 years, and the students she taught with special needs for 30 years in the Duval Public County School System. In short, she’s given her life over to dogs, specifically Akitas.

As owner and operator of Emerson Kennels (a boarding house specializing in large breed dogs) and matriarch of the Akita Rescue Society of Florida, Sparkman has dedicated her life to be being a protector and an educator. For more than 30 years, Sparkman taught children with a wide range of special learning needs in the Springfield neighborhood. Since 1974, she’s spent her nights and weekends teaching canine obedience classes at Emerson Kennels (she still teaches a class on Tuesday nights).

The original owner of Emerson Kennels — a German Shepherd breeder to whom Sparkman refers with respect in her voice as “Mr. Mac” — taught her what he knew about dogs. In 1979, Sparkman and her husband rescued their first Akita from a gentleman who was keeping too many of the dogs in a

shed near the kennel. Shortly thereafter, she showed them in obedience and conformation shows all over the nation. In 1985, she incorporated the Akita Rescue Society of Florida, forfeiting any salary in exchange to house the Akitas at Emerson Kennels.

Following Mr. Mac’s death, Sparkman bought the kennel from the family in 1997.

“Dorie is the least selfish person I know,” says Courtney Krug, an Akita volunteer and adopter, as she sits with Sparkman. The obvious bond, based on an affinity for the breed, connects the two women. Krug and her husband have adopted three Akitas from Sparkman, and volunteer at the kennel on their days off work.

“She dedicates her life to the dogs, making sure they get the right home and that when they do have that home, they have the support and the owners have the support they need,” says Krug. “Dorie is always there, no matter what; that phone doesn’t stop.”

Sparkman smiles, holds the phone up and interjects, “I have it on vibrate right now.”

Krug recounts a story about Sparkman sleeping in the kennel with one of the dogs that the Krugs finally adopted. “She refused to leave him. She doesn’t give up on them, that’s for sure.”

Sparkman serves as den mother to more than 50 volunteers around the Southeast (and beyond). The Akita Rescue Society of Florida serves a range of areas from Miami to Charlotte to Shreveport, and Emerson Kennels acts as the financial anchor for her passion of rescuing and finding homes for Akitas.

More than 200 shelters around the Southeast call Sparkman if they have an Akita. A call begins the process of arranging one of her volunteers to go to the kennel to evaluate the dog for adoptability. If everything checks out, they arrange transportation to get the dog into rescue.

“We never have, and we never will, charge a cent to anyone adopting a dog, because I

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rehabilitation and placement of homeless felines from animal shelters, found stray, abandoned, neglected and/or abused.

MAYPORT CATS INC. mayportcats.com, mayportcats@yahoo.com This nonprofit organization tends to the feral and abandoned cats in Mayport Village, using the TNR program – Trap, Neuter and Release. The all-volunteer staff accepts donations of food, blankets, sheets and towels. A tax-deductible donation helps spay/neuter/vaccinate one local feral cat.

DIRECTORY <<< FROM PREVIOUS dancing. $60 in advance, $75 at the door. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit’s medical and operating expenses.

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

CLAY COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL 3984 S.R. 16 W., Green Cove Springs, 269-6342 Adoption center: 1809 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 529-4733 Clay County, First Coast No More Homeless Pets and PetSmart Charities have teamed up to offer Spay Clay, a spay/neuter and rabies vaccination of all pets of low-income Clay County residents, for only $20. No required additional charges. Free weekly transports are also available. Volunteers always needed.

CLAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 2230 Filmore St., Orange Park, 276-7729, clayhumane.org The Clay County Humane Society operates a not-for-profit, low-cost spay and neuter clinic that provides all forms of affordable veterinary care, including behavioral counseling and disaster preparation. The clinic is open Mon.-Sat. FIRST COAST NO MORE HOMELESS PETS 6817 Norwood Ave., Northside, 425-0005, fcnmhp.org The mission of FCNMHP is to eliminate the killing of dogs and cats through free and low-cost spay/neuter programs.

FCNMHP partners with city and county animal control departments, pet stores, vets and animal hospitals to help ensure homeless animals find good homes. Many events are held throughout Northeast Florida to raise funds for the animals’ care, including Mega Pet Adoption. FCNMHP, Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services and Jacksonville Humane Society offer more than 1,000 pets from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. July 17, 18 and 19 at Jacksonville Fairgrounds, 510 Fairground Place, Downtown. The $20 fee includes spay/ neuter, microchip, vaccines and city license. The free and lowcost spay and neuter programs have income requirements.

The Mega Pet Adoption is a quarterly event.

FLAGLER HUMANE SOCIETY 1 Shelter Dr., Palm Coast, 386-445-1814, flaglerhumanesociety.org FHS takes in homeless animals, cares for them and finds them homes. FHS also offers a spay/neuter program, foster parent program and microchipping. Volunteers are welcome.

Fundraisers and county licensing fees help fund the programs.

The food bank program is a relatively new program for families with financial difficulties. Flagler Humane Society will temporarily provide pet food; there are certain requirements.

FRIENDS OF JACKSONVILLE ANIMALS 2020 Forest St., Downtown, friendsofjaxanimals.com This nonprofit works directly with Animal Care & Protective Services, to benefit the lives of shelter animals by assisting with fundraising, medical care, adoption and advocate for animal welfare. Efforts include enriching shelter environment and reducing the euthanasia rate.

FRIENDS of ST. JOHNS COUNTY PET CENTER 130 N. Stratton Rd., St. Augustine, 209-6190 FOSJCPC is a nonprofit supporting the St. Johns County Pet Adoption & Holding Center.

JACKSONVILLE ANIMAL CARE & PROTECTIVE SERVICES 2020 Forest St., Riverside, 630-2489, jaxpets@coj.net Animal Care & Protective Services have hundreds of animals for adoption 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, 725-8766, jaxhumane.org JHS offers adoptions for spayed/neutered, vaccinated and microchipped pets. Animals older than 3 are free. The popular Camp Paw Prints, 8 a.m.-noon weekdays, June 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, July 6-10, 27-31, Aug. 3-7 and Aug. 10-14, is for campers ages 7-13, teamed and assigned a dog to be adopted. Campers teach basic obedience, exercise and groom the dog. The cost is $150 per week session per child, which includes a T-shirt, goodie bag, snacks and drinks and all activities and materials.

LUCKY CAT ADOPTIONS P.O. Box 8490, Fleming Island FL 32006, 888-545-4567, luckycatadoptions.org The volunteer nonprofit cat rescue group’s mission is to improve the welfare of stray and abandoned cats and kittens throughout the metropolitan area, through the rescue,

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NASSAU COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES 86078 License Rd., Fernandina, 491-7440, nassaucountyfl.com NCAS promotes and protects public safety and animal care through sheltering, adoption programs, education and animal law enforcement.

NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY 639 Airport Rd., Fernandina Beach, 321-1647, nassauhumanesociety.com The no-kill shelter is dedicated to the humane treatment of all animals, pet rescue and adoption. The grounds feature a large dog park, with a bone-shaped swimming pool, four bathing stations, a waterfall pool, small dog play area, and a training area. Sales of the retail store help support animal rescue efforts.

THE OLD DOG HOUSE 1650 Margaret St., Ste. 302, Riverside, 419-7387, theolddoghouse.org The rescue group for older and senior dogs is a nonprofit, 501c3 charity that always needs volunteers to take in the dogs.

PET RESCUE NORTH INC. 477-1000, petrescuenorth.com For 25 years, the nonprofit no-kill animal shelter has been rescuing, treating, spay/neutering, finding homes for and sheltering abandoned cats and dogs.

PIT SISTERS kym@pitsisters.org, pitsisters.org This local pitbull rescue organization focuses on saving animals from shelters throughout Northeast Florida. Volunteers help with rehabilitation, care and feeding of pitbulls until they can be adopted. The new mobile training program offers free training; check for details and areas served.

SAFE ANIMAL SHELTER 2913 C.R. 220, Middleburg, 276-7233, safeanimalshelter.com The no-kill shelter provides temporary safe haven for abused, abandoned, lost and unwanted cats and dogs until they can be adopted in a permanent home. SAS advocates spay/neuter to control animal overpopulation. Volunteers and donations are always welcome.

WAGS & WHISKERS PET RESCUE 1967 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 797-1913 (dog rescue), 797-6039 (cat rescue), wwpetrescue.org The nonprofit rehomes animals in St. Johns County. The various ways to help include pet socialization, cleaning, fostering, and feeding animals, and volunteering at the monthly dog wash or weekly adoptions.

YOUR PETS’ HOME AWAY FROM HOME

TRAINING & GROOMING

A1A DOG TRAINING 1665 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 377-0037, a1adogtraining.com A1A Dog Training offers private canine problem-solving classes, obedience and agility group classes, training for service and therapy dogs.

GREEN DOG SPA 11048 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 7, 683-5301, greendogspa.com The full-service grooming salon, which practices a natural, holistic approach to dog and cat care, offers haircuts, spa packages, facials, body scrubs, pawdicures, aromatherapy, teeth-cleaning, de-shedding and special needs massages. The spa has accessories, treats, supplements and clothing.

K-9 HAIRSTYLES 1204 Third St. N., Jax Beach, 270-8494, k9hairstyles.com Professional dog groomers specialize in grooming young, geriatric and difficult pets. Owner Michaelle Boyajian, who is a member of the National Dog Groomers Association of America with more than 25 years’ experience, offers ear-cleaning, hand-massaged bath, brush-out, gentle no-heat-fan coat dry, breed-specific haircuts, nail-trimming and filing, anal gland expression, dematting and tear stain removal.

K-9 TRAINING CENTER 1763 East Rd., Southside, 379-1727, k-9trainingcenter.org The center offers training in obedience and conformation for puppies and adult dogs. A grooming salon is onsite, as well as stylist and trainer schools. Training for K-9 dogs and service dogs is also available. Free dog training for military vets with PTSD is offered; call for details. They also have a school for training, with services done by students; for details, go to jacksonvilleanimalcareeracademy.org.

904-268-6731

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PRECIOUS PET 12041 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, Southside, 683-0187, preciouspetgroomingsalon.com Professional certified groomers offer grooming for all breeds of cats and dogs, featuring show styles, scissoring, shed-outs and shampooing, as well as teeth-cleaning, gland treatments and nail polishing. K9 dog training and obedience training, too.

Precious Pet boards pets, long-term or day care, and helps rescued dogs get adopted.

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TO THE RESCUE <<< FROM PREVIOUS feel like that money is the thing that gets in the way between the adopter and the shelter adopting the dog,” says Sparkman. “You asked how we have such wonderful volunteers willing to do so much. I ask of them a lot more than the $50 or $100 you’d ask for an adoption fee, and I ask them to become fundraisers, I ask them to become dogwalkers, transporters, evaluators at shelters.

When they adopt from our shelter, they become a part of our team.”

After purchasing the kennel, Sparkman and her husband moved from a comfortable house in San Marco into a trailer that sits adjacent to the kennel.

“I’ve also managed to save money over the years, and I bought up everything around me.

It’s all paid for,” Sparkman says with a joyous grin. “Nobody can move in and have a problem with the dogs.”

In addition to the 40-plus dogs currently in the kennel, Sparkman has her own Akita that stays in her trailer. Tyra the Honey Badger is an Akita with esophagus issues, rescued from South Carolina. Sparkman says she purposely takes the one that nobody wants. “Who’s going to adopt a dog that throws up all the time?” she asks as she strokes Tyra.

“Everything I did was geared for rescue. My whole life was planned around that, so to do

rescue work, you need to have a long-term plan. If I take in a puppy tomorrow, that dog is going to live another 12 years. That means I have to do rescue work for the next 12 years because I’m never out of rescue until the last dog I have in shelter is dead,” Sparkman says. “So I think that would be the lesson that other rescuers should know: that it’s wonderful to volunteer with a rescue, but unless you’re in it for the long-term, don’t start rescuing dogs unless you can follow through.”

Sparkman fixates a loving gaze on the Krugs’ two canines. ”Look at those dogs,” she says. “Dogs that could be dead. That’s my paycheck right there.” _______________________

“We never have, and we never will, charge a cent to anyone adopting a dog, because I feel like that money is the thing that gets in the way between the adopter and the shelter adopting the dog,” — dorie sparkman, akita rescue society of florida & emerson kennels

For those interested in finding out more, becoming a financial sponsor, and/or thinking about adopting an Akita, go to arsf.org.

WHEN NURTURE DEVOURS NATURE “REAL” STORIES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA PET LOVERS WHO TOOK IT TOO FAR BIG BO LOVES ME, THIS I KNOW (FOR HIS TAIL WAGS EVER SO) Chad Plentz loves two things in life: God and his recently deceased pit bull, Big Bo. But when nearly a dozen local churches denied Plentz what he calls his “God-given right” to a memorial service for Big Bo on their hallowed grounds, the 27-year-old Lakewood resident began rethinking his views on both religion and pit bull tributes.

Plentz went online, searching for more information on churches, religions, and pit bulls.

And after a few simple mouse-clicks, he was divinely inspired by what he discovered.

“Not only could I start my own church – I could start my own religion, too,” says the part-time custom-tattoo artist, who explains that his specialty lies in creating plain crosses, crucifixes, Celtic crosses, pit bulls, and “pretty much any design that looks like a cross, pit bull, or lowercase ‘t’.”

Plentz admits that his reasons for opening a new church are twofold: He feels as if Christianity in Northeast Florida has “gone lame” over the years. And Plentz wanted to make sure that he, and the rest of world, would never forget Big Bo. On May 25, 2015, Big Bo Church officially opened, the only church of its kind – with a four-legged savior – in Duval County.

While Plentz has yet to secure a location, he’s certain that once others hear the gospel of “Bigboianity,” many will join “the pack.”

“All are welcome to come to our church and worship Big Bo,” says the-now-Pastor Plentz, sitting in his lawn chair, penciling out notes for his Big Bo Bible.

“Imagine the New Testament. Now close your eyes and visualize a bunch of pit bulls running around everywhere in each chapter and verse. That’s Bigboianity.”

Plentz says that he hopes to have the fi nished work published as an eBook some time next year.

“The truth is eternal and each day I find great comfort in the scriptures that I’m rewriting and improving up,” he says, citing Effhezians 3:19:2015: “May you 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | JUNE 10-16, 2015

experience the love of Big Bo, who is a good boy, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from Big Bo. Now c’mon, Big Bo, get!”

CROSSING THE PARTY LINE In their opposition to marriage equality, some noted Republicans have made headlines comparing homosexuality to bestiality. So when several collegiate conservatives in Northeast Florida were arrested for trying to import wild animals – specifically, their party’s political mascot – suspicions about what the kids were up to abounded.

“There are two things every young Republican loves,” says Tad Astor, interim president of the Young Men’s Coastal Association of Republicans (YMCA-R).

“Atlas Shrugged is required reading, but Bachelor Party is required viewing,” Astor says of the Ayn Rand and Tom Hanks works, respectively. “Most members can recite [Bachelor Party] line for line.”

Members of YMCA-R were reportedly planning an event in which the entertainment was inspired by a famous bestiality-tinged scene from the 1984 film. According to the invitations sent only to YMCA-R members, guests of the themed party were to be treated to a performance from “Mercedes Thatcher: provocateur of the only Elephant Show in the Western Hemisphere.”

“Honestly, I’d be shocked if we, I mean they, were the first ones to do something like [the elephant show],” says Astor.

The implicated party planners are out on bail and are awaiting school discipline, though it’s reported their parents have weighed the suspension of all platinum credit card privileges.

TENDER-TINDER Inspired by the farm-to-table movement, which encourages relationship-building between farmers and consumers, and increased knowledge of where food comes from, Flagler college student and startup founder Shawn Eisenberg developed his newest iPhone application. Tender operates in much the same way as

the application from which it playfully takes its name, but instead of swiping through pictures of handsome manmeat, users of Tender are able to select premium cuts of Angus beef, New York strip, and T-bones.

“I’m really busy, so I don’t have a lot of time to go to a farm and meet a whole bunch of cows I may not like,” said cofounder Josh Holcomb as he demonstrated the benefi ts of the app from the One Spark pitch deck in April.

“Now I know if I’m going to have a pleasurable experience, before I ever put anything in my mouth.”

IN DOXIE LAND I’LL MAKE MY STAND A Northeast Florida couple has put a fun and furry spin on Civil War reenactments, giving newbies and military buffs alike the chance to experience a new way to enjoy this American historical “tail.”

Their names are Mike and Karen Warren and they’ve conscripted their two dachshunds into becoming adorable soldiers in the frontlines of reenacting some of the bloodiest battles ever waged on American soil.

“One night we were watching that fantastic Commemorative Edition of Ken Burns’ The Civil War, enjoying the director’s commentary yet again,” explains Mike, as he gives Folio Weekly a tour of various photos of Civil War interest and dachshunds in the living room of their Ortega home. “While we were viewing disc four, both of the dogs were staring at the TV screen as if they were hypnotized. And that’s when Karen and I knew.”

The Warrens acknowledge that they’ve always been fascinated by the war between the Union and the Confederacy that occurred between 1861-’65, “or at least until Glory came out,” says Karen, citing the 1989 film starring Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick (who sported convincing period-piece facial hair on his pasty-white visage).

But their love for all things concerning the War Between the States kicked into high gear when their two adopted rescue dachshunds seemed mesmerized

by Burns’ award-winning documentary series.

“That was the turning point,” says Mike. “From then on, we went from being mere military-doxie buffs to founding a whole new way of

honoring those brave men and women, while also forcing our two little wiener dogs into wearing clothes and play war for Mommy and Daddy.”

As if on cue, the “Blue and the Gray” come scampering into the living room.

Dressed in the traditional uniforms of the Union and Confederate military, Union General Winfield Doubleday and Confederate Cavalry Commander Beauregard Mosby wander slowly around the room until they both lie down on opposite sides of the carpet. “Look at them,” whispers Karen, “It’s just like brother against brother.”

“I tell you what, while dachshunds might be known for their playfulness and lively spirit, they’re remarkably adept at tactical field combat maneuvering and guerillastyle military strategy,” offers Mike.

Despite their zeal for the always-active local community of Civil War reenactment events, the Warrens are disappointed that their doxie soldiers have been consistently denied enlistment in mock battles as far afield as Olustee and McGirts Creek.

“Like everything else in life, it comes down to who you know,” says a visibly frustrated Karen. “So our dogs don’t have fancy, elaborate costumes, so they can’t carry muskets and don’t like the sound of fireworks, let alone cannons … should those minor shortcomings keep them from enjoying their Constitutional right to run around and ‘play dead’ with a few hundred humans?”

While Commander Mosby furiously chewed at the miniature belt keeping his wool breeches in place, General Doubleday stared vacantly at the shoe molding and carpet. Doubleday then began frantically jerking his head to seemingly loosen the small cap securely strapped into place and emblazoned with the three-star insignia denoting the highest military ranking.

“At ease, soldiers!” barked Mike, as the dogs stared dejectedly at each other. “Now let me show you their pinpoint accuracy in reenacting the Skirmish at Cottonmouth Creek by having them run down the hallway to the guest bathroom.”

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JACKSON VETERINARY HOSPITAL 1925 A1A S., St. Augustine, 471-3044, jacksonveterinarypractice.com The full-service veterinary hospital offers preventive services, medical care and surgery, as well as boarding and bathing.

NORTH FLORIDA VETERINARY SPECIALISTS 3444 Southside Blvd., Ste. 102, Jacksonville, 646-1279, nfvs.com Since 1997, NFVS has served as an internal medicine and oncology veterinary specialty practice providing advanced diagnostics and 24-hour care.

DIRECTORY <<< FROM PREVIOUS RAD DOG: PET SALON & SERVICES 9823 Tapestry Park Cir., Ste. 13, Southside, 503-3330, raddogjax.com The experienced groomers are well-trained to ensure your satisfaction and your pet’s safety.

SOCIETY PET SPA 1665 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 829-2737, staughumane.org The dog grooming salon offers everything from basic baths to breed-specific haircuts, pawdicures and facials. Proceeds benefit St. Augustine Humane Society’s charity programs.

WOOF GANG BAKERY & GROOMING 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 9, Intracoastal, 619-8086 Full-service dog grooming by certified, experienced groomers, pet adoption events, gourmet dog treats, healthful pet foods, supplies, accessories and toys.

VETERINARY & EMERGENCY SERVICES

AFFILIATED VETERINARY SPECIALISTS 3444 Southside Blvd., Ste. 103, Jacksonville, 646-1287, avspethospitals.com AVS are local specialty, referral veterinary practices that offer surgery, internal medicine, rehabilitation and ophthalmology with board-certified doctors.

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

ANIMAL HOSPITAL OF HODGES 13947 Beach Blvd., Ste. 105, Intracoastal, 992-1888, hodgesanimalhospital.com The veterinary hospital offers preventive care, boarding and emergency care. The knowledgeable team also makes house calls. Open Monday-Saturday; on call on Sunday.

ATLANTIC EAST ANIMAL CLINIC 519 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 246-8300, atlanticeastanimalclinic.com Dr. John Green and Dr. Erin Bendick, at this full-service veterinary hospital for more than 35 years, offer surgical and therapeutic laser services to ensure your pet has comprehensive veterinary care. Wellness services, vaccination programs and dental work are also available.

BARTRAM PARK ANIMAL HOSPITAL 13760 Old St. Augustine Rd., Julington Creek, 402-8222, bartramparkanimals.com This full-service animal care facility offers well-pet plans, preventive care, vaccines and dental work, as well as medical or surgical intervention. It’s also a credentialed center for stem cell therapy (vet-stem).

BEST VETS 2107 Mango Place, San Marco, 900-0220, bestvetsjax.com Best Veterinary Emergency Treatment & Specialties is committed to providing quality emergency and specialty care for animals at reasonable rates. Open daily.

EMERGENCY & CRITICAL CARE PET HOSPITAL 14185 Beach Blvd., Ste. 7, Southside, 223-8000, 911-vet.com The pet hospital provides emergency and critical care for the Northeast Florida pet community. They’re open after-hours at nights, weekends and on all major holidays.

HERSCHEL ANIMAL CLINIC 4030 Herschel St., Avondale, 389-0364, herschelanimalclinic.com Serving Northeast Florida since 1960, this veterinary clinic provides basic wellness and high-quality preventive veterinary medicine, surgery and services at affordable rates.

HIRSCH ANIMAL HOSPITAL 220 Valley Circle, Ste. 101, Ponte Vedra, 285-0023, hirschanimalhospital.com Cary Hirsch, DVM, and Robin Chambers, DVM, have been providing services, using state-of-the-art equipment, for more than 12 years. The small-animal clinic services include skin allergy testing, Western and Eastern medical and surgical care, spay/neuter, vaccines, acupuncture, internal medicine, dental care, nutrition counseling (holistic and non-holistic diet plans), ophthalmology and eye, ear, nose and throat care, as well as boarding and grooming.

OCEANVIEW VETERINARY HOSPITAL 1210 Third St. N., Jax Beach, 246-3600, oceanviewvet.com This full-service veterinary medical facility, using advanced treatment protocols, offers bathing, boarding, endoscopy, microchipping, surgery, vaccinations, dental, nutrition counseling, parasite prevention and control, and wellness exams. Oceanview sees dogs, cats, ferrets, birds, reptiles, rabbits and small mammals and exotic pets.

PET DOCTORS OF AMERICA 14471 Beach Blvd., Ste. 42, Intracoastal, 223-5700, petdoctorsofamerica.com 1103 Third St. S., Jax Beach, 853-6223 Pet Doctors of America is a professional veterinary medical center that provides animal healthcare, focusing on patient care and customer service, as well as full-service boarding and grooming services. Open daily.

ST. AUGUSTINE HUMANE SOCIETY 1665 Old Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine, 829-2737, staughumane.org The Society offers low-cost wellness services and spay/neuter surgery. The clinic offers vaccines, microchips, flea and tick preventives, heartworm tests and more.

ST. AUGUSTINE VETERINARY EMERGENCY CARE 2090 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 797-5770, staugveter.com The mission of this medical facility is to provide emergency animal care in a caring environment. The professional staff is committed to the well-being of every pet.

ST. FRANCIS ANIMAL HOSPITAL 2107 Mango Place, San Marco, 674-7223, saintfrancisanimalhospital.org St. Francis Animal Hospital is a nonprofit, full-service animal hospital whose mission is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to owned pets. Open daily, but call for specific services available during specific times. Services include primary care, emergency care, dentistry, surgeries and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. St. Francis is the only area hospital providing this therapy for pets which, in combination with traditional therapies, has been shown to reduce healing time for wounds, snake bites, toxicities, and post-surgery to promote healing.

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

PET PHOTOGRAPHY

ENCOMPASSING CREATIONS 451 Monument Rd., Arlington, 678-416-7636, encompassingcreations.com This company is dedicated to capturing the moments in your pets’ lives. Any pet is welcome.

DOG PARKS & PET ACTIVITIES

DOG WOOD PARK 7407 Salisbury Rd., Southside, 296-3636, jaxdogs.com This 42-acre off-leash park has two swimming ponds – one for big dogs, one for dogs less than 25 pounds, hiking trails, play equipment, a shady area, 25 fenced acres and a dog shower for muddy paws. All male dogs 8 months and older must be neutered to enter the park; all dogs must be current on rabies vaccines. For fees and more details, hit the website.

PAINTING WITH A TWIST 292 S.R. 312, St. Augustine, 386-965-7066, paintingwithatwist.com/staugustine 268 Solana Rd., Ponte Vedra, 687-4307 1525 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville, 399-8399 This is different – the pet owner paints a portrait of their pet in a class or at a party. Bring your own refreshments and have fun while professional art instructors guide even the worst artists to render a reasonable facsimile of the beloved pet.

POOCHIE’S SWIM & PLAYPARK 21 Fountain Dr., Orange Park, 272-4545, poochiespark.com Poochie’s, a boarding and day camp, groomer, pet spa, dog park and school, has seven acres with trees and swimming ponds. Black Creek Pet Clinic is onsite.

PET-FRIENDLY PLACES, PET RESOURCES

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

CREATURES GREAT & SMALL PET SERVICES 703-8581, jaxpetsitter.com This local pet-sitting service also offers dog walking, house checks, dog running and overnight visits.

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DREAM LETTERS SARA PEDIGO St. Augustine-based artist Sara Pedigo uses the template of

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still life painting as a launching pad to create truly singular works that are poignant, ruminative, and beautiful. Many of Pedigo’s paintings are sourced from a box of old family photos, from which she creates “false memories” with oil on canvas and panel. Her show, Brimming with Casual News, is co-curated by fellow artists Tony Rodrigues and Roy Albert Berry under their Danger Tape imprint, a self-described “transient visual arts project.” They utilize various venues to present vital work by local artists. An opening reception is 6-9 p.m. June 12 at Hawthorn Salon, Riverside; the exhibit runs through August, hawthornsalon.com.

TYCHO

Tycho fuses ambient tonalities, state-ofthe-art technology, and analog synths into an rhythmic, atmospheric wave that sounds like the logical descendant of the tripped-out sounds of early ’70s German artists like Popol Vuh, Neu!, Brainticket, and early Kraftwerk. In live performance, California-born musician Scott Hansen – aka Tycho – and his touring band recreate his critically acclaimed studio albums onstage, while a hi-tech, multimedia light show provides a luminous commentary on the electronic sounds shimmering through the club. 8 p.m. June 11 with openers Autograf at Freebird Live, Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20.

ATTACK OF THE COWBOY BOOTS! FLORIDA COUNTRY SUPERFEST

Good Golly, Miss Molly! The Florida Country Superfest features a veritable cornucopia of yeehaw faves, like Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban (pictured), Brantley Gilbert, Cole Swindell, Tyler Farr, David Nail, Colt Ford, Danielle Bradbery, and the Swon Brothers. Cowboy hats and gigantic pickup trucks optional. 5 p.m. June 13 & 14 at EverBank Field, Downtown, $40-$250, floridacountrysuperfest.com.

HOMEGROWN HUMOR

THAT ONE SHOW Get yer laffs, yuks, chortles, guffaws … you get the idea, with the debut of this (hopefully ongoing) local comedy showcase featuring the likes of Chris Buck (pictured), Brian Fox, Katrina Davis, and Herman Nazworth.

While the term “alternative comedy” might be played out like a Blood, Sweat & Tears 8-track, these folks are sure to entertain and, it’s hoped, offend! 8 p.m. June 11 at 1904 Music Hall, Downtown, $5, 1904musichall.com.

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JACKSONVILLE SUNS COMIC CON DAY

Finally! Folio Weekly and the Jacksonville Suns have joined forces (almost a pun!) to create an event that combines America’s two national pastimes: baseball and our sometimes-crazed-obsession with Star Wars! During Comic Con Day with the Suns, not only will our hometown heroes take on the Tennessee Smokies, but the first 1,000 kids through the gates get a free lightsword and the crowd will be treated with lightsaber dueling by students from Master Will’s Jedi Academy of North Florida. And, yes, costumes for the kids and Cosplay for the adults are most surely encouraged. 12:05 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Downtown, $7.50$25.50, jaxsuns.com.

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here’s a point about midway through this The Beach Boys, along with his brothers Carl film when manipulative Dr. Eugene Landy (Brett Davern) and Dennis (Kenny Wormald), (Paul Giamatti) is such a cruel shmuck to cousin Mike Love (Jake Abel) and family the already-cowed and broken Brian Wilson friend Al Jardine (Graham Rogers). The (John Cusack) that you just want to punch group, managed by Brian, Carl and Dennis’ him. Hard. He’s a puppetmaster, a shrink rigid father Murry (Bill Camp), sang songs who’s convinced Brian, the musical genius of of summer fun — surfing, cars, girls, friends the Beach Boys who gave the world “Good — regularly racking up No. 1 hits. Murry Vibrations” and “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (Yeah, is especially hard on Brian, offering little as well as “Little Deuce Coupe” and “Our praise to counter his physical and emotional Car Club”) that he needs a shrink directing brutality. In short, he’s a prick. It’s so sad his every move 24/7. Dr. Shithead (Giamatti that the adult Brian allowed himself to be expertly plays him as a weasely maneuvered by an even bigger sycophant) has pumped so many prick; the astonishing drug abuse LOVE & MERCY pills into Brian, the poor man is notwithstanding, it’s as if it’s the ***G in a near-constant fog. On one of only kind of home he knew.

Rated PG-13 his more lucid days, though, Brian Brian tries to share his goes into a Cadillac dealership, expanding knowledge of music where he spots Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth with the other guys, who are into drinking, Banks), a very attractive salesperson. She lets girls, hanging out (at one point allegedly with him sit in what she says is her favorite model, Charlie Manson, though presumably not and an awkward love begins. surfing with him since Charlie don’t) — for him, music is the food of love; but then, so is The film jumps back and forth from this food. He goes deep into himself after a heavy ’80s-era Brian to late ’50s/early ’60s Brian acid trip, becoming so cerebral he neglects (beautifully underplayed by Paul Dano), when his health, binging on junk food and sleeping he was in the very successful California band,

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VENICE THE MENACE FOR THOSE OF YOU CONTEMPLATING A SUMMER vacation abroad to the canals, restaurants, and sights of beautiful Venice, let me recommend two terrific films set in the Italian landmark that you’ll want to watch in advance.

One is an acknowledged masterpiece; the other, a minor gem that’s fallen into disregard. Be warned, however: either or both might also make you think about a different locale for summer fun.

Four years ago, Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now was selected by a panel of that country’s industry experts as the single best English movie ever made. (Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) – with Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles – came in second). Just released in a spectacular Blu-ray edition by the Criterion Collection, Roeg’s masterpiece has never looked better.

Based on a tale by Daphne du Maurier (who also wrote the story on which Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was based), Don’t Look Now is a complex, psychological thriller dealing with grief, love, murder, and clairvoyance. John and Laura (Donald Sutherland, pictured; and Julie Christie), whose young daughter has died in a tragic accident right at the beginning of the fi lm, relocate to Venice, where John is employed restoring one of the city’s many churches.

They cross paths with a pair of middle-aged sisters, one of whom is blind but claims to be gifted with “second sight.” Laura falls under their spell, assured of her dead daughter’s abiding presence, while John remains aloof and skeptical.

Meanwhile, a serial murderer is on the loose, and John is warned by the clairvoyant that his life is in danger. Despite his wife’s fears, he refuses to be cowed by superstition. And then he begins to see in the shadows a small, furtive figure dressed

either way too much or not enough. He quits touring, content to let Bruce Johnston take over his onstage duties.

This introspection leads to the nonpareil album Pet Sounds, not a big seller, but acclaimed by the critics of the day; it’s now reached the apex of cult status. Rolling Stone put it at No. 2 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, topped only by Sgt. Pepper’s.

His short-sighted father didn’t like it, though, and told Brian so. The young man was devastated. His father’s constant rejection surely contributed to his increasing paranoia. Paul Dano shows us a vacant face, mouth agape, a tuned-out, turned-off mind. Yet he’s hearing voices. The method director Bill Pohlad uses to demonstrate the intensity and pervasiveness of these is unsettling; we ache for Brian’s sanity.

That comes very slowly, as years later, Melinda subtly and kindly guides Brian through his psychosis to eventually escape the maniacal clutches of the wack doctor. Brian cannot escape, however; he and Melinda part.

Some time later, she’s tooling down a sunny California street, ragtop down, cruising. A man steps into the road, right in front of her — it’s Brian Wilson! After an awkward reunion (he’s sort of recovered, not fully relaxed; he really wouldn’t ever be) they drive to his childhood home only to find it’s gone — the house, the street. It simply stops; there’s a freeway running through the yard. As the camera pans back to see the couple making cute, we see a station wagon go slowly by. It’s got wood paneling on the sides; kind of like a woodie, kind of like an homage or maybe even a farewell to the Brian Wilson of yesteryear. It’s a nice touch.

As the credits roll, we’re treated to a performance by Brian, singing the theme song. He’s got a sweet way about him and we’re left feeling that he’ll be just fine.

in a red slicker, just like the one his daughter was wearing when she drowned.

Roeg’s films have always been visually stunning, and Don’t Look Now is no exception.

Prior to directing, he was a cinematographer responsible for the striking look of such movies as Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death and François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451. His subsequent approach to telling a story himself (as in Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth) has almost always been elliptical, relying more on the camera and creative editing than straightforward dialogue and typical plot development.

The color red in Don’t Look Now, for instance, is frequently associated with watery images of various types and becomes one of the film’s dominant motifs. “Seeing is believing,” as John says at one point.

Photography and cinematography play major roles as well in Paul Schrader’s The Comfort of

Strangers (1990). Based on an early novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement), the story deals with a couple, Colin and Mary (Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson), who stumble upon the unexpected while on vacation in Venice.

Lost one night, they are rescued and befriended by a strange man (Christopher Walken) and his equally unusual wife (Helen Mirren). As it turns out, the comfort of strangers might be anything but comforting.

Like Schrader’s other films (Hardcore, Auto Focus, and Cat People), The Comfort of Strangers yields an unsettling mix of sex, obsession, and violence, thanks in large part to an incisive and intelligent script by Harold Pinter that’s remarkably faithful to the novel.

As with Don’t Look Now, I doubt you’ll anticipate the ending.

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SUN-RAY CINEMA Mad Max: Fury Road and Spy screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. The free summer kids’ series starts 11:30 a.m. June 10 and 13 with Wreck It Ralph. The LEGO Movie runs June 17 and 20. Grey Gardens, Iris and Slow West screen June 12.

THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Still Alice and American Sniper screen at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Caddyshack screens at noon June 11. Welcome to Me starts June 12. Cowspiracy screens at noon June 14. The Dark Knight runs at noon June 15.

IMAX THEATER Tomorrowland, Galapagos 3D and Humpback Whales 3D, at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. Jurassic World, IMAX Hollywood Film starts June 11.

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INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 **@@ Rated R Writer/director Leigh Whannell’s disjointed, ineptly wrought story is a prequel. “The Further” is another dimension where the souls of dead people lurk, hoping to attach to a living person. When the demons glom onto the living, horrible things happen. Elise (Lin Shaye), the psychic who helped others go into the Further in the first two films, is one of the few who can help expel the demons. Costars Stefanie Scott, Dermot Mulroney, Whannell and Angus Sampson. — D.H. IRIS **** Rated PG-13 Reviewed in this issue.

JURASSIC WORLD Rated PG-13 Opens June 12 In this fourth Jurassic flick, none of the original cast save B.D. Wong returns, and the story sounds like a true progression only if you haven’t seen Jurassic I within the last week. A new hybrid creature goes on a rampage on the island of Isla Nubar, now home to a fully functioning dinosaur theme park. It’s a “fully functioning” park, a designation for which it heretofore qualified only in the eyes of the viewing audience and every semiimportant character on the screen. Director Colin Trevorrow’s only previous feature, Safety Not Guaranteed, netted him an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film. Trevorrow was “hand-picked” for this by exec producer Steven Spielberg.

At press time, scientists were expressing dismay with what they’d seen in the trailers, declaring the dinos depicted fail to incorporate recent discoveries about our prehistoric pals, and actually are a step backward from what Spielberg did 22 years

ago. Costars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio and Judy Greer. Jimmy Fallon pops up in a cameo. — S.S. LOVE & MERCY ***G Rated PG-13 Reviewed in this issue.

PITCH PERFECT 2 ***@ Rated PG-13 The bad girls of a cappella are back in the sequel to the surprise 2012 hit that made $65 million on a $17 million budget. Forget about collegiate national titles – by the start of the film, the Barden Bellas have won three in a row. This time, they’re off to the world championships in Copenhagen, where a vaunted German team reigns as the favorite.

It’s a bumpy road getting there. The opening performance number has Australian Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) hanging inverted from a silk cloth in mid-air and, due to a rip in the material, unintentionally revealing a gift “from down under.” As expected, this eye-opener gets the Bellas in trouble, and banned from college competitions. To be reinstated, they have to win the world championships. Costars Anna Kendrick, Keegan Michael-Key, Skylar Astin, Brittany Snow, Adam DeVine, Ester Dean, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Chrissie Fit, Hailee Steinfeld and Elizabeth Banks, who also directed. — D.H. POLTERGEIST Rated PG-13 The new P-geist has a starring role for the Sam Rockwell, direction by Gil Kenan and a screenplay

by Pulitzer-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. So maybe this does have a reason to exist beyond reinterpreting classic material for a generation that can’t fi gure out what those fuzzy lines on the TV screen were supposed to be. — S.S.

SAN ANDREAS Rated PG-13 A mighty earthquake lays waste to California. Helicopter pilot Dwayne Johnson watches in horror as L.A. takes the hit, then realizes what he’s duty-bound to do: Fly up to San Fran to rescue the daughter who hates him. Ex-wife Carla Gugino is along for the ride, so there’s lots of healthy mutual recrimination. Director Brad Peyton makes San Andreas an acid test for launching an original franchise. — S.S. SPY Rated R Yet another Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy collaboration, which casts her as a CIA agent in the thick of an international crisis. Costars Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham. — S.S. TOMORROWLAND *G@@ Rated PG The movie starts with blatant Disney promos, gets lost in a convoluted story, forgets to include its star (George Clooney) for an hour, guilt-trips us with a lecture on how we don’t appreciate Earth, and ends with a bunch of faux science that makes no sense. The visual effects are glossy and cartoonish; everything looks profoundly fake.

Everything about this is a disappointment. — D.H. THE WATER DIVINER Rated R Russell Crowe directs himself in a historical drama about an Australian widower/dad determined to retrieve the bodies of his sons, who have died at Gallipoli. — S.S. YOU’RE STILL THE ONE Not Rated The Filipino and Tagalog language film stars Maja Salvador and Dennis Trillo.

THE AGE OF ADALINE Rated PG-13 Blake Lively plays a woman with a condition that keeps her from aging, affording her the kinds of adventures only perpetual youth can bestow. Costars Harrison Ford, Michiel Huisman, Ellen Burstyn and Kathy Baker.

— Steve Schneider

ALOHA **@@ Rated PG-13 Bradley Cooper plays Brian, an Air Force vet-turned-private military contractor who returns to Hawaii to negotiate a blessing from locals for a new Air Force base. Brian’s boss Carson (Bill Murray) wants to dominate outer space with satellites and rockets. Carson’s relationship with the Air Force is supposed to be mutually beneficial: They get access to his stuff, he gets legitimate support and space to operate. Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin have fun in extended cameos as Air Force officers. Writer/director Cameron Crowe’s story is a muddled bore. A love story between Brian and his Air Force liaison, peppy Allison (Emma Stone), is predictable. The only interesting relationship is between Brian and ex-girlfriend Tracy (Rachel McAdams); romantic feelings linger in spite of her marriage to Woody (John Krasinski) and two kids. — Dan Hudak BEYOND THE MASK Rated PG The action/drama is set in colonial times in early America, where an industrial spy/assassin (Andrew Cheney) has taken refuge from the turmoil of his former life. Costars John Rhys-Davies, Kara Killmer and Alan Madiane.

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA ***@ Rated R Kristen Stewart plays Valentine, personal assistant to star actress Maria (Juliette Binoche). Valentine is not a showy role full of histrionics, but it does require layered depth and screen presence. As the film opens, Valentine and Maria are on their way to an awards reception. When she was 18, she played Sigrid in a play (later a movie) called Maloja Snake, named for clouds that “snake” through Maloja Pass in the Swiss Alps. In Snake, Sigrid tormented 40-year-old Helena, who was in love with Sigrid. The offer comes: theater director Klaus (Lars Eidinger) wants Maria to again do the play, but as Helena. Hollywood starlet Jo-Ann (Chloë GraceMoretz) gets the role of Sigrid. Maria waffles, then accepts, then goes to Sils Maria near the Maloja Pass to rehearse. The intention is to get close to the material but, in reality, Maria has trouble seeing the content from Helena’s perspective. Writer/director Oliver Assayas (Irma Vep) consciously merges content of the play (as Valentine and Maria rehearse) with characters’ real lives, to the point that, in some conversations, it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s scripted play and what’s true conversation. — D.H. DIL DHADAKNE DO Not Rated The comedy/drama costars Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah and Priyanka Chopra. In Hindi.

ENTOURAGE Rated R Here are the small-screen douchebags who foolishly cast their lot behind He Who Talks to Halibut, reunited for yet more Left Coast asshole-buddy-ism. Hey, at least Rahm squeaked to re-election in Chicago, because that “Ari Gold” business has a lot less cachet when your real-life bro is filling the 2 p.m. time slot on MSNBC. — S.S. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD Rated PG-13 Director Thomas Vinterberg blew it when he didn’t cast Tom Hardy in this latest adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s story. Carey Mulligan plays the central romantic fixation in a tale of love and courtship on a sheep farm. — S.S. HOME Rated PG HBO’s The Normal Heart showed Jim Parsons can handle more than The Big Bang Theory. So what did he choose for his all-important transition to mainstream cinema?

Lilo and Sheldon! You can hear a whole mess of Dr. Cooper in his voicing of Oh, an alien who strikes up a friendship with a human girl. Any more safe moves like this, and I’ll claim a violation of our Roommate Agreement. — S.S. HOT PURSUIT **G@ Rated PG-13 As expected, Sofia Vergara plays a version of her screen persona; the more talented Reese Witherspoon takes top billing but plays second fiddle as Cooper, a by-the-book San Antonio cop. Her boss, Captain Emmett (John Carroll Lynch), asks her to assist Detective Jackson (Richard T. Jones), a federal marshal, to escort wanted criminal Felipe (Vincent Laresca) and his wife Daniella (Vergara) to Dallas to testify in the trial of a drug lord (Joaquin Cosio). Soon the marshal and husband are dead, and Cooper and Daniella are framed for the murders, so they go on the run. Chasing them are crooked cops, thugs, and the state of Texas. — D.H.

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ALWAYS IN STYLE

ALBERT MAYSLES’ final film is a fascinating look at a truly colorful, nonagenarian fashion icon

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Carl help provide a deeper narrative, eginning in the early ’60s, Albert and revealing Iris’ lifelong search for materials, David Maysles created a series of outfits, and accessories. From rare Tibetan documentaries that helped shape, if not bracelets to clunky, box-like $4 wristbands codify, the genre that was labeled “direct purchased in a Harlem clothing store, cinema.” This “just the facts”-style of true-life Apfel has an open, fearless style that is both filmmaking allowed the brothers to offer the eccentric and completely logical with her viewer complete access to the subject matter. skills at self-adornment, a radiant aesthetic Salesman (1968) followed a group of bible that makes Björk look like a shrinking violet. salesmen and their attempts at hawking the “Color can raise the dead,” says Apfel, good book up and down the East Coast. and her wild, lively taste bears this out, with Gimme Shelter (1970) offered a brutal view sometimes humorous results. A red ball cap, of The Rolling Stones’ 1969 free concert at covered in 1980s-style punk/metal spikes, is a speedway in Altamont, California, which flat-out hilarious, while one outfit, featuring culminated in a murder and an ultimate bad multiple strands of large, colorful beads, trip that annihilated the flower power scene. resembles a chimerical merger of George Perhaps most famously, Grey Gardens Clinton exploding at Mardi Gras.

(1976) invited us into the world of a reclusive mother and daughter The combination of Maysles’ IRIS (both named Edith Beale), who masterful craft at sweeping lived in a hermetically sealed world observation and Apfel’s free**** Rated PG-13 in their crumbling mansion in the spirited approach to her life and Hamptons. Grey Gardens has since fashion makes Iris a film that can become a critical fave and cult classic be enjoyed by fans of fashion and through the years and screens this weekend folks who simply enjoy great filmmaking. at Sun-Ray Cinema.

Interviews with Harold Koda, the curatorDavid Maysles passed away in 1987; in-charge of the Costume Institute of the his brother Albert Maysles carried on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Margaret family tradition of making fascinating Russell, editor-in-chief of Architectural documentaries, filmed with hand-held Digest, and acclaimed photographer Bruce cameras, until his death just this past March.

Weber offer a broader perspective on Apfel’s Maysles’ final film, 2014’s Iris, explores the influence and effect on the evolution of 20thworld of fashion, in particular focusing on century fashion and design. the life and 75-year legacy of 93-year-old Apfel is credited with having one of the haute couture icon Iris Apfel. largest collections of costume jewelry and Apfel grew up in a middle-class family accessories in the world, and she admits in Queens; her very first fashion hunt began that she has “kept everything.” A tour of the at age 11 when she haggled over a 65-cent Apfel’s expansive Manhattan apartment, broach. After marrying husband Carl in where two-level, double-height closets house 1948, she started an interior design business, row after row of clothing and complimentary with a reverence and preference for clothing accoutrements, bears this out. “If you hang materials that weren’t mass-produced, around long enough, everything comes back garments that are essentially singular art around,” says Apfel. works rather than routine fabrics.

Even though she surely has the experience Specializing in using reproductions of and unilateral respect of the fashion world, fabrics from the 17th, 18th and 19th century, Apfel defies the cliché of a VIP, velvet-rope Apfel’s savvy sense of style for restoration prima donna. A regular at area flea markets, projects resulted in her becoming an inApfel haggles with vendors over alreadydemand decorator at The White House for inexpensive garments. Comfortable with her aging, she finds the very idea of plastic nine presidents, from Truman to Clinton. surgery ludicrous. Her energy is uncanny, Maysles takes great care in juxtaposing receiving 50 cell phone calls a day, for fashion Apfel’s professional and personal life, which advice and invitations to appear at everything at times seem inseparable. from conferences to photo shoots.

For such a heralded fashion icon, Apfel After nearly a century of being a guiding is an endearing, down-to-earth visionary force in the world of haute couture fashion, whose acknowledged specialty is haute Apfel’s reflections and collective wisdom of couture. Wearing her ever-present black, a life of confident self-expression through wide-framed eyeglasses, throughout the film outer appearance remain forever in season.

Apfel sports wildly colorful outfits that might “It’s always better to be happy than seem absurd on a lesser fashionista. “I’m well-dressed.” more excited about the process more than wearing the final outfit,” she tells Maysles.

Daniel A. Brown Photos and home movies shot by husband dbrown@folioweekly.com

A&E // ARTS & EVENTS PERFORMANCE

HAIRSPRAY Theatre Jacksonville stages the eight-time Tony Awardwinning musical comedy that follows the adventures of loveable teen Tracy Turnblad in 1962-era Baltimore, as she pursues her dreams of starring on a popular dance show, finding love and fighting segregation along the way, at 8 p.m. June 12 and 13 and 2 p.m. June 14 at 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4425, $25; $20 for seniors, military, students; through June 27, theatrejax.com.

SWAMP RADIO Hosted by show creator Ian Mairs, this performance of the regionally inspired program with the theme “How’s Your Summer?” features stories, interviews, sketches and live music by The WillowWacks, Herd of Watts, and Tarra Connor Jones, is held at 8 p.m. June 12 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $25-$50, floridatheatre.com.

THE HIGHWAYMEN LIVE Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents this musical revue, featuring the songs of Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings, at 6 p.m. June 17-20; 11 a.m. June 20 and noon June 21 at 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $64, alhambrajax.com. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu is featured.

MEN ARE FROM MARS – WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS, LIVE! Peter Story stars in a one-man show, which takes a light look at John Gray’s bestselling book about romance and marriage, 8 p.m. June 11-13 and 2 p.m. June 13 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $57.50, artistseriesjax.org.

DASOTA ORIGINAL PRODUCTION Douglas Anderson School of the Arts students perform in a stage production Fleas, written and directed by Julian Robertson, a rising senior, at 1 p.m. June 13 in Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY Amelia Community Theatre stages this modern-day farce, set at a country club during a golf tournament between clubs with a longstanding bitter rivalry, at 8 p.m. June 11-13 at 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20; $10 students; through June 27, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

HELLO DOLLY Limelight Theatre stages Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart’s beloved musical, about a brassy matchmaker and her efforts finding a romantic partner for a wealthy bachelor, at 7:30 p.m. June 11-13 and 2 p.m. June 14 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $25; through July 5, limelight-theatre.org.

OSAGE: AUGUST COUNTY Players by the Sea stages Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer- and Tonywinning comical play, about three grown daughters who return to their home on the Oklahoma plains, at 8 p.m. June 11-13 and 2 p.m. June 14 at 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $23; $20 seniors, military, students; through June 20, playersbythesea.org.

SECOND SUNDAY The 5 & Dime features local performing artists, poets, and playwrights presenting their works-in-progress, while encouraging audience feedback, 6-8 p.m. June 14 at The

Pangea Live, 956 N. Liberty St., Downtown, the5anddime.org.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY Orange Park Community Theatre presents a stage adaptation, based on the bizarre, beloved characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams, at 8 p.m. June 12 and 13 and 3 p.m. June 14 at 2900 Moody Ave., 276-2599, $20; through June 28, opct.org.

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE The musical comedy, about teens competing in the spelling championship of a lifetime, is staged through June 14.

Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu is featured; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $35-$55, alhambrajax.com.

CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ

The GIPSY KINGS, NICOLAS REYES, TONINO BALIARDO The Grammy Award-winning group, featuring musicians from the south of France who perform in Spanish with an Andalusian accent, plays at 8 p.m. June 11 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39-$85.

ROSALIND J. ELSON Pianist Elson performs Four Centuries of Keyboard Music, Part 3, a concert of baroque, classic, romantic, and modern works

by Purcell, Scarlatti, Pezold, Haydn, MacDowell, and Cruse at 3 p.m. June 12 in the Choir Loft of Shepherd of the Woods Lutheran Church, 7860 Southside Blvd., Southside, 641-8385.

CHARENEE WADE, THE JOHN LUMPKIN TRIO Jazz vocalist Wade performs with the John Lumpkin Trio at 8 p.m. June 12 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, $14; $50 includes champagne toast.

MUSIC OF FLORIDA & THE ST. JOHNS RIVER Al Poindexter plays steel bottleneck guitar and clawhammer banjo performing original, traditional, and blues tunes that chronicle the colorful characters and backwater places of Florida and the St. Johns River, at 2 p.m. June 13 at Webb Wesconnett Library, 6887 103rd St., Westside, 778-7305.

Poindexter also performs at 6 p.m. June 16 at Mandarin Branch Library, 3330 Kori Rd., 262-5201, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

LISA KELLY JAZZ VOCAL WORKSHOP Kelly offers the workshop, which includes fundamentals, theory, improvisation, and working with a live combo, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. June 14 at University of North Florida’s Fine Arts Building, Rm. 1415, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, $200 fee includes lunch, 703-8687.

INTERMEZZO SUNDAY The Vivace Trio, featuring fl autists Gia Sastre and Carolyn Snyder-Menke and pianist Denise Wright, plays at 3 p.m.

June 14 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com.

CLASSICAL PIANO IN SAN MARCO Read Gainsford performs a concert, including works by Schubert, at 6 p.m. June 14 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 4171 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 737-8488, allsaintsjax.org.

SUMMER JAZZ CONCERT Smooth jazz artists Paul Taylor, Jackiem Joyner, Jeff Bradshaw, and Surge perform from 5-9 p.m. June 14 at SeaWalk Pavilion, First Street North, Jax Beach, jacksonvillebeach.org.

COMEDY

JAY PHILLIPS Comic Phillips, who’s been on Comedy at The 420 and Def Comedy Jam, appears at 8 p.m. June 11 and

The Ritz Theatre & Museum holds the JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CELEBRATION, honoring Johnson (1871-1938), the Jacksonville native who went on to become, among other accomplishments, an acclaimed author, lawyer, diplomat, and pioneering civil rights activist, at the Downtown museum on June 16.

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THE PERFECT PART

photo by Seth Langner

Director CURTIS J. WILLIAMS, the cast and crew bring style, savvy, and social awareness to a camp musical comedy

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doesn’t surprise me on a personal level.” n “Good Morning, Baltimore,” the opening song to the musical Hairspray, protagonist Based on John Waters’ 1988 film of the same Tracy Turnblad sings: name, Hairspray made its Broadway debut in “The rhythm of town starts calling me down, 2002. Over the past decade plus, the musical It’s like a message from high above. has been staged all over the world and even Oh, oh, oh, pulling me out to the smiles and sparked a remake of the classic film in 2007, the streets that I love. starring John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky.

Good morning, Baltimore, “I am generally not a fan of movies that Every day’s like an open door. are turned into musicals,” says Williams. “It’s Every night is a fantasy, often difficult to recreate the magic from Every sound’s like a symphony.” the screen in a live performance. There are, however, some musicals that achieve this When Tracy, the plump, loveable teenager enormous feat and Hairspray is one of them.” who wins a chance to be on a local TV dance For the last five years, Williams, a 32-yearprogram, launches a campaign to integrate old resident of Springfield, has been involved the show, social injustices of America in the with the big-production musicals of the 1960s are exposed. Particularly, racism and performance season at Theatre Jacksonville, prejudice in Baltimore. including Hot Mikado, The Drowsy Chaperone “In my opinion, race relations in America and Les Misérables. is a very deep gash to which has been applied Staging Hairspray, Williams encountered a only a Band-Aid,” says Curtis J. Williams, few stumbling blocks. director of the upcoming performance of “There were two Hairspray, which big obstacles for me. opens on June 12 HAIRSPRAY The first was to meet and runs through 8 p.m.

June 12 and 13; 2 p.m. June 14 the many location June 27 at Theatre at Theatre Jacksonville, San Marco, needs of the show, yet Jacksonville. “Without $25; $20 for seniors, military, keep those transitions stitches, that gash students; through June 27, as seamless and fast as will reopen to bleed theatrejax.com possible,” he explains. again and again. Our “The other obstacle healing process as a was simply being the nation depends on ‘directorial glue’ that holds a cast of 34, plus a being open and honest.” production team of eight, together.”

Williams is referring to the recent events There’s also the intricacy of the wardrobe. in Baltimore, the largest city in Maryland, The crew will be using more than 30 wigs, with a metropolitan population of 2.7 million which took more than 100 hours to style, people. In case you’ve been living under a utilizing countless cans of hairspray, as well rock, this is what transpired: as a total of 96 costumes, 48 pairs of shoes, On April 12, a 25-year-old Africanand a slew of glitter and sequins including 144 American man named Freddie Gray was Swarovski crystals on Tracy’s finale dress. arrested by the Baltimore Police Department And while the timing of staging a local for allegedly possessing an illegal switchblade. production of Hairspray after the recent On the way to the police station, Gray fell events in Baltimore is uncanny, it’s also into a coma and died a week later from spinal a chance to educate and heal. “‘Good cord injuries.

Morning Baltimore’ sets the satirical tone Eyewitness accounts suggested that the that encompasses the entire show,” Williams officers used unnecessary force against Gray.

The young man’s death resulted in an ongoing says of the opening number. “Tracy sings of series of peaceful protests, riots, and civil hope and finding her place in the world, but disorder in the city of Baltimore, including also mentions the darker aspects of her city. looting, dozens of arrests, and violence.

This song isn’t simply a teenage girl seeing “As an American, it saddens me to see the the world through rose-colored glasses. She same cycle of social unrest that my parents sees the good, the bad and the ugly, but still and grandparents went through seeming embraces it all as her home.” to recur in a more modern form,” Williams Kara Pound admits. “As a black man in America, it sadly mail@folioweekly.com

A&E // ARTS & EVENTS Hosted by Ian Mairs, a new installment of the regionally inspired, live podcast program SWAMP RADIO – with the theme “How’s Your Summer?” – includes stories, interviews, sketches, and live music by The WillowWacks, Herd of Watts, and Tarra Connor Jones, on June 12 at The FloridaTheatre, Downtown.

8 and 10 p.m. June 12 and 13 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $15-$18, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

THAT ONE SHOW: CHRIS BUCK, BRIAN FOX, KATRINA DAVIS, HERMAN NAZWORTH Get yer laffs on with this local comedy showcase at 8 p.m. June 11 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $5, 1904musichall.com.

LARRY XL The Baltimore-based funnyman, who’s performed and recorded with the DC Standup All-Stars, is on 8 p.m. June 12 and 7:30 and 10 p.m. June 13 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, $15, latitude360.com.

MAD COWFORD IMPROV Weekly PG-13-rated improv shows, based on audience suggestion, are held at 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 233-2359, madcowford.com.

HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Local comics appear 9 p.m. every Mon. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SUMMER CAMP AUDITIONS Limelight Theatre auditions kids in grades 6-12 for the summer camp production of High School Musical, 2-5 p.m.

June 15 (first day of camp) at the theater, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org. Call for session fees and details.

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM SEEKS WWII ITEMS The Museum of History seeks WWII historical items, particularly pieces with some association to Florida, to borrow for its upcoming exhibit Florida in World War II. Items will be on display for three to four months. 261-7378, ext. 102 or email gray@ameliamuseum.org.

MUSICIANS NEEDED Amelia Musical Playhouse seeks musicians for its upcoming productions. For more info, call Jill Dillingham at 277-3455 or email dilljill@msn.com.

ART WALKS & MARKETS

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, a free yoga session 9-10 a.m., local music – Chris Thomas and Taylor Roberts, Blue Muse, and Tambor starting 10:30 a.m.

June 13 – food artists and a farmers’ row, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

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

COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Baked goods, preserves, crafts, art, handcrafted jewelry, 4-7 p.m. every Wed., 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, 607-9935.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts & crafts, local produce, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.

MUSEUMS

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. Portraits of American Beach is on display.

AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM American Beach Community Center, 1600 Julia St., Fernandina, 277-7960, nassaucountyfl.com/facilities. The Sands of Time: An American Beach Story, celebrating MaVynee Betsch, “The Beach Lady,” is on display.

BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. The exhibit Mora: 25 Years on the First Coast runs through June.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. Whitfield Lovell: Deep River is on display through Sept. 13. Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River is on display through Oct. 18. All Together: The Sculpture of Chaim Gross is on display through Oct. 4. British Watercolors exhibits through Nov. 29. Public garden tours are given 11 a.m. every Tue. and Thur. Free admission from 4-9 p.m. every Tue.; free admission 10 a.m.4 p.m. on the first Sat. of the month.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992. The Art of Springfield exhibit is on display through June 27. The Addams Family: Part Two is exhibited through Aug. 26.

LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. Curator-led monthly tours are featured at 10 a.m. every first Wed. MANDARIN MUSEUM, WALTER JONES PARK 11964 Mandarin Rd., 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net. Permanent

exhibits include the Civil War steamship Maple Leaf artifacts, Harriet Beecher Stowe items and Mandarin historical pieces.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville. com. Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape, is on display through Aug. 30. The exhibit In Time We Shall Know Ourselves: the Photographs of Raymond Smith, is on display through Aug. 30. The Art Aviators Exhibition is on display through Aug. 16. Project Atrium: Angela Glajcar is on display through June 28. Phil Parker’s Assemblage/ Collage is on display in the UNF Gallery through Aug. 30. Free admission from 4-9 p.m. every Thur. through the summer.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org.

American Society of Mammalogists offers two workshops on June 11 at MOSH. For middle and high school teachers, Dr. George Feldhamer, Professor Emeritus from Southern Illinois University and author discusses Population Dynamics and Mammals of Florida. For elementary school teachers, Dr. Barbara Shaw, STEM Specialist for the Western Region Colorado State University Extension, discusses Tracking Mammals. Both are held at 9 a.m.; continental breakfast and lunch provided. Register for free by calling 396-6674 ext.

226. Skies Over Jacksonville, a live star show, is held 2 p.m. daily in the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium.

GALLERIES

THE ART CENTER II 229 N. Hogan St., Downtown, 355-1757.

The exhibit Under the Sea and Beneath the River is on display.

BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577. An exhibit of new works by Peter Rumpel is on display through June.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. Juried Alumni Exhibition displays through June 19.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. The exhibit Curatorial’s Choice Exhibition is on display through July 17. Anthony Whiting’s Visual Melodies in Unrestrained Colors is on display through July 17.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. The 13th Annual Sea Turtle Show is on display through July 6.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 535-7252. Caitlin Hurd’s exhibit, Daydreams from Brooklyn, is on display through June.

HAWTHORN SALON 1011 Park St., Riverside, 619-3092, hawthornsalon.com. The opening reception for Sara Pedigo’s Brimming with Casual News exhibit is held from 6-9 p.m.

June 12. The show runs through Aug. RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., 632-5555, ritzjacksonville.com. Through Our Eyes 2015: Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey (An Artistic Revolution), works of 20 local African-American artists, is on display through July 28.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. St. Augustine Camera Club’s Annual Photography Show is on display through July 23.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. The Honors Show is on display through July 5.

ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER 10 W. Castillo Dr., 825-1053, staugustine-450/tapestry. The exhibit Tapestry: The Cultural Threads of First America, which explores intertwining cultures of Hispanics, Africans and Native Americans and how they helped form the foundation of American culture, is on display through Oct. 4.

VANDROFF ART GALLERY Jewish Community Alliance, 8505 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 730-2100. The exhibit The Paintings of Margaret Billesimo is on display through June.

X.NIHILO 956 N. Liberty St., Downtown. The exhibit Mequin, featuring paintings by Dimelza Broche and Franklin Ratliff, is on display through July 3.

EVENTS

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CELEBRATION The Ritz Theatre & Museum holds the birthday celebration, honoring James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), the Jacksonville native who went on to become an acclaimed author, lawyer, diplomat, and pioneering civil rights activist, from 6-8 p.m. June 16 at 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555.

YOUNG ADULTS JOB & RESOURCE FAIR Young adults (ages 16-21) are invited to learn about local job opportunities, talk with company representatives, and learn how to access

and fill out online job applications from 3-5 p.m. June 12 at Dallas Graham Branch Library, 2304 N. Myrtle Ave., Springfield, 630-0922, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

MASTER GARDENER’S WORKSHOP The St. Johns County Master Gardner answers lawn and garden questions from 10 a.m.-noon June 13 at Bartram Trail Library, 60 Davis Pond Blvd., Fruit Cove, 827-6970, sjcpls.org.

JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S COMMISSION SEEKS SUMMER FOOD SITES The Jacksonville Children’s Commission seeks community partners through Aug. 7 to help serve free lunches and snacks to alleviate child hunger in low-income neighborhoods in a safe, effective and efficient manner. To qualify, the site must be in an area where there’s a school with at least 50 percent of its students enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program, allow access to all neighborhood children, and provide the food free of charge. To apply, go to jaxkids.net.

A GREAT GATSBY AFFAIR Wear 1920s attire for this fundraising event featuring a jazz band, heavy hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, silent auction, and professional photo ops with two authentic, 1920s vehicles, from 7-10 p.m. June 13 at Volkswagen of St. Augustine, 3235 U.S. 1 S., 677-5161, tickets are $55; $100 per couple; proceeds benefit St. Augustine Community School for Performing Arts and St. Johns Cultural Council, gatsbyforcharity.com.

BFAST SPRINT SERIES TRIATHLON A .25-mile swim, 14-mile bike ride and a 3.1-mile run are the challenge, takes place at 7 a.m. June 13 at Naval Station Mayport, for registration fees, call 466-8664, bfasracing.org.

AUTHOR AT MAIN LIBRARY Author Pat Vail discusses her latest book, Letters From Between the Humps: Adventures and Misadventures in Kazakhstan, at 5:30 p.m. June 16 at Main Library, Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.org.

AMELIA RIVER CRUISES Adult Twilight BYOB Cruises are held every Thur., Fri. and Sat., featuring live music, from Amelia River Cruises, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina Beach, 261-9972; for fees and details, go to ameliarivercruises.com.

JACKSONVILLE SUNS The hometown baseball heroes Suns kick off a homestand against the Tennessee Smokies at 7:05 p.m. June 11 (Elvis Himselvis, Shriners Night, College ID Discount, Thursday Night Throwdown) and June 12 (Bark in the Park, Elvis Himselvis, Fireworks, Strike out ALS Night, Bloodmobile), 12:05 p.m. June 13 (ComicCon Light Sword Giveaway), 12:05 p.m. June 14 (Pet-friendly Weekend), and 7:05 p.m. June 15 (Bellybuster Monday, Nassau County Night). All the action is at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Downtown. Tickets $7.50-$25.50; 358-2846, jaxsuns.com.

DAILY EVENTS AT HEMMING PARK Hemming Park offers free yoga, group fitness and live music, across from City Hall, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown; for schedule, go to hemmingpark.org/hemming-park-events.

UNF SUMMER CAMPS The University of North Florida’s Department of Campus Recreation offers two summer camps for kids ages 5-14. Youth Sports & Fitness Camp runs June 8-Aug. 7; EcoCamp runs June 8-July 31. For more info, go to unf.edu/recreation/camps.

TWIN LAKES ACADEMY CAMP TIMBERWOLF 2015 Twin Lakes Academy Middle School summer camp is held 7 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Mon.-Fri., June 15-Aug. 7 at 8050 Point Meadows Dr., Baymeadows. A field trip every day, outdoor activities, swimming, water parks, bowling, movies, arts & crafts, sports and more. The cost for a single child is $1,200 for all eight weeks ($150 a week) or $1,150 per child for parents with more than one kid. New this year is Half Camp (four weeks) at $600 per child. Call Ronald Soud, 864-2409 or email soudr@duvalschools.org or Jesse Schuster at schusterj@duvalschools.org for more information.

SUMMER ART CAMPS The St. Augustine Art Association offers five sessions starting in June for grades 1-6 and ages 12 and older. For more info, go to staaa.org.

JR. WATERMAN’S SUMMER CAMP Black Creek Guides holds sessions July 6-10, 27-31, Aug. 3-7, 10-14 and 17-21, featuring SUP lessons, paddle and watersports knowledge, safety and techniques, for ages 7-15. For fees, details and descriptions, go to blackcreekguides.com.

SUMMER ART CAMP AT THE CUMMER The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is offering a summer art camp for elementary and middle school children, with activities including printing, drawing, painting, and working with clay, from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., June 8-July 24. $200; $140 for members, 356-6857, cummer.org.

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LINEAR COMPASSION MADELEINE PECK continues to create work based on the foundations of aestheticism and empathy

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adeleine Peck possesses a rare combination of ever-evolving creative ideas, artistic skill, erudition, and the ability to articulate her thoughts in a way that is decidedly inclusive. She never speaks in “art statement”-ese, but rather draws you into her ideas and plans, making you a member of her tribe.

Peck works primarily in 2-D, and much of her works are inhabited by horses and similar four-legged animals, rendered in graphite lines, gouache, and acrylics. While Peck uses creatures as a recurring motif, she is no naturalist. Her beasts float along planes featuring lightly painted or blank, raw negative space, transforming the wildlife into archetypes, flashpoints to jog our consciousness toward the deeper environments of her work.

Peck admittedly deals in myths, fables born from beliefs and misconceptions, celebrating both our assets and shortcomings. Her upcoming show at rain dogs., Picturesque Ruins (A Few Drawings), features seven new works that acknowledge, and expand upon, these aforementioned visuals and concepts.

Peck’s works have appeared in 20-plus group and solo shows and her pieces have found a permanent home in private, academic, and hospital collections. In addition to being a notable visual artist, Peck is also an accomplished arts writer, whose musings have been published in media outlets including Folio Weekly, Arbus, and her blog, makemorebasse. wordpress.com.

In 1998, Peck earned her BFA in studio art from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This September, Peck will graduate from Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) with an MFA in painting.

Last week, I visited Peck at the studio she shares with Mary St. Germain, in CoRK Arts District East. While our conversation lasted a little over an hour, once we got rolling, I could have easily spent hours talking with this alwaysengaging artist.

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Folio Weekly: It seems like you create a lot and have a fairly large body of work. How do you tackle making all of this art?

Madeleine Peck: Typically, I think the way that I work is, I’ll get ahold of an idea and I’ll just work it to death and be as obsessive as I want to be. And I tend to work in drawing because it relates to writing, and the action of writing. That makes sense to me, in the way that you revise the written word is also how, through 12 iterations of the same idea, I kind of get to the nut of what I’m thinking about.

And when I’m looking at them I’ll think, “Oh, they’re elegant and I think they’re smart and they’ve accomplished what I wanted them to do.” I want to move into a more brutal and uncomfortable arena with them, but first I had to go through this process to realize what I wanted them to do.

What attracts you to going into this place of being uncomfortable?

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I think for me, as I become more and more articulate about how I want to talk about my work, I want to talk about compassion. And not just compassion toward one another and a way of being and living, but also compassion toward animals and just the way we surround ourselves. I read this really great book called Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence [Marc Bekoff ] and he talks about how compassion even exists in the animal world and how it’s really a pathway to a better state of mind and to also create a more compassionate, kinder world.

So, yeah, you have a noble intent.

Yeah, I don’t mean for the pieces to just be these aesthetically pleasing images, although that is very important to me as part of my “making” practice. But there’s a bigger idea behind them than just being lovely things to hang on the wall.

MADELEINE PECK PICTURESQUE RUINS (A FEW DRAWINGS)

Opening reception 6 p.m. June 12 at rain dogs., Riverside, 379-4969

I really want to ask about your drawing and your use of illustration. I mean, you use mixed media, but it’s really adept illustration. Some of the lines are tight and draftsman-like, others are these flowing, wisping lines, like your piece Outmoded Yet Valuable (After the Hart Bridge) 2013. And I don’t think you’re derivative of her, but I love Kiki Smith and she’s also really devoted to drawing. To me, it seems like the terra firma of your work is illustration.

I think you’re right.

You mentioned the idea of written language through lines. But you could’ve taken that idea, of language and line, and used another media. So why do you think you’re so devoted to illustration?

I think there’s an aspect where it takes a lot of time, so it lets me think deeply about these things. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the artist Berlinde De Bruyckere. And I just saw this a few days ago — she has a new series, where she actually utilizes the corpses of horses

[turns laptop monitor toward me, so I can see the images of equine corpses fixed vertically on block-like stands].

Jesus. [Laughs.]

Oh yeah. [Laughs.] But what she did was she selected the animals that she wanted to use and waited until they died a natural death, so they weren’t slaughtered for pieces. And I think that’s really powerful commentary. Even looking at her wider body of work, it’s visceral and disturbing.

I like that idea because it’s beauty contained in an unappealing package. And my package, the package that I’ve created, is typically so appealing so I now want to see what happens when I start to make those deliberate choices. Because I know that I’ll still aestheticize and stylize them. But I don’t think I’ll be able to be as brutal as she is. I don’t think that’s within me.

I want to talk about something I’ve seen in a lot of the work that you do. You use animals but you use a lot of strong, powerful fourlegged animals like horses. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen any of your work that features smaller, more vulnerable creatures.

I think I tend to draw animals that are both powerful and vulnerable and I tend to think about animals and what relationships we have with them. Say something in the terms of deer; we use them as prey but also symbols.

And horses and dogs are the same way, not in the way of prey but animals that can be domesticated or even semi-domesticated.

Do you mean in the sense where people have had horses for dressage and horses for war? And dogs are trained to kill and are also lapdogs?

Exactly. So you have the spectrum of human behavior reflected in the conditions of the animals.

So again, that’s born of compassion.

Yeah. And I think that we as a group of people living on the planet need to be more respectful of our resources and more responsible. One of the ways I talk about that in my own work is through animals, because of the abject conditions some animals are forced to endure.

And I think it’s a more common language for people. They have great compassion for an animal form than they might have for a human form.

Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com

A&E // MUSIC

SEA CYCLES navigate through the waves of their recent signing, new album, and upcoming North American tour

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touch and ended up signing us to a new label few years ago, Brian Squillace Googled, he was starting.”

“How does the Internet work?” and was Other People Records, Barnett’s shocked to find out that thin fiber-optic independent label based out of Los Angeles, cables buried under the ocean connect the comes complete with a publicity team and most remote corners of the planet, allowing for touring management. They even helped get a majority of international web traffic.

Ground & Air featured on Spin.com and “I had originally thought it was via PopMatters.com. satellites,” the North Carolina-bred, Murray “I kind of cringe a little bit,” Squillace says Hill resident told Folio Weekly over coffee. “The of seeing the band covered on some of the top fact that every continent except Antarctica music sites. “It’s nice to see it. I guess there’s no is linked by these cables is a mind-blowing negative, but it’s still weird.” concept that we take for granted.”

Spin said of the tune “IDKIDKIDK” off the As one-fourth of the local ambient synthnew record, “Turn-ofpop outfit, Sea Cycles, the-century Radiohead Squillace used this SEA CYCLES ALBUM RELEASE synth waves wash concept of connectivity with TOMBOI, WISE RIVER over Yo La Tengo-like and worldwide cohesion 8 p.m. June 13 at Underbelly, guitar bends and a for the band’s brand-new Downtown, $8 advance; $10 at the door, sublimely rolling drum record, Ground & Air, underbellylive.com shuffle, tied together which drops June 9 on with appropriately Other People Records. melancholy vocals.”

The album’s official release party is this Not really a cringe-worthy comparison.

Saturday at Underbelly.

The band members — all in their late 20s Formed in 2011, Sea Cycles is Squillace and early 30s, with day jobs like music teachers (guitar/synth/samples), Lindsey Shante (synth), and service industry employees — recorded the guitarist Landon Paul, and drummer Josh album at Squillace’s home studio in Murray Hill Wessolowski, with all four members sharing over the course of nine months. vocal responsibilities.

“I just know how much free time I’m going “We started this project for fun,” says to have and we all start shooting out ideas,” Squillace, of the band’s impetus. “We were the guitarist-vocalist says of Sea Cycle’s very all in other bands that focused more on undefined recording process. “We’d put too traditional songwriting. Sea Cycles was about much down and then take some away and then improvising and playing around. Our first redo and redo. Because we don’t have songs shows were basically improv with a loop on written first, finding an ending point for each the computer and ideas. Now, we’re more song was a challenge.” organized and have a better idea of what we’re Shortly after the band’s June 13 album supposed to sound like.” release party at Underbelly, Sea Cycles hits the In June 2012, not long after forming, Sea road for a North American tour that takes them Cycles released a five-song EP, What We Came from Virginia to Ontario through early July For. They spent the next few years playing local with label-mates Narrow/Arrow. venues like Shantytown Pub, 1904 Music Hall, “This will be our first proper tour and CoRK Arts District, and Deep Search Records, we’ll be splitting a van and trailer with the as well as taking up practice space upstairs from other band,” says Squillace. “But to be honest, Phoenix Taproom.

“We came out from playing one night I’m more nervous about this first show in and Jesse Barnett, lead singer of the hardcore Jacksonville than the tour. We haven’t played together in nearly a year.” band Stick to Your Guns, was standing there and asked us for a CD. Well, he asked us for Kara Pound two CDs,” Squillace remembers. “He kept in mail@folioweekly.com JUNE 10-16, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27

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MUSIC IS THE MOTHER TONGUE No mere language barrier could keep us from scoring an exclusive interview with the Grammy Award-winning MUSIC LEGENDS

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here’s a good reason you won’t find many interviews online with the Gipsy Kings, a rumba-pop and traditional Flamenco group from the South of France. The band members speak only French. And as Folio Weekly found out during a recent email interview with Tonino Baliardo, Gipsy King’s lead guitarist and songwriter, much could’ve been lost in translation.

However, with the help of a translator, Baliardo was happy to answer our questions but, as you’ll read below, it can sometimes be difficult to carry on an intimate conversation via the Internet when two people don’t speak the same language.

So although this didn’t turn out to be our finest, most in-depth exploration of a musical outfit, we feel like we still got the goods, since Baliardo was such a gracious interviewee with our questions.

And regardless of language fluency, we strongly encourage you to check out their upcoming show this week at The Florida Theatre, in support of their ninth studio album, Savor Flamenco.

After all, Baliardo and fellow bandleader Nicolas Reyes have been at it since 1978, with the Gipsy Kings selling more than 18 million albums worldwide, earning Grammy Award nominations and wins, and an ever-growing fan base that reaches every corner of the globe.

Folio Weekly: How has the group evolved over the past 25-plus years?

Tonino Baliardo: Our forefathers began making traditional music in settlements in the South of France. We have taken what we’ve gained from our experiences traveling the world for last 25 years, seeing other cultures, recording albums, and have applied that to the traditional music of our forefathers.

What’s life like on the road for the Gipsy Kings?

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At times, it’s wonderful. And at times, it’s difficult. It’s wonderful seeing and interacting with our fans on a daily basis. We experience really great moments while performing music that is close to our hearts. But it’s difficult being away from our families so much. We miss our home, which is where we get the strength to do what we do.

As two sets of brothers in the band, what is it like working together? Do the relationships present obstacles?

Over the last 25 years, the two consistent people in the band have been Nicolas Reyes and me. We have worked with our brothers and it’s always been wonderful to work with family. We’ve started to involve our sons now and that has been an added pleasure. We will be bringing our sons to The Florida Theatre to show you this new line-up of the Gipsy Kings.

The GIPSY KINGS featuring NICOLAS REYES and TONINO BALIARDO 8 p.m. June 11 at The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $39-$85, floridatheatre.com What’s the band dynamic? Is it a democracy?

The band has always been run by Nicolas and me. Nicolas sings and I write the music. That has been consistent from the beginning to the present. We have collaborated nicely together for all these years.

Your music encompasses many different cultural sounds. How have the sound and influences changed over the years as you’ve traveled the world?

[They’ve] changed in many ways, but always come back to the main point: that it is the music of our fathers.

Savor Flamenco is your ninth studio album and first release in six years. It’s also the first time the band produced an album in its entirety and wrote all of the material. Tell me about that.

It was a natural progression. We felt the songs needed us to be part of the complete process.

With producing comes the responsibility of writing the material, picking the best songs to use and finding the right musicians to play the material. We had an opportunity to do what we wanted with this record and that opportunity led us to a very rewarding album.

The album also won a Grammy for Best New World Music Album. How did that feel?

We were very fortunate to win a Grammy, and it’s always nice to be acknowledged in the industry in which we work.

Are you working on new material? When can fans expect new music from the Gipsy Kings?

We’re always working on new material. As we travel the world, we find interesting material and when we get time from touring and being with our families, we will record a new record.

We hope it won’t take six more years to do that.

We’ll definitely have something next year.

Does winning a Grammy put added pressure on the next album?

No, what puts pressure on us is for us to do right by the people that influence us and continue to work with us. We feel it’s our responsibility to make the best record we can.

What’s next for Gipsy Kings?

We would like to do more work in film and TV and record a new project for next year. We’re always interested in anything new within this industry, so we are constantly searching.

Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com

New Orleans-based bluesman (and onetime Northeast Florida resident) SETH WALKER performs at Mudville Music Room on June 11.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK MUSIC by the SEA JW Gilmore & the Blues Authority 7 p.m.

June 17 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org.

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. June 10 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247.

DENNY BLUE 6 p.m. June 10 at Paula’s Beachside Grill, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463.

I THE MIGHTY, HAIL the SUN, TOO CLOSE to TOUCH 6:30 p.m. June 10 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $10.

ANCIENT RIVER 8 p.m. June 10 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown.

BODYSNATCHER, HOUNDS, The ALASKAN, LANDFILL 7 p.m. June 10 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8.

SETH WALKER 7:30 p.m. June 11 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10.

TYCHO, AUTOGRAF 8 p.m. June 11 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20.

BE EASY 7:30 p.m. June 11 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555.

100 WATT VIPERS, The SHIFT, AUTOMATIK FIT 8 p.m. June 11, Jack Rabbits, $8.

IVEY WEST BAND 4 p.m. June 12 at Jacksonville Landing, 353-1188.

SUPERHEAVEN, DIAMOND YOUTH, ROZWELL KID 7 p.m.

June 12, Burro Bar, $10-$13.

The OFFSHORE 8 p.m. June 12, at 1904 Music Hall, $7.

HYSTERIA (Def Leppard tribute), MEDAL MILITIA (Metallica tribute) 8 p.m. June 12, Freebird Live, $10.

DR. SIRBROTHER, The CROWKEEPERS, The RIP CURRENTS 8 p.m. June 12, Jack Rabbits, $10.

BOOGIE FREAKS 10 p.m. June 12 & 13 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611.

FAT CACTUS 10 p.m. June 12 & 13 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

Riverside Arts Market: CHRIS THOMAS, TAYLOR ROBERTS, BLUE MUSE, TAMBOR 10:30 a.m. June 13 at 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449.

The Florida Country Superfest: ZAC BROWN BAND, KEITH URBAN, BRANTLEY GILBERT, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DAVID NAIL, COLT FORD, DANIELLE BRADBERY, SWON BROTHERS June 13 & 14 at EverBank Field, One EverBank Field Drive, Downtown, 633-6100, $40-$250, for line-up and to buy tickets, go to floridacountrysuperfest.com.

DENNY BLUE 5 p.m. June 13 at Milltop Tavern, 19 St. George St., St. Augustine, 829-2329.

DAVID CROSBY 7 p.m. June 13 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $60.50-$80.50.

STONE BONE, MINDSLIP 8 p.m. June 13, Freebird Live, $8.

BREATHING THEORY, PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE, DAMNEDGED, GENERATOR 8 p.m. June 13, 1904 Music Hall, $9.

ETERNAL SUMMERS, GOLD BEARS 8 p.m. June 13, Burro Bar, $10.

SEA CYCLES, TOMBOI, WISE RIVER 8 p.m. June 13, Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186, $8 advance; $10 at door.

BETA PLAY, TRAGIC THRILLS, STRANGERWOLF, ANCESTROS CORD June 13, Jack Rabbits, $10.

KEVIN SCHLERETH, MAFDET, CHARLIE SHUCK 9 p.m. June 13 at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222.

FOREVER TAKEN, SEARCHING SERENITY 8 p.m. June 15, Jack Rabbits, $8.

NELDÖRETH, VESTARIAN, The NOCTAMBULANT, SATURNINE 8 p.m. June 15, Burro Bar, $6.

The Happy Together Tour: The TURTLES, FLO & EDDIE, The ASSOCIATION, MARK LINDSAY, The GRASSROOTS, The COWSILLS, The BUCKINGHAMS 8 p.m. June 16 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$75.

IN YOUR MEMORY, BACKLASHES & BAD IDEAS, 1.8.7., PARKRIDGE 8 p.m. June 16, Jack Rabbits, $8.

BRONCHO, LE ORCHID, The YOUNG STEP 8 p.m. June 17, Jack Rabbits, $10.

MUSIC by the SEA The Grapes of Roth 7 p.m.; dinner from Zaharias, 6 p.m., June 17 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

HOT SCREAMS, MOTHER SUPERIOR, JEFF HULL June 19, Burro Bar ARCHNEMESIS, MZG, DAMBALLA, CAT PARTY June 19, Freebird Live JENNI REID album release, ASHLEIGH DAVIS June 19, Jack Rabbits LUKE WADE, BABY BEE, The STATES June 20, Jack Rabbits OBLIVIOUS SIGNAL, RED CALLING, LAWLESS HEARTS, DEAR ABBEY June 20, Burro Bar Elvis 80th Birthday Celebration: BILL CHERRY, CODY SLAUGHTER June 20, Times-Union Center EMMA MOSELEY BAND June 20, Freebird Live The DREAMING, DIE SO FLUID, DANCING with GHOSTS, KILO KAHN, INNER DEMONS June 21, 1904 Music Hall The LOST PROJECT, SUNSPOTS, COMPLICATED ANIMALS, STRONG GUYS June 21, Burro Bar SOUTHERN MISCONDUCT, STATUS FAUX, BACKWATER BIBLE SALESMEN June 21, Jack Rabbits SKYELOR ANDERSON June 23, Jack Rabbits JOHN DAHLBACK June 24, Freebird Live SURFER BLOOD, TURBO FRUITS June 25, Jack Rabbits OTTMAR LIEBERT & LUNA NEGRA June 26, P.V. Concert Hall PIERCE PETTIS June 26, Mudville Music Room HALEY MAE CAMPBELL, ELI the POET June 26, Jack Rabbits NATURAL INSTINCTS June 26 & 27, The Roadhouse STYX June 26, The Florida Theatre FOR KING & COUNTRY June 27, Christ Church Southside MANNA ZEN, TRIBE & TRUTH, BLEEDING in STEREO, DEAD DEADS June 27, Freebird Live DERAY DAVIS & EARTHQUAKE June 27, The Florida Theatre MICHAEL RENO HARRELL June 27, Mudville Music Room JULIANNE & DEREK HOUGH June 27, St. Aug. Amphitheatre RAVEN CLIFF, SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY June 27, Jack Rabbits BRYAN ADAMS June 28, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MIKE SHACKELFORD Acoustic Night June 28, Bull Park AURORA, The HAIL BOP GROUP June 28, Jack Rabbits SAY ANYTHING, MODERN BASEBALL, CYMBALS EAT GUITARS, HARD GIRLS July 1, Underbelly DON McLEAN July 2, The Florida Theatre CHILLY RHINO July 3 & 4, The Roadhouse The FRITZ July 4, Freebird Live The CONVALESCENCE, BESIDE the SILENCE, DENIED TIL DEATH July 5, Jack Rabbits

Warped Tour: ALIVE LIKE ME, AS IT IS, BABY BABY, ARGENT,

BEAUTIFUL BODIES, BEING as an OCEAN, BLACK BOOTS, BLACK VEIL BRIDES, BLESSTHEFALL, BORN CAGES, KOO KOO KANGA ROO, BOYMEETSWORLD, CANDY HEARTS, ESCAPE the FATE, FAMILY FORCE 5, FIT for a KING, HANDS LIKE HOUSES, I KILLED the PROM QUEEN, KOSHA DILLZ, LE CASTLE VANIA, LEE COREY OSWALD, M4SONIC, MATCHBOOK ROMANCE, NECK DEEP, NIGHT NIGHT RIOTS, PALISADES, SPLITBREED, The RELAPSE SYMPHONY, TRANSIT, The WONDER YEARS, TROPHY EYES, WHILE SHE SLEEPS, YOUTH in REVOLT July 6, Morocco Shrine Auditorium R5: SOME TIME LAST NIGHT, JACOB WHITESIDES, RYLAND July 7, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts The JAHMEN, SIGNAL FIRE, The ELLAMENO BEAT July 8, Jack Rabbits BJ BARHAM (American Aquarium), BRETT BASS (Grandpa’s Cough Medicine) July 9, Jack Rabbits SHAGGY July 9, Mavericks at The Landing NEW KINGSTON, SUNDRIED VIBES, CLOUD 9 VIBES, DJ RAGGAMUFFIN July 10, Freebird Live ASKMEIFICARE July 10, The Roadhouse BARENAKED LADIES, VIOLENT FEMMES, COLIN HAY July 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BETWEEN the BURIED & ME, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, The CONTORTIONISTS, PLANETRAWK, INNER DEMONS July 11, Jack Rabbits SHANIA TWAIN July 15, Veterans Memorial Arena AMERICAN IDOL LIVE July 15, The Florida Theatre CHROME HEART July 17 & 18, The Roadhouse MODEST MOUSE July 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND, PIANO, TOM BENNETT BAND July 17, Jack Rabbits LEGIT July 17, Freebird Live ROB BELL July 18, T-U Center MARY MARY & FRIENDS July 18, T-U Center STARBENDER July 18, Jack Rabbits PATO BANTON July 18, Freebird Live ROBERT EARL KEEN & HIS BAND July 19, P.V. Concert Hall E.N. YOUNG (The Tribal Seeds) July 21, Jack Rabbits CHELSEA SADDLER, COLTON McKENNA July 21, Café Eleven SLIGHTLY STOOPID, DIRTY HEADS, STICK FIGURE July 23, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The CRAZY DAYSIES July 24, Freebird Live KEIKO MATSUI July 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KACEY MUSGRAVES July 24, The Florida Theatre PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE, FIREFALL, ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION July 25, The Florida Theatre UNKNOWN HINSON, RUSTY SHINE July 25, Jack Rabbits Connection Festival: 311, JULIAN MARLEY, MATISYAHU, BALLYHOO!, NEW YORK SKA-JAZZ ENSEMBLE, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, STANK SAUCE, SKYWATER, JAH ELECT & the I QUALITY BAND, CLOUD 9 VIBE, ASKMEIFICARE, HOLEY MISS MOLEY, YAMADEO, HERD of WATTS, WESTER JOSEPH’S STEREO VUDU July 25, Metropolitan Park ROB THOMAS, PLAIN WHITE T’s July 25, St. Aug. Amphitheatre MIKE SHACKELFORD Acoustic Night July 26, Bull Park JAKE MILLER, JASMINE, ALEX ANGELO July 26, Freebird Live PLANES MISTAKEN for STARS, ZULU WAVE, DREDGER July 27, Shanghai Nobby’s FIFTH HARMONY, DEBBY RYAN & the NEVER ENDING, NATALIE LA ROSE, BEA MILLER July 28, The Florida Theatre EMMET CAHILL July 29, Culhane’s Irish Pub

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC ROCKY VOTOLATO, DAVE HAUSE, CHRIS FARREN July 29, Jack Rabbits WHITESNAKE July 31, The Florida Theatre MEDAL MILITIA (Metallica tribute), SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES (AC/DC tribute), FOREVER OUR RIVALS July 31, Freebird Live MY MORNING JACKET, MINI MANSIONS Aug. 1, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The STOLEN, AVENUES Aug. 1, Jack Rabbits COUNTING CROWS, CITIZEN COPE, HOLLIS BROWN Aug. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre AUTHORITY ZERO, COUNTERPUNCH, RUBEDO, ONE SMALL STEP Aug. 2, Jack Rabbits SCARAB (Journey tribute) Aug. 6, Freebird Live BHAGAVAN DAS Aug. 7-9, Karpeles Museum GENERAL TSO’S FURY, BRICKS GRENADE Aug. 7, Jack Rabbits SINBAD Aug. 7, The Florida Theatre Elvis Anniversary Bash: MIKE ALBERT, SCOT BRUCE & the BIG E BAND Aug. 8, The Florida Theatre JOY BLOODY JOY, URSULA Aug. 8, Jack Rabbits CHRISTINA PERRI, COLBIE CAILLAT, RACHEL PLATTEN Aug. 11, The Florida Theatre UNIVERSAL SIGH Aug. 12, Jack Rabbits HippieFest 2015: The FAMILY STONE, RICK DERRINGER, MITCH RYDER & the DETROIT WHEELS, BADFINGER & JOEY MOLLAND Aug. 13, The Florida Theatre NO MORTAL BEFORE, PALM TREES & POWER LINES Aug. 14, Jack Rabbits HOR!ZEN Aug. 14, The Roadhouse The ROCKY HORROR SHOW Aug. 14 & 15, 21 & 22, 1904 Music Hall DARYL HANCE, EUGENE SNOWDEN Aug. 14, Underbelly Women Who Rock Show: MAMA BLUE, KIM RETEGUIZ & THE BLACK CAT BONES, THE CAT McWILLIAMS BAND Aug. 15, Freebird Live SUBLIME WITH ROME, REBELUTION, PEPPER, MICKEY AVALON Aug. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC Aug. 16, The Florida Theatre NASHVILLE PUSSY, VALIENT THORR Aug. 16, Jack Rabbits COMMUNITY CENTER Aug. 18, Jack Rabbits LYLE LOVETT & his LARGE BAND Aug. 20, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts TIM McGRAW, BILLY CURRINGTON, CHASE BRYANT Aug. 20, Veterans Memorial Arena Reunion: Campout Concerts: STRATOSPHERE ALL-STARS, ZOOGMA, GREENHOUSE LOUNGE X2, DYNOHUNTER, SIR CHARLES, VLAD the INHALER, MZG, S.P.O.R.E., BELLS AND ROBES, MATTHEW CONNOR Aug. 21 & 22, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park LEISURE CRUISE Aug. 24, Jack Rabbits DONOVAN FRANKENREITER Aug. 25, Freebird Live

DAN ANDRIANO, JEFF ROSENSTOCK, SPRAYNARD, PET SYMMETRY Led by Aug. 25, Colonial Quarter saxophonistThe OUTLAWS, BLACKHAWK Aug. 28, The vocalist Florida Theatre JEREMY KING TRIBAL SEEDS, The EXPANDERS, ARISE (pictured), ROOTS Aug. 28, Mavericks at The Landing funk-soul STEVE FORBERT TRIO Aug. 29, Mudville heavyweights Music Room FAT CACTUS MIKE SHACKELFORD Acoustic Night Aug. play at Flying 30, Bull Park Iguana on June RICK SPRINGFIELD, LOVERBOY, The 12 & 13.

ROMANTICS Aug. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ALICE COOPER Sept. 1, The Florida Theatre NICKELBACK Sept. 1, Veterans Memorial Arena PONCHO SANCHEZ Sept. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum GWAR, BUTCHER BABIES, BATTLECROSS Sept. 9, Freebird Live DOYLE BRAMHALL II Sept. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LUKE BRYAN, RANDY HOUSER, DUSTIN LYNCH Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena RUNAWAY GIN (Phish tribute) Sept. 18, Freebird Live TAB BENOIT Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall REO SPEEDWAGON Sept. 24, The Florida Theatre MARCIA BALL & her BAND, AMY SPEACE Oct. 23, P.V. DELBERT McCLINTON Sept. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Concert Hall BRITTANY SHANE Sept. 25, Mudville Music Room MARK KNOPFLER Oct. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BOOKER T. JONES Oct. 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum PAUL REISER Nov. 7, The Florida Theatre AMELIA ISLAND JAZZ FEST Oct. 8-15, Fernandina Beach ALL HANDS ON DECK Nov. 8, The Florida Theatre ANI DiFRANCO Oct. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, BRYCE ALASTAIR RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS Oct. 10, Ritz Theatre BAND Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits BONZ (Stuck Mojo), A.M.M. Oct. 10, Jack Rabbits ADRIAN LEGG, DAVID LINDLEY Nov. 12, P.V. Concert Hall THE VIBRATORS Oct. 11, Jack Rabbits AMERICA Nov. 13, Thrasher-Horne Center The Princess Bride: AN EVENING WITH CARY ELWES Oct. 11, STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 17, The Florida Theatre The Florida Theatre The DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND, NEW BREED BRASS NEW FOUND GLORY, YELLOWCARD, TIGERS JAW Oct. 13, BAND Nov. 21, Ritz Theatre & Museum Mavericks This is Not a Test Tour: TOBYMAC, BRITT NICOLE, COLTON THE WINERY DOGS Oct. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DIXON, HOLLYN Nov. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena NOAH GUNDERSON Oct. 14, Colonial Quarter RONNIE MILSAP Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre CHRIS TOMLIN, REND COLLECTIVE Oct. 16, Vets Mem. Arena NICHOLAS PAYTON Dec. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum SUZANNE VEGA Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KANSAS Dec. 6, The Florida Theatre The SENSES, The PHILTERS Oct. 16, Jack Rabbits LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Dec. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DEF LEPPARD, FOREIGNER, NIGHT RANGER Oct. 17, BRIAN REGAN Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre Veterans Memorial Arena A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS Dec. 15, The Florida Theatre LITTLE BIG TOWN, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Oct. 17, JOHN SEBASTIAN Jan. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHRISTIAN McBRIDE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre & Museum The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND Oct. 22, The Florida Theatre SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, Ritz Theatre & Museum BLACK VIOLIN March 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum ROGER McGUINN March 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, Ritz Theatre & Museum NAJEE April 9, Ritz Theatre & Museum

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. SLIDERS, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Live music every Wed.-Sun. SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores 9 p.m. every Wed. Live 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 at 9 p.m. every Fri.

THE BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Live music every Wed.-Sun. BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff 8 p.m. June 10. Highway Jones 9 p.m. June 13 CASA MARINA HOTEL, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 Ryan Crary, Johnny Flood June 11 ESPETO Brazilian Steakhouse, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884 Steve & Carlos 6 p.m. June 11 FLASK & CANNON, 528 First St. N. De Lions of Jah every Wed. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 Fat Cactus 10 p.m. June 12 & 13. Ryan Crary 8:30 p.m. June 14. Red Beard & Stinky E every Thur.

FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr. E., A.B., 246-4293 Firewater Tent Revival June 12 & 13 FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Tycho, Autograf June 11. Hysteria (Def Leppard tribute), Medal Militia June 12.

Stone Bone, Mindslip, Inner Demons June 13. Archnemesis, MZG, Damballa, Cat Party June 19 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade 6 p.m. every Sun. Back From the Brink 9 p.m. every Mon. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., N.B., 249-2922 Live music every Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 The Crazy Carls 10 p.m. June 12. Blistur 10 p.m. June 13. Dirty Pete

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Wed. Split Tone Thur. Ryan Crary, Johnny Flood Sun. Be Easy Mon. Ryan Campbell Tue. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Live music every Wed.-Sat. MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., N.B., 249-5573 Neil Dixon every Tue. Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer every Thur.

NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 372-4105 Maryann Hawkins June 1. Elizabeth Rogers June 12. Live music every Thur.-Sat. OCEAN 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., A.B., 247-0060 Taylor Roberts 7 p.m. June 10, 11 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 241-7877 Billy Bowers June 10. Fish Out of Water June 11. Paul Lundgren June 12 & 13. Splinters June 14 SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE, 218 First St., N.B., 246-0881 Billy Bowers 6:30 p.m. June 12. Live music 6 p.m. every Thur., 6:30 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., N.B., 247-4508 Bill Rice 7 p.m. June 11. Eric Alabiso 9:30 p.m. June 12 WORLD OF BEER, 311 N. Third St., 372-9698 DiCarlo Thompson 8 p.m. June 11. Randy Paul & the Revelry 9 p.m.

June 12. Steve McNulty June 13. Live music every Fri. & Sat. ZETA BREWING COMPANY, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every Wed.-Sun.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC

St. Louis, Missouribased indie folkie KEVIN SCHLERETH (pictured) performs with MAFDET and CHARLIE SHUCK at Shantytown Pub on June 13.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. I the Mighty, Hail the Sun, Too Close to Touch 6:30 p.m. June 10. That One Show 8 p.m. June 11. Breathing Theory, Damnaged, Primitive Hard Drive June 13 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. Ancient River 8 p.m. June 10. Superheaven, Diamond Youth, Rozwell Kid June 12.

Eternal Summers, Gold Bears June 13. Neldoreth, Vestarian, The Noctambulant, Saturnine June 15. Hot Screams, Mother Superior, Jeff Hull June 19. Live music every Fri. & Sat. DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 BlackJack every Wed. DJ Brandon every Thur. DJs spin dance music every Fri. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall 9 p.m. Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6-9 p.m. June 10. Live music every Wed.-Sun. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Lisa & the Mad Hatters 6 p.m. June 11. Ivey West 4 p.m., X-Hale 9 p.m.-1 a.m. June 12. Natalie Nicole Green noon, live music 7 p.m., Ivey West 8 p.m. June 13. Double Shot noon, Chris Tyler Band 8 p.m. June 14 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay, 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis every Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ 007 every Fri. Bay Street every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Buckcherry, Within Reason 6 p.m. June 10. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Sea Cycles, Tomboi, Wise River, Faster Faster June 13.

FLEMING ISLAND

MERCURY MOON, 2015 Doctors Inlet Rd., 215-8999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Lisa & the Mad Hatters 9 p.m. June 12 & 13. Live music every Fri. & Sat. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. every Thur. Deck music every Fri., Sat. & Sun.

INTRACOASTAL WEST

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Love the Sin 7 p.m. June 10. Bill Ricci 5 p.m. June 12. Live music every Fri. & Sat. JERRY’S Sports Grille, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Circus June 12. Rick Arcusa June 13 YOUR PLACE, 13245 Atlantic Blvd., 221-9994 RadioLove 9 p.m. June 11

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

DAVE’S MUSIC BAR & GRILL, 9965 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 48, 575-4935 Scott Verville June 10. Wrenshaw 6 p.m., Blues Jam 9 p.m. June 12. Chris Jobinski 6 p.m., OCD & Ether 9 p.m. June 13. Bonnie & Clyde every Tue. Open jam every Wed. Joe G & Friends every Thur.

HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Scott Verville June 15. Open jam Blues Monday 7 p.m. every Mon. SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13, 287-8226 Stu Weaver 7 p.m.

June 13

MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Strengthen What Remains, Neverender, Dwell, Landfill, Me & the Trinity 7 p.m. June 11. Uncle Reece, Butta P, Big Fil 7:30 p.m. June 13. Spoken, Random Hero, Just Bein Ian 8 p.m.

June 17 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Oscar Mike 9 p.m.

June 10. Jade Koth June 12. Whiskey Dogs, The Senses, Danny Delves & the Deadly Nightshades June 13. Mrs. Skannotto June 16 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Chris Thomas, Taylor Roberts, Blue Muse, Tambor starting 10:30 a.m. June 13

ST. AUGUSTINE

BARLEY REPUBLIC, 48 Spanish St., 547-2023 Live local music every Thur.-Sun. THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Gary Douglas Campbell 2 p.m., Chillula 7 p.m. June 12. Evan D 2 p.m., Ain’t Too Proud to Beg 7 p.m. June 13. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. June 14 DOS COFFEE & WINE, 300 San Marco Ave., 342-2421 Jazz every Sun. HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Billy Bowers 6 p.m. June 17 MILL TOP TAVERN, 19 St. George St., 829-2329 Eryn Shewell 9 p.m. June 10. Don David Trio 9 p.m. June 12 & 13.

Denny Blue 5 p.m. June 13. Colton McKenna 1 p.m. June 14 PAULA’S BEACHSIDE GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Denny Blue open mic jam 6-9 p.m. June 10 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys June 12 & 13. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.

12. Linda Shilby CD release party: Mike Burns, Jason Hensely, Anne McKennon, Jeffrey Parker, Dan Lopes, Mark Collins, Chris Hull, Bill Belemy June 18 THE PARLOUR, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455 Live music every Thur.-Sat. RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY, 835 Museum Circle, 398-2299 Live music 8 p.m., Steve & Eden 10 p.m. every Fri.

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

BAHAMA BREEZE, 10205 River Coast Dr., 646-1031 Tropico Steel Drums June 15 CORNER BISTRO, 9823 Tapestry Park Cir., 619-1931 Matt Hall every Wed.-Sat. Steve Wheeler every Fri. LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 DJ Trdmrk 5 p.m., Rusted Diamond 7 p.m. June 10. Be Easy 7:30 p.m., DJ Fellin 10:30 p.m. June 11. Darrel Rae 5 p.m., The Katz Downstairs 8:30 p.m. June 12. Get It Hot 8:30 p.m., DJ Fellin 11:30 p.m. June 13. Stank Sauce June 14 MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows Rd., 737-5299 Fat Cactus every Mon. Live music 9 p.m. every night

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013 Dance Radio Underground, Sugar & Cream, Black Hoodie, Bass Therapy Sessions, Allan GIz-Roc Oteyza, TrapNasty, Cry Havoc, every Sat. JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Bodysnatcher, Hounds the Alaskan 7 p.m. June 10. The Shift, Automatik Fit June 11. Beta Play, Tragic Thrills, Strangerwolf, Ancestros Cord June 13. In Your Memory, Blacklashes & Bad Ideas, 1.8.7. June 16. Broncho, Le Orchid June 17. Jenni Reid album release, Ashleigh Davis June 19 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Seth Walker 7:30 p.m. June 11. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer, Luke Peacock, Shannon Ogden 7:30 p.m. June

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

CLUB RETRO, 1241 Blanding Blvd., 579-4731 ’70s & ’80s dance 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DJ Capone every Wed. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael plays piano every Tue.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Live music every Sat. DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Boogie Freaks 10 p.m. June 12 & 13. Live rock music 10 p.m. every Wed. DJ Big Mike 10 p.m. every Thur. Live rock every Fri. & Sat.

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Live music every Fri. & Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., 280-5515 Deron Baker June 10. Gary Starling June 11. Ryan Crary & Johnny Flood June 12. Way Back Wednesday June 13. Banks & Smith June 17

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 The Happy Faced Mistakes, Abandon the Midwest, Minor Influence June 13. Backwater Bible Salesmen open mic 8 p.m. every Mon. DJ Rafiki every Tue.

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC A founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and sometimes Young!), Rock and Roll Hall of Famer DAVID CROSBY performs at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall on June 13.

OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730 Taylor Roberts, Chris Thomas June 14 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Shayne Rammler Band 8 p.m. June 10. Live music every Wed.-Sun. WILD WING CAFÉ, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Chris Brinkley June 10. Open mic June 11. Fratello June 12. A1A North June 13. Live music every Fri. & Sat. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Live music every Fri. & Sat.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 The Calm, Ratsmouth 6 p.m. June 11. Wrennpop June 12. Live music every Fri. & Sat. THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 RadioLove at 5 p.m. June 12. Open mic held every Thur.

THE KNIFE

IN“APP”ROPRIATE CONTENT APP CULTURE MAKES ME WANT TO VOMIT. And when I do, there’s probably an app that can tell me the volume, chemical composition and weight of my vomit, and what I can do next time to make the experience more enjoyable. Like maybe immediately posting photos of my vomit on Instagram and Facebook.

All well and good. No harm, really, in social networking my spewage. But there’s another, more insidious segment of the app world I’m going to take on in this week’s column: Mobile music apps.

The list of music-making apps is long, and though they all offer something slightly different from one another, they all promise one thing – they make making music easy for everyone. This is a good thing, right? Absolutely, if you have no experience making music, you have no desire to learn how to make music, or you’re four years old. About now, a certain percentage of you are thinking, “The crotchety, old music curmudgeon is about to launch into a hot-tempered, elitist rant, and I am not going to read any further.” But keep reading; you may learn something.

So … what’s the problem with apps that make making music easy? Well, music is not supposed to be easy. Despite what the last 25 years of popular song might suggest, music is an art form, a craft that spans the ages, the glorious sonic expression of one’s very soul. It is to be labored over, learned about, dissected and reconstructed, smashed to pieces and reinvented at every turn.

And that very process should be difficult, intense, emotionally fraught, embarrassing and joyous.

As a musician and music instructor, I know how hard it is to learn how to play an instrument.

It’s a lifelong pursuit, and more of my students quit in frustration than stick with it. To see the process through to the point of simply being able to play a few songs is hard enough. To become a master is for only the most dedicated and, sometimes, some of those people end up out-of-their-minds crazy.

Couple this with the arduous task of learning composition and theory, which is as mentally draining as learning an instrument is physically exhausting, as you’re climbing several mountains simultaneously.

Even the seemingly simple task of learning to play the acoustic guitar and then write a four-chord folk song is deceptive. Ask the next five people you meet if they have a guitar somewhere in their house. Then ask them if they play it anymore. Answer: “Oh, I gave that up a long time ago.” (Variant: “I bought it for my kid who wanted to learn how to play. He quit.

Now it just sits in his bedroom gathering dust.”)

Even the lamest weekend warriors, the dorkiest of hobbyists, the annoying-est of sidewalk troubadours – they all dedicated part of their lives to learning their craft, regardless of how badly they might play. They, at the very least, tried.

But now, you don’t have to. Try, that is. Just download an app, tap the screen a few times, and a really horrible facsimile of a composition magically presents itself. It’s the 21st-century equivalent of paint-by-number. Some apps are sophisticated, like Beatwave, which allows you to tap squares on a grid and create pseudocompositions, while others are just plain stupid, like Casio Chodana Composer, into which you sing a two-bar melody and it creates an entire piece of “music.” There are dozens of these apps, all of which promise to make making music easy.

The most awesome feature of nearly all of these apps is, of course, that everything that comes out of them sounds like digitized, mechanical house music. An apt metaphor for the music of the app generation, wouldn’t you say? So now you, too, can make shitty music that sounds almost as shitty as the music you listen to, all with the tap or the swipe of your iPhone screen.

The defense many of you will offer is that not everyone has the time or desire to learn the ins and outs of musical composition, or the discipline to take up an instrument, but still love music enough to want to make it – FOR FUN – on your phones. To be sure, for decades now, the music industry has been hawking computers that make making music easy.

It’s not a new phenomenon. But the decline in the quality of music in general seems attendant to the ease with which people can create it.

This criticism does not apply to children, whose life experience is enhanced by simply touching an instrument. They should have access to any and all instruments, computer programs and simulators and, yes, even apps. But at some point in their lives, it will be time to make the choice to continue or abandon the quest (and leave the guitar in the corner to gather dust).

So some of you who love to make music FOR FUN will end up spinning virtual turntables at a local club, creating happy little mash-ups for your YouTube subscribers and maybe even convincing Jay Z that you can make a few pennies streaming on Tidal. Great. Good for you.

The rest of us will continue to study, work, labor for our passion. And we will, somewhere along that path, try to instill in a young person or two the love of the history of music, the value of commitment and discipline, and the idea that music is for everyone to listen to, but not for everyone to make.

THE KNIFE

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Casey Cummings and Jamie Gonyer, of Larry’s Giant Subs off Southside Boulevard, show off The Ultimate Sub featuring roast beef, roasted turkey breast and premium ham.

DINING DIRECTORY AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29south restaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. F Southwestern fare; burritos, tacos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com.

F Family-owned spot in historic building. Veggie burgers, seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oakshaded patio. Karibrew Pub next door. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily CIAO Italian Bistro, 302 Centre St., 206-4311, ciaobistroluca.com. Owners Luka and Kim Misciasci offer fine dining: veal piccata, rigatoni Bolognese, antipasto. Specialties: chicken Ciao, homemade meat lasagna. $ L Fri., Sat.; D Nightly DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469.

450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA. ELIZABETH POINTE Lodge, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F BOJ winner. Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily.

Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S at Thompson House, 11 S. 7th St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MARCHÉ BURETTE, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 491-4834, omnihotels.com. Old-fashioned gourmet food market and deli, in the Spa & Shops, Omni Amelia Island Plantation. Continental breakfast; lunch features flatbreads. $$$ BW K TO L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moon riverpizza.net. F BOJ winner. Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, the pecanrollbakery.com. F The bakery, near the historic district, offers sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels and breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. THE PIG BAR-B-Q, 450102 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0101,

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thepigbarbq.com. Bite Club. SEE SOUTHSIDE. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish, duck breast.

Outside. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly THE SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F BOJ winner. 2nd-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront; handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily TASTY’S FRESH Burgers & Fries, 710 Centre St., 321-0409, tastysamelia.com. Historic district. Freshest meats, hand-cut fries, homemade sauces, hand-spun shakes. $ BW K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310.

F BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE VERANDAH, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 321-5050, omni hotels.com. Extensive menu of fresh local seafood and steaks; signature entrée is Fernandina shrimp. Many herbs and spices are from onsite garden. $$$ FB K D Nightly

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.

LARRY’S SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386.

Premium ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in a Florida-centric décor.

Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily THE FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian & Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes, desserts. Breakfast all day.

Local landmark for 50+ years. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20+ years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 Pine Grove Ave., 389-8655, To get your restaurant listed here, just call your account manager or Sam Taylor at 904.260.9770 ext. 111 or staylor@folioweekly.com.

DINING DIRECTORY KEY

Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com.

2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot

pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ. For 40+ years, burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AKEL’S Delicatessen, 7825 Baymeadows Way, 733-4040.

F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips, Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.

BROADWAY Ristorante & Pizzeria, 10920 Baymeadows Rd. E., 519-8000, broadwayfl.com. F Family-owned-&operated. Wings, calzones, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F BOJ. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. A variety of curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S, 3928 Baymeadows, 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows, 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI Grille, 9551 Baymeadows, Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Family-owned Thai place serves traditional fare, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Lowsodium, gluten-free, too. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. SAUSAGE PARADISE Deli & Bakery, 8602 Baymeadows Rd., 571-9817, spjax.com. F This innovative new spot offers a variety of European sausages, homestyle European dinners, smoked barbecue, stuffed cheeseburgers. $$ TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. New bistro has local craft beers, wines by the glass or bottle, champagne cocktails.

Meatloaf sandwiches, pulled Peruvian chicken, homestyle vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO D Tue.-Sat. WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. New gastropub has craft beers, burgers, handhelds, tacos, whiskey. $$ FB L D Sat. & Sun.; D Daily.

ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, zesty india.com. Asian/European fare; tandoori lamb chops, rosemary tikka. Vegetarian cooked separately. $ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun.

BEACHES

(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. F BOJ winner. Subs made with fresh ingredients for more than 25 years. One

DINING DIRECTORY word: Peruvian. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BEACHSIDE Seafood Restaurant & Market, 120 Third St. S., 444-8862, beachsideseafood.info. Full fresh seafood market; baskets, fish tacos, daily fish specials, Philly cheesesteaks. Dine indoors. on second-floor open-air deck. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201.

F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BREEZY Coffee Shop Café, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211, breezycoffeeshopcafe.com. Casual, familyowned. Fresh baked goods, espres sos, locally roasted Costa Rican organic/Breezy Bold coffees, vegan/glutenfree options. Sandwiches, local beer, wine, mimosas. $ BW K TO R L Daily BUDDHA THAI Bistro, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444, buddhathaibistro.com. Proprietors are from Thailand; every authentic dish is made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily CANTINA MAYA Sports Bar & Grille, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-3227. F Popular spot serves margaritas, Latin food, burgers. Sports on TVs. $$ FB K L D Tue.-Sun. CULHANE’S Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 2499595, culhanesirishpub.com. F Bite Club. Upscale pub owned and run by County Limerick sisters. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastropub fare. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L Fri.-Sun.; D Tue.-Sun. ESPETO Brazilian Steakhouse, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884, espetosteakhouse.com. Just relocated, serving beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage; full menu, bar fare, craft cocktails, Brazilian beers. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., N.B., 853-5680 F Latin American, Southwest tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815, harmoniousmonks.net. F SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LILLIE’S Coffee Bar, 200 First St., N.B., 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine inside or out,

RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30+ years, iconic seafood place has served blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. BOJ winner. Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., N.B., 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Popular beachcasual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS Sports Grille, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. BOJ winner. 20+ beers on tap, TVs, cheerleaders. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop has steaks and hoagies made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily TACOLU BAJA MEXICANA, 1712 Beach Blvd., 249-8226, tacolu.com. BOJ winner. Fresh, Baja-style fare: fish tacos, tequila (more than 135 kinds) and mezcal. Bangin’ shrimp, carne asada, carnitas, daily fresh fish selections. Madefresh-daily guacamole. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L D Tue.-Fri.

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S Delicatessen, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. THE CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717. Sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun. CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare for 35+ years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. The homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F Chefinspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi and barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Thur.-Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining with an uptown Irish atmosphere, serving fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew and black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com.

GRILL ME!

GUY BOONSANONG

Buddha Thai Bistro, 301 10th Ave. N., Jax Beach BIRTHPLACE: Bangkok YEARS IN THE BIZ: 16 FAVORITE RESTAURANT: Blue Bamboo, Southside BEST CUISINE STYLE: Pan Asian GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Lemongrass and ginger IDEAL MEAL: Clean, light and simple INSIDER’S SECRET: Stick to the basics – less is more.

CELEBRITY SIGHTING at Buddha Thai: Tim & Donna Deegan CULINARY TREAT: Crispy pork belly

patio, courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily THE LOVING CUP HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644. New place has locally sourced fare, locally roasted coffee, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, healthful dishes – no GMOs or hormones allowed. $ K TO B R L Tue.-Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club.

BOJ winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., N.B., 249-5573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean spot, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside, on patio. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F BOJ winner. Pulled pork, beef, chicken, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfi sh, sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 241-2599, mshack burgers.com. F BOJ winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. $$ BW L D Daily NORTH BEACH Bistro, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, A.B., 372-4105, nbbistro.com. F Bite Club. Chef-driven kitchen; hand-cut steaks, fresh local seafood, tapas. Happy Hour. $$$ FB K R Sun.; L D Daily OCEAN 60 Wine Bar, Martini Room, 60 Ocean Blvd., A.B., 247-0060, ocean60.com. BOJ winner. Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, dinner specials, seasonal menu in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 241-7637.

Gastropub, 50+ beers, gourmet hamburgers, ground in-house, cooked to order; hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily

F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Home to duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri. SWEET PETE’S, 1922 Pearl St., 376-7161. F All-natural sweet shop has candy made of all natural flavors, no artificial anything. Several kinds of honey. $ TO Daily ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Wed.-Sat. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. 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 Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771, yourpie. com. F Owner Mike Sims’ idea: Choose from 3 doughs, 9 sauces, 7 cheeses, 40+ toppings. 5 minutes in a brick oven and ta-da: It’s your pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ BW K TO L D Daily

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach, Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.

APPLEBEE’S, 13201 Atlantic Blvd., 220-5823. SEE MANDARIN DICK’S, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ winner.

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DINING DIRECTORY SEE PONTE VEDRA.

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic, Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. OCEANA DINER, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 3, 374-1915, oceanadiner.com. Traditional American diner fare served in a family atmosphere. $ K TO B L Daily TIME OUT Sports Grill, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-ownedand-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-nite menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly

JULINGTON CREEK

DICK’S, 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 101, 825-4540. BOJ winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA.

METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS

AKEL’S Delicatessen, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES.

APPLEBEE’S, 14560 St. Augustine Rd., 262-7605, apple bees.com. Completely remodeled in the area – new look, new appetizers (half-price after 10 p.m.) Most are open until midnight or later. $$ FB K TO L D Daily ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199.

F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 288-9211. 13820 St. Augustine Rd., 880-0020. Brooklyn Special. Calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ BW TO L D Daily THE COFFEE BARD, 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 13, 260-0810, thecoffeebard.com. New world coffeehouse has coffees, breakfast, drinks. $$ TO B L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS, 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. F BOJ winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, jaxra mada.com. In Ramada. Prime rib, crab leg buffet Fri. & Sat., blue-jean brunch Sun., daily buffets. $$$ FB B R L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040, harmoniousmonks.net. F American steakhouse: Angus steaks, burgers, ribs, wraps. $$ FB K L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., 674-2945.

F SEE ORANGE PARK. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods.

Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE PIG Bar-B-Q, 14985 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 108, 374-0393, thepigbarbq.com. Bite Club. SEE SOUTHSIDE. WHOLE FOODS Market, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. F Expansive prepared-food department with 80+ items, full-service/ self-service hot bar, salad bar, soup bar, dessert bar, pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. $$ BW TO L D Daily

ORANGE PARK

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007, aronspizza. com. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizzas. $$ BW K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS, 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122. BOJ winner.

SEE PONTE VEDRA.

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club. com. Southern-style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts.

Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F For 30-plus years, they’ve piled ’em high and served ’em fast. Hot/cold subs, soups. $ K TO B L D Daily THE PIG BAR-B-Q, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 170, 213-9744, thepigbarbq.com. Bite Club. SEE SOUTHSIDE. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouseonline.net. F For 35-plus years, the rock & roll bar for locals has been serving wings, sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas; 75-plus imported beers. A large craft beer selection is also available. $ FB L D Daily SNACSHACK, 179 College Dr., Ste. 19, 682-7622, snacshack.menu. F The new bakery and café offers bagels, muffins, breads, cookies, brownies and snack treats. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily

PONTE VEDRA

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F BOJ winner. NASCARthemed; 365 kinds of wings, 1/2-lb. burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. PUSSER’S BAR & GRILLE, 816 A1A N., Ste. 100, 280-7766, pussersusa.com. F BOJ winner. Bite Club.

Caribbean cuisine, regional faves: Jamaican grilled pork ribs, Trinidad smoked duck, lobster macaroni & cheese dinner. Tropical drinks. $$ FB K TO L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797, restaurantmedure.us. Chef David Medure offers global

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flavors. Small plates, creative drinks, happy hour. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE

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

BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes; tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336.

F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES. APPLEBEE’S, 8635 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 201, 771-0000.

6251 103rd St., 772-9020. 843 Lane Ave. S., 378-5445.

SEE MANDARIN.

BLACK SHEEP Restaurant, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, black sheep5points.com. New American with a Southern twist; locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. BOJ winner. F Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfive points.com. F Local craft beer, espresso, coffee and wine bar. Rotating drafts, 75+ canned craft beers; sodas, tea. Rotating seasonal menu of waffles, pastries, toasts, desserts to pair with specialty coffees, craft beers. $$ BW K B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily.

DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343. New American cuisine, upscale retro atmosphere in historic landmark building. Shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Weekend brunch. B, L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S, 5972 San Juan Ave., 693-9258. BOJ winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA.

EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. BOJ

winner. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style Reuben, sandwiches. Outside dining at some. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. BOJ winner. F Juice bar; certified organic fruits, vegetables. 300+ craft/import beers, 50 wines, produce, humanely raised meats, deli, raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. Wraps, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS Asian Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055.

F Casual spot; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. One word: Reuben. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S. Locally-owned, family-run; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794.

7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S Smokehouse Bar-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, chicken, ribs. Sides: beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442.

F BOJ winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire. com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas. Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS Irish Pub, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily THE PIG BAR-B-Q, 5456 Normandy Blvd., 783-1606, thepigbarbq.com. Bite Club. SEE SOUTHSIDE. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. Bar food. $ D SILVER COW, 1506 King St., 379-6968, silvercowjax. com. Laid-back, cozy, subdued spot serves craft beers, wines. The full menu is ever-expanding. $$ BW L D Daily.

BEER-SIZED

IT’S SUMMERTIME. GET UP AND GOSE! This sometimes-sour beer may be your salvation from the subtropic beatdown NO MATTER YOUR PREFERENCE OR HOW YOU choose it, there is always a beer that will perfectly fit your situation. My situation? Like many other Floridians, I’m currently trying to survive another hellacious summer without ending up on the news, appearing as the infamous Florida Man, courtesy of my heatinduced insanity.

Lucky for me, I’ve found the appropriate preventive measure: beer.

As the sun bludgeons you with its rays and the humidity threatens to strangle the breath from your lungs, reaching for a beer may be your only salvation from the subtropic beatdown. Florida summers demand a beverage that can keep up with the heat. And the best beers always showcase the natural, local elements of their surroundings.

For me, this beverage comes in the form of a sour beer called Gose (pronounced ‘goes-uh’). A light, refreshing wheat beer, Gose is brewed with coriander and salt giving, it a cracker-like wheatiness, with delicate fl oral notes and a slight salinity on the finish. During the brewing process, the beer is allowed to be “infected” with the friendly bacteria lactobacillus. The lacto goes to work, adding a tartness to it reminiscent of sour citrus.

While this may sound like an odd combination of flavors, they work rather well together.

Wheat beers — which cut back on the malt to make a lighter beer that’s also lower in alcohol — usually make for very sessionable beer. The tartness and coriander reminds me of fresh citrus and flowers (two things Florida has in

abundance). The salty finish leaves your mouth slightly dry, begging for another sip while also making the quaff perfect for drinking at the beach or out on the boat while fishing.

TO TASTE: The Gose style originated in Germany, where it went extinct several times, and was revived several times over. So it’s a good thing that brewers of American craft beer have taken a liking to the style, as more and more breweries add Gose to their seasonal or core lineup. Anderson Valley Brewing Company’s The Kimmie, the Yink, and the Holy Gose (Anderson Valley, CA) is a wonderful interpretation of the style, with more sourness than one would usually expect. On the opposite end of the Gosespectrum, Sixpoint’s Jammer (Brooklyn, NY) is a little truer to style, with a very subdued tartness and a heavier salinity in the finish. Boulevard’s Hibiscus Gose (Kansas City, MO) enhances the floral aspect of the coriander.

Looking locally, Aardwolf Brewery in San Marco offers a Gose that is definitive of the style: extremely crisp, light, a very mild tartness on the middle of the palate, with a salty finish.

BITE SIZED

TO PAIR: Gose’s light style can be easily overpowered by flavors that are too bold. Keeping with the beach theme, pairing a slightly tart, saltier Gose with seafood works wonderfully.

Lemon-dressed tilapia, ceviche, or other mild seafood such as scallops comes to mind. Green salads with tangy dressings are also appropriate.

James Richburg mail@folioweekly.com

DINING DIRECTORY SILVER COW ANNEX, 1508 King St., 379-6968, annexjax.com. Adjacent to Silver Cow; serves craft beers, wines. Bigscreen TVs, games. Chorizo tacos, burgers. $$ BW D Daily.

SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. Healthy, light vegan fare made fresh daily with local, organic ingredients.

Specials, served on bread, local greens or rice, change daily. Coffees, teas. $ Tue.-Sun. SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside, Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. F Sushi variety: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll.

Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily

At Baymeadows’ UNCLE MADDIO’S, you can build your pie from a large variety of crusts, sauces, and toppings.

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SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

SEE PONTE VEDRA.

EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. $ BW K L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO Wine & Tapas Bar, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S Bar & Grille, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. F Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, specialty drinks, burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. New gastropub has local and national craft beers, specialty cocktails and a seasonal menu focusing on fresh, locally sourced ingredients and cuisine. Now serving Sunday brunch. $$ FB L D Daily MEZZE Bar & Grill, 2016 Hendricks Ave., 683-0693, mezzejax.com. Classic cocktails, fresh basil martinis, 35 draft beers, local/craft brews, Mediterranean cuisine.

Hookah patio. Happy hour. $$ FB D Daily MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922, matthews restaurant.com. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship. Fine dining, artfully presented cuisine, small plates, martini/ wine lists. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.

SAN MARCO 2044 SAN MARCO BLVD. 398-9741

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AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F SEE BEACHES. APPLEBEE’S, 225 S.R. 312, 825-4099. SEE MANDARIN. AVILES, 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-2277 F Inside Hilton Inn Bayfront. Progressive European menu; made-to-order pasta night, wine dinners, chophouse nights, breakfast buffet. Sun. champagne brunch, bottomless mimosas. $$$ FB K B L D Daily Answers to each pair of asterisked clues have barley something obvious in common (by BARLEY REPUBLIC, 48 Spanish St., 547-2023, “obvious” I mean “in plain sight”). Keep republicph.com. Old City’s only Irish gastropub in historic “people traveling incognito” in mind. I’ll area has fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, lambburger, craft explain next week. beers and spirits. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CANDLELIGHT SOUTH, 1 Anastasia Blvd., 819-0588.

Casual spot offers fish tacos, sandwiches, wings, desserts, sangria, daily specials. $ BW K TO L D Daily THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare, fresh ingredients.

Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomatobruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, Wed.-Mon. metrodiner.com. F BOJ winner. Original upscale diner.

GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ B R L Daily gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay for more than 25 years.

MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200.

The varied menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Ave., 399-8815, Sun.; L D Daily pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned; homestyle faves: MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Outside F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323.

TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Ave., 398-3005, taverna F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. sanmarco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; local MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F BOJ produce, meats. Craft beers, handcrafted cocktails. $$$ winner. SEE BEACHES. FB K TO R L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. 360° GRILLE, LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555, latitude360.com. F Popular place serves APPLEBEE’S, 4507 Town Center Pkwy., 645-3590. SEE seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Patio, MANDARIN. movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily BRIO TUSCAN GRILLE, 4910 Big Island Dr., 807-9960.

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 7077 Bonneval Rd., 332-8700. F Upscale Northern Italian fare, wood-grilled and oven-roasted SEE DOWNTOWN. steaks, chops, seafood. Dine indoors or al fresco on the ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., terrace. $$$ FB K TO R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000, mshack theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ burgers.com. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. FB D Tue.-Sun. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.

APPLEBEE’S, 5055 JTB Blvd., 296-6895. SEE MANDARIN. com. European-style dining influenced by Italy, Spain and BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, the Mediterranean. Small plates, entrée-size portions, 807-9060. F SEE AMELIA ISLAND. selections from the cheese a charcuterie menu. $$$ BW DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, TO R D Daily 363-9888. BOGO lunches, Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. BOJ BASIL THAI & BAR, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, winner. SEE PONTE VEDRA. basilthaijax.com. F Authentic Thai dishes include Pad THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, Thai, a variety of curries, tempuras, vegetarian dishes, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef seafood, stir-fry and daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue.

BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox. $ FB K L D Daily com. F Mediterranean and French inspired cuisine includes EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. steak frites, oak-fired pizza and a new raw bar with seasonal BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. selections. $$$ FB TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., DICK’S, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. BOJ winner.

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MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. THE PIG BAR-B-Q, 11925 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 619-0321, thepigbarbq.com. Bite Club. Popular fourth-generation barbecue place, family-owned for 60+ years. The signature item is mustard-based “pig sauce.” $ BW K TO B, L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily TOMMY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999, tbopizza.com. F New York-style thin crust, brick-oven-baked pizzas (gluten-free), calzones, sandwiches. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pick-up. $$ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE VISCONDE’S Argentinian Grill, 11925 Beach Blvd., Ste. 201, 379-3925. The area’s only Argentinian place.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

NO WEED FOR A FORTNIGHT, DUMP YOUR FRIENDS & SELF-REVIEW ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To look at a thing hard and straight and seriously – to fix it.” Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis. He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. Make this one of your specialties in the weeks ahead.

Pick a tweaked situation you’d like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement to heal. Pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate with a luminous focus.

Use all your tough, tender insight to determine what needs transforming, and transform it.

HELLO, YOUNG LOVERS (aka ISU writers)!

The limit for ISU notices is 40 words ONLY. No messages with more than

40 words will be accepted. Please keep your message short & sweet. Thanks!

BREATHLESS AT BIG LOTS You: Beautiful, short hair, coral outfit, buying plastic bins, in Mini-Cooper. Me: Tall guy, striped polo, khakis. Let you ahead; bought pens to write number for you; you left soon. Needed coral party item, never expected perfect coral. When: 2 p.m. June 4. Where: Merrill Road Big Lots. #1525-0610 STUNNING FRECKLED REDHEAD; BE MY MODEL? My jaw dropped! Your stunning looks, beautiful skin are amazing! Didn’t have business card with me; would you consider modeling for a photo shoot? Your schedule, preference. Let me build your portfolio! When: May 11.

Where: Town Center Publix. #1525-0610

ENDLESS LOVE You: Handsome, buff, bald man, best smile, driving ivory Cadillac. Me: Short, long hair, blue-eyed girl who works your conversions; my heart melts when I see you. Let’s meet so I can convert you over to a real woman! When: March 4.

Where: Baymeadows business. #1515-0408 SMILE’S FOREVER, HOWEVER Bumped into me, Underbelly’s bar, Art Walk. Dark hair, brilliant smile. Taking hygienist work home with you? Talked about smiles, other thing. I’ll make other thing last. You left with friends; didn’t get number. Let’s make smiles! When: April 1. Where: Underbelly. #1514-0408

TAG YOU’RE IT Me: Brunette, maroon Jeep. You: Smokin’ hottie in the white Nissan truck. Playing cat and mouse over the Intracoastal.

Catch me if you can ;). When: May 30. Where: Beach Boulevard Bridge. #1524-0603

BEAUTIFUL SOCCER HOOLIGAN You: Blonde, glasses, ripped rolled-up jeans, yellow sweater, Armada scarf, temp cheek tattoo. Me: Dark hair, glasses, full sleeves. You behind me, half-time refreshment line. We smiled in section 141 top. Let’s sit side-by-side. When: March 28. Where: EverBank Field. #1513-0401

SEXY BLONDE, BOSTON CONCERT You: Very sexy, Sect. 101, Row I, with cute friend, “dates.”

We took selfies together; chemistry unmistakable. Me: Sect.

101, Row K; mature gent; a lot more fun than your date.

Sealed with a kiss. When: May 24. Where: St. Augustine Amphitheatre. #1523-0603

HAITIAN GENTLEMAN IN PINK Mr. I make airplanes crank for a living. Ms. Blonde alone on corner reading Folio Weekly ISU impatiently waiting; meanwhile collecting the worst pick-up lines. White boy was smooth; you, however, have my attention. When: March 28. Where: Outside De Real Ting. #1512-0401

COMPARIN’ TATTOOS AT DUNKIN’ DONUTS? Me: Too shy to talk further; noticed your foot tattoo; complimented it. You: Petite, cute in adorable summer dress! Mentioning tat, seeing that smile made my day!

Wanna stay, chat a bit? When: May 26. Where: Dunkin’ Donuts, U.S. 1 & JTB. #1522-0603

BEST ASS I’VE SEEN You: Sweaty, dark hair, petite, beautiful Asian lifting heavy (humping weights? Never seen that workout), engrossed in weights and convos with gym regulars. Sorry, couldn’t stop staring. Let’s train together.

Whatever you’re doing is working. When: March 16. Where: LA Fitness Atlantic Beach. #1511-0325

I CAN’T WEIGHT Me: Tall, blonde and flirtatious. You: Handsome and muscular. You were working on your fitness and I was your witness. Maybe we should get sweaty together? ;) When: April 20. Where: Retro Fitness. #1521-0527

0% IRISH, 100% DRUNK You: Orange sack pack and white sleeveless shirt. Me: White collared shirt and green tie.

Didn’t expect to have a dance partner. Will you shake it off with me again? When: March 17. Where: Brix Taphouse. #1510-0325

UNFORGETTABLE I pay great attention to small things, I feel so blessed that you were in my presences. Did you come back just to see me? I hope so, ’cause I love seeing you. In any color white, blue, coral … When: May 11. Where: Parked. #1520-0520

LITTLE DRUMMER BOY You: Black, bald, beautiful. Me: Hungry and watching. I was behind you in line while you pretended to play drums like Lars Ulrich. Can I play with your drumstick?

When: March 6. Where: Taco Bell @ Hodges. #1509-0311

VOTE FOR ME You: Widespread Panic shirt. You said you may actually vote Republican if Billary gets nomination. Wanted to speak more, but you had to get home to dogs and pet pigeon.

Let’s get naughty in voting booth! ;). When: May 7. Where: McDonald’s. #1519-0513 VILANO PUBLIX; PULLED GROIN MUSCLE! Produce/dairy around 8 a.m. You live St. Augustine, injured groin surfing Puerto Rico. Left, came back; so flustered talking you forgot eggs. You: PT, work, fishing, watch fi ght.

Me: to beach. Should’ve given my number! When: May 2.

Where: Vilano Beach Publix. #1518-0506 MR. MATRIX You: Dorky in a really sexy way. Me: Drew Barrymore look-alike. Stopped at your booth and heard you say you originally came up with the idea for “The Matrix.” You can give me your red or blue pill anytime, stud! When: April 10.

Where: One Spark. #1517-0415 JUICE BAR BABE You: Incredibly cute girl working juice bar. Braided blonde hair, nose ring. Your favorite is Pineapple Julius. Me: Suave, long-haired Adonis, right arm tattoo, sees you from afar, often there. Let’s meet, talk about more you like. When: April 3. Where: Baymeadows Native Sun. #1516-0408

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FREEBIRD EXPENDABLES SHOW On 2/25. We talked at very end by merchant stand. Short convo; said you’re finishing teaching degree. You: Very cute brunette, awesome smile. Would like to see you again! When: Feb. 25. Where: Freebird Live. #1508-0304 I SAW U Connection Made!

GIRL WITH THE SCAR On face, eye to forehead. ISU at gay bar, long ago; wanted to know you. My heart skipped a beat. You were and still are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen; always cross my mind. When: April 2014. Where: The bar. #1507-0304 NICE TO MEET You: Tall, handsome, broken wrist. Me: Cute, athletic, long sandy hair. Helped me sign out paddleboard; said nice to meet. Maybe you caught my name; don’t know yours. Meet 11 a.m. Feb. 13 at the lake. When: Jan. 31.

Where: UNF Lake Oneida. #1506-0211 I SAW U Connection Made!

ASIAN GODDESS SNAP FITNESS Me: Purposefully stretching longer, safe creeping distance. You: Gleaming from sweat, holding handstand a respectable amount of time! Took off shoes, socks; caught me watching. Kept gaze. You smiled, continued poses. Left before drool commenced. When: Jan. 20.

Where: Snap Fitness. #1505-0204

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Drug expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded Canadians consume weed at a similar rate. Among Europeans, Italians are No. 1; the French are No. 4. Avoid contributing to these figures for the next 12-14 days. In my astrological opinion, it’s time to be as sober, sensible and serious as you can. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of pure reasoning and critical thinking.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’ll be better if you don’t engage in much sacrifice, compromise, or surrender in the next two weeks. Usually they’re valuable tools, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Current astrological omens say you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity.

Time to draw deeper from your power, and express it with extra grace and imagination.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll soon be escaping – or maybe “graduating” is the right word – from interesting trials and tribulations. In honor of this cathartic transition, consider a ritual. It can be a full-fledged ceremony done with somber elegance, or a five-minute psychodrama done with boisterous nonchalance. It’ll be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity, and an expression of gratitude for resources you’ve called on in the struggle. An extra twist: Improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: “I throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.’”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I propose a Friends Cleanse. It’d be a three-weeklong process reviewing your support team and connection web. Start with an inventory of friendships and alliances. If there are any that have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or phase them out. Second stage of Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he made sure it would get the publicity he wanted. He wrote anonymous reviews of his own book and submitted them to several publications, which printed them. “An American bard at last!” began the glowing review in one newspaper.

According to my astrological omen-reading, you have license to engage in similar behavior. You’ll incur no karma, nor tempt fate, if you tout your assets in the weeks ahead. Make your bragging and selfpromotion as charming as possible; don’t be timid.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you do these assignments, you’ll boost your charisma, chutzpah, and creativity. First: Try something impossible every day. Whether or not you actually

accomplish it isn’t important. Merely making the effort will shatter illusions holding you back. Second: Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously. Explore the art of benevolent mischief. Third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unprovable theories, and three judgmental opinions.

Give yourself a gift of fertile emptiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the 16th century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic satirical novel, The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. Learned teacher Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes doing humble tasks. Alexander the Great is mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats; Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids. In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your astrological aspects, meditate on the reversals you’d like to see in your life. What’s first that maybe should be last? What’s big that should be small? What’s proud that should be humble? And vice versa for each?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s no better time than now to ask a big question, seek a big opening or explore a big feeling. Folks are as receptive as they’ll ever be, and more likely to understand what you really mean and what you’re trying to accomplish. Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn’t blinked or flinched in many moons? Which heart of darkness hasn’t shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is peaking.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Writer Donald Barthelme went to see artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above. De Kooning wasn’t alarmed. “Oh, that’s Herbert thinking,” she said, referring to metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio right above hers. This is the kind of thinking I’d love to see you unleash in the days ahead. It’s not time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations, and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, make some noise. The story is from Barthelme’s essay “Not-Knowing.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sidney Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like Network and Dog Day Afternoon. Actors loved to work with him, even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals.

Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the “magical accidents” that allow an actor’s highest artistry to emerge. Try a similar strategy. Get ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs when they arrive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too,” said American writer Josh Billings. I agree. It’s not impossible to solve the mystery of who you are, but it can be hard work requiring honesty, tenacity, and a great sense of humor. The good news? These days it’s far less difficult and inconvenient than usual to deepen self-understanding. Take advantage! To get started, interview yourself. Go here to see some questions to ask: http://bit.ly/interviewyourself.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD DISTRACTED AMERICANS

Air travelers last year left $675,000 in (obviously) spare change in airport screening bins, reported the Transportation Security Administration in April. Of the cars reported stolen in 2014, 44,828 had keys left inside, according to an April National Insurance Crime Bureau release. American credit card holders fail to claim “about $4 billion” in earned “rewards” each year, according to CardHub. com’s 2015 Credit Card Rewards Report.

POINTLESS

Holly Solomon, 31, pleaded guilty in April to aggravated assault with her Jeep — against her then-husband; she earned three-and-a-half years in prison. The crime was in a suburb of Phoenix in November 2012, days after Pres.

Obama’s re-election, as Solomon ran down her spouse because she was mad he didn’t voted for Mitt Romney as expected. His no-show didn’t affect the outcome, though; Romney easily won the state’s 11 electoral votes without him.

BOY BAND BLUES

In March, following the departure of Zayn Malik from British band One Direction, an executive with the Peninsula employment law firm in Manchester told London’s Daily Telegraph he’d received “hundreds” of calls

from employers seeking advice about workers who were requesting “compassionate” leave because Malik’s resignation had left them distraught. Also, a spokeswoman for the charity Young Minds told the Telegraph. she was concerned about Malik fans self-harming.

Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

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