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JULY 16-22, 2014 • VOLUME 28 • NUMBER 16

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20 MAIL FIGHTIN’ WORDS 2 MINUTES WITH COVER STORY

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MAGIC LANTERNS ARTS DINING DIRECTORY BITE-SIZED

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I get the concerns. I really do. Springfield has, for so many decades now, been on the cusp of revitalization, a charming neighborhood never really able to get over that hump, and the people who’ve invested in it are tired of waiting, tired of false dawns, tired of being rough around the edges. And there is no question that Springfield is already saturated with the homeless and services that help them — which is why the Jacksonville City Council passed a law in 2000 forbidding any more such “special uses” in the neighborhood — and that such concentrations make revitalization efforts all the more difficult.

I get the mistrust, too, toward Ability Housing, the nonprofit that wants to renovate a 12-unit apartment building and populate it with (Ability has promised) homeless veterans — many of whom have likely had psychiatric troubles — who already spend their nights or most of their time in the Springfield area.

Ability executive director Shannon Nazworth told me her organization applied for the $1.7 million state grant funding this project almost as an afterthought, and was caught entirely offguard when the grant was awarded. And so Ability never contacted neighborhood leaders, never built consensus, never did any of the preliminary work that can assuage trepidations.

Springfielders had beaten back an Ability project just outside the neighborhood some time ago, Springfield Preservation and Revitalization president Bill Hoff says, so they had reason to suspect that Ability Housing wasn’t acting on the level. “They knew what they are proposing wouldn’t be a popular thing in the neighborhood,” he told me.

So they fought back — first at a loud and contentious meeting in April, then to the city’s planning director, who in May decided the Ability project ran afoul of the city’s zoning rules for Springfield, because it “is akin to that of a rooming house or group care home and similar activities.” The planning commission will hear Ability’s appeal this week; it’s unlikely commissioners will overturn the director’s decision, and quite likely Ability will take the matter to court.

But this conflict is about more than just zoning — or, for that matter, more than just NIMBYism. It’s really about how we, as a society, choose to deal with the least fortunate, and how we balance those needs with those of the neighborhoods that house them. We know, for example, that so-called Housing First initiatives — that is, actually giving the homeless places to live — work; they’re both more effective and cheaper than other homelessness remedies, as has been demonstrated throughout the country.

(Hoff, a social worker, acknowledges that there’s merit in what Ability wants to do; he just wants it done elsewhere.) We also know that most nonprofits, like Ability, aren’t quite lighting cigars with hundred-dollar bills, and for these projects to work, they need to be centrally located — hence, Springfield, where property is inexpensive and social services are nearby.

It is, in a sense, a chicken-and-egg problem, to which there’s no easy answer.

So while I think the neighborhood’s fears are overblown, I do get their concerns. But at the end of the day, the city has a problem it needs to face head-on — about 2,600 homeless people in Duval County in 2013, according to a state Council on Homelessness report — and as much as we try, we’re not going to be able to will them into the shadows.

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Help the Mentally Ill

You did a beautiful job covering this man’s tragic and brief life [Cover Story, “The Last Days of Daniel Linsinbigler,” Susan Cooper Eastman, July 2], and I hope he receives justice in a day and age where no state nationwide has a mental health care center with an A rating.

In fact, Florida received grades C through F in four main categories on the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) 2009 survey.

My own cousin is schizophrenic, and I remember being outraged when the news media portrayed him as a homeless lunatic for their own purposes of higher ratings. My cousin had a psychotic break and ended up eating food naked in a home where he didn’t belong. He caused no physical harm to anyone.

A news employee told me that their media outlet had no obligation to redact any of their callous statements when I educated them regarding his condition and asked for them to edit their online content to reflect accuracy.

They did not.

There’s a book regarding mental illness in America called Mad in America by Robert Whitaker, and your descriptions of Lisinbigler’s treatment reminded me of some of the descriptive scenes in that book.

Mentally ill people don’t have the access to the help they need for fear of not being able to afford medication or fear of exposure to people who do not understand their condition is real even if it’s not outwardly evident.

The deputies who had such disregard for another human being’s life should be pepper-sprayed and have a TranZport Spit Hood placed over their own heads. Even that probably wouldn’t teach them empathy.

It may be true that caregivers become desensitized to the actions and outbursts of those they are meant to provide care to, but there is no excuse for the obscene treatment of the mentally ill in our nation or the state of Florida.

Compassion and empathy can only be derived from understanding, but many people only become human after someone they know is directly affected by an ailment or tragedy.

Christina Kimble

Outraged

I’m outraged at the death of Daniel [“The Last Days of Daniel Linsinbigler”]. I did not know him, but my heart aches for him and his family. This could have been my eldest daughter, who was an addict and appeared mentally ill almost three years ago.

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the deputies. The deputies often are coldhearted and calloused, not understanding that many people go through mental illness and addiction in their lives. People make mistakes and everyone might have a chance at being arrested at some point in their lives. Again, I would like to see the officers and deputies trained how to treat everyone arrested with the utmost kindness and respect no matter what the person has done wrong.

My daughter was in pre-trial for 40 days!

That was not a speedy trial, and she was treated inhumanely. At pre-trial in Downtown Jacksonville, the fluorescent lights are on all night, they can only change their underwear once per week, they do not get fresh air every day, nor do they get proper nutrition that include vegetables. My daughter has told me many terrible stories that include a 76-yearold who was forced to sleep on the top bunk, and other inmates had to assist her up to the bunk; also, a pregnant lady was Tasered!

My daughter has now been free for the last few years, and she is no longer an addict or mentally ill. She has straight A’s in college, has been employee of the month twice, and is a healthy beautiful young lady. Her family and friends believed in her. People can change for the better, and instead of deputies despising their intakes as horrible criminals, they should have the perspective that people made a mistake and as humans have the possibility of making great changes in their lives. A good place to start would be for the public to have the philosophy that we treat others with kindness, and that those who are arrested deserve to have human rights. I would like to see all jails as social learning institutions.

Shari Riepe

Tragic

This is such a tragic story [“The Last Days of Daniel Linsinbigler”]. Thank you for writing it. Wow. Maria Coppola Cummins, via Facebook

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FIGHTIN’ WORDS

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PUFF, PUFF…EH, PASS Why the MMJ bill Gov. Scott recently signed is a sham

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n June 16, with much fanfare and selfcongratulation, Gov. Rick Scott signed the so-called Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014 into law. It legalized a non-euphoric strain of pot called Charlotte’s Web, authorized a few centers around the state to conduct research on low-THC dope, and established an Office of Compassionate Use. And so you saw headlines sprout up on websites hither and yon to the effect of “Florida Legalizes Medical Marijuana,” often accompanied by Scott’s smiling mug.

But it comes with a caveat, a mechanism of control worthy of the late-stage Soviet Union.

The distribution and production of Charlotte’s Web will be choke-held by Tallahassee, with prescribing doctors and producers subject to stringent regulation.

In Northeast Florida, that regulation will ensure that very few nurseries will be eligible to service Charlotte’s Web patients — one industry insider told me that maybe just one meets the legislation’s requirements: three decades of continuous operation and a registration certificate qualifying the vendor to grow at least 400,000 plants. And there’s no guarantee that the few that can do it actually will.

There are other issues on the horizon, too, that may limit the law’s impact. In theory, for instance, the law would allow public education institutions like the University of Florida’s Institute of Food & Agriculture Sciences to conduct research on the benefits of medical marijuana. But doing so may compromise IFAS’ eligibility for federal research funding.

As an IFAS rep acknowledged when I called, the institute is wary of the gap between state and federal law. Marijuana — even low-grade marijuana whose only possible use is medicinal — is still considered a Schedule I drug by the federal government, just like heroin and LSD, somehow more prone to dependency and abuse than Schedule II drugs like meth and cocaine.

Even though Florida has now joined more than 20 other states in openly flouting federal law in the name of compassion, and even though the Justice Department announced last year that it would not, for the most part, challenge state laws permitting medical or recreational pot use, complications will arise.

All that aside, the law is a step forward — or at least it seems that way. But if you scrape just below the surface, there are political reasons for the Sunshine State to step through this gateway and onto the path of least resistance.

It all comes back to Amendment 2, the broader-scope medical marijuana initiative that will be on the ballot this November.

Career politicians, from Scott to the GOP-run Legislature on down, want to stop Amendment 2 from achieving the needed 60-percent threshold. Locally, figures like Sheriff John Rutherford hyperbolize against it, claiming that “We’re going to have medical marijuana in every backpack in every school in every county” and other such ridiculousness.

Key Democrats are mute; the ones who support it aren’t exactly loud and proud, and Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown and Sen. Bill Nelson both remain mum. That’s still better than Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the South Florida congresswoman and head of the national Democratic Party, who sparred recently with Charlie Crist patron John Morgan over his highprofile support of medical marijuana.

Meanwhile, Republicans like State Sen. Aaron Bean are out front, framing the narrative in a way their base will swallow.

Bean told me that while he opposes medical marijuana in general, he saw how Charlotte’s Web helped children. Consistent with the mainstream Republican position, he asserts that California-style medical marijuana systems are akin to “pill mills” and prone to “widespread abuse.” Legalized pot, Bean argues, would lead to a spike in crime, and “would only draw more heavily on public resources” than the status quo.

We’ve heard all this, some of it for 30 years, and there’s plenty of evidence it’s bogus. In fact, crime in Denver has gone down since Colorado legalized marijuana. But who makes these points as emphatically as the “Don’t Let Florida Go To Pot” crowd makes theirs? No one, outside of John Morgan and his checkbook, as far as I can see.

Politicians who sympathize with Amendment 2 should consider getting on their voters’ level and leveling with us with at least half the passion that Rutherford and Bean put into advocating for the failed status quo. Amendment 2 will fail if its advocates continue to relinquish control of the narrative to those political lifers poised to benefit from things staying as they are, the phony Reagan-conservative wannabes who have stolen liberties for decades, under the cover of flag pins and security emergencies.

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JENNIFER BOSTON, THE HOT DOG LADY Folio Weekly: Around here you’re known as the Hot Dog Lady.

Jennifer Boston: Or Hot Dog Jen. I answer to both. The little kids call me the Hot Dog Lady; all the adult kids call me Hot Dog Jen. How long have you been doing this?

Since 1998. Before that, I was a bartender for 20 years.

How did you get the idea to sell hot dogs?

Years ago I’d seen a hot dog stand, it was probably 20 years ago maybe, and we had gone Downtown and I saw a hot dog vendor, the only one, never seen him before and never saw him again, and I thought, “Man, I’d love a job like that. I can wear a tank top, cut-offs and flip-flops.” And about 10 or 11 years later, that’s what I decided to do.

What’s a typical day like for you?

I get up early in the morning, I go to my commissary and start prepping stuff, dicing onions and doing slaws and cheeses and just sorta get ready for the day, getting all my hot dog stuff together. I load up my cart, make sure my chips and sodas are loaded. It’s basically the same process at night, except in greater quantity. I’m out here from 10 to 4 Monday through Friday, and out at night from 9:30 p.m. to 3 or 4 in the morning.

Are you a morning or night person?

You know, now after doing this for 15 years, I’m more of a morning person, but I’m so conditioned for the nights.

When are you most busy?

The nights are more lucrative. I’d rather give up the days than the nights. Summer is my slowest time of year. Spring and fall are my busiest seasons.

Do you have regular customers?

Oh yeah, I’ve watched them grow up. A lot of my customers, I had them in high school and now they’re married and have their own kids.

There are people I used to wait on as kids, and now they have their own family. It’s an interesting, cool journey.

How do you decide where to set up shop?

I go and watch. I’ll watch the flow for two weeks, what time they get busy, what time people are filtering out. This is basically a numbers game. The more you have, the more you’re gonna sell. If you go somewhere where only 100 people are coming out, you’re not going to make a lot of money. Why go there when I could go to a place that has 600 people?

How many carts do you own?

Two. I use one and have a backup. And sometimes I think about doing a trailer and taking it to festivals and stuff, but I don’t want a food truck. I would much rather have an open-air trailer; they’re a lot more inviting.

Has it ever crossed your mind to stop selling hot dogs and start doing something else?

Absolutely. But I think we all get like that no matter what it is we do. But then I stop and think about it: I like being outside, I like the sun, I like being my own boss. And I don’t wanna be inside, I don’t like normality. This is abnormal.

Does the city inspect you?

When I first started, we were inspected three or four times a year, and that’s dropped through the years. Now we’re scheduled to have two inspections a year, and when I say scheduled, it means they can happen at any time, we just know how many times.

What are they looking for?

They look for temperatures, running water, making sure licenses are up to date, cleanliness and sanitary stuff, and to make sure I’m not grilling burgers.

You can’t grill burgers?

I’m open-air. If you have a food truck you can, because you’re enclosed. They’re worried about bacteria.

What’s the most unusual hot dog you’ve ever been asked to make?

None of them are unusual to me anymore. Sometimes people want a hot dog without a hot dog but still have all the same stuff in the bun because they’re vegetarian.

Do customers ever come up with requests for new ingredients?

Sometimes, yeah. I have a lot of people ask for potato sticks. I guess in South America they do that a lot. I do have a lot of people ask me for cream cheese, which I think I’m gonna add that. I guess in Seattle they do a bacon, green onion and cream cheese dog. I did research that one.

Do you have belligerent customers at night?

They’re not belligerent; they’re drunk. I deal with it by being their mom. [Laughs.] I take a mom attitude, and they’re all the age of my son anyway.

What do you eat on your hot dog?

My regular go-to if I want fast and comfort is mustard and ketchup.

I like the other stuff, but if I just want a hot dog, I want mustard and ketchup. Lots of it, like dripping off the bun.

“I guess in Seattle they do a bacon, green onion and cream cheese dog.

I did research that one.”

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The Nippers shooting that Jax Beach police aren’t talking about was the result of a fight between members of two motorcycle clubs.

One of them is populated by law enforcement

Story by Derek Kinner

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By now you may have heard them,

the rumors flying all over Jacksonville Beach and even nationwide about the June 26 shooting at Nippers Beach Grille that claimed the life of 40-year-old Zachariah Tipton, a father of three and member of the Black Pistons motorcycle club. These rumors exist and have gained traction because there’s so much about Tipton’s death that we don’t know, information that the police are keeping from the public.

One thing the Jacksonville Beach Police Department did confirm is that the shooting resulted from an altercation between two area motorcycle clubs.

“It was a dispute between two motorcycle clubs that began very quickly and ended in violence,” spokesman Sgt. Thomas Crumley told Folio Weekly. But that’s all we know from official channels. The shooter’s name is being kept secret. So too is what provoked the altercation. The police incident report is so thin as to be utterly useless. Further obscuring matters, bikers have a habit of clamming up when violence occurs in the course of their regular activities; in addition, police have instructed witnesses not to talk to the press.

The information void led to speculation that the shooter was a cop, and that perhaps his fellow officers were protecting him. The speculation grew and intensified so much that last week, Jax Beach police felt the need to quash it, telling local media in no uncertain terms that the shooter was not and had never been in law enforcement.

That is true. It is also true that Tipton was killed by a single gunshot wound, not by four bullets, as the widely circulating rumors suggested. The cops say they have interviewed hundreds of potential witnesses (at least some of whom described hearing multiple gunshots), and have turned their information over to the office of State Attorney Angela Corey, where prosecutors will decide whether charges are warranted or if the shooting was justified.

But interviews this magazine has conducted over the past week with members of the biker community and people familiar with the events of June 26 — many of whom agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity — reveal that there is much more to this story. The shooter, whom Folio Weekly has been told is a member of the military, was a prospect of a motorcycle club called the Iron Order, a national organization heavily populated by cops and federal agents — both active and retired — and thousands of their friends, including many active or retired military. Their motto is to create chaos and get away with it, according to their own website and a published memorandum the group’s leaders reportedly have distributed.

The Iron Order proudly proclaims on its home page that its members shun all nationally accepted motorcycle club rules and do whatever the hell they want. They have “no care for social norms or fear of others. We make Animal House look like grade school. We have PHDs [sic] in busting loose. … Our reputation for mayhem is worldwide.”

(Also on its website, the Iron Order says its club is as peaceful as a porcupine: “A porcupine minds its own business and bothers no one, just like us. Just pick one up and see what happens.”)

The sources who spoke to Folio Weekly also say it seems possible that members of this group may have been baiting the Black Pistons (a sanctioned offshoot of the Outlaws), showing up at their gathering and violating biker codes, fully aware that doing so may start a fight.

This, according to Iron Order president Ray “Izod” Lubesky, is not the case: “I can promise you no one went there to kill anybody,” Lubesky, a former corporate executive, told Folio Weekly in a rare interview. “Nobody was looking for a fight. We had people inside and we had people outside. If we were looking for a fight, they would have all been together.”

But there was a fight, and Zachariah Tipton ended up dead.

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ipton — a broad-shouldered, chubby-faced man known to his biker friends as Nas T — died at a seemingly unlikely place. Nippers is a popular mix of local watering hole and family-oriented restaurant, not some dimly lit bar where scraps break out regularly. It’s next to the Intracoastal Waterway, almost

beneath the bridge that leads from the mainland onto Jacksonville Beach.

Owner Rudy Theale says that last year, he was approached by his niece and sister, who have friends who are motorcycle enthusiasts, about having a regular Bike Night at Nippers. The events had become popular at a nearby club, so popular that the smaller establishment couldn’t handle the crowds. Nippers, with its large layout, could. Last October, Theale agreed to host one every month. (He held two before the weather turned cold.)

Zachariah Tipton The Black Pistons showed up in droves, along with other motorcycle enthusiasts. Theale says many of the bikers have regular jobs and range from retirees to people in high-ranking, well-paying jobs who wear Rolexes and live in country-club communities.

“There are people on bikes I would hang around with everywhere,” he says.

In May, Nippers held its first Bike Night of 2014, and Theale planned to host one on the fourth Thursday of each month. The regular reggae went out the door, and the entertainment turned toward the rock ’n’ roll tastes of the bikers, bands like local favorite Big Engine. Biker sources say the Black Pistons again showed up in full force.

The second Bike Night was June 26.

According to sources, numerous members of the Iron

Order showed up that night before the Black Pistons. The Iron Order was about to celebrate its 10th anniversary, having been founded by eight men, including two police officers and a Secret Service agent, on July 4, 2004. Its philosophy of disregarding long-established motorcycle rules and generally not caring what anyone else thought of them brought in a flood of members, and led to chapters in all 50 states and many countries around the world.

In a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms report issued earlier this year, agents said most major “outlaw motorcycle gangs” (abbreviated OMGs) are working hard to recruit members of the military. The Iron Order was mentioned in reference to several run-ins with other groups because they purposely wore insignia that violated nationally accepted agreements.

According to the report, “The Iron Order is one of the fastest growing motorcycle clubs in the United States. Members wear a traditional three-piece patch with a State bottom rocker. The fact that they wear the State bottom rocker has infuriated the HAMC [Hell’s Angels], Outlaws, Iron Horsemen, Pagans and Bandidos. More importantly, many of their members are police and corrections officers, active-duty military and/or government employees and contractors. Over the past 4 years, the Iron Order has had several violent confrontations with each of the aforementioned OMGs.” The rules the Iron Order rejected were conceived by several national motorcycle clubs, including the Outlaws and Hell’s Angels, after numerous fights, killings and other violence in the 1960s and ’70s. The clubs agreed to a code in the 1980s that respected the others’ “territories,” as well as their patch designs and colors. The clubs have detailed pecking orders, a public relations network that would put many government agencies to shame and, most of all, respect for each other as long as no one violates the rules and infringes on their turf and insignia.

The Iron Order ignores all that. In fact, Lubesky says the Nippers incident is just another in a long series of violence mainly caused by his club’s refusal to abide by an agreement regarding patches and when they can be worn. Lubesky believes this agreement infringes on bikers’ constitutional rights.

“Let me tell you, it’s been violent,” he says. “This isn’t one incident for us; it happens all the time. We’re lawabiding. We just don’t care what they say, what they do.”

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everal people familiar with the police investigation told Folio Weekly that Jax Beach police at some point heard rumors that trouble might be brewing at the Nippers Bike Night, though it isn’t clear when they heard that.

“There was definitely a rumor,” Theale says.

“I heard that rumor from the Jax Beach PD [days after the shooting]. There was some rumor that there was something that was going to happen.”

If he’d known about it beforehand, Theale adds, he would have canceled Bike Night. “I had no clue. If I thought that anything might happen, I would be a complete idiot. If I’d thought there was even a remote chance of anything happening, it would have been completely over. That would have been the end of it,” he says.

According to witnesses, Tipton arrived well after several members of the Iron Order. Many sources told Folio Weekly that Tipton took offense when he saw that an Iron Order member was wearing a black-and-silver patch — the colors of the Black Pistons. One person familiar with the biker code describes that as akin to an NFL team stealing another’s colors, though much more serious.

These sources believe Iron Order members knew exactly what they were doing and what was going to happen, and that they knew Black Pistons members would show up that night.

They called it provocation, or “baiting.”

Police would not comment on this aspect of the case. Lubesky denies the charge. He says members of the Iron Order arrived very shortly before the fight broke out. “They had just enough time to take a piss,” he says.

An argument ensued in the parking lot — which is basically the street alongside Nippers, which loops under the bridge. What happened, how the quarrel turned violent, how many people were involved, when the shooting occurred and how many shots were fired are all unclear because of the police department’s refusal to release additional details. (Calls Friday afternoon to the State Attorney’s Office, which now has the case, were not returned.)

The outdoors fracas did not go unnoticed by bar patrons and employees, especially Theale’s mother, who was working at the restaurant that night. She called her son, who was relaxing at his home about 20 minutes away when he learned that all hell had broken loose.

“She said, ‘There’s a guy in the street with a gun.’ She was head-hostessing, but she was outside, and she heard something. She heard what happened and then she saw what was happening,” Theale says. “I got three or four calls in a row — I guess it was happening right then. Two customers who are also friends called and said there’s something going on out in [the] parking lot. ‘We think someone’s been hurt.’

“This is a place where people take their kids,” he continues. “We have a sandbox, we have a kids-eat-free night. One of my guys was a medic in the Marines. As soon as he heard the shots, he tried to resuscitate [Tipton].”

Theale scrambled to get dressed and rush to the restaurant. When he arrived, he saw police cars everywhere and a lifeflight helicopter. The reality of the situation hit him hard.

Witnesses told news outlets that the man who offered himself up to police and confessed to firing the fatal shot had a bloody nose. So far, the cops have made no arrests.

Witnesses also reportedly said Tipton was wearing a helmet during the altercation. Many

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“Nobody was looking for a fight.

If we were looking for a fight, they would have all been together.” bikers don’t wear helmets, and those who do usually take them off before dismounting. Could this have been a sign he was expecting, or even looking for, trouble?

Until police and prosecutors release their final report, the public will be left in the dark.

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fter the shooting and ensuing media blitz, Theale was shaken — and worried about the effect it might have on his business. But he says his first concern was for Tipton’s family. He quickly agreed to hold a fundraiser for them (for which he hired some off-duty cops for security).

Since the shooting, it’s been business as usual at Nippers, Theale says. Sales have been steady.

He hopes that continues.

He also canceled Bike Night.

Theale says he’s received a lot of support from regulars, but also has gotten a bit of criticism — some for holding the fundraiser for Tipton.

“I got flak from people, like, how do you know this guy didn’t deserve it? What I know is, there’s a lady with three kids who have no father to support them,” Theale says.

And he received flak for canceling Bike Nights, too. His public response was that he has a lot of good friends who are motorcycle enthusiasts, and welcomes them all. But having a scheduled event like the one that ended in tragedy is definitely not something he’ll do again.

Lubesky, meanwhile, says the Nippers shooting has reverberated around the world, with members of clubs from many other countries chiming in, some threatening the Iron Order from abroad.

“It’s all over the streets,” he says. “We have not been directly threatened, but it’s all over the Internet. It’s deplorable. I know what the rumors are, that we murdered this guy, it was an execution-style killing with a bullet through the temple, there were two shooters who fired four times.”

All of that is untrue, he says — as is the notion that the cops are covering up something.

“They are not hiding anything, they are not protecting anybody. This is pretty clear. They want to make sure they get it right,” he says. “We hope that as the story gets out both sides can live in peace and go on. This is a sad situation and wish it had never happened. There’s nothing we can say that can take away that pain. We’re sincere about that. We have kids, we have husbands and wives, and mothers and fathers.”

Should prosecutors decide to bring charges against the shooter, Lubesky says, the Iron Order will fully support him in the courts, financially and morally.

“If we felt he was guilty as charged,” Lubesky says, “we wouldn’t.” dkinner@folioweekly.com

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COMEDY REVUE MAD COWFORD

If you’ve never seen improv comedy, you might be prejudiced by that open mic night when some poor schmuck’s dick jokes fell flat, yet you felt obligated to laugh. Not so at Mad Cowford shows: The improv troupe draws consistent, high-energy crowds every weekend night to their Northstar Substation digs ($5 gets you in). A loyal audience returns week after week to participate in their sketches, scenes and games. The group celebrates eight years performing here with the comedy revue variety show Way Off Broadway.

8 p.m. July 19, Theatre Jacksonville, $20, theatrejax.com, madcowford.com.

SWAMP RADIO SUMMER PERFORMANCE

Swamp Radio has given new meaning to the phrase “live radio.” Performed before a live audience and available by podcast, the show focuses on the history, culture and flavors of Northeast Florida. Local poets, playwrights, storytellers and songwriters hit the road to share the area’s rich culture in the quarterly variety series. For its summer show, Summer in the Ancient City, Swamp Radio highlights the history of St. Augustine, with historian Wayne Wood and a performance by husband-and-wife folk duo The WillowWacks. 7:30 p.m. July 18 and 19, Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, $25 for adults, $20 for students.

MUSICAL THE WIZ

SOUTHERN ROCK THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS

Forging a path between the swamp soul of CCR and the loose garage funk of The Black Keys, the Orlando-based six-piece Thomas Wynn & The Believers knows how bring a sense of family-honed Southern comfort to their music. Siblings Thomas and Olivia Wynn lead a dual assault on vocals, the grittiness in Thomas’ emphatic belt harmonizing with Olivia’s smoothness. Songs like “You Can’t Hurt Me” showcase the band’s ease in moving from mellow atmospheric blues territory to ripping out full-bodied riffs and solos with the flick of a guitar pedal. With The Black Cadillacs, 9 p.m. July 20, Underbelly, Downtown, $8-$10.

Dorothy takes a soulful journey in a local youth production of The Wiz, an African-American musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that fuses rock, gospel and soul. Students in the 100 Youth Voices musical theater program show off what they learned at Stage Aurora, an award-winning nonprofit theater company offering arts education programs to underserved students. This production is the centerpiece of Stage Aurora’s Black Arts Festival. 7 p.m. July 18 and 2 and 6 p.m. July 19 at Stage Aurora, Gateway Town Center, Northside, $15-$25, 765-7373, stageaurora.org.

DEEP HOUSE LARS BEHRENROTH

Even heavyweights in the DJ remix world get flak from music purists for not treading new ground in songwriting. But a true remix, one that takes a song’s core element in a completely new direction, is a legit discipline on its own.

Lars Behrenroth, host of the global weekly radio show Deeper Shades of House, has mastered that discipline, and he brings beats he uses to move and groove audiences the world over to Northeast Florida. Presented by The Garage, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. July 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $15.

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ELECTRONIC REGGAE POP BRAIDED SUN

Braided Sun is all about duality; it’s their motto. They appreciate life’s yin and yang, and try to convey that through their electronic music project. The duo from Ponte Vedra Beach, Luke and Nadine Walker, just began releasing music, and have already scored a few stops at this summer’s Warped Tour. Their reggaetinged music has an electronic dance vibe that sounds like something from an Ultra Music Festival. Put on your sunscreen, pretend – or “pretend” – you’re on acid and chill out with Braided Sun’s we’re-in-thistogether-vibe at the local premiere of Taylor Knox’s new surf movie De Passage. With Hoyle, 6:30 p.m.

July 20, Freebird Live, Jax Beach, free.

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MUSIC

BRING IT ON HOME

Native son and journeyman musician Walter Parks comes home – after a date with Judy Collins at the Lincoln Center

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one of living by example. “Richie had such an alter Parks is on the road again. It’s invitational quality on and off the stage with familiar territory for the modern people,” says Parks of his friend and bandmate, troubadour, who’s spent three-plus who died in 2013. “He’d draw you in and knew decades as solo artist, band member and in-demand sideman for some how to create this atmosphere that’s legendary players. hard to describe — very warm.

An evening with WALTER PARKS “I was over in Sweden a couple Richie would talk to a fan the 7:30 p.m. July 24, of days ago as a kind of scouting same way he would with a music Mudville Music Room, trip to get some work for my promoter. And quite frankly, Richie $12, 352-7008, band in Scandinavia,” says Parks, would always rather talk to a fan.” raylewispresents.com as he races a rental car from Collins, who first heard Parks Fort Lauderdale to play a gig later that night play with Havens in 2009 at a Madison Square in Pensacola. That group is Swamp Cabbage, a Garden celebration for Pete Seeger’s 90th rootsy, Northeast Florida-based trio that is just birthday, has praised Parks for his singular one of Parks’ musical combinations. style. Equally impressive are Parks’ talents as The 55-year-old Jacksonville native returns singer-songwriter and guitarist. His Gibson home for a gig at Mudville Music Room after his guitar drips in tremolo effects; the languid performance with Grammy-winning pop-folk instrumental “Epiphany,” from his eponymous legend Judy Collins in A Memorial Concert for 2011 release, features this shimmering sound to Pete and Toshi Seeger, July 20 at Lincoln Center. full effect, evoking somber, mid-’70s Neil Young guitar contemplations. “The Angel’s Point of The Collins gig is proof of the effectiveness View” glides by on trippy harmonics, as Parks’ of Parks’ career strategy — a willingness to put vocal delivery comes across like a tip of the hat in the hours combined with a knack for being to country iconoclast Don Williams. Parks has in the right place at the right time. been pegged as an Americana artist, but songs “I really believe that you have got to put like Swamp Cabbage’s “Jesus Tone” are all bluesy yourself in the place where good luck happens stomp, owing more to LA rock band Canned to you,” Parks says.

Heat than confessional neo-country.

In 1989, Parks increased his odds of This mix of roadhouse serendipity after he relocated gigs and concert halls, from Jacksonville to New York unconventional approaches City and began gigging around to songcraft and unique town, first with his band Dear guitar-playing make it tough John, then with the cello-guitar to categorize Parks, a boon duo known as The Nudes. That for any artist — but the twosome released three albums blurred lines of genre also and toured the college rock throw Parks into a music scene and folk circuit. When marketing no-man’s land. they opened for Richie Havens, Yet Parks keeps moving on, Parks’ playing caught the and he is serene about both attention of the ’60s folk legend.

That encounter led to Parks his past accomplishments and where he can go next on his sonic playing second guitar to Havens for a decade.

From 2001 to 2011, Parks played around the adventure. “In my opinion, the most important world with Havens, an opportunity that allowed goal of any artist is to find our own style. And him to sharpen his expertise as a musician my only hope is that by doing what I do, I can and deepen his understanding of the music keep connecting with people.” business. But he acknowledges that the elder Daniel A. Brown musician’s greatest lesson and direct legacy was mail@folioweekly.com

“The most important goal of any artist is to find our own style. My only hope is that by doing what I do, I can keep connecting with people.”

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A&E // MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

Music by the Sea: SMOKE ’N MIRRORS 6 p.m. July 16, St. Johns County Pier, St. Augustine, free, thecivicassociation.org.

DJ CLAY, ZUG IZLAND, RAZORZ EDGE, TOO PHUCKS, PINKY 6 p.m. July 17 at Aqua, 11000 Beach Blvd, Southside, $12, $30 VIP, 997-2063.

JOSHUA BOWLUS QUARTET 7:30 p.m. July 17 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008.

BEACH DAY 8 p.m. July 17 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 699-8186.

(N)CEPTION, ALL THINGS DONE, MINOR INFLUENCE, TOM BENNETT BAND 8 p.m. July 17 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, $8, 398-7496.

Concerts in the Plaza: RICK LEVY & the FALLING BONES 7 p.m. July 17, Plaza de la Constitución, St. Augustine, free.

HOLLIDAY FINGERS 8 p.m. July 18 at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, free, 353-1188.

I LIKE I LIKE, SURVIVING SEPTEMBER, FIRE AT PLUTO, DEATH IS UPON US 8 p.m. July 18 at Jack Rabbits, $8-$10, 398-7496.

CLEAR CONVICTIONS, CONVALESCE 8 p.m. July 18 at Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., $8-$10, 388-3179.

SIDEREAL, HOURS EASTLY, CLOUD 9, RESINATED 8 p.m. July 18, Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, $10, 246-2473.

SILO, W STRANGERS, MIKE ZIECKAS, JESSE MONTOYA 8 p.m. July 18, Burro Bar, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5 353-6067.

WHETHERMAN July 18 at Underbelly, 699-8186.

CHUCK COURTENAY 6 p.m. July 18 at Mavericks, Jax Landing, Downtown, $5, 356-1110.

THE GROOVE ORIENT, THE DOG APOLLO, WEEKEND ATLAS 8 p.m. July 18 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 N. Ocean St., Downtown, $5, 1904musichall.com.

THI’SL, BRINSON, SECKOND CHAYNCE 7:30 p.m. July 19 at Murray Hill Theatre, $12-$16, 388-3179.

GROUNDATION, THE RESOLVERS 8 p.m. July 19 at Freebird Live, $17, 246-2473.

LARRY MANGUM’S COWBOY ORCHESTRA 7:30 p.m.

July 19 at Mudville Music Room, 352-7008.

CHRYSALIS, GENERATOR, LOSE CONTROL 8 p.m. July 19 at Jack Rabbits, $8, 398-7496.

THE DEAD RABBITS, RELAPSE SYMPHONY, MYKA RELOCATE, NIGHTMARES 6 p.m. July 19, 1904 Music Hall, $12-$15, 1904musichall.com.

HED PE, EYES SET TO KILL, DECEMBER IN RED, ROCK N’ ROLL CHROME, ASKMEIFICARE, PSEUDOCIDAL 7 p.m. July 19 at Aqua, $10, $25 VIP, 997-2063.

LARS BEHREROTH 10 p.m. July 19 at at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, $15, 209-0367.

Surf Fest II: KILL BABY KILL...!, THE MYSTERY MEN?, THE NOVARAYS, MOONBASE, THE SURGE!, TIDAL WAVE, THE CROWKEEPERS 8 p.m. July 19 at Underbelly, $8, 699-8186.

THE BLACK CADILLACS, THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS 9 p.m. July 20 at Underbelly, $8-$10, 699-8186.

ALL NEW ATMOSPHERE, MOTHER STRANGE, EVICTION, ALL THINGS DONE 8 p.m. July 20 at Jack Rabbits, $8, 398-7496.

AMERICAN IDOL LIVE! 7 p.m. July 20 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $40.50-$80.50, 209-0367.

NOCTURNAL STATE OF MIND, EVICTION, OUTEREDGE, CORRUPTED SAINT 6 p.m. July 20 at Aqua, $10, 997-2063.

Summertime in the City: SIMPLE COMPLEXITY, THE KATS DOWNSTAIRS, FFJB, DOPE SANDWICH, MR. AL PETE Block Party noon-mid. July 20, 1904 Music Hall, Underbelly, $12-$15.

RADAR VS. WOLF, POETRY & MOTION 8 p.m. July 21 at Jack Rabbits, $8, 398-7496.

VIRGIL DONATI, ARTILECT 8 p.m. July 22 at Murray Hill Theatre, $20-$30, 388-3179.

THE WOODGRAINS, SCOTT LOW, PIERCE EDENS 8 p.m. July 22 at Burro Bar, $5, 353-6067.

Music by the Sea: OH NO 6 p.m. July 23 at St. Johns County Pier Park, St. Augustine, free, thecivicassociation.org.

100 WATT VIPERS, EVICTION 8 p.m. July 23 at Jack Rabbits, $8, 398-7496.

I AM THE AVALANCH, SOMOS, RUST BELT LIGHTS July 26, 1904 Music Hall THE WOOLLY BUSHMEN July 26, Underbelly EMMYLOU HARRIS July 26, T-U Center CARRIE UNDERWOOD July 26, EverBank Field SARA BAREILLES July 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre FALL OUT BOY, NEW POLITICS July 27, St. Aug. Amphitheatre WILSON, HE IS LEGEND, MAYLENE & THE SONS OF DISASTER July 27, Underbelly CRIMSON SHADOWS, BATTLECROSS July 28, 1904 Music Hall WUSSY, MEMPHIBIANS, GOVERNOR’S CLUB July 29, Burro Bar Soulshine Tour: MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, SOJA, BRETT DENNEN, TREVOR HALL July 30, St. Aug. Amphitheatre ABIOTIC, DEVIL IN THE OASIS July 30, Jack Rabbits Music by the Sea: JIMMY PARRISH & THE OCEAN WAVES July 30, St. Johns County Pier Park Concerts in the Plaza: ROB ELLIS PECK & FRIENDS July 31, Plaza de la Constitución GAVIN DEGRAW, MATT NATHANSON, MARY LAMBERT, ANDREW MCMAHON July 31, St. Augustine Amphitheatre QUINCY MUMFORD, BRENT BYRD July 31, Jack Rabbits VETTER KIDS, PRAYER, MOTHER SUPERIOR July 31, Shantytown Pub THE LACS Aug. 1, Mavericks WAVEWHORE, ROKnBOK, JEFF JUSTICE Aug. 1, 1904 Music Hall THE MUMBLES Aug. 1, Riverside Arts Market, Grape & Grain Exchange DIRTY HEADS, PEPPER, AER Aug. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JAKIEM JOYNER Aug. 2, Ritz Theatre T.I. Aug. 2, Aqua THE EARLY NOVEMBER, EMPIRE! EMPIRE!, PARKRIDGE Aug. 2, Jack Rabbits BJ BARHAM, BRYCE ALASTAIR Aug. 2, Underbelly PARKER URBAN BAND Aug. 2, Mellow Mushroom Avondale FLAME, AUSTIN ADAMEC, SOCIAL CLUB, BRINSON, WORTH ROAD, FIFIELD, GREY FOX, RKITECT, THREE KNIGHTS & A ROSE, AARON RODRIGUEZ, DJ WILL Aug. 2, Murray Hill Theatre DARYL HANCE & His TRIO CD Release Aug. 2, 1904 Music Hall MAXWELL Aug. 3, T-U Center FILTER, HELMET, LOCAL H Aug. 5, Underbelly Music by the Sea: RICK LEVY & the FALLING BONES Aug. 6, St. Johns County Pier Park NAVY BAND SOUTHEAST Aug. 6, Clay County Library CRANFORD HOLLOW Aug. 7, Jack Rabbits THE MIKE HART BAND Aug. 7, Plaza de la Constitución ELLIS PAUL, DONNY BRAZILE Aug. 8, Original Café Eleven SEAWAY, STICKUP KID, CANDY HEARTS, DRIVER FRIENDLY Aug. 8, Underbelly ULTIMATE ELVIS BASH Aug. 9, The Florida Theatre JORDAN POOLE, JACOB HUDSON Aug. 9, Murray Hill Theatre CHELSEA SADDLER Aug. 9, Freebird Live FIT FOR RIVALS, BLAMESHIFT Aug. 9, Jack Rabbits CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Aug. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER FESTIVAL Aug. 10, Karpeles Museum MINIATURE TIGERS, THE GRISWOLDS, FINISH TICKET Aug. 11, Jack Rabbits OUTLINE IN COLOR, SYCAMOUR Aug. 12, Jack Rabbits RANDY HOUSER, BIG & RICH, JANA KRAMER Aug. 13, Mavericks Music by the Sea: THE GRAPES OF ROTH Aug. 13, SJC Pier Rock ’N’ Blues Fest: JOHNNY WINTER BAND, EDGAR WINTER BAND, VANILLA FUDGE, PETER RIVERA (Rare Earth), KIM SIMMONDS (Savoy Brown) Aug. 14, The Florida Theatre GLASS CLOUD, SCALE THE SUMMIT Aug. 14, 1904 Music Hall RITTZ Aug. 14, Aqua SLEEPING GIANT, THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE, PHINEAS, THOSE WHO FEAR Aug. 15, Murray Hill Theatre LENNY COOPER Aug. 15, Mavericks PANIC! AT THE DISCO, WALK THE MOON, YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE Aug. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre

POOKIE, TWINKI, RIVERSIDE PARTY GIRLS Aug. 16, Shanghai Nobby’s JAMIE LYNN SPEARS Aug. 16, Mavericks OFF!, BAD ANTICS Aug. 16, Jack Rabbits THE OFFSPRING, BAD RELIGION, PENNYWISE, FEAR Aug. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE CROCODILES, JAILL Aug. 19, Underbelly Music by the Sea: BIG LONESOME Aug. 20, SJC Pier Blackwater Music Festival: SLIGHTLY STOOPID, FISHBONE, STEPHEN MARLEY Aug. 21-23, Suwannee Music Park THE RICK ARCUSA BAND Aug. 21, Plaza de la Constitución THE FRESH BEAT BAND Aug. 22, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE BAMA GAMBLERS Aug. 22, Freebird Live PRIMER 55, GENERATOR, PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE, SYLENT VYLENTZ Aug. 22, Jack Rabbits CASSADEE POPE Aug. 23, Mavericks FJORD EXPLORER, JOHN CARVER BAND, KATIE GRACE HELOW Aug. 23, Jack Rabbits BOB WEIR, RATDOG, CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD Aug. 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Aug. 24, Mellow Mushroom DOYLE (formerly of The Misfits) Aug. 24, Underbelly GRENDEL, LUDOVICO TECHNIQUE Aug. 26, Eclipse BISHOP ALLEN Aug. 26, Burro Bar BILLY BUCHANAN & FREE AVENUE Aug. 27, SJC Pier Park SAM HUNT Aug. 28, Mavericks LONESOME BERT, SKINNY LIZARDS Aug. 28, Plaza de la Constitución BLACK KIDS Aug. 29, Underbelly CHARM CITY DEVILS Aug. 30, Jack Rabbits Music by the Sea: MID-LIFE CRISIS Sept. 3, SJC Pier Park PARMALEE Sept. 4, Mavericks VOCKAH REDU, VLAD THE INHALER Sept. 5, Underbelly JEFF LORBER FUSION Sept. 6, Ritz Theatre PSYCHOSTICK, ONE EYED DOLL, WILD THRONE Sept. 6, Aqua THREE DOORS DOWN ACOUSTIC Sept. 7, The Florida Theatre ZZ TOP, JEFF BECK Sept. 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DIARRHEA PLANET Sept. 8, Underbelly Music by the Sea: GO GET GONE Sept. 10, SJC Pier Park WYATT BLAIR, FROTH, CORNERS, MR. ELEVATOR & THE BRAIN HOTEL Sept. 11, Underbelly REND COLLECTIVE Sept. 11, Murray Hill Theatre FORTUNATE YOUTH, THE STEPPAS, ASHES OF BABYLON,

UPCOMING CONCERTS

OPOSSUMHOLLER, POOR RICHARDS, THE SENSES, SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY July 24, Jack Rabbits WALTER PARKS July 24, Mudville Music Room THE CHELSEA SADDLER BAND, SOUL GRAVY, THE WILLOWWACKS, JESSE MONTOYA July 24, Underbelly Concerts in the Plaza: THE GRAPES OF ROTH July 24, Plaza de la Constitución THE WINTER SOUNDS July 24, Burro Bar JOHN LEGEND, MARSHA AMBROSIUS July 25, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CULTURAL PROFETICA, McKLOPEDIA July 25, Freebird Live YING YANG TWINS, DRAZAH & TUNK, BIG BOI MONEYMAKERS July 25, Jack Rabbits HANK3 & THE DAMN BAND, A.D.D. July 25, Underbelly TRAVIS DENNING July 25, Mavericks ORANGE AIR July 25, 1904 Music Hall KARL 2000, JAMISON WILLIAMS July 25, Shantytown Pub SHAKEN, JOHNNY GREENLIGHT, ALL THINGS DONE, BROOKE LOGAN July 25, Murray Hill Theatre JOHNNYSWIM July 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DELPHIC ORACLE, CAYS, HYMN-ROID, NORA THOMAS 1964, BURNT HAIR, VVASE, SEVERED+SAID July 26, Rain Dogs EINSTEIN A GO GO REUNION July 26, Eclipse

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A&E // MUSIC

THE KNIFE

NICE GRASS

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t’s public knowledge that I harbor no love for Mumford & Sons and most of the other so-called “newgrass” bands. In fact, just the sight — or the sound — of a banjo and a single kick drum is enough to make me want to rip their fake beards from their smiley faces and snap their suspenders into their sunken little chests.

Seriously, I hate it that much.

So when the Louisiana-based female folk duo Silo sent me a Bandcamp link for review in advance of an upcoming show — Friday, July 18, at Burro Bar — and the first thing I heard was a freaking banjo, I smashed my laptop to bits. (OK, not really, but it was a close one.)

After a brief cooling-off period, I thought I’d give it a chance, and let the album Tall Tales roll out a bit before completely ripping it to pieces. And I am happy I did, as there’s more at work here than just hokey revivalist bullshit. Multi-instrumentalists Renee Arozqueta and Jennifer Jeffers play accordion, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel and, yes, banjo. So if you’re into all that “We play nontraditional instruments” stuff, you’ll like Silo. But what really sets them apart are their harmonies, a fantastic combination of silky and jagged, if such a chimera can exist.

The opener, “Mae,” is a decent song, with its cavalier delivery its biggest asset, but it’s far from the best track on the record.

That distinction is split between the lovely “Shades” and the chop-chop sing-along “Blackbirds.” “Shades” hints at being just another lonely, by-the-book folk ballad, but quickly melts into a beautiful cascade of full-voice and falsetto harmonies. This tune is truly gorgeous, a thoughtful blend of unison and counterpoint, a heady mix of melancholy and joy.

It’s followed directly by the hand-clap/footstomp jive of “Blackbirds.”

Imagine Fiona Apple’s “Hot Knife” stripped bare and you’ve got “Blackbird.”

It’s too short, but in a minute-and-a-half, it captures an energy absent elsewhere on the record.

Other high points on Tall Tales include “Morning Light,” a breezy celebration of the coming day, and “Places,” which wouldn’t be out of place on an indie film soundtrack. The album’s only missteps come near the end, when Arozqueta and Jeffers spring the Mumford trap. The penultimate “Old Timey Western” is a minor offender, because the subject matter is jarring and unique, but the closing tune, “Shady Grove,” is a formulaic and predictable hoedown, with banjos and fiddles doing what banjos and fiddles do far too often.

One can’t hold it against these two songbirds, as they tread well-worn territory and still manage to come up with a handful of original ditties that buck tradition enough to remain interesting. Fans of The Nields and Jonatha Brooke will adore Silo. As will enjoyers of Indigo Girls, though Silo’s vocals are a bit more polished than their roughhewn folk sisters.

Turns out I like this duo in spite of myself.

I thought I’d give it a chance, and let the album roll out a bit before completely ripping it to pieces.

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John E. Citrone mail@folioweekly.com

SILO with NEW STRANGERS and MIKE ZIECKAS 9 p.m. July 18 at Burro Bar, Downtown, $5, burrobarjax.com, siloband.com

EASE UP Sept. 12, Freebird Live Connection Festival: KERMIT RUFFINS & the BBQ SWINGERS, LESS THAN JAKE, SURFER BLOOD, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD, TREME BRASS BAND, ORQUESTRA EL MACABEO, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, JACKIE STRANGER, WEEKEND ATLAS, JAH ELECT & the I QUALITY BAND, RYVLS, RUFFIANS, DIRTY AUTOMATIC, WOVEN IN, GARRETT ON ACOUSTIC, TOM BENNETT BAND, MONDO MIKE & the PO BOYS, ARTILECT, OSCAR MIKE, KANA KIEHM, KNOCK FOR SIX, NEVER ENDING STRUGGLE Sept. 12-14, Downtown Jacksonville 1964: THE TRIBUTE (Beatles) Sept. 13, Florida Theatre J. BOOG, HOT RAIN Sept. 13, Jack Rabbits SHERYL CROW Sept. 14, The Florida Theatre JOEY CAPE, CHRIS CRESSWELL, BRIAN WAHLSTROM Sept. 17, Jack Rabbits Music by the Sea: NAVY PRIDE Sept. 17, SJC Pier Park THE PRETTY RECKLESS, ADELITA’S WAY Sept. 18, Freebird Live MAD CADDIES Sept. 18, Jack Rabbits THE GET RIGHT BAND Sept. 19-20, The White Lion JACK WHITE Sept. 20, T-U Center STICK FIGURE, PACIFIC DUB, HIRIE Sept. 20, Freebird Live Gram Parsons Songwriting Contest Sept. 20, Jack Rabbits HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, NEW EMPIRE, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, THE ONGOING CONCEPT, EVERYBODY RUN, EVERSAY Sept. 21, Freebird Live Experience Hendrix: BUDDY GUY, KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, JONNY LANG, RICH ROBINSON, DOYLE BRAMHALL, CHRIS LAYTON, ZAKK WYLDE, BILLY COX Sept. 21, Florida Theatre JOYCE MANOR, DES ARK, THE EXQUISITS Sept. 22, 1904 Music Hall SENSES FAIL, NO BRAGGING RIGHTS Sept. 24, Underbelly Music by the Sea: PHOENIX Sept. 24, SJC Pier Park BRONCHO, SUNBEARS! Sept. 26, Jack Rabbits JUSTIN MOORE Sept. 27, Callahan PETER FRAMPTON Sept. 30, The Florida Theatre KEITH SWEAT, HOWARD HEWITT Oct. 3, T-U Center DJ VADI, FORT KNOX FIVE Oct. 3, Freebird Live EUGE GROOVE Oct. 4, Ritz Theatre EARTH, WIND & FIRE Oct. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CLAUDE BOURBON Oct. 14, Mudville Music Room Magnolia Fest: LYLE LOVETT, BELA FLECK, INDIGO GIRLS, DONNA THE BUFFALO, DR. JOHN, THE WAILERS, JIM LAUDERDALE, THE LEE BOYS, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE Oct. 16-19, Suwannee Music Park UNDERHILL ROSE Oct. 17, Mudville Music Room RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND Oct. 18, Moran Theater MOTLEY CRUE, ALICE COOPER Oct. 19, Vets Memorial Arena CROWDER, ALL SONS & DAUGHTERS, CAPITAL KINGS Oct. 19, Christ’s Church, Greenland ZIGGY MARLEY Oct. 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LOS LONELY BOYS Oct. 21, The Florida Theatre ANDY McKEE Oct. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MIKE WATT’S IL SOGNO DEL MARINAIO Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits ANJELAH JOHNSON Oct. 24, The Florida Theatre AMON AMARTH, SABATON, SKELETONWITCH Oct. 25, Freebird PAUL McCARTNEY Oct. 25, Veterans Memorial Arena THE POLISH AMBASSADOR Oct. 29, Freebird Live DAVID COOK Oct. 31, Jack Rabbits DUVAL HALLOWEEN Oct. 31, Underbelly MAYSA Nov. 1, Ritz Theatre CASTING CROWNS Nov. 6, Veterans Memorial Arena Old City Music Fest: OLD DOMINION Nov. 7, St. Augustine START MAKING SENSE Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits Old City Music Fest: JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, WILL HOGE Nov. 8, St. Augustine MATISYAHU Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre Bear Creek Music & Arts Fest: DUMPSTAPHUNK, LETTUCE, UMPHREY’S McGEE, ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES, OTEIL BURBRIDGE, ZACH DEPUTY, MINGO FISHTRAP, THE FRITZ, CATFISH ALLIANCE Nov. 13-16, Suwannee Music Park

AARON CARTER Nov. 25, Jack Rabbits PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 11, Mudville Music Room JOE BONAMASSA Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre BAD SANTA, GRANT PEEPLES Dec. 18, Mudville Music Room ARLO GUTHRIE Alice’s Restaurant Massacree Jan. 20, Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 22, The Florida Theatre TIME JUMPERS & VINCE GILL Feb. 7, The Florida Theatre JOHN HAMMOND Feb. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall

CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DOG STAR TAVERN, 10 N. Second St., 277-8010 Working Class Stiff 9:30 p.m. every Tue. GREEN TURTLE, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur.

Dan Voll Fri. Yancy Clegg every Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue. HAMMERHEADS, 2045 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-7783 DJ Refresh 9 p.m.-1 a.m. every Sun. PALACE SALOON, 117 Centre St., 491-3332 Buck Smith Tue. THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-8999 DJ Roc every Wed. Honey Badgers every Sat.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

MVP’S SPORTS GRILLE, 12777 Atlantic Blvd., 221-1090 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFE, 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. Tom Shear 9 p.m. July 19. DJ Keith every Tue. DJ Free every Fri. DJ SuZi-Rok every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Live music every Sat.

BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

200 FIRST STREET, Courtyard, Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Mark Williams & Blue Horse July 18. The Groove Band July 19 BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Beau Knott & the Burners 6 p.m. July 19. Don Miniard noon, Billy Bowers 5 p.m. July 20. Open mic 5:30 p.m. every Wed.BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301Joe Oliff 9 p.m. July 18 CASA MARINA HOTEL, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 Ryan Crary 7 p.m. July 16. Charlie Walker 2 p.m. July 20 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Irish music at 6:30 p.m. every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 Kim Reteguiz & the Black Cat Bones 10 p.m. July 18 & 19. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. July 20. Red Beard & Stinky E 10 p.m. every Thur.

FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 E. Sailfish Dr., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Wes Cobb every Thur. Charlie Walker every Mon. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Sidereal, Hours Eastly, Cloud 9, Resinated 8 p.m. July 18. Groundation, The Resolvers 8 p.m. July 19 LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024 Open mic every Wed. Matt Still 1-4 p.m. every Sun. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Live music 10 p.m. July 18 & 19. Split Tone every Thur.

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Whetherman July 16. Split Tone July 18. Squeedlepuss July 19 MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Neil Dixon 6 p.m. Tue. Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer 6 p.m. every Thur.

NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Domenic 7 p.m. July 16. King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. July 17.

A&E // MUSIC Catfish Rodeo July 18. Money Wrench July 19. Chilly Rhino July 20. Live music every Wed.-Sun. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 372-4105 MaryAnn Hawkins 7 p.m. July 17. The Crazy Daysies 7:30 p.m. July 18. Sidetrack July 19 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877 Live music every Thur.-Sun. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 247-4508 Vinny 7:30 p.m. July 17. Jay DeCosta 9 p.m. July 18 THE TAVERN ON FIRST, 401 N. First St., 435-4124 Charlie Walker 10:30 p.m. July 16

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. The Groove Orient, The Dog Apollo, Weekend Atlas 8 p.m. July 18. The Dead Rabbits, Relapse Symphony, Myka Relocate, Nightmares 6 p.m. July 19.

Summertime in the City (with Underbelly): Simple Complexity, The Kats Downstairs, Mr. Al Pete, FFJB, Dope Sandwich 8 p.m.

July 20. Live music every Thur.-Sat. & Mon. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 353-4686 Silo, W Strangers, Mike Zieckas July 18. The Woodgrains, Scott Low, Pierce Edens July 22. The Veldt, Cassius Claye & the Youngbloods, Memphibians, Hey, Mandible July 23 DIVE BAR, 331 E. Bay St., 359-9090 Live music Fri. & Sat. DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ NickFresh 9 p.m. every Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Jimmy Solari 8:30 p.m. July 19. Live music every Fri. & Sat. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Holliday Fingers 8 p.m. July 18. Domenic Marte, Rev Pirin 5 p.m. July 19. 418 Band 4 p.m. July 20 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis every Wed. DJ Vinn Thur. DJ 007 every Fri. Bay Street Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Chuck Courtenay 6 p.m. July 18. Joe Buck, Big Tasty every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 353-6067 Beach Day 8 p.m.

July 17. Whetherman 8 p.m. July 18. Surf Fest II: Kill Baby Kill!, The Mystery Men?, The Novarays, Moonbase, The Surge!, Tidal Wave, The Crowkeepers 8 p.m. July 19. Summertime in the City (with 1904) July 20. The Black Cadillacs, Thomas Wynn & the Believers 9 p.m. July 20

FLEMING ISLAND

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Eric Collier 9 p.m. July 17. Firewater Tent Revival 9 p.m. July 18. Mark O’Quinn July 19. John Earle 3 p.m. July 20 MERCURY MOON, 2015 C.R. 220, 215-8999 Blistur 10 p.m.

July 18 & 19. Live music every Fri. & Sat. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Ace Winn 4 p.m. July 20. Open mic 9 p.m. every Thur. Deck music at 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. Sun.

THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells, 272-5959 John Michael Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 DJ Tammy 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Roger That 10 p.m. July 18 & 19. DJ Corey B 7 p.m. every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Lance Neely 6 p.m.

July 16. Stephen Carey 7 p.m. July 19. King Eddie & Pili Pili 3 p.m. July 20 TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Deron Baker 6 p.m.

July 16. Gary Starling Jazz Band July 17. Stage 2 7:30 p.m.

July 18. Doug McRae July 19

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

KICKBACKS, 910 King St., 388-9551 Ray & Taylor 8:30 p.m. every Thur. Robby Shenk every Sun. MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Clear Convictions, Convalesce 8 p.m. July 18. Thi’sl, Brinson, Seckond Chaynce 7:30 p.m. July 19. Copperlily, Pamela Affronti 7 p.m. July 20. Virgil Donati, Artilect 8 p.m. July 22. Live music every Fri. & Sat. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Jackie Stranger, Pierce Edens July 21. Old Time Jam at 7:30 p.m. every Tue. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Cougar Barrel 10:30 a.m., Chillakaya noon, Raniarokz 2:45 p.m. on July 19 TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 4syTe, Chelle Wilson 7:30 p.m. July 18

ST. AUGUSTINE

A1A ALE WORKS, 1 King St., 829-2977 Billy Bowers July 17 ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Todd Jones 8:30 p.m. July 18. Strumstick July 19. Open mic with Smokin Joe every Tue. THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Oh No July 18. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg July 19. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. July 20 THE CONCH HOUSE, 57 Comares Ave., 829-8646 Jah Creation 3-7 p.m. July 20 HARRY’S, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765 Billy Bowers at 6 p.m. on July 16 MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19-1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Go Get Gone 9 p.m. July 18. Decoy 9 p.m. July

18. John Winters 1 p.m. July 20. Bret Blackshear Wed. Aaron Esposito Thur. David Strom every Mon. Donny Brazile Tue. TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky 9 p.m.

July 18 & 19. Matanzas Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth every Sat.

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 (N)Ception, All Things Done, Minor Influence, Tom Bennett Band 8 p.m. July 17. I Like I Like, Surviving September, Fire at Pluto, Ursa Minor, Death is Upon Us 8 p.m. July 18. Lawless Hearts CD release: Chrysalis, Generator, Lose Control July 19. All New Atmosphere, Mother Strange, Eviction July 20. Radar Vs. Wolf, Poetry & Motion July 21. Eviction, 100 Watt Vipers July 23 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Decoy 7:30 p.m. July 17. Larry Mangum & the Cowboy Orchestra 7:30 p.m. July 19. Rockin’ Jake Band July 20

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

AQUA LOUNGE, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 21, 334-2122 DJ Clay, Zug Izland, Razorz Edge, Too Phucks 6 p.m. July 17. Hed Pe, Eyes Set to Kill, December in Red July 19. Nsom, Eviction, Outeredge, Corrupted Saint July 20 THE COFFEE GRINDER, 9834 Old Baymeadows, 642-7600 DJ R.E.D. three nights a week LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 VJ Didactic 9 p.m. July 17. VJ Fellin 8 p.m., River Town Band 9 p.m. July 18.

VJ Kevin Tos 7:30 p.m. July 19 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Charlie Walker 9:30 p.m. July 17. Live music every Fri. & Sat. MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows, 737-5299 Dirty Pete July 17. Chuck Nash Band July 18 & 19 WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Chris Brinkley July 16. Kurt Lanham 5 p.m., Yankee Slickers 9 p.m.

July 18. The Gootch July 19 WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Love Monkey July 19

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

HWY. 17 ROADHOUSE, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Live music at 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Larry & the Backtracks 6 p.m. July 18. Blistur July 20

INTRACOASTAL WEST

CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Skewd July 16. Aside Oceans July 18. The Remains July 19. DJ Big Rob every Thur., Sun. & Tue. Live music every Wed., Fri. & Sat. SALSA’S, 13500 Beach Blvd., 992-8402 Live guitar music 6-9 p.m. every Tue. & Sat. YOUR PLACE, 13245 Atlantic Blvd., 221-9994 Clayton Bush 9:30 p.m. July 16

MANDARIN, JULINGTON

GATORS DOCKSIDE, 485 S.R. 13 N., Ste. 1, 230-4353 Live music every Fri. & Sat. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Open mic: Synergy 8 p.m. every Wed. World’s Most Talented Waitstaff 9 p.m. every Fri.

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

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ABANDON MOST HOPE ‘Snowpiercer’ shames the vapidity of tween-friendly Hollywood dystopias

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microcosm for our larger world of limited here’s a reason why Snowpiercer — which and contracting resources that has somehow could have, theoretically, easily been a resulted not in those resources being shared centerpiece summer film for a major around evenly and fairly, but in striking class Hollywood studio — is getting handled by divisions and massive inequalities. You will the industry with the timid kid gloves of an be unsurprised to hear that Curtis’ plan has arthouse release. It has a lot to do with what some success, and that as he and his band of the film has to say about human nature, angry friends work their way forward on the hope, despotism and a revolutionary spirit train, they encounter an almost endless array that might want to counter that despotism. of unimaginable luxuries the front-of-theWhat Snowpiercer is about offers too harsh a train people have been enjoying. You may be condemnation of the powers that be, of which surprised, based on what mainstream versions Hollywood is but one arm. of this story tell us, at how bitter the lessons At first glance, Snowpiercer seems to bear are: about the high price of leadership, the a strong resemblance to plenty of other films appalling ironies of what it takes to fix an in a genre popular and mainstream at the unfair system, and the awful truth of what moment: an uprising in the science-fiction happens to revolutionaries even if they win. dystopia, including Divergent, V for Vendetta and especially The Hunger Games. Here, it’s Screenwriter (with Kelly Masterson) and 2031, 17 years since the last remnants of director Joon-ho Bong brings in bleak humor humanity began huddling together for survival to lighten his tale: naming a main character on a sort of supertrain that circumnavigates Gilliam is almost certainly an homage to the world once a year, never stopping. Planet the filmmaker from whom Snowpiercer Earth is otherwise dead, rendered a frozen gets its visual inspiration and dark wit. (It’s wasteland by an experiment to cool the based on the early-’80s graphic novel Le atmosphere to fix global warming that did Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin the job too well. The train — which literally Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette, but the pierces enormous snowdrifts on the tracks film’s plot and characters appear to be quite — is a closed ecosystem, providing air, water, different.) And there’s much to cheer in how food, shelter and warmth. Life is not possible this cast looks more like a cross-section of outside the train. humanity than is typically seen in a big sci-fi In squalid rear cars, people are treated flick: Among Curtis’ soldiers are more white like cattle, subsisting on protein bars that guys, including Jamie Bell and Ewen Bremner, look like molded feces, seemingly randomly but also Octavia Spencer and two Koreans, abused by soldiers and swells visiting from Ah-sung Ko and Kang-ho Song. Among the the front, where it’s clearly much villains is Tilda Swinton as a nicer. Discontent always swirls, sniveling front-of-the-train SNOWPIERCER and it’s reaching a head again. monster. **** (There are allusions to failed past In the end, the story’s still Rated R revolutions.) With the support hauntingly grim. If Snowpiercer of the rear cars’ nominal leader, goes about its sci-fi uprising Gilliam (John Hurt), Curtis (Chris Evans) has more brutally than the usual fare — there’s a new plan for revolt to get to the engine up physical violence and psychological punches front, because there’s no political power on the — we realize the rise of tween-friendly train without, you know, controlling the power Hollywood dystopia is, in fact, a symptom power that keeps it moving. of the sociopolitical mindset the film is If that sounds familiar — the Western criticizing. Abandon most hope, ye who enter nations aren’t actually occupying oilSnowpiercer. This is most definitely not the producing lands out of a desire to bring feel-good movie of the summer. schools and hospitals to poor brown people MaryAnn Johanson — that’s not an accident. The train is a mail@folioweekly.com

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THUMBS UP

‘Life Itself’ isn’t an obit, but a beautiful portrait of one of the world’s best-known film critics

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n the beginning of Life Itself, Steve James’ a Hawking-like computerized voice synthesizer) documentary of Roger Ebert adapted from and eat — after five years battling thyroid his memoir of the same name, Ebert does a and salivary gland cancer, and then having little role reversal with the director. his carotid artery burst as a complication of “The director cuts to a shot of himself filming surgery, his jaw was removed. In 2012, Ebert himself in the mirror,” Ebert says to James from suffered a hairline hip fracture — the cancer had his hospital bed. spread to his spine, leaving him unable to walk.

Without hesitation — though Ebert seems Like all great documentaries, including Hoop to be only half-serious — James obliges, Dreams and others Ebert praised, Life Itself turning his camera to the mirror and getting constructs a powerful dramatic narrative by the ordered shot. It’s those kinds of moments capturing life as it happens, unscripted and that made Ebert fall in love with movies, or as unedited. In an especially moving scene, he called them, “an empathy machine,” in the returning home after being in the hospital for first place. weeks, Ebert is overcome with anger upon It’s no accident that realizing he can no James was called on to longer walk up the LIFE ITSELF put the iconic critic’s stairs in his house **** memoir Life Itself on without help.

Rated R • Opens July 18, Sun-Ray Cinema film: In a way, he owes Though Life Itself Ebert, who with his has many sad moments, on-air punching bag/foil Gene Siskel, was it’s not a sad story; it’s about a triumphant life responsible for spreading the word about James’ littered with tangents. Ebert was the first film ambitious, brilliant documentary Hoop Dreams, critic to score a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, in now regarded as a modern American classic.

1975. Ebert penned the screenplay for the cult So 20 years on, James was enlisted to capture classic of all cult classics, Russ Meyer’s Beyond Ebert at his most vulnerable, just as cancer was the Valley of the Dolls. In the mid-’80s, Ebert readying to win a fight Ebert had been battling helped change the face of film criticism forever for years. But Life Itself isn’t a tragedy. Ebert with the syndicated television hit Siskel & Ebert knew his final days were near and accepted that. and gave rave reviews to several young directors He had lived fully and got to do a lot of things who later went on to become legends, including many only dream of; he also found the love of a then-25-year-old named Martin Scorsese. his life, his wife Chaz (on one of Ebert’s last Gene and Roger actually trademarked their days he describes her love “like a wind pushing catchphrase “two thumbs up,” used when both me back from the grave”). Yes, at times it’s critics agreed on a film, a rare event. difficult to see Ebert wasting away in a haze For a man whose career was of physical pain, and it’s emotional to see it communication, Ebert found solace in his blog, through Chaz’s eyes, but Life Itself isn’t an obit, where he posted reviews and thoughts after it’s a celebration of a great American writer who losing his ability to speak; he says it was the best forever changed the art of film criticism. writing of his life.

The film leaps back and forth from among “There are no guarantees,” Ebert wrote. archival footage, clips and interviews with “But there is also nothing to fear. We come friends and filmmakers and current Ebert from oblivion when we are born. We return to footage that follows his day-to-day struggles oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is (excerpts from the memoir are intertwined in this period of in-between.” voiceover) and small victories as he navigates Adam Joseph through life without the ability to talk (he used mail@folioweekly.com

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MAGIC LANTERNS

HITS AND MISSES Like most red-white-and-blue-blooded Americans, I was appalled at the recent brouhaha impeding Miss Delaware and Miss Florida on their way to the Miss America pageant. The deserving young ladies, it seems, were stripped of their titles, not for doing anything inappropriate or unbecoming, but for some judges’ stupid mistakes. My faith in one of our nation’s most endearing and enduring traditions badly shaken, I turn for consolation, as always in moments of crisis, to the movies.

Many good films about beauty pageants have been made over the years, including two featuring Oscar winners (Holly Hunter in 1989’s Miss Firecracker and Sandra Bullock in 2000’s Miss Congeniality). Little Miss Sunshine (2006) starred a pint-sized Abigail Breslin in a send-up of Toddlers & Tiaras; Alan Arkin won an Oscar for playing her foul-mouthed grandpa.

For my shaken spirits, though, I dug up two films that didn’t have “Miss” in the title — the appellation stokes my cynicism. The first was Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), a pseudodocumentary in the vein of Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, about a group of high school girls vying for the title of Miss Mt. Rose, a competition sponsored by Sarah Rose Cosmetics as a prelim for the run at Miss Minnesota.

Home of the Nation’s Oldest Living Lutheran, Mt. Rose is a paradigm of small-town America.

Denise Richards plays rich bad girl Rebecca, Kirsten Dunst is good poor girl Amber. Written

by Lona Williams, former assistant producer of The Simpsons, the movie is a broad lampoon with caricatures rather than characters. Mostly hitting and not missing with rapid-fire jokes, the movie’s biggest laughs belong to the adults — Kirstie Alley as Becky’s vicious, murderous mom Gladys, and Ellen Barkin and (particularly) Allison Janney as trailer-trash friends on angelic Amber’s side. Subtlety is not the governing characteristic for Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Michael Ritchie’s Smile (1975), on the other hand, is both barbed and poignant, the real winner of all beauty pageant movies. Utilizing a terrific script by Jerry Belson (a Writers Guild nominee that year for Best Comedy), director Ritchie (Downhill Racer) sculpts his possibly best film, a critical rave the summer of its release that never got the big-screen audience it deserved.

The focus is on California’s Young American Miss Pageant, to which flocks a bevy of eager contestants, including a young Melanie Griffith and Annette O’Toole. Barbara Feldon (five years post-Get Smart) and Bruce Dern are idealistic adults caught up in the American tradition; choreographer Michael Kidd (in a rare onscreen role) gives a dynamite performance as a cynical but honest Hollywood professional, lured by money to teach the Young Misses how to dance.

Without devolving into farce (like Drop Dead Gorgeous), Ritchie’s film is more wry than hilarious, its finger on the pulse of the dreams and disappointments that propel most such beauty pageants. Charlie Chaplin’s bittersweet song “Smile,” sung by Nat King Cole, is the perfect accompaniment to the film’s opening and closing credits: “Smile, though your heart is aching / Smile, even though it’s breaking.”

The former Misses Delaware and Florida should get the picture.

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THE PURGE: ANARCHY Opens July 18

FILM RATINGS **** PAMELA ANDERSON ***@ ROB LOWE **@@ KIM KARDASHIAN *@@@ TONYA HARDING

SCREENING AROUND TOWN SUMMER MOVIE CLASSICS The annual series, celebrating movie anniversaries, continues with Batman marking 25 years and starring Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger and Jack Nicholson, at 2 p.m. on July 20 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $7.50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA We Are The Best! screens July 16 and 17. Snowpiercer runs through July 24. Stop Making Sense runs July 19 and 22. Tammy and Chef are also shown at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

Short Film Showcase is July 17. The Roger Ebert biopic Life Itself runs July 18-24. Babe concludes the Summer Kids Series at 11 a.m. on July 16 and 19. Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality screens July 18-24. Lucy opens July 25.

LATITUDE 30 MOVIES Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Rio 2 screen at Latitude 30’s CineGrille Theater, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555.

WGHF IMAX THEATER Transformers: Age of Extinction, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D, We the People and Great White Shark 3D screen at World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, worldgolfimax.com. Hercules, with Dwayne Johnson, starts July 24.

NOW SHOWING 22 JUMP STREET ***G Rated R The sequel is funnier, cleverer, wittier, snarkier and morer. Cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) have “graduated” to going undercover at Metro City State College, investigating a drug case that’s “just like last time.”

This movie is as big, loud, actiony and goofy as an action comedy sequel can be, and yet it’s (mostly) not stupid, sexist or homophobic. There’s a running joke about how Jenko, who’s dumber than a bag of Glocks, sometimes realizes this. “Fuck you, brain,” he says, rather sadly, to himself, and it zings by before you realize how brilliant that is. — MaryAnn Johanson AMERICA Rated PG-13 Filmmaker, writer and political pundit and campaign-finance violator Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary poses the idea that factual American history is morphing into a new story of rampant plunder and exploitation. — Marlene Dryden

BEGIN AGAIN Rated R Mark Ruffalo seems to need a nice bowl of chicken soup and a bubble bath – he’s always singing the blues about some personal upheaval or another. Here he’s Dan, a washed-up music producer who sees a young woman (Keira Knightley, doing her own singing) croon into a mic and believes he may have discovered the next Joan Baez … oh, c’mon, you know … that Beat chick Dylan used to shtupp. OK, then … the next Zooey Deschanel. — M.D. CHEF **G@ Rated R Writer-actor-director Jon Favreau’s pleasant dramedy is nice to look at, but shapeless and slight.

Carl Casper (Favreau) is an average chef for an average restaurateur (Dustin Hoffman) who fires him when a critic pans the place. He gets a food truck, which reignites his passion for cooking. Costars Oliver Platt, John Leguizamo, Emjay Anthony, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Sedaris and a hilariously manic Robert Downey Jr. — Jeff Meyers DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Rated PG-13 For a while there, it looked as if Jonah Hill was going to be this summer’s runaway winner in the category of Saying Stupid Shit In Public Just As Your Big Movie Is About To Come Out. But then Gary Oldman unloaded to Playboy about the sheer, unendurable oppression of being unable to call a fag a fag and a Jew a Jew, and we had a new front-runner in the Emergency Hairshirt Olympics – and an answer to the question “What could possibly keep a Rob Ford apology off the front page?”

Meanwhile, the apology I want to hear from Oldman is for mentioning David Bowie in the same breath as Charles Flippin’ Krauthammer when the question was “Who speaks the truth in this culture, in your opinion?” Anyway, Fox is hoping all the fags and Jews out there are sufficiently swayed by Oldman’s show of penance that they’ll still go see Dawn, the second installment in their grand quest to reboot aspects of the original Apes franchise nobody gave an especial shit about. In this one, Oldman is in a band of human relics trying to stay alive in a world fallen into the hands of filthy primates. Geez, what would a Krauthammer reader know about that feeling? (Deliciously unfortunate trailer moment: Oldman’s histrionically panicked “That’s a helluva lot more than eighty!” Yes, Harvey Weinstein, he’s talking about you people.) — Steve Schneider DELIVER US FROM EVIL Rated R “Inspired by the Actual Accounts of an NYPD Sergeant,” scream the promo materials. So it’s 90 minutes of selfies with strippers, arbitrary stop-and-frisk harassment runs and Sbarro farts? DON’T. I. WISH. It’s more demonic-possession hugger-mugger – this time culled from the memoirs of Ralph Sarchie, who teamed up with

A&E // MOVIES a Catholic priest to combat the sinister forces threatening the Big Apple. Of course, that little operation de-prioritized another sinister force that was threatening the Big Apple: the Catholic Church. The movie version stars Eric Bana, whose career has now literally gone to hell. — S.S. DRUSHYAM Not Rated A nice mom, a nice dad and two nice daughters defend themselves and are charged with a crime. In Telugu.

EARTH TO ECHO Rated PG If you’re ever worried that something you say or do might piss off Steven Spielberg – and yes, I know that’s probably a likelier element of my life than yours – remember his lawyers apparently couldn’t do anything to stop Earth to Echo, a family sci-fi adventure in which a bunch of concerned kids try to help a stranded alien find his way home. Wait, I’m not finished! The poster shows a human kid’s finger reaching toward the alien in a gesture of healing friendship, the scene bathed in a serene blue light. Jesus, all that Jurassic money, and his people can’t even get off a good cease-and-desist?

The IMDb trogs think it’s ripped off from Spielberg’s Super 8 instead. Maybe there’s a legal loophole when you bite two of a guy’s properties at once? Guess I’ve got nothing to worry about, so here goes: Hey, Steve! The Terminal blew big dog! — S.S. EDGE OF TOMORROW ***G Rated PG-13 Filmmaker Doug Liman directs the sci-fi action drama with Tom Cruise as a smarmy Army major, Brendan Gleason as a hardcore Army general and Emily Blunt as a soldier with a weird backstory, embroiled in an alien invasion that brings out the worst in everybody. — M.J. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Rated PG-13 John Green’s novel about young cancer patients in love yields a date movie/weeper. When the book came out, the critical praise it got was interrupted only by a Daily Mail pan that consigned it to the “Sick-Lit” subgenre of juvie fiction (yes, that’s a thing). One detail to watch: In the book, our heroes bond over V for Vendetta, and if that’s in the movie, it means someone’s finally going to see V for Vendetta. — S.S. GRATEFUL DEAD MEET UP Not Rated The fourth annual event is 7:30 p.m. July 17 all over.

Dude. Check listings. (Not this one, man, like, on the Internet.)

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 ***G Rated PG The sequel picks up five years on; seaside Viking village Berk is experiencing a new normal of dragons as trusted companions. Costars the voices of Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Can’t-Stop-Starring Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plase and Kristen Wiig. — Scott Renshaw JERSEY BOYS *G@@ Rated R Director Clint Eastwood’s film version of the Broadway and West End hit, about the rapid rise of nowlegendary Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons is a stodgy mess with a bland cast in a rags-to-riches story already told with more emotional richness and cultural insight. Costars Vincent Piazza, John Lloyd Young, Steve Schirripa, Christopher Walken, Erich Bergen and Michael Lomenda. — M.J. LIFE ITSELF **** Rated R • Opens July 18 at Sun-Ray Cinema Reviewed in this issue.

PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE Rated PG In a summer this shitty, even a sequel to a Disney flick that almost didn’t get a theatrical release can get a theatrical release. This time, airborne racing legend Dusty has to deal with the realization that structural infirmities are sounding the death-knell for his career, forcing him to explore a more altruistic way of spending his time. A

quarter-century ago, that would have been my cue to crack wise about A Million Points of Light Planes; instead, I’m just gonna call this a movie about transitioning and let the chips fall where they may.

THE PURGE: ANARCHY Rated R • Opens July 18 Did you know the Eagles track “In the City” began life as a Joe Walsh tune that played over the closing credits of The Warriors? I only mention this because talking about The Warriors is way less depressing than contemplating this movie, a similarly themed gotta-make-it-home exploitation flick that’s way too close on the heels of 2013’s surprisingly solid class-warfare sleeper, The Purge. Trailer-park droogies, trailer-park droogies, come out to play – preferably once a year, so Universal can Saw the crap out of this thing.

SEX TAPE Rated R • Opens July 18 In this screwball comedy (see what I did there?), marrieds Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz struggle to contain the fallout from their experiment with erotic video.

Given that we’ve all already seen Segel’s weenus, it’s not clear what the selling point here is – unless an evening’s worth of jokes about Diaz’ cooter appeals to anyone beyond Justin Timberlake. Then again, director/co-writer Jake Kasdan did make the criminally underrated Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, which had way more than double entendres going for it.

What can I say? It’s just so hard calling balls and strikes.

SNOWPIERCER **** Rated R Reviewed in this issue.

TAMMY Rated R We sure do love to see Melissa McCarthy play Melissa McCarthy. In Tammy, her filter-less lowlife character is a downsized fast-food worker – whose response to unemployment is to take a road trip with grandma Susan Sarandon. If you saw the ads on mute and assumed Sarandon was playing McCarthy’s mother, pour yourself a shot and count the time since she was supposed to be only one generation removed from Andy Samberg.

Motherlover, how the time does fly. — S.S. THIRD PERSON Rated R What is it about Liam Neeson that keeps us from really loving him? As author Michael, he’s involved with Anna (Olivia Wilde), who wants to be a writer, too. The rest of the ensemble cast includes Adrien Brody (we know what keeps us from loving his bony ass), Mila Kunis, Maria Bello, Kim Basinger, James Is-There-a-Movie-I’m-Not-In? Franco and Michele Melega. — M.D. TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Rated PG-13 The fourth Trannies flick has a whole new cast of humans, led by unencumbered-by-self-awareness Mark Wahlberg. Marky’s performance is quite the meme thanks to the line “I tink we just found a Transfomah!” It’s a new era for Autobots, as cars-that-turn-into-robots are joined by Dinobots, robots taking the form of dinosaurs. Yep, serious hard-nosed realism. — S.S. WISH I WAS HERE Rated R • Opens July 18 Why did it take Zach Braff a decade to follow up Garden State? Maybe it was because Cameron Crowe hasn’t shot anything worth ripping off since then, nyuk nyuk. Or ’cause Braff had to wait for Kickstarter to be invented. Whatever. All that matters is that we finally get to see his portrayal of an actor/husband/father at a personal crossroads. Oh, and Mandy Patinkin plays Braff’s father, which should make for a fun game of “Who Do I Want to Hit More?”

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST ***G Rated PG-13 Bryan Singer’s action-packed film costars Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult.

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TODAY FOR YOU. TOMORROW FOR ME How ‘Rent’ is relevant nearly 20 years later — even in Northeast Florida

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n 1996, young, little-known playwright impact Larson’s work has had on his life: “I Jonathan Larson debuted his masterpiece in first saw Rent, the film version. I had never an off-Broadway theater. Very quickly, veteran been introduced to musical theater, and I Broadway hands recognized Rent as one of the was completely captivated that a musical best plays ever written; it packed theaters until could have such depth and capture human 2008, when the show finally closed. Larson emotion in such detail. I was impressed never saw his instant classic performed, nor was with how developed the characters in the he able to personally accept the Pulitzer Prize show were, and as a 17-year-old, Rent made he won. He had died the night before the debut, me believe that I could do anything in this of an aortic aneurysm. The musical went on to world. Eventually, I would attend college and score 10 Tony nominations and four awards. study musical theater and direct and perform Even wider-reaching was the 2005 film professionally, and that’s all thanks to that adaptation, which followed the musical nearly afternoon watching the movie Rent.” word for word, song for song. Most of the The musical answers the questions people original cast was in the film, which earned are afraid to ask about AIDS: How do you get it? nearly $30 million and still more awards. (Yes, Do you die right away? Do only gay people get the stage production was better than the movie, it? Bad people? Larson humanized the disease, but it was nonetheless satisfying to see the film brought it out from the shadows and onto stages bring the same reflections to the masses.) in cities and towns across America, and opened Rent borrowed from Puccini’s opera La the door to those unanswered questions.

Bohème, written and performed in 1896, sharing In 1996, when Rent was first performed characters’ names and on Broadway, the CDC traits, but updated for reported 581,429 people the MTV era. While were diagnosed with AIDS La Bohème showcased

by December of that year. the lives of struggling In Florida alone, the CDC artists of their time, reported 6,788 AIDS Rent shared — with cases. Last year, the CDC the everyman — the estimated that at least 1.1 lives of those living in million people are living the shadow of AIDS with AIDS or HIV in the in the late ’80s in New United States — with one York’s Alphabet City, in 6 unaware that they which was a series of were infected. slum apartments and If there had been a tent towns in the East way in 1996 to predict the Village. At the center of state of equality in 2014, the story are roommates one wonders if Larson Roger and Mark, a would have added a scene musician and filmmaker, depicting what it feels like respectively. They are to be discriminated against broke, squatting in their for whom you love. In our own apartment after their former-roommate“season of love,” when support for gay rights turned-landlord goes back on a promise. We and same-sex marriage is higher than ever, we meet a posse of friends who are trying to save can still relate to Rent’s message. As Larson their living space: Mimi, who becomes Roger’s wrote in one of the musical numbers, “Why girlfriend, is an HIV-positive junkie working as choose fear?” — a question answered with “I’m an exotic dancer to fund her habit. Maureen is a New Yorker, fear’s my life.” a loud, bossy vixen breaking hearts, including Any LGBT resident of Duval County poor Mark’s. Angel is the lovable transgender can relate to the sentiment. Fear remains woman squeaking by, doing odd jobs and real when you consider the Jacksonville City busking percussion Council’s vote against jams for money on the Human Rights the street, where she Ordinance only RENT meets Tom Collins, two years ago. (The 8 p.m. Thur.-Sat. July 18-Aug. 9; a professor at New ordinance called for 8 p.m. Aug. 23 and 30 at York University. fair treatment of the Players by the Sea, Jax Beach, $28, Both suffer from LGBT community 249-0278, playersbythesea.org AIDS and cling in housing and to each other for employment.) support and love.

Perhaps the city’s leaders should try to Beginning July follow Larson’s lead by living a year of love, 18, Northeast Floridians can catch the show all 525,600 minutes of it. As Larson wrote in at Players by the Sea in Jacksonville Beach — a note to the New York Theatre Workshop, directed by Alejandro Rodriguez and starring “In these dangerous times, where it seems the Elias Hionides as Roger. world is ripping apart at the seams, we can “I think this story still resonates because all learn how to survive from those who stare this show is about overcoming obstacles and accepting life for what life is — the good and death squarely in the face every day, and we the bad,” Hionides says. “It is about learning to should reach out to each other and bond as accept your past and understanding that we each a community, rather than hide from the have choices to make that determine our future.” terrors of life.”

Rodriguez, also PBTS’s education and Abigail Wright outreach director, points out the profound mail@folioweekly.com

Director Alejandro Rodriguez

“Eventually, I would attend college and study musical theater and direct and perform professionally, and that’s all thanks to that afternoon watching the movie Rent.”

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Mark (Ross Frontz) and Roger (Elias Hionides)

Collins (Joseph Lorenzo Sykes Burns) and Angel (Jordan Leggett)

Female Ensemble: Jessica Alexander, Alix Bond, Olivia Chernyshev, Netta Walker, Ilana Gould and Sadie LaManna

Mimi (Rachel Romo) and Roger (Elias Hionides)

Male Ensemble: Ron Shreve, Harrison Breault, Jimmy Alexander and Ryan Arroyo

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PERFORMANCE

SHREK THE MUSICAL An ogre, a donkey and a princess try to save a swamp, (Doors, 5:30 p.m. Tue.-Sun.; matinees, 11 a.m. Sat., noon Sun.) through July 27 at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$55, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

THE JUNGLE BOOK KIDS The Disney musical is performed by more than 20 Northeast Florida students from KidzfACTory, 7:30 p.m.

July 17—19 and 2 p.m. July 20 on Limelight Theatre’s Matuza Main Stage, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $12 ($6 for children), 825-1164, limelighttheatre. ticketleap.com.

33 VARIATIONS Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations examines death and obsession jumping between Beethoven’s pursuit of the 33 Variations and a battle with ALS, in The 5 & Dime’s second collaboration with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, with a dinner option, 6 p.m. dinner (7:30 p.m. show) July 18, 19, 25 and 26 and matinees with 12:30 p.m. brunch (2 p.m. show) July 20 and 27 at 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, $37 with dining, $15 without, the5anddime.org.

SWAMP RADIO SUMMER PERFORMANCE A live radio show with stories, interviews, and music presents its summer edition, themed Summer in the Ancient City, including a performance by The WillowWacks, at 7:30 p.m. on July 18 and 19 in Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St. St., Augustine, $25 for adults, $20 for students, swampradiojax.com.

THE WIZ Stage Aurora Theatrical Company presents this musical as part of its Aurora Jacksonville Black Arts Festival, 7 p.m. July 18, and 2 and 6 p.m. July 19 at Stage Aurora, Gateway Town Center, 5188 Norwood Ave., Northside, $15-$25, 765-7373, stageaurora.org. Top Chef Extravaganza and Aurora Youth Talent Explosion are also featured.

RENT Young bohemians negotiate dreams, loves and conflicts at 8 p.m. July 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 and 31, Aug. 1, 2, 7-9; 2 p.m.

July 20, 27, Aug. 3 at Players by the Sea, 106 N. Sixth St., Jax Beach, $25-$28, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org.

SID THE SCIENCE KID Award-winning, animated science kid of PBS Kids appears 10 a.m-3 p.m. July 19 at Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, free with museum admission, 366-6674, themosh.org.

FAME – THE MUSICAL The Artist Series presents the ninth annual High School Summer Musical Theatre Experience at 8 p.m. July 25, 26 and Aug. 1, 2 and at 2 p.m. Aug. 3 at FSCJ’s Wilson Center for the Arts, South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-2222, artistseriesjax.org.

COMEDY

MIKE SPEENBERG The comedian performs 8 p.m. July 17-19 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $10-$12, 292-4242, comedyzone.com.

LICENSE 2 LAUGH: LAVELL CRAWFORD, SHERYL UNDERWOOD, TIM MURRAY, LAVAR WALKER The comedians appear 8 p.m. July 19 at the T-U Center, 300 Water St., Downtown, $49.50-$92.50, 633-6110.

MAD COWFORD COMEDY REVUE The Mad Cowford troupe performs Way Off Broadway, a comedy revue combining improve and sketch comedy, in celebration of Cowford’s eighth anniversary, 8 p.m. July 19 at Theatre Jacksonville, $20, theatrejax.com, madcowford.com.

DON GREY Comedian Grey performs at 8 p.m. July 18 and 9:30 p.m. July 19 at Latitude 30, 10370 Philips Highway, Southside, 365-5555, latthirty.com.

KIER Comedian Kier mixes comedy and music, 8:04 p.m.

July 17-19 and 10:10 p.m. July 19 at the Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $6-$25, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ANCIENT CITY CON The fan convention features sci-fi, fantasy, horror, anime, cosplay, gaming tournaments, discussion panels and more, July 18-20 at Hyatt Regency, 225 E. Coastline Dr., Downtown, daily passes $15-$20, weekend pass $40, ancientcitycon.com.

SAVE YOUR SANITY SUNDAYS Jennifer O’Donnell, Chamblin BookMine, leads a workshop on creating visual journals with a variety of media, materials and methods, 2 p.m. July 20 and 27 at 229 N. Hogan St., Downtown, $20 for members, $15 for nonmembers.

IMPROV FOR ADULTS Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre’s course is led by actor/instructor Gary Baker; $85, 2-4 p.m.

July 20 and 27 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., 249-7177, abettheatre.com.

NATURE DETECTIVE WORKSHOPS Children ages 6-12 play Nature Detectives and learn about bats and how the pollinators relate to gardening, 1 and 2:30 p.m. July 19, Ponte Vedra Beach Library, 101 Library Blvd., sjcpls.org.

Scott Ingram’s Charlie Meet Malevich, a food book page and woodblock print, is among the pieces in Backdoor Formalism, on display through Aug. 24 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.

JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS AUDITIONS The chorus holds open auditions for kids in grades 1-12 for the 2014-’15 season, July 22 by appointment only. Prior musical training not necessary, 353-1636, jaxchildrenschorus.org.

BRIDGE EIGHT READING Members of the local literary magazine meet for readings of poetry and short stories, 7 p.m. July 23 at Deep Search Records, 822 Lomax St., 5 Points, free, 423-0969, deepsearchrecords.com.

BIG ORANGE CHORUS GUEST NIGHT Qualified singers can check out the state championship chorus at its open house, 6 p.m. July 24 at Shepherd of the Woods Lutheran Church, 7860 Southside Blvd., free, 430-3784, bigorangechorus.com.

CREATIVE DRAMA SUMMER CAMP Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre’s camp, for kids in grades 1 and 2, lets campers explore their dramatic side through age-appropriate theater games, music and dance, improvisation and storytelling, July 28-Aug. 1 (9 a.m. Mon.-Fri.) at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., 249-7177, abettheatre.com.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

WORLD-CLASS CLARINETIST RECITAL Five clarinetists – Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Ixi Chen and Jonathan Gunn, Stanley Drucker (retired from New York Philharmonic), University of Michigan’s Daniel Gilbert and Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s André Moisan – perform solo, then as a quartet, 6 p.m. July 16 at University of North Florida’s Fine Arts Building, 1 UNF Drive, free, 415-5851, buffet-group.com.

KENNEY SEABROOK Local jazz vocalist Seabrook performs July 19 at Jazzland Café, 1324 University Blvd. N., 240-1009, jazzlandcafe.com.

ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS

NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 5-9 p.m.

July 17 and every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw. org.

DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. July 18 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, local music – Cougar Barrel 10:30 a.m., Chillakaya at noon, Raniarokz 2:45 p.m. – food artists and a farmers market are featured, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 19 and every Sat. under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts.ju.edu. The collection on permanent display features carved ivory, Chinese porcelain, pre-Colombian artifacts.

AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. The children’s exhibit Discovery Ship allows kids to pilot the ship, hoist flags and learn the history of Fernandina’s harbor.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. Neptune Beach’s Sean Mahan displays fine art prints as well as an original painting used as album artwork for St. Augustine band Telepathic Lines. The exhibit is on display 5-9 p.m. Aug. 1, at First Friday Art Walk. The Downtown record shop toneVendor also displays Mahan’s art; Telepathic Lines performs at 8 p.m. The exhibit at Crisp-Ellert moves to toneVendor, 81-D King St., on Aug. 2; it’s displayed through August.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. Collector’s Choice: Inside the Hearts and Minds of Regional Collectors, through Sept. 14. he Human Figure: Sculptures by Enzo Torcoletti is on display through September. A Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement: Photography from the High Museum of Art is on display through Nov. 2.

MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964 Mandarin Rd., 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net.

The exhibit The Maple Leaf, which features artifacts and information from the Civil War era, runs through December.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville. com. The exhibit New York Times Magazine Photographs, curated by Kathy Ryan and Lesley Martin, runs through Aug. 24. Scott Ingram exhibits a survey collection of drawings and objects through Aug. 24. Admission is free from 5-9 p.m. every Thur., through Aug. 24.

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

Uncovering the Past: Archaeological Discoveries of North Florida is on display through August. First Friday Cosmic Concerts feature Laser Mania 7 p.m., Retro Laser 8 p.m., Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) 9 p.m., Hypnotica 10 p.m.

Aug. 1; $5.

WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfhalloffame.org. Honoring the Legacy: A Tribute to African-Americans in Golf – an exhibit featuring photographs, audio, video and memorabilia from the late 1800s to the present – is featured in the permanent collection.

GALLERIES

THE ART CENTER PREMIER GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757. Sand and Sea: Two Elements, Infinite Visions features art that depicts water and water sports, on display through Sept. 2.

BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS 869 Stockton St., Ste. 1, Riverside, 855-1181. Eric Gillyard’s exhibit of new collage works, Vagaries of Fiction, continues through August.

BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, Jax Beach. CoRK Arts District’s Crystal Floyd displays mixed media, terrariums and special-edition screen prints created with Bold Bean espresso mixed with the ink, through August.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Big Cats and Wolves, paintings by Diane Travis, is on display through Aug. 15.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Painter Randy Pitts and glass artist Tracy Womack display their works through Sept.

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FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 425-2845, floridamininggallery.com. An exhibit of Diogenes The Dog & Ryan Rummel’s works has been extended, in display through Aug. 1.

LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922. Watercolorist Lois Newman, a member of Southlight Gallery, displays new works through July.

LUFRANO INTERCULTURAL GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, Student Union, Southside, 620-2475. Indigenous bird paintings are on display in Anthony Whiting: Florida’s Wild Birds, through Aug. 6.

PLUM GALLERY 9 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. American Craftsmen, an exhibit of mixed-media sculptures, handcrafted furniture, stained glass and linocut prints by Nicola Barsaleau, Meagan Chaney Gumpert, Jessie Cook, Duke Darnold and Rachel deCuba, is on display through August.

ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine. St. Augustine Camera Club’s third annual Juried Member Photography Show is on display through July 24.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. Nature in all its forms and the wildlife that inhabit the great outdoors are celebrated in the fifth annual Nature and Wildlife Exhibition, on display July 26 through August. The Zen Garden Party opening is held 5-8 p.m. July 26. Tickets are $50; RSVP by July 18.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. Members’ Choice and a reunion show – featuring new works by former Southlight Gallery members – are on display through July 18.

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29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919. F In historic downtown, the popular bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional world cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality in an upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269. F In a historic building, family-owned spot serves worldly fare: homemade veggie burgers, fresh seafood, made-from-scratch desserts.

Dine in or on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub offers beer brewed onsite. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CIAO ITALIAN BISTRO, 302 Centre St., 206-4311.

Owners Luke and Kim Misciasci offer fine dining: veal piccata, rigatoni Bolognese, antipasto; house specialties are chicken Ciao, homemade-style meat lasagna. $ L Fri. & Sat.; D Nightly DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049.

In Historic District. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb served in an elegant, chic spot. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469.

450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun house. Favorites: jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan, vegetarian selections. Dine inside or on the porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S at Thompson House, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394.

F Creative lunch: po’boys, salads, little plates. Dinner: fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations recommended. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400. F BOJ winner. Northern-style pizzas, with more than 20 toppings, are served by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141.

Awarded Snail of Approval. Casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, coffee, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815.

Sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes and breads.

Everything’s made from scratch. $ TO B L Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132. Bite Club. Omni Plantation Spa & Shops. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish and duck breast. Outdoor dining. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811.

F See ICW sunsets from second-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, original broiled cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652. F BOJ winner. Oceanfront place serves awardwinning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles.

Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd fl oor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily TIMOTI’S FRY SHAK, 21 N. Third St., 310-6550. F Casual seafood place has blackboard specials and fresh, local wildcaught shrimp, fish and oysters, supporting local fishermen, farmers and brewers. $ BW K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. 8th St., 261-6310.

F This spot in an old gas station offers blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19 & 20, 745-9301. BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. See Mandarin. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966. F BOJ winner. Middle Eastern/Mediterranean fare. Patio, hookah lounge. Wi-Fi, bellydancers. $$ BW L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATES, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 829-5790.

F In Green Man Gourmet. Wines, spices, fresh fruit ice pops and Belgian chocolates. See Ponte Vedra. $$ TO ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAK HOUSE, 4000 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 40, 388-4884. F Churrascaria gauchos carve the meat onto your plate from serving tables. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sun. 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.

F Locally owned and operated for 20-plus years, the

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American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 4530 St. Johns Ave., 388-8828. F See Mandarin. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ BW K TO L D MOJO NO. 4 URBAN BBQ & WHISKEY BAR, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ. See Beaches. $$ FB L D Daily PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 Pinegrove Ave., 389-8655. F BOJ winner. 40+ years. Cuban sandwiches, burgers, subs, wraps, homemade chicken salad, in a family spot. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ FB K TO L D Daily BROADWAY RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA, Ste. 3, 10920 Baymeadows Rd. E., 519-8000. F Family-owned-andoperated Italian pizzeria serves calzones, strombolis, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs, desserts. Delivery. $$ BW K TO L D Daily INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777. F Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. F See Mandarin. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows, 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows, 739-2498. F See Orange Park. $ TO L D Daily PIZZA PALACE RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 527-8649. F Relaxed, family-owned place serves homestyle cuisine. Local faves include spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana.

Outside dining; HD TVs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 8133 Point Meadows Dr., 519-0509. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ FB K L D Daily ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676. Asian methodology melds with European template to create dishes like tandoori lamb chops, rosemary tikka. Vegetarian items cooked separately in vegetable oil. $ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun.

BEACHES

(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Ctr., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002. F BOJ winner. Celebrating more than 20 years, Al’s is a repeat Best Pizza winner in our annual readers’ poll. New York-style and gourmet pizzas.

All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily BREEZY COFFEE SHOP CAFE, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211.

F Casual, family-owned shop serves fresh-baked goods, espressos, locally roasted coffees, vegan and gluten-free options. Sandwiches, local beer. $ BW K TO B R L Daily BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444. The proprietors are from Thailand; every dish is made with fresh ingredients, beautifully presented. $$ FB TO L D Daily CANTINA MAYA SPORTS BAR & GRILLE, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-3227. F Great margaritas, great Latin food, burgers, sports on TVs. $$ FB K L D Tue.-Sun. CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000. F Familyowned-and-operated place offers authentic Mexican fare: fajitas and seafood dishes, hot sauces made in-house. The specialty is tacos de asada. $ FB K L D Daily DELICOMB, 102 Sixth Ave. N., 372-4192. Beachfront spot’s sandwiches, paninis, wraps, kimchi, breakfast fare, espresso, seriously dank coffees are all made with natur al and organic ingredients.$$ B, L & D Tue.-Sun. ENGINE 15 BREWING CO., 1500 Beach Blvd., Ste. 217, 249-2337. F BOJ winner. Gastropub fare: soups, flatbreads, sandwiches, including BarBe-Cuban and beer dip.

Craft beers and brew groups. $ FB K L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. F Latin American fusion, Southwestern-influenced fare: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100+ tequilas.

Outdoor seating. $ FB L D Daily LANDSHARK CAFE, 1728 Third St. N., 246-6024. F Locally owned & operated. Fresh, off-the-boat local seafood, fish tacos, houseground burgers, wings, handcut fries, tater tots; daily specials. $$ FB K L D Daily; R Sun. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F See Mandarin. $$ FB TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Beaches Town Ctr., Neptune Beach, 249-2922. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine indoors or out, patio and courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma.

35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ BW K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F BOJ winner. See San Marco. $$ R B L Daily MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Beaches Town Ctr., Neptune Beach, 249-5573. F Near-the-ocean eatery, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas,

Fresh fire-grilled mahi mahi with fresh pineapple, ginger and garlic teriyaki sauce, and Siesta Key salad (hickory ham and turkey on spring mix with strawberries, apple, pineapple and homemade cinnamon pecans topped with feta crumbles) are just two of the dishes Justin Poynter serves at Red Elephant on S an Jose Boulevard in Mandarin. nightly specials. Dine inside or on the patio. Valet parking. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ PIT & BLUES BAR, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. F BOJ winner. Funky Southern blues kitchen.

Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, all the sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Ctr., Atlantic Beach, 241-2599. F BOJ winner. David and Matthew Medure fl ippin’ burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes, familiar fare, moderate prices. Dine inside or outside. $$ BW L D Daily POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. F American gastropub named for the poet. 50+ beers, gourmet burgers, handcut fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Ctr., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. F For 30 years, popular seafood place has scored many awards in our BOJ readers poll. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & OYSTER BAR, 218 First St., Beaches Town Ctr., Neptune Beach, 246-0881. Beachcasual atmosphere. Faves: fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000.

F BOJ winner. Full-service bar (with more than 20 beers on tap), TV screens covering entire walls and cheerleader s serving the food. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. F New York-style deli offers freshly made fare: subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. AMERICAN GRILL, Jacksonville Landing, 353-7522. Fullservice restaurant serves traditional fare: pot pies, steaks, burgers, pizza, pot roast, vegetarian dishes. $$ BW L D Daily BENNY’S STEAK & SEAFOOD, Jax Landing, Ste. 175, 301-1014. Steak-and-seafood house serves Continental cuisine with such signature dishes as the Filet Chris tian. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ NOLA at MOCAJax, 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911. F Shrimp & grits, gourmet sandwiches, fresh fish tacos, homemade desserts. $$ FB L Mon.-Fri.; D Thur. & ArtWalk CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare for 36+ years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. The homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $$ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411. F See Beaches. $ FB K L D Daily CHAMBLIN’S UPTOWN, 215 N. Laura St., 674-0870. F Breakfast sandwiches made with fresh Healthy Bagel bagels and croissants, unique lunch wraps, homemade soups, salads, desserts, weekly specials. Vegan/vegetarian fare, too. $ BW TO B, L Daily CHICAGO PIZZA & SPORTS GRILL, Jax Landing, 354-7747.

F Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas, hot dogs, Italian beef dishes from Chicago’s Comastro family. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F Eats at moderate prices – most less than $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi and barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Fri. & Sat. CINCO DE MAYO, Jax Landing, 329-2892. Authentic fajitas, tacos, burritos, enchiladas. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily FIONN MacCOOL’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547. BOJ. Casual dining with an uptown Irish atmosphere, serving fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew and black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily HOOTERS, Jax Landing, Ste. 103, 356-5400. The chain, popular for its waitresses, features wings, steamed shrimp, oysters, burgers, seafood, sandwiches. $$ FB TO L D Daily KOJA SUSHI, Ste. 222, Jax Landing, 350-9911. F BOJ winner. Owners John and Tony, in the sushi game for 10+ years, offer sushi, sashimi, and Japanese, Asian, Korean

cuisine. Hard-to-find items like baby octopus salad. Dine in or out. $$ FB L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly VILLAGE BREAD CAFE, Ste. 175, Jax Landing, 683-7244.

Locally owned; bagels, omelets, sandwiches on homestyle bread, salads, pizzas, pastries. $ TO B L Mon.-Sat. VITO’S ITALIAN CAFE, Jax Landing, Ste. 174, 355-3002.

Traditional Italian, Mediterranean fare: pasta, steak, seafood, tiramisu, cannoli. Daily happy hour. $ FB L D Daily ZODIAC GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283. American favorites and Mediterranean fare in a casual atmosphere; panini, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F BOJ winner. See Riverside. $ BW TO Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100, 215-2223. F See Mandarin. $$ FB TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club certified. BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ BW K TO L D Daily MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $$ FB TO L D Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL, 1605 C.R. 220, 278-9421. F 50+ premium tap domestic, imported beers. Starters, burgers, sandwiches, entrées, made to order with fresh ingredients.

Lots of TVs for watching sports. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198. F Real fish camp serves gator tail, freshwater river catfish, daily specials, traditional meals, on Swimming Pen Creek. Outdoor Tiki bar. Come by boat, motorcycle or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.Sun.; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

4 BONES BARBECUE, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 20, 419-9855. Classic Southern barbecue: Pulled pork, brisket, chicken, turkey, ribs, chorizo served market-style by the pound. Mac ’n’ cheese, baked beans, cole slaw, green beans.

Specialty sandwiches, banana pudding. $ K TO L D Tue.-Sat. AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos.

Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily THE TENT HOOKAH LOUNGE, 12041 Beach Blvd., Ste. 4, 551-2962. Authentic fare, hookahs and flavored tobacco, specials and live belly dancing and fl oor seating, in keeping with that authenticity thing. Open late. $ BW L D Daily TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999. F Locally-owned-and-operated grill serves hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps in a clean, sporty atmosphere. Daily drink specials, HD TVs, pool tables, darts, trivia. Late-night menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly

JULINGTON CREEK

DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 101, St. Johns, 825-4540. BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F BOJ winner. See San Marco. $$ R B L Daily TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, St. Johns, 819-1554. F See Fleming Island. $$ FB K L D Daily

MANDARIN

AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ FB K TO L D Daily ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199.

F From the dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) to the baby shoes (stuffed eggplant), Athens has all the favorites. G reek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat.

DINING DIRECTORY GRILL ME!

ingredients when possible. $$$ FB K L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly MSHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $$ BW L D Daily OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch, 900-7730. BOJ winner.

Tapas, small plates. Spanish and I talian flavors: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese. 240-bottle wine list, 75 by the glass, craft spirits. Outdoor dining. $$ FB R, Sun.; D Nightly

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CRUISERS GRILL, 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874.

BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ BW K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200.

F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $$ FB K TO B L D Daily

BEST CUISINE STYLE: Stunning falvor, sexy plate appeal GO-TO INGREDIENT: White truffles, passion and humor IDEAL MEAL: The chef’s tasting menu at Alinea in Chicago WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: I’ll try anything once.

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DICK’S WINGS, 10391 Old St. Augustine, Ste. 1, 880-7087.

F BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040. F American-style steakhouse features Angus steaks, gourmet burgers, ribs, wraps. $$ FB K L D Mon.-Sat. KAZU JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 9965 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 35, 683-9903. The new place has a wide variety of soups, dumplings, appetizers, salads, bento boxes, sushi, entrées, maki handrolls, sashimi. $$ FB TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F Tamales, fajitas and pork tacos are customer favorites. Some locations offer a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773. F This casual, family-friendly eatery serves pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, burgers and pasta dishes. Gluten-free friendly. $ FB K L D Daily RENNA’S PIZZA, 11111 San Jose, Ste. 12, 292-2300.

F Casual New York-style pizzeria serves calzones, antipasto, parmigiana, homemade breads. $$ BW K TO L D Daily

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizzas. $$ BW K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122. BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959. Southernstyle dining. Specialties: New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. KRISTIN’S ON THE RIVER, 2511 Blanding Blvd., 389-9455.

This newly re-opened spot serves seafood and American favorites. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 9734 Crosshill Blvd., 908-4250. 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F See Mandarin. $$ FB TO L D Daily 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. F All over the area, they pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. Hot/cold subs, soups, salads. $ K TO B L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611. F Wings, sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas; 35+ years.

Pool tables, darts, foosball, TVs. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA, NW ST. JOHNS

AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ FB K TO L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATES, 145 Hilden Rd., Ste. 122, 829-5790. Hand-crafted in onsite factory; premium Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts and spices. Cookies and popsicles.

Your order shipped. $$ TO LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797. Chef David Medure offers global flavors. Small plates, creative drinks, happy hour twice daily. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.

RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE

AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ FB K TO L D Daily BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793.

BOJ winner. New American favorites with a Southern twist, made with locally sourced ingredients. Awesome rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes.

1-2, 855-1181. F BOJ winner. Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412. Made-from-scratch “semi-swanky street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free and vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 5972 San Juan Ave., 693-9258.

BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily

GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474.

F BOJ. Juice bar has cer tified organic fruit, vegetables.

Artisanal cheese, 300+ craft/import beer, organic wines, produce, meats, wraps, raw, vegan. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS, 1001 Park St., 508-0342. The spot is based on Asian street vendors. A collection of hawker recipes is served under one roof. $ BW TO L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794.

7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 446-9500. 8102 Blanding Blvd., Westside, 779-1933. F See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., Ortega, 999-4600.

F BOJ winner. See San Marco. $$ R B L Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442.

F BOJ winner. See Amelia Island. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434.

F Southwestern dishes like fresh fish tacos and chicken enchiladas are popular. Happy hour runs Mon.-Sat. in the upstairs lounge, and all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300.

F Traditional Irish fare like shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese and fish-n-chips. Outdoor patio dining is available. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SUN-RAY CINEMA, 1028 Park St., 359-0049. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition Ale Works), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F BOJ winner.

See Beaches. $ FB K TO L D Daily AVILES RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-2277. F Hilton Bayfront. Progressive European-flavored menu; made-to-order pasta night, wine dinners, chophouse nights, breakfast buffet. Sun. champagne brunch bot tomless mimosas. $$$ FB K B L D Daily CANDLELIGHT SOUTH, 1 Anastasia Blvd., 819-0588. F Brand-new on the island, the casual restaurant originally in Scarsdale, N.Y., offers fish tacos, sandwiches, wings, desserts and sangria. Daily specials. $ BW K TO L D Daily CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA, 146 King St., 494-6658. F New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats, cheeses, garlic herb wings.

Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATES, 6 Granada St., 829-5790. In The Market. Wine and chocolate pairings, soft-serve ice cream, a coffee bar, fresh fruit ice pops, cookies. $$ TO CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ BW K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655. Updated Southern fare: fresh, local ingredients from area farms.

Vegetarian, gluten-free, too. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., Anastasia Island, 824-8244. F A mainstay for a quarter-century, Gypsy’s menu changes twice daily. Signature dish is Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily HARRY’S SEAFOOD BAR & GRILLE, 46 Avenida Menendez, 824-7765. F Cajun, Creole, Southern flavors: fresh seafood, steaks, pork, jambalaya, shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 155 Hampton Point Dr., 230-7879. F See Mandarin. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. See Beaches. $ BW K TO L D Daily MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F BOJ winner. See Beaches. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO, 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818. F BOJ winner. Chef Mas Lui creates 30+ unique sushi rolls; fresh sea scallops, H awaiian-style poke tuna salad. $$-$$$ BW L D Daily TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 547-0240. Fusion spot offers healthy American fare with a Latin flair. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sun.

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F Pad Thai, curries, sushi. Dine indoors or on the patio. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Varied tapas menu of artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschettas, homestyle cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. LA NOPALERA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1631 Hendricks Ave., 399-1768. F See Mandarin. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship restaurant. Fine dining, European-style atmosphere. Artfully presented cuisine, small plates, extensive martini/wine lists. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701. F BOJ winner. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily PIZZA PALACE 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815. F See Baymeadows. $$ BW TO L D Daily

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360° GRILLE, LATITUDE 30, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555. F Seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Dine inside, on patio. Games, movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212. Longest-running dinner theater. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s menus coordinated with stage productions.

Reservations suggested. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine Rd., 619-8186. F See Beaches. $ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954.

BOJ winner. See Northside. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. Dim sum favorites: shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball; plus traditional Hong Kong noodles and barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily.

LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499.

4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F See Orange Park. BOJ winner. $ K TO B L D Daily MANGIA! ITALIAN BISTRO & BAR, 3210 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 551-3061. F Chef/owner Tonino DiBella offers fine dining – fresh seafood, veal, steaks, New York-style pizza, desserts. Happy hour Mon.-Sat. Patio. $$$ FB K TO L D Mon.-Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955. F See Beaches. Bite Club. BOJ winner. $ BW K TO L D Daily SEVEN BRIDGES GRILLE & BREWERY, 9735 Gate Pkwy. N., 997-1999. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas. Brewer Aaron Nesbit handcrafts award-winning freshly brewed ales and lagers. Inside, outdoors. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily WATAMI BUFFET, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. All-you can-eat sushi, plus choice of two items from teppanyaki grill. $ FB K L D Daily.

WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 551-5929. F Apps and bar food: German pretzels, hummus, pickle chips, flatbreads. Craft drafts from Germany, Cali, Florida (Bold City brews), Ireland, Belgium. $$ BW L D Daily

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DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Ste. 101, 619-9828. F BOJ winner. NASCAR-themed spot has 365 kinds of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100. F Fresh Mexican fare: fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour daily; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner, 764-9999. See Orange Park. $ K TO B L D Daily SAVANNAH BISTRO, 14670 Duval Rd., 741-4404. F Low Country Southern fare, taste of Mediterranean and French.

Crowne Plaza Airport. Crab cakes, New York strip, she crab soup, mahi mahi. Rainforest Lounge. $$$ FB K B L D Daily

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While still evolving, Corrado’s Bakery ’n Bistro’s menu is straightforward; a signboard in front of the restaurant entices passersby with daily specials. Inside, CUPCAKES IN CORRADO’S DESSERT CASE it’s casual, comfortable, clean and well-designed. and slightly crispy around the edges with a My order of Pat’s gourmet chicken salad not-too-sweet chocolaty frosting on top. ($8.95) arrived on a bed of arugula and Currently serving lunch Tuesday through crisp romaine; juicy white meat pieces were Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Corrado’s plans tossed with a light mayonnaise-type dressing to open for dinner service and in the near and an assortment of diced grapes, crunchy future, add espresso, cappuccino and latte to apple pieces and colorful crisp bell peppers. its beverage selection.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD

ASTROLOGY

BANANAS, JON STEWART & BUCKMINSTER FULLER ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on,” says satirical news commentator Jon Stewart. That’s a healthy attitude. To do his work, he needs a never-ending supply of stories about people doing crazy, corrupt and hypocritical things. The subject matter may makes him sad and angry, but it may stimulate him to think of funny stuff to entertain and educate his audience – and earn him a very good income. Try his approach; the absurdity you experience can be used to your advantage.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bananas grow in Iceland, a country that borders the Arctic Ocean. About 700 plants thrive in a large greenhouse heated by geothermal energy. They don’t mature as fast as bananas in Ecuador or Costa Rica.

The low sunlight means they require two years to ripen instead of a few months. The entire scenario is a symbol for the work you have ahead. Encourage and oversee growth in a place that doesn’t seem hospitable in the usual ways, though it’s fine. Be patient, knowing it might take longer.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At a cafe, I overheard two people at the next table talking about astrology. “I think the problem-solvers of the zodiac are Cancers and Capricorns,” said a young, moon-faced woman. “Agreed,” said her companion, an older woman with chiseled features. “And the problem-creators are Scorpios and Geminis.” I couldn’t help it: I had to join their conversation to defend you.

Leaning toward them, I said, “Speaking as a professional astrologer, I’ve got to say that right now Geminis are at least temporarily the zodiac’s best problem-solvers.

Give them a chance to change your minds.” The women laughed, and Moon-face said, “You must be a Gemini.”

“No,” I replied. “But I’m on a crusade to help Geminis shift their reputations.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mozart debuted his now-famous opera Don Giovanni in Prague on Oct. 29, 1787. It was a major production, with an orchestra, a chorus and eight main singers. Yet the composer didn’t finish writing the overture until less than 24 hours before the show. Are you cooking up a similar scenario? In the next two weeks, you complete a breakthrough with an inspired, last-minute effort.

The final part may well be its “overture;” the first part arrives last.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “We must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains,” says writer Nikki Giovanni. That’s apt advice to keep in mind during the months ahead. You may think I’m perverse to suggest that. Compared to how demanding it was to manage the suffering you experienced in late 2013 and earlier this year, you may assume it’ll be easy to deal with the awakening heading your way. Consider the possibility that these blessings bring challenges. You may need to surrender inconveniences and hardships you’re used to, almost comfortable with. It’s conceivable you have to divest yourself of habits that made sense earlier, but are now counterproductive.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’d hate for your fine mind to become a liability. I admire your native skepticism and analytical intelligence, but it’d be a shame if they kept you from getting the full benefit of wonders and marvels brewing around you.

Your operative motto in the days ahead is from Virgo storyteller Roald Dahl: “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Suspend your disbelief, beautiful friend. Be receptive to the possibility of being amazed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kris Kristofferson is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One big break was at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a Nashville recording studio. He met superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash’s yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig at Newport Folk Festival. Further your goals with a similar sequence: luck to put you in the right place at the right time, followed by brazen yet charming acts of self-promotion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem “Looking Back,” Sarah Brown Weitzman writes that she keeps “trying to understand / how I fell / so short of what I intended / to do with my life.” Is there a chance that 30 years from now you might say something similar? If so, take action to ensure that outcome doesn’t come to pass. Judging from astrological omens, the next 10 months will be favorable to get on track to fulfill your life’s most important goals. Take advantage!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” Bring that spirit to your explorations in the weeks ahead. Your task? Try different possibilities to see where they lead. Don’t be attached to one conclusion or another. Be free of the drive to be proved right. Instead, seek truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself. Be eager to learn what you didn’t realize you needed to know.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Architects in ancient Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the method of how to make concrete was forgotten for more than 1,000 years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and now concrete is a prime component in many highways, dams, bridges and buildings. A similar story is unfolding for you.

A valuable secret you once knew but lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert.

TOILET TRAINING

Enric Girona recently donated his prototype pet commode to El Vendrell, Spain, hoping to spark worldwide interest. Conscientious owners can train their dogs on the station (a hole in the ground with a flush handle) connected to the sewer system, as is the drain grid next to it (for tinkling). The platform, which looks to occupy about 20 square feet of surface, is self-cleaning (though not too clean, said Girona, because dogs are lured by a lingering scent). Spain is already among the world’s toughest on lazy owners who don’t scoop up after their pets, with fines in El Vendrell as high as $1,000; in Madrid and Barcelona, $2,000.

CRAPPY JOB

Municipal engineers in Melton Mowbray, England, were called out in June to fix a lingering sewer overrun caused by, they found, “hundreds” of tennis balls that had apparently each been flushed down toilets. Said the project manager, “We expect [blockages from] fats and baby wipes, but ...”

BROWNIE POINTS

After two third-graders wet their pants on May 15 at Mill Plain Elementary School in Vancouver, they blamed teachers for toostrictly enforcing their classroom’s “rewards” system, in which good behavior earns students points redeemable for, among other prizes, restroom breaks. A teachers union investigation concluded the girls were never “denied” toilet access, but the girls’ mothers pointed out that using restroom breaks as a “reward” might be confusing to 8-year-olds.

CHIP-FACED

Japanese snack company Calbee recently staged a promotion around popular singer Nana Mizuki, giving away 10 backstage passes to her Aug. 3 Yokohama concert to the purchasers of 10 lucky bags of secretly marked potato chips.

Her perhaps-hugest fan, Kazuki Fukumoto, 25, was so determined to win one that, by the time he was arrested for littering in May, he’d bought and dumped 89 cartons of potato chip packages, weighing more than 400 pounds, which were found at six locations around Kobe and Akashi.

Police estimate he’d spent about $3,000.

SEE FOOD

Britain’s news website Metro.co.uk, combing Facebook pages, located a full photo array from prominent 23-year-old German body art enthusiast Joel Miggler, whose various piercings and implants are impressive. His centerpieces are the portholes in each cheek that expose the insides of his mouth. With customized plugs, he can seal the portholes for liquids. The holes are 36mm wide, but he was said to be actively cheek-stretching, aiming for 40mm. Miggler assures fans his mother likes “most” of his modifications and that the worst aspect so far is that he’s forced to take smaller bites when eating. (NOTW has reported on researchers creating portholes in cows’ stomachs, but still ...)

CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE

Until the New York governor and legislature addressed the problem recently, it was legal in the state for narcissistic animal owners to force their dogs and cats to endure permanent, decorative tattoos and piercings. At press time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was poised to sign legislation abolishing the tattooing.

FIRED UP

Kayla Oxenham, 23, was arrested in Port Charlotte in June, charged with using a stick to burn “brands” into the skin of her two children, ages 5 and 7. Among her explanations to police: so she could identify them as being hers and because she “forgot how much she loved fire.”

NONE OF YER DAMN BIDNESS

The American Red Cross boasts of being “transparent and accountable” for the way it spends donations from compassionate people moved to help those in need. However, when public policy watchdog ProPublica asked for some details on how the Red Cross used funds donated for 2012 Hurricane Sandy victims in New York, the organization begged off, claiming details beyond broad generalities were “trade secrets” it was entitled to protect, lest its “competitors” copy or exploit the techniques it uses to help people. The Red Cross did release more detailed accounts to the attorney general of New York, but under an agreement of confidentiality.

Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Starting in 1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks extending more than 1,000 miles east and west. It was 90 years before French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized there were no such mountains. All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information. Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. He’s your role model in the weeks ahead. Expose longrunning delusions, strip away falsehoods and restore simple truths.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the simplest, calmest of times, there are two sides to every story. Sometimes, though, the bare minimum is three or more. Like now. That can generate quite a ruckus. Even folks who are usually harmonious may slip into conflict. Fortunately, you’re now at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. Be a weaver who takes threads from each tale and spins them into a narrative everyone can abide. For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity.

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HOT BAR GUY ISU at the Ritz, Jax Beach. You: Watching basketball game with your friends. White V-neck, tattoos. I was with two friends. I have long blonde hair, wearing black tank top. Made eye contact, never talked. When: May 31. Where: Ritz Bar. #1385-0716 LATE NIGHT NOSH You: Red shirt, brown hair, glasses; looking at your cellphone.

Me: Gray shirt, running shorts; reading a book. Both of us singing to same song. Our eyes met once or twice. Wished you joined me. When: July 9. Where: Regency Steak ’N Shake. #1384-0716 BUSINESS BRUNCH CONNECTION You: 20-something blue-eyed blonde budding professional, great teeth. Me: 74-year-old professional supervisor; looks 20 years younger – bald but burly! I saw your silent amazement when I said we were soulmates. Call; throw professional boundaries to the wind! When: July 2. Where: Mimi’s Café. #1383-0716 SEXY PANHANDLER You: Sweet, sweaty old guy panhandling for spare change on a hot day. Me: Mousey-haired, 30-year-old in gray primered, Bondo’d Hyundai. Your rheumy eyes seemed to be asking me for more than spare change... call me! When: July 4. Where: Corner Kernan & Beach. #1382-0709 STUNNING SLICE SLINGER ISU bouncing around Al’s Pizza. You: Tall blonde bartender serving drinks and slinging slices. Me: Dark and dredded, lurking from afar. Next time, come out from behind the bar so I can give you a slice of me! When: June 28. Where: Al’s Pizza, Ponte Vedra. #1381-0709 SPORTING GOODS Me: Tall, shorts/shirt, red hair, red SUV. You: Taller, extremely handsome, shorts/T-shirt, orange-shirted friend; huge white lifted truck. You smiled; should’ve talked then and behind you in line. Maybe Navy boys? Forgive me for being chicken. :) When: July 2. Where: Academy Sports, Kernan. #1380-0709 BLUE-EYED BRUNETTE You: Brunette with stunning blue eyes. Me: Older guy leaving to go get dessert. You asked about the Key lime pie. No time to get acquainted; but I’d like to. When: June 28. Where: Singleton’s Mayport. #1379-0709 BEAUTIFUL BLONDE IN RED DRESS ISU at COE22 this a.m.; want to get to know you. Me: Across the aisle, yellow shirt, with my mother. We caught eyes once.

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COE22. #1378-0702 YOU LIKED MY BOOTS You: Talking about bad guys; you were sooo cute. I told you you were cute but it was really the way you said what you said that I found truly gorgeous. I was mystified; cannot remember what you were wearing. When: June 25. Where: Park behind library. #1377-0702 MEET FOR PIZZA & BEER You: Shaved head, awesome blue eyes, T-shirt, shorts, having dinner with who I assume were your children. Me: Ponytail, gray T-shirt having dinner with male friends. Our booth was next to your table. Our eyes met twice as you left! When: June 24. Where: Al’s Pizza Atlantic Beach. #1376-0702 WHITE DOGGIE STYLE You: Shirtless, sweating, man-child drinking a draft beer and trimming bushes on Third Street in Neptune Beach.

You paused to adjust your shark-tooth necklace. Me: Nosy neighbor peering through the window. Wanna come take a bite outta me? When: June 16. Where: Neptune Beach. #1375-0625 DENIM 4 DAYS You: Wearing denim seemingly all over. Perhaps Apple Bottoms? Me: Looking for my friends when I bumped into you. Let’s meet again. I really like your genes. When: June 13.

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION You: Cool Ameri-Asian hipster tooling around Riverside in sweet souped-up ride. Me: Athletic brunette often seen jogging; liking what I see. Put your soy in my sauce already? Let’s get fast and furious! When: June 4. Where: Post and King streets. #1373-0618

SECOND SIGHT CONNECTION @ ARTWALK Me: long dress, faerie necklace, blonde and pink. You: Taller than me, dark hair? A shining person. We talked about my necklace. You see what I see. I feel less alone now. Meet me in the park? When: June 4. Where: Art Walk Downtown. #1372-0611 GORGEOUS GROCERY SHOPPER Standout even in Publix. Blue jeans, black top, red hair.

Carrying yourself like a princess. Infatuated still, but probably nothing compared to the possibility of meeting you. Looked forward to passing you in the aisles. When: Sat., May 31.

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