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THE RACIAL DIVIDE Is the local STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY gaining or losing ground? story by CLAIRE GOFORTH
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RESTORATION OF LIFE [10]
BY AG GANCARSKI The more THINGS CHANGE, the less things change
BY JOSH GORE Riverside’s Memorial Park in the midst of a MAJOR FACELIFT
CANNED PAM
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BY BOB GRINSELL Local gay man gives the Attorney General the RIOT ACT
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FROM THE EDITOR
There’s only ONE person to blame for the state of LOCAL POLITICS (Psst, it’s you)
APOPLECTIC AND APATHETIC AS VOTERS, WE GET EXACTLY WHAT WE DESERVE. Again and again, people, myself included, have pointed out that in spite of the ‘R’ that appears next to the names of most of our leaders in Jacksonville, more of the city’s residents are Democrats than Republicans. Quite a lot more, actually. Even though 5,000 voters in Duval County switched party registration in order to vote in the Republican Primary — many inspired by a desire to vote out Public Defender Matt Shirk, State Attorney Angela Corey, or perhaps both — as of Aug. 15, there are still 15,504 more Dems in Duval County according to Supervisor of Elections’ records. If those roughly 5,000 who changed registration are ideologically Democratic, that makes for a total of 20 grand more likeminded peeps voting donkey over elephant, which is obviously statistically significant. Then why are we so damn conservative? Simple: Because most people don’t vote. When Mayor Lenny Curry, a Republican, dared to serve as Master of Ceremonies (apparently someone had already called dibs on lion-tamer) for the tangerine-tinted enfant terrible at his Aug. 3 tour de pain-ful to watch, people were pissed. Many questioned whether the mayor was firing on all cylinders, and if perhaps he had just incinerated the pension tax feather he so desperately wants to stick in that pretty blond cap. Certainly a few will not vote for the tax on the basis of Curry’s stumping for Trump. But it’s not likely to make much of a difference, certainly not enough to kill the referendum. And here’s why: In the August 2008 and August 2012 primaries, the last two presidential election years (when people are more engaged in politics), merely 20 percent of registered voters hauled our lazy asses to the voting booth or bothered to fill in an absentee ballot and mail it in. In both instances, far more who did muster the effort to vote were Republicans. In fact, 12,124 more Republicans voted in the 2012 primary. The party’s voter turnout was a relatively impressive 29 percent. Only 20 percent of Democrats voted in that primary. In the 2008 primary, Dems also only managed to get a measly 21 percent voter turnout, while Reps put up 26 percent. And
that was the year that Dems were all fired up for change, when the country was so fed up with George W. Bush that a sitting president was an unwelcome sight on the campaign trail — though it’s hard to imagine anything that could have made the slow motion McCain-Palin trainwreck any worse. If you travel in certain circles around town, you’ll hear a common refrain. People love to pityingly lament the conservatism of city leadership and the antiquated politics that keep us firmly on the buckle of the Bible Belt and routinely embarrass us when, say, the Clerk of Courts directs his staff to stop performing courthouse marriages because — ewww — same-sex marriage is icky. Statistically speaking, a majority of those people are to blame for Jacksonville’s mid-20thcentury political values. Because every time they have an opportunity to do something about it, such as in 2015 when most seats on the City Council, as well as the offices of mayor and sheriff, were at play, a majority of voters stayed home and watched the Kardashians inject themselves with whale blubber or something. It’s hard to sympathize with people who are too apathetic to help themselves, then whine because they’re not getting what they want. When Lenny Curry gives the crowd a onetwo thumbs-up from the podium at a Trump rally, he’s banking on the apathy of the majority. He gives the crowd a good look at those Chiclet teeth, knowing that some heat is coming his way, that a few will point out that instead of greeting the President of the United States on Feb. 26, he went fishing, but that more will give the mayor those proverbial fist-bumps that are so dear to his heart. Because, news flash, y’all: Donald Trump won the Republican Primary in Duval County. Not only did Trump win, he crushed Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ted “It’s Felito not Fellatio” Cruz. See, Jacksonville’s favorite accountant doesn’t blindly walk that very looonnnnggg catwalk to get some golf claps for his pension tax at Veterans Memorial Arena; he takes a calculated risk based on the data that the people who will actually show up and vote on Aug. 30 are sitting in the crowd. And he’s probably right. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5
COLLECT THEM ALL! FANLEXICON
The two-day, pop cultural shindig FanLexicon offers a smorgasbord of multi-genre fandom mania, including a monstrous collectibles showcase, tabletop and video gaming, costume contest, Cosplay demos and workshops, and appearances of con-celebs like voice actor George Lowe (pictured, of Space Ghost Fame), William Grefe (Death Curse of Tartu), and Doug Hobart (The Sting of Death). 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, Lexington Hotel, San Marco, $10-$80, full schedule and tickets at fanlexicon.com.
OUR PICKS SWING TIME LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND
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Hide out from the heat and check out some of the coolest local hip hop at Summer Time in the City Festival. The day-long event features performances by area greats T.W.A.N., GeeXella, Midaz the Beast, Higher Learning, Mr. Al Pete (pictured), FFJB, Dope Sandwich, Dillon & Paten Locke, Bluff Gawd, Steam Mechanics and Mr. Mince, along with four DJs, a 2x2 BBoy Battle, graffiti walls, producer sets, and video game battles. Noon-2 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 1904 Music Hall, Downtown, 1904musichall.com, $10. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016
REASONS TO LEAVE THE HOUSE THIS WEEK
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Texas-born singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett has been giving us his signature style of country since the mid-’80s, when his blend of folk, gospel, blues, and jazzy swing attracted an audience bored of the then-pasteurized country music souring the airwaves. The multiple Grammy-winner is also a notable actor, starring in more than 20 TV and film roles, including parts in four Robert Altman films and, most significantly, 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. While Lovett has been known as much for his gravity-defying hairstyle as his unique tunes, when Lovett & His Large Band hit the stage, it’s all about the alt-country tunes and not the coiffure. 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, Florida Theatre, Downtown, $35-$65, floridatheatre.com.
SUMMER TIME IN THE CITY FESTIVAL
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First breaking onto the DJ scene with 2001’s The Stanton Sessions, UK dynamic duo the Stanton Warriors (aka Mark Yardley and Dominic Butler) have rocked the decks from East London warehouses to Detroit raves, and are vets of festivals like Glastonbury and Ultra. Artists from Daft Punk to Gorillaz have hired them to remix tracks and they continue to travel the globe spreading the sound of their audio bling. 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, Eclipse, 4219 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, $10$17.50, eventbrite.com.
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ILL COMMUNICATION TALK SICK BRATS
If the key to good, primordial punk rock is “dumb it down,” then Talk Sick Brats are veritable geniuses. The Houston-based three-piece keeps the gnarly stomp current on original tunes like “Runnin’ from the Wolfpack” and “Secretary” while tipping the hat(e) to their aggro ancestors with a cover of Alan Milman Sect’s 1977 classic, “Stiches in My Head.” Rejoice! 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24 with Curlies, The Mold and Virgin Flower, Shantytown Pub, Springfield, facebook.com/shantytownjax.
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THE MAIL GRAND COWBOY
RE.: “The Populist Myth,“ by A.G. Gancarski, Aug. 3 I HEARTILY AGREE WITH A.G.’S COMMENTS about Mr. Hans Tanzler’s first TV ad. It was crap, but I saw something else. The imagery of the ad is a white man in a wide-brimmed hat, mounted on a horse, with a shotgun at the ready, telling a black man (Obama) to “get out of our town.” That is a Klan nightrider without the white hood. The ad is not only stupid, it is fundamentally racist. Dan Dupre via email
PFPF WELFARE PROGRAM
RE.: “Just say ‘No’ to the Pension Tax,” by Frederick Matthews, Aug. 3 FREDERICK MATTHEWS JUST DOESN’T GET IT. The greedy and selfish Police and Fire Pension Fund and the two other taxpayer-funded city pension plans are not “underfunded” because of a shortage of revenue. The pension funds are “underfunded” because the current benefits paid out are ridiculous and ludicrous. These taxpayer funded government pension plans would bankrupt a company in the private sector. No able-bodied man or woman working in government should be allowed to retire in their 40s or 50s. It amounts to a welfare check. Cheryl Campbell via U.S. Mail
proponent is Denise Hunt, we should not expect thoughtful analysis. Here’s how I understand what is being put forth. The federal charges against Corrine Brown and Ronnie Simmons are being manufactured by a conspiracy of Northeast Florida Republicans, led apparently by Angela Corey, concerned that she might gain too much power in Congress. This is a woman who has already served for more than two decades and serves as a Democrat in the Republican-controlled House. These Florida Republicans have manufactured a case being brought by a Justice Department, led by a Democratic black woman, in an administration led by a black Democratic president. Yeah, that makes sense. One accusation, however, did confirm a thought I had when Ms. Brown was first indicted and started blaming a conspiracy. Another Brown supporter lays it on Ronnie Simmons, confirming my “throw Ronnie under the bus” or perhaps “have Ronnie jump under the bus” suspicions. Should be an interesting ride. Dennis Egan via email
LET THE GREEN TIMES ROLL
RE.: “Conspiracy Theory,” by Mark Judson, Aug. 3 THE ONLY COLOR RELEVANT TO THIS STORY IS green, lots and lots of green. David J. Gross via email
A SPEEDBUMP CALLED ‘RONNIE’
RE.: “Conspiracy Theory,” by Mark Judson, Aug. 3 I COULD NOT TELL WHETHER MARK JUDSON’S piece “Conspiracy Theory” was a serious news piece, opinion piece, satire or humor. I add humor because so much of what was described was laughable. When the leading conspiracy theory
PRIMARY REMINDER
RE.: “One City, One Two-faced Mayor,” by Julie Delegal, Aug. 10 REMEMBER, IT’S THIS MONTH, NOT NOVEMBER. Anyone who’s not Republican can only vote for this. He’s counting on people not voting so that it’ll pass I’m sure. Why else would it not be on November election [ballot] when more people will come out and vote? Bill Brown via Facebook
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO ISLAND FLOWER & GARDEN After Jamie Villia passed away on Aug. 2 at the heartbreakingly young age of 33, a GoFundMe was started to pay for funeral arrangements. Generously, Island Flower & Garden donated a beautiful flower arrangement for the service, which was held Aug. 14. To make a contribution to Villia’s loved ones in this difficult time, visit: gofundme.com/2hv8rn3k.
BRICKBATS TO NICOLE PADGETT As we reported on the Flog on Aug. 13, one of Mayor Lenny Curry’s Planning Commission appointees has taken a liberal view of the attendance requirement. In fact, since March, Padgett, a major fundraiser and donor to Curry’s campaign, has missed five of 10 meetings. Under the bylaws, this requires the commission chair to request her removal from the commission, the same entity that Curry took major heat for purging last year in what many viewed as partisan punishment. BOUQUETS TO A1A SOLAR CONTRACTING According to Solar Power World magazine, A1A Solar is the No.1 residential contractor in Florida. Since its 2010 founding, the magazine reported, A1A Solar has installed a total of 5.04 megawatts, enough power for 740 homes. Companies like these are decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels, one rooftop solar unit at a time.
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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS The MORE things change, the LESS things change
THE HEMMING
ENDGAME THE SMELL OF DIRT WEED, THEN THE SMELL of piss. Those are the olfactory sensations you experience if you walk on the Duval Street side of Hemming Park, toward the federal courthouse, if you are inclined to cover the trial events of one indicted politician or another. The piss smell usually takes over around the time one gets close to the Skyway. It’s like a million-dollar urinal, sort of like the old troughs at the Milk Bar, except those were cleaner. After almost two years and hundreds of thousands of city dollars invested in a square block that’s referred to as the fwront door to City Hall, what’s really changed at Hemming Park? When there are events — a beer fest (one that advances the interests of quasi-gentrification, instead of the impromptu ones park regulars have on the daily) — then the patron mix changes, from people drinking domestic beer out of cans to the kinds of people who are willing and who have the disposable income to spend $40 to drink in a public park. When there aren’t events, it’s a different scene, as revealed last week in a special committee meeting of members of Jacksonville’s City Council to decide, again, what to do about the front door to City Hall. The committee agreed to two more months at the current operating budget of $29,000 a month, slashing the $150,000 appropriation that was in a bill advanced earlier in the summer. The operating budget, of course, was bigger a while back; at least twice that. Then questions were raised by the Council, about the commingling of funds in operating and capital budgets, about trying to figure out what the park’s fundraising was supposed to do, and about trying to figure out why so much money went to lunches out and about, to threedollar cups of coffee, to buy Apple TVs and to take trips to IKEA in Orlando. Last Wednesday’s meeting was one at which staffers of Friends of Hemming Park made their case — and made their excuses. Among them: that Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office patrolpersons were somewhat diffident in patrolling the square block, somewhat reluctant in spending an entire shift regulating a group of people who by and large have given up on regulating themselves. There was the story about the park congregants who took a case of beer to the Kids’ Zone, which violates open container laws, and violates the dictum that “sharing is caring.” Most kids don’t drink. Not spending time at
City Hall, they don’t have an excuse to do so. And then there was the story about the two park congregants who did decide that sharing is caring, and were doing lines of OxyContin off a table near Vagabond Coffee. An FOHP staffer bemoaned the actions of the cop who addressed that situation by clearing the opiate off with a hand, then arresting people for trespassing. There’s an unspoken paradox behind FOHP: It is the manifestation of white liberal guilt, and the outrage that inevitably comes when the forces of gentrification run up against the reality that there are a certain amount of people who congregate in public parks throughout the nation and likely most of the world, who are living in their personal portable hells, and who are therefore resistant to the kind of “park programming” that would change the mix of people at the park. They may be looking for a place to drink away the day, or drink away the pain. They may be looking to just play some chess. They don’t particularly care if their existence or presence makes it hard for city VIPs to sell out-of-town visitors on the mythology of a thriving Downtown. Because, as we know, gentrification means that those with more fluid residences, those who live on the margins, those who live in shelters, those who eke out their existence in rented rooms on fixed incomes — they are all screwed: the remainder in a long division problem. New private security forces, theoretically, will help. Maybe Hemming Park will become an oasis for the business class, with its current patrons dispersed to passive parks nearby. More than likely, though, that’s not going to be the case. It was suggested at the meeting last week that the City Council put more money into Hemming Park. That sounds good, but assumes there aren’t existential needs, such as the pension liability, such as a backlog of deferred maintenance, such as the need to give city workers a raise for the first time this decade. There’s not money to have it all and to maintain an emergency reserve. And there’s the problem. The Hemming Park experiment was a great idea. But it was an experiment. And the Council, sooner or later, will have to pull the plug. The questions is when. And what the pretext will be. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
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WORK WILL SOON BE UNDERWAY AGAIN TO rehabilitate a treasured city park along the St. Johns River. Dedicated in December 1924, Memorial Park pays homage to 1,220 of the state’s men and women who died during the Great War, now referred to as World War I. There was no organized effort for long-term maintenance and improvements to the park until March 2013, when the Memorial Park Association, which was organized in 1986, decided it was time for a change. Three years ago, the nonprofit paid a private firm $12,000 to design a master plan for the park’s future. The 72-page document outlines a wide array of proposals, from increased signage and security to upgrading onsite utilities. “This is the roadmap we needed to be organized,” said Agnes Danciger, president of the association’s board. Now, projects will soon be bid out to address irrigation and drainage. Once those projects are bid on, the city and MPA can make a decision on financing, according to the nonprofit head. “If I had $3 million, we could probably do it all,” she said. “This going to be a long road.” There is no end game yet to mark the light at the end of the tunnel. “We are going to plug away one project at a time,” Danciger said. The plan calls for restoring and preserving open spaces to increase park use. Addressing tree roots and year-round landscaping would make the area more appealing, according to the report. (A full detailed review of the master plan can be viewed at memparkjax.org.) For the city’s part, a $200,000 fundraising match was offered to reward the group’s efforts. With the city’s budget constraints, there are questions about the future of city funding for the project – but not about its commitment. The group is also getting help from private corporations and fundraising efforts. Proceeds from a beer festival, as well as funds from philanthropist Delores Weaver, have previously been raised for the cause. At some point later this year, the group hopes to outline a capital fundraising plan. Pattie Houlihan, MPA’s construction committee co-chair, said the group should be patient but vigilant in its pursuit of city dollars.
Memorial Park Association president Agnes E. Danciger with the park’s signature Life statue.
“While the city suffers from the financial indiscretions of the past, they remain committed, interested and supportive whenever possible of collaborative efforts on these projects,” Houlihan said. Despite the seemingly overwhelming tasks ahead, the group has indeed begun to plug away at the some of the corrections offered in the master plan. Recently, restoration of the Life statue was completed inside the park. Jake Ingram, a retired landscape architect who sits on the MPA board, said the statue was in much need of polishing. “We had to go to Oberlin, Ohio to find a company that could do this work,” he said. The 1924 statue, designed by sculptor Charles Adrian Pillars, is meant to show the pursuit of civilization rising above the chaos of the world. The base of the statue is a swirling fountain meant to show the struggles people must overcome. The top culminates with a bronze male figure pointing above to the heavens. “This was so important for people,” Ingram said. “They can come and understand where society was at that point.” Ingram also said work was needed on the swirling basin of the fountain. Some of the work had not been completed since the 1990s. “We weren’t so long overdue, but it was definitely time for repairs,” he said. Though it was Pillars who offered the Life statue, the design of the park came from the minds of the Olmsted brothers. In the 1920s, the Brookline, Massachusetts brothers dominated the nation in park planning and design. Their work can be found from the nation’s capital west to Seattle. “These men were renowned,” Ingram said. “What we’re trying to do is keep the park as close to their design [as possible].” Frederick Jr. and Charles Olmsted also designed the 120,000-acre Biltmore Estate near Asheville, a popular vacation spot for the Northeast Florida residents. The park now serves as an open area for locals as a relaxing getaway minutes from Downtown. Open space in the park attracts pickup sports games as well as kite-flying. There are also plans to eventually create a park watch program similar to a neighborhood
watch. The group plans to bring in police and offer training sessions, so residents know what to do and when to call in any situation. “The project is therefore ongoing and we are faced with having to prioritize the improvements as they are necessary and urgent, but we lack the resources to complete them all at this time,” Danciger said. The master plan, designed by Atlanta architect David Sacks, also calls for a park office to house a volunteer or city employee. An area in the park could also be set aside for donor recognition. The plan details recommendations down to the type of flowers and tree canopy Sacks recommends for the city to use. Despite the cosmetic efforts, neither Danciger nor Ingram want the purpose of the park’s installation to be glossed over. With fewer casualties, World War I demands less attention in the history books than World War II, a conflict reenacted thousands of times in books and film. “We don’t want to forget those died,” Danciger said. The group tossed around the idea of putting a memorial inside the park, containing the names of all of the fallen. “We couldn’t get exact names and numbers,” Ingram said. “We didn’t want to have to add [corrections] to the memorial.” The names, though, were placed on a pillar and buried next to the statue to memorialize the dead. Since the MPA was formed, it has offered notable contributions to the park, the group says, including the placement of two four-foottall eagles. The birds represent similar statues believed to have been there when the park originally opened. Rehabilitating the park will be one of last large-scale restoration projects in Riverside, the group hopes. “[To] so many people, this iconic park is very meaningful as a place of sheer beauty, and something that is unique to our city because of its location on the river and the vista that it provides,” Danciger said. “I think of it now as one of the ‘bookends’ to the development along Riverside Avenue from Downtown to the park itself.” Josh Gore mail@folioweekly.com
photo by Dennis Ho
Riverside’s Memorial Park is in the midst of a FACELIFT
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n Jacksonville, as in other places, the scenery and the statistics look different on various sides of town: Schools, jobs, poverty, roads, infrastructure, nutrition, crime — a lot is influenced by your ZIP code. On one side of town, police are friends and neighbors, there to keep the peace. On another, they’re an invading force, violent, dangerous, even deadly. As a summer storm raged outside an Aug. 1 forum at Florida State Community College of Jacksonville’s Downtown campus, candidates for the Florida House of Representatives — all black, save one — debated the best way to address the issues facing their communities: criminal justice reform, police accountability, civil rights, crumbling infrastructure and equal economic opportunity were high on the list. This was nothing new. But lately, local tensions over civil rights and racial inequality have been running high and getting higher. In the packed auditorium that night, there was a sense that black people in Jacksonville are fed up with a status quo that neglects their communities and keeps them, their friends and their neighbors in a prison of inequality. CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM IN RECENT YEARS, POLICE DEPARTMENTS across the country have been hit with scandal after scandal associated with officers brutalizing and killing black people, many unarmed, some handcuffed or complying with officers’ commands when they were assaulted or killed. After leading police on 3.7-mile highspeed chase on May 22, Vernell Bing Jr. was fatally shot by a Jacksonville police officer as he staggered from the car he’d crashed head-on into a police cruiser on the corner of Liberty and Ninth streets. Protestors and Bing’s family decried the shooting as police choosing to use deadly force when other means of detaining the unarmed 22-year-old were available. “He could have been apprehended another way than shot at like that, with the patrol that they had around. It could have been better than the way they dealt with it,” his father, Vernell Bing Sr., told News4Jax.
Statistics compiled by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference found that from 2002-’14, there were 135 shootings by officers of the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office, 74 of which were fatal. Of those fatally shot, 65 percent were black. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of July 2015, 30.1 percent of Jacksonville’s population is black.
Bing’s killing reinvigorated local calls to establish civilian review boards for police shootings, open the police boards that review shootings to the public (they have been closed to the public since 2010) and fund body cameras for officers. Kemetic Empire organizer, Diallo Sekou, 44, is a local activist who has planned and
Citizens decry killings of African-Americans at a Hemming Park protest in July.
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Of the 21 people who were sentenced to death in Duval County from 2009-’14, 67 percent, or 14 of them, were black. A handout distributed at an Aug. 4 Criminal Justice Reform Summit at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church reported that in recent years, the racial disparity has become even more extreme; it states that from 2012-’15, “86 [PERCENT] OF THOSE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DUVAL COUNTY ARE AFRICAN-AMERICAN.”
<<< FROM PREVIOUS participated in numerous protests, including one in December 2014 when he and other protesters, the “Jacksonville 19,” were arrested for blocking the Hart Bridge, a type of civil disobedience he says is intended to make city leadership pay attention to the community’s concerns. “The issue was, again, officers getting away with murder of unarmed black men, the underfunding of the Northside,” Sekou told Folio Weekly Magazine. Although police killings of black people have lately generated much publicity, FBI statistics indicate and researchers have found that police officers are actually less likely to use lethal force on African-Americans. The National Review reported that Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer Jr., a well-known researcher of racial matters, called his findings “the most surprising result I have found in my entire career.” However, Fryer also found that racial bias increased officers’ use of non-deadly force. So statistics indicate that while officers are less likely to kill a black person, they are more likely to use violence against that person as a means of enforcing the law. In recent years, there have been numerous local incidents of police violence against black people that may support this conclusion, such as the November 2014 slamming of the handcuffed minor Deandre Ezell’s head into a concrete wall at the Duval County Pretrial Detention Facility, the multiple facial fractures David Kemp attained in police custody, and the broken jaw Larue Perkins received while allegedly complying with officers’ directives. The local State Attorney’s Office is also frequently criticized by civil rights activists for being racially biased against minorities. At a July forum hosted by the D.W. Perkins Bar Association, the association for local black attorneys, according to The Florida Times-Union, State Attorney Angela Corey took issue with the perception that her office
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is racially biased, saying that perception was due to misinformation circulated by the media. Arguably, if local police alone were racially biased, it would naturally lead to statistical bias in prosecutions through no fault of the SAO. Regardless of the cause, the perception of racial bias in local law enforcement remains. Of the 21 people who were sentenced to death in Duval County from 2009-’14, 67 percent, or 14 of them, were black. A handout distributed at an Aug. 4 Criminal Justice Reform Summit at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church reported that in recent years, the racial disparity has become even more extreme; it states that from 2012-’15, “86 [percent] of those sentenced to death in Duval County are African-American.” At the summit, Pastor Reginald “R.L.” Gundy said, “The death penalty doesn’t make us safe. If it did, Duval County would be the safest county in the nation.” Allegations of racial bias in prosecutions also creep into the juvenile justice system. The Human Rights Watch, in its 2014 report “Branded for Life,” which examined the controversial direct-file statute that grants prosecutors discretion to prosecute any 16- or 17-year-old charged with a felony as an adult, determined that “there is evidence that racial bias is affecting that exercise of discretion with respect to certain crimes.” The handout distributed at the summit stated that “[s]ince 2010, over 70 percent of youth sentenced in the 4th Judicial Circuit have been transferred to adult prisons or jails.” The 4th circuit includes Duval, Clay and Nassau counties. Repeated studies have shown that after a young person spends time in jail, they are more likely to reoffend. “Jail is a training ground for criminals, it’s a breeding ground for criminals and we know if we get them at a young age, we have our jails full for life,” said Pastor Elder Harris of Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church. Though the Washington Post reported in February that the incarceration rate has been steadily decreasing for black people since 2000, it remains appallingly high. Last year, the Center for American Progress reported that although black people comprise only 13 percent of the population, they make up 40 percent of the prison population.
“Jacksonville is very unique because if we were anywhere else, anything we’re doing in the city would be national, international news.” —activist Diallo Sekou White people, who make up 64 percent of the nation’s population, comprise 34 percent of the prison population. The Prison Policy Initiative reports that black people in Florida are four times more likely to be imprisoned than whites. Some believe that laws in the U.S. are written and enforced in order to maintain control over black people. Both Harris and Sekou believe that today’s prisons essentially continue the plantation system, with black people as slaves enriching the owners of private prisons. “This prison industrial complex is big business,” Pastor Harris said. “… it is the same system of plantation; we just have different plantations.” Racial disparity in enforcing rules begins long before a juvenile offender sees their first day in grown-up court. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education reported that black children were 3.8 times more likely than white children to be suspended from school. Black children in the South may be even more likely to be suspended. According to a 2015 report by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education, more than half of the 1.2 million black children suspended in an academic year were in 13 states in the South, including Florida. In Duval County, black children are 1.3 times more likely to be suspended than white children, according to the report. Children who have been suspended are more likely to continue on a path that ultimately leads to expulsion from school and,
eventually, incarceration via what has come to be known as the school-to-prison pipeline. “When you talk about injustices of the South, it’s not just the South, but it’s more prevalent in certain areas and Jacksonville is one of the premier. It’s deeply embedded,” Harris said. The deprivation of freedom does not end with release from prison, however, because of felony disenfranchisement laws. Thanks to such laws, nearly a quarter of Florida’s 3.4 million black citizens cannot vote, serve on a jury or hold public office. These people are essentially voiceless in our government. At the Aug. 4 summit, clergy, including Pastor Gundy of Mt. Sinai, Darien Bolden of Baptist Ministers Conference, Mark Griffin of Wayman Temple AME Church and Pastor Harris, spoke about the challenge of reentering society and how disenfranchisement exacerbates the difficulties one faces readjusting to civilian life. At the summit, Natishia June, regional organizer for the Northeast FL Regional Office of the ACLU, pointed out that not only are individuals disenfranchised in Florida after they’ve paid their debt to society, many don’t realize they can’t vote and may attempt to register to vote, which is itself a felony. “There’s a lot of mis-education as well as people in the prison system giving misinformation,” June said. June also noted that there is no transparency for people who seek restoration
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RACE-BASED ECONOMIC INJUSTICE
In 2013, the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper School for Public Service used 2010 census data to create a map of the nation with each individual’s domicile represented by a color-coded dot that corresponds to their race (see above). The map shows that, like in many cities, black people in Jacksonville are more likely to be segregated in racially-homogenous areas. Cross-referencing that data with information compiled by City-Data.com utilizing census, Internal Revenue Service and other records from 2012 and 2013 paints a stark, and alarming, picture of how the city is not only divided by race, but also by economics. ZIP codes that the map shows 16 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016
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% AfricanAmerican
% Residents Unemployed
Median House/ Condo Value (2013)
Adj. Gross Income (2012)
% Residents Below Poverty Level (2013)
30.1 57.42 79.26 79.21 96.44 59.2 1.24
5.4 26.1 20.2 20.5 22.8 29.4 4.0
$138,700 (2014) $94,100 $80,700 $92,400 $73,700 $75,800 $315,300
$63,979 (2014) $128,150 $26,195 $29,030 $23,116 $24,000 $77,701
18.4 (2015) 50.0 38.8 25.7 40.7 35.8 6.9
COLOR KEY BLACK WHITE ASIAN HISPANIC OTHER/NATIVE AMERICAN/MIXED Source: CooperCenter.Org
Sources: City-Data.com; U.S. Census Bureau
to have the highest percentage of AfricanAmerican residents, such as 32208, 32209, 32202 and 32254, have drastically higher rates of unemployment rates, poverty rates, and citizens who receive food stamps/SNAP benefits, as well as lower annual incomes and property values. (See chart, above.) Similarly, ZIP codes with higher percentages of white residents, such as 32266 (Neptune Beach), where merely one percent of the population is black and more than 90 percent is white, have lower rates of unemployment and poverty, fewer residents who receive food stamps or SNAP benefits and higher property values and annual incomes. Sekou believes that myriad inequality issues facing the black community would be vastly improved, perhaps solved, by dismantling economic oppression such as that reflected in such data. “If we control economics, we can eliminate crime, if we control economics, we can eliminate children going to prison. If we control economics, we can have black banks
… where people can walk into and see black people actually giving them loans,” he opined. Some believe that economic disparity between the races has been exacerbated locally over the years. They believe highways built through the middle of neighborhoods, gentrification that amounts to pricing out poor people and, many believe, consolidation, have all harmed the black community. “People don’t remember, the LaVilla area, the Davis area Downtown that had historically been an African-American community … there’s almost no sign of that now,” said Harris, who has lived in Jacksonville for 24 years. Since the city consolidated in 1968, many have complained that consolidation enabled the city to collect tax dollars from black residents to spend on improvements in white neighborhoods while neglecting black neighborhoods. “One of the things that I have challenges with is what happens to the ad valorem tax
dollars that are generated off the AfricanAmerican community,” Pastor Harris said. He noted that although he lives a mere eight-minute drive from Downtown, his neighborhood has no sidewalks and is still on septic tanks. Sekou said that the Northwest quadrant has the highest percentage of home ownership but city leadership doesn’t spend money on infrastructure there because, he says, they claim the Southside is the fastest-growing. Others pointed out that city funds, such as those from the half-penny sales tax approved under the Better Jacksonville Plan, seem to never quite make it to black communities. A recent example can be found in an audit revealing that nearly a million dollars, including approximately $400,000 in taxexempt bond funds earmarked for District 10 in the city’s Northwest, had been illegally funneled to Infinity Global Solutions. Infinity Global Solutions is a consultancy that Mayor Lenny Curry’s chief of staff, Kerri
Stewart, who initiated a no-bid contract with the consultancy in 2007 when she worked for then-Mayor John Peyton as Director of Housing and Neighborhoods, later went to work for as a senior vice president. Not only are black communities possibly losing out on city funds, African-Americanowned businesses also seem to be getting the short end of city contracts, despite the fact that under the Jacksonville Small & Emerging Business program, the city has a goal of awarding 20 percent of the total value of city projects to such businesses, including those owned by women and minorities. For years, black contractors and leaders have been sharply critical of the way the city circumvents the JSEB program. A 2013 Mason Tillman Associates analysis of the program confirmed their claims. The public policy consulting firm found that from 2005-’10, only six percent of construction subcontracts were awarded to companies owned by African-Americans, though the same comprised 19 percent of the city’s construction contractors. It also found that 50 percent of city contract dollars, or a halfbillion dollars in that time frame went to 17 non-minority, male-owned companies. The analysis included a list of recommendations for how the city could improve its system of awarding contracts; since then, it seems that none of those recommendations has been implemented. Due in part to unwillingness of city leadership to change, Harris said, black people are worse off now than they were when he moved here more than two decades ago. “I think this city has regressed tremendously,” Pastor Harris said. Of course, like any community, there are differences of opinion.
“This is how shit works in Jacksonville: There’s a divided black community. You have people in the so-called upper echelon who think that grassroots activists don’t really have a word because they’re making their 50, 60 thousand dollars and they can pass laws with lawyers,” Sekou said of the schism that hinders the community from working together to accomplish a shared purpose. On the other hand, grassroots activists may utilize techniques, such as sit-in demonstrations and blocking bridges, that are unpalatable to others. And then there’s the reality that black people may not trust those in their community who publicly support issues and leaders unpopular with others. “I had to explain this to [Sheriff ] Mike Williams, I’m like, ‘Listen man, when black people take pictures with y’all, nobody trusts them. And when y’all did that press conference with the preachers, you split the black community,’” Sekou said. Some even believe that Jacksonville leadership utilizes that tactic specifically to divide the black community. Although not everyone agrees on the best approach to tackle the serious issues facing the community, there is one thing that seems universally agreed on: the importance of being involved. “If we exercise our right to get out, go to the ballot box, that many have suffered and died for the right and we do not just take what someone tells us they’re going to do but actually look at the issues, get involved in the issues and vote and vote and vote, we can put people in place who do care, who are concerned,” Pastor Harris said. Claire Goforth mail@folioweekly.com
“The death penalty doesn’t make us safe. If it did, Duval County would be the SAFEST COUNTY IN THE NATION.”
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—PASTOR REGINALD “R.L.” GUNDY
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FOLIO A + E A TRIO OF ACTRESSES, Michael Wordly’s soothing voice, and humor lift Alhambra production
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heater snobs — er, geeks — love to indulge in insults of the musical revue genre, with its lack of plot and character development, and often weak structure. It’s truly good sport. But sometimes a musical revue comes along like this — a production with enough talent and verve that even the most cold-hearted of stage cynics thaw, if only a little. The cast of Smokey Joe’s Café embody pure joy on stage, rocking Alhambra Theatre & Dining with a genius collected here from New York to D.A. The tunes are those of Leiber and Stoller — and I’ll refrain from making an ageist crack by saying simply that both men were born in 1933. Much of their music has stood the test of time, however, from “Hound Dog” to “Stand By Me” and “Jailhouse Rock” to “Fools Fall in Love.” Zoë Kassay, who’s drawn raves in these pages before, energizes the Alhambra stage again. She and Dayna Richardson exude power and playfulness during “Trouble” midway through Act I, drawing more than a few hollers from a gala night crowd. “I really feel like Dayna and I connected so well in ‘Trouble,’” Kassay told Folio Weekly Magazine in an interview during opening week. “In Smokey Joe’s Cafe, there has been the whole Broadway production, and there’s been tons more performances. But these actors in this show have taken it and made it their own.” Kassay, who flew in again from New York City for this role as she did for 9 to 5: The Musical last year, embraces a more physical role on stage than she’s accustomed to. She acquitted herself, shimmying with the best of them in “Teach Me How to Shimmy” and hitting her marks in the more
SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ
Alhambra Theatre & Dining, Southside, $35-$62, alhambrajax.com The musical runs through Sept. 4
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intricate “Spanish Harlem” with Alex Jorth. Michael Lomeka earns exaltations as well for the strong choreography here and throughout. Richardson displays truly transcendent stage presence in corralling a particularly rebellious “Don” out of a seat in the front row for “Don Juan.” Her sultry voice proves enough of a match for Don, who seems to be having enough fun to almost be a plant, until he forgets his chair on stage. He’s whipped into shape later by the sweet Katie Nettle.
FILM Florence Foster Jenkins MUSIC Shroud Eater MUSIC Ava Mendoza & Jessica Pavone LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR
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REV IT UP But it’s when you first see Sarah Sanders in the cast list or on stage and you know her alter ego that you fully understand the depth of a musical cast that must be making director Tod Booth giddy. The soulful blues and jazz singer known as Mama Blue, a
homegrown star from local arts public school stalwart Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, adds power and wicked personality to her turns in “Fools Fall in Love” and “Hound Dog.” The humor and charisma that Sanders, Kassay and Richardson bring to those small moments push Smokey Joe’s Café beyond the normal revue standard, with strong backing from the players of the Double Trouble Show Band. The costumes and sets are simple but effective. In past shows, a few flubs on the sound have been reported here, but on this gala night, they performed flawlessly. No shame in the male cast not having quite the star power as their counterparts. They rendered more effective performances together in the well-choreographed “Keep On Rollin’” and “Poison Ivy” than in “Little Egypt.” Kassay says she loves “watching the boys all together on stage,” with some special praise for one castmate. “I can’t ever take my eyes off Michael Wordly. He has a voice,” Kassay says. “‘Stand By Me’ — I melt. His voice and his energy are so good.” Fans of these classics might have their tickets already. Theater junkies who usually eschew a musical revue should take a second look here for, if nothing else, pure talent.
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FOLIO A+E : FILM Stephen Frears’ latest is a hilarious, HEARTFELT TRIBUTE to one of the 20th century’s worst singers
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he opening moments of every film are her but isn’t in love with her, as is evident important, but they may have never been by his fierce devotion to Florence while more important to a comedy than they are simultaneously keeping a separate apartment in Florence Foster Jenkins. and girlfriend (Rebecca Ferguson). The film, based on true events, begins Below the surface of story is an essential with Hugh Grant’s St. Clair Bayfield on question: Were St. Clair and others right to stage reciting a Hamlet soliloquy with great enable Florence to live out her dream as an conviction, and then casually pointing opera singer, or should they have stopped out that he’s never played the title role her before she became too popular to spare himself. It’s self-deprecating and honest, her the potential embarrassment? You can and therefore humorous. Moments later, the make a case either way and be right, but that titular Florence (Meryl Streep), attached to a also means you can be wrong. It’s a credit wire, descends from above the to Frears and Grant that the stage to inspire her antebellum FLORENCE FOSTER decision St. Clair reaches feels grandfather at the piano, and as like the right one. JENKINS she does so, the crew backstage You’d think that, given how ***@ visibly strains to hold her up. much she loved music, Florence Rated PG-13 The tone is immediately had to know deep down that she clear: St. Clair and Florence are was a dreadful singer, but reports performers who take themselves seriously suggest taking mercury for syphilis distorted but aren’t particularly good at what they do. her hearing. Regardless, if people always Because we like them, and their work is played tell her she’s good, why wouldn’t she believe for laughs, it’s OK to laugh at them without them? Florence Foster Jenkins is very much the feeling like it’s mean-spirited, which is just story of a lie for the right reason that’s never right for this story. morally ambiguous or overtly cruel, which is It’s New York City, 1944. As the war rages a filmmaking feat more difficult to accomplish on overseas, the performing arts become than getting Florence to sing well. It’s worth essential relief for those at home. At the seeing for that admirable quality alone, heart of the arts scene is Florence, a wealthy though I daresay you’ll enjoy all of it. socialite who owns and runs The Verdi Club – Dan Hudak a vaudeville-type entertainment establishment mail@folioweekly.com – with her husband, St. Clair. Florence wants to do more than merely act in sketches, so she hires a pianist (Simon Helberg) and vocal coach (David Haig) and trains to be an opera singer. There’s only one SUN-RAY CINEMA Jason Bourne, Absolutely Fabulous, problem: She’s terrible. Like, really, horribly The Wailing and Hunt of the Wilderpeople run, 1028 Park awful. At the same time, she’s dying of syphilis St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. The Third Man and St. Clair wants her to fulfill her dream of screens as part of the series 101 Years of Orson Welles, Aug. 11 and 14. The Innocents, Eat That Question and singing professionally, so he enables her and Sausage Party start Aug. 12. makes sure everyone around them does the same. As a result, she becomes immensely SUMMER MOVIE CLASSIC SERIES An American Tail – popular for the wrong reason, and she’s the with the saddest theme song of any movie ever – marks its 30th anniversary. Since the movie is meant for kids, only one oblivious to the truth. whose biggest fear is abandonment, it seems the soulFlorence may be the most famous sucking song could’ve been a little toned down. Anyway, atrocious singer in history, but director the excellent animated classic screens 2 p.m. Aug. 14 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Ste. 300, Stephen Frears (Philomena) is too kind Downtown, $7.50; 355-2787, floridatheatre.com. to suggest she lives in infamy. Instead, he champions Florence, admires her courage CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Race and Elvis & Nixon are and allows us to root for her in spite of her screened, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. The Flying Deuces runs at deluded shortcomings. noon Aug. 11. The French film Coco & Igor screens at Credit for this goes to Streep as well, of noon Aug. 13, Coco Avant Chanel runs 3 p.m. Aug. 14. The course. She doesn’t go over the top in her Olympics are run nightly through Aug. 21. performance, but her singing as Florence IMAX THEATER Suicide Squad, National Parks Adventure, is nails-on-chalkboard grating enough to A Beautiful Planet and Secret Ocean screen, World have you begging her to stop. Streep is nicely Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, supported by Grant as a man who loves worldgolfimax.com. Robots 3D opens Aug. 20.
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ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE
THE LAST 5 YEARS Limelight Theatre stages a contemporary musical about two twentysomething New Yorkers falling in and out of love, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18, 19 & 20; 2 p.m. Aug. 21 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $26, limelight-theatre.org. SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents the Grammy-winning revue, featuring legendary rockand-roll songs of hitmakers Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber, through Sept. 4. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch noon; featuring award-winning Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu, at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $35-$62, alhambrajax.com.
COMEDY
A TRAIN LIVE: THE EXPERIENCE Jacksonville comedian A Train hosts the comedy starring Rodney Perry (The Mo’Nique Show, Madea’s Big Happy Family), 8 p.m. Aug. 19 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $25, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com. FRED’S FUNNIEST COMEDIANS Local comedians Forest Scott, Bob Lauver and others are on 7:30 p.m. Aug. 17; Kurt Allen, Kelly Heatwole and others 7:30 p.m. Aug. 23; Reggie Moss, Tommy Torres and others 7:30 p.m. Aug. 24; at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com. PABLO FRANCISCO Comedian Francisco, a veteran of Comedy Central, appears 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18 & 19; 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Aug. 20 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $20$25, comedyzone.com. TERRY “T” HARRIS Comic Harris, whose credits include Comic View, is on 8:30 p.m. Aug. 18 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $10-$20, jacksonvillecomedy.com. JOHNNY MAC, JAMES YON Comedians Mac (HBO) and Yon (host of Viral Breakdown), appear 8 p.m. Aug. 19; 8 & 10:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 646-4277, $8-$25, jacksonvillecomedy.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
FOLIO MEDIA HOUSE TABLESIDE GALLERIES Folio Weekly Magazine seeks submissions from artists working in all media interested in having work displayed in some of Northeast Florida’s prominent restaurants. Details, call Kyle Willis, 383-5650, tablesidegalleries@folioweekly.com. NEW TOWN URBAN FARM Urban Geoponics and New Town are developing a large community garden at Pearce and West Third streets, in the New Town/Edward Waters area, Northside. It will provide fresh produce and a hands-on, open-air center of learning for the community and area students. Urban Farm meets 10 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sun. Details, call Diallo-Sekou at 706-284-9808.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local, regional art, music – Morning Yoga with Hot Spot (9 a.m.), Madison Carr, Meredith Rae, Katherine Archer, Don’t Miss a Beat, Ronan School of Music – food, farmers market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 20 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. JAXSON’S NIGHT MARKET Street food vendors, craft beer, local farmers, artisans and craftmakers are featured 5:30-9 p.m. Aug. 18 and every third Thur. at Hemming Park, Downtown, facebook.com/jaxsonsnightmarket. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 5-9 p.m. Aug. 18 and every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive to Beaches Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org.
MUSEUMS
AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. The 3rd on 3rd lecture series features author J.R. Sharp (Feeding the Enemy), 6 p.m. Aug. 19. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Lift: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, works of local artists Thony Aiuppy, Glendia Cooper, Ingrid Damiani, Overstreet Ducasse, Dustin Harewood, Marsha Hatcher, Hiromi Moneyhun, Princess Rashid, Chip Southworth, and Roosevelt Watson III, responding to the area’s artistic African-American heritage, displays through Feb. 12. David Hayes: The Sentinel Series, sculptures of geometrically abstract, organic forms, displays through Oct. 2. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Third Thursday Tour: Confronting the Canvas is 7-8 p.m. Aug. 18. NOLA Moca’s Women of the Knife, featuring a six-course meal prepared by six women chefs, is 7-10 p.m. Aug. 19; $125 per person, space is limited. Project Atrium: Ethan Murrow is on display through Oct. 30. Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction, 30 works by six contemporary, female Abstract Expressionist painters, displays through Sept. 4.
GALLERIES
THE ART CENTER Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 2339252, tacjacksonville.org. Lift Every Voice, a collaborative show by Hope at Hand and Jax Youth Poetry Slam, is on display through Oct. 10. William Garcia is the featured artist for August. BREWER’S PIZZA 14B Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 2765159, brewerspizza.com. Gloria Aitken’s works are on display. CASA DORA ITALIAN CAFÉ 108 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 356-8282. Works by Tom Aschenbach are on display. ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800
University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, ju.edu. An exhibit of works by students enrolled in the school’s Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts program, including Vellangi Stringos, Chris Stephen, Roselynn Imbleau, Jane Griffo, and Angela Casini, is on display through Aug. 24. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. The Summer Juried Plein Air Exhibit runs through Sept. 2. HASKELL GALLERY Jacksonville International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546, jiaarts.org. Works by Shannon Estlund are on display through September. HUBLEY GALLERY 804C Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 429-9769, hubleygallery.com. Mary Hubley is the featured artist for August. INDOCHINE 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013, indochinejax. com. Jami Childers’ works are on display. KENT CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Bldg. E Room 112A, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 646-2300, fscj.edu. The closing reception for the exhibit The Tradigital Waves, featuring works by Victor Ali and Jean E. Gustave, is held 6-8 p.m. Aug. 18. MONROE GALLERIES 40 W. Monroe St., Downtown, 881-0209, monroegalleries.com. Works by Barbie BrayWorkman, Jami Childers, Dana Fawn, Leilani Leo, and Dustin Bradley are featured. PHO, A NOODLE BAR 117 W. Adams St., Downtown, 353-0320, phoanoodlebar.com. Matt Bluejay’s works are on display. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. The exhibit United Way St. Johns County Photographic Exhibit is on display through Oct. 20. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, Downtown, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. Photographer Meghna Ailawadhi is the guest artist through Sept. 6. Fresh Air: Works Inspired By Nature is on display. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org. The Seventh Annual Nature & Wildlife Exhibition is on display through Aug. 28.
EVENTS
ARMADA vs. STRIKERS Local football faves Jacksonville Armada take on Fort Lauderdale Strikers 6:30 p.m. Aug. 17, at Community First Park, Baseball Grounds, Downtown, $15-$70, 633-6100, ticketmaster.com. The mighty Armada go up against Minnesota United Fc at 7 p.m. Aug. 20; armadafc.com. FCAP MEETING First Coast Administrative Professionals presents Ashley Ballard, MPH, UNF Dept. of Health Promotions director, who discusses “Healthy Lifestyle in the Workplace,” 6 p.m. (dinner 5:30 p.m.) Aug. 18 at Brooks Rehabilitation, 3599 University Blvd. S., Southside. RSVP to 610-2050, J-j71@comcast.net. RIDE FOR WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA Barz Liquors & Fish Camp hosts a motorcycle riding fundraiser for which riders select their own route, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 20 at 9650 Heckscher Dr., Northside, 251-3330. A BBQ food truck is onsite; proceeds benefit Wreaths Across America, which commemorates veterans. FANLEXICON The two-day, pop cultural shindig offers multi-genre fandom mania, collectibles showcase, tabletop and video gaming, costume contest, Cosplay demos and workshops, and con-celebs voice actor George Lowe, William Grefe and Doug Hobart, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 20 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 21 at Lexington Hotel, 1515 Prudential Dr., San Marco, $10-$80, fanlexicon.com. NFL ESA SURF CONTEST The third Eastern Surfing Association contest in the series kicks off 9 a.m. Aug. 20 at Jax Beach Pier, 503 First St. N., Jax Beach. There are 24 categories, from Menehunes to Grand Legends; registration fees are $5 or $10 per category. It’s free to watch; nfl.surfesa.org. MATANZAS RIVER RED ALE FESTIVAL The Save the Matanzas Party, with food trucks, door prizes, drawings and live music by The Rivernecks, is held 1-8 p.m. Aug. 21 at Ancient City Brewing, 3420 Agricultural Ctr. Dr., St. Augustine, 429-9654, ancientcitybrewing.com, matanzas-riverkeeper. org. Proceeds benefit Matanzas Riverkeeper programs. SUNS VS. LOOKOUTS The Jacksonville Suns’ homestand against the Chattanooga Lookouts starts off 7:05 p.m. Aug. 22 (Marlins Monday), continues 7:05 p.m. Aug. 23 (Trending Tuesday), Aug. 24 (Books & Bats Reading Night), Aug. 25 (Mavericks Live Thirsty Thursday), and Aug. 26 (Football Night, Fireworks), at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Downtown, single game tix $5-$18, 358-2846, jaxsuns. com. Next up: Mobile BayBears! DARWIN & DINOSAURS The Museum of Science & History presents an exhibit with full-size dinosaur skeletons, scientific instruments, original letters, and first editions of Darwin’s main works, through Sept. 5, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 607-9720, themosh.org. AMELIA RIVER CRUISES Eco-Shrimping, family-friendly sunset, beach creek, Cumberland Island tours, from 1 N. Front St., Fernandina, 261-9972, ameliarivercruises.com. DAILY EVENTS AT HEMMING PARK Free yoga, group fitness, kids’ activities, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown. Live music, food trucks 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; details at hemmingpark.org/hemming-park-events. WEEKLY EVENTS AT UNITY PLAZA Meditation lessons, concerts, festivals, workshops, fitness classes, 220 Riverside Ave., 220-5830, unityplaza.org. TRIVIA NIGHT IN ST. AUGUSTINE The Corazon Cinema & Café has Trivia every Wed., 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. To list an event, send time, date, location (street address, city), admission price, contact number to print to Daniel A. Brown – email dbrown@folioweekly.com or mail, 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 103, Jacksonville FL 32202. Items run as space is available. Deadline noon Wed. for next Wed. printing.
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othing excites a music critic more than a band blowing minds by defying expectations. Such is the case with Miami trio Shroud Eater. At first glance, the band name and macabre aesthetic make it easy to slot them on the black end of the heavy metal spectrum. But further inspection reveals surprises. First, Shroud Eater is fronted by two women, guitarist/vocalist Jean Saiz and bassist/ vocalist Janette Valentine who, rather than claim some bogus origin story, are both proud of their creative day jobs (graphic designer and commercial photographer). Drummer Davin Sosa didn’t join Shroud Eater until 2014, but his work as a recording engineer has transformed the band’s last few releases, including two-song 2016 slab Face the Master, into epic journeys down the sludge/ psych rabbit hole. And therein lies the beauty of Shroud Eater: “dark and heavy” and “low and slow” are the mottos by which they live, meaning their music covers far more stylistic ground than most metal bands. “There’s definitely a specific brew of curious influences that help in songwriting,” Saiz tells Folio Weekly Magazine. “But ultimately the songs we create are on their own wavelength.”
SHROUD EATER, DEAD HAND, YASHIRA, SHADOW HUNTER, UNEARTHLY CHILD 8 p.m. Aug. 19, Rain Dogs, Riverside, $8, facebook.com/raindogsjax Folio Weekly Magazine: How did Shroud Eater come together? Jean Saiz: Janette and I have been creating music together for a decade. However, Shroud Eater was really where she and I homed in on a specific vision with a musical and aesthetic goal. Davin had previously played in Moirae, a South Floridian progressive metal band. Davin joined the band fairly recently. Any particular reason? We made the decision to move on due to being at a creative and interpersonal impasse with our previous lineup. The last couple of years working with Davin, we have absolutely become tighter and stronger as a band. There’s a great interplay and understanding of the nuances and dynamics we’d been crafting for quite some time, as well as adding ideas for vocal harmonies that really helped push certain singing parts beyond just a gritty yell. The transition has been quite encouraging to continue refining and expanding our sound and songwriting.
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Metal critics and fans put so much effort into categorizing bands according to very specific sub-genres. How would you describe Shroud Eater’s sound? That’s a tough one. To the casual observer, I always say Shroud Eater is a dark, heavy rock band. The problem with that description is, it may call to mind some goofy radio-rock bands that I’d never care to be associated with. We don’t rely heavily on
Miami trio Shroud Eater rise above standard metal taxonomy with a dark, heavy, SLUDGE-INSPIRED SOUND the tropes of traditional sludge and doom riffing and song structure, so it’s hard to say we strictly [belong] to any particular kind of subgenre, though we do stay quite a bit in the “low and slow” mentality. By taking bits from here and there, the best I can come up with is, we are a sludgey doom band with some unexpected turns. Does that sound come from any clear or specific influences the band is happy to cite? Personally, High on Fire is a huge influence on my riffing. That’s been an obvious point of calibration from the inception of the band. As a collective, I would say we take cues from musical sources like Acid King, Boris, Floor, and Alice in Chains. Beyond that, I listen to a lot of understated, quiet music, and the weirdo aspects of my personal songwriting come from those contrasting places. There’s a particular melancholy that I enjoy from sad folk songs that, when filtered through an amplified and frenetic energy, gets reinterpreted in my brain and hands and becomes a Shroud Eater song. How has Shroud Eater’s writing and recording process evolved and improved over the years? Ever since Davin joined the band, he’s been at the helm of our recordings, which has really helped to improve our output. As an engineer, he really pushes us and puts in a lot of work to get results that sound damn near perfect. The process for our latest release, Face the Master, was definitely more meticulous than any previous recording experiences. But as grueling as it may have been, the end justifies those crazy means. Visual imagery and art play important roles for the band, right? The visual aesthetic is important because prior to music, my background in creative expression was in the artistic realm. My day job in graphic design/art direction has also instilled in me the importance of “branding” — if you see a certain image or style of words,
your brain connects these images to the thing it represents in an instant and harmonious fashion. A lot of the artwork or symbolism I use is intimately tied to esoteric emblems, horror movies and comic books. It’s incredibly important that the visual representation of a band is analogous with the style or intent of the music — it’s a symbiotic relationship of a physical image empowering ephemeral sounds. I feel like it works on our reptile brains in a very ancient way. There’s something really powerful about that. Festivals or club shows? We haven’t dipped our toes too deeply into festivals. There’s definitely a larger audience and more of a tribal undercurrent there, though, and that’s really empowering as a performer. However, playing intimate shows with a handful of bands at a smaller venue also has its advantages. I suppose after this upcoming run of festival playing, I’ll have a more refined opinion on the whole experience. Shroud Eater kicks off its August tour in Jacksonville. Any good memories from playing here in the past? Most of my memories are blurry from having such a rad time. It’s been a few years since we were there last, so I’m looking forward to seeing old faces and good friends. I’m sure we’ll leave hung over and smelling of bacon. How about at home in Miami? The metal community seems to be thriving there. South Florida definitely has a vibrant scene for metal, punk, and all the weird shit in between. Shroud Eater is more of a lone wolf on the outskirts, but we’re fortunate that we’ve been more readily embraced by friends and fans that operate in these circles and are passionate about music they love. Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com
FOLIO A+E : MUSIC AVA MENDOZA and JESSICA PAVONE remain on the front lines of contemporary improvisation
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uitarist Ava Mendoza and violist Jessica with because I was suddenly opened to it. It Pavone are ancestral children and heirs seems like an obvious thing to do, but I was in apparent of where improvisation has strict conservatory land and 17 years old and been and ardent creators of where it’s headed. many things hadn’t occurred to me yet at that As informed by Sonic Youth as they are point in my life. Shortly after, my friend Ed Cecil Taylor, the NYC-based musicians are brought me to an Anthony Braxton concert adept at playing both complex, meditative, and my mind was blown. The rest is history. compositional works as they are at hurtling into the vortex of the full-tilt fury of intense Though having an ongoing musical relationship freeform performance. with another improvisational player can help Mendoza has collaborated with dozens of “familiarize” playing with them in the future, artists including Butch Morris, Henry Kaiser, do you find it difficult to keep that dialogue and Carla Bozulich, and released more than fresh, since you may have a sense of where 20 albums. Pavone has also worked with a they’re going during performance? who’s-who of improv players such as Anthony A.M.: Most of the regular groups I play in at Braxton and William Parker, this point are a mix of songs/ and is featured on an impressive compositions and improv. AVA MENDOZA AND 40-plus releases. The pair is Things can get stale at times JESSICA PAVONE equally at ease performing lyricof course, but for me, stirring 8 p.m. Aug. 24, Karpeles based music. Pavone has played the pot of written music and Manuscript Library Museum, in a longtime, heralded duo improv can keep collaborations Springfield, $7 neusonics.org with guitarist Mary Halvorson, inspiring for a long time. When creating dreamlike songs that the improv gets dull — write somehow bridge dark folk new songs together. When with avant-garde classical colors. With her you can’t stand your songs anymore, find new electric trio Unnatural Ways, Mendoza unfurls places in them to improvise, or a new way to pure guitar, stompbox wallop housed in truly approach the improv bits. progressive rock songs. J.P.: Sure, it’s possible for people to get in a Mendoza and Pavone roll into town next rut playing with one another — the same way week for a show at Karpeles Manuscript it is possible to get in a rut with someone in Library Museum (the second time here for anything else in life. Mendoza, who played at Rain Dogs last year). While the pair were far afield — Mendoza on Forgive me if this seems like an overly tour in Europe, Pavone on vacation — they metaphysical question, but it’s an idea that were both kind enough to answer a few Q&As fascinates me. During the actual moment of via email. improvisation, are you aware of a kind of overt shift in your consciousness that seems specific Folio Weekly Magazine: What compelled only to those moments of free form playing? you to play improvisational/free music? Did A.M.: I definitely go to a magical, mystical you have a specific moment, performance, consciousness cloud when I play (what I think musical influence or even recording that is) an especially good show! But that kind of really impacted your life? magic can happen whether the music is freely Ava Mendoza: Performances: As a teenager improvised or structured/song-based. Music I lived in Southern California. I saw Mike is music to me … I’m not thinking “now we’re Watt, Nels Cline and Carla Bozulich play in improv land, or now we’re in structured in various different improv-y rock projects music land.” In any music there are degrees of before I was 18. Soon after, I started checking freedom, as well as certain rules — you can decide to accept them or push against them. out other kinds of improvised music and saw As long as I’m comfortable with the music and Vinny Golia, John Butcher and Wadada Leo there’s some chemistry between the players, Smith play. there’s a good chance I’ll go into a more Recordings: The ones that turned my head around early on were: Black Woman by Sonny instinctive/visceral consciousness than my Sharrock, Bells by Albert Ayler, Machine Gun everyday one. by Peter Brötzmann, and Robert Quine’s sonic J.P.: I feel like there is a shift in consciousness guitar playing on The Blue Mask by Lou Reed. whenever I play music whether it’s improvised Jessica Pavone: I just started playing free one or written. And the shift in consciousness day with a violinist after an orchestra rehearsal would be different between those two in college. It wasn’t planned. We were just disciplines as well. hanging out and that started to happen. I was Daniel A. Brown into it and started meeting others to play free dbrown@folioweekly.com AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25
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wo exceptional Scandinavian disaster films — one with an avalanche, the other a tsunami — recently debuted on video, providing relief from summer’s sweltering heat. However, those who like their disaster films on the scale and in the mode of Roland Emmerich flicks like The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day should look elsewhere. Force Majeure (Sweden, 2014) and The Wave (Norway, ’15) both feature the frightening power of natural forces, but their real focus is on the humans who try to withstand elements beyond their control. In other words, each is an example (particularly Force Majeure) of a thinking person’s disaster movie. The title of the first one’s a bit misleading (intentionally, I’m sure), especially if we Anglicize the words to mean something like a major power or event. In actuality, the phrase “force majeure” (a French legal term) refers to a catastrophic occurrence, incident or circumstance (for example, war or an avalanche) that frees those involved of culpability or responsibility — loosely, as in a legal contract, “an act of God.” In the movie Force Majeure, though, almost exactly the opposite occurs. A nondisaster forces individuals involved, directly and indirectly, to reassess relationships and responsibilities in a new light, based precisely on initial reactions to something beyond their control. Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli), with their young children Vera and Harry (real-life brother and sister Clara and Vincent Wettergren) embark on a five-day skiing vacation at a gorgeous (and obviously expensive) Alpine resort. The first day on the slopes and in the plush hotel’s polished confines (both gorgeously photographed by Fredrik Wenzel) make for a perfect getaway for a seemingly perfect family. The next morning, however, as they breakfast with other guests on an outside verandah, a controlled avalanche seems at first to go awry, the snow and mist cascading down the mountain in a blanket of white that nearly blots out everything — even the camera image — momentarily. As it turns out, the danger is more apparent than real, and the guests continue with breakfast, more thrilled than anything at the experience. Except for Tomas and Ebba. Initially, he ran, leaving her and the children behind. At least that’s how she sees it. For both of them, their vacation non-event turns out to be the crossroad in their marriage. Ebba insists on trying to understand what happened while Tomas insists on denying anything happened at all. Meanwhile, the kids, fearing divorce, want everything to be as it was. Though it may sound grim and depressing, Force Majeure is equally exhilarating and penetrating in the way writer/director Ruben Ostlund observes this very human drama with a seemingly detached objectivity, all the more powerful for its effectiveness. When Tomas
and Ebba are joined by Tomas’ divorced friend Mats (Kristofer Hivju) and his considerably younger girlfriend Fanni (Fanni Metelius), the dynamics of love and responsibility are extended even further, Fanni forcing her boyfriend to look deeper into himself than he’d prefer. Impeccably acted and directed, Force Majeure features lots of talking, lots of snow and spectacular scenery, and absolutely brilliant cinematography. The open-ended conclusion, with a bus ride down a steep winding road, may at first seem puzzling but, as with the avalanche, proves the perfect coda to the drama (some reviewers inexplicably call it a comedy/drama) about the different kinds of forces or pressures people, especially couples, confront in life’s twisting, winding relationships. The Wave is a disaster film in the traditional sense: The “force majeure” or “act of God” clobbers its victims with a wallop. The special effects are impressive, but they’re not the major focus of the film, as is the case in most other films of this genre. Indeed, the catastrophic event occurs near the middle and actually occupies a minimal but effective amount of screen time. It’s the drama and tension before and after that propels The Wave to its crest. The film opens with newsreel footage from early in the 20th century, depicting the devastating results of a landslide and the resulting tsunami on a mountain village. Cut to present day, as Kristian (Kristoffer Joner), a resident geologist at a government warning center, is preparing to leave his post for an office job in the big city. Everything appears copacetic in the mountainous idyll for the moment, giving Kristian and his wife Idun (Ane Dahl Torp) time to ready their possessions and kids (teenage son, adolescent daughter) for the relocation. Of course, Mother Nature is a real bitch. The opening section ratchets up the tension for the viewer. The characters, with the exception of the wary Kristian, are oblivious to the danger. When the alarm sounds with the triggered landslide, the inhabitants have 10 minutes to find higher ground before the tsunami, swelling from the mountain fjord, sweeps away everything and everyone in its path. The final third of The Wave shows the aftermath, which is even more suspenseful — the danger is not over. Directed by Roar Uthaug, slated to helm the Tomb Raider reboot with Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, The Wave recalls The Impossible (2012) and the original Poseidon Adventure (1972) in terms of character development and structure. Less cerebral than Force Majeure, it’s still an intelligent and exciting story of survival when a family is, quite literally, cast adrift in catastrophic circumstances. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
Local indie greats WEEKEND ATLAS (pictured) celebrate the release of their new EP Vacant, while also performing their last-ever show (no!) with guests THE DOG APOLLO and AURORA Aug. 20 at Jack Rabbits, San Marco.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Aug. 17, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247. DAVID LIEBE HART, ELECTRIC WATER, The UNITED TYLERS of TYLER, MR. NEVER & the SCARS 6 p.m. Aug. 17, The Birdhouse, 1827 N. Pearl St., Springfield, $10 advance; $13 at the door, artbyliebehart.com/tickets. Music by the Sea: AMY ALYSIA & SOUL OPERATION 7 p.m. Aug. 17, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., thecivicassociation.org. Bring something to sit on. KUBLAI KHAN, JESUS PIECE, MALEVOLENCE 6 p.m. Aug. 18, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $12. Concerts in the Plaza: The GRAPES of ROTH 7 p.m. Aug. 18, Plaza de la Constitución, St. George & King, St. Augustine, 825-1004, concertsintheplaza.com. Adult Twilight BYOB Cruises: JIM BARCARO, RADIO LOVE, LARRY LeMIER 7 p.m. Aug. 18, 19 & 20, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina, 261-9972; ameliarivercruises.com. JAMES & the SAUCE 8 p.m. Aug. 18, Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, 13070 City Station Dr., Northside, 751-7499. BONEY JAMES 8 p.m. Aug. 18, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$65. “3” the BAND 9 p.m. Aug. 18, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. SCHOLARS WORD 8 p.m. Aug. 19, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. BRETT MYERS 8 p.m. Aug. 19, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $10-$15. SHROUD EATER, DEAD HAND, YASHIRA, SHADOW HUNTER, UNEARTHLY CHILD 8 p.m. Aug. 19, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969. LOVE MONKEY 9:30 p.m. Aug. 19 & 20, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208. LIFT 9:30 p.m. Aug. 19, Harmonious Monks, 320 First St. N., Jax Beach, 372-0815. LUNAR COAST 10 p.m. Aug. 19 & 20, Flying Iguana. SOWFLO, SWAY JAH VU 10 p.m. Aug. 19, The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611, $5. Riverside Arts Market: HOT SPOT MORNING YOGA (9 a.m.), MADISON CARR, MEREDITH RAE, KATHERINE ARCHER, DON’T MISS a BEAT, RONAN SCHOOL of MUSIC 10:30 a.m. Aug. 20, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449.
Summer Time in the City Festival: T.W.A.N., GEEXELLA, MIDAZ the BEAST, HIGHER LEARNING, MR. AL PETE, FFJB, DOPE SANDWICH, DILLON & PATEN LOCKE, BLUFF GAWD, STEAM MECHANICS, MR MINCE Noon Aug. 20, 1904 Music Hall, $10. DAVIS TURNER 8 p.m. Aug. 20, Slider’s Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, 277-6652. LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND 8 p.m. Aug. 20, Florida Theatre, $35-$65. WEEKEND ATLAS EP Release Party, The DOG APOLLO, AURORA 8 p.m. Aug. 20, Jack Rabbits, $5 advance; $10 day of. STANTON WARRIORS 9 p.m. Aug. 20, Eclipse, 4219 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, $10-$17.50, eventbrite.com. The SUPERVILLAINS, WHOLE WHEAT BREAD 10 p.m. Aug. 20, The Roadhouse, $5. Matanzas Riverkeeper Red Ale Festival: The RIVERNECKS 1 p.m. Aug. 21, Ancient City Brewing, 3420 Agricultural Ctr. Dr., St. Augustine, 429-9654. BJ BARHAM (American Aquarium), JUSTIN OSBORNE (SUSTO) 7 p.m. Aug. 22, Jack Rabbits, $15 advance; $20 day of. TAVERNALIVE 6 p.m. Aug. 27 at Greek Street Café, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620. NORTHE, GLASS MANSIONS, FAZE WAVE 8 p.m. Aug. 23, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. AVA MENDOZA, JESSICA PAVONE 8 p.m. Aug. 24, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, $7. The NATURALISTS, RIP JUNIOR, STEPHAN PIGMAN 8 p.m. Aug. 24, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. TALK SICK BRATS, CURLIES, The MOLD, VIRGIN FLOWER 8 p.m. Aug. 24, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Sing Out Loud Festival: BRANDI CARLILE, INDIGO GIRLS, BOOKER T. JONES, The TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, KENNY & the JETS, COLIN HAY, JOEY HARKUM, REV. PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, LUCERO, ADDI & JACQ, JIM & PATTY SPRINGFIELD, CANDLEBOX, COMPLICATED ANIMALS, LONESOME BERT & the SKINNY LIZARDS, The MOUNTAIN GOATS, TIM BARRY, MARCELLUS HALL, SHEA BIRNEY, THIS
FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, WEST KING STRING BAND, JOE ROCCO, The YOUNG STEP, The FREE RANGERS, SHOVELS & ROPE, ROBBIE DAMMIT & the BROKEN STRINGS, NICHOLAS ROBERTS, J. LEE DRISKELL, JACOB HAMILTON, SKIN & BONZ, AMY HENDRICKSON, RIVERNECKS, BAD BOOKS, BOB PATTERSON, DAN ADRIANO, TED LEO, SAM PACETTI, ASLYN & the NAYSAYERS, CORY BRANAN, The WILLOWWACKS, JEREMY ROGERS, FRANK TURNER, HOLOPAW Aug. 26, 27 & 31, Sept. 2, 3, 9 & 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, St. Augustine Beach, Ponte Vedra, other venues The ORCHESTRA ELO’S GREATEST HITS (members of ELO, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra) Aug. 27, Florida Theatre DREW BOND, ROLAND DAVID, COLIN ADKINS Aug. 27, Deep Search Records WAYNE BRADY Aug. 27, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts Kings & Queens of Hip Hop: DMX, BONE THUGS-NHARMONY, TRINA, JUVENILE, SCARFACE, BIGGA RANKIN, MIKE JONES, KHIA, WAYNE WONDE Aug. 27, Veterans Memorial Arena JILL SCOTT Aug. 28, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts GOO GOO DOLLS, COLLECTIVE SOUL, TRIBE SOCIETY Aug. 31, St. Augustine Amphitheatre KENNY G Sept. 1, The Florida Theatre TONY JOE WHITE Sept. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall HEPATAGUA Sept. 5, Shantytown Pub MELVINS Sept. 8, Jack Rabbits BRIAN WILSON, AL JARDINE, BLONDIE CHAPLIN Sept. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JAKE SHIMABUKURO Sept. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ZAC BROWN BAND, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena HELL YEAH Sept. 21, Mavericks Live IL DIVO Sept. 23, The Florida Theatre WIDESPREAD PANIC Sept. 23 & 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SOFIJA KNEZEVIC Sept. 23, Ritz Theatre DTCV Sept. 25, Rain Dogs MICHAEL GRAVES (Misfits), DEATH ANGEL Sept. 25, Harmonious Monks The ANN WILSON THING Sept. 28, P.Vedra Concert Hall AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
St. Cloud-grown reggae heads THE SUPERVILLAINS (pictured) perform with WHOLE WHEAT BREAD Aug. 20 at The Roadhouse, Orange Park. PROPHETS of RAGE, AWOLNATION Sept. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JONNY LANG Sept. 30, The Florida Theatre SARAH JAROSZ, PARKER MILLSAP Sept. 30, P.V.C. Hall The DANDY WARHOLS, SAVOY MOTEL Oct. 4, P. V.C. Hall GEORGE THOROGOOD & the DESTROYERS Oct. 6, The Florida Theatre EDWIN McMAIN Oct. 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall INSANE CLOWN POSSE Oct. 7, Limes Live The VIBRATORS Oct. 9, Harmonious Monks KORN, BREAKING BENJAMIN Oct. 12, Vets Mem Arena DONNA the BUFFALO, PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND, BLUEGROUND UNDERGRASS Oct. 13-16, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park NEEDTOBREATHE, MAT KEARNY, PARACHUTE,
WELSHLY ARMS Oct. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Jacksonville Music Fest: MAZE, FRANKIE BEVERLY, JAHEIM, JOE Oct. 14, Veterans Memorial Arena Beaches Oktoberfest: BLUES TRAVELER, COLLIE BUDDZ, The MOVEMENT Oct. 14-16, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach Live Original Tour: SADIE ROBERTSON Oct. 14, The Florida Theatre 20th annual Magnolia Fest: JJ GREY & MOFRO, KELLER WILLIAMS, The INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, ZACH DEPUTY, BILLY BRAGG, SARAH LEE GUTHRIE, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Oct. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOHN MAYALL Oct. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre
KIM RICHEY Oct. 16, Café Eleven STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN, MAC POWELL, BRANDON HEATH Oct. 16, Times-Union Center MIKE STERN TRIO Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TONEVENDOR RECORD FAIR Oct. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PHISH Oct. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena EDEN, XX Oct. 17, Jack Rabbits The PSYCHEDELIC FURS Oct. 18, P. Vedra Concert Hall TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Oct. 18, St. Augustine Amp. KEB’ MO’ BAND Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre JOSH RITTER Oct. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Oct. 20, Mavericks Live MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Oct. 25, Florida Theatre LINDSEY STIRLING Oct. 27, The Florida Theatre The AVETT BROTHERS Oct. 28, Vets Memorial Arena The ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Oct. 29, The Florida Theatre BONNIE RAITT Oct. 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DEPARTMENT of CORRECTION, DIE CHOKING Oct. 29, Rain Dogs TODD SNIDER, ROREY CARROLL Oct. 29, PVC Hall CASTING CROWNS, MATT MAHER, HANNAH KERR Nov. 3, Veterans Memorial Arena LORD ALMIGHTY Nov. 3, Shantytown Pub NF Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LO CASH Nov. 3, Mavericks Live GHOST, POPESTAR Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre BLAIR CRIMMINS & the HOOKERS Nov. 5, Café Eleven ZZ TOP Nov. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The DOOBIE BROTHERS, The FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ODD SQUAD LIVE! Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre CHRIS YOUNG, CASSADEE POPE Nov. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TRACY MORGAN Nov. 12, Thrasher-Horne Center WAR Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MITSKI Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits ERIC JOHNSON Nov. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GALACTIC, The HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 17, PVC Hall BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Nov. 18, Times-Union Center SAVION GLOVER Nov. 18, The Florida Theatre YELLOWCARD Nov. 18, Mavericks Live WVRM FEST 4 Nov. 18 & 19, 1904 Music Hall MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Nov. 21, Times-Union Center ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Nov. 22, Mavericks Live QUEENSRYCHE, ARMORED SAINT Nov. 29, Mavericks Live CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Dec. 1, P.Vedra Concert Hall PATRICK BARTLEY Dec. 1, Ritz Theatre DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS, VALERIE SIMPSON, KENNY LATIMORE, JONATHAN BUTLER Dec. 1, Florida Theatre STANLEY CLARKE Dec. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, The Florida Theatre The OAK RIDGE BOYS Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre GRIFFIN HOUSE Dec. 18, Café Eleven PINK MARTINI Jan. 17, The Florida Theatre JEANNE ROBERTSON Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre ELVIS LIVES Jan. 24, Times-Union Center GLADYS KNIGHT Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 27, The Florida Theatre KENNY ROGERS, LINDA DAVIS Jan. 28, ThrasherHorne Center for the Arts CHRISTIE DASHIELL Feb. 2, Ritz Theatre The BABES Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANDY McKEE Feb. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & the ASBURY JUKES Feb. 19, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOE BONAMASSA Feb. 22, The Florida Theatre MINDI ABAIR Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre OLD 97’s, BOTTLE ROCKETS Feb. 25, P.V.Concert Hall TAJ EXPRESS Feb. 28, Times-Union Center The WEIGHT (with members of The Band) March 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Aug. 17 LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley’s jazz show 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Aug. 17. Tad Jennings Aug. 18. Bluff 5, DJ Dave Aug. 19. Radio Love, Davis Turner Aug. 20. Down Yonder Aug. 21. Mark O’Quinn Aug. 23 28 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Local groovy faves LUNAR COAST perform Aug. 19 & 20 at Flying Iguana, Neptune Beach.
SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Russell Bryant Aug. 17. Yancy Clegg Tue. & Thur. Black Jack Band Fri.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music 9 p.m. Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns, 388-0200 Live music every Thur.-Sat.
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR Pub, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff Aug. 17 FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Aug. 18. Lunar Coast 10 p.m. Aug. 19 & 20. Darren Corlew Aug. 21 GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. Wed. Murray Goff Fri. Under the Bus Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. Sun. HARBOR TAVERN, 160 Mayport Rd., AB, 2462555 Concrete Criminals, Harsh 8 p.m. Aug. 20 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Lift 9:30 p.m. Aug. 19 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Jonnie Morgan Band 10 p.m. Aug. 19 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 5 O’Clock Shadow Aug. 18. Str8-Up 9 p.m. Aug. 19 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer Thur. Mezza Shuffle Mon. Trevor Tanner Tue. MONKEY’S UNCLE TAVERN, 1728 N. Third St., 246-1070 DJ every Wed., Sat. & Sun. Live music every Fri. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Aug. 17. Live music every Wed.-Sun. SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Lip Sync Face-Off: D’Land Entertainment Aug. 17. DJ EL 8 p.m. Aug. 18. Jerico open mic Aug. 15 SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881 Live music most weekends
DOWNTOWN 1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. I Set my Friends on Fire, Eiffel Giza Aug. 17. Kublai Khan, Jesus Piece, Malevolence 6 p.m. Aug. 18. Summer Time in the City Festival: T.W.A.N., Geexella, Midaz The Beast, Higher Learning, Mr. Al Pete, Ffjb, Dope Sandwich, Dillon & Paten Locke, Bluff Gawd, Steam Mechanics, Mr Mince noon Aug. 20. THE BIRDHOUSE, 1827 N. Pearl St. David Liebe Hart, Electric Water, The United Tylers of Tyler, Mr. Never & the Scars Aug. 17. Sundressed Aug. 18. Born a New Aug. 19. Kobe, The PullUp Aug. 20 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Aug. 19 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Aug. 17. Live music most weekends HOURGLASS Pub, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Bay Street every Fri. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, Downtown, 353-1188 Robert Brown Jr the Confluent Aug. 21 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Brett Myers, Jasin O’Neil Todd 8 p.m. Aug. 19. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH NIGHTCLUB & BAR, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc, Some Dude 9 p.m. for Glitz Wed. Q45, live music Wed. EDM Thur. Eric Rush Fri. DJ IBay Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay Sun.
FLEMING ISLAND
ST. AUGUSTINE
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Ken Walker 5 p.m. Aug. 18. 77Ds 9 p.m. Aug. 19. Conch Fritters 5 p.m., The Remains 9 p.m. Aug. 20. Anton LaPlume Aug. 21
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Oh No Aug. 19. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Aug. 20. Vinny Jacobs 2 p.m. Aug. 21 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Fre Gordon open mic Aug. 21. DJ Rob St. John Wed. Live music Fri. & Sat. PLANET SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Kid You Not, Mustard, Ema & the Old Kings, Joey Caneva, Tom McKelvey 10:30 p.m. Aug. 26. Brown Palace, Tommy ILL Rhythm, Bite Marks, Burnt Hair, Virgin Flower, Severed + Said, Beau Crum, Chuck Mental, Sis Scum, I Came From Earth, Zach Slaughterbeck 5:15 p.m. Aug. 27 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 5472188 Constant Swimmer, Remedy Tree, Brandon O’Hara, Brent McGuffin 10:30 p.m. Sept. 2 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 8299336 Spanky Aug. 19 & 20
INTRACOASTAL WEST BULL TAVERN, 7127 Atlantic, 309-3010 Live music most weekends CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Live music most weekends JERRY’S GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Sidewalk 65 Aug. 19. Jetti Kats Aug. 20
MANDARIN CHEERS, 11475 San Jose Blvd., 262-4337 Live music most weekends ENZA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Aug. 18 & 19
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 DJ Big Mike Aug. 18. Sowflo, Sway Jah Vu 10 p.m. Aug. 19. The Supervillains, Whole Wheat Bread 10 p.m. Aug. 20 SHARK CLUB, 714 Park, 215-1557 Digital Skyline Aug. 17 THE URBAN BEAN, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938 Janie Koch every Fri. & Sun. Jacob Schuman 6:30 Sat.
PONTE VEDRA PUSSER’S, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Savannah Leigh Bassett 7 p.m. Aug. 20. Live music most weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Aug. 17. Gary Starling Jazz Band 7:30 p.m. Aug. 18. Samuel Sanders Aug. 19. Latin All Stars Aug. 20
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. Stanton Warriors 9 p.m. Aug. 20 DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343 Live music every weekend HOBNOB, 220 Riverside, Ste. 110, 513-4272 Live music most weekends3 MR. CHUBBY’S, 11043 Crystal Springs Rd., 3559464 Robert Brown Jr the Confluent 9 p.m. Aug. 19 MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 Wrekless Abandon, MGL, Unmasked, ABrodie, Anishia Rae, Christie & 1Sound Mind, Big Fil, Jigsaw 7 p.m. Aug. 20 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park, 379-4969 Shroud Eater, Dead Hand, Yashira, Shadow Hunter, Unearthly Child 8 p.m. Aug. 19 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Madison Carr, Meredith Rae, Katherine Archer, Don’t Miss A Beat, Ronan School of Music 10:30 a.m. Aug. 20
SAN MARCO JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Scholars Word 8 p.m. Aug. 19. Weekend Atlas Ep Release Party, The Dog Apollo, Aurora 8 p.m. Aug. 20. BJ Barham, Justin Osborne 7 p.m. Aug. 22. Northe, Glass Mansions, Faze Wave 8 p.m. Aug. 23. The Naturalists, Rip Junior, Stephan Pigman 8 p.m. Aug. 24 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 3527008 Neil Dixon, Crucial Eddy 7 p.m. Aug. 18. River City Rhythm Kings Aug. 22
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Mark O’Quinn Aug. 18. DiCarlo Aug. 19. Kevin Ski Aug. 20 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Love Monkey 9:30 p.m. Aug. 19 & 20. Crazy Daysies Aug. 24. Melissa Smith’s open mic every Thur. Blues jam every Sun. Live music every weekend
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE THE BIRDHOUSE, 1827 N. Pearl St. David Liebe Hart, Electric Water, The United Tylers of Tyler, Mr. Never & the Scars 6 p.m. Aug. 17 THE HEADLAMP, 818 Clay St. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Concrete Crimnals, SkatterBrainz Aug. 22. Talk Sick Brats, Curlies, The Mold, Virgin Flower 8 p.m. Aug. 24
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FOLIO DINING AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant. com. In historic downtown, this bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner.com. New in popular local chain. Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $ K TO B R L Daily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at historic Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, made-fromscratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine inside or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub next door has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlez anbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrab trap.com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S Wings, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. 2015 BOJ. SEE O.PARK. JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun house. Favorites: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese and a variety of crêpes. Vegan selection. Sit inside or on a porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily La MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials.
Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor, balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2015 BOJ. Family-owned-and-operated 18-plus years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19, 745-9300. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
LARRY’S Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
SID & LINDA’S Seafood Market & Restaurant, 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 109, 503-8276. Pick your own whole fresh fish, have it cleaned, filleted, cooked to order. Dine in, take out. Housemade sauces. $$ K TO L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CHOMP CHOMP, 4162 Herschel St., 329-1679. Newly relocated. Chef-inspired fare: The Philadelphia Experiment (sweet pork over arugula), panko-crusted chicken, burgers, Waldorf salad, bahn mi, Southern fried chicken, The Come Up (portabella mushroom, green tomato salsa, almonds). Curry Chomp chips, pasta salad. HH. $ BW L D Mon.-Sat. The FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh fare, homemade desserts. Breakfast all day, signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20-plus years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
Old world charm meets 21st century culinary delight at Orange Park's Pasta Market Italian Restaurant & Clam Bar. photo by Dennis Ho AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE O. PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545. New Puerto Rican place offers chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. It’s like a part of the Isle of Enchantment is now part of Amelia Island. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2015 BOJ. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice. Calzones, salads. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplace bistro.com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s full menu of eclectic global fare uses crêpes creatively: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su The PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F Near historic district. Sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads; made from scratch. $ K TO B L W-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. Restaurant within award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge offers seaside dining, open to the public. Dine indoors or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2015 BOJ. 2nd-story outdoor bar. To list your restaurant, call your account manager or Sam Taylor, 860-2465 • staylor@folioweekly.com
DINING DIRECTORY KEY
AVERAGE ENTRÉE • COST •
$ = Less than $10 $$ = $10- $20 $$$ = $20- $35 $$$$ = $35 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club event. fwbiteclub.com 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
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PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2015 BOJ. 40-plus years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa Restaurant ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay. com. 2015 BOJ. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras. net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2015 BOJ. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 8616 Baymeadows, 739-2498. F 2015 BOJ. METRO Diner, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Bay-meadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows, Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilas jacksonville.com. New Mexican place has casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option. Top-shelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, street fare tacos, signature plates, whiskey. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly
BEACHES
(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002,
BITE-SIZED Eddis & Sons PINT-SIZED Pumpkin Brews GRILL ME! Gypsy Cab Co. CHEFFED-UP Meatballs
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alspizza.com. F 2015 BOJ. NY-style gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. 28-plus years. All day HH M-Thu. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. 2015 BOJ. Subs made with fresh ingredients, 25-plus years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BEACH Diner, 501 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-6500. SEE AMELIA. BEACH HUT Café, 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. 28-plus years. Full breakfast menu served all day (darn good grits); hot plate specials Mon.-Fri. $ K TO B R L Daily CRUISERS Grill, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill.com. 2015 BOJ. Locally owned & operated 20-plus years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. FAMOUS TOASTERY, 311 N. Third St., 372-0712, famous toastery.com. New place takes familiar breakfast and lunch items one better: corned beef hash, gluten-free pancakes, bacon, omelets, eggs and … toast. Wraps, sandwiches, Bloody Marys, mimosas, peach Bellini. $$ FB K TO B L Daily The FISH COMPANY Restaurant, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, AB, 246-0123, thefishcojax.com. Bite Club. Casual, laid-back spot. Oyster raw bar, fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, crab, lobster. Homestyle desserts. Patio seating; all-day HH Sun. $$ FB K TO L D Daily FLAMING SEAFOOD & SHAO KAO BBQ, 1289 Penman Rd., 8536398. New place (is it Chinese? Barbecue? Seafood?) serves meats and vegetables, spiced, skewered on bamboo sticks – like Chinese street food. $ BW TO L D Daily FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F 2015 BOJ. Latin American fare: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100-plus tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman cuisine, large Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The Loving Cup HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcuphashhouse.com. New place offers locally sourced fare, locally roasted coffees, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian dishes – no GMOs or hormones. $ K TO B R L Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE O. PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. Sit outside at some MMs. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO Diner, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2015 BOJ. SEE S. MARCO. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. 2015 BOJ. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. SEE BAYMEADOWS. POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub, 50-plus beers, gourmet burgers, handcut fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30-plus years, iconic seafood place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefood shack.com. Wide array of specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444, seachasers.com. New place; four areas: First Street Bar, Music Room, Beach Bar, Dining Room. Daily HH. In or on patio. $$ FB L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. Brunch Sun. $$ FB K L Sa/Su; D Nightly SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop. Yankee-style steak sandwiches, hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily THIS CHICK’S KITCHEN, 353 Sixth Ave. S., 778-5404, thischickskitchen.com. Farm-to-table restaurant serving healthful, locally sourced clean meals. Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian options. $$ TO L D Wed.-Sat. V PIZZA, 528 First St. N., 853-6633, vpizza.com. Traditional Neapolitana artisan pizza from Naples – Italy, not Florida, made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S Delicatessen, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYC-style deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, desserts, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F The CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian.com. F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40-plus years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2015 BOJ. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine. Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND Coffee Company, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866-395-
FOLIO DINING : BITE-SIZED
North meets South in the CHEESIEST WAY
STEAKING A CLAIM who creates such traditional and classic “NEVER FAKE, HAND-CUT STEAKS, FROM cheesesteaks would not embrace any kind of our family to yours.” That’s the philosophy vegetarian options, but you’d be wrong. The the Eddis family has about slinging fresh seitan is crazy crisp, and has a great roasted cheesesteaks out of the Eddis & Sons food flavor that goes with the peppers and onions truck. Chris and his wife Jenn are Philadelphia that top the sandwich. natives, recently relocated to Jacksonville, who While some modern Philly cheesesteaks now call Springfield home. They’ve decided to utilize a thick, processed cheese sauce, Eddis raise their four boys here and bring a little bit & Sons offer a variety of cheeses from which of Philadelphia to the South. to choose. Pick from white American, Cheez The Eddis’ Cheesesteak ($8.41) is as Whiz, sharp provolone and Chef Chris’ traditional as it gets with steak hand-cut as thin as paper. It’s not a new combination highly recommended go-to dairy ingredient, by any means but Chef Chris knows how good ol’ solid provolone. to take the time-honored combination of While meat, cheese and veg make up the meat and cheese to a satisfying level. The largest flavor profile for an Eddis creation, the bread absorbs just enough of the steak juices thing that holds it all together — bread — can to be flavored, but not really make or break it. enough to be soggy. The No worries here; this EDDIS & SONS CLASSIC pepper and onions are food truck’s methods are STEAK SANDWICHES a sweet addition, and I unimpeachable from start & HOAGIES chose to add portabellas, to finish. To wit: Chris 609-4808, eddissons.com because, well, mushrooms has fresh rolls flown in facebook.com/EddisAndSons — believe me, you won’t from Amoroso’s Bakery regret the extra 50 cents. in Philly. It’s a nice touch For all you steak fans, an Eddis & Sons steak for the authenticity factor and the quality is sandwich features chuck eye Black Angus. undeniable. Chef Chris hasn’t forgotten about (For the uninformed, that means it’s a damn his gluten-free customers — there’s a lettuce good piece of meat.) cup option fondly known as “Eddis Lettuce” Chicken Buffalo ($8.41) is a great choice just for y’all … er, youse. for those who favor poultry over beef — but Each sandwich includes a hot cherry pepper you can’t mess with perfection, so I still that lives up to its name without burning off the recommend going with the pride of Philly — taste buds. Chips and drinks are also available the cheesesteak sandwich. to round out your meal. When you see “Jawn” on the menu, Find Eddis & Sons every Tuesday at don’t be confused — according to Chef Shantytown Pub in Springfield and check Chris, it’s the “Philly noun” that can be any out their Facebook for a full schedule of person, place or thing. The Veggie Jawn sites and events. ($8.41) features organic seitan, which is Brentley Stead totally wheat gluten. You’d think that a guy biteclub@folioweekly.com
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DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED
The history of a beloved SEASONAL BREW inspires incensed debate (yes, really)
PUMPKIN CLASH WITH THE OPPRESSIVE HEAT OF SUMMER IN Northeast Florida still blanketing the land, autumn seems unbearably distant. Nevertheless, the eagerly awaited fall seasonal beers are already showing up on local beer store shelves. And that means this year’s crop of spicy, malty pumpkin brews are ready for consumption. According to Great American Beer Festival rules, “Pumpkin beers are any beers using pumpkins (Cucurbito pepo) as an adjunct in either mash, kettle, primary or secondary fermentation, providing obvious (ranging from subtle to intense), yet harmonious, qualities.” In other words, the omnipresent fall gourd must be used in the beer. But the real story lies in the origins of the beer. Two factions cannot agree whether modern pumpkin brews have a true style history. One side maintains that the flavored fall brew is a completely modern fabrication and the brews we call pumpkin beers — many full of spices like cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice — have no historical basis. The other side points to recipes uncovered by historians that indicate pumpkins have been used as a fermentable in beer for hundreds of years. The annual argument continues ad nauseum until someone enjoys too many pumpkin ales and passes out. So who’s right? In America’s early days, malted barley had to be imported and thus was extremely hard to obtain. This made the brews very expensive, inaccessible to the poorer classes. So, in the spirit of true American ingenuity, colonists began searching for other items to use as sources of sugar in their brews. Pumpkins were indigenous to the New World, so colonial brewmeisters began adding it to their product. In a beer recipe from Ben Franklin’s organization, the American Philosophical Society, published in the early 1700s, pompion is mentioned as a main ingredient. Pompion, an archaic word for pumpkin, was a common ingredient in beer along with apples, corn, parsnips and several other oddities. But, as the detractors would say, the recipe doesn’t mention spices, therefore, it cannot be a real pumpkin beer as we currently know it. In 1863, a reference in History of Hadley by Sylvester Judd again mentions the usage of pumpkins and apples in the brew kettle. The recipe includes additives like hops and birch twigs for flavoring. Interestingly, this recipe also cites the use of malted barley. From this one can only conclude that pumpkin was added to the brew for flavoring, not as a fermentable, because the barley would provide enough sugars for fermentation. Does that put to rest the feud about pumpkin beers’ historical roots? Not by a long shot — but it does give you something to ponder to form your own opinion as you try these pumpkin ales:
PINT-SIZED
CIGAR CITY SEASONAL CREEP Full of chocolate, pumpkin and spice flavors, this seasonal pumpkin ale is a hearty brew sure to satisfy pumpkin cravings. SOUTHERN TIER PUMKING Sweet, full of pumpkin pie filling spice flavors, this beer is like a slice of Grandma’s standard Thanksgiving dessert without the overeating and the weird uncle camped out on the sofa. WEYERBACHER IMPERIAL PUMPKIN ALE Cardamom and clove give this entry a witbierlike flavor amped up with plentiful pumpkin and caramel. At 8 percent ABV, enjoy a few, but leave the driving to someone else. (But not that uncle.) Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com 32 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016
3954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels, cream cheeses. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. Free WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN Grind Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiac barandgrill.com. 16-plus years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa
FLEMING ISLAND
DICK’S Wings, 1803 East-West Parkway, 375-2559. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
TAPS Bar & Grill, 1605 C.R. 220, Ste. 145, 278-9421, tapspublic house.com. 50-plus premium domestic, import tap beers. Burgers, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 32, 223-0115. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
LARRY’S Subs, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 559-5301. SEE BEACHES.
MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’S Deli, 12926 Granbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S Pizza, 11190 San Jose, 260-4115. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. BEACH Diner, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 683-0079. SEE AMELIA. CRUISERS Grill, 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings, 100 Marketside Ave., Nocatee, 829-8134. 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 10391 Old St. Augustine, 8807087. 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458, enzas.net. 2015 BOJ. Family-owned place serves Italian cuisine, veal, seafood, specials. $$$ FB K TO D Tu-Su FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie,coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554. SEE FLEMING ISLAND.
V PIZZA, 12601 San Jose Blvd., 647-9424. SEE SAN MARCO. WHOLE FOODS Market, 10601 San Jose, Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. Prepared-food department, 80-plus items, full-service/self-service bars: hot, salad, soup, dessert. Pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. Grapes, Hops & Grinds bar serves wines, beers (craft/tap), coffees. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 6055 Youngerman Circle, 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2015 BOJ. NASCAR-themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus half-pound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 35-plus years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO Diner, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhou seonline.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers and quesadillas for 35-plus years. 75-plus imported beers. $ FB L D Daily The URBAN BEAN Coffeehouse Café, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned-and-operated. Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, salads, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. BEACH Diner, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S Subs, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE O.PARK. METRO Diner, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
TRASCA & CO. Eatery, 155 Tourside Dr., Ste. 1500, 395-3989, trascaandco.com. New eatery specializes in handcrafted Italianinspired sandwiches, craft beers – many local choices – and craft coffees. $$ BW TO L R D Daily
RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS, WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2015 BOJ. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads made from scratch onsite. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S Pizza, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
BLACK SHEEP Restaurant, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep 5points.com. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Daily specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa/Su; L M-F; D Nightly
BREW Five Points, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfivepoints. com. F 2015 BOJ. Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine. Rotating drafts, 75-plus can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa BRIXX Wood Fired Pizza, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. New place offers pizzas, pastas, soups. Glutenfree options. Daily specials, buy-one-get-one pizzas 10 p.m.-close. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Madefrom-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER Café, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. 2015 BOJ. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based beverages, homemade soups, sandwiches, gourmet desserts, daily specials. Dine inside or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W.-Su DERBY on PARK, 1068 Park, 379-3343, derbyonpark.net. New American cuisine, upscale retro in historic building. Faves: Oak Street Toast, shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2015 BOJ. 130-plus import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
O’LOUGHLIN PUB, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. New family-ownedand-operated pub has authentic fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256. SEE BEACHES.
METRO Diner, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cuban-style, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BEACH Diner, 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. SEE AMELIA. The BEARDED PIG Southern BBQ & Beer Garden, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. New-ish barbecue joint offers Southern style BBQ, like brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wine list. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta,
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828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine BORN IN: Highland Park, Michigan YEARS IN THE BIZ: 19 FAVE RESTAURANT (besides mine): Raintree, St. Augustine FAVE CUISINE STYLE: Urban FAVE INGREDIENTS: Artichoke, mushrooms, tomatoes IDEAL MEAL: Grouper carbone with a nice pinot noir WON'T CROSS MY LIPS: Liver & onions INSIDER'S SECRET: Swimming with the sharks! CELEBS (@ my place): Bill Murray TASTE TREAT: House dressing
some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2015 BOJ. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS Asian Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawker streetfare.com. 2015 BOJ. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnobwith us.com. New at Unity Plaza. Global inspirations, local intentions – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO L D Brunch Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Authentic Italian cuisine, like wood-fired pizzas, pasta made daily onsite, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual; made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, breakfast. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617. Locally-owned, family-run shop specializing in made-from-scratch creations – classic pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tu-Su LARRY’S Subs, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE O.PARK. LITTLE JOE’S Café, 245 Riverside Ave., Ste. 195, 791-3336. Riverview café. Soups, signature salad dressings. $ TO B L M-F METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt, 999-4600. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
MOON RIVER Pizza, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2015 BOJ. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.
M SHACK, 1012 Margaret, 423-1283. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2015 BOJ. Local-centric bar food: boiled peanuts, hummus, chili, cheese plate, pork sliders, nachos, herbivore items. $ D Nightly SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2015 BOJ. Healthy, fresh, light vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUSHI Café, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushi cafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoors or patio dining. $$ BW L D Daily
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AL’S Pizza, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. CRUISERS Grill, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2015 BOJ. SEE O.PARK. The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug. com. 2015 BOJ. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/ fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB Company, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab .com. F Local mainstay 33-plus years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily MBQUE, 604 Anastasia Blvd., 484-7472. New Southern-style, fresh-casual place has hand-spun milkshakes, super kale salad. Meats get housemade rubs, cooked over pecan, hickory or cherry wood. Platters, ribs, brisket, sweet & spicy pulled/chopped pork, chicken, sausage. Housemade sauces. Outside dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily
risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 1704 San Marco, 398-9500. 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.
FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsus hijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco, 503-7013. BOJ. SEE DOWNTOWN. KITCHEN on San Marco, 1402 San Marco, 396-2344, kitchen onsanmarco.com. 2015 BOJ. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F 2015 BOJ. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This Metro serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily PIZZA PALACE Restaurant & Pizzeria, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned-&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Dine outside. HH. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasan marco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal produce and meats from local purveyors. Craft beers (some local) & handcrafted cocktails, award-winning wine list. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily V PIZZA, 1406 Hendricks Ave., 527-1511, vpizza.com. True Neapolitana pizzas with the freshest ingredients – a rare class of artisan pizza from Naples. $$ FB to L D Daily
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ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater, now 49 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su The CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins-style low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
EUROPEAN Street Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.
GREEK Street Café, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern fare; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, salads, Greek nachos. Award-winning Greek wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-6126596. Pacific Islander fare, emphasizing chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Br. Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.com. 2015 BOJ. European-style; Italy, Spain, Mediterranean flavor. Small plates, tapas, entrée-size portions, charcuterie menu: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese and lobster ravioli. 240-bottle/wines, 75/glass; craft spirits Dine inside or out. $$ FB R, Su; D Nightly TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, taverna yamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Greek wines, daily HH. Bellydancing. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside, Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Custom salads, burritos, burrito
DINING DIRECTORY bowls; fresh fruit, veggies, 100% natural chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, cheese, dressing, salsa, frozen yogurt. $$ K TO L D Daily SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE Andy’s FARMERS MARKET Grill, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. In the landmark Jacksonville Farmers Market, offering local, regional, international produce. Andy’s serves breakfast items, sandwiches, snacks, beverages. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. BARZ Liquors & Fish Camp, 9560 Heckscher Dr., 251-3330. Authentic fish camp isbiker-friendly and American-owned. Package
store onsite. $ FB L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., 619-9828. 450077 S.R. 200, 879-0993. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA Mexican Restaurant, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Authentic fresh fajitas, burritos, specials, enchiladas, more. HH; sangria. BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE O. PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
CHEFFED-UP The lowly meatball is now HAUTE CUISINE
ORBS OF DELIGHT
NOW THAT’S A SPICY MEATBALL. THAT’S ONE of those phrases that makes me ponder the eternal question: What exactly makes a really great meatball? Is spicy the key characteristic? Is it the type of meat used? Is it the moisture content, or maybe how it’s cooked? These questions can be debated for years, but there’s really only one thing you need to ask about meatballs: How can you Chef them up? To do this, you need to understand the true essence of a meatball: its makeup, its purpose, its rightful place in the universe. That would be in my stomach — just sayin’. At its most basic, a meatball is simply a way to utilize tougher or less desirable cuts of meat. But chefs, being the most insatiable, creative and driven members of society, can never leave anything at its most basic level. We have turned making meatballs into a complex craft and elevated the process to an art. From the numerous interviews taken in the process of researching this article, I learned that most people (being lazy, stubborn or just plain ignorant) skip one or more basic steps needed for the proper execution of an astonishingly great meatball. Here’s the deal: Technique is important. A proper meatball is a combination of emulsifying proteins and braising. Each step must be completed in the proper order for a great result. The first step: Selection of the proteins (meats) involved. Use a combination, such as pork and beef. In fact, I recently had the opportunity to try the “best meatballs ever.” They were all beef, and let me just say, you Mickey-Ds-eating shoemakers have some very limited palates. Blah — they reminded me of old high-school cafeteria hamburgers. The next crucial step: Mixing. For meatballs to be moist and succulent, we need to add items that assist in moisture retention. Eggs, bread crumbs and cheeses work great. The mixing step is also the time to season and taste. Take a small sample and lightly sauté. Taste and adjust the seasoning. The next step? Follow a basic braising technique: Sear the meatballs to brown them and caramelize the natural sugars (this adds depth to the flavor). Once this is completed, eat them. Hah! Wrong! Fooled you all! A little patience will satisfy the soul. Now simply add the meatballs to whatever sauce you’re using, cover the whole thing and place in a slow oven. I braise this for about an
hour or two. Now that you’re salivating beyond imagination, you may eat them.
CHEF BILL’S MEATBALLS
Ingredients: • 3 pounds pork butt • 2 pounds beef chuck • 1 pound stale bread • 8 oz. pancetta • 3/4 cup parsley, chopped • 2-1/2 tbsp. kosher salt • 2 tbsp. oregano, chopped • 1-1/2 tbsp. fennel seeds, toasted • 1/2 tbsp. red pepper flakes, toasted • 2 cups ricotta • 8 eggs • 2 oz. milk Directions: 1. Grind the pork butt, beef chuck, pancetta, bread and parsley through the large die. 2. Toast the fennel seeds and pepper flakes. 3. Mix the salt, oregano, fennel seeds and chili flakes into the meat mixture. 4. In another bowl, lightly mix the ricotta, eggs and milk. 5. Combine the contents of the two bowls, and mix until tacky. 6. Break off a small piece, cook and taste. Adjust seasoning as necessary. 7. Roll into 2-ounce balls. Sear in a sauté pan. 8. Remove to a deep roasting pan, with prepared tomato sauce, cover with plastic and foil, and braise for 1-1/2 hours.
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Until We Cook Again, Chef Bill cheffedup@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Amelia Island Culinary Academy in Historic Fernandina Beach, with your recipes or questions at cheffedup@folioweekly.com, for inspiration to get you Cheffed Up!
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Dear Davi, I’d really love to take a dip in the pool right now! How can I stay safe while in the water? Soupy the Spaniel Soupy, Before diving into the deep end, it’s good to be prepared. First, ask yourself: Can I swim? Not every dog is a natural born swimmer. Even though we have a swim stroke named after us — the doggie paddle — some of us absolutely hate the water. Others either fear it or have an awkward build that makes it difficult to swim. When testing the waters for the first time, take it slow. Feeling comfortable in the water is key. Choose a quiet, shallow spot where you can wade. Gradually start paddling. You’ll need to sync your hind legs with your front. With practice, you will be doing laps in no time at all. For your own safety, you’ll need to plan your escape. Make sure there is always an easy way out and, most important, make sure you know how to use it. Even experienced swimmers can drown while trying to claw their way out of the pool. If you are skittish around water or starting to swim, a life vest is a smart idea. Even the best canine swimmers can be no match for rapids, waves, undertows, and simple exhaustion. Wearing a life vest might save your life! It also makes you easier to find and grab if you go overboard. No matter where you make a splash — in the pool or on the beach — follow these pointers: DON’T DRINK THE WATER: The chlorine and chemicals in the pool as well as the salt in the ocean, and bacteria in lakes can make you sick. Opt for a drink from a clean bowl of fresh water instead.
PREVENT SUNBURN: Yes, dogs can get sunburn, too — just like humans. And because water reflects light, sunburn is more likely around water. Dogs with light fur, short hair, and pink noses are at greater risk, but all dogs are susceptible. Make sure you slather on dog-safe sunscreen (no zinc oxide — it’s poisonous to dogs, even deadly!) and have plenty of shade available. STAY CLOSE: Even dogs that are eager and accomplished swimmers — like Michael Phelps — can tire quickly and get into danger. Dogs don’t understand the concept of resting or treading water. We just swim and swim, until we can’t swim anymore. Swimming close to our humans will keep us safe if something were to happen. REMEMBER TO RINSE: Rinse off after you’ve been in any type of water. Salt, chlorine, algae, and pollution can irritate or damage your skin and fur. KEEP YOUR EARS CLEAN: Shake out any excess water and dry your ears completely to prevent an infection. STEER CLEAR OF DANGER: Watch out for riptides and strong currents that could take you out to sea, and waters with blue-green algae that can make you sick. WORD TO HUMANS: While there are many effective ways to ensure your pet’s safety when near water, the most important precautionary measure is supervision. Happy splashing!
Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund doesn’t have an Olympic gold medal in the 50-meter doggy paddle but he does have a heart of gold.
PET TIP: THE SKINNY ON SKIN SNAKE OWNERS ARE CREEPILY FASCINATED WHEN SQUEEZE LOUISA MAY ALCOTT SHEDS HER SKIN. But not all sheds are equal: Some pet William Snakespeares develop a condition called disecdysis, or abnormal skin shedding, usually visible over the eyes or on the tail, which can cause infection or tissue death. According to PetMD, treat this condition at home by spraying or (carefully) soaking Mrs. Higginboa in warm water for 10-15 minutes, then gently rub or peel the leftover skin off. If the condition doesn’t improve after several days, consult a veterinarian. To prevent future occurrences, adjust the humidity in Kathiss Everdeen’s terrarium – too-low humidity is often the culprit. 34 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016
PET EVENTS ADOPT A SHELTER CHAMPION! • It’s an Olympicthemed adoption event. Cats and dogs in three categories – Gold Medalist animals are free, Silver Medalists are 50 percent off and Bronze Medalists are 25 percent off – are offered through Aug. 11 at
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MUST LOVE DOGS • Hi, I’m Nikki. I’ve been waiting here at Jacksonville Humane Society for a nice family to adopt me. I really love to play with my doggy friends at the shelter, so if your dog needs a buddy, I’m a great choice! When I first came to JHS, I needed surgery to repair my eyelids. They were flipped inside out – ouch! Luckily, the nice vets took care of me and so many wonderful people gave donations to help me get better. I’d really love to spend the rest of my days in a home, so please come and get me! For more information about Nikki and other adoptable pets, visit jaxhumane.org.
Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside, 725-8766, jaxhumane.org. The discount is applicable to adoption fees only; additional fees may apply. KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION EVENT • Cat adoptions are held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday, Aug. 14 at 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org. Adoptions are held every weekend in August and September. FEEDINGS & TOURS • Catty Shack’s night feedings are open to the public most Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, daytime tours most Thursdays at 1860 Starratt Rd., Northside, 757-3603, cattyshack. org. For details, check the website.
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HONEST TO BLOG • OK, so if we’re going to enter into a relationship, I need to tell you I was a teen mom. A lot of people don’t think that cats can get pregnant so early, but I was only six months old when I had my babies! They’ve all been adopted, and I’m waiting for someone to come get me. Perhaps you’re someone who loves Hot Pockets and orange-flavored Tic Tacs? Even if you’re not, I don’t see what anyone can see in anyone else but you. Come adopt me! Jacksonville Humane Society is open 7 days a week, 8464 Beach Blvd.
FIRST COAST NO MORE HOMELESS PETS VIP TOUR • FCNMHP offers a tour of its facilities 11:30 a.m. Aug. 18 at 6817 Norwood Ave., Jacksonville; for reservations, call 520-7901, fcnmhp.org. VACCINATION CLINICS • VetCo offers lowercost vaccination services at area PetCo stores. Upcoming events are Sunday, Aug. 21; 2-3 p.m. at 11111 San Jose Blvd., 260-3225; 4:30-5:30 p.m. at 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 278-1980; and 10 a.m.-noon at 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, 8248520, vetcoclinics.com. _____________________________________ To list a pet event, send event name, time, date, location (complete street address and city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@folioweekly.com – at least two weeks before the event. AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I tried to meditate on your horoscope, my next-door neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud. So I drove to the marsh to get some high-quality silence. When I got to at the trailhead, I saw an older man in ragged clothes leaning on the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. “Doing nothing is a very difficult art,” he croaked as I slipped by him, “because you’re never really sure when you’re done.” I immediately recognized his wisdom might be useful to you. You’re in the last few days of a recharging process. It’s still a good idea to lie low, be extra calm and vegetate. When should you rise and leap into action again? Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My readers have a range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer. Some study horoscopes for their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-it-yourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week’s over before consulting what I’ve written. They don’t want my oracles to influence future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are those who read all 12 horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, wanting to be free to explore the options. Try experiments like these in the days ahead. The time’s ripe to cultivate more strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb — both mine and everyone’s. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Have you been drinking a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water to rejuvenate? Have you been opening your soul to raw truths to dissolve your fixations, beauty that makes you cry and love that moves you to sing? Hope you’re attending to these fluidic needs. Hope you’re giving deepest yearnings free play and freshest emotions room to unfold. Smart intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You need to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm — preferably multiple brainstorms over the next two weeks. How can you ensure it happens? How can you generate a flood of new ideas on how to live life and understand the nature of reality? Suggestions: Read books about creativity. Hang with original thinkers and sly provocateurs. Put yourself in situations to strip you of boring certainties. And take this vow: “I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When you were a child, did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend? Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way. Unexpected sources
are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When you were born, you already carried the seeds of gifts you’d someday be able to provide — specific influences, teachings or blessings only you, of all the those who’ve ever lived, could offer. How are you doing in the quest to fulfill this potential? I suspect your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely. In the months ahead, they could ripen more rapidly. Whether they really do may depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities — interesting ones, to be sure — but bigger than you’re used to. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect you’ll culminate a labor of love you’ve been nurturing and refining for many moons. How should you celebrate? Maybe with champagne and caviar? If you’d like to include bubbly in your revels, a good choice may be 2004 Belle Epoque Rose. Its floral aroma and crispy mouth-feel rouse a sense of jubilation as they synergize flavors of blood orange, pomegranate and strawberry. As for caviar: Consider the smooth, aromatic and elegant roe of the albino beluga sturgeon from unpolluted areas of the Caspian Sea near Iran. Let me say this: A better way to honor your feat might be to take what you’d spend on champagne and caviar, and use it as seed money for your next big project. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to pesticides designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse — especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. Consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor to contemplate in the weeks ahead. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable; just make sure to pick a strategy that works. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your assignment, if you choose to accept it: Compose an essay on at least one of these themes: 1. “How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death.” 2. “How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter.” 3. “How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity.” 4. “How I Helped Myself by Helping Others.” For extra credit — and to earn the right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one — write about all four. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the months ahead, you’ll be drawn to wander through the frontiers and explore the unknown. Experimentation comes naturally. Places and situations you’ve previously considered off-limits may be downright comfortable. In fact, it’s possible you’ll have to escape your safety zones to fully be yourself. Got all that? Here’s the kicker. In the next few weeks, everything I just described will be especially apropos for your closest relationships. Interested in redefining and reconfiguring how togetherness works for you? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’re playing the card game known as bridge, you’re lucky if you’re dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the start, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Apply this metaphor to your immediate future. I’m guessing you’ll benefit from what may seem to be an inadequacy or deficit. An absence will be a useful asset.
Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
NEWS OF THE WEIRD DESIGNER LEATHER
The late fashion designer Alexander McQueen (who dabbled in macabre collections), might appreciate the work of acolyte Tina Gorjanc: She will grow McQueen’s skin (from DNA obtained from his hair) in a lab, add back his tattoos, and from that make leather handbags and jackets. Gorjanc, a recent graduate of McQueen’s fashion school alma mater, bills the project mainly as showcasing the meager legal protections for abandoned bits of human DNA — and fears industrial use of such DNA on a much larger scale.
IT’S THE WRONG WAY
In Florida’s The Villages senior community, Howard Sparber, 69, faces several charges after having, in June, fired 33 9mm rounds into the home of a woman who had been declining his sexual overtures. The lady was not at home. John Taylor, 57, said he was just lonely and wanted to meet women when a court sentenced him in Shirley, England, in July, for a three-month spree of furtively slipping men’s underwear through various women’s house letterboxes. Patrick Marsh, 59, was charged with indecent exposure in Woodward Township, Pennsylvania, in July after he rang the doorbell of a 30-year-old female neighbor seeking, as he told police, “courtship.” He greeted the woman naked, “with his genitals in his hands.”
HOW ABOUT CONNERIE?
The village of Trecon was inducted recently into the club of French towns with silly names. “Tres con,” translated, is “very stupid.” Mayor Georges Leherle accepted the town’s membership, joining 38 incumbent members including “Monteton” (“My Nipple”) and “Mariol” (“Dumbass”).
DYING FOR HIS ART
Rapper Kasper Knight apparently shot himself in the cheek with a revolver on July 17 in Indianapolis — as part of a staged music video — according to raw footage of the incident posted on his Facebook page (and then, of course, seen by almost 2 million people). Knight, seen bleeding afterward, said he tried to recruit a shooter, but when no one volunteered, he shot himself, anticipating (as in previous times he had been shot, by other people) “like a 4 out of 10 on the pain scale.”
ALLEN FUNT WOULD’VE BEEN AGHAST
Geoffrey Fortier, 23, was arrested in Craighead County, Arkansas, in July and charged with video voyeurism of a woman he had allowed to shower in the home occupied by Fortier and his girlfriend. After the woman stepped out of the shower, she noticed a logged-on iPad propped against a wall. Fortier told deputies it was all a misunderstanding.
VICTORIA’S BOVINE SECRET
At England’s premier agricultural event, the Great Yorkshire Show, a winning show cow was stripped of her title, suspected of having artificially “enhanced” udders. The runner-up, of course, was promoted to winner.
TO EACH HIS OWN
Plastics are well-known to decompose slowly, but the most difficult is the polyethylene used for containers such as the omnipresent water bottles, and despite recycling, tens of millions of metric tons wind up in landfills, where the plastic’s strong polymer bonds resist breakdown. Recently, however, two Japanese researchers, after tedious trial-and-error, identified a bacterium that views the polyethylene terephthalate as an efficient, tasty meal. A colleague of the two said further tweaking was necessary before using the bacteria industrially.
NOW THAT’S BREAKING BAD
Samuel Oliphant, 35, was arrested on various charges in Scottsdale, Arizona, in June after police were called to a house to investigate a “strong and unusual” odor (which cops suspected to be drugs). Inside, they found a “laboratory,” necessitating use of their “hazmat protocols,” because Oliphant had allegedly built a “complex and elaborate” system apparently for the purpose of enhancing the smoking of marijuana.
SALT IN THE WOUND
An ambulance was called in July when jockey Chris Meehan was kicked in the face by a horse and knocked out cold after he fell during a race in Merano, Italy, but the arriving ambulance accidentally backed over his leg. He is recovering. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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CANNED PAM Local gay man reads the ATTORNEY GENERAL the riot act
ON JUNE 26, 2015, THE SUPREME COURT OF the United States of America allowed same-sex couples to marry in a historic 4-3 decision, giving millions of LGBTQIA American citizens the ability to share the same benefits and privileges that straight couples have enjoyed since this country’s inception. The very next day, my boyfriend of (then) six years asked me if I’ve ever worn a ring, to which I answered, “No.” He asked me if I’d like to, and asked me for my hand in marriage. My coworkers and friends congratulate us, as do my fellow writers at Angry Metal Guy, the site I write for. Love was finally accepted. Love finally prevailed. June 12, 2016: I wake up to the horrible news of a shooting in a gay club in Orlando. At the time, it was thought that 20 people had been killed, 26 critically injured. I scoured Facebook, checking to see if all my friends in Orlando were OK. Some were accounted for. One in particular, someone whom I love like a little brother, was at a concert not too far from Pulse. I texted him; no answer. The count rose, with the total of 50 dead (including said asshole) and 53 critically wounded. The country mourned. My friend finally reached out to me, but still the damage was done. Our lives aren’t the same as they were almost a year ago. Once again, the LGBTQIA community becomes a fragile target due to internalized homophobia, with the added benefit of tossing ISIS into the mix, as the shooter (his name is not worth mentioning) had pledged allegiance to the terrorist group. The country mourned this insane act of hate and prejudice. Florida was in dire need of healing. Enter Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi proclaimed that anyone targeting gays would be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. You know, the same Pam Bondi who fought ardently against my being able to marry the man I love. The same Bondi who fought against my being able to adopt. The same Pam Bondi who, along with cronies Governor Rick Scott and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, have fought against protecting my rights, and for allowing people to fire me just because I’m gay. But hey! Let’s just throw a rainbow flag up on our website (which didn’t happen, by the way), say some much-needed prayers that didn’t work before, aren’t working now, and will never goddamn work, and call it a day, right? No.
Even if CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper didn’t call you on your bullshit in a “surprise” interview with you, Pam Bondi, I gladly would’ve in a nanosecond. Your prayers and apologies are flaccid, empty words that excuse you from any guilt due from your inaction, or worse, your actions that prevent us from feeling protected and welcomed. A flag thrown onto your website does absolutely nothing to absolve you from any wrongdoing in your past vigilance against me and my brothers and sisters. The blood on your hands, Pam, will not wash off because now, RIGHT NOW! you are suddenly my friend, my champion, and my ally. Rather than pour another dose of vitriol, I will tell you who my friends and allies are. My coworkers, who randomly gave me hugs when I returned to my day job on the Monday after the shooting, allowed me space to cry, to vent and to mourn. Last count, I averaged six hugs a day in the days after the Pulse Orlando shooting. My neighbors, who just recently found out about my partnership, have been nothing but supportive to the two of us. My team from Angry Metal Guy reached out to me to let me know that they are there if I ever need anything. Writers from other sites, such as Last Rites, Invisible Oranges, No Clean Singing and the like, all poured their condolences, hugged their friends and families, and made sure that I was OK, and said that I had every right in the world to be pissed off, sad and defeated, but reminded me that I goddamn matter. Metal bands incorporated rainbow flag colors in their logos to show support, flying in the face of homophobic fans, in order to show unity and support for us. You know, Pam … they gave me the same support you didn’t until the cameras were all on you, when you seemingly grew a conscience and a soul. But I refuse to let the actions of one asshole ruin the memories of the 49 innocent souls he killed. I refuse to give up writing, or calling people out on their blatant shaming of the dead by pretending to give a damn. I refuse to give up living. I refuse to give up loving. Because love will win, goddamnit. Love will win. Bob Grinsell mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Grinsell is a retail worker, also known as Grymm from AngryMetalGuy.com. AUGUST 17 - 23, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 39