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RETHINKING RECYCLING
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BY KEITH MARKS PHOTOS BY DENNIS HO
Though it’s been part of life in Northeast Florida for more than two decades, RECYCLING REMAINS INEFFICIENT and unprofitable, and the majority of our waste still ends up in a landfill.
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TAKE A LOAD FOR A FEE
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BY GREG PARLIER In St. Johns County, a private company fills inthe gaps left by the county’s PUBLIC PRIVATE RECYCLING partnerships
TRUST FACTOR
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BY AG GANCARSKI For BORTLES to progress, he has to be able to take risks early
BEYOND THE PALE ALE
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BY JORDAN FERRELL For LOCAL CRAFT BREWERIES, the beer isn’t just about what’s in the can
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO FILE A COMPLAINT? WOULD YOU LIKE TO O HEAR A VERY SAD, VERY TRAGIC, YET TRUE STORY? In 2013, at a Missouri state fair (in front of an overwhelmingly white crowd), a rodeo clown (stage name: Tuffy Gessling) ng) donned a Barack Obama mask and — as rodeo clowns are — proceeded to o be chased by a bull as the PA announcer er egged the bull on. For his actions, Tuffy was banned from performing at Missouri state fairs and widely condemned by Democrats and Republicans for what hat many interpreted as a mockery fueled by racial undertones. As a clown, Tuff y, ffy, it can be assumed, was always crying on the inside, but the heavy-handed response made Tuffy (as well as a vast legion of his supporters) outwardly emotional. nal. Tuffy, they claimed,, was a victim of a world gone mad with ith political correctness. ss. Fast-forward to 2015. Another clown wn has been criticized for politically incorrect speak. And, like Tuffy, The Donald has absorbed blows from the rational spheres of the right and left, only to come out more popular than ever. Trump’s crusade against political correctness obviously resonates with an army of people. There is this idea that Americans (particularly old, white Americans) are no longer allowed to freely speak their minds. And the media, they say, is in on the game. Conspiracy nutbar and talk radio host Alex Jones believes (and I’ll spare you by paraphrasing) that the federal government has coerced the media into shaming people who say stupid and insensitive things in order to repress freedom of speech. Ultimately, this will lead to Emperor Obama banning all religions and enslaving all whites (or something like that). The idea, according to Jones and many others, is that political correctness is not only harmful, but dangerous (apparently referring to Mexicans as rapists, thieves, and murderers is not harmful or dangerous). As I’ve written before in this column, there appears to be a tremendous number of people who feel they are being forced (unjustly) to expend energy on not offending others. And the response to my saying so has done nothing but confirm that assertion. So,
there must be a billion Tuffy the Clowns out there. Right? Here at Folio Weekly, we’re big on the idea of service journalism. So, in an effort to relieve some of the anxiety surrounding political correctness, we’ve provided a complaint form, to be filled out by those harmed in the name of political correctness. It should be noted that Tuffy the Clown, for his actions, went on to be named 2013’s Person of the Year in Sedalia County, Missouri. (Take that, Pope Francis). If you checked any boxes above, it’s likely you’re still in the majority in this country and that your considerations, your opinions, have always been considered first and foremost as the most important by all interested political and corporate entities. But adherence to political correctness should not inhibit your ability to express yourself. On the contrary, it encourages consideration of more than one belief system, more than a singular experience, and a broader worldview. It’s not easy, though. Confronting your own biases, privilege, and blind spots is bound to be uncomfortable. And you may have to sacrifice a few clowns in the process. Matthew B. Shaw mshaw@folioweekly.com twitter/Matthew_b_shaw AUGUST 19-25, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5
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PLAYING THE FIELD JACKSONVILLE SUNS
Batter Up! The hometown baseball heroes crank up a homestand against the Mobile BayBears at 7:05 p.m. Aug. 19, 20 (College ID Discount, Thursday Night Throwdown), 21 (Used Car Giveaway Night) and Aug. 22 (Christmas in August, Bark in the Park, Suns Peppermint Stripe Cap Giveaway). All the action is at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Downtown. Tickets $7.50-$25.50, jaxsuns.com.
LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND
Texas-born singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett has been gracing us with his signature style of country since the mid-’80s, when his blend of folk, gospel, blues, and jazzy swing attracted an audience bored with 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. Lovett is known as much for his gravity-and-product-defying hairstyle as his unique tunes, but when Lovett & His Large Band hit the stage, it’s all about the alt-country tunes – not the ’do. 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, Orange Park, $53-$84, thcenter.org.
BIG BALLERS BASH
THE GREAT SOUTHERN TAILGATE CLASSIC
The sixth annual Great Southern Tailgate Classic, features live music by Sister Hazel (pictured), Marc Broussard, Dumpstaphunk, The Motet, and Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, tailgate-style eats and sports memorabilia, a watermelon-eating contest, kids’ activities, and craft beer tastings. Aug. 21 and 22, Main Beach Park, Fernandina Beach, $25 for weekend pass; $10 for Aug. 21 only; for schedule and to score tickets, go to greatsoutherntailgateclassic.com.
COMEDY DON “D.C.” CURRY
Funnyman Don “D.C.” Curry is best known for his role as the ultimate bad familial infl uence Uncle Elroy, in the films Next Friday and Friday After Next. But more important, he’s a boss standup comedian with a no-holds-barred style. Looking for the ultimate family night? Don’t go to see Curry. Wanna laugh your ass off? Do go to – in fact, run to – see Curry’s extremely adult-geared act. 8 p.m. Aug. 20, 8 and 10 p.m. Aug. 21 and 22, The Comedy Zone, Mandarin, $20-$25, comedyzone.com. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 19-25, 2015
ALL THAT JAZZ GINA SAPUTO
Jazz vocalist Gina Saputo first began performing at the age of eight, singing with the Oregon Children’s Choir. By her teens, Saputo was singing in jazz clubs. While at University of Southern California, she was mentored by the likes of Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Terri Lynn Carrington. Since then, Saputo has established herself as a formidable presence on the jazz scene, gigging nationally as well as in Dubai, Japan, and South Korea. 8 p.m. with the John Lumpkin Trio Aug. 21, The Ritz Theatre & Museum, Downtown, $14; $50 includes champagne toast, ritztheatrejacksonville.com.
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THE MAIL
THE GOOD NEWS My heart goes out to Kelly Pope as she reacts to the messages displayed on the signs at First Conservative Baptist Church of Mandarin [“Treasures Gained by Wickedness, July 29, by Susan Cooper Eastman]. I feel that a church sign should invite people in, not chase them away. You can catch more butterflies with a butterfly net than with a sledgehammer. It seems that Pastor Gene Youngblood has not yet learned this. The word “gospel” is a Greek word meaning “good news.” The heart of the gospel message is simply “to know the love of Christ, which passeth all knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19). People must be drawn to the church by God’s love. We all have baggage to unpack (meaning issues) once we come inside. A church should serve as a spiritual hospital, helping and caring to heal the many hurts of life. On the other hand, if we are looking for a
perfect church, we should not join such, because then it would no longer remain perfect. Right? Several decades ago, I gladly preached every Sunday night in a tiny church in the impoverished and crime-ridden city of Camden, New Jersey. Our lit-up rotating sign beamed its message nightly for every passerby to see. One side colorfully displayed the name of our little mission church. The other side clearly showed the shape of the cross with bold letters proclaiming, “Jesus Saves.” My friend, those words are just as true today as they were 2,000 years ago. I hope Kelly Pope will pause to read this fading old man’s words. WILLIAM H. SHUTTLEWORTH via USPS If you would like to respond to something that appeared in the pages of Folio Weekly, please send an email (with your name, address and phone number for verification purposes only) to mail@folioweekly.com.
BRICKBATS & BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO JACKSONVILLE BEACH LIFEGUARDS Seven Jax Beach lifeguards were honored last week for heroics performed on June 27, when 40-year-old J.R. Bourne went into cardiac arrest. Though Bourne had just a 10 percent chance of survival, the guards – who administered CPR and electric shock – were able to revive him and transfer him to an ambulance. Bourne, who has recovered, returned last week to honor the lifeguards.
BRICKBATS TO RETURNING HOMETOWN ZERO LIL DUVAL The 904-areacode-born comedian and First Coast High School grad is also the creator of the vilely misogynistic and highly disturbing hashtag, #itaintrape. Lil Duval, who’ll be performing Aug. 22 at the Florida Theatre, has posted tweets such as “#itaintrape if I’m paying child support” and “#itaintrape if she doesn’t remember it” that have brought rightful ire from media outlets including The Guardian and Huffington Post.
BOUQUETS TO ANN AND STEVE PAJCIC Just days after a contentious Jacksonville City Council meeting that could have far-reaching implications for the future of Hemming Park, local philanthropists Steve and Anne Pajcic presented a $75,000 “challenge gift” meant to inspire others to support efforts to revitalize what some call “the front door to City Hall.” KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A PROVERBIAL BRICKBAT? Send your submissions to mail@folioweekly.com. Submissions should be a maxium of 50 words and directed toward a person, place, or topic of local interest.
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NEWS
TAKE A LOAD FOR A FEE In St St. Johns County County, a private company fills in the gaps left by the county’s PUBLIC PRIVATE RECYCLING partnerships
SINCE THE EARLY 1970S, AMERICANS HAVE been urged to reduce, reuse and recycle. Four decades later, Americans produce 1.6 pounds of waste a day more than in 1960, according to Duke University Center for Sustainability & Commerce. St. Johns County, meanwhile, does not require commercial properties to recycle, and does not provide a reasonable avenue for them to do so even if they wanted to. That’s where AnJ Recycling Service comes in. A private company, AnJ fills the gaps publicly contracted waste giants Republic Services and Advanced Disposal leave behind. Every Tuesday and Thursday, owner Ryan Spinella visits commercial properties — both businesses and commercially zoned condos and apartment complexes — around St. Johns County to collect recyclable items from residents and owners who have reached out to him. “It was really the only option,” says Beth Lambert, executive director of Limelight Theatre in St. Augustine. Lambert looked into recycling with the city when Limelight opened at that location in 2001, but even though she has neighbors zoned residential from whom the city’s contracted service picked up, she and other business owners on her street couldn’t get their recycling collected. A truck would stop at residential properties on either side of her business, picking up full recycling bins, but skip hers, she says. About three years ago, tired of the large amounts of paper and food and beverage packaging she could have recycled but was throwing away, Lambert turned to AnJ Recycling Service. “AnJ works great,” she says. “The biggest thing is, their price point is good. They are very dependable, they pick up the same day every week, every time. They don’t leave a mess.” For retail plant nursery Southern Horticulture, in unincorporated St. Johns County on Anastasia Island, owner Bryanne Hamilton would have been stuck between her business principles and her business’ efficiency without AnJ Recycling. The county provider in that area, Advanced Disposal, offers weekly pick-up for an eightcubic-yard dumpster for $80 a month, much more than AnJ charges, Hamilton says. Plus, Lambert would have to find room on Southern Horticulture’s property for the dumpster, which isn’t realistic, she says. Their only other alternative is to haul recycling to the transfer station themselves, something any business would consider a major inconvenience, even if, like Southern Horticulture, it’s a “major part of the way we do business,” Hamilton says. “We don’t have time to take it ourselves,” Hamilton says. Spinella capitalizes on the big companies’
model of forcing businesses to conform to their requirements. “With me, it’s ‘What do you need?’ Not: ‘This is the way it works, deal with it,’” he says. “I’ll come give you an audit and set up a plan that fits you. We’ll design a fee based on that plan. I don’t see myself as competing with Republic and Advanced Disposal, I’m offering a completely different service.” According to Spinella, it’s the only service of its kind in the country, since most recycling companies are either in the business of selling commodities or are contracted directly by county or city governments. At first, the business, founded in 2008 by Adam Morley, who’s running for state office in 2016, had sorting facilities and was selling recyclables as commodities, similar to a metals scrap yard, but Morley eventually found that model wasn’t profitable unless he was hauling thousands and thousands of tons of recycling. Now, Spinella spends two days a week collecting recycling from more than 100 businesses and residents, dropping the majority off at Nine Mile Road Landfill, where Republic Services transports all recycling from St. Johns County to its $13 million facility in Jacksonville. No one makes money from collecting and sorting recycling, Spinella says, especially since most companies went to single stream recycling, which allows residents to put all recyclables in one container. But recyclables have to be sorted somewhere. So providing the ease of one container means a lot more work on the back end, and more employees for Republic. Plus, much of the value of recyclables is lost when they all get mixed together. Only 40 to 60 percent of recycled paper is recoverable in this system, partly because glass inevitably breaks between the curb, the truck and the sorting facility, contaminating other recyclables. Spinella combats that by sorting at the source, separating each type of recyclable into his segmented trailer as he picks it up. He takes uncontaminated paper and metal to appropriate single-type recyclers before dumping the rest in with the larger companies’ single stream pile. Even with these improvements, Spinella says he is hesitant to tout the impact his company is making. While it is important to keep as much out of the landfills as possible, with all the trucks driving around and the lost value from single stream recycling, the impact of recycling is minimal, he says. “What we’re doing as a society to recycle is the least we can do. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Recycle is the last one for a reason. We’re doing it backwards. We should reduce what we use, then we should reuse everything and, finally, given no other option, we should recycle. We’re missing the first two steps in this culture.” Greg Parlier mail@folioweekly.com AUGUST 19-25, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
JAGCITY
TRUST FACTOR For BORTLES to progress, he
has to be able to take risks early
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he novelty of BLAKE BORTLES, the construct, has worn off. Most of the Bortles jerseys that are going to sell, unless or until the team itself has Turned The Corner, have sold. No reason to concern ourselves with a “he really wanted to be a Jaguar” narrative. Now, we can look at him more objectively. After one preseason game, he’s pretty good. The offseason work with QB guru Tom House was evident in his mechanics, and maybe in his decision-making. Bortles put in the work. It’s a shame the offensive game plan didn’t recognize it. I know, he has a new offensive coordinator now. And you aren’t going to show much in terms of playcalling in the preseason. However, what we saw looked a lot like last year: A buttoned-up, conservative offense, in which the quarterback doesn’t take preemptive strikes down the field, and the whole game is taking place 10 yards from the line of scrimmage, allowing for defenses to cheat. If you have superior talent across the board, maybe that works. Perhaps that was the rationale on the play where Julius Thomas got blown up. A little two-yard route that everyone in the stadium — especially the Steelers defense — saw coming. A safe, high percentage route, of the dink-and-dunk variety that we saw in every Bortles start last year, until the game was out of reach, the stands were half-empty, and Bortles discovered his deep ball. Thomas got upended, and took the bump on his hand. The Jags were very quiet about the injury, and it wasn’t even mentioned in the press box until deep in the fourth quarter. A clean fracture. Though it easily could’ve been worse. The defense knew what was coming because that’s pretty much what they saw last year. And it didn’t have to be that way. Bringing in Thomas was an excuse to have him do what he does best. Get him into space, create mismatches, and count on his elusiveness. There’s a reason he’s an elite tight end. And there’s a reason he was brought in when they already had Marcedes Lewis. The buttoned-up offense has other effects. The Jaguars don’t have a lot of quality depth at wide receiver, and a lot is going to be expected of Allen Hurns. A telling play for me was when Bortles threw him a crossing route, into traffic, and Hurns shortarmed it. Not intentionally, of course. But we’ve seen the QB leads WR into a concussion on a crossing route movie. Peyton Manning was always a great director of that fl ick. Austin Collie and Wes Welker starred in those classics. Why would Allen Hurns want to be in the remake? Hurns, like Thomas, isn’t built or particularly inclined for big hits. They’re finesse players. Hurns isn’t Hines Ward; Thomas is closer to the Jimmy Graham model than the Gronk zone. What to do? Look at the Steelers for inspiration. The most electric play of the game: Roethlisberger, seeing that Davon House wasn’t keeping up with Martavis Bryant, putting a ton of air under the ball, and letting Bryant catch up to it. Roethlisberger, who was cited as an analogue for Bortles when the latter was drafted, is one of the most consistent quarterbacks in the league because he’s so good at knowing when he can go deep, and not wasting opportunities when they’re there. Part of Bortles getting comfortable with using the entire route tree early in games comes down to line play. There were times when Luke Joeckel looked overmatched last week. One of those times led to a drive-killing sack. Joeckel was drafted to be that line’s cornerstone, a new Boselli. He’s not there yet. He looks the part, but he lacks that ability Boselli had to neutralize a defender or two on almost every play. Overall, there were more positives than negatives in Preseason Week 1. There’s no Leftwich/Garrard transition in the cards. It’s Bortles’ job, and the recent press saying Henne likes being a backup suggests Blake has another season to make progress. Part of that is letting him do what great quarterbacks do: take advantage of matchups, and take “chunk play” risks rather than always playing for the first-down marker. What you want to see are 12-play, 83-yard drives, like his best one on Friday. But sometimes, you need 2-play, 83-yard drives as well, both to rock the crowd and to set up the clock-killers. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski
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NEWS
BEYOND THE PALE ALE For LOCAL CRAFT BREWERIES, the beer isn’t just about what’s in the can WHEN B BOLD OLLD CITY O CITY B BREWERY’S REWERY’S RE SO OWNER WNER WN ER Brian Miller lost his beloved dog Duke, he made the decision to pay homage to one of the brewery’s earliest crewmembers by formulating a beer label in his likeness. Duke, as pictured on the label of Duke’s Cold Nose Brown Ale, lives on through beer cans and tap handles all across Northeast Florida, with his portrait telling a story that can be sipped instead of read. “It was just kind of a match made in heaven, and I never really thought that beer would become what it has,” Miller says about the unfortunate situation, which he turned into a positive milestone for his growing company. “We typically now won’t brew a beer without first having it branded or a reason behind it.” Whether or not Duke was the most loyal canine in the greater Jacksonville area and sacrificed his short (but full) life for the better of the business is up for discussion, but the fact remains that his drooling headshot on the front of the can is damn compelling, and the beer doesn’t taste too bad, either. And that’s a good combination for a family-run business that has to compete with a phalanx of other craft beers taking up space on the shelf at your local Publix. The world of craft beer is constantly growing and with it, the competition among corporate beer giants and local breweries for loyal patrons. While most of the larger brands know their target audience and are not overly concerned with changing brand image, craft breweries are remodeling their entire approach to marketing in an effort to captivate and capitalize on the average beerdrinking consumer. Marketing often entails humanizing a product, and finding the perfect balance of heady and accessible can be a tall order. “All of our artwork is stuff that means something to us, like Duke,” Miller explained when asked about what separates his brand of brew from the others out on the shelves. “There may be another brewery that had a
boxer named Duke, Duke but he wasn’t like the Duke we had. All of our labels are about us or about the city that we love and the brewery that we love.” Miller acknowledges and appreciates the results of the work that local graphic artist Kendrick Kidd has been able to deliver for Bold City over the years. “I don’t know if all relationships between a business and whoever is creating their graphics are like this, but we feel very fortunate to have him,” Miller says of Kidd, who originally approached Bold City about creating a logo for them seven years ago. “We definitely wouldn’t be where we are today without the work he has done for us.” High up on the 11th floor of the Riverplace Tower, Kidd sits in his office at the Shepherd Agency, glancing over a new logo he’s drawing up for a Texasbased brewery that wants to encapsulate the essence of California while paying its respects to the city of Austin. Kidd, a Florida native and University of North Florida alumnus, traces his professional career as a graphic artist all the way back to his high school days living in Merritt Island, where he would draw skateboard logos in class to pass the time. Though married now and working for a major advertising boutique based here in Jacksonville, Kidd never lost that passion for the skateboard culture, to which he claims he owes his creative style. Before Bold City, Kidd says, he’d never dealt in can and tap art, but being the selfproclaimed craft beer enthusiast that he is and having a life-long fascination with product packaging and logos, when he found out that a brewery was opening here in Jacksonville, he had an epiphany: He would be the one to create the look. Today, Kidd no longer has to chase clientele. Craft breweries have definitely embraced the benefits of having a unique can or bottle for each of their products. According to Kidd, the can art movement or
“I feel like craft beer drinkers are grazers,” says Kendrick Kidd, a local graphic designer who specializes in creating branding for craft breweries. “They are constantly looking around for something new to try and, unless you’ve gotten a referral from somebody else, the shelf is where people are making their decisions.” trend started on the West Coast a long time ago, and is just now really catching on here. “I feel like craft beer drinkers are grazers,” says Kidd. “They are constantly looking around for something new to try and, unless you’ve gotten a referral from somebody else, the shelf is where people are making their decisions. Having something that stands out and is memorable, I think, is very important.” For Kidd, the process of homing in on the exact image or logo the brand wants to present is all about listening to the story of the brewery and its owners and figuring out a style that connects all of the dots. “Craft breweries are very hyper-local,” says Kidd. “They like to tell their story of how they got to where they’re at and they like to kind of weave in little bits about themselves in the can art. It’s a treasure trove of ideas and places to draw from.” According to Kendrick Kidd, the process of getting the graphic exactly right can be difficult at times, because the many stories behind the breweries and their products can get rather involved. In his personal experience, though, he finds that the clientele has been fairly trusting to let him run with his creativity. This is especially true for the relationship he has cultivated with Bold City Brewery, where every beer brewed has a story behind it that they’re more than willing to share with their patrons. For Miller, it’s about making good beer first and foremost, but he understands the importance of building a good brand image that people can trust and remember and seek out. “You have to stand out on the shelf; you have to look good,” Brian Miller says. “We want it to look good because it’s our family’s reputation that’s out there, really.” Jordan Ferrell mail@folioweekly.com
FIGHTIN’ WORDS
HOORAY FOR HEMMING? Why MATT SCHELLENBERG was right FOR NOW, IT’S A HAPPY ENDING FOR HEMMING Park (as opposed to a happy ending in Hemming Park, as was the case when prostitutes and “bunko men” lurked in the shadows in previous epochs). The 18-1 vote last Tuesday in Jacksonville’s City Council meeting restored a $150K payment that they had expected in June, and allowed concession sales to be considered part of the fundraising goals for the Friends of Hemming Park. Despite some objection during the public hearing segment, the bill seemed destined to sail through even before council started. It had done well in Committee, and the most consistent voice against it, Mandarin Republican Matt Schellenberg, had been consistently overruled, his qualms about the ultimate viability of Hemming notwithstanding. One potential key ally, At Large mainstay John Crescimbeni, seemed like he might be a potential No vote before he mentioned how, in
have homeless shelters nearby, Hemming Park will always have issues. It’s easy for readers of this magazine to ignore Matt Schellenberg. He’s considerably hard right, as it goes, and is as staunch an opponent of government spending as anyone on the council. And here’s the thing: Even though he was Dr. No on this issue, he’s got a point, in terms of no matter how niced-up Hemming Park is, there are larger community issues that stand in the way of its overall success. After that council meeting, I walked to a nearby restaurant. No, I did not get wilded. The streets of Downtown, after nightfall on a Tuesday, are rather quiet. When I got into the restaurant, I was reminded anew of why people grouse about safety concerns Downtown. I’ll set the scene: Across the room from the counter, a gentleman wearing a Bob Marley shirt had a radio plugged into an outlet, blasting the latest nihilistic chart-toppers and club bangers from the nightly playlist
earlier draft versions of the agreement between Friends of Hemming Park and the city of Jacksonville, concessions were considered part of fundraising. His support led Schellenberg to quip “It’s lonely up here now,” before reiterating his reservations over the group’s budget process and payroll allocations. He said that Hemming Park on Saturdays is “a little bit better,” but that doesn’t justify the financial investment. He added that Hemming Park might be better off not as a hub for the area around City Hall, but as a passive park, which in practice wouldn’t be any different from those parks in other parts of Downtown, where the chronically unemployed while away their days, occasionally stirring to hit up for change those unlucky souls in business attire fast-walking by. Bill Gulliford, the bill sponsor, brought up the question of “intent,” and reminded council of the eyesore Hemming was before the program began, saying Hemming Park is the city’s front door. Gulliford issued a caution: “We’re nearing the end of the road” and we will be “faced with decisions in the near future.” Councilmember Aaron Bowman, a Southside Republican, likewise expressed “concerns for the future” and wants contract review and refinement, because “we will not be able to sustain the status quo.” The discussion went on and on. Schellenberg put it bluntly: As long as you
on The Beat (I guess the evening needed a soundtrack). Sitting in the room as hapless customers waited for their takeout order: a 40-something gentleman exhibiting symptoms of an apparent mental disorder, alternately holding his face in his hands while hitting people up for $15 for a hotel room. This is the reality in Downtown Jacksonville. You can dress up Hemming Park all you want. But Downtown is still Jacksonville’s drain, clogged with everyone who has fallen on bad times, some of whom use the social services clustered nearby, while others prefer to panhandle for spare change from folks who look like easy marks, cashing in at the perpetual ATM that is bourgeois liberal guilt. Schellenberg was talking reality. Beyond the question “Will Hemming Park make money?” the real question is, “How much can Jacksonville commit to maintaining the Potemkin Village that is Hemming in its current form, creating the illusion that Downtown, even at night, is a vibrant, welcoming place where the fun never stops and nothing bad happens?” Council will come back to the question of Hemming’s viability soon enough. It’ll be interesting to see how many will be on Schellenberg’s side when it does. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski AUGUST 19-25, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 11
FOLIO WEEKLY SORTS THROUGH THE ISSUES SURROUNDING RECYCLING IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA STORY BY KEITH MARKS PHOTOS BY DENNIS HO 12 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 19-25, 2015
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one-minute TV ad on Earth Day in 1971 started it all. Iron Eyes Cody, “The Crying Indian,” shed tears as he looked at an America polluted and littered. The spot was a call to action. It was intended to remind every individual of his or her personal responsibility to protect the environment. It was also the beginning of a global marketing push rooted in the concept of recycled consumer waste. The ad was named one of the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th century by Ad Age magazine and helped push recycling into the mainstream.
Since ol’ Iron Eyes was first broadcast into the homes of Nixon-era America, recycling has been embraced on different levels around the world. Sweden recycles — 99 percent of all waste coming out of homes and businesses in Sweden is recycled or composted, while only 1 percent of their total output is dumped into a landfill. And the Swedes import nearly 1 million tons of trash each year from the UK, Italy, Ireland, and Norway, generating big profits. In a 2010 article in The Economist, Swedish Waste Management communications director Anna-Carin Gripwell talked about the present (and future) of waste. “Waste today is a commodity in a different way than it has been,” she said. “It’s not only waste, it’s a business.” Yet, despite its historical predilection for capitalist pursuits, when it comes to recycling, America has been late to the game, not fully comprehending the LEFT: Republic Services’ Materials Recovery facility collects more than 300 tons of recycling each day from different parts of Northeast Florida; BELOW: Republic Services off Imeson Road is the receiving center for Duval County’s recycling; BOTTOM: Ken Rowley, operation supervisor for Republic Services, says, “We get a little bit of everyting that shouldn’t come in here.”
magnitude of scale that exists. More than 55 percent of our annual 220 million tons of trash packs landfills. And all that trash is costing us. “Landfills are expensive,” says Jacksonville City Councilman John Crescimbeni, an outspoken supporter of recycling since election to the Council in 1991. “Acquisition of land is expensive. Permitting with the Department of Environmental Protection is expensive. Construction of the facility is expensive. It’s a very expensive process just to get rid of things,” he says. Over the years, Crescimbeni has met with numerous CPACS, attended endless town hall meetings, and devoted time to community groups in order to educate the public on recyclable goods. “In the late ’80s, [the city] started diverting yard waste to a mulching operation, and we also rolled out a recycling program,” says Crescimbeni. “We figured if we could keep a one-gallon milk jug out of the landfill, we’ve got that much more space that we can use for things that we don’t have space for except the landfill.” In the late 1980s, the sleepy city came alive with growth into Mandarin and the Southside. City leaders struggled to find a place to put a new landfill. As they scouted
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<<< FROM PREVIOUS around the county for a new site, citizens in each district spoke to their city council representatives, expressing concerns over a landfill being placed in their backyards — after all, landfills don’t exactly make property values jump. Getting rid of the city’s trash was turning out to be an arduous process. Eventually, a site in the southwest corner of Duval County was chosen and on May 18, 1991, the first load of trash was delivered to Trail Ridge Landfill. But the process of opening Trail Ridge — the environmental engineering, the planning, the zoning, the controversy — made the idea of running out of space at the new landfill terrifying. The door was open for recycling in Northeast Florida. Locally, the curbside recycling we’re familiar with today began in 2000. Back then, 18-gallon blue recycling bins were provided free of charge to everyone who wished to participate in the recycling program. Trucks came down the street, the collectors tossed the blue bin — paper on one side of the truck, plastics on the other. This dual-stream separation at curbside was how municipalities recycled. Over the years, technology has sped up the process, decreasing labor costs and optimizing convenience. Single-stream
“THE CRAZIEST THING WE EVER HAD WAS A HEADLESS DEER. IT TOOK FIVE PEOPLE TO MOVE IT OFF THE LINE.” — Ken Rowley
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recycling now allows products to be collected into one large container and the contents are sorted as they move through a series of conveyors. In 2011, the city contracted with Southland Waste Systems, a division of Republic Services. The beginning of an automated, single-stream curbside collection program began. The 18-gallon blue bins were replaced with 96-gallon containers, trucks became more automated, and the process became more accepting of a wider range of plastics, different types of paper products, and even some new metals.
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IN SWEDEN, 99 PERCENT OF ALL HOUSEHOLD AND BUSINESS WASTE IS RECYCLED. IN THE U.S., MORE THAN 55 PERCENT OF WASTE ENDS UP IN A LANDFILL. MRF also l receives i recyclables l bl ffrom SSt. JJohns h County, the Beaches, and parts of Georgia. The facility processes aluminum, steel and other metals, plastics grade 1-7, glass, and a wide range of cartons and containers. The actual recycling process begins on the tipping floor, where 53-foot semis dump loads from 14 to 18 tons each. Front-end loaders drop piles of waste into a massive drum, where they begin to travel upward onto a conveyor. After the glass is crushed and removed, manual sorters remove objects too large for the complex system of optical scanners, magnetized belts, angled chutes of air, combine-like gears, and electromagneticcharged platforms. The 50 to 60 sorters on the line, in conjunction with the technology, allow a piece of waste to go from the tipping floor to giant compacted cubes of sorted material in 15 or 20 minutes. Reminiscent of the operation of an oil rig floating in the middle of the ocean, the entire process takes place on a large metal jungle gym of stairs, walkways, ramps and moving beltways in the middle of a very large, 70,000-square-foot warehouse. While the machines are in operation, employees wear protective eye goggles and earplugs. The process produces a lot of heat. Huge fans on the ceiling pull hot air up and out (employees have the option to wear cooling vests to keep the impact of the heat down). Manual sorters are on every part of the line; the minimum sorting rate for them is 60 items per minute. The technology is impressive. Spinning magnetic belts lift non-aluminum cans out of the system. Three optical scanners send beams of light casting reflections back to the scanner, causing chutes of air to shoot the plastic container into storage bins 25 feet below. Aluminum is sorted by spinning magnets electromagnetically charging the conveyor belt, resulting in the aluminum being propelled off the belt into a receiving bin. Cardboard and paper fall into sorters, gravity separating the differently weighted fiber products as fans push lighter papers up the conveyor. Manual sorters keep the conveyors moving, removing items that shouldn’t be on the line. A complex process built for one purpose: repurposing consumer waste. “Most of the fiber [paper and cardboard] is going overseas,” says Ken Rowley, Operations Supervisor for Republic Services Materials Recovery Facility. “Republic sells it to various buyers, they pick it up at the facility and then it ships out from the buyer. We’re shipping to China, Indonesia, and South America.” Rowley says the international market is different, depending on where you are in the United States. “The way it generally works, the domestic mills are usually filled up by the central states.
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<<< FROM PREVIOUS The coasts, which are close to the ports, tend to ship overseas. Buyers get a better price by the coast.” There are always objects that come through the MRF that have no business being recycled. “We get a little bit of everything that shouldn’t come in here,” says Rowley, “but the most common stuff is propane tanks, hoses, clothes, Christmas tree lights. The most common thing we see are needles.” That’s not all, Rowley explains. “The craziest thing we ever had was a headless deer. It took five people to move it off the line.”
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Councilman Crescimbeni wants this fixed. In 2011, legislation came before the City Council involving with two of the city’s residential waste haulers. One, Republic Services doing business as Southland Waste, was seeking a contract extension for rolling out an automated collection program, buying new trucks, buying 140,000 new cans for its customers, and agreeing to build a new state-of-the-art materials recovery facility. The other, Advanced Disposal, just wanted a nine-year contract extension, with no consideration. “I voted against the Advanced Disposal legislation because the citizens were not getting anything in return,” he says. “It was a political deal. Their CEO, Charlie Applebee, is connected and a good buddy with [former mayor Alvin Brown].” Legislation is currently pending before the City Council, which, if approved, would extend Advanced Disposal’s existing residential waste collection contract by six years in exchange for Advanced rolling out an automated recycling and garbage collection program in its designated service areas. “I’ve had multiple discussions with them to see if there was anything we could do to entice them to roll out this program, and, until recently, they had not been receptive.” The more goods the MRF receives, the more profitable it becomes for taxpayers. This is a point Crescimbeni wants city residents to consider. “I want people to be jarred. The landfill, which is super-expensive, should not be used for things that can go to the recycling center,” he says. “[The MRF] is premium real estate. I want to make sure I don’t have to use it for anything other than what I have to use it for.”
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of recycled plastic in its packaging and products by 2020 (though it’s having issues sourcing enough plastic). Locally, in 2008, the Florida Legislature enacted a bill establishing a new statewide recycling goal of 75 percent to be achieved by 2020. At the moment, Duval County is under 50 percent. The 2016 goal is 60 percent; by 2018, 70 percent should be the standard. Manufacturing with recycled aluminum requires 95 percent less energy and creates 90 percent fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than creating new packaging from raw materials. More than 40 billion aluminum cans go to landfills every year in America. That’s a start. “In my opinion, recycling is not the solution to waste-related issues,“ says James W. Taylor, coordinator for the University of North Florida Environmental Center. “The simple fact is, we use and waste way too much. I always say go back to the 3Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. They are in that order for a reason, because recycling is the last defense. We need to use less, especially single-use items.” Jacksonville is one of many cities in America using the most inefficient system for recycling: single-stream. Other countries require citizens to sort their waste by type. Greasy pizza boxes, wet containers and oily products make some materials useless for recycling. Contamination also affects the bottom line. On average, one-quarter of what heads into the recycling facilities comes out the other side, destined for the landfill, decreasing the profitability of the entire industry. Single-stream recycling exacerbates one of the biggest issues concerning the future of recycling in America: We just don’t recycle enough of our stuff. The sorting technology improves every year, making it more efficient (and profitable) to sort more volume, but the majority of American waste still heads to the landfill. In the tug-of-war between quality and convenience, convenience is winning. Keith Marks kmarks@folioweekly.com
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hat an awesome surprise Straight Outta Compton is. If you think it’s just another Behind The Music TV-quality retrospective of famous musicians, you’re sorely mistaken. This film has grit, universal appeal and the conviction to tell the story of rap group N.W.A. with startling candor, from vast success to internal dissension to heartbreak. In 1986, N.W.A. (an acronym that cannot be explained in print) burst on the scene with their breakthrough album Straight Outta Compton. “Our art is a reflection of our reality,” founding member Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) says and, true to form, the group’s daily lives surrounded by gangs, drugs, abusive cops, and other dangers are inspiration for N.W.A.’s music. After the release of the hit “Boyz-n-theHood,” the group, including Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) and MC Ren (Aldis Hodge), is signed by manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) to make a record. Hit songs include “Fuck tha Police,” “Express Yourself,” “Gangsta Gangsta,” the titular “Straight Outta Compton” and more. Police and authority figures hate their
THE STANLEY PARABLE
THE TITLE OF THE NEW DOCUMENTARY about the project that sidelined South African filmmaker Richard Stanley’s movie career 20 years ago might well describe him as well as the film he almost (but never) made. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau prompted me a few columns back to revisit three versions made over the years of the H.G. Wells classic. Set to direct the third one in 1996, based on his own script with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer on board, Stanley was fired at the start of shooting and replaced by John Frankenheimer. The result was a fiasco. But that’s another story, worth watching on its own in Lost Soul. Richard Stanley never made another major film, though he has kept busy with music videos, documentaries, scripts, and some short subjects. However, it was on the basis of his first two (and thus far, only) feature films in ’90 and ’92 that he was hired for the big-budget Dr. Moreau remake. The energy and originality of those two films, eccentric and uneven though they may be, illustrate what we lost due to Stanley’s absence. Hardware (1990), though obviously influenced by The Terminator, Blade Runner, and The Road Warrior, still reflects Stanley’s unique vision of a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Shot in a Moroccan desert and in London, the film posits a ruined urban world plagued with all sorts of problems, like radiation mutations and rising fascism.
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antiestablishment messages, but they’re a huge focus on music and had little regard for the hit, ultimately selling three million records. nonsense that surrounded him, especially And just when they’re at the height of after he went into business with Suge Knight their fame, when the women and acclaim and (R. Marcos Taylor). The real standout, notoriety can’t get any better — boom! It all however, is Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E. The role comes crashing down. Why? Because of the requires huge swings in terms of emotion and one thing people covet regardless bravado, and Mitchell pulls off of whether they’re black, brown, each moment wonderfully. It’s STRAIGHT OUTTA white, yellow, or purple: money. a long shot, but it’d be great if COMPTON Mitchell earned a supporting What’s solid about director actor Oscar nomination — yes, F. Gary Gray’s (The Italian Job) ***@ he’s that good. film is that it’s patient enough Rated R Similar to how the to slowly introduce characters Blaxploitation film movement and develop them as people, not caricatures, giving insight into the world gave African-Americans a voice onscreen in the of rap music. We’re taken by the danger, late ’60s and early ’70s, N.W.A. exposed truths discord, poverty, and desperation members of about life in the ’hood and started the “gangsta the Compton community inside Los Angeles rap” style of profanity and violence in song lyrics. How honest the film truly is only the share, and better understand why these young participants know (and note Dr. Dre and Ice men are angry and searching for a way out. Cube are co-producers of the film), but Straight The film’s real highlight isn’t the music or story — it’s the acting. O’Shea Jackson Outta Compton the movie feels quite raw and is Ice Cube’s real-life son and he gives a quite genuine — just like N.W.A.’s music. strong, vigorous performance, as does Corey Dan Hudak Hawkins as Dr. Dre, a man who wanted to mail@folioweekly.com
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Protagonist Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) is a scavenger of the wasteland who procures robot parts for girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis), a metal sculptor. Soon, the robot head and arm begin to reassemble themselves and create all kinds of mayhem, resulting in an X-rating, for gore. The film’s real strengths, though, are in its design, multilayered themes and striking visuals, which quickly elevated the minimally released Hardware to the status of cult film. The opening scene of Hardware shows a mysterious muffled character in a brown duster walking through the desert, almost like a shot in a Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood film. The parallel is even stronger in Dust Devil, made two years later, which opens similarly with a stranger, hatted but not masked, wandering the desert, again cloaked in a brown duster. Apart from that, the two films could not be more different. Hardware is science-fiction; Dust Devil is horror. Both are atypical, and both are quite good. Filmed entirely in Namibia, Dust Devil blends magic and the supernatural with legends of a local serial killer. Robert John Burke plays the otherwise unnamed title character, a remorseless killer and mutilator not unlike the force of primal nature Rutger Hauer played in The Hitcher (1986). In fact, the story begins with him hitching a ride with a
beautiful woman, later dismembering her in some kind of ritualistic orgy of violence. As in Hardware, the basic premise is supplemented with an abundance of subplots and themes. A wife runs away from an abusive husband, crossing paths with the enigmatic killer. Her repentant spouse, desperate to get her back, eventually teams up with a middle-aged policeman to find the killer. Interwoven with the overlapping subplots are elements of racism, betrayal, and tribal folklore. Visually stunning, often perplexing, Dust Devil has no easy interpretation. Even more than Hardware, it suffered at the hands of producers and distributors. What we have now is offered as Dust Devil: The Final Cut, a delicious bit of irony. One can only hope that Richard Stanley, on the strength of new interest inspired by Lost Soul, isn’t finished making films for a long time. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
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SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN SUMMER MOVIE CLASSICS Fletch is screened at 8 p.m. Aug. 23 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $7.50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA Trainwreck, Irrational Man, Salad Days, Tangerine, and Amy screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. American Ultra starts Aug. 20; The End of the Tour starts Aug. 21.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION Rated R One of the most charmingly goofy things about the continued success of this franchise is that, ever since they stopped chapter numbers, every installment must include two kinds of punctuation. Christopher McQuarrie directs the new one, where a bunch of new characters played by renowned self-worshipper Alec Baldwin, plus Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Tom Hollander and, of course, that unicorn-lover we all adore – Tom Cruise. — S.S. PAPER TOWNS Rated PG-13 Drama/mystery/rom costars Nat Wolff, Austin Abrams, Cara Delevingne, Justice Smith. PIXELS ***@ Rated PG-13 In 1982, the U.S. sent a space probe time capsule – with some arcade games – into orbit. The extraterrestrial lifeforms that got the probe thought it was a declaration of war. Now Earth is being attacked in the form of Galaga, Centipede, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Defender and other classic games. So the people best suited to fight them are early ’80s
video game champs, a motley bunch of adults. Costars Adam Sandler, the gorgeous Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Kevin James (as the POTUS!), Ashley Benson and Michelle Monaghan. Cameos by Sean Bean, Serena Williams, Dan Aykroyd and Jane Krakowski. — D.H. RICKI AND THE FLASH **@@ Rated PG-13 Meryl Streep plays Ricki Randazzo, a mother of three who 20 years ago decided being in a rock ’n’ roll cover band was better than being a mom. She plays cover songs at a bar by night and is a grocery store cashier by day. Her ex, Pete (Kevin Kline), father of her kids, married Maureen (Audra McDonald), a loving and attentive mother. Son Josh (Sebastian Stan) is engaged to Emily (Hailey Gates) and seems well-adjusted; son Adam (Nick Westrate) hates his mom. Ricki returns home after a call from Pete about their daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer, Streep’s real daughter), whose husband just left her for another woman. Actual musician Rick Springfield, guitarist in the band and Ricki’s love, reaches levels of unexpected emotional poignancy. The soundtrack has both classic and modern pop hits – Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Tom Petty’s “American
Girl” – most of which are sung by Streep and Springfield. But even these can’t salvage this wasted effort. Maybe she should’ve sung “Even the Losers” instead. — D.H. SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE Rated PG The Wallace & Gromit scene-stealer gets his own movie, in which he ends up in the city and has to find his way back to more comfortable surroundings. — S.S. SOUTHPAW Rated R Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Billy Hope, a talented boxer with demons. Rachel McAdams is his wife Maureen. Costars Forest Whitaker, Curtis Jackson (aka 50 Cent) and Naomie Harris. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON ***@ Rated R Reviewed in this issue. TRAINWRECK **@@ Rated R The vulgar, femaledriven comedy costars Amy Schumer, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Tilda Swinton (for once playing a woman), Bill Hader and LeBron James. Really. King James! Judd Apatow directed the much-ballyhooed yet mediocre movie.
THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Child 44, Kumiko The Treasure Hunter and Little Boy screen at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Life on the V: the Story of V66 screens at 6 p.m. Aug. 22. LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Home screens at Latitude 360’s CineGrille, 10370 Philips Highway, Southside, 365-5555. IMAX THEATER Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Galapagos 3D and Humpback Whales, World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.
NOW SHOWING ANT-MAN ***@ Rated PG-13 Marvel Studios’ super-hero feature stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, whose alter-ego is the teeny crusader against evil … sort of. Costars Michael Douglas as the scientist Hank Pym and Abby Ryder Fortson as Scott’s daughter Cassie, as well as Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña and Judy Greer. — Scott Renshaw
DARK PLACES ***@ Rated R In this dark mystery, Libby Day (Charlize Theron) is persuaded by a group of amateur sleuths who are investigating the decades-old murder massacre that left Libby’s mother and sisters dead. But what they uncover…egads! Also stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Christian Hendricks. FANTASTIC FOUR **@@ Rated PG-13 This third (and surely not the last) Fantastic Four film is heroically bad. Should appeal to obsessive fans of the Marvel Comics series or simply people who like lousy films! THE GIFT Rated R In the mystery/thriller, Simon (Jason Bateman) has his life threatened by the reappearance of an old friend with whom he shares a dark secret. Costars Joel Edgerton, Rebecca Hall, Busy Phillips and David Denman. I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS ***@ Rated PG-13 This Baby-Boomer-geared comedy-drama stars Blythe Danner as a widower and former singer-songwriter who decides to embark on a new journey in life, with a little help from her friends June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Mary Kat Place. Also stars Malik Åkerman and septuagenarian sexpot Sam Elliott. INSIDE OUT ***G Rated PG Director Pete Docter packed emotional complexity in a great movie. Inside us all is an emotional “control room,” with physical manifestations of those emotions responding to the things that push our metaphorical buttons by pushing literal buttons. For 11-year-old Riley (Kailyn Dias), a girl whose parents (Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Lane) have just moved the family from Minnesota to San Francisco, those emotions take the form of Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black). As Riley struggles to adjust to her new home and new surroundings, Joy and Sadness inadvertently wind up whisked away to the far reaches of Riley’s subconscious, trying to preserve the happiness of Riley’s “core memories” and make their way back. — S.R. JURASSIC WORLD **@@ Rated PG-13 “Nobody’s impressed by a dinosaur anymore,” says operations manager Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), and it’s true for moviegoers as well: Visual effects are way beyond what they were in 1993 when Jurassic Park was a box-office smash; that fi lm’s ho-hum sequels made fans weary of the Jurassic world. So executive producer Steven Spielberg and director Colin Trevorrow did something great with this one, right? The franchise should’ve remained extinct. It’s a big, humorless, drab movie. Costars Judy Greer, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Chris Pratt, Omar Sy and Vincent D’Onofrio. — D.H. THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. **G@ Rated PG-13 Reviewed in this issue. MINIONS **@@ Rated PG In 1968 (before they were devotees of baddie Gru), the Minions aid and abet the world’s first female supervillain, Scarlet Overkill (voice of Sandra Bullock), who plans to take over the British monarchy. Little kids will laugh at the slapstick. — MaryAnn Johanson
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A&E // FILM
SPIES LIKE US Big-screen update of a ’60s TV show is a fun, albeit rote, ESPIONAGE THRILLER
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he’s also an expert pickpocket. If you know here’s a cheeky sequence in the middle of Cavill only as the bland Superman in Man The Man From U.N.C.L.E. that co-writer and director Guy Ritchie should have Of Steel, you’re in for a treat. Hammer has used to set the tone for the entire film. It’s less success as Illya because the character is 1963, and CIA Agent Napoleon Solo (Henry more serious, making him a bit of a downer. Cavill) and his reluctant partner, KGB But in fairness, the story needs this in order Agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), are to stay grounded in reality and not deviate escaping from a secure facility in a boat at into Austin Powers territory. As for Vikander, night. Napoleon is thrown from the boat and whose star is on the rise after Ex Machina swims ashore, stowing away inside a truck. earlier this year, she holds up well opposite the There’s nothing he can do to help Illya now. leading men, but far too much time is spent in So when Napoleon spots wine, a sandwich damsel-in-distress mode — more could and and grapes in a basket on the driver’s seat, should have been done with her character. he nonchalantly helps himself, all the while Affable humor is nicely interspersed watching in the rearview mirrors as Illya throughout, highlighted by Napoleon and fights for his life. The moment is Illya arguing about fashion. the ideal combination of action, The action is unspectacular, but THE MAN FROM it wisely combines the men’s comedy and whimsy, and more U.N.C.L.E. scenes like this would’ve been physical prowess with their welcome in this film. smarts. Further, the typical Guy **G@ Rated PG-13 Ritchie traits of quick action, a The reason Napoleon and Illya peppy soundtrack and flashbacks are there — and working together that take us back a few minutes during the Cold War — is because to show how a resolution transpired all help a mutual enemy possesses enriched uranium to keep the movie engaging, though more is and therefore has the ability to make nuclear needed. There’s little suspense and almost no bombs, and they believe the uranium is inside emotional investment, making it hard to give the facility. On a larger scale, Napoleon’s viewers the desired result. official responsibility on the mission is to After you see the movie, you may be investigate Victoria (Elizabeth Debicki) wondering what U.N.C.L.E. means: It’s an and Alexander (Luca Calvani) Vinciguerra, acronym for United Network Command for who run a shipping company as a front for Law and Enforcement. The reason you’ll be production of the bomb. Illya’s role is to wondering is because there’s no mention of it pretend to be Berlin car mechanic Gaby’s until literally the last word of the film, and I (Alicia Vikander) fiancé, because her father still had to look up what the acronym meant. and Uncle Rudi (Sylvester Groth) are known This also means, box office gods willing, there to be working for the Vinciguerras. will be a sequel. Hammer watched the TV series of the same name that aired on NBC from 1964-’68 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is a harmlessly before starting production, but Cavill did not. enjoyable, entertaining lark. It’s also Doesn’t matter. Many who see the fi lm will underwhelming, and therefore earns just a have no familiarity with the series, so (as is moderate recommendation. In other words, always the case) Ritchie’s (Sherlock Holmes) pay movie theater prices only if you really, movie either works on its own or it doesn’t. really want to see it. Otherwise, home video For the most part, it does. The tone is light will suit this just fine. thanks to Cavill, who plays Napoleon like a Dan Hudak laid-back James Bond who never panics — mail@folioweekly.com
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FW: So you’re transitioning into retirement. That’s a major life change. How’ve you been feeling about all of this? Charlotte Mabrey: Well, I’m kind of terrorized, if you really want to know. I’ve spent my whole adult life working, for 30 years. I have two jobs: the symphony and also UNF. So my whole life has been about planning, working … so part of me is freaked out because I don’t have any hobbies. [Laughs.] When I used to fill out job applications and they’d ask me for a hobby, I’d look on the other person’s paper, because it was, like, “I don’t know what this means!” And if they put “biking,” I’d write down “biking,” if they put “reading,” I’d put “reading.” Knowing how I’m going to continue my life is something of a mystery, but at the same time, I’m getting a sense of “it’s time.” It’s time for UNF to get some new blood and time for me to start letting go of some of these responsibilities. As my students have gotten better and the program’s gotten better, there’s more of a surge to get them into graduate schools. And I don’t mean to make this sound ego-driven, but it’s alarming to think that you sort of have their lives in your hands and it’s very sobering. I think I suffer more than the students because I want them so badly to succeed. You’ve been a real figurehead for not only strengthening the local left-of-field music community but for introducing audiences to more obscure and experimental music. Modesty aside, do you have any thoughts about this quarter-century-plus of what you’ve been doing here?
RHYTHM CHANGE
Percussionist CHARLOTTE MABREY is retiring without missing a beat
photo by Susan Schade
harlotte Mabrey is remaining in the groove, even though the tempo might be changing. As a percussionist and educator, Mabrey has been a prominent and inspiring local presence since 1978, when she moved here to perform with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Three years after landing that gig, she began teaching at the University of North Florida. In 1984, Mabrey presented the recital An Evening of 20th Century Music on campus. Since that inaugural performance, these annual concerts have offered a unique blend of engaging compositions, dance, performance art, and spoken word, with a consistently invitational vibe. In every program, Mabrey has selected the material, as well as guided her UNF percussion students and guest performers through pieces that run the gamut from the comedic to contemplative. Over the years, the recitals have become much-anticipated events, at times leading to standing-room-only turnouts. On Aug. 22, Mabrey presents her 26th and final concert at UNF, now updated to An Evening of 21st Century Music. Along with Mabrey, this year’s lineup includes her longtime collaborator Robert Arleigh White, as well as Greg Hersey, Peter Wright, Heather Cotney, and Justin Staub. This year sees not only her last on-campus recital; next spring Mabrey will retire from UNF. She’ll still work part time in a per-service position for the symphony, but her retirement is undoubtedly a loss to local music academia. During her time and tenure at the school, Mabrey has guided generations of students through the ins-and-outs of playing percussion while offering reassurance and direction toward navigating the path of becoming professional players. Outside the classroom and symphony hall, Mabrey has been a mercurial presence on the local music scene, jumping through genres, working on usually eclectic projects, and collaborating with an untold number of local players (this writer included). Folio Weekly recently spoke with Mabrey about leaving campus, breaking barriers, and her upcoming retirement plans.
Exactly. You know, my father was a big figure in my life and I learned early on that the way to get his attention was to be clever. And I think that casts a shadow over how I interact with the crowd. I love laughing. I love everyday things becoming sort of humorous. When people laugh together, it puts everyone at ease. They don’t feel as if “I’m not going to understand this music. I’m going to feel like an outsider.” Once people start laughing, there’s just this group together and we’re going have an hour-and-a-half-long experience together; then they go with it. To me, it always feels very intimate, whether there’s 800 people there, a 1,000, or 200. When you get people engaged and laughing, it’s amazing what happens. So Little did they know. many of their barriers drop and they’re not Right? [Laughs.] You know, do I love tradition; afraid anymore. I’m a person who is ruled by I love knowing that things are going to be in fear. You know? In the orchestra, you have to place and I’m going to kind of step into that. All play it perfectly. So there’s always a fear factor of my concerts, while they sort have changed when I get up on the stage. If we can remove and grown a little, they all have the same basic that, then true emotion can come out. As structure. Now it’s a lot more involved because long as we’re fearful, there’s lighting and we’re stuck. So I use video involved. But humor. When I get up it’s always been about Charlotte Mabrey presents: AN onstage, I don’t know having a first piece EVENING OF 21st CENTURY MUSIC what happens to me; that kind of brings 8 p.m. Aug. 22, University of North I actually “become everybody in, then Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, funny.” But in real life, I do a marimba solo Southside, unf.edu I’m just this Joe Shmoe. … so it follows this I’ve actually had people pattern. Yet I always come up to me and say, “You know, you’re a lot try to do pieces no one knows because people funnier on stage.” [Laughs.] don’t really go into the record stores or libraries and say, “Oh! I want to see what this percussion Now that you’re transitioning into retirement, record has on it!” I really want people at the what are you transitioning to? concerts to be really relaxed. I’ve never been That’s the million-dollar question! I want on the cutting edge of playing atonal or just to help with HabiJax, I might be helping at linear music; I’ve always wanted to play music Brooks Rehab Hospital. They have an extensive that people will dig. People getting in their cars, going to a concert; I know all about that. I want program for folks in wheelchairs, brain trauma them to feel like making the effort to show up … there’s lots of research concerning the use was worth it. of music and art to enrich lives. Because of my partner Melissa, I’ve attended a few events like surfing, waterskiing, and bowling. I hope I can The concerts seem to have both these poignant manage a road trip to visit old friends, but I and humorous pieces. I remember seeing one suffer from anxiety attacks, so I have to work of your concerts maybe 15 years ago; one up to that. I think I’ll sleep for a week, read, and piece in particular had the players juggling buy my own five-octave marimba; although drumsticks back and forth and it seemed everyone says I need to replace my 1983 BMW. as indebted to the Marx Brothers as it did I do know that I won’t haunt the halls of UNF. I Modern Music. Did you add this humorous think it would be too painful. element, if not to disarm the audience, at least Daniel A. Brown to kind of open them up, and say, “Hey, this dbrown@folioweekly.com kind of music is all right”? You know, I think part of my curse and also a gift is that I’m very single-minded. I came from a school, the University of Illinois, that was steeped in percussion ensemble tradition. And I’m a middle child, so I like everyone to get along [laughs], I like to problem-solve. So the idea of doing solo concerts never really appealed to me. One, I think it can get extremely earfatiguing: You hear three marimba solos in a row; you can’t remember the first one. And two, there’s the joy of working with other people. So when I got the job at UNF, my boss at the time said, “You should think about putting on some concerts.” And I was, like, “OK!” [Laughs.]
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ARTS + EVENTS
THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Maria Valdez Dugger’s Spiral Series, through Sept. 3. Environments: Real and Imagined, works by painters Sara Pedigo and Ronald Gibbons, is on display through Sept. 3. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. Silk Paintings by Beth Haizlip, through Aug. 25. HAWTHORN SALON 1011 Park St., Riverside, 619-3092, hawthornsalon.com. Sara Pedigo’s Brimming with Casual News exhibit runs through August. HUBLEY GALLERY 804 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 429-9769. New works by Mary Hubley and Dennis Bernhardt are on display through August. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. Photographs by Kenneth M. Barrett Jr., through Oct. 22. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. ABSTRACT X, featuring works by local abstract artists, is on display through Aug. 28. Theresa Segal is the featured artist for August. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. Nature & Wildlife Exhibition, through August. ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER 10 W. Castillo Dr., 825-1053, staugustine-450/tapestry. The exhibit Tapestry: The Cultural Threads of First America, which explores intertwining cultures of Hispanics, Africans and Native Americans and how they helped form the foundation of American culture, is on display through Oct. 4.
EVENTS
The exhibit ABSTRACT X, featuring works by local abstract artists, including Jane Monroe’s Shipwreck, is on display at Southlight Gallery through Aug. 28, Downtown.
PERFORMANCE
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW 1904 Music Hall presents a production of Richard O’Brien’s 1973 campy classic musical, about an engaged couple in the home of a transvestite mad scientist, who unveils his “Frankenstein”-style beefcake creation, at 8 p.m. Aug. 21 and 22 at 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $25-$35, 1904musichall.com. BEYOND THERAPY Limelight Theatre stages Christopher Durang’s adult-themed romantic comedy, about two loveseeking, neurotic Manhattanites and their nutty shrinks, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20, 21 and 22 and 2 p.m. Aug. 23 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $25; $23 seniors, $20 military/students; through Aug. 30, limelight-theatre.org. HARVEY Charles Shaughnessy (The Nanny) stars in Mary Chase’s 1944, Pulitzer-winning comedy about a small town bachelor and his imaginary friend – a giant rabbit – through Sept. 6. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu is featured; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $35-$55, alhambrajax.com. GYPSY Amelia Musical Playhouse stages the musical about the ultimate stage mother and her two daughters in 1920s America with dreams of making it big, at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20, 21, and 22 at 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, $20; $15 students; through Sept. 5, 277-3455, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.southlight.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
GINA SAPUTO with THE JOHN LUMPKIN TRIO Jazz vocalist Saputo performs with John Lumpkin Trio, 8 p.m. Aug. 21 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, $14; $50 includes champagne toast. THE HOUSE CATS 9:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at The Parlour, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455, grapeandgrainexchange.com. AN EVENING OF 21st CENTURY MUSIC Percussionist Charlotte Mabrey presents her final (sadly!) annual rhythmand-performance concert, featuring Robert Arleigh White, Greg Hersey, Peter Wright, Heather Cotney, and Justin Staub, at 8 p.m. Aug. 22 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu. NATIONAL ARAB ORCHESTRA TAKHT ENSEMBLE Michael Ibrahim directs the National Arab Orchestra Takht Ensemble, with vocalists Usama Baalbaki and Ghada Derbas, 8 p.m. Aug. 22 at The Ramallah American Club, 3130 Parental Home Rd., Southside, 733-5211; $25 tickets; naojax.eventbrite.com. THE COOK TRIO 9:30 p.m. Aug. 22 at The Parlour, grapeandgrainexchange.com.
COMEDY
DON “DC” CURRY Curry, Uncle Elroy from the Friday films, appears 8 p.m. Aug. 20 and 8 and 10 p.m. Aug. 21 and 22 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $20-$25, 292-4242, comedyzone.com. BILLY B Local comic Billy B. cracks wise about his trailer park upbringing, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Aug. 21 and 22 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, $15, 365-5555, latitude360.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
CALL FOR ART St. Augustine Art Association seeks works that reflect St. Augustine’s landscape, people, wildlife, history, and culture for its Celebrate St. Augustine exhibit, opening Sept. 4. All works must have been created in the last three years. Deadline Sept. 2; staaa.org.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
WEDNESDAY MARKET Local produce, arts, crafts, clothing, foods, live music, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aug. 19 and every Wed.
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at St. Johns Pier Park, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Baked goods, preserves, crafts, art, handcrafted jewelry, 4-7 p.m. every Wed., 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, 607-9935. JAXSON’S NIGHT MARKET Street food vendors, craft beer, local farmers, and artisans and crafters, 5:30-9 p.m. Aug. 20 and every third Thur. at Hemming Park, Downtown, facebook. com/JaxsonsNightMarket. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches, open 5-9 p.m. Aug. 20 and every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org. DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts & crafts, local produce, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 14 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, free yoga session 9-10 a.m. – Ronan School of Music, Meredith Rae, Katherine Archer, Nameless and Gudgud starting at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 22 – food artists and a farmers’ row, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.
MUSEUMS
AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. Florida in WWII is on display through September. It Came from the Attic: Local War Memorabilia Collections is on display through November. Open daily; $7 adults, $4 students/active military. AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM Community Center, 1600 Julia St., Fernandina, 277-7960, nassaucountyfl.com/facilities. The Sands of Time: An American Beach Story, celebrating MaVynee Betsch, “The Beach Lady,” is on display. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Hblanton2-Heather & Holly Blanton is on display through Oct. 4. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. Whitfield Lovell: Deep River is on display through Sept. 13. Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River, through Oct. 18. All Together: The Sculpture of Chaim Gross, through Oct. 4. British Watercolors through Nov. 29. Public garden tours 11 a.m. Tue. and Thur. Free admission 4-9 p.m. Tue., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every first Sat. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992. The Addams Family: Part Two is exhibited through Aug. 26. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. Project Atrium: Joelle Dietrick through Oct. 25. Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape, through Aug. 30. In Time We Shall Know Ourselves: The Photographs of Raymond Smith, through Aug. 30. Phil Parker’s Assemblage/ Collage in UNF Gallery, through Aug. 30. Free admission 4-9 p.m. every Thur. through the summer.
GALLERIES
ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. An exhibit of new works by photographer Jay Solomon is on display through August. THE ART CENTER II 229 N. Hogan St., Downtown, 355-1757. Michael Cenci is the featured artist for August. TAC GALLERY AT THE LANDING 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 139, Downtown, 355-1757. Images of Nurture is on display. BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577. The annual garage sale, featuring works by 32 artists at a discount, runs through Aug. 31. C.A.S.K. WINE SHOP & BAR 1049 Park St., Riverside, 568-1828. New prints by Margete Griffin are on display.
CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY BENEFIT GastroJax and The Art Institute of Jacksonville join forces for a fundraising foodie event, Generation Italiano, a family-style dinner benefitting teen mothers in the care of Children’s Home Society of Florida, 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at The Institute, 8775 Baypine Rd., Baymeadows, $45, chsfl.org. JACKSONVILLE SUNS The Suns crank up a homestand against the Mobile BayBears at 7:05 p.m. Aug. 19, Aug. 20 (Thursday Night Throwdown), Aug. 21 (Used Car Giveaway Night) and Aug. 22 (Christmas in August, Bark in the Park, Suns Peppermint Stripe Cap Giveaway). All the action is at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, 301 Randolph Blvd., Downtown. Tickets $7.50-$25.50; 358-2846, jaxsuns.com. FCAP MEETING The First Coast Administrative Professionals Inc. meets at 5:30 p.m. for networking/check-in. Judy DiGeorgio discusses “The Importance of Networking!” 6 p.m. Aug. 20 at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital, 3599 University Blvd. S., Southside; RSVP required, call Ann at 610-2050. PFLAG MEETING PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays) meet for an open discussion 7 p.m. Aug. 20 (share and mingle 8-9 p.m.) at Christ Church of Peace, 1240 S. McDuff Ave., Westside. Bring food products for JASMYN (Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network), which provides non-profit youth services organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth ages 13-23; as well as donations for Necessities for Living, which provides basic needs for those living with HIV/AIDS; 737-3329, pflagjax.org. WOMEN’S CENTER 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The Center holds its 20th anniversary celebration, with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live music, and a silent auction, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at Deerwood Country Club, 10239 Golf Club Dr., Baymeadows, $90; $170 couple; $45 ages up to 35, 722-3000, womenscenterofjax.org. THE GREAT SOUTHERN TAILGATE CLASSIC The sixth annual Tailgate Classic, with live music by Sister Hazel, Marc Broussard, Dumpstaphunk, The Motet, and Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, tailgate-style fare and sports memorabilia, a watermelon-eating contest, kids’ activities, and craft beer tastings, is held Aug. 21 and 22 at Main Beach Park, 2 N. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, $25 weekend pass; $10 Aug. 21 only; schedule and tickets at greatsoutherntailgateclassic.com. JOY MOJA JAM FEST 2015 This festival, with food, craft beer, and live music by The Wobbly Toms, Blood Sugar $ex Magick (Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute), Root of All, and Lonesome Bert & the Skinny Lizards, is held noon-8 p.m. Aug. 23 at Ancient City Brewing, 3420 Agricultural Center Dr., St. Augustine, 429-9654, $20; proceeds benefit Joy Moja, a St. Augustine based nonprofit that sells handmade products made by artisans in Tanzania, to provide educational opportunities and fund projects in their communities. itrulycare.com/events/joy-moja-jam-fest-2015. THE ART GUILD OF ORANGE PARK FUNDRAISER The Guild holds an art sale/fundraiser, offering more than 80 masks created by guild members, 5-7 p.m. Aug. 24 at Park Avenue Bistro, 3535 U.S. 17, Fleming Island; prices range from $20-$200; proceeds benefit the guild and St. Vincent’s Medical Center’s Oct. 23 Corks & Forks masquerade, artguildoforangepark.org, corksandforksclay.com. AMELIA RIVER CRUISES Adult Twilight BYOB Cruises are held every Thur., Fri. and Sat., featuring live music – Mike Ward Aug. 20, Larry LeMier Aug. 21, and Jim Barcaro Aug. 22 – from Amelia River Cruises, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina Beach, 261-9972; for fees and details, go to ameliarivercruises.com. AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS/ALATEEN When you don’t know where to turn because someone drinks too much. Al-Anon and Alateen can help families and friends of alcoholics. Daily meetings in Northeast Florida. 904-350-0600, jaxafg.org. DEPRESSION/BIPOLAR SUPPORT The local chapter of the nonprofit Depression Bipolar Support Alliance meets 6-7:30 p.m. every Tue. at Baptist Hospital Pavilion, fifth floor, Rm. 3, 800 Prudential Dr., Southbank, dbsalliance.org. DAILY EVENTS AT HEMMING PARK Free yoga, group fitness, live music, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown; hemmingpark.org/ hemming-park-events.
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y interview with Shana Cleveland, guitarist for Seattle surf-noir quartet La Luz was conducted in four parts. At different points in the conversation our cellphone connection was lost, a casualty of the no man’s land east of West Texas, where the women — Cleveland (lead vocals), Marian Li Pino (drums), Alice Sandahl (keyboards), and Lena Simon (bass) — had played to a “not-as-crazy-as-other-shows”El-Paso-crowd the night before. There are worse things that could happen to a band on the road. In late 2013, La Luz was involved in a horrendous van accident while on tour in support of their album It’s Alive. The accident, which destroyed the band’s gear and injured the members both physically and mentally, brought the tour to an abrupt end. During our conversation, Cleveland was hesitant to attribute too much of the vibe of the band’s new album, Weirdo Shrine, to the lingering effects of the crash. But she did open up enough to admit that subsequent listens revealed the accident to be “hovering over the record like a phantom.” Cleveland, though, didn’t care to discuss it any further. Which is fine, because, with the way things have gone for the band in the last few months — an extensive North American and European tour, recording in a surfboard shaping bay, a New York Times writeup, and almost universal acclaim for the aforementioned new album — there’s plenty to talk about (if only we can maintain service as the women while through the vast West Texas wasteland). Both on stage and off, La Luz’s timing seems impeccable. California has never been cooler. L.A. is the new Brooklyn, S.F. is the new Manhattan, and New York art galleries, which have long reacted to washed out California aesthetics with upturned noses, have gone surf crazy, featuring art and photography from the SoCal’s classic era. Coincidentally, perhaps, there are a lot of bands — particularly ones hailing from the Pacific Northwest — playing the kind of rock n’ roll that could’ve been included in the score of surf film classics like Ride the Wild Surf (1964) or John Severson’s Big Wednesday (1961).
Though Cleveland — whose brooding and complex lyrics reveal a background in poetry — says it’s all just rock ‘n’ roll, she’s certainly underselling the intricacies of what La Luz is doing with their surf sound. On Weirdo Shrine the quartet deploys haunting harmonies, introspective songwriting, high energy, and a downright mean musicianship, all of which positions them as probably the most interesting of any of the new wave of retro rockers. In between the intervals of dead-air waves, Cleveland talked to Folio Weekly about the new album, California cool, the band’s use of harmonies, recording with garage rocker Ty Segall, and how to crowdsurf with a keyboard.
LA LUZ, BOYTOY, The LIFEFORMS
8 p.m. Aug. 19, Burro Bar, Downtown, $8 advance; $10 at the door
Folio Weekly: Congratulations on the New York Times write up. That’s a big deal. Shana Cleveland: Yeah, thanks. Jason, who works for our label, texted us probably like a week before [it came out] and he was just like “New York Times, Bitches!’’ Has have you been surprised by all the press and the glowing reviews of the new album? I wouldn’t say I was surprised. I think just because we’ve been touring a lot and it’s like every time we go out, I see that we’re reaching more people. It’s been really awesome and I’m really excited by it, but I wouldn’t say I’m surprised. There seem to be a lot of bands right now playing kind of retro-style garage rock, with a lot of California influence. Do you guys see yourselves as part of a scene? I think there is a scene. Kind of a loose scene, but yeah, definitely on the West Coast there are a few bands that have that vibe. A lot of bands that draw from garage rock and use vocal harmonies, which can have a retro sound. But, I don’t really like the word retro
to be honest [laughs]. It feels like it implies you’re trying to be something that you’re not. I think with a lot of that music, especially surf music, there’s a guitar tone and a lot of drum beats that are just basically rock ‘n’ roll. It’s all just rock ’n’ roll. Do you think there is something about ‘50s/’60s California aesthetics that is appealing to this generation? I don’t know why it would be particularly appealing right now, but to me, yeah, midsixties California beach culture: that sounds like pretty much the best thing ever. [laughs]. It seems like kind of a no brainer. Who doesn’t wanna be on the beach in California at a time when the music was that good? In what ways did Ty Segall leave his mark on the record? The big thing that was different [than the last album] was that he really made an effort to make a recording that felt live and captured the live energy of the band. So we recorded it all in one room and he paid a lot of attention to capturing how all the instruments all sounded together. One of the things that really stood out on this record is the use of harmonies. As a group you use them quite dynamically. Is everybody contributing and is that something that came natural to your voices? Yeah all four of us sing on almost every song. It takes practice, but everybody in the band just seems to be naturally really good at it. But, yeah it was really important to us that everybody could contribute to that sound. Let’s talk about the stage diving. Who is crowd surfing and how did that get started? Everybody is doing it! We started doing it when we went on the road with Ty. He told us the first person who jumped into the crowd with their instrument would get a hundred bucks. Since then we’ve all done it. Although I don’t think Alice has. You can’t crowd surf with a keyboard. Or I guess you can, but we haven’t figured it out yet. Matthew B. Shaw mshaw@folioweekly.com AUGUST 19-25, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25
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Google search of Will Sprott yields a rather peculiar guy. With a haircut that lies somewhere between a mod and Lloyd Christmas and a speaking voice with an overly tempered cadence, you imagine that you’re going to get a bit of a jocular shtick — his music is anything but. There is that old-soul presence to his sound, down to every detail. From the sparse arrangements and reverb-heavyy guitar sounds of ’50s rockers to o old-school R&B phrasing, earnestness, tneesss, and female back-up -u up singers, his sound d iiss soulful, captivating, and has a h haunting d even h i quality to it in a manner similar to Lee Hazlewood’s music. He was part of an indie folk collective called The Mumlers before going solo. There are similar threads, but The Mumlers were more on the rock side and had additional instrumentation. Sprott is touring in support of his new album, Vortex Numbers, out on Hairdo Records. Sprott rolls into Northeast Florida for two shows this week, on Aug. 21 at Shanghai Nobby’s and Aug. 22 at rain dogs. While he was on the road, Will Sprott answered some of our questions, riffing on his current fave jams, his dream band, and his hope of summoning Kool-Aid Man.
I’M AN OLD SOUL
WILL SPROTT injects the indie scene with a much-needed shot of retro vibes and tender balladry “What Are Those Th (With Black “Wh A “W Thiings (Wi h Big Bi Bl k Wings)” by Roger Miller and “Ripped Open By Metal Explosions” by Galt MacDermot. To what three inanimate objects would you equate the sound of your music? A rubber rat toy, disco ball, and a wig with matted hair. What was the inspiration behind the material on Vortex Numbers? I think a lot of the songs are about me knocking my head against things in my life that I don’t like or that I can’t understand and trying to find some beautiful hidden passageway through things that seem messy and brutal.
Folio Weekly: Your music has rich throwback elements that WILL SPROTT, LIFEFORMS, hark back to several genres Why did you decide to THE ARGONAUTS and artists. Is this shaped by release the album on Hairdo 9 p.m. Aug. 21, Shanghai personal proclivities, your Records? Nobby’s, St. Augustine, 547-2188 folks’ record collection, or Hairdo is my label. I something else? would have put it out WILL SPROTT, MOUTH Will Sprott: I like raw on something bigger if READER, GOV CLUB music and recordings where somebody wanted to but I 9 p.m. Aug. 22, rain dogs., you can imagine it being didn’t have anybody offering Riverside, 379-4969 played in a room or you can to do that and I don’t like hear mistakes or the tempo trying to sell myself. I shifting as the people get like having the label and I more excited. I guess that’s why I gravitate to anticipate I will continue to release things in older music. I was definitely around a lot of all sorts of formats by artists I like, at a very soul music growing up because that’s what slow rate, forever. my mom’s record collection was, but I guess I got into old rock ’n’ roll and weird ancient If you could collaborate with any band or folk recordings on my own just as a nerdy musician, who would it be? The California Raisins as the band and teenager digging around in record stores. then three clones of the singer Wendy Rene singing harmonies, with George Harrison Is the creative process as a solo artist different playing guitar. for you than it was as a part of The Mumlers? For me, it’s not very different. I still just try to What is Will Sprott’s spirit animal? write songs that I think are cool and play them Shaggy Dog. with my friends. What can we expect at a live Will Sprott performance? Solo? Full band? Costume changes? I’m touring with a full band. We’re a trio this time around. I keep hoping Kool-Aid Man will burst through a wall in the middle of a show. Maybe that will happen. What’s your current “Oh Girl, That’s My Jam” jam?
Have you played in Jacksonville before? I’ve never played in Florida before. Every tour I’ve ever been on has skipped Florida, so we were really excited to play there this time. We very deliberately scheduled a bunch of Florida shows because we’re excited to play there. We have six Florida shows! Brenton Crozier mail@folioweekly.com AUGUST 19-25, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27
DAN ANDRIANO IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM (pictured), the side project of Alkaline Trio bassist Andriano, performs with SPRAYNARD and PET SYMMETRY at Colonial Quarter Aug. 25, St. Augustine.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish
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Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. DENNY BLUE 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at Paula’s Beachside Grill, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463. Music by the Sea: AMY ALYSIA & THE SOUL OPERATION Dinner BY Red Salt Life Food Shack at 6 p.m.; concert 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. LA LUZ, BOYTOY, The LIFEFORMS 8 p.m. Aug. 19 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, $8 advance; $10 at the door. ROB THOMAS, PLAIN WHITE T’s 6 p.m. Aug. 20 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $43-$93. “3” THE BAND 7 p.m. Aug. 20 at Ragtime Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. TIM McGRAW, BILLY CURRINGTON, CHASE BRYANT 7 p.m. Aug. 20 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 603-3900, $30.75-$60.75. THE BAND BE EASY 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Drive, Orange Park, 276-6750, $53-$84. BERES HAMMOND 8 p.m. Aug. 20 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $33.50-$72. Great Southern Tailgate Classic: SISTER HAZEL, MARC BROUSSARD, DUMPSTAPHUNK, THE MOTET, YO MAMA’S BIG FAT BOOTY BAND Aug. 21-22, Main Beach Park, 2 N. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, $25 weekend pass; $10 Aug. 21 only; for schedule and to score tickets, go to greatsoutherntailgateclassic.com. Reunion Campout Concert Series: STRATOSPHERE ALLSTARS, SIR CHARLES, ZOOGMA, GREENHOUSE LOUNGE X2, DYNO HUNTER, VLAD the INHALER, MZG, S.P.O.R.E., BELLS & ROBES, MATTHEW CONNOR and others Aug. 21 & 22 at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park & Campground, 3076 95th Dr., Live Oak, $60; for schedule and tickets, go to musicliveshere.com. WILL SPROTT, LIFEFORMS, The ARGONAUTS 9 p.m. Aug. 21 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188. DENNY BLUE 5 p.m. Aug. 21 at Milltop Tavern & Listening Room, 19 1/2 St. George St., St. Augustine, 829-2329. RICHARD GILEWITZ 7:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. WEBEUNTITLED, JIVE KATZ, STAKZ, O.A.B., TMR, FLASH the SAMURAI, KAKAROT ROI V, ELLA X FORREIGN, AP COLEY 8 p.m. Aug. 21, Burro Bar. DEMUN JONES, CHRIS WOODS 8 p.m. Aug. 21 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $15 advance; $20 day of. YANCY CLEGG, RACHAEL WARFIELD 8 p.m. Aug. 21 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8 advance; $10 day of. DJ BABY ANNE: THE BASS QUEEN 9 p.m. Aug. 21 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186. DANKA 9:30 p.m. Aug. 21 at Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. BRITE SIDE BAND10 p.m. Aug. 21 & 22 at Flying Iguana,
207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. OVERDRIVE 10 p.m. Aug. 21 & 22 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611. BOOGIE FREAKS 10 p.m. Aug. 21 & 22, Ragtime Tavern. Riverside Arts Market: RONAN SCHOOL of MUSIC, MEREDITH RAE, KATHERINE ARCHER, NAMELESS, GUDGUD 10:30 a.m. Aug. 22 at 715 Riverside Ave., 3892449. WILL SPROTT, MOUTH READER, GOV CLUB 9 p.m. Aug. 22 at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969. DENNY BLUE 4 p.m. Aug. 22 at Scarlett O’Hara’s, 70 Hypolita St., St. Augustine, 824-6535. DAVID SCOTT POOLER 7:30 p.m. Aug. 22, Mudville Music Room, $10. HOR!ZEN, JAHMEN, BIGFOOT BAREFOOT, MR. LOW 8 p.m. Aug. 22, Freebird Live, $8 advance; $10 day of. ORION, ECTO 8 p.m. Aug. 22, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. GET IT HOT 8:30 p.m. Aug. 22, Latitude 360. TWIN TRANCES 9 p.m. Aug. 22 at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222. CHILLULA 9:30 p.m. Aug. 22, Whiskey Jax. Second Annual Joy Moja Jam Fest 2015: The WOBBLY TOMS, BLOOD SUGAR $EX MAGICK (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS TRIBUTE), ROOT of ALL, LONESOME BERT & the SKINNY LIZARDS Noon-8 p.m. Aug. 23 at Ancient City Brewing, 3420 Agricultural Center Dr., St. Augustine, 4299654, itrulycare.com/events/joy-moja-jam-fest-2015, $20. FUTURE PREZIDENTS 4 p.m. Aug. 23 at Nippers Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-3300. MONKEY WRENCH 7 p.m. Aug. 23, Ragtime Tavern. LEISURE CRUISE, DANCING with GHOSTS 8 p.m. Aug. 24, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $13 day of. DAN ANDRIANO in the EMERGENCY ROOM, SPRAYNARD, PET SYMMETRY 5 p.m. Aug. 25 at Colonial Quarter, 33 St. George St., St. Augustine, 342-2857, $12 advance; $15 day of. DONAVON FRANKENREITER, CODY SIMPSON 8 p.m. Aug. 25, Freebird Live, $20. JASON & the PUNKNECKS 10 p.m. Aug. 25, Burro Bar, $5. Music by the Sea: THOSE GUYS Dinner by Viola’s 6 p.m.; concert 7 p.m. Aug. 26 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
SUNDY BEST, CHRIS WOODS, JESSE MONTOYA Aug. 27, Jack Rabbits The OUTLAWS, BLACKHAWK Aug. 28, The Florida Theatre TRIBAL SEEDS, The EXPANDERS, ARISE ROOTS Aug. 28, Mavericks at The Landing STEVE FORBERT TRIO Aug. 29, Mudville Music Room SILVERSEL Aug. 29, Jack Rabbits GRABBAG, STATUS FAUX, THE LAST ONES Aug. 29, Burro Bar RICK SPRINGFIELD, LOVERBOY, The ROMANTICS Aug. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre FIELD GRAY, A VIBRANT LIE Aug. 30, Jack Rabbits I-RESOLUTION Aug. 30, Nippers Beach Grille THE OH WHALES Aug. 31, Jack Rabbits
ALICE COOPER Sept. 1, The Florida Theatre THE NIGHTMARE POLICE Sept. 2, Jack Rabbits GYMSHORTS, MEMPHIBIANS Sept. 2, Burro Bar SICKMARK, CONSTRAINT, WORSEN Sept. 3, Shantytown Pub NORTHE, RATSMOUTH, SUNSPOTS, STRONG GUYS Sept. 4, Jack Rabbits GYM SHORTS, BEN KATZMAN DEGREASER, PARTY FLAG Sept. 4, Shanghai Nobby’s AARON NEVILLE Sept. 4, St. Johns County Fairgrounds ELONZO WESLEY, MATTEO QUIMENTO Sept. 4, Burro Bar PONCHO SANCHEZ Sept. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum PANDA ELLIOT Sept. 5, Burro Bar GUTLESS, CONSENT, THE SLAM BRIGADE Sept. 6, Shantytown Pub JAHFE Sept. 6, Nippers Beach Grille WHITMAN, NIGHT AUDITOR Sept. 8, Burro Bar HUSKY BUNDLES Sept. 8, Shantytown Pub GWAR, BUTCHER BABIES, BATTLECROSS Sept. 9, Freebird Live DOYLE BRAMHALL II Sept. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall FAUX FEROCIOUS, RIVERNECKS, TEENAGE LOBOTOMY Sept. 11, Shanghai Nobby’s LOVE AND THEFT Sept. 11, Mavericks at the Landing RICHARD SHINDELL Sept. 12, The Original Café Eleven JOSH ABBOTT BAND Sept. 12, Mavericks at the Landing JE DOUBLE F, SLEEP BEGGAR, LAKE DISNEY Sept. 12, Burro Bar The Scream “Back 2 School” Fest: RICH HOMIE QUAN, K. CAMP, JACQUEES, DIGGY, JUSTIN SKYE, SILENTO, ELIJAH BLAKE, RAWYALS, ANTHONY LEWIS, CHRIS MILES, 4EY, STAR MIC, DJ DOUBLE J Sept. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena JAHMEN Sept. 13, Nippers Beach Grille THEE OH SEES, GOLDEN PELICANS, WAYLON THORNTON & the HEAVY HANDS Sept. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DAVID LEIBE HART, DIG DOG, The VULGARIANS Sept. 16, Underbelly ROXY ROCA Sept. 16, Jack Rabbits LUKE BRYAN, RANDY HOUSER, DUSTIN LYNCH Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena RUNAWAY GIN Sept. 18, Freebird Live DE LIONS OF JAH Sept. 20, Nippers Beach Grille NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS Sept. 21, Shantytown Pub THAT 1 GUY Sept. 22, Jack Rabbits REO SPEEDWAGON Sept. 24, The Florida Theatre DELBERT McCLINTON Sept. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall HELMET Sept. 25, Jack Rabbits BRITTANY SHANE Sept. 25, Mudville Music Room CLAY WALKER Sept. 26, Mavericks at the Landing I-VIBES Sept. 27, Nippers Beach Grille Folio Weekly’s Bonnabrew: TOMBOI, The DAYGOS, LATIN PEOPLE TIME, FJORD EXPLORER Sept. 27, Riverside Arts Market NOTHING MORE, The MARMOZETS, TURBOWOLF Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits RECKLESS SERENADE Sept. 29, Jack Rabbits HOUNDMOUTH Sept. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOOKER T. JONES Oct. 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum JERROD NIEMANN Oct. 3, Mavericks at the Landing DR. JOHN & THE NITE TRIPPERS Oct. 4, P.Vedra Concert
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC YANNI Feb. 3, T-U Center for the Performing Arts WHO’S BAD: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Feb. 5, The Florida Theatre ALAN PARSONS PROJECT GREATEST HITS TOUR with JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Feb. 10, The Florida Theatre PATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS, ANAIS MITCHELL Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre THE JAMES HUNTER SIX Feb. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, Ritz Theatre & Museum MICHAEL FELDMAN’S WHAD’YA KNOW? LIVE! Feb. 20, The Florida Theatre ADAM TRENT Feb. 21, The Florida Theatre GARY CLARK, JR. Feb. 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BLACK VIOLIN March 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum ROGER McGUINN March 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JANET JACKSON March 8, Veterans Memorial Arena FRANK SINATRA JR. March 9, The Florida Theatre JOHNNY CLEGG AND HIS BAND March 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, Ritz Theatre CELTIC NIGHTS: SPIRIT of FREEDOM April 6, Florida Theatre NAJEE April 9, Ritz Theatre & Museum LET IT BE: A Celebration of the Music of The Beatles April 10, The Florida Theatre ELLIS PAUL May 13, The Original Café Eleven
Atlanta, Georgia-based rockers TWIN TRANCES perform at Shantytown Pub on Aug. 22, Northside.
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
Hall AMELIA ISLAND JAZZ FEST Oct. 8-15, Fernandina Beach TORO Y MOI, ASTRONAUTS Oct. 8, Freebird Live SALAD BOYS Oct. 8, rain dogs THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Oct. 9, Colonial Quarter ANI DiFRANCO Oct. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS Oct. 10, Ritz Theatre BONZ (Stuck Mojo), A.M.M. Oct. 10, Jack Rabbits The VIBRATORS, CONCRETE ANIMALS, The WASTEDIST Oct. 11, Jack Rabbits FRED HAMMOND & DONNIE McCLURKIN Oct. 11, Veterans Memorial Arena The Princess Bride: An Evening with CARY ELWES Oct. 11, The Florida Theatre NEW FOUND GLORY, YELLOWCARD, TIGERS JAW Oct. 13, Mavericks The WINERY DOGS Oct. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NOAH GUNDERSON Oct. 14, Colonial Quarter BUDDY GUY, SHEMEKIA COPELAND Oct. 14, Florida Theatre CHRIS TOMLIN, REND COLLECTIVE Oct. 16, Vets Mem Arena BO BURNHAM Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre SUZANNE VEGA Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The SENSES, The PHILTERS Oct. 16, Jack Rabbits DEF LEPPARD, FOREIGNER, NIGHT RANGER Oct. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena DEBORAH HENSON-CONANT Oct. 17, P. Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE BIG TOWN, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Oct. 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND Oct. 22, The Florida Theatre JASON ALDEAN, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DEE JAY SILVER Oct. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena Gnar Stars: FREE WEED, UNKLE FUNKLE, COLLEEN GREEN Oct. 22, Shanghai Nobby’s TAB BENOIT Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MARCIA BALL & her BAND, AMY SPEACE Oct. 23, P.V. Concert Hall MARK KNOPFLER Oct. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre KEPI GHOULI, MEAN JEANS, LIFEFORMS (AS NIRVANA) Oct. 29, rain dogs TWO COW GARAGE, The MUTTS Oct. 29, Jack Rabbits LEE BAINES III & THE GLORY FIRES, PUJOL, ELECTRIC WATER Oct. 31, Burro Bar BOZ SCAGGS Nov. 4, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre LEFTOVER SALMON Nov. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE Nov. 6, The Florida Theatre PRONG, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits ALL HANDS on DECK Nov. 8, The Florida Theatre REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits SLOW MAGIC Nov. 11, The Original Café Eleven ADRIAN LEGG, DAVID LINDLEY Nov. 12, P.Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Nov. 12, Mavericks at the Landing BLENDED BREW Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits AMERICA Nov. 13, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts JAKE SHIMABUKURO Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GABRIEL IGLESIAS Nov. 13, The Florida Theatre STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 17, The Florida Theatre The DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND, NEW BREED BRASS BAND Nov. 21, Ritz Theatre & Museum This is Not a Test Tour: TOBYMAC, BRITT NICOLE, COLTON DIXON, HOLLYN Nov. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena SCOTT BRADLEE’S Postmodern Jukebox Nov. 28, Florida Theatre RONNIE MILSAP Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre CRAIG FERGUSON Nov. 30, The Florida Theatre DAVE KOZ CHRISTMAS TOUR Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre LUCERO Dec. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
NICHOLAS PAYTON Dec. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum KANSAS Dec. 6, The Florida Theatre LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Dec. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BRIAN REGAN Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre MATISYAHU Dec. 18 & 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KIDZ BOP LIVE Dec. 18, The Florida Theatre MICHAEL McDONALD Dec. 19, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts The TEN TENORS Dec. 22, The Florida Theatre SOJA Jan. 1, The Florida Theatre JOHN SEBASTIAN Jan. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHRISTIAN McBRIDE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre & Museum The TEMPTATIONS, The FOUR TOPS Jan. 21, Florida Theatre SHAWN COLVIN Jan. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOHNNY MATHIS Jan. 31, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Jan. 31, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores 9 p.m. every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance at 9 p.m. every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns, 388-0200 Dustin Bradley Aug. 20. Live music every Thur.-Sat.
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
ESPETO, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884 Steve & Carlos Aug. 20 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Bch, 853-5680 Brite Side Band 10 p.m. Aug. 21 & 22. Ryan Crary Aug. 23 FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Yancy Clegg, Rachael Warfield Aug. 21. Hor!zen, Jahmen, Bigfoot Barefoot, Mr. Low Aug. 22. Donovan Frankenreiter, Cody Simpson Aug. 25 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Scott Verville Aug. 19. Live music 9 p.m. Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Sun. Back From the Brink 9 p.m. every Mon. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Daygos Aug. 21 & 22 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 3 Aug. 19. Catfish Alliance Aug. 20. Ivey West Aug. 21 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., N.B., 249-5573 Neil Dixon every Tue. Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Future Prezidents Aug. 23 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., A.B., 241-7877 3 the Band Aug. 20. Boogie Freaks Aug. 21 & 22. Monkey Wrench Aug. 23. Live music Thur.-Sun. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., N.B., 247-4508 Bill Rice 9:30 p.m. Aug. 21 WORLD OF BEER, 311 N. Third St., 372-9698 Continuum Aug. 21
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. The Rocky Horror Show Aug. 21 & 22 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. La Luz, Boytoy, The Lifeforms 8 p.m. Aug. 19. Sink Tapes, Dig Dog Aug. 20. Webeuntitled, Jive Katz, Stakz, O.A.B., TMR, Flash the Samurai, KAKAROT ROI V, Ella X Forreign, AP Coley Aug. 21. Jason & the Punknecks Aug. 25 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 BlackJack every Wed. DJ Brandon every Thur. DJs spin dance music every Fri. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall 9 p.m. Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Aug. 19 & 23. 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Aug. 21. Ace Winn 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Aug. 22 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Hipp Street 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Aug. 21. Jay Garrett 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Aug. 22. 418 Band 4-9 p.m. Aug. 23 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay, 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Clay Walker 6 p.m.
BACK FROM THE “GRAV”
I’VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME LATELY listening to John Zorn. Emphasis on a lot. Next to my extensive (read: nerdily exhaustive) Zappa collection, my Zorn library boasts the most pieces of any other artist in my massive music trove. In this diverse Zorn assemblage, there’s one album I and my 8-year-old daughter have been immersing ourselves in: Early Recordings 1973. Capturing Zorn in his developmental stages — his late teens — Early Years finds Zorn spitting through paper towel tubes, recording bits from the television, screaming and coughing, blasting his soon-to-be infamous duck calls and engaging in all manner of synthesizer and noise experimentation. My kid finds it humorous on a purely aesthetic level while asking questions about why such a young person would involve himself in such musical frivolity. The conversations we had brought me back to my early years in the late ’70s, when I would take Van Halen records and record two- or threesecond snippets and splice them onto cassette tape to create a half-hour sound collage. Or I would disassemble an electric guitar’s pickups while the amp to which the guitar was connected was turned all the way up, creating monstrous feedback swells and hums. Too often musicians forget about what made them, and this nostalgia for my own formative years brought me back to a CD released in 2003 by Jacksonville-based experimental musician Jay Peele. I’ve worked with Peele over the years, most notably with world lounge ensemble Tropic of Cancer and hardcore rockabilly band Barnyard. He’s also been at the helm of his own projects, most recently the avant-garde noise duo Cellular
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Aug. 22. Tribal Seeds, The Expanders, Arise Roots Aug. 28. Joe Buck, DJ Justin Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 DJ Baby Anne Aug. 21
FLEMING ISLAND
WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music every Fri. & Sat. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. every Thur. Deck music every Fri., Sat. & Sun.
INTRACOASTAL WEST
CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Highway Jones Aug. 19 JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Spectra Aug. 21. Retro Kats 8:30 p.m. Aug. 22
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
DAVE’S MUSIC BAR & GRILL, 9965 San Jose, 575-4935 Blues Jam Aug. 21 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine, 880-3040 Open jam Blues Monday 7 p.m. every Mon. SAUCY TACO, 450 S.R. 13, 287-8226 Stu Weaver Aug. 21
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
CLUB RETRO, 1241 Blanding Blvd., 579-4731 ’70s & ’80s dance 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DJ Capone every Wed. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael Tue.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Chilly Rhino Aug. 22. Live music every Sat. DJ Tammy Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Overdrive 10 p.m. Aug. 21 & 22. Live music 10 p.m. Wed. DJ Big Mike 10 p.m. Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grill, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Billy Bowers Aug. 19. Gary Starling Aug. 20. Way Back Wednesday Aug. 21. The Skinny Aug. 26.
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Baked Potatoes 10 p.m. Aug. 19. Happy Faced Mistakes Aug. 22 MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood S., 388-7807 Eshon Burgundy, Big Fil, Neek Smif Aug. 22
Terror. But the album I’m focusing on here is Peele’s GravYard Tales, a strange and wonderful mashup of Peele’s home recordings circa 1980 and ambient synth compositions created in the mid-’90s through the mid-2000s. Beginning with a white-noise swell, we hear Jay as a prepubescent tour guide inviting us into a haunted mansion, creepy delay added for maximum effect. He, the tour guide, will return again and again throughout the album, hosting a psychedelic trip into the dark and mysterious. “The House” begins the journey proper, a repeating synth pulse setting the drone-y tone while atonal bells and bluesy guitar lines peek in here and there. Peele creakily opens the door and send us headlong into “The House,” followed by the drumand-bass electronic of “Coming to Life,” which features tiny Peele’s voice samples of scary laughter and Bela Lugosi-style commentary. Think Aphex Twin meets ’50s camp horror. “Cellar” is especially fun, as kid Peele gets a full minute of horror chat over a sci-fi loop, complete with him imitating creaking and slamming doors, yowling cats, footfalls, heart beats, and ghost moans. “Bottled Ghost” is a similar piece, with our intrepid narrator describing the approach of an unbottled ghost that has … “GOTCHA!” “Medusa” continues, with the young Peele (now with pseudo-British accent) leading us to the lair of the titular beast. He is, as he tells us, the only one who can look her in the eye. Oh, and watch out for her bow and arrow. And so goes our adventure, bouncing from narration to electronic experimentation, and so on until we come to the penultimate track, “The Haunted Boy,” a mellow percussive-acoustic guitar piece, possibly the only piece on the album
RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Will Sprott, Mouth Reader, Gov Club 9 p.m. Aug. 22. Live music most weekends RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Katherine Archer, Nameless, Gudgud, Ronan School of Music, Meredith Rae 10:30 a.m. Aug. 22
ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Chillula Aug. 21. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Aug. 22. Vinny Jacobs Aug. 23 MILL TOP TAVERN, 19 St. George St., 829-2329 Divinity Gate 9 p.m. Aug. 21. Wild Shiners Aug. 22. Denny Blue 1 p.m. Aug. 21 PAULA’S GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Denny Blue open mic jam 6-9 p.m. Aug. 19 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Will Sprott, Lifeforms 9 p.m. Aug. 21 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky Aug. 21 & 22. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Demun Jones, Chris Woods Aug. 21. Orion, Ecto Aug. 22. Leisure Cruise, Dancing with Ghosts Aug. 24. Sundy Best, Chris Woods, Jesse Montoya Aug. 27. MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Richard Gielwitz 7:30 p.m. Aug. 21. David Scott Pooler Aug. 22 THE PARLOUR, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455 Live music most weekends
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS, ARLINGTON LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 DJ Trdmrk, XHale Aug. 19. Be Easy, DJ Fellin Aug. 20. Get It Hot Aug. 22. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Darren Corlew Aug. 21. Samuel Sanders Aug. 22 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 The Chase Aug. 19. Danka 9:30 p.m. Aug. 21. Chillula 9 p.m. Aug. 22. Melissa Smith open mic Thur. Mojo Roux Blues every Sun. Kassyli country jam every Mon. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 DLo Thompson Aug. 20. Continuum Aug. 22
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Russ T Nutz Aug. 20. Twin Trances 9 p.m. Aug. 22 THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Chasing Jonah Aug. 21
THE KNIFE
THE KNIFE
that might qualify as a “song.” It’s disarmingly beautiful, Michael Hedgeseque in its structure on timbre, and quite musical, despite its electronic surroundings. It slowly fades into the last rack, “End of the Tour,” during which Peele bids us farewell with a spooky howl and a Looney Tunesstyle coda. All good fun, lending insight into the early work of a local musical madman. Of special note is the CD’s booklet, full of Peele’s crayon drawings: robots and monsters, headstones and corpses, secret labs and even Satan. The Polaroid of Peele in a Dracula costume in 1981 is a riot. The album is currently available on iTunes, and Peele says he’ll be reissuing the CD in time for Halloween. It’ll make a great soundtrack for your front-yard Halloween displays. I, for one, would love to see a literal reconstruction of the tour in real time, complete with the bow-andarrow-wielding Medusa. Whaddaya say, Jay? John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com
Fresh tacos and seafood (with a little tequila on the side) are the order of the day at Jax Beach's Surfing Sombreros. Photo by Dennis Ho
DINING DIRECTORY AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. F Southwestern fare made-to-order fresh; burritos, tacos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. FSouthern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo. com. F Family-owned spot in historic building. Veggie burgers, seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub next door. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY CO., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F BOJ winner. Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/ vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S AT THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. 7th St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F BOJ winner. Authentic Northernstyle pizzas, 20-plus toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F The bakery, near the historic district, offers sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels and breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PI INFINITE COMBINATIONS, 19 S. Third St., 432-8535, pi32034.wix.com/piinfinite. It’s all bar service at New York-style pizza joint. Specialty pizzas, by the pie or huge
slice, topped with sliced truffle mushrooms, whole little neck clams, eggs or shrimp. Dine in or in the courtyard, with fountain. $$ BW TO L D Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish, duck breast. Outside. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F BOJ winner. Secondstory outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront; handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.
PINEGROVE MARKET & DELI, 1511 Pine Grove Ave., 3898655, pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ winner. 40-plus years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK. THE STEAKHOUSE @ GOLD CLUB, 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500, jacksonvillegoldclub.com. BOJ winner. Lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffets Thur. & Fri. $$$ FB L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386. Premium ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in a Florida-centric décor. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20-plus years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
To get your restaurant listed here, just call your account manager or Sam Taylor at 904.260.9770 ext. 111 or staylor@folioweekly.com.
DINING DIRECTORY KEY
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com. 2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F BOJ winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. A variety of curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 7377740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows, Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Family-owned Thai place serves traditional fare, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium, gluten-free, too. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. TEQUILA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. F The new place has authentic Mexican fare, made daily with freshes t ingredients. Vegetarian dishes; daily drink specials. Nonstop happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. New bistro has local craft beers, wines by the glass or bottle, champagne cocktails. Meatloaf sandwiches, pulled Peruvian chicken, homestyle vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO D Tue.-Sat. WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. New gastropub has craft beers, burgers, handhelds, tacos, whiskey. $$ FB L D Sat. & Sun.; D Daily.
BEACHES
(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F New York-style, gourmet
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DINING DIRECTORY pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. F BOJ winner. Subs made with fresh ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884, espetosteakhouse.com. Just relocated, serving beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage; full menu, bar fare, craft cocktails, Brazilian beers. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 F Latin American, Southwest tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100-plus tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine inside or out, patio, courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO.
SURFWICHES SANDWICH SHOP, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. New craft sandwich shop boasts Yankee-style steaks and hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. THE CANDY APPLE CAFÉ & COCKTAILS, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafe.com. Sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun. CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare for 35-plus years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. The homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket. com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri. SWEET PETE’S, 400 N. Hogan St., 376-7161. F Allnatural sweet shop has candy made of all natural flavors, no artificial anything. Several kinds of honey. $ TO Daily ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Wed.-Sat. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.
GRILL ME!
CHARLES KAMBACK
Beech Street Bar & Grill, 801 Beech St., Fernandina Beach
BIRTHPLACE: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania YEARS IN THE BIZ: 6 FAVORITE RESTAURANT: Le Bernardin, New York City BEST CUISINE STYLE: French, with a twist GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Scallops, plugrà, veal stock, morel mushrooms IDEAL MEAL: Seared scallops, maple pork belly, mozzarella balloons, beef cheek risotto WON’T CROSS MY LIPS: Lutefisk – tried it, hated it. INSIDER’S SECRET: Instead of thinking outside the box, pretend there is no box. CELEBRITY SIGHTING HERE: Everyone’s a celebrity here. CULINARY TREAT: 5-year-old gouda, dry-aged wagyu ribeye, bottle of Belle Glos Meiomi.
MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean spot, 20-plus years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside, on patio. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F BOJ winner. Pulled pork, beef, chicken, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300, nippersbeachgrille.com. The chef-driven Southern coastal cuisine has local fare and dishes with a Caribbean flavor, served in an island atmosphere on the ICW. Dine inside or on Tiki deck. $$ FB K L D Wed.-Sun.; D Mon. & Tue. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. Gastropub, 50-plus beers, gourmet hamburgers, ground in-house, cooked to order; hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30-plus years, iconic seafood place has served blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ winner. Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & OYSTER BAR, 218 First St., Neptune Beach, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille. com. Popular beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. BOJ winner. 20-plus beers on tap, TVs, cheerleaders. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily SURFING SOMBRERO, 222 First St. N., 834-9377. New place serves authentic items diners can enjoy gazing at the Atlantic Ocean – like paella. Drink specials. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily
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GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfishcamp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S WINGS & GRILLE, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-ownedand-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-nite menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
MANDARIN, JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES.
ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 7331199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10391 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-7087. F BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Traditional diner fare: oversized pancakes and
DINING DIRECTORY bacon, sandwiches, salads and burgers. $ K TO B L Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. Allnatural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. Casual, family-friendly eatery serves pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, burgers, pasta, plus gluten-free-friendly items. $ FB K L D Daily
sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS Asian Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 5080342, hawkerstreetfare.com. BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. One word: Reuben. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617 Locally-owned, family-run shop; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd.,
779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, chicken, ribs. Sides: beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F BOJ winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire.com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas. Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily
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AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies. com. BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes; tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES. BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American with a Southern twist; locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. F BOJ winner. Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfive points.com. F Local craft beer, espresso, coffee and wine bar. Rotating drafts, 75-plus canned craft beers; sodas, tea. Rotating seasonal menu of waffles, pastries, toasts, desserts to pair with specialty coffees, craft beers. $$ BW K B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco. com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily. DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343. New American cuisine, upscale retro atmosphere in historic landmark building. Shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Weekend brunch. B, L D Tue.-Sun. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., Murray Hill, 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. BOJ winner. For 68-plus years, the full-service bakery has served fresh from-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, legendary custom cakes. Espresso and pastry café has sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. BOJ winner. 130-plus imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style Reuben, sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F BOJ winner. Juice bar; certified organic fruits, vegetables. 300-plus craft/import beers, 50 wines, produce, humanely raised meats, deli, raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. Wraps,
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ORANGE PARK
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Circle, 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 1803 East West Parkway, Fleming Island, 375-2559. BOJ winner. This NASCAR-themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings. The menu also features half-pound burgers, ribs and salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club. com. Southern-style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 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 Springs, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F With locations all over Northeast Florida, Larry’s Giant Subs is known for piling subs high and serving ’em fast for 33 years. In addition to a wide selection of hot and cold subs, Larry’s has soups and salads. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. And a new Larry’s opens soon in Fernandina. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. SNACSHACK, 179 College Dr., Ste. 19, 682-7622, snacshack.menu. F The new bakery and café offers bagels, muffins, breads, cookies, brownies and snack treats. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily
KING STREET TALKS THAI Locally owned Thai fave is a welcome addition to the revitalized KING STREET DISTRICT
Padt Kee Mau has traditional holy basil, as IN 1979, LEK AND RUDY CLAYTON CAME TO opposed to an American basil often used at other Jacksonville and started a tiny Asian food store Thai restaurants. The Padt Kee Mau is a spicy with an adjacent café on Atlantic Boulevard. The version of the well-known Padt Thai – a mix of Claytons did so well that they decided to serve rice noodles, bean sprouts, peanuts, scallions, dishes created from traditional Thai recipes in a and eggs. I ordered it with chicken ($12.50), at larger capacity. Thus was born PATTAYA THAI a medium spiciness level. After the first bite, I on Baymeadows Road in 1989, a family-ownedrealized I could’ve handled the “hot” level, though and-operated restaurant that, just last month, probably not “crazy.” Feeling adventurous? You spawned a second location on King Street. can pay an additional $2 to scorch your throat … Pattaya on King is smaller than the original I mean, to spice up a dish with a blend of ghost one, but the outdoor seating gives diners the chance for some fine King Street people-watching. pepper, scorpion pepper, and Carolina Reaper, which Chef Russ grows in his backyard, along And the new place gets along well with its with many other herbs. The “crazy” spice level neighbors, particularly Nourish Juice Café and is so insanely hot, diners have to sign a waiver Southern Roots Filling Station, which both before venturing to that blazing zenith. incorporate fresh, vegan, and gluten-free options. The tangy Padt Kee Mau was so delicious, Owner/Chef Russell Clayton explained that Thai I ate it with a fork. At most Asian restaurants, fare easily accommodates vegan and gluten-free I pretend I know how to use chopsticks, but diets – so Pattaya has found its niche in Riverside. this dish was too good Chef Russ grew up cooking to be eaten slowly and with his parents, learning at PATTAYA THAI ON KING awkwardly. I enjoyed the an early age the importance of 1526 King St., Riverside, drunken noodles so much, I fresh ingredients and traditional 503-4060, ptgrille.com was nearly finished before I tastes. “The best part about remembered to offer some my job is the connection to to my companion, who was much less greedy my family culture and patrons through our love and let me taste her Panang curry with chicken of food,” says Chef Russ. “Also, the ballet that ($13.50): lime, galangal root, and peppercorn occurs when the kitchen is cranking full-speed cooked in coconut milk and served with jasmine and we are working in harmony.” rice. The Panang was sweet and flavorful, with Every meal at Pattaya Thai is cooked fresh to a tart, spicy fusion from kaffir lime leaf and order, with many ingredients from local farmers galangal ginger. markets or Clayton’s own yard. With such a legacy in Jacksonville, it’s clear When I visited, I started with Thai lettuce the Claytons have made an impression here. This wraps with chicken ($8.95), which included second, much-anticipated new location proves six decent sheaths of lettuce to accompany that the recipes of Pattaya Thai are timeless the ginger, scallions, onions, cilantro, peanuts, enough to withstand the shifting taste buds of the and lime juice. The chicken was ground into last two decades. As more and more people move manageable pieces that didn’t tumble out of the to fresh, vegan options, Pattaya Thai remains a lettuce when I took a bite and the spicy peanut healthy staple that’s only gotten better with age. sauce added a nice zing. Rebecca Gibson Pattaya Thai is serious about serving mail@folioweekly.com authentic Thai dishes, which means that the
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DINING DIRECTORY O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 1526 King St., 503-4060. SEE BAYMEADOWS.
RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. Bar food. $ D SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. Healthy, light vegan fare made fresh daily with local, organic ingredients. Specials, served on bread, local greens or rice, change daily. Coffees, teas. $ Tue.-Sun. SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. F Sushi variety: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily
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AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F SEE BEACHES. CARMELO’S MARKETPLACE & PIZZERIA, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, freshly baked sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, stromboli and garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare is made with fresh ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green
bruschetta, cheesecake. 60-plus wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S Bar & Grille, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. F Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, specialty drinks, burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. New gastropub has local and national craft beers, specialty cocktails and a seasonal menu focusing on fresh, locally sourced ingredients and cuisine. Now serving Sunday brunch. $$ FB L D Daily MEZZE BAR & GRILL, 2016 Hendricks Ave., 683-0693, mezzejax.com. Classic cocktails, fresh basil martinis, 35 draft beers, local/craft brews, Mediterranean cuisine. Hookah patio. Happy hour. $$ FB D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner.com. F BOJ winner. The original upscale diner. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Ave., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned; homestyle faves: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Outside dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Ave., 398-3005, taverna sanmarco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; local produce, meats. Craft beers, handcrafted cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
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tomatobruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay for more than 25 years. The varied menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ONE TWENTY THREE BURGER HOUSE, 123 King St., 687-2790. The new spot, just opened by owners of Carmelo’s Pizza down the street, offers premium burgers, made with beef sourced from renowned N YC butcher Schweid & Sons. Wood-fired pizzas, ice cream bar with Old World milkshakes. Outdoor dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic Thai dishes include Pad Thai, a variety of curries, tempuras, vegetarian dishes, seafood, stir-fry and daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox. com. F Mediterranean and French inspired cuisine includes steak frites, oak-fired pizza and a new raw bar with seasonal selections. $$$ FB TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. $ BW K L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas,
SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN
ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. F SEE AMELIA ISLAND. DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside, Ste. 138D, 363-9888. BOGO lunches, Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte. com. European-style dining influenced by Italy, Spain and the Mediterranean. Small plates, entrée-size portions, selections from the cheese a charcuterie menu. $$$ BW TO R D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily
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DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Ste. 101, 619-9828. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 3563100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.
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ARLINGTON PUBLIX: BIG BROTHER You: Purple shorts, longer brown hair, white T-shirt, walking around with little brother. When: July 1. Where: Arlington River Publix. #1534-0708 DOING IT YOURSELF Saw you at the sweat fest at Shantytown Wednesday performing/dirty rapping. You have an amazing presence. You: Green hair, Tecate, denim. Me: Red T-shirt, High Life, glasses. You mentioned you’d never seen yourself in the ISawUs. When: July 1. Where: Shantytown. #1533-0708 JOE ADAMS BLDG. ELEVATOR TOGETHER You: Totally beautiful, sweet girl. Awesome business dress, nametag. Me: Handsome, dark hair, 5’11”. You about my day. I was late for doctor appt.; got off 2nd fl oor. You went up. Love to meet you. When: June 17, 3:45 p.m. Where: Joe Adams Bldg. #1532-0708 LONG-HAIRED BEAUTIFUL BREW BARISTA You: Coffeemaster behind bar. Me: Shy, brown-haired guy on laptop. ISU pulling shots, serving beer, grinding coffee with a beautiful smile on your face. Hoping we can do some grinding of our own soon. When: June 25. Where: BREW 5 Points. #1531-0701 BREAKFAST MAN I’ve seen you: Big, strong-looking guy, glasses, low cut, walking with co-workers to Scotties downtown and Skyway. Me: 6’5” blonde-haired guy diggin’ you. Let’s buy lotto tickets together. Winner chicken dinner! When: June 15. Where: Downtown Jax. #1530-0624
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PETS OF THE 1 PERCENT “The worshipful treatment of pets may be the thing that unites all Americans,” wrote an Atlantic Magazine blogger in July, describing a luxury terminal for animals under construction at New York’s JFK airport. The ARK will offer shower stalls for traveling horses, “conjugal stations” for everhorny penguins, and housing for nearly 200 cows (that might produce 5,000 pounds of manure daily) — and passengers traveling with dogs or cats can book at Paradise 4 Paws pet-pampering resort. The ARK is a for-profit venture; said one industry source, quoted in a July Crain’s New York Business report, “You hear stories about the crazy money that rich people spend on their [animals] ... they’re mostly true.” TO DRILL OR NOT TO DRILL? Officially, now, it’s “unreasonable” for a federal agency (the Bureau of Land Management, in this instance) to fail to say yes or no for 29 years to a drilling permit application. (Before July’s federal court decision, BLM had been arguing 29 years was not too long.) A company requested to drill just one exploratory well in Montana for natural gas in 1985, but the bureau delayed the proceeding six times since then. The judge ordered the bureau to set a deadline for deciding. JUST DAMN PEACHY Georgia, one of six states that make taxpayers shell out huge fees to access its databases of public records, tries to control its archive. Recently, in a federal lawsuit, it said opposition to its policy was basically “terrorism.” Activists (Public.Resource.org) have been establishing workarounds to free up some databases for citizen use, and Georgia demands they stop. Georgia even claims “copyright” protection for one category of important legal documents initially drafted by state bureaucrats, audaciously calling them “original” and “creative” works. MANDATORY INACTION In July, the mayor of the town of Ador, Spain (pop. 1,400), officially enacted into law what had merely been custom — a required afternoon siesta from 2-5 p.m. Businesses were ordered to close, and children were to remain indoors (and quiet). SMOOTH MOVE At a traffic stop in Rockingham, Vermont, on July 26, both driver and passenger were charged with DUI. Erik Polite, 35, was the driver (clocked at 106 mph on I-91 and, according to police, with drugs in the car), and while he was being screened
for intoxication, passenger Leeshawn Baker, 34, jumped behind the wheel and peeled off in reverse across the highway, nearly hitting the trooper, who arrested him.
SERPENTINE Nathaniel Harrison, 38, was arrested in July in a Phoenix suburb on several charges, including possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, but he escaped an even more serious charge when a second “deadly weapon” failed to engage. Harrison reportedly intended to retaliate against a “snitch” and arrived at the man’s home carrying a rattlesnake, which he supposedly pointed at the man, hoping it would bite him. The snake balked, and Harrison’s attempted payback failed. LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDUH LAME DEFENSES Daniel Baker, 40, and Robert Richardson, 19, were arrested in Altoona, in August after being caught loading appliances from a vacant house. According to the arrest report, both men seemed incredulous to learn stuff in an empty house isn’t just “free.” Six days earlier, about 20 miles away in Tavares, Corey Ramsey, 23, was arrested for burglary when a police officer caught him sitting on a toilet in a vacant, for-sale house attending to a need. Ramsey’s extensive pettycrime rap sheet belied his explanation — that he was thinking of buying the $299,000 house and wanted to try it out first. CHEST BUMP! About 200 protesters gathered in front of Hong Kong police headquarters on Aug. 2 to denounce the jail sentence (three months plus) given to Ms. Ng Lai-ying, 30, convicted of assault for shoving a police officer with her chest. Women (and some men) wearing bras as outerwear chanted, “Breast is not a weapon.” Ng was originally protesting the hardly sexy issue of import-export abuses between Hong Kong and mainland China cities. THE JOY OF PROTEST An Aug. 1 demonstration outside Britain’s Parliament protesting legislation to curb until-now-legal psychoactive drugs drew about 100 people — consuming their drug of choice, nitrous oxide. As organizers distributed gas-filled balloons from which demonstrators could take hits, “the group erupted in fits of laughter,” according to The Guardian. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
K____ , NAS PHARMACY Blond hair in bun, glasses, white suit, turquoise top. We talked in line, parking lot. You: Had very bad day; drive black Sorrento. Want to make sure you’re OK. Me: Gym gear, red pickup truck. When: June 15. Where: NAS Pharmacy. #1529-0624 FUN IN THE SUN You: Getting out of pool; put on loud orange shirt. Flag tattoo. Started reading Harlan Coben novel. Me: Tan in black two-piece trying to get your attention. Hope to see you again. Let’s skinny dip? When: June 6. Where: Green Tree Place. #1528-0617 DRIVE BY I saw Clark Kent in the parking lot. Me: Driving by. You: Walking to your car; you’re really super-looking. I bet you get that a lot, though. When: June 5. Where: Bailey’s Gym. #1527-0617
SHORTER MAINTENANCE MAN You: Shorter electrician working second shift. Me: Tall, handsome black male. ISU in the new cafe; there was a lot of meat on that sandwich you were eating. We should “meat” up in the near future. When: July 15. Where: Baptist Downtown. #1537-0722
BREATHLESS AT BIG LOTS You: Beautiful, short hair, coral outfit, buying plastic bins, in Mini-Cooper. Me: Tall guy, striped polo, khakis. Let you ahead; bought pens to write number for you; you left soon. Needed coral party item, never expected perfect coral. When: 2 p.m. June 4. Where: Merrill Road Big Lots. #1525-0610
GORGEOUS SENIOR AIR FORCE WOMAN You: Camouflage, boots, belt, Walgreens line, small brown bun. Me: Guy 10 years older, white T-shirt, khakis. Traded smiles. Something here? Friends? See you again, maybe civvies, hair down? Buy a beer, Park & King. When: July 14. Where: Walgreens Park & King. #1536-0722
STUNNING FRECKLED REDHEAD; BE MY MODEL? My jaw dropped! Your stunning looks, beautiful skin are amazing! Didn’t have business card with me; would you consider modeling for a photo shoot? Your schedule, preference. Let me build your portfolio! When: May 11. Where: Town Center Publix. #1525-0610
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’d probably prefer to stay in a romantic, carefree state of mind. But from what I can tell, you’re ripe for a new phase of your long-term cycle. Your freestyle rambles and jaunty adventures should make way for careful introspection and thoughtful adjustments. Instead of restless stargazing, try patient earth-gazing. Despite how it may first appear, it’s not a comedown. It’s an unusual reward that’ll satisfy in unexpected ways. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with current astrological omens, try this: Sing a love song at least once a day. Seek a message from an ancestor in a reverie or dream. Revisit your three favorite childhood memories. Give a gift or blessing to your wildest part. Swim naked in a river, stream or lake. Change something about your home to make it more sacred and mysterious. Obtain a symbolic object or work of art to stimulate your courage to be true to you. Find relaxation and renewal in deep darkness. Ruminate in unbridled detail how you’ll someday fulfill a daring fantasy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble,” said psychologist Carl Jung. “They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” I agree with that way of dealing. Consider it – especially since, from now ’till July 2016, you’ll have more power to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don’t guarantee you transcend completely, but I’m sure you can make them at least 60 percent less pressing, imposing and restricting. Could be 80 percent. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated the annual holiday Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked much for the duration. There were feasts, games and religious ceremonies. Community-building was important; one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. Enjoy a similar break from daily fuss. Now’s an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge and sabotage and cultivate solidarity in groups important for the future. Your Makahiki might not last four months – maybe three weeks?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad is one of the foundation works of Western literature. Written in eighth century BCE, it’s about the 10-year-long Trojan War. The cause of that war? Helen of Troy, said to be the world’s most beautiful woman, was kidnapped. Yet nowhere in the Iliad is there a description of Helen’s beauty – no details about why she deserves to be at the center of the legendary saga. Don’t be like the Iliad in the weeks ahead. Know all you can about the goal at your life’s center. Be very clear, specific and precise about what you’re fighting for and working toward.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods companies made but no one wanted. Like caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, doggie fortune cookies, and breath mints that looks like vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent museum visitors? Executives hoping to learn what to avoid in their companies’ product development. Be inspired by this. Take inventory of past wrong turns. Use what you learn to make a revised master plan.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Muppets have made eight movies. In The Great Muppet Caper, comedian puppets Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one’s a green frog, the other a brown bear. At one point, we see a photo of their father, who has Kermit’s coloring and eyes, but a bear-like face. I bring up their unexpected relationship because a similar anomaly may be headed your way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch ideas about what influences to connect with.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” Most all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage. According to my astrological omenanalysis, many Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behavior pattern. The weeks ahead will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. The actions you take to escape this bad habit may empower you to be done with it forever. Ready for a heroic effort? How to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): English author Barbara Cartland published her first novel at age 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she’d written more than 700 books. Some sources say she sold 750 million copies; others estimate two billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I see a Barbara Cartland-type period in the months ahead. Between now and your 2016 birthday, be as fruitful in your field as you’ve ever been. The weird thing: One secret of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to chill out. “Relaxed intensity” will be your calming battle cry.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it,” confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Is that your experience, too? If so, future events help break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last 10 years, you’ll have the power to free yourself through surrender. You’ll understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace instead of stress and force.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “On or about December 1910, human character changed,” wrote English author Virginia Woolf in 1924. Where did that come from? The availability of electricity, cars and indoor plumbing? The women’s suffrage movement? Labor unrest? King Edward VII’s death? New prominence of experimental art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso? Maybe all of these, plus the start of a breakdown in the British class system. Inspired by current astrological omens, I predict: During 2015’s last 19 weeks, Virgo tribe’s destiny undergoes a fundamental shift. Ten years on, you’ll look back and say, “That’s when everything got realigned, redeemed and renewed.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Most people love in order to lose themselves,” wrote Hermann Hesse in his novel Demian. But there are a few, he implied, who actually find themselves through love. In the months ahead, you’re more likely to be one of those rare ones. It won’t even be possible to use love as a crutch. You won’t allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That’s good, right? A caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires – some of which may be hidden now. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
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