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WE HAVE TO DO MORE THAN TAKE CARE OF THE FOOTBALL IN NOVEMBER 2013, THE ESQUIRE POLITICS writer, part time Grantland contributor, and consistently least-funniest panelist on NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” Charles P. Pierce visited EverBank Field. That year, if you’ll recall, was not one of the Jags’ finest seasons. Pierce was in Jacksonville to watch the Arizona Cardinals’ then-rookie phenom defensive back Tyrann Mathieu. But being the observant, opportunistic smart ass he is, Pierce couldn’t help but take a jab at the other team. “So this is how you watch one free safety in one particularly dead-assed football game against one particularly dead-assed football team in one particularly dead-assed football
heavily dependent on Blake Bortles’ ballchucking competency, whether a group of U-25 pass-catchers (I believe they’re called receivers in football-speak) can catch those balls, and whether a dude named Gus can inspire a group of 11 men to keep another group of 11 men from passing and catching their way across a particular painted line. If they stink again, well, the narrative remains: Dead-assed team in a dead-assed town. We’ll see how that works out (I’m optimistic), but it’s good to see the city finally hedging its bets. Investments in Downtown under the Brown Administration put the city’s urban core on a trajectory toward relevance.
town … ” he began. Pierce would eventually focus the piece on Mathieu’s instinctive play, but not before directing the following barrage of (cheap) shots at the city of Jacksonville: “ … can we just, for a moment, take a bit of a side trip, since that’s clearly what the NFL did here, and wonder why in the name of the Decatur Staleys there’s an A-level professional sports team in Jacksonville in the first place? Was Peoria booked? Was there no room for a franchise in Saginaw? Green Bay is cute because it’s rooted in the mythology of the league. Foxborough’s an accident. But finding an NFL team in Jacksonville — much less finding the Super Bowl there, as it was in 2005 — is like putting an entertainment complex in, I don’t know, Branson freaking Missouri. Wait, that’s it. Jacksonville is the Branson of professional sports.” Ouch. Damn, Charles. Though it was almost two years ago, I still think about that article often, not only because I respect Pierce so deeply as a writer. I also like to imagine seeing this city through the eyes of an outsider; a sports and politics writer of note who has worked in big markets. I have no idea how much time Pierce spent here in preparing that article, but it’s clear he left unimpressed. With another football season upon us, and a team that looks positioned to be slightly less “dead-assed,” I’m wondering anew what a Charles Pierce would see if he came to a game. The city, after all, has invested a great deal in the team over its nearly two decades of existence. And a nice chunk of that occurred after Pierce’s visit. A stadium with giant video boards and swimming pools with questionable PH balances: This is Jax’s city-sanctioned identity. Whether we like it or not, the perception of Jacksonville to the outside world will be
The first months of the Curry Administration have tested the resolve to keep moving forward and the recent agreement regarding funding for Hemming Park proves at least tacit support from the new council. This is a good thing. Because the fact is, Jacksonville cannot be a modern city without a thriving urban core. A football team is fun eight days a year (seven in our case), but it has failed to put the city on the map. You may have heard — Folio Weekly is moving Downtown. The move makes sense on many levels for us. Look around the country at some of the cities that are thriving today: New Orleans, Austin, Nashville, Seattle, Portland, even Raleigh. That these cities have invested heavily in urban renewal is worth noting. Couple that with the fact that all these cities have strong independent alternative news weeklies, and you can start to see the picture. There may not be enough evidence to argue correlation, but you could make the case that having an independent voice has something to contribute to how ideas are disseminated, how people connect, and how they engage new things in a city undergoing a revival of sorts. Ideally, a move Downtown better equips Folio Weekly to do all of these things. We’re invested. If you haven’t spent anytime in Downtown Jacksonville in a while, I encourage you to do so. Bring the family to Hemming Park. Have a meal at one of several restaurants opened in the last few years. Check out a First Wednesday Art Walk. Go see a show at The Elbow. And, if you happen to be Downtown on a Sunday, we have a football team that may be worth checking out this year. Matthew B. Shaw mshaw@folioweekly.com twitter/matthew_b_shaw AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5
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WET HOT SUMMER RIVER RUCKUS
Make a big splash! The third annual River Ruckus festival celebrating the St. Johns River features a celebrity river jump, craft beer, boat rides, dragonboat races, kayak fl otilla, kids’ crafts, SUP yoga, SUP lessons, fishing clinic and live music by Anitra Jay, Mike Bernos and Spice & the Po’ Boys. Proceeds benefit St. Johns Riverkeeper programs. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 29, Riverside Arts Market, riversideartsmarket. com, stjohnsriverkeeper.org.
THE DARK ARTS
DREW EDWARD HUNTER
While people surely toss around the term “Renaissance Man,” freely, Drew Edward Hunter surely fits the bill. Among many things in his staggering resume, Hunter has performed as Bozo the Clown on television, filmed a safari in East Africa, and designed two wax museums and two Ripley’s Believe It or Not! exhibits, and as the longtime Vice President of Creative Design for Sally Corporation, Hunter has helped create animatronic fi gures and dark-tinged rides for amusement and theme parks around the world. Unsurprisingly, Hunter is also an accomplished visual artist and his latest exhibit, SPECTRUM II, features imagery born from Hunter’s sometimesdarkly imaginative mind. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Sept. 4, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Springfield, exhibit runs Sept. 2-Oct. 31, rain.org/~karpeles/jaxfrm.html.
TIGHT FIT GYMSHORTS
Providence, Rhode Island-based rockers Gymshorts (pictured) are self-professed “stoner punks,” but they never let a buzz get in the way of their heavy rock propulsion. Rather than two-chord garage punk stomp, however, songs like “Oh Brother” and “Owed to the Bank” have a careening, doomedout sound that’s refreshingly rattling. Local rock monsters Memphibians open. The fun kicks off at 6 p.m. Sept. 2, Burro Bar, Downtown, burrobarjax.com.
RETRO ROCKERS
RICK SPRINGFIELD, LOVERBOY, THE ROMANTICS
Thirty years ago, before the Dark Age of Americana, a music flourished and pleased the world on the strength of its catchy pop hooks, frantic synthesizer jabs, and wellattended musicians with their leather britches, polka-dot ties, and perfectly moussed flybacks. “Did it have banjos? Did the musicians dress up like late19th-century blacksmiths?” asks the Millennial. “Nay,” reply the Elders. “For they were stylish as they were pogodance-inducing.” Puzzled, said Millennial asks, “But what’s pogo dancing?” Thus the elder smacked the youngster on the face and pointed it toward the upcoming Rick Springfield (pictured), Loverboy, and The Romantics concert. 6 p.m. Aug. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $35-$79.50, staugamphitheatre.com.
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HELLUVA FILM
ALLELUIA! THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL
From the makers of Repo! A Genetic Opera comes Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival, a musical horror film about Lucifer (Terrence Zdunich) and his diabolical plans aimed directly at Heaven. The brainchild of Zdunich (writer-creator of Repo!) director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw franchise), screenings of Alleluia! boast a carnival-like atmosphere; past opening acts have included burlesque performers and clowns making risqué balloon sculpture, while attendees are encouraged to dress up. The upcoming screening features a Q&A with Zdunich and Bousman. 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1, Sun-Ray Cinema, 5 Points, $20-$60, thedevilscarnival.com/tickets.
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THE MAIL HEMMING AND HAWING
AS AG GANCARSKI SAID, IT’S EASY FOR FOLIO Weekly readers to ignore Matt Schellenberg, the far-right Councilman who cast the sole dissenting vote in the recent decision to honor a promised $150k payment to Friends of Hemming Park. After reading his article, I only wish it were as easy to ignore Gancarski himself. Don’t get me wrong, Gancarski is right when he points out that, in its current state, Downtown Jacksonville has a host of problems. What’s perplexing, though, is his reaction to them. Any attempts to improve Hemming Park, he posits, are in vain because of the park’s proximity to homeless shelters. The crux of his argument seems to be that, because of those shelters, the area around Hemming Park will never be ideal, and so we might as well not try. I’m not even sure where to begin deconstructing the absurdity of this stance. For one thing, saying, “We should not improve this area because this area is currently bad” is not a cogent argument. Which areas of the city, exactly, does Gancarski propose we spend public funds to improve? Should we ignore every problem area around Downtown and pour more money into the already-thriving suburbs? Even more confusing is that, in referencing the prostitutes and “bunko men” who once inhabited the park, Gancarski’s admitting the funding earlier granted to Friends of Hemming Park has made a noticeable impact in improving the area. Somehow, though, the fact that funding a park hasn’t solved homelessness is sufficient reason in his mind to cease the funding altogether. In deriding the effectiveness of Hemming Park’s previous improvements, he refers to the park as a “Potemkin Village.” I’d argue instead that it’s a showcase of what a dedicated core of engaged citizens can accomplish, even with limited, irregular funding. The fact is, homelessness exists; there are homeless people on the streets of every urban center in the U.S. We can, as a city, either throw in the towel and cede whole districts to decay, or we can put in the hard work required to improve the situation. The changes may be incremental, but they’ll be real and lasting. Let’s face facts — there’s no quick-fix solution to drag a major city into the 21st century. We don’t
have the plan, the manpower, or the money to fix everything that’s wrong with Jacksonville in one fell swoop. We can use that as an excuse to do nothing but take potshots at the disadvantaged, or we can accept the fact that any positive change is better than continuing the status quo because there’s no perfect solution. Rather than lamenting the presence of homeless shelters in the Hemming Park area, why not look at the causes of homelessness? Lack of quality jobs and sufficient services for the drug-addicted and mentally ill are responsible for the plight of some of the people Gancarski encountered in his trip to a local restaurant. What, then, is the solution to a lack of jobs, counseling, and mental health services? We could, as Gancarski did, mock the victims of drug addiction and mental illness, categorizing them as the wastewater running down the “drain” of this city. Alternately, we could invest in improving Downtown Jacksonville and promoting economic development. An improved Downtown area means more jobs. More jobs mean more employed citizens and, quite possibly, fewer homeless people. It also means increased revenue for the city which can be used to expand and enhance services now available. Neither solution is perfect, but one is at least productive. Instead of bemoaning our problems and complacently waiting for an imaginary perfect solution, let’s use what resources we have to improve Jacksonville, one city block at a time. Let’s not trade tangible progress for a ridiculous dream. Hemming Park is never going to be perfect. Neither is Jacksonville. We can either accept that and do what we can to improve the situation or we can hold our breath, waiting for all of the world’s problems to magically disappear. As for me, I’ll do what I can to plug the proverbial drain so that, one day, Jacksonville can be a city we can be proud to call home. Adam Moss mail@folioweekly.com If you would like to respond to something that appeared in the pages of Folio Weekly, please send an email (with your name, address and phone number for verification purposes only) to mail@folioweekly.com.
BRICKBATS & BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO THE ST. JOHNS RIVERKEEPER According to a press release, on Aug. 11, the privately funded voice of the St. Johns River sent a letter of intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the proposed harbor deepening project, citing “a failure to provide appropriate in-kind mitigation for the environmental damage that will result from the dredging, insufficient assessment of the environmental impacts, violations of the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, and a flawed economic assessment.” BOUQUETS TO FLORIDA COASTAL SCHOOL OF LAW Last week, the law school’s 1Ls (first-year students) commenced their orientation week by participating in community service projects ranging from habitat restoration to children and family services. The goal was to inspire students to continue donating their time and skills during their years at FCSL and beyond. BOUQUETS TO THE BOLLES SCHOOL GRADUATE AND FILM PRODUCER JAMES DAHL His Modern Man Films co-produced the recent film The End of the Tour. Based on author David Lipsky’s 1996 five-day road trip with the late David Foster Wallace, The End of the Tour has received a big thumbs-up from media outlets including NPR and The New York Times. The film, currently screening locally, stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky.
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FIGHTIN’ WORDS
TANGLED WEB Why COJ fears MMJ
WE LIVE IN A SAD, SICK WORLD. Yesterday’s favorite sandwich pitchman enjoys child porn. The FDA thinks it’s a great idea to funnel OxyContin to pubescent kids. A couple of dozen people running for president are attempting to outdo each other using Marvin the Martian-styled hyperdestructive rhetoric to describe what they would do to governments in Tehran and Havana. The moral compass? It’s broken and the warranty’s expired. Yet, the moralists soldier on. You can see them in that magic City Hall snow globe, doing the do in Council Chambers, where the great issues of the day are hashed out. From whether it’s OK to back one’s car into a driveway to whether it’s OK to put up snipe signs to whether it’s OK to put a cover on your car, they tackle it all. A big part of the problem is the sheer size of the Council: 19 people, representing close to a million people, many of whom have nothing in common with one another. Jacksonville, a half-century after consolidation, is still working through issues. You see it in discussion after discussion. The thing is, Jacksonville, in addition to working through consolidation-related issues, also works through the impacts of being a Southern city with a code of zero tolerance justice that finds its roots in the Drug War, which in turn finds its roots ultimately in the aftermath of institutionalized slavery. Proof of that: There’s a direct correlation between whether a state held slaves or not during the Civil War and the robustness of its prison-industrial complex. Our politicians, Republican and Democrat alike, talk about marijuana like they’re auditioning for a community theater production of Reefer Madness. This is true even for marijuana that effectively lacks THC, like Charlotte’s Web. If you were one of the half-dozen folks in the audience at the City Council’s Charlotte’s Web Workshop, in which the Land Use & Zoning Committee hashed out the details of zoning for dispensaries and cultivation facilities with the Planning Commission, you’d have needed a blunt to make it all make sense. The proposal, which passed LUZ without discussion or dissent: a partial moratorium on cultivation for 90 days (banned except
in agricultural zones) and a full 120-day moratorium on dispensing the medication. If Jacksonville could fill its potholes with the false equivalencies heard in that one-hour workshop, our roads would be as smooth as a stick of butter. Pick your favorite. There was the one when the lady who, she assured us, had “spent some time out West,” actually talked about weed fiends in Denver. Apparently, they queue up outside the “grass stations” (converted gas stations, yo) and wait for the doors to open, veritable angelheaded hipsters, feening for their fix. And then there was the one when doctors prescribing Charlotte’s Web — under a state registry, mind you — were compared to a methadone clinic on the Southside that apparently draws recovering heroin addicts morning, noon, and night. I assume they were talking about the one on Emerson, a road that has more strip clubs than California has raisins. There were concerns raised, also, about there being the potential for a “red light district” for CBD oil. Let that half-assed casuistry sink in for a minute. Kids suffering from seizures equated with grown men trolling for hookers. To be fair, some comments were rational. Jim Love’s observations that “there’s a big difference between a medicine and something for recreational use. I don’t see this being sold in Publix except in its pharmacy” was actually on point. Why does Jacksonville’s city government worry so much about this issue? It’s couched as a public safety measure. Bullshit. It is a matter of big government run amok, in no small part because these policy leaders are attempting to distract from the third world reality of the Bold New City of the South. They can’t fix the potholes. Can’t deal with the gang problem. Can’t educate people outside of the magnet schools. Can’t fix the sewers or the drainage. Can’t stop domestic violence. Can’t find Lonzie. What can they do? Run a scare campaign against a legitimate medicine, one that everyone from shamans to Shakespeare used, yet they want to play keep-away games with kids racked by seizures. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
JAGCITY
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e’ve experienced some awful offense from the Jacksonville Jaguars in recent years. As much as locals kvetched about the Byron Leftwich and David Garrard eras, their reasonably average quarterbacking (which seemed somehow so inexcusable in the wake of Mark Brunell’s glory years) was poor preparation indeed for the Gabbert era. The one moment that defined the Gabbert era for me? A nondescript play in a game against the Texans. Down 14-7, Gabbert took the snap, made a read or two, tucked, ran, got hit out of bounds, and then the immortal “Whoa There [Expletive Deleted.]” That moment pretty much said it all. The man was out of his depth as an NFL quarterback. He looked worse on many other plays. But it had never been summed up so well. I thought about Blaine last week when watching Cleveland take on Buffalo in another preseason game. The offenses were beyond bad. There were moments in that game when it looked like both offensive coordinators were drunk kids playing Madden. Either the routes weren’t being run, or the quarterbacks weren’t making reads, because instead of blocking, two or three linemen thought they were waiting for the quarterback to count to Five Mississippi. The Jaguars will never be that bad again. Not during the Bortles era. This was a welcome realization after Saturday night’s Jags/Giants preseason matchup. Blake Bortles may not be a “superstar” yet, to borrow a quote from Blake Bortles. But he isn’t bad. Bortles’ final stat line looks more or less like that of many other quarterbacks: 8 for 16, 98 yards. He didn’t get it into the end zone. Yet he didn’t throw an interception. “Pedestrian” stat line. However, unlike at many points last year, when his stats were boosted by statistical fourth-quarter padding during Garbage Time, Bortles actually earned those numbers against a competitive defense. There was a lot to like, and two of those plays involved AR-15 (Allen Robinson), who is quickly becoming the kind of smart, well-rounded receiver that made Brunell look so good during the glory days. A good barometer of how an offense is working is the play-action pass. In the first quarter, Bortles faked a handoff, which the Giants’ defensive front bit on, and hit Robinson for 21 yards. A crisp, beautiful pass. A “chunk play.” The kind of thing that seemed absent from the station-to-station offense both last year (until the game was out of reach) and last week. Bortles found Robinson for 36 yards off a wheel route in the second quarter, and I don’t want to sound unduly optimistic (like I got into the Charlotte’s Web or something), but the reality is this: If you have a receiver who’s good for one or two of those plays every quarter or so, you have an elite receiver. An Antonio Brown-type difference-maker, who forces defenses to account for him. Robinson can create opportunities for Allen Hurns and, when applicable, Marquise Lee. So far this preseason, we’re seeing Bortles working with a lot of last year’s cast. Julius Thomas was discussed in excruciating detail last week, and we hope he’ll be back and on point in Game 1 of the regular season. Rookie RB TJ Yeldon, meanwhile, still isn’t on the field. During Bortles’ one-and-a-half quarters of play, the Jags came out with three or even four wideouts. This allowed Bortles to stretch the field and keep the defense on its heels. This had salutary effects, such as not overexposing the perpetually overmatched Luke Joeckel. In a game when the starting quarterback on the other side of the field couldn’t seem to complete a pass to save his life, it was encouraging to see the Jags’ signal-caller look like the one with the most upside. We’ve had a few rough years in Jacksonville, which have led to many locals souring against the franchise. People are still talking about Shad Khan’s scoreboard hustle, in part because his team hasn’t shown much on the field. This looks to be the year, perhaps, when Bortles shows real progress, carrying the rest of the offense with him. While the AFC South may not be theirs for the taking, the Jags might be able to at least put the Colts on notice. Or am I too optimistic? AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski
BREAKING THE CYCLE
Pilot study with an eye to ending HOMELESSNESS is underway in Northeast Florida IT’S IT ’S S BEEN BEE EEN N LE LESS SS S TTHAN HAN HA N TW TWO O MO MONT MONTHS ONTHS S si sinc since incee we spoke (“Able-Bodied in the Coverage Gap,” June 17), but Linda Perry is changed. When we meet at Dunkin’ Donuts in Jacksonville Beach, her eyes are clear and unflinching; at times she gives a genuine smile, even cracks a joke. The reason for her transformation is no mystery: Linda Perry is no longer homeless. Thanks to local nonprofit Ability Housing of Northeast Florida, after six long years, the 60-year-old has recently moved into a home of her own. She swells with pride when she says, “I like to be able to say, ‘I’m going home.’ At work, ‘I’m going home, I’m not going to the car.’” She recalls spending the first night in her new home in awe; overwhelmed, she went outside and just sat, trying to make sense of her new reality. Her voice cracks when she talks about the “angels” that saved her from the streets. As it often does, breaking the cycle of homelessness has initiated a chain reaction of positive changes for Perry. Her blood pressure, once so high she could have easily had a stroke, is normal; her blood sugar is under control, too. And now that every day of her life isn’t a struggle to figure out where to eat, sleep, bathe, park her car for the night — all the little things that most of us take for granted — she’s thinking about the future. “You see people really blossom [when they’re no longer homeless],” says Ability Housing Operations Director Michael Cochran. Cochran, who himself was homeless many years ago, says that many people harbor the misconception that the homeless don’t want to work. Some are held back by disabilities, others by addictions, still others by circumstance. Do these facts make them less deserving of a helping hand, of compassion? On Aug. 10, Folio Weekly attended the grand opening of Ability Housing’s Village on Wiley, a 43-unit development of onebedroom apartments “designed to provide supportive housing for Jacksonville’s most vulnerable population, including persons who are high utilizers of crisis services and those experiencing chronic homelessness.” The mood was festive and lively but, beneath the jubilation, there was a sense of disbelief, of people who are conditioned to
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expect the worst trying to come to ggrips with expect exp a positive, and lasting, change. Like all Ability Housing communities, Village on Wiley is a permanent solution. Each resident signs an annual contract that is essentially the same as any residential lease; provided they comply with the terms, which for those with a source of income includes paying 30 percent of their income in rent, they can renew as many times as they want. Residents of Village on Wiley were selected based on criteria that assessed their risk of mortality if they remained homeless. “This is a very specific project that we’ve been working on for three years … to serve those that are most in need in our community of housing, not just housing, but also individuals in our community who use the most resources,” says Cochran. With a forgivable loan of nearly $6 million from Florida Housing Finance Corporation, Ability Housing is participating in a pilot program, “The Solution That Saves,” which “will measure the quality of life and health impacts on pilot participants as well as the cost impacts on publicly funded systems of care, such as hospitals, shelters and jails.” This is the first study of its kind in Florida; similar studies in other states have shown that it actually costs taxpayers less to house and care for this population on an ongoing basis than it does to leave them on the streets, where they rely on the emergency room, charities and social service providers and, simultaneously, run the risk of being arrested for minor infractions associated with their situation, such as trespassing. David Alexander is one of the first to move into Village on Wiley. The 50-yearold former Marine, who has the physicality of a much younger man, is nervous and uncomfortable talking about his alcoholism, the abuse that began at his mother’s knee, the heartbreak of his marriage and the years he spent “jumping the rails” and scratching out a life on the streets of Jacksonville. Overcome, at one point he weeps briefly, quietly. “It comes to be the norm. It came to be the norm for me to sleep in, on concrete, on cardboard. It came to be the norm to me to
LEFT: Former U.S. Marine David Alexander is one of the first residents of Ability. RIGHT: Linda Perry, who was homeless when we interviewed her two months ago, refers to Ability Housing as the “angels” that saved her from the streets. not have somewhere to live. It just came to be a way of life,” he says. He says that he can’t quite believe that tomorrow he’ll wake up in a bed that is his. He’s spent much of his adult life cycling on and off the streets, where he has been attacked and stabbed in separate, unprovoked incidents. “There’s times that I’ve been very vulnerable,” he says. At the end of a two-year period, Ability Housing plans to use the results of its study to advocate and lobby for funding and other help for the homeless. It’s a savvy move that takes into consideration the reality that politicians are often more motivated by dollars and cents than ethics and sense. Feelings about funding social services tend to be divisive and passionate, but without a means of getting people housed where they can access social services and medical care, chronic homelessness will continue. And, either way, taxpayers will foot the bill. Cochran estimates that last year, the organization provided housing for 500 people in Northeast Florida, 100 of whom were children. They have identified an additional 327 chronically homeless individuals in Northeast Florida. “The biggest struggle is the immense need. We constantly get calls of families with children, a single mom with three or four children, not a lot of income, just needing a place to live … there’s just so few places that are available,” says Cochran. Changing Homelessness (formerly The Emergency Services & Homeless Coalition of Northeast Florida), a coalition of local organizations, has established goals to end homelessness locally. Cochran says that they may end veterans’ homelessness locally by the end of 2015. Their hope is that by 2016, they will also have ended chronic homelessness. “Would I want to do it again?” asks Alexander. “No. There’s a lot of pain, a lot of suffering, a lot of misery … I wouldn’t want to be homeless again, I really wouldn’t,” he says. Claire Goforth mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Want to give? Check out Ability Housing’s crowdfunding initiative at crowdrise.com/ move-in-kit through Aug. 30. After Aug. 30, go to AbilityHousing.org/donate.
While St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary has brought immense challenges and international attention, the city’s OUTSIDER MAYOR looks to prove she is up to the task
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ancy Shaver isn’t your typical politician. In fact, before beating out incumbent Joe Boles and subsequently being sworn in as the new mayor of the City of St. Augustine in December 2014, Shaver had never held political office. That is, unless you count the
time she was student council president of her high school back in the early 1960s. Yet, despite her lack of experience, she’s having some early success. Over the past nine months, Shaver’s supporters say, she has delivered on her promises of a transparent government that focuses on infrastructure, mobility, and zoning issues. Then there’s the infamous 450th Celebration that, until recently, didn’t have a leg to stand on. Her supporters say the 450th, which kicks off Sept. 4, is now on much firmer footing. Shaver’s a mother, grandmother, art collector and music lover. She’s had a long, successful career working in marketing, management and consulting for various data information companies. She’s led a Fortune 500
marketing organization, and founded her own consulting practice. And at age 68, Shaver’s had enough life experiences to know that being a politician is about more than just kissing babies and schmoozing at fancy municipal events. It takes hard work, dedication, accountability and reading in between the lines.
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t’s a Monday night in mid-July in the Alcazar Room on the first floor of City Hall on King Street in downtown St. Augustine. A bi-monthly city commission meeting is in full swing.
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After a career in the male-dominated corporate world, Shaver, St. Augustine’s second female mayor, says she “never really [thought] about gender.”
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<<< FROM PREVIOUS Shaver is sitting in the middle, fellow commissioners Todd Neville and Nancy SikesKline sit to her right, Leanna Freeman and Vice Mayor Roxanne Horvath to her left. After roll call and the modification and motion to approve the meeting’s regular agenda, Shaver is presented with a certificate of completion from the Florida League of Cities Institute for Elected Municipal Officials. She makes a few public comments about the recent three-day training event — how it was great to connect with other elected officials in the State of Florida — and then, looking out toward the crowd of 50 or so citizens, through her signature asymmetrical silver bob hairdo, Shaver says, “And I got to drink some wine, which I actually paid for myself.” When later asked about this comment, Shaver says, “The reference to wine, and paying for it myself, was twofold. First, the city does not reimburse for alcohol. Second, earlier in the year, I chose to pay my own way to the Gala, as I felt it was more appropriate.” Shaver is referring to the Menéndez Noche de Gala, which was held in late February at Casa Monica Hotel, and was reported to cost the city more than $3,000 to cover the cost of city leaders and officials from Spain to attend. Tickets were $195 apiece. Whether it’s a $5 glass of wine, a ticket to a fancy gala or the uncovering of wasteful spending of taxpayers’ money, Shaver has, thus far, presented herself as a woman of the people.
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haver was born on Nov. 5, 1946 in Mount Kisco, New York, an hour’s drive southwest from her grandparents’ home in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was a C-section baby; Mount Kisco had the closest hospital that could perform the surgery.
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Shaver, at home in the historic Lincolnville neighborhood in downtown St. Augustine. “I’ve lived a lot of different places, but I mostly grew up in Virginia, outside of D.C., because my dad was working at the Pentagon,” Shaver explains from the sunroom of her modest, one-story home in Lincolnville, a historic neighborhood in downtown St. Augustine. “It was always classified what he did,” she says. “He was running the atomic bomb tests that we did in the desert. He ran the triservice agency that did those. He would never travel and then he’d travel and then the front page of the Washington Post would have a mushroom cloud on it.” Shaver describes her father, an engineer and captain in the U.S. Navy, as a brilliant man with a photographic memory who didn’t talk much. The two bonded over games of Acey Deucey and Backgammon rather than conversation. The oldest of three siblings (she has two younger brothers), Shaver isn’t as kind when describing her mother. “She was not a nice mother,” she says. “She was basically someone who was not
meant to be a mother, and she particularly wasn’t meant to be the mother of a girl. She was of that generation where she kind of gauged her sense of self by how attractive she was to men.” Since her father was in the military, the Shaver family moved around a lot, about once every three years, from Philadelphia to San Diego and everywhere in between. “I loved it,” Shaver says of being constantly confronted with a new environment. “My dad always explored wherever we moved to, so many weekends, we had family trips to see something of interest. And making new friends just seemed very natural to me.”
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fter high school, Shaver earned a B.A. in English from Wellesley College, a private women’s liberal arts school outside of Boston (one of the Seven Sisters), and an MBA in quantitative coursework from University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
At age 19, Shaver married her first husband, a punter on the Harvard University football team. He proved to be a dissolute gambler. “As soon as I got pregnant, it was just pretty bad,” she says. “He forged my name on notes, on loans. And so I left. The minute I had my son, I knew that I had to take care of myself and take care of that child. It was just this visceral feeling.” At age 24, Shaver took her newborn son and moved back to Culpeper, Virginia to live with her parents. They were not thrilled with the arrangement. “I wound up finding a job that I could walk to,” she says. “I didn’t have a car. I was knocking on doors to get childcare for my son in the neighborhood, which I was able to do. I saved until I got a car and then saved until I got an apartment and that’s how my life started.” Shaver, whose only job had been teaching school, took a position with a company
“She worked hard professionally and was successful in that arena,” Mintz says of her mother. “But she was undoubtedly a mother first. I feel like her primary motivation and the sacrifices she made were to provide for my brother and me.”
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ast-forward to the mid-2000s. With both of her children grown and decades of professional experience behind her, Shaver established her own consulting firm in Denver, Colorado. She also started spending more time at her second home, a modest cottage in Belfast, Maine. “One night, I was throwing a party to celebrate my new weathervane,” she remembers. “That’s the night I met Sean, the love of my life. As soon as he walked up the
porch steps, it was all over. It was all over for both of us. We were two peas in a pod. Everything about it was just comfortable.” Shaver relocated from Denver to Maine to be with Sean, a sailor and a carpenter, and the two became inseparable. A few years into their relationship, Sean was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. Shaver became his medical manager; digging into data, researching medical trials and even going to Seattle for stem cell treatment. “I think there was a 60 percent chance of success and you always think you’ll be on that side,” she says. “You never think you won’t be on that side. And we wound up on the other side.” Stem cell treatment didn’t work. Sean was given six months to live. The couple decided that they shouldn’t spend Sean’s last winter in Maine and a friend
suggested St. Augustine. They found a house on South Street — not far from Maria Sanchez Lake in Lincolnville — quickly renovated it and made the move down South. This was at the end of 2009. They spent the next six months surrounded by friends, family and, most important, each other. On July 30, 2010, Sean passed away due to sepsis, which is the complication of an infection. Shaver needed something to occupy her broken heart.
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fter he died, I started to pay attention to the city. There was an article in the [St. Augustine] Record about the coral farm on Riberia Pointe,” she says, referring to a proposed coralgrowing development slated for a four-acre site in downtown St. Augustine.
If you are capable and you leave it to someone less capable, then you kind of get what you get. You have A DUTY if you feel that you are more capable.” focused on targeted marketing. She became fascinated with data and how the information gathered could help the business make educated decisions. Over the next few years, Shaver ascended the corporate ladder, gaining experience in data and management from a wide array of start-up companies and established corporations. She also met her second husband and the father of her daughter. “We were married, but it was really falling apart,” Shaver says of the end of their relationship, which lasted until the early 1990s. “He was an attorney in town. He was an alcoholic and also promiscuous, which I didn’t know. So I took a job in Long Island and brought the kids with me.” For a few years, Shaver’s husband would come up from Virginia and visit on the weekends but, eventually, the marriage ended. “The three words that come to mind when I think of my childhood are simple, consistent and supportive,” says Jenn Mintz, Shaver’s now-34-year-old daughter, a marine biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. “This is despite a few moves and the divorce of my parents,” she continues. “Wherever we were, my mom was consistent in her presence and in providing boundaries, generous in her love and support and tried to keep our home and our lives as simple as possible.” Shaver’s son, Sean Bennett, now in his mid-40s, holds an MD-PhD and lives in San Francisco, running the Global Pediatric HIV trials for Gilead Sciences, a research-based biopharmaceutical company.
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<<< FROM PREVIOUS “My daughter’s a marine biologist, so I thought, ‘If somebody’s restoring coral reefs, NOAA will know about it,’” she continues. “And they claimed a NOAA connection. So I called her and she checked and she said, ‘Mom, nobody’s doing that and nobody’s heard of these people.’” Shaver kept uncovering similar proposals earmarked for the same patch of city-owned land, including a children’s museum and
half of the people have moved here in the last 10 years and they have higher expectations of how their city should be run.” Shaver is only the second female mayor of the city of St. Augustine and first elected directly by the voters. The job pays just $20,000 a year. “What’s funny is that I didn’t even think about gender,” she says. “Because I haven’t in my whole working life, and I basically worked in male-dominated spaces, so it just never occurred to me. I’m not ego-driven. It’s really about the task and the work.” The 450th Celebration (Sept. 4-8) has taken shape and Shaver has begun focusing on the other issues that, she feels, are plaguing
“I was a competent person at the right moment in time,” Shaver says of her 2014 campaign for mayor.
Shaver publicly questioned the transparency of the 450th Celebration and the lost revenue from the event’s PICASSO EXHIBIT. a full-scale aquarium. She also publicly questioned the transparency of the 450th Celebration and the lost revenue from the event’s Picasso exhibit. “We continued to discuss the challenges and issues facing the city,” says good friend Margaret Rocker. “One afternoon, she called to tell me she had decided to run for mayor. After my initial surprise, I knew she would win. She’s smart and dedicated to finding the best solutions for the city.” Armed with zero political experience, Shaver had her work cut out for her. Sure, her corporate résumé was impressive, but would that win over the people of St. Augustine? Especially up against incumbent Mayor Joe Bole, who had been mayor since 2006? “I worked really hard,” Shaver says of winning the November 2014 mayoral race by just over 100 votes. “A lot of people worked really hard. It was a grassroots kind of thing.” She continues, “I was a competent person at the right moment in time. The demographics of the city have changed. Over 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
the Nation’s Oldest City: zoning, mobility, infrastructure and a lack of transparency. Shaver has helped put in motion water rate studies, assessment of city infrastructure, updated zoning codes, a comprehensive plan to combat congestion on the city’s narrow roads. If she doesn’t yet have critics, like all public officials, Shaver will have some soon enough. So far, though, her status as a political newcomer and outsider have allowed her to implement her plans under a certain level of good faith from her constituency. “I know what I want to accomplish and if it takes two years, or if I run again and it’s four years, it is what it is,” Shaver says of her term, which ends at the close of 2016. “I don’t set myself up to do something where I don’t know what I want the outcomes to be.” She continues, “If you are capable and you leave it to someone less capable, then you kind of get what you get. You have a duty if you feel that you are more capable. And so I ran.” Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com
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hat does a biographical dramatic work owe to the real-life people it uses as subjects? If you don’t think movies wrestle with this question all the time, then you weren’t paying attention during awards season last year, when there commenced a great fuming and fussing over portrayals of Lyndon Johnson in Selma, Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, etc., and if they were historically accurate. Fascinating people may have fascinating lives, but those lives don’t always fit neatly into a 120-page screenplay. Art is art, and we just have to make peace with the fact that sometimes artistic interpretations of real people get messy. Right? James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour collides squarely with that predicament — but it doesn’t look obvious from the outset. Yes, it does deal with real people — specifically, author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) — further complicated by the reality of Wallace’s suicide in 2008. That event frames the movie’s story, as Lipsky hears about Wallace’s death, and begins rummaging through taped interviews from the five days he spent with Wallace in 1996, assigned by Rolling Stone to write a profile of the suddenly celebrated writer as Wallace wrapped up his publicity tour for Infinite Jest. The dynamic between the two Daves begins
FRESH FRONTIERS
EXCEPT FOR OLDSTERS LIKE CLINT EASTWOOD, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, and Robert Duvall, it seems that no Hollywood filmmaker today gives a flip about making Westerns anymore. Then again, I suspect most moviegoers younger than 50 don’t give much of a flip about seeing such movies, either. It’s a vicious circle. Thank goodness for the Europeans. They still seem just as enchanted with the classic American movie Westerns as ever, and two new movies making their debut on home video are proof that the Western genre is in good, even if foreign, hands. Despite the horrible title, Slow West (2015) has just about everything a Western fan should like – striking scenery, interesting characters, and lots of action. Written and directed by Scotsman John Maclean (his first feature film), the plot details the search across the Western frontier of teenage Scottish boy Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee from The Road) for his girlfriend. In short order, we learn she and her father are the subject of a substantial bounty, the cause of which lies back in the Highlands across the ocean. The details emerge in flashbacks. Befriending the boy is bounty hunter Silas (Michael Fassbender) with decidedly ulterior motives. Their paths soon intersect with those of a variety of other searchers, all eager to claim the reward for the fugitives – dead or alive. The final shootout is spectacular, with some very surprising results. Clocked at a running time of 84 minutes, Slow West moves almost too quickly, sacrificing
David Foster Wallace, THE END OF THE TOUR, and the perils of biographical drama
willing not to be a real person, and Segel conveys that yearning for realness in a way that’s almost never forced or precious. That “almost” is a fairly huge qualifier, though, as Ponsoldt and screenwriter Donald Margulies fall victim to a trap that seems to be part of Lipsky’s own need in that framing narrative: believing Wallace telegraphed his impending suicide. In a scene set just before Lipsky returns to New York, a dimly lit Wallace stands in the doorway of the guest room as he tells Lipsky about his darker with more than a hint of Salieri-by-way-offeelings, and that he’s “trying really hard to Amadeus. Lipsky in 1996 has just published find a way not to let them drive.” And during his own novel, and we see him at a sparsely their farewell, Wallace responds to Lipsky’s attended reading before he first reads and is obvious envy with a plaintive, “I’m not so sure blown away by Infinite Jest. The interview, you want to be me.” for Lipsky, becomes an effort to understand what produces the kind of work he isn’t sure Whether those exchanges actually he has within himself. Maybe he thinks the happened isn’t entirely the point; it’s about reflected genius of an interview with Wallace what the story becomes once it shifts from a will enable him to reach greatness; maybe he tale of artists sparring over talent and celebrity wants to impress Wallace, or just spend time and respect, to a tale of David Foster Wallace being impressed by him. But he’s the Tortured Artist Who Was never an objective journalist. He’s Already on the Road to Killing THE END OF already emotionally invested in Himself. Perhaps The End of the THE TOUR the outcome. Tour is playing a subtle game Segel and Eisenberg both with Lipsky’s own point of ***@ capture their interplay beautifully view and misplaced guilt, and Rated R in what is essentially a two-hander how we’re always shaping our built around their conversations. understanding of people around the way we happened to know them. That Eisenberg brings a bit of the calculating angle still ends up leaving a strange aftertaste smarts he showed in The Social Network, in a largely effective character study. alternating between questions that attempt So, yes, we’re seeing only one version of to catch Wallace off guard and moments a few days in the life of one real man. Maybe that show him wanting to be considered a The End of the Tour doesn’t owe us anything friend. Segel, meanwhile, crafts a version of more; maybe it doesn’t even owe Wallace a Wallace who stands out mostly by virtue anything more. But if “authenticity” is part of of his intense desire not to stand out, while that version of Wallace this movie is trying to also showing his own insecurities in his sell me, it’s hard not to ask the question. interactions with Lipsky. As wary as he is Scott Renshaw of the way Lipsky might try to shape their mail@folioweekly.com conversations into his article, Wallace isn’t character development to plot and action. Still, the positives far outweigh the negatives. This is the kind of movie the four Hollywood icons I mentioned might have made as younger filmmakers. Even better is The Salvation (2014), a Danish/ UK/South African co-venture that offers a new perspective on the familiar Western trope of blood and vengeance. Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, Valhalla Rising) plays Jon Jensen, a Danish war veteran who’s immigrated to the American West with his brother in the 1870s. The film opens with the two men welcoming Jon’s wife and son from abroad after a seven-year separation. The happy reunion quickly turns tragic, however, during a stagecoach ride, when the immigrants are brutally assaulted by ruthless scumbags, setting into motion the inevitable turn to vengeance. The plot may be little more than a variant on classics like Stagecoach and Unforgiven, but Danish director and co-writer Kristian Levring fashions a truly memorable and bloody valentine to the iconic Hollywood genre. Visually reminiscent of the works of both Sergio Leone and John Ford, The Salvation convincingly transforms the plains, mountains, and deserts of South Africa into the hinterlands of the American frontier. And the conflicts are as timeless as the landscape. An outsider (the extraordinary
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Mikkelsen) saves a town and its subservient inhabitants (think The Magnifi cent Seven minus Six) from a vicious ex-cavalryman Henry Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his henchman, but only after having exacted terrible punishment himself (think Unforgiven, A Fistful of Dollars, and OneEyed Jacks to name a few). The superb supporting cast includes Eva Green as a freed Indian captive whose tongue was cut out (rendering the talented actress mute without diminishing her impact in the film) and Jonathan Pryce as the crooked town mayor. The other actors, especially Danish actor Mikael Persbrandt as Jon’s brother, are also impressive. Magnifi cent in both sweep and detail, The Salvation should not be overlooked by anyone who claims to be a Western fan. Given a look-see, even viewers unused to the genre might well be converted, as the title suggests. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 15
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SKY DOG **** SKY WRITING **@@
SKY SAXON ***@ SKY BURIAL *@@@
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SUMMER MOVIE CLASSICS Dances With Wolves, with Kevin Costner and Rodney A. “Wind in His Hair” Grant, 2 p.m. Aug. 30 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, $7.50, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com.
corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Chinatown screens noon Aug. 27; Showboat 6:30 p.m. Aug. 28. The French film Asterix Jeux Olympizues shows noon, Slow West 2 p.m. Aug. 29. LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Home and Cinderella, at Latitude 360’s CineGrille, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. IMAX THEATER The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Galapagos 3D and Humpback Whales, at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.
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SUN-RAY CINEMA American Ultra and The End of the Tour screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema. com. The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Turbo Kid, Listen to Me Marion and Shaun the Sheep start Aug. 28.
ANT-MAN ***@ Rated PG-13 Marvel Studios’ superhero feature stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, whose alter-ego is the teeny crusader against evil … sort of. Costars Michael Douglas as scientist Hank Pym and Abby Ryder Fortson as Scott’s daughter Cassie, plus Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña and Judy Greer. — Scott Renshaw
THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Kumiko the Treasure Hunter and Little Boy, at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736,
THE END OF THE TOUR ***@ Rated R Reviewed in this issue.
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. HITMAN: AGENT 47 Rated R A genetically engineered assassin with a barcode on his neck (Rupert Friend) teams with a woman to destroy an evil megacorporation. Costars Zachary Quinto, Angelababy and Dan Bakkedahl. 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. For 11-year-old Riley (Kailyn Dias), whose parents (Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Lane) moved the family from Minnesota to San Francisco, 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. — Scott Renshaw JURASSIC WORLD **@@ Rated PG-13 “Nobody’s impressed by a dinosaur anymore,” says operations manager Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard). Visual effects are way beyond what they were in 1993 when Jurassic Park was a box-office smash; that film’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. — Dan Hudak THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. **G@ Rated PG-13 Co-writer/director Guy Ritchie’s film stars Henry Cavill as CIA agent Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer as KGB agent Illya Kuryakin, working together during the Cold War. A mutual enemy has enriched uranium and the ability to make nuclear bombs, and they think the uranium is inside the facility. On a larger scale, Napoleon’s official responsibility on the mission is to investigate Victoria (Elizabeth Debicki) and Alexander (Luca Calvani) Vinciguerra, who run a shipping company as a front for production of the bomb. — D.H. MINIONS **@@ Rated PG 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. — MaryAnn Johanson
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION Rated R Christopher McQuarrie directs Alec Baldwin, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Tom Hollander and, of course, Tom Cruise. — Steve Schenider NO ESCAPE Rated R On vacation in Southeast Asia, an American couple (Owen Wilson, Lake Bell) are caught in a violent uprising and have to turn to a government agent (Pierce Brosnan) for help. 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. Extraterrestrials thought it was a declaration of war. Now Earth is being attacked in the form of Galaga, Centipede, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Defender, etc. The best to fight them? Early ’80s video game champs. Costars Adam Sandler, 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 is Ricki Randazzo, a mother of three who 20 years ago decided to be in a rock ’n’ roll cover band. Her ex, Pete (Kevin Kline) married Maureen (Audra McDonald). Son Josh (Sebastian Stan) is engaged to Emily (Hailey Gates) and seems well-adjusted; son Adam (Nick Westrate) hates his mom. Ricki comes home after Pete calls 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, costars. — D.H. SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE Rated PG The Wallace & Gromit scene-stealer ends up in the city and has to find his way back to more comfortable surroundings. — S.S. SINISTER 2 Rated R In this sequel, single mom Courtney (Shannyn Sossamon) moves into the house that gave Ethan Hawke so much trouble three years ago. Young actors Dartanian Sloan and Robert Daniel Sloan, who play the heroine’s children, are real twins. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON ***@ Rated R 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. burst onto the scene with 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 hit song “Boyzn-the-Hood” drops, the group – Ice Cube, Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) and MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) – is signed by Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti). At the height of their fame, when the women, acclaim and notoriety can’t get any better – it all crashes down, because of the one thing we all covet: money. — D.H. 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.
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GIANT KILLER
When it comes to the observational comedy scene, big man OWEN BENJAMIN slays the competition
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recent shows that are either working or not ften called “The Andre the Giant of the working and I kind of do an analysis of why Comedy World”(actually, I may be the first that’s the case. Over time I’ll show how the joke person to have used that), Owen Benjamin will work through some changes to the joke. is a very funny and, at 6 feet, 7 inches, very tall dude. With stints on Punk’d and guest spots What is an example? on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, as well I show the difference between racial humor in as a nice run on the recently axed Sullivan Cleveland and Tampa. I’ll do a joke or a song & Son, Benjamin is humorous in the way an that has to do with something racial, and in old college buddy is funny now; he may have Tampa, the crowd gets really uncomfortable mellowed some, but he still has some great because everyone is really white. In Cleveland, stories the kids shouldn’t hear. And, better the crowd is so diverse that it kills, and it shows still, he doesn’t overuse dick jokes; something how it’s the exact opposite of what you’d think. experience teaches. Black audiences love it and white audiences are Benjamin’s standup comes from what very uncomfortable with it. is authentically funny to him. By his own admission, Benjamin isn’t very edgy. Rather, he What is the funniest thing finds humor in the experiences about Jacksonville? most folks deal with every day. OWEN BENJAMIN Last time I was there, someone The funny things about owning 8 p.m. Aug. 26; 8 & 10 p.m. checked my five-dollar bill to a dog or being in a relationship Aug. 27 & 28, The Comedy make sure it wasn’t counterfeit. or using a urinal or being pulled Zone, Mandarin, $15-$18, I’ve never seen that before. The over by a cop — things most comedyzone.com girl held it up to the light and folks can relate to — are the used the pen on it. To this day, I still think about things that drive Benjamin’s comedy. it, I’ve never forgotten it. There must’ve been a Recently, Folio Weekly caught up with Five Dollar Bandit in the area. Benjamin to discuss his height, his piano prowess and his potential alter ego, “The Five You use some music in your comedy, but it Dollar Bandit.” isn’t your whole act. Is it important to balance the comedy and the music in your routine? Folio Weekly: When I search your name on I played piano a lot longer than I’ve done standup. Google, the first two things that come up are I just wanted to make sure I was a standup before your height and your parents’ names. Weird. I was a standup who used music. Sometimes that Owen Benjamin: Yeah, I am really tall. I can be a crutch. I wanted to make sure I was a guess my parents made me tall so they must killer at standup before I started breaking out the be getting the credit. I used to do a joke about piano. Once I started headlining more, I realized how people would be disappointed when they it was too good not to use, the fact that I could picked me to play basketball because I’m really play classical music, it opens up so many doors to bad at basketball. Strangers ask me a lot if I jokes that I have to utilize. play ball. Short people never deal with that sort of pressure; nobody asks them if they ever get As a giant in your field, are there advantages shot out of a cannon. to that in comedy? Are there disadvantages? What path did you take to comedy? It’s all advantages. In acting it’s a disadvantage, I went to college in SUNY Plattsburgh and my because you always look absurd next to first gig was opening for Kevin Hart. I got the bug, everyone. But in standup, it’s a huge advantage I just loved it. After school, I moved with a buddy because height gives you a certain sense of to L.A. I didn’t really have a plan, I just sort of control and power over a room. So many wanted to get a job at a restaurant and hang out, public speaking jobs get tall people because it but I kept doing standup and it grew from there. gives a great sense of power. What’s a typical day on the road for you? For me, the way I stay sane on the road; I jog a lot. You have to leave your hotel room; it isn’t healthy to not leave your hotel room. I try to find a nice, pretty area of the city I’m in and usually go for a jog. I also do some writing. I’m also doing a podcast right now called Why Didn’t They Laugh, where I take jokes from
When you’re doing TV or film, are there a lot of people standing on boxes next to you? Totally. It’s bizarre; it doesn’t make it a little harder. I usually play someone’s brother or cousin or relative, and it’s just very glaring that I’m not related to a lot of people. Danny Kelly mail@folioweekly.com AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 17
ARTS + EVENTS
The opening reception for photographer DOUGLAS J. ENG’S exhibit Streaming South: Illuminations from a Journey Home, is held at FSCJ’s South Campus Gallery 5-7:30 p.m. Aug. 27. The exhibit is on display through Sept. 16.
PERFORMANCE
I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE The musical comedy is staged 8 p.m. Aug. 26-29, Amelia Community Theatre, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. BEYOND THERAPY Limelight Theatre stages Christopher Durang’s adult-themed rom-com, of two neurotic Manhattanites and their shrinks, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27, 28 and 29 and 2 p.m. Aug. 30 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $25; $23 seniors, $20 military/students; limelight-theatre.org. GYPSY Amelia Musical Playhouse stages musical of a mother and her daughters in 1920s America who dream of stardom, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27, 28 and 29 and 2:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, $20; $15 students; through Sept. 5, 277-3455, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.southlight. HARVEY Charles Shaughnessy (Mr. Sheffield in The Nanny) stars in a production of 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. WORKING Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents this musical based on Studs Terkel’s book, 8 p.m. Sept. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19 and 2 p.m. Sept. 13 and 20 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, $20, abettheatre.com.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
GARY STARLING GROUP, RUSSELL GEORGE Jazz musicians play for Music in the Box series, 6 p.m. Aug. 30 at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $5, limelight-theatre.org. JAZZ IN MANDARIN Boril Ivanov Trio, 7 p.m. Thur.; David Gum, 7 p.m. Fri., Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 262-0006. JAZZ IN ATLANTIC BEACH Taylor Roberts, 7 p.m. Tue. and Wed., Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., 247-0060, ocean60.com. JAZZ IN AVONDALE The Von Barlow Trio & Third Bass, 9 p.m. every Sun., Casbah Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966.
COMEDY
OWEN BENJAMIN Standup comic/musician Benjamin is on 8 p.m. Aug. 27 and 28 and 8 and 10 p.m. Aug. 29, The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $15-$18, 2924242, comedyzone.com. BRAD TASSELL Comic Tassell is on 7:30 and 10 p.m. Aug. 28 and 7 and 10 p.m. Aug. 29 at Latitude 360’s Bonkerz, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, $15, 365-5555, latitude360.com. LARRY SILVER Hypnotist Silver is on 8 p.m. Aug. 28 and 29 at Jacksonville Comedy Club, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $12 and $15, 646-4277.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
INSANE WITH POWER Orange Park Community Theatre auditions for the comedy 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1 and 2 at the theater’s rehearsal hall, 2900 Moody Ave., opct.org. CALL FOR ART St. Augustine Art Association seeks artworks 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. WGHF CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS World Golf Hall of Fame seeks museum volunteers at 1 World Golf Pl., St. Augustine. Volunteers offer guidance through current featured exhibits, explain golf history and stories, answer questions and encourage guests to take part in interactive museum activities. Training provided. For details, call 940-4106 or go to worldgolfhalloffame.org.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
WEDNESDAY MARKET Local produce, arts, crafts, clothing, foods, live music, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aug. 26 and every Wed. at St. Johns Pier Park, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine
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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, artisans, crafters, 5:30-9 p.m. every third Thur., Hemming Park, Downtown, facebook.com/ JaxsonsNightMarket. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches, open 5-9 p.m. every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org. DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts, local produce, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 28 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT The self-guided tour features galleries, antique stores and shops open 5-9 p.m. Aug. 29 and every last Sat. in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 823-9263. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, free yoga session 9-10 a.m. – Anitra Jay, Mike Bernos, Spice & the Po Boys Aug. 29 – food artists, 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, 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. Blues guitarist John Primer performs 7 p.m. Aug. 27, $20 advance, $25 day of. Hblanton2-Heather & Holly Blanton 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 exhibits through Nov. 29. Public garden tours 11 a.m. every Tue. and Thur. Free admission 4-9 p.m. every 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, through August. An opening reception for Drew Edward Hunter’s exhibit SPECTRUM II is held 5-8 p.m. Sept. 4. The exhibit displays Sept. 2 through October. LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, lightnermuseum.org. Curator-led monthly tours are featured at 10 a.m. every first Wed. MANDARIN MUSEUM, WALTER JONES PARK 11964 Mandarin Rd., 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net. Permanent exhibits include the Civil War steamship Maple Leaf artifacts, Harriet Beecher Stowe items and Mandarin historical pieces. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. Unmasked runs through Dec. 6. Project Atrium: Joelle Dietrick is on display 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, UNF Gallery, through Aug. 30. Free admission 4-9 p.m. every Thur. in summer.
GALLERIES
ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. An exhibit of 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. An exhibit of new prints by Margete Griffin is on display. CLAY & CANVAS STUDIO 2642 Rosselle St., Ste. 6, Riverside. The annual Open Studio Night Exhibition is held 5:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 28, featuring new works by Tiffany W. Leach and Lily Kuonen. DJ Sir Robin spins; Screen Door Dance Room at 8 p.m. (open dance class and demos 7-8 p.m.). Prometheus Studios Glass Works, by Kirin Hale, is also on display. Treats and drinks provided by Intuition Ale Works. tiffanyleach.com, lilykuonen.com. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Maria Valdez Dugger’s Spiral Series is on display through Sept. 3. The exhibit Environments: Real and Imagined, featuring works by painters Sara Pedigo and Ronald Gibbons, is on display through Sept. 3. Diane Travis’ World of Big Cats & Cubs, through Sept. 3. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. An opening reception for the exhibit Symphony of Color – Paintings by Anthony Whiting is held 7-9 p.m. Aug. 29. The exhibit is on display Aug. 27-Oct. 20. 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. Works by Mary Hubley and Dennis Bernhardt, through August. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. An exhibit of photographs by Kenneth M. Barrett Jr. is on display through Oct. 22. SOUTH CAMPUS GALLERY Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ, 11901 Beach Blvd., 646-2354, fscj.edu/wilsoncenter. An opening reception for Douglas J. Eng’s exhibit Streaming South: Illuminations from a Journey Home, is held 5-7:30 p.m. Aug. 27. The exhibit is on display through Sept. 16. 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. An opening reception for the exhibit Sum Total, featuring photography by UNF faculty members Alex Diaz, Paul Karabinis, Kelly Malcom and Christopher Trice, is held 6-9 p.m. Sept. 2 in the UNF ArtSPACE. Dee Roberts, Princess Rashid and Overstreet Ducasse are featured. Cain’t Never Could performs. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. The juried Sixth Annual Nature and Wildlife Exhibition runs through August. ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER 10 W. Castillo Dr., 825-1053, staugustine-450/tapestry. Tapestry: The Cultural Threads of First America, which explores Hispanics, Africans and Native Americans and how they helped form the foundation of American culture, is on display through Oct. 4.
EVENTS
RIVER RUCKUS The third annual festival celebrating the St. Johns River is held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 29 at Riverside Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449. A celebrity river jump, craft beer, boat rides, dragonboat races, kayak flotilla, kids’ crafts, SUP yoga, SUP lessons, fishing clinic and live music by Anitra Jay, Mike Bernos and Spice & the Po’ Boys are featured. Proceeds benefit St. Johns Riverkeeper programs. riversideartsmarket.com, stjohnsriverkeeper.org. BRING YOUR PARTNER CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT Despite its erstwhile indelicate name, this popular sport now has a tournament. Morocco Shriners and First Coast Cornhole hold the contest 4-10 p.m. Aug. 29 at Morocco Shrine Center, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Southside, $20 entry fee, team sign-up 4 p.m. at event. A food truck is onsite. Proceeds benefit Shrine programs. firstcoastcornhole.com. DEANNA RAYBOURN New York Times bestselling author Raybourn reads and signs copies of her new book, A Curious Beginning: A Veronica Speedwell Mystery, 7 p.m. Sept. 2 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com. AMELIA RIVER CRUISES Adult Twilight BYOB Cruises are held every Thur., Fri. and Sat., featuring live music – Dan Voll Aug. 27 and 29, Larry LeMier Aug. 28 – 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 throughout Northeast Florida. Call 904-350-0600 or go to 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 The First LEGO League Robotics kickoff is 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 29; renaissancejax. org. Hemming Park offers free yoga, group fitness and live music, across from City Hall, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown; for schedule, go to hemmingpark.org/hemming-park-events.
ALICE COOPER and some heavyweight friends honor fallen comrades with a new release
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WAKE THE DEAD
hile Alice Cooper is known as a pioneer of theatrical rock, with a stage show complete with guillotines, electric chairs, and boa constrictors, one of his greatest performances has surely been his own survival. Tales of Cooper’s former Falstaffian boozing and maniacal carousing border on legend, and in the ’70s, he surrounded himself with likeminded, notorious imbibers. Begun at the You’re doing these larger venues with the Crüe Sunset Strip’s famed Rainbow Bar & Grill, but you’re returning to The Florida Theatre they were known as the Hollywood Vampires. here in Jacksonville, which holds just under John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, Jim 2,000 people. Do you prefer smaller venues? Morrison, and Bernie Taupin are but a few For me, I would like to do nothing but of the card-carrying vampires. Membership theaters, because our show fits into a theater was contingent on out-drinking the rest of so well. I mean, we do outdoor shows with the gang. Many have long since died; others, 110,000 people here and 30,000 there and yet like Cooper, who got sober decades ago, you take this show, and you put in a theater survived. Three years ago, Cooper, Joe Perry, and it fits in the theater. I think maybe it’s just and Johnny Depp decided to pay tribute to something that’s inherent in what we do. You this boozy cartel. They issued a clarion call know, everybody has a good seat. It all works to their friends and cohorts to record a loose, whether you’re standing close or not. But freewheeling recording of favorite cover songs, the lighting is better, the sound is better, the some penned by former Vampires. Sir Paul intensity is better. So I would take a theater McCartney, Joe Walsh, Robby Krieger, Slash, tour any day over an arena tour. But of course, Dave Grohl and Zak Starkey (Ringo’s son) you’re gonna make a hell of a lot more money were, to name a few, among those who signed doing arenas. on. The resulting album, Hollywood Vampires, features Cooper and company tearing through So what’s the Hollywood Vampires story? tunes by Nilsson, Lennon, and Hendrix, along with cuts by the likes of The Doors, Spirit, and The whole Vampires thing is that, basically, T. Rex, and the aptly titled, send-off closing every band ever started out as a covers band. track: “Dead Drunk Friends.” The album drops You know, we started out as a covers band on Sept. 11 (vinyl Oct. 11), but locals can hear when we were kids. The Beatles did, The Stones Cooper and his solo band tear through some did … everybody was a covers band — ’cause Vampires material, along with his unrivaled that’s how you learn how to play. So we’re in catalog of solo tunes, when he returns to The London and doing Dark Shadows with Johnny Florida Theatre on Sept. 1. Depp. And in the movie, I come to the house Cooper spoke to Folio Weekly from and play the party and all of that. So that night, Cleveland, Ohio, his first stop on tour with we were going to go play music at this place Mötley Crüe. We riffed on surviving the road, called the 100 Club in London and it’s a tiny resurrecting the Vampires, place. So really, you’re just and a lesser-known classic going to be a rock and roll AN EVENING WITH band that night. And we got from his dark, wasted days. ALICE COOPER there and played and Johnny 8 p.m. Sept. 1, The Florida came up and joined us and Folio Weekly: Since you’ve Theatre, Downtown, $49.50-$75, we really realized how much been inducted into the Rock floridatheatre.com fun it is to just get up there & Roll Hall of Fame, when and play and have somebody you’re in Cleveland, do you yell out “Brown Sugar,” or “Back in the USSR.” drop by and demand free souvenirs and And you know those songs. [Laughs.] You food there? know, Johnny’s a good guitar player, so we Alice Cooper: [Laughs.] You know, when started talking about “the good old days” of the I got into the Hall of Fame, I thought there Hollywood Vampires when we used to meet was gonna be, like, a secret handshake and at The Rainbow and I said, “You know what a dossier on Area 51, who shot Kennedy … would be fun? To make a tribute album to our none of that happened. dead, drunk friends.” [Laughs.] You know, there was Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon, John Lennon Your tour schedule would destroy a lesser … all the guys we used to drink with are dead. performer even half your age. What is the Alice Cooper stamina regimen for not falling Are you playing any of these tunes on this apart on the road? solo tour? I’ve tried to figure that out myself, because at We’re gonna do “Break on Through,” 67 I’m in better shape than I was when I was “Revolution,” — which we didn’t do on the 37. I never smoked cigarettes and I think that album — “Foxy Lady,” and “My Generation.” had a lot to do with it, because I know guys my age who are still touring and they can You guys cover one of my favorite ’60s songs really only do two shows a week, because the on this album: Small Faces’ “Itchycoo Park.” lung capacity’s not there. And on top of it, in Were Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane high school I was a distance runner. So I think honorary or card-carrying Vampires? a lot of that whole endurance thing plays into Lemme tell you, that band was the all time, it somehow. When we get up onstage every heavyweight champion hotel destroyers. single night, we do 110 percent up there and [Laughs.] There was nobody better. People it feels great to finish that show and leave the audience screaming for more. That’s really all said Led Zeppelin, people said The Who — I care about. no — Small Faces were the champions of
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tearing a hotel up. And yeah, when I first heard “Itchycoo Park,” I was, like, “Wow, what was that?” In England, we’d drink together all the time with Marriott and those guys. So I definitely wanted to do that song. You’re known as this “shock rock” and hard rock guy, but over the years, you’ve really released some strong ballads: “Only Women Bleed,” “I Never Cry,” “How You Gonna See Me Now” — your voice really seems to go well with that form. Yeah, we had four top 10 hits in a row with ballads. And it was during what I call [laughs] The Great Disco Plague. They wouldn’t play any of our rock songs. They’d only play ballads. So I had four in a row and people really thought that I’d mellowed out and everything, but it was only because the stations wouldn’t play any hard rock. But working with Dick Wagner and Bob Ezrin, the easiest songs for us to write were the ballads; for some reason, they took no time at all. Dick Wagner was such a great riff artist. I’d sing my melody line and he’d come up with such great chord structures, and Bob Ezrin would take over from there. The hard part on those is making them simple. How do you get that song, make it simple, and at some point have the lyric and chord break the girl’s heart. If you can do that, you’ve got a hit. I’d always play it for my wife and my daughters and I’d say, “It’s coming, it’s coming … here comes the lyric” and as soon as that lyric and that chord hit, I’d see my wife go [sighs] “Awww … ” and I’d know, “Yes!” [Laughs.] Success. In that same era, you released 1978’s From the Inside. That was really an intriguing album, because you wrote this really blunt account of going to rehab to get sober when no one in rock music really talked about that. In hindsight, do you think that record was a little too real for some people? You know, when I was in the hospital, Bernie Taupin was my best friend. For some reason, we were literally inseparable, we went to dinner every night; we did everything. And when I came out of the hospital, I went, “Bernie, I was just in a lyric writer heaven. This place was so full of craziness.” And I started explaining the characters and we started writing about the characters. I would write a line and then he would write a line back to me; it was like a ping-pong match. And then when we got in the studio, we had David Foster producing and basically the band was Toto. And David Foster really knew how to tie it all together, even though it wasn’t his normal fare, which was Earth, Wind & Fire and all of that stuff. But he saw the sense of humor in it and there was a lot of stuff in it that was pretty insane. And he got it and, musically, that was maybe the best album I ever did. Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 19
Cali reggae band TRIBAL SEEDS (pictured) perform with THE EXPANDERS and ARISE ROOTS at Mavericks at The Landing Aug. 28, Downtown.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Aug. 26 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. DENNY BLUE 6 p.m. Aug. 26 & 28 and Sept. 2 at Paula’s Beachside Grill, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463. 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. BIG JOHN 7 p.m. Aug. 26 at Ragtime Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. JARED KNAPIK, RAISING CADENCE, MIRACLES of MODERN SCIENCE 8 p.m. Aug. 26 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. LUCKY MUD 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. BE EASY 8 p.m. Aug. 27 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. SUNDY BEST, CHRIS WOODS, JESSE MONTOYA 8 p.m. Aug. 27, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $15 day of. TRIBAL SEEDS, The EXPANDERS, ARISE ROOTS 6 p.m. Aug. 28 at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $20 advance; $25 day of. MID-LIFE CRISIS 7 p.m. Aug. 27, Ragtime Tavern. MIKE SHACKELFORD, STEVE SHANHOLTZER 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28, Mudville Music Room, $10. BLAINE the MONO, GROWN-UP AVENGER STUFF, URSULA, DANCING with GHOSTS 8 p.m. Aug. 28 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown. Manny’s Dirty Thirty Birthday Bash: SIMPLE NATURAL 8 p.m. Aug. 28 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8 advance; $10 day of. The OUTLAWS, BLACKHAWK 8 p.m. Aug. 28 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$55. DAMIEN DEADSON, FORSAKE the FALLEN, LOWERCASE G 8 p.m. Aug. 28, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. The LEONARD BROTHERS 8:30 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29, Latitude 360. United to Keep Planet Sarbez Fundraiser: LAUREL LEE & the ESCAPEES, GHOST TROPIC, UNCLE MATT GARRISON 9 p.m. Aug. 28 at Planet Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632. “3” the BAND 10 p.m. Aug. 28 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. LOVE MONKEY 10 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29, Ragtime Tavern. FRATELLO 10 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611. Riverside Arts Market: ANITRA JAY, MIKE BERNOS, SPICE & the PO BOYS 10:30 a.m. Aug. 29 at 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449. BULLET BOYS, DAMNEDGED, The LAWLESS HEARTS, EVICTION, MEDAL MILITIA 6 p.m. Aug. 29 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $12. CONRAD OBERG & HIS BAND 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29, Mudville Music Room, $10. APPETITE for DESTRUCTION (Guns N Roses tribute), RIDE the LIGHTNING (Metallica tribute) 8 p.m. Aug. 29, Freebird Live, $10 advance; $15 day of. SILVERSEL, OUTEREDGE 8 p.m. Aug. 29, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. GRABBAG, STATUS FAUX, The LAST SONS 8 p.m. Aug. 29, Burro Bar.
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LUNAR COAST 10 p.m. Aug. 29, Flying Iguana. I-RESOLUTION 4 p.m. Aug. 30 at Nippers Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-3300. RICK SPRINGFIELD, LOVERBOY, The ROMANTICS 6 p.m. Aug. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $35-$79.50. MIKE SHACKELFORD Acoustic Night 6 p.m. Aug. 30, Bull Park, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828. TONY & the TROUBLEMAKERS 7 p.m. Aug. 30, Ragtime Tavern. FIELD GRAY, A VIBRANT LIE 8 p.m. Aug. 30, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. IKILLYA, YESTERDAY’S SAINTS, USED BUTT LUBE 8 p.m. Aug. 30, Burro Bar. DARREN CORLEW 10 p.m. Aug. 30, Flying Iguana. The OH WHALES 8 p.m. Aug. 31, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. Songwriters Night: AARON KOERNER, JAIME SANTANA, SAVANNAH LEIGH BASSETT 6 p.m. Sept. 1 at Pusser’s Bar & Grille, 816 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-7766. An EVENING with ALICE COOPER 8 p.m. Sept. 1, The Florida Theatre, $49.50-$75. BRETT BASS & WES COBB 9 p.m. Sept. 1 at Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. GOV. CLUB, EMMA & the OLD KINGS, GHOST SWITCH, HARVEY HAMPTON 6 p.m. Sept. 2, 1904 Music Hall. GYMSHORTS, MEMPHIBIANS 6 p.m. Sept. 2, Burro Bar. RYAN CRARY 6 p.m. Sept. 2, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. Music by the Sea: PAPERCUTT Dinner by South Beach Grill 6 p.m.; concert 7 p.m. Sept. 2 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. The NIGHTMARE POLICE, CORTELL 8 p.m. Sept. 2, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Celebrate 450!: AARON NEVILLE, MAVIS STAPLES, EMMYLOU
HARRIS and RODNEY CROWELL, JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, JJ GREY & MOFRO, PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR, NICKI BLUHM & the GRAMBLERS, more Sept. 3-8, various venues St. Augustine SICKMARK, CONSTRAINT, WORSEN Sept. 3, Shantytown Pub NORTHE, RATSMOUTH, SUNSPOTS, STRONG GUYS Sept. 4, Jack Rabbits FAT CACTUS Sept. 4, Flying Iguana GYM SHORTS, BEN KATZMAN DEGREASER, PARTY FLAG Sept. 4, Shanghai Nobby’s ELONZO WESLEY, MATTEO QUIMENTO Sept. 4, Burro Bar Einstein-A-Go-Go 30th Anniversary Party: DJ RICKY Sept. 5, Eclipse Nightclub PONCHO SANCHEZ Sept. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum PANDA ELLIOT Sept. 5, Burro Bar GUTLESS, CONSENT, 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 ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA Sept. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JAHMEN Sept. 13, Nippers Beach Grille EARL SWEATSHIRT, NXWORRIES, REMY BANKS Sept. 13, Mavericks at the Landing RICKOLUS Sept. 13, Fly’s Tie Irish Pub WHITNEY PEYTON Sept. 14, Underbelly THEE OH SEES, GOLDEN PELICANS, WAYLON THORNTON & the HEAVY HANDS Sept. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DAVID LEIBE HART, VULGARIANS Sept. 16, Underbelly ROXY ROCA Sept. 16, Jack Rabbits LUKE BRYAN, RANDY HOUSER, DUSTIN LYNCH Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena FRONZILLA PALISADES, WHITNEY PEYTON, IT LIVES IT BREATHES Sept. 17, Underbelly 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 Clean Water Music Festival: LARKIN POE, ISRAEL NASH, BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Sept. 26, P.V. Concert Hall I-VIBES Sept. 27, Nippers Beach Grille Folio Weekly’s Bonnabrew: TOMBOI, The DAYGOS, LPT, FJORD EXPLORER Sept. 27, Riverside Arts Market NOTHING MORE, The MARMOZETS, TURBOWOLF Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits RECKLESS SERENADE Sept. 29, Jack Rabbits HOUNDMOUTH, BASIA BULAT Sept. 30, P.Vedra Concert Hall Bear Creek Music & Art Festival: GALACTIC, MACY GRAY, DUMPSTAPHUNK, SOULIVE Oct. 1-4, Suwannee Music Park BOOKER T. JONES Oct. 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum JERROD NIEMANN Oct. 3, Mavericks at the Landing DR. JOHN & the NITE TRIPPERS, WALTER PARKS Oct. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Amelia Island Jazz Fest: NAVY BAND SOUTHEAST’S TGIF, TRIO CALIENTE, LES DEMERLE, BONNIE EISELE, KEVIN MAHOGANY, LARRY CORYELL, AL WATERS, MIKE LEVINE, DENNIS MARKS, STEVE STAWLEY, CLARENCE HINES, AL WATERS, DON ZENTZ, DOUG MATTHEWS, ERNIE EALUM Oct. 4-11, Fernandina Beach TORO Y MOI, ASTRONAUTS Oct. 8, Freebird Live CANNIBAL CORPSE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, SOREPTION Oct. 8, Underbelly The MOUNTAIN GOATS, BLANK RANGE Oct. 9, Colonial Quarter ANI DiFRANCO, ANA EGGE 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, Vets Mem Arena NEW FOUND GLORY, YELLOWCARD, TIGERS JAW Oct. 13, Mavericks The WINERY DOGS Oct. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NOAH GUNDERSON, FIELD REPORT Oct. 14, Colonial Quarter Magnolia Fest: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, AVETT BROTHERS, DEL McCOURY BAND, STEEP CANYON RANGERS, LAKE STREET DRIVE Oct. 15-18, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park STRAY FROM the PATH, COMEBACK KID, BEING AS an OCEAN, MAJOR LEAGUE, DEEZ NUTS Oct. 15, Underbelly 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, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE BIG TOWN, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Oct. 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MATT POND PA Oct. 17, 1904 Music Hall 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, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BUDDY GUY, SHEMEKIA COPELAND Oct. 23, Florida Theatre KATT WILLIAMS Oct. 24, Veterans Memorial Arena MARK KNOPFLER Oct. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DESAPARECIDOS Oct. 27, Underbelly KEPI GHOULI, MEAN JEANS, LIFEFORMS (as NIRVANA) Oct. 29, rain dogs TWO COW GARAGE, The MUTTS Oct. 29, Jack Rabbits Suwannee Hulaween: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, PRETTY LIGHTS, PRIMUS, CHANCE the RAPPER Oct. 30-Nov. 1, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park LEE BAINES III & the GLORY FIRES, PUJOL, ELECTRIC WATER Oct. 31, Burro Bar The UNDERACHIEVERS, POUYA, KIRK KNIGHT, BODEGA BAMZ Nov. 1, Underbelly BOZ SCAGGS Nov. 4, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts LEFTOVER SALMON Nov. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE Nov. 6, Florida Theatre PRONG, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits The BROTHERS COMATOSE Nov. 7, 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 TEXAS in JULY, REFLECTIONS, TO the WIND, INVENT, ANIMATE Nov. 11, Underbelly KNUCKLE PUCK, SEAWAY, SORORITY NOISE, HEAD NORTH Nov. 11, 1904 Music Hall 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 KRISTIN CHENOWITH Nov. 14, T-U Center 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, MELISSA FERRICK Dec. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KEVIN GRIFFIN Dec. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BRIAN REGAN Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre MATISYAHU Dec. 18 & 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MICHAEL McDONALD Dec. 19, Thrasher-Horne Center The TEN TENORS Dec. 22, The Florida Theatre DONNA the BUFFALO Dec. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOJA Jan. 1, The Florida Theatre JOHN SEBASTIAN Jan. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEVE FORBERT TRIO Jan. 9, Mudville Music Room TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Jan. 15, PV Concert Hall CHRISTIAN McBRIDE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre The TEMPTATIONS, The FOUR TOPS Jan. 21, Florida Theatre SHAWN COLVIN Jan. 29, P.V. Concert Hall JOHNNY MATHIS Jan. 31, Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Jan. 31, P.Vedra Concert Hall YANNI Feb. 3, T-U Center WHO’S BAD: Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Feb. 5, Florida Theatre ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Feb. 10, Florida Theatre PATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS, ANAIS MITCHELL Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre The JAMES HUNTER SIX Feb. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, Ritz Theatre & Museum ADAM TRENT Feb. 21, The Florida Theatre GARY CLARK JR. Feb. 21, P.V.Concert Hall IL VOLO March 3, The Florida Theatre BLACK VIOLIN March 3, Ritz Theatre
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
ROGER McGUINN March 4, P.V. Concert Hall JANET JACKSON March 8, Vets Arena FRANK SINATRA JR. March 9, Florida Theatre JOHNNY CLEGG & HIS BAND March 18, P.Vedra Concert Hall CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, Ritz Theatre NAJEE April 9, Ritz Theatre & Museum LET IT BE: Celebration The Beatles April 10, Florida Theatre ELLIS PAUL May 13, Original Café Eleven
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
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 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 Ryan Crary Aug. 27
THE BEACHES (All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
Northeast Florida’s premier (and possibly only) hair metal parody band, PAPERCUTT, perform at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion on Sept. 2. The concert is part of the Music by the Sea series, which combines fare from local restaurants with live music.
BILLY’S Boathouse, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Super Natural Aug. 27. Billy Bowers Aug. 30 CULHANE’S, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Bch, 249-9595 Back Alley Cadillac 8 p.m. Aug. 28. DJ Hal every Sat. Irish music every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Bch, 853-5680 Evan Michael 9 p.m. Aug. 27. 3 the Band 10 p.m. Aug. 28. Lunar Coast 10 p.m. Aug. 29. Darren Corlew Aug. 30 FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr. E., AB, 246-4293 Cain’t Never Could Aug. 28 FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Manny’s Dirty 30 Birthday Bash: Simple Natural 8 p.m. Aug. 28. Appetite for
Destruction, Ride the Lightning 8 p.m. Aug. 29 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Scott Verville Aug. 26. Live music Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade Sun. Back From the Brink Mon. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Grit 10 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Lyons Aug. 27. Ouija Bros Aug. 28. Dan Hunting Sept. 2 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Neil Dixon every Tue. Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer every Thur.
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MONKEY’S UNCLE, 1850 S. Third St., 246-1070 Chilly Rhino 10 p.m. Aug. 28 NIPPERS Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 King Eddie & Pili Pili Aug. 27. Mad Hatter Aug. 28. I-Resolution Aug. 30 NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 372-4105 Elizabeth Rogers Aug. 27. Kurt Lanham Aug. 29 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Big John Aug. 26. MidLife Crisis Aug. 27. Love Monkey 10 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29. Tony & the Troublemakers 7 p.m. Aug. 30. Live music Thur.-Sun. ROYAL PALM Village Wine, 296 Royal Palms Dr., AB, 372-0052 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Aug. 27 WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 247-4508 Crazy Daysies 7 p.m. Aug. 27. Mike Lyons 9:30 p.m. Aug. 28 WORLD of BEER, 311 N. Third, 372-9698 RadioLove Aug. 28
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Bullet Boys, Damnedged, The Lawless Hearts, Eviction, Medal Militia Aug. 29. Gov. Club, Emma & the Old Kings, Ghost Switch, Harvey Hampton Sept. 2. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. Blain the Mono, Grown-up Avenger Stuff, Ursula, Dancing with Ghosts Aug. 28. Grabbag, Status Faux, The Last Ones Aug. 29. Ikillya, Yesterday’s Saints 8 p.m. Aug. 30. Gymshorts, Memphibians Sept. 2. Elonzo Wesley, Matteo Quimento Sept. 4. Panda Elliot Sept. 5 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. 26 & 30. Jimmy Solari 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Aug. 28. Box Band 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Aug. 29 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 353-1188 Spanky 8 p.m. Aug. 28. Bread & Butter Aug. 29. King Eddie & Pili Pili 4 p.m. Aug. 30 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 Tribal Seeds, The Expanders, Arise Roots 6 p.m. Aug. 28. Joe Buck, DJ Justin Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Thomas Wynn & the Believers Aug. 27. Flatland, Green Sunshine, The Offshore Aug. 28
FLEMING ISLAND
WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music Fri. & Sat. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. Thur. Deck music Fri., Sat. & Sun.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
INTRACOASTAL WEST
CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Natural Instincts Aug. 26. Joe Oliff Aug. 28 JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks Aug. 28. Lisa & the Madhatters 8:30 p.m. Aug. 29
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
DAVE’S MUSIC BAR & GRILL, 9965 San Jose, 575-4935 Dan Raymond, Blues Jam Aug. 28. A Vibrant Lie, Here’s the Deal Aug. 29 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine, 880-3040 Anton LaPlume Aug. 26. Smooth McFlea Aug. 30. Open jam Blues Monday 7 p.m. every Mon.
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 Live music every Sat. DJ Tammy Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Fratello 10 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29. Live music 10 p.m. Wed. DJ Big Mike 10 p.m. Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grill, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Billy Buchanan Aug. 27. Songwriters Night: Aaron Koerner, Jaime Santana, Savannah Leigh Bassett Sept. 1. Ryan Crary Sept. 2. Live music weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 The Skinny Aug. 26. Gary Starling Aug. 27. Chicos Lobos Aug. 28. Paxton & Mike Aug. 29
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 (N)ception 8 p.m. Aug. 29 MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood S., 388-7807 Jackie Hill-Perry, Jannette IKZ, Ezekiel Azonwu, Preston Perry Sept. 3 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Dirty Reggae, Punx 9 p.m. Aug. 28. Happy Faced Mistakes Aug. 29 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Anitra Jay, Mike Bernos, Spice & the Po Boys 10:30 a.m. Aug. 29 TOM & BETTY’S, 4409 Roosevelt Blvd., 387-3311 4syTe, Chelle Wilson 7 p.m. Aug. 28
ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Ain’t Too Proud
BODY & SOUL
MUSIC HEALS. It’s not just an aphorism, but a hard truth based in research in a number of areas. Music healing therapy has been proven to induce relaxation in premature babies, treat pain, anxiety, and depression, assist in the healing of brain injuries and even to ease the effects of Parkinson’s disease. Though the official practice of music healing therapy dates back (at least in scientific literature) to the mid-1900s, it has ancient origins in physiological, sociological and psychological contexts. Any one of us can attest to the deep and important role music plays in our lives, from attaching memories to a certain song or record album to the consolation we received in a moment of sadness by simply dropping the needle (or clicking play) on one of our favorite songs. And who can deny the sense of community one feels when at a concert during a particularly stirring moment, be it classical, rock or rave? It’s in this healing spirit that musician James Jenkins founded Body & Soul: The Art of Healing, a nonprofit that brings together the many facets of Northeast Florida’s arts community in local healthcare institutions to foster healing and growth. Among the many programs offered by Body & Soul are Arts in Action, which brings music, dance and theater performances to local healing facilities, featuring Q&A sessions with the performers; Room Service, which provides strolling musicians to perform at patients’ bedsides or for small groups in clinical settings; and Children at Play, which brings instruments to children so they can hear and play them with the help of the professional musicians who donate their time and talent. Folio Weekly recently spoke with Jenkins, who just set out on a three-week European tour with the Boston Symphony, about his role in the organization and the work they’re doing in the local healing community.
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to Beg Aug. 28. Billy Buchanan & Free Avenue Aug. 29. Vinny Jacobs Aug. 30 MILL TOP TAVERN, 19 St. George St., 829-2329 Jake Cox & Jimmy B 9 p.m. Aug. 28 & 29. Denny Blue 1 p.m. Aug. 29 PAULA’S GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Denny Blue open mic jam 6-9 p.m. Aug. 26 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Gym Shorts, Ben Katzman Degreaser, Party Flag 9 p.m. Sept. 4 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Cotton Mouth Aug. 28 & 29. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Jared Knapik, Raising Cadence, Miracles of Modern Science 8 p.m. Aug. 26. Sundy Best, Chris Woods, Jesse Montoya 8 p.m. Aug. 27. Damien Deadson, Forsake the Fallen, Lowercase G Aug. 28. Silversel, Outeredge Aug. 29. Field Gray, A Vibrant Lie Aug. 30. The Oh Whales Aug. 31. The Nightmare Police, Cortell Sept. 2. Northe, Ratsmouth, Sunspots, Strong Guys Sept. 4 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Lucky Mud 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer Aug. 28. Conrad Oberg & His Band 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29. Tildon Krautz Sept. 3 THE PARLOUR, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455 Live music most weekends
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS, ARLINGTON
LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Rusted Diamond 7 p.m. Aug. 26. Be Easy, DJ Trdmrk Aug. 27. Darrell Rae, The Leonard Brothers Aug. 28 & 29. Jesse Cruce Aug. 30. X-Hale Sept. 2 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Charlie Walker Aug. 27. Ryan Crary Aug. 28. D-Lo Thompson Aug. 29 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Brett Bass & Wes Cobb 9 p.m. Sept. 1. 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 Chilly Rhino Aug. 27
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Sickmark, Constraint, Worsen Sept. 3. Gutless, Consent, The Slam Brigade Sept. 6 THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Anitra Jay Aug. 26
THE KNIFE Folio Weekly: You perform with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. What’s your position? James Jenkins: Principal tuba. When did you establish Body & Soul? Body & Soul was launched in 2000 through funding from the St. Vincent’s Foundation. The mission is to help to enhance the quality of healthcare through the arts and enrich the arts through service to the community. We do this by helping to tailor Arts in Healthcare programs for partnering institutions.
THE KNIFE
Who are some of the musicians you send to the infirm? There is a wide range of musicians and artists who participate in the Body & Soul mission, including Symphony members, prominent music and arts educators, prominent local jazz, folk, Latin and pop artists, along with an occasional international artist such as Wynton Marsalis or the Count Basie Orchestra. What kind of music do the patients enjoy most? The artists are encouraged to present their own personal offering. We’ve learned that the patients’ response is positive as long as the presentation of the music is genuine. What are their reactions to the performances? Daily we experience everything from extreme joy, strong emotional reactions, even unresponsive patients waking due to the stimulus of the music. How do you “tabulate” such responses? Most of the institutions have the volunteer escorts submit reports after each Body & Soul visit.
What is the most important aspect of your work? Using the Arts to connect with the people in our community in a significant and meaningful way. What was the most touching interaction between musician and patient you’ve witnessed or documented? There is no real answer to this question. With unresponsive patients waking, helping patients to communicate in a way that they otherwise can’t, and helping some patients make their transitions to the afterlife – which we all witness on an almost daily basis – there can’t be one most touching instance. John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
Baker and Pastry Chef Adam Burnett serves his creations from Knead Bakeshop in Murray Hill.
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29south restaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. F Southwestern fare made-to-order fresh; burritos, tacos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F Family-owned spot in historic building. Veggie burgers, seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oakshaded patio. Karibrew Pub next door. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY CO., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ winner. SEE
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ORANGE PARK.
ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F BOJ winner. Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S AT THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. 7th St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F BOJ winner. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20plus 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. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F The bakery, near historic district, has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PI INFINITE COMBINATIONS, 19 S. Third St., 432-8535, pi32034.wix.com/piinfinite. All bar service at New Yorkstyle pizza joint. Specialty pizzas, by the pie or slice, topped with sliced truffle mushrooms, whole little neck clams, eggs or shrimp. Dine in or in courtyard, with fountain. $$ 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. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F BOJ winner. Second-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront; handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air second floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
THE STEAKHOUSE @ GOLD CLUB, 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500, jacksonvillegoldclub.com. BOJ winner. Lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffets Thur. & Fri. $$$ 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 20plus years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ winner. 40-plus years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries,
DINING DIRECTORY pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.
INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F BOJ winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. A variety of curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 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 Rd., 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. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. TEQUILA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. F The new place has authentic Mexican fare, made daily with freshest ingredients. Vegetarian dishes; daily drink specials. Nonstop happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. 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 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. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 F Latin American, Southwest tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches.
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DINING DIRECTORY KEY
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com. 2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
100-plus tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
LILLIE’S Coffee Bar, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine inside or on patio, courtyard. $$ 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. 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. $$ FB K L D Wed.-Sun.; D Mon. & Tue. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. Gastropub, 50-plus beers, gourmet hamburgers, ground inhouse, hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ 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. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. BOJ winner. 20-plus tap beers, TVs, cheerleaders. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily SURFING SOMBRERO, 222 First St. N., 834-9377. New oceanfront place serves authentic fare – like paella. Drink specials. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily 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. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun. CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare for 35-plus years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. The homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat.
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DINING DIRECTORY OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ 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, thezod iacbarandgrill.com. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Wed.-Sat. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.
FLEMING ISLAND
GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West 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, whiteys fishcamp.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
LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F With shops 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. 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. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S WINGS & GRILLE, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT Sports Grill, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999,
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes; tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S Deli, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES.
GRILL ME!
REBECCA GEARY Applebee’s Grill & Bar, 8635 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 201, Orange Park BIRTHPLACE: Fall River, Massachusetts YEARS IN THE BIZ: 7 FAVORITE RESTAURANT: Carrabba’s, Blanding Boulevard BEST CUISINE STYLE: Italian GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Flavored vodkas; specifically, Stoli blueberry IDEAL MEAL: I love Applebee’s Fiesta lime chicken – I add buffalo sauce – it puts a great spin on an already awesome dish. WON’T CROSS MY LIPS: Anything with mushrooms INSIDER’S SECRET: The drinks that take the most time to make taste the best. CELEBRITY SIGHTING HERE: Rashean Mathis CULINARY TREAT: My favorite dessert in the world – our Maple Butter Blondie!
timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-nite menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
MANDARIN, JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S Pizza, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ 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 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. All-natural, 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, familyfriendly eatery. Pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, burgers, pasta, plus gluten-free-friendly items. $ FB K L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 1803 East West Parkway, Fleming Island, 375-2559. BOJ winner. This NASCARthemed 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. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat.
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BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American with a Southern twist; locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ 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+ 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 Wknd 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. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. BOJ winner. 130-plus imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style Reuben, sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F BOJ winner. Juice bar; certified organic fruits, vegetables. 300-plus craft/import beers, 50 wines, produce, humanely raised meats, deli, raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. Wraps, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS Asian Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. One word: Reuben. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617
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DINING DIRECTORY METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner.com. F BOJ winner. The original upscale diner. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ 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
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 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. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 1526 King St., 503-4060. SEE
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ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ 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. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles,
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RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. Bar food. $ D SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. Healthy, light vegan fare made fresh daily with local, organic ingredients. Specials, served on bread, local greens or rice, change daily. Coffees, teas. $ Tue.-Sun. SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. F Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily
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 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., 356-3100, 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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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. $$ BW TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare made with fresh ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ 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. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ONE TWENTY THREE BURGER HOUSE, 123 King St., 687-2790. New spot, just opened by owners of Carmelo’s Pizza down the street, offers premium burgers, made with beef sourced from renowned NYC butcher Schweid & Sons. Wood-fired pizzas, ice cream bar with Old World milkshakes. Outdoor dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
DONUT FORGET THE ORIGINAL The other ARLINGTON institution
but, a few bites in, you won’t care what it looks AFTER 29 YEARS AT ITS ORIGINAL LOCATION, like. This lumpy, misshapen circle is fried and and 21 years connected to a gas station, THE glazed to perfection. Each bite has a crunchy DONUT SHOPPE made its third home just two exterior and a gooey interior, with a hint of blocks away, but still on University Boulevard. cinnamon to complement the mild apple tang. In its current location, it’s as popular as ever, a The Ugly is airy and fluffy – a sort of elevated favorite of Jacksonville University students and funnel cake. Arlington elders alike. A quick peek at Yelp reveals I’m not the only The second most popular item at the one who’s discovered this tiny place. Indeed, a Shoppe is the standard glazed donut (98¢). slew of the more discerning palates in Northeast Other popular donut choices include the Florida have enjoyed The Donut Shoppe since Blueberry Cake – which has real and actual John Glenn orbited the Earth. blueberries that burst with real and actual flavor – and Visitors to the Donut THE DONUT SHOPPE cinnamon cake (98¢). Shoppe seem to come in 1535 University Blvd. N., Their menu has been sporadic herds. One second, Arlington, 743-1844 constant for a half-century, the room is peaceful, with but I thought I’d inquire occasional calls of “Holy if The Donut Shoppe might eventually include Moly!” from the back; the next second, other breakfast items. Owner David Unkelbach, droves of donut-lovers burst through the door, who makes appearances on the weekends, requesting their favorites as they approach the has been with the shop for more than 10 years, counter. Employees work through it all; smiling and has no plans to expand the menu or the and unfazed by this unending cycle. locations. He likes the success just the way it is. With the constant flow of customers and zero – count ’em – zero tables, The Donut With no website, The Donut Shoppe proves Shoppe isn’t a place to stay and chat. It has that longevity, word-of-mouth, and awesome a “get in, get food, get out” mentality, though hot donuts (along with the occasional Folio not in a don’t-let-the-screen-door-hit-you-inWeekly write-up) are the best marketing the-donut-hole kind of way. The employees are tools. With such a long history, a phone that’s happy, the patrons are excited and, hey, it’s a always ringing, and a steady stream of loyal donut shop. All are welcome. customers, I think it’s safe to say this popular Interestingly enough, the most popular item neighborhood place might be around for at The Shoppe isn’t actually a donut, but an another half-century. apple fritter called an “Ugly.” This fritter ($2.03) Rebecca Gibson might not look pretty (hence the name – duh) mail@folioweekly.com
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD THAT’S ONE TALENTED DEAD LION! The distress across the Western world in July over the biggame killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe was apparently misdirected, according to veteran “animal communicator” Karen Anderson of Elk, Washington, who told Facebook and Internet visitors (AnimalCommunicating.com) that Cecil and she had discussed his demise and he was over it. Also, Cecil apparently speaks in formal, graceful English, as Anderson quoted him (according to London’s The Independent): “Let not the actions of these few men defeat us,” said Cecil, “or allow darkness to enter our hearts.” “I am,” he added, “grander than before as no one can take our purity, our truth or our soul.” Anderson’s usual fee to speak with deceased pets is $75 for 15 minutes; she didn’t disclose if she had a client for Cecil’s tab. UH DUDE … I MEAN, OFFICER In May, three Santa Ana, California, police officers who’d just raided unlicensed Sky High Holistic medical marijuana dispensary were caught on the facility’s surveillance video eating supposedly seized cannabis-infused chocolate bars. An “internal affairs” investigation began. In August, the Orange County Register reported the cops went to court to have the video suppressed. Their familiar legal argument is that the video violates their right to privacy — in that they purposely disabled the cameras before they began eating the contraband and thus had the requisite “expectation of privacy” that triggers the right. They may have missed a camera or two. NESTING On Aug. 1, one of the world’s weirdest border disputes came to an end, as India and Bangladesh exchanged more than 160 “enclaves” — sovereign territory completely surrounded by the other country’s sovereign territory (in principle, making travel out of the enclaves impossible unless the enclave had an embassy or another office to issue visas). In fact, there was one Indian enclave (Dahala Khagrabari) completely within a Bangladeshi enclave that is completely inside an Indian enclave inside Bangladesh. I’M TAKING MY CHAIR AND GOIN’ HOME Robin Earnest, 46, told an Arkansas claims hearing she broke two fingers and was forced into “years” of surgery and physical therapy over a game that was part of a class at the College of the Ouachitas in 2011 and demanded at least $75,000 from the state. The July hearing was dominated by a discussion of the proper way
to play musical chairs, because the instructor ordered three students to contest one chair — with Earnest asserting that everyone knows it would be two chairs for three people. THINNING THE HERD When two men who’d been drinking in the apartment of Brandon Thomas, 30, in Conyers, Georgia, on July 23 wanted to leave, Thomas objected. “If y’all are going to drink my alcohol, y’all are going to play my game,” he said, declaring his “game” was Russian roulette. Minutes later, after spinning the revolver’s cylinder, Thomas lost. Three days later in rural Bell County, Kentucky, John Brock, 60, asked the Lord once again to certify his righteousness by allowing him to safely handle a rattlesnake during services at Mossy Simpson Pentecostal Church. However exemplary Mr. Brock’s faith had been previously, on that day, it was found wanting, and he’s no longer with us. WHY YA HITTIN’ YOURSELF? Judge Roger Barto, of Waterloo (New York) Village Court, was convicted in August of staging a fake assault on himself to convince doctors to prescribe him pain medication. Officers on the scene found Barto lying on the ground with a shattered porcelain toilet tank lid nearby from (he said) being smacked on the head by a mugger. Doctors found an apparent flaw in Barto’s ruse: He’d forgotten to actually hurt himself during the “attack” — medical personnel found no mark, cut or bruise on him. SOMEBODY’S KNOCKING AT THE DOOR During a police raid of a suspected drug house (in Wood River, Illinois, in July), with cops swarming the home and yard, confiscating evidence and arresting occupants, officers had to stop briefly from time to time to answer the front door (10 times during a 90-minute period). The dealer’s regular customers continually arrived to buy more heroin. DIDN’T CHER SING THAT? Faced with a declining military budget, the Defense Ministry of the Netherlands issued confidential instructions to commanders in July that during training exercises, to preserve dwindling ammunition, soldiers should simply shout “Bang, Bang!” instead of firing their weapons. Said a soldiers’ advocate, “Even if you have no bullets, you [still] have to train with your weapon.” Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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It is with saddened hearts and now-dull minds that we bid farewell to our master puzzler, Merl Reagle, who died Aug. 25 in Tampa. Merl, who was only 65, loved playful puns, hidden meanings and ’50s and ’60s pop culture. In that spirit, we offer this last puzzle (from 2014) about The Beatles. Rest in peace, Master Merl Reagle.
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Hosp. tubes Press addition Per-unit charge Cheese with tiny holes Giraffe’s cousin Objecting word Rapid transit, once Joining word Beatles flip side of, like, where Big Brother is? 91 Try to win over 92 Car mirror view 94 Hog’s home 95 House Speaker, 1989-’95 96 Another mouth ___ 98 With O, a refrain 100 ___-de-sac 101 Bird word 103 “___ this house ...” 104 Beatles flip side about a shoe salesman? 110 One in dreadlocks 111 Man’s nickname 112 Mr. Mineo 113 Black ___ 114 Beatles flip side about having the flu? 117 Beatles flip side about plain Jane’s best friend? 121 Just inches from 122 Got an eyeful of 123 “Stop ___ shoot!” 124 ___ instant 125 Liberal pursuits 126 Saclike structures 127 With 118 Down, an Italian refrain 128 Printed matter
1 Hatcher or Polo 5 Like most of the world 10 Site of many ANA landings 15 Kin of jeepers 19 Part of A.A. Milne 20 Dry, in Italian 21 Without ___ in the world 22 The bouncing bawl? 23 Beatles flip side about a breakup? 25 Beatles flip side about an interior decorator? 27 Full House co-star 28 Young ___ 30 Alphabet chunk that’s a name 31 Capacitance unit 32 Beatles flip side of how Whistler thought to paint his mother? 36 Twain’s Polly et al. 38 Phone line: abbr. 39 Proto finish 40 Early sitcom star 41 Silly-walking Python 43 Tower city dweller 45 Headquarters: abbr. 46 Setup 50 Unfast track? 51 Beatles flip side about Wagner’s first rule of opera-composing? 55 Before, in The Prioress’s Tale DOWN 56 Standard Oil, once 58 Settling-in-the-tub sounds 1 Keg insert 2 Urban carriers 59 Cow of renown 3 Movie munchies 60 1960s activist Jerry 4 Rashly Rubin, for one 5 In ___ (worried) 62 Lobby announcement 6 Boil 64 Fr. title of respect 7 Like some stares 65 Gangland gun 8 Go __ (date, country-style) 67 Inexperienced 9 Predicate parts 68 With 71 Across, Beatles 10 Bender flip side of how Newt Gingrich saw himself? 11 Common Spanish surname 71 See 68 Across 12 Singer LaBelle 73 Goodman’s music 1
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You like to run ahead of the pack, show the way, set the pace. Cleaner that way, right? Less risk to be caught in messy details of everyday compromise. Experiment: Temporarily ease into the middle of the pack. Be willing to deal with messy details of everyday compromise. It will teach lessons to serve you well next time you’re showing the way and setting the pace.
upon hasn’t risen. Your pet monsters seem to have forgotten they’re allies, not nemeses. Smoke from smoldering embers in repressed memories is blending with chill night fog in your dreams, making life seem like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a taco. JK about that last part. Is your sense of humor intact? If so, you’ll respond resiliently to the cosmic jokes in upcoming tests.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ready to revise your ideas of how love works? To re-evaluate your relationship to romance, approach to intimacy, and understanding of sex? I hope you’re willing and excited. Now’s a great time to make changes to energize your love life with a steady flow of magic for months. To get started, brainstorm about experiments to invigorate the dynamics of togetherness. Make a list of customary romantic strategies, and rebel against them all.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to poet Rainer Maria Rilke, here’s what God says to each of us: “Go the limits of your longing … Flare up like flame and make big shadows that I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Whether or not you’re on speaking terms with the Creator, this is great advice. It’s time to give everything you have and take everything you need. Hold nothing back, open as wide and wild as you dare. Explore a feeling of having nothing to lose; expect useful surprises.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Querencia is a Spanish word with many nuances. At its simplest, it refers to a favorite spot, a place where you long to be. But its meaning can go deeper. Querencia may be a sanctuary where you feel safe and authentic, or a situation that lets you draw on extra reserves of strength and courage. It’s a special kind of home: an empowering shelter that makes you feel you belong in this world. These days, you need to be in your querencia even more than usual. If you don’t have one, or you don’t know where it is, get a fierce intention to find it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The sun and the planet Jupiter are making a joyful noise in the sign of Virgo, which is your astrological House of Career and Ambition. This doesn’t necessarily mean a boon to your career and ambition falls in your lap, though that’s more likely than usual. More important, this omen suggests you’ll influence luck, fate, and your subconscious mind to work in your favor if you take dramatic practical action to advance career and ambitions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The art of effective communication consists of knowing both what and what not to say. It’s not enough to simply find the words that accurately convey the meaning. You have to tailor your message to the quirks of your listeners. Let’s say you want to articulate the process that led you to change your mind about an important issue. You’d use different language with a child, an authority figure, and a friend. Right? You’re at the peak of your abilities to do this well. Take full advantage. Create clear impressions. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Arthur Conan Doyle first used the term “smoking gun” in a story he wrote more than a century ago. It referred to a time the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes burst into a room to find a man holding a pistol that had just been fired, along with the fallen body of a man who’d been shot. Since then, the meaning of “smoking gun” has expanded. Now it’s any piece of evidence that serves as compelling proof of a certain hypothesis. If you can’t find a cookie you left in the kitchen, and your roommate has cookie crumbs on his chin, it’s the smoking gun that confirms he took the cookie. What question do you need answered? What theory corroborated? The smoking gun will appear. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): For now, suspend the quest for order, refinement and perfection. A wise course of action? Disengage from your fascination with control, and give in to the erratic pulse of the Cosmic Wow. If you do, you’ll be able to evolve faster than you thought possible. Your strength will come from agile curiosity and an eagerness to experiment. When did you last explored catalytic wonders of spontaneity and unpredictability? Do it again! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. The star you will ultimately make a wish
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): On Aug. 28, 1963, Capricorn hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of thousands in Washington, D.C. In that address, he imagined what it might look like if African Americans were free of the bigotry and oppression they endured for centuries at the hands of white Americans. In accordance with astrological potentials, articulate your own “Dream” vision. Picture in detail the successful stories you want to actualize in the future. Visualize liberations you’ll achieve and powers you’ll get. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’ve been patiently waiting for a propitious moment to buy a new yacht, pledge your undying love, or get a tattoo depicting Buddha wrestling Satan, now is as close as you’ll get to that propitious moment, at least for a while. Even if you’ve just been considering signing a year-long lease, asking a cute mischief-maker on a date, or posting an extra-edgy meme on Facebook or Twitter, the next three weeks are prime time to strike. Diving into a deep, heart-crazed commitment is sometimes a jangly process, but it may be smooth and synchronistic. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ready for a ritual? Get paper and pen. Light a candle, take three deep breaths, and chant “YUMMMM” five times. Then spend 10 minutes listing qualities you’d like your perfect love to have. Identify traits to make this person unique and behavior he or she would display. When you’re done, burn the list. Disavow everything you wrote. Pledge to live for at least seven months without harboring fixed beliefs about what your ideal partner should be like. Instead, be receptive to the possibility that you’ll learn new truths about what you need. Love has elaborate plans for you in the next two years. You’ll be better prepared to cooperate if you’re free of strong agendas. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
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