08/31/16 Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts Edition

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VISUAL ARTS EDITION EXHIBIT FORCE

Crisp Ellert curator Julie Dickover

LEGENDS OF THE FALL SEMESTER

Northeast Florida’s college art professors

THE STICK UP

Indie curatorial team Danger Tape

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From classical and fine art virtuoso events to street-level, high-energy concerts and clubs, this is Northeast Florida’s DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALL THINGS ARTSY

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A SONG OF HOPE

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A RELATIONSHIP BUSINESS

BY CLAIRE GOFORTH An appraisal of Northeast Florida’s ARTS COMMUNITY

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FROM THE EDITOR An appraisal of Northeast Florida’s ARTS COMMUNITY

A SONG OF HOPE

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won.

—“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” James Weldon Johnson

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A VIBRANT ARTS CULTURE IS ONE OF THE hallmarks of a great and thriving metropolis.

In sprawled-out and deceptively diverse Northeast Florida, the arts have long played second fiddle to pecuniary interests.

Historically, if a measure might generate jobs, we’d fund it to a fault; if a project would create beauty, we’d smile indulgently and toss a few coins into the hypothetical hat; if something challenged our conventions or critiqued our culture, we’d clam up and shrink away, fearful of reflections that are not good and perfect and ideal.

That’s why, when people think of Northeast Floridian art, many probably envision paintings of a windswept seascape at dawn, all pinks and blues and herons and dolphins — or perhaps a landscape of live oaks draped with Spanish moss behind which a blushing beauty waves from the doorway of a charming cottage, white sheets billowing gently on a nearby clothesline.

But all that’s starting to change.

Last week, I had the honor of sitting down with a lady whose resignation letter had been the adieu heard ’round the region just 24 hours earlier: Hope McMath, who, after 22 years with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, seven of those years as director, has left the museum.

With short hair colored by time and unaltered by stylists, a radiating life force, and a serene air, McMath was refreshingly untouched by the controversy that had recently surrounded her. For more than an hour, we sipped cocktails that were works of art in their own rights — the merging of art and cuisine is a local trend that we both wholeheartedly embrace — and spoke of the city that has been her home almost steadily since infancy, the job that has been her life’s work to date, and the arts that continue to fuel her passion.

In her tenure as director, McMath has blazed a trail of inclusiveness and multiculturalism that many felt — and some still feel — is lacking in the region’s mainstream artistic community. She’s brought beauty aplenty to the museum, but also put on exhibits that asked tough questions about who we are, where we come from and what we believe, such as the recent exhibit titled LIFT: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, which earned the museum and McMath acclaim and criticism alike (mostly acclaim).

The mere fact that any would criticize such a moving and ambitious exhibit has given ammunition to those who feel that progress moves too slowly in this corner of the Sunshine State, that we lag too far behind our Floridian brethren. Without a doubt, the struggle between ideas old and new is indelibly linked to our regional identity. It is also precisely the fuel that can inspire great art.

McMath agreed that the true diversity of the region is still not adequately represented in the arts, but said that she’s seen much progress over the past two decades. She also noted, as have others, that some of the most memorable works to spring from Northeast Florida and the world over have emerged from shadowy corners that can be hard for us to look into, the places where our ugliest selves live, our racism, our hatred, our bitterness.

Take the song from which the exhibit borrows its name, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,”

by James Weldon Johnson. The 116-year-old lyrics speak of struggling through the gloom, fighting through the murk and the bitter tears to victory, to the light. That beautiful poem, often referred to as “The Black National Anthem,” is a rallying cry to which no words would be devoted but for the hardships and bloodshed that inspired them.

Fifty years after a vote stitched a series of suburbs and a small city together to create what was then the nation’s largest megalopolis, Jacksonville’s arts community is finally showing signs of coming together. Though she laments the lack of a gallery system that would provide the space and support that a prosperous arts community needs, McMath believes there is even more artistic vibrancy coming in the not-too-distant future. She pointed to recent strides that have opened up a world of opportunity for artists, such as CoRK Arts District opening, the work that the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville is doing, increased funding of art in public places, and the blossoming crop of local artists who are beautifying and challenging this region with brush, palette, chisel, can, textile, mortar, spirit and grit.

As she headed off to an event, McMath seemed at peace with the past, accepting of the present and eager for the future, which, happily, includes Northeast Florida.

“I feel like I stayed [at the Cummer] just long enough,” she said.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com

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PLAY BALL! JACKSONVILLE SUNS VS. MOBILE BAYBEARS

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The Suns’ last regular-season homestand, against the BayBears straight outta Mobile, is 7:05 p.m. Sept. 1 (Mavericks Live Thirsty Thursday), continuing 7:05 p.m. Sept. 2 (Fireworks, Red Shirt Friday), 6:05 p.m. Sept. 3 (Mystery Giveaway, Military Appreciation), 6:05 p.m. Sept. 4 (Fan Appreciation), and (drum roll) 2:05 p.m. Sept. 5 (Charity Begins at Home Night), at Bragan Field, Baseball Grounds, Downtown, single game tix $5-$18, 358-2846, jaxsuns.com. What’s the Mystery Giveaway? We’re guessing those aprons and oven mitts they couldn’t unload in May.

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Nothing says “growing old” like finding some gray hairs in your mohawk! Come celebrate middle-aged punk rock action with old-school, slam-pit veterans Sloppy Seconds! Since 1984, these Indianapolis-bred wastrels — known for their cranium-cracking live shows — have been rocking the masses with chestnuts like “Runnin’ from the CIA,” “Kids Are All Drunk” and “Steal Your Beer.” Better still, local primo punk bands Powerball and The Wastedist start the punk fun. Check it out, you old punk! 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, Jack Rabbits, San Marco, $12 advance; $15 day of, jaxlive.com.

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COMEDY OUT LOUD SHOWCASE

While Northeast Florida has a great reputation for violence, political skullduggery and rednecks with “neck bellies,” we also have a pretty damn good comedy scene. Come show your support this week and give it up for local funny folks Chris Buck (pictured), Casey Crawford, Patrick Dalton and others. And did we mention it’s a free show?!

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WORLD CUP QUALIFIER

“USA! USA!” Come support the national soccer scene when the U.S. Men’s National Team takes on Trinidad & Tobago in a World Cup Qualifier match this week. For a little added heat: This is the final match of the semifinal round of 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifying battle, crucial for the U.S. team to advance to the final round. No pressure, dudes! 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, EverBank Field, Downtown, $25.25-$250.25, ticketmaster.com.

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DIVINE INVASION!

MULTIPLE MANIACS The second full-length film by trash cinema guru John Waters, 1970’s Multiple Maniacs stars the late, great Divine as the proprietor of a freak show who grows weary of her day job and, like many of us, decides to go on a madness-fueled spree of deviant terror! Shot in arthouse cinema black-and-white, and deranged even for Waters’ bizarre cinematic catalog, Multiple Maniac remains a stone classic of DIY, dark comedy filmmaking. Waters called up his go-to cast members, early film regulars like Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole and Edith Massey. Screens Friday, Sept. 2-Thursday, Sept. 8, Sun-Ray Cinema, Riverside, $9.50; $8 military, students and teachers; $7 seniors, sunraycinema.com.

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THE MAIL CONVOLUTED AND CONFUSED AND INDECIPHERABLE AND UNINTELLIGIBLE

RE.: “Bitter Pill,” by Claire Goforth, Aug. 24 I assume the damn tax passed, so here is now what the Council should do.

I am sad. If the damn tax passed, it passed due to ignorance.

For example, some people think they are not for regressive tax structure, but, if they voted YES, then regressive tax structure is what they voted for.

I am not against taxes. But I oppose shifting taxes, as per the Lenny plan, to make the tax burden more regressive.

Here is what I propose the Council should do.

1. Appoint an ad hoc committee to investigate my allegations, ridiculed by The Florida Times-Union and by Folio Weekly Magazine and by forces for regressive taxation, that Jax property appraisals on upscale houses and also on well-connected owners of retail and business properties, are under-assessed, in violation of the Florida Constitution.

2. This committee, in association with the council auditor, should estimate how much additional money will be collected now and also in five, 10, 15, 20 years, without a millage change, due to this correction in illegal assessments.

3. This committee should then propose to the council a plan for paying our bills, taking care of the pension funds, paying for some new fire stations, hiring some new policemen, buying new body cams for all police, keeping open at least a few libraries until midnight which should have been done long ago, providing for no millage increase and providing for not ever levying the Lenny tax.

The ballot summary language is so unclear as to have been a deliberate effort to confuse the voters. But I am sure that this language does allow for not ever implementing this tax if this tax is not needed.

Voters need to find ways to make clear that we object to any referendum ever being crammed down our throat again … through council passage as an emergency. The council did wrong to vote as emergency and thereby preclude all public debate and questions and discussion and commentary.

Voters need also to find ways to fire somebody from the city legal staff for insulting all the voters with such gibberish in the convoluted and confused and indecipherable and unintelligible ballot summary.

Voters should be angry at the presentation to us in TV spots and in news releases that this sales tax off in the future is an emergency when obviously it is not an emergency. A tax in the far-off future could just as easily be voted on in November or next year or the year after.

Voters should amend the Florida Constitution to provide that no bonds by any entity can ever be issued against revenue streams which do not even start up for 10 or 20 years.

I am sad that none of our local media saw fit to pick up the mantle of progressivism and/or of good government and to crusade against this evil superregressive unneeded change in tax structure.

Once I thought that Folio Weekly was a constant voice of progressivism. But not now. I hope readers might discuss whether you want Folio Weekly to be a progressive voice or to promote Lenny.

Andy Johnson (considered by Andy and by some others as the most progressive legislator of his time) via email

DOMINO EFFECT

RE.: “Bridging the Racial Divide,” by Claire Goforth, Aug. 17 As a Jacksonville native, born in 1960, having worked in the black community for many years, as my father did, I watch in amazement how this issue has been the same my whole life. The people in this community keep putting their hopes and dreams in government, if only they would be there to put things right. When this country elects Billary, it will be the same old, promises of money spent, laws passed and help is on the way. We are not allowed to talk honestly about this issue, because when we do, we are called racist, people talk of slavery and plantations, “We gonna put y’all back in chains”(Joe Biden), and finger-pointing of blame as Sekou has done. Plenty of talk about who or what to do, and tonight, like every night, we watch another shooting or horrendous crime on the Northside on the news. The focus in the black community should be on one word, crime! Solve that, and everything else will fall into place.

Rick Johnston via email

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO ANGELA PHILLIPS Phillips, a math teacher at Chets Creek Elementary, is one of just 213 teachers nationwide — and only two in Florida — to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. The prestigious award highlights Phillips’ encouragement of critical and creative thinking and ability to keep students engaged in the classroom. The 23year teaching veteran will receive $10,000 and be honored with the other winners at a banquet in the nation’s capital on Sept. 8.

BRICKBATS TO KEVIN GOUGH In his capacity as counsel for Kenneth Adkins, who was arrested in Georgia last week on charges of child molestation and aggravated child molestation (yes, really), Gough had the gall to hint that the charges against Adkins were politically motivated, presumably due to his work opposing human rights ordinance expansion in Jacksonville. Alluding that alleged victims of child molestation are being used as political tools by their alleged assaulter’s enemies takes victim-shaming to a new low, Gough.

BOUQUETS TO CULTURAL COUNCIL OF GREATER JACKSONVILLE Upon learning that its State of the Art Luncheon was mistakenly scheduled on the High Holiday of Yom Kippur, CCGJ did the inclusive thing by rescheduling the luncheon. It should be — but isn’t – common practice for organizations in Northeast Florida to go out of their way to accommodate religious minorities. Hat tip to CCGJ!

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS

A RELATIONSHIP BUSINESS

Winning elections takes more than GLOSSY MAILERS and FRESH-FACED VOLUNTEERS POLITICS IS A RELATIONSHIP BUSINESS. BUT some pols, regrettably, are bad at relationships.

Some with the press. Some with the truth.

Some with money. Some with themselves.

Did it kill them? Did it make them stronger?

The results that come out just after this piece goes live tell the tale.

But these three below … well, they didn’t exactly help themselves.

ANGELA COREY

Full disclosure — I personally like Angela Corey. I also think that, instead of spending a metric ton of money on the beyond-lazy and woefully misnomered Victory Group to run her campaign after Alex Pantinakis got Leighed out, she might have been better served hiring a group that felt comfortable maximizing her positives.

I saw a side of Corey at the WOKV Hob Nob — which she lost, though not quite as bad as that UNF poll last week — that came out so rarely in this campaign cycle.

I asked her a question about the outcome of the race, along the lines of “What’s your next move if you lose?”

Corey’s answer was perfect.

“The title they can’t take away from me,” Corey said, “is Aunt Angie.”

The human side of Angela Corey did not show during this campaign, or at many points during the last eight years. Corey, a woman who rose to the pinnacle of power without giving lip service to feminism or postfeminism or girl power, but who instead was the toughest person in any given room.

There’s a picture I took of her, from a debate in Fleming Island, with a picture of Scarface-era Al Pacino behind her. It resonated with people; you’d have to ask them why.

Perhaps it’s because, like Pacino in Scarface, Corey — an outsider who had to own the space to play the insider game — had to project toughness above all else.

Thus, when her campaign or her hired spokespeople tried to message the “kinder, gentler” Angela, concerned with victims above all else, it didn’t resonate. Because the message was drowned out by rants at the media, the families of murder victims, or others. That works when you don’t face opposition, or face Wes White — the Andy Johnson of the Republican Party.

It doesn’t work when you face Melissa Nelson.

HANS TANZLER III

I had an interesting conversation with Tanzler before he became a candidate. He was quiet, soft-spoken and credible.

Then he launched his campaign, and dude was serious. Spent nearly a million dollars — $400K out of his own pocket.

And what did he do with that money?

An ad with him on horseback, brandishing a shotgun and hollering, “Mr. Obama, we the people say get out of our town.”

A reader of this magazine said it evoked Klan images; perhaps the less-explicitly Klanny — but similarly loaded — evocation is that of the dreaded Sundown Town.

Tanzler may have been the most inauthentic candidate of this cycle, running a Ted Yoho gimmick that likely was tailored to bluehairs and rednecks.

By the end of that spectacular flameout of a campaign, his team was reduced to flame wars on Twitter with lowly bloggers who wrote up fundraising reports.

Meanwhile, Lake Ray —who couldn’t raise money, who got screwed over by the party he chaired just months ago in its official straw poll — surged past Tanzler in the polls, neatly mirroring Ray’s performance at straw polls.

Ray and Tanzler cannibalized each other, and the anti-Rutherford vote. If Lake Ray had Hans Tanzler’s money, he might be headed to D.C.

CORRINE BROWN

I like Corrine Brown — a lot. I always hear it from people when I say that. But I have no illusions about politicians. They aren’t going to expand my civil liberties. They aren’t going to curb entitlements. They aren’t going to lower the deficit or stop inflating the money supply.

So at least they can entertain.

And Corrine delivers when it comes to that.

As I wrote last week, after the TV debate between Congressional candidates, Corrine went off on me for asking about her charges regarding One Door and which of her cronies/compatriots was actually responsible for the 46 pages of documented malfeasance in the indictment.

She compared the indictment to a verbal charge against a reporter of being a “pedophile.”

Then she doubled down on the metaphor the next day in an email to the Florida Press Corps — an interesting move.

You won’t believe what happened next, though.

In court last week, I was sitting behind her. She got up from her table, came over, and said that she didn’t really mean what she said, regarding me.

It was an apology. I told her there was nothing to forgive.

Corrine Brown has a long legal struggle ahead of her. And a lot of what she says comes across as BS, especially statements related to One Door and the redistricting case that came before it.

But I’ll say this for her: On some level, she keeps it realer than almost anyone else.

On another level, though, she faces serious charges that she should seriously consider pleading out of before she loses her congressional pension.

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FALL ARTS PREVIEW 2016

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum director Julie Dickover

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he walls are bare. And even for the expected quiet of an art space, the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College is hushed to the point of the sacrosanct.

The biggest activity occurring on this Friday afternoon is museum director Julie Dickover cleaning out her desk. And the only items on display are a couple of boxes placed along the wall. But this moment of calm will be shortlived. On Sept. 2, the exhibit Sound will be filling the museum with auditory and visual

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pieces created by 17 of the more engaging contemporary artists working today. Eleven of the pieces will be experienced through headphones, two sculptural installations will be on view inside the museum, while a third will be installed in the grassy area out front of the museum. Michael Dickins, Barry Jones, McLean Fahnestock and Lynn Rhodes are but a few of the names on the impressive roster of participants; hardly household names in Northeast Florida, but all respected artists in the international scene. This collection and its result are

indicative of the caliber of unique and cutting-edge contemporary art that Dickover has been bringing to the Crisp-Ellert, or CEAM, for the past six years. “I’ve had some pretty powerful experiences with sound as a medium,” explains Dickover, of the simple impetus in bringing this show to the space, triggered by her own direct experience with the arts. “Several years ago, Janet Cardiff had a Public Art Fund project in Central Park in Manhattan, where the participant wore headphones and followed her directions through the park. It was over 10 years ago,

but that feeling of walking through and observing this very public space while in this very intimate bubble of Cardiff ’s voice is something that has stuck with me.” A decade later, and Dickover has essentially translated that experience into a show, in a way sharing her memory through her own artistic medium — the museum.

Contemporary art remains a moving target.

Yet Dickover has honed a kind of intuition and connectivity in not only discovering, but also attracting much-respected artists to CEAM. Since hiring on in 2010, she has turned Flagler

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College’s on-campus museum into a beacon of current, impressive art in the Southeastern United States.

And her efforts are resulting in the generation of even more arts-based activities for Northeast Florida. On Aug. 10, it was announced that CEAM and Flagler College’s Department of Art & Design received a $40,000 grant from The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida to fund a new artist-in-residence program. “The idea is that outside of the exhibition schedule, we’ll invite one artist per semester, for one to four weeks and they’ll work with the students,” explains Dickover. “But we’ve also focused this where the artists will really utilize the resources that are here in St. Augustine. Because we have so much historically to engage here — the Civil Rights legacy, Flagler’s legacy, the Native American imprisonment — and the natural and coastal environments.” The artist-in-residence program is just the latest

development in Dickover’s ongoing efforts toward transforming CEAM into one of the more notable contemporary art venues in the Southeast. “It’s been something I’ve been wanting to do for a few years and something we’ve been building on already,” explains Dickover. “I’m really trying to bring together exhibits, visiting artists and students, the school departments, the community,” she adds, with a laugh, “it’s truly ‘transdisciplinarian’ arts.”

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ulie Dickover was born March 11, 1975 in the almost-defiantly hippie town of Eugene, Oregon.

“While we had the University of Oregon, which is a big school, it isn’t like Eugene is a major art city. I didn’t grow up going to galleries,” says Dickover. “I just happened upon liking art.”

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She initially decided to major in Latin American studies when she started college. “When I changed my major to art history, I think my parents wanted to cry.”

During her college years, Dickover also studied printmaking and photographic techniques. In 1996, she meet fellow artist Chris Balaschak in New York City. Under the collaborative moniker OK+OR (he’s a native Oklahoman, she’s an Oregonian), they worked on a few conceptual site-specific installations. “We made these conceptual projects that no one really knew about but us,” she says, laughing. “Which probably makes them even more conceptual.”

Dickover admits that she simply didn’t have the drive to be a visual artist. “You have to promote the hell out of yourself,” she says. “And I’ve never been good at that. I’m bummed out by rejection. And as an artist, you really need to harden yourself. And

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honestly, I was a mediocre artist. The world doesn’t need any more mediocre artists.”

In 1998, Dickover graduated with a B.A. from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, majoring in art history with a focus in contemporary art. Two years later, she and Balaschak married and moved to Los Angeles. Dickover was hired as a registrar at Santa Monica’s Robert Berman Gallery and eventually accepted the same position at Hammer Museum, the art museum and cultural center founded in 1990 by entrepreneurial-industrialist Armand Hammer. “That was very much a specific museum job,” says Dickover. “I oversaw shipping, paperwork, installation, traveled with exhibitions … I never really had any ideas of being a curator.”

Armed with a Ph.D., in 2010 Chris Balaschak accepted a position teaching art history at Flagler College. The pair, now

“When I came here … I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to have this LITTLE GEM of a contemporary arts space where someone WOULDN’T BE EXPECTING IT?’” in their mid-30s, was experienced and knowledgeable in the realm of contemporary arts, having spent the last 10 years in Los Angeles. They were also young parents with a young daughter, Hazel. And there was much anxiety about making a big leap from the comfort and cultural wellspring of L.A.’s energized arts scene to a small Florida town with a small private college about which they knew very little.

“When we first got here, I really didn’t like it,” she laughs. “We took a red-eye here and I was so nervous that I threw up on the plane.” Although her initial reaction

was hardly positive, a job offer from Flagler College to oversee CEAM was an unexpected surprise.

“I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do,” says Dickover. “But the school saw that I had gallery experience and they said, ‘Hey, do you want this job?’” Dickover admits that she was stunned at first and felt like a “poser” when the offer came. “But obviously I took it,” she laughs, “because how many jobs in the arts are there in Northeast Florida?”

CEAM opened in 2007; prior to Dickover’s arrival in 2010, there hadn’t been

anyone in place to really oversee the space with such ongoing dedication. Student portfolio shows had been featured as well as projects by Flagler art instructor Leslie Robison and exhibits featuring locals like painter Jonathan Lux. Yet within the first couple of years of Dickover’s exhibition offerings, attendance increased.

“You know, when I came here, I had been working at the Hammer Museum, which is an amazing institution. My standards for contemporary art, and also what I could see in Los Angeles at any given moment, were really, really high. And coming here, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to have this little gem of a contemporary arts space where someone wouldn’t be expecting it?’”

Dickover points out that there are similar spaces dotted around the Southeast, with venues like the Southeast Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the College of Charleston’s Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. “And I just wanted to bring more contemporary art here,” she says. “Where it could be seen.”

in the international art fair, Art Dubai. “I’m pretty excited about this. She’s deaf from birth and her projects are amazing. But she can also be this bridge to other departments and an academic side of Flagler that I tend to not have much crossover with, like the Deaf Education program, and also the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind here in St. Augustine.”

Emanating from the walls and confines of CEAM, and threading throughout Flagler College and the city of St. Augustine, Dickover’s exhibits and projects engage more than artists, students and art lovers.

It’s broadening a conversation about contemporary art here in Northeast Florida that is refreshingly inclusive, rather than coyly

pretentious and masked in lofty doublespeak and even arrogance.

Dickover seems to have an almost innate gift for locating engaging and even celebrated visual artists, presenting them in a way that is somehow almost organically invitational to the audience, and building greater momentum off that very same casual approach, to what could otherwise appear to be intimidating and intense contemporary and conceptual art.

“I feel that all of the artists coming through here, whether they’re regional, national or international … all of that is just amazing press. They way I originally began to think of this five years ago was that I can build up this great archive of exhibitions

and projects. And when I can approach someone who is highly in-demand, they’ll see what we are doing. And that really seems to attract even more artists. And if there is a goal, that might be it. I just want to bring in work that I feel good about and can stand behind.”

Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ The opening reception for the auditory-themed exhibit Sound is held 5-9 p.m. Sept. 2 at CrispEllert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. A walkthrough with curators Michael Dickins and Barry Jones is at 4 p.m. The exhibit is on display through Nov. 22, flagler.edu/newsevents/crisp-ellert-art-museum.

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ickover’s tasks at the museum are allencompassing, ranging from creating the program ideas and scheduling to curating, social media, collaborating with the faculty and students for various projects, and writing press releases.

At times she even hangs the work for display.

She acknowledges that Balaschak is a kind of silent partner, assisting in many of her activities. But her main focus, directive and passion is to attract artists to the space and help create worthy exhibits.

Over the course of 50 shows, dozens of artists have now shown their creations at CEAM, from the sports-competitionfueled works of Lee Walton to the humorous, autobiographical video pieces by multidisciplinary artist Julie Lequin. In addition, Dickover has offered several film series, including a celebration of the films of Andy Warhol and a retrospective of rock music documentaries. While hard-pressed to choose a favorite, Dickover quickly recalls one exhibit that made a personal impact.

“One of my still all-time favorite shows was by Liz Rodda,” says Dickover, of the Texas-based artist’s 2013 CEAM exhibit, Clockwise. Rodda’s exhibit included video, cryptic sculptures and 2D work that posed big questions about destiny, belief and our influence on the outcome of experience. “I think a lot of people liked it, but it was also a little esoteric.”

The upcoming season includes exhibits and projects featuring Matt Roberts, Terri Witek, Jake Longstreth and Jamie Isenstein, along with the annual student BFA & BA Portfolio Exhibition. Artists’ walkthroughs and discussions are regular components of each show, as is the sense of community engagement and exploration. Last season, Edgar Endress’ exhibit Finding Baroque (terre florida) was a collaborative, interdisciplinary project between Endress and Flagler College students, wherein they used the Spanish colonial past of St. Augustine as a template to create original art. This year will feature a similar kind of exchange between the artists that Dickover invites to the space and the greater community at large. Case in point: upcoming artist-in-residence Christine Sun Kim. “She’s pretty hot shit right now,” Dickover laughs, of the acclaimed sound artist, who has had a residency at NYC’s storied Whitney Museum and participated AUG. 31 - SEPT 6, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 13

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very fall, with more than a half-dozen universities in the region offering art instruction, Northeast Florida welcomes a wave of precocious young art students, each one destined for either an artistic life that’s both creatively and financially fulfilling or a job at a hip, yet vapid creative agency where they’ll presumably manage the social media accounts of gastropubs and gelaterias (OK, there’s certainly some middle ground on this, but there’s no denying that the proliferation of digital media has changed the landscape for prospective artists).

Everyone involved can be grateful that the region’s institutions of higher learning have padded their rosters with art instructors — as knowledgeable with creative disciplines as

they are experienced in their own respective careers — who are capable of inspiring these youngsters to shoot for the stars.

Well-known artists like Thony Aiuppy, Jim Draper, Liz Gibson, Jason John, Jeff Whipple (University of North Florida), Liz Bryant, Dustin Harewood (Florida State College at Jacksonville), Lily Kuonen, Tiffany Leach (Jacksonville University) Patrick Moser, Sara Pedigo, and Leslie Robison (Flagler College) are all burning the candle at both ends, so to speak, aiding in the development of their charges’ basic skills and techniques (and earning a respectable rating on ratemyprofessor.com, for whatever that’s worth), while continuing to create and showcase all variations of compelling art.

With the fall semester looming, Folio Weekly Magazine sat down with three local

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pedagogues to discuss their approaches to art instruction, how art education has changed since they were art students, and the juggling required to be both a productive artist and an effective instructor.

JIM BENEDICT

Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Jacksonville University As most undergrads at large public universities can attest, scheduling can be a nightmare. With time tickets and preferential scheduling for student-athletes, just because you’re willing to fork over an exorbitant amount of money for a course doesn’t mean there’ll be a seat available for you.

As an University of Northern Iowa undergrad, Jim Benedict tried to sign up for a ceramics class. The class was full, so he took sculpture. Undeterred, he tried for ceramics again the following semester.

Three semesters of sculpture later, Benedict

had yet to take a ceramics class. He was, however, hooked on sculpture.

After Northern Iowa, Benedict earned an MFA from the University of Arizona before landing in Jacksonville. He now runs JU’s Alexander Brest Gallery and teaches sculpture and 3D art at the school. As a testament to the impact his own art education had on his trajectory, last fall Benedict brought two of his former professors, sculpture artists Tom Stancliffe and Mark Moulton, to speak at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.

“It was from watching them that I learned what it takes to make art and be an artist,” he says.

Both Stancliffe and Moulton are wellknown for their public art projects and Benedict has brought their enthusiasm for public art with him to the JU campus, engaging his students in several laborintensive, large-scale projects over the years, including 2014’s installation of two life-sized dolphins made of bronze and steel.

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Here is an excerpt from our conversation with Professor Jim Benedict.

Folio Weekly Magazine: Is art education different now from how it was when you were in school? Are there skills young artists need to nurture that weren’t as important then?

Jim Benedict: Definitely. One of the biggest changes is technology. When I was in school, no one was really going to show you how to make a website to market yourself. There are also many different computer platforms that students have to be fluent in and there’s a demand for those skills. But the most important change, I think, is the realization that these kids are going to go on to be global citizens. As a faculty, we have to think about how we prepare students to take on their roles as artists in this global community.

Do the students come in with a base of knowledge, though, about how to navigate these new social constructs? They’re already living in the social media age.

Yeah, I think in a lot of ways, young people are already more socially conscious. But when I went to school, I think there was more active participation and dialogue. It seems like it’s more difficult to get students to engage.

While they are more open to different ideas or different ways of thinking, it’s harder to get them to actually engage with the world.

Is there a project you’ve done recently that you think coaxed students to start that process of engagement?

One of the projects we do in 3D foundations is the creation of wearable sculptures. We ask the students to create a sculpture that is representative of their identities. We ask them to look inward and explore their personal identity and ask themselves what that means.

Do you learn from your students?

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no way not to be affected by that. It’s pretty easy for older generations to discount younger generations. They [the students] are a lot more interesting than Pokémon Go and terrible music [laughs]. I think we forget what it’s like to be figuring out the world. I’d say our students are facing a much more challenging time than generations previously. We have to remember we are not preparing them for what we were being prepared for. Their future is going to be different.

MARK CREEGAN

Assistant Professor of Drawing & Design, Florida State College at Jacksonville Although Mark Creegan often uses mixed media in his art, whether drawing or painting, his exhibitions typically include some markmaking in one form or another.

As a freshman at what was then called Florida Community College at Jacksonville (now FSCJ), Creegan took an introductory drawing class — Drawing 1. Outside of what was a small part of a standard elementary school curriculum, it was the first art class he had taken. It changed the course of his life.

“Previous to that, I didn’t really know that someone could be an artist,” Creegan says. “I had a vague idea of what an artist was like.

Maybe a Bob-Ross-type.”

Drawing 1 was all it took. Creegan was hooked, moving on to Jacksonville University, where he earned his BFA, and Florida State University for an MFA. Since then, he has exhibited his work across the country from Tampa to New York City to Los Angeles.

Creegan eventually returned to FSCJ and today teaches Art History and, in an interesting twist of fate, Drawing 1.

In October, Creegan will be showing new works alongside Dustin Harewood and Joanne Cellar in the installation How to Now at the boutique Linda Cunningham in San Marco.

What follows is an excerpt from our conversation with Professor Creegan.

Folio Weekly Magazine: You teach some introductory art classes where you may have freshmen and sophomores who aren’t necessarily seeking to be art majors. How do you make sure that everybody is getting something out of the experience of taking an art class?

Mark Creegan: I think many of the nonart majors come to the class thinking they can’t draw or that this is an easy class.

One of the things I hope to impart is that anyone can draw. Once they learn the techniques and apply them, and practice, I hope they see that they are capable of expressing themselves through drawing. I also hope that the students learn a new way of observing the world. I hope they start to notice the negative space between objects, or interesting angles. Once they start to see that stuff, I think they’re better prepared to see the world objectively.

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so they can relate to the process and what artists do and how they think.

What do art students need to know how to do today that they might not have needed to know in the past?

If you look at different technical mediums, that certainly has changed. I don’t teach digital art, but a lot of my students go on to pursue that field. My experience is that a lot of the fine art skills can apply to not only to those doing a traditional track – drawing, painting, sculpture — but also to the digital art students.

There is a big difference, though, in the opportunities for students to make images.

With iPads and camera-phones, the number of opportunities to manipulate imagery is so far above what I was exposed to as an art student. In a way, it could hinder the students’ drawing abilities, since they don’t have to really make marks to render an image. They can just manipulate it digitally or find a new image online.

You make an interesting point. Since we are now so inundated with imagery, is it difficult to convince students of the efficacy of making art?

Most of how we communicate today is much more visual. Even with something like emojis, it’s kind of like we’re go back to using hieroglyphs. It’s a fascinating time. I’d like to think that the students who go on to be artists or designers are just members of society who have an advanced understanding of how to communicate today.

JENNY HAGER-VICKERY

Associate Professor of Sculpture, University of North Florida Recently, Jenny Hager-Vickery was commissioned by the Jacksonville Zoo to create a statue for the attraction. Just as she’s gotten deep into the process of assembling the 20-foot-tall, 1,500-pound geometric representation of a giraffe from steel wires and plates, the fall semester has begun.

Over the years, the UNF associate professor of sculpture has grown comfortable working with a wide variety of materials, from steel to wood to digital and video installations.

When Hager-Vickery enrolled at the University of Kentucky, however, she says she did so with the hope of being a painter. She says it wasn’t until she took an undergrad course in sculpture that she found her true passion.

“I found out that I really love to build things,” says Hager-Vickery. “I didn’t really know that before, but I haven’t gone back to painting since.”

Hager-Vickery says that her art school experience inspired many of the communitybased projects she has initiated since joining the faculty at UNF. In 2011, she organized a performance art project called Wolfpack Wedding at MOCA, in which students and visiting artists created costumes, masks and other ephemera to celebrate the nuptials of the sun and the moon with the sky. And just this summer, a group of UNF sculpture students, under the tutelage of Hager-Vickery, installed the first structures in the UNF Seaside Sculpture Park on First Street in Jacksonville Beach.

An excerpt from our conversation with Professor Hager-Vickery follows.

Folio Weekly Magazine: What was your undergrad experience like?

Jenny Hager-Vickery: I got really into the foundry process — casting and sculpture art. But I also got a chance to work in digital mediums, which were kind of an emerging art form when I was in school. I did research at the University of Kentucky’s medical photo lab. I was digitally retouching photos from their archives. I got really interested in digital photo manipulation and ended up, when I was doing my Masters, working with a lot of video installations. So the digital thread stuck with me.

Sounds like you had a mix between instruction in traditional mediums and new processes on the cutting edge. Has art instruction changed since you were in college?

One of the things that I think we’re doing more of that I didn’t get to do as much is working in the community, rather than just doing projects for class. I think the current system, especially at UNF, is really supportive of those efforts. I did the sculpture project in Jax Beach. That kind of experience pushes the students. The stakes are higher. And usually when you set the bar high, the students tend to rise to the occasion.

If you weren’t an artist or teaching art, what do you think you’d be doing?

I don’t know [laughs]. I’ve wanted to be a teacher and an artist since I was in second grade. My parents were really creative and active people. They restored our turn-of-thecentury house from top to bottom. My mom is a nursing professor. I just always liked the idea of working in academia.

How do you manage to keep a balance between focusing on your duties as a professor and creating your own artwork?

It’s definitely a challenge. There’s a lot of juggling going on. But this is a creative environment that feeds me in my daily practice and inspires me.

Do you learn from your students?

Absolutely. I always encourage them to do their own research and seek out things that are of interest to them. They’ll bring things back to the classroom that I didn’t know about. I’m definitely inspired by their work.

We had a student incorporate solar panels into her sculpture for the sculpture garden in Jax Beach. I’ve never worked with solar panels. That was eye-opening experience for me.

Matthew B. Shaw mail@folioweekly.com

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The exhibit CUBA, featuring recent works by painter PAUL LADNIER, is on display through Oct. 2 at Southlight Gallery, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com.

The annual GARAGE SALE is featured through September at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com.

The exhibit NATURE’S KALEIDOSCOPE is on display through Nov. 27 at Amelia Island Plantation Artists’ Guild & Gallery, 94 Village Circle, Fernandina Beach, 4321750, artamelia.com.

The exhibit SUSTAIN: CLAY TO TABLE, which pairs handcrafted ceramic tableware

by North American artists with the concept of sustainable, communitybased food production, is on display through Oct. 30 at Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville,

333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu.

The exhibit LIFT EVERY VOICE, a collaborative show by Hope at Hand and Jax Youth Poetry Slam, is on display through Oct. 10 at The Art Center Gallery, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org.

The SUMMER JURIED PLEIN AIR EXHIBIT runs through Sept. 2 at The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach, 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org.

The exhibit UNUSUAL DESTINATIONS, featuring new works by painter SHANNON ESTLUND, is on display through September at Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546, jiaarts.org.

Works by more than 40 local artists and artisans, including featured artist ROBIN SHIELDS, are on display at High Tide CONTINUES NEXT PAGE >>>

The exhibit FACES OF ENGAGEMENT, featuring portraits of students, faculty, and community members who are trying to make a difference in our world, is on display Sept. 19-Oct. 14 at Florida State College at Jacksonville Downtown Campus.

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Indie curatorial team Danger Tape offers a DIY ALTERNATIVE to the local gallery scene

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anger Tape has arrived to leave its mark on the visual arts environment.

Since 2014, the dynamic duo of painter-printmaker Tony Rodrigues and photographer Roy Albert Berry has been curating indie, DIY-style shows, thus far at either Rain Dogs or Hawthorne Salon. Notable local visual artists, including Ryan Strasser, Sara Pedigo, Lily Kuonen and Rodrigues, have all been part of the featured programming.

While Rodrigues and Berry are hardly “antigallery,” they are sharp enough to realize that what constitutes an “art show” is wider than the accepted parameters of expected, formal venues like galleries and museums. The idea of presenting contemporary art in a non-conventional arena is hardly new. In the 1950s, some New York City abstract expressionists showed their works in bars (whether this was also due to the fact that more than one painter of that particular school was a raging alcoholic is an argument for the historians).

Rodrigues and Berry each have estimable creative careers in their own right. Longtime fixtures in the area scene, the pair have literal “hands-on” experience as trusted and experienced art handlers/installers.

Their upcoming show, United States of Panda(Monium), featuring panda-inspired paintings by Hugo Bash, opens on Sept. 2 at Rain Dogs.

Folio Weekly Magazine fired off a few questions to the pair, to get their take on their motivations and views on the 904 arts climate.

Folio Weekly Magazine: To what does the name Danger Tape allude?

Tony Rodrigues: Like a good band name, “Danger Tape” came after trying on a few monikers until finally hitting on “the one.”

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R.A.B.: It’s maybe part lark, part agenda. You know those people who become cynical from working behind the scenes of something? We are those guys. Once you work in a restaurant, it changes how you enjoy eating out — and that same concept applies to working with art.

T.R.: We haven’t been taking any commission from sales. So far, we’re just doing this for the glory.

So far, you’ve shown the work at a salon and a bar. Do you prefer these types of venues so you can forego the gallery scene altogether?

R.A.B.: Those types of places offer a decent space to show work with the added benefit of having lots of eyes passing through to hopefully make a sale or two. We’d like to think it’s a mutually beneficial relationship, giving the venue some extra foot traffic as well as a curated body of work. That being said, we’d jump at the chance to curate for a dedicated (affordable) gallery space, but that’s a unicorn here. We’re definitely not avoiding any scene specifically … I think Jax would need a gallery scene before we could choose to forego it. marked “DANGER” made the decision for us. It was gut-level.

Why does the world need Danger Tape?

T.R.: Well, “need” is a strong word. Maybe the world could be occasionally occupied

by Danger Tape. We don’t necessarily have to conquer the universe or anything. For now, we’re concentrating on presenting some relevant pop-up shows to the areas, through our lens.

What are you specifically looking for when selecting artists and showing their work?

Roy Albert Berry: There are no hard and fast rules. Obviously, we have to like the

work. It helps if the artist hasn’t shown in the area in a minute.

T.R.: Really believing in the artist and the quality of the work is what it’s all about. Ryan Strasser was an easy choice because there is a dichotomy of absurdity and weight in his paintings that we both appreciate. Sara Pedigo’s paintings are just so solid and understated. Lily Kuonen’s show was so fun to work with, playfuland really smart. My gig at Rain Dogs was kind of a gap-filler.

Considering your respective artistic careers and experience, I doubt that you started doing this on a lark. Do you feel as if Danger Tape has a certain philosophy or stance?

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Do you feel like you have any kind of longterm goal for this project?

R.A.B.: Maybe this is where the lark comes in because no, not especially. It would be great for it to play through to having a space specifically for showing work, but I’m not sure either of us are dreaming of running a gallery.

T.R.: This is sort of a transient gallery now. We would accept compensation from businesses or properties to curate for their spaces. (Crickets chirp.) Seriously, we are looking for spaces to work with.

Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Danger Tape presents the opening reception for United States of Panda(Monium), featuring new paintings by Hugo Bash, at 7 p.m. Sept. 2 at Rain Dogs., Riverside, facebook.com/danger-tape.

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Gallery, 76-B San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 8296831, thehightidegallery.com.

New works by BARBIE BRAY-WORKMAN, JAMI CHILDERS, DANA FAWN, LEILANI LEO and DUSTIN BRADLEY are featured at Monroe Galleries, 40 W. Monroe St., Downtown, 8810209, monroegalleries.com.

The UNITED WAY ST. JOHNS COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT is on display through Oct. 20 at Rotunda Gallery, St. Johns County Administration Building, 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980, co.st-johns.fl.us.

The exhibit THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, celebrating the scientific triumphs of pioneering aviators Orville and Wilbur Wright, is on display Sept.

1-Dec. 30 at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jax.html.

The opening reception for an exhibit of new works by LENNY FOSTER, ALMA CASTRO and GARY BORSE is held 5-9 p.m. Sept. 2 at Plum Gallery, 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069.

The opening reception for EARTH SEA & SKY, featuring new paintings by JOYCE GABIOU, is held 7-9 p.m. Sept. 2 at First Street Gallery, 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928; the exhibit is on display through Oct. 25, firststreetgalleryart.com.

The opening reception for the auditory-themed exhibit SOUND is held 5-9 p.m. Sept. 2 at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530. A walkthrough with curators MICHAEL DICKINS and BARRY JONES is featured at 4 p.m. The exhibit is on display through Nov. 22, flagler.edu/news-events/crispellert-art-museum.

The FALL MEMBERS SHOW is on display Sept.

2-Oct. 2 at St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org.

Works by illustrator SHERRIE PETTIGREW are on display Sept. 2-Oct. 4 at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com.

DANGER TAPE presents the opening reception for UNITED STATES OF PANDA(MONIUM), featuring new paintings by HUGO BASH, at 7 p.m. Sept. 2 at Rain Dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, facebook. com/raindogsjax.

The opening reception for the BIENNIAL FACULTY EXHIBITION is held 5-7 p.m. Sept. 8 at Jacksonville University’s Alexander Brest Gallery, 2800 N. University Blvd., Arlington, 256-7371; the exhibit is on display through Sept. 28, ju.edu.

The opening reception for the VINNIE REAM EXHIBIT, featuring works in art, poetry, prose and music chosen by the National League of American Pen Women, is held 5-8 p.m. Sept. 9 at Karpeles CONTINUES NEXT PAGE >>>

Photographer MEGHNA AILAWADHI is the guest artist through Sept. 6 and FRESH AIR: WORKS INSPIRED BY NATURE is on display at Southlight Gallery, Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, Downtown, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com.

The always engaging multimedia work of CRYSTAL FLOYD is on display through September at Jacksonville International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546, jiaarts.org.

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The UNF WOOD FIRE CERAMICS INVITATIONAL exhibit is on display Sept. 1-Oct. 14 at University of North Florida’s Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, 1 UNF Dr., Student Union Bldg. 58 E., Ste. 2401, Southside, 620-2475, unf.edu/gallery.

As part of the Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art exhibit, fashion designer FABIO COSTA, a star of Project Runway: Season 10, presents a talk about his own practice of creative innovation Nov. 10 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Riverside.

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The opening reception for the exhibit “5,” featuring works by VIRGINIA CANTORE, ALLISON WATSON, SUSAN OBER, MARY ST. GERMAIN and LAURIE HITZIG, is held 6-9 p.m. Sept. 9 at CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside; the exhibit is on display through Sept. 23, corkartsdistrict.com.

The opening reception for ARBOREAL, featuring works by LINDA RICHICHI and SETH SATTERFIELD, is held 6-8 p.m. Sept. 9 at The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach’s Main Gallery, 50 Executive Way, 280-0614. The opening reception for FREEDOM, featuring works by ALI MIRUKU, is held 6-8 p.m. Sept. 9 at the center’s Scene Gallery. Both exhibits are on display through Oct. 14, ccpvb.org.

A meet-and-greet for the exhibit THE ART OF THE JAPANESE PRINT, featuring contemporary Japanese prints from the Christine and Paul Meehan Collection, is held 10 a.m.-noon Sept.

10 at Nassau County Library, 25 N. Fourth St., Fernandina Beach, 277-7365; the exhibit is on display through Dec. 30, nassaureads.com.

The event POETS, PAINTERS, PERFORMERS, featuring visual art and poetry reading, kicks off at 3 p.m. Sept. 10 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 2773455, $5; proceeds benefit youth involvement in the arts, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.

The exhibit TROPIC APPARITION, featuring new works by painter AMY LINCOLN, is on display Sept. 17-Dec. 18 at Monya Rowe Gallery, 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, monyarowegallery.com.

The exhibit FACES OF ENGAGEMENT, featuring portraits of students, faculty and community members who are trying to make a difference in our world, is on display Sept. 19-Oct. 14 at Florida State College at Jacksonville Downtown Campus, Bldg. A, Room 1202/1205, 101 W. State St., Downtown, 633-8100, fscj.edu.

The opening reception for an exhibit of recent works by MICOEL FUENTES and RUSSELL MAYCUMBER, featuring mixed media drawings, sculpture and installation art, is held 6-8 p.m.

Sept. 20 at Florida State College of Jacksonville’s Kent Campus, Bldg. E Room 112A, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 646-2300; the exhibit is on display through Oct. 20, fscj.edu.

The 2016 PORTFOLIO SHOW is featured 5-8 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Art Institute of Jacksonville, 8775 Baypine Rd., Baymeadows, 486-3064, artinstitutes.edu.

The #COLORMEFSCJ mural, which encourages anyone to add their creative flourish with a crayon, is up through Sept. 24 at Florida State College at Jacksonville Deerwood Center Campus, Bldg. A, Room 2100, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 997-2500, fscj.edu.

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Sept. 24-Jan. 8 at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu.

The reception for the AIGA ALWAYS SUMMER POSTER SHOW is held 6-10 p.m. Sept. 24 at CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside, corkartsdistrict.com.

A DADA LECTURE by JED RASULA is featured 7:30-10:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at the University of North Florida Gallery of Art, Founders Hall, Bldg.

2, Room 1001, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery.

The exhibit DON MARTIN: LEAVES OF GRASS, featuring prints inspired by the famous poem by Walt Whitman, is on display Sept. 29-Dec. 1 at Florida State College at Jacksonville Deerwood Center Campus, Bldg. A, Room 2100, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 997-2500, fscj.edu.

The opening reception for JASON JOHN: CROSSING THE THRESHOLD is held at 6 p.m.

Sept. 30 at Florida Mining Gallery, 5300 Shad Rd., Jacksonville, 535-7252. An RSVP artist’s talk is featured at 7 p.m. Sept. 22; contact gallery for reservations, floridamininggallery.com.

OCTOBER

BALLOTS & BREWS, a politically opinionated poster show, is held at the new Intuition Ale Works Downtown, 929 E. Bay St., intuitionaleworks.com.

ENVIROFEST, a family-friendly event centered on raising environmental awareness through the arts, education and music, is held 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Oct. 1 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 356-6857, cummermuseum.org.

The exhibit FOLK COUTURE: FASHION AND FOLK ART, featuring works by 13 artists inspired by works from the Folk Art Museum, is on display Oct. 7-Jan. 1 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 356-6857, cummermuseum.org.

The 15th annual TACTILE ART SHOW is on display Oct. 7-30 at St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org.

Landscape and still life paintings by REBECCA SHAFFER, KAREN F. ROSE and JESSIE COOK are on display Oct. 7-Nov. 1 at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com.

The series DINNER WITH THE ARTIST, featuring sculptor TRAVIS SMITH, is held 7 p.m. Oct. 14 at The Art Center Gallery at the Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org.

The opening reception for an exhibit featuring recent works by JIM DRAPER, HENRY VON GENK III and THOMAS HAGER is held 6-9 p.m.

Oct. 14 at Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra, 240 A1A N., Ste. 13, 273-6065, stellersgallery.com.

Director of Education LYNN NORRIS discusses EARLY CHRISTIAN TO HIGH RENAISSANCE ART, 10:30 a.m.-noon Oct. 18 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 356-6857, $10 nonmembers, cummermuseum.org.

The opening reception for the exhibit 5, featuring works by VIRGINIA CANTORE, ALLISON WATSON, SUSAN OBER, MARY ST. GERMAIN (pictured, Dappled Light, oil on canvas, 36 x 48), and LAURIE HITZIG is held from 6-9 p.m. Sept. 9 at CoRK Arts District, Riverside. The exhibit is on display through Sept. 23.

The opening reception for an exhibit featuring abstract painting by VIRGINIA CANTORE and furniture by PETER BLUNT is held 6-8 p.m. Oct. 18 at Florida State College of Jacksonville’s Kent Campus, Bldg. E, Room 112A, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 646-2300; the exhibit is on display through Nov. 14, fscj.edu.

THE LITTLE REMBRANDTS SHOW, featuring artwork by kids in grades K-8, is on display Oct. 21-Dec. 2 at The Art Center Gallery, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org.

THE PRE[SERVE] JURIED EXHIBITION is on display Oct. 24-Nov. 18 at University of North Florida’s Gallery of Art, Founders Hall, Bldg. 2, Room 1001, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM presents a performance by sound composer OLIVIA BLOCK at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at Flagler College’s Ponce Rotunda, 74 King St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum.

THE UNF FACULTY ANNUAL EXHIBITION is on display Oct. 27-Dec. 9 at University of North Florida’s Gallery of Art, Founders Hall, Bldg. 2, Room 1001, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2534, unf. edu/gallery.

The opening reception for the exhibit COASTAL COLORS, featuring new works by SANDRA BAKER-HINTON, is held 7-9 p.m. Oct. 28 at First Street Gallery, 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928; the exhibit is on display through Jan. 4, firststreetgalleryart.com.

NOVEMBER

An exhibit of photographic works by WILL DICKEY, staff photographer for The Florida Times-Union, is on display Nov. 2-Dec. 30 at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain. org/~karpeles/jax.html.

The exhibit FLORIDA FOREVER! is on display Nov. 4-Dec. 31 at St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org.

MATT ROBERTS + TERRI WITEK DREAM GARDEN, an interactive digital poetry collaboration in conjunction with the Other Words Literary Conference, is featured at 5 p.m. and a

performance by INSEL is featured at 6 p.m. Nov. 4 at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/ crisp-ellert-art-museum.

The exhibit FUSION, featuring a contemporary collaborative of art glass and photography, is on display Nov. 4-29 at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com.

An exhibit of new relief prints by DONALD MARTIN is on display Nov. 5-Jan. 22 at Museum Of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu.

THE TALK WOMEN ARTISTS: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM is held 1:30-3 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 356-6857, $10 for non-members, cummermuseum.org.

The opening reception for THE ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION is held 5-7 p.m. Nov. 10 at JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY’S ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY, 2800 N. University Blvd., Arlington, 256-7371; the exhibit is on display through Dec. 9, ju.edu.

FABIO COSTA, a featured designer of Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art and star of Project Runway: Season 10, discusses his own practice of creative innovation, 6:308:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Riverside, 356-6857, $40 for nonmembers; $30 for members, cummermuseum.org.

The 17th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT SHOW is on display Nov. 11-Dec. 24 at First Street Gallery, 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com.

A SOUND INSTALLATION by ERIC DELUCA is featured 7:30-10:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at University of North Florida’s Gallery of Art, Founders Hall, Bldg.

2, Room 1001, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery.

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum presents an artist talk

by MATT ROBERTS at 6 p.m. Nov. 17 at Flagler College’s Ringhaver Student Center, 74 King St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/newsevents/crisp-ellert-art-museum.

The group show IDENTITY AND ABSTRACTION opens on Nov. 18 at Florida Mining Gallery, 5300 Shad Rd., Jacksonville, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com.

The CORK OPEN STUDIOS DAY, which invites the general public to meet the resident artists and check out (and hopefully buy!) some of their works is held noon-8 p.m. Nov. 19 at CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside, corkartsdistrict.com.

The PROJECT ATRIUM: NICOLA LOPEZ installation, A GENTLE DEFIANCE OF GRAVITY & FORM, a skyscraper-like construction that combines steel and printed imagery, is on display Nov. 19-Feb. 26 at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 3666911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu.

The opening reception for the STUDENT HOLIDAY SHOW, featuring paintings, drawings, mixed media and digital media by Kent Campus art students, is held 6-8 p.m. Nov. 22 at Florida State College of Jacksonville’s Kent Campus, Bldg. E, Room 112A, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 646-2300; the exhibit is on display through Dec. 6, fscj.edu.

The 51st annual ST. AUGUSTINE ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL, featuring craftspeople’s works in a variety of media including pottery, jewelry, sculpture, painting, photography and fiber art, is held Nov. 26 and 27 at Francis Field, West Castillo Drive, St. Augustine, staugustineartfestival.com.

DECEMBER

DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS presents its VISUAL ARTS GALLERY OPENING at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at 2445 San Diego Rd., Jacksonville, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/ anderson.

The festive group show WHITE CHRISTMAS is on display Dec. 2-27 at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com.

THE BFA and BA STUDENT PORTFOLIO EXHIBITION is featured Dec. 8-10 at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum.

The ART GUILD OF ORANGE PARK holds its HOLIDAY PARTY 7-9 p.m. Dec. 6. For more info, go to artguildoforangepark.org.

The opening reception for the MOCA STUDENT RESIDENCY EXHIBITION, featuring works by MOCA’s inaugural student-in-residence MARY RATCLIFF, is held 6-8 p.m. Dec. 8 at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911; an artist walkthrough with Ratcliff is featured from 7-8 p.m. Dec. 15, the exhibit is on display through April 2, mocajacksonville.unf.edu.

The exhibit TROPIC APPARITION, featuring new works by painter AMY LINCOLN (including Sun Through Plants, acrylic on panel, 2016) is on display Sept. 17-Dec. 18 at Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine.

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TONY JOE WHITE with MERE WOODARD

8 p.m. Sept. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $38.50-$43.50, pvconcerthall.com

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erhaps it’s because I first listened to it while making dinner, but Tony Joe White’s new album Rain Crow sounds like cooking to me. Lead single “Hoochie Woman” builds up to a roiling simmer held steady through “The Bad Wind” and “Rain Crow”; White’s effortlessly haunting voice serves as a smoky side dish to the main swamp-rock platter this Louisiana native is best known for. “Opening of the Box” turns up the heat, with scalding guitar licks and an even hotter bass riff.

Then, White takes a taste of full-length No. 41 (or so) and, pronouncing it not quite spicy enough, tosses everything “Right Back in the Fire” in “The Middle of Nowhere” for a little more slow-cooked flavor. “Conjure Child” is an exotic stew full of deep, delectable, familiar flavors (it serves as a follow-up to White’s 1970 song “Conjure Women”), while “Where Do They Go” is the moonshine chaser that washes it all down and “Tell Me a Swamp Story” is the sweet slice of cake that floods your sensory system with dreams of the past.

Why all this careful analysis of another full-length by a 73-year-old blues man little known outside deep swamp and Americana circles? To put to bed the misconception that Tony Joe White’s crowning moment came back in 1969, with his first (and still biggest) hit “Polk Salad Annie.” Forty-seven years later, that little ditty is still a breezy, bracing hoot – and a direct connection to the cotton farm White grew up on in the ’40s and ’50s. “That and [follow-up hit] “Rainy Night in Georgia” came on almost at the same time,” White told The Bluegrass Situation last year. “I just kept trying to stay with what I knew. I knew about polk salad because I’d eaten a lot of it growing up on the cotton farm. My mother was part Cherokee Indian and used to cook it.”

FILM Primeval and Eaten Alive

PG. 25

MUSIC John Moreland

PG. 26

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR

PG. 27

Esteemed bluesman Tony Joe White shines a light on the SWAMPY LOUISIANA darkness So White acknowledges the food connection (whew!).

But forget such a strained metaphor for a second – there’s an overwhelming sense of the supernatural that suffuses White’s music, all the way from his first album Black and White to this year’s Rain Crow. His single chord drones stretch into spooky, surreal territory, while the gravitas of his low-slung basso profundo is untouched by most modern singers not named Tom Waits. Meanwhile, White’s narrative world of terrifying omens and otherworldly portents rewards close listening; in the space of just a few songs on Rain Crow, tales of apocalyptic fireballs, animal soothsayers, and tongue-talking evangelists howling while handling venomous snakes emerge. In other words, True Detective Season 1 would have captured the lonely, isolated feeling of the Louisiana swamp even more perfectly had it used White’s music.

“Sometimes it’s just swamp and funky music and blues, but I do feel like a messenger on certain songs,” White said in press for Rain Crow. “When I start to get the first words going, something tells me, ‘You can finish this.’ Someone up above is sending it down and saying, ‘Translate this into something.’ So, yes, sometimes I am a messenger.”

Of course, serving as a messenger doesn’t mean letting your ego get in the way. White’s management team politely declined an interview with Folio Weekly Magazine in favor of letting the 73-year-old Tony Joe tone up for a tour. Although he’s had his marquee moments – writing two hits for Tina Turner in 1989, releasing three solid albums for Polydor, having his staple songs covered by such luminaries as Elvis Presley to Boz Scaggs to Hank Williams Jr. – mainstream stardom has never been White’s modus operandi. When the blues revival of the ’90s climaxed in Europe, White established a beachhead as one of its leading continental representatives. And all of that came about because of his authenticity. “I never give much thought to anything except trying to be real,” he told The Bluegrass Situation last year. “[My] songs are just freewheeling. They don’t have no corral. They don’t have no box to be put in.”

Don’t believe it? Dial up White’s 2015 appearance on David Letterman’s show on YouTube and watch the grizzled bluesman own the stage – with the Foo Fighters backing him, no less. After an inspired rendition of “Polk Salad Annie,” Dave Grohl stammers out “What was that?

What happened up here?” before turning to the audience and delivering the best summation of White’s aura yet: “If I was him, I’d tell all of you to kiss my ass.”

Would the laconic, laid-back White ever make such a claim? Probably not. Which suits his personality just fine. “If you got something in your heart, put it out, ’cause nobody on this whole planet has wrote those words or played that lick before,” he told HBO’s Sonic Highways, the conduit for his ongoing relationship with the Foo Fighters (frontman Grohl produced the series). Flashing a wry, seenit-all smile, White adds, “And if it ain’t got something there, maybe you should go back to the cotton fields.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS This week, we sink our teeth into a couple of terrorizing, REPTILIAN DELIGHTS

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espite the cute songs in The Little Mermaid, there are lots of scary creepy things Under the Sea, especially in the movies. Jaws set the bar for film sharks in 1975; before that, an octopus almost got John Wayne in Wake of the Red Witch (1948) and a giant squid put the squeeze on Kirk Douglas and James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954).

Of all the underwater man-eaters, none has spawned more good movies than the alligator and the crocodile.

The two best films in the scaly genre were released in 2007, each featuring an enormous crocodile and neither receiving the box-office and attention it deserved. Besides requisite gore and suspense, both films benefit from gorgeous cinematography highlighting spectacular landscapes — Australia in Rogue and Africa in Primeval.

Directed by Greg McLean as a follow-up to his chilling Wolf Creek, Rogue stars Radha Mitchell as a guide taking sightseeing tourists on a boat tour of crocodile waters. Among the cast are Michael Vartan as a travel writer and Sam Worthington as the guide’s jilted beau.

A mishap strands everyone on a tidal island, where they’re prey to the menace. The death count accelerates as the waters continue to rise.

McLean wrote the script for Wolf Creek Rogue, both taut and unpredictable. You sort of know what to expect, but McLean delivers the unexpected. In the supporting cast is young Australian actress Mia Wasikowski, whose breakthrough role was Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland three years later.

Primeval focuses on efforts of an intrepid (but veryy foolish) handful of human bait intent on capturing a voracious killer croc, nicknamed Gustave by the locals. To complicate things, the nation is fighting a brutal civil war; one of the contingents is led by a ruthless terrorist dubbed Little Gustave. The film’s ironic title reflects the dual savagery of nature and man, both of which are documented in graphic detail.

Dominic Purcell plays a cynical TV producer who, with his wisecracking cameraman Steven (Orlando Jones, who ought to be used more, considering his skills), are assigned to a project with on-camera talent Aviva (Brooke Langton). Rounding out the cast are Jurgen Prochnow as Jacob, as an experienced crocodile hunter out to kill Gustave, and Gideon Emery as dedicated herpetologist Matt, who’s determined to take Gustave alive.

Because its themes broach larger social issues, Primeval scores higher on the complexity meter than Rogue, but both films are terrifying and suspenseful with terrific special effects, solid acting and crisp direction.

Oddly, Primeval is the only big-screen credit of director Michael Katleman, whose extensive efforts have been relegated to TV since the ’90s.

Based on the quality of Primeval, we movie fans are the poorer for his absence.

Prior to the 21st century, one very good alligator/crocodile movie emerged each decade.

In 1976, Tobe Hooper followed up The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Eaten Alive (’76) in which a loony hotel owner (Neville Brand) serves up various guests to a hungry long-toothed friend lurking nearby. Set in the Louisiana bayous, the story (like Chainsaw) was loosely based on a character from Texas. Shot almost wholly in a studio with a color scheme of which Hooper was quite proud, Eaten Alive featured Carolyn Jones (TV’s The Addams Family), Mel Ferrer and Stuart Whitman as its big-name stars, though the choice parts went to young Robert Englund and Marilyn Burns (Leatherface’s sole survivor in Chainsaw).

Prowling Chicago’s sewers and streets is one big reptile in Alligator (’80), well-directed by Lewis Teague (Cujo) and featuring John Sayles’ witty script. Trying to stay uneaten and save the day is Robert Forster, in a terrific performance as a rogue cop worried about his receding hairline. The pre-digital miniature work and special effects shine, but the heart and soul of the film is Sayles’s clever screenplay.

Also benefitting from an excellent script by, of all people, TV’s David E. Kelley (creator of Ally McBeal, Doogie Howser, M.D., many other series) is ’99’s Lake Placid in which an enormous crocodile hunts in the waters of Maine. Even more than Alligator, this film is almost as funny as it is suspenseful, with wry performances by Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt. Then only 78, Betty White (a former Golden Girl) has a key role.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING SUN-RAY CINEMA Sausage Party and Hell or High Water are currently screening, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Multiple Maniacs, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World and Don’t Think Twice start Sept. 2. The Killing runs Sept.

3. Paths of Glory screens Sept. 4. Spartacus runs Sept.

7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling screens Sept. 8.

CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ A Star is Born (1937) runs noon Sept. 1. Cocktails & Classics features Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, 2 and 6:45 p.m. Sept. 2, 3 and 4. M, Fritz Lang’s detective story, 3 p.m. Sept. 2 and 3, 2 p.m. Sept. 4. Little Princess with Shirley Temple, 2 and 6:45 p.m. Sept. 7. The Lady in the Van and Chevalier are screened, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

Pretty in Pink runs Sept. 9-15. National Park films run 11:45 a.m., 1:45 and 4 p.m. Sept. 2, 3 and 4.

IMAX THEATER Robots 3D, Suicide Squad, America Wild: National Parks Adventure, A Beautiful Planet and Secret Ocean screen at World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

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FOLIO A+E : MUSIC

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Oklahoman John Moreland embraces EMOTIONAL INTENSITY with stark, harrowing folk music

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s far as folk singers go, John Moreland is a baby — barely 31 years old and less than five years into his nascent solo career. But the Oklahoma native’s harrowing, resonant voice, emotionally intense subject matter, and intricate fingerpicked guitar riffs mark him as a much older, wiser man. Watch a YouTube video of him performing “You Don’t Care for Me Enough to Cry” — and I dare you to not cry.

Of course, songs that good don’t just appear out of the ether. They’ve been pouring out of Moreland since he was barely a teenager, when he unearthed his dad’s Martin guitar. John followed the usual early route through punk, hardcore, and heavy metal before discovering icons like Steve Earle, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt and settling into a dusty Americana groove. But Moreland went further than most with the musician’s version of Occam’s Razor, excising all the unnecessary extra from his music for the 2013 album Into the Throes, which was stark, severe, and isolated.

2015’s High on Tulsa Heat injected a few more bells and whistles into Moreland’s newfound sound — pedal steel, dobro, lush backing vocals — but the weight of his words remains. On “You Don’t Care for Me Enough to Cry,” he sings, “I’m the kind of love it hurts to look at”; on the elegant “Cherokee,” which contains what is possibly the saddest music video of the decade, he laments, “I guess I’ve got a taste for poison/I’ve given up on ever being well.”

And yet Moreland expertly pulls off Springsteenesque heartland rock on “Sad Baptist Rain,” along with the songs on a new album he just finished recording — in the studio, with a full band, for the first time ever.

“If nothing gets cut, it’ll be my first album with 12 songs instead of 10,” Moreland tells Folio Weekly Magazine. “It was harder to write after High on Tulsa Heat because I was touring more, and I don’t write on tour at all. But then I’d come home and be so tired, I didn’t feel like picking up the guitar, even though I knew I needed to. It was tough to find the enjoyment that I found playing music in the first place.”

Although Moreland represents his blue-collar roots to the fullest (you ever see somebody with an O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A knuckle tattoo?), he says that he’s resisted any push to become more politically or social active. “When I’ve tried to write overtly

political songs, I’ve never liked what came out. I haven’t tried since I was 20 years old, so maybe I could do a better job now. But I think I’m better off writing about myself — helping people imagine being in somebody else’s shoes and experiencing life from a different point of view.”

Of course, the sociopolitical challenges of 2016 might call for more extreme measures: “I read an interview with my friend Micah from Two Cow Garage, which is putting out a new record with political songs, and he said, ‘I want to be able to tell my kids and grandkids that we said something and didn’t just stand around.’

I’ve been thinking about that for a few weeks and it’s something I’d like to try to incorporate into my music. But in the most natural way.”

Another natural evolution for Moreland?

Overcoming a nasty case of stage fright and anxiety that plagued him for years after he stopped playing with old bands Black Gold Band and Dust Bowl Souls and started performing solo. In February, he made his television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, an occasion that he says elicited extreme trepidation. “I thought that was going to be terrifying,” Moreland says.

“But I had just finished a tour playing 1,000seat theaters with Jason Isbell, so when I saw how small the Late Show theater was, I said, ‘This is easy — no problem.’ I meditate before shows now to diffuse some of that energy before I go on stage, where a year or two ago, I would just sit before a show like a ball of nervous energy going, ‘Just get on stage and get this over with.”

Two years ago, Moreland performed in St. Augustine, Gainesville, and Cedar Key as part of the inaugural Follow The Sun Festival, so chances are he’ll encounter plenty of rapt listeners when he headlines Sing Out Loud Festival’s Stetson Kennedy Showcase at Colonial Quarter on Sept. 3. And when asked about the arc of his career, Moreland says that an attentive crowd is all he needs. “I’d love to keep growing and see how far I can take this.

But at the same time, I keep in mind that, five years ago, I didn’t think it was possible for me to play music for a living. Just to be able to do it at all without working some shitty job that I hate on the side? That makes me feel like I’m making it. Everything else is just a bonus.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

SING OUT LOUD FESTIVAL STETSON KENNEDY SHOWCASE:JOHN MORELAND, AARON LEE TASJAN, DAN ANDRIANO, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, PAUL GARFINKEL, THE DEWARS, UNCLE MARTY, GILEAH TAYLOR

photo by Vicki Farmer

Noon Sept. 3, Colonial Quarter, St. Augustine, free show, singoutloudfestival.com

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“The Albert Ayler of Smooth Jazz” (just kidding!), KENNY G performs Sept. 1 at The Florida Theatre, Downtown.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

GOO GOO DOLLS, COLLECTIVE SOUL, TRIBE SOCIETY 5 p.m. Aug. 31, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $29.50-$69.50.

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Aug. 31, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247.

Music by the Sea: THOSE GUYS 7 p.m. Aug. 31, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., thecivicassociation.org. Bring something to sit on.

CHUCKIE CAMPBELL & the PHACTION, MIZZY RAW, TOMAS GORRIO 7 p.m. Aug. 31, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496,$8 advance; $10 day of.

WATER SEED, FFJB MUSIC TEAM 8 p.m. Aug. 31 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $8-$10.

Sing Out Loud Festival: DANNY BURNS & AINE O’DOHERTY 8 p.m. Aug. 31, Ann O’Malley’s Irish Pub, 23 Orange St., 825-4040, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival: OBSERVATORY, WILLOW WACKS, LIGHT ELIXIR, YAWNING FOX, BRITTANI MUELLER 10 p.m. Aug. 31, Planet Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632, singoutloudfestival.com.

Concerts in the Plaza: LONESOME BERT & THE SKINNY LIZARDS 7 p.m. Sept. 1, Plaza de la Constitución, St. Augustine, 825-1004, concertsintheplaza.com.

KATHERINE ARCHER, CINDY BEAR, TAMARRA COLONA 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10.

KENNY G 8 p.m. Sept. 1, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39.50-$69.50.

SLOPPY SECONDS, POWERBALL, The WASTEDIST 8 p.m. Sept. 1, Jack Rabbits, $12 advance; $15 day of.

“3” the BAND 9 p.m. Sept. 1, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

Sing Out Loud Festival Backyard BBQ: The REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, The PAUSES, WAYLON THORNTON & the HEAVY HANDS, ROBBIE DAMMIT & the BROKEN STRINGS, The WOBBLY TOMS 4 p.m. Sept. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Local Showcase: BILLY BUCHANAN, LOVECHUNK, RAMONA QUIMBY, The YOUNG STEP, SEA FLOOR EXPLOSIVES 5 p.m. Sept. 2, Colonial Quarter, 33 St. George St., St. Augustine, 342-2857.

Sing Out Loud Festival Local Showcase: SAM PACETTI 5 p.m. Sept. 2, Café Alcazar Lightner Museum, 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Aviles Street Jam: JIM & PATTY SPRINGFIELD, TIMBERWOOD 5 p.m. Sept. 2, Aviles at Plum, St. Augustine, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Storytellers Showcase: FOND KISER, AMY HENDRICKSON, SHEA BIRNEY, ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON, CHARLIE ROBERTSON, CHELSEA SADDLER 5 p.m. Sept. 2, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, singoutloudfestival.com.

Adult BYOB Cruise: RUSSELL BRYANT, JIM BARCARO 6 p.m. Sept. 2 & 3, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina, 2619972; ameliarivercruises.com.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE (Local Bands) 7 p.m. Sept.

2, Hemming Park, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown, hemmingpark.org.

MJM EXPERIMENT 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2, Hobnob, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, Riverside, 513-4272.

Sing Out Loud Festival Local Showcase: SALT DRIVEN RIDE, ROB PECK 8 p.m. Sept. 2, Anne O’Malley’s, 23 Orange St., St. Augustine, 825-4040, singoutloudfestival.com.

Grunge Fest Tribute Acts: NIRVANNA (Nirvana), GIN MILL ROMEO (Pearl Jam), FACELIFT (Alice in Chains) 8 p.m. Sept. 2, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $10 advance; $15 day of.

TONY JOE WHITE, MERE WOODARD 8 p.m. Sept. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $38.50-$43.50.

DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY 9:30 p.m. Sept. 2, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208.

Sing Out Loud Festival Official Afterparty: CONSTANT SWIMMER, REMEDY TREE, BRANDON O’HARA, BRENT McGUFFIN 10 p.m. Sept. 2, Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188, singoutloudfestival.com.

Riverside Arts Market: MARCY KNIGHT morning yoga, INDIE BOLLMAN, A NICE PAIR, MAMA BLUE, MOON STALKER 10:30 a.m. Sept. 3, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449.

Sing Out Loud Festival Stetson Kennedy Showcase: JOHN MORELAND, AARON LEE TASJAN, DAN ANDRIANO, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, PAUL GARFINKEL, The DEWARS, UNCLE MARTY Noon Sept.

3, Colonial Quarter, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Stetson Kennedy Showcase: The DRIFTWOODS, CHANNING & QUINN, ANCIENT CITY POETS, I LIKE DANDELIONS, The SKINNY, SKIN & BONZ & FRIENDS, The DUNEHOPPERS Noon Sept. 3, Downtown Plaza Gazebo, St. Augustine, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Aviles Street Jam: MARIO LUIS, VICTORIA ROMERO, DONNY BRAZILE Noon Sept.

3, Plum Gallery, 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Narrow Magazine Showcase: COSMIC GROOVE, LUCIFER SAM, PULL the RIPCORD, MOCK TOXINS, BUBBA SPLIFFS, MENTAL PATIENTS, MOYA MOYA, CHRISTIAN POWERS 5 p.m. Sept. 3, Planet Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632.

Sing Out Loud Festival Comedy Showcase: CHRIS BUCK, CASEY CRAWFORD, PATRICK DALTON 6 p.m.

Sept. 3, Limelight Theatre, singoutloudfestival.com.

Sing Out Loud Festival Local Showcase: FOND KISER, SMOKIN’ JOE 8 p.m. Sept. 3, Ann O’Malley’s.

DAVIS TURNER 8 p.m. Sept. 3, Slider’s Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, 277-6652.

EARPHUNK, GRAVY, MANYFEST 8 p.m. Sept. 3, 1904 Music Hall, $10 advance; $15 day of.

RAZORZ EDGE, AUTOMATIK FIT 8 p.m. Sept. 3, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of.

ROGER THAT 9:30 p.m. Sept. 3, Whiskey Jax. HEPATAGUA, TOILER 9 p.m. Sept. 5, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222, $5.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

MELVINS, HELMS ALEE Sept. 8, Jack Rabbits Sing Out Loud Festival: BRANDI CARLILE, INDIGO GIRLS, BOOKER T. JONES, The TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, KENNY & the JETS, COLIN HAY, JOEY HARKUM, REV. PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, LUCERO, ADDI & JACQ, JIM & PATTY SPRINGFIELD, CANDLEBOX, COMPLICATED ANIMALS, LONESOME BERT & SKINNY LIZARDS, MOUNTAIN GOATS, TIM BARRY, MARCELLUS HALL, SHEA BIRNEY, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, WEST KING STRING BAND, JOE ROCCO, The YOUNG STEP, FREE RANGERS, SHOVELS & ROPE, ROBBIE DAMMIT & the BROKEN STRINGS, NICHOLAS ROBERTS, J. LEE DRISKELL, JACOB HAMILTON, SKIN & BONZ, AMY HENDRICKSON, RIVERNECKS, BADBOOKS, BOB PATTERSON, DAN ADRIANO, TED LEO, SAM PACETTI, ASLYN & the NAY SAYERS, CORY BRANAN, WILLOWWACKS, JEREMY ROGERS, FRANK TURNER, HOLOPAW Sept. 9-11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, P.V. Concert Hall, St. Aug. Beach, Ponte Vedra BRIAN WILSON, AL JARDINE, BLONDIE CHAPLIN Sept.

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC St. Augustine singersongwriter KATHERINE ARCHER (pictured) performs with CINDY BEAR and TAMARRA COLONA Sept. 1 at Mudville Music Room, St. Nicholas.

ZAC BROWN BAND, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena WHEELER WALKER JR. Sept. 20, Jack Rabbits HELL YEAH Sept. 21, Mavericks Live IL DIVO Sept. 23, The Florida Theatre WIDESPREAD PANIC Sept. 23 & 24, St. Aug. Amphitheatre SOFIJA KNEZEVIC Sept. 23, Ritz Theatre DTCV Sept. 25, Rain Dogs MICHAEL GRAVES (Misfits), DEATH ANGEL Sept. 25, Harmonious Monks The ANN WILSON THING Sept. 28, P.Vedra Concert Hall BLACK UHURU Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits PROPHETS of RAGE, AWOLNATION Sept. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JONNY LANG Sept. 30, The Florida Theatre I The MIGHTY, DAYSHELL, ARTIFEX PEREO, PICTURESQUE Sept. 30, 1904 Music Hall SARAH JAROSZ, PARKER MILLSAP Sept. 30, P.V.C. Hall STRYPER Oct. 1, Murray Hill Theatre

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Amelia Island Jazz Festival: HOUSTON PERSON, BRIA SKONBERG, LES DeMERLE & BONNIE EISELE, CALIENTE, J.B. SCOTT Oct. 2-9, Amelia Island The DANDY WARHOLS, SAVOY MOTEL Oct. 4, P.V.C. Hall GEORGE THOROGOOD & the DESTROYERS Oct. 6, Florida Theatre EDWIN McMAIN Oct. 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CROWBAR Oct. 6, Nighthawks INSANE CLOWN POSSE Oct. 7, Limes Live SET IT OFF Oct. 7, Jack Rabbits BILLY BUCHANAN (Prince Tribute) Oct. 7, P.V. Concert Hall The VIBRATORS Oct. 9, Harmonious Monks KORN, BREAKING BENJAMIN Oct. 12, Vets Mem Arena HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, CONVICTIONS, IN HER OWN WORDS Oct. 13, Limes Live DONNA the BUFFALO, PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND, BLUEGROUND UNDERGRASS Oct. 13-16, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park NEEDTOBREATHE, MAT KEARNY, PARACHUTE,

WELSHLY ARMS Oct. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ASTRONAUTALIS, CESCHI & FACTOR CHANDELIER, TRANSIT Oct. 13, Jack Rabbits Jacksonville Music Fest: MAZE, FRANKIE BEVERLY, JAHEIM, JOE Oct. 14, Veterans Memorial Arena Beaches Oktoberfest: BLUES TRAVELER, COLLIE BUDDZ, The MOVEMENT Oct. 14-16, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach WellRED Comedy Tour: TRAE CROWDER, COREY RYAN FORRESTER, DREW MORGAN Oct. 14, P.V. Concert Hall Live Original Tour: SADIE ROBERTSON Oct. 14, The Florida Theatre 20th annual Magnolia Fest: JJ GREY & MOFRO, KELLER WILLIAMS, The INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, ZACH DEPUTY, BILLY BRAGG, SARAH LEE GUTHRIE, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Oct. 15, St. Aug. Amphitheatre JOHN MAYALL Oct. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BEACH SLANG, BLEACHED, HUNNY Oct. 15, Jack Rabbits SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre KIM RICHEY Oct. 16, Café Eleven STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN, MAC POWELL, BRANDON HEATH Oct. 16, Times-Union Center MIKE STERN TRIO Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Tonevendor RECORD FAIR Oct. 16, St. Aug. Amphitheatre PHISH Oct. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena EDEN, XX ct. 17, Jack Rabbit The PSYCHEDELIC FURS Oct. 18, P. Vedra Concert Hall The LAST TEN SECONDS of LIFE Nighthawks, Oct. 18 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Oct. 18, St. Augustine Amp. KEB’ MO’ BAND Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre JOSH RITTER Oct. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Oct. 20, Mavericks Live MARTIN LAWRENCE Oct. 21, T-U Center RUSTED ROOT, DEVON ALLMAN BAND Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MDC, WARLORD, SADLY MISTAKEN Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Oct. 25, The Florida Theatre LINDSEY STIRLING Oct. 27, The Florida Theatre The AVETT BROTHERS Oct. 28, Vets Memorial Arena ANTHONY HAMILTON, LALAH HATHAWAY, ERIC BENET Oct. 29, Times-Union Center The ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Oct. 29, The Florida Theatre BONNIE RAITT Oct. 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DEPARTMENT of CORRECTION, DIE CHOKING Oct. 29, Rain Dogs TODD SNIDER, ROREY CARROLL Oct. 29, PV Concert Hall CASTING CROWNS, MATT MAHER, HANNAH KERR Nov. 3, Veterans Memorial Arena LORD ALMIGHTY Nov. 3, Shantytown Pub MAC SABBATH, COUGHIN Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits NF Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LO CASH Nov. 3, Mavericks Live GHOST, POPESTAR Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre BLAIR CRIMMINS & the HOOKERS Nov. 5, Café Eleven ZZ TOP Nov. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, CASSIDY LEE, IVAN PULLEY Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre EVANESCENCE, SICK PUPPIES Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The DOOBIE BROTHERS, The FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ODD SQUAD LIVE! Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre CHRIS YOUNG, CASSADEE POPE Nov. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TRACY MORGAN Nov. 12, Thrasher-Horne Center LEE GREENWOOD Nov. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WAR Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MITSKI Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits ERIC JOHNSON Nov. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GALACTIC, The HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 17, P.V.Concert Hall BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Nov. 18, Times-Union Center SAVION GLOVER Nov. 18, The Florida Theatre YELLOWCARD Nov. 18, Mavericks Live WVRM FEST 4 Nov. 18 & 19, 1904 Music Hall MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Nov. 21, Times-Union Center ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Nov. 22, Mavericks Live QUEENSRYCHE, ARMORED SAINT Nov. 29, Mavericks Live CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Dec. 1, P.Vedra Concert Hall PATRICK BARTLEY Dec. 1, Ritz Theatre DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS, VALERIE SIMPSON, KENNY LATIMORE, JONATHAN BUTLER Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre STANLEY CLARKE Dec. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SARA EVANS Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre ROCK ’N’ ROLL HOLIDAY SHOW Dec. 3, Florida Theatre TRAVIS TRITT Dec. 4, The Florida Theatre TAYLOR HICKS Dec. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall A Peter White Christmas: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, The Florida Theatre

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC The OAK RIDGE BOYS Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 15, Vets Mem Arena GRIFFIN HOUSE Dec. 18, Café Eleven JACKIE EVANCHO Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre MICHAEL BOLTON Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre LOS LOBOS Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PINK MARTINI Jan. 17, The Florida Theatre JEANNE ROBERTSON Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre ELVIS LIVES Jan. 24, Times-Union Center GLADYS KNIGHT Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 27, The Florida Theatre KENNY ROGERS, LINDA DAVIS Jan. 28, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts The BEACH BOYS Jan. 28, The Florida Theatre VOCALOSITY Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre CHRISTIE DASHIELL Feb. 2, Ritz Theatre ARLO GUTHRIE Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre PAT METHENY, ANTONIO SANCHEZ, LINDA OH, GWILYM SIMCOCK Feb. 3, The Florida Theatre BOSTON POPS ESPLANDE ORCHESTRA Feb. 4, Times-Union Center The BABES Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall UNDER the STREETLAMP Feb. 12, P. Vedra Concert Hall ANDY McKEE Feb. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The PIANO GUYS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & the ASBURY JUKES Feb. 19, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOE BONAMASSA Feb. 22, The Florida Theatre MINDI ABAIR Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre OLD 97’s, BOTTLE ROCKETS Feb. 25, P.V.Concert Hall DENNIS DeYOUNG, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre TAJ EXPRESS Feb. 28, Times-Union Center The WEIGHT, members of The Band March 3, P.V.C. Hall SPYRO GYRA March 5, The Florida Theatre The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, Florida Theatre CARROT TOP March 25, The Florida Theatre RICK THOMAS April 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra April 7, The Florida Theatre MJ LIVE! April 20-23, Times-Union Center

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31 LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley’s jazz show 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez Sun. SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 2776652 King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Aug. 31. Tad Jennings Sept. 1. Savanna Bassett, Milltown Road, DJ Dave Sept.

2. Davis Turner Sept. 5. Down Yonder Sept. 6 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg Tue. & Thur. Black Jack Band Fri.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA CASBAH Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music 9 p.m. Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns, 388-0200 Live music every Thur.-Sat.

THE BEACHES (All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR Pub, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff Aug. 31 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Sept. 1. Live music on weekends GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m.

Wed. Murray Goff Fri. Under the Bus Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. Sun. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music most weekends LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Live music every night MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Bread & Butter 9 p.m. Aug. 31. Live music weekends MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer Thur. Mezza Shuffle Mon. Trevor Tanner Tue. MONKEY’S UNCLE, 1728 N. Third St., 246-1070 DJ every Wed., Sat. & Sun. RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Vinnie Keleman Aug. 31. Rough Mix Sept. 1. Bush Doctors Sept. 2 & 3. Kenny Holliday Band Sept. 4

Massachusetts-bred doom-rock duo HEPATAGUA (pictured) play with TOILER Sept. 5 at Shantytown Pub, Springfield.

SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Lip Sync Face-Off Aug. 31. Chris Thomas Band 7 p.m. Sept. 1. No Saints 8:30 p.m. Sept. 2. Master Radical Sept. 4 SLIDERS Seafood Grille, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881 Bill Ricci 6 p.m. Sept. 3

DOWNTOWN 1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N. Water Seed, FFJB Music Team 8 p.m. Aug. 31. Earphunk, Gravy, Manyfest 8 p.m. Sept. 3. T.W.A.N. 8 p.m. Sept. 4 The BIRDHOUSE, 1827 N. Pearl St. 5 Cent Psychiatrist 7 p.m. Sept. 5 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Sept. 1 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Aug. 31. Live music most weekends HOURGLASS Pub, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 Amplified CD release 9:30 p.m. Sept. 2 JACKSONVILLE Landing, 353-1188 Scholars Word, Bushmen, Papa Michigan Sept. 4 MARK’S Downtown, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Grunge Fest Tribute: Nirvanna (Nirvana), Gin Mill Romeo (Pearl Jam), Facelift (Alice in Chains) 8 p.m. Sept. 2. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc, Some Dude 9 p.m. Glitz Wed. Q45, live music Wed. EDM Thur. Eric Rush Fri. DJ IBay Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay Sun.

FLEMING ISLAND

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood, 388-7807 Michael Sullivan Benefit: 878, The Ghost, A.C., Tim the Visionary, Elder Mark James, Unmasked, Jigsaw, Wrekless Abandon, S.W.E.R.V.E., David James, Will B Lokimusic 7 p.m. Sept. 3 RIVERSIDE Arts Market, 715 Riverside, 389-2449 Indie Bollman, A Nice Pair, Mama Blue, Moon Stalker 10:30 a.m. Sept. 3

ST. AUGUSTINE ANN O’MALLEY’S Irish Pub, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Sing Out Loud Festival: Danny Burns & Aine O’Doherty 8 p.m. Aug. 31. Sing Out Loud Festival Local Showcase: Salt Driven Ride, Rob Peck 8 p.m. Sept. 2. Fond Kiser, Smokin’ Joe 8 p.m. Sept. 3 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 The Committee Sept. 2 & 3. Vinny Jacobs Sept. 4 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 The Bath Salt Zombies 9 p.m. Sept. 2. Those Guys Sept. 3.

Fre Gordon open mic Sept. 4. DJ Rob St. John Wed. NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Sing Out Loud Festival Official Afterparty: Constant Swimmer, Remedy Tree, Brandon O’Hara, Brent McGuffin 10 p.m. Sept. 2 PLANET SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Sing Out Loud Festival: Observatory, Willow Wacks, Light Elixir, Yawning Fox, Brittani Mueller 10 p.m. Aug. 31.

Sing Out Loud Festival Narrow Magazine Showcase: Cosmic Groove, Lucifer Sam, Pull The Ripcord, Mock Toxins, Bubba Spliffs, Mental Patients, Moya Moya, Christian Powers 5 p.m. Sept. 3 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Blistur Sept. 2 & 3. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.

SAN MARCO

INTRACOASTAL

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Chuckie Campbell & the Phaction, Mizzy Raw, Tomas Gorrio 7 p.m. Aug. 31. Rad, Sloppy Seconds, Powerball, The Wastedist 8 p.m. Sept. 1. Razorz Edge, Automatik Fit 8 p.m. Sept. 3 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic, 352-7008 Cindy Bear, Katherine Archer, Tamarra Colona 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1

JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Lucky Stiff 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Twn Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Boogie Freaks 9 p.m. Sept. 2 & 3

MANDARIN ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Aug. 31 & Sept. 4

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Finley 10 p.m. Aug. 31. DJ Big Mike Sept. 1.

SHARK Club, 714 Park, 215-1557 Digital Skyline Aug. 31

PONTE VEDRA PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Billy Buchanan 7 p.m. Sept. 3. Forrest & the Fire Sept. 4 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Billy Bowers 6 p.m.

Aug. 31. Gary Starling Jazz Band 7:30 p.m. Sept.

1. Tier 2 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2. Javier Naranjo Sept. 3.

Robbie Litt Sept. 7

GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Ryan Crary Sept. 1. DiCarlo Sept. 2. Ciaran Sontag Sept. 3 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Don’t Call Me Shirley 9:30 p.m. Sept. 2. Roger That 9:30 p.m.

Sept. 3. Melissa Smith open mic Thur. Blues jam Sun.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE The HEADLAMP, 818 Clay St. Live music Fri. & Sat. SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Hepatagua, Toiler 9 p.m. Sept. 5

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FOLIO DINING AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaur ant.com. Historic downtown bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner.com.

Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $ K TO B R L Daily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, madefrom-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine inside or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub next door has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chez lezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrab trap.com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S Wings, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. BOJ. SEE O.PARK. JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun house. Favorites: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese and a variety of crêpes. Vegan selection. Sit inside or on a porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily La MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese

SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor, balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2015 BOJ. Family-owned-and-operated 18-plus years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19, 745-9300. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.

LARRY’S Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

SID & LINDA’S Seafood Market & Restaurant, 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 109, 503-8276. Pick your own whole fresh fish, have it cleaned, filleted, cooked to order. Dine in, take out.

Housemade sauces. $$ K TO L D Daily

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CHOMP CHOMP, 4162 Herschel St., 329-1679. Newly relocated. Chef-inspired fare: The Philadelphia Experiment (sweet pork over arugula), panko-crusted chicken, burgers, Waldorf salad, bahn mi, Southern fried chicken, The Come Up (portabella mushroom, green tomato salsa, almonds). Curry Chomp chips, pasta salad. HH. $ BW L D Mon.-Sat. The FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh fare, homemade desserts.

Breakfast all day, signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20-plus years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta.

Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2015 BOJ. 40-plus years. Burgers,

In addition to an extensive array of market-fresh choices for your kitchen at home, Mandarin’s Whole Foods Market offers delicious prepared fare for an on-the-go lifestyle. photo by Dennis Ho fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE O. PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545.

New Puerto Rican place has chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. It’s like a part of the Isle of Enchantment is now part of Amelia Island. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2015 BOJ. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice. Calzones, salads. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s menu of global fare uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su The PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecan rollbakery.com. F Near historic district. Sweet/savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads; from scratch. $ K TO B L W-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabeth pointelodge.com. Restaurant in award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge has seaside dining, open to public. Dine indoors or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2015 BOJ. 2nd-story outdoor bar.

Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily To list your restaurant, call your account manager or Sam Taylor, 860-2465 • staylor@folioweekly.com

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$ = Less than $10 $$ = $10- $20 $$$ = $20- $35 $$$$ = $35 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club event. fwbiteclub.com 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot

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Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa Restaurant ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay. com. 2015 BOJ. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients.

Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2015 BOJ. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 8616 Baymeadows, 739-2498. F 2015 BOJ. METRO Diner, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2015 BOJ.SEE SAN MARCO.

NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows, Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/ bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilas jacksonville.com. New Mexican place has casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option. Topshelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, street fare tacos, signature plates, whiskey. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F 2015 BOJ. NY-style gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. 28-plus years. All day HH M-Thu. $ FB K TO L D Daily

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ANGIE’S Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. 2015 BOJ. Subs made with fresh ingredients, 25-plus years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BEACH Diner, 501 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-6500. SEE AMELIA. BEACH HUT Café, 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. 28-plus years.

Full breakfast menu served all day (darn good grits); hot plate specials Mon.-Fri. $ K TO B R L Daily CRUISERS Grill, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill.com.

2015 BOJ. Locally owned & operated 20-plus years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, european street.com. F 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. FAMOUS TOASTERY, 311 N. Third St., 372-0712, famous toastery.com. New place takes breakfast and lunch items one better: corned beef hash, gluten-free pancakes, bacon, omelets, eggs and … toast. Wraps, sandwiches, Bloody Marys, mimosas, peach Bellini. $$ FB K TO B L Daily The FISH COMPANY Restaurant, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, AB, 246-0123, thefishcojax.com. Bite Club. Casual spot. Oyster raw bar, fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, crab, lobster. Homestyle desserts. Patio; all-day HH Sun. $$ FB K TO L D Daily FLAMING SEAFOOD & SHAO KAO BBQ, 1289 Penman Rd., 853-6398. New place (is it Chinese? Barbecue? Seafood?) serves meats and vegetables, spiced, skewered on bamboo sticks – like Chinese street food. $ BW TO L D Daily FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F 2015 BOJ. Latin American fare: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100-plus tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman cuisine, large Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen.

Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The Loving Cup HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcuphashhouse.com. New place offers locally sourced fare, locally roasted coffees, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian dishes – no GMOs or hormones. $ K TO B R L Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE O. PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO Diner, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F BOJ. SEE S. MARCO. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. 2015 BOJ. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. SEE BAYMEADOWS. POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub, 50+ beers, burgers, fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30-plus years, iconic seafood place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. Specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444, seachasers.com.

New place; four areas: First Street Bar, Music Room, Beach Bar, Dining Room. Daily HH. In or on patio. $$ FB L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot.

Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. Brunch Sun. $$ FB K L Sa/Su; D Nightly SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop. Yankee-style steak sandwiches, hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily THIS CHICK’S KITCHEN, 353 Sixth Ave. S., 778-5404, thischickskitchen.com. Farm-to-table restaurant serving healthful, locally sourced clean meals. Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian options. $$ TO L D Wed.-Sat. V PIZZA, 528 First St. N., 853-6633, vpizza.com. Traditional Neapolitana artisan pizza from Naples – Italy, not Florida, made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S Delicatessen, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYC-style deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F The CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2015 BOJ. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine. Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND Coffee Company, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866-3953954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels, cream cheeses. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. Free WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN Grind Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE.

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Up next was the Fig & Olive Tapenade cream RIVERSIDE LIQUORS & VILLAGE WINE SHOP cheese layered torte ($7), which was a vision in isn’t just a store that meets all of your adult white. The flawlessly piped, bright cream cheese beverage needs: When you step to the back of swirls popped between dark layers of dried figs this alcohol wonderland, you discover a cozy and olive tapenade. Eat it with a fork, or slather it space that reps a beautiful cocktail list with on some warm housemade fresh bread. unusual items, and a menu full of variety.

If you haven’t yet stopped in to check out The Riverside Liquors Deviled Egg Flight Riverside Liquor’s selection, rethink that. ($6) sees your #squadgoals and raises the There’s everything you could possibly want, stakes, because if there’s ever a deviled egg including specialty items like pours of Pappy squad, this is what it would look like. In four Van Winkle, fragrant walnut liqueur and varieties — Cobb, traditional, pickled tequila, deluxe Luxardo cherries, as well as the usual hummus — each egg is tastier than the last, suspects like your favorite red and white wines and always selfie-ready. and chilled beer ready for the party.

One of the dishes we were most excited The restaurant area features a rustic-yetabout, the fragrant spiced Lamb Meatballs somehow elegant horseshoe-shaped bar, with ($12) entrée, has a ring of tomato sauce, and a a foundation of huge beer barrels, showcasing dollop of yogurt dill and includes fresh bread. a massive selection of spirits, wines and The rich, fennel-scented tomato sauce is as beers. The menu features innovative small far away from Prego as you can get. After the apps, some larger menu meatballs vanished, I was items, and salads and thankful for the warmed slices RIVERSIDE LIQUORS & desserts. To start, we chose of bread left on the plate — VILLAGE WINE SHOP Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp sopping up every drop looked 1251 King St., 356-4517 ($8) and Chorizo-Stuffed more elegantly ladylike. The riversideliquors.biz Dates ($6, four to a plate). generous portion of yogurt dill The shrimp were succulent sauce balanced out the salty morsels wrapped in a slice of perfectly crisp lamb with a cooling finish. bacon. The stuffed dates, also wrapped in From the “Happy Endings” dessert menu, bacon — that’s a thing here, bacon-wrapping we chose the attention-grabbing St. Germain — were complemented by the slight tang Pears ($5). The sliced pears were poached and sweetness of the St. Germain-infused with the famous elderflower liqueur, and the cranberry jelly addition. inclusion of housemade ginger snaps and a The two apps were the perfect companions hearty spoonful of elderflower cranberry jelly to several of the reasonably priced and completed the bliss. inventive signature cocktails on the Looking for a great local neighborhood herbaceous cocktail menu, from the everspot? It’s all right there at Riverside Liquors. popular light Sunburnt Hummingbird ($8) to Bring your friends, take a date and bask in the spicy Irelander ($8) whiskey cocktail. The the no-TV, no-WiFi zone. It’s down to you Hummingbird, a light, refreshing concoction and your conversation over playful, fresh with a hint of lime, excels in fruitiness without food and drinks. being too sweet. The Irelander surprises with a Brentley Stead nice fiery jalapeno kick. biteclub@folioweekly.com

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DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED PINT-S Reach for something different this holiday weekend: HARD SODA (for realz)

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AS TTHE HE U UNOFFICIAL NOFF NO FFIC ICIA IALL END OF A LLONG ONG ON G SU SUMM SUMMER, MMEER Labor Day weekend, approaches. You’re no doubt planning what beverages will fill the cooler. I usually advocate a refreshing craft beer, but this year I propose a change of pace.

Over the last few years, there’s been an increase in malt beverages marketed as hard sodas. Perhaps the best-known among them is Not Your Father’s Root Beer, which, with $7.2 million in sales through the first half of 2015 according to Fortune, has skyrocketed to the top of the genre. Big beer companies produce many hard sodas, and craft brewers are getting in on the act.

Hard soda can trace its roots to fizzy, fruity-flavored malt beverages that had a brief popularity in the 1990s with names like Hooper’s Hooch and Zima. Citrus-flavored Zima was particularly popular for its light, lemon-lime taste and modest alcoholic kick. But the beverages fell from grace when concerns were raised that the manufacturers may have been using the sweet drinks to court underage drinkers. The claim was later nullified by Federal Trade Commission investigations in 2001 and 2003. The commission reported they “...found no evidence of intent to target minors with the FMB (flavored malt beverage) products, packaging, or advertising.”

Hard sodas derive alcohol much the same way as beer does, through malt fermentation. Unlike beer, though, hard sodas don’t have familiar beer flavors. They’re flavored with extracts and other additives, except for some root beer and ginger ale flavored hard sodas, which use botanicals called gruits for fermentation and flavoring.

The new generation of hard sodas has flavors designed to elicit feelings of nostalgia. Henry’s Hard Soda brand features orange, ginger ale and cherry cola. Marketed as “hard-ish,” the sodas – with a slight alcoholic buzz – stir memories of more carefree days. Nashville-based Wild Ginger Brewing Company has drinks designed to resemble Dr Pepper and lemon-lime drinks like Sprite and 7Up. The brewery’s Wild Docta’ is a rich mixture of vanilla, cherry and cola flavors; Wild Sit Russ is based on a citrus soda developed more than 75 years ago.

If you want to take a break from the humidity with something other than beer, try one of the many hard sodas on the market. You may be surprised how refreshing they are.

Here are hard sodas in local stores:

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WILD GINGER BREWING COMPANY WILD DOCTA’ A nostalgic throwback with an adult hat tip to Rock & Rye soda, this refresher is great out of the can or embellished with a shot over ice.

HENRY’S HARD ORANGE SODA Bright Valencia orange flavor is the highlight of this sweet refreshing quaff. And, at only 4.2 percent alcohol by volume, you can have a few and not forget those burgers on the grill.

CONEY ISLAND HARD ROOT BEER Rich and full of vanilla, licorice and birch flavors, this 5.8 percent ABV is definitely not a kiddie drink.

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ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiac barandgrill.com. 16-plus years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet.

Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

DICK’S Wings, 1803 East-West Parkway, 375-2559. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.

GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

TAPS Bar & Grill, 1605 C.R. 220, Ste. 145, 278-9421, tapspub lichouse.com. 50-plus premium domestic, import tap beers.

Burgers, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 32, 223-0115. 2015

BRIXX Wood Fired Pizza, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. New place offers pizzas, pastas, soups.

Gluten-free options. Daily specials, buy-one-get-one pizzas 10 p.m.-close. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com.

Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER Café, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside, 356-6857, cummer.org. 2015 BOJ. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based beverages, homemade soups, sandwiches, gourmet desserts, daily specials.

Dine inside or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W.-Su DERBY on PARK, 1068 Park, 379-3343, derbyonpark.net. New American cuisine, upscale retro in historic building. Oak Street Toast, shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2015 BOJ. 130-plus import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2015 BOJ. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily

wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256.

SEE BEACHES.

METRO Diner, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cubanstyle, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

BEACH Diner, 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. SEE AMELIA. The BEARDED PIG Southern BBQ & Beer Garden, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. New-ish barbecue joint offers Southern style BBQ, like brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com.

F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally.

250+ wine list. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 1704 San Marco, 398-9500. 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.

FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsus hijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily

BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.

LARRY’S Subs, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F

CHEF TONINO

SEE ORANGE PARK.

SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 559-5301. SEE BEACHES.

GUSTO

MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS

1266 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach

AKEL’S Deli, 12926 Granbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S Pizza, 11190 San Jose, 260-4115. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. BEACH Diner, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 683-0079. SEE AMELIA. CRUISERS Grill, 5613 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 1, 737-2874. 2015 BOJ.

BORN IN: Palermo, Sicily, Italy YEARS IN THE BIZ: 32 FAVE CUISINE STYLE: Roman style FAVE INGREDIENTS: Fresh basil, garlic and sage IDEAL MEAL: Saltimbocca alla Romana WON'T CROSS MY LIPS: Rabbit INSIDER'S TIP: Nothing's better than cooking with fresh herbs.

CELEBS (@ my place): Trumpeter Phil Driscoll TASTE TREAT: Fresh homemade fettucini with meat sauce and parmesan cheese

SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S Wings, 100 Marketside Ave., Nocatee, 829-8134.

1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458, enzas.net. 2015 BOJ. Family-owned place serves Italian cuisine, veal, seafood, specials. $$$ FB K TO D Tu-Su FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477.

Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie,coffee bar. Allnatural, organic beer, wine. Dine outside. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554. SEE FLEMING ISLAND.

V PIZZA, 12601 San Jose Blvd., 647-9424. SEE SAN MARCO. WHOLE FOODS Market, 10601 San Jose, Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. Prepared-food department, 80-plus items, full-service/self-service bars: hot, salad, soup, dessert.

Pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. Grapes, Hops & Grinds bar serves wines, beers (craft/tap), coffees. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily

ORANGE PARK

DICK’S Wings & Grill, 6055 Youngerman Circle, 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2015 BOJ. NASCAR-themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus half-pound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com.

Southern style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370.

1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 2723553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 35-plus years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO Diner, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhou seonline.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers and quesadillas for 35-plus years. 75-plus imported beers. $ FB L D Daily The URBAN BEAN Coffeehouse Café, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned-&-operated.

Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, salads, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. BEACH Diner, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S Subs, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE O.PARK. METRO Diner, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.

TRASCA & CO. Eatery, 155 Tourside Dr., Ste. 1500, 395-3989, trascaandco.com. New eatery specializes in handcrafted Italianinspired sandwiches, craft beers – many local choices – and craft coffees. $$ BW TO L R D Daily

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS, WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2015 BOJ. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads made from scratch onsite. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S Pizza, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Daily specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa/Su; L M-F; D Nightly BREW Five Points, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfivepoints. com. F 2015 BOJ. Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine.

Rotating drafts, 75-plus can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa

GRILL ME!

HAWKERS Asian Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawk erstreetfare.com. 2015 BOJ. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnob withus.com. At Unity Plaza. Global inspiration, local intention – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO L D Brunch Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Authentic Italian cuisine, like wood-fired pizzas, pasta made daily onsite, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual; made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, breakfast. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617.

Locally-owned, family-run shop specializing in made-fromscratch creations – classic pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tu-Su LARRY’S Subs, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE O.PARK. LITTLE JOE’S Café, 245 Riverside Ave., Ste. 195, 791-3336.

Riverview café. Soups, signature salad dressings. $ TO B L M-F METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt, 999-4600. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.

MOON RIVER Pizza, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2015 BOJ. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.

M SHACK, 1012 Margaret, 423-1283. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2015 BOJ. Local-centric bar food: boiled peanuts, hummus, chili, cheese plate, pork sliders, nachos, herbivore items. $ D Nightly SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2015 BOJ. Healthy, fresh, light vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/ rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUSHI Café, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushi cafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoors or patio dining. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S Pizza, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. CRUISERS Grill, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2015 BOJ. SEE O.PARK. The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug. com. 2015 BOJ. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB Company, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsy cab.com. F Local mainstay 33+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken.

Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily MBQUE, 604 Anastasia Blvd., 484-7472. New Southern-style, fresh-casual. Hand-spun milkshakes, super kale salad. House-made rubs, sauces. Platters, ribs, brisket, sweet/spicy pulled/chopped pork, chicken, sausage. Dine outside. $$ BW K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

O’LOUGHLIN PUB, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. New familyowned-and-operated pub has authentic fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck

INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco, 503-7013. BOJ. SEE DOWNTOWN. KITCHEN on San Marco, 1402 San Marco, 396-2344, kitchen onsanmarco.com. 2015 BOJ. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F 2015 BOJ. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily PIZZA PALACE Restaurant & Pizzeria, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned-&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Dine outside. HH. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasan marco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, woodfired pizza. Seasonal produce and meats from local purveyors.

Craft beers (some local) & handcrafted cocktails, award-winning wine list. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily V PIZZA, 1406 Hendricks Ave., 527-1511, vpizza.com. True Neapolitana pizzas with the freshest ingredients – a rare class of artisan pizza from Naples. $$ FB to L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater, now 49 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus.

Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su The CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins-style low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.

EUROPEAN Street Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.

GREEK Street Café, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, salads, Greek nachos. Award-winning wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-6126596. Pacific Islander fare, emphasizing chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Br. Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.com.

2015 BOJ. European-style; Italy, Spain, Mediterranean flavor.

Small plates, tapas, entrée-size portions, charcuterie menu: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese and lobster ravioli.

240-bottle/wines, 75/glass; craft spirits Dine inside or out. $$ FB R, Su; D Nightly TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, taverna yamas.com. F Bite Club. Charbroiled kabobs, seafood, desserts.

Greek wines, daily HH. Bellydancing. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside, Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls; fresh fruit, veggies, 100% natural chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, cheese, dressing, salsa, frozen yogurt. $$ K TO L D Daily

DINING DIRECTORY SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

Andy’s FARMERS MARKET Grill, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. In landmark Jacksonville Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast items, sandwiches, snacks, beverages. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. BARZ Liquors & Fish Camp, 9560 Heckscher Dr., 251-3330.

Authentic fish camp isbiker-friendly and American-owned.

Package store onsite. $ FB L D Daily DICK’S Wings & Grille, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., 619-9828.

450077 S.R. 200, 879-0993. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA Mexican Restaurant, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Authentic fresh fajitas, burritos, specials, enchiladas, more. HH; sangria. BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999.

SEE ORANGE PARK.

MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.

CHEFFED-UP

The secret to fine flavor is NOT in your spice rack

OVERPOWERED YET

UNDERWHELMING A CHEF’S UNDERLYING PURPOSE IS TO enhance the natural flavors of foods. Yet many chefs and cooks do not seem to comprehend this important fact. Instead, they mask or overpower the items’ natural flavors, making it impossible to know what you’re actually eating. Did you ever hear the adage, ‘Tastes like chicken’? Well, no, you palate-less simpleton … it really doesn’t!

To be fair, many of you were probably raised on potluck dinners and canned food.

Or, worse, you were served meals by cooks who took great pride in never using salt.

Yeah, I can tell. Yuck!

Many restaurants, especially corporate chains, err in the opposite direction by overseasoning foods. Often, professional cooks and unaccomplished “chefs” don’t taste their own creations nearly enough; if they did, they might be able to fix the insipid final products. I can’t even count the times I’ve tasted a student’s dish that was so spicy-hot I wanted to spit it out. “Well, I like spicy,” the shoemaker replies.

Heed this: No one wants only hot sauce for dinner. You can add a little heat to complement or enhance a certain aspect of food, but not so much it dominates it.

A perfect example of complementing or enhancing flavors begins with the humble tomato. Most grocery store tomatoes tend to be under-ripe or have been off the vine for a while, which means that its natural sugars are beginning to transform into starch, therefore dulling the flavor profiles.

Here’s how to Chef Up tomatoes: First, think about how a fresh-picked tomato tastes. Now consider what flavors might magnify, compliment or play off this particular profile. Think about how we usually eat tomatoes and what preparation tastes best.

Tomatoes are at their seasonal peak now, so we’ll focus on raw tomatoes. The basic flavor profile of a tomato is sweet, sour, citrus and herbal. First enhancement: acid from vinegars and citrus. Second: sweetness from sugar, syrups or honey.

Third: herbs, especially basil, tarragon, oregano or cilantro.

Bulbous vegetables are useful; onions and garlic top the list. Olive oil is a great final complement, with its fruitiness and richness. One final note: Don’t forget a little salt and pepper (I like coarse sea salt) to round it all out.

You’re actually making a marinade by adding these bright flavors. This improves your tomato’s flavor a million times, and you can use leftover marinade as a dressing. And it doesn’t taste like chicken.

Here’s a basic marinade. No need to follow it too closely.

CHEFFED-UP

CHEF BILL’S TOMATO MARINADE Ingredients: • 1/2 pint cherry tomatoes, cored • and halved • 1 tsp. aged sherry vinegar • 1/2 tsp. lemon juice • 1/2 tsp. honey • 1 tbsp. fresh herbs, your choice • 1 small garlic clove, sliced paper-thin • 3 tbsp. high-quality extra virgin • olive oil • Coarse salt and freshly cracked black • pepper to taste Directions: 1. Mix the vinegar, juice, herbs 1. and honey.

2. Add the tomatoes, toss, add the olive 1. oil, toss again.

3. Season with salt and pepper, taste and 1. adjust as necessary Until We Cook Again, Chef Bill cheffedup@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Amelia Island Culinary Academy in Historic Fernandina Beach, with your recipes or questions at cheffedup@folioweekly.com, for inspiration to get you Cheffed Up! AUG. 31 - SEPT. 6, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 33

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Davi reminds you to THINK TWICE about leaving dog doo where it lands

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Dear Davi, Ewww! I stepped in poo! Can you please remind humans WHY it’s important to scoop the poop?

Pepe the Poodle Pepe, It’s just flat-out nasty to get poo between your paws. Did you know nearly 40 percent of dog owners leave their pet’s poo where it lands, never giving it a second thought? And while the urge to leave dog poo on the ground is normal, even inevitable, it’s a temptation all humans should resist. Because poo is deemed to be a toxic pollutant — in the same category as toxic chemicals — it’s important that humans pick up after their pets. Still, there are many who refuse to do the dirty deed. Let’s take a look at some excuses our humans make to avoid poop-scooping — the facts alone should be reason enough to bag it up:

IT’S DOG POOP. WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? The big deal is, more than 80 million dogs live in America, creating 10 million tons of poop annually — that’s 20 billion pounds of poop polluting waterways and posing a threat to public health.

OH, IT’S OK. POO IS NATURAL; IT DECOMPOSES ANYWAY. Truth is, the process is slow, and

in places where the dog population is high, abandoned feces accumulates faster than it breaks down, leaving beaucoup poo behind.

The longer it remains, the more contaminated the ground becomes.

IT’S LIKE FERTILIZER; I’M HELPING GRASS GROW.

Contrary to popular belief, dog doo is NOT fertilizer and does not provide any benefit to soil whatsoever. In fact, it’s usually toxic to plants and can contaminate fruits and veggies with harmful bacteria.

ISN’T IT GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? No. Dog

poop is bad for the environment. It can carry many germs, parasites and zoonotic diseases, which can spread between animals and humans. It gets washed into waterways with rain and pollutes the water — which we count on to be potable. Sip on that for a moment.

MY PUP DROPPED A LOAD OFF THE BEATEN PATH — NO HARM, NO FOUL. On average,

dogs do a No. 2 twice a day, which adds up to about 14 piles of poo per dog in just one week. It might be out of sight and out of mind, but feces left in open spaces can attract nasty things like mice, rats and insects. And if your local landscaper gets it on his shoes … look out!

IT’S GROSS — PERIOD. Yeah, it’s a stinky job,

but it’s a responsibility, and in many places, it’s the law. If you don’t want to be slapped with a citation, pick up the poop and dispose of it correctly or pay the fine.

IT’S A PUBLIC PARK — SOMEONE ELSE WILL PICK IT UP. Nobody likes walking through a park —

or lie on beautiful beach sand — littered with turds. It’s disgusting. Poo in public areas is unsightly, unsanitary and unsafe. Take it from me — the smell of fresh poop still tickles my nose, but I learned the hard way that a quick lick can make you sick.

Bottom line? Pick up the poop. Seriously, people. Pick it up. Every time.

Pick a load up, Fanny!

Davi mail@folioweekly.com ______________________________________ Davi the dachshund can’t scoop his own poop, but he does wait (mostly) patiently while his mom does the “honors.”

PET TIP: NEED A PET SITTER? THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT SO, YOU GOT A PET. OWNING AN ANIMAL – OR, IF YOU prefer, being a “pet parent” (immaculate conception – it’s not just for messiahs anymore) is a fabulous way to add companionship, worry and WTF to your life. As in, $100 for sticking Ruff Waldo Emerson in a cage over Labor Day weekend? WTF!? Happily, the digital age has brought us more than chronic cases of texting neck: There are apps to connect you with creature lovers to take care of your fur babies in an actual house, even yours, while you guzzle rum punch in Key West. DogVacay, DoggieBnB, BrickNow and PawShake are only a few.

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PET EVENTS OWNING A PET • Pet owners and those thinking of a pet may learn more about the experience from a certified pet CPR and first aid instructor. Learn what pets a family should adopt, commitment levels, and how to keep a pet, plus basic pet care and how to keep a pet on a budget, 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 17, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, 274-1177, $49, epicanimals.org.

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QUIET TYPE • Hi, my name is Goldie. My hobbies include snacking, playing, and napping. I love to read or watch movies on my down-time. I’m not a fan of going out in this heat; I’d rather stay inside where it’s nice and cool. My ideal day would consist of lots of catnaps with my purrfect soul mate. Come see me today at Jacksonville Humane Society — they’re still open during construction!

FREE SPAY & NEUTER SURGERIES • St. Augustine Humane Society offers free spay and neuter surgeries for dogs starting on Sept. 1, through a $25,000 grant from Florida Animal Friend Inc. To qualify for the reduced fee or potentially free services, dog owners must meet specific income guidelines. The program is open to all cats regardless of the pet owner’s financial circumstances. For more information and program criteria, go to staughumane.org. Applications must be made in person at the Humane Society, 1665 Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine. The Society’s spay, neuter and surgery clinic is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. every Tuesday.

The wellness clinic is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. every Wednesday and Thursday.

KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION EVENT • Cat adoptions are held 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 and Sunday, Sept. 4 at 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org.

ADOPTABLES

COCO

OLD SOUL • Hello all, I’m Coco and it’s been a while since I’ve done this whole dating thing. I’m looking for a dapper gentleman to come sweep me off my paws. I’m interested in personalities that go along with mine, looks not so much. Even though my nose is getting a little gray, I’m young at heart.

Once I find the man for me, I’ll love him forever.

Won’t you come meet me? I’m at Jacksonville Humane Society and they’re open seven days a week! For more information, visit jaxhumane.org.

THE BIG FIX II • First Coast No More Homeless Pets covers the cost of spay/neuter for dogs weighing more than 40 pounds (or are expected to at maturity) as well as mandatory post-operative pain medication. A maximum of six dogs per household may be sterilized in the limited program. Bring proof of residence; Florida residents only. 6817 Norwood Ave. or 464 Cassat Ave.; 425-0005, fcnmhp.org.

VACCINATION CLINICS • VetCo offers lower-cost vaccinations at PetCo stores. Sept. 4; 2-3 p.m., 11900 Atlantic Blvd., 997-8441; 4-5 p.m., 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 273-0964; 10:30 a.m.-noon, 463713 S.R 200, Yulee, 225-0014, vetcoclinics.com. _______________________________________ To list a pet event, send event name, time, date, location (complete street address and city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@ folioweekly.com – at least two weeks before the event.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Truth decay is in its early stages. If you take action soon, you can prevent full-scale decomposition. Beware: Things could get messy, especially if you intervene with the relentless candor and clarity required for medicinal purification. Are you up for the struggle? If you decide to work your cagey magic, here’s some tips. 1. Compile your evidence with rigor. 2. As much as humanly possible, put aside rancor.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you willing to lose some inhibitions?

Curious to find out what it feels like to cavort like a wise wild child? If you want to fully cooperate with life’s plans, you need to consider those courses of action. I’m hoping you’ll accept the dare. You’ll thrive as you explore the pleasures of playful audacity, whimsical courage and effervescent experiments. So be blithe! Be exuberant! Be open to the hypothesis that opening to jaunty, jovial possibilities is the single most intelligent thing to do right now.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What’s the current status of your relationship with your feet? Have you been cultivating and cherishing your connection with the earth? Right now it’s especially important to enjoy intimacy with gravity, roots and foundations. Whatever leads you down and deeper will be a source of good fortune.

Feeling grounded provides an aptitude for practical magic. Consider the possibilities of going barefoot, getting a foot massage, or buying beautiful, comfortable new shoes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A woman in the final stages of giving birth may experience acute discomfort. But once her infant spills out into the world, her distress can transform into bliss. I don’t foresee quite so dramatic a shift for you. But the transition you undergo could have similar elements: from uncertainty to grace; agitation to relief; constriction to spaciousness. To take maximum advantage of this blessing, don’t hold onto the state you’re leaving behind, or the feelings it aroused.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of my dreams last night, a Leo sensualist I know advised me to take smart pills and eat an entire chocolate cheesecake before writing my next Leo horoscope. In another dream, my Leo friend Erica suggested I compose your horoscope while attending an orgy where the participants were brilliant physicists, musicians and poets.

In a third dream, my old teacher Rudolf (also a Leo) said I should create the Leo horoscope as I sunbathed on a Maui beach, being massaged by two geniuses. Here’s how I interpret my dreams: In the days ahead, you can literally increase your intelligence by indulging in luxurious comforts and sensory delights.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Play a joke on your nervous anxiety. Leap off the ground or whirl in a circle five times as you shout, “I am made of love!” Learn the words and melody to a new song that lifts your mood when you sing it. Visualize yourself going on an adventure to amplify your courage and surprise your heart. Make yourself a bold promise, and acquire an evocative object to symbolize your intention to fulfill that promise.

Ask yourself a soul-shaking question you haven’t been wise enough to investigate before now. Go to a wide-open space, spread your arms out in a greeting to the sky, and pray for a vision of your next big goal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Illuminati don’t want you to receive the prophecy I’ve prepared for you. Nor do the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God, or the nagging little voice in the back of your head. So why am I divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love you. My loyalty is to you, not those shadowy powers. I am pleased to tell you that the next few weeks are a favorable time to evade, ignore, undermine or rebel against controlling influences not in alignment with your soul’s goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The dictionary says the verb “to schmooze” means to chat with people in order to promote oneself or make a social connection that may prove to be advantageous. But that definition puts a selfish spin on an activity that can, sometimes, be carried out with artful integrity.

Your assignment in the weeks ahead? Perform this noble version of schmoozing. If you’re offering a product or service that’s beautiful or useful or both, boost its presence and influence with the power of your good listening skills and smart conversations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re attuned with the cosmic rhythms in the weeks ahead, you’ll be a source of teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your creative vigor. You’ll stimulate team spirit with savvy appeals to group solidarity. If anyone can revive droopy procrastinators and demonstrate gratitude’s catalytic power, it’s you. You’ll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace contrived versions of togetherness. And every blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you can use.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnerability: the mineral kryptonite. When he’s near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. We all have our versions of kryptonite, even if they’re metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I’m in the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry and off-pitch singing. What’s your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, you’re now less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual.

You have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s quite possible you’ll receive seductive proposals in the next few weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. You might receive requests to share talents, offer advice, or bestow largesse.

You’re a hot prospect, my dear. You’re an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking.

How to respond? Be flattered and gratified, but also discerning. Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Choose carefully.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to become a master of intimacy? Can you see yourself handling the challenges of togetherness with the skill of a great artist and the wisdom of a love genius? If that appeals to you, now is a favorable time to up your game. Hot tip on how to do it: You must cultivate two seemingly contradictory skills. The first? The capacity to identify and nurture your beloved friend’s best qualities. The second? The ability to thrive on the fact that healthy relationships require you to periodically wrestle with each other’s ignorance and immaturity.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD YOU TAKE IT ON FAITH

The phenomenal Japanese singer Hatsune Miku (100 million YouTube hits) is coming off a sold-out, 10-city North American concert tour with high-energy audiences (blocks-long lines to get in; raucous crowd participation; hefty souvenir sales), except that “she” isn’t real. Hatsune Miku is a hologram projected on stage singing and dancing (but her band is human). Her May show in Dallas, according to a Dallas Observer review, typically ignited frenzied fans who know the show’s “every beat, outfit ... and glowstick color-change.” Her voice, a synthesized “vocaloid,” is crafted in pitch, timbre and timing to sound human. The new PlayStation brings Hatsune Miku into the home by virtual reality.

SHHH! THIS IS A RAID!

In June, a police watchdog agency in Dublin, Ireland, asked officers (“gardai”) across the country to try to carry out house raids at “reasonable hours” so they don’t disturb the occupants. In one complaint, gardai staged a 3:15 a.m. raid to search for evidence of stolen vehicle accessories.

REMEMBER, KIDS, THE LAW IS YOUR FRIEND

“A dog has better protection than our kids,” lamented an Oregon prosecutor in May because, unlike the pet law, the “child abuse” law requires proof the victim experienced “substantial” pain — which a young child often lacks vocabulary to describe. Simply showing welts and bruises is insufficient, the Court of Appeals has ruled. That same Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in June that Thomas Wade, 44, wasn’t guilty of a crime when in 2013 he unzipped his pants, reached inside, and at that point cursed the woman he’d confronted in a public park. “Distasteful,” wrote the Court, but it was an exercise of Wade’s free speech right.

HIS HEART WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE

In August, Houston defense lawyer Jerry Guerinot announced his retirement from death-penalty cases, leaving him a perfect record for that area of his practice. He lost every single time; 21 clients received the death penalty; 10 have been executed so far. He made no excuses, pointing out that “gang members, serial killers and sociopaths” were entitled

to representation, too, and that he’s taken more than 500 noncapital cases to trial with, presumably, more success.

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TOURISTS GONE WILD

Tourism officials in Iceland posted “hundreds” of signs at visitor attractions showing a squatting person in silhouette, with a small pile on the ground underneath the person — and the familiar diagonal line, indicating “don’t.”

Critics of the signs reluctantly admit Iceland’s chronic shortage of public restrooms.

M-I-C-K-E-Y … G-R-O-S-S

In a YouTube clip released in July, a Disney fan posted shot after shot of “rude” Chinese tourists at Shanghai Disneyland, coaxing their small children to urinate in public rather than in restrooms. The Tourism Bureau of Japan’s Hokkaido island rewrote its etiquette guide for visitors to emphasize the inappropriateness of “belching or flatulence” in public.

CHEAP THRILLS

A New York Times reporter, describing in June rising prescription pharmaceuticals prices, noted a popular pain reliever (probably describing oxycodone) was available on the Paterson, New Jersey, black market for $25 a pill, while heroin was going for $2 a baggie.

BIGGER RAINBOW

The economic growth rate in Ireland for 2015 was revised upward in July. Growth of its gross domestic product was originally estimated at 7.8 percent, but subsequently — adding the paper value of several “inversions” (U.S. companies “moving” to Ireland to reduce U.S. taxes) — Ireland found that it was actually growing at 26.7 percent.

NOW THAT’S SHARP SHOOTING!

Investigators revealed in July that an offduty Aurora, Colorado, sheriff ’s deputy had justifiably fired his gun to resist a parking lot mugging — and one of the bullets from Deputy Jose Marquez’s gun had gone straight into the barrel of one of the handguns pointed at him. The investigators called the shot “one in a billion.”

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No left or right swipe here – you can actually use REAL WORDS to find REAL LOVE!

Here’s how to start: Write a nifty five-word headline, something they’ll read and recognize you, or them, or the place. Then describe the person, like, “ You: Blonde, hot, skanky, tall.” Then you, like, “Me: Redhead, boring, clean, virgin.” Then a few words about the encounter, like, “ISU at MOSH, drawing dinosaurs.” Wrap up with a clever flirt, like, “I got your T-Rex right here!” What’s the catch? No names, email addresses, websites, etc. And for chrissake keep it at forty (40) words or fewer or the senior editor will cut your words down to size. Don’t do her like that.

DANCING TO THE BONES You are L. from Ponte Vedra. I’m R, leading band at Conch House on Friday, Aug. 12. We said quick hello as you left.

Really want to connect with you. Hopefully cosmos will agree. When: Aug. 12. Where: Conch House, St. Augustine. #1624-0817 FLOWERS IN MY HAND: Very surprised to see you. Positive memories flooded back, so let’s have lunch and catch up. S. When: July 6. Where: Publix Pharmacy. #1623-0810 DO YOU SEEK UNIQUE? You: Beautiful brunette, Walmart sugar aisle, beautiful arm ink work; said you got it in Riverside. Me: Dark chocolate gentleman, captivated by smile, breathless looking into beautiful eyes. Too shy to get number. Meet for lunch? When: July 16. Where: Walmart Avenues. #1622-0720

YOU’RE IN MY THOUGHTS There’s still not a day I don’t think of you. Since the first time ISU while sitting in that car, I can’t shake thoughts of you.

Live long. Love hard. I will. When: Feb. 2, 2016.

Where: Neighborhood. #1614-0622 JOIN YOUR SWIM TEAM Me: Attractive in twopiece bathing suit. You: Swimming; American flag tat on arm, making me hot as you chilled in the pool. Really want to skinny dip with you. ;) When: June 3. Where: Greentree Place Apts. Pool. #1613-0622 FRIDAY BIKE-TO-WORK DAY You: Blue jeans, black tank top, red Motobecane bicycle, great smile. Didn’t get a chance to get your name. Me: Doing the bike thing. Are you up for a ride? When: May 20. Where: Hemming Plaza. #1612-0608

HANDSOME, KIND GENTLEMAN ISU Saturday 1 a.m. You: Extremely handsome, cool hat, T-shirt, jeans; forgot wallet; complimented my white dress.

Me: Long blond hair, green eyes, too shy to ask name or if unattached. Love to meet formally! When: July 17. Where: Walmart San Jose. #1621-0720

HANDSOME EDUCATED HARLEY RIDER We instantly hit it off talking. I tried to quickly give you my number. I was on a blind date that was NOT meant to be. I’d like to have a chance to continue our conversation. When: May 22. Where: River City Brewing Co. #1611-0608

WE ARE READY FOR U You: Handsome man following, watching me, saying hi, calling, hanging up before u speak. Me: Want to hear your heart. My dog and condo await. Don’t be afraid. Everything will be OK. We love you. When: 2012. Where: Neighborhood. #1620-0720

DANCIN’ IN THE STREETS CUTIE You: Short, big white hat, gorgeous eyes, with friend outside bookstore. Me: Sunglasses, tan, wanted to flirt. We locked eyes. I got brave, you were gone – kicking myself since. Won’t hesitate again. Share a dance?

When: May 21. Where: Atlantic Beach Dancin’ Festival. #1610-0525

AVONDALE ANGEL Me: Down on my luck, no place to go. You: Beautiful person who kept me from sleeping on the street. Thank you for your generosity for someone you didn’t even know!

You’ll never ever be forgotten! When: June 16.

Where: Avondale shops. #1619-0706 COOPER’S HAWK NICE SMILE WAITER You weren’t our waiter last Thursday 6/16; served us before. Name starts with G. Cute, dark blond hair, warm personality. Me: Brunette, curly hair, navy blue dress. You noticed us in booth. A drink, conversation? Contact. When: June 16. Where: Cooper’s Hawk Winery Towncenter. #1618-0622 CORGI GIRL Your smile’s radiant. How you synchronize those long legs in immense contrast with your pups is marvelous. I’m grateful, mostly handsome, longing to please. Love to join you and poochie for evening stroll along the river. XOXO. When: June 10. Where: Riverside. #1617-0622 TRADE PORSCHE FOR BEACH CRUISER? Drawn to your physique, adored biceps as you chilled with friend! You complimented my Porsche. Offered trade for your cruiser. Didn’t ask for number. WOD together on next bring-a-friend day?! When: 4 p.m. June 5. Where: Zeta Brewing bicycle stand. #1616-0622 VYSTAR LOAN OFFICER You: Beautiful blue-eyed, curly blond hair, rockin’ all black outfit, accent colored shirt. Me: Trying to get a loan. Made conversation to keep process going. Second Wednesday in June.

Didn’t get loan; might’ve found so much more! When: June 8. Where: Vystar. #1615-0622

BIRDIES BLUE-EYED BRUNETTE Beautiful day.

You: Porch sitting with friends. Me: Walking dog down strip. We caught eyes. Couldn’t tell if you knew me or wanted to; we couldn’t look away.

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When: May 15. Where: Birdies. #1609-0525 COMEDY ZONE Goldberg lookalike, Comedy Zone May 27, admiring each other while waiting with friends. Me: Hot brunette in black tank top and jeans. When: May 27. Where: Comedy Zone. #1608-0525 DRIVE-THRU WINDOW PRINCESS Porsche, Prius; whatever I drive; at drive-thru window, you drive me crazy! Curious: Are pretty smile, friendly remarks more than sales-driven? Clarify over coffee? You get my name right. Will heed your advice: Come by more often. When: May 9.

Where: St. Johns Town Ctr. fast-food drive-thru. #1607-0525 RED SCOOTER MISFIT Little red scooter. You: Dark, mysterious, flying through Five Points on a little red Honda Spree. Me: Black dress, circle shades.

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THE CITY

CENTERPIECE

AS THE CITY’S OLDEST PARK AND OUR de facto town square, Hemming Park has a rich history. In its happier days, it was truly the heart of Jacksonville. The block was sold to the city by the heirs of Jacksonville’s founder, Isaiah D. Hart, in 1866 for a mere 10 bucks.

First known as “City Park,” and then “St. James Park,” in 1899, it was renamed “Hemming Park” after the Civil War veteran Charles C. Hemming, who donated the Confederate monument which still remains today.

Over the course of a century, presidents and heroes gave speeches in the park. Civic celebrations and concerts took place there. It was a social destination and a pastoral place of relaxation in the heart of Jacksonville’s commercial district. Sinuous pathways wound through grassy lawns, and citizens relaxed on benches beneath the live oaks.

In 1978, the city decided to turn the park into “Hemming Plaza.” The grass was replaced with bricks and pavers, and what little landscaping remained was cordoned off with concrete curbing. The human scale of the park was greatly diminished. Within a few years, the retail stores around the plaza closed, and instead of becoming an attractive urban destination, the park became a metaphor for the decline of Downtown Jacksonville.

For decades, Hemming Park was walked around, not through. Years of neglect made it an ideal place for our city’s jobless and homeless, vagrants and even rats to do as they pleased. Meanwhile, Downtown employees, residents and city officials sat quietly wishing someone would fix it, but who?

Fast-forward to 2013 when the city of Jacksonville finally issued an RFP for a private group to take over management of the park.

The original RFP offered no financial support, and no one applied. A second RFP asked what a private group would need from the city to take on this daunting task. Only one group applied. The nonprofit Friends of Hemming Park (FOHP) was formed for the purpose of revitalizing Downtown Jacksonville by activating Hemming Park. The city offered a million-dollar budget for 18 months, asking that we raise $250,000, host at least five events with 500 people each quarter and organize quarterly stakeholder meetings. We exceeded each goal set for us by far.

Yet it seems City Council’s goals for the park have changed, and we are prepared to change with them. We’re a different organization than we were two years ago, even two months ago.

Our interim CEO is the former CFO of the Jacksonville Jaguars. The board has never been more focused or more active. There are new corporate officers and fiscal policies in place.

Oversight of all operations has been firmly

What HEMMING PARK means to Jacksonville

established. We’ve added private security and more park ambassadors. The remaining staff is composed of consummate professionals responding well to the newly tightened structure, holding up under negative public opinion, making do with less.

We’ve learned a lot over the past two years as the first group to ever take on a public project of this magnitude. Our biggest takeaway is still this: Pretty much everyone wants to see Hemming Park succeed. And no one wants this more than we do.

FOHP, with the support of Project for Public Spaces, has put in the time and effort to learn what it takes to create an engaging public space. We have asked the people of Jacksonville what they want to see in Hemming Park and are working with local partners and sponsors to bring those ideas to life. We have heard from surrounding businesses that their revenue goes up when we program the park, and down when we don’t. From musicians to magicians, food

trucks and local vendors, dozens of small business owners depend on FOHP for their livelihood each month.

If you really look, you can see the future of Hemming Park starting to take shape.

We’ve added two performance stages, a café area, coffee caravan, a kids’ zone, new signage, and numerous works of art, plus live music and food trucks five days a week. On any given day, you might see field trips of children playing, Downtown employees enjoying lunch, local residents walking their dogs, passersby singing along to live music, old friends continuing a years-long chess tournament.

Now picture a new community stage, a proper playground, green grass, more public art and people of all ages and walks of life coming together as one community. This vision of a vibrant Downtown square is the reality that FOHP wants to bring to life.

Hemming Park is not a simple park. It has no simple solution. It’s going to take all of us coming together to make it a place we can all be proud of. No matter where you live in Jacksonville, Downtown belongs to all of us.

Attend an event, join us for lunch, become a friend, send us an idea. We’re listening.

Friends of Hemming Park Board & Staff mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Learn more and get involved at hemmingpark.org.

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