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THIS WEEK // 9.09-9.15.15 // VOL. 29 ISSUE 24 COVER STORY FALL ARTS PREVIEW:
PERFORMING ARTS EDITION
YOUTH MOVEMENT
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The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has acquired some new young blood with the arrival of guest conductor NATHAN ASPINALL.
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Plan your season of enlightenment with help from FOLIO WEEKLY’S comprehensive directory of the performing arts [14] PEEK AT THE SYMPHONY’S SEASON [18] BALLROOM DANCING BLAST OFF [22] LOCAL NEXT-GEN ANIMATORS EMERGING INDIE FILM FESTIVAL [26]
KICKING ASS [9] AND SKATING NAMES
JUSTICE DENIED
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BY KARA POUND An interview with New Jax City Rollers team captain, FANCY SCHMANCY
BY CLAIRE GOFORTH One woman’s 14-YEAR STRUGGLE raises questions about how rape victims are treated by JSO and SAO
GETTING THE LAST LAUGH
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BY DANIEL A. BROWN On the stage or behind the lens, BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT remains a sardonic threat to the status quo
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LOGISTICS & MEDICAL TOURISM: THE KEYS TO THE CITY?
RE: “WE HAVE TO DO MORE THAN TAKE CARE of the football,” Aug. 26, by Matthew B. Shaw I was intrigued by what you wrote about Jacksonville. It’s fantastic [Folio Weekly] is moving into Downtown Jax. Good for you! That writer [Charles P. Pierce] should have chosen comparison cities of Charlotte and Nashville. I think that developing the core of Jacksonville to become dynamic and a draw is great. I get excited about how Jax is coming to life and growing. From what I can tell, the keys to growth are logistics and medical tourism. I have a little basis of comparison – Asheville, which is growing quite well, has a very vibrant downtown core – which is mostly tourism-based. The driving forces in Asheville are tourism and craft beer. Also music – particularly live music and bands. Rich people move into Asheville and bring their money with them. For the most part the wages paid in Asheville are low so, beyond the big expensive houses being built for these outsiders, Asheville has mostly apartment developments. What I see in Jax is development of single-family houses — Nocatee and those big developments off Beach Boulevard and out near Mandarin. So, somehow Jax is developing with middle-class wages, and to me that’s exciting and sustainable.
A big advantage for Jax is all the wide-open land available to be developed. It’s not a matter of tearing down brownfi elds. Instead, build new from scratch. From my perspective, the highways are awesome – I don’t commute into Downtown, so I’m not sure how good that part is. Your company moving Downtown is fantastic. You are putting your support into action. I think Jacksonville is ready to explode and I’m excited. Let’s show that schmuck how wrong he is. Reggie Grant via email
SHOW OF STRENGTH
RE: “THE ANCIENT CITY’S NEXT PHASE,” Aug. 26, by Kara Pound Thank you for the great article on Nancy Shaver! You covered all her life and shared her personal side as well. It’s so nice to read how wonderful she is as a mother and our fresh, unafraid mayor! The city leaders and our local paper publicly tried to lessen her position to a figurehead but she’s shown her strength to the voters and is not afraid to ask for transparency in past official dealings. Keep up the good reporting. Elisa Nevel via email If you would like to respond to something that appeared in the pages of Folio Weekly, please send an email (with your name, address and phone number for verification purposes only) to mail@folioweekly.com.
BRICKBATS & BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO PETER “PEDRO” BRAGAN Monday, Sept. 7 was the bottom of the ninth, so to speak, for the longtime Jacksonville Suns owner. Affectionately referred to as Pedro, Bragan sold the Minor League team after 31 years shepherding the Suns through several highlight-rich seasons and eventual profitability. BOUQUETS TO ST. JOHNS RIVERMAN JIM ALABISO for jumping into the river in 2011, swimming across, and then making it an annual thing. When Alabiso announced his intentions, it seemed he might be doomed to die from flesh-eating bacteria or some other river monster lurking among all the bad stuff we’ve done to Her Flowedness. He didn’t. He lived. And this year, 14 swimmers joined him in a swim up the river as part of the third annual River Ruckus on Aug. 29 at Riverside Arts Market. BOUQUETS TO ST. JOHNS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS CHAIR RACHELL BENNETT who brought a resolution which was passed unanimously by commissioners on Sept. 1, urging the Florida Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott to ban fracking. Bennett, who is a Republican with a background in real estate development, says Florida’s fragile geology and its underlying freshwater aquifer is too important for fracking. In addition to a number of other places in the state, St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach have passed similar resolutions in Northeast Florida. KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A PROVERBIAL BRICKBAT? Send your submissions to mail@folioweekly.com. Submissions should be a maxium of 50 words and directed toward a person, place, or topic of local interest.
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Our Picks SUNSHINE DAYDREAM
CALAVIDA ARTS FESTIVAL
The four-day multicultural CalaVida Arts Festival has a little something for everyone, with live music by acts including The Corbitt Brothers Band, The Curt Towne Band, IveyWest Band (pictured), Dot Wilder Jazz, Crazy Daysies, and more, dance performances by Nan Nkama West African Drum & Dance Ensemble and others, an antiques walk, dinner theater, puppet show, booksigning, storytelling, fireworks and more fun, late-summer action. Sept. 10-13, at various locations in downtown Green Cove Springs; for a full schedule, go to calavida.com.
RAP ON THE RISE
BACK 2 SCHOOL FEST
Hip-hop fans have a chance to check out a line-up of established and up-and-coming acts. The Scream “Back 2 School” Fest features performances by Rich Homie Quan (pictured), K. Camp, Jacquees, Diggy, Justin Skye, Silento, Elijah Blake, Rawyals, Anthony Lewis, Chris Miles, 4EY, Star Mic, and DJ Double J, with the artists’ styles running the gamut from pop to indie-style rap. 7 p.m. Sept. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena, Downtown, $28.50-$88.50, ticketmaster.com.
ART OF FOLK
RICHARD SHINDELL
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Richard Shindell has lived all over, from a Zen Buddhist monastery and Manhattan to his current Buenos Aires home. Over the course of a dozen releases, Shindell’s music reflects that restless, rambling spirit, with novelistic-type songs both earthbound and spiritual. He’s a regular collaborator with fellow neo-folkie stars Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky, and some of his work has been covered by folk music matriarch Joan Baez. 8 p.m. Sept. 12, The Original Café Eleven, St. Augustine Beach, $20 advance; $25 at the door, originalcafe11.com. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015
Reasons to leave the house this week
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APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP
Local metal band Appalachian Death Trap brings a lot to the table: serious guitar crunch, unconventional riffage, anthemic-style vocals, and pummeling rhythms. While the group cites bands like Mastodon, Iron Maiden, and Tool as influences, tunes like “Thinning the Herd” really set the Jacksonville rockers apart from the rest of the pack. To hear some inventive metal that isn’t afraid to thrash outside the lines, check out their CD release show this weekend. 8 p.m., with openers Kid You Not, Pawn Takes King, and Can’t Get Right, at Jack Rabbits, San Marco, $7 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com.
SINE O’ THE TIMES
ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL
In the last century, electronic music has permeated our culture in subtle and overt ways. From the ’50s sonic explorations of Karlheinz Stockhausen and electro-banshee wail of the Theremin in that era’s horror flicks, to ’60s rock musicians deciphering Moog synthesizers, the sedating, percolating tones of Brian Eno’s late ’70s ambient works, ’80s synth-drenched new wave, ’90s noise music underground, and current amped-up BPMs of EDM, electronic music is an open-ended realm, an engaging merger between human and machine. The second annual Root Signals Electronic Music Festival features more than 70 (!) national and European musicians working in electronic music and media art – enough to satisfy any desire for oscillating frequencies and tonal delights. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10, 11 and 12, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, Arlington, arts.ju.edu.
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FIGHTIN’ WORDS
BOARD GAMES
Why CURRY was right to dump SODERBERG LAST WEEK, I GOT A SCOOP: JEA BOARD member Peter Bower had sent an email to all the Northeast Florida Republican State Legislators during the session, which ripped that stout contingent a new one regarding their intransigence on Medicaid expansion. “I find your performance on this session on behalf of the citizens of Florida to be despicable,” Bower started. “Do you represent anyone other than yourselves?” “If you cannot represent all the citizens,” Bower continued, “not just special interest groups that serve your personal political and financial interests, then resign.” Bower was appointed by Alvin Brown to the JEA board. Funny thing, though. Brown caught a case of Bower’s Remorse. As past FW editor Jeff Billman wrote last February, Bower claimed that “Brown’s chief financial officer, Ronnie Belton, asked him before a JEA meeting last week to vote in favor of the mayor’s proposal … or else. Bower refused, then declined Belton’s alleged request to resign, then whined to the TimesUnion about Brown’s “strong-arming.” “I was told I should resign,” Bower said, according to the T-U. “I’m not going to be anybody’s puppet.” Then, Bower told the paper, “I’m very disappointed in a few people. I think they’ve lost their moral compass, and I don’t think this is a good way to run a community.” He then maxed out to the Bishop campaign. The lesson? Political appointees are loyalists for a reason. While the idea of having a cadre of The City’s Best and Brightest in every position certainly seems logical to those on the outside, the fact is that we’re talking about Bower today not because of anything particularly special about his service on the JEA board, but because he has a habit of acting independently. In one case, against the interest of the man who appointed him. And in another case, stepping outside the parameters of his JEA board role to send a very political and partisan email. And that is his right to do so. But keeping him around introduces a level of unnecessary risk. In this context, I can see Lenny Curry’s removal of board members whose political priorities and proclivities do not jibe with those of his backers or with his. That’s the game. I’ve written a lot of Soandso Gets Bounced from Board stories in the last few weeks. There was Ernest Isaac, who was bummed because his departure from the JEA board truncated what he thought was going to be his “last hurrah” in public life. There was Melody Bishop, who had to bid adieu to the Downtown Investment Authority; in her resignation letter, she pledged “support” to Lenny Curry, in a fulsome note from which maybe one or two City Hall types got a bit of schadenfreude. People didn’t raise hell about those two departures. The one that got them? Ambassador Nancy Soderberg being asked to leave the JAXPORT board. Curry has a singular vision for JAXPORT and the dredging project, and he apparently was happy and willing to take the chance that Nancy Soderberg, her peerless Democratic
DC connex notwithstanding, would not be an asset to that. There apparently was a conversation in his office among Soderberg, appointments director Jordan Elsbury (whose job these days seems to consist of showing Brown-era holdovers the door) and the mayor. “Pursuant to your conversation with Mr. Jordan Elsbury in my office,” Curry wrote, “please consider this letter a request for your immediate resignation.” In her resignation letter, Soderberg described her tenure on the board as a “real honor” and a “sheer pleasure.” Of course, what she’s saying outside public record is more interesting. She says moves like this are unprecedented. And a lot of the leftliberals who called Curry “Lyin’ Lenny” and assassinated his character in every possible way for a year before that election are now ticked off at the guy for being too political. In unison, they ask: What about One City, One Jacksonville? Well, what about it? Curry’s City Hall is a much more diverse place, at least up top, than most, in May, expected it would be. Johnny Gaffney, Denise
“Pursuant to your conversation with MR. JORDAN ELSBURY in my office,” Curry wrote, “please consider this letter a request for your IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION.”
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Lee, Sam Mousa, Mike Weinstein, Kerri Stewart — not a WASP male in the bunch. Two of them, meanwhile, know what the Duval Dems are all about from the inside. And think of the political symbiosis between Curry and Bishop John Guns. Curry has made a point of reaching out to the African-American community in his first two months. I’ve seen it; I’ve covered it. It’s a good faith effort. It’s real. Hate on it if you want. What’s also real: Nancy Soderberg came into prominence during the Clinton Administration, and those who know her know that she is going to help Hillary Clinton get elected in whatever ways she can be useful. That is her prerogative. Curry could have, theoretically, trusted her not to mix up her JAXPORT role with being Ready for Hillary. Or he could put someone in place about whom he doesn’t have to worry. In a perfect world, where Duval Dems were the kind of party that could pull it together, they’d be able to avenge Curry disrespecting the ambassador. They’d start raising serious money to build up a challenger (Crescimbeni? Hazouri? Reggie Brown? Alvin Brown?) who would hit Curry with rhetorical brass knuckles on issue after issue for the next four years. In this imperfect world? The party apparatus will sit back and take it, unable to see that Mayor Curry, since the election, has occupied the middle ground the party cleaves to like a drowning man to a life raft. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski
NEWS
KICKING ASS AND SKATING NAMES An interview with New Jax City Rollers team captain, FANCY SCHMANCY
ACCORDING TO THE WOMEN’S FLAT TRACK DERBY ASSOCIATION (WFTDA), flat track roller derby is the fastest-growing sport in America. And with so many badass chicks in Northeast Florida, it only makes sense that it’s home to some of the country’s best. Meet Keri Lewis (aka Fancy Schmancy No. 62), co-captain of Jacksonville RollerGirls’ New Jax City Rollers for the past two-and-a-half seasons. New Jax, RollerGirls’ WFTDA AllStar team, is currently sitting pretty at No. 9 in WFTDA rankings out of 315 teams and has qualified for the 2015 International WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs set for Sept. 18, 19 and 20 at Prime Osborn Convention Center. Folio Weekly caught up with Schmancy, 37, to chat about just what roller derby is, how you get those cool names and what the expectations are for bringing home the gold. Here’s part of that conversation. Folio Weekly: Pretend that I know nothing about roller derby, which is actually the case — explain the rules to a greenhorn like me? Fancy Schmancy: First off, we are playing on a flat track, not a banked track. You have four blockers and one jammer for each team on the track. The jammers score points for passing every opposing player as they skate around the track. There are rules as to how and where blockers can block and engage on the track. The jammers try to skate around the track as many times as they can within a two-minute jam. Blockers are usually playing offense and defense simultaneously to help their jammers score points, but also blocking the opposing jammer so she doesn’t score points. Our games are two 30-minute halves. There are a lot of rules like no elbows, clotheslining, etc. This is not like roller derby of the ’70s and ’80s. That was scripted. You’re team captain. What does that entail? We have two co-captains. We make sure the skaters have met requirements (attendance and event points), help organize the team, set team meetings and coordinate the day of games. We’re a confidante to skaters, a representative for our team in games and we are liaison to the rest of our league and community. When you’re not tearing up the rink, what do you do to pay the bills? I’m an assistant for a land developer and dabble in office management, project management
and accounting. I’m a business graduate of the University of North Florida. You go by the moniker “Fancy Schmancy.” How’d that come about? Apparently, when I started, the coach thought I had fancy foot moves. Really, it’s this one move called a Mohawk that I used out of pure instinct and desperation when I was a new skater. How does one typically pick a roller derby name? You can pick one yourself, use your real name or sometimes you get a nickname given to you, like I did. Some skaters are choosing to just use their real name to legitimize the sport. At this point, I like being called Fancy better than my real name, Keri. This seems like a rather dangerous extracurricular activity. What’s the worst injury you’ve suffered? I fell on my tailbone in my first game. I didn’t even feel it during the game because of my adrenaline. I had X-rays, injections, chiropractic work and physical therapy, but they said it wasn’t broken. I still think it may have been broken, and it hurt for more than a year. I would say it took almost two years to go away entirely. Hey, you can break your tailbone in childbirth, too. New Jax City Rollers qualified for the 2015 International WFTDA Division 1 Playoffs this month in Jacksonville. How big of a deal is that? We’ve qualified for Divisionals for four years now. There are four different playoff tournaments over the course of four to five weeks in different areas of the United States. The top 40 teams go to Division 1 playoffs; there are 10 [teams] at each tournament. It’s a big deal, but the bigger deal is that we get to host and skate on our home turf. Also, we are ninth in the world. We’re going into this tournament as a third seed. If we can hold onto that ranking, we go to Championships in November in Minnesota that we have never qualified for. We get better and better every year. How much ass are you going to kick? Lots. Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
NEWS
JUSTICE DENIED
One woman’s 14-YEAR STRUGGLE raises questions about how rape victims are treated by JSO and SAO
(Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) THIS STORY BEGINS IN DOWNTOWN vice-president of public policy. Jacksonville, with a young woman reporting Eventually, Sarah says, the nightmares a rape in the early morning hours of May 25, went away. She had moved on with her life 2001. It ends 14 years and more than 300 miles as a military wife and mother when JSO away with that same woman — we’ll call her contacted her last year. Last month, Folio Sarah* — furiously wiping away tears in the Weekly asked Sarah if she knew the man was living room of the modest home she shares identified years before she was contacted. with her husband and young daughter. After a moment of stunned silence, she Sarah’s alleged rapist is a free man. In spite said, “I didn’t know that. To know now it’s, of being twice identified with DNA evidence, like, wow. It’s, like, a big wow.” unless the State Attorney’s Office reverses JSO says it did not inform Sarah of its decision to drop the case, he will not be the DNA matches for six and three years, charged with assaulting her. respectively, because the investigation was And then there is matter of the delay: He suspended. (Sarah authorized Folio Weekly was first identified with DNA evidence from to reveal her identity to law enforcement for the crime scene in 2008, and again with DNA purposes of seeking comment.) from Sarah’s rape kit in 2011. Sarah was not However, Officer Bujeda admitted, contacted by JSO until 2014. “Notification of a potential DNA match in Sarah was 20 years old when she climbed off a case could, and in most cases would, be a Greyhound bus from Fort Lauderdale in the an investigative lead that would require wee morning hours of May 25, 2001. She tried the detective to contact the victim within a calling friends to pick her up at the bus station reasonable amount of time to follow up.” Downtown, but no one would, so she set out on But in the same email, Officer Bujeda wrote foot for her Westside home 13 miles away. that “given the totality of the circumstances,” She hadn’t gone far when a man offered to neglecting to contact Sarah did not violate accompany her, claiming to know a shortcut. department policy. She further noted that JSO “He was nice and nothing seemed out of has made many policy changes since 2001. the ordinary,” she says, later lamenting, Sarah was the second woman to contact “I was stupid.” Folio Weekly with a story of justice delayed Sarah says she didn’t sense danger until he following the July 8 publication of “Don’t pushed her into the shadows, held a knife to Call It a Backlog.” On Aug. 3, her neck and told her to pull one woman, who declined to be her pants down, threatening to cut her throat if she interviewed, wrote in an email: screamed or resisted. She says “JSO was correct stating the all she could do was pray and rape kits weren’t backlogged. I was cry as he raped her. raped August 2002, my kit was “Then after he was done, submitted in 2003, a match was he told me to pull my pants received in 2010, I was notified up and walk away. And I did.” two weeks ago. That’s not backlog, Sarah reported the that’s laziness. JSO doesn’t need rape to the first person she funding or more officers, they just encountered, a homeless need to do their job. No reason it man who summoned the should take five years. To contact a Rebecca O’Connor, police. She gave a statement, victim [sic].” RAINN (Rape, Abuse & provided a rape kit and went In a subsequent email, she Incest National Network) home with her parents, who wrote, “While I hope it is not true, were “heartbroken.” She says the detective I believe I am not the minority and, of the who arrived at her doorstep to follow up was 30-plus with DNA matches, we are probably skeptical and accusatory. all old cases which have been sitting in JSO’s “[He said], ‘If we find this guy and he tells inbox with a match. The only reason JSO is us you traded him sex for drugs or alcohol, now declaring they have matches is to appear we’re going to take you to jail,’” says Sarah, like they are doing their jobs and to receive adding that there were no drugs or alcohol approval for the grant. Meanwhile, we weren’t found in her system that night. “ … I told him worth the effort.” I was furious and to do what he had to do and, Last year, JSO endeavored to make things if they wanted to, close the case.” right for Sarah. Detective D.L. Crews was This was before public outcry against reassigned to the case, diligently tracked her down (her name changed when she police treating rape victims like suspects, got married), gathered evidence, including when threatening a terrified young victim interviews with Sarah and her alleged rapist, and to “scare the truth out” may have been submitted the case to the SAO. considered acceptable procedure. In an email, Temporarily, at least, it seemed that justice Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Officer Melissa J. Bujeda would prevail. wrote that a detective who suspects a victim A phone call on Oct. 2, 2014, shattered that of lying may inform them that filing a false expectation. police report is a criminal offense. Sarah says Assistant State Attorney “We believe that every allegation of sexual Theresa Simak, supervisor of the special assault should be taken seriously and survivors assault division, oscillated between being need to be believed and have their cases taken sympathetic and rude as she told her that seriously,” says Rebecca O’Connor, RAINN 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015
they weren’t going to try the case because they could not guarantee conviction. “[She] said, ‘No, we don’t have, you know, we don’t have enough to take it to court because it’s your word against his because all he has to say is you traded him sex for drugs and alcohol,’” Sarah says. Communicating through email, SAO Director of Communications Jackelyn Barnard denied that Simak said that they were dropping the case because they might lose. (In spite of requests, Simak was not made available to provide comment.) “ASA Simak told the victim that we could not proceed with this case because we could not prove it was not consensual,” Barnard writes. It is not clear how this differs from Sarah’s understanding of their position, as being unable to prove an element of a case is essentially synonymous with being unable to win. Victims’ advocates do not believe that a claim of consent should be enough to avoid rape charges. O’Connor says, “Many, many rape cases are hinged on he-said, she-said and evaluating specifically consent.” When a victim’s account differs from that of the accused’s, the outcome depends on whose version the fact-finder believes. Although 13 years had passed when she was re-interviewed, Sarah’s account remained the same; she says Det. Crews even remarked upon this. (JSO did not allow Folio Weekly to speak with Crews.) Sarah chose her alleged attacker’s picture out of a photo lineup but, through no fault of her own, the lineup might not hold up in court because, she says, the alleged perpetrator was the only one who looked old enough to have committed the crime. When JSO interviewed her alleged attacker** last year, he denied ever having sex with a white woman. He later changed his story, saying he had consensual sex with one white woman, but not Sarah. Given that his DNA was in her rape kit, this could be used against him if, during trial, he denied having had intercourse with her. And he has an extensive criminal record that, per the SAO’s Disposition Statement, includes “Possession of Cocaine (x2), Uttering, Sale of Cocaine (x2), Possession with Intent to Sell Cannabis, Grand Theft, and several misdemeanors including Maintaining a Place
JSO was correct stating the rape kits weren’t BACKLOGGED. I was raped August 2002, my kit was submitted in 2003, a match was received in 2010, I WAS NOTIFIED TWO WEEKS AGO. for Prostitution and Soliciting for Prostitution.” The same statement notes that Sarah seems credible and “has no criminal history.” Some question whether Sarah’s story is indicative of a systemic problem with local law enforcement. As Folio Weekly previously reported, Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports that Duval County has one of the highest rates of forcible sexual offenses in the state (93.9/100,000 in 2014), and such offenses have nearly doubled since 2005’s rate of 51.4/100,000. According to the SAO’s recent application for a $2 million grant to handle the untested rape kits, there are “3,916 unsolved or suspended sexual assault cases in Jacksonville alone.” Former prosecutor Wes White, currently a candidate for State Attorney, said, “I think it’s symptomatic of a larger problem and that problem is that women are not valued as they should be … I would say it’s a problem that goes from the State Attorney’s Office to the Sheriff ’s Office and even to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.” It’s impossible to know how many of these cases are like Sarah’s. Rape victim shield laws, which protect survivors by making it a crime to reveal their identities, also allow law enforcement to cloak sexual assault investigations in secrecy. Today, Sarah is trying to move on with her life again, coping with the reemergence of the nightmares that haunted her after the attack, and trying not to let her anger cause her to lash out at her husband. She’s lost hope in justice for herself but hopes her story inspires changes that could help others like her. “I gave up on believing, believing that justice can be served for victims. It didn’t happen for me, so I want to see it happen for others.” Claire Goforth mail@folioweekly.com *FW does not identify sexual assault survivors without their consent. **Sarah’s alleged attacker is not identified because it would necessitate contacting him for comment and potentially reveal her identity.
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ARTS PREVIEW CONTENTS PEEK AT THE SYMPHONY’S SEASON [14] BALLROOM DANCING BLAST OFF [18] LOCAL NEXT-GEN ANIMATORS [22] EMERGING INDIE FILM FESTIVAL [26] OUR COMPREHENSIVE [15] PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING [15]
WELCOME TO THE 904, NATHAN!
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he Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has acquired some new, young blood with the arrival of assistant conductor NATHAN ASPINALL. How young is this musical wunderkind? 25! Why, the Folio Weekly Communal Toothpick is older than that!
But have no doubt — Aspinall has the veritable musical and conducting skills to pay the bills. A native of Brisbane, Australia, Aspinall began playing music as a child, started conducting while still in his teens, and eventually earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Queensland. After receiving his master’s degree from the New England Conservatory, Aspinall worked as assistant conductor for the New York Philharmonic. Now in his new gig at our local symphony, his duties will run the gamut from conducting Pops and community concerts to working with symphony music director Courtney Lewis in various capacities. Combined with Lewis’ age of 31, and Aspinall’s twentysomething digits, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra now undoubtedly boasts one of the youngest — and ablest — conducting teams in the nation, if not the world. Does this shared youthful age mean that these two dudes might bring in some even hipper programming to the symphony? Will we be treated to a symphonic interpretation of the greater works of SUNN O)))? An orchestral tribute to Veronica Mars?! We’ll even accept Beards, Overalls, & Vegan Pour-Overs: An Evening of Contemporary Americana if you’ll throw in some Sun Ra, Sonic Youth, and Zappa! Either way, welcome aboard, Nathan! We think you might dig our town. Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com
Check out our feature about the symphony’s fantastic upcoming season, including its kick-off performances of Holst’s The Planets, in our Fall Arts Preview: Performance Edition, on the next page. SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 13
The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra kicks off its new season with a galactic classic Cosmic Cowboy and composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst (1874-1934).
WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS “WE’RE FOCUSING ON ‘NEW’ THIS SEASON,” SAYS AMY RANKIN, director of Marketing & Community Relations for our Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. That speaks of new in format as well as content, the latter being a look at contemporary music such as the inclusion of American composer John Adams’ A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Adams’ sonorous take on motion and descendant of the machine age music of Honegger’s Pacific 231 from the 1920s. The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has long been making accessibility to the community a top goal. This season, it goes it one further, kicking off with three free-to-the public concerts. For the first three days of October, the Symphony will host concerts, respectively, at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, Unity Plaza (a first visit) in Riverside, and at its home base Downtown at the Jacoby Symphony Hall in the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts. Another new program is the “Symphony in 60” concert series, not an anniversary reference, mind you, but a series of three 60-minute mini-concerts held on Thursdays at 6 p.m. — just after the workday ends for most folks. The design is for the listeners to spend some immediate after-work time enjoying a concert and then a meet-and-greet with Music Director/Conductor Courtney Lewis and the musicians, if you so choose, or have a drink and hors d’oeuvres, if you so choose. These concerts are featured Nov. 12, March 31 and April 21 at Jacoby Hall. A live orchestra playing in the pit while a film flickers across the screen is making a comeback by way of the “Symphony Movies” series. All-time favorites get the full symphonic treatment on Dec. 15 (Pixar in Concert), March 12 (Back to the Future) and April 9 (E.T.). The Symphony season formally opens Oct. 9 with three performances of Gustav Holst’s epic seven-movement suite The Planets. First premiered in 1918 just as WWI was drawing to close, The Planets has endured as a hallmark of orchestral color and inventiveness. In many ways, it was a product of its time, as well as a glimpse into the future. Composed in an era when the carnage of war brought a rise in otherworldly spiritualism, combined with the twilight of the imperial remnants of La Belle Époque, The Planets is a portrait of our heavenly neighbors based on their astrological meanings and symbols. Thus our Earth is excluded (in a strange way, the later work of Alan Hovhaness took up that gig) and Pluto is nowhere to be seen because it was unknown at the time. Among the highlights of The Planets is its first movement: The Mars, the Bringer of War debate rages to this day regarding film composers, from Max Steiner to John Williams, who’ve nicked a riff or two when some celluloid heroics are required. And prog rock artists too numerous to mention (oh, hell … Jimmy Page, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Rick Wakeman, King Crimson, even Black Sabbath) have lifted pieces of Mars as their own. My ears are more partial to the nimble interweaving of Mercury, The Winged Messenger. However, of the entire piece, it is the final movement Neptune, The Mystic, with its lush harmonic textures and wordless female chorus, that marked both the chromaticism and gradual collapse of the western tonal tradition, while giving every new age or ambient music magus a wellspring of inspiration. For a buttoned-down teacher of music in a London girls’ academy, Holst quietly and with a most sensuous voice not only brought music into the 20th century; in one stroke, Holst catapulted symphonic music over several decades into our own time. Echoes of The Planets continue to reverberate through the universe of music. Symphony Music Director Courtney Lewis is entering his second season and, should any in the community feel that the symphony is too formal or highbrow, Lewis offers a special word in reaching out: “The impression that the symphony is not for you, is something that people only have who haven’t come to a concert,” says Lewis. “I guarantee everybody, if they come to a concert at Jacoby Hall, they will be drawn in by what we do. It’s a wonderful way to spend an evening.” Arvid Smith mail@folioweekly.com 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015
PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9
at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., 646-4277, $20-$25, jacksonvillecomedy.com.
Blues great DOYLE BRAMHALL II, who’s played with Sheryl Crow, Tedeschi Trucks, Elton John, and ?uestlove, performs with SEA FLOOR EXPLOSIVES at 7 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $32-$38.
THE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS performs a 9/11 PEACE CONCERT today at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown. For more info on time and tickets, go to jaxchildrenschorus.org.
Everyone’s favorite intergalactic metal overlords GWAR play with BUTCHER BABIES and BATTLECROSS at 7 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20 advance; $25 day of, freebirdlive.com.
GAIL BLISS & THE NASHVILLE BARN DANCE, a six-piece band from … uh … Nashville that specializes in playing songs by the likes of Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, and Tammy Wynette and George Jones, performs at 8 p.m. tonight and Sept. 12 (dinner at 6 p.m.); 1:30 p.m. Sept. 13 (brunch 11 a.m.), and at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 (lunch at noon); themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $64 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.
Rhode Island metal kings WVRM perform with SHADOW HUNTER at 8 p.m. at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Downtown, 798-8222, $5.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 10
The second annual ROOT SIGNALS ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL features more than 70 national and European musicians working in electronic music and media art, at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Sept. 11 and 12 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Jazz vocalist LISA KELLY and trumpeter J.B. SCOTT perform with UNF JAZZ ENSEMBLE 1 at 7 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. Comedian DOV DAVIDOFF, who’s appeared on Chappelle’s Show and Whitney, performs at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $15-$18 comedyzone.com.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 11
Orange Park Community Theatre stages the murdermystery musical LUCKY STIFF, the story of a shoe clerk propelled into a lunatic mix of a body, a mistress, her brother and too many dogs, today through Oct. 4 at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, 276-2599, $25, opct.org. Based on Amateur Night at The Apollo, musicians, singers, comedians and poets participate in the audience-judged competition AMATEUR NIGHT, featuring host Octavius Davis, held at 7:30 p.m. tonight and every first Friday at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, $9, 807-2010. Jacksonville’s annual September Peace Concert, featuring UNF CHAMBER SINGERS, ATLANTIC COAST HONOR CHORUS, DASOTA CONCERT CHORALE, and JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS, is presented at 6 p.m. at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
Neofolkie CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING performs at 9:30 p.m. at The Parlour (behind Grape & Grain Exchange), 2000 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4455, grapeandgrainexchange.com.
Punk rockers FAUX FEROCIOUS, RIVERNECKS, and TEENAGE LOBOTOMY perform at 9 p.m. at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 825-4959.
Comedian STEVE MINGOLLA, who’s appeared on Comedy Central and Showtime, is on at 7:30 and 10 p.m. tonight and Sept. 12 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, $15, latitude360.com.
Young country group LOVE AND THEFT perform with CLAMPETT at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $15, mavericksatthelanding.com.
The Tony Award-winning musical WORKING, which explores the lives and careers of 26 Americans, is staged
Rapper TUNK performs with FFJB, LEGIT, LARRY BELLYFATE, and JAYEL at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528
Legendary jazz guitarist LARRY CORYELL performs Oct. 9 at the Amelia Island Jazz Festival. The festival runs Oct. 4-11.
at 8 p.m. today, Sept. 12 and 18, and at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 and 20 at Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. Comedy legend BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT, who’s segued from standup to an acclaimed filmmaker and back to the stage, performs at 8 and 10:30 p.m. tonight and Sept. 12
Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 12
Acclaimed singer-songwriter RICHARD SHINDELL performs at 8 p.m. at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $20 advance; $25 at the door, 460-9311, originalcafe11.com.
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PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING Indie rockers JE DOUBLE F, SLEEP BEGGAR, and LAKE DISNEY perform at 8 p.m. at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, burrobarjax.com. Country artists JOSH ABBOTT BAND performs with STEVEN FLOWERS BAND and CARLY PEARCE at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $5, mavericksatthelanding.com. THE FALL OF TROY, AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR, and SLOTHRUST play at 7 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $17, underbellylive.com. The Scream “Back 2 School” Fest features hip-hop faves RICH HOMIE QUAN, K. CAMP, JACQUEES, DIGGY, JUSTIN SKYE, SILENTO, ELIJAH BLAKE, RAWYALS, ANTHONY LEWIS, CHRIS MILES, 4EY, STAR MIC, and DJ DOUBLE J at 7 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $28.50-$88.50, ticketmaster.com. Heavy rockers APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP hold their CD RELEASE PARTY with KID YOU NOT, PAWN TAKES KING, and CAN’T GET RIGHT at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $7 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 13
Violist PETER DUTILLY and pianist GALEN DEAN PIESKEE perform today at 3 p.m. at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com. ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA, featuring guitarist-vocalist-Sonof-Frank, Dweezil Zappa and his band, celebrate the 40th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s One Size Fits All, by playing the album in its entirety at 7 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $32 advance; $35 day of; a master class with Zappa is $75; for more info, go to zappaplayszappa.com, pvconcerthall.com. Local indie rock greats RICKOLUS and MOTHER SUPERIOR play tonight at 8 p.m. at Fly’s Tie Irish Pub, 177 Sailfish Dr. E., Beach, 246-4293. Reggae group JAHMEN play today at 4 p.m. at Nippers Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-3300. Rappers EARL SWEATSHIRT, NXWORRIES, and REMY BANKS perform at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $30 advance; $35 day of, mavericksatthelanding.com.
MONDAY, SEPT. 14
WU YUE-YUE, professor of music at Changsha Normal University, performs a concert on the Er-Hu, a traditional Chinese instrument, at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Hip-hop artist WHITNEY PEYTON performs at 8 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, underbellylive.com.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 15
Jazz guitarist extraordinaire TAYLOR ROBERTS performs from 7-10 p.m. every Tuesday and Wednesday at Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com. Psych-heavy rockers THEE OH SEES perform with GOLDEN PELICANS, and WAYLON THORNTON & the HEAVY HANDS at 7 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $15 advance; $17 day of, staugamphitheatre.com. Rapper JELLY ROLL performs with ALEXANDER KING, CREMRO, ASKMEIFICARE, and CASHCROP904 at 7 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 3987496, $10 advance; $15 day of, jaxlive.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16
Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, a stage adaptation based on the 1980 madcap film about three women — an overworked office manager, a jilted wife, and a sexually harassed secretary – who plan to deliver a little payback to their nefarious boss and make their workplace a job paradise, tonight through Oct. 10. Dinner at 6 p.m.; brunch at noon, each featuring a themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$75 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Outsider musician (and regular on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) DAVID LEIBE HART plays with DIG DOG and THE VULGARIANS at 8 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, underbellylive.com. Raucous rockers ROXY ROCA perform with PARKER URBAN BAND at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 17
BILL BELLAMY, a veteran of Def Comedy Jam and Last Comic Standing, performs at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10
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A tradition for 40 years, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents FIRST COAST NUTCRACKER, featuring local dancers joining the symphony in staging Tchaikovsky’s magical Christmas tale, Dec. 18-20 at Times-Union Center For The Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall. p.m. Sept. 18 and 19 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$25, comedyzone.com. A night of rap doth tickle the air when FRONZILLA, PALISADES, WHITNEY PEYTON, and IT LIVES IT BREATHES perform at 7 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $15, underbellylive.com.
The UNF FACULTY SHOWCASE CONCERT is presented at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/ calendar.aspx.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 19
Country fave LUKE BRYAN performs with RANDY HOUSER and DUSTIN LYNCH at 7:30 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $38.75$68.75, ticketmaster.com.
Players By The Sea stages the hilarious musical LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, about a young man hoping to impress his super-conservative future in-laws, while also convincing them that his LGBT parents are, well, “straight,” tonight through Oct. 10 at 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $28, playersbythesea.org.
The UNF JAZZ FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP CONCERT, debuting original arrangements and compositions, is featured at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $8-$20, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
TANGO LOVERS, featuring a renowned cast of dancers, musicians, and singers, perform at 8:30 p.m. at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Terry Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $35$85, ticketmaster.com.
Reggae group TROPIDELIC performs with CLOUD 9 VIBES and OCEANSTONE at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8 advance; $10 day of, freebirdlive.com.
Rockers DELTA WOLF, ANTON LAPLUME, and THE GOOD WOOD BAND play at 8 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $8 advance; $10 at the door, Downtown, 1904musichall.com.
The wit and wisdom of Mark Twain comes to life when Don Maley stars in the one-man show MARK TWAIN REMEMBERS, today through Oct. 3 at Amelia Community Theatre’s Studio 209, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20; $10 for students, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.
The SAN MARCO CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY presents its ANNUAL DIABETES BENEFIT CONCERT at 7 p.m. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 3976 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 731-1310, sanmarcochambermusic.org.
Percussionist THOMAS BURRITT performs at 7 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 18
The life and music of Johnny Cash come to life in RING OF FIRE, staged by Limelight Theatre today through Oct. 18 at Raintree Restaurant, 102 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $26, limelight-theatre.org. Local electro rock greats TOMBOI celebrate their Lobos Remix Tape Party with their friends PLEASURES, MUST BE THE HOLY GHOST, and BE BE DEE & GERRY LEE at 8 p.m. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, 3794969; free pizza and glitter beards will be available for all! PHISH tribute band RUNAWAY GIN play at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $15 advance; $20 day of, freebirdlive.com. Country artists BUDDY BROWN and JAMIE DAVIS perform at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $10, mavericksatthelanding.com. Comedian BRIAN BEAUDOIN’s on at 7:30 and 10 p.m. tonight and Sept. 19 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, $15, latitude360.com. The longest continuously running show in the world (since 1952!), Agatha Christie’s play THE MOUSETRAP, featuring a diverse group of strangers (one of whom is a murderer) stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm, is staged tonight through Oct. 4 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4425, $25; $20 seniors, military, students; theatrejax.com. PLAYERS BY THE SEA holds its gala premiere of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, commemorating the theater’s 50th season, with champagne, food, a raffle, live music, and the production at 7 p.m. at 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 2490289, $85; $50 for members, playersbythesea.org.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 20
The AMELIA ISLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL ALL THAT JAZZ: SCHOLARSHIP CONCERT AND SHOW, featuring drummer LES DeMERLE, vocalist BONNIE EISELE, and the JAZZ FESTIVAL ALL STARS: trumpeter STEVE STRAWLEY, multi-instrumentalist BILL PRINCE, saxophonist RYAN DUNCAN, trombonist CLARENCE HINES, pianist DOUG MATTHEWS, bassist ERNIE EALUM, and percussionist SAMMY ROGRIGUEZ, kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight at Amelia Community Theatre, 209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, $40, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. Bassoonist ANTHONY ANURCA performs at 3 p.m. at FRIDAY MUSICALE’s annual membership meeting, concert and reception, at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com. Roaring Rasta, Batman! Reggae group DE LIONS of JAH play at 4 p.m. at Nippers Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-3300.
MONDAY, SEPT. 21
DANZAS PERUJAX perform PERUVIAN FOLKLORE DANCES accompanied by Spanish-style guitarist BROOKES CLARKE at 6:30 p.m. at Clay County Headquarters Library, 1895 Town Center Blvd., Fleming Island, 278-3722, claycounty.gov. ONE MAN BREAKING BAD parodies 60 episodes of the groundbreaking TV show and is staged at 7 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $20 advance; $25 day of, jaxlive.com. What’s in a name? NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS play at 8 p.m. at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Downtown, 798-8222.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 22
Eccentric one-man band THAT 1 GUY performs at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $15, jaxlive.com. Metalcore band NORMA JEAN plays at 8 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $18, Downtown, 1904musichall.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23
Self-professed purveyors of “psychy groovy punky rock songs,” CHIEF SCOUT performs at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24
“I’m gonna keep on loving you, ’cause it’s the only thing I wanna do.” Ah, sweet poetry and word nectar. Classic rock bards REO SPEEDWAGON perform at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35$69, floridatheatre.com. Fresh-faced comedian JOSH RABINOWITZ brings his goofy sense of humor to town at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Sept. 25 and 26 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20, comedyzone.com. SWAMP CABBAGE, featuring WALTER PARKS and JIM DeVITO, play at 7:30 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 25
Grammy-nominated saxophonist BONEY JAMES performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$65, floridatheatre.com. The CHINESE FOLK ENSEMBLE featuring NANJING UNIVERSITY TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS ORCHESTRA performs at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Kilt-wearing comedian MIKE McCARTHY, who’s appeared on Comedy Central and Showtime, is on at 7:30 and 10 p.m. tonight and Sept. 26 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, $15, latitude360.com. ’90s rock heavy-hitters HELMET perform two sets, including the album Betty in its entirety, at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $17 advance; $20 day of, jaxlive.com. Grammy Award-winning Texas soul great DELBERT McCLINTON performs at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $49.50$65, pvconcerthall.com.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 26
Comedy superstar WHOOPI GOLDBERG performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 3552787, $59-$89, floridatheatre.com. Country artist JERROD NIEMANN performs at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $30, mavericksatthelanding.com. The Ritz Theatre & Museum presents the play A HEART THAT FORGIVES, the story of three groups of people affected by those closest to them, at 7 p.m. at 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $25 advance; $30 at the door, ticketmaster.com. The LAWSON ENSEMBLE CONCERT, featuring cellist DR. NICK CURRY, violist CLINTON DEWING, and violinist AURICA DUCA, performs at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf. edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Local rockers STAYNE THEE ANGEL perform with EVICTION and EMMA MOSELEY BAND at 8 p.m. at
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A populist resurgence of an old art form
BALLROOM BLASTS OFF IN THE 2006 DANCE DRAMA (THE BEST GENRE) TAKE THE LEAD, Spain’s sexiest ’90s export told a student that if she loved to dance, she was meant to dance. The 2006 tale of a real-life dance instructor might not have been Antonio Banderas’ most memorable role, but his words ring with truth. At least, that’s what clunky, out-of-practice salsa dancers try to believe as John Glessner leads them around the floor at Ballroom Bliss, the studio he co-owns with fellow instructor Brittany Bines. Both Glessner and Bines agree that ballroom dance is experiencing an upswing that many attribute to the popularity of shows like Dancing with the Stars. Inspired by their favorite B-listers’ foxtrots, waltzes and rumbas, more Americans are getting into the groove on hardwood at studios like theirs. “It’s kind of made it cool again … particularly for the male clientele because they’re the tough ones,” says Glessner. Any given night, Northeast Floridians shag, swing, salsa, merengue, cha-cha, waltz, twostep, Lindy hop and — lest we forget the 1970s treasure — hustle at places like Club Savoy, Ortega River Club, Cuba Libre, 57 Heaven, or anywhere there’s music and floor space. (Rumor has it that at least one Folio Weekly writer has swing-danced — swung? — on a Mellow Mushroom patio.) Knowing how to ballroom dance is like being a member of a fun extended family who are all in on the same secret. “It’s a way for me to express myself and to kind of let go of the troubles of the day and just relax and have fun on the floor,” says Bines. Seeing two practiced dancers gracefully execute complex footwork can be intimidating for someone who has never attempted a step more difficult than the Dougie. But letting that keep you off the floor would be like watching Shaun Thurston paint at Bonnabrew (plug, plug) and deciding not to take a painting class. Besides, dancing is easier than you may think it is. Take a chance — you might surprise yourself. The vast majority of studios, like Ballroom Bliss, allow you to dip a toe in with introductory packages. Ballroom Bliss’s estimated 80 students are of all ages and skill levels; some want to wow the crowd at a reunion or wedding, others to reconnect with that special someone, still others simply love to dance. A few even go on to compete (Glessner is well-known on the competition circuit and frequently competes in pro-am events with students). At first, the moves of that clunky, out-of-practice salsa dancer are stiff and awkward but, encouraged by Glessner’s patient and practiced lead, their stiffness quickly fades and feet glide (sort of) across the floor in nearly perfect time. By the time the song ends, both instructor and student are beaming with pleasure. “It’s yet another way … to be able to move to the music, expression, it’s a great release, it’s great exercise,” says Glessner. “I just think I’m probably one of the most fortunate people in the world — I get paid to do something I love.” Claire Goforth mail@folioweekly.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Ballroom Bliss • 1080 Edgewood Ave. S., Ste. 11, 384-8324, ballroomblissdance.com 18 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015
presented at 6 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 6202878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. The JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs a free concert at 8 p.m. at Unity Plaza, 220 Riverside Ave., Riverside, 206-0902, jaxsymphony.org.
PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $8 advance; $10 day of, freebirdlive.com. The fourth annual CLEAN WATER MUSIC FESTIVAL includes performances by THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR, ISRAEL NASH, LARKIN POE, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, CHICO LOBOS BAND and others from noon-11 p.m. today at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, admission is a suggested donation of $15; proceeds benefit global-wide programs to provide clean drinking water, cleanwatermusicfest.org.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 27
Folio Weekly’s Bonnabrew features live music from TOMBOI, THE DAYGOS, LPT, and FJORD EXPLORER, along with performance art by LIZ GIBSON and live painting by SHAUN THURSTON, comedy by DUSTIN YBARRA, as well as more than 60 craft beers, dragonboats, glassblowing, and other fun creative stuff, from 4-9 p.m. under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., folioweekly.com. Alternative rap group NAPPY ROOTS plays at 8 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $20 advance; $25 at the door, Downtown, 1904musichall.com. Reggae group I-VIBES play today at 4 p.m. at Nippers Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-3300.
MONDAY, SEPT. 28
The open mic night MUSICIANS MONDAY is held tonight and every Monday from 9-11 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, 1904musichall.com.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29
The play, C.S. Lewis’ THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, which tells the story of Satan’s favorite psychiatrist training his apprentice on the wicked ways of tormenting humans, is staged at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $45-$65, floridatheatre.com. Tale Tellers of St. Augustine present THEATER OF THE MIND: STORYTELLING at 7:30 p.m. at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 471-0179, 825-1164, $10, limelight-theatre.org. Indie rock faves DR. DOG perform with SWIMM at 8 p.m. at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 2462473, $22, freebirdlive.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
Geared toward kids ages K-4, CLICK CLACK MOO, which tells the story of the barnyard friends striking a revolt after the farmer makes the farm a “tech free zone,” is staged at 10:15 a.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $12, thcenter.org. Americana rockers HOUNDMOUTH perform with BASIA BULAT at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $26.50, pvconcerthall.com.
OCTOBER THURSDAY, OCT. 1
Old-school-style comedian JOHN WITHERSPOON, best known for his roles in the Friday movies, appears at 8 p.m. and 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 2 and 3 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$25, comedyzone.com. The event BLUES, BREWS, and BBQ, featuring barbecue, craft brews, silent raffle, and live blues music, kicks off at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $50; proceeds benefit the nonprofit Florida Theatre Performing Arts Center Inc.; floridatheatre.com. The JU ORCHESTRA and GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL STRING ORCHESTRA perform works by Mussorgsky, Brahms, and Leyden at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Douglas Anderson School of the Arts presents its stage production of TREPIDATION NATION, which explores our shared fears through a series of short monologues and dialogues, at 7:30 p.m. tonight, and Oct. 2, 3, 7, 8, and 9 at 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools. org/anderson. The JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs a free concert at 8 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, 209-3744, jaxsymphony.org.
FRIDAY, OCT. 2
COURTNEY LEWIS conducts the JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA through the concert BEETHOVEN AND MORE today at 11 a.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
FLORIDA’S FUNNIEST COMIC COMPETITION, the state wide comic competition organized by The IMPROV Comedy Club organization, is featured at 8 p.m. at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., 646-4277, $7, jacksonvillecomedy.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 3
METROPOLITAN OPERA: RISING STARS perform at 7:30 p.m. at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 797-2800, $40, emmaconcerts.com. BOOKER T. JONES, legendary keyboardist and founding member of Booker T & the MGs, performs at 8 p.m. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 8072010, $35-$40, ritzjacksonville.com. The JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs a free concert at 8 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, jaxsymphony.org. Brooklyn-based, multicultural ensemble RED BARAAT, who blend New Orleans funk with Indian rhythms, performs at 8 p.m. at Hemming Park, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, $25, riversidefinearts.org. Def Leppard Tribute Band HYSTERIA plays at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $10 advance; $15 day of, freebirdlive.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 4
The seven-piece New Orleans-style Dixieland group NAVY BAND SOUTHEAST’S TGIF performs at 2 p.m. at Amelia Park, Amelia Island, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. Legendary New Orleans voodoo-vibed keyboardist DR. JOHN performs with his band the NITE TRIPPERS and opening act WALTER PARKS at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $60-$70, pvconcerthall.com. Reggae greats THE WAILERS, featuring ASTON “FAMILY MAN” BARRETT, play at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $TBD, freebirdlive.com. Thank God, it’s $unday! Rapper DA$H performs with MAXO KREAM and A$TON MATTHEWS at 8 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $12 advance; $15 at the door, Downtown, 1904musichall.com.
MONDAY, OCT. 5
CHRIS BUCK emcees and local comedians strut their stuff at the HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR, held at 9 p.m. tonight and every Monday at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.
TUESDAY, OCT. 6
California hip-hop group DEATH GRIPS performs at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20, freebirdlive.com. Geared toward kids ages K-8, THE DINOSAUR DIARY OF DR. T-REX is an interactive, fun show about the world of dinosaurs, is staged today at 10:15 a.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 2766750, $12, thcenter.org.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
THE DYNAMIC LES DeMERLE LITTLE BIG BAND with BONNIE EISELE perform JUMP JIVE AND WAIL / SWING NIGHT, CONCERT AND DANCE at 7 p.m. at Sandy Bottoms Beach Bar & Grill, 2910 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, $35, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.
THURSDAY, OCT. 8
Pianist SCOTT WATKINS performs works by Bartok, Debussy, and Howard Hanson at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu New Zealand rockers SALAD BOYS play at 8 p.m. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969. Amelia Community Theatre stages the drama WAIT UNTIL DARK, about a blind woman who must outwit an intruder in her Greenwich Village apartment, today through Oct. 24 at 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20; $10 for student, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. Get in touch with your inner feelings when metal masters CANNIBAL CORPSE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, and SOREPTION play at 7 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $22 advance; $25 day of, underbellylive.com. The Latin Jazz band TRIO CALIENTE performs at 7 p.m. at Sandy Bottoms Beach Bar & Grill, 2910 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, $35, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.
Monty Python founding members and comedy legends JOHN CLEESE and ERIC IDLE bring their TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST…FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME to town Oct. 18 at The Florida Theatre.
FRIDAY, OCT. 9
California indie rock faves The MOUNTAIN GOATS perform with BLANK RANGE at 7 p.m. at Colonial Quarter, 33 St. George St., St. Augustine, $20, 342-2857. The animated Walt Disney favorite BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, about a hirsute brute and the beautiful young maiden he’s imprisoned in his castle, is staged at 8 p.m., 2 and 4 p.m. Oct. 10, and 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $33.50-$93.50, artistseriesjax.org. Singer-songwriter and activist ANI DiFRANCO performs with ANA EGGE at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $49-$59, pvconcerthall.com.
DR. GARY SMART is featured in the FACULTY PIANO RECITAL today at 3 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/ music/calendar.aspx. The DIXIE TO SWING JAZZ BRUNCH, featuring live jazz, a special jazz festival menu, and complimentary champagne, is held from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1-2:30 p.m. at David’s Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., Fernandina Beach, $60, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.
MONDAY, OCT. 12
The FIRST COAST WIND ENSEMBLE and DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS SYMPHONY perform today at 3 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Auditorium, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, fcwe.org.
TUESDAY, OCT. 13
Coyly corpulent, crowd-pleasing comedian LAVELL CRAWFORD, who appears in the current flick American Ultra, performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$45, floridatheatre.com.
Punk rock heroes NEW FOUND GLORY perform with locals YELLOWCARD and TIGERS JAW at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $26, mavericksatthelanding.com.
The classical combo SIMPLY THREE, featuring violinist Glen McDaniel, cellist Zack Clark, and bassist Nicholas Villalobos, performs at 7:30 p.m. at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com.
Neo-folkie NOAH GUNDERSON performs with FIELD REPORT at 7 p.m. at Colonial Quarter, 33 St. George St., St. Augustine, $15, 342-2857.
THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA kicks off the new season with a performance of HOLST’S intergalactic opus THE PLANETS, along with works by Haydn and Adams, at 8 p.m. tonight and Oct. 10 and at 3 p.m. Oct. 11 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 3545547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org. THE CONCERT 11TH ANNUAL UPBEAT PINK: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO BREAST CANCER SURVIVORSHIP: THE WILD WEST THROUGH TV AND MOVIES is presented at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf. edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Legendary jazz guitarist LARRY CORYELL, who’s performed with artists ranging from Miles Davis and Carla Bley to Jimi Hendrix, performs at 7 and 9 p.m. at Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, 39 Beach Lagoon Rd., Fernandina Beach, $20-$65 each performance, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 10
RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS, led by legendary pianist-composer Weston, perform at 8 p.m. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 8072010, $35-$40, ritzjacksonville.com.
Grammy Award-nominated comedian BILL ENGVALL performs at 8 p.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $39-$89, thcenter.org.
Comedian JOHN CAPARULO, who’s appeared on Chelsea Lately and The Next Generation of Blue Collar, appears at 8 p.m. and 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 9 and 10 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$25, comedyzone.com.
Acclaimed jazz vocalist KEVIN MAHOGANY performs at 7 and 9 p.m. at Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, 39 Beach Lagoon Rd., Fernandina Beach, $20-$65 each performance, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.
The fifth annual JACKSONVILLE SINGS! INVITATIONAL SHOWCASE, featuring the UNF CHAMBER SINGERS with STUDENT and FACULTY PERFORMERS, is
Chillwave artist TORO Y MOI performs with ASTRONAUTS at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 2462473, $20, freebirdlive.com.
Cellist BOYAN BONEV and pianist MIMI NODA perform today at 3 p.m. at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 11
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14
Cellist ANDREW SMITH and pianist ALFREDO OYAGUEZ perform at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Virtuoso super group trio THE WINERY DOGS, featuring guitarist Richie Kotzen, bassist Billy Sheehan, and drummer Mike Portnoy, perform at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $27 advance; $30 day of, pvconcerthall.com.
THURSDAY, OCT. 15
Theresa Rebeck’s dark comedy SEMINAR, about four aspiring writers seeking wisdom from a fearful novelist, is staged at 7:30 p.m. today, Oct. 16 and 17, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 18 at Jacksonville University’s Swisher Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, students, arts.ju.edu. The JU WIND ENSEMBLE performs at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Hardcore punk rockers STRAY FROM the PATH perform with COMEBACK KID, BEING AS an OCEAN, MAJOR LEAGUE, and the oh-so-cleverly-named DEEZ NUTS at 7 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $15 advance; $18 at the door, underbellylive.com. You’re Jammin’ Me! This year’s MAGNOLIA FESTIVAL includes performances by TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, AVETT BROTHERS, DEL McCOURY BAND, STEEP CANYON RANGERS, and LAKE STREET DRIVE today through Oct. 18 at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Dr., Live Oak, 386-364-1683, $50-$200, musicliveshere.com.
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performances of Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead and other Halloween favorite tunes, today at 3 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD; attendees are encouraged to wear their favorite Halloween costumes, jaxsymphony.org.
MONDAY, OCT. 26
The open mic night MUSICIANS MONDAY is held tonight and every Monday night from 9-11 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, 1904musichall.com.
TUESDAY, OCT. 27
Clarinetist SUNSHINE SIMMONS performs at 6:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. The original “Sultan of Swing,” or “OSOS,” Grammy Awardwinning rock great MARK KNOPFLER performs at 8 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, 209-0367, $39.50-$99.50, staugamphitheatre.com. Emo rockers DESAPARECIDOS perform at 7 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $18 advance; $20 at the door, underbellylive.com. THE FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT is presented at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, students, arts.ju.edu.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28
The OCTUBAFEST RECITAL, featuring tubaist JOANNA HERSEY, is featured at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Fine Arts Center, Room 1404, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
Five-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist MICHAEL McDONALD performs THIS CHRISTMAS, AN EVENING OF HOLIDAY HITS Dec. 19 at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts. Neoblues badass BEN PRESTAGE performs at 7:30 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com.
FRIDAY, OCT. 16
Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $23, flchambermusic.org.
MONDAY, OCT. 19
Viral video sensation-funnyman BO BURNHAM performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39.50, floridatheatre.com.
CHRIS BUCK emcees and local comedians strut their stuff at the HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR, held at 9 p.m. tonight and every Monday at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.
High school choruses from throughout the area perform at the HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL INVITATIONAL at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.
The FALL ORCHESTRA CONCERT is presented at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson.
Cellist ANDREW SMITH and pianist ALFREDO OYAGUEZ perform at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com. DENZAL SINCLAIRE joins the JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in performing THE MUSIC OF NAT KING COLE at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. today and at 8 p.m. Oct. 17 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org. A HISTORICAL DANCE CONCERT, featuring Europeanbased dance pieces from the Renaissance through early 20th century, is presented at 7:30 p.m. today and Oct. 17 at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. Alt-folk great SUZANNE VEGA performs at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 2090399, $29.50-$49.50, pvconcerthall.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 17
TUESDAY, OCT. 20
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21
Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents the musical comedy ANYTHING GOES, about the madcap antics on an ocean liner, all set to the words and music of Cole Porter, tonight through Nov. 22. Dinner at 6 p.m.; brunch at noon, each featuring a themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$59 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. The UNF WIND SYMPHONY AND CONCERT BAND FALL CONCERT is featured at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Canadian heavyweights THEORY OF A DEADMAN, POP EVIL, and ARANDA perform at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $27, mavericksatthelanding.com. Brooklyn rapper JOEY BADA$$ performs with BISHOP NEHRU, DENZEL CURRY, and NYCK CAUTION at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $22, freebirdlive.com.
In the family-geared fun of ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS LIVE ON STAGE, Alvin and his band hit the road trying to save the site of the original Woodstock festival; staged at 4 and 7 p.m. today at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $26.50-$110, artistseriesjax.org.
Bayou-born bluesman TAB BENOIT performs at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $25-$35, pvconcerthall.com.
An evening of awesome classic rock is offered when DEF LEPPARD, FOREIGNER, and NIGHT RANGER hit the stage at 7 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $$35-$125, ticketmaster.com.
Country folks JASON ALDEAN, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, and DEE JAY SILVER open up the honky tonk (live and onstage!) at 7:30 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $30.25-$60.25, ticketmaster.com.
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach presents the virtuoso harpist DEBORAH HENSON-CONANT in the fundraising concert HIPHARP FOR THE ARTS: A CONCERT BENEFITING MUSIC THERAPY OUTREACH, at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $50-$100. A portion of the proceeds benefits music therapy outreach programs; pvconcerthall.com.
Pianist MYRON SILBERSTEIN, baritone JAY IVEY, and soprano KIMBERLY BEASLEY perform works by Persichetti at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, students, arts.ju.edu.
Country faves LITTLE BIG TOWN perform with DRAKE WHITE and the BIG FIRE at 7:30 p.m. at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., St. Augustine, 209-0367, $25$45, staugamphitheatre.com. Local blues rockers KIM RETEGUIZ & THE BLACK CAT BONES play at 10 p.m. at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 18
Monty Python founding members and comedy legends JOHN CLEESE and ERIC IDLE bring their TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST … FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME to town at 7:30 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $59.50-$99.50, floridatheatre.com. The FLORIDA CHAMBER MUSIC PROJECT performs works by Mozart and Mendelssohn at 3 p.m. at Ponte Vedra
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THURSDAY, OCT. 22
Geared toward kids in grades 1-6, THE BFG (BIG FRIENDLY GIANT), which follows the adventures of a gentle giant and a young orphan, is staged today at 6:30 p.m. and at 10:15 a.m. Oct. 23 at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $12, thcenter.org. A principal cast member on Mad TV, comedian ARIES SPEARS appears at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 23 and 24 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $22-$27, comedyzone.com. Progressive folk artist ANAIS MITCHELL performs at 7:30 p.m. at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, $25; $10 students, riversidefinearts.org. Amelia Musical Playhouse stages the campy musical THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, about a guileless young couple who seek shelter from a storm in the home of a mad transvestite scientist, and meet his
Frankenstein-like creation, today through Oct. 31 at 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 277-3455, $20, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. Vladimir Kulenovic conducts pianists CHRISTINA AND MICHELLE NAUGHTON and the JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in a concert featuring works by SHOSTAKOVICH, MOZART, and STRAVINSKY tonight at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 23 and 24 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org. A Classic Theatre stages THREADS OF SILVER AND GOLD: WOMEN OF THE PANAMA CANAL, which chronicles the story of women who arrived from the West Indies, England, and the United States during the construction period in Panama, today through Oct. 30 at Pioneer Barn at Ft. Menendez, 259 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $21.50, aclassictheatre.org. A CREATIVE FALL READING is presented at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. Dr. MARC DICKMAN conducts the NASSAU COMMUNITY BAND at 6 p.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, 505 Broome St., Fernandina Beach, 261-3472, nassaucommunityband.com. Indie rockers FREE WEED, UNKLE FUNKLE, and COLLEEN GREEN play at 8 p.m. at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 825-4959.
FRIDAY, OCT. 23
Agitprop folkie GRANT PEEPLES performs at 7:30 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com. Limelight Theatre stages the faith-based drama THE CHRISTIANS today through Nov. 15 (no show Nov. 7) at 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $26; $24 for seniors, $20 military and students, limelight-theatre.org. The ST. AUGUSTINE ORCHESTRA performs at 8 p.m. at Lightner Museum, 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, staugustineorchestra.org. Blues legend BUDDY GUY performs with SHEMEKIA COPELAND at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39.50-$69.50, floridatheatre.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 24
“Let’s do the time warp again!” The 1975 camp classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, about a naïve couple stranded at the castle of a demented transvestite mad scientist, is screened at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $15, floridatheatre.com. Funnyman KATT WILLIAMS returns to town with his signature style of rollicking standup at 8 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $47.50-$125, ticketmaster.com. The FALL VOCAL CONCERT is presented at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. Barrelhouse piano great MARCIA BALL performs with opener AMY SPEACE at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $40-$50, pvconcerthall.com.
SUNDAY, OCT. 25
JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents the family-geared SYMPHONIC SPOOKTACULAR, featuring
JAZZ COMBO NIGHT is featured at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 6202878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Punkers LAGWAGON, RUNAWAY KIDS, PEARS, and INSPECTION 21 play at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20 advance; $23 day of, freebirdlive.com.
THURSDAY, OCT. 29
Rocker and former Groovie Ghoulies frontman KEPI GHOULIE performs with MEAN JEANS and local garage greats LIFEFORMS (as NIRVANA) at 8 p.m. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside 379-4969. The FACULTY SELECTION HONORS RECITAL is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Trombonist DAVE STEINMEYER is featured in the concert A LEGEND SALUTES THE LEGENDS at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $8-$15, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Comedian SARAH TIANA, who’s appeared on Chelsea Lately and was on the panel for Comedy Central’s Roast of Justin Bieber, appears at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $15-$18, comedyzone.com.
FRIDAY, OCT. 30
Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents the musical BLACK PEARL SINGS!, set in 1935, about a white song collector who encounters an African-American woman in a Texas prison, who has a soulful voice and steely spirit, at 8 p.m. today and Oct. 31, Nov. 6, 7, 13, and 14 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 and 15 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. Pianist JOEL HASTINGS performs works by Liszt, Scriabin, and Roger-Ducasse at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf. edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. It’s a night of tributes when MEDAL MILITIA (Metallica tribute), A GOOD FRIEND & A BOTTLE OF WHISKEY (Pantera tribute), and WITHOUT RESTRAINT (Scorpions tribute) perform at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $10 advance; $15 day of, freebirdlive.com. Spooktacular Jams and Eerie Wind Bathers! Suwannee Hulaween: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, PRETTY LIGHTS, PRIMUS, CHANCE the RAPPER, and more today through Nov. 1, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 3076 95th Dr., Live Oak, 386-364-1683, $105-$239, musicliveshere.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 31
Indie rockers THE FEATURES feature their ditties at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 3987496, $10 advance; $15 day of, jaxlive.com. Alabama rockers LEE BAINES III & the GLORY FIRES, PUJOL, and ELECTRIC WATER perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 31 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown, burrobarjax.com.
NOVEMBER
SUNDAY, NOV. 1
Brooklyn hip-hop duo The UNDERACHIEVERS perform with POUYA, KIRK KNIGHT, and BODEGA BAMZ at 8 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $18-$75, underbellylive.com.
MONDAY, NOV. 2
HUGO WOLF QUARTET performs at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 6202878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
TUESDAY, NOV. 3
San Diego deathcore band CARNIFEX play with fellow
PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING choirmembers BLACK TONGUE, LORNA SHORE, and THE LAST TEN SECONDS OF LIFE at 5:30 p.m. at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., $14, Downtown, 1904musichall.com.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4
The Grammy-Award winning vocalist BOZ SCAGGS, who gave us hits like “Lowdown” and “Lido Shuffle,” performs at 7:30 p.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $49-$238, thcenter. org. STAN PIPER AND FRIENDS, featuring renowned jazz bassist Piper and fellow JU jazz faculty members, is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Black Box Theatre, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, students, arts.ju.edu. World Music trio MAMAJOWALI performs at 7:30 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 3527008, $10, raylewispresents.com.
THURSDAY, NOV. 5
Jam band faves LEFTOVER SALMON play at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $25 advance; $30 day of, pvconcerthall.com. Australian classic rockers THE LITTLE RIVER BAND play at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $25-$35, floridatheatre.com. Richard Wolf directs his original work, MARRIAGE IN ARREARS, today through Nov. 7 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 2773455, $20, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. The second installment of the FACULTY SELECTION HONORS RECITAL is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. UNITED STATES ARMY FIELD BAND performs at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Comedian DONNELL RAWLINGS, who’s appeared on Chappelle’s Show and The Wire, appears at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Nov. 6 and 7 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $15-$18, comedyzone.com.
FRIDAY, NOV. 6
AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE: THE ALL-STARS TOUR!, featuring popular performers from the NBC show, is presented at 7:30 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$59, floridatheatre.com. Alan Menken’s play WEIRD ROMANCE, which blends sci-fi and romance, is staged at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Nov. 7 and at 3 p.m. Nov. 8 at Jacksonville University’s Swisher Theatre, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, and students, arts.ju.edu. JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents the movie buff-geared concert HOLLYWOOD EPICS, featuring songs from blockbuster hits including Ben Hur, Titanic, Gone With the Wind, and Star Wars, today at 11 a.m. and at 8 p.m. Nov. 7 and 8 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org. Orange Park Community Theatre stages the superherothemed comedy INSANE WITH POWER today through Nov. 22 at 2900 Moody Ave., Orange Park, 276-2599, $25, opct.org. Players By The Sea stages the dark comedy A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, which tells the story of an angry, one-handed man on a search for his missing appendage, tonight through Nov. 21 at 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $28 playersbythesea.org. ALWAYS A BRIDE, a comedy chronicling the lives of four friends who have vowed to attend one another’s weddings, is staged today through Nov. 22 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4425, $25; $20 seniors, military, students, theatrejax.com. Jazz combo JOHN LUMPKIN & THE COVENANT perform today at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com. The MONTROSE TRIO MASTER CLASS is featured at 9 a.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/ calendar.aspx.
SATURDAY, NOV. 7
Comedian PAUL REISER, who has been nominated for more Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, and various other awards than you can shake a stick at, performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 3552787, $35-$45, floridatheatre.com. Dr. MARC DICKMAN conducts the NASSAU COMMUNITY BAND at 11:30 a.m. at 2601 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, 277-7274, nassaucommunityband.com.
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Founders of local animation studio wear an assortment of hats Shane Douberly (left) and Bill Waller.
OFF THE REELS KIDS WATCH A LOT OF CARTOONS. Despite the sheer volume of animated programs to which kids are exposed, when it comes to the studios creating those cartoons, only a few — namely Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks — have become household names. The reality is that animation studios — creative motion studios to those seriously in the biz — exist everywhere, including Northeast Florida. Dripsblack — one of the more well-known and longest-operating in town — was founded in 2007 by Shane Douberly and Bill Waller. The pair built a niche around their talents of character animation and motion graphics. “I don’t think we’re the guys who started it,” says Douberly. “I think we just came around at the right time and did newer things in the motion graphics and animation world — that’s what got us the first jobs.” After more than eight years of directing live action and creating visual effects, as well as motion graphics, they’ve assembled an impressive reel — on par with or better than similar studios around the country. Corporate clients and ad agencies make up the majority of their clients. In addition to working for big fish local agencies like The Shepherd Group, Burdette Ketchum and, more recently, the Dalton Agency, Dripsblack had early success working with Al Letson on his Peabody-award-winning NPR radio program State of the Re:Union. At the moment, the duo’s major focus is on a new documentary featuring the AfricanAmerican boxer, Joe Lewis, a black world champion in a world that still devalued him based on his skin color. Dripsblack will be doing the post-production for the film; Waller and Douberly have also independently signed on as producers. As early members of Jacksonville’s indie music scene during the late ’90s/early 2000s, the two have carried that indie DIY spirit with them into the world of film and motion graphics. “Being in a band taught me a lot about business,” says Waller. “About self-promotion and how to talk about yourself on a grassroots level. We’ve never been spoiled enough not to wear different hats.” The pair maintains a disciplined work ethic and a humble approach to the business. Grateful for the success they’ve accumulated thus far, that independent spirit of continuing to push beyond boundaries is always in the background. “We’ve got to go off the rails again,” adds Douberly. “We have to lose our shit from time to time and experiment. Some of the best times we’ve had are when we’ve gone completely nuts.” Keith Marks mail@folioweekly.com ___________________________________________________________________________ For more information and to watch Waller and Douberly’s current demo reel, check out dripsblack.com. 22 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015
Folio Weekly’s Bonnabrew features live music from TOMBOI (pictured), THE DAYGOS, LPT, and FJORD EXPLORER, along with performance art by LIZ GIBSON and live painting by SHAUN THURSTON, comedy by DUSTIN YBARRA, as well as more than 60 craft beers, dragonboats, glassblowing, and other fun creative stuff, Sept. 27 under the Fuller Warren Bridge. Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., 6464277, $15-$25, jacksonvillecomedy.com. Country artist CHASE BRYANT performs at 6 p.m. at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $15, mavericksatthelanding.com.
PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING Electronic musician ROB GARZA (of Thievery Corporation) performs with ANCIENT DEEP at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $15 advance; $20 day of, freebirdlive.com.
SUNDAY, NOV. 8
JU PIANO TRIO perform at 3 p.m. at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com. Based on Bob Hope’s 1942 USO tour for the troops, ALL HANDS ON DECK! THE MUSICAL features more than 40 classic American songs and is staged today at 2 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 3552787, $25-$45, floridatheatre.com. The SAN MARCO CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY performs at 7 p.m. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 3976 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 731-1310, sanmarcochambermusic.org. “Co-conspirators” DR. CARA TASHER and CHARLOTTE MABREY coordinate the RECONNECT CONCERT #RECONNECT15UNF, featuring the UNF CHORAL ENSEMBLES AND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE, at 4 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $10, attendees are encouraged to bring their mobile devices, unf.edu/coas/ music/calendar.aspx.
MONDAY, NOV. 9
The holidays come to life when MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER is staged at 7 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $31.50-$71.50, floridatheatre.com. NBC’s LAST COMIC STANDING LIVE, featuring finalists from the upcoming season of the popular show, kicks off at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $40-$100, pvconcerthall.com.
TUESDAY, NOV. 10
Virtuoso guitarists ADRIAN LEGG and DAVID LINDLEY perform at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $39.50-$49.50, pvconcerthall.com.
FRIDAY, NOV. 13
Comedian GABRIEL IGLESIAS, whose Comedy Central special racked up an impressive 15 million viewers, hits the stage tonight at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39-$119, floridatheatre.com. Ukulele great JAKE SHIMABUKURO performs tonight at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $34.50-$44.50, pvconcerthall.com. Mark St. Germain’s play FREUD’S LAST SESSION, which chronicles the sometimes-contentious-meeting between the good Doctor and a young C.S. Lewis, is staged today through Nov. 21 at Amelia Community Theatre’s Studio 209, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20; $10 students, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. The JU PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE and UNIVERSITY SINGERS perform the premiere of Tony Steve’s And There I Was On Corfu, along with works by Cage and Roldna, at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Celebrating their 45th anniversary, classic rockers AMERICA perform at 8 p.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $43-$89, thcenter.org. The ORANGE PARK CHORALE performs at 7:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 245 Kingsley Ave., Orange Park, orangeparkchorale.com. COURTNEY LEWIS conducts violinist ARNAUD SUSSMAN and the JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in the concert SYMPHONIC DANCES, featuring works by STRAVINSKY, PROKOFIEV, and RACHMANINOFF today and Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. at Times-Union Center For The Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
Aimed toward kids ages K-5, MISS NELSON IS MISSING, which tells the story of a group of schoolchildren in a frantic search for their missing teacher, is staged at 10:15 a.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $12, thcenter.org.
RICH GUZZI’s XXXTREME SHOW, an adult-themed version of the comedian-hypnotist’s show, is featured at 10 p.m. tonight and Nov. 14 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$25, comedyzone.com.
The UNF ORCHESTRA CONCERT: INSPIRED BY BACH is performed at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $10, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
The musical event SINGING FOR OUR SENIORS, featuring performances by Woodlawn Presbyterian Bell Choir, Bethlehem Lutheran Choir, Philippian Community Church Mass Choir, Fil-Millenial Dancers, Leonard Cross, and featuring the Renowned Edwards Waters College Concert Choir, is featured at 6 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$50, floridatheatre.com.
RICH GUZZI’S COMEDY HYPNOSIS SHOW, featuring the part-standup comic, part-master hypnotist, and partmotivational speaker, “mesmerizing” the audience at 8 p.m. tonight and Nov. 11-14 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $12-$18, comedyzone.com.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11
DIY Electronic artist SLOW MAGIC performs at 8 p.m. at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $13 advance; $15 at the door, 460-9311, originalcafe11.com. JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents SYMPHONY IN 60, featuring RACHMANINOFF SYMPHONIC DANCES at 6 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
THURSDAY, NOV. 12
Edgy comedian NICK DiPAOLO, who was a longtime panelist on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and has been a regular on Louie and Lucky Louie, is featured at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10:30 p.m. Nov. 13 and 14 at The
SATURDAY, NOV. 14
FIRST COAST OPERA performs the concert OPERA PARIS, featuring works by Verdi and Puccini, at 7:30 p.m. at Lightner Museum, 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, firstcoastopera.com. Tony Award-winning actress and singer KRISTIN CHENOWETH performs with THE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS at 8 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 633-6110, $35-$95, ticketmaster.com.
SUNDAY, NOV. 15
Everybody’s favorite crimson canine, CLIFFORD THE BIG RED LIVE!, is featured in this child-geared stage production at 2 and 5 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $20-$50, floridatheatre.com. THE JU WIND ENSEMBLE is joined by Broadway singer IVAN RUTHERFORD at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville
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PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, students, arts.ju.edu. The ORANGE PARK CHORALE performs at 3 p.m. at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church, 4001 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, orangeparkchorale.com. The acclaimed MINNEAPOLIS GUITAR QUARTET performs at 2 p.m. at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 797-2800, $30, emmaconcerts.com.
MONDAY, NOV. 16
CHRIS BUCK emcees and local comedians strut their stuff at the HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR, held at 9 p.m. tonight and every Monday at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969.
TUESDAY, NOV. 17
Popular 10-man vocal group STRAIGHT NO CHASER performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $36.50-$56.50, floridatheatre.com. The AMERICAN NATIONAL OPERA COMPANY performs Tosca tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Othello at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at Times-Union Center For The Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 633-6110. The JU FACULTY TRIO, featuring violinist Marguerite Richardson, cellist Shannon Lockwood, and pianist Scott Watkins, perform works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, and students, arts.ju.edu.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18
Trumpeter ALLEN VIZZUTTI performs with the UNF WIND SYMPHONY and JAZZ ENSEMBLE 1 at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/ calendar.aspx. “Play something by The Zombies!” EMILY KINNEY (also known as “Beth” from The Walking Dead) performs at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $TBD, jaxlive.com.
THURSDAY, NOV. 19
The SENIOR CHOREOGRAPHY CONCERT, featuring original works by the students, is featured at 7:30 p.m. today, and Nov. 20 and 21 at Jacksonville University’s Swisher Theater, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, $10; $5 seniors, military, and students, arts.ju.edu. The JAZZ IN THE BLACK BOX: CHAMBER AND JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONCERTS is presented at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. The OSPREY CHORAL SHOWCASE concert, featuring OSPREY MEN’S and WOMEN’S CHORUSES and PIANIST YUKINO MIYAKE, is featured at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 6202878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Douglas Anderson School of the Arts presents the musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS at 7:30 p.m. tonight, and Nov. 20 and 21, and at 2 p.m. Nov. 22 at 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. Best-selling author, actor, radio personality, and aggro comedian JIM NORTON appears at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Nov. 20 and 21 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $25-$30, comedyzone.com.
FRIDAY, NOV. 20
The high-energy kid-geared VEGGIE TALES LIVE! LITTLE KIDS DO BIG THINGS, featuring all of their fave veggie characters performing their classic hits, is staged at 4 and 7 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $19.50-$84.50, artistseriesjax.org. The LAWSON ENSEMBLE CONCERT, featuring works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Haydn, is performed at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Reggae bands PASSAFIRE, LIONIZE, and BIGFOOT BAREFOOT paly at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $13, freebirdlive.com.
SATURDAY, NOV. 21
Metal dudes THE SWORD play with ROYAL THUNDER at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 2462473, $20 advance; $25 day of, freebirdlive.com. New Orleans greats THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND perform at 8 p.m. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $32, ritzjacksonville.com.
SUNDAY, NOV. 22
Grammy Award-winner pop dude TOBYMAC performs with BRITT NICOLE, COLTON DIXON, and HOLLYN at 7 p.m.
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Brooklyn-based, multicultural ensemble RED BARAAT, who blend New Orleans funk with Indian rhythms, performs at 8 p.m. at Hemming Park, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, $25, riversidefinearts.org. at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $25-$75, ticketmaster.com. The FLORIDA CHAMBER MUSIC PROJECT performs works by Dvorak at 3 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $23, flchambermusic.org. Baritone RAYMOND FEENER and pianist NATALIA RIVERA perform at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/ calendar.aspx.
MONDAY, NOV. 23
A PIANO RECITAL is held at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
TUESDAY, NOV. 24
WINTER JAZZ NIGHT is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents Bruce Allen Scudder’s CHRISTMAS CAROLE, ANYTHING GOES, a musical adaptation of the much-loved tell of Ebenezer Scrooge’s yuletide redemption, tonight through Dec. 24. Dinner at 6 p.m.; brunch at noon, each featuring a themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $35-$55 plus tax, 6411212, alhambrajax.com. CHARLOTTE MABREY conducts the FALL PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE CONCERT at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
FRIDAY, NOV. 27
Rockers FORESHADOW and DENIED ‘TIL DEATH perform at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $TBD, jaxlive.com.
SATURDAY, NOV. 28
Reworking contemporary pop hits in the styles of jazz, ragtime and swing, SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $29.50-$39.50, floridatheatre.com. Acrobatic greats THE NATIONAL CIRCUS AND ACROBATS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: PEKING DREAMS perform at 3 p.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $26-$36, thcenter.org.
DULFER, and BILL MEDLEY, performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$75, floridatheatre.com.
Memphis alt-rock faves LUCERO perform at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $28 advance; $32 day of, pvconcerthall.com.
DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL, featuring everyone’s favorite green meanie’s diabolical plans for the holidays, is staged today through Dec. 6 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, artistseriesjax.org.
St. Augustine singer-songwriter SAM PACETTI performs at 7:30 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com.
The JU CHAMBER ENSEMBLES perform at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. DR. TASHER conducts the UNF CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA and continuo YUKINO MIYAKE in a performance of MESSIAH: A LOVE STORY at 7:30 p.m. University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $10, unf.edu/coas/music/ calendar.aspx. Hey rocker! Local daylong music festival THE BIG TICKET, featuring a lineup including TWENTY ONE PILOTS, OF MONSTERS AND MEN, WALK THE MOON, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, GLASS ANIMALS, ANDREW McMAHON, IN THE WILDERNESS, MUTEMATH, X AMBASSADORS, PVRIS, ROBERT DeLONG, SAINT MOTEL, COLEMAN HELL, BOOTS, and BORNS, kicks off at 1 p.m. at Metropolitan Park, 1410 Gator Bowl Blvd., Downtown, $25-$119, thebigticketfest.com.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2
A JAZZ COMBO CONCERT is featured at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. Rapper MAC MILLER performs with EARTHGANG, MICHAEL CHRISTMAS, and CHOO JACKSON at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 3552787, $27.50-$37.50, floridatheatre.com.
THURSDAY, DEC. 3
“Give yourself to the Woodwinds’ Side. It is the only way you can save your friends.” JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs THE MUSIC OF STAR WARS at 7:30 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 3545547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
FRIDAY, DEC. 4
Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents the comedic musical, CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS, about an older woman who recounts a tale to her greatgranddaughter about what it means to be an American during the holidays, at 8 p.m. tonight and Dec. 5, 11, 12, 18, and 19 and at 2 p.m. Dec. 13 and 20 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. Holiday faves are performed at the ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY CONCERT at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. The popular musical and holiday fave GODSPELL, based on the gospels, is staged today through Dec. 20 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $28 playersbythesea.org. The STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT is featured at 4 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
SATURDAY, DEC. 5
Led by Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton, the NICHOLAS PAYTON TRIO performs at 8 p.m. at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 8072010, $35-$40, ritzjacksonville.com. The University Singers, Chorale, and Men and Women’s Choirs are featured in MAKE WE JOY: SONGS OF THE SEASON at 7:30 p.m. at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. Virtuoso accordion player JULIEN LABRO and forwardthinking chamber ensemble SPEKTRAL QUARTET perform at 8 p.m. at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, $25; $10 for students, riversidefinearts.org.
Santa Claus goes on trial when Amelia Community Theatre stages the holiday classic, MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, about Kris Kringle’s believers and naysayers, today through Dec. 19 at 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 2616749, $20; $10 students, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.
JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs PIXAR IN CONCERT, which blends symphonic music with clips from 14 popular PIXAR films, at 7:30 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
Amelia Musical Playhouse presents its stage adaptation of E.B. White’s CHARLOTTE’S WEB, about Wilbur the pig and his friendship with a spider named Charlotte, today through Dec. 19 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina Beach, 277-3455, $20, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.
The UNF CHAMBER SINGERS and CHAMBER ORCHESTRA with STUDENT SOLOISTS perform favorites from THE MESSIAH at 3 p.m. and the full performance tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/ calendar.aspx.
Emmy-nominated comedian and late night great CRAIG FERGUSON performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $29.50-$59.50, floridatheatre.com.
DR. ERIN BENNETT coordinates a PIANO PLAY-OFF CONCERT at 7:30 p.m. at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/ music/calendar.aspx.
Looper dude ZACH DEPUTY performs at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $15 advance; $20 day of, freebirdlive.com.
Jazz up those “Jingle Bells.” Saxophonist DAVE KOZ CHRISTMAS TOUR, with JONATHAN BUTLER, CANDY
A veteran of Last Comic Standing, comedian ROD MAN appears at 8 p.m. tonight and 8 and 10 p.m. Dec. 4 and 5 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 2924242, $25-$30, comedyzone.com.
The NORTH FLORIDA WOMEN’S CHORALE performs CAROLS NEW & OLD at 3 p.m. at Peace Presbyterian Church, 2300 Southside Blvd., Southside, womenschorale.org.
SUNDAY, NOV. 29
Scottish rockers WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS play at 8 p.m. at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, underbellylive.com. Country legend RONNIE MILSAP plays at 7 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $36-$56, floridatheatre.com.
MONDAY, NOV. 30
DECEMBER TUESDAY, DEC. 1
SUNDAY, DEC. 6
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Annual festival features an impressive roster of international films
Linda Hoaglund’s animated fantasy film The Wound and the Gift screens at this year’s festival.
GLOBAL FOCUS WITH A MISSION “TO SUPPORT ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS OF ALL ages and all abilities to create, inspire and share their work with each other and the world,” this year’s World Arts Film Festival features more than 100 films screened over three days. “We wanted to create a venue that inspires established and first-time filmmakers to meet and mentor each other and their audiences,” says Karen Douglass Sadler, the Festival’s founder and a director who has lived in Northeast Florida since 1997 and currently splits her time between Riverside and New York City. “We work to bring high-quality and engaging programming for all ages and abilities to the screen in Downtown Jacksonville,” Sadler explains. “The festival has a global outreach inviting filmmakers to present their work here, a focus on communication that educates and connects cultures from around the world through the arts.” The festival, now in its third year, is slated for Thursday, Oct. 15 through Saturday, Oct. 17 at Downtown’s Main Library. It will also feature panels, workshops, industry guests, art exhibits, receptions, and awards. Some of the guests and speakers this year include Michael Hausman, producer and director known for his work on Brokeback Mountain and Gangs of New York, local Peabody Awardwinning radio host Al Letson, Art Institute of Jacksonville professor and director-writer Nadia Ramoutar, as well as animator and illustrator Dani Bowman. World Arts Film Festival is produced in collaboration with World Arts Education, a nonprofit organization that supports diverse and inclusive arts and education programs around the globe. Last year’s festival was featured in a cover story in Folio Weekly. “The film work created in World Arts’ workshops are invited to show at the festival,” says Sadler. “The collaboration created a platform that was not previously available to young filmmakers. The educational community has welcomed this new opportunity for students to learn through filmmaking.” A few of the films that will be presented this year include The Wound and The Gift (Linda Hoaglund, director), an animated Japanese folktale and documentary woven together on the screen, Fugu and Tako (Ben West, director), a comedy told through the use of visual effects, and The Fragrance Thief (Tanmaya Shekhar, writer-director), a whimsical love story. “The festival has a global outreach inviting filmmakers to present their work here,” Sadler explains, “offering a focus on communication that educates and connects cultures from around the world through the arts.” Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com ___________________________________________________________________________ The World Arts Film Festival is held Oct. 15-17 at Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, worldartsfilmfestival.org 26 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015
PERFORMANCE + EVENT LISTING Southern hip-hop dude Nathan Conrad, aka SPOKEN NERD, performs with QUIET ENTERTAINER at 8 p.m. at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com. “Carry on my wayward son … ” and come see classic rock greats KANSAS who perform at 7:30 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $29$59, floridatheatre.com.
TUESDAY, DEC. 8
WINTER BAND CONCERT is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9
Guitarist TAYLOR ROBERTS is featured 7-10 p.m. tonight and every Wednesday and Thursday at Ocean 60, 60 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-0060, ocean60.com.
THURSDAY, DEC. 10
EDM acts BEACHES AND BA$$, D3TAY, GEOSHUA JAMES, BRAINREK, LIGHTS OUT, and SKINNY GENES perform at 8 p.m. at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $10 advance; $15 day of, freebirdlive.com.
FRIDAY, DEC. 11
Legendary singer-songwriter (and sometimes actor!) LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III performs with MELISSA FERRICK at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $35-$40, pvconcerthall.com. The CINEMATIC ARTS WINTER SHOWCASE is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. A couple struggles to produce a church Christmas pageant featuring a cast of unruly kids in THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, staged today through Jan. 3 (no shows Dec. 24 & 25) at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $26; $24 for seniors, $20 military and students, limelight-theatre.org. The ST. AUGUSTINE ORCHESTRA performs at 8 p.m. at the Lightner Museum, 75 King St., St. Augustine, 824-2874, staugustineorchestra.org. JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs HOLIDAY POPS, featuring heartwarming holiday favorites, today at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., at 8 p.m. Dec. 12 and at 3 p.m. Dec. 13 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 3545547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
SATURDAY, DEC. 12
The ST. AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY CHORUS performs its concert CHRISTMAS TABLEAUX at 7:45 p.m. at Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, 38 Cathedral Place, staugustinecommunitychorus.org. BETTER THAN EZRA frontman KEVIN GRIFFIN performs at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $32-$36, pvconcerthall.com.
SUNDAY, DEC. 13
Comedy fave BRIAN REGAN performs at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $45, floridatheatre.com. ANCIENT CITY BRASS perform at 3 p.m. at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com. Alumni members of the FIRST COAST WIND ENSEMBLE and the DON THOMPSON CHORALE perform the SOUNDS OF THE SEASON concert at 7:30 p.m. at The Bolles School Bartram Campus Auditorium, 2264 Bartram Rd., Southside, fcwe.org.
TUESDAY, DEC. 15
Let’s put the “X” in Xmas! A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS features the film director-raconteur-guru-of-tastelessness ruminate in a vulgar way on the holidays at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39-$100, floridatheatre.com. The WINTER ORCHESTRA CONCERTO is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16
The SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT is featured at 7:30 p.m. at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 797-2800, $35, emmaconcerts.com. THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and vocalist LAURA WOYASZ perform the HOLIDAY POPS CONCERT tonight and Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, 797-2800, $35, emmaconcerts.com.
THURSDAY, DEC. 17
Well, rama lama ding dong. Break out the mistletoe and Brylcreem, BOWZER’S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HOLIDAY PARTY
Best-selling author, actor, radio personality, and aggro comedian JIM NORTON appears Nov. 19-21 at The Comedy Zone. features the former Sha Na Na vocalist, JAY SIEGEL’S TOKENS and FREDDY BOOM BOOM CANNON tearing through some classic Oldies, at 7:30 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35$65, floridatheatre.com.
FRIDAY, DEC. 18
Ashlynn, Bredia, Grant, and Matt, aka KIDZ BOP LIVE, bring their kid-geared tunes town at 7 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $25, floridatheatre.com. A tradition for 40 years, JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents FIRST COAST NUTCRACKER, featuring local dancers joining the symphony in staging Tchaikovsky’s magical Christmas tale, today at 8 p.m., and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 19, and 2 p.m. Oct. 20 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org. Progressive hip-hop-reggae artist MATISYAHU performs tonight and Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $37.50$49.50 (each night), pvconcerthall.com.
SATURDAY, DEC. 19
Five-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist MICHAEL McDONALD performs THIS CHRISTMAS, AN EVENING OF HOLIDAY HITS at 8 p.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $43-$297, thcenter.org. THE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORUS performs with THE RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS in the COOL SIDE OF YULETIDE HOLIDAY CONCERT today at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church, 4001 Hendricks Ave., San Marco. For more info on show time and tickets, go to jaxchildrenschorus.org.
TUESDAY, DEC. 22
Vocal group THE TEN TENORS, who have sold a staggering 90 million albums, bring their HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS tour to town at 8 p.m. at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$65, floridatheatre.com. Contemporary blues guitarist CHRIS DUARTE performs at 7:30 p.m. at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com.
SATURDAY, DEC. 26
Magician MIKE SUPER presents MAGIC AND ILLUSION at 7 p.m. at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $16-$44, thcenter.org.
SUNDAY, DEC. 27
SCHOLARSHIP LAUREATES perform at 3 p.m. at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com.
TUESDAY, DEC. 29
THE COMEDY ZONE ALL-STARS, featuring a different mix of local and upcoming comedians every Tuesday and Wednesday, perform at 8 p.m. tonight at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30
Jam band favorites DONNA THE BUFFALO performs at 8 p.m. at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 209-0399, $22, pvconcerthall.com.
THURSDAY, DEC. 31
JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents its annual (and year-end) TOAST TO THE NEW YEAR!, featuring music, champagne, dancing and fireworks, at 9 p.m. at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., Downtown, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org.
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A&E // FILM New documentary chronicles the combative late-’60s debates between two of the great 20TH-CENTURY PUNDITS
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t had all the makings of a heavyweight showdown: Two titans, luminaries in their fields with huge followings, squaring off for 10 rounds, fighting tooth and nail for the crown. Not boxers — they were political pundits. Instead of gloves, they used words. And instead of shaking hands after a wellfought battle, their mutual hatred continued until their deaths more than 40 years later. The combatants — William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal — represented opposing ways of life, averse cultures, contrary points of view, which is why fledgling ABC News hired them to debate one another during the Republican and Democratic national conventions in the summer of 1968. While the ratings-leading CBS and NBC presented the conventions in full, ABC offered snippets of the conventions and the Buckley/Vidal debates. In doing so and finding great success, ABC created the “talking head” punditry that’s pervasive in television news programming today. Buckley was a Republican — monotone, droll, intellectual and razor-sharp, editor of the National Review magazine and forerunner of cultural conservatism as we know it today. He felt Vidal represented everything that was wrong with the United States, and didn’t hide his disdain for his counterpart.
A RAND OLD TIME I READ AYN RAND’S MASSIVE NOVEL ATLAS Shrugged during my second year in college and thought I would never get through John Galt’s 100-page-plus speech near the end. So I had (and have) absolutely no desire to see the recent film trilogy (2011-’14) based on the book, each with a no-name cast and lackluster talent behind the camera. To be fair, though, I do remember thinking that the novel was OK science-fiction, reminding me more than anything of Robert Heinlein on a rant. My other experience with Ayn Rand was by way of the movies, specifically The Fountainhead (1949), which I saw for the fi rst time on TV in the 1960s. Gary Cooper was terrific, I remember, as was the stylized look of the film and its striking use of black-and-white design, reminiscent of the early German expressionists (like Fritz Lang) whom I was in the process of discovering. Stopped at a traffic light just the other day, I was totally surprised by the license frame on the car in front of me, which proclaimed “The Ayn Rand Institute” on top with the web address on the bottom. I hadn’t even known there was such a thing! Stupid me, of course. In a culture where people subscribe to Scientology as a religion, Rand’s objectivist philosophy makes incomparably better sense. Nonetheless, I was intrigued enough to revisit the film version of The Fountainhead, the critical reputation of which has risen over time. And I
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In contrast, Vidal was a Democrat, a cousin of Vidal and Buckley, respectively. Further of Jackie Onassis, more animated, a novelist, background into when Buckley and Vidal’s thinker, and brilliant wordsmith who felt the paths crossed prior to the debate, how they intellectual with the Boston Brahmin accent prepared, and the years of dissension that was anti-Democratic, and feared if he didn’t followed the debates paint this rivalry as one take Buckley down, Buckley’s ideas would of the most passionate and deep-seated in ruin the country. Buckley and Vidal didn’t recent memory. To their credit, Gordon and just dislike one another; they passionately Neville avoid political commentary by not despised the other and everything he stood taking sides with either combatant, choosing for. Note how Vidal’s approach in the debates to focus on the fight itself rather than the was to attack Buckley the man, not issues at hand. This was a smart conservatives in general. Vidal felt move, as our own previously BEST OF if he could take down the man, the held political allegiances will movement would follow. likely present an inherent bias ENEMIES that will prompt us to pull for What’s interesting in watching ***@ one man over the other. pieces of each debate is that Rated R Who won the debates? That’s Buckley and Vidal rarely offer debatable, though one man clearly worthwhile insight into the issues stoops to a lower level than the other. One at hand. Instead, they far too often interrupt, could argue that Buckley won because Nixon provoke and jab at one another without mercy, was ultimately elected in ’68, defeating the which makes it a personal pissing match sitting vice president and Democratic nominee rather than the high-minded discussion of Hubert H. Humphrey in one of the closest sociopolitical issues ABC envisioned. elections in U.S. history. In truth, the only For perspective, directors Robert Gordon clear winner was ABC and TV news, which and Morgan Neville include commentary discovered a new and popular format that from Dick Cavett, author Christopher continues to evolve. Hitchens, editor Matt Tyrnauer, and more, Dan Hudak and they employ John Lithgow and Kelsey mail@folioweekly.com Grammer to read selections from the writings wasn’t disappointed. Scripted by Rand herself, the film is directed with style by King Vidor, whose career included classic silent films like The Big Parade (1925) and The Crowd (1928) as well as more contemporary hits like Northwest Passage (’40) and Duel in the Sun (’46). As the superhero Howard Roark, an architectural genius of uncompromising integrity and will, Cooper was also the physical embodiment of Rand’s ideal man. Newcomer Patricia Neal, who got the coveted part of Roark’s love interest over many other stars of the time, fell under Cooper’s spell as well, embarking on a passionate love affair that spilled over into the press. Cooper had the reputation of sleeping with just about all his leading ladies, but the relationship with Neal (20 years younger than he) proved more serious than others, even threatening his long marriage before he and Neal fi nally broke it off. She would shortly marry British author Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) in 1953 and win the Oscar for Best Actress in Hud opposite Paul Newman in 1964. But in 1951, while Cooper was filming High Noon (which would get him a second Oscar) and bedding costar Grace Kelly on the side, he and Neal were still an item. Gossip aside, however, the film version of The Fountainhead endures today because of the
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movie’s visual dynamics, particularly as embodied in Cooper and Neal. Rand’s screenplay reads more like a checklist of conflicting ideals spouted either by the collectivists (the bad guys) or the individualists (the heroes). Howard Roark’s sevenminute courtroom speech near the film’s end (the longest such speech in film history up to that time) reflects Rand’s passionate integrity, no doubt, but it’s still clunky. Vidor wanted to cut it, but Rand threatened to leave the project if one word was omitted. He relented. Whether the film is better than the book, like one contemporary reviewer suggested, is of course up to the individual, as even Ayn Rand and Howard Roark might grudgingly admit. This time, anyway, I’ll take Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal over words on a page.
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SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN
SUN-RAY CINEMA Meru, The Gift, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, and Listen to Me Marlon screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. 3 and 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets, a powerful documentary about the murder of Jordan Davis, runs Sept. 9 and 10. Call Me Lucky with Bobcat Goldthwait runs Sept. 10. Sundance Shorts and Best of Enemies start Sept. 11. Writers Workshop is Sept. 12. THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ The Secret in Their Eyes and Slow West screen at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Barbarella with Jane Fonda
screens noon Sept. 10; World Trade Center is noon Sept. 11. LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Avengers: Age of Ultron and Tomorrow Land screen at Latitude 360’s CineGrille, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. IMAX THEATER Living in the Age of Airplanes, The Trandporter Refueled, Galapagos 3D and Humpback Whales screen at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.
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AMERICAN ULTRA **@@ Rated R The ending is immediately revealed and we work back to that dramatic moment. Not only do we learn where the protagonist, Mike (Jesse Eisenberg), will end up, director Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) gives a reversechronological rapidly edited flashback of moments all the way back to three days earlier. Nourizadeh hopes we’ll get hooked seeing a battered and bruised Mike in handcuffs, interrogated in a brightly lit room, followed by close-ups of random pictures. Mike is a longhaired stoner slacker, girlfriend
Phoebe (Kristen Stewart) accepts him for who he is. Nothing interesting until Mike kills two dudes outside the grocery store where he works. Then we find out Mike was the subject of a failed CIA experiment to create a super-agent, and now he’s in danger. Victoria (Connie Britton) began the now-dormant program, and CIA ladder-climber Adrian (Topher Grace) has swooped in to clean up her mess. Victoria “activates” Mike so he can defend himself against Adrian’s assassins. ANT-MAN ***@ Rated PG-13 Marvel Studios’ super-hero feature stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, whose alter-ego is the teeny crusader against evil … sort of. Costars Michael Douglas as scientist Hank Pym and Abby Ryder Fortson as Scott’s daughter Cassie, plus Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña and Judy Greer. — Scott Renshaw BEST OF ENEMIES ***@ Rated R Reviewed in this issue. THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL Rated R The arthouse flick casts Kristen Wiig as a negligent mother in ’70s San
Francisco and Bel Powley as her daughter Minnie, a 15-yearold who is sexually active. Costars Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni and Domino the Cat. THE END OF THE TOUR ***@ Rated R James Ponsoldt’s film deals with author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg). Wallace’s 2008 suicide frames the story, as Lipsky hears about his death, and begins rummaging through taped interviews from the five days he spent with Wallace in 1996, assigned by Rolling Stone to write a profile of the celebrated writer as Wallace wrapped up his publicity tour for Infinite Jest. Segel and Eisenberg capture their interplay well in what is essentially a two-hander built around their conversations. — S.R. HITMAN: AGENT 47 Rated R A genetically engineered assassin with a barcode on his neck (Rupert Friend) teams with a woman to destroy an evil megacorporation. Costars Zachary Quinto, Angelababy and Dan Bakkedahl. JIMMY’S HALL Rated PG-13 Depression-era Irish upheaval gives way to violence and the reemergence of a dance hall that’s apparently frowned upon. Costars Barry Ward, Francis Magee and Aileen Henry. They shoot lame dramas, don’t they? THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. **G@ Rated PG-13 Co-writer/director Guy Ritchie’s film stars Henry Cavill as CIA agent Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer as KGB agent Illya Kuryakin, working together during the Cold War. A mutual enemy has enriched uranium to make nuclear bombs, and they think uranium is in the facility. Napoleon’s official responsibility is to investigate Victoria (Elizabeth Debicki) and Alexander (Luca Calvani) Vinciguerra, who run a shipping company as a front for production of the bomb. — Dan Hudak MISTRESS AMERICA ***@ Rated R Reviewed in this issue. 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN Rated PG-13 No, not that closet makeout game you played in middle school (and you secretly believe that JTT-looking dude still waits there for you) – this is about a man who dies in a car crash and then comes back to life with tales of you-know-where. Costars Kate Bosworth, Hayden Christensen and Hudson Meek. THE PERFECT GUY Rated PG-13 If the man seems almost too good to be true, GET A CLUE. He’s a lifetime mistake just waiting for you to make a scrapbook about him. Costars Sanaa Latham, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut and Charles S. Dutton. PIXELS ***@ Rated PG-13 In 1982, the U.S. sent a space probe time capsule – with some arcade games – into orbit. Extraterrestrials thought it was a declaration of war. Now Earth is being attacked by Galaga, Centipede, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Defender, etc. Early ’80s video champs Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Kevin James, Ashley Benson and Michelle Monaghan. Cameos by Sean Bean, Serena Williams, Dan Aykroyd and Jane Krakowski. — D.H. RICKI AND THE FLASH **@@ Rated PG-13 Meryl Streep is Ricki Randazzo, a mother of three who 20 years ago decided to be in a rock ’n’ roll cover band. Her ex, Pete (Kevin Kline) married Maureen (Audra McDonald). Son Josh (Sebastian Stan) is engaged to Emily (Hailey Gates) and seems well-adjusted; son Adam (Nick Westrate) hates his mom. Ricki comes home after Pete calls about their daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer, Streep’s real daughter), whose husband just left her for another woman. Actual musician Rick Springfield, guitarist in the band and Ricki’s love, costars. — D.H. SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE Rated PG The Wallace & Gromit scene-stealer ends up in the city and has to find his way back to more comfortable surroundings. — S.S. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON ***@ Rated R This film has grit, universal appeal and the conviction to tell the story of rap group N.W.A. with startling candor, from vast success to internal dissension to heartbreak. In 1986, N.W.A. burst onto the scene with breakthrough album Straight Outta Compton. “Our art is a reflection of our reality,” founding member Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) says and, true to form, the group’s daily lives surrounded by gangs, drugs, abusive cops, and other dangers are inspiration for N.W.A.’s music. After the hit song “Boyzn-the-Hood” drops, the group – Ice Cube, Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) and MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) – is signed by Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti). — D.H. THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED Rated PG-13 Ed Skrein plays Frank Martin, ex-special ops mercenary who delivers packages. Beautiful women, high-stakes chess games with more beautiful women, and a bank heist, Russian bad guys and Frank’s dad comingle in this confusing crime thriller. THE VISIT Rated PG-13 M. Night Shyamalan is back with a creepy thriller/comedy about two kids who go to grandma’s and peculiar hilarity ensues. One of the characters is called Pop Pop, a term of endearment we were taught was peculiar and “not done” but we thought it was hilarious. A WALK IN THE WOODS Rated R Based on Bill Bryson’s bestseller. Two friends hike the Appalachian Trail. Costars Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS Rated R Serious peer pressure. A wannabe DJ (Zac Efron) has tough life-altering decisions.
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A&E // FILM
Noah Baumbach’s latest is an enjoyable take on a buddy picture for MILLENNIALS
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istress America is about two people who that begins with a focus on Tracy and then dream of wild success but have no idea switches almost entirely to Brooke. The story how to achieve it. Worse, they lack the also strains credibility at times, and some of stick-to-itiveness to dedicate themselves to the characters are archetypes, but overall it’s an figuring out how to achieve it, and as such, effectively funny and timely tale of lost souls writer/director Noah Baumbach’s (While We’re who think they find something in each other Young) film becomes a fascinating look at today’s only to be left with questionable results. young adults and why — due to personal, This story would be nothing without its cultural and technological factors — many can’t actors, and they are superb. Gerwig, who coseem to navigate their way to success. wrote the script with Baumbach, is a delight We expect Tracy (Lola Kirke) to be a bit as the flaky enchantress who unwittingly lost. She’s a lonely college freshman who becomes Tracy’s salvation. Kirke is fine as feels like an outcast. She wants to be a writer, the impressionable Tracy, and the two are but lacks the knowledge and inspiration to surrounded by supporting players who click do quality work. When she gets a crush on with an easy chemistry. Indeed, as the latter Tony (Matthew Shear), she thinks the feeling half of the film plays out inside a house, you is mutual until one day he shows up with can almost feel the ease with which the actors girlfriend Nicolette (Jasmine inhabit the same space, promptly Cephas Jones) whom he met hitting their cues and delivering MISTRESS after he started hanging out with lines with alacrity. It’s an absolute AMERICA Tracy. So, yes, Tracy is that girl: joy to watch. The disaffected, lovelorn, dowdy, In the past, Baumbach has ***@ Rated R intelligent, and deep-down nice eagerly presented the angst person the world either ignores of middle-class Americans or eats up and spits out. but fallen short of making a Unable to make friends in her New York real commentary on the issues he presents. City dorm, Tracy starts hanging out with her Here the message is clear: Today’s youth future sister-in-law Brooke (Greta Gerwig), is conditioned to be superficial, to treat a free-spirited dreamer who does (and has everything as if it’s fleeting, to treat all done) a little bit of everything. Brooke is communication like a text and all quests the type of person who says everything she for knowledge like a Google search. The thinks, even when thoughts as random as byproduct of this is a whole population of SAT tutoring, religion and geology are voiced young adults who understand in theory how to within minutes of one another. Her latest idea be a grownup, but don’t know how to actually is to open a restaurant for her fellow NYC conduct themselves as grownups. The vapidbohemians even though she doesn’t cook. yet-pleasant result of this? Brooke, and it’s the She’s engaging and a joy to be around, but path Tracy is headed toward as well. completely scattered and a bit manic. That said, Mistress America isn’t a biting In Brooke, Tracy secretly finds a writing commentary on the detritus of American muse and, more important, discovers a vitality youth and the dystopian future that awaits. and joy of life she hadn’t experienced. Their Baumbach’s touch is lighter than that, interactions are humorous, contemplative appropriately subtle in a way that’s both and compelling, as Baumbach deftly finds the relatable and thought-provoking. The result haughty nothingness of a young generation is that Mistress America is funnier and more that hasn’t accomplished much but is enjoyable than most of Baumbach’s previous convinced it will conquer the world. work, which is to say, it’s worth seeing. The film is not perfect. An 84-minute run Dan Hudak time is far too short for a misshapened story mail@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 31
ARTS + EVENTS
An exhibit of Scherenschnitte, or German paper cut art, by KATHRYN CARR is currently on display through Sept. at Amiro Art & Found in St. Augustine.
PERFORMANCE
WORKING Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre stages the musical based on Studs Terkel’s book, 8 p.m. Sept. 11, 12, 18 & 19; 2 p.m. Sept. 13 and 20 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, $20, abettheatre.com. LUCKY STIFF Orange Park Community Theatre stages the murder-mystery musical, about a shoe clerk in a crazy mix of a dead body, a mistress, her brother and too many dogs, 8 p.m. Sept. 11; noon and 3 p.m. Sept. 13 at 2900 Moody Ave., 276-2599, $25; play runs through Oct. 4, opct.org. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Fernandina Little Theatre stages a radio play of Agatha Christie’s novel, about 10 strangers lured to a desert island under false pretexts, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12 at 1014 Beech St., Fernandina Beach, 277-2202, $12, ameliaflt.org. GAIL BLISS & THE NASHVILLE BARN DANCE The six-piece band plays songs by Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Ray Price, and Tammy Wynette and George Jones, 8 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12 (dinner 6 p.m.); 1:30 p.m. Sept. 13 (brunch 11 a.m.), and at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 (lunch at noon); themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $64 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents a stage adaptation based on the 1980 smart, funny film about three women – an overworked office manager, a jilted wife, and a sexually harassed secretary – who pay back their sexist, martinet boss, Sept. 16-Oct. 10. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch at noon, with Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu; Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., $38-$75 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
ROOT SIGNALS ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL The second annual festival has more than 70 national and European musicians working in electronic music and media art, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10, 11 and 12 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. LISA KELLY & J.B. SCOTT Jazz vocalist Kelly and trumpeter Scott perform with UNF Jazz Ensemble 1, 7 p.m. Sept. 10 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. CHORUS PEACE CONCERT The annual September Peace Concert, with UNF Chamber Singers, Atlantic Coast Honor Chorus, DASOTA Concert Chorale, and Jacksonville Children’s Chorus, is 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. CLASSICAL MUSIC Violist Peter Dutilly and pianist Galen Dean Pieskee play 3 p.m. Sept. 13 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic.blogspot.com. CHINESE MUSIC Wu Yue-Yue, professor of music at Changsha Normal University, plays the Er-Hu, a traditional Chinese instrument, at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.
COMEDY
BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT Comedy legend Goldthwait, who’s segued from standup to filmmaking and back to the stage, performs at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Sept. 11 and Sept. 12 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., 646-4277, $20-$25, jacksonvillecomedy.com. DOV DAVIDOFF Comedian Davidoff, who’s been on Chappelle’s Show and Whitney, is on 8 p.m. Sept. 10; 8 and 10 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $15-$18 comedyzone.com. STEVE MINGOLLA Mingolla, of Comedy Central and Showtime, is on 7:30 and 10 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, $15, latitude360.com.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
WEDNESDAY MARKET Local produce, arts, crafts, clothing, foods, live music, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 9 and every Wed. at St. Johns Pier Park, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Baked goods, crafts, art, handcrafted jewelry, 4-7 p.m. every Wed., 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, 607-9935. DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts & crafts, local produce,
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10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 11 and every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188. FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK Tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is Sept. 11, with more than 15 galleries, 829-0065. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local & regional art, free yoga 9-10 a.m. – Jesse Montoya, Complicated Animals, Fjord Explorer 10:30 a.m. Sept. 12 – food artists and a farmers’ row, 10 a.m.4 p.m. every Sat. under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.
MUSEUMS
AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. Florida in WWII, through September. It Came from the Attic: Local War Memorabilia Collections is on display through November. Open daily; $7 adults, $4 students/active military. AMERICAN BEACH MUSEUM Community Center, 1600 Julia St., Fernandina, 277-7960, nassaucountyfl.com/facilities. The Sands of Time: An American Beach Story, celebrating MaVynee Betsch, “The Beach Lady,” is on display. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Hblanton2-Heather & Holly Blanton is on display through Oct. 4. An opening reception for the exhibit Waiting on the Train is held 4-7 p.m. Sept. 10. Iditarod musher Jason Mackey discusses the traditional Alaskan sled dog race, 2-4 p.m. Sept. 12. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. Whitfield Lovell: Deep River, through Sept. 13. Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River, through Oct. 18. All Together: The Sculpture of Chaim Gross, through Oct. 4. British Watercolors exhibits through Nov. 29. Public garden tours 11 a.m. every Tue. and Thur. Free admission 4-9 p.m. every Tue., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every first Sat. KARPELES Manuscript Museum 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992. Drew Edward Hunter’s exhibit SPECTRUM II is on display through October. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. Avery Lawrence: Live in Jacksonville, through Nov. 22. Unmasked: Art with a Heart in Healthcare, through Dec. 6. Project Atrium: Joelle Dietrick, through Oct. 25. Free admission 4-9 p.m. every Thur. through the summer. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Grandparents Day is celebrated Sept. 12, with free admission 10 a.m.-4 p.m., crafts, games and activities.
GALLERIES
ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828, coab.us. Kandace “K-Ci” Diamond is the September featured artist. An opening reception for the exhibit of her new works is held 5:30-9 p.m. Sept. 17. ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 N. University Blvd., Arlington, 256-7371, ju.edu. The exhibits Ryan Buyssens – Recent Works and McArthur Freeman: Strange Figurations are on display through September. AMIRO ART & FOUND 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460, amiroartandfound.com. Kathryn Carr’s Scherenschnitte, German paper cut art, through September. BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. The exhibit True Beauty is Forever – The Art of Eberth Perez, featuring oil paintings by local artist Perez, is on display through Sept. 29. C.A.S.K. Wine Shop & Bar 1049 Park St., Riverside, 568-1828. An exhibit of new prints by Margete Griffin is on display. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum. OBELISK ART 450, obelisks painted by 25 local, regional, and international artists, displays through Sept. 18. The obelisks then display Oct. 2-Jan. 31 at sites in downtown St. Augustine. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. The exhibit Symphony of Color – Paintings by Anthony Whiting is on display through Oct. 20. HAWTHORN SALON 1011 Park St., Riverside, 619-3092, hawthornsalon.com. Danger Tape presents the Lily Kuonen exhibit Playntings [Un]Covered through Nov. 21.
HUBLEY GALLERY 804 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 429-9769, hubleygallery.com. Jim Christley’s watercolors, Kathleen Doughtery’s pottery, Denise Choppin’s acrylics, through Sept. J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery.com. An opening reception for Bloom, natureinspired works by Joan Bankemper, Carolyn Brady, Nathalia Edenmont, Mira Lehr, Joseph Raffael, and Robert Zakanitch, is 6-8 p.m. Sept. 11. The exhibit is on display through Nov. 5. LUFRANO INTERCULTURAL GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, Student Union Bldg. 58 E., Ste. 2401, Southside, 620-2475, unf.edu/ gallery. Lida, Paintings by Franklin Matthews is on display through Dec. 11. An opening reception is 5-7 p.m. Sept. 16. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. Photographs by Kenneth M. Barrett Jr. display through Oct. 22. SOUTH CAMPUS GALLERY Wilson Center for the Arts, FSCJ, 11901 Beach Blvd., 646-2354, fscj.edu/wilsoncenter. Douglas J. Eng’s Streaming South: Illuminations from a Journey Home, through Sept. 16. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. Sum Total, featuring UNF Photography faculty members Alex Diaz, Paul Karabinis, Kelly Malcom, Christopher Trice, displays in UNF ArtSPACE. Dee Roberts, Princess Rashid and Overstreet Ducasse are the featured artists for the month. SPACE:EIGHT 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838, spaceeight.com. Extended Playbook, a collaborative exhibit featuring Atlanta artists George Long, Jessica Caldas, Mario Schambon, William Downs, Adrian Barzaga, Mike Stasny, and Erin Michelle Vaiskauckas, is featured through Dec. 3. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. Celebrate St. Augustine, through Sept. 28. Lisa O’Neil’s large scale painting Restless Hearts, commemorating the city’s 450th anniversary, displays through Sept. 27. ST. AUGUSTINE VISITOR INFORMATION CENTER 10 W. Castillo Dr., 825-1053, staugustine-450/tapestry. Tapestry: The Cultural Threads of First America, which explores cultures of Hispanics, Africans and Native Americans, through Oct. 4. VANDROFF ART GALLERY Jewish Community Alliance, 8505 San Jose Blvd., Jacksonville, 730-2100, jcajax.org. Recent works by The First Coast Pastel Society show through Sept. 30.
EVENTS
AMERICAN FLORISTS CONVENTION The 131st annual event of 400 national wholesale florists, floral designers, and flower growers includes an Outstanding Flower Varieties Competition, 9:30 a.m. Sept. 10 and 11 and Sylvia Cup Floral Design Competition, 9 a.m. Sept. 12; Ritz Carlton, 4759 Amelia Island Parkway, Fernandina Beach, 277-1100, aboutflowers.com. CALAVIDA ARTS FESTIVAL The four-day multicultural festival, with live music ranging from gospel and salsa to swing and rock, dance performances and lessons, antiques walk, dinner theater, puppet show, book-signing, storytelling, and fireworks, is Sept. 10-13, downtown Palatka sites; calavida.com. FREE TO BREATHE, RUN & WALK Jacksonville 5K Run & Walk starts 8 a.m. Sept. 12 at Jacksonville Landing, Downtown, $30; $20 for ages 12 and younger. Early registration $25; $15 for 12 and younger; ends Sept. 9. Proceeds benefit programs to raise lung cancer awareness, freetobreathe.org. KIDS’ ART EVENT Ronald Episcopo presents “From Music to Art Expression: Painting My Emotions” – kids hear opera music and express how it makes them feel – 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sept. 12 at The Art Center Cooperative, 2 Independent Dr., Ste. 139, Downtown, $5 per child, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org. PAL AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP Police Athletic League hosts its Amateur Boxing Championship, with 20 bouts for all ages and skill levels, 6 p.m. Sept. 12 at 3450 Monument Rd., in Ed Austin Regional Park, Arlington, 854-6555, $10-$20; proceeds benefit the boxing program for children in lowincome neighborhoods; jaxpal.com. ENDLESS SUMMER WATERMELON RIDE The Watermelon Ride offers cyclists of all levels to choose scenic routes of 21, 32, 55, 75 or 100 miles through Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Big and Little Talbot islands, and Fort George Island. Each cyclist gets pre-ride snacks, eight rest stops, detailed maps, mechanical support, motorcycle escorts, a post-ride barbecue lunch and, naturally, plenty of watermelon. The 100-mile ride starts at 7:45 a.m. (rest follow at 10-minute intervals) Sept. 13 at Atlantic Recreation Center, 2500 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach. Early registration $55 plus tax; $40 plus tax for members through Sept. 9; onsite $65 registration is available Sept. 13 and 14. Register at nfbc.us. LIBRARY BOOK SALE Ponte Vedra Branch Library holds its book sale 4:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 (members only); 10 a.m.7:30 p.m. Sept. 16; 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sept. 17 and 18, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 19 at 101 Library Blvd., 827-6950, sjcpls.org. WGHF CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS The World Golf Hall of Fame seeks museum volunteers at 1 World Golf Pl., St. Augustine. The experience includes offering guidance through current featured exhibits, such as “Honoring the Legacy: A Tribute to African-Americans in Golf,” explaining golf history and stories, answering questions and encouraging guests to take part in interactive museum activities. Training is provided. For details, call 940-4106 or go to worldgolfhalloffame.org. AMELIA RIVER CRUISES Adult Twilight BYOB Cruises held every Fri. and Sat., with live music – Yancy Clegg Sept. 11 and Dan Voll Sept. 12 – from Amelia River Cruises, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina Beach, 261-9972, ameliarivercruises.com. AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS/ALATEEN When you don’t know where to turn because someone drinks too much. Al-Anon and Alateen can help families and friends of alcoholics. Daily meetings throughout Northeast Florida. Call 904-350-0600 or go to jaxafg.org. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS If you think you have a drug problem, Narcotics Anonymous might be able to help. Daily meetings throughout Northeast Florida; go to serenitycoastna. org or firstcoastna.org. DEPRESSION/BIPOLAR SUPPORT The local chapter of the nonprofit Depression Bipolar Support Alliance meets 6-7:30 p.m. every Tue. at Baptist Hospital Pavilion, fifth floor, Rm. 3, 800 Prudential Dr., Southbank, dbsalliance.org. DAILY EVENTS AT HEMMING PARK Hemming Park offers free yoga, group fitness and live music, across from City Hall, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown; for schedule, go to hemmingpark.org/ hemming-park-events.
A&E // ARTS
GETTING THE LAST LAUGH
the woods [laughs] and that might’ve been the most defining moment of my life. You know, I’m probably influenced by black comedy in a life-threating way and it’s generally associated with authors like Céline, Burroughs, or Vonnegut, and surely Doug Kenney and all of those original National Lampoon writers. Growing up, were you into that kind of stuff ? Yeah, that was the kind of stuff I gravitated toward growing up. You know, I never really thought about that until now, as a guy who makes movies. But yeah, that was the best stuff. Because it might not have been other filmmakers who influenced me as much; it was probably really writers and people like that.
On the stage or behind the lens, BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT remains a sardonic threat to the status quo
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obcat Goldthwait is one of the more dangerous individuals in comedy. Onstage, onscreen, and behind the camera, Goldthwait has spent the past 30plus years sharpening his skills as a standup comedian and more recently, acclaimed filmmaker. That aforementioned danger comes into play in Goldthwait’s erudite, impulsive, volatile, and invariably dark-tinged ideas; especially in an age when hillbilly bureaucratic underlings are the gatekeepers of matrimony, a rancorous millionaire in longterm “toupee denial” is considered a viable presidential contender, and adults willingly play a game called “corn hole.” During his stage act, Goldthwait takes observational, everyday comedy and gleefully shoves it to the edge. To wit: fatherhood, celebrities, and fisting videos are all open game. Fans hoping that Goldthwait might dust off his crazed, Tab-swilling persona of the ’80s will be surely disappointed. Goldthwait killed off that character decades ago. Goldthwait’s filmmaking choices have been as unpredictable as his onstage riffing, and generally share the same mordant hue. Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) somehow merged bestiality with a rumination on relationships. World’s Greatest Dad (2009), starring Robin Williams in arguably one of his best performances, sinisterly satirizes the American desire for fame. Two years later, God Bless America starred Joel Murray as a man with terminal cancer who goes on a killing spree, spraying bullets at pop culture, politics, and religion. In 2013, Goldthwait tried his hand at horror, with the found-footage, Bigfoot flick Willow Creek. His latest, the documentary Call Me Lucky, tells the story of Goldthwait’s old friend and mentor, comedian Barry Crimmins. The film chronicles Crimmins’ decades-long influence on the contemporary comedy scene (he encouraged and guided countless standup artists from the ’70s onward), his survival from childhood sexual abuse, and evolution into a life of impassioned activism. Locals have a chance to see Goldthwait screen Call Me Lucky on Sept. 10 at Sun-Ray Cinema; on Sept. 11 and 12, they can check out his standup act when he performs two sets each night at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville. Folio Weekly spoke to Goldthwait at his home in Los Angeles — we talked about retired carnival folks, the defining moment of his life, and his affecting new film.
You’ll be here in Jacksonville for three nights. It seems like Florida offers you a cornucopia of material for standup. Are there any specific targets in the Sunshine State you plan to put in your crosshairs onstage?
Bobcat Goldthwait: I’m sure. You gotta kind of acknowledge the sunburned elephant in the room. But I actually do like Florida because it’s so crazy and weird. You have all kinds of people. It’s actually like an experiment that went awry: humidity, the melting pot, retirement … for God’s sake, that’s where carnival folks go to retire.
Have you ever considered writing a black comedy novel or short stories? Yeah, I haven’t worked through a novel, but I have some short stories. So yeah, I have and I’ve even compiled them and maybe someday I’ll do something with them. But I think like someone in my shoes, they usually do an autobiography and comedy books, but if I think that if I were to do it, I’d do a novel or short stories and they’d probably be like the tone of the movies I make.
When you first began transitioning from Speaking of, in 2005 you yourself went into writing for standup into writing for films, did semi-retirement. Why did you walk away you have any difficulty stretching out ideas from standup? into kind of a unified, slower narrative? Well, I was directing the Kimmel show and it You know, it took me a while to figure out was a fulltime job. I didn’t think I’d be coming different things about writing screenplays back to standup. But it wasn’t like I retired from and making movies versus writing standup, standup and the nation mourned: [laughs] “I’ll because it’s almost like you get misinformation. always remember where I was when Bobcat Because when I write a movie, I just kind of retired.” But I will say, I like how things are. I explore these central things and not get too get to do standup in between directing stuff. complicated. I can’t really explain it. I watch too You know, I work to make movies many comedies where everything and it’s a great way to be able to gets so big and so crazy, where BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT be a little more selective now in just one event in an episode or 8 and 10:30 p.m. Sept. 11 and 12, The Comedy my career choices versus when I one event in the movie would be Club of Jacksonville, was a younger man. fun to explore. But maybe I’m Southside, $20-$25, just a simple guy. [Laughs.] jacksonvillecomedy.com I think I was in my late teens, Goldthwait screens around the late ’80s, when I Call Me Lucky is getting some CALL ME LUCKY, first heard you speak “not in incredibly good reviews. It followed by Q&A, 9:10 p.m. Sept. 10, Sun-Ray character”; it actually kind seems like its power really Cinema, Riverside, $9.50; of weirded me out. Why did pivots on self-disclosure. $8 students, teachers, you decide to kill that Your good filmmaking aside military; $7 seniors, maniacal persona? [laughs], do you think part of sunraycinema.com You know, I spent hours and people’s receptiveness to the hours evolving that persona and as a performer, film is that we now live in an age when people are probably more comfortable to make these I know that a lot of people respond to that kinds of revelations? type of performance and … I don’t. [Laughs.] I think it’s striking a chord with people because I’m not one of them. You know, if people child abuse is more prevalent than we know. only knew you as a character it gets very It’s kind of like what we were just talking uncomfortable within your life, especially if you about: You could turn on daytime television want to make movies and have other things to and people could talk about these subjects. But do. I’m very busy and don’t have much time for in this movie, I explore the whole man and this nostalgia and I understand how people can be is a piece of him and I think it affects people sentimental, but at 53 to be doing that act I was harder. You know, if you have someone go on doing at 22 … the young me would come shoot me in the head. [Laughs.] a talk show, their message is just reduced to a sound bite, so you don’t see the whole person. It seems like your comedy has always leaned Someone could go on a talk show and disclose more toward black comedy than just straight something and it doesn’t really have an impact observational humor. What do you find on most people, other than what the media compelling about that approach? defines them as. You know, “I’m a victim.” Well, I think I lean toward just the way I think. And the film really doesn’t define Barry as It’s not like a decision. I remember as a little a victim and I think that might be why it’s boy, watching The Mike Douglas Show and connecting with people. I wanted to make the that show was always weird because he’d have movie where you empathize with him before these stoner culture guests on but he’d also the disclosure is revealed about his rapes as have these squares. But Monty Python were on a kid because I wasn’t really trying to do a and it was so cool, man. And they were going bait-and-switch. I wanted you to have the same nuts and I remember thinking, “That’s how relationship with Barry as I did when I found comedy should be.” But they showed the clip out about what had happened. from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Daniel A. Brown the knight is getting his arms chopped off in dbrown@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 33
A&E //ARTS Looming Ahead: Jennifer Hewett Apperson believes that the Jacksonville Weavers Guild helps carry on the fiber arts traditions
COMMON THREADS N ature only knows balance and imbalance. In a world obsessed with faster, faster, faster, grassroots movements focused on slowing down have taken firm root. “Slow Food” is just now gaining enough support to be a relatively common household term; “Slow Fashion” awaits its entrance cue. Locally, a small but growing fiber arts community brings together sewers, weavers, knitters, crocheters, felters, macramé crafters, and those who just like to spin yarn. Jennifer Hewett-Apperson is a member of the Jacksonville Weavers Guild, which hosts fiber arts programs and events, meeting regularly at Fort Caroline Community Center near Arlington. With a full calendar from September until May, the guild offers an opportunity for members to learn from the work of others. “Historically, textile crafts were passed down from mother to daughter,” says HewettApperson, “from generation to generation. And now, we don’t really have a need to do that anymore because of modernization and mechanization. We don’t get that same traditional passing-down through generations, and this guild is a way to keep that knowledge transfer going.” Historically, weaving was about pure function. Three hundred years ago, people wove out of necessity; every farm had a barn loom where blankets and linens were woven. Every society developed its own history and culture surrounding weaving, and yarn and cloth-making.
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Local weavers INTERTWINE THE FUNCTIONALITY of tradition with contemporary art
Weaving has ebbed and flowed over the years. A real resurgence took place in the 1970s with the rise of arts and crafts, the popularization of macramé, and the back-tothe-land movement. Modern-day weavers are bridging the divide between the traditional art form and its modern interpretation. There is still a strong cord of functionality that will always be a part of fiber arts, but more and more, fiber artists are taking their craft into the world of fine art. Erin Riley, a Philadelphia-based fiber artist, plays on the perception of traditional craft by weaving sexually suggestive and provocative self-portraits into tapestries that are increasingly being displayed on some of the most sought-after gallery walls. Locally, one of Jacksonville’s queen mothers of modern art, Memphis Wood (1902-’89), regularly deployed fiber arts as part of her arsenal of creative mediums. Tactile sculpture, tapestries alive with color, and explorations of new materials draw artists to the tactile medium, where they can bounce between functionality and aesthetics. “I firmly believe that art shouldn’t be just something you hang on your wall,” says Hewett-Apperson. “I think it is something you can incorporate into your everyday life, from what you’re wearing, what you’re carrying or just using. The fact that something is utilitarian doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful.” Keith Marks mail@folioweekly.com
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HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY
to be able to do it for more than one year, and promoters were pushing really hard to have alumni. They wanted me to have only people that played with Frank, and me be the only one that didn’t. That was not my idea at all. I didn’t like that concept, because that wasn’t the vision. My feeling was for this music to move forward into the future, you have to have a younger generation get into it, and you have to have a younger generation want to be able to play it. And they’re not going to be inspired to play it if the average age of everybody on stage is over 60. That’s just not going to fly.
DWEEZIL ZAPPA and his band celebrate the 40th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s One Size Fits All
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o Frank Zappa fans, the “hardcores” as it were, his music is the standard by which all other music is measured. These hardcores boast exhaustive collections of his music (on vinyl, bootlegged tapes and CDs, video archives and so on). They research minute details of Zappa’s folklore, make new connections in what Zappa called “conceptual continuity” (the many clues embedded in his music, cover art, movies, and interviews that connect everything he has ever done into one continuous piece of music he called “Project/ Object”) and argue over what it all means. Many of them — the elders, at least — have seen Zappa in concert several times; some have even been recognized by Zappa in song. They’ve traveled thousands of miles to attend these shows and consider their ticket stubs badges of honor, proof that they were present for the infamous Berlin incident or the Italian tear gas riot or the Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival or the fire at Montreux (yes, the one documented in Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water”). Oddly, these are not the people to whom Dweezil, Zappa’s oldest son, wants to appeal with his decade-old touring project Zappa Plays Zappa. He says he wants to cultivate a new audience for his dad’s extensive repertoire, turning young people on to the vast well of music spanning nearly 50 years and literally all styles of music — from avant garde and classical to rock, jazz, blues, fusion, and even rap (“Promiscuous”) and heavy metal (the posthumously completed “Dragon Master,” co-written with Dweezil, to be released on Dweezil’s upcoming solo record). The Zappa Family Trust recently released Frank Zappa’s last official album of all-new material, Dance Me This, bringing the total original Zappa releases to 100, unprecedented for a rock artist who died in his early 50s. Zappa Plays Zappa is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic Zappa album One Size Fits All on this tour, playing it from start to finish. Folio Weekly recently spoke with Dweezil about learning his father’s music, getting the kids into the act and the touchy subject of Zappa tribute bands. Folio Weekly: You took time off to prepare for Zappa Plays Zappa, learning your dad’s guitar style and getting the band together. How did that come together? Dweezil Zappa: First thing was, before I even put the band together, I studied the music for two years. Basically I had to unlearn everything I had already been doing for 30 years, and then just create a new way to do it. And that really was quite a challenge. In the two-year process, I was studying the music
and completely transformed how I approached playing guitar, not only from a technical standpoint, but also from a mental and visualization standpoint on the guitar, because Frank’s style of playing his solos was not the standard guitar-hero style of playing. So, not only did I have to learn all these hard parts of the music, I wanted to be able to learn the vocabulary of his improvisational style so that I could play in context to the music. It was a massive undertaking, which over the past 10 years has been a continuous thing. I learn new things all the time. You can listen to some of Frank’s music, and some new thing can be uncovered even if you’ve heard it a million times, you can be, like, “Wait, now I am just catching on to this part that is happening in there.” There are so many layers of detail in all of this stuff.
In July, the Zappa Family Trust announced an agreement with Universal Music Enterprises for licensing and distribution of new product. Your mother, Gail, and brother, Ahmet, said in a recent interview that this meant Joe’s Garage the musical, a performance of 200 Motels and, most significantly, The Roxy Movie would see release. Zappa hardcores have been waiting years for the release of Roxy, sustained by many continued promises by the Trust that it would soon be out. How realistic is the new proposed release date of “this October”? As far as I know, the film has been finished for a while. There’s just been no specific release set up for it. I do not know why. I guess they had to wait for a while to make sure this Universal deal got set up. I haven’t even seen the finished edit of the film, but I hear it’s done.
I have one more very personal question for you, if you are willing. In the interest of full disclosure, I used to play drums for the Zappa tribute band Bogus Pomp. When I played that music, I played with all the heart, passion and skill I could muster, because Frank’s music changed my life, yet the Zappa Family How many of those in the ZPZ audience Trust has frowned upon certain tribute bands are deeply familiar with Frank’s music, and reproducing Frank’s music. Do you share that how many are the newer people you want to view and, if so, why? appeal to? The thing I think that people get confused In general, there is a core fan that comes to about is that there is a certain sense of these shows who knows the material quite entitlement these days when it comes to well, but they’re not the kind of people that music. People think that music is basically are super-obsessive. Frank probably had a bit just supposed to be free and of a following at times in his anybody can use it. And career that, if somebody made ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA anybody can use anybody’s a mistake in the performance, 7 p.m. Sept. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $32 advance; name and just go out some deranged fan would $35 day of, pvconcerthall.com. and perform stuff. That’s come up to that musician later Master class with Dweezil the problem — there are and say, “You messed up bar Zappa is $75; details at performances that get set up, 38 in blah blah blah,” but we zappaplayszappa.com. and they use the name and don’t really get that. The thing likeness and [Frank’s] music, and all this stuff about it is, a lot of the intent is to be presenting that they don’t have the right to. People don’t this music to a new audience that’s not familiar go through the proper channels to get the with it at all, because if you really put it all proper permissions for it. into perspective, to core fans that grew up When it comes to when people rearrange on the music, who saw Frank play a lot, they stuff, and change the music so that it sounds would have been roughly the same age as him. nothing like the original, that’s also a problem, Some even older. So that puts them in the 70and 80-year-old category, and those are not but it also requires — first of all, if you’re going generally people who are racing out to concerts to do an arrangement of somebody’s music, these days. the arrangement is automatically owned by the composer. There’s all these steps that are The people in your band are younger. When related to copyright and permission that they’re preparing for the tours, how familiar people just avoid. They think, “Oh, I am such are they with Frank’s music and what is their a fan of this, I can just do it.” It just doesn’t training regimen to get them up to speed? work that way. It’s like saying, “I love oranges. When I initially put the band together, the goal Oranges should be free for me every time I go was to create a core band of people that had into a store.” That’s where there ends up being a no prior affiliation with Frank’s music. Again, conflict of some sort because, just because you the goal was to show that a current generation like something doesn’t mean you have the right could be playing this music and inspiring to use it how you want. There’s plenty of people people to get into this music, and I didn’t want who try to take Frank’s music and rearrange it to cloud it with this notion that only alumni and say, “Hey, look what I can do to it.” That’s [former Zappa band members] could play it. not even necessary. On the first tour, we had a lot of alumni John E. Citrone guests, because we didn’t know if were going theknife@folioweekly.com
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TALK IS CHEAP
Or, how I learned to embrace THEE OH SEES’ force-of-nature live show and disregard the fact that they didn’t want to chat
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Thee Oh Sees were going on hiatus in 2013, s a mid-market alt-weekly, we’re longtime keyboardist and backup vocalist accustomed to being jerked around when Brigid Dawson, often considered the silver it comes to scoring interviews with artists. lining to Dwyer’s brutish rock attack, left the Oh, we’ve landed plenty of big ones in the band. Or maybe it’s because, after 15 years as last few months: Alice Cooper, “Weird” Al the unofficial mayor of San Francisco’s thriving Yankovic, Jorma Kaukonen, Robert Earl Keen, underground music scene, Dwyer got skewered this issue’s Dweezil Zappa. But as a music for very publicly leaving the gentrifying journalist, you’re haunted by the one that gets metropolis for more comfortable digs in L.A. away far more than the one you pull off. Or maybe it’s just because the endlessly Such is the case with San Francisco garage prolific Dwyer, who in the last few years has rockers Thee Oh Sees. When local promoter 1) reunited his old band Coachwhips, 2) Nick Commoditie announced the band’s Sept. released several synth-driven fantasias under 15 Backyard BBQ date at the St. Augustine the Damaged Bug moniker, 3) produced a Amphitheatre, I’ll admit that I flipped my shit book of photography, 4) maintained Thee — and not just because I remember way back Oh Sees’ manic album-every-nine-months in 2009 when Commoditie booked his very output, and 5) elevated his Castle Face first show in the Oldest City and very nearly Records label to international prominence, landed Thee Oh Sees. I will also admit that would rather be creating, not analyzing. when I got radio silence from frontman John Touring, not talking. Performing, not Dwyer’s personal email, and radio silence philosophizing. Writing, from the band’s PR company, and finally not hand-wringing. a terse “John doesn’t do So a word to the wise: interviews” response from Backyard BBQ: THEE OH Don’t treat John Dwyer like someone up the chain of SEES, GOLDEN PELICANS, a superstar. He trimmed command, I didn’t WAYLON THORNTON & marijuana and painted houses even mind. THE HEAVY HANDS for years to make it to the top; Because — and I say this 7 p.m. Sept. 15, St. Augustine according to a 2012 interview without equivocation — Amphitheatre Backyard, with Pitchfork, it wasn’t until Thee Oh Sees put on one of $15-$17, staugamphitheatre.com he was 35 years old that he the most high-octane rock could finally scrape together ’n’ roll shows in the world. a full-time living from his art. And don’t give Dwyer assaults his trademark clear Gibson him that whole “garage rock savior” spiel; in SG guitar like a man possessed by blended a 2012 interview with The Chicago Tribune, demon spirits of punk, psychedelia, metal, Ty Segall, who credits his mainstream success Krautrock, and scuzz-core. Bassist Timothy to Dwyer’s early mentoring, said, “We all owe Hellman wallops out elastic bass lines that him a lot. But he’d rather just have a beer and punctuate Dwyer’s frenzied six-string attack. play music with us.” And the synchronized two-drummer assault Hell, the casual fan probably has more of Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon, which is of a chance to bend Dwyer’s ear over postnew to Thee Oh Sees’ touring lineup in 2015 show drinks than I do as a writer to track … Dear God — it takes an already-titanic live him down for a show preview. But that’s show and rockets it into brain-melting, bodywhomping, once-in-a-lifetime territory. OK. I’m happy to let Thee Oh Sees remain Best of all, Thee Oh Sees can assemble their tantalizingly out of my journalistic reach bare-bones stage setup in minutes flat. I saw — especially when their live shows produce them perform four times at SXSW this year in such a primal connection between listener Austin, and each time they launched into their and creator. I have daydreamed about getting propulsive set with no warning, anywhere from Dwyer on the phone, when he delivers one 10 to 25 minutes early. That’s been a point of line before hanging up: “Actions always prove why words mean nothing.” I hope you feel pride for John Dwyer and company for 15 years the same way after you witness Thee Oh Sees and counting: defiantly DIY, unapologetically rock St. Augustine next week. animalistic, and decidedly anti-bullshit. Nick McGregor So what if dude doesn’t do any interviews? mail@folioweekly.com Maybe it’s because, after announcing that
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J-ville rapper TUNK (pictured) performs with FFJB, LEGIT, LARRY BELLYFATE, and JAYEL at Jack Rabbits Sept. 11 in San Marco.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Sept. 9 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. Music by the Sea: THOSE GUYS Dinner by Coquina Beach Club 6 p.m.; concert 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. RYAN CRARY 6 p.m. Sept. 9 & 16 at Pusser’s Bar & Grille, 816 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-7766. DENNY BLUE 6 p.m. Sept 9 & 16 at Paula’s Beachside Grill, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463. NEIL DIXON 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at Ragtime Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach. 241-7877. DOYLE BRAMHALL II 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $32-$38. GWAR, BUTCHER BABIES, BATTLECROSS 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20 advance; $25 day of. WVRM, SHADOW HUNTER 8 p.m. Sept. 9 at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Northside, 798-8222, $5. BILLY BUCHANAN6 p.m. Sept. 10, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. FISH OUT OF WATER 7 p.m. Sept. 10, Ragtime Tavern. THE BAND BE EASY 8 p.m. Sept. 10 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. CalaVida Arts Festival: The CORBITT BROTHERS BAND, CURT TOWNE BAND, IVEY WEST BAND, DOT WILDER JAZZ, CRAZY DAYSIES, LYNDIE BURRIS, SYLVIA HOWARD, NAN NKAMA WEST AFRICAN DRUM & DANCE ENSEMBLE, TRINITY RIVER BAND, SALSA FLAMENCA!, STEVEN AMBURGEY, and others Sept. 10-13, various sites in downtown Palatka; calavida.com. LOVE AND THEFT, CLAMPETT 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at Mavericks at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $15. A FALL to RISE, MARION CRANE, MINDSLIP, MANNA ZEN, DAMNEDGED 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at 1904 Music Hall, 1904 Ocean St., Downtown, $10. MIKE SHACKELFORD 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. The ARGONAUTS, FAZE WAVE, BRETT FOSTER, MICHAEL LANIER 8 p.m. Sept. 11, Freebird Live, $8 advance; $10 day of. TUNK, FFJB, LEGIT, LARRY BELLYFATE, JAYEL 8 p.m. Sept. 11 at Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. CODY NIX 8 p.m. Sept. 11, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. FAUX FEROCIOUS, The RIVERNECKS, TEENAGE LOBOTOMY 9 p.m. Sept. 11 at Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 825-4959. CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING 9:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at The Parlour (behind Grape & Grain), 2000 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4455. DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY 9:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. CAPTAIN OBVIOUS10 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. RICK ARCUSA BAND 10 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12, Ragtime Tavern. LOVE MONKEY10 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611. Riverside Arts Market: JESSE MONTOYA, COMPLICATED ANIMALS, FJORD EXPLORER 10:30 a.m. Sept. 12 at 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449. DENNY BLUE 5 p.m. Sept. 12 at The Milltop Tavern, 19 St.
George St., St. Augustine, 829-2329. JOSH ABBOTT BAND, STEVEN FLOWERS BAND, CARLY PEARCE 6 p.m. Sept. 12, Mavericks at The Landing, $5. The FALL of TROY, AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR, SLOTHRUST7 p.m. Sept. 12 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $17. CALEB JYPE 7 p.m. Sept. 12, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. The Scream “Back 2 School” Fest: RICH HOMIE QUAN, K. CAMP, JACQUEES, DIGGY, JUSTIN SKYE, SILENTO, ELIJAH BLAKE, RAWYALS, ANTHONY LEWIS, CHRIS MILES, 4EY, STAR MIC, DJ DOUBLE J 7 p.m. Sept. 12 at Vets Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $28.50-$88.50. MOTHER SUPERIOR, SCHOLARS WORD, YAMADEO, ROOT of ALL 8 p.m. Sept. 12, Freebird Live, $8 advance; $10 day of. RICHARD SHINDELL 8 p.m. Sept. 12 at The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, $20 advance; $25 at the door, 460-9311. JE DOUBLE F, SLEEP BEGGAR, LAKE DISNEY 8 p.m. Sept. 12 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St., Downtown. APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP CD RELEASE PARTY: KID YOU NOT, PAWN TAKES KING, CAN’T GET RIGHT 8 p.m. Sept. 12 Jack Rabbits, $7 advance; $10 day of, jaxlive.com. SONS of THUNDER 10 p.m. Sept. 12, Whiskey Jax. JAHMEN 4 p.m. Sept. 13 at Nippers Beach Grille, 2309 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-3300. EARL SWEATSHIRT, NXWORRIES, REMY BANKS 6 p.m. Sept. 13, Mavericks at The Landing, $30 advance; $35 day of. ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA 7 p.m. Sept. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $32 advance; $35 day of; a master class with Dweezil Zappa is $75; for more info, go to zappaplayszappa.com. BILL & ELI PERRAS 2 p.m. Sept. 13 at Beluthahatchee Park, 1523 S.R. 13, Fruit Cove, 206-8304, suggested donation $10; reservations required. RICKOLUS, MOTHER SUPERIOR 8 p.m. Sept. 13 at Fly’s Tie Irish Pub, 177 Sailfish Dr. E., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293. WHITNEY PEYTON 8 p.m. Sept. 14, Underbelly. THEE OH SEES, GOLDEN PELICANS, WAYLON THORNTON & the HEAVY HANDS 7 p.m. Sept. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $15 advance; $17 day of. JELLY ROLL, ALEXANDER KING, CREMRO, ASKMEIFICARE, CASHCROP904 7 p.m. Sept. 15, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $15 day of. ROXY ROCA, PARKER URBAN BAND 8 p.m. Sept. 16, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. DAVID LEIBE HART, DIG DOG, The VULGARIANS 8 p.m. Sept. 16, Underbelly. Bridging the Music: BIGFOOT BAREBACK, RASHON MEDLOCK 6 p.m. Sept. 16, 1904 Music Hall, $11.75. Music by the Sea: BIG LONESOME Dinner by Gypsy Cab Company 6 p.m.; concert 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
LUKE BRYAN, RANDY HOUSER, DUSTIN LYNCH Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena FRONZILLA PALISADES, WHITNEY PEYTON, IT LIVES IT BREATHES Sept. 17, Underbelly RUNAWAY GIN Sept. 18, Freebird Live
TOMBOI Lobos Remix Tape Party: PLEASURES, MUST BE the HOLY GHOST, BE BE DEE & GERRY LEE Sept. 18, rain dogs. DE LIONS of JAH Sept. 20, Nippers Beach Grille NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS Sept. 21, Shantytown Pub THAT 1 GUY Sept. 22, Jack Rabbits REO SPEEDWAGON Sept. 24, The Florida Theatre DELBERT McCLINTON Sept. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall HELMET Sept. 25, Jack Rabbits BRITTANY SHANE Sept. 25, Mudville Music Room CLAY WALKER Sept. 26, Mavericks at the Landing Clean Water Music Festival: LARKIN POE, ISRAEL NASH, BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Sept. 26, P.Vedra Concert Hall I-VIBES Sept. 27, Nippers Beach Grille Folio Weekly’s Bonnabrew: TOMBOI, The DAYGOS, LPT, FJORD EXPLORER Sept. 27, Riverside Arts Market NOTHING MORE, The MARMOZETS, TURBOWOLF Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits RECKLESS SERENADE Sept. 29, Jack Rabbits HOUNDMOUTH, BASIA BULAT Sept. 30, P.Vedra Concert Hall BOOKER T. JONES Oct. 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum JERROD NIEMANN Oct. 3, Mavericks at the Landing DR. JOHN & the NITE TRIPPERS, WALTER PARKS Oct. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Amelia Island Jazz Fest: NAVY BAND SOUTHEAST’S TGIF, TRIO CALIENTE, LES DEMERLE, BONNIE EISELE, KEVIN MAHOGANY, LARRY CORYELL, AL WATERS, MIKE LEVINE, DENNIS MARKS, STEVE STAWLEY, CLARENCE HINES, DON ZENTZ, DOUG MATTHEWS, ERNIE EALUM Oct. 4-11, Fernandina Beach TORO Y MOI, ASTRONAUTS Oct. 8, Freebird Live CANNIBAL CORPSE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, SOREPTION Oct. 8, Underbelly SALAD BOYS Oct. 8, rain dogs The MOUNTAIN GOATS, BLANK RANGE Oct. 9, Colonial Quarter ANI DiFRANCO, ANA EGGE Oct. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LAVELL CRAWFORD Oct. 9, The Florida Theatre RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS Oct. 10, Ritz Theatre ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD FAIR Oct. 11, St. Aug. Amphitheatre BONZ (Stuck Mojo), A.M.M. Oct. 10, Jack Rabbits The VIBRATORS, CONCRETE ANIMALS, The WASTEDIST Oct. 11, Jack Rabbits FRED HAMMOND & DONNIE McCLURKIN Oct. 11, Veterans Memorial Arena NEW FOUND GLORY, YELLOWCARD, TIGERS JAW Oct. 13, Mavericks The WINERY DOGS Oct. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NOAH GUNDERSON, FIELD REPORT Oct. 14, Colonial Quarter Magnolia Fest: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, AVETT BROTHERS, DEL McCOURY BAND, STEEP CANYON RANGERS, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, The LEE BOYS, IVEY WEST BAND, BAND of HEATHENS, PARKER URBAN BAND, The CONGRESS, The CORBITT BROTHERS, The MOTET, NIKKI TALLEY, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND, BONNIE BLUE, MOJO GURUS, APPLEBUTTER EXPRESS, GRITS & SOUL, BERRY OAKLEY’S SKYLAB, CEDELL DAVIS, HABANERO HONEYS, COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS, QUARTERMOON, The LONDON SOULS, ROOSEVELT COLLIER & the TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BACK FROM the BRINK, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, WHETHERMAN, JACKSONVEGAS, JERRY JOSEPH & the JACKMORONS, SLOPPY JOE, QUEBEC SISTERS, REBIRTH BRASS BAND, JEFF AUSTIN BAND,
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
Nashville punk rockers FAUX FEROCIOUS (pictured) play with The RIVERNECKS and TEENAGE LOBOTOMY at Shanghai Nobby’s Sept. 11, St. Augustine. JIM LAUDERDALE, NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS, DONNA the BUFFALO, KELLER WILLIAMS’ GRATEFUL GOSPEL, LAKE STREET DRIVE Oct. 15-18, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park STRAY from the PATH, COMEBACK KID, BEING as an OCEAN, MAJOR LEAGUE, DEEZ NUTS Oct. 15, Underbelly BEN PRESTAGE Oct. 15, Mudville Music Room CHRIS TOMLIN, REND COLLECTIVE Oct. 16, Vets Memorial Arena BO BURNHAM Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre SUZANNE VEGA Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The SENSES, The PHILTERS Oct. 16, Jack Rabbits DEF LEPPARD, FOREIGNER, NIGHT RANGER Oct. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena DEBORAH HENSON-CONANT Oct. 17, P. Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE BIG TOWN, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Oct. 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MATT POND PA Oct. 17, 1904 Music Hall JOHN CLEESE & ERIC IDLE: Together Again at Last … for the Very Last Time Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND Oct. 22, The Florida Theatre JASON ALDEAN, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DEE JAY SILVER Oct. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena Gnar Stars: FREE WEED, UNKLE FUNKLE, COLLEEN GREEN Oct. 22, Shanghai Nobby’s TAB BENOIT Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MARCIA BALL & her BAND, AMY SPEACE Oct. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
BUDDY GUY, SHEMEKIA COPELAND Oct. 23, Florida Theatre KATT WILLIAMS Oct. 24, Veterans Memorial Arena MARK KNOPFLER Oct. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DESAPARECIDOS Oct. 27, Underbelly KEPI GHOULI, MEAN JEANS, LIFEFORMS Oct. 29, rain dogs TWO COW GARAGE, The MUTTS Oct. 29, Jack Rabbits Suwannee Hulaween: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, PRETTY LIGHTS, PRIMUS, CHANCE the RAPPER Oct. 30-Nov. 1, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park LEE BAINES III & the GLORY FIRES, PUJOL, ELECTRIC WATER Oct. 31, Burro Bar The UNDERACHIEVERS, POUYA, KIRK KNIGHT, BODEGA BAMZ Nov. 1, Underbelly BOZ SCAGGS Nov. 4, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts LEFTOVER SALMON Nov. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE Nov. 6, The Florida Theatre PRONG, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits The BROTHERS COMATOSE Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits ALL HANDS on DECK Nov. 8, The Florida Theatre REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits SLOW MAGIC Nov. 11, The Original Café Eleven TEXAS in JULY, REFLECTIONS, TO the WIND, INVENT, ANIMATE Nov. 11, Underbelly KNUCKLE PUCK, SEAWAY, SORORITY NOISE, HEAD NORTH Nov. 11, 1904 Music Hall
ADRIAN LEGG, DAVID LINDLEY Nov. 12, P. Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Nov. 12, Mavericks at the Landing BLENDED BREW Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits AMERICA Nov. 13, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts JAKE SHIMABUKURO Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GABRIEL IGLESIAS Nov. 13, The Florida Theatre KRISTIN CHENOWITH Nov. 14, T-U Center STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 17, The Florida Theatre The DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND, NEW BREED BRASS BAND Nov. 21, Ritz Theatre & Museum This is Not a Test Tour: TOBYMAC, BRITT NICOLE, COLTON DIXON, HOLLYN Nov. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena SCOTT BRADLEE’S Postmodern Jukebox Nov. 28, Florida Theatre RONNIE MILSAP Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre CRAIG FERGUSON Nov. 30, The Florida Theatre DAVE KOZ CHRISTMAS TOUR Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre MAC MILLER, EARTHGANG, MICHAEL CHRISTMAS, REMEMBER MUSIC Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre LUCERO Dec. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NICHOLAS PAYTON Dec. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum The Big Ticket: TWENTY ONE PILOTS, OF MONSTERS and MEN, WALK the MOON, The NEIGHBOURHOOD, GLASS ANIMALS, ANDREW McMAHON, MUTEMATH, X AMBASSADORS, PVRIS, ROBERT DeLONG, SAINT MOTEL, COLEMAN HELL, BORNS, BOOTS on BOOTS Dec. 6, Metropolitan Park KANSAS Dec. 6, The Florida Theatre LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, MELISSA FERRICK Dec. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 11, Vets Memorial Arena KEVIN GRIFFIN Dec. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BRIAN REGAN Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre BOWZER’S Rock ’N’ Roll Holiday Party: The TOKENS, FREDDY BOOM BOOM CANNON Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre MATISYAHU Dec. 18 & 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MICHAEL McDONALD Dec. 19, Thrasher-Horne Center The TEN TENORS Dec. 22, The Florida Theatre CHRIS DUARTE Dec. 22, Mudville Music Room DONNA the BUFFALO Dec. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOJA Jan. 1, The Florida Theatre JOHN SEBASTIAN Jan. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEVE FORBERT TRIO Jan. 9, Mudville Music Room TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHRISTIAN McBRIDE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre & Museum The TEMPTATIONS, The FOUR TOPS Jan. 21, Florida Theatre SHAWN COLVIN Jan. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOHNNY MATHIS Jan. 31, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Jan. 31, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall YANNI Feb. 3, T-U Center for the Performing Arts WHO’S BAD: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Feb. 5, The Florida Theatre ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Greatest Hits Tour with Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Feb. 10, Florida Theatre PATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS, ANAIS MITCHELL Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre The JAMES HUNTER SIX Feb. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, Ritz Theatre & Museum ADAM TRENT Feb. 21, The Florida Theatre GARY CLARK JR. Feb. 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall IL VOLO March 3, The Florida Theatre BLACK VIOLIN March 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum ROGER McGUINN March 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JANET JACKSON March 8, Veterans Memorial Arena FRANK SINATRA JR. March 9, The Florida Theatre JOHNNY CLEGG & HIS BAND March 18, P.Vedra Concert Hall CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, Ritz Theatre CELTIC NIGHTS: SPIRIT of FREEDOM April 6, Florida Theatre NAJEE April 9, Ritz Theatre & Museum LET IT BE: A Celebration of the Music of The Beatles April 10, The Florida Theatre ELLIS PAUL May 13, The Original Café Eleven
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. Einstein-A-Go-Go 30th anniversary party: DJ Ricky 8 p.m. Sept. 5. Alter Der Rhune Sept. 7. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance at 9 p.m. every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns, 388-0200 Dustin Bradley Sept. 10
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
CULHANE’S, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Vera & Chuck 8 p.m. Sept. 11. DJ Hal every Sat. Irish music every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 Captain Obvious 10 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12. Ryan Crary Sept. 13 FLY’S TIE IRISH PUB, 177 Sailfish Dr. E., Atlantic Beach, 246-4293 Firewater Tent Revival Sept. 11 & 12. Rickolus, Mother Superior 8 p.m. Sept. 13 FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 GWAR, Butcher Babies, Battlecross 8 p.m. Sept. 9. Faze Wave, Brett Foster, Michael Lanier, The Argonauts Sept. 11. Mother Superior, Scholars Word, Yamadeo, Root of All 8 p.m. Sept. 12.
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Tropidelic, Cloud9 Vibes Sept. 17. Runaway Gin Sept. 18 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Scott Verville Sept. 9. Sean Taylor Sept. 11. Live music Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade Sun. Back From the Brink Mon. HOPTINGER Bier Garden & Sausage House, 333 N. First St., 222-0796 Andrew Sapin 10 p.m. Sept. 11 LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Chillula 10 p.m. Sept. 11. Evan Michael & the Well Wishers Sept. 12 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Blue Muse Sept. 9. Root of All Sept. 10. Jammin Salmons Sept. 11 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Neil Dixon every Tue. Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 372-4105 Elizabeth Rogers Sept. 10. Kristen Rogers Sept. 11 RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Neil Dixon 7 p.m. Sept. 9. Fish Out of Water 7 p.m. Sept. 10. Rick Arcusa Band 10 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12. Billy Bowers Sept. 16. Live music Thur.-Sun. SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE, 218 First St., Neptune Beach, 246-0881 Jimmi Mitchell Spt. 11 WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 247-4508 Live music 7 p.m. Sept. 10, 9:30 p.m. Sept. 11
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. A Fall To Rise, Marion Crane, Mindslip, Manna Zen, Damnedged 7 p.m. Sept. 11. Bigfoot Barefoot, Rashon Medlock 6 p.m. Sept. 16 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. JE Double F, SleepBaggar, Lake Disney Sept. 12 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 BlackJack every Wed. DJ Brandon every Thur. DJs spin dance music every Fri. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall 9 p.m. Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Sept. 9 & 16. Jig to a Milestone 8 p.m. Sept. 11. Chuck Nash 8 p.m. Sept. 12 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 353-1188 Spanky the Band 6-10 p.m. Sept. 9. Music competition 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Sept. 11. Hola Noticias 7 p.m. Sept. 12. 418 Band 4-9 p.m. Sept. 13 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay, 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Love and Theft, Clampett 6 p.m. Sept. 11. Josh Abbott Band, Steven Flowers Band, Carly Pearce 6 p.m. Sept. 12. Earl Sweatshirt, Nxworries, Remy Banks 6 p.m. Sept. 13. Joe Buck, DJ Justin Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 The Fall of Troy, And So I Watch You From Afar, Slothtrust 7 p.m. Sept. 12. Whitney Peyton Sept. 14. David Leibe Hart, Dig Dog, The Vulgarians Sept. 16
FLEMING ISLAND
WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Lisa & the Madhatters 9 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12. Conch Fritters Sept. 13. Live music Fri. & Sat. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. Thur. Deck music Fri., Sat. & Sun.
CURRENT INCARNATION
AS IS THE CASE WITH MOST OF THE MUSICIANS in this massive yet incredibly small town, I know just about all of the other players in one context or another. I have either performed or recorded with them, reviewed their albums or have taught (or been taught) by them. And so it goes with songwriter Katie Grace Helow. We’ve known each other for years, both in and outside of our respective musical careers, and I have reviewed her music in the past. All this is to say that, in the interest of full disclosure, Katie and I are friends. But as with all of the friends ballsy enough to send me their music for review, I’ll give Katie the full going-over, because what’s the point, otherwise? Friends never benefit from dishonesty, even if it saves their feelings, and I have a very low tolerance for bullshit – given or received. And so we dig into Helow’s forthcoming album Past Lives (due out mid-November). See, I even switched to using her last name, so I won’t feel so bad when it comes time to drop the hatchet. Immediately I am struck by the aggression of her new work. Helow has proved herself a solid songwriter in the neo-folk tradition, with lots of non-threatening strumming and sweet vocalizing. But right out of the gate on Past Lives, she lurches into “Savior or Sin” with an upbeat and dark acoustic picking pattern. It’s stark and striking, soon bleeding into distorted guitar blasts and thick bass accents, something that’s been absent from her previous work. Think early Fleetwood Mac on this one. “Left for Dead” ticks it up a few more notches, all full band and Neil Young-y grunge. Helow’s voice is lilting as always, but there’s an angry (is that the right word?) subtext that’s pleasantly
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
INTRACOASTAL WEST
CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Chilly Rhino Sept. 9. Live music most weekends JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Retro Kats 9 p.m. Sept. 11
COMPLICATED ANIMALS (pictured) performs with JESSE MONTOYA and FJORD EXPLORER at Riverside Arts Market on Sept. 12.
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
DAVE’S MUSIC BAR & GRILL, 9965 San Jose, 575-4935 Blues Jam Sept. 11. Lee Blake, D.F. Krackers Sept. 12 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine, 880-3040 Open jam Blues Monday 7 p.m. every Mon.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
CLUB RETRO, 1241 Blanding Blvd., 579-4731 ’70s & ’80s dance 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DJ Capone every Wed. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael Tue.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Live music every Sat. DJ Tammy Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Love Monkey 10 p.m. Sept. 11 & 12. Live music 10 p.m. Wed. DJ Big Mike 10 p.m. Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grill, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Ryan Crary 6 p.m. Sept. 9 & 16. Billy Buchanan Sept. 10. Cody Nix Sept. 11. Caleb Jype 7 p.m. Sept. 12. Live music weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Sept. 9. Gary Starling Sept. 10. Caleb Joys Sept. 11. Paxton & Mike Sept. 12
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 Live music most weekends MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood S., 388-7807 Zack Page, Kenny Gregory, Summer Jones 8 p.m. Sept. 12 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Jesse Montoya, Complicated Animals, Fjord Explorer Sept. 12
ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Oh No Sept. 11. The Robert Harris Group Sept. 12. Vinny Jacobs Sept. 13 MILL TOP TAVERN, 19 St. George St., 829-2329 Ancient City Keepers Sept. 11 & 12. Colton McKenna Sept. 13 ORIGINAL CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 Richard Shindell 8 p.m. Sept. 12 PAULA’S GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Denny Blue open mic jam 6-9 p.m. Sept. 9 & 16 SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 Faux Ferocious, Rivernecks, Teenage Lobotomy 9 p.m. Sept. 11 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys Sept. 11 & 12. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Tunk, FFJB, Legit, Larry Bellyfate, Jayel 8 p.m. Sept. 11. Appalachian Death Trap CD Release Party: Kid You Not, Pawn Takes King, Can’t Get Right 8 p.m. Sept. 12. Jelly Roll, Alexander King, Cremro,
surprising. This may be the result of her new collaboration with songwriting partner Zach Lever. It’s a volatile mix. “Classic Combination” features Lever’s tremoloed twang behind Helow’s simmering vocal lines, and though this one is a bit more predictable, it is nonetheless satisfying if simply for the restrained but moody guitar solo. Next is “The Scales (part I),” which might as well be a slightly modified version “Savior or Sin” as the guitar is structured much the same way. This one is a little more dynamic, though, and there’s the old-andreliable freight-train snare pattern added after the first verse, giving a little more heft. But “Scales I” is largely dispensable. “The Scales (part II)” is structurally unrelated, and sounds more like Helow’s older material, very melodic and open, giving plenty of room for her lovely voice. With this in mind, one “Scales” would have done the trick. I’m gonna skip a couple of tunes to tell you about “Arm’s Length,” probably the best song on the record. Opening with a spaghetti Western twanged-out lead guitar and moving headlong into some interesting chord changes for the chorus – all supported by a variation on the aforementioned freight-train snare line – this one is the “least Helow” on the record. Accompanied vocally by Lever in the chorus, and bolstered by his very Tarantinoesque guitar soloing, “Arm’s Length” goes for it. Helow and Lever both shine, and the result is laudable. The title and penultimate track is the longest on the album, and the closest to a love song. Which makes it not my favorite. But I don’t hate it, either. But I don’t love it. Which I guess means I like it, but not enough to dissect it. But that
Askmeificare, Cashcrop904 7 p.m. Sept. 15. Roxy Roca, Parker Urban Band 8 p.m. Sept. 16 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Lisa Kelly Scott, UNF Jazz Ensemble Sept. 10. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer, Linda Grenville, Mark Williams Sept. 11 THE PARLOUR, 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455 Anton LaPlume Sept. 10. Christopher Paul Stelling Sept. 11
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS, ARLINGTON
LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Rusted Diamond Sept. 9 & 13. Be Easy Sept. 10. Darrell Rae, The Katz Downstairs Sept. 11. Boogie Freaks Sept. 12 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Charlie Walker Sept. 10. Darren Corlew Sept. 11. Kurt Lanham Sept. 12 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Don’t Call Me Shirley 9:30 p.m. Sept. 11. Take Cover 10 p.m. Sept. 12. Melissa Smith open mic Thur. Mojo Roux Blues every Sun. Kassyli country jam every Mon.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 WVRM, Shadow Hunter 8 p.m. Sept. 9. THREE LAYERS CAFE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Anton LaPlume 8 p.m. Sept. 11
THE KNIFE
THE KNIFE
doubled-vocal line is pretty cool. But dammit, the chord progression is more predictable than I’d like. It gets a little heavier near the end, which is nice, but that’s five minutes into its seven-minute running time, too long to wait for that build-up. Crap, I just dissected it. Never mind. Past Lives winds down with “Other Side,” which focuses on Helow’s guitar-playing, a nice Nancy Wilson-meets-wayward-cowboy vibe. She’s solo here, like the old days, and it makes for a nice closer. The rumbly low end of her acoustic guitar is meaty and full, lending a muddy background to her honeyed voice. Lyrically in keeping with most of the songs on the record, it’s biting but hopeful, at once simple and complex. Kind of like Katie.
John E Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com
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MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ winner. 40-plus years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F SEE BEACHES.
INDIA’S RESTAURANT, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F BOJ winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. A variety of curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Family-owned Thai place serves traditional fare, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium, gluten-free, too. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. TEQUILA’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. F The new place has authentic Mexican fare, made daily with freshest ingredients. Vegetarian dishes; daily drink specials. Nonstop happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, wines by the glass or bottle, champagne cocktails. Meatloaf sandwiches, pulled Peruvian chicken, homestyle vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO D Tue.-Sat. WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. New gastropub has craft beers, burgers, handhelds, tacos, whiskey. $$ FB L D Sat. & Sun.; D Daily.
Located near Tapestry Park off Southside Avenue, Another Broken Egg Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Photo by Dennis Ho
DINING DIRECTORY AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29south restaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. F Southwestern fare made-to-order fresh; burritos, tacos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F Family-owned spot in historic building. Veggie burgers, seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oakshaded patio. Karibrew Pub next door. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY CO., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F BOJ winner. Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S AT THOMPSON HOUSE, 11 S. 7th St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F BOJ winner. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F The bakery, near historic district, has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes,
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bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PI INFINITE COMBINATIONS, 19 S. Third St., 432-8535, pi32034.wix.com/piinfinite. All bar service at New York-style pizza joint. Specialty pizzas, by pie or slice, topped with sliced truffle mushrooms, whole little neck clams, eggs or shrimp. Dine in or in courtyard, with fountain. $$ BW TO L D Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish, duck breast. Outside. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly SALTY PELICAN BAR & GRILL, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F BOJ winner. Second-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront; handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air second floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
THE STEAKHOUSE @ GOLD CLUB, 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 645-5500, jacksonvillegoldclub.com. BOJ. Lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffets Thur. & Fri. $$$ FB L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386. Premium ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in a Florida-centric décor. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20-plus years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily
To get your restaurant listed here, just call your account manager or Sam Taylor at 904.260.9770 ext. 111 or staylor@folioweekly.com.
DINING DIRECTORY KEY
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com. 2014 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
BEACHES
(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. F BOJ winner. Subs made with fresh ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884, espetosteakhouse.com. Just relocated, serving beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage; full menu, bar fare, craft cocktails, Brazilian beers. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 F Latin American, Southwest tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100-plus tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LILLIE’S Coffee Bar, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine inside or on patio, courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-5573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean spot, 20-plus years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside, on patio. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F BOJ winner. Pulled pork, beef, chicken, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300, nippersbeachgrille.com. The chef-driven Southern coastal cuisine has local fare and dishes with a Caribbean flavor, served in an island atmosphere on the ICW. Dine inside or on Tiki deck. $$ FB K L D Wed.-Sun.; D Mon. & Tue. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. Gastropub, 50-plus beers, gourmet hamburgers, ground inhouse, hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME TAVERN & SEAFOOD GRILL, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30-plus years, iconic seafood place has served blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456,
DINING DIRECTORY saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ winner. Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., Neptune Beach, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. BOJ winner. 20-plus tap beers, TVs, cheerleaders. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily SURFING SOMBRERO, 222 First St. N., 834-9377. New oceanfront place serves authentic fare – like paella. Drink specials. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily SURFWICHES SANDWICH SHOP, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. New craft sandwich shop boasts Yankee-style steaks and hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. THE CANDY APPLE CAFÉ & COCKTAILS, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafe.com. Sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun. CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare for 35-plus years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. The homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri.
733-7477. Traditional diner fare: oversized pancakes and bacon, sandwiches, salads and burgers. $ K TO B L Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. Casual, familyfriendly eatery. Pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, burgers, pasta, plus gluten-free-friendly items. $ FB K L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 1803 East West Parkway, Fleming Island, 375-2559. BOJ winner. This NASCARthemed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings. The menu also features half-pound burgers, ribs and salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern-style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F With shops all over Northeast Florida, Larry’s Giant Subs piles ’em high and serves ’em fast; 33+ years. Wide selection of hot and cold
GRILL ME!
LEVI AL Tomo Japanese Restaurant, 1253 Penman Rd., Jacksonville Beach YEARS IN THE BIZ: 20 FAVORITE RESTAURANT: Simply Tasty Thai in Mayport BEST CUISINE STYLE: Japanese GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Jalapenos, garlic and love. IDEAL MEAL: Homemade anything! WON’T CROSS MY LIPS: Durian INSIDER’S SECRET: Tomo means friends. CELEBRITY SIGHTING HERE: Dennis Ho from Folio Weekly CULINARY TREAT: Texas Cattle Company steak in Lakeland
SWEET PETE’S, 400 N. Hogan St., 376-7161. F All-natural sweet shop has candy made of all natural flavors, no artificial anything. Several kinds of honey. $ TO Daily ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezod iacbarandgrill.com. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Wed.-Sat. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.
FLEMING ISLAND
GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteys fishcamp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT Sports Grill, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-nite menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
MANDARIN, JULINGTON, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’S DELI, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN.
AL’S Pizza, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S Wings & Grill, 10391 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-7087. F BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd.,
subs, soups and salads. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. A new Larry’s opens soon in Fernandina. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. SNACSHACK, 179 College Dr., Ste. 19, 682-7622, snacshack.menu. F The new bakery and café offers bagels, muffins, breads, cookies, brownies and snack treats. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F SEE BEACHES. DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies. com. BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes; tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S Deli, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F SEE BEACHES. BLACK SHEEP Restaurant, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, black sheep5points.com. New American with a Southern twist; locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. F BOJ winner. Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfive points.com. F Local craft beer, espresso, coffee and wine bar. Rotating drafts, 75+ canned craft beers; sodas, tea. Rotating seasonal menu of waffles, pastries, toasts, desserts to pair with specialty coffees, craft beers. $$ BW K B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily. DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343. New American cuisine, upscale retro atmosphere in historic landmark building. Shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Wknd brunch. B, L D Tue.-Sun. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., Murray
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ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F SEE BEACHES. CARMELO’S Marketplace & Pizzeria, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, freshly baked sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, stromboli and garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings & Grill, 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare of fresh ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay 25+ years. Varied menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ONE TWENTY THREE BURGER HOUSE, 123 King St., 687-2790. New spot from owners of Carmelo’s down the street. Premium burgers, made with beef sourced from renowned NYC butcher Schweid & Sons. Wood-fired pizzas, ice cream bar with Old World milkshakes. Outdoor dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic Thai dishes include Pad Thai, a variety of curries, tempuras, vegetarian dishes, seafood, stir-fry and daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired cuisine; steak frites, oak-fired pizza, new raw bar of seasonal selections. $$$ FB TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. $ BW K L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60-plus wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S Bar & Grille, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. F Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, specialty drinks, burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. New gastropub. Local and national craft beers, specialty cocktails, seasonal
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DINING DIRECTORY
menu of fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Sunday brunch. $$ FB L D Daily MEZZE Bar & Grill, 2016 Hendricks Ave., 683-0693, mezzejax.com. Classic cocktails, fresh basil martinis, 35 draft beers, local/craft brews, Mediterranean cuisine. Hookah patio. Happy hour. $$ FB D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F BOJ winner. The original upscale diner. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Ave., 399-8815, pizzapalace jax.com. F Family-owned; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Outside dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Ave., 398-3005, tavernasanmar co.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; local produce, meats. Craft beers, craft cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN
ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. F SEE AMELIA ISLAND. DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside, Ste. 138D, 363-9888. BOGO lunches, Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 10750 Atlantic, 619-0954. BOJ. SEE O. PARK.
THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside, Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte. com. European-style dining influenced by Italy, Spain and the Mediterranean. Small plates, entrée-size portions, selections from charcuterie menu. $$$ BW TO R D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Ste. 101, 619-9828. BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA Mexican Restaurant, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.
BETTER THAN UBER
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Hill, 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. BOJ winner. For 68+ years, full-service bakery has served fresh from-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, custom cakes. Espresso/pastry café has sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. BOJ. 130-plus imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style Reuben, sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F BOJ. Juice bar; certified organic fruits, vegetables. 300-plus craft/import beers, 50 wines, produce, humanely raised meats, deli, raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. Wraps, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. One word: Reuben. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617 Locally-owned, family-run shop; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S Subs, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, chicken, ribs. Sides: beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F BOJ winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire .com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas. Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PATTAYA Thai Grille, 1526 King St., 503-4060. SEE BAYMEADOWS. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. Bar food. $ D SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. Healthy, light vegan fare made fresh daily with local, organic ingredients. Specials, served on bread, local greens or rice, change daily. Coffees, teas. $ Tue.-Sun. SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. F Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily
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UNCONVENTIONAL SPOT stands the test of time WITH OCHRE WALLS, TEAL CEILINGS and purple usually saturate greens with dressing, but I doused pillars, the home-turned-restaurant is anything but my salad with this golden perfection. ordinary. St. Augustine’s GYPSY CAB COMPANY, According to Holmes, the Gypsy chicken is the opened in 1983 by founder Ned Pollack, has no restaurant’s go-to meal, a favorite for more than taxis – just great urban cuisine as diverse and 30 years. Holmes also recommends blackened innovative as the décor. chicken nachos ($9). Unabashed Tex-Mex lover that I am, I ordered nachos; my friend tried the I stepped into the cozy place at noon and was Gypsy. The nacho chips were piled high with immediately struck by the colors and the artwork chicken, cheese, cherry peppers, scallions, and displayed on each wall – all styles and mediums. Gypsy Cab is part of the St. Augustine Independent olives. Most nachos I see have like 50 chips, three pieces of meat, and a pool of cheese. At Restaurant Association, whose mission is to Gypsy Cab, each bite I took was a mix of flavor encourage the city’s culinary and cultural and sustenance. Chef Jeffrey Herr and his team diversity. Gypsy Cab owner Patrick Morrissey are liberal with toppings, and I was stuffed after continues to support the local community, not clearing only a third of my plate. Good news: The only through the arts, but by sourcing food locally leftovers are almost as good. as often as possible. The restaurant’s clientele includes tattooed The Gypsy ($12) is a bit like cordon bleu, only grandparents and bouncy toddlers, both of whom much, much better. The breaded breast is baked fit well in this eclectic spot. Many customers are, around Swiss cheese until it’s golden brown, and indeed, grandparents who ate at Gypsy Cab decades topped with a mushroom gravy. Purple cabbage, broccoli, and mashed ago, who’ve created a legacy of Gypsy-goers through their potatoes add beautiful coloring GYPSY CAB COMPANY kids and grandkids. Not many 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, to the savory dish. places can boast consistently We abandoned dreams of 824-8244, gypsycab.com loyal customers spanning three trim waistlines when tempted generations. by an irresistible chocolate peanut butter pie ($5) snugged in a graham cracker Gypsy Cab’s cuisine origins stretch from crust. Imagine a giant Reese’s cup in pie form, then Germany to the Caribbean. The actual menu itself take away the sketchy ingredients and add a swirl has been upgraded from the original index card of cream cheese filling, plus a fudge drizzle and to a standard-sized menu that changes twice powdered sugar sprinkles. Delicious – GCC’s peanut daily. At 4 p.m., the kitchen is reassessed and the butter pie is sublime. menu reprinted, ensuring Gypsy Cab serves only what’s fresh and seasonally available. Jeff Holmes, Next door is the Corner Bar, also owned by catering manager, explains that he’s quickly Morrissey. Gypsy’s cooking team utilizes both reprinted an updated menu hundreds of times. restaurant’s kitchens; Corner Bar’s Taco Tuesdays, starting at 5 p.m., feature $1 tacos and $3 Holmes, at GCC for six years, was quick to suggest the top menu items to my friend and me. We margaritas. Customers go back and forth from Gypsy Cab to Corner Bar – happy and well-fed. began with a salad and the famous house dressing, which is bottled and sold. After one bite, I knew Gypsy Cab Company isn’t afraid to be itself. why. I’d been expecting a sweet vinaigrette and The generations of satisfi ed customers are a was surprised by a thicker dressing with the finely testament that unconventional places are many chopped cabbage, carrots, and lettuce. The dressing times the best places. was at once mellow and exciting, bursting with a Rebecca Gibson flavor that reminded me of sunflower seeds. I don’t mail@folioweekly.com
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MOSQUITOES, SWEET MOJO, OLDE ENGLISH & SOCRATES ARIES (March 21-April 19): “More and more I have come to admire resilience,” writes poet Jane Hirshfield in “Optimism.” “Not the simple resistance of a pillow,” she adds, “whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another.” You’ve not often had great access to this capacity. Your specialty has been the fast, fiery style of adjustment. For the foreseeable future, I bet you’ll be able to summon a supple staying power – a dogged, determined, incremental kind of resilience. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The fragrance from your mango groves makes me wild with joy.” That’s one lyric in the national anthem of Bangladesh. More: “Forever your skies … set my heart in tune as if it were a flute.” And, addressing Bangladesh as if it were a goddess, it proclaims, “Words from your lips are like nectar to my ears.” You may be awash with comparable feelings in the weeks ahead – not toward your country, but for creatures and experiences that rouse your delight and exultation. They’re likely to provide even more sweet mojo than usual. It’ll be a great time to improvise hymns of praise. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There have been times in the past when your potential helpers disappeared just when you wanted more help than usual. In the weeks ahead, you get redress for those sad interludes of yesteryear. A wealth of assistance and guidance will be available. Even folks who have been less than reliable may offer a tweak or intervention to give you a boost. How to ensure you take full advantage: Ask clearly and gracefully for just what you need. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Why grab brain-scrambling moonshine when you may eventually be offered a heartgalvanizing tonic? Why gorge on hors d’oeuvres when a four-course feast will be available sooner than you imagine? According to my astrological omen-analysis, fellow Crab, the future will bring unexpected opportunities better and brighter than current ones. This is one of those rare times when procrastination may be good. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As I hike San Pedro Ridge, I’m mystified by madrone trees. The leaves on the short, thin saplings are as big and bold as the leaves on the older, thicker, taller trees. I see this curiosity as an apt metaphor for your current situation. In one sense, you’re in the early stages of a new cycle of growth. In another, you’re strong, ripe and full-fledged. It’s a winning combination: a robust balance of innocence and wisdom, fresh aspiration and seasoned readiness. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s not too late or too early to give you birthday presents. You deserve treats, dispensations and appreciations. First perk: You’re granted license to break a taboo that’s no longer useful or necessary. Second blessing: You’re authorized to instigate a wildly constructive departure from tradition. Third boost: In the next six weeks, you simultaneously claim new freedom and summon more discipline. Fourth delight: During the next three months, you discover and uncork a new thrill. Fifth one: Between now and your 2016 birthday, you develop a more relaxed relationship with perfectionism. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A “wheady mile” is an obsolete English term I want to revive for this horoscope. It refers to what may happen at the end of a long journey, when that last
stretch seems to take forever. You’re so close to home; you imagine the comfort and rest soon to be. But as you cross the “wheady mile,” you must move through one more plot twist or two. There’s a delay or complication that demands more effort just when you want to be finished. Be strong. Keep the faith. The wheady mile will not take forever. (Thanks to Mark Forsyth and his book Horologicon.)
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Trying improbable, unprecedented combinations is a specialty. You’re willing and able to gamble with blends and juxtapositions no one else would think of, let alone propose. Extra courage is available to call on as you proceed. In light of this gift, brainstorm the unifications possible to pull off. What conflicts would you defuse? What inequality or lopsidedness do you want to fix? A misunderstanding to heal or a disjunction to harmonize? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is feeling good really as fun as everyone seems to think? Is it really so wonderful to be in a groove, in love with life, and in touch with a deeper self? No! Definitely not! As you enter more fully into these altered states, your life will provide evidence of the inconveniences they bring. Like, some might nag for extra attention, others may be jealous of your success. You could be pressured to take on more responsibilities. And you may be haunted by the worry that sooner or later, this grace period will pass. I’M JUST KIDDING! In truth, minor problems precipitated by your blessings won’t cause any more anguish than a mosquito biting your butt. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In this horoscope, we’ll use the Socratic method to stimulate your excitement about projects that fate will favor in the next nine months. Here’s how it works: I ask questions, you brainstorm the answers. 1. Is there any part of your life where you’re an amateur but would like to be a professional? 2. Are you hesitant to leave a comfort zone even though staying there tends to inhibit your imagination? 3. Is your ability to fulfill your ambitions limited by lack of training or deficiency in education? 4. Is there any way that you’re holding on to blissful ignorance at the expense of future possibilities? 5. What new license, credential, diploma, or certification would be most useful? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My life story has more than a few fiascos. I got fired from my first job after two days. A girlfriend dumped me without an explanation and never spoke to me again. My record label fired me and my band after just one album. Years later, these indignities still carry a sting. But I confess I’m also grateful for them. They keep me humble. They serve as antidotes if I’m ever tempted to deride others for their failures. They’ve helped me develop an abundance of compassion. I tell you this in the hope that you find redemption and healing in your memories of frustration. Time to capitalize on old losses. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s never fun to be in a sticky predicament that seems to have no smart resolution. The days ahead could be an unexpectedly good time to be in such a predicament. Your exasperation will precipitate an emotional cleansing, releasing ingenious intuitions buried under repressed anger and sadness. You may find a key to enable you to reclaim at least some lost power. The predicament that once felt sour and intractable will mutate, providing a chance to deepen a connection with a valuable resource. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
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BRILLIANT, AMAZING BLOND WITH DOGGY You: Simply, you’re brilliant, attractive petite blond, glasses, Jackie O personality. Walking small dog. Me: International guy Brit/South African; falling in love. You’re the mint in my Julep. Attracted by your laugh, personality, Ms. Scarlett. When: Aug. 7. Where: Downtown Jax. #1545-0819 @ KELSEA BALLERINI CONCERT You: Petite, doe-eyed, STUNNING honey blonde. 5’3”, fashionably dressed. Me: Mature, 5’7”, bronze/beige Tommy Bahama shirt. Eyes locked nearly entire concert, four feet away. Pretty red truck, begs you slide in. Forever love songs to write. When: July 11. Where: Jax Beach. #1544-0812 BLONDE AT GARAGE You: Bleached blonde hair, served my friends and me at Garage. Me: Cute brunette, too drunk to ask for your number. Flirted all night; can’t stop thinking of your smile. Hope I see it again soon. ;). When: July 22. Where: The Garage, Riverside. #1543-0812 FIRE AND ICE You: Smokin’ redhead, Moet Ice white shirt. Me: Sweaty, self-loather yearning for another obligatory laugh. Sweat disguises tears of desire. Your comforting movement made my soul blossom, erasing fears. Let’s be Adam and Eve in your enchanted garden. When: Aug. 3. Where: Riverside Liquors. #1542-0812 TALL THIN HUNK, CREWCUT, BLACK CAMARO ISU at gas pump beside me. You smiled, winked; wearing blue maintenance shirt, Baptist Health logo. Me: Tall strong biker stud filling up the Harley. Contact if you want to be my submissive! When: July 23. Where: Kangaroo near Knight Boxx. #1541-0805 WEDNESDAYS, KONA, RAIN/OR NOT You: Can I talk to you? Me: Why? You: Because I like what I see! Me: I’m working … 9-1/2 years later, love you more than ever. Through it all, you had me at Kona (HELLO). When: 2006. Where: Every day. #1540-0805 SALT & PEPPER ELECTRICIAN ISU in the hall; you’re very cute. Our eyes met; you smiled at me. Wanna grab something to eat? You looked very hungry as you passed the cafe. Me: Handsome AA male. When: July 20. Where: Baptist Downtown. #1539-0729 MAN BUN AT SIDECAR You: Good-looking guy with man bun outside with friends. Me: Curly brown hair, shorts, tank top, at a table by the door. Did you catch me staring? Love to get to know you. Drinks soon? When: July 17. Where: Sidecar. #1538-0729
SUNNY AND DARK You: The most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen. Me: Yearning for you. When you walked by, it took my breath away and the thought still does. Next lifetime! When: Every day. Where: Riverside. #1547-0826
SHORTER MAINTENANCE MAN You: Shorter electrician working second shift. Me: Tall, handsome black male. ISU in the new cafe; there was a lot of meat on that sandwich you were eating. We should “meat” up in the near future. When: July 15. Where: Baptist Downtown. #1537-0722
PEAR-SHAPED MAINTENANCE MAN, EQUIPMENT BELT ISU pushing a cart of light bulbs. Me: Big-boned Russian at hallway end. Your slight limp as you walk is sexy; half-cocked smiled made my knees weaken. Please come over and light up my night! When: Aug. 5. Where: Hospital hallway. #1546-0819
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POPE MANIA Muslim clerics complain of the commercialization of the holy city of Mecca during annual hajj pilgrimages, but for Pope Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visits to New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in mid-September, shameless street vendors and entrepreneurs seem to be eclipsing Meccaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience. Merchants said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be selling, among other tacky items, mozzarella cheese statuettes of the pope ($20), a â&#x20AC;&#x153;pope toasterâ&#x20AC;? to burnish Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; image on bread, a Philly-themed bobblehead associating the pope with movie boxer Rocky, local beers Papal Pleasure and YOPO (You Only Pope Once) and T-shirts (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yo Pontiff !â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Pope is My Homeboyâ&#x20AC;?). The Wall Street Journal quoted a Philadelphia archdiocese spokesman admitting â&#x20AC;&#x153;you kind of have to take it in stride.â&#x20AC;? FLORIDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEST COURTROOM In May, suspect David Riffle, charged with trespassing (after shouting â&#x20AC;&#x153;religious proverbsâ&#x20AC;? at patrons of Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida), greeted Broward County judge John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jayâ&#x20AC;? Hurley at his bail hearing by inquiring, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How you doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, a--hole?â&#x20AC;? Unfazed, Hurley responded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing fine. How are you, sir?â&#x20AC;? After listening to Riffle on religion a bit longer, Hurley set bond at $100. In August, talking to Judge Hurley from jail via closed circuit TV, arrestee Susan Surrette, 54, â&#x20AC;&#x153;flashedâ&#x20AC;? him as she tried to prove an alleged recent assault. The self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;escortâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;porn starâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kayla Kupcakesâ&#x20AC;?) had lifted her shirt to reveal bruises. Her bond, also, was $100. QUEEN VAJAYJAY Artist Anish Kapoor initially denied his 400 to 500 tons of stones, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dirty Corner,â&#x20AC;? were â&#x20AC;&#x153;problematic,â&#x20AC;? but later conceded they might have â&#x20AC;&#x153;multiple interpretive possibilities.â&#x20AC;? The installation, which ran through the summer at Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palace of Versailles with five other large sculptures, was arranged in the form of a huge vulva, and represented, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the vagina of a queen who is taking power.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;AND ANOTHER THING, DADâ&#x20AC;? Michael May, 44, was arrested in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in August after the Pilot Baptist Cemetery near Stanford reported heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d tried to dig up his dead fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grave â&#x20AC;&#x153;in order to argue with him,â&#x20AC;?
according to Lexingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WLEX-TV. May told officers his dad died about 30 years ago. Alcohol was involved in the decision to dig. HEY BABY, WRIT THIS After two women accused Sheffield Village, Ohio, attorney Michael Fine of â&#x20AC;&#x153;hypnotizingâ&#x20AC;? and sex-talking to them during office consultations, police and the county bar association opened an investigation in November 2014. Though Fine was being consulted on a custody matter, he was secretly audio-recorded (according to one womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawsuit) touting â&#x20AC;&#x153;powerful whole body orgasmsâ&#x20AC;? and suggesting he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest loverâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; among details the client recalls only vaguely if at all. The bar association later said as many as 25 women may have been victimized. Though no criminal charges have been filed, Fineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer said in August his client had voluntarily given up his law license and was seeking â&#x20AC;&#x153;medicalâ&#x20AC;? help. â&#x20AC;&#x153;EXCESSIVEâ&#x20AC;? (I) & (II) Three weeks ago, NOTW mentioned a federal judge had officially declared 29 years as an excessive amount of time for the Bureau of Land Management to have sat on a natural gas permit, but four yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; waiting is apparently acceptable for a judge to sit on a decision whether to fire a New York City schoolteacher. Edward Morrissey, charged with pushing and shoving a student at PS 109 in Brooklyn in 2009, had his administrative hearing in 2011 and since then has been drawing full pay and benefits (including seniority raises) while reporting to a no-duties â&#x20AC;&#x153;jobâ&#x20AC;? (termed a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rubber roomâ&#x20AC;?) every school day. In May 2015, he was finally found guilty. In August, independent Police Foundation declared it â&#x20AC;&#x153;excessiveâ&#x20AC;? that cops in Stockton, California, had fired 600 gunshots trying to apprehend robbers of a Bank of the West branch in July 2014. None of the robbers was hit, but one hostage was â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fatally, hit by 10 police bullets. According to the report, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a fewâ&#x20AC;? of the officers engaged in â&#x20AC;&#x153;sympathetic fire,â&#x20AC;? shooting merely because their colleagues were shooting and since the sequence was chaotic, sympathetic fire occurred even though other colleagues were actually positioned in front of shooters. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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