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JAX BEER WEEK URBAN AGENDA
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SISTERS OF THE SUDS
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ADJUNCT PROFESSORS
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Pint-Sized: STRANGE
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Craft breweries poised to take over Downtown
Craft beer is dominated by men, but that trend is turning around locally
Why simply buy beer when you can brew it, too?
BREWFELLAS
Brewmasters are thinking way, way outside the barrel
Cheffed-Up: DRINKING WITH A KNIFE & FORK [23]
Cook with beer. If nothing else, it’s another excuse to drink with dinner.
FEATURED ARTICLES FEATURED
WIN WITH WILES
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NATURE OF BEING
BY A.G. GANCARSKI Did TRUMP find a way to WIN FLORIDA?
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GRANDFATHERED-OUT [39]
BY DANIEL A. BROWN Crystal Floyd creates ANOMALOUS WORKS by conjuring from the familiar realm of FLORA AND FAUNA
BY ERIC M. MONGAR “I VOTED for Bill Clinton twice, Ralph Nader, John Kerry, and Barack Obama twice and, if given the chance, I would do it a third time.”
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FROM THE EDITOR
THINK OF THE CHILDREN(S ARTS EDUCATION) Folio Weekly editor goes where no editor has gone before: SALSA DANCING I NEED YOUR HELP. (DON’T WORRY, I’M NOT moving. You can help me from your couch.) See, I need, well, want your money. It’s not for me, it’s for my friend: the arts. Some months ago, Beaches Fine Arts Series invited me to be one of their “stars” (for the other participants, the quotation marks are not necessary, but for a nobody like me they absolutely are) in First Coast Dancing With the Stars, a charitable cause benefiting BFAS, which provides free concerts, arts enrichment programs to kids of all ages and more. Flattered, I thought, “Sure, why not? It’s for a cause near and dear to my heart and I love competition and dancing.” (I perhaps forgot to consider the fact that my love of dance is akin to my love of song — and nobody would pay to hear me sing except perhaps barnyard cats during their special time, wink wink, hiss hiss.) So once a week since the beginning of May, I’ve spent an hour on hard wood with my delightful partner Benjamin Clark of Monarch Ballroom and Dance Studio, learning moves and contorting myself into positions that my doughy editor’s body had not previously contemplated, let alone believed possible. It’s been both humbling and rewarding. And now, in mere days, my skin will be dyed a beachy shade of tan, my hair will be curled, teased and sprayed beyond all reckoning, every corner of my face will be painted, false eyelashes glued in place for the first time in my life, such sophistry being far from the norm for girls from Paw Paw, West Virginia who grew up to become a waitress-turned counselor-turned bartender-turned freelance writerturned editor (long story) then I will pour every lump of myself into a dress so revealing it could double as a bathing suit — and not one of the burkini variety. Why so many augmentations? Well, to get me *gasp* cameraready. That’s right, after Saturday, Sept. 17, a recording of me wearing a beautiful sparkly dress with a hemline to here that shows way, way more skin than I’m accustomed to displaying at events that don’t involve swimming, and doing my best to channel Shakira while dancing the salsa to a Beyoncé song will be part of my permanent public persona. If I bust my ass, I bust it on the record for all time. If I miraculously manage to flawlessly perform every spin, every kick-ball-change and windmill, well, then I may as well retire, because it ain’t gonna get any better than that. In short, I’m going further outside my comfort zone than ever before — and this is coming from someone who wore a banana costume to throw the first pitch at a Suns game earlier this year.
Am I nervous? Nope, scared shitless. Excited? Beyond belief. Ben and I have worked and worked and worked some more on this routine. This week alone, we’re spending four hours rehearsing it. I’ve been practicing my moves on city sidewalks, at public parks and in my office, kitchen and yard. For breakfast these days, I’ve been drinking concoctions of kale, carrots, banana, apple, yogurt and flax seeds that look something like liquefied lawn, which segue nicely into the salads I’ve been lunching on instead of sandwiches and the healthier choices I’ve been making at dinner. Don’t judge; this woman cannot survive on vegetables alone. Lucky for Ben, our routine doesn’t include any lifts. I — and my love of all things carbs and cheese — insisted. Now I’m asking you, dear readers, to reward my hard-working, sequin-wearing, risk-taking self by giving up some of your hard-earned cash to support the arts locally. Type or click the link to the First Coast Dancing with the Stars voting page, firstcoastdwts.org/gala-details/voting, and vote for me and Benjamin Clark as many millions of times as your heart desires and wallet can manage. Or just once. Though millions would be better. If not for me, do it for the children(s arts education). Whether I bust my butt or cut a rug like a much-less-awkward version of myself, as I’m sincerely hoping to do, after the eyelashes are removed and dress returned to Rhinestone Rentals, which generously donated rentals to the cause, I’ll post a video on FW’s social media channels, which include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and — soon — HI-FI. No matter how left-footed (or not) I look on camera. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com
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ROCK THY RETINAS RUSSELL MAYCUMBER & MICOEL FUENTES
Art lovers rejoice! The fall arts season kicks off in fine form with a new exhibit featuring work by two of Northeast Florida’s more engaging multimedia artists. Known for his creation of (literally) thousands of Post-it notes, Russell Maycumber creates micro and macro pieces (pictured) that touch on the humorous and grotesque. Micoel Fuentes is known for making visually charged works that refreshingly blur the lines between 2D and 3D art. An opening reception is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, Florida State College of Jacksonville’s Kent Campus, Westside. The exhibit displays through Oct. 20, fscj.edu.
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HUSTLE WITH THE MUSCLE THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER
Hunky Dory, indeed! Named “Best Male Strip Show” by the Las Vegas Review Journal (the bible of strip show reviews, maybe) Australia’s Thunder From Down Under’s all-male revue is known for bodacious bods, sassy costumes, dance routines (including breakdancing!), and powerful, faith-based message (we made that one up!). Fans of The View and Ellen have ogled these Ozzie Adonises – now it’s your turn! 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, Downtown, 633-6110, $30-$50, ticketmaster.com.
COOL HAND UKE JAKE SHIMABUKURO
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Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro is known for peeling off tasty licks that touch on all genres, from rock, blues and jazz to classical and bluegrass. In 2006, a video of Shimabukuro playing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” became one of the first viral videos on YouTube. Since then, the 39-year-old Hawaiian uke badass has released more than 25 solo works, appeared on shows like Prairie Home Companion and Jimmy Kimmel Live! and topped the Billboard charts. 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $43-$53, pvconcerthall.com.
PAGE TURNER FLORIDA HERITAGE BOOK FESTIVAL
Arise scribes! This three-day festival, featuring more than 30 writers in workshops (including award-winning author Sohrab Homi Fracis, pictured), critique sessions and book-signings, along with a keynote luncheon and kid-geared literary fun. 9 a.m.4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15; 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16; and 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, Flagler College, St. Augustine, $55-$265, fhbookfest.com.
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21st-CENTURY HONKY TONK ZAC BROWN BAND Since 2002, the Zac Brown
Band has been giving contemporary country music a much-needed, cowboy-boot-driven kick in the ass. These Grammy Award-winning Atlanta boys have topped the charts, boasting 14 No. 1 radio singles, by injecting a little grit back into C&W, with tunes like “Chicken Fried,” “Knee Deep” and “Beautiful Drug.” The group is not afraid to color outside the lines of their genre, collaborating with folks like Dave Grohl and the String Cheese Incident. 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 with Drake White & the Big Fire, Veterans Memorial Arena, Downtown, $28-$377, ticketmaster.com. 6 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
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THE MAIL THE GRINCH WHO STOLE XMAS BONUSES
BATTERED VOTER SYNDROME
RE.: “Bitter Pill to Swallow,” by Claire Goforth, Aug. 24 CLAIRE GOFORTH WANTS A MILLAGE RATE increase. I’ll agree to a millage rate increase under the following conditions: A) John Keane, Bobby Deal and all the others A) admit they scammed the taxpayers; B) No more double and triple dipping; C) Require city employees to retire in their A) 60s, not in their 40s. D) No more Christmas bonuses (for A) not working); E) End the 3 percent C.O.L.A. (cost of living A) adjustment); Make these taxpayer-funded pensions comparable to the private sector. Cheryl Campbell via U.S. Mail
LGBT IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS RE.: “The Rise and Fall of a True Believer,” by Julie Delegal, Sept. 7 THE SIXTH FLOOR AT DUVAL COUNTY JAIL’S motto should be “never an empty bed.” I visited an inmate there many times on that notorious floor. Home of LGBT inmates and those with mental issues. No, they are not one and the same. Daniel J. Alden via Facebook
PESSIMISTIC OR REALISTIC? RE.: “This is Our Year … or Is It?” by Mark Judson, Sept. 7 5-11 IS THE BEST THEY WILL DO. Marc Kortlander via Facebook
“OH, SWEETIE … I LOVE YOU, AND YOU ARE AWESOME, SO I’M just gonna be flat-out, brutally honest. I know you love him, but he’s not going to change. He says those things because he really believes them. He acts that way because that’s just who he is. You didn’t do anything to deserve it. That’s just who he is. When you apologize for him, or make excuses about how he didn’t mean it, you just enable him. He hates all your girlfriends. He literally refers to them as “pigs” and “dogs.” He talks about them in the most degrading terms possible, and sees them as sex objects. He thinks if a lady challenges him, she must be on her period. He hates your Muslim and Mexican friends, and doesn’t want them around. He says he’s fine with your gay friends, but he doesn’t want them to be able to get married or adopt kids. He talks about all the money he has, but he doesn’t pay his bills. He won’t even show you his paycheck or how he spent it. He’s a hustler, a con and a big liar. And he thinks violence is funny. Or at least he wants you to think that. He probably meant it, but you keep making excuses for him. You deserve better, my friend. You deserve to be told how awesome you are, not how you need him to fix you. You deserve to hear about how beautiful you are, not how broken. You deserve way better than this clown. Honey, you need to ditch that hot mess. There are worse things than ending a bad relationship.” If America were my friend and she was dating Trump. Jim Moody via email
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO MICHAEL WARD On Sept. 7, mere minutes after delivering the news that Compassionate Families’ annual Camp Maddie was canceled due to insufficient funds, the T-U reports that a knight in shining armor in the form of CSX CEO Ward had saved the day. To save the organization and its annual therapeutic camp for local children of homicide victims, Ward made a personal donation of $25,000. You’d be hard-pressed to find a classier act. BRICKBATS TO COASTAL SPINE & PAIN The U.S. Department of Justice reported on Aug. 31 that Physicians Group Services d/b/a Coastal Spine & Pain was fined $7.4 million by the federal government for violating the False Claims Act. Apparently the business was performing the basic Ford Pinto piss test for drugs but filing claims for the largely unnecessary Mercedes-Benz SLC urinalysis (aka qualitative and quantitative tests, respectively). BOUQUETS TO ANGELA COREY (seriously) After sore loser Public Defender Matt Shirk fired four employees in a childish fit the day after he lost the primary election, which some alleged was payback for their having the audacity to deny him their undying support, Corey hired two of them and was in talks with a third about a potential job.
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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS
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WIN WILES I DON’T HAVE A PONY IN THE HILLARY CLINTON v. Donald Trump horserace. I believe they are two sides of the same coin: Big government New Yorkers who would both borrow as much money as possible to expand the enforcement state until their generation passes on from this sphere. My position on Trump has been documented in this space. He speaks to class resentment, the clarion voice of white people for whom white skin privilege comes with ever-diminishing returns. A smart man with a Wharton education, he dumbs it down as aggressively as any candidate imaginable. And, despite all of this, he effectively is neck and neck with Clinton in Florida polls and in more recent national polls. This, despite the fact that he has no real ground game in Florida — not much in the way of campaign offices, not much in the way of media — and Clinton has run a traditional campaign, with “ground game” and infrastructure and all the rest. People keep asking me why I think Trump will beat Clinton — it is the question I inevitably get when speaking at forums. My answer is simple. For all of the infrastructural advantages Clinton has, the one thing the campaign lacks is a liked candidate. Obama’s line from the campaign of 2008 — “you’re likable enough” — is one of those backhanded disses that stuck because it was truer than intended, like Curry saying about Alvin Brown, “I like you. You’re a nice guy. But you’re an awful mayor.” It’s not essential to me that candidates be likable. My favorite politician, as an academic subject, was Richard Nixon. I even have a Nixon key chain and T-shirt. Part of that fascination was rooted in the whole idea that Nixon wasn’t likable, but got to the pinnacle anyway. Turns out, of course, that he looks like Jack Benny compared to Hillary Clinton. Nixon went on LaughIn. Nixon gave plays to coach George Allen and the Washington franchise in the Super Bowl. Nixon made Elvis, in a darkly humorous touch, an honorary DEA Agent. Clinton’s idea of a joke? Robby Mook as a campaign manager. I’m sure that there are some great jokes and wonderful insights inside of her thousands of missing emails. But Clinton’s public persona, despite spending four decades with the best retail politician of the modern era, has the verve of the voice from a smoke alarm. What difference does it make?
Did Trump FIND A WAY to win Florida?
Well, it’s one reason Clinton can lose. And another such reason is a product of Jacksonville’s political culture: Susie Wiles, called a “veteran operative” by the press as it was announced that she took over running the Florida operation from the seemingly perpetually-overmatched Karen Giorno. Wiles just sold you the pension tax — er, County Referendum 1. You didn’t see her out front too much, but she coordinated the operation in those subtle ways that got 65 percent of those who cast ballots to go all in. Wiles also helped get that slot machine referendum through City Council. By 10 minutes into a special committee meeting, Reggie Gaffney was asking if there was any way that referendum could be fast tracked. What else has Wiles gotten over lately? How about Al Lawson, your next congressman from Congressional District 5? Wiles managed to introduce Lawson to the media – a connection, beyond a friendship of some standing, was Wiles’ firm, Ballard Partners, asking her to make intros. Corrine Brown failed in Duval, getting just 60 percent. Twqenty percent went to LJ Holloway, 20 percent to Lawson, who won the whole election by 9 percent. If Brown had delivered Duval, if Wiles hadn’t been throwing lead blocks for Lawson, that all could have gone differently. Wiles has about eight weeks to win Florida for Trump. Rolling out the ground game by the end of September — that’s a must. Especially in these gloriously gerrymandered districts in NE Florida, the kinds of Republicans who like to knock on doors will be happy to do so just to stop Clinton. Wiles will make sure the field operations are on point. Trump putting her over Florida is a calculated decision; like giving the ball to a running back in the last drive of the 4th quarter, there is a realization that the inchoate style of most of the campaign needs to be faded in favor of playing the percentages. I guest lectured some months back at a class Wiles was teaching at Jacksonville University’s Public Policy Institute. Those students were lucky to be learning politics from a master of the game. Those reading this who are close to the Clinton operation need to heed the following. Whatever you may think about Trump and his batshit quote of the day, keep in mind that the person running his Florida operation sees the whole field, and has a career’s worth of experience making chicken salad from… A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
FOLIO VOICES : JAG CITY
JAG CITY: SMOTHERED
IN CHEESE The Jaguars FALL SHORT in season opener to Green Bay
“HERE WE ARE AGAIN; A BUNCH OF LOSERS.” That was the sentiment of Jaguars fans sitting outside the stadium after a 27-23 loss to the Green Bay Packers. Many critics and fans anticipated a loss to one of the NFL’s most elite teams, lead by a two-time MVP-winning quarterback. Despite the projections, and lack of pass interference calls on the cheeseheads, a loss in the fi nal seconds stings. “You have a six-five, 240-[pound] quarterback and Gus calls a screen on fourth down? What a joke,” said Nick Case, a seven-year season ticket-holder, as he exited EverBank Field. The Jaguars drove to the Packers’ 14-yard line with 23 seconds left to play. On a crucial fourth-and-one, a quick pass to Allen Hurns resulted in a one-yard loss, giving the ball back to Green Bay to seal the win. “Once again, Gus’ play-calling costs us a game,” continued Case. “I guarantee you this won’t be the last time this season that happens. He needs to leave Jacksonville at this point.” Understandable frustration, but aside from the potentially poor call and several missed penalties that prevented the Jaguars from converting first downs, the players looked more organized than they have in quite a while. The Jaguars outgained the Packers in yardage, converted more first downs and controlled the ball for a majority of the game. Quarterback Blake Bortles also out-threw Aaron Rodgers by more than 100 yards. “I think we played well. I think the refs screwed us, though,” said Brett Barley of the Teal Street Hooligans, a Jaguars fan support 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
group. “But if a couple more plays went our way today, it’s a totally different game.” However, last season’s lingering weaknesses continued to hinder the boys in teal. Bortles threw an interception on the team’s opening drive and was sacked three times. A weak pass rush also managed to bring down Rodgers for a sack just once, for no loss. So where does this leave the Jags? “If we can play like that, actually run the ball and get some of those missed calls, then I’m feeling pretty good on where [the Jaguars] stand,” said Roderick Pierce, a season ticketholder for four years. Running back Chris Ivory didn’t play due to injury and T.J. Yeldon moved the ball a lackluster 39 yards on 21 carries. Another major struggle during the game for the Jaguars’ offense. “It’s scary going to San Diego, but you never know,” said Barley. “The offense looks better and the defense looks hungry.” Next week, the Jaguars will once again face an elite quarterback in Philip Rivers of the San Diego Chargers. The Jaguars have consistently played poorly on the West Coast, but after a stronger than expected performance against the Packers, there might be hope for a Week Two victory. While the Jaguars are traveling west, I’ll be traveling east. Come find me next week at The Brix Taphouse in Jax Beach and tell me how you think the team in teal is playing. Mark Judson mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Connect with Judson at the Folio Weekly Jag City Facebook page.
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Craft breweries poised to TAKE OVER DOWNTOWN
Intuition Ale Works’ new digs on East Bay Street, Downtown
URBAN AGENDA N
o one was really sure how the community would react when Bold City Brewery opened the first craft brewery in Jacksonville in October 2008. In the eight years since, Jacksonville’s craft beer scene has gone from nonexistent to full onslaught. Breweries have popped up in all corners of Duval, Clay, St. Johns and Nassau — from Jacksonville Beach to Orange Park and everywhere in between. At last count, nine breweries call Northeast Florida home, with at least three more planned to open in the near future. One area of town that had previously not seen much in the way of brewery development has suddenly become the new hot spot: the urban core. Currently, there are two craft breweries, Intuition Ale Works and Engine 15 Brewing
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Company, operating within the urban core; several others are planning to open facilities in the city’s center. These include Bold City Brewery, Hyperion Brewing Company, Main & Six Brewing Company and a brewpub project proposed by the owners of Bono’s Pit Bar-B-Que.
ENGINE 15 BREWING COMPANY
In 2013, Engine 15 Brewing Company announced that it had outgrown its Jax Beach facility and bought a couple of old warehouses on North Myrtle Avenue just south of West Beaver Street. According to co-owner Luciano Scremin, the building that houses their new 20-barrel brewhouse and 60-barrel fermentation
tanks used to be a warehouse for the Hotel Burbridge that was on the corner of Forsyth and Clay streets. In addition, the building also contains facilities for the production of hard ciders and mead. By 2014, Scremin and partner Sean Bielman, began brewing operations at their new location, but due to zoning regulations, were not permitted to sell beer directly to the public, so they applied for a zoning variance in January 2016. It was granted in June. “We’ve been working to get this for over two years,” said Kara Scremin, marketing maven for Engine 15. The successful bid to rezone the property clears the way for Engine 15 to build a taproom and German-style outdoor beer garden. The taproom and beer garden,
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scheduled to open in coming months, will be operating Friday through Sunday and feature Engine 15 beers, ciders and meads, along with food from local food trucks, as well as horseshoe pits and a bocce ball court. “It’s a family-friendly space where we hope to host bocce ball tournaments in the future,” said Scremin. The rezoning also makes it easier for the company to utilize an adjacent building — an early 1900s factory where glass was once manufactured — as a space for special events and private rentals. The building is an industrial beauty, with a wall of opaque blue windows along the back and airy rafters with glass windows above. The culminating event of Jacksonville Beer Week — Mash In, a beer festival showcasing local breweries — is scheduled for the space on Saturday, Sept. 24. “If all goes well,” Scremin said. “We hope to have an Oktoberfest celebration at both our
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Jacksonville Beach and Myrtle Street locations with the Jax Brew Bus shuttling attendees back and forth.”
INTUITION ALE WORKS
In November 2010, when Ben Davis opened Intuition Ale Works, Jacksonville’s second craft brewery, in an old warehouse on King Street that a chain of pet stores had once used to house tropical fish, he thought he had plenty of space. But as time passed and demand grew, it became apparent he needed more room. The search for a larger location led to several false starts, including a city-thwarted plan to build a waterfront facility on the Shipyards property. Undeterred, in 2014, Davis settled on a building that had once housed a plumbing supply company a block from the Shipyards at the corner of A. Philip Randolph Boulevard and Bay Street near the sports complex. “We can reach a larger audience,” said taproom manager Riley Leuthold. “And we can educate them about craft beer.” On King Street, Intuition had capacity to produce about 8,000 barrels annually. The new facility affords Intuition a major increase in brewing space — more than triple the previous capacity — and offers an expanded taproom that can accommodate 300 enthusiasts. The facility boasts a ground-floor taproom, a rooftop beer garden and a spacious special events space. Though beer is not being brewed at the new location yet, Davis said that they plan to begin brewing there soon. In addition to beer, in the next month or so, the new digs will start offering food created by the team behind Riverside’s Black Sheep Restaurant. Another unique aspect of the new location is that it is situated inside the boundaries of the sports and entertainment district. This means that they’re able to sell beer from a window to patrons on the street as long as they are within a time frame of starting the day before and ending the day after an event in the district. “There are really only a few days out of the year that we will not be able to sell from the window,” Leuthold said.
BOLD CITY BREWERY
Since 2008, the mother-and-son team of Susan and Brian Miller has become increasingly successful at capturing the hearts and taste buds of local beer lovers. Most Friday and Saturday nights, their Rosselle Street brewery and taproom is so packed that guests spill out onto the parking lot. “When we first designed the taproom,” Brian said, “we expected around 20 people per night.” Now Bold City Brewery is also expanding Downtown. It’s hard to miss the construction of Cowford Chophouse at the corner of Main and Bay streets. Look east of the soon-to-be eatery and you’ll notice several windows covered with paper that’s emblazoned with the Bold City logo. With a smaller production system, just three barrels as opposed to the 15-barrel system at the main brewery, Bold City’s downtown brewery will focus on providing more varieties than the brewery’s core brands, allowing them to experiment and get creative. “We plan to rotate our brewers out there every few months and let them brew whatever they want,” Brian explained. “This will give them the opportunity to go beyond being just ‘line cooks.’” Bold City expects to have the taproom open for guests no later than December, and 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
hopes to get into the new space in as little as six to eight weeks, depending on progress on the adjacent Cowford Chophouse. Brian Miller said, “Being born and raised in Jacksonville, you always want to see Downtown live up to its potential. It was important to us to be part of Downtown’s revitalization. We just felt like it was where we needed to be.”
HYPERION BREWING COMPANY
Alexandra McKeown is a dynamo packed in a very small package. (See “Sisters of the Suds,” p. 15) A graduate of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and the University of Central Florida, she brings a strong creative background to her newest venture, Hyperion Brewing Company. Though McKeown is still working through myriad red tape required to open a brewery, she is confident that her brewery will make its big splash in Jacksonville’s beer scene very soon. Together with former classmate Troy Orton who will serve as brewmaster, McKeown plans to bring a nano-brewery to Main Street in Springfield. Nano-breweries produce small batches of beer that are typically served to guests within feet of the production facility. Hyperion will employ a one-barrel brewing system to produce a wide variety of beers. “Our goal is to never serve the same beer twice in our first year of operation,” McKeown said. “We are not planning on making any core beers.”
MAIN & SIX BREWING COMPANY
Still in its infancy, the concept for Main & Six is the brainchild of Dennis Espinosa. Espinosa, a prolific homebrewer who hopes to turn his hobby into a business, wants to open a nano-brewery just a block from where Hyperion is planning to open. Both breweries must win rezoning approval before their projects can move forward. “Springfield offers us a few things,” Espinosa said. “It is affordable, in a historic district that is perfect for a brewery and has Main Street, which is perfect for breweries and restaurants.” He plans for the brewery’s initial setup to include a 10-barrel brewing system, four fermenters and a bright tank. “Our brewing equipment manufacturer does great low-footprint systems,” Espinosa said. “I am really not in favor of starting with anything smaller, for volume and price reasons.” Espinosa estimates that the brewery will be up and running in about 18 months if all zoning and building purchase plans go as planned.
BONO’S PIT BAR-B-QUE BREW PUB/RESTAURANT/ THEATER
The details about this project aren’t completely public yet, but it certain to be quite different from Bono’s other restaurants. In May, Jacksonville Business Journal reported that Bono’s is planning to put in an entertainment complex which will include a brewpub, bar and theater, in Springfield’s Ninth & Main building. Sources have confirmed that the first phase of the project has been completed and the company is moving forward with phase two.
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OF THE SUDS Craft beer is dominated by men, but that trend is TURNING AROUND locally
Susan Miller, Bold City Brewery
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eer has been around for thousands of years, and for most of its existence women held the title of brewmaster. Making beer was considered comparable to baking — women’s work. Around the time of the Industrial Revolution things started to change in the brewing business and men became the main brewers. Decades of marketing geared towards men created and enforced a stereotype that beer was a “man’s drink.” While that certainly isn’t the case, statistics show the craft beer industry is predominantly male-focused. A 2015 U.S. Yankelovich MONITOR survey found women only represent 25 percent of craft beer drinkers. So why are women drinking less craft beer? Alex McKeown, owner of one of Northeast Florida’s newest microbreweries, Hyperion Brewing Company, believes male-centric marketing still plays a role in why women aren’t drinking craft. Certain label designs, beer names, even the way some taprooms are decorated can be geared more towards male clientele. While these things may be created without an intent to alienate, McKeown notes they might not buy the brand loyalty of women as consumers. Instead, she believes that companies looking to be inclusive of both genders should utilize more neutral branding. Commonly, women can expect to see ladies’ nights as a way to engage them, but even this tactic is flawed to some degree. “[Breweries] aren’t doing anything other than highlighting that I’m a female coming into the bar,” said McKeown. Instead, she suggests breweries market to women by thinking outside the box and having more fun with their consumers. By way of an example, she detailed a local brewery event that offered free manicures with beers. “It was amazing, the place was packed,” she said. “And it’s wrong to think about stereotypes, but I’m a girl and I just want to get my nails done and drink a beer.”
McKeown also suggests flipping stereotypes. She described a bar crawl in which women dressed as lumberjacks as a play on a traditionally male-focused Oktoberfest event. Although the craft industry seems to have a problem drawing in women, once they become part of the community, most agree they are treated more equally than other industries. And despite the surge in the number of Jacksonville breweries, that community remains collaborative rather than competitive. Susan Miller, co-owner of Bold City Brewery, believes this non-competitive spirit is the key to why women in the industry are treated well. Miller worked for a white-collar company before she went into the beer business with her son Brian. The very nature of white-collar work, according to Miller, created more divisions and contributed to women not being treated with equal respect — an issue she hasn’t run into since founding Bold City. “It’s simpler — we’re just people, working together, making a living, having a fun time,” said Miller. “I think it’s great, at least from my experiences.” “Whenever I go to a conference, I don’t feel like I’m being treated different or not having my voice heard like my son’s,” Miller continued. She says that such equality between genders is rare in other industries. So, is the issue with women in craft beer really a marketing and PR flop on the industry’s part? For an industry that is built on working together, the demographic is still narrow — and it’s not just women who are absent. The previously mentioned study also found AfricanAmericans represent only 10 percent of the market, Asians 9 percent and Hispanics — the most represented minority race — 21 percent. And not a single local brewery is owned by a person of a minority race. “That’s not saying anything against the brewing industry, that’s saying a lot about society and the opportunities afforded to minorities,” McKeown said. Despite the underrepresentation of women in the craft beer movement, there’s still plenty of women sipping local suds who are completely turned off by big beer (and its marketing). There
is still a need for better representation of women and minority races, but it seems the industry is moving in that direction. Only a few years ago, similar research showed women as making up only 15 percent of craft beer drinkers. Clearly, women are taking back the craft they perfected centuries ago. “One day you’ll come to me and say, ‘I just want to write an article on Hyperion that has nothing to do with the fact that you’re a woman,’” McKeown said. Cheers to that.
Mark Judson mail@folioweekly.com Alex McKeown, Hyperion Brewing Company
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ADJUNCT PROFESSORS Why simply buy beer when you can BREW IT, too?
Skip Frostenson, CASK president
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eer. A one-syllable word for a beverage — nay, an ideal — that is the result of countless hours of care and devotion, meticulous experimentation and continual practice in pursuit of quaffable perfection. Perhaps I’m romanticizing a bit. After all, my earliest memories of beer are from childhood, when my father, upon completing a day of seemingly intense and perilous yard work, cracked open an ice-cold beer to recognize properly a most delicious victory over the forces of nature – namely, his lawn. Still, beer has an undeniable allure and nostalgia for many. Jacksonville is no exception, particularly given the veritable renaissance of craft breweries in the U.S. and abroad, and dissatisfaction with the indifferently brewed swill of the longestablished national brands. Currently, Northeast Florida can count nearly a dozen local breweries, with more on the way. However, behind this growing patchwork of hometown upstarts and their ebullient concoctions are the communities that promote and foster these sorts of ventures, such as The CASK. The Cowford Ale Sharing Klub (CASK) is Jacksonville’s own home-brewing collective. Its mission is “to promote the art and enjoyment of handcrafted brewing and to further promote the hobby by introducing new people to the art and enjoyment in the production of the many varieties of beer … “ A cursory glance through The CASK’s Facebook page reveals an effervescent stronghold for all things beer. From pictures of auto-siphons, hydrometers and commercial-grade stockpots, to competition notices and hard-won advice, it is
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indeed a true and glorious testament to everything that is good and right in the world. Thus, through luck and sinister backroom dealings involving money, safety straps and car batteries, I was permitted to interview the overlord himself, Skip Frostenson, CASK’s president. “The CASK is really about getting people interested in knowing more about beer,” said Frostenson. “Not just in the crazy stuff that people are brewing nowadays, but with the standards and guidelines that should be aimed for with the different styles of beer.” According to Frostenson, this has been the Klub’s purpose since its founding in 2006. “Before there was The CASK, there really wasn’t a strong community nor consistent group of people in the Jacksonville area who were getting together to discuss and brew beer. “Ten years ago, you really didn’t have much of a scene in Jacksonville that desired better product either, nor [to] have full discussions about many of the quality products out there,” Frostenson added. David Rigdon, CASK’s vice-president, shares these sentiments. “I first got into beer back in college, and there really wasn’t any ‘craft beer’ per se. I had a buddy of mine who had some Fuller’s ESB, and it was at that point that I realized I had never had a ‘real beer’ before.” Since that first “real beer,” Rigdon has been steeped in the joy-bringing business of beer and its many frothy renditions,
working at Sam Adams upon graduation from Florida State University, and now as chain sales manager at Champion Brands. Since joining The CASK seven years ago, Rigdon has become more and more certain that craft beer, and The CASK in particular, are benevolent and legitimizing forces in the universe, and particularly in the region’s local communities. “The boom of craft beer is similar to the boom of varietals in the wine business,” said Rigdon. “As people get more educated and are exposed to craft beer, the faster it’s going to grow and the more people it’s going to impact. So anything that increases education and awareness is good for not only craft beer, but also the community as a whole.” However, apart from its desire to “increaseth thy knowledge” and impart due wisdom upon the fickle-minded masses, The CASK and its members are, at the moment, most concerned with expanding their reach, and hence their cause, unto future generations. “New member[ship] is where the club is going to put a lot of attention,” said Rigdon. “So you’re going to see the club continue to do events that support new membership and educate people on how relatively easy it is to get into brewing and producing a quality-tasting beer.” “At this point, craft beer has proven itself to be far more than just a fad, but a legitimate culinary and cultural change,” Rigdon said.
Jake Gerken mail@folioweekly.com
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JAX BEER WEEK : PINT-SIZED Brewmasters are thinking WAY, WAY OUTSIDE the barrel
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EVERY DAY, A BREWMASTER SOMEWHERE has an idea for a new beer flavor. Some sound interesting, others horrible, and still others sound just plain outrageous. I mean, whoever heard of putting hibiscus flowers in a beer? Surprisingly, it’s not as uncommon as you’d think. Envelope-pushing flavors are the new black to craft brewers’ orange. While they may not be the most outrageous flavors on the market, here are five brews that challenge the taste buds to go beyond the familiar — and maybe even find a potion to blow them away.
oddest flavors ever created. Sadly, the beer is no longer available via mail-order online, but rest assured it’s a real thing.
TERRAPIN LIQUID BLISS Years ago, a very successful candy had an equally successful ad campaign that featured chocolate lovers and peanut butter lovers accidentally mixing their individual passions. Terrapin’s Liquid Bliss mixes those same two flavors, but this rich, delicious porter is no accident. Part of the brewery’s fabled Side Project series, this beer may be a bit difficult to find, but if you’re lucky enough to score a bottle, you’ll know chocolate and peanut butter make a delightful brew.
ANHEUSER-BUSCH BUDWEISER & CLAMATO CHELADA In Mexico, a Michelada is a mixture of beer, lime, salt and hot sauces or chili slices. Add clam juice to that interesting concoction and ¡iya esta! the Budweiser & Clamato Chelada. Anheuser-Busch says the “Clamato is carefully blended with the beer to create the proper balance of the crisp finish of Budweiser or Bud Light and the signature taste of Clamato.” We say: Try at your own risk.
MAMMA MIA PIZZA BEER It’s a well-known fact: Pizza is better with a cold beer. Recognizing an opportunity, Tom and Athena Seefurth of Campton Township, Illinois created a brew that not only goes well with pizza, it <tastes> like pizza. The beer carries flavors of tomatoes, garlic, oregano and basil. Pizza Beer may not be on your local pizzeria’s menu, but it certainly ranks as one of the 18 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
SOUTHERN TIER CRÈME BRÛLÉE IMPERIAL MILK STOUT Fancy restaurants make a killing on their dessert carts. One standout item on that cart is crème brûlée, a sweet custard with a caramelized sugar crust. Southern Tier took the taste of deep burnt sugar and rich custard and somehow got them into a bottle. If you see this astounding brew on the list, order it instead of dessert. It’s definitely worth it.
ST. SOMEWHERE LECTIO DIVINA The folks over at St. Somewhere in Tarpon Springs are masters at utilizing authentic Belgian flavors in their wonderful, funky brews. In this brew, they took it one step further and added the refreshing flavor of rosemary to the mix. Lectio Divina is a tart, red beer that lingers on the palate in the most pleasing ways. This is a real treat of a beer. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com
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5TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST CELEBRATION 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM Enjoy a traditional German-style Oktoberfest party full of beer, live music, sausage, pretzels, games and good times. Pre-sale Tickets: intuitionokt2016.eventbrite.com. Intuition Ale Works 929 E Bay Street Jacksonville, FL 32202
HOMEBREW SHOWCASE COMPETITION & BOTTLE SHARE 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Taste local homebrews & vote for your favorite. Bottle share to follow from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Alewife Bottleshop and Tasting Room 1035 Park Street Jacksonville, FL 32204
JBS COLLABORATION BEER RELEASE 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Join the 8 founding brewery members of the Jax Beer Society as they tap the 2016 Jax Beer Week collaboration beer. Intuition Ale Works 929 E Bay Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202
5 DAYS OF BOTTLE RELEASES @ GREEN ROOM 4:00 PM - 11:30 PM Yates Manifesto Imperial Stout (100 Bottles available and limited draft) Green Room Brewing 228 3rd Street N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
GLASS GIVEAWAY 7:00 PM - 9:00 Featuring multiple prizes Aardwolf Brewing Co lots of great b Brewz 1011 Atlantic Bou Atlantic Beach, FL
HOME BREWING DEMONSTRATION 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Learn what goes into making a really good beer, well, a good beer. Open to the public. Really Good Beer Stop 323 10th Avenue N Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
BARRELS, FOEDERS, & BEER - OH MY! 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM A discussion & guided tasting of 5 barrel and foeder beers with Aardwolf Brewing Company. Ticketed event. Alewife Bottleshop & Tasting Room 1035 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204
AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY TAP SPOTLIGHT 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Enjoy multiple one-off beers from Aardwolf. Beer:30 San Marco 1543 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207
5 DAYS OF BOTTLE @ GREEN RO 4:00 PM - 11:3 Vanilla Yates Manifesto Im (100 Bottles available and Green Room Br 228 3rd Street Jacksonville Beach, F
SIXPOINT BREWERY NIGHT 6:00 PM Enjoy free samples and win gear from Sixpoint. Free pizza slice from Biggie’s Pizza with purchase of a pint. Really Good Beer Stop 323 10th Avenue N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
WHAT THE FU 6:00 PM - 9:00 A celebration of the funky side of craf Alewife Bottleshop & T 1035 Park Street, Jackson
SUNDAY SUPPER: SESSION BEER & BBQ! 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Join Edible Northeast Florida Magazine, Revelry, Aardwolf Brewing Company and the team from The Bearded Pig to learn the secrets of session beer and tips from the pit. Tickets: sessionbeerbbq.eventbrite.com The Bearded Pig 1224 Kings Avenue Jacksonville, FL 32207 JAGS VS CHARGERS PARTY FEATURING AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY AND BALLAST POINT 4:30 PM START Raffle of shirts and prizes every time the teams score. Mellow Mushroom, Jax Beach 1018 3rd Street N. Jax Beach, FL 32250
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ARTS AND DRAFTS WITH FUNKY BUDDHA 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Funky Buddha Brewery on draft and tap handles for decorating. Funky Buddha will choose their favorite handle the following week to win a special bottle release. Really Good Beer Stop 323 10th Avenue N. Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 CIGAR CITY TAP TAKEOVER 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM Featured beers include: Continental Drift, Good Gourd, Seasonal Sneak, Marshal Zukov, Jai Alai, Apple Pie Cider, Decoherence, Lou Gim Gong and Vanilla Maduro Nitro Mellow Mushroom, Avondale 3611 St. Johns Avenue Jacksonville, FL 32205
CIGAR CITY BREWING AND TAPA THAT BEER DINNER 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM A can’t miss four course beer pairing dinner featuring exclusive Cigar City Brewing beers. Ticketed event. Alewife Bottleshop & Tasting Room 1035 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 GET JACKED:THE ULTIMATE COFFEE BEER COLLABORATION! 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM The following beers will be available for a limited time starting with the tapping event on 9/20: Hipster Speedball (on draft), Rude Awakening (on draft), Guji Mane Hoppy Coffee Blonde, Rye’n Heart Coffee Amber Aged on Oak. Tickets are not required but do include a taster flight and limited edition t-shirt. BREW Five Points 1024 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 BEER TRIVIA @ ENGINE 15 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM A fun twist on our regular trivia night featuring beer fun facts from movies, Engine 15 history & more. Bar tab prizes + Jax Beer Week swag! Engine 15 Brewing Co. 1500 Beach Boulevard #217, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
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OKTOBERFEST AT AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY TIME TBD Stop by for the launch of their Oktoberfest “Aartoberfest”, try one of their 4 Gose-style brews and have the chance to win logoed steins. Aardwolf Brewing Company 1461 Hendricks Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32207 5 DAYS OF BOTTLE RELEASES @ GREEN ROOM 4:00 PM - 11:30 PM Chocolate Yates Manifesto Imperial Stout (100 Bottles available and limited draft) and tapping of I Did It All For The Chinookie IPA Green Room Brewing 228 3rd Street N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 INTUITION ALE WORKS TAP SPOTLIGHT 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Join the Intuition Ale Works crew for several Barrel-Aged beers and BBQ. The Bearded Pig 1224 Kings Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32207 FOUNDERS TAP SPOTLIGHT 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Beer:30 San Marco 1543 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207
CIDER & CHEESE PAIRING 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM A farmhouse cider and artisanal cheese pairing. Ticketed event. Alewife Bottleshop & Tasting Room 1035 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 BEER VS WINE DINNER 6:30 PM RECEPTION 7 PM DINNER Enjoy creative dishes by Chef Ryan Randolph paired with both an Engine 15 beer and selected wine...the guests will then vote on which pairs best wine or beer! Ticketed event. Kitchen on San Marco 1402 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207 BARREL-AGED NIGHT @ ENGINE 15 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Join the team at Engine 15 as they tap Barrel-Aged Nut Sack, Barrel-Aged Hard Cider, Barrel-Aged Imperial Simcoe and there’s rumors that Barrel-Aged Imperial Chupacabra might raise its ugly head. Engine 15 Brewing Co. 1500 Beach Boulevard #217, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
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5 DAYS OF BOTTLE RELEASES @ GREEN ROOM 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM Coconut Yates Manifesto Imperial Stout (100 Bottles available and limited draft) Green Room Brewing 228 3rd Street N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
TASTE OF THE SEASONS 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Featuring Cabo Wabo tequila, pumpkin meads and various holiday beers Broudy’s Liquor 516 W Geoffrey Street, St. Augustine, FL 32086
JAX BEER WEEK - MASH IN 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Celebrate the success of Jax Beer Week at the 2nd Annual Mash In event! Enjoy an afternoon of great brews, live music, food truck eats, games and more. All participants will receive a complimentary tasting glass and unlimited samples. Proceeds benefit Jax Beer Society. Tickets: jaxbeerweek.eventbrite.com The Glass Factory @ Engine 15 Brewing Co. 601 Myrtle Ave N, Jacksonville, FL 32204
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M.I.A. BREWING TAP SPOTLIGHT 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Beer:30 San Marco 1543 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207
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THINK LOCAL, DRINK LOCAL 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM Local tap takeover & game night with Rethreaded pop-up shop. Alewife Bottleshop & Tasting Room 1035 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204
SOUTHERN SWELLS BREWING CO. - A SPECIAL TASTING EVENT 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Sample brews from this up-and-coming Jax Beach brewery at their first public tasting event. Really Good Beer Stop 323 10th Avenue N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
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ALEWIFE BOTTLESHOP AND TASTING ROOM 1035 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 ANCIENT CITY BREWING 3420 Agricultural Center Drive #8, St Augustine, FL 32092 BEER:30 - SAN MARCO 1543 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207 BREW FIVE POINTS 1024 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 BRIXX WOOD FIRED PIZZA 220 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32202 BURRITO GALLERY Riverside: 90 Riverside Avenue #601, Jacksonville, FL 32202 Jax Beach: 300 Beach Boulevard #1, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 EUROPEAN STREET Park Street: 2753 Park Street, Jacksonville, FL 32205 San Marco: 704 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207 Jax Beach: 992 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 22 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO 1402 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207 MELLOW MUSHROOM Avondale: 3611 St Johns Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32205 Southside: 9734 Deer Lake Court #1, Jacksonville, FL 32246 Jax Beach: 1018 3rd Street N., Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 REALLY GOOD BEER STOP 323 10th Avenue N., Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 TAVERNA 986 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207 UPTOWN KITCHEN & BAR 303 Main Street N., Jacksonville, FL 32206 M SHACK 1012 Margaret Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 WICKED BARLEY BREWING COMPANY 4100 Baymeadows Road, Jacksonville, FL 32217
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JAX BEER WEEK : CHEFFED-UP Cook with beer. If nothing else, IT’S ANOTHER EXCUSE to drink with dinner
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KNIFE & FORK I WISH I HAD THAT WALL IN MY HOUSE — you know, the one with 99 bottles of beer. I wonder how long it would last. I’d eventually come up with ways to utilize them for more things than just drinking — maybe feeding it to my cows like the Japanese do in Kobe, but without the massaging; massaging cows is not my thing! However, as I don’t have Wagu cows hanging around and spend most of my time cooking, I’ll combine the two and Chef Up my food with that excess brew. Because the ancient Egyptians are credited with being one of the first to brew beer (the pyramids were probably originally designed as pubs), they must have used it in their cooking. I bet beer and duck stew was a big favorite. Like cooking with wine, cooking with beer has become a practice in many top cuisines. Both liquids add a great punch of flavor. Just remember that a wine reduction is a dream, but a beer reduction is a nightmare. While reducing wine brings out the sugars and fruit, reducing beer results in an unpleasantly bitter, unpalatable mistake that only an untrained shoemaker could embrace. Some of my favorite dishes involve beer. The cliché for wine — “Cook with whatever you’re drinking” — really applies to beer, but in reverse: You should drink whatever you’re cooking with. When cooking with beer, the purpose is to add the flavor profile of the specific style to food. So if I’m making a bratwurst, I use Bavarian weizenbock or a good bock. Same goes for poutine — while the gravy recipe might not call for beer, why not add a good Canadian-style lager or ale? Regional beers are essential to regional cuisines. That’s right, hipsters, you can boil hot dogs in PBR and still be relevant. Aside from Germany, the nation whose culture is most entwined with beer is Belgium. While walking through Leuven (home of Stella Artois), I was astonished to see cafés crowded with locals drinking, not espresso, but beer. Beer-thirty at 7 a.m. My kind of place! While you enjoy Jacksonville Beer Week, use this Guinness and Cheddar soup as an excuse to drink what you’re cooking with.
CHEF BILL’S GUINNESS AND CHEDDAR SOUP Ingredients: • 8 oz. pancetta • 1/2 cup celery, small dice • 1 onion, small dice • 1 jalapeno, small dice • 2 shallots, small dice • 1 tbsp. garlic, minced • 1 tsp. caraway seeds • 4 oz. butter • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour • 4 oz. Guinness • 20 oz. chicken stock • 1 bouquet garni (bundle of herbs • tied with string) • 8 oz. cheddar, shredded • 4 oz. smoked Gouda • 3 oz. heavy cream • Salt and pepper to taste Directions: 1. Process pancetta in food processor. 2. Heat butter in pot, toast the caraway 1. seeds, add the onion, shallots and 1. pancetta, and sweat. Add the celery, 1. jalapeno and garlic, and sweat. 3. Add the flour and form a roux, slowly 1. whisk in the chicken stock, add the 1. bouquet garni, and season. Simmer for 1. 30 minutes. 4. Slowly stir in the cheeses. Once 1. incorporated, add beer. Adjust 1. the seasonings. 5. Puree until silky. Adjust seasonings 1. to taste. Until we cook again,
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NATURE T
CRYSTAL FLOYD Tokens of Affection
Displayed at Jacksonville International Airport, Northside, jiaarts.org. The exhibit runs through Sept. 30, then moves to Concourse A Gallery Cases through the end of the year.
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Crystal Floyd creates anomalous works by conjuring from the familiar realm of FLORA AND FAUNA
OF BEING
he bucolic and the bizarre merge in the works of Crystal Floyd. Chimerical ideas are generated in mixed media, 2D, assemblage, and her now-signature terrarium pieces. Using everything from verdant succulents to animal skulls, Floyd’s work seems to inhabit an occult location, where the comfort of nature runs wild along the unsettlingly cryptic. It’s a weird dance, and she does it damn well. Her current show at Jacksonville International Airport, Tokens of Affection, is a collection of recent works as engaging and pleasantly inscrutable as her previous offerings. And she has already sold pieces from it. A longtime fixture on the Northeast Florida arts scene, Floyd has shown her creations locally at venues including the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Hawthorn Salon, and Bold Bean Coffee, and as far afield as Minneapolis and Pasadena. Her two-person show with regular collaborator Eric Gillyard, Dark Nature, won Folio Weekly’s Best of Jax award for Best Art Exhibition of 2012. Floyd has also worked with local arts pater familias Jim Draper, creating the small wooden boxes that were a part of Draper’s 2012-’13 multimedia/envirofabulist work, Feast of Flowers. Floyd has co-curated shows at the Old Library Basement and 229 North Hogan Gallery, as well as CoRK Arts District, where she is also the Event Coordinator. She is also a recipient of one of the 2013 Art Ventures Individual Artist Grants from the Community Foundation of Northeast Florida. I had intended to interview Floyd via phone, since she’s always an engaging and fun conversationalist. Yet, in a moment of manic distraction, I somehow lost my digital recorder. Thankfully, Floyd agreed to answer my questions by email. What follows are some highlights of that exchange.
FILM Modern Westerns MUSIC Wheeler Walker Jr. MUSIC Folk Is People LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR
Folio Weekly Magazine: How do you describe your art? My work explores themes of nature, storytelling, and adaptive reuse, taking personally collected ephemera and manipulating materials and objects into naturalistic and nostalgic assemblages. I employ preserved insects, taxonomical items, natural artifacts, living plants and artificial objects in my work to activate magical narratives in hopes that my works transcend the appropriated objects and transfer the viewer into a world that they have created.
What compels you to focus your creative vision toward the natural world? My practice is not about glorifying death but rather honoring and celebrating life and paying homage to the repeating patterns and cycles therein. I never have nor ever will harm or kill an animal, insect or plant for my collection or for the items used in my pieces. Most of the items used are personally collected by me or gifted by other like-minded nature lovers and adventurers who want them to find new life and appreciation. How do you get these materials? I like to go out to the woods and shorelines, seeking out new natural and weird places to look for materials. You never know what you’re going to find and where it will be. I’ve
always been an avid collector and regularly go to garage sales, estate sales, flea markets, gem and mineral shows, you name it; so now I just have a place to utilize the things I am already drawn to. Since I have been doing it for a while, people have started bringing me items that they don’t want to see go to waste and I just love that people step outside of their normal perception to see value in them and gift them to me. How do you build these pieces? Do you have a preconceived idea or do sketches first, or just build them as you’re working with the materials? I am usually inspired by an item that a piece is built around; I actually like doing commissions because it reins in the subject matter a bit. Lately I have been working on pieces that include items that I felt overwhelmingly drawn to and it’s been really fun — it’s almost as if they had a halo of light around them when I found them. They aren’t for any particular project, just for my own enjoyment and practice. I do a rough sketch and then kind of manipulate the items until they feel right and then go back and edit once I have had time away. Do you feel as if you have a direct environmental message that you’re trying to convey, or are you more interested in the materials and possibilities of using natural items? More than anything, I want viewers to leave with the idea that they should take a more careful, compassionate look at the environment around them and hopefully have this affect their interactions with nature and their surroundings. I just think that often, people have forgotten to take the
time to really appreciate what we all have and treat it with the respect that it deserves. If that perception can be changed, even just a little bit, maybe we will see improvements and more support for efforts made to conserve our resources. You’ve worked with Eric Gillyard more than once. Do you see similarities in both his work and yours? Simply put, I just really enjoy working with Eric — it has always been a fun and easy experience and what more can you ask for when partnering up with someone creatively? I think our work compliments each other well, even though we have different themes present. I think we have a similar worldview that has been able to cross over cohesively in our joint projects and I’ve always been a fan of his work. Has your art ever inadvertently freaked someone out, like they were looking into this terrarium full of cactuses and succulents and suddenly they discovered some goat eyeballs in the sand? Ha ha! Goat eyeballs really don’t lend themselves well to that type of thing and aren’t the best substrate (ha!), but I see where you are coming from. I feel like I am pretty good at reading the audience for each particular project, so I’ve been able to avoid any major incidents. You never know, though. I met someone who was legitimately scared of butterflies, living or dead, but I didn’t take it personally. I mainly just wondered what had happened to them in their lives to bring them to that point and felt sympathetic more than anything. Ha! Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com
FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS
PISTOL PACKIN’ PICTURES Ride off INTO THE SUNSET with these three worthy Westerns
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ith the star-studded remake of The Magnificent Seven about to open, it’s clear that the Western is anything but dead. In fact, within the past year alone several noteworthy films tackled what was once Hollywood’s most popular genre though only one — Tarantino’s bloated, self-indulgent The Hateful Eight — got any real big screen time. However, many of the smaller Westerns, like Kurt Russell’s Bone Tomahawk, have deservedly thrived on home video. Three recent releases on the home market video are each distinguished by curious casting choices, which alone might make fans of the genre take notice. Diablo stars Clint Eastwood’s son Scott in his first oater while the Sutherland team of dad Donald and son Kiefer headline Forsaken. Oscar winner Natalie Portman straps on the hardware in Jane Got a Gun, the biggest budgeted of the three with Ewan McGregor (the former ObiWan himself) as the nasty villain. Diablo can claim the most unusual plot of the three, but it is also the weakest in terms of quality. Eastwood, looking at times uncannily like his father, plays Jackson, a Civil War veteran whose wife is kidnapped at the beginning of the film. Naturally, he goes after her, encountering all kinds of problems along the way until the final shootout. What sounds like a familiar Western plot grows odd and strange with the appearance of Ezra (Walton Goggins of TV’s Justified), a cold-blooded killer with an unusual affinity for Jackson, despite the latter’s efforts to distance himself. A psychological plot twist with about a third of the film to go lets the cat out of the bag, along with whatever credibility the film might initially have claimed. Though the film looks great, Diablo is ultimately unconvincing, like Scott Eastwood as the steely-eyed killer. The best thing about the film, other than its cinematography, is Walton Goggins, and he is not in it enough. Still, Western fans might want to give it a look and who knows? Maybe some will dig the plot gimmick. Forsaken, on the other hand, never deviates from a tried ‘n’ true Western trope, but nonetheless hits the bulls eye. Like Shane and numerous other similar films, the story is about a gunfighter who rides into town, trying to put his past behind him, but is eventually forced to resume his natural calling to save the day for everyone else. Kiefer Sutherland is absolutely convincing as John Henry Clayton, a Civil War veteranturned-gunfighter who returns home to his alienated preacher father (Donald Sutherland, looking like Jehovah himself with his white beard and mane), in a quest for redemption from his bloody past. Brian Cox plays the ruthless land baron trying to claim the settlers’ homes for his own while Demi Moore has a nice role as the girl John Henry left behind.
We all know what’s going to happen. John Henry is going to try to please dad and put aside his gun, but the bad guys will keep pushing him until he has no other choice but to strap on the six-shooter and take out the trash. John Wayne, Alan Ladd, Errol Flynn, Clint Eastwood, and Henry Fonda did it time and again, and we never grew tired of watching them. Kiefer Sutherland joins their ranks in Forsaken. The cinematography, as in Diablo, captures the visual essence of the classic Western, but the acting and direction are also uniformly solid. The final gunfight, unlike the one in Diablo, rewards the suspenseful build-up. Otherwise, there are no real surprises, just the pleasure of watching a familiar story told again very well, just like we hoped. Jane Got a Gun had to overcome all sorts of major pre-production problems involving changing directors and major cast members that helped generate negative publicity and reluctant distribution. However, the final result betrays none of those difficulties. Instead, we have a solid traditional Western with a sophisticated story, credible characters, solid performances, lots of drama, and plenty of action. The plot is similar to Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs told through a series of flashbacks. Having gone through one kind of hell after another, Jane (Portman) is forced to defend her home from a bunch of nasties, led by an almost unrecognizable McGregor. Relationships are complicated by the fact that her present husband (Noah Emmerich) is wounded and helpless while her former fiancé (Joel Edgerton) is reluctantly recruited to their defense. More ambitious in terms of production and story than either of the two earlier films, Jane Got a Gun wears its genre trappings well. The performers are all excellent as is the direction by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior). Western fans in particular do not want to miss this one. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
NOW SHOWING SUN-RAY CINEMA Little Men, Don’t Think Twice, Captain Fantastic and Kubo & the Two Strings are currently screening, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Othello screens as part of the series 101 Years of Orson Welles, Sept. 15 & 18. Dr. Strangelove runs Sept. 15. Miss Sharon Jones starts Sept. 16. Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (new restoration) starts Sept. 16. The classic James Mason/Sue Lyon/Shelley Winters cautionary tale Lolita runs Sept. 17. The 2016 Sundance Short Film Tour wraps up Sept. 15. CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Pretty in Pink runs 2 and 6:45 p.m. Sept. 15. To Kill a Mockingbird screens at noon Sept. 15. Dior and I runs 3 and 7:15 p.m. Sept. 15. The Lobster starts Sept. 16. L’Amour Fou runs 3 p.m. Sept. 18. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Sully, Robots 3D, America Wild: National Parks Adventure, A Beautiful Planet and Secret Ocean screen at World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25
FOLIO A+E : MUSIC
“America’s most offensive country singer” Wheeler Walker Jr. upends the WHOLESOME COUNTRY COMEDY sub-genre
LEWD, CRUDE &
IN THE MOOD W heeler Walker Jr.’s story is the stuff that Nashville legends are made of. Kentucky-born outsider lands on Music Row, signs a deal with Capitol Records, but has all of his raunchy songs shit-canned by stuffy A&R execs. Now-infamous outlaw receives same treatment at RCA, Giant and Arista before giving ’em all the finger, dropping his life savings on studio time with trad-country stalwart Dave Cobb, and recording the most beautiful batch of foul-mouthed Redneck Shit on his own dime. The so-called dirtiest country record of all time debuts at No. 9 on the Billboard Country charts — during Grammy Week, no less, and one spot ahead of Grammy performers Little Big Town — even though it’s been banned by all the major retailers. “I just wanted to make a real country record,” Walker told Rolling Stone in February. “I got my ass handed to me my whole life and this is the record that came out.” The only thing is, not much of it is true. (It actually says “The Legend of Wheeler Walker Jr.” at the top of the Bio page on his website.) Wheeler is the alias of stand-up comedian Ben Hoffman, who hosted The Ben Show on Comedy Central in 2013 and has appeared on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast along with The Joe Rogan Experience. Most stories lead with the fact that Ben is Wheeler and Wheeler is Ben before gleefully letting Wheeler speak his mind. But sometimes the joke can get lost in translation. In December, Houston Press writer Amy McCarthy took Wheeler’s brand of perceived misogynism and juvenilia at face value, setting off a chain reaction that resulted in ugly Twitter rants, interview
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no-shows, and a handful of heated follow-up stories. (A similar situation with LA Weekly had a happier ending when the paper allowed Walker to offer a mostly respectful response to a brutal critical skewering.) So there is something to be said for talking to Wheeler on his level, as Folio Weekly was gently encouraged to do for this email interview. When asked about the dualities of living as a country singer and a comedian, he replied, “People keep saying I’m some comedian ... My name is Wheeler Walker Jr.” When lobbed a softball about his place in the WHEELER WALKER JR. with BIRDCLOUD 7 p.m. Sept. 20, Jack Rabbits, San Marco, $15, jaxlive.com outlaw country pantheon, he took the bait: “I’m definitely already a legend. I mean, I’ve got more work to do. And I ain’t Waylon. But compared to the dogshit pop country that’s out there now, I may as well be.” And when the subject of Nashville came up, he doubled down: “I’m shaking Nashville the fuck up. Music Row is scared of me, and that’s how I like it.” But Wheeler also offered up a few rational, balanced responses — something we didn’t expect, given the endlessly angry and filthy tone of his Twitter feed. Have you actually been able to find anybody to open for you, Wheeler? “Birdcloud, two badass chicks from Nashville,” he raved. “They make me look wholesome and safe.” What about all the fashion comparisons you get to Hank
Williams Jr., Wheeler? “I ain’t borrowed shit from Hank Jr.,” he insisted. “A cowboy hat and shades? He invented that? [I] love Hank Jr. but that’s lazy writing ... Not you, the guys who are saying it.” What do you say to all those critics who say your version of tongue-in-cheek is too vulgar, Wheeler? “[My songs] aren’t ‘tongue-in-cheek,’ they’re ‘pussy-in-cheek’ — I mean every word of what I’m saying.” And how excited are you to tour in the Southeast for the first time, Wheeler? “So excited. Sick of playing NYC and LA — ready to play this shit for my family and friends.” “This shit” might seem an appropriate way to describe songs with titles like “Better Off Beatin’ Off,” “Beer, Weed, Cooches,” and “Fightin’, Fuckin’, Fartin’” (and those are the ones we can actually print). But still — the album sounds beautiful, thanks to that production work from Cobb, who’s handled recent releases by alt-country icons Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton, and elegant session work from a cadre of crack Nashville musicians. Interestingly, we couldn’t find specific mentions of them anywhere, but Wheeler said “Fuck no!” when asked if they were afraid to publicly associate with Redneck Shit. “These guys are badasses,” he insisted. “They know killer music when they hear it.” The quality of Redneck Shit’s instrumentation, orchestration and production is impossible to argue with — ultimately, it will give the album, which also cracked the Top 10 of Billboard’s Comedy charts, legitimate legs. The misogyny and sexism questions will continue to be asked, but the fact that Wheeler is just as willing to tear himself down makes his offensive lyrical content a little easier to digest. And more respect to him for not biting when we tried to lure him into a Trump-supporting comparison: “I could give two fucks about this election,” Wheeler wrote with a kind of rural weariness that feels so familiar, particularly in the South in 2016. “I was broke during Bush, I was broke during Obama. Fuck politics. It’s all bullshit.” Spoken like a true bullshit artist. Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com
ARTS + EVENTS
American artists with the concept of sustainable, communitybased food production, runs through Oct. 30. Project Atrium: Ethan Murrow runs through Oct. 30.
PERFORMANCE
GALLERIES
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Elizabeth Bennett’s story is told, 8 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, 396-4425, $25; $20 seniors, military, students; through Oct. 2, theatrejax.com. UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS Live Ink Theatre presents a staged reading of Wendy Wasserstein’s play, about college pals who reunite to reflect on their lives, 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina, 277-3455; general admission $10, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim’s inventive musical comedy, weaving several fairy tales, is presented 8 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $25; through Oct. 2, playersbythesea.org. THE CAPITOL STEPS Satirical comic renderings, straight from our nation’s capital, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20, 21 & 22 at FSCJ’s Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., Southside, 442-2929, $44.25-$49.25; through Sept. 25, artistseriesjax.org. DINNER AND A SHOW – OKLAHOMA! Limelight Theatre celebrates its opening night of the much-loved, Westerntinged musical, with a three-course meal (seatings 5:15, 5:45 & 6:15 p.m.) Sept. 21 at Raintree Restaurant, 102 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $60; pre-show champagne, post-show cast meet-and-greet. 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine; through Oct. 23, limelight-theatre.org. SISTER ACT Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents the musical comedy, about a diva on the run who hides out in a convent, through Oct. 9. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch noon; featuring award-winning Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menu, at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, $38-$57, alhambrajax.com.
CLASSICAL & JAZZ
STEVE GALLATIN Jazz guitarist Gallatin performs at noon Sept. 14 at Main Library’s The Lounge, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2665, jaxpubliclibrary.com. UNF JAZZ FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP CONCERT The UNF jazz faculty is featured 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $8-$15, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. SAN MARCO CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY The Society holds a Concert to Benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 3976 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, sanmarcochambermusic.org.
COMEDY
DC CURRY Funnyman Curry, known for his Friday films, is on 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15; 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$25, comedyzone.com. BROOKS WHELAN Comedian Whelan, of SNL fame, is on 8 & 10:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $10-$30, jacksonvillecomedy.com. FRED’S FUNNIEST COMEDIANS Local comics David Emanuel, Sid Porter and others, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com. RALPHIE MAY Comedian May is on 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 and 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Sept. 22 at The Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $25-$28, comedyzone.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
NEW TOWN URBAN FARM Urban Geoponics and New Town are developing a large community garden at Pearce and West Third streets, in the New Town/Edward Waters area, Northside, to provide fresh produce and a hands-on, openair center of learning for the community and area students. Urban Farm meets 10 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sun. Details, call Diallo-Sekou at 706-284-9808.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local, regional art, music – Morning yoga (9 a.m.), Mere Woodard, Billy & Belly, Stacey Bennett – food, farmers market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 17 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. JAXSON’S NIGHT MARKET Street food vendors, craft beer, local farmers, artisans and crafters, 5:30-9 p.m. Sept. 15 at Hemming Park, Downtown, facebook.com/jaxsonsnightmarket. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 15 and every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org. FERNANDINA BEACH MARKET PLACE Fresh produce, local art, live music, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat. at North Seventh St., Fernandina, 557-8229, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com.
MUSEUMS
CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Lift: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, works of local artists Thony Aiuppy, Glendia Cooper, Ingrid Damiani, Overstreet Ducasse, Dustin Harewood, Marsha Hatcher, Hiromi Moneyhun, Princess Rashid, Chip Southworth and Roosevelt Watson III, responding to the area’s artistic African-American heritage, through Feb. 12. David Hayes: The Sentinel Series, sculptures of geometrically abstract, organic forms, displays through Oct. 2. LIGHTNER MUSEUM 75 King St., St. Augustine, 808-7330, lightnermuseum.org. Antique mechanical music demonstrations 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily. Call for details. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Sustain: Clay to Table, which pairs handcrafted ceramic tableware by North
OVERSET
ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 N. University Blvd., Arlington, 256-7371, ju.edu. The Biennial Faculty Exhibition is on display through Sept. 28. THE ART CENTER GALLERY Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. Lift Every Voice, by Hope at Hand and Jax Youth Poetry Slam, displays through Oct. 10. ART INSTITUTE OF JACKSONVILLE 8775 Baypine Rd., Baymeadows, 486-3064, artinstitutes.edu. The 2016 Portfolio Show is featured 5-8 p.m. Sept. 22. BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. Works by illustrator Sherrie Pettigrew are on display through Oct. 4. CORK ARTS DISTRICT 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside, corkartsdistrict.com. The exhibit 5, featuring works by Virginia Cantore, Allison Watson, Susan Ober, Mary St. Germain and Laurie Hitzig, is on display through Sept. 23. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum. The auditory-themed exhibit Sound runs through Nov. 22. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Arboreal, featuring works by Linda Richichi and Seth Satterfield, and Freedom, featuring works by Ali Miruku, are on display through Oct. 14. DOWNTOWN CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ, Bldg. A, Room 1202/1205, 101 W. State St., Downtown, 633-8100, fscj. edu. Faces of Engagement, portraits of students, faculty and community members trying to make a difference in our world, is on display Sept. 19-Oct. 14. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Earth Sea & Sky, new paintings by Joyce Gabiou, runs through Oct. 25. KENT CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ’s Kent Campus, Bldg. E, Room 112A, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., 646-2300, fscj.edu. The opening reception for an exhibit of recent works by Micoel Fuentes and Russell Maycumber, of mixed media drawings, sculpture and installation art, is held 6-8 p.m. Sept. 20; the exhibit runs through Oct. 20. HASKELL GALLERY Inside Jacksonville International Airport, 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546, jiaarts.org. An exhibit of works by Shannon Estlund is on display through September. JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 14201 Pecan Park Rd., Northside, 741-3546, jiaarts.org. Crystal Floyd’s always-engaging multimedia works display through September. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jax.html. The Wright Brothers, celebrating scientific triumphs of aviators Orville and Wilbur Wright, runs through Dec. 30. The Vinnie Ream Exhibit, works in art, poetry, prose and music chosen by the National League of American Pen Women, displays through Oct. 30. MONROE GALLERIES 40 W. Monroe St., Downtown, 881-0209, monroegalleries.com. Works by Barbie BrayWorkman, Jami Childers, Dana Fawn, Leilani Leo, and Dustin Bradley are featured. MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, monyarowegallery.com. Tropic Apparition, new works by painter Amy Lincoln, runs Sept. 17-Dec. 18. NASSAU COUNTY LIBRARY 25 N. Fourth St., Fernandina Beach, 277-7365, nassaureads.com. The Art of the Japanese Print, contemporary prints from the Christine & Paul Meehan Collection, runs through Dec. 30. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. United Way St. Johns County Photographic Exhibit, through Oct. 20. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, Downtown, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. Cuba, an exhibit of works by painter Paul Ladnier, runs through Oct. 2. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org. The Fall Members Show runs through Oct. 2.
EVENTS
FLORIDA HERITAGE BOOK FESTIVAL The three-day festival, with more than 30 writers in workshops, critique sessions and book-signings, a keynote luncheon and kid-geared literary fun, is held 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sept. 16, and 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m. Sept. 17 at Flagler College, 74 King St., St Augustine, $55-$265, fhbookfest.com. COMPASSION BY THE SEA BENEFIT The sixth annual Compassion by the Sea Benefit has food, beer and wine, music by POPZ, live and silent auctions, including a special experience with “one of the 50 Most Influential People in Jacksonville,” Sam Kouvaris, 6-10 p.m. Sept. 16 at Atlantic Beach Country Club, 1600 Selva Marina Dr., $100, missionhousejax.org/compassionbythesea. CRAIG PITTMAN BOOK SIGNING Award-winning reporter and columnist Pittman talks about and signs copies of his new book, Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, 7 p.m. Sept. 17 at The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026, bookmarkbeach.com. THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER Australia’s all-male revue, known for bodacious bods, sassy costumes and dance routines, performs 7 p.m. Sept. 20 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 W. Water St., Downtown, 633-6110, $30-$50, ticketmaster.com.
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FOLIO A+E : MUSIC
FOLK IS PEOPLE
IS BACK Stacey Bennett puts all her cards on the table — for the first time in two years, and ON HER OWN
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wo years ago, local indie rockers Rick Grice and Stacey Bennett put their independent-minded duo Folk Is People on hiatus. That was a big loss for Jacksonville, as the band’s 2012 debut That Was Then was catchy, and thorny, full of propulsive, breakneck folk songs played with a propulsive buzz, imbued with Bennett’s powerful voice. Even though Bennett became a bit of a “ghost” (her word) while she finished her master’s degree, that creative urgency was still a-brewin’. And now, with a video-release show this week, and an album-release party in October, Folk Is People is back — albeit in pared form. Folio Weekly caught up with the endlessly energetic Bennett to get the scoop. Folio Weekly: So what the heck have you been up to for the last two years? Stacey Bennett: Folk Is People has been on hiatus, but it was very important to me to revive this project — of all my projects, I’ve felt most connected to [it]. So I’ve been holed up in my house writing and finishing my master’s degree, while Rick has focused on his recording studio, Endangered Wise Men Studios, and his band, Speaking Cursive. He is producing Folk Is People’s newest full-length, though.
The video feels much more joyful. What was it like filming with director Keagan Anfuso? Brainstorming and filming [that] was both fun and challenging, assuming those two things can coexist. I worked with an incredible team of brilliant, wonderful humans, and the concept began with a tarot card that my best friend made for the song. The unique thing about the video is that, while it seems to be a somewhat comedic depiction of the song, it is very reflective of my current circumstance. Toward the end of the video, my character surrenders to the concept of Death, a representation of change and transformation. However, the act of surrendering in this case is in regard to acceptance, not defeat. Your new album drops in October. Are all the songs as reflective of your current state? A few of the songs are a culmination of pieces and parts I started over a decade ago and completed within the last several months. However, most of the songs are hot off the press. I literally finished writing them in the studio.
Rick isn’t in the band anymore, but he’s producing the album. Will it sound like past Folk Is People? This album will be somewhat of a surprise to fans. It’s slightly edgier and more diverse than the earlier Folk Is People release. I write very honestly and When the band started, “BURY ME IN VIRGINIA” MUSIC VIDEO you were teaching from a place of vulnerability, RELEASE SHOW WITH FOLK IS PEOPLE, full-time. Is that still which has been a constant. KEAGAN ANFUSO, CHRISTINA WAGNER 8 p.m. Sept. 15, Rain Dogs, Riverside, the case? Instrumentally, the new $7, facebook.com/raindogsjax Folk Is People is [now] record is a mashup of indie my full-time job. I subgenres. Every song is thought I would have more time for sleep and unique from the others. other human activities when I kicked my 9-5 job to the curb to pursue music. Ironically, What inspires you to write that way? I’m busier than I have ever been — but it’s the Ideas come to me at random. I’ve written exciting kind of busy. songs in the car, at coffee shops, and have even dreamt about chord progressions. I have about Tell us more about your new song and video, six notebooks going right now [in which] I jot “Bury Me in Virginia,” which you debut on down lyrics or notes. I take turns losing them, Sept. 15 at Rain Dogs. essentially rendering them pointless. [But] my The song is awkwardly autobiographical. I songs are extremely personal — I write about wrote it in about 10 minutes with a banjo and experiences. It’s important to tell a story and I’ve a kick drum. It started it off as satire but ended found that people connect to that when listening up being a very existential piece. When I was to a folky-style song. That being said, I’ve been seven, my grandmother passed somewhat watching a lot of serial killer crime dramas lately suddenly, and my mom bought several burial and I cannot help but think that paranoia creeps into my psyche and influences my writing. plots in Culpeper, Virginia, so we could be buried next to one another. It’s an eerie sort How pivotal is the Jacksonville music of comfort visiting her resting place, knowing community for you as an artist and a human? that’s where I will spend my final decades as It’s essential for Folk Is People. I have a lot organic matter. How many people can say of support from other musicians and artists they’ve stood on their own grave? in the community, [and] I feel very lucky to be a part of it. A lot of local folks have been That’s heavy. diligent in assisting with this project — as I It is a very sobering experience — it makes said, I was a ghost for two years, and as soon me reflect on my purpose. If I left this planet as I mentioned my intent to revive Folk Is today, what was my contribution? Hence my People, I was met with encouragement and decision to focus full-time on creating music. I support from all directions. I remain in awe. felt like I was becoming incessantly mediocre, Nick McGregor which resulted in a kind of self-abhorrence. mail@folioweekly.com 28 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
Metal super group HELL YEAH (pictured), featuring members of Pantera and Mudvayne, performs with ACT OF DEFIANCE and NEW DAY Sept. 21 at Mavericks Live, Downtown.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Sept. 14, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247. Music by the Sea: AIN’T TOO PROUD TO BEG 7 p.m. Sept. 14, St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., thecivicassociation.org. Bring something to sit on. AUDIC EMPIRE 10 p.m. Sept 14, The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611. FOLK IS PEOPLE, CHRISTINA WAGNER 7 p.m. Sept. 15, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969, $7. DYNE SIDE, BLOOD BATH & BEYOND 8 p.m. Sept. 15, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. JAKE SHIMABUKURO 8 p.m. Sept. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $43-$53. “3” the BAND 9 p.m. Sept. 15, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. RUNAWAY GIN (Phish Tribute) 8 p.m. Sept. 16, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $12-$15. WITH EVERY WIND 8 p.m. Sept. 16, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. VOX 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16 at Unity Plaza, 220 Riverside Ave., free, unityplaza.org. BOOGIE FREAKS 9:30 p.m. Sept. 16, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. YAMADEO, TREEHOUSE 10 p.m. Sept 16, The Roadhouse. BRITE SIDE 10 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17, Flying Iguana. Riverside Arts Market: Morning yoga, MERE WOODARD, BILLY & BELLY, STACEY BENNETT 10:30 a.m. Sept. 17, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449. Adult BYOB Cruise: BOO RADLEY 6 p.m. Sept. 17, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina, 261-9972, ameliarivercruises.com. ZAC BROWN BAND, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE 7 p.m. Sept. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $28-$377. DAVIS TURNER 8 p.m. Sept. 17, Slider’s Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., Fernandina, 277-6652. DROPIN PICKUP, OUTEREDGE, MASTER RADICAL 8 p.m. Sept. 17, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. AUSTIN PARK 9:30 p.m. Sept. 17, Whiskey Jax. CONTROL THIS 10 p.m. Sept 17, The Roadhouse. BALLYHOO, BUMPIN’ UGLIES, SUN DRIED VIBES 7 p.m. Sept. 18, Jack Rabbits, $15. RHYTHM CITY RHYTHM KINGS 7 p.m. Sept. 19, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $5. Acoustic Sessions Series: TOM LEON, AMY BASSE, DENTON ELKINS, BRYAN SPRADLING 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19, Amelia Community Theatre’s Studio 209, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina, 261-6749, $10. WHEELER WALKER JR. 7 p.m. Sept. 20, Jack Rabbits, $15. HELL YEAH, ACT of DEFIANCE, NEW DAY 7 p.m. Sept. 21, Mavericks Live, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $25 advance; $30 day of. CUTE IS WHAT WE AIM FOR, PARKRIDGE, SKYVIEW 7 p.m. Sept. 21, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
TOMBOI Sept. 22, Mellow Mushroom Avondale IL DIVO Sept. 23, The Florida Theatre WJCT Thank You Concert: DAVID LUCKIN, RYAN BENK, ANDREW WIECHMAN, BILLY & BELLA, COMPLICATED ANIMALS, MADISON CARR, SPICE & the PO BOYS, MAMA BLUE, MIKE SHACKELFORD, JUNCO ROYALS Sept. 23, Unity Plaza WIDESPREAD PANIC Sept. 23 & 24, St. Augustine Amphitheatre SOFIJA KNEZEVIC Sept. 23, Ritz Theatre DTCV Sept. 25, Rain Dogs CHERUB Sept. 25, Mavericks Live MICHAEL GRAVES (Misfits), DEATH ANGEL Sept. 25, Harmonious Monks The ANN WILSON THING Sept. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BLACK UHURU Sept. 28, Jack Rabbits PROPHETS of RAGE, AWOLNATION Sept. 30, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JONNY LANG Sept. 30, The Florida Theatre COMPLICATED ANIMALS Sept. 30, Unity Plaza ERIC ROBERSON Sept. 30, Mavericks Live I The MIGHTY, DAYSHELL, ARTIFEX PEREO, PICTURESQUE Sept. 30, 1904 Music Hall SARAH JAROSZ, PARKER MILLSAP Sept. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STRYPER Oct. 1, Murray Hill Theatre Amelia Island Jazz Festival: HOUSTON PERSON, BRIA SKONBERG, LES DeMERLE & BONNIE EISELE, CALIENTE, J.B. SCOTT Oct. 2-9, Amelia Island Folio Weekly Best of Jax Party: The 77D’s Oct. 2, Bold City Brewery The DANDY WARHOLS, SAVOY MOTEL Oct. 4, P.V.C. Hall GEORGE THOROGOOD & the DESTROYERS Oct. 6, The Florida Theatre DAVID WILCOX Oct. 6, Café Eleven EDWIN McMAIN Oct. 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CROWBAR Oct. 6, Nighthawks YG Oct. 7, Mavericks Live INSANE CLOWN POSSE Oct. 7, Limes Live SET IT OFF Oct. 7, Jack Rabbits BILLY BUCHANAN (Prince Tribute) Oct. 7, P.V. Concert Hall The VIBRATORS Oct. 9, Harmonious Monks KORN, BREAKING BENJAMIN Oct. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, CONVICTIONS, IN HER OWN WORDS Oct. 13, Limes Live DONNA the BUFFALO, PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND, BLUEGROUND UNDERGRASS Oct. 13-16, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park NEEDTOBREATHE, MAT KEARNY, PARACHUTE, WELSHLY ARMS Oct. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ASTRONAUTALIS, CESCHI & FACTOR CHANDELIER, TRANSIT Oct. 13, Jack Rabbits Jacksonville Music Fest: MAZE, FRANKIE BEVERLY, JAHEIM, JOE Oct. 14, Veterans Memorial Arena Beaches Oktoberfest: BLUES TRAVELER, COLLIE BUDDZ, The MOVEMENT Oct. 14-16, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach
WellRED Comedy Tour: TRAE CROWDER, COREY RYAN FORRESTER, DREW MORGAN Oct. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Live Original Tour: SADIE ROBERTSON Oct. 14, The Florida Theatre 20th annual Magnolia Fest: JJ GREY & MOFRO, KELLER WILLIAMS, The INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, ZACH DEPUTY, BILLY BRAGG, SARAH LEE GUTHRIE, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Oct. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOHN MAYALL Oct. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BEACH SLANG, BLEACHED, HUNNY Oct. 15, Jack Rabbits SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre KIM RICHEY Oct. 16, Café Eleven STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN, MAC POWELL, BRANDON HEATH Oct. 16, Times-Union Center MIKE STERN TRIO Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TONEVENDOR RECORD FAIR Oct. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PHISH Oct. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena EDEN, XX Oct. 17, Jack Rabbits The PSYCHEDELIC FURS Oct. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The LAST TEN SECONDS of LIFE Oct. 18, Nighthawks TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Oct. 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre KEB’ MO’ BAND Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre JOSH RITTER Oct. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Oct. 20, Mavericks Live MARTIN LAWRENCE Oct. 21, T-U Center NEW MASTERSOUNDS, TURKUAZ Oct. 21, Mavericks Live RUSTED ROOT, DEVON ALLMAN BAND Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TOMBOI Oct. 22, TEDX Jacksonville, Florida Theatre MDC, WARLORD, SADLY MISTAKEN Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Oct. 25, The Florida Theatre HATEBREED Oct. 25, Mavericks Live LINDSEY STIRLING Oct. 27, The Florida Theatre JON LANGSTON Oct. 27, Mavericks Live The AVETT BROTHERS Oct. 28, Veterans Memorial Arena ANTHONY HAMILTON, LALAH HATHAWAY, ERIC BENET Oct. 28, Times-Union Center The ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Oct. 29, The Florida Theatre BONNIE RAITT Oct. 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DEPARTMENT of CORRECTION, DIE CHOKING Oct. 29, Rain Dogs TODD SNIDER, ROREY CARROLL Oct. 29, P.V. Concert Hall ELI YOUNG BAND Oct. 30, Mavericks Live CASTING CROWNS, MATT MAHER, HANNAH KERR Nov. 3, Veterans Memorial Arena SURFER BLOOD Nov. 3, Café Eleven LORD ALMIGHTY Nov. 3, Shantytown Pub MAC SABBATH, COUGHIN Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits NF Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LO CASH Nov. 3, Mavericks Live GHOST, POPESTAR Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre BLAIR CRIMMINS & the HOOKERS Nov. 5, Café Eleven
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC ZZ TOP Nov. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, CASSIDY LEE, IVAN PULLEY Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre EVANESCENCE, SICK PUPPIES Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The DOOBIE BROTHERS, The FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ODD SQUAD LIVE! Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Nov. 12, Mavericks Live CHRIS YOUNG, CASSADEE POPE Nov. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TRACY MORGAN Nov. 12, Thrasher-Horne Center LEE GREENWOOD Nov. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WAR Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MITSKI Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits THIEVERY CORPORATION, TAUK Nov. 15, Mavericks Live ERIC JOHNSON Nov. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DAVISSON BROTHERS BAND Nov. 17, Café Eleven GALACTIC, The HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Nov. 18, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts SAVION GLOVER Nov. 18, The Florida Theatre YELLOWCARD Nov. 18, Mavericks Live WVRM FEST 4 Nov. 18 & 19, 1904 Music Hall SWAMP RADIO Nov. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WONDER YEARS, REAL FRIENDS Nov. 19, Mavericks Live ENTER THE HAGGIS Nov. 20, Café Eleven MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Nov. 21, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts
This week’s Riverside Arts Market features performances by indie folk artist MERE WOODARD (pictured) BILLY & BELLY and STACEY BENNETT, Sept. 17 under the Fuller Warren Bridge, Riverside.
DAVID CROSBY & FRIENDS Nov. 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall KENNY G Nov. 28, The Florida Theatre QUEENSRYCHE, ARMORED SAINT Nov. 29, Mavericks Live PERPETUAL GROOVE Nov. 30, Mavericks Live CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Dec. 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PATRICK BARTLEY Dec. 1, Ritz Theatre DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS, VALERIE SIMPSON, KENNY LATIMORE, JONATHAN BUTLER Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre STANLEY CLARKE Dec. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SARA EVANS Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre ROCK ’N’ ROLL HOLIDAY SHOW Dec. 3, Florida Theatre TRAVIS TRITT Dec. 4, The Florida Theatre TAYLOR HICKS Dec. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
A Peter White Christmas: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE
Dec. 11, The Florida Theatre The OAK RIDGE BOYS Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 15, Veterans Memorial Arena GRIFFIN HOUSE Dec. 18, Café Eleven JACKIE EVANCHO Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre MICHAEL BOLTON Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre LOS LOBOS Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PINK MARTINI Jan. 17, The Florida Theatre JEANNE ROBERTSON Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre ELVIS LIVES Jan. 24, Times-Union Center GLADYS KNIGHT Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 27, The Florida Theatre KENNY ROGERS, LINDA DAVIS Jan. 28, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts The BEACH BOYS Jan. 28, The Florida Theatre VOCALOSITY Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre CHRISTIE DASHIELL Feb. 2, Ritz Theatre ARLO GUTHRIE Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre PAT METHENY, ANTONIO SANCHEZ, LINDA OH, GWILYM SIMCOCK Feb. 3, The Florida Theatre BOSTON POPS ESPLANDE ORCHESTRA Feb. 4, TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts The BABES Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall UNDER the STREETLAMP Feb. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANDY McKEE Feb. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THREE DOG NIGHT, AMERICA Feb. 16, Florida Theatre The PIANO GUYS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & the ASBURY JUKES Feb. 19, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOE BONAMASSA Feb. 22, The Florida Theatre MINDI ABAIR Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre MANHATTAN TRANSFER, TAKE 6 Feb. 23, Florida Theatre OLD 97’s, BOTTLE ROCKETS Feb. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DENNIS DeYOUNG, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre TAJ EXPRESS Feb. 28, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts The WEIGHT, members of The Band March 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SPYRO GYRA March 5, The Florida Theatre KODO March 11, The Florida Theatre CLINT BLACK March 12, The Florida Theatre The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, Florida Theatre GET the LED OUT March 17, The Florida Theatre PILOBOLUS SHADOWLAND March 21, The Florida Theatre CARROT TOP March 25, The Florida Theatre RICK THOMAS April 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra April 7, The Florida Theatre CHRIS BOTTI April 18, The Florida Theatre MJ LIVE! April 20-23, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts TOWER of POWER April 22, The Florida Theatre
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA
ALLEY CAT BEER HOUSE, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14. John Springer every Thur. & Sat. Gitlo Lee Blues every Fri. LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley’s jazz show 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Sept. 14. Tad 30 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2016
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Jennings Sept. 15. New Moon, Arvid Smith 6 p.m. Sept. 16. Mark O’Quinn, Reggae SWAT Team, Davis Turner Sept. 17. South Mouth, Bluegrass Jam, Yonder Sept. 18 SURF RESTAURANT, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg every Tue. & Thur. Black Jack Band every Fri.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music 9 p.m. every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns, 388-0200 Tomboi Sept. 22. Live music every Thur.-Sat.
The Acoustic Sessions Series features performances by TOM LEON (pictured), AMY BASSE, DENTON ELKINS and BRYAN SPRADLING Sept. 19 at Amelia Community Theatre’s Studio 209, Fernandina Beach.
THE BEACHES (All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Billy Bowers 5:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Live music most weekends BRASS ANCHOR Pub, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff Sept. 14. Clinton Lane Darnell Sept. 16 BULL TAVERN, 7217 Atlantic Blvd., 724-2337 Clinton Lane Darnell 7 p.m. Sept. 20 The COURTYARD, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 249-2922 Dixie Rodeo 7 p.m. Sept. 14 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Sept. 15. Brite Side Band 10 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17. Darren Corlew 8:30 p.m. Sept. 18. Live music on weekends GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Murray Goff Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. every Sun. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music most weekends LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Austin Park 10 p.m. Sept. 16. The Firewater Tent Revival 10 p.m. Sept. 17. Live music every night MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 S.P.O.R.E. 9 p.m. Sept. 15. Live music weekends MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. MONKEY’S UNCLE, 1728 N. Third St., 246-1070 DJ every Wed., Sat. & Sun. RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Pat Rose Sept. 14. Vox Sept. 15. Paul Lundgren Band Sept. 15 & 16. Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Sept. 21. Live music every Wed.-Sun. SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Sarah & Chad 8 p.m. Sept. 17. Nixco 4 p.m. Sept. 18. Smokestack 8 p.m. Sept. 20
CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.
CAPTAIN STAN’S SMOKEHOUSE, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Acoustic music 6:30 p.m. every Sat.
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N. Fort Stories, Fjord Explorer 8 p.m. Sept. 14. Corrupted Saint, Second Death, Jane Eyre Sept. 15. Runaway Gin (Phish tribute) 8 p.m. Sept. 16. Duval Wonder, Dolo, Jovon Ray Sept. 18. Joseph Cartolano Sept. 21 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Sept. 16 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon every Thur. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Sept. 14. Mikey Clams Sept. 16. Ace Winn Sept. 17. Live music most weekends HOURGLASS Pub, 345 E. Bay St., 469-1719 DJs ENS, Halcyon, Timmy Razorblades 9 p.m. Sept. 17 JACKSONVILLE Landing, 353-1188 BayStreet Band 8 p.m. Sept. 16. Broke Til Friday Sept. 17. Scholars Word Sept. 18 MARK’S Downtown, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Glowrage Sept. 16. Hell Yeah, Act of Defiance, New Day 7 p.m. Sept. 21. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 Complicated Animals Sept. 16. DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc, Some Dude 9 p.m. Glitz Wed. Q45, live music Wed. EDM every Thur. Eric Rush every Fri. DJ IBay Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay Sun. THE VOLSTEAD, 115 W. Adams St., 414-3171 Go Get Gone Sept. 17
FLEMING ISLAND
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Twn Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Highway Jones 9 p.m. Sept. 16. Big Al & the Kaholics 9 p.m. Sept. 17. Conch Fritters Sept. 18
INTRACOASTAL
CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Circle of Influence 10 p.m. Sept. 16 & 17. DJ Big Rob every Thur., Sun. & Tue. JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Don’t Call Me Shirley 10 p.m. Sept. 16
MANDARIN
ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Sept. 14
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Audic Empire 10 p.m. Sept. 14. DJ Big Mike Sept. 15. Yamadeo, Treehouse 10 p.m. Sept. 16. Elite, Control This 10 p.m. Sept. 17. Live music every weekend SHARK Club, 714 Park, 215-1557 Digital Skyline Sept. 14
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 DiCarlo Thompson Sept. 17. Live music every Fri. & Sat. TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker 6 p.m. Sept. 14. Gary Starling Jazz Band 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15. Billy Bowers 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16. Javier Naranjo 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17. Samuel Sanders 6 p.m. Sept. 21
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
BRIXX, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928 Live music 6 p.m. every Thur. HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Chris Thomas Band 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16. Live music every Fri. MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood, 388-7807 Boy Wonda, iPrayz 7 p.m. Sept. 16 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Folk Is People, Christina Wagner 9 p.m. Sept. 15 RIVERSIDE Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Mere Woodard, Billy & Belly, Stacey Bennett 10:30 a.m. Sept. 17 UNITY PLAZA, 220 Riverside Ave. Vox 7:30 p.m. Sept. 16. WJCT Thank You Concert: David Luckin, Ryan Benk, Andrew Wiechman, Billy & Bella, Complicated Animals, Madison Carr, Spice & the Po Boys, Mama Blue, Mike Shackelford, Junco Royals 7 p.m. Sept. 23
ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 T.J. Brown, Oh No Sept. 16. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Sept. 17. Vinny Jacobs Sept. 18 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 The Irie Trio 9 p.m. Sept. 16. Ron Norris & Friends Sept. 17. Fre Gordon open mic Sept. 18. DJ Rob St. John every Wed. TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Chuck Nash 8 p.m. Sept. 14 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky Sept. 16 & 17. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.
SAN MARCO
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Dyne Side, Blood Bath & Beyond 8 p.m. Sept. 15. With Every Wind 8 p.m. Sept. 16. Dropin Pickup, Outeredge, Master Radical 8 p.m. Sept. 17. Ballyhoo, Bumpin’ Uglies, Sun Dried Vibes 7 p.m. Sept. 18. Wheeler Walker Jr. 7 p.m. Sept. 20. Cute Is What We Aim For, Parkridge, Skyview 7 p.m. Sept. 21 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic, 352-7008 Steampunk Stace, Roy Bookbinder Sept. 15. Larry Mangum, Kirsten Maxwell, David Scott Pooler Sept. 16. Rhythm City Rhythm Kings 7 p.m. Sept. 19
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS
GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Mark O’Quinn Sept. 15. Darren Corlew Sept. 16 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Shayne Rammler 8 p.m. Sept. 14. Boogie Freaks 9:30 p.m. Sept. 16. Austin Park 9:30 p.m. Sept. 17. Melissa Smith open mic every Thur. Blues jam every Sun.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
The HEADLAMP, 818 Clay St. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Shayne Rammler Sept. 16
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FOLIO DINING
BITE-SIZED Flaming Seafood PINT-SIZED New Beer Flavors GRILL ME! Whole Foods CHEFFED-UP Beer Cheese Soup
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Neptune Beach's Sliders Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar delivers the kind of cuisine and service that's made them a local institution for fun times and fresh-from-the-sea treats. photo by Dennis Ho
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaur ant.com. Historic downtown bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner.com. Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $ K TO B R L Daily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, madefrom-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine inside or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub next door has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chez lezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrab trap.com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In a renovated 1887 shotgun house. Favorites: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese and a variety of crêpes. Vegan selection. Sit inside or on a porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily La MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545. New Puerto Rican place has chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. It’s like a part of the Isle of Enchantment is now part of Amelia Island. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2015 BOJ. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20-plus toppings, pie/slice. Calzones, salads. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa To list your restaurant, call your account manager or Sam Taylor, 860-2465 • staylor@folioweekly.com
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AVERAGE ENTRÉE • COST •
$ = Less than $10 $$ = $10- $20 $$$ = $20- $35 $$$$ = $35 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club event. fwbiteclub.com 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
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The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s menu of global fare uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su The PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepec anrollbakery.com. F By historic district. Sweet/savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads; from scratch. $ K TO B L W-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabeth pointelodge.com. Restaurant in award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge has seaside dining, open to public. Dine indoors or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2015 BOJ. 2nd-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor, balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2015 BOJ. Family-owned-and-operated 18-plus years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19, 745-9300. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
LARRY’S Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
SID & LINDA’S Seafood Market & Restaurant, 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 109, 503-8276. Pick your own whole fresh fish, have it cleaned, filleted, cooked to order. Dine in, take out. Housemade sauces. $$ K TO L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CHOMP CHOMP, 4162 Herschel St., 329-1679. Newly relocated. Chef-inspired fare: The Philadelphia Experiment (sweet pork over arugula), panko-crusted chicken, burgers, Waldorf salad, bahn mi, Southern fried chicken, The Come Up (portabella mushroom, green tomato salsa, almonds). Curry Chomp chips, pasta salad. HH. $ BW L D Mon.-Sat. The FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh fare, homemade desserts. Breakfast all day, signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20-plus years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2015 BOJ. 40-plus years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa Restaurant ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay. com. 2015 BOJ. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2015 BOJ. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S Giant Subs, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
METRO Diner, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/ bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. New Mexican place has casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option. Top-shelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub has craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, street fare tacos, signature plates, whiskey. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly
BEACHES
(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F 2015 BOJ. NY-style gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. 28-plus years. All day HH M-Thu. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. 2015 BOJ. Subs made with fresh ingredients, 25-plus years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BEACH Diner, 501 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-6500. SEE AMELIA. BEACH HUT Café, 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. 28-plus years. Full breakfast menu served all day (darn good grits); hot plate specials Mon.-Fri. $ K TO B R L Daily CRUISERS Grill, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill. com. 2015 BOJ. Locally owned & operated 20-plus years. Halfpound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, award-winning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. FAMOUS TOASTERY, 311 N. Third St., 372-0712, famoustoast ery.com. New place has breakfast and lunch: corned beef hash, gluten-free pancakes, bacon, omelets, eggs, toast. Wraps, Bloody Marys, mimosas, peach Bellini. $$ FB K TO B L Daily The FISH COMPANY Restaurant, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, AB, 246-0123, thefishcojax.com. Bite Club. Casual spot. Oyster raw bar, fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, crab, lobster. Home-style desserts. Patio; all-day HH Sun. $$ FB K TO L D Daily FLAMING SEAFOOD & SHAO KAO BBQ, 1289 Penman Rd., 853-6398. New place (is it Chinese? Barbecue? Seafood?) serves meats and vegetables, spiced, skewered on bamboo sticks – like Chinese street food. $ BW TO L D Daily FLYING IGUANA TAQUERIA & TEQUILA BAR, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F 2015 BOJ. Latin American fare: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100-plus tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman cuisine, large Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcup hashhouse.com. New place offers locally sourced fare, locally
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FOLIO DINING : BITE-SIZED
A TASTE OF BEIJING on Penman Road
SKEWERS & SPICE &
EVERYTHING NICE
roasted coffees, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian dishes – no GMOs or hormones. $ K TO B R L Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO Diner, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F BOJ. SEE S. MARCO. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. 2015 BOJ. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. SEE MANDARIN. POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub, 50+ beers, burgers, fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30-plus years, iconic seafood place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. Specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 32, 223-0115. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
LARRY’S Subs, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 559-5301. SEE BEACHES.
MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’s Deli, 12926 Granbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN.
AL’s Pizza, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
BEACH Diner, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 683-0079. SEE AMELIA. CRUISERS, 5613 San Jose Blvd., 737-2874. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S Wings & Grill, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134. 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458, enzas.net. 2015 BOJ. Family-owned place serves Italian cuisine, veal, seafood, specials. $$$ FB K TO D Tu-Su
BRANDON DENTON
GRILL ME!
WHOLE FOODS MARKET
10601 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin
photo by Dennis Ho
BORN IN: North Carolina YEARS IN THE BIZ: 20 FAVE RESTAURANT (besides mine): Picasso's on San Jose FAVE CUISINE STYLE: American Southern FAVE INGREDIENTS: Bacon, bacon, bacon. IDEAL MEAL: A good burger and fries. WON'T CROSS MY LIPS: I'll eat anything twice. INSIDER'S TIP: Try everything you possibly can. CELEBS (@ my place): Dave Chappelle TASTE TREAT: My mom's chocolate chip cookies
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SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444, seachasers.com. New place; four areas: First Street Bar, Music Room, Beach Bar, Dining Room. Daily HH. In or on patio. $$ FB L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. Brunch Sun. $$ FB K L Sa/Su; D Nightly SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop. Yankee-style steak sandwiches, hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily THIS CHICK’S KITCHEN, 353 Sixth Ave. S., 778-5404, thischickskitchen.com. Farm-to-table restaurant serving healthful, locally sourced clean meals. Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian options. $$ TO L D Wed.-Sat. V PIZZA, 528 First St. N., 853-6633, vpizza.com. Traditional Neapolitana artisan pizza from Naples – Italy, not Florida, made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S Delicatessen, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYCstyle deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan, 353-9717, thecan dyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-andtan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2015 BOJ. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine. Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND Coffee Company, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866-3953954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels, cream cheeses. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN Grind Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiac barandgrill.com. 16-plus years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa
FLEMING ISLAND
DICK’S Wings, 1803 East-West Parkway, 375-2559. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
TAPS Bar & Grill, 1605 C.R. 220, Ste. 145, 278-9421, tapspub lichouse.com. 50-plus premium domestic, import tap beers. Burgers, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly
FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2015 BOJ. Now serving dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural organic beer/wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554. SEE FLEMING ISLAND.
V PIZZA, 12601 San Jose Blvd., 647-9424. SEE SAN MARCO. WHOLE FOODS MARKET, 10601 San Jose, Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. Prepared-food department, 80-plus items, full-service/self-service bars: hot, salad, soup, dessert. Pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. Grapes, Hops & Grinds bar serves wines, beers (craft/tap), coffees. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily
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DICK’S Wings & Grill, 6055 Youngerman Circle, 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2015 BOJ. NASCAR-themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus half-pound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36-plus years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO Diner, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2015 BOJ. Now dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouse online.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers and quesadillas for 35-plus years. 75-plus imported beers. $ FB L D Daily The URBAN BEAN Coffeehouse Café, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned-&-operated. Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, salads, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily
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AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. BEACH Diner, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S Subs, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE O.PARK. METRO Diner, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
TRASCA & CO. Eatery, 155 Tourside Dr., Ste. 1500, 395-3989, trascaandco.com. New eatery specializes in handcrafted Italian-inspired sandwiches, craft beers – many local choices – and craft coffees. $$ BW TO L R D Daily
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13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2015 BOJ. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads made from scratch onsite. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S Pizza, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
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DINING DIRECTORY BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Daily specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa/Su; L M-F; D Nightly BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfivepoints.com. F 2015 BOJ. Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine. Rotating drafts, 75-plus can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa BRIXX WOOD FIRED PIZZA, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. New place offers pizzas, pastas, soups. Gluten-free options. Daily specials, buy-one-get-one pizzas 10 p.m.-close. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2015 BOJ. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based beverages, homemade soups, sandwiches, gourmet desserts, daily specials. Dine inside or in museum gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su DERBY on PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343, derbyonpark. net. New American cuisine, upscale retro in historic building. Oak Street Toast, shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2015 BOJ. 130-plus import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2015 BOJ. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50 organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2015 BOJ. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnob withus.com. Unity Plaza. Global inspiration, local intention – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO R L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Authentic Italian cuisine, like wood-fired pizzas, pasta made daily onsite, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot serves made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, breakfast. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617. Locally-owned, family-run shop specializing in made-fromscratch creations – classic pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tu-Su LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LITTLE JOE’S CAFÉ, 245 Riverside Ave., Ste. 195, 791-3336. Riverview café. Soups, signature salad dressings. $ TO B L M-F METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2015 BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
MOON RIVER Pizza, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2015 BOJ. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.
M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2015 BOJ. Local-centric bar food: boiled peanuts, hummus, chili, cheese plate, pork sliders, nachos, herbivore items. $ D Nightly SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2015 BOJ. Healthy, fresh, light vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUSHI Café, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoors or patio dining. $$ BW L D Daily
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AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
CRUISERS GRILL, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
THE FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. 2015 BOJ. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients sourced from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay 33+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS SPORTS BAR, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily MBQUE, 604 Anastasia Blvd., 484-7472. New Southern-style, fresh-casual. Handspun milkshakes, super kale salad. Housemade rubs, sauces. Platters, ribs, brisket, sweet/spicy pulled/ chopped pork, chicken, sausage. $$ BW K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. O’LOUGHLIN PUB, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. New familyowned-and-operated pub has authentic fi sh & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256. SEE BEACHES.
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SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cubanstyle, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB
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BEACH DINER, 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.
THE BEARDED PIG SOUTHERN BBQ & BEER GARDEN, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. New-ish barbecue joint offers Southern style BBQ, like brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wine list. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. 2015 BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE.
FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013. 2015 BOJ. SEE DOWNTOWN.
KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. 2015 BOJ. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F 2015 BOJ. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily PIZZA PALACE RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Dine outside. HH. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasan marco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, woodfired pizza. Seasonal produce and meats from local purveyors. Craft beers (some local) & handcrafted cocktails, awardwinning wine list. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily V PIZZA, 1406 Hendricks Ave., 527-1511, vpizza.com. True Neapolitana pizzas with the freshest ingredients – a rare class of artisan pizza from Naples. $$ FB to L D Daily
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ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater, nearly 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su THE CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins-style low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings & Grill, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK.
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GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, salads, Greek nachos. Award-winning wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-6126596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES. M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte. com. 2015 BOJ. European-style; Italy, Spain, Mediterranean flavor. Small plates, tapas, entrée-size portions, charcuterie: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese, lobster ravioli. 240-bottle/wines, 75/glass; craft spirits Dine inside or out. $$ FB R, Su; D Nightly TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, taverna yamas.com. F Bite Club. Charbroiled kabobs, seafood, desserts. Greek wines, daily HH. Bellydancing. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668 Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls; fruit, veggies, 100% natural chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, cheese, dressing, salsa, frozen yogurt. $$ K TO L D Daily
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ANDY’S FARMERS MARKET GRILL, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. Inside landmark Jacksonville Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast items, sandwiches, snacks, beverages. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. BARZ LIQUORS & FISH CAMP, 9560 Heckscher Dr., 251-3330. Authentic fish camp, biker-friendly, Americanowned. Package store. $ FB L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILLE, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., 619-9828. 450077 S.R. 200, 879-0993. 2015 BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Authentic fresh fajitas, burritos, specials, enchiladas, more. HH; sangria. BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.
MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843. F 2015 BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
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CANINES AS FLOODWATERS RECEDE IN LOUISIANA, hundreds of homeless pets left stranded and searching for shelter after the storm are being helped. Several organizations and shelters, including a local animal hospital, have jumped into action and opened their doors to rescue these furry victims in need of homes. Less than a year after Hurricane Katrina, the PETS Act of 2006 — Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards — was passed, forever changing the way pets are viewed by the government during disasters. Following a major disaster or emergency, this act authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide rescue, care, shelter, and essential needs for pets and service animals as well as to their owners. This year, about 26 displaced canines headed to the Sunshine State in search of drier grounds. Rosie, a bubbly brown Chiweenie pup, is one of the lucky dogs who was transported to St. Francis Animal Hospital and is currently a boarding guest at their new facility. I caught up with Rosie at her temporary digs to find out her story:
Where are you from? I’m originally from Louisiana, but was relocated after the flooding. Were you scared during the flooding? It was scary, but the people at the shelter where I lived were nice to me, so I felt safe. How did you get to Jacksonville? A really nice lady from Acadiana Animal Aid rescued me and loaded me in a van with 25 other dogs that were heading to Florida. Some nice people from St. Francis Animal Hospital picked me up in Tallahassee with four other super chill dogs and we drove to Jacksonville. Are you receiving medical care? Yes, I’m being treated for heartworms. They tell me I won’t be allowed to run and get excited while I’m being treated, which is going to be really hard for me because I love
Local animal hospital provides SANCTUARY to Louisiana FLOOD VICTIMS to play. I’m also blind in my right eye, but that doesn’t stop me from l-i-v-i-n. Where are you eating kibble these days? Right now I’m living at St. Francis and having fun exploring my temporary home. Do you prefer sleep or play? Play! Without a doubt! I love to play and have even more fun playing with my furry friends. How about treats — peanut butter or bacon? I’m not sure, but I’d love to try them both! What about squirrels — do you bark at them or chase them? I haven’t had a squirrel encounter yet, but I’d really like to meet one. I’ve heard they’re just like rats — but with cuter uniforms. Are you excited about finding a new home? Yes! I’m piddling just thinking about it, but don’t worry — I’m potty trained! I really am looking forward to starting a new life with a family who will play with me and take me places. Anyone interested in fostering or adopting one of the Louisiana dogs should contact St. Francis Animal Hospital at adopt@saintfrancisanimalhospital.org or call 674-7223. For more information about PETS Act of 2006, go to: wagnpetsafety.com/pdf/Pet_ Parents_and_PETS_ACT_of_2006.pdf. Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund isn’t a certified disaster recovery specialist, but he’s always willing to help a furry friend in need.
PET TIP: CATS GONE WILD OK, Y’ALL, ENOUGH WITH THE FERAL CATS ALREADY. Sure, they can fend for themselves (if dumpster diving = being self sufficient) and make interesting moving lawn ornaments – five tabbies is better than one jockey, amiright? – but R. Kitty doesn’t prefer to stay behind when you move. And you have to start getting your cats fixed, OK? Not only does neutering a cat confer legit health benefits such as lowered risk of certain cancers, but it reduces the likelihood of the Notorious K.I.T.’s progeny losing their life to the needle. Not depressed enough to spend $200? Consider that the leading cause of death of companion animals like cats is euthanasia.
PET EVENTS JOHN GORRIE DOG PARK • The grand opening celebration for the new park is 10 a.m.-noon Sept. 17 at Riverside Park, 2623 Herschel St., facebook.com/ JohnGorrieDogPark. HUG AN ANIMAL DAY • Celestial Farms animal rescue organization holds its annual event 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 17 at 13958 Duval Rd., Northside, 4458812, celestialfarms.org. Tours, petting zoo, pony rides, and adoptions of rabbits, pigs, hens, roosters, goats, turkeys, lambs are featured. Free admission and parking. OWNING A PET • Learn more about owning a pet from a certified pet CPR and first aid instructor, like what pets a family should adopt, commitment levels, and how to keep a pet, basic care, more, 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 17, FSCJ South Campus, 11901 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, 274-1177, $49, epicanimals.org. .
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WILL YOU LOVE ME? • My name is Teddy because my favorite thing to do is snuggle up next to you and cuddle. I’m a very laid-back guy who enjoys long naps in the sunshine and binging on Netflix. Won’t you come meet me? I’m at JHS, 8464 Beach Blvd., open seven days a week! STRUT YOUR MUTT • The annual fundraising dog walk is 9 a.m. Sept. 24 at Metro Park, Downtown. Proceeds benefit St. Francis Animal Hospital’s Helping Paws Fund. 674-7223, saintfrancisanimalhospital.org. FREE SPAY & NEUTER SURGERIES • St. Augustine Humane Society offers free spay and neuter surgeries for dogs in September, through a $25,000 grant from Florida Animal Friend Inc. To qualify for the reduced fee or potentially free services, owners
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LOOK OUT, WORLD • Hi! My name is Leena and I love to run, play and swim and … OMG DID YOU SEE THAT SQUIRREL?! Sorry, I love life so much, my butt never stops wiggling. I’ve got a nonstop wagging tail, too! Please come meet me at Jacksonville Humane Society, open during construction! must meet specific income guidelines. The program is open to all cats regardless of owner’s financial circumstances. Details, criteria at staughumane.org. Applications must be in person at 1665 Moultrie Rd., St. Augustine. Spay/neuter/surgery clinic 8 a.m.-4 p.m. every Tue.; wellness clinic 9 a.m.-4 p.m. every Wed. and Thur. VACCINATION CLINICS • VetCo offers lower-cost vaccinations at PetCo stores. Sept. 18; 2 p.m., 11111 San Jose Blvd., 260-3225; 4:30 p.m., 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 278-1980; and 10 a.m., 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, 824-8520, vetcoclinics.com. PET FAIR, BLESSING OF THE PETS • St. Francis Animal Hospital and St. Philip Neri Animal Ministry hold the fourth annual event 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 1 at Fletcher Park, 1652 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco. Demos, costume contest, dog wash, $15 microchipping, silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit the hospital and ministry. 674-7223, saintfrancisanimalhospital.org. _______________________________________
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What do you hope to be when you’re all grown up? An irresistible charmer beloved by many and owned by none? A master multitasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso skilled at brokering truces, making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The weeks ahead will be a good time to entertain fantasies like these and dream about future success and happiness. You’re likely to generate good fortune as you brainstorm. Be as creative as you dare. CANCER (June 21-July 22): ”Dear Soul Doctor: I’ve been trying my best to bodysurf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned! Good news, right? I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration. The surge’s power and volume doesn’t seem to be abating. Any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I reach dry land? — Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: You won’t have to hold out longer than five or six more days, at the most. During this last stretch, see if you can enjoy the ride. Reimagine the journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And feel grateful: Not many have your capacity to feel so deeply. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there can be such a thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door and make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I’m in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions. Plain old simple justice may not be available, but you’ll be able to conjure unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in cagey maneuvers, this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Caution: You may soon be exposed to outbreaks of peace, intelligence and mutual admiration. Sweet satisfactions may erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate. Are you ready to fully accept this surge of grace? Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? Find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism. Could be a good way to ensure you’re not blindsided by delight.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Brainwashing” is a word with negative connotations. It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. An alternative definition: According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly wash your own brain, thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected. Have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astrological divinations suggest a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you — unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumble into the wasteland, and scream curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider taking shelter from the storm, preferably in a favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than usual. Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. The best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about the situations you want Her to help you transform in the next 12 months. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.” Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Fed up with my boasts? I’ll spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You brag about you a lot in the days ahead, and not just with little chirps and peeps. Your self-love expressions must be flamboyant, exultant, witty and sincere. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): By normal standards, your progress should be vigorous in the next few weeks. You may score a new privilege, increase influence or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. Accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of strengths and weaknesses, needs and duties? Will you be clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m confident you’d never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or 100 live tarantulas or some other prohibited contraband. Use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure, your conscience clear. Any baggage should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, be armed with the highest version of brave love you can imagine. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you be worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel or superhero? Will it be weird if some night you dream of a rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr or centaur? I say no. I’d regard these as healthy signs. They’d suggest you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings buried deep in your psyche. They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences to energize the smart animal in you. This would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies. Say this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.” Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BROWARD COUNTY MIRACLE
A 16-year-old boy made headlines in August for being one of the rare survivors of a brain-eating amoeba which he acquired diving into a pond on private property in Florida’s Broward County.
NOW THAT’S BALL CONTROL
Pro baseball player Brandon Thomas (of the independent Frontier League’s Gateway Grizzlies in St. Louis, Missouri) hit a basesloaded home run on Aug. 21 — over the fence, into the adjacent parking lot, where the ball smashed the windshield ... of his own car.
RIDING THAT TRAIN
The Drug Enforcement Administration has schemed for several years to pay airline and Amtrak employees for tips on passengers who might be traveling with large sums of cash, so the DEA can interview them, with an eye toward seizing the cash under federal law if they merely “suspect” the money is involved in illegal activity. A USA Today investigation, reported in August, revealed the agency had seized $209 million in a decade, from 5,200 travelers who, even if no criminal charge resulted, almost never get all their money back (and, of 87 recent cash seizures, only two actually resulted in charges). One Amtrak employee was secretly paid $854,460 over a decade for snitching passenger information to the DEA.
NOAH WOULD’VE BEEN PISSED
Flooding from rains in August tore down a basement wall of Connellsville (Pennsylvania) Church of God, wrecking and muddying parts of the building and threatening the first-floor foundation, but under the policy written by the Church Mutual Insurance company, flooding damage isn’t covered, as rain is an “act of God.” (Church Mutual apparently uses a standard insurance industry definition and thus recognizes, contrary to some religious beliefs, that not everything is caused by God.)
SO … IT’S BUTT BEER?
The British food artists Bompas & Parr are staging (through Oct. 30) a tribute to the late writer Roald Dahl by brewing batches of beer using yeast swabbed and cultured from a chair Dahl used and which has been on display at the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, England.
IT PAYS TO BE THE OTHER WOMAN
Many Chinese wives who suspect their husbands of affairs have difficulty in confronting them, for a profession has risen recently of “mistress dispellers” whose job instead is to contact the mistress and persuade her, sometimes through an elaborate ruse, to break off the relationship. For a fee (a New York Times item said it could be “tens of thousands of dollars”), the dispeller will “subtly infiltrate the mistress’s life” and convince her to move on. A leading dispeller agency in Shanghai, translated as the “Weiqing International Marriage Hospital Emotion Clinic Group,” served one wife by persuading the mistress to take a higher-paying job in another city.
WAITING IS THE DUMBEST PART
The July 2012 Aurora, Colorado, theater shooter, James Holmes, is hardly wealthy enough to be sued, so 41 massacre victims and families instead filed against Cinemark Theater for having an unsafe premises, and by August 2016 Cinemark had offered $150,000 as a total settlement. Thirty-seven of the 41 accepted, but four held out since the scaled payout offered a maximum of only $30,000 for the worst victims. Following the settlement, the judge, finding that Cinemark could not have anticipated Holmes’ attack, ruled for the theater, making the four holdouts liable under Colorado law for Cinemark’s $699,000 expenses defending against the lawsuit.
WEIRD CHINESE MISUNDERSTANDINGS
“Mr. L,” 31, a Chinese tourist visiting Dulmen, Germany, in July, went to a police station to report his stolen wallet, but signed the wrong form and was logged in as requesting asylum, setting off a bureaucratic nightmare that left him confined for 12 days at a migrant hostel before the error was rectified. In August at a hospital in Shenyang, China, “Wang,” 29, waiting for his wife to give birth, was reported (by People’s Daily via Shanghaiist.com) to have allowed a nurse wave him into a room for anesthesia and hemorrhoid surgery, which took took 40 minutes. The hospital quickly offered to pay a settlement, but insisted that, no matter his reason to be at the hospital, he did have hemorrhoids, which were removed. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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VYSTAR LOAN OFFICER You: Beautiful blue-eyed, curly blond hair, rockin’ all black outfit, accent colored shirt. Me: Trying to get a loan. Made conversation to keep process going. Second Wednesday in June. Didn’t get loan; might’ve found so much more! When: June 8. Where: Vystar. #1615-0622
FLOWERS IN MY HAND Very surprised to see you. Positive memories flooded back, so let’s have lunch and catch up. S. When: July 6. Where: Publix Pharmacy. #1623-0810 DO YOU SEEK UNIQUE? You: Beautiful brunette, Walmart sugar aisle, beautiful arm ink work; said you got it in Riverside. Me: Dark chocolate gentleman, captivated by smile, breathless looking into beautiful eyes. Too shy to get number. Meet for lunch? When: July 16. Where: Walmart Avenues. #1622-0720
YOU’RE IN MY THOUGHTS There’s still not a day I don’t think of you. Since the first time ISU while sitting in that car, I can’t shake thoughts of you. Live long. Love hard. I will. When: Feb. 2, 2016. Where: Neighborhood. #1614-0622 JOIN YOUR SWIM TEAM Me: Attractive in two-piece bathing suit. You: Swimming; American flag tat on arm, making me hot as you chilled in the pool. Really want to skinny dip with you. ;) When: June 3. Where: Greentree Place Apts. Pool. #1613-0622
HANDSOME, KIND GENTLEMAN ISU Saturday 1 a.m. You: Extremely handsome, cool hat, T-shirt, jeans; forgot wallet; complimented my white dress. Me: Long blond hair, green eyes, too shy to ask name or if unattached. Love to meet formally! When: July 17. Where: Walmart San Jose. #1621-0720
FRIDAY BIKE-TO-WORK DAY You: Blue jeans, black tank top, red Motobecane bicycle, great smile. Didn’t get a chance to get your name. Me: Doing the bike thing. Are you up for a ride? When: May 20. Where: Hemming Plaza. #1612-0608
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HANDSOME EDUCATED HARLEY RIDER We instantly hit it off talking. I tried to quickly give you my number. I was on a blind date that was NOT meant to be. I’d like to have a chance to continue our conversation. When: May 22. Where: River City Brewing Co. #1611-0608
AVONDALE ANGEL Me: Down on my luck, no place to go. You: Beautiful person who kept me from sleeping on the street. Thank you for your generosity for someone you didn’t even know! You’ll never ever be forgotten! When: June 16. Where: Avondale shops. #1619-0706
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OUT THOUGH I AM WHITE, AND ALMOST CERTAINLY have been a beneficiary of sometimes subtle, sometimes not, “privileges” afforded my race, Julie Delegal — recent writer of guest editorial, “Reborn or Torn Asunder,” will have to excuse me from the hard labor of white atonement. If you are tempted, after reading that first sentence, to make certain assumptions about my attitudes and affiliations, you might want to postpone your indictments and read on. I am not, at least in the figurative sense of the word, a redneck. Nor am I a gun-toting, tough-talking, war-mongering, conservative Republican who believes that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is secretly harboring hopes that America will one day become a caliphate and bring the country under sharia law. Au contraire. In 1988, I attended a protest on St. Johns Bluff when Ronald Reagan’s former chief henchman, disgraced, convicted felon, Ollie North pulled into the Morocco Shrine Auditorium where he was to give a speech to a crowd of angry, Southern, wealthy white Republicans. It was a long time ago, but I don’t remember seeing any black faces among the protesters that day. That same year, I was moved to tears as I sat in my living room and watched Jesse Jackson give his now famous “Keep Hope Alive,” speech at the Democratic National Convention. I wonder … if you were to ask 100 members of the Black Lives Matter movement about the speech, what percentage would have to Google it in order to know what it was? I voted for Bill Clinton twice, Ralph Nader, John Kerry, and Barack Obama twice and, if given the chance, I would do it a third time. Because I, unlike the rest of America, including the media — and many black people, for that matter — didn’t betray him just because of the “gotcha” moment he suffered when his administration botched the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act website. In the run up to the 2014 midterms, while Democratic candidates were doing everything they could to distance themselves from the president, I was writing letters to the editor and calling national talk radio shows and asking why? As a result, in my opinion, that tactical mistake got the Democratic Party creamed. I don’t remember a single pundit, columnist, or any other opinion-makers, white or black, defending the unfairly maligned first African-American president of these United States. And if you don’t think those midterms were relevant to the state of relations between blacks and whites, you’re wrong. A few months ago, I participated in the Bernie Sanders campaign with a group of
““II vvoted oted ffor or B Bill ill C Clinton linto twice, Kerry, Ralph Nader, John Ke twice and Barack Obama tw chance, and, if given the chan I would do it A THIRD TIME.”
mostly white kids. I realize that at that point most African Americans had already made up their minds for Hillary Clinton, which is understandable, but had they done their homework, they would have discovered Sanders would have been a far better candidate because polls showed he would have creamed Trump in the general election. Instead, here we sit, two months away from the election and Hillary is in a dead heat with a cartoon character. If Donald Trump gets elected, it is the black Americans who voted for Hillary in the primaries who will have some soul-searching to do. If all that isn’t enough to convince you of my liberal bonafides and thereby excuse me from most of the rest of the white race in their so-ordered period of atonement, here’s some more shit in my defense. My father was an outspoken and well-known member of the Communist Party right here in Jacksonville during the ’70s and ’80s. As
a tenured professor of sociology at UNF, he was most certainly the most reviled man on campus to both the student body and his colleagues, who nicknamed him Tommy the Commie. Imagine the reaction of his students, whose only exposure to politics before arriving in his classroom was a high school course required at the time, “Americanism vs. Communism.” He wrote letters to the editor and publicly questioned the status quo in live TV appearances on the old Sunday morning political show on PBS, when it was simply known as Channel 7. Most of his ancestors were Irish and French who came to this country after the peculiar institution (slavery) had already been abolished and never even set foot in the South. They migrated north and west and,
while old white families were still benefitting from the labor of African Americans and/or standing idly by while Jim Crow rained hell down on them in the South, my ancestors were hacking a living out of the unforgiving wilderness of the Oregon Territory. My mother’s people also came late to the country and were Irish, Scandinavian and German. One of them changed the spelling of his last name shortly after arrival here in the New World, from Frantz to France, to avoid the discrimination and bias prevalent at the time against Germans. And the Irish were discriminated against and made to feel unwelcome in this country all the way up until the 1920s or so. I doubt that the masses of them who were forced to live and work in places like Hell’s Kitchen knew they were the beneficiaries of white privilege. The last of my ancestors to arrive in America hailed from Sweden and were named Hildahl. My great-grandfather was forced to go to work for the railroad when he was just 12 or 13 years old. He spent the next 60-plus years laying track throughout the northwest United States. I doubt privileged is how he felt spending more than a halfcentury doing backbreaking work in cold, wild places building a railroad over the Continental Divide. I am not dumb enough to believe that I have never benefited from White Privilege. Having said that, being white is far from some sort of guarantor of success. My home is located on the edge of northwest Jacksonville, a part of town that most people, black or white, wouldn’t feel safe in at night. As of right now, I get around town on a 10-speed bike that was manufactured in 1978, or I take the bus. So for white “conservatives” who vote for “tough on crime” Republicans every election cycle, I think some soul-searching is just what the doctor ordered. If you’re the descendant of an old Southern family whose wealth was built on the backs of African Americans or supported Jim Crow and you want to make some restitution, by all means you should do so. If you are wealthy and have benefited from the systematic exploitation of blacks as well as any other minority, then you should make haste in your penance. But as for me, Mrs. Delegal, by virtue of my origin and actions, I am already absolved. I may have other sins to answer for, other bad Karma to work off, but as far as atonement for being white, my toll is paid, my bill is stamped in big bold letters “Paid in Full.” Eric M. Mongar mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Mongar lives in Jacksonville.
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