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SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014 • VOLUME 28 • NUMBER 25
EDITOR’S NOTE THE ‘NOT OUR PROBLEM’ PROBLEM Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. — Barack Obama, Sept. 10, 2014
Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives. — Hunter S. Thompson, Sept. 12, 2001
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Perhaps wars weren’t won any more. Maybe they went on forever. — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Here we stand, yet again, on the precipice of yet another war — or something that approximates war, something in which bombs are dropped from on high against faceless adversaries and evildoers, something that is Over There, something we watch on television in the comfort of our living rooms. It seems that we are, indeed, At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives, in a war that went on forever. Over on page 6, we’ve published a column by University of North Florida sociology professor David Jaffee, who is, shall we say, dubious of President Obama’s anti-ISIS campaign. Many analysts believe it was George W. Bush’s illconceived Middle East adventures that gave rise to the Islamic State in the first place, he points out; why should we expect better results this time around? That’s a good question, one I pondered while watching Obama’s speech to the nation last week announcing that, “while we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland,” we’re going to bomb the shit out of ISIS-held territories in Iraq and Syria anyway, and send a few hundred military “advisors” — not in a combat role, promise — to help the Iraqi military learn how to shoot straight. Yes, Jaffee is right to be skeptical — about whether another 475 troops and bombs from afar will be able to accomplish much of anything, about how long they’ll be there, about mission creep, about whether the so-called Syrian moderates are worth helping, about the inevitable errant bomb that takes out women and children, about whether the bombs we drop will only lead to the next round of terrorists, which will only lead to the next 9/11, which will only lead to the next round of war, an endless cycle from which there seems to be no escape. Yes, ISIS, though well-funded, is a relatively small force, somewhere between 20,000 and 31,000 combatants, according to the CIA, not exactly in a position to fully conquer Iraq or unleash mayhem on American soil or overthrow Western civilization. And yes, America’s missteps in the region are legion, and hardly inspire confidence. And yet. We’ve seen the atrocities: not just the journalists and aid workers so cruelly beheaded, but also the nearly 10,000 civilian deaths in the last year alone, the 1,700 captives slaughtered in Tikrit and 650 in Mosul, the 1,000 Turkmen (including 100 children) murdered, the mass graves in Kocho and Qiniyeh and Jdali, the ethnic cleansing in Northern Iraq, the thousands upon thousands of women who’ve been raped and sold, the children who’ve been kidnapped or executed, the countless refugees. As skeptical as we are, as we should be, we should also not lose sight of the price of doing nothing — for there is a price, as there was two decades ago when the world watched 800,000 perish in Rwanda and did nothing, because it was not our problem. Jeffrey C. Billman twitter/jeffreybillman jbillman@folioweekly.com
MAIL “We believe at the very least we shouldn’t have to ask for the very least. Michelle O’Connell was already given that, the very least, by SJSO the night she died.”
We Will Never Stop
On behalf of my mother, Patricia O’Connell, and the daughter of my deceased sister, Alexis, we want to thank you (and Folio Weekly) for writing such a brave, thought-provoking article [Editor’s Note, “Bring on the Inquest,” Jeffrey C. Billman, Sept. 10]. Our family has been trying to find the right words the past four years, the right person or people to help us express our feelings, the right time to ask for help and show the material evidence. There is nothing emotional about this case; we are pursuing it strictly on a factual basis. There are no more tears to cry, only the drive to open the eyes of the sheep. Unfortunately, in this case there has been nothing right about it since day one. My sister’s body lay lifeless on the carpet, while officers of the St. Johns County Sheriff ’s Office joked in a police car about the amount of beers and kind of beers [Jeremy Banks] had that evening. SJSO did not collect valuable evidence, or bother to canvass the neighborhood. They keep trying to shove down the throats of anyone who will listen that “three medical examiners ruled Michelle’s death a suicide.” Listen to Melissa Ross’ interview with Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times and he will thoroughly explain how much of a farce that is. After reading your article, I know I don’t have to convince you. You, sir, owed my family nothing, but gave us everything. We believe at the very least we shouldn’t have to ask for the very least. My sister was already given that, the very least, by SJSO the night she died. There’s a list of heroes in this case, and Walt Bogdanich’s shoes are hard to fill. We will add your name beside his and many others. The day this case goes to court, I encourage you to be there. We won’t forget the voice you just gave us back. The timing was impeccable. My family will not stop ever. We are forever O’Connell Strong. The O’Connell family, Patricia, Alexis, Jennifer, Christine and Sean
Justice and Politics
Thank you for keeping this topic in the news [“Inquest”]. Everything stated in your wellwritten article has been discussed in print and on many news channels; the problem is that in Florida a sheriff is a powerful politician with many political friends. The FDLE case review initiated six months after Ms. O’Connell’s death, and requested by Sheriff Shoar, identified the willful indifference and/or general investigative incompetence that you write about. You are correct; it was so obvious. Special Agent Rusty Rodgers and his regional boss recognized early on that a coroner’s inquest was the best way to independently handle this situation since Sheriff Shoar was such a powerful political “friend.” It is my personal opinion that the governor and state attorneys Brad King and RJ Larizza will never seek a coroner’s inquest to settle this case. It’s shameful, but that is Florida politics! Gary Carmichael, FDLE Special Agent Supervisor (retired)
The World is Watching
JFK won the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage, eight biographies of courageous United States senators written with honesty and integrity. We need more leaders like John Quincy Adams, JFK, RFK and MLK. I salute St. Augustine Commissioner Leeana Freeman and Vice Mayor Nancy-Sikes Kline for their questions and “no” votes Sept. 8, against a half-baked, ill-explained and undeveloped $938,000 budget for the city’s 450th-anniversary celebration. The weight of wisdom, authority and public opinion was against it. Failure to give detailed budget justifications required a “no” vote. We need a new mayor [Cover Story, “The Mayor, the Blogger, the Election and the Lease,” Susan Cooper Eastman, Aug. 20]. Meanwhile, not one elected official or clergyperson has yet joined more than 172,000 people who have petitioned for an inquest into the Sept. 2, 2010, shooting death of a St. Johns County Sheriff ’s deputy’s girlfriend, with the deputy’s gun, in the deputy’s home, shortly after his girlfriend ended the relationship [“Bring on the Inquest”]. Gov. Rick Scott on Sept. 9, 2014, abruptly left a Fruit Cove pizzeria without speaking to Jennifer O’Connell (Michelle’s sister), who was next in line to speak with him. The New York Times, Frontline, NBC News Dateline, Good Morning America and The St. Augustine Record have all verified former editor Anne Schindler’s reporting in Folio Weekly. Michelle O’Connell’s case demands an FBI investigation. Now. Ed Slavin
Don’t Blame the Cops
Sure, blame police for the low-life filth in the area [Cover Story, “Life in a Police State,” Susan Cooper Eastman, Sept. 10]. That makes perfect sense. Rather than blaming those that spit out 14 kids and leave the state to float the bill. Hilarious. Tina Conner, via Facebook
Playing the Race Card
Are people that dumb here? Yes, it’s quite possible [Fightin’ Words, “Could Ferguson Happen Here?” AG Gancarski, Sept. 10]. The media is to blame for Ferguson. Once again the media plays the race card and everyone unable to think for themselves falls victim to race baiting only to be let down in the end. I feel bad for the mother in the Ferguson incident. It’s quite sad how manipulative some people are. Jacob Sippel, via Facebook
People Killing People
I get why we’re upset when a cop shoots and kills someone [“Ferguson”], but it seems like nightly we have a killing right here and no one seems to care. Let’s turn our outrage into doing something about the real issues. It’s not a cop killing a kid, it’s people killing people. Kevin Tapee, via Facebook If you would like to respond to something that appeared in the pages of Folio Weekly, please send an email with your address and phone number (for verification purposes only) to mail@folioweekly.com.
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GUEST COLUMN
GEARING UP FOR (MORE) WAR P Why is force always the only option?
rior to leaving the presidency in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star Army general, issued a warning to the American people about what he described as the “military-industrial complex.” His language was unusually blunt cautioning against the “immense military establishment” wedded to the “armaments industry” and influencing the “economic, political, and even spiritual” life of the nation. The best defense, he believed, was an “alert and knowledgeable citizenry.” It is clear that his warning has gone grossly unheeded. Today the military-industrial complex and the financial sector together dictate much of our foreign and domestic policy, respectively. It is now almost impossible to even separate foreign and military policy since they have morphed into a single strategy that relies almost exclusively on the threat (“all options are on the table”) and regular use of the means of destruction to resolve all international disputes. Diplomacy is a lost art; multilateralism is used more as an ad-hoc legitimation strategy than a substantive deliberative process. In order for the U.S. war machine to gain the consent of the governed (not that public opinion will matter one way or another), the government must convince us that without military action our national security is imperiled. Not just geo-strategic interests abroad, but the very security of the homeland. As Hermann Goering famously acknowledged: “Why of course the people don’t want war. … But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” This is now the classic percussive rhythm of the war drum. We heard it at its fever pitch before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, with manufactured images of mushroom clouds and bogus “evidence” of weapons of mass destruction. We are hearing it again today with dire warnings that the Islamic State (ISIS) is now the world’s greatest threat. This is the predictable groundwork for another ill-fated military adventure in the Mideast. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, provides just one example of the hyperbolic rhetoric in claiming that “They are coming here. I think of an American city in flames because of the terrorists’ ability to operate in Syria and Iraq.” ISIS is obviously a violent Islamic movement. But it is a small force; it has no navy or air force, its primary objectives are regional. It has no plans to invade the United States. And based on our recent failures in Iraq and
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Afghanistan, why would anyone believe U.S. involvement would improve this situation? It may only make matters worse. In fact, many analysts believe the rise of ISIS is the direct result of the past U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the elimination of the Iraqi state infrastructure. Moreover, the U.S. finds itself in the tragically ironic situation of preparing to take on an enemy armed with American-made captured weapons. The U.S. practice of peddling arms, and globally promoting the interests of the defense industry, has come home to roost. And despite the belief that local populations will welcome and embrace our military actions, they have been shown to simply fuel further anti-U.S. hostility and animosity. There is a potentially unlimited supply of “terrorists,” and our continuing military actions will likely stimulate a steady stream as we attempt to bomb our way toward an illusory final resolution to the problem. Why is the military option, costly both in life and treasure, the only one available? If, as Sen. Graham believes, “They are coming here,” don’t we have a counter-terrorist intelligence and surveillance apparatus to detect and prevent their entry and actions? What is the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security and the now-ubiquitous National Security Agency if every prospect of a potential domestic terrorist attack must also require bombs and troops? One would think that the existence of the former, with combined budgets of over $100 billion a year, would preclude the necessity of the latter. But as the logic of the MIC would suggest, making the case for the imminent threat serves to enrich the budgets of both the intelligence/ security and military arms of the thriving complex. Add to this the reported $7.5 million daily cost of our current Iraqi operations. An “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” might demand a better use of these dollars, perhaps to improve the rapidly deteriorating conditions of life in the United States. To quote, again, Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.” That such a sentiment now seems quaint or naïve is further testimony to how far the interests and priorities of the military-industrial complex have penetrated the American psyche. It is time to replace the ceaseless impulse toward military warfare with a reasoned commitment to human welfare.
David Jaffee mail@folioweekly.com
The author is a professor of sociology at the University of North Florida.
FIGHTIN’ WORDS
HERE WE GO AGAIN T
The city’s budget battle is old news
he other day, while I was considering the current Jacksonville budget crisis, I came across a couple of editorial cartoons printed in the Times-Union that illustrated the issue perfectly. One depicted the mayor looking flummoxed, asking for bright ideas; his team was depicted as a light bulb with a message inside: New JEA “tax.” The other cartoon showed a frantic local in the “Jacksonville Budget Cut Bomb Shelter.” The cracked-up cracker was descending into the depths with a paper proclaiming “life without police, fire, and libraries.” At the top of the stairs, a picture of the mayor and City Council, captioned: “Ha-ha. We were only kidding.” The artist? Ed Gamble. The mayor? Ed Austin. If those editorial cartoons were people, they’d be old enough to drink. Hypercolor jeans, ZUBAZ and Color Me Badd, relics of that era, have long since been forgotten, but the current budget battle brings back memories of those hoary old times. A mayor without traction, who lacks a base and a compelling vision. A Council with ambition, which has no real reason to play ball. A panicked populace reviewing a series of nightmare scenarios ranging from a closed library in Maxville to shuttered fire stations on Talleyrand Avenue, Atlantic Boulevard and Herschel Street. The Council has played the fiscal rectitude card throughout. The best quotation so far is from Bill Gulliford, who called Mayor Alvin Brown a “borrow-and-spend liberal.” (The mayor is adamantly opposed to new taxes.) Brown’s budget and priorities have given many, including me, pause. His actions this election year on everything from the dredging of the St. Johns River to police and fire pensions to the latest iteration of the budget that the Council is whittling down to size all speak to a grand vision. However, what’s become abundantly clear is that this mayor is unable to sell that grand vision to this Council, or to anyone else. Is this just a manifestation of politics as usual in a divided government? Or is this administration especially ham-handed when it comes to getting its message across? Perhaps if the mayor’s office had stood
behind communications director Abel Harding a few years ago, after his reckless driving charges downstate, Brown might have been better positioned to have Harding, respected all over the city like few others of his generation, sell these programs. Word on the street, though, is that Brown prefers sycophants and yes-men to real advisors, and Harding was a bit too independentminded for the nascent Brown administration. So we have the spectacle of an administration that cannot sell its vision, combined with a City Council in a hurry for Lenny Curry. This leaves us with a panoply of paradoxes. We have a mayor looking to push through an election year budget that’s much longer on catholic vision — something in it for everyone, on purpose — and a Council calling him out for wanting to buy it on credit. The bet, as always — not just with this mayor, but every mayor everywhere — is that best-case projections will monetize these investments. The Council is bearish. Alvin Brown is bullish, but he’s no John Delaney, and no one’s excited about his Jacksonville Journey. People have become jaded. Live here long enough, and something you value will come under siege. The neighborhood library your kids go to, the fire station you might need one winter day, the cops who chase away your neighborhood’s street-corner entrepreneurs. Observe this process long enough and you will see it for what it is — a pissing match between our city’s two parties, divided at this point as much on racial as ideological grounds. Hicktown politics, same as it ever was. No need to hunker in the bunker. The money will be found somewhere, in that 11th hour before the draconian cuts. The great shell game that is Duval County politics will continue — but maybe without Alvin Brown, whose many enemies are only too happy to use this current budget crisis to yet again bludgeon this outsider mayor, throttled by the coterie of insiders he displaced a few years ago. Don’t expect another outsider mayor as long as Peter Rummell lives.
What’s become abundantly clear is that Brown is unable to sell his grand vision to City Council, or to anyone else.
AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com
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Folio Weekly: Are cobbler shops a vestige of the past? Charlie Atkinson: There are still a lot of shops around; there are lots of shops in Jacksonville. [But] quality repair shops are getting harder to find as the old-timers retire and there’re no young people taking their place, ’cause there’re a lot of cities around the country where shop guys reach retirement age and there’s nobody around to carry on the business. I’m blessed to have a really loyal customer base. So there’s still a market for shoe repair? Oh, there’s a market, there’s no doubt about it. But it’s a lot more than just shoes; it’s luggage repair, purse repair, belts, wallets, patches, snaps, rivets, zippers, all kinds of different things. We stay busy. Do your customers skew toward a certain demographic? In the last few years, the economy’s been struggling, and a lot of people have used shoe repairs for many years, but we’re starting to see a lot of new customers coming in — I call them the under-30 crowd — that maybe have never used shoe repair in the past, and they’ll read an article or watch an economics show and they’ve learned that shoe repair exists. Is it cost-effective to have shoes repaired instead of buying a new pair? I think it is. Obviously there’re choices to be made, if you’re buying a shoe for the same cost [that] you can get it repaired, which is not uncommon. The quality shoes and luggage and purses, they obviously cost more, so we see more products like that, but sometimes you’re better off buying a new pair, depending on what the repair is. How have shoes changed throughout the years? We’ve seen a lot of changes in the industry. In the old days, almost all the men’s dress shoes were leather soles and rubber heels, where today — and for quite a few years now — they’ve gone to a molding process where the sole’s made of all-rubber one-piece construction where the [tip] of the shoe is basically molded and attached to a one-piece rubber sole and heel, so that’s very strong in the market now. What are the most common things you’re asked to do?
The most common jobs are heels for men and women. [Replacing] the high heels with the narrow tip, that’s the No. 1 thing we do for ladies’ shoes, but we also do a lot of soles on ladies’ shoes. We do what we call a protective sole, pro-sole for short, and that’s a thin rubber sole that’s bonded to a leather sole to keep the original sole from wearing out, as well as repelling water and adding comfort. Very common job. For men’s shoes, we do full soles, which is a complete rebuild job all the way through from heel to toe. We also do a lot of rip work, where we shorten handles on pocketbooks. Ladies will stop in and we’ll take a measurement and shorten that strap, very common. As a cobbler, what kinds of tools do you use? We have a hammer that’s specifically designed for the shoe repair business, a lot of sharp knives, a lot of sharp scissors, an awl for sewing — we still do a lot of hand-sewing — and hasps. We use a lot of wax thread, nylon thread and heavy-duty sewing machines. Is cobbling a difficult craft to learn? It’s not a difficult craft to learn, but there’s a lot more to it than the average person would think. Learning the different materials, different cements and bonding procedures, and the total construction and the way things are put together. Recognizing the products, whether they’re vinyl, leather, polyurethane. So it’s more than just gluing a heel to a shoe. Some people think that when you put a heel or a sole on a shoe, you take the old one off and the new one is pre-sized, pre-formed and pre-fit. It’s not. It’s really an art. Everything we do, you cut down and shape back to the original shape of the shoe, so you have to be creative to get things looking just right. Nothing is presized to just snap on. Can you look at a shoe and tell if it’s good quality or not? Oh, absolutely. I’ve been in the business so long that I can look at shoes without touching them and pretty much know the basic construction, what the material is, whether it’s real or imitation leather, or an exotic skin. There’s a lot of imitation leathers and imitation reptile skins on the market now.
Beyond leather, what’s a desirable material for shoes? Vinyl has come a long way from when it first hit the market years ago. And now a lot of times you really have to look closely to know. Believe it or not, there’s good-quality vinyl and lowquality vinyl. The better-quality vinyls will hold up longer and work better for the product. What can people do to prolong the life of their shoes? General care of leather or vinyl or anything is important. Cleaning is important. It removes the buildup of dirt and other elements that dry out the material. It’s really important as well to condition. There are products out there that condition leather and replace the natural oils that over a period of time leave the leather. Once the leather loses its flexibility, it starts cracking. You see that in ball gloves, hunting boots, belts and regular shoes. What’s the most unusual thing you’ve been asked to do? This is not so much an odd thing as it was a challenging thing: I had a customer who [had] a regular pair of boots and wanted to add a sole to it to make it a platform, like six inches up. In order for us do that, we had to do it in layers. We don’t have one piece of material that’s six inches thick. That was pretty challenging. How much time do you take repairing each pair of shoes? That really varies. Some jobs only take about a minute or two, things that are very minor, like reattaching a strap or something like that. If you’re doing a pair of soles or heels, you’re gonna spend a good 30 minutes, depending on whether the sole was stitched or bonded. What do you look for when you buy a pair of shoes for yourself? Comfort. It’s very important. I’ve had customers [who are] very conscious of fashion and the latest styles that are out, and then as time goes on, they learn that comfort is the most important thing. My dad used to tell me, if your teeth are hurting, put on a tight pair of shoes so your feet hurt and you’ll forget about your toothache. If your feet hurt, you hurt all over. dho@folioweekly.com
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An activist accuses the St. Augustine Record of bowing to pressure from Jeremy Banks’ attorney. The paper accuses her of spreading misinformation
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lara, I need your help. Will you help me?” The voice on the other end of the phone belonged to Kathy Nelson, the director of audience/editor of the St. Augustine Record. “I will if I can,” Clara Waldhari responded. It was 10:59 a.m. on Sept. 9. The conversation lasted seven minutes and 23 seconds, according to Waldhari’s phone records. Throughout, Waldhari took detailed notes — a habit she says she picked up many years ago while earning a master’s degree in journalism. (She later worked as a book editor, and is now retired.) Nelson, she says, told her she’d received a phone call early in the morning — 1 or 2 a.m. — from Robert L. “Mac” McLeod, the attorney for St. Johns Sheriff ’s Deputy Jeremy Banks, whom Waldhari and many others believe killed his girlfriend Michelle O’Connell on Sept. 2, 2010. (O’Connell’s death, caused by a bullet fired from Banks’ gun, has been ruled a suicide.) McLeod was threatening to sue the Record unless Nelson reined in Waldhari’s comments about Banks on the newspaper’s website, Nelson told her. Nelson told Waldhari to never again use the words “Jeremy Banks,” or “sick dog” or “murderer” in reference to Jeremy Banks. If she violated these rules, her posts would be unpublished and she would be banned. “I don’t want any more calls from a lawyer at two in the morning,” Waldhari says Nelson told her. That afternoon, Waldhari fired off an email to Nelson: “Mac MacLeod [sic] is advocating for his client. Why would The Record fold? Don’t you see? They are trying to shut up ANOTHER woman.” Still, she promised to abide by Nelson’s edict. “I intend to write advocacy pieces that support drawing attention to Michelle’s death, not as a challenge to you or Mac or anyone else, but because this is important. … I believe, according to your rules of posting, that I get three warnings. This is number one. I heard you loud and clear.” Waldhari says Nelson never responded. Waldhari then shared her story with fellow activist Ed Slavin, who posted it on his blog, cleanupcityofstauagustine.blogspot.com. “A member of the [Florida] Bar calling a party represented by corporate counsel at two in the morning is unethical,” Slavin wrote. Slavin says he called Nelson and left a detailed message, then sent her a letter to the editor. Nelson never got back to him to dispute Waldhari’s story, which he took as an “admission of silence,” he says. That same day, the Record posted a rote story about Gov. Rick Scott’s campaign visit to Fruit Cove, omitting the part where he dodged Michelle O’Connell’s sister, who was waiting in line to speak with the governor about her family’s demand for a coroner’s inquest into Michelle’s death. Waldhari posted a comment asking why the Record had ignored what other media outlets had highlighted. Within an hour, she says, the story had vanished from the home page, relegated to a nether region accessible only by the website’s search bar. She assumed the paper was trying to silence her voice. And
that was when she decided she’d had enough. On Sept. 10, she wrote an email asking the paper to delete her account. On Sept. 11, a Record staffer responded, “I will have them remove your account.” “There are things that are right, and there are things that are wrong,” Waldhari says. “The stance the paper is taking — it’s not journalism, it’s propaganda.” If her story is correct, it indeed paints the Record in a less-than-positive light — cowed by flimsy legal threats (Banks is, after all, a public figure), or perhaps overly deferential to the official narrative. (Just last year, in fact, Nelson drew national ridicule when she answered The New York Times’ deeply researched story that laid bare the problems with the investigation into O’Connell’s death with a page one article suggesting that St. Augustine was “a victim of big media parachuting into a small town.”) But the Record isn’t conceding her veracity. “There was no middle-of-the-night phone call,” says St. Augustine Record publisher Delinda Fogel. “That is simply not true. It simply did not happen.” “I have never called or spoken to Kathy Nelson and have no clue as to why or how this allegation could have started or gained any traction,” McLeod wrote in an email. “Anyone that says I have called her or made any complaints about their postings is either wholly ignorant or duplicitous. … I cannot recall the last time I was awake at 2 a.m., much less making phone calls.” Nelson did not respond to a voice mail or email seeking comment. (Fogel called on her behalf.) She did, however, respond to an email McLeod sent after he was contacted by Folio Weekly, in which he asked her to “confirm to others that I have never met, phoned or in any other way communicated with you about any subject, much less the Banks case.” “I can confirm that I never told anyone that and am just as annoyed as you that Clara W. and Ed Slavin have put this misinformation out in the community,” Nelson replied. “Clara was warned and then banned from commenting on our website because she continually violated its terms of service.” The commenting rules the Record outlines on its website are fairly boilerplate: Don’t use profane or racist language; don’t defame or threaten anyone; don’t post anything fraudulent or grossly inflammatory. Nelson did not specify which term of service Waldhari had allegedly violated. (A review of Waldhari’s comments on the Record’s website reveals nothing particularly incendiary, though it’s possible those posts were deleted.) Nelson’s statement that Waldhari was banned does seem at odds with the email exchange in which Waldhari asked the Record to delete her account. After learning that the Record was, in essence, calling her a liar, Waldhari told Folio Weekly that she stands by what she said. “I know what I heard. I know what I discussed.”
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“The stance the paper is taking — it’s not journalism, it’s propaganda.”
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NEWS The JAG-OFF
HEMLOCK FOR HENNE
WEEK 2: JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS VS. WASHINGTON RACISTNAMES
THE PRICE OF AUSTERITY
Will budget cuts imperil the city’s deal with the feds to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act?
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he Jacksonville City Council’s Finance Committee has embraced extreme austerity in recent weeks, slashing any and all new projects from the budget proposed by beleaguered-but-running-forreelection Mayor Alvin Brown, and then recommending 2 percent across-the-board cuts as well: libraries, cops, firefighters, the Supervisor of Elections Office, you name it. If a vision for the future of Jacksonville of improved lighting Downtown, a reopened café in the Main Library and better parks is seen by the jaundiced-eyed as a reelection ploy, the gutting of all capital improvements projects might be seen as the City Council using its power to sound the death knell for the mayor’s administration. Politics. Can’t we all just get along? In wiping out the mayor’s spate of proposed capital improvement projects — including the redevelopment of The Jacksonville Landing, remediation of ash sites, cleanup of the Shipyards property and demolition of the old courthouse, for which Brown proposed borrowing up to $230 million over the next five years — the Council also eliminated millions of dollars to help the city bring its buildings and infrastructure into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This is potentially problematic, because in 2013 the city entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice in which it agreed to do just that. Under the terms of the agreement, codified in city ordinance, the city committed to spending at least $2.4 million this year on ADA compliance. The mayor wanted more than that, $12.5 million. Right now, the ADA-compliance line item is at zero. “At the end of the day, we want to live up to and exceed the standard,” says David DeCamp, Brown’s communications director. “That is the goal of this mayor. We want to make progress on making streets, sidewalks and buildings more accessible. But at the end of the day, the City Council is the legislative body and they hold the purse strings.” The agreement, finalized on April 19, 2013, headed off a federal lawsuit following a DOJ review of 64 city facilities that found numerous violations. It gave the city six years to get its roadways, public buildings 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014
and sidewalks up to ADA snuff. The original price tag was about $37 million, though that number has since been greatly reduced. (DeCamp says the city is “still assessing costs to comply with the settlement and ordinance.”) In FY ’12-’13, the city agreed to pay $600,000 toward compliance; in FY ’13-’14, $2.45 million; this fiscal year, $2.5 million. The city committed the promised money those first two years, even in the face of massive budgetary shortfalls. This year, even though the city’s fiscal situation is marginally better, that commitment doesn’t look likely. For that, Finance Committee Chair Richard Clark insists, the blame lies with
“Everybody wants a fancy project, wants something done. But we’ve hit the proverbial wall.” the mayor, not his committee. Committee members made the cuts because they had no choice, he says — the city wouldn’t have had enough revenue coming in to pay for all the new spending. “Everybody wants a fancy project, wants something done,” he says. “But we’ve hit the proverbial wall.” He adds that the Finance Committee left money for what it considered essentials: $7 million for breathing equipment for the Jacksonville Fire & Rescue Department, $12 million for the Trail Ridge Landfill expansion, $11 million to revamp the city’s back office accounting system. But it didn’t fund the $2.5 million for ADA compliance because Brown had not yet made the $2.45 million in improvements the City Council funded last year. The committee felt that there were too many projects that had been funded but not completed, and still
other projects where the money had been transferred to something else. “They haven’t shown the ability to do the project that they have,” Clark says. “There is a whole bunch of money already in the works. ADA is already in the works. Why authorize more if they haven’t spent what they have?” Clark says that the City Council needs an audit of where all the money has gone, including money for ADA compliance. Without an accounting of everything, it’s hard to know how much debt the city really has and where projects stand. “We need to know what we have on the books, what are you not doing and why, and how do we move forward and when will things get done?” Clark says. The $2.45 million for ADA compliance approved in last year’s budget, DeCamp counters, only became available last October, and the projects are now lined up and ready to go. In fact, he says, the city has completed 87 percent of the repairs and improvements due in the first year of the program, and so far 24 percent of those due in the second. What’s more, he says, the Finance Committee agrees that the city must meet its legal obligations — including money required by the EPA for ash-site remediation and ADA compliance. The city has until 2019 to fix all of the ADA violations — many of which are in buildings constructed through the Better Jacksonville Plan — so there is no penalty for skipping a year of funding. Doing so could, however, put the city behind schedule and make it more difficult to meets its obligations in the years to come. The Finance Committee was set to debate the budget one last time on Sept. 16 (after this magazine is put to bed, but before it hits the streets). City Council will then vote on a final budget on Sept. 23. It’s possible that, even if there’s no money in that budget for ADA compliance, the City Council could take up specific capital improvement projects, including ADA compliance, later this year. As far as the mayor’s office is concerned, the ball’s in Council’s court now. “It’s their call and their right,” DeCamp says. Susan Cooper Eastman seastman@folioweekly.com
It’s true that any player on an NFL field is among the best in the world at the game of football. That includes Chad Henne. The Jaguars’ QB1 is in his seventh year now, and he’s always looked almost good enough. The Jags thought so when they brought him back this year to be a veteran bridge between the dumpster fire that was the Blaine Gabbert era and the certain Valhalla that the Blake Bortles epoch will be. But no one has really been sold on Henne since he got here — and Sunday’s loss in Washington won’t silence the doubters. The Jaguars managed to put together a full half of competence in Philadelphia, but all they managed to do in the first half against the Washington Racistnames — yes, the team’s name is a racial slur; no, we will not print it — was injure a couple of superstars. Get well soon, RGIII and D-Jax. The funny thing was, when RGIII was in, struggling with this year’s offense, Washington looked almost as bad as the Jags. Once he was replaced by Kirk Cousins, however, and the offense was executed more efficiently, the Jaguars went from being exposed on offense to being exposed on both sides of the ball. Given the 10 sacks the Jags allowed, there clearly were plenty of occasions when Henne didn’t have any time in the pocket. The interior line has been a liability since the preseason, and likely will be 14 more times to come. Even when Henne did have time in the pocket, however, he looked tentative making reads downfield. He tends, even this late in his career, to lock in on receivers — and he made the Washington defense look like a top-five unit. Which it isn’t. At all. Well before halftime, the Jags looked like a beaten team, worn out and demoralized on a 68-degree day in Landover. There were a couple of nice moments in the second half but, overall, the Jags looked ragged and ragtag. Which raises the real question: How long before we get Bortles out there? What is Bortles learning from watching Henne peel himself off the turf time and time again? It’d be one thing if his apprenticeship were under a quarterback with one professional success worth remembering. But Henne isn’t that guy. Bortles is learning how to lose. The stench of a losing culture still hangs over EverBank Field, shiny new scoreboards notwithstanding. What happens if Henne starts next Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts? How long a leash do the fans give him? What if the game is over by halftime and the stands empty as if left unmanned by the Rapture? We’ve seen that hot mess before. It was during the Gabbert era, the Matt Jones era, the Reggie Williams era. Jacksonville has more than met this franchise halfway. The Jags got their new scoreboards. Now it’s time for the team to do its part and light ’em up — something that won’t happen as long as Henne is behind center. AG Gancarski twitter/aggancarski mail@folioweekly.com
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CREATIVE
ROYALTY How Jeff Whipple and Liz Gibson became the king and queen of Northeast Florida’s art scene
Story by Daniel A. Brown
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eff Whipple and Liz Gibson think big. The two Northeast Florida-based artists’ careers are testaments to their large-scale visions, approaching huge ideas and rendering those concepts through their respective multimedia works. I visited them at MetaCusp, their studio-gallery space in Riverside, an extension of that inspiration put into practice. A kind of industrial Camelot, MetaCusp is a two-story warehouse space that serves as a laboratory of sorts where the pair can work in relative peace, immune from outside distraction. Pulling my car into the parking lot, I look up to see a banner hanging on the building, a reproduction of one of Whipple’s colorful paintings that features a couple locked in either fierce battle or playful combat. The front door of the space is surrounded with potted plants, the only telltale sign that this otherwise factorysized building might have human inhabitants. In the entryway, a large birdcage is set to one side, and paintings occupy every available spot on the walls.
Photos by Dennis Ho Whipple and Gibson meet me in the studio’s lounge area. Both are wearing shorts and T-shirts, and an oscillating fan is set to full blast to cut through the brutal summer heat. It’s early evening, and they seem a little hangdog from the long hours they’ve worked that day. They’re both instructors at the University of North Florida, and they’re working against the clock to complete gargantuan projects before the start of the fall semester. If there is a concise definition for the term “working artists,” it is surely this pair. Over the years, they have been recognized individually for the caliber of their work and won numerous awards for their ongoing efforts as visual artists. While some artists might be featured in a dozen solo shows over the course of a lifetime, Whipple has had a staggering 82 solo exhibits since 1980. In addition to his visual art, he’s had 17 original plays produced, five of which received playwriting awards. Whipple has won six state arts council individual artist fellowships, and his website features more than 1,000 pages that document a decades-long career that rivals that of any contemporary artist, here or anywhere. Gibson is equally driven, and has also been recognized for myriad accomplishments. Known for her fusion of performance and 2-D art, Gibson has been featured in more than two dozen performances and exhibits, as well as site-specific installations. She’s won an array of
prizes — in the last year alone she won the locally based Spark Grant and Art Ventures grant — and is active in programs that introduce children to visual art. Most recently, both received Florida Individual Artist Fellowship awards, perhaps the highest accolade offered by the state’s Division of Cultural Affairs. Handed out biannually, the fellowship is akin to a Pulitzer, recognizing artists who continually push the limits and expand on their abilities of personal expression. Whipple seems grateful for the honor, but brushes it all aside, redirecting the focus to what is really important in their lives. “The fellowship and Liz’s other recent grants just helped us do what we always do: make art,” he says. “We would — and did — do it anyway.” He then turns to lead me up the metal stairway into their shared studio space. “Let’s talk about the art.”
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hen explaining the creative endeavors of Liz Gibson and Jeff Whipple, it is essential to delineate between their separate careers and their lives together. Their personalities are completely dissimilar, yet somehow completely complementary. Liz is the more gregarious of the pair, often telling tales of her excursions that sound like crazed David Lynch fever dreams, wrapping them up with punchlines like “cotton candy is like catnip for strippers.” >>>>>>>>>
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Wearing his ever-present ball cap, Jeff is more subdued and soft-spoken, but becomes increasingly animated when talking about his views on art. During our talk at the studio, they give each other breathing room to discuss their own work. As Whipple guides me into his working quarters, Gibson wanders away from our conversation. The upstairs section of MetaCusp features an enormous 10,000-plus-square-foot space cordoned off into distinct areas. It is here where they spend the bulk of their lives. Whipple shows me his latest project, a gigantic 9-footby-75-foot mural to be installed at Ballou High School, currently under construction in Washington, D.C. On the opposing wall, a jumble of wires connects a large computer station for correspondence, writing proposals, playwriting and mapping out ideas for his various goings-on. Adjacent to this, large props lean against a green screen that’s set up for Whipple’s video work. There is no shortage of ideas, only a lack of time. “It’s hard to develop things,” he says. “I’ve been working on a play since 2012, but I’ve had to shut that down since so many other things come up.” As Whipple walks me through his studio area, a vast collection of paintings that span decades of creative progress creates a kind of timeline of his career. A native of Elgin, Illinois, while studying art at Northern Illinois University, Whipple was already defining his vision, one seemingly based on infinity, time and the order of things. “It’s the questions of life and why we are here, where we are going,” he says. “That’s not all I do, but I think those are big questions.” Whipple graduated from NIU in 1978 and completed his MFA in 1980 at the University of South Florida. He continued to forge what he calls a “vernacular” with his imagery while pursuing a career as an art instructor in places as far afield as Tempe, Arizona, and Sarasota. He’s apparently found some sort of answer in a motif that he calls the “spasm,” a three-lined symbol resembling an equal sign that originated from crosshatching in the background of his paintings, a character that for him ultimately represents life. This mark began to permeate all of his work, and became a kind of corporate branding that made his art instantly recognizable, albeit a logo with decidedly metaphysical roots. “It was based on the idea that in music you might do something and it could be a coincidence, but if you do it three times, you have something going on,” he tells me. “It was really centered on a deliberate effort to find something to make all of the work seem consistent. I do much of my work with this same theme, of the brief spasm of life between the infinities of time between when you are born and when you die.” On many of his large-scale canvases, figures seem frozen in awkward poses, surrounded by the ubiquitous spasm. The 2009 painting History features a young woman intently reading a book as the spasms begin to envelop her body. For Spasm of the Infinities, a 2006 installation at Art Basel Miami Beach, Whipple used video projections to “represent how lives continually drip or melt away toward death.” His plays, many of which have darkly comical tones, expand on these ideas of our relationship to, and placement in, the universal ebb and flow of existence. “With paintings,” he says, “there is a sense of things being frozen, but with a play or video work, there can be development and confrontation, a kind of dance between figures, objects and these ideas.” In his latest painting series, Marching Orders, Whipple has rendered a series of figures 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014
“I do much of my work with this same theme, of the brief spasm of life between the infinities of time between when you are born and when you die.”
decked out in military-style regalia inspired by marching bands. Crowned in absurd-looking helmets and adorned with epaulets, stoic individuals stare at the viewer as the spasm flies around them, with banners unfurling from the edge of each symbol. These works continue Whipple’s use of visual art to tackle big ideas, high-minded and universal concepts of longing and the exploration of our purpose in life. “I’ve been interested in marching bands as a symbol for marching through life,” he says. “And the ‘marching orders’ are what are your goals, what is your role, what is your job, what is your destiny, what are your orders? Some people need that order and other people hate it.” Although Whipple’s work is propelled by these sorts of grand philosophical inquiries,
he’s still managed to find a wide audience. His art hangs in dozens of private, corporate, municipal, college and museum collections. Both the cities of Tampa and St. Petersburg have commissioned Whipple for large-scale public projects. He continues to create, even though he acknowledges that the 12-hour days are exhausting and he would “love to finish a book.” His relentless nature and monk-like discipline compel him to create this huge body of multimedia work. “I don’t think I am even looking for something to resolve,” he says. “There’s always a revelation.”
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esus lies next to a waterfall, his heart sliced from the center of the image. A pack of tigers stares up from a forest scene. “These are my trade secrets,” Gibson says with a laugh of the aforementioned raw materials that are being cut up and reconfigured for her latest two-dimensional work. The piece in question employs lenticular printing, the process that creates images that have the illusion of winking eyes or moving limbs, usually used for novelty or kitsch items like trading cards. Gibson orders these images of Christ and various natural or wildlife scenes since they can be purchased in bulk. She then cuts them down into smaller shapes and applies them to a flat surface to highlight her current works-in-progress. One particular piece, The Transformation of the Three-Legged Fox, uses various-sized pieces of lenticular plastic to help render a series of foxes standing before a fiercelooking trap. Eleven tables are set up in Gibson’s main workspace, each covered in various projects in different stages of completion. While the room itself is large, objects seem to vie for space. It’s the kind of environment where Gibson, a savvy multimedia artist adept in including video, painting and sculpture, thrives. “These grant monies have really helped me pump all of this out,” she says. “I didn’t have to teach summer art camp.” Narrative is critical to Gibson’s work. She’s
open and affable in conversation, which makes sense, considering so much of her art is based on the art of storytelling. Much of her personal story stems from overcoming difficulty and turning what could be perceived as a hindrance into a limitless strength. A self-described native of “Western Pennsyltucky,” Gibson was born with a total of seven fingers on her hands, five on her left and two on her right. This deformity didn’t interfere with her burgeoning creative pursuits: She graduated from the University of South Florida with honors in 2007 and went on to get her MFA at Florida State four years later. Gibson’s blanket term for her form of expression is “deformance art,” which embodies ideas of overcoming adversity through a kind of radical empowerment. “My work always has something to do with stories, whether it’s a performance or visual piece,” she says. “I use a lot of metaphor and complementary theatrical colors, since they are so extreme.” She is renowned for her phantasmagoric performance art pieces, a medium that she acknowledges can be misunderstood even by art institutions. “Well, I don’t use corporeal fluids,” she laughs, “and that’s the tagline I use to do a piece in any museum. They’re always afraid that you’re going to come in and kill a rabbit.” Gibson has four characters she utilizes for performances, distinct personalities that are a reflection of her own qualities and character. Each marks a certain phase in her life, and is assigned a particular color scheme. “The 3 Legged Fox” is her child persona, an orangehaired girl in a powder-blue dress who is gradually becoming aware of how her deformity sets her apart from the rest of the world. “Ben Wa Betty” is all adolescent angst; Gibson dresses in a terrifying get-up, including a red-and-black wig, and wears freakishly long green nails. “Betty” addresses a rejection of society’s norms that leads to a kind of self-acceptance. “The Marquis Sha De” represents Gibson’s current life, a figure dressed in pink-and-black 19thcentury garb who must learn to temper her empowerment with the temptations of egotism.
“The ‘marching orders’ are what are your goals, what is your role, what is your job, what is your destiny, what are your orders? Some people need that order and other people hate it.”
Finally, there is her latest creation, the purpleand-yellow-colored “Techno Holiday,” a kind of culmination of the other three characters that has fully embraced her disability, found success as an artist, and now seeks to share her experience with others. “I like to use spectacle to get people’s attention,” she says. “But there is always a deeper, hidden meaning.” Gibson works tirelessly preparing for each performance. Her strong background in sculpture has helped give her the sensibility and technical skills to build these characters from the ground up. She leads me past a large black wall that’s covered floor-to-ceiling with multicolored Hypnowheels, props from a recent
One Spark performance featuring Marquis Sha De. Behind this display of trippy parasol-like pieces are three rooms stocked with Gibson’s stuff. Painted in Marquis Sha De’s signature pink-and-black color scheme, these chambers are bizarre showrooms housing everything from a dozen wigs to boxes of raw materials. Gibson spends countless hours making her costumes by hand. The recent grant money allowed her to hire interns to help her with some of this heavy workload. While Whipple’s work attempts to codify where we stand in the universe, Gibson looks at how we feel inside our own skins. During her performances, she blends personal life experiences with ruminations on both differences and similarities, and ways to bridge those gaps that seem to separate us from feeling complete and even close to one another. The current of empowerment, of turning the defect into an advantage, is ever-present. “It really is true that our greatest obstacle becomes our greatest asset,” she says. ”Even though I have a very specific story to tell, and not everyone else is born with seven fingers and shares my exact background, I believe in the universal tale. All of our themes in life are the same.” Gibson sees this idea of being different manifested throughout the history of our species. “In different cultures, the response to physical deformities has had both extremes of the spectrum. In some cultures, when a person was born with a birth defect, they would take them out to the rocks and kill them,” she says. “While in other cultures, like the Native Americans, a person born with a deformity would be set aside and later become one of the chiefs.” Back in her workspace, Gibson is preparing for three upcoming performances, including Romper Stomper Cherry Popper, which will be featured at The Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota and blends performance with 2-D works featuring unicorns and grid-like patterns. “The piece is really about introducing people to new ideas but using sexually provocative
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eff and Liz met in 2009 in Tallahassee. “We were kind of circling each other but we officially call New Year’s Day, 2010, our anniversary,” Gibson says. While the pair have never collaborated on any projects together — “We’re both so busy it’s just never happened,” says Whipple — the response to a joint show in Jacksonville in April 2011 left a strong impression on them. “We had considered moving to South Florida or Tampa,” Whipple says, “but it really came down to moving somewhere we didn’t know many people and could discover new things. We felt that there was an unusual enthusiasm here in Jacksonville among the arts people that we didn’t see in a more jaded area.” Impressed by the rising wave of Northeast Florida arts, in early 2012 they decided to move here. “When a gallery fails here, people don’t seem to say, ‘Oh shit, it failed,’ and give up,” Whipple says, “and in recent years, I think, more people have moved here who want to see something happen.” One thing he’d like to see is greater local recognition of the caliber of work produced by the artists currently calling Jacksonville their home. “I don’t know if there’s a patron class here,” says Whipple, reflecting the almost universal observation of local artists who share the difficulty of selling their work. Regardless of the state of local scene, however, Whipple and Gibson remain determined to create their immense and continuing bodies of work. This kind of determination is exhausting, yet Gibson sees this intensity as one of the factors that brought them together. “It’s like an old Western where the baddest gunman is leaning on the bar in the saloon,” she says, “and he is unrivaled until a stranger strolls into town and wanders into the bar. The gunman has finally met his match. That’s what it was like when Jeff and I met. We’re both kind of insane.” dbrown@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 15
Our Picks Reasons to leave the house this week
GENIUS IDIOT AB-SOUL
“If we could link up every gang/and niggas is willin’ to bear the pain/we put the White House lights out today.” So raps Herbert Anthony Stevens IV, better known as Ab-Soul, on the aptly titled “Terrorist Threats,” off 2012’s Control System, a ferociously intense, politically minded, confident-yet-vulnerable set of tracks that won all sorts of critical acclaim. In June he dropped These Days …, an indulgent 90-minute effort that concludes with 17 minutes of WTF spoken word and has too many collaborators and discordant interludes, but nonetheless solidifies Ab-Soul’s place as hip-hop’s self-proclaimed “genius idiot.” 6 p.m. Sept. 21 at Mavericks at the Landing, Downtown, $20-$25, jaxlive.com.
SOUND & VISION DAVID BOWIE IS
For more than four decades, shape-shifting icon and mercurial talent David Bowie has been reconfiguring and repurposing the pop-culture landscape as an innovative musician, savvy fashion gangsta, sometimes actor, and artsminded polymath. A cinematic document of the groundbreaking exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and a gift to Bowie acolytes and music geeks alike, David Bowie Is offers a rare and in-depth glimpse into the Thin White Duke’s music videos, costumes, set designs and more personal items, including never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, album cover artwork and diary entries. 7 p.m. Sept. 23 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 5 Points, $12.50, sunraycinema.com.
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GIRLS ROCK THE PRETTY RECKLESS
There’s a scene in The Pretty Reckless’ video for the song “Heaven Knows” in which Taylor Momsen (pictured; you know her from Gossip Girl) slides back a sheer robe to reveal her impeccable naked self, naughty bits covered by what looks to be black marker in the form of a cross. (A similar image adorns the front of Going to Hell, the band’s second full-length.) It is, of course, meant to be rebellious, in a mass-market sort of way. And then she smashes a television with a sledgehammer, because angst. Not being an angsty, horny teenager, you’re probably inclined to hate Momsen’s music. But then maybe you listen, and maybe you don’t. Hell is brash, unabashed, anthemic, fun, occasionally beautiful and, yes, sexy, even when it tries too hard to be pissed off about whatever, and even when it skews a little too much toward generic. 8 p.m. Sept. 18 at Freebird Live, Jax Beach, $20-$25, freebirdlive.com.
Anyone can cruise around in a boat, but the real seafaring souls, those with saltwater in their blood, know the ins and outs of the oldschool marine vessels. (Hells to the yeah!) The Whitney Laboratory presents distinguished maritime archaeologist and author Brendan Burke (pictured), who chronicles the history of Florida’s shrimp trawlers and commercial fishing boats, as well as the global impact the Sunshine State’s boating industry had on the 20th century. 7 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Center for Marine Studies at Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, St. Augustine, free, whitney.ufl.edu.
LAZARETTO RISING JACK WHITE
If the blues is the ultimate obsessive-compulsive disorder – the strict four-bar repetitions, the relentless self-examination and devilish wallowing – then Jack White, with his precise period costumes and systematic two-color chromotherapy, is some kind of case study. Except for one thing: White, who would have been an upholsterer if he hadn’t struck a Faustian rock ’n’ roll bargain with ex-wife Meg in the White Stripes, isn’t out to fix his music; he’s out to stretch it until it breaks. 8 p.m. Sept. 20 at the T-U Center for the Performing Arts, Downtown, $60-$75 (sold out, so check StubHub! or your friendly neighborhood scalper). 16 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014
PICTURE PERFECT GET REAL
Contemporary art gets a high-octane infusion of current and radical realism with Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville’s latest exhibit, Get Real: New American Painting. The show features the works of eight American artists, most under the age of 40, and includes pieces by Haley Hasler, Jason John, Andrea Kowch, Bryan LeBoeuf, Jenny Morgan, Kevin Muente, Frank Oriti and Kevin Peterson. Their works run the gamut from the mundane to the mythic, touching on images that feature everyday people and phantasmagoric tableaus. The course of the show’s run features an array of inventive programming, including the Jason John Studio Experience, which gives visitors a chance to witness the Northeast Florida artist and Get Real participant produce a painting in created studio space. The exhibit runs through Jan. 4 at MOCAJax, Downtown, mocajacksonville.org.
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AND IT STONED ME Miami sludge rockers Torche succeed where Black Sabbath failed
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t first listen, doom-scene freaks Torche seem distorted, bluesy pentatonic scales, a revitalizing to honor the mantra “When in doubt, dumb approach counter to the style that defines so it down.” But that would be a disingenuous much heavy rock. judgment, since this Miami-bred four-piece Placed in the greater context of metal and is surely one of the more engaging bands punk, this kind of gambit — to evolve from working in the contemporary metal scene. heaviness into harmony — has at times had Since 2005, the band — singer/guitarist Steve mixed, if not cheesy, results. In 1976, the Gods Brooks, singer/guitarist Andrew Elstner, bassist of Gloom, Black Sabbath, released Technical Jonathan Nuñez, and drummer Rick Smith — Ecstasy. After essentially forging the heavy metal genre, the band’s seventh album featured has released four albums and a half-dozen EPs the once-pioneers in bloated and tired form. and singles of heavy-ass tuneage offset with Guitarist Tony Iommi allegedly thought the melodious vocal lines. band needed to go for more of a mainstream The band was spawned in the same post’70s sound. The results were shit, most expressly grindcore/doom scene of deafening brethren heard in the single “It’s Alright,” like Boris, High on Fire and the featured drummer Bill Ward ever-mighty Harvey Milk, but Torche’s evolution which warbling over a dunderheaded, Torche has set themselves apart from lurch piano-driven love ballad. A decade by being fearless in injecting later, Black Flag didn’t heed the melody and inventive, catchy merchants lesson from their aggro ancestors turnarounds into their music. to something and recorded the goofy “Wound The combo’s evolution from lurch merchants to something more harmonious Up,” which unsuccessfully blended a finger-poppin’ verse about more harmonious has been a has been a walking “by your house” with gradual climb from the stoner gradual climb vocalist Henry Rollins’ certain metal scene. With their eponymous from the stoner threat that he would eventually get “so wound up.” Variety is always ’05 debut, the band laid down metal scene. good, but Hammerin’ Hank’s ground rules with songs like decision to shift gears so abruptly “Charge of the Brown Recluse,” mid-song was a belly flop in the slam pit. “Vampyro” and the jovially titled “Fuck Addict.” That is not to say that all metal bands haven’t These and the rest of that release offered washes successfully delivered harmony over the roar of distorted guitars embedded over pummeling of Marshall stacks. Torche are evident of this. rhythms, delivered with forceful vocals hell-bent Their most recent album, Harmonicraft, is a on leveling the listener into submission. Two worthy culmination of their total explorations years later, the band issued the EP In Return, of, and defiance to, metal’s sometimes-rigid cramming seven tracks into 20 minutes. In rules of loudness versus softness. Torche have the span between the debut and the followbeen fearless in bringing their own game to the up, Torche pulled pages from the Spacemen playground, turning the studio and stage into a 3 and My Bloody Valentine playbook. Songs kind of laboratory where they can generate new like “Warship” and “In Return” shimmer with ideas and discard their past attempts for present ghostly, ricocheting guitar tones, as the band experiments in tonality, structure and fiercely sounds almost bored with the second wave of original results. stoner metal they helped codify. Torche’s subsequent releases have developed Daniel A. Brown this penchant for blending the primal punch dbrown@folioweekly.com of potent metal with crafty songwriting. The vocals on 2008’s Meanderthal are unabashedly TORCHE soaring and border on the uplifting, borrowing with POST TEENS, VICES and DELTA SUN 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at Burro Bar, Downtown, $10 more from Bad Religion than the Melvins, while the guitar solos shy away from the standard
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THE GET RIGHT BAND perform Sept. 19 and 20 at The White Lion Restaurant & Pub in St. Augustine’s historic district.
LIVE MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
JOEY CAPE (Lagwagon), CHRIS CRESSWELL (Flatliners), BRIAN WAHLSTROM Sept. 17, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496. GRANGER SMITH, EARL DIBBLES JR. Sept 17, Mavericks, 2 Independent Drive, Downtown, 356-1110. Music by the Sea: NAVY PRIDE Sept. 17, SJC Pier Park, St. Augustine, free, civicassociation.org VIOLENT OPPOSITION, ATMA, RITES, WYS GYS Sept. 18, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Downtown, 798-8222. THE PRETTY RECKLESS, ADELITA’S WAY Sept. 18, Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473. GOLDEN PELICANS, THE MOLD, KING BABY & THE DUKES, MOUNT THE STALLION Sept. 18, Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 699-8186. ROOTZ UNDERGROUND, THE HIP ABDUCTION Sept. 18, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St. N, Downtown. THE DRUIDS Sept. 18, Ragtime Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877. MAD CADDIES Sept. 18, Jack Rabbits TELESMA, ACID MAJIK Sept. 19, Freebird Live CHRIS STAPLETON Sept. 19, Mavericks TORCHE, POST TEENS Sept. 19, Burro Bar, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067. GREENHOUSE LOUNGE, S.P.O.R.E. Sept. 19, 1904 Music Hall THE GET RIGHT BAND Sept. 19 & 20, The White Lion, 20 Cuna St., St. Augustine, 829-2388. A Night of Dark Ambient: SCARED RABBITS, MONOLITH TRANSMISSIONS, SEA OF APPARITIONS, THE SEPIA RAVEN, CON RIT Sept. 20, CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside. AUTARX, COLD WASTE, BURNT HAIR, HANG UP YOUR BOOTS Sept. 20, Shantytown Pub JACK WHITE Sept. 20, T-U Center, 300 Water St., Downtown, 633-6110. STICK FIGURE, PACIFIC DUB, HIRIE Sept. 20, Freebird Live HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, NEW EMPIRE, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, THE ONGOING CONCEPT, EVERYBODY RUN, EVERSAY Sept. 21, Freebird Live Experience Hendrix: BUDDY GUY, KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, JONNY LANG, DOYLE BRAMHALL II, ERIC JOHNSON, CHRIS LAYTON, ZAKK WYLDE, BILLY COX Sept. 21, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787.
JOYCE MANOR, DES ARK, THE EXQUISITES Sept. 21, 1904 Music Hall MIKE SHACKELFORD ACOUSTIC Sept. 21, Bull Park, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828. AB-SOUL Sept. 21, Mavericks GRITTY MUSICK, DRAZAH & TUNK, SUPER SMASH BROS, STATIC, DOC SEUSS Sept. 23, Jack Rabbits SENSES FAIL, NO BRAGGING RIGHTS, TO THE WIND, KNUCKLE PUCK Sept. 24, Underbelly COUCHES, FIFIELD, THE STOCKTONS Sept. 24, Burro Bar
UPCOMING AREA CONCERTS
JERROD NIEMANN, RAE LYNN Sept. 25, Mavericks CODE ORANGE, TWITCHING TONGUES, AXIS, BLISTERED, RHYTHM OF FEAR Sept. 25, Burro Bar MEGHAN LINSEY, JORDYN STODDARD Sept. 25, Café Eleven BRONCHO, SUNBEARS! Sept. 26, Jack Rabbits CONRAD OBERG Sept. 26, Mojo Kitchen GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, JACKSONVEGAS, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND Sept. 26, Freebird Live BOOGIE FREAKS Sept. 26 & 27, Ragtime Tavern SHAWN McDONALD Sept. 27, Murray Hill Theatre AFTER MIDNIGHT (Eric Clapton Tribute) Sept. 27, Mojo Kitchen PETE BONES Sept. 27, 1904 Music Hall Clean Water Music Fest: CHICO LOBOS BAND, BE EASY, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, CANARY IN THE COALMINE, THE DOG APOLLO, OSCAR MIKE, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, ADAM SAMS, FORT STORIES, MONDO MIKE & THE PO BOYS, CHASING JONAH, THE WILLOWWACKS, FOUR FAMILIES, THE RUBIES, DALTON CYR, BETHANY & THE TROUBADOURS, RACHAEL WARFIELD, DENVER, BOB PATTERSON, PARADOX Sept. 27, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NICKY BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS, THE MOTHER HIPS, FJORD EXPLORER Sept. 28, Central Park, Fernandina Beach PETER FRAMPTON Sept. 30, The Florida Theatre DAVID GRAY Oct. 1, The Florida Theatre GYM SHORTS, TIGHT GENES, THE MOLD, TOUCH Oct. 1, Burro Bar KEITH SWEAT, HOWARD HEWITT Oct. 3, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts DJ VADIM, FORT KNOX FIVE Oct. 3, Freebird Live SISTER KILL CYCLE Oct. 3, Club TSI Discotheque WIDESPREAD PANIC Oct. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GOV’T MULE Oct. 9, The Florida Theatre
RICHARD MARX Oct. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS Oct. 10, The Ritz Theatre GARTH BROOKS Oct. 10-12, 16-18, Veterans Memorial Arena ’68, MODERN ART, CARRY THE WEIGHT, SACK THE CITY Oct. 10, Burro Bar SHIVAS, TOMBOI Oct. 11, Underbelly EARTH, WIND & FIRE Oct. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PETER CASE Oct. 11, Mudville Music Room THE VIBRATORS, POWERBALL Oct. 12, Jack Rabbits TREVOR HALL, CAS HALEY Oct. 12, Freebird Live HOME FREE Oct. 14, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Terry Theater EYES SET TO KILL, SCARE DON’T FEAR, LIKE MONROE, CLAUDE BOURBON Oct. 14, Mudville Music Room PHILL NIBLOCK Oct. 15, Sun-Ray Cinema WILLY PORTER, BRENT BYRD Oct. 16, Café Eleven Magnolia Fest: LYLE LOVETT, BELA FLECK, JASON ISBELL, INDIGO GIRLS, DONNA THE BUFFALO, DR. JOHN, THE WAILERS, JIM LAUDERDALE, THE LEE BOYS, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, PARKER URBAN BAND, CHELSEA SADDLER Oct. 16-19, Suwannee Music Park
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A&E // MUSIC THE ACACIA STRAIN, THE PLOT IN YOU, CANE HILL, DIG DEEP Oct. 17, 1904 Music Hall UNDERHILL ROSE Oct. 17, Mudville Music Room BOYTOY Oct. 17, Underbelly DISCIPLE, PROJECT 86 Oct. 17, Murray Hill Theatre DAVID NAIL Oct. 17, Mavericks RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND Oct. 18, Moran Theater MOTLEY CRUE, ALICE COOPER Oct. 19, Vets Memorial Arena ZIGGY MARLEY Oct. 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BLOCKHEAD, ELAQUENT, MUNSHINE Oct. 19, Underbelly LOS LONELY BOYS Oct. 21, The Florida Theatre THE NTH POWER, SQUEEDLEPUSS, SAM SANDERS Oct. 21, Freebird Live AUTHORITY ZERO, PRIDELESS, KOUP DE TAT Oct. 21, Jack Rabbits THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, CAVE SINGERS Oct. 22, Freebird Live MIKE WATT, HEY MANDIBLE Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits JUSTIN HAYWARD Oct. 22, Florida Theatre IL SOGNO DEL MARINAIO, MEMPHIBIANS
Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits ANDY McKEE Oct. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANJELAH JOHNSON Oct. 24, The Florida Theatre FINCH, MAPS & ATLASES, WEATHERBOX Oct. 24, Freebird Live ICED EARTH, REVAMP, AMON AMARTH, SABATON, SKELETONWITCH Oct. 25, Freebird Live PAUL McCARTNEY Oct. 25, Veterans Memorial Arena BLEEDING IN STEREO, WORLD GONE, DENIED TIL DEATH, PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE Oct. 25, Jack Rabbits BETTY LAVETTEOct. 25, The Ritz Theatre MARK JOHNSON & EMORY LESTER Oct. 26, Café Eleven THE POLISH AMBASSADOR Oct. 29, Freebird Live MIKE DOUGHTY Oct. 29, Café Eleven Halloween Cover Show: OBN IIIS, GOLDEN PELICANS, BURNT HAIR, RIVERSIDE PARTY GIRLS Oct. 30, Underbelly SUPERVILLAINS, THROUGH THE ROOTS Oct. 31, Freebird Live Suwannee Hulaween: THIEVERY CORPORATION, BIG GIGANTIC, BEATS ANTIQUE, THE NEW DEAL, JOE RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD, GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, FUTURE ROCK, RISING APPALACHIA, THE HEAVY PETS, GREENHOUSE LOUNGE, MICHAEL TRAVIS, JASON HANN, EOTO Oct. 31-Nov. 2, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park ANGEL OLSEN, LIONLIMB Nov. 1, Jack Rabbits STEVE POLTZ, DONNY BRAZILE Nov. 1, Café Eleven NEW KINGSTON, I RESOLUTION, MYSTIC DINO & THE KIDS, DJ RAGGAMUFFIN Nov. 2, Freebird Live MELVINS Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits CASTING CROWNS Nov. 6, Veterans Memorial Arena CHERYL WHEELER Nov. 6, Café Eleven Old City Music Fest: OLD DOMINION, JASON D. WILLIAMS Nov. 7, St. Augustine START MAKING SENSE Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits BLACK LILLIES Nov. 7, Colonial Quarter, St. Augustine Old City Music Fest: JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, WILL HOGE Nov. 8, St. Augustine HEART Nov. 8, St. Augustine Amphitheatre RANDY NEWMAN Nov. 9, Flagler College PHILLIP PHILLIPS Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, TIFT MERRITT Nov. 9, The Florida Theatre THE LONE BELLOW Nov. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TAB BENOIT Nov. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall REVEREND HORTON HEAT, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival: DUMPSTAPHUNK, UMPHREY’S McGEE, ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES,
OTEIL BURBRIDGE, ZACH DEPUTY, MINGO FISHTRAP, THE FRITZ, CATFISH ALLIANCE Nov. 13-16, Suwannee Music Park ROD PICOTT Nov. 13, Mudville Music Room TRIBAL SEEDS, BALLYHOO, GONZO, BEYOND I SIGHT Nov. 13, Freebird Live O.A.R. Nov. 14, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MATTHEW & GUNNAR NELSON Nov. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DIRTY HEADS, ROME Nov. 14, Mavericks THE CURT TOWNE BAND, FIREROAD Nov. 14, Freebird Live CLARENCE CARTER Nov. 14, The Ritz Theatre JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Nov. 15, Colonial Quarters, St. Augustine JAMES TAYLOR & HIS ALL-STAR BAND: LOU MARINI, WALT FOWLER, LARRY GOLDINGS, LUIS CONTE, STEVE GADD, ANDREA ZONN, KATE MARKOWITZ, ARNOLD McCULLER, DAVID LASLEY, JIMMY JOHNSON, MICHAEL LANDAU Nov. 19, Veterans Memorial Arena ERIC LINDELL Nov. 20, Mojo Kitchen FLATBUSH ZOMBIES, THE UNDERACHIEVERS Nov. 22, Underbelly OTIS CLAY Nov. 22, The Ritz Theatre RELIENT K, BLONDFIRE, FROM INDIAN LAKES Nov. 24, Freebird Live AARON CARTER Nov. 25, Jack Rabbits The Big Ticket: FALLOUT BOY, WEEZER, ALT-J, YOUNG THE GIANT, CHEVELLE, NEW POLITICS, J RODDY, BIG DATA, BEAR HANDS, YOUNG RISING SONS, ISLANDER Dec. 5, Metropolitan Park JUBILEE RIOTS Dec. 6, Café Eleven QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT, WHITE MYSTERY, BURNT HAIR, THE MOLD Dec. 9, Underbelly DIANA KRALL Dec. 9, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 11, Mudville Music Room WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE Dec. 14, The Florida Theatre ALLEN TOUSSAINT Dec. 14, The Ritz Theatre JOE BONAMASSA Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre BOWSER & THE STINGRAYS, HERMAN’S HERMITS & PETER NOONE, GARY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP Dec. 18, The Florida Theatre BAD SANTA, GRANT PEEPLES Dec. 18, Mudville Music Room A SWAMP RADIO CHRISTMAS Dec. 21, Florida Theatre DON WILLIAMS Jan. 7, Florida Theatre ’70s Soul Jam: THE SPINNERS, THE STYLISTICS, THE MAIN INGREDIENT Jan. 8, Florida Theatre MIRANDA SINGS Jan. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Jan. 16, Florida Theatre THE BOTH (AIMEE MANN, TED LEO) Jan. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DIANE SCHUUR Jan. 17, The Ritz Theatre ARLO GUTHRIE Jan. 20, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 22, The Florida Theatre IRIS DEMENT Jan. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall URSAMINOR, SURVIVING SEPTEMBER, THE HEALING PROCESS, NOCTURNAL STATE OF MIND Jan. 31, Freebird Live TIME JUMPERS & VINCE GILL Feb. 7, The Florida Theatre JOHN HAMMOND Feb. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO Feb. 20, The Florida Theatre DENNIS DeYOUNG Feb. 21, Florida Theatre STRINGFEVER March 5, Café Eleven THREE DOG NIGHT March 10, Florida Theatre JOHN MELLENCAMP March 15, T-U Center JACKIE EVANCHE March 22, Florida Theatre BRONX WANDERERS March 29, Florida Theatre THE ORCHESTRA (Former ELO & ELO II members) April 11, Florida Theatre CHRIS BOTTI April 30, Florida Theatre ZZ TOP, JEFF BECK May 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre
CLUBS AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049 John Springer every Tue.-Wed. Aaron Bing 6 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. GREEN TURTLE, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith every Thur. Yancy Clegg every Sun. Vinyl Record Nite is held every Tue. HAMMERHEADS, 2045 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-7783 DJ Refresh 9 p.m. every Sun. THE SURF, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 491-8999 The Black Jack Band on Sept. 18 and 21
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFE, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores at 9 p.m. every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free at 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance at 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance at 9 p.m. every Fri. Music every Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 John Earle Duo on Sept. 18. Whetherman on Sept. 19
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A&E // MUSIC LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., NB, 249-2922 Splinters on Sept. 19. Jarell Harris on Sept. 20. Live music every Fri. & Sat. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Dirty Pete every Wed. Split Tone every Thur. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Who Rescued Who every Sun. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 N. Third St., 246-1500 Wellfed Boy on Sept. 17. Cam Jam on Sept. 18. Danka on Sept. 19. The Get Right Band on Sept. 21 MEZZA RESTAURANT & BAR, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Neil Dixon at 6 p.m. every Tue. Gypsies Ginger at 6 p.m. every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer at 6 p.m. every Thur. NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Cloud 9 on Sept. 17. Wes Cobb on Sept. 19. Catfish Rodeo on Sept. 20. Fat Cactus Duo and Chilly Rhino on Sept. 21. Leslie Baptiste on Sept. 22. Kevin Ski on Sept. 23. Pierce in Harmony on Sept. 24 NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 372-4105 Gary Lee Wingard on Sept. 18. Neil Dixon on Sept. 19. Larry Lemjer & the Backtracks at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 20 PIER CANTINA & SANDBAR, 412 FIRST ST. N., 246-6454 Charlie Walker at 3 p.m. on Sept. 21 POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637 Live music every Fri. & Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Small Fish on Sept. 17. The Druids on Sept. 18. A1A North on Sept. 19 & 20. Billy Bowers on Sept. 24. Boogie Freaks on Sept. 26 & 27. Live music every Thur.-Sun. WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 247-4508 Kurt Lamb on Sept. 18. Live music every Thur. and Fri.
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS performs on Sept. 21 at Freebird Live in Jax Beach.
BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
BILLY’S BOATHOUSE, 2321 Beach Blvd., 241-9771 Supernatural Duo on Sept. 18. Fore Play on Sept. 19. Billy Bowers 6-10 p.m. on Sept. 20 BRASS ANCHOR PUB, 2292 Mayport Rd., Ste. 35, Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff at 9 p.m. on Sept. 17 CASA MARINA HOTEL, 691 First St. N., 270-0025 Charlie Walker at 2 p.m. on Sept. 21 CULHANE’S IRISH PUB, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Irish music at 6:30 p.m. every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 Who Rescued Who at 10 p.m. on Sept. 19. Ryan Crary on Sept. 21. Live music every Fri. & Sat. Red Beard & Stinky E at 10
p.m. every Thur. FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 The Pretty Reckless, Adelita’s Way, Crash Midnight on Sept. 18. Telesma, Acid Majik on Sept. 19. Stick Figure, Pacific Dub, Hirie, Danka on Sept. 20. Hawthorne Heights, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, New Empire, Famous Last Words, The Ongoing Concept, Everybody Run, Eversay on Sept. 21. Grandpa’s Cough Medicine, JacksonVegas, Bryce Alastair Band on Sept. 26 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Live music at 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade at 6 p.m. every Sun. Back From the Brink at 9 p.m. every Mon.
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. Rootz Underground, The Hip Abduction on Sept. 18. Greenhouse Lounge, S.P.O.R.E., Master Radical on Sept. 19. Just Like Gentlemen, I Am the Witness, Convalesce, Amongst the Forgotten, Decided by Fate on Sept. 20. Joyce Manor, Des Ark, The Exquisites on Sept. 21. Alesana on Sept. 22. Open mic jam every Mon. BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St., 353-4686 Torche, Post Teens on Sept. 19. Sea of Surrender, What Heart, Sunspots on Sept. 20. Couches, Fifield, The Stocktons on Sept. 24. Code Orange, Twitching Tongues, Axis, Blistered, Rhythm of Fear on Sept. 25 FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247
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A&E // MUSIC BUDDY GUY performs as part of the Experience Hendrix tribute with KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, JONNY LANG, DOYLE BRAMHALL II, ERIC JOHNSON, CHRIS LAYTON, ZAKK WYLDE and BILLY COX on Sept. 21 at The Florida Theatre in Downtown Jacksonville.
at 2 p.m. on Sept. 21 MILL TOP TAVERN & LISTENING ROOM, 19-1/2 St. George St., 829-2329 Don Oja Dunaway, David Dowling, Aaron Esposito on Sept. 17. Don Oja Dunaway, Donny Brazile, Go Get Gone on Sept. 18. Dave Berry, Rory Pickens, Decoy on Sept. 19. John Winters, Alex & Jim on Sept. 20. Brent Byrd, Adam Lee, David Strom on Sept. 21. David Dowling, John Dickie, Donny Brazile on Sept. 22. Nathaniel Good, Todd & Molly Jones, Bret Blackshear on Sept. 23 TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 342-0286 Marianne Lerb on Sept. 19. Jake & Jim on Sept. 20. The Falling Bones on Sept. 26. Open mic every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat. TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky at 9 p.m. on Sept. 19 & 20. Matanzas every Sun.-Thur. Elizabeth Roth at 1 p.m. every Sat. WHITE LION TAVERN, 10 Cuna St., 829-2388 The Get Right Band on Sept. 19 & 20\
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
INDOCHINE San Marco & Buddha Lounge, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013 Dance Radio Underground, Sugar & Cream, Black Hoodie, Bass Therapy Sessions from 10 p.m.mid. Allan GIz-Roc Oteyza, Scott Perry aka TrapNasty and Cry Havoc rotate, mid.-3 a.m. for Fever Saturdays JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Chris Cresswell (Flatliners), Brian Wahlstrom on Sept. 17. Mad Caddies on Sept. 18. Gram Parsons Songwriting Contest on Sept. 20. AB Soul on Sept. 21. Gritty Musick, Drazah & Tunk, Super Smash Bros., Static, Doc Suess on Sept. 23. Kyle Kinane, Chris Buck on Sept. 24 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Rockin’ Jake Band on Sept. 18. Terry Whitehead on Sept. 19. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer, Luke Peacock, Michael Munn on Sept. 24
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS
Spade McQuade from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 17. Live music from 5-8 p.m., 2 Peace at 8 p.m. on Sept. 19. Jig to a Milestone at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 20. Spade McQuade from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 24. Live music at 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188 Friday Night Live 8 p.m.-1 a.m.: local bands, singers and musicians compete on Riverfront Courtyard Stage, on Sept. 19 and 26. Austin Park from 8 p.m.-1 a.m. on Sept. 20 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis every Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ 007 every Fri. Bay Street every Sat. MAVERICKS, Jax Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 356-1110 Granger Smith, Earl Dibbles Jr. at 6 p.m. on Sept. 17. Chris Stapleton at 6 p.m. on Sept. 19. AB-Soul on Sept. 21. Jerrod Niemann, Rae Lynn on Sept. 25. Joe Buck, Big Tasty every Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Golden Pelicans, The Mold, King Baby & the Dukes, Mount the Stallion on Sept. 18. Senses Fail, No Bragging Rights, Knuckle Puck on Sept. 24
FLEMING ISLAND
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999 Bongo Boys at 9 p.m. on Sept. 20 WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Fratello at 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Jamie Davis at 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 20. Open mic 9 p.m. every Thur. Deck music at 5 p.m. every Fri. & Sat., 4:30 p.m. every Sun.
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CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 DJ Big Rob every Thur., Sun. & Tue. YOUR PLACE, 13245 Atlantic, 221-9994 Clayton Bush on Sept. 17
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-3040 Retro Kats on Sept. 21. Open mic: Synergy at 8 p.m. every Wed. World’s Most Talented Waitstaff at 9 p.m. every Fri.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells, 272-5959 John Michael every Wed.-Sat. PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Four Barrel at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. DJ Tammy at 9 p.m. every Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Chilly Rhino 10 p.m. on Sept. 19 & 20. DJ Corey B every Wed. Live music every Fri. & Sat.
PONTE VEDRA, PALM VALLEY
PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A N., 280-7766 Soulo on Sept.
17. Gary Amonette & the Valley Grass Band on Sept. 24. Live music every Wed.-Sun. TABLE 1, 330 A1A N., Ste. 208, 280-5515 Paxton & Mike on Sept. 17 & 20. Gary Starling Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18. DiCarlo Thompson at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Deron Baker at 6 p.m. on Sept. 24
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807 River City Quartet at 7 p.m. on Sept. 18. Kokapelli at 8 p.m. on Sept. 19 rain dogs., 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Jesse Montoya at 9 p.m. on Sept. 19 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Donna Frost, Flagship Romance and Cougar Barrel; starts 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 20
ST. AUGUSTINE, ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH
ANN O’MALLEY’S, 23 Orange St., 825-4040 Tony Paul Neal 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Open mic with Smokey Joe every Tue. THE CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 The Mix at 7 p.m. on Sept. 19. Gary Douglas Campbell at 2 p.m. and Ain’t Too Proud to Beg at 7 p.m. on Sept. 20. Vinny Jacobs
COMEDY CLUB, 11000 Beach Blvd., Ste. 8, 646-4277 Fascinating Rhythm Orchestra at 7 p.m. 1st & 3rd Wed. COPPER TAP HOUSE, 13500 Beach Blvd., 647-6595 Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Be Easy on Sept. 18. Split Tones on Sept. 19. VJ Fellin on Sept. 20. Who Rescued Who on Sept. 21 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955 Whetherman on Sept. 18. Co-Alition on Sept. 19. Ryan Crary on Sept. 20 MY PLACE BAR & GRILL, 9550 Baymeadows, 737-5299 Chuck Nash Band on Sept. 19 & 20. Chuck Nash every Tue. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 998-9464 Chris Brinkley Sept. 17. Rusted Diamond on Sept. 19. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Roshambeaux at 8 p.m. on Sept. 18. Burning Bright at 9 p.m. on Sept. 20. Live music every Fri. & Sat.
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
HIGHWAY 17 ROADHOUSE, 850532 U.S. 17, Yulee, 225-9211 Shanytown at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 21 SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Larry & the Backtracks at 6 p.m. on Sept. 19. Double Down on Sept. 20 SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Violent Opposition, Atma, Rites, Wys Gys on Sept. 18. Worth Road, Signs of Iris, Salton Stanley at 7 p.m. on Sept. 19. Autarx, Cold Waste, Burnt Hair, Hang Up Your Boots on Sept. 20 THREE LAYERS COFFEEHOUSE, 1602 Walnut St., 355-9791 Doug Vanderlaan and Heather at 8 p.m. on Sept. 19. Open mic every Thur.
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bending. This time, on the record we’ll call f you’re familiar with the underground The Pink One, they go duo, playing drums and noise scene in Northeast Florida, then you synths by themselves. know who Jay Peele and Chris Spohn are. A lo-fi experiment in spontaneous Any attempt to otherwise describe these two composition, The Pink One features 10 tracks, gentlemen would fall short, but I will try with all done in one take. Two tracks clock in at two brief anecdotes in service of a review of their latest collaborative CD. The two musicians around three minutes, one is nearly 12 minutes long, and the rest fall around the one-minute are at the core of a psychedelic synth freak-out mark. Don’t come looking for precision. This project called Acid Majik. is raw, aggressive Moogy madness, something Your patience is appreciated. akin to Black Sabbath rendered entirely in OK, Peele first. An odd character to be sawtooth waves. In fact, track seven is called certain, Peele has a stream-of-consciousness “Pink Sabbath,” which loosely resembles way of relating to people. So when he speaks “Fairies Wear Boots.” Likewise, track four, to you, pay close attention. Non-sequiturs “Stoner Gloom,” practically clones Sabbath’s abound. He’s also a little (a lot) OCD. Case in death anthem “Black Sabbath.” point: His bizarre Facebooking habits, which, Other delights include “Blast Farm,” a incidentally, closely resemble his real-world sloppy good time of a speed-metal drum approach to life. Take, for instance, a recent break accompanied by musicians’ forum post a lot of synthy knob that began in June with ACID MAJIK with TELESMA twiddling. “Golden a simple sharing of a 8 p.m. Sept. 19 at Freebird Live, Jax Beach, $8, 246-2473, Plains Riders” is a photograph of early freebirdlive.com tom-driven affair, with era Slayer. He has since sweeping synth patches posted nearly 70 Slayer zooming across the sonic plains, as it were. videos, the last of which appeared on Sept. 6. “Opium Den Be In (Revisited)” pulls an idea He’s also really into Moogs. Really into Moogs. from The One with the Cube on the Cover, the Spohn is a different animal altogether, only track with actual vocals — a mantra-like moody and colorful at the same time. I once “ooooooohhhhhhh.” The closing track, “Majik brought him in on a live music-and-art project Dub Improvisation,” has Spohn and Peele I put together involving spoken-word, music, doing what they do best: making a whole lot experimental film and, well, Spohn. He was of noise with whatever they could find lying scheduled to layer avant-garde music over film around the studio. The result is haunting and, loops created by Sun-Ray Cinema proprietor at times, hilarious. Tim Massett. He showed up at the club at the If you’re into hallucinogens, dose up and appropriate time with a painfully swollen eye. trance out. Stare at the CD cover for a while He told me he was bitten by a spider. When I when you do; the intricate tribal design set on asked him if he was OK, he assured me he was, a hot-pink background will certainly kickstart and told me that the painkillers he had taken your trip. If you’re like me, and prefer real were doing their job. He then proceeded to consciousness over manufactured imaginings, lay down some wonderfully out-there sitarand-synth jams while sweating profusely and pop on some headphones and have a deep looking like he was about to pass out. After his listen. You might hear a load of crap, two performance, he disappeared. guys banging around on rickety drums and I have worked with Spohn and Peele in a keyboards. You might enjoy their textural number of different bands, chief among them approach, immersing yourself in the prickly world-lounge group Tropic of Cancer and fun of it all. Or you may close your eyes and the short-lived psychobilly outfit Barnyard. envision swirls of color and, if you’re lucky, Despite their weirdness — or maybe because trance out without a single hit of MDMA. Whatever your chosen method, it would of it — the two are capable of brilliance at any behoove you to check out Acid Majik, if for moment. Their ever-evolving project Acid no other reason than to break free from your Majik is a perfect example. Acid Majik’s 2012 everyday listenings. You can always go back to record, which will henceforth be known as that safe place once it’s all over. The One with the Cube on the Cover, included contributions from Robert McMullin on John E. Citrone drums and Chris Page on theremin and circuit theknife@folioweekly.com
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I AM THE WALRUS
Kevin Smith’s latest is a satisfyingly strange foray into comedyhorror weirdness
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once Wallace and Howard sit at a dining room usk is the most bizarre movie I have ever table and howl (not together, but at the same seen. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the honest time), you know you’ve entered the theater of truth. the absurd. It’s not quite torture porn, though it goes Still, serious things happen after that to there. It’s not entirely a dark comedy, though it offset the dark silliness. Wallace’s girlfriend has funny moments. It’s not entirely a thriller, Ally (Genesis Rodriguez) and podcast partner though the atmosphere suggests it is. It’s all of Teddy (Haley Joel Osment, yes, the kid from these things, and none of them. The Sixth Sense, now pudgy) set out to find Not knowing what to make of the film is, Wallace, and they enlist the help of local I believe, entirely the point. Writer/director inspector Guy LaPointe (an unrecognizable Kevin Smith’s career has run the gamut of Johnny Depp) to help them. Smith’s script hits (Clerks) and misses (Cop Out), and he’s spoken publicly about his disdain for the and direction are also sharp enough to utilize movie business. It makes sense that he’d create flashbacks to the days prior to Wallace’s trip, all and self-distribute a film of which nicely accentuates that subverts film industry the action in the present. conventionality, which states If you’re averse to TUSK that movies are genretorture porn, I don’t blame ***@ classified and promoted in you. So am I. Trust me, it’s Rated R • Opens Sept. 19 standardized (and therefore not a factor here. There proven successful) ways. is torture and it’s often Using social media and core unsettling, but nothing followers as his base, Smith is returning to his graphic is shown. Plus, you may very well be indie filmmaker roots, for better or worse. laughing when the scenes are over. Tusk has a typical horror premise: Los As I write this — about an hour after the Angeles-based podcaster Wallace Bryton film ended — I still have no idea what to make (Justin Long) travels to Winnipeg to interview of it. Because I cannot render a qualitative a loser who cut off his own leg while good/bad analysis, protocol dictates (per Roger pretending he’s in Kill Bill. When that doesn’t Ebert) that I write about how the movie made work out, Wallace sees an ad for a man wishing me feel. One word keeps coming to mind: to tell of his great adventures. Needing a story, unnerved. I squirmed in my seat. I laughed and regardless of the fact that it’s a two-hour uncomfortably. I listened attentively as others drive into the country to meet a complete laughed and groaned at the same scene, stranger, Wallace goes to meet Howard Howe sometimes simultaneously. (Michael Parks). Because I can’t stop thinking about it, and Once there, Wallace is taken captive, because there’s so much to dissect, I have to and more should not be revealed about recommend it. Good luck trying to forget it, his captivity except to say Howard has an even if you want to. unhealthy obsession with walruses. Up to this Dan Hudak point, you’re able to take the film seriously, but themail@folioweekly.com SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 25
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PARADISE FROM CHAOS
Director Terry Gilliam’s latest dystopia seeks the answer to life, the universe and everything — or nothing
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theorem, and sends 15-year-old genius Bob to iminished expectations can only help in a help. Solving that “nasty Zippity T” would dark room. That adage favors both director Terry prove that “the universe is all for nothing,” Gilliam and his ascetic protagonist in The Zero that we’re all a product of this limited-time-only Theorem. Gilliam’s efforts over the past decade Big Bang glitch. with The Brothers Grimm and The Imaginarium The project is the seeming antithesis of of Doctor Parnassus didn’t stack up very well Qohen, who is pining for his own true calling, against his earlier classics — Twelve Monkeys, which he fully believes will come literally via a The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy phone call. Hence, his desire to work at home. Grail. (With this director, you can type the (No cell phones, remember?) words classic and visionary with credibility.) Q, as Bob calls him, works tirelessly on the solution, getting help from his perpetually Gilliam unleashes his vision in this digital dystopia of a near-future London, so outlandish peppy supervisor Joby (David Thewlis), his Dr. Shrink-Rom program (Tilda Swinton), and over-stimulating we can dismiss it as satire Bob (Lucas Hedges) and the alluring Bainsley — almost. But not quite, because he reminds (Mélanie Thierry), who’s there to save him. us that maybe we’re not so far away , and that Bainsley’s assistance, in particular, proves point is driven home by the hairless, joyless, more of a distraction, self-disciplined man out of especially during cyberspace time, Qohen. rendezvous. “It feels so superIn Qohen (pronounced THE ZERO THEOREM tingly,” she squeals as she Co-en, we’re reminded often), ***@ entices Qohen to try it. Can Christoph Waltz is the opposite Rated R • Opens Sept. 19 the disciplined Qohen resist? of his suave, manipulative There and elsewhere, the Colonel Hans Landa. Qohen’s film draws from sci-fi classics, referencing barely holding his life together, but he’s the best 1984, The Matrix and eXistenZ. worker at ManCom at “crunching entities.” That’s much more complicated than crunching Theorem will inevitably be compared numbers, though he uses a game controller, to Gilliam’s early dystopian satire Brazil. not a keyboard, and the work eventually Unsurprisingly, it falls short of that cult classic, pushes him beyond a limit that gamers will but it’s far more cohesive than The Brothers understand. Underlining his many tics, Qohen Grimm and less of a wandering spectacle than refers to himself as “we” — not the royal “we,” Doctor Parnassus (Heath Ledger’s death and the cellular one. Gilliam’s decision to cast Johnny Depp, Colin His focus at the outset is to telecommute, Farrell and Jude Law as a collective in Ledger’s and given the media oversaturation when he stead was a major factor). leaves home, you can’t blame him. Outside the But the philosophical questions Theorem dim, fire-damaged monastery where he lives, poses — on order, chaos, the soul and the Qohen faces the bright lights of ads reacting to meaning of life (if any) — are as interesting his presence, an invitation to join the Church as those in Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, with a of Batman the Redeemer and signs that outlaw stellar cast to lift those layers. The answers to the everything from cell phones to pets and from theorem and to Qohen’s calling lie inward. high heels to kids. In a dark room, the paradoxical Gilliam lets us know, “It all adds up to something.” Management (a character played by Matt Damon) allows Qohen to work from home on David Johnson a special project, trying to tackle the titular mail@folioweekly.com
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MAGIC LANTERNS
HEREAFTER FOR EVERMORE
Like many of us, I was shocked and saddened by the recent news of the death of Robin Williams, an actor who had been a family favorite for many years. I can’t even begin to recall how many road trips I took listening to the dialogue from Mrs. Doubtfire or R/V as my kids watched the movies in the back while I tried to keep my eyes on the road. Ironically, my wife and I (definitely not with the kids this time) had just recently watched the comedian’s 2009 HBO standup special, Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction, which made the news of his passing even more poignant. Though I refer to one of Williams’ films in my World Literature class every semester, I hadn’t actually re-watched one particular movie since its initial release in 1998, when it won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects. That film is What Dreams May Come, the title derived from a line in Hamlet’s famous soliloquy in which he ponders the possibility of suicide. Given the recent tragedy, revisiting that movie seems fitting. Directed by New Zealand filmmaker Vincent Ward, Dreams was adapted from a novel by prolific fantasy/horror writer Richard Matheson, who also wrote the Christopher Reeve film Somewhere in Time, with which Dreams shares more than a few similarities. Both are love stories, both are fantasies, and both are absolutely entrancing. In Dreams, Robin Williams plays Chris, a loving husband and father who’s killed in a freak accident, leaving his already heartbroken wife (Annabella Sciorra) to cope with what is only the latest tragedy in her life — four years earlier, their two children had died in a car accident. After his own death, Chris finds himself in a beautiful paradise evoked from the paintings he had loved in life, eventually reuniting with his children. His wife, however, cannot cope with her despair, and chooses suicide instead. Refusing to heed the admonition of his heavenly guides (Cuba Gooding Jr. and Max von Sydow) that those who commit suicide have doomed themselves beyond redemption, Chris sets forth on an odyssey through hell, modeled visually and even thematically on Dante’s writings, determined to rescue his condemned wife with his love. A verbal summary cannot do justice to the emotional impact of What Dreams May Come, which manages to achieve genuine sentiment without falling into simpering sentimentality. This is the kind of character Williams played effortlessly, a nice guy with equal parts sensitivity and humor. That’s why he was so perfect in The World According to Garp. However, the real genius behind Dreams is its director, Vincent Ward, who has made too few films, his last a 2008 documentary called Rain of the Children. Interested viewers should check out Map of the Human Heart (1992) — like Dreams, another masterpiece from Ward about love and loss, ranging from 1930s Alaska to the bombing of Dresden in WWII and beyond. Whatever demons haunted Robin Williams in real life, he leaves behind a rich legacy for us to remember him at his brightest. Hamlet provided the title for Dreams; it concludes with what might be a fitting eulogy for Robin Williams as well: “Good night, sweet prince/ And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” Pat McLeod themail@folioweekly.com
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SCREENINGS AROUND TOWN FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD 2 Joe Cross’ follow-up documentary, wherein he dispenses advice on how to stay healthy in an unhealthy world, screens at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at Cinemark Tinseltown, 4535 Southside Blvd., AMC Orange Park, 1910 Wells Rd. and Regal Avenues, 9525 Philips Hwy., Southside, fathomevents.com. SUN-RAY CINEMA The One I Love and Sundance Shorts screen Sept. 17 and 18 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. The Trip to Italy, God Help the Girl, Tusk, A Letter to Momo and The Zero Theorem are currently showing. Fed Up starts Sept. 22. A cinematic document of a groundbreaking exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and a gift to Thin White Duke acolytes and music geeks alike, David Bowie Is offers a rare, in-depth glimpse at music videos, costumes, set designs and more personal items, including never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, album cover artwork and diary entries. It screens at 7 p.m. Sept. 23 at Sun-Ray Cinema, $12.50, sunraycinema.com. LATITUDE 360 MOVIES X-Men: Days of Future Past, Planes: Fire & Rescue and How to Train Your Dragon 2 screen at Latitude 360’s CineGrille Theater, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. WGHF IMAX THEATER Island of Lemurs Madagascar 3D, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hubble 3D, Under the Sea 3D, Journey to the South Pacific: An IMAX 3D Experience, and We The People are currently screening at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. The Maze Runner starts Sept. 18.
NOW SHOWING AS ABOVE, SO BELOW Rated R Proving that the phrase “M. Night Shyamalan protégé” can be more than an onscreen title in a Key & Peele sketch, director John Erick Dowdle (2010’s Devil) trains his camera on the catacombs beneath Paris, where buried remains of millions of people give rise to unspeakable evil. Not to be confused with 2007’s Catacombs, which trained its camera on the catacombs beneath Paris to show that buried
remains of millions of people had given rise to unspeakable evil. That one was made by some nobody, not the chosen inheritor to the mantle of Lady in the Water. Seriously, it’s like Hollywood had a Sorting Hat for hacks or something. — Steve Schneider
ATLAS SHRUGGED PART III: WHO IS JOHN GALT? Rated PG-13 Director James Manera offers the third installment in his drama/mystery/sci-fi Atlas Shrugged series, which doesn’t seem to have much to do with ol’ hardass Ayn Rand’s writings. Except that part of the official site storyline summary, where it says “He swore by his life.” That’s part of the oath of pure selfishness, which we committed to memory in 11th grade, when it was soooo cool. Anywho … this movie costars Kristoffer Polaha as John Galt, as well as Laura Regan, Rob Morrow and pop-ups from Ron Paul, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. — Marlene Dryden BOYHOOD ***@ Rated R Director Richard Linklater, in a single film, has upstaged filmmakers who have tried to capture the passage of time and the aging of actors. Linklater simply watched and waited – and filmed – over a span of 12 years. Boyhood, a film focused on the life of a seemingly average boy, was cast when the boy (played by Ellar Coltrane) was just 6 years old. Linklater also cast his own young daughter, Lorelei, as the boy’s older sister, and Patricia Arquette as the boy’s mother. The boy’s father is played by Ethan Hawke, who collaborated with Linklater on the Before series, another project involving the passing of real time. The trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight) started filming in the early ’90s and focused on the development of a couple’s relationship over two decades. Like Boyhood, its stars actually age in real time; the films are set nine years apart. Now Linklater has compressed real time into a single film. He captures the maturation of his screenplay’s characters, and the real aging of real people, creating a fascinating film and, at the same time, conducting a unique and noble experiment – even crossing the line from fiction into unintended documentary. This film’s concept may be great, but the finished product falls short of greatness. — Cameron Meier CALVARY Rated R Reteaming with Brendan Gleeson, the star of his 2011 comedy The Guard, writer-director John Michael McDonagh portrays the drama that unfolds after a priest is threatened during confession. With a screening two days before opening, we can’t tell you exactly what kind of drama, but it’s probably similar to what Sean Hannity dreams of doing to the Pope. Costars Chris O’Dowd and Kelly Reilly. — S.S. DOLPHIN TALE 2 Rated PG There’s a great scene in American Graffiti in which Charles
Martin Smith’s Toad and Candy Clark’s Debbie think they’re going to witness a backwoods atrocity. Smith’s horrified reaction – “I don’t WANNA see it” – later became my personal mantra when confronted with the trailer to one sureto-be movie misfire after another. (“Blood Diamond? I don’t WANNA see it!”) Enough about me; what’s Charlie Martin Smith up to these days? Well, he’s now the sort of “working director” who not only has to make family pictures about kindly humans who help endangered sea creatures, he then has to shoot their cash-grab sequels as well. Guess which American Graffiti quotation best captures my feelings about the prospect of being exposed to Dolphin Tale 2. You got it – It’s “Look, creep, you want a knuckle sandwich?” — S.S. THE DROP Rated R Still trying to figure out if we’ve seen Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last movie, or if he’s going to be like Hendrix and keep appearing posthumously with a frequency my workingartist friends would envy. One thing’s for sure, though: We’ve seen the absolute last of James Gandolfini, whose The Drop – an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s short story Animal Rescue – represents his final acting role. Then again, there’s Criminal Justice, an upcoming HBO miniseries for which Gandolfini shot a pilot. If we ever want to see that buried document, we should probably make nice with the kind folks at 4chan – I hear they’re great at liberating that kind of stuff. — S.S. THE EXPENDABLES 3 Rated PG-13 You know exactly what sort of demographic a movie’s going for when it augments its regular cast of geriatric mercs with a “new generation of badasses” that includes Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer, Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas. Some of those guys didn’t even have an AARP card when Clinton was president! Not that they’d want to remember those years, since the Expendables franchise exists mostly to get steady work for right-wing pariahs – if you believe Gary Oldman. (Do not believe Gary Oldman – Ed.) Come to think of it, Oldman would make a great addition to the cast next time, with Gary Sinise, John Malkovich and every other poor, persecuted Rethug we hear in interviews complaining we never hear from them. Expendables 4: War on Christmas, just in time for Ramadan. — S.S. FINDING FANNY Not Rated This Bollywood production is described as a Hindi/English satire. Five friends take a road trip to find some girl one of the guys is crushing on. Costars Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Deepika Padukone. THE GIVER Rated PG-13 Here’s one to dither over on Throwback Thursday: Plans to turn the dystopian YA hit The Giver into a movie were first hatched way back in 1994. Not only did half the Expendables still have a sperm count back then, but Richard Linklater had just begun to grow Ellar Coltrane in a
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his ex-brother-in-law Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) into going with him on a trip to Iceland, claiming that it’ll boost Colin’s spirits in light of his recent split from his second wife. Colin and Mitch meet up with Mitch’s 20-something first-cousinonce-removed, Ellen (Karrie Crouse), and her friend Janet (Elizabeth McKee). Mitch insists on lending them his credit card to buy clothes after their bags get lost, then gets upset when the clothes the women buy aren’t sufficiently formfitting. Colin is at least a sympathetic character. — Anna
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Rated PG-13 As I write this, the San Diego Comic-Con is just getting under way, and I’m bracing myself for all sorts of P.R. fog about the future of comics on film, and how DC Entertainment is going to start giving Marvel Studios a run for its money any minute now. So as a reality check, let me just point this out: “Winning” is when you can wring the most anticipated movie of the summer out of a property so obscure even the editors of The Comic Book Price Guide have to look it up. By Christmas, Rocket Raccoon may be firmly entrenched as a star of the Disney-acquisition firmament, making “possible Star Wars crossover” the hot ridiculous rumor du jour. DC’s entire release slate for the next five years will have shifted three more times, just because Olaf the Snowman blew on it really hard. God, how I love a photo finish. — S.S.
LET’S BE COPS Rated R The action-comedy co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr., who inherited his dad’s good looks and, we hope, comedic talents. They’re pals Ryan and Justin, going to a costume party dressed up as cops, with all the shiny gear cops like to have hanging off their highly polished Sam Browne belts. The outfits must be authentic-looking, because the two slackers are taken for real flatfoots and the hilarity ensues. — M.D.
THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY Rated PG Boy, there’s nobody better equipped to capitalize on the foodie phenomenon than Lasse Hallstrom, who has for decades been championing the feasibility of solving all of life’s conflicts by shoving stuff in your mouth. (From Chocolat to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape to The Cider House Rules to Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, the guy can’t even make a picture without mentioning food in the title. Talk about obsessed!) In Hallstrom’s latest, restaurateur Helen Mirren’s hostility toward a new rival (the great actor Om Puri) is overcome by the power of his entrées, which are just too damn good for anybody to remember what they were supposed to be fighting about. Fun related fact: In real life, obesity causes 300,000 deaths per year. — S.S. THE IDENTICAL *G@@ Rated PG Imagine Elvis Presley has a twin brother who lived (Elvis’ actual twin, Jessie Garon Presley, died at birth). They look, talk, sing and dance the same, but the brother, dead ringer (no pun intended) as he is, isn’t told he’s Elvis’ twin. He goes through life being told he looks just like The King, yet never achieves the fame and fortune of his genetic other half. Well, this work of fiction doesn’t use real names or real songs but does have an uncharismatic lead in the title role, which is one of the worst traits you can have when channeling Elvis. In 1935 Alabama, destitute William (Brian Geraghty) and Helen (Amanda Crew) can’t afford to take care of their newborn twin sons. Local preacher Reece (Ray Liotta) and his wife Louise (Ashley Judd) want to have a child but cannot, so William and Helen give one of the boys to the couple, who promptly move out of town, give the boy a new name and promise not to reveal the secret until after the birth parents die. One boy grows up to be world-famous rock star Drexel “The Dream” Hemsley (Blake Rayne). The other, Ryan Wade (Rayne again), lives a confined upbringing until he gains notoriety as a spot-on Drexel impersonator. Joe Pantoliano and Seth Green costar. — Dan Hudak
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MARY KOM Not Rated The Indian biopic about a woman boxer, Mary Kom, stars Prianka Chopra as Kom, a serious contender who overcame some tough trials, eventually triumphing. In Hindi.
THE MAZE RUNNER Rated PG-13 In this week’s bit of YA-derived dystopia, a bunch of teen himbos with no memory struggle to escape a mysterious prison. Spotting the symbolism yet? The arrival of an actual girl changes everything, while raising my hopes that the story can ultimately viewed as a commentary on the Duke lacrosse rape scandal. A sequel has already been ordered, because you and I don’t get to decide anything. — S.S. NO GOOD DEED Rated R On Aug. 7, Theodore P. Wafer was convicted of murdering Renisha McBride, a black teenager who had knocked on his doors and windows in the dead of night. At press time, police officer Randall Kerrick was under indictment for killing Jonathan Ferrell, a black 24-year-old who’d approached a woman’s house seeking help after a car accident. And how has Hollywood chosen to respond to this recent rash of bad Samaritanism? By rewarding and reassuring us with a thriller in which the black person is up to no good after all. In No Good Deed, yet another person of color arrives on the doorstep of yet another unsuspecting homeowner, claiming car trouble. But this time, see, the stranger is actually an escaped convict looking to pull off a home invasion. Whew! The endangered property holder in this scenario is an African-American woman herself, so nobody can accuse the filmmakers of stoking racist fears or
IF I STAY **@@ Rated PG-13 Oh, goodie; mortality porn. Chloe Grace Moretz is plunged into a coma and has one day’s worth of out-of-body flitting around family and friends to decide if she wants to rejoin the land of the living. (Hey, do you think she knows how Mad Men turns out?) The only reason I’d go near this apparent hunk of Kleenex bait is that it was directed by R.J. Cutler, who worked on the excellent reality series American High with the late Jonathan Mednick. Miss ya, Jonathan! Tell Chloe nobody down here blames her for Dark Shadows. — S.S. INTO THE STORM Rated PG-13 If it’s 2014, it’s time for an ersatz Twister reboot, with crazy storm chasers boldly venturing straight into the thick of one of nature’s little shit Slurpees. Fun fact: The director of Into the Storm, Steven Quale, co-helmed Aliens of the Deep, another of James Can’t-Quite-Get-Past-Titanic Cameron’s deep-sea docs. — S.S. LAND HO! **@@ Rated R Boisterous surgeon Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) strong-arms
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Dylan O’Brien is his name – running mazes is his game. The Maze Runner, a new action/sci-fi/mystery/YA film, opens Sept. 19.
something. Of course, there is that title, which some might take as a winking acknowledgment that you just can’t be nice to a certain type of people. Coming soon: Tyler Perry’s Why Do I Always Grab For the Gun? — S.S. THE NOVEMBER MAN Rated R Still looking for a vehicle to top Mamma Mia!, Pierce Brosnan plays a retired CIA star who takes on one last mission: Protect a female witness (Olga Kurylenko) who’s in serious danger. Hmmm … reminds me of something. Hold on, I’ll get it. On the tip of my tongue … oh, yeah: everything. This movie is a remake of everything. And if that’s the case, then the odds are pretty darn great that Pierce is gonna sing again, right? Sure hope so. He’s the only guy on Earth who sounds like an isolated vocal track even when he has accompaniment. — S.S. POWER Not Rated The new Indian thriller/mystery film, in Telugu, costars Ravi Teja and Sapthagiri. THE REMAINING Rated PG-13 Forget religious rockabilly. Here’s a new whackjob genre to really savor: “faith-based horror.” That’s right – say it out loud. Say it twice. Roll it around your tongue. “Faith-based horror.” It’s gotta be the best contradiction in terms since “French resistance.” Or “folk rock.” Or “artists’ cooperative.” Sadly, in the case of The Remaining, “faith-based horror” seems to merely mean “Left Behind with poster art courtesy of Iced Earth.” In the story, the Rapture comes right in the middle of a young couple’s wedding, forcing their families and friends to make a serious decision: accept Jesus on the spot or finish off the chocolate fountain? This fundie Bridezilla parable comes to us from Affirm Films, the Sony imprint dedicated to making evangelical entertainment mainstream. And how good a job are they doing? The Remaining isn’t even listed at ComingSoon.net. You’re making me work too hard at this gig. — S.S. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Rated PG-13 OK, this is an honest-to-goodness reboot, with Michael Bay the man in charge of introducing the heroes in a half-shell to a new generation. Michael Bay for the Jim Henson Company? It isn’t my idea of a nifty trade, either. And Bay has brought in Megan Fox so she can play intrepid reporter April O’Neil – so much for our confidence that the abundant bad blood between the two of them would relegate them to polluting the cinematic gene pool separately and individually. Honestly, watching this is like watching East and West Germany reunite. Or the Eagles. — S.S.
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU Rated R Admit it: You’re a sucker for a story in which a wacky family has to pull together after the death of their beloved patriarch. Heck, the first episode of Six Feet Under is still your favorite hour of TV ever. Now imagine that story setup handled by the guy who made The Internship and the Night at the Museum movies. Now think of something pleasant, because you’ve earned it. — S.S. TUSK ***@ Rated R • Opens Sept. 19 Reviewed in this issue. A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES Rated R Someday, the “revenge” phase of Liam Neeson’s career will provide an amusing interlude on an episode of Inside the Actors Studio. James Lipton will ask what it was like for a pedigreed Irish actor to briefly morph into America’s favorite one-man death machine. Neeson will grin a rueful grin and explain that, when the suits decree that the bereaved dad from Love Actually would make a perfect latter-day Charles Bronson, you just nod and cash the check. And then they’ll both politely change the subject. — S.S. WHAT IF Rated PG-13 The presence of Ol’ Ruby Sparks herself, Zoe Kazan, as the female lead is the hipster talking point here, and having her play opposite Daniel Radcliffe (aka The Ever-Expanding Wand of Harry Potter) is good for some mainstream ink. But the truly clued-in will be most enticed by the source material: Toothpaste and Cigars, a play co-written by mighty Fringe-circuit monologist TJ Dawe. The play has toured Canada, but it’s never been here, which means that Dawe’s Sunshine-State acolytes essentially have a whole new work to dig into during the theatrical off-season. Seriously, it’s like Christmas for kids who get beat up a lot. — S.S. WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL Rated PG … he sure makes Weezy look like a bitch when it comes to throwing three-pointers, nyuk nyuk! Actually, this new sports drama is about high school football, not hoops, and it stars Jesus-turned-Person-of-Interest Jim Caviezel as a real-life coach who took a California team to a recordwinning streak. Son of a bitch, I think I nodded off just typing that. — S.S. THE ZERO THEOREM ***@ Rated R • Opens Sept. 19 Reviewed in this issue.
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PERFORMANCE
MAN OF LA MANCHA The story of eternal optimist Don Quixote and the faithful sidekick Sancho Panza is set to Tony Award-winning music and accompanied by a themed menu created by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy. Dinner at 6 p.m., curtain up at 8 p.m. Sept. 18, 23-25, 28 and 30, $49.95 plus tax; Sept. 19, 20, 26 and 27 and Oct. 3, 4, 10, 11 and 12, $55 plus tax; brunch 11 a.m., show 1:15 p.m. Sept. 20 and 27 and Oct. 4 and 11; brunch noon, show 2 p.m. Sept. 21 and 28 and Oct. 5 and 12, $47 plus tax; at Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. THE ADDAMS FAMILY: THE MUSICAL Spooky and creepy – and funny – this fresh from Broadway musical is staged at 7:30 p.m. Thur.-Sat. and 2 p.m. Sun., through Oct. 19 at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $25, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org. Opening night Addams-themed dinner seatings start at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at Raintree Restaurant, 102 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, $60 includes dinner and show. HAIR: A LOVE ROCK MUSICAL Free-spirited young peaceniks during the Vietnam Era sing classic psychedelic hits like “Aquarius” and “Good Morning Starshine” among other songs whose titles may not be suitable for print. Staged at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 and 2 p.m. Sept. 20 and 21 at Amelia Community Theatre, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, $25, 261-6749, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music and Tim Rice’s words resonate again in this musical directed and choreographed by Ron Shreve and Jocelyn Geronimo and starring Alejandro Rodriguez as Jesus Christ, staged at 8 p.m. Sept. 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27 and Oct. 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 and at 2 p.m. Sept. 28 and Oct. 5 at Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, $28, 249-0289, playersbythesea.org. PHANTOM, THE MUSICAL Not to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway production, OPCT’s Phantom puts a new spin on the story, delving into the background of the mysterious masked man obsessed with a beautiful opera singer. The local production, employing a more classic operetta style, is staged at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20; 3 p.m. Sept. 21 at Orange Park Community Theatre, 2900 Moody Ave., $20, 276-2599, opct.org. THE BOY FROM OZ Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre presents this awardwinning Broadway musical, the true story of the late songwriter and entertainer Peter Allen, who wrote, among other hits, “Arthur’s Theme” and “I Honestly Love You.” It’s staged at 8 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20; 2 p.m. Sept. 21 at Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, $20, 249-7177, abettheatre.com FIGARO Part of the Classic in San Marco series, this play, directed by Amy Canning, is staged at 8 p.m. Sept. 19-21, 26-27 and Oct. 3 and 4, at 2 p.m. Sept. 21 and 28, and at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 and Oct. 2 at Theatre Jacksonville, 2032 San Marco Blvd., San Marco, $20-$25, 396-4425, theatrejax.com.
COMEDY
GUY TORRY The funny host of The Kings of Comedy tour appears at 8 p.m. Sept. 18-20 and 10 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, $18-$20, 292-4242, comedyzone.com. PEDRO LIMA This comedian, as seen on NBC’s Stand-up for Diversity, performs at 9:30 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Highway, Southside, 365-5555, latitude360.com. JERSEY Known from his appearances on Comic View, this funnyman performs at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at Bonkerz Comedy Club, bestbet, 455 Park Ave., Orange Park, $10 and $35, 646-0001, bestbetjax.com. BENGT WASHBURN Washburn, who’s won the prestigious San Francisco International Comedy Competition, appears at 8:04 p.m. Sept. 18-20, and at 10:10 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., $6-$15, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com. MAD COWFORD IMPROV Weekly PG-13-rated improv shows, based on audience suggestion, are held at 8:15 p.m. every Fri. and Sat. at Northstar Substation, 119 E. Bay St., Downtown, $5, 233-2359, madcowford.com. HOT POTATO COMEDY HOUR Local comics take the mic at 9 p.m. every Mon. at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, free, 379-4969. OPEN DOOR SUNDAYS This open mic night is available to comedians starting at 9 p.m. every Sun. at Tapa That, 820 Lomax St., 5 Points, free, 376-9911, tapathat.com.
CALLS, WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS VS. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS The hometown NFL heroes kick off their season opener
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The legendary PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND performs at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $40, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com. Photo: Shannon Brinkman
against last year’s Super Bowl winners at 1 p.m. Sept. 21 at EverBank Field, downtown, $30-$295, ticketmaster.com. AUDITIONS FOR HOLIDAY FAVORITE A Classic Theatre auditions for It’s a Wonderful Life, a live radio play by Joe Landry, directed by Jean Rahner, at 7 p.m. Oct. 2, 3 and 4 at St. Augustine Beach City Hall, 2200 A1A S., aclassictheatre. org. Performances are held Nov. 14-16. Auditions for a production of the comedy/drama Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, directed by Anne Kraft, are also held. Bring current photo/headshot. Be prepared to read from scripts. For audition details, go to aclassictheatre.org. ART ASSOCIATION SEEKS “TOUCHABLE” ART St. Augustine Art Association invites artists to submit works to the 13th annual Tactile Art Show for the blind held Oct. 3-Nov. 2. Suitable works include sculptures, assemblages, pottery, fiber art, reliefs, wall hangings, wood and metal works, and mixed media art with interesting shapes, forms and textures; kinetic and interactive art. Artists may enter up to three pieces. Entry fee is $15 per piece for members; $35 for nonmembers. Artwork may be delivered to the Art Center, 22 Marine St., noon-6 p.m. on Sept. 30, and noon-4 p.m. Oct. 1, 824-2310, staaa.org. NAO VICTORIA Tour a replica of the first Spanish tall ship to successfully circumnavigate the world, commanded by Ferdinand Magellan in the 16th century, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri., to 7 p.m. Sat. and Sun. through December at St. Augustine Marina, 111 Avenida Menendez, 824-1606, elgaleon.org. SUNDAY PAINT DAY Combating the recent cuts to art programs in Duval County schools, free art classes are offered to children of all ages, 5 p.m. every Sun. at LIYF Clothing & Accessories, 2870 University Blvd. W., Lakewood, vegan and vegetarian snacks, free, 865-630-0358. VERBAL ESSENCE Open mic poetry and musical performances are featured at 7 p.m. every Mon. at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, free, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com. FIGURE DRAWING Live model figure drawing is offered 7 p.m. every Tue. at The Art Center II, $5 for members, $10 for non-members, artists bring supplies. ACTEEN STAGE LAB Children and teens in grades 6-12 learn street style and ambush theater at 6:30 p.m. every Wed. at Limelight Theatre, $80 per session, 825-1164, limelight-theatre.org. AMATEUR NIGHT Musicians, singers, comedians and poets participate in an audience-judged competition based on Amateur Night at the Apollo, held at 7:30 p.m. every first Fri. at the Ritz Theatre & Museum, $6.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
UNF JAZZ FACULTY University of North Florida’s faculty debuts original arrangements and compositions for the 27th annual Great American Jazz Series at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at UNF Robinson Theater, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $8-20, unf.edu. THE BRAHMS SEXTETS The Cummer Family Foundation Chamber Series presents Jacksonville Symphony members
Aurelia Duca (violin) and Clinton Dewing (violin and viola) with UNF associate violin professor Dr. Simon Shiao, associate cello professor Dr. Nick Curry and adjunct viola professor Renate Falkner with guest cellist Grace Mihi Bahng (former Blair String Quartet cellist) performing several works by Johannes Brahms at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at UNF Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, free, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music. PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND The legendary New Orleans ensemble performs at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., St. Augustine, $40, 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com UNF CONDUCTING SYMPOSIUM Coordinator Dr. Gordon Brock and guest clinician Professor Craig Kirchoff present the fourth annual conducting workshop on Sept. 20 and 21 at UNF Fine Arts Center’s Recital Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878. To register, go to unf.edu/ce and type “conductor” in the search box. A DIFFERENT DRUM BEAT Legendary jazz drummer John Betsch performs with former Yellowcard drummer Longineu Parsons at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 1100 Stockton St., Riverside, 389-6222, riversidefinearts.org. JAZZ IN PONTE VEDRA The Gary Starling Group (Carol Sheehan, Billy Thornton, Peter Miles) performs 7:30-10:30 p.m. every Thur. at Table 1, 330 A1A N., 280-5515. JAZZ IN RIVERSIDE Trumpeter Ray Callendar and guitarist Taylor Roberts are featured at 9:30 p.m. every Thur. at Kickbacks Gastropub, 910 King St., 388-9551. JAZZ IN MANDARIN Boril Ivanov Trio plays at 7 p.m. every Thur. and pianist David Gum plays at 7 p.m. every Fri. at Tree Steakhouse, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 262-0006. JAZZ IN NEPTUNE BEACH Live jazz is featured 7:30-9:30 p.m. every Sat. at Lillie’s Coffee Bar, 200 First St., 249-2922. JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE The House Cats, 9:30 p.m. every Sat., Stogies Club & Listening Room, 36 Charlotte St., 826-4008. JAZZ IN ARLINGTON 8 p.m. Sat., 6-9 p.m. Tue. at Jazzland Café, 1324 University Blvd. N., 240-1009, jazzlandcafe.com. JAZZ IN AVONDALE The Casbah Café features The Von Barlow Trio and Third Bass at 9 p.m. every Sun., 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966. JAZZ IN ST. AUGUSTINE Live jazz is featured nightly at Rhett’s Piano Bar & Brasserie, 66 Hypolita St., 825-0502.
ART WALKS, FESTIVALS & MARKETS
COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Homemade baked goods, preserves, local honey, crafts, sauces, yard art, hand-crafted jewelry and more are featured 4-7 p.m. today and every Wed. at 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside/ Avondale, 607-9935. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches are open 5-9 p.m. Sept. 18 and every third Thur. from Sailfish Drive in Atlantic Beach to Neptune Beach and Town Center, 753-9594, nbaw.org. DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts and crafts and local produce are offered 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every Fri. at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.
RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, local music featuring Donna Frost, Flagship Romance and Cougar Barrel on Sept. 20, food artists and a farmers market are featured 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. ORANGE PARK FARMERS & ARTS MARKET The new market is held 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 21 at Town Hall Park, 2042 Park Ave. It’s scheduled for the first and third Sun. each month through May. townoforangepark.com. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT The self-guided tour features galleries, antique stores and shops open from 5-9 p.m. Sept. 27 and every last Sat. in St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152. FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK The downtown art walk, held 5-9 p.m. Oct. 1 and every first Wed., features more than 13 live music venues, more than 13 hotspots open after 9 p.m. and 50 total participating venues, spanning 15 blocks in Downtown Jacksonville. downtownjacksonville.org. FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK The tour of Art Galleries of St. Augustine is held Oct. 10 and every first Fri., with more than 15 galleries participating, 829-0065. JAX BEACH ART WALK More than 30 local artists display works, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 14 and every second Tue., along First Street between Beach Boulevard and Fifth Avenue North, Jax Beach, betterjaxbeach.com/jax-beach-art-walk.html.
MUSEUMS
ALEXANDER BREST MUSEUM & GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7371, arts.ju.edu. The permanent collection features carved ivory, Chinese porcelain, pre-Colombian artifacts and more. AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. The children’s exhibit Discovery Ship allows kids to pilot the ship, hoist flags and learn about the history of Fernandina’s harbor. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK, 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. The exhibit Remembering Hurricane Dora: The 50th Anniversary is on display through Nov. 23. Admission is free for members, $5 for nonmembers. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. The Human Figure: Sculptures by Enzo Torcoletti is on display through September. A Commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement: Photography from the High Museum of Art is on display through Nov. 2. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/crispellert. Hand, Voice and Vision: Artist’s Books from Women’s Studio Workshop is on display through Oct. 18. The Bourbon Street exhibition focuses on the culture of the famous New Orleans street through the photography of Courtney Asztalos and screen grabs of the street’s 24-hour Earth Cam. Her works are on display through Oct. 18. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jaxfrm.html. The permanent collection includes many rare manuscripts. MANDARIN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 11964
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Mandarin Rd., 268-0784, mandarinmuseum.net. The exhibit The Maple Leaf, which features artifacts and information from the Civil War era, runs through December. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville. com. Get Real: New American Painting and Jason John Studio Experience are on display through Jan. 4. The works of Caroline Lathan-Steifel are displayed in the exhibit Project Atrium running through Oct. 26. Express Your #Selfie shows off the works of Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital patients, through Nov. 30. The Juxtaposition exhibit of works by husband-and-wife team Larry Wilson and Laurie Hitzig is on display through Nov. 2. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Circle, Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. MOSH After Dark presents The Science of Cooking with Head Chef Bennett Depew at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25, $20 (members get a 20 percent discount), register at themosh.org. First Friday Cosmic Concerts (moshplanetarium.org) feature Laser Magic 7 p.m., Laser Vinyl 8 p.m., Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) 9 p.m., Led Zeppelin 10 p.m. on Oct. 3; $5. WORLD GOLF HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM 1 World Golf Place, St. Augustine, worldgolfhalloffame.org. Honoring the Legacy: A Tribute to African-Americans in Golf – an exhibit featuring photographs, audio, video and memorabilia from the late 1800s to the present – is featured in the WGHOF permanent collection.
GALLERIES
THE ART CENTER PREMIER GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org. Print Matters: Making an Impression features works of various print-making techniques; on display through Nov. 5. CORK ARTS DISTRICT 2689 Rosselle St., Riverside, facebook.com/corkartsdistrict. Overstreet Ducasse, Susanne Schuenke, Rhonda Bristol and Stephanie Glen
INVOKE YOUR INNER ENTREPRENEUR. combine their talents to create a show about art with a mathematics twist Four Dimensions: The Mystic & Fun of Art & Mathematics. The show is on display through Sept. 27 and can be seen by appointment only. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccvb.org. The works of figurative painter Susanna Richter-Helman and wood sculptor Peter Blunt are displayed in the main gallery through Sept. 19. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. New digital paintings by Melinda Bradshaw are featured in the exhibit Beneath African Skies through Oct. 20. J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery.com. The new exhibit Modulism, featuring works by Dolf James and Andrew Zimmerman, opens with a reception held at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 and runs through Nov. 7. ROTUNDA GALLERY 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 829-9721, stjohnsculture.com. An exhibit of black-andwhite photographs from about 30 nonprofi t organizations in St. Johns County is on display through Oct. 23. THE ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., St. Augustine, 824-2310, staaa.org. David Allaway discusses Art & Illuminations of The St. John’s Bible at 7 p.m. on Sept. 18, admission is free, but reservations are required; donations are accepted.
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WILL HARLAN The Public Trust Environmental Legal Institute of Florida presents the author of the bestseller The Wildest Woman in America and The Fight for Cumberland Island, about Carol Ruckdeschel, a self-taught environmentalist and advocate for keeping Cumberland Island safe from development. Harlan speaks at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 at Beaches Branch Library, 300 Third St., Neptune Beach, free, 247-1972, publictrustlaw.org.
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DINING DIRECTORY
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BURRITO GALLERY & BAR, 21 E. Adams St., 598-2922, burritogallery.com. BOJ. Southwestern burritos, ginger teriyaki tofu, beef barbacoa, wraps, tacos. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. CASA MARIA, 12961 N. Main St., Ste. 104, 757-6411. F
DINING DIRECTORY KEY
SEE BEACHES.
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8- $14 $$$ = $15- $22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. Join: fwbiteclub.com. BOJ = 2013 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
CHOMP CHOMP, 106 E. Adams St., 762-4667. F Eats at moderate prices – most less than $10. Chef-inspired street food: panko-crusted chicken, burgers, chinois tacos, bahn mi and barbecue. $ L Tue.-Sat.; D Thur.-Sat. FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. BOJ. Casual dining with an uptown Irish atmosphere, serving fish and chips, Guinness lamb stew and black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. From-scratch soups, sandwiches. They cure their own bacon, pickle their pickles. Home to duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri.
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH, YULEE
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. Southwestern fare; made-to-order burritos, tacos, quesadillas, nachos, handcrafted salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality in an upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In a historic building, the family-owned spot offers worldly fare: veggie burgers, fresh seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or out on oak-shaded patio. Karibrew Pub offers beer brewed onsite. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CIAO ITALIAN BISTRO, 302 Centre St., 206-4311, ciaobistroluca.com. Owners Luka and Kim Misciasci offer fine dining: veal piccata, rigatoni Bolognese, antipasto. Specialties: chicken Ciao, homemade-style meat lasagna. $ L Fri. & Sat.; D Nightly DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb served in an elegant, chic spot. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S Wings, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA. ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. BOJ. Award-winning B&B offers elegant seaside dining, indoors or outside. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S at Thompson House, 11 S. Seventh St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Creative lunch: po’boys, salads, little plates. Dinner: fresh local seafood, Fernandina shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MARCHÉ BURETTE, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 491-4834, omnihotels.com. Old-fashioned gourmet food market/deli, in Spa & Shops, Omni Amelia Island Plantation. Continental breakfast; lunch features flatbreads. $$$ BW K TO L D Daily MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriverpizza.net. F BOJ. Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFE, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Snail of Approval. Casual organic eatery and juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, coffee, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. PALATE Restaurant & Raw Bar, 614 Centre St., 432-7690, palateamelia.com. The new place features upscale Southerninfluenced cuisine and a raw bar. $$ FB K TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. The bakery near the historic district has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite Club. Omni Plantation Spa & Shops. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish and duck breast. Outdoor dining. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly THE SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F ICW sunset view; secondstory outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, original broiled cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F BOJ. Oceanfront place serves awardwinning handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air 2nd floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily TASTY’S FRESH BURGERS & FRIES, 710 Centre St., 321-0409, tastysamelia.com. BOJ. In historic district. Fresh fast-food alternative, combining the freshest meats, hand-cut fries, homemade sauces, hand-spun shakes. $ BW K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. 8th St., 261-6310. F This spot in an old gas station offers blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE VERANDAH, 6800 First Coast Hwy., 321-5050, omni hotels.com. Extensive menu of fresh local seafood and steaks; signature entrée is Fernandina shrimp. Many herbs and spices are from onsite garden. $$$ FB K D Nightly
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. SEE PONTE VEDRA. LA NOPALERA, 8818 Atlantic Blvd., 720-0106. SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S SUBS, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
THE SHEIK DELI, 9720 Atlantic Blvd., 721-2660. Familyowned-and-operated, Sheik delis have served our area for
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Executive Chef DeJuan Roy of Alhambra Theatre & Dining takes the stage to plate a selection of seafood, meats and vegetables. Photo: Dennis Ho 40+ years, with a full breakfast (pitas to country plates) and a lunch menu. $ TO B L D Mon.-Sat.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
BAGEL LOVE, 4114 Herschel St., Ste. 121, 634-7253, bagel lovejax.com. BOJ. Locally-owned-and-operated spot. Northern style bagels, cream cheeses, sandwiches, wraps, bakery items. Fresh-squeezed OJ and lemonade, coffee, tea. $ K TO B L Daily THE CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966, the casbahcafe.com. F BOJ. Middle Eastern/Mediterranean fare. Patio, hookah lounge, bellydancers. $$ BW L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 3543 St. Johns Ave., 829-5790. F In Green Man Gourmet. Wines, spices, fresh fruit ice pops and Belgian chocolates. SEE PONTE VEDRA. $$ TO THE FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. F Owners Ian & Mary Chase offer fresh diner fare: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes, desserts. Breakfast all day. Local landmark for 50+ years. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20+ years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 4530 St. Johns, 388-8828. F See Mandarin. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 Pine Grove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ. 40+ years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. PULP, 3645 St. Johns Ave., pulpaddiction.com. SEE SAN MARCO. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. BOJ. French/Southern bistro serves steak frites, mussels and Alsatian pork chops, with an emphasis on locally grown organic ingredients. Snail of Approval. Craft cocktails. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 7825 Baymeadows Way, 733-4040. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
BROADWAY Ristorante & Pizzeria, Ste. 3, 10920 Baymeadows Rd. E., 519-8000, broadwayfl.com. F Family-owned-andoperated Italian pizzeria serves calzones, wings, brick-oven-baked pizza, subs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows, Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F Authentic Indian cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LA NOPALERA, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. F SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S SUBS, 3928 Baymeadows, 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PIZZA PALACE Restaurant & Pizzeria, 3928 Baymeadows, 527-8649, pizzapalacejax.com. F Relaxed, family-owned place serves homestyle cuisine. Local faves: spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Outside dining; HD TVs. $$ BW K TO L D Daily ZESTY INDIA, 8358 Point Meadows Dr., 329-3676, zesty india.com. Asian methods meld with European template to create tandoori lamb chops, rosemary tikka. Vegetarian items cooked separately in vegetable oil. $ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun.
BEACHES
(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Ctr., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F BOJ. For 20+ years, Al’s is a repeat winner in FW readers’ poll. New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day HH Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily
BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. BUDDHA THAI BISTRO, 301 10th Ave. N., 712-4444, buddhathaibistro.com. The proprietors are from Thailand; every dish is made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily BURRITO GALLERY Express, 1333 Third St. N., 242-8226. BOJ. SEE DOWNTOWN. CANTINA MAYA SPORTS BAR & Grille, 1021 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 247-3227. Popular spot serves great margaritas, great Latin food, burgers. Sports on TVs. $$ FB K L D Tue.-Sun. CASA MARIA, 2429 S. Third St., 372-9000, casamariajax. com. F Family-owned-and-operated place offers authentic Mexican fare: fajitas and seafood dishes, hot sauces made inhouse. The specialty is tacos de asada. $ FB K L D Daily CULHANE’S Irish Public House, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595, culhanesirishpub.com. Bite Club. Upscale pub and restaurant owned and managed by sisters from County Limerick, Ireland. Shepherd’s pie, corned beef; gastropub menu. $$ FB K R Sat. & Sun.; L Fri.-Sun.; D Tue.-Sun. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. SEE RIVERSIDE.
FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F Latin American fusion, Southwestern-influenced: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100+ tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 1222 Third St. S., 372-4495. F SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S Subs, 657 N. Third St., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LILLIE’S COFFEE BAR, 200 First St., Beaches Town Ctr., NB, 249-2922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine indoors or out, patio and courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. BOJ. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO Diner, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., Beaches Town Ctr., NB, 249-5573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean eatery, 20+ years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside or on the patio. Valet parking. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit & Blues Bar, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F BOJ. Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, all the sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Ctr., AB, 241-2599. F BOJ. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes, familiar fare, moderate prices. Dine inside or outside. $$ BW L D Daily NORTH BEACH BISTRO, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 6, AB, 372-4105, nbbistro.com. Bite Club. Neighborhood gem with a chef-driven kitchen serves hand-cut steaks, fresh local seafood, tapas menu. HH. $$$ FB K R Sun.; L D Daily OCEAN 60 Restaurant, Wine Bar & Martini Room, 60 Ocean Blvd., AB, 247-0060, ocean60.com. BOJ. Continental cuisine, fresh seafood, nightly dinner specials and a seasonal menu in a formal dining room or casual Martini Room. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. RAGTIME TAVERN & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Beaches Town Ctr., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30+ years, the seafood place has scored many awards in our BOJ readers poll. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ. Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh rolled sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in a modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., Beaches Town Ctr., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille. com. Beach-casual. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made fare: subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri.
GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F BOJ. SEE RIVERSIDE. LA NOPALERA, 1571 C.R. 220, 215-2223. F SEE MANDARIN. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Center Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MOJO Smokehouse, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteys fishcamp.com. F Real fish camp serves gator tail, freshwater river catfish, daily specials, traditional fare, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, motorcycle or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly YOUR PIE, 1545 C.R. 220, Ste. 125, 379-9771, yourpie.com. Owner Mike Sims has a fast, casual pizza concept: Choose from 3 doughs, 9 sauces, 7 cheeses and 40+ toppings; create a pizza pie. In a brick oven for 5 minutes and ta-da: It’s your pie. Subs, sandwiches, gelato. $$ BW K TO L D Daily
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
LA NOPALERA Mexican Restaurant, 14333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 39, 992-1666. F Tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. Some La Nops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
TIME OUT Sports Grill, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-owned-and-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-night menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
JULINGTON CREEK
DICK’S Wings, 525 S.R. 16, Ste. 101, 825-4540. BOJ. SEE P.V. METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO.
PIZZA PALACE, 116 Bartram Oaks Walk, 230-2171. F SEE BAYMEADOWS.
MANDARIN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F SEE BEACHES. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199, athenscafe.com. F All the favorites, from dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) to baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. BROOKLYN PIZZA, 11406 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 288-9211. 13820 St. Augustine Rd., 880-0020. Brooklyn Special. Calzones, white pizza, homestyle lasagna. $$ BW TO L D Daily THE COFFEE BARD, 9735 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 13, 260-0810, thecoffeebard.com. New world coffeehouse has coffees, breakfast, drinks. $$ TO B L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S Wings, 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. F BOJ. SEE PONTE VEDRA.
GIGI’S RESTAURANT, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, jaxramada .com. BOJ. In Ramada. Prime rib and crab leg buffet Fri. & Sat., blue-jean brunch Sun., daily breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets. $$$ FB B R L D Daily GILMON’S BAKERY, 11362 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 13, 288-8128, gilmonsbakery.com. Custom cakes, cupcakes, gingerbread men, pies, cookies, coffee, tea. $$ B L Tue.-Sat. HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 30, 880-3040, harmoniousmonks.net. F American-style steakhouse: Angus steaks, gourmet burgers, ribs, wraps. $$ FB K L D Mon.-Sat. KAZU Japanese Restaurant, 9965 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 35, 683-9903, kazujapaneserestaurant.com. Wide variety of soups, dumplings, appetizers, salads, bento boxes, sushi, entrées, maki handrolls, sashimi. $$ BW TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F Tamales, fajitas and pork tacos are customer favorites. Some locations offer a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 3, 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. Natural, organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods, juices and smoothies. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT Pizza & Grill, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. F Casual, familyfriendly eatery serves steaks, seafood, chicken grill specials.
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ingredients when possible. $$$ FB K L Mon.-Fri.; D Nightly MSHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F BOJ. SEE
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RESTAURANT: Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown BIRTHPLACE: Pensacola
BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic dishes include Pad Thai, curries, sashimi, fresh sushi, daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S Wings, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. SEE P.V. EUROPEAN STREET, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500. BOJ.
YEARS IN THE BIZ: 10
FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): My house BEST CUISINE STYLE: Asian, Southwestern, Southern
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GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Honey, thyme, citrus IDEAL MEAL: Something I do not have to prepare. WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: Raw tomatoes INSIDER’S SECRET: Keep it simple. CELEBRITY SIGHTING: Bill Bellamy, Mark Brunell, Bill Burr, Blaine Gabbert, Kyle Brady CULINARY TREAT: Whiskey Five topping selections. Salads, sandwiches, pizza. Gluten-free friendly. $ FB K L D Daily STEAMIN, 9703 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 493-2020, eatsteamin.com. Classic diner serves steam burgers, fat dogs and chili, 50+ craft beers. $ FB TO B Sat.-Sun.; L D Daily
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
ARON’S PIZZA, 650 Park Ave., 269-1007, aronspizza.com. F Family-owned restaurant has eggplant dishes, manicotti, New York-style pizzas. $$ BW K TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS, 1540 Wells Rd., 269-2122. SEE PONTE VEDRA. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Road, 272-5959, hilltop-club. com. Southern-style fine dining. Specialties: New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LA NOPALERA, 9734 Crosshill Blvd., 908-4250. 2024 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F SEE MANDARIN. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove Springs, 284-7789, larryssubs. com. F For 30+ years, all over town, they pile ’em high and serve ’em fast. Hot/cold subs, soups, salads. $ K TO B L D Daily POMPEII COAL-FIRED PIZZA, 2134 Park Ave., 264-6116. Family-owned-and-operated, offering pizzas and wings made in coal-fired ovens. Espresso, cappuccino. $ BW TO L D Daily THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouse online.net. F Wings, sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas; 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily THE SHEIK, 1994 Kingsley Ave., 276-2677. SEE ARLINGTON.
PONTE VEDRA, NW ST. JOHNS
AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 145 Hilden Rd., Ste. 122, 829-5790, claudeschocolate.com. Hand-crafted premium Belgian chocolate, fruits, nuts, spices. Cookies, popsicles. $$ TO DICK’S Wings & Grill, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dickswingsandgrill.com. F BOJ. NASCAR-themed; 365 kinds of wings, half-pound burgers, ribs. $ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK. RESTAURANT MEDURE, 818 A1A N., 543-3797, restaurant medure.us. Chef David Medure offers global flavors. Small plates, creative drinks, HH twice daily. $$$ FB D Mon.-Sat.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
AKEL’S DELI, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
BLACK SHEEP Restaurant, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, black sheep5points.com. BOJ. New American fare with Southern twist, made with locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1-2, 855-1181. F BOJ. Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412. Made-from-scratch “semi-swanky street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free and vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tue.-Sun. DICK’S Wings, 5972 San Juan, 693-9258. SEE PONTE VEDRA. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. 66+ years, full-service bakery. Fresh breakfast, from-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, cakes. Espresso, sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFE, 2753 Park St., 384-9999, europeanstreet.com. BOJ. 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style classic Reuben, overstuffed sandwiches; salads, soups. Outside seating at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F BOJ. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits and vegetables. 500+ craft/import beers, 250 wines, organic produce, humanely raised meats, deli, raw, vegan, vitamins, herbs. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. Based on fare of Asian street vendors, peddling authentic dishes from mobile stalls. Chefs here serve the best hawker recipes under one roof. $ BW TO L D Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S. New from Bold Bean Coffee Roasters’ owners. Locally-owned, family-run bake shop specializes in made-from-scratch pastries, artisan
breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, seasonal soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S SUBS, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 5733 Roosevelt, 446-9500. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., Ortega, 999-4600. F BOJ. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S Smokehouse BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave., 389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Monroe’s smoked meats include wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey and ribs. Homestyle sides include green beans, baked beans, mac-ncheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F BOJ. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. THE MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, moss fire.com. F Southwestern fish tacos, chicken enchiladas. HH Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS Irish Pub, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily THE SHEIK, 7361 103rd St., 778-4805. 5172 Normandy Blvd., 786-7641. SEE ARLINGTON. SUN-RAY Cinema, 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema. com. F Beer (Bold City, Intuition), wine, pizza, hot dogs, hummus, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. Sushi variety: Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves like Rock-n-Rol, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily
ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. AVILES Restaurant & Lounge, 32 Avenida Menendez, 829-2277, hiltonhistoricstaugustine.net. F Hilton Bayfront. Progressive European-flavored menu; made-to-order pasta night, wine dinners, chophouse nights, breakfast buffet. Sun. champagne brunch bottomless mimosas. $$$ FB K B L D Daily CARMELO’S Marketplace & Pizzeria, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. F NY-style gourmet brick-ovenbaked pizza, fresh sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily CLAUDE’S CHOCOLATE, 6 Granada St., 829-5790. In The Market. Wine and chocolate pairings, soft-serve ice cream, a coffee bar, fresh fruit ice pops, cookies. $$ TO THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridianst aug.com. Updated Southern fare: fresh ingredients from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F A mainstay for 25+ years, Gypsy’s menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily THE ICE PLANT BAR, 110 Riberia St., 829-6553, iceplantbar. com. Vintage-inspired (an old ice plant) in historic area. Farmto-table menu uses locally sourced ingredients; drinks are handcrafted with house-made bitters, syrups. $$$ FB TO D Nightly MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MOJO Old City BBQ, 5 Cordova, 342-5264. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES.
PACIFIC ASIAN BISTRO, 159 Palencia Village Dr., Ste. 111, 808-1818, pacificasianbistro.com. F BOJ. Chef Mas Lui creates 30+ sushi rolls; fresh sea scallops, Hawaiian-style poke tuna salad. Sake. $$-$$$ BW L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. TEMPO, 16 Cathedral Place, 547-0240. Latin American fusion wine bar and restaurant offers traditional American fare with a Latin flair; sandwiches, too. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sun.
ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER
BENTO CAFE Asian Kitchen & Sushi, 4860 Big Island Dr., Ste. 1, 564-9494, bentocafesushi.com. Pan-Asian fare; Asian-inspired dishes: wok stir-fry to fire-grilled, with authentic spices, fresh ingredients. Full sushi bar. $$ K FB TO L D Daily MOXIE Kitchen + Cocktails, 4972 Big Island Dr., 998-9744, moxiefl.com. Chef Tom Gray’s place features innovative contemporary American cuisine – seafood, steaks, pork, burgers, salads, sides and desserts – using locally sourced
FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusion sushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily THE GROTTO Wine & Tapas Bar, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726, grottowine.com. F Varied tapas menu: artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschettas, cheesecake. 60+ wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. LA NOPALERA, 1631 Hendricks, 399-1768. F SEE MANDARIN. MATTHEW’S, 2107 Hendricks Ave., 396-9922, matthews restaurant.com. Chef Matthew Medure’s flagship. Fine dining, artfully presented cuisine, small plates, martini/wine lists. HH Mon.-Fri. Reservations. $$$$ FB D Mon.-Sat. METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F BOJ. Original upscale diner in ’30s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, homemade soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO Bar-B-Que, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F BOJ. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815. F SEE BAYMEADOWS.
PULP, 1962 San Marco Blvd., 396-9222, pulpaddiction.com. Juice bar offers fresh juices, frozen yogurt, teas, coffees, 30 kinds of smoothies. $ TO B L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasan marco.com. Modern take on classic recipes with authentic Italian ingredients, seasonal produce and meats from local purveyors coexist on Chef Sam Efron’s menus. Regional craft beers, handcrafted cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE
360° GRILLE, Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555, latitude360.com. F Seafood, steaks, burgers, chicken, sandwiches, pizza. Patio, movie theater. $$ FB TO L D Daily AKEL’S, 7077 Bonneval Rd., 332-8700. F SEE DOWNTOWN. ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. Longest-running dinner theater. Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. BENTO CAFE Asian Kitchen & Sushi, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 11, 503-3238. SEE ST. JOHNS TOWN CENTER. CASA MARIA, 14965 Old St. Augustine, 619-8186. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S Wings, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. SEE P.V. THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily European Street, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. SEE RIVERSIDE. HZ CAFE, 6426 Bowden Rd., Ste. 206, 527-1078. Healthy concept cafe serves juices, smoothies, traditional vegan and vegetarian meals and vegan and gluten-free meals and desserts. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F BOJ. SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 997-1955. F Bite Club. BOJ. SEE BEACHES. MONROE’s BarBQ, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900. SEE RIVERSIDE.
SEVEN BRIDGES Grille & Brewery, 9735 Gate Pkwy., 997-1999, 7bridgesgrille.com. F Local seafood, steaks, pizzas. Brewer Aaron Nesbit handcrafts ales, lagers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Court, 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. BOJ. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily TOMMY’S Brick Oven Pizza, 4160 Southside Blvd., Ste. 2, 565-1999, tbopizza.com. NY-style thin crust, brick-ovenbaked pizzas (gluten-free), calzones, sandwiches fresh to order. Boylan’s soda. Curbside pick-up. $$ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. WATAMI ASIAN FUSION, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. AYCE sushi, plus two teppanyaki grill items. Faves: Jaguar, dynamite, lobster, soft-shell crab rolls. $ FB K L D Daily WORLD of BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Court, Ste. 1, 551-5929, worldofbeer.com. F Burgers, tavern fare, sliders,flatbreads, German pretzels, hummus, pickle chips. Craft German, Cali, Florida, Irish drafts. Wines. $$ BW L D Daily
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Plastic surgeons, first in University of Missouri research in 2000 and recently in a study by Singapore doctors in the journal of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, have postulated that the “ideal” navel is vertically shaped with slight hooding — and, of course, an “innie.” The earlier study “analyzed” photos of 147 females aged 18 to 62, while the Singapore surgeons gazed at shots of 37 Playboy playmates and used (Sept.horizontal 23-Oct. 22): When Libra-born ARIES (March 21-April 19): Thetohoroscopes a computerized tool measure “vertical ratio,LIBRA ” “midline Gandhi was I write aren’t primarily meant“from to predict the position, ” length the xiphoid process ... Mohandas to the lower limit of19, thehe moved to London from his native India future. They’re hidden vulvarmore cleftabout ,” anduncovering how nearly oval-shaped the belly buttons were.to study law. In an effort to
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They’re often as a devil is a god who has not been recognized,” dogmatic and closed-minded as any fundamentalist said mythologist Joseph Campbell. “It is a power religious nut. When I’m in a tricky mood, I may tell them in you to which you have not given expression, and you about the Crawford Perspectives, a highly rated Wall push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds Street investment publication that relies extensively on up and becomes dangerous to the position you’re trying astrological analysis. Or I quote wealthy financier J.P. to hold.” Agree? Hope so – you soon enter the Get Better Morgan, who said “Millionaires don’t use astrology; Acquainted with Your Devil Phase, immediately followed by billionaires do.” My point: Astrological omens suggest the Transform Your Devil into a God Phase. To start, ask: What weeks ahead are a good time to move on plans to get is the power in me to which I haven’t given expression? richer quicker. Take advantage! 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Nicholas Felton’s latest annual recap of his personal communications data is now available, for just $30. Key findings, graphically presented, of Nicholas’ busy 2013 (according to a report by FiveThirtyEight.com): He received 44,041 texts and 31,769 emails, had 12,464 face-to-face conversations and 320 phone calls (all detailed by communicatee, from where, at what time, in what language). He reported 385 conversations, for example, with female cashiers, and that 54,963 exclamation points were used across all methods of written communication. (The 2012 report went for $35, but is, along with ’10 and ’11, “sold out,” according to feltron.bigcartel.com).
CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE
The U.K.’s Barnet Council got aggressive in August against a landlord in Hendon, in north London, who’d defied an earlier order to stop offering a too-small apartment for residential rental. Landlord Yaakov Marom said tenants were still eager for the room even though the entryway required most people to drop to all fours, since it was less than 28 inches high (and therefore a firecode violation). Council officers checking on the earlier order against Marom found a couple still living there, paying $685 a month.
OOPSIE!
When he was 19, Rene Lima-Marin (with a pal) robbed two Aurora, Colorado, video stores at gunpoint and, winning no favors from the judge, received back-to-back sentences totaling 98 years. In 2008, eight years into the sentence, Lima-Marin was mistakenly released and until this year was a model citizen, employed, married with a son, on good terms with his parole officer. However, the mistake was found in January, and he was returned to prison, and according to his lawyers in their August appeal, the original sentence has been reimposed, thus moving his release date to the year 2104. Among the more than 350 convicted violent felons whose right to carry guns has been restored over the past six years by the state of Georgia were 32 who’d killed another person and 44 who were sex offenders, according to an August report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As pointed out by ThinkProgress.com, among those who once again can carry is Dennis Krauss, a former Glynn
County COP convicted of raping a woman after a traffic stop. According to the 2003 Georgia Court of Appeals decision affirming his conviction, Officer Krauss had drawn his service weapon and said he wanted to anally penetrate the woman with it. However, he was convicted only for his extortionate demand for sex.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
On Aug. 21 and 22, in front of Linwood Howe Elementary School in Culver City, California, traffic officials posted a towering parking regulation sign pole (reportedly, 15 feet high) with at least eight large white signs, one on top of the other — in familiar red or green lettering, restricting access to the school’s curb lane. Each sign contains orders either to not park or to park only under certain conditions, each with its specific hours or other fine-print limitations. The mayor ordered the signs replaced on Aug. 22.
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK
Florida was one of 26 states to decline billions in federal funding under the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) to establish their own state insurance “exchanges” (including expanding their state Medicaid programs). Florida legislators chose instead to offer a separate state program, funded at less than $1 million, to provide a small level of assistance, including help to the 764,000 people whose low income qualified neither for Medicaid nor Obamacare subsidies. In August, the Tampa Bay Times reported that according to the most recent tally, the nine private plans under Florida Health Choices had registered 30 people (26 of whom receive only discount plans for prescription drugs or vision care).
WAIT … WHAT?
Guests at the May wedding of Shona CarterBrooks in Ripley, Tennessee, reported the bride’s idea for including her month-old daughter in the ceremony consisted of tying her (“well-secured,” she said later) to the long train of her wedding dress, dragging the child as the bride walked down the aisle. Carter-Brooks was forced to take to her Facebook page in defense: People always “have something negative to say,” she wrote, but her wedding was “exclusive and epic.” Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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HELLO, YOUNG LOVERS (aka ISU Writers): The limit for ISU notices is 40 words ONLY. No messages with more than 40 words will be accepted. Please keep your message short & sweet. Thanks! BLACK GUY, ORANGE SHIRT, BOOTS You: Handsome, dark skin, orange shirt, behind me in WalMart money center line, 2 p.m. Me: Tall, curvy, tattooed blonde talking to couple ahead of you. Too shy to stay, thought I saw you looking. Meet? When: Sept. 12. Where: Kingsland Walmart. #1409-0917 COFFEE HOTTIE You: Hottest girl at Bold Bean, skintight Lululemons, bedhead and full-sleeve Molly Hatchet tattoo. You caught my glance waiting for latte. Me: Still drunk from last night, looking fine in Jesus Is The Shit shirt. We MUST meet. When: Sept. 10. Where: Bold Bean. #1408-0917 HOT BLONDE @ UPS STORE You: Girl at Claire Lane/San Jose Boulevard UPS store. Me: Handsome Latino courier who comes in twice a month to pick up a customer’s mail. You know who I am. If single, wanna chat? When: Sept. 8. Where: UPS Store. #1407-0917 FLIRTING WHILE DRIVING? You: Dark Dodge pickup, Gator plate. Me: Old red Jeep Cherokee. Passed each other – intentionally – on bridge; smiles, waves. You’re cute! I was late, or would’ve followed. Wanna slow down and say hi? When: Sept. 3. Where: Buckman Bridge. #1406-0917 DESPERATELY SEEKING PIXIE You: Steampunk girl on red couch. You asked if I’d ever be done. Me: In black, too work focused to speak to you properly. I’m done; ready. Need to find each other. Let’s meet, talk, try to forgive. RAM 10 a.m. find me. I’ll go until I see you. When: Aug. 23. Where: Royal. #1405-0917 HOT COP AT LOGAN’S ROADHOUSE ISU at Logan’s. You were the slightly seasoned gentleman. You ordered the juicy steak, but I wish I could have ordered yours. Oh, and Momma has a coupon for you! When: Aug. 29. Where: Logan’s Roadhouse. #1404-0910 BMW RIDER ISU 18 years ago. Your cute dimples, warm smile and sexy moustache won my heart. Interested in a lifetime of fun? If so, let’s par-tay! Happy anniversary, Love, Your Nag. When: May 1994. Where: Famous Amos. #1403-0910 STUNNING BLONDE NURSE Talked; bought you a drink upstairs. We seemed to connect. You showed me your driver license because I didn’t believe your age. Wish I’d written your name down; really want to talk. When: Aug. 22. Where: Salt Life St. Augustine. #1402-0827 PURPLE SCRUBS SAN MARCO You took my blood pressure, started asking me some questions, then a young doctor walked in. We started laughing at the tag-team questionnaire. I commented on your long hair. When: Aug. 19. Where: Academic Dermatology. #1401-0827 MR. CHEVY EQUINOX ISU wearing scrubs, driving an Equinox. I wore shorts, tank top; driving a black Chevy Tahoe, heading out of town for work. You asked about the Tahoe, what I did for a living. Love to chat more! When: Aug. 19. Where: Town Center Shell. #1400-0827 MEET FOR BEER You: Handsome guy, Yankee Coffin Co. T-shirt, jeans, behind me at register; our eyes met. Me: Curly blonde, jeans. Said hello as you left on motorcycle with I assume your son. If not single, no reply; you looked nice. When: Aug. 17. Where: European Street Jax Beach. #1398-0827 HOLDING AN UMBRELLA You: Sweet, standing under shelter helping people to cars during a thunderstorm. Me: Redhead desperate for shelter from the storm. You asked me what I did. You work at insurance agency. Call if you’d like to share your umbrella. When: Aug. 14. Where: Thrasher Horne Center. #1397-0820 RUNNING OUT OF MOONLIGHT ISU: Mavericks acoustic concert. We talked, you put your arm around me during two songs. Your friend said you wash
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your beard with long-term relationship Head & Shoulders. You make a cowboy hat look good ;). When: Aug. 13. Where: Mavericks at the Landing. #1396-0820 SUPERCUTE SECURITY GUARD Wanted to talk to you but you were already talking to another female when I was leaving. You: Supercute white security guard. Me: Cute, thin, chocolate-caramel female. Hoping you and I get a chance to talk. When: Aug. 12. Where: Main Library. #1395-0820 NAVY FATIGUES & ME You: A tall gorgeous clean-cut guy in your Navy uniform waiting on your coffee at Starbucks. Me: A shy long-haired Native American princess waiting on her breakfast dessert. Why aren’t you on the menu? When: Aug. 7. Where: 1604 Margaret St. #1394-0813 WALMART CHECKOUT, ST. AUGUSTINE You: Tall handsome gentleman wearing cowboy boots, jeans & white shirt. On a Monday, we chatted about your pool chlorine and my grapes. Me: Petite, long red hair. New to area, would love to connect. When: Aug. 4. Where: St. Augustine Walmart. #1393-0813
I SAW U Connection Made! J.B. WITH A PLAIN NAME TAG You have a good smile. I tried to flirt back; maybe next time I see you I can give you my phone number. Me: Redhead in bright lime green workout tank. When: Aug. 4. Where: Panera@Beach/Hodges. #1392-0813 ANGEL WITH A BOARD You: Black bikini, tan, long hair, carrying surfboard, smiled at me. Me: In a complicated relationship; just wanted to tell you, you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks for the smile. When: Aug. 6. Where: Jax Beach Pier parking lot. #1391-0813 FLYING IGUANA CLASSY LADY You: Professional-looking classy lady (realtor?) with gold name tag on left jacket lapel at bar’s north end with male and female friends. Me: Silver-headed fox, in booth with buddy behind you at Iguana last Friday. When: July 25. Where: Flying Iguana. #1390-0806 CLOWNFACE 7/20. You: Sitting with old guy. You called me “Chucklehead” and rode off on a red beach cruiser. Drop the relic and ride into the sunset with me. When: July 20. Where: Atlantic Beach Diner. #1389-0730 DERRICK ROSE LOOK-ALIKE You look soooo good. You: a mixed Derrick Rose look-alike. Me: Female, tall, thin former cashier @ Publix. I hate myself for letting you get away. Come find me. I wanna be wherever you are! When: July 6. Where: Publix Southside & Touchton. #1388-0730
I SAW U Connection Made! AKEL’S BOY I see you a lot. Can we hang out sometime? You: Good-looking, short white dude with tattoo by your eye. Me: Cute, tall thin black female. Let’s do lunch at Akel’s or anywhere?! When: July 16. Where: July 16. #1387-0730 WHO KNEW SCRUBS WERE HOT? You: Looking fine in navy-blue scrubs. Sweet smile assisting doctor at my appointment. Your laugh was so hot. Me: Firsttime patient; I’ll get sick more if it means seeing you. Let’s meet July 26, Carrie Underwood concert Budzone. When: July 17. Where: Doctor’s office. #1386-0723
I SAW U Connection Made! HOT BAR GUY ISU at the Ritz, Jax Beach. You: Watching basketball game with your friends. White V-neck, tattoos. I was with two friends. I have long blonde hair, wearing black tank top. Made eye contact, never talked. When: May 31. Where: Ritz Bar. #1385-0716
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DON’T IGNORE THE EVIDENCE
t’s no secret that Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti has a lot riding on the Quality Education for All (QEA) initiative to turn around some of our traditionally low-performing schools — and by low-performing, I mean schools that do poorly on the state’s standardized tests. The biggest component of the QEA initiative is a talented-teacher transfer initiative that will pay a few teachers an unprecedented amount to get them to transfer from higher-performing schools — schools that do better on standardized tests — to the lower-performing ones. The problems here are legion. First, the Duval County School District used VAM, or Value-Added Model, scores to determine who would be eligible for the transfer. Those are the wildly inaccurate scores generated by a complicated mathematical formula comparing how teachers are doing compared to what the VAM score predicted they should be doing. The problem here is the district has used a bad measurement. The Department of Education found a 36 percent error rate for value-added measurements. That means a federal department that has touted VAM and is invested in its success found that it is inaccurate more than one-third of the time. That’s a poor starting point — but it gets worse. Paying the teachers the extra money — and I believe all teachers should be paid substantially more than they are — is really a form of merit pay, and merit pay has never worked. Merit pay unfortunately tends to measure the motivation and ability of the student rather than the motivation and ability of the teacher. That hasn’t stopped Vitti and the rich businessmen who have donated the money from doubling down on this failed concept. We expect the businessmen not to understand education, but not the superintendent. Furthermore, this talented-teacher transfer initiative has been attempted before, to very mixed results. A Department of Education study filled openings at low-performing elementary and middle schools in the test area. It did see great gains at the elementary-school level, but none at the middle-school level, and didn’t even attempt it at the high-school level. More telling, though, is when the money was turned off, only 60 percent of the transfers remained at the new school the next year. Well, friends, what’s going to happen when the QEA money runs out here in three years? While attempting to sell the QEA initiative, Vitti was also misleading with his talking points. He said, “Research indicates this, that the No. 1 factor that influences student achievement — meaning students doing well academically — is teacher quality.” Not so fast. It’s true that every child deserves an excellent teacher. Yet Dr. Dan Goldhaber of the Center for Education Data & Research and colleagues have discovered that only about 9 percent of the variation in student achievement is due to teacher characteristics. About 60 percent is explained by individual student characteristics, family characteristics and similar variables. All school input combined (teacher quality, class variables, etc.) account for approximately 21 percent of student outcomes. So if other factors (poverty) play a larger role, then why are we ignoring them? Poverty is the No. 1 measurable statistic in education; those kids who live in poverty do far worse than those who don’t. It is also the most ignored statistic in education, and the QEA initiative continues to do just that. Just look where the QEA schools are — you know, the ones with all the “bad” teachers. They are in sections of town
Superintendent Vitti talks a lot about improving teacher quality in low-performing schools. He’s missing the point
wracked by extreme poverty. Now look at where the schools of the teachers who are coming to replace them are located. Invariably, they are in the middle- and upper-middle-class sides of town. The QEA in effect is addressing a blister on a toe and ignoring the broken leg. Let me ask you a question: What problem have you ever fixed by ignoring 80 percent of it? Let’s ignore all the facts, evidence and studies — after all, Vitti and QEA board members have — but why does Vitti have to be so condescending to teachers? “You’re only as strong as your weakest link,” Action News quoted Vitti as saying. The superintendent went on to tell parents and educators that nearly 200 “low-performing” teachers had been removed from the 33 elementary and middle schools that feed into the struggling Jackson, Ribault and Raines high schools. Wow! Low-performing! How about “dedicated, hardworking, willing to tackle the challenges that most people and even many teachers wouldn’t”? These teachers may not have been able to overcome the debilitating effects of poverty that their students endured, but I shudder to think where these kids would be without them. They deserve better than to be ridiculed by their own superintendent. This isn’t the first time Vitti has been dismissive of teachers, either — far from it. It’s no secret that poor teacher morale has been a problem here in Jacksonville. The superintendent has mentioned it, as have various school board members. So what does the super say when a study comes out excoriating the district’s teachers? According to the Times-Union, he gives it high marks. Also from the T-U: “Vitti said no one is labeling these teachers as failures. He predicted many will probably improve performance in a new environment, especially if the pressures and challenges of poverty are less at their new schools. “Vitti added that about five years ago, when he oversaw some 500 teacher transfers out of Miami’s 66 ‘transformation’ schools, most of those teachers who left lowperforming schools got better at
It’s no secret that poor teacher morale has been a problem here in Jacksonville.
their new jobs.” They got better? Or did they go to schools where poverty wasn’t such a crippling factor? Finally, I would like to address the QEA board, a bunch of rich white men (and one woman) who have become a de facto unelected school board allowed to set policy behind closed doors. Without a doubt, we need the community to step up, because Tallahassee has abdicated its responsibility to fund our schools. What we don’t need, though, is a lot of rich white men (and one woman) dictating policy. They aren’t from our neighborhoods, they aren’t teachers, and they’ve never been in our classrooms or schools. The only thing they have more than money is hubris, because they think their money and ideas, disconnected from facts and evidence, can fix our problems. I know I come off as negative here, but I think some aspects of the QEA initiatives are good. I think getting our best teachers to our most needy students is a great idea; using VAM scores and bribing them is a poor way to do it. Upgrades in technology and an equitable distribution of resources are long overdue; that being said, unless we address poverty, unless we put in reforms based on evidence that say they work (e.g., smaller class sizes), and unless we put in both academic and behavioral supports for students and teachers alike, then all of it is a waste of time, effort and money. We do have serious issues in education. What we don’t have, sadly, is serious people creating serious solutions. Chris Guerrieri mail@folioweekly.com
The author is a teacher who blogs about education at jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com.
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