Expressions of Truth

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EXPRESSIONS OF TRUTH

Inside Madi Carr’s confident, honest approach to art and life STORY by NICK McGREGOR

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FROM THE EDITOR

ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD BYE, Y’ALL! This is my last issue as editor of Folio Weekly. I am deeply indebted to the colleagues, sources and readers who generously graced me with their talents, knowledge, support and tough love as needed (if not always wanted). It has been an honor and privilege to meet with you in these pages week after week.

When I took the helm of Northeast Florida’s premier alternative voice in February 2016, I was an especially green editor. Having never worked in a newsroom, let alone edited a publication, those early weeks were as exciting and terrifying as any I have known in my career. Looking back now, 138 issues later, I marvel at the faith placed in me, as well as the naïveté, optimism, passion and fear of the woman who was brave and foolish enough to believe she could follow giants and make a difference with a pen as her sword and truth as her shield. I am cautiously optimistic that she was right.

Much has changed in the 11 dozen weeks since I vowed to “kick some ass” in this space.

Some changes have brought joy, such as the February 2017 passage of an amended human rights ordinance to protect our LGBTQ brethren in Jacksonville from discrimination. On the national front, the long overdue and still in progress #MeToo movement has ushered in an era in which we are finally beginning to believe survivors of sexual assault and abuse when they tell their terrible stories. I’m confident we’re due a reckoning on this subject in our community, where changes come more slowly, but in time.

In the last few years, people who had been sitting silently and hoping better was around the corner have stood up and made themselves heard. Their stories of injustice and suffering have sparked much-needed debate about fairness, particularly as it intersects with race, justice and poverty.

Do not be afraid to have these difficult conversations. This job has underscored to me the fact that we do not have to agree to listen and try to understand each other.

Through understanding, we may discover common ground.

Other changes have brought anger, terror and pain. The resurgence of white supremacy, with its parade of horribles crawling out from the shadows to seize the spotlight, has been humiliating and shocking. At present, though, the monsters seem to have slithered back to the fringes.

I am not yet convinced we have heard

the last from them, however.

I do not fear their return, for theirs is a losing cause.

When/if that time comes, I urge you to try to recall that civilization is not well served when we meet hate with hate, and that love has a disinfecting effect.

It can even change a human heart, such as that of the former Grand Dragon of a local Northeast Florida branch of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi we profiled in October 2016. In recent months, he has renounced racism and expressed regret for his role in sowing seeds of bigotry. If he can change, so can you.

The hatred that cascades from social media and spills across dinner tables and friendships is another chilling development.

Tumult and division have elevated our civic discourse to an apex probably not seen since the 1960s; I believe we’re in the midst of another cultural seismic shift. I genuinely look forward to seeing its result.

The 31 months that have passed since I first greeted you here have brought me three birthdays, scores of friendships, countless laughs and lessons, and a few pounds courtesy of many hours at a desk, albeit standing up. I’ve been flattered, frustrated, intrigued and pissed off in spades. I’ve thrown the first pitch at a baseball game while wearing a banana costume—a good laugh is worth a little dignity.

Like my waistline, my skin was a bit thinner when I began; I can recall more than one time reader feedback sent me reeling into a spiral of self-doubt in those early months.

It’s a good thing that criticisms have a callousing effect when applied liberally and with regularity. This is not a complaint. As I told a group of professionals at a retreat this summer, the opportunity to take a lot of criticism can make you better; even deconstructive criticism has value and may have the ring of truth if you’re willing to hear it. I hope that has been the case for me.

As I depart with head high and humble heart, don’t think you’ve heard the last of me—far from it. I have delighted in being an editor, but it’s time I take the many lessons learned here and return to my roots as a writer and journalist.

This has been a particularly enriching and delightful chapter; as I turn the page, I look back with much warmth and few regrets. I will dearly miss you all.

Thank you for everything.

Claire Goforth clairegoforth@yahoo.com @clairenjax

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ESSENTIAL LISTENING

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The two musicians perform Time is of the Essence, in tribute to jazz legend Michael Brecker. It’s especially interesting because saxophonist and composer Brecker, winner of 15 Grammys, was a musical powerhouse, and the work has stood the test of time. It was well-received and well-reviewed upon release and is now widely regarded as a straightahead jazz classic. Don’t miss a chance to hear it performed live! 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, ju.edu/cfa, $5-$10.

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OKTOBERFEST ON MAIN STREET It’s October and among the great things that happen in the Apple Jack Month is that the crews at Hyperion Brewing and Crispy’s Springfield Gallery hold a street party with all the Marzen you care to drink, plus snacks and music–Five Hungry Germans, Kalani Rose Duo, Ouija Brothers–and it’s friendly for dogs and families! 3-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, Hyperion Brewing Co., Springfield, hyperionbrewing.com, $1 (for 21+ w/ID).

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OK, we’re not making a wholesale claim that the Chris Thomas Band is the biggest in Northeast Floridaville, but they’re certainly close to the top, aces in our book.

They shake the night alive with 1940s Big Band music that’ll make you Lindy Hop till dawn.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, Lewis Auditorium, Flagler College, St. Augustine, emmaconcerts.com, $40.

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ERIC LINDELL Listening to Lindell sing is like driving in a convertible, alone, along a deserted strip of A1A, after a day at the beach. You feel stretched and golden, alive and one with the world: As if all the best parts of the South and Florida were magically transformed into the emotion of jazz-inflected blues. He takes the stage 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, Mojo Kitchen, Jax Beach, mojobbq.com.

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Jazz Festival celebrates eight days of a swinging good time with Les DeMerle & Bonnie Eisele, Henry Johnson and headliner Janis Siegel with Requinte Trio (pictured). The party kicks off with a free concert of jazz in the park, with the Florida State University Jazz Ensemble, directed by Leon Anderson, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, Amelia Park, Amelia Island, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS

EDITORS I’VE

KNOWN Notes on the COLUMN GAME I’VE BEEN IN THE COLUMN GAME HERE SINCE DUBYA declared ‘Mission Accomplished.’ Been through countless editors. Seen a lot of 1099s.

It’s been an unexpected run. Fifteen years and most of that weekly. Two political runs and a sports column stint. Sometimes I worked babyface, sometimes I worked heel.

And then there’s this, the current stage.

A while back, a friend reminded me that there aren’t nearly as many columnists left.

“The last of the Mohicans,” he called me.

I understood what he meant.

Column writing is a dying art. The column was meant to be on the kind of smudgy newsprint that folded over the shell of an overcoat like a fabric all its own.

A column, especially in a tabloid, is like that. Hard to break news in a weekly, but the upside is the ability/platform to address the big picture. In this space, I’ve been able to do that for a decade and a half. And my best work, such as it’s been, has happened because of certain editors.

Anne Schindler taught me the game. It’s always interesting to see her in the field, when she’s on assignment for First Coast News and I’m likewise on my beat. Careers take many turns.

Jeff Billman reminded me of the importance of stirring shit up. The Billman era was brief but memorable here, with his trolling of the late-stage Alvin Brown mayor’s office exemplifying the kind of thing that was part-and-parcel of great alts in the Northeast, but never really seen here with that brio.

When Billman came in, I was very close to just giving up writing for publication. Sports had started to bore me, and I started to aspire to bigger and better cubicles in the marketing world. I found my fastball again. A different editor, it goes a different way.

And Claire Goforth has been the best of all, an editor who knew when to leave well enough alone and when to push to make a good piece better.

You don’t get that kind of editor very often.

These have been tough times for altweeklies across the country. Jacksonville’s is still here, and a big part of that was the legitimizing and stabilizing force and energy Claire brought to the table.

And to think it was done without staff writers—the model of using freelance talent is rife with potential pitfalls, including but not limited to them flaking on deadlines or turning in bad copy.

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are experiencing the reality that in a world where information is cheaper and easier to access, reporters have to do more with less. Including less institutional memory, both inside and outside organizations, and with that, less of an ability to do the kind of reporting communities used to be able to take for granted.

I’ve used the “Fighting Words” title for the column here in Folio Weekly for most of its political run. The homage paid in that is instructive of the ultimate ephemerality of journalism.

I was dapping Christopher Hitchens, who in the 1990s and 2000s was the ultimate in slashing, take-no-prisoners polemic.

And now it’s 2018. Hitchens has been dead for nearly seven years. And he’s a mere footnote. The kids don’t remember him.

Nor do they remember the stellar essays of his stylistic progenitors, George Orwell and H.L. Mencken.

No matter how good essayists may be, the world moves on.

There is little immortality in journalism, even though there is a certain familiarity, year over year, when you work a certain beat.

The concerns I’ve had have largely been the same in this space. Lots of deep dive City Hall analyses. Jeremiads about encroachments of the state—the police state, the carceral state, the normativity and the dumbing-down and the hollowing-out of the middle class.

(While I appreciate redemptive, “good news” stories, my instinctive belief is that they are often used cynically, to distract from larger dystopian trends.)

I’ve written, to some degree or other, mostly useful columns. There are some that don’t hold up. We evolve, we grow—thank God. We become better people as time goes on. And better analysts.

Keeping up a dialogue with readers helps.

And a willingness to listen. That one took a while to develop.

If it works out right, if we don’t get purged or piss someone off or become inconvenient from a marketing sense, we get time to develop. But it’s never a sure thing.

And it’s never, ever, a permanent thing.

The old heads can tell you how sudden it is when the hook comes for you, and you’re erased from the record.

If they know what they’re doing, you don’t feel a thing.

A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com @aggancarski

THE MAIL SENATOR M.I.A.

RE: “More Cheddar, Please,” by Claire Goforth, Sept. 19 I WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR your mention of the frustration we members of Indivisible Northeast Florida have had in our ongoing meetings with Senator Rubio’s staff.

I have been a regular participant in these biweekly meetings in Rubio’s Jax office and have kept copies of our correspondence going back many months.

And thank you for being a strong voice for a progressive political agenda in Jacksonville.

David Johnson via email

community. Jacksonville definitely benefits from the progressive push that runners of Folio Weekly have fostered for decades. But the city, as it continues to grow, is desperate for more local journalism.

I urge you to immerse yourself in the community, and either discover new, or follow up on past issues that concern Northeast Floridians.

Otherwise, Folio Weekly becomes irrelevant. And the bad guys win.

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WE’RE LISTENING …

RE: “Lynch Pin,” by Claire Goforth, July 18 IF PRIVATE DONORS WANT TO PAY TO BRING IT HERE and have it displayed, then what’s the issue? Oh, wait, I know.

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RE: “The Sweet Smell of Money,” by Claire Goforth, Aug. 8 WHAT WE’RE DOING TO OUR PLANET STARTS here at home, I guess.

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SCHINDLER’S LIST

RE: “The Waiting Game,” by Claire Goforth, Sept. 12 I DON’T DISAGREE WITH YOUR EDITORIAL. WHAT I disagree with is that seemingly every editor of Folio Weekly–after Anne Schindler, of course–has decided that they want to use this precious editorial space as a perch from which to air extraneous convictions about national issues that don’t necessarily concern its readership.

Please leave the broad, ubiquitous commentary to syndicated media, or perhaps in a blog. It’s too important to misuse this editorial space, which is so imperative to the vitality of this continuously underrated

RE: “A Tale of Two Cities,” by Claire Goforth, June 6 YOUR MOST RECENT EDITORIAL WAS THE MOST professional one that I have read from you.

It showed empathy for people you profoundly disagree with. We need to stop treating people with whom we disagree as contemptible and you showed that spirit in your column.

In fact, it was the most professional column I have read from ANY liberal writer.

I appreciate it. I don’t have a problem with you disagreeing with people, but state the facts rather than the feelings. I deeply appreciate the change in your column. I would appreciate it even more if you made it permanent.

John Wilder via email

SHRIEKS AND STRINGS

RE: “DeSantis’ Trump Whistle,” by Claire Goforth, Sept. 5 AND WHEN DECENT PEOPLE REACT TO THE “Monkey” comment, the right-wing echo chamber (Fox News, Limbaugh, etc.) will cry that the “race card” is being played. The Repubs play their followers like a violin at a SAPS convention.

Stan Ivester via Facebook

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO FANG’S KILLER On Sept. 30, Jacksonville Sheriff’s K-9 Officer Fang was killed in the line of duty. When he was fatally shot, Fang was in pursuit of a suspect in an armed carjacking. Police ultimately apprehended the suspect, whose name was not released, according to the Florida Times-Union.

BOUQUETS TO HUGH GREENE After 18 years as CEO and 30 years with the health system, Baptist Health CEO Hugh Greene has announced his impending retirement. Greene is universally admired and beloved for his commitment to compassionate, cutting-edge healthcare and this community he served.

BRICKBATS TO JOHN LONG The retired JFRD captain is shown hunting Canadian black bears on an episode of the Brotherhood Outdoors TV series, available on the Sportsman Channel. After an unsuccessful first hunt, Long went on what a press release referred to as a “redemption hunt,” to kill an innocent creature for no purpose but his own gratification and to assert human dominance.disaster response efforts. To raise the funds, they volunteered their time installing smoke detectors.

DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest.

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Brett’s Waterway Café

Moon River Pizza

Overlooking Fernandina Harbor Marina, Brett’s offers an upscale atmosphere with outstanding food. The extensive luncheon and dinner menus feature daily specials, fresh Florida seafood, chicken and aged beef. Cocktails, beer and wine.

Casual resort wear. Open at 11:30 a.m. daily.

Moon River Pizza treats customers like family.

Cooked in a brick oven, the pizza is custommade by the slice (or, of course, by the pie).

Set up like an Atlanta-style pizza joint, Moon River also offers an eclectic selection of wine and beer. Open for lunch and dinner Mon.-Sat. Dine in or take it with you.

925 S. 14th Street 904-321-3400

Fernandina Harbor Marina at the foot of Centre Street 904-261-2660

The Mustard Seed Cafe

T-Ray’s Burger Station

833 T.J. Courson Road 904-277-3141

202 S. Eighth Street 904-261-6310

Inside Nassau Health Foods, The Mustard Seed is Amelia Island’s only organic eatery and juice bar, with an extensive, eclectic menu featuring vegetarian and vegan items. Daily specials include local seafood, free-range chicken and fresh organic produce. Salads, wraps, sandwiches and soups are available – all prepared with our staff’s impeccable style. Popular items are chicken or veggie quesadillas, grilled mahi, or salmon over mixed greens and tuna melt with Swiss cheese and tomato. Open for breakfast and lunch, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon.-Sat. nassauhealthfoods.net

T-Ray’s offers a variety of breakfast and lunch items. In addition to an outstanding breakfast menu, you’ll find some of the best burgers you’ve ever put in your mouth. The Burger Station offers a grilled portabello mushroom burger, grilled or fried chicken salad and much more. The spot where locals grab a bite and go! Now serving beer & wine. Open Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Closed Sundays.

The Pointe Restaurant 98 S. Fletcher Avenue 904-277-4851

The Pointe, located at Elizabeth Pointe Lodge, is open to the public daily from 7 a.m.–10 a.m. for breakfast and 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. for lunch.

Sunday brunch is served one Sunday each month from 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Oceanview indoor and outdoor seating is available. Please call the Inn to reserve a table or to enquire further about the restaurant.

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Amelia Island is 13 miles of unspoiled beaches, quaint shops, antique treasures and superb dining

NEWS BITES TOP HEADLINES FROM NE FLORIDA NEWSMEDIA

THE FLORIDA TIMES-UNION THE LONG CLIMB AHEAD

Jacksonville’s new community development coalition recently introduced itself at the inaugural meeting in New Town, reports Beth Reese Cravey of the Florida Times-Union. CLIMB (Community Leaders Igniting Mobility) is a nonprofit organization sponsored by Generation, “a global employment nonprofit that has free training programs in Jacksonville and sponsored CLIMB with a $4.8 million Walmart Foundation grant.”

“The coalition, which also includes the United Way of Northeast Florida, New Town Success Zone and LISC Jacksonville, will host a series of community meetings to discuss potential solutions and offer job fairs,” Cravey writes.

CLIMB will work primarily in New Town, Arlington, Eastside and Springfield, where coalition partners are already active. Its mission is to “use demographic and economic data collected by the United Way and recent research by CLIMB, as well as public input from the meetings, to develop and implement a 3- to 5-year pilot project to help residents make economic headway.”

A previous United Way study found that a full 37 percent of Duval County households were struggling to make ends meet. Researchers indexed a “survival budget”—what they calculated to be “the cost of a bare-bones, paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle”—and were surprised to find more than a third of Jacksonville residents lived their lives at or below this threshold.

CLIMB took those results and refined them, identifying trends like rising inequality and lack of opportunities in underserved neighborhoods.

The coalition is also looking at results from similar experiments around the nation, including pedestrian mobility and public transportation initiatives in Minneapolis and a lease-to-own program in Cleveland that allows long-term renters to purchase affordable housing.

ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

In 2016, Floridians voted to legalize medicinal marijuana, but the terms of that legalization were to be hashed out by a markedly conservative state legislature and applied locally by authorities of varying shades of Victorian. Even the best-intentioned local bodies are struggling to sort out the spirit and the letter of the law. Clay Today’s Wesley LeBlanc has been watching the process unfold at the Clay County School District.

“After months of review and legal research,” LeBlanc writes, “the school district drafted a policy it will consider approving at the Oct. 4 meeting. Board members discussed the policy Tuesday morning [Sept. 25] at the superintendent’s monthly agenda-setting workshop held in Green Cove Springs at district offices.”

LeBlanc quotes Clay County School District Superintendent Addison Davis, who said, “In 2017, we were asked to revise our policy. [Clay County School Board Attorney David D’Agata] and staff has [sic] worked with a number of school districts throughout the state to make sure we have a clean procedure policy that addresses [medical marijuana] in a conventional and careful manner. We have to permit the use of medical marijuana, however, we will not maintain, we will not store and we will not administer medical marijuana at any point in time.”

Nor will students self-administer at any point in time, adds D’Agata. “[S]chool medical staff will ensure that schools identify a safe location for the user to be administered the medicinal marijuana,” LeBlanc clarifies. “The administrator must be validated by the state-given registered card.”

The identity of who would be the administrator remains unknown.

PONTE VEDRA RECORDER OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD

Northeast Florida has dodged the bullet thus far, but St. Johns County officials are reminding folks that the Atlantic hurricane season isn’t over yet.

“On Sept. 19,” writes Samantha Logue of the Ponte Vedra Recorder, “as the Carolinas began their walk down the long road to recovery following the devastation incurred by Hurricane Florence, St. Johns County Emergency Management Deputy Director Jeffrey Alexander encouraged local members of the St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce to stay vigilant.”

Alexander spoke at a Sawgrass Country Club luncheon attended by members of the Chamber’s Ponte Vedra Beach Division. He emphasized the chief lesson learned from Hurricanes Matthew and Irma: Even if we avoid a direct hit, we are vulnerable to flooding. As such, it is imperative for residents to heed evacuation orders if and when they are issued.

According to Logue, Alexander explained, “This is really all about keeping people alive. We can’t save your property, we can’t save structures … but we can save lives. Everything else we can replace or repair.”

There was some discussion of larger issues, though evidently the topic of climate change was not among them.

“Stressing the importance of being proactive, rather than reactive,” Logue writes, “Alexander also encouraged both residents and business owners to have a line of credit ready and make sure they have flood insurance.”

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EXPRESSIONS OF

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Inside Madi Carr’s CONFIDENT, HONEST APPROACH to art, music and life

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usical instruments can be learned.

Voices can be trained. Scales can be mastered. Creativity can be conjured. But fearlessness, humility, confidence and sincerity: These are traits that, in true artists, often seem to spring forth fully formed. Maybe such gifts take time to emerge; maybe they struggle to find an appropriate outlet. But they’re baked in, intrinsic. “You get good at this stuff early, or probably not at all.”

I read that line, written in March by author Adam Gopnik about theater impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber, the morning before meeting Madi Carr. Wherever this 17-year-old Jacksonville Beach resident performs—the intimate environs of Blue Jay Listening Room, a humid outdoor stage at Florida Folk Festival, a live broadcast for WJCT—her presence stands out.

She sings with force, strums her acoustic guitar with intensity, and communicates with a troubadour’s brio. Her words, her notes and her stories have an impact that’s impossible to resist.

She’s just as direct in person. Over coffee at Bold Bean, she focuses her piercing eyes straight ahead, as if scanning the world for song material. Though she considers herself introverted, she openly discusses everything: the intricacies of her influences, the lessons she’s learned as a working musician, the dreams she plans to achieve tomorrow, next week and next year. Unlike most teenagers, Carr is dismissive of social media, zealous about honoring tradition, and forthright about her own vulnerabilities as an artist.

She loves going to Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, even if she yearns to break free from the vocal program’s required operatic training. She reveres her childhood in Crystal River, where she swam with manatees, sang Johnny Cash tunes at karaoke bars with her dad, and picked up the local talent for storytelling. But she acknowledges the small town’s lack of educational opportunities, remembering how she “stuck out

as the really artsy kid,” and praises her parents for moving the family to Duval County so she could attend LaVilla Middle School of the Arts.

In short, Madi Carr’s steadfast confidence can be downright unnerving. When asked to describe the timeless appeal of folk music, she doesn’t miss a beat: “People throughout history have had the same goals and feelings. I think music is a medium to express that.” Everyone interviewed for this story responded with a variation of what veteran songwriter Mike Shackelford said of Carr: “an old soul with a young spirit.” Other nonhyperbolic claims from established Jacksonville performers, promoters, producers and educators include “straight from the heart,” “committed” and “professional,” her success held up as “karmic.” A few even dared to compare the young woman to Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin.

Carr learned to play the piano at age 7, started voice lessons at age 8, and then added the ukulele, guitar, harmonica, bass and mandolin to her repertoire before she turned 16. As a solo artist, she covers Patsy Cline, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Judee Sill and Dave Van Ronk. She cherishes her time traveling around Florida on the folk festival circuit, where in-the-round songwriters’ circles and late-night campfire jams are the norm.

Most impressive, Madi has self-released an EP, Florida Dreams, and recorded another to be released soon, pulling from her catalog of nearly 30 original songs—all before she’s even decided where she’ll go to college. “Songwriting is a universal art form,” she says. “I love literature and poetry, but music has such a transcendental quality that words don’t have.

Writing songs allows me to combine these two arts, preserving my thoughts and experiences in something beautiful.”

Carr isn’t all lofty-artist-speak all the time, however. In fact, she’s more likely to talk about the nuts and bolts of her process than anything else. She wrote her first song when she was 11, right around the time she and her family left Crystal River. “It’s such a magical place,” she says. Digging into the details of the song “The Lolly Shack,” about a legendary river

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denizen who lived before man was “dominated by standardized manufactured dreams,” when “seclusion from society was such a beautiful thing,” Carr says. “Storytelling has become such a lost art. With technology, we’re surrounded by new content and new info, and society [demands more] new and exciting things.

But there’s an entire world wrapped up in tall tales about people like Lolly that’s being left behind. He existed less than 100 years ago, and people haven’t even delved into his history.”

Learning that lost art is one of Carr’s biggest points of pride, even as she looks to the future. “You can’t completely revive old war and pioneer songs—time moves forward,” she says.

“But there are a lot of lessons from the old stuff that can be incorporated into today’s music.” So far, so good with Carr’s original music. Her incisive eye is particularly impressive when trained on the day-to-day stresses of high school. “The Czech Poet,” about a former classmate at Douglas Anderson, reflects her belief that “it’s a lot easier to write songs about people than it is to talk to them.” Full of sharp observational details, it’s heartbreaking that said poet doesn’t know the song is about him—even though that’s exactly the way the girl likes it. “I love concept albums,” she says, highlighting David Bowie and The Who as two of her favorites. “But I can’t do that. I write about things that have happened to me—and living like a real person helps you write more truthfully. I like to get to the core of that.”

Carr’s songs land with immediate emotional impact, even though she swears she doesn’t have a specific goal in mind when she sits down to write. Instead, she’s scanning the horizons of life, landing on a subject and drilling into it with concision and, sometimes, cynicism. In “Math,” Madi sings passionately about how life should be more open to interpretation—not “black or white but gray,” operating in defiance of the “mechanical pieces and parts” she professes

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to hate. “If you don’t know what to say/Turn it into math,” she sings in the chorus, surely stealing the heart of every literature-loving high-schooler who’s ever lived.

“Art shouldn’t have any predetermined meaning behind it,” she says. “If a form of art is good enough, the meaning will come after its creation. That’s why I love music: Anybody can interpret it any way they want. That’s the purpose music serves. It’s a way to guide your thoughts and form them into opinions.”

You can tell by now that Madi Carr’s songs come straight from the heart. Shawn Pendry, who teaches Vocal Music at LaVilla Middle, agrees. “Her style is formed from respect for the many great artists who came before her and the pursuit of her own original sound,” Pendry says. “She is quick to acknowledge her songwriting heroes and role models, but she doesn’t copy them at all. She uses what she learned from them to create her original performances and great lyrics.” Looking back to when he first encountered the teenager seven years ago, when she was a mere 10-yearold, he adds, “Even back then, she was able to look forward artistically to what she wanted to do. Now that she’s older, she’s walking straight toward those opportunities and taking every one of them.”

That confidence is obvious as soon as you watch Madi Carr commandeer a microphone, relating her love of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood or the contemporaneous details of Dave Van Ronk’s 1962 classic “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me,” one of her favorite covers. “I used to get nervous before I performed, but now it’s more like I’m excited to get on stage,” she says. “I really love the music that I write and the songs that I choose to cover, and I’m confident in how I perform them. That’s my zone. Time really does stand still when I’m playing and singing.”

Entering her senior year at Douglas Anderson, Carr has had plenty of opportunities to slip into that zone. If there’s a folk festival in the state of Florida, she’s played it. She recently performed at the annual China Cat Sunflower Festival in Springfield and aboard the St. Johns River Taxi for the first time. She’s opened countless shows at Blue Jay Listening Room—this summer, she supported Los Angeles’ Cristina Vane, along with St. Augustine bands Remedy Tree and The Bridge Street Vibe. She’s started playing more gigs with her Talking Heads-inspired band, Subdivision, at Planet Sarbez in St. Augustine.

More recently, she mixed it up with the starstudded Sing Out Loud Festival lineup, and soundtracked the Riverside Arts Market on Sept. 22. This weekend, she appears at the Lake County Folk Fest on Oct. 6 and 7, plays a benefit concert for the Sierra Club at Mudville Music Room on Oct. 16, and celebrates Florida’s pioneer traditions at Barberville Fall Jamboree on Nov. 3 and 4.

“I never pass up an opportunity for a gig,” Carr says. “I feel like each time I play, I learn something new or find something new to improve upon. It’s also forced me to learn how to be professional—and, since I’m an introverted person, it’s gotten me out of my comfort zone as far as introducing myself to people.” She acknowledges how lucky she is that music has managed to become her job (and a far better one than most of her high school friends have) while remaining her passion. “It’s financially possible to be a 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 3-9, 2018

musician, even though a lot of people don’t understand that,” she says. “You don’t have to be a starving artist.”

In other words, she can see a viable path ahead, which is precisely the biggest lesson that local influence Mere Woodard has imparted to her protégé. When Carr was 12, Mere helped her transform technical skills into songwriting chops, giving Madi specific prompts that included rewriting lyrics to songs she already knew. “She was dying to write folk music,” Woodard laughs. “By choice, she wasn’t exposing herself to anything made after the 1970s. But I completely understood that: I, too, was wearing bellbottoms and quoting Joni Mitchell at 13.

I just wanted her to know all the possibilities that were out there while she was developing her style.”

Five years later, Woodard stands in awe of Carr’s growth. “When we first started lessons, Madi couldn’t wait to get her braces off and hated going to opera class. Now, she’s tracked an album and is out there being a badass—and she hasn’t even graduated from high school!” Raving about the vitality and sincerity of Carr’s songs, Woodward adds, “Madi is so focused, nothing is going to stop her. I used to say, ‘Don’t give yourself a hard life just to have something to write songs about.’ Now, she feeds her inner rebel with her music—that’s my favorite kind of artist.”

That may be the most valuable skill she’s picked up from the folk festival community, Carr says. She treasures its spontaneity and camaraderie, unlike the highly structured curriculum at her nationally acclaimed school of the arts. “With classical music, you rehearse the crap of it, reading notes on the page,” Madi says. “You don’t make the decisions.

When you’re jamming around the fire and everyone starts playing a song you’ve never heard before, you look at people’s hands to learn the chords. You understand the flow of the music better. Instead of it being a technical thing, it takes you back to what music used to be—an organic form of expression. An expression of truth.”

Don’t take that to mean that Carr doesn’t value her education at Douglas Anderson.

“I couldn’t imagine going anywhere else,” she says. “The kids want to be there, and the teachers want to teach.” No regrets, she laughs, “even if I’m training to be that classical vocalist who sings opera and Latin when all I want to do is the music I do outside of school.” Carr admits that such training has strengthened her voice significantly, and that the requisite attention to detail has made her a better musician. With a sly smile, she adds, “You have to learn the rules to break them, and Douglas Anderson has made me want to break all the music rules even more.”

That’s evident when comparing Carr’s first EP, which was recorded in the studio of LA-by-way-of-Jacksonville band Complicated Animals, and the material she recorded this summer at Straight Path Sound Studios in Lakeland. “Making Florida Dreams was a really good first experience, but it sounded so clean,” the adolescent prodigy says. “This time, I played all the instruments and went for a rougher, older sound. The less time I put in on my vocals, the happier I am. Bob Dylan’s voice was so nasal and rough, but it was honest. Janis Joplin, all she did was scream, but that was very honest. My whole life, I’ve always been attracted to the people who are most truthful with their lyrics and their sound. I don’t like things to be too pre-rehearsed.”

Therein lies the brightest potential for Madi Carr. She’s done everything right up to this point: focusing on her education, taking all the necessary lessons, paying

tribute to major influences while following the instruction of local mentors. She praises her parents for their unwavering support.

She looks back fondly on her co-starring role with a 10-piece rock orchestra in Richard Borders’ presentation of the musical Imagine John Lennon. She relishes the chance to subsume her own frontwoman tendencies with her band Subdivision, in which she switches between bass and keys (and, for the most part, does not sing lead vocals). In a testament to her humility, she doesn’t even mention the master classes she’s returned to LaVilla to teach on how middle-schoolers can comfortably find their own artistic voices.

But with her final year at Douglas Anderson upon her and the future as much of an oyster as it will ever be, now Madi Carr gets to call her own shots. She’s considering college at University of Florida in Gainesville, since that’s where the late, great Tom Petty was born and grew to love music, making his pursuit of rock perfection a reality, and the city has a thriving independent music scene. Her short-term goal is to fill the slots at bigger folk festivals in Newport, Rhode Island and Kerrville, Texas. She might do a stint in Asheville or Austin, where she can break free from her folk focus and start a rock band, working her way up while crafting her own specific path forward. “No matter where I go, I know I’ll stick out from everyone else,” Madi says. “That’s the way the world works, and that’s OK. I struggle with it, but I also take a lot of pride in it—it’s a weird dynamic within myself. But I know I’m lucky I got such an early start as a musician. That makes attaining my dream seem more realistic.”

Right now, her dream is clear: pursuing a major in social work, psychology or criminology, with a focus on educational and literary activism for underserved Native American communities. Fronting a band and touring “while I’m young and have the freedom to do that.” Communing with nature as much as possible since “environmental and transcendentalist values really form the core of who I am.” And constantly learning more about her particular conception of art with what former teacher Shawn Pendry calls “humility, enormous talent and a complete lack of both observable hubris and any fear of failure.”

“Art is not only just about people, but it comes from people—it’s for people,” Carr says. “That’s why I don’t worry about how my amp sounds or how fancy my guitar is.

If your songs are good enough, people aren’t going to notice your equipment. And even if you have the best equipment, if there’s no feeling behind your music, the audience won’t feel anything.”

That line I read before meeting Madi Carr rattles around in my head: “You get good at this stuff early, or probably not at all.”

I don’t want to sound too much on-the-nose by bringing it up, and it turns out I don’t need to. Madi looks me right in the eye as she describes her life; the Joni Mitchell comparisons and “old soul” descriptions feel eerily right. Even as I reminisce about a show put on by North Florida folk legends Bob and Jolene Patterson way back in 2001, mere months after Madi was born, this 35-year-old writer is now being schooled by a 17-year-old songwriter. Madi knows Bob and Jolene—she’s familiar with their happiness on stage and the easy grace they exhibit while reinterpreting classic Florida folk traditions.

Nodding vigorously, she finishes: “You either have that passion—that joy for performing—or you don’t.” Spoken like a true master.

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

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n the late 1980s, three cousins–Robert “RZA” Diggs, Gary “GZA” Grice and Russell “Ol’ Dirty Bastard” Jones–drew up a plan to transcend their Stapleton Projects roots on Staten Island and become famous rappers. As far-fetched as it had seemed, by 1992, the trio had recruited six more like-minded rappers, invented an intricate cosmology based on Eastern philosophy, chess terminology, kung-fu movies and obscure Nation of Islam teaching and, under RZA’s commanding eye, made a five-year plan that emphasized their inevitable world domination. In November 1993, the group’s debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), dropped, and in 2018, all nine core members will reconvene to celebrate its 25th anniversary–a rare occurrence years in the making. With the attendant video games, documentaries, books, fashion lines, movie roles and an iconic status as the most influential group in hip hop history, here’s a look at Wu-Tang Clan by the numbers.

9 The number of original members of

Wu-Tang Clan: RZA, GZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa.

According to the philosophy of the FivePercent Nation, a Malcolm X-influenced offshoot of the Nation of Islam members adopted, the number 9 means “to bring into existence.” Famously, when de facto leader RZA negotiated Wu-Tang Clan’s record deal with Loud/RCA, he made sure all nine members could sign their own individual contracts with the label of their choosing.

2 The number of Wu-Tang

FILM Burt Reynolds ARTS LIST ARTS Christopher Nitsche LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CALENDAR

WU-TANG CLAN,

BY THE NUMBERS Objectively assessing the ICONIC HIP HOP group’s international success often erratic, Ol’ Dirty Bastard dropped dead in Wu-Tang’s recording studio in 2004 after an accidental drug overdose.

He attracted media (and police) attention far more than any other members. In 1996, he took two of seven kids in a limousine to a New York State welfare office to cash a $375 welfare check and receive food stamps, all of it documented

by MTV. In 1998, he and a friend rescued a 4-year-old girl from the wreckage of a car accident; the next night, Ol’ Dirty Bastard rushed the stage at the 1998 Grammy Awards and delivered the infamous line, “Wu-Tang is for the children.” After ODB died, longtime affiliate Cappadonna was officially inducted into the Wu-Tang Clan after 2007 album 8 Diagrams to bring number of members back to nine.

members, you get 36 Chambers, subtitle of the landmark debut album. The group borrowed that and much of the album’s cinematic interludes and overarching themes from a 1978 kung-fu film, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, which stated that though the human body has 108 pressure points (1+ 0 + 8 = 9), experienced martial artists know only 36 are deadly (9 + 36 = 45; 4 + 5 = 9).

30,000 The number of copies of

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) sold in the first week it dropped in November 1993, a surprising success given the raw production and Wu-Tang Clan’s lack of radio or MTV airplay. Within two years, Enter was certified platinum, selling more than 2,000,000 copies worldwide.

36 A human heart has four chambers. 0 Total number of chart-topping singles If you multiply four chambers times nine

released by Wu-Tang Clan in its nearly

30 years. The closest to No. 1 was 1997’s “Triumph,” which hit No. 6 on the U.S. Rap charts, and 1993’s “C.R.E.A.M.,” the first release on Loud/RCA Records, which hit No. 8. The only two of seven studio albums to top any charts were 1997’s Wu-Tang Forever, which reached No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart and the U.S. R&B chart before selling 8.3 million copies; 2000’s The W also topped the U.S. R&B chart.

300 Total production cost of Wu-

Tang Clan’s debut single, “Protect Ya Neck,” in December 1992. That included studio time for all eight members on the giddy, chorus-free posse track, along with a scuzzy music video that looks like your pal shot it on his mom’s handheld video cam.

76 Total number of studio albums

released by 10 core Wu-Tang Clan members, 1991-2017. It includes collaborative and group albums, but not compilation albums, mixtapes or EPs. Leading the charge is honey-voiced rapper Ghostface Killah, who’s released 16 of his own records–including perhaps the farthest-ranging in the Wu-Tang orbit, a collaboration with Canadian jazz group BADBADNOTGOOD–since his 1996 solo debut, Ironman.

385 Estimate of the number of

albums released since 1994 by affiliated artists, endorsed, produced or promoted by core members, from major-label masterpieces like Killah Priest’s 1998 Heavy Mental to Buddha Monk’s ongoing Zu-Chronicles series, up to Volume 7.

∞

Barring a climatechange-induced apocalypse, the likely number of years Wu-Tang Clan and its influence will remain on Earth. After decades of mainstream pop desperately trying to co-opt hip hop, the arrival of WuTang Clan sent a warning shot that still echoes today. “If you keep eating McDonald’s, you gonna get sick,” RZA explained during a 2013 NPR interview celebrating 20 years of Enter the Wu-Tang. “You need a real home-cooked meal. I knew that that would be healthier. And that’s what Wu-Tang was: a home-cooked meal of hip hop.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

Clan members who were incarcerated during the landmark recording sessions for Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Many diehard fans question the status of U-God and Masta Killa, because they were locked up while most of the album was tracked. Still, RZA, who produced the entire record and managed all aspects of Wu-Tang Clan’s existence for years, made sure to include both rappers on deep-cut “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’,” with Masta Killa delivering the classic final verse.

1 The number of Wu-Tang

Clan members who have died.

Famously rambunctious and WU-TANG CLAN • 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 209-3746, staugamphitheatre.com, $55-$89

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hough Burt Reynolds began his career on TV shows in the late ’50s (mostly Westerns) before moving up to the big screen in the ’60s (also mostly Westerns), it was the 1970s that was the Golden Decade for the handsome actor. The movies (many quite good) came fast and furious, like Deliverance (his best ever), The Longest Yard, Starting Over, and Woody Allen’s Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask).

In that last one, he was a switchboard operator in charge of jettisoning the sperm.

In 1972, he became a pop culture icon, posing nearly nude in a Cosmopolitan centerfold, a bad move he later regretted, like other mistakes in his life and career. The Last Movie Star, his final starring role, is based on fictional actor Vic Edwards who, like the reallife Burt, is in his early 80s, mostly forgotten, lonely and full of regret.

Written and directed by Adam Rifkin, the film opens with a ’70s clip of David Frost interviewing virile, young Reynolds (as Vic) at his most popular and most charming. Cut to a close-up of an aged, life-worn Vic. The camera draws back; he’s in a veterinarian’s office with a similarly aged dachshund in his lap.

The prognosis is not good.

Returning alone to his empty, sprawling house, Vic finds an invitation to an International Nashville Film Festival, where he’s to be given a Lifetime Achievement Award. Following in the steps of Eastwood, De Niro and others (or so Vic mistakenly thinks), he hobbles through the Nashville airport, expecting to be picked up in a limousine.

Instead, his ride is a junker driven by his guide for the weekend festivities, tattooed, multipierced Lil (Ariel Winter), a young woman whose brother organized the festival.

What ensues is both a touching and comic odyssey through Vic’s life and the fabled career of the now-faded actor playing him.

When Vic learns the International Festival is in truth a showing of his films on a makeshift screen in the back room of a bar lounge, he ignores the fact that the folks there are still adoring fans. Rude, arrogant, drunk, he ditches them and splits with a reluctant Lil for a nostalgic trip to Knoxville, his hometown.

Vic’s sunset odyssey into the past recalls aspects of Reynolds’ life and career, but uninformed viewers should know there are distinct differences. Vic might be based on Reynolds, but he’s not Reynolds.

Both were college football stars whose gridiron hopes ended due to injuries; both

Burt Reynolds’ movie roles RAN THE GAMUT

had many high-profile relationships, like most movie stars. In fact, Vic tops Burt. Reynolds was married twice; Vic’s alimony payments go to five ex-wives. Vic claims to have bedded nearly everyone within reach; not counting his two marriages, Reynolds was noted for his lengthy liaisons with Dinah Shore and Sally Fields (the professed love of his life).

Nor did Burt Reynolds change his ancestry or his real name, just shortening Burton to Burt. Writer/director Rifkin, who’s Jewish, gives his fictional movie star that heritage, maybe to emphasize how far Vic had left his real self to be a star.

Vic’s greatest regret is abandoning first wife Claudia (Kathleen Nolan) and their only child for fame and fortune. One tender moment is a reunion with Claudia, now suffering from Alzheimer’s. Closing the Film Festival is a clip from Gunsmoke, with the young Noland and Reynolds.

Still contrasting present and past, Rifkin shows clips from Smokey and the Bandit and Deliverance, edited to suggest Vic is communing with his fictional personae. It’s a clever ploy, since those two films juxtapose the two poles of Reynolds’ career. Deliverance was the apex, the best example of a powerhouse actor. Smokey, a huge hit, with charming and superficial Reynolds, spawned subpar groaners like Stroker Ace and The Cannonball Run. In the end, Burt Reynolds was a far better man and better actor than this fictional star.

The Last Movie Star is a tribute to his selfawareness and his never-failing sense of humor.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Puzzle and Custody screen. Throwback Thursday is The Tillman Story, screening noon Oct. 4. Scotty & the Secret History of Hollywood and The Wife start Oct. 5. Scary Movie runs 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7. Corazon Cinema & Café, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.

IMAX THEATER The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Great Barrier Reef and America’s Musical Journey 3D screen. Venom starts Oct. 4. Room on the Broom, check website for showtimes. World Golf Hall of Fame, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.

SUN-RAY CINEMA Science Fair, A Simple Favor, Lizzie and Assassination Nation screen. Mantangi/ Maya/M.I.A. runs Oct. 3. A Star is Born starts Oct. 4. Haxan runs Oct. 5; Jamie Saft is on hand to perform his new score live. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein runs Oct. 6. 1028 Park St., 359-0049, sunraycinema.com.

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Dec. 16, Dashing Through the Snow, at 544 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. Age range for roles is twenties to sixties.

ROWITA & JR. ROWITA FELLOWSHIPS Literary, performance and visual arts fellowships available for graduating 12thgrade and home-schooled female students. Deadline Dec. 1; eligibility and application details at stjohnsculture.com.

ART FIELDS Submit works for an arts event in Lake City, S.C., with cash prizes (one can’t help but think of Art Prize).

Submission deadline Nov. 5, artfieldssc.org.

ART WALKS & MARKETS

We just wanna watch the news with this smart, informed funnyman (and author), D.L. HUGHLEY, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 4; 7:30 & 10 p.m. Oct. 5 & 6; 7 p.m. Oct. 7, The Comedy Zone, Mandarin, comedyzone.com, $35-$70.

PERFORMANCE

MAMMA MIA! A young woman searches for her birth father, oddly accompanied by hit songs by Swedish pop group Abba; 7 p.m. Oct. 4, 5 & 6, St. Augustine Hugh School, 3205 Varella Ave., historiccoastculture.com, $10 students, $15 adults.

CABARET It’s back to Berlin we go! Divine decadence, darling, onstage 7:30 p.m. every Thur., Fri. & Sat., 2 p.m. every Sun. through Oct. 21, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, $15, limelight-theatre.org.

THE COLOR PURPLE See Celie’s joy when she finally feels like the wondrous woman she’s always been. 8 p.m. Oct. 4-6, 12 & 13, 2 p.m. Oct. 7 & 14, Players by the Sea, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, playersbythesea.org, $25-$28.

RIPCORD Roommates can suck, more so if you’re an old bat; senior Abby wants to be rid of an offensive roomie, 8 p.m.

Oct. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 & 13, 2 p.m. Oct. 7, Amelia Community Theatre, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina, 261-6749; $15-$25, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

EAST OF THE SUN & WEST OF THE MOON In collaboration with Strangemen Theatre Company, D.A. School of the Arts mounts the play, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11-13 & 17-20, Blackbox Theatre, 2445 San Diego Rd., datheatreboosters.org.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & POETRY

JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY STRING QUARTET The quartet performs 5:30 & 6:15 p.m. Oct. 3, Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free.

CIVIC ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE A community benefit features food, wine and music, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 4, Garden Club of Jacksonville, 1005 Riverside Ave., $100, proceeds benefit Civic Orchestra, civicorchestrajax.org.

JAZZ FACULTY IN CONCERT Original compositions and arrangements, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, ju.edu/cfa.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD A one-act opera directed by Dr. Tyler Alessi, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5 & 6; 3 p.m. Oct. 7, JU’s Alexander Brest Gallery, ju.edu/cfa, free.

4U A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION OF PRINCE Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra, directed by Questlove, celebrates the multitalented musician, 8 p.m. Oct. 6, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com, $7.50-$45. Let’s go, let’s go crazy.

EMMA CONCERT ASSOCIATION SEASON OPENER The gala celebrates the 40th anniversary, with The Chris Thomas Band, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6, Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada St., 797-2800, emmaconcerts.com, $5-$40.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE I A free community concert, directed by Leon Anderson, 2 p.m. Oct. 7, Amelia Park, Fernandina, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.

BEN ADKINS & SEAMUS BLAKE The two musicians perform jazz legend Michael Brecker’s Time is of the Essence, 6 p.m.

Oct. 7, JU’s Terry Concert Hall, ju.edu/cfa, $5-$10.

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its season, 5 p.m. Oct. 7, St. John’s Cathedral, 246 E. Church St., Downtown, free, civicorchestrajax.org.

LES DEMERLE & BONNIE EISELE The couple performs for the bronze level and above Sponsors Party of Amelia Island Jazz Festival, 7 p.m. Oct. 8, Horizons Restaurant, 5477 First Coast Hwy., ameliaislandjazzfestival.com, $250.

DR. BILL PRINCE Prince and Doug Matthews play at a jazzy wine-tasting, 6 p.m. Oct. 9, Amelia Island Wine Company, 4924 First Coast Hwy., ameliaislandjazzfestival.com, $30.

JUMP, JIVE & WAIL The Dynamic Les DeMerle Little Big Band with Bonnie Eisele, Steve Strawley, Clarence Hines, Al Waters, Doug Matthews, Ernie Ealum, 7 p.m. Oct. 10, Sandbar, 910 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com, $30.

BARDS & BREWS Poets of all stripes “stretch their voices,” 9 p.m. Oct. 10, The Silver Cow, 929 Edgewood Ave. S., Murray Hill, free.

JOYFUL SOUNDS The University of North Florida’s Wind Symphony, Dr. Erin Bodnar conducting, plays works by Kevin Puts, Morten Lauridsen, Leonard Bernstein and Steven Bryant, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10, UNF’s Lazzara Hall, unf.edu, $10.

EL NINO & LATIN JAZZ KNIGHTS 7 p.m. Oct. 11, Sandbar & Kitchen, Fernandina, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com, $30.

COMEDY

MARTIN LAWRENCE All-around talent Lawrence tours with LIT AF Tour, Adele Givens, Michael Blackson, Rickey Smiley, Clayton Thomas, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $36-$122, ticketmaster.com.

GARY GULMAN Gulman’s Must Be Nice Tour swings through NEFla, 8 p.m. Oct. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, pvconcerthall.com, $43-$53.

EDDIE IZZARD The brilliant comic talks about his life, 8 p.m.

Oct. 9, Florida Theatre, floridatheatre.com, $49.50-$69.50.

D.L. HUGHLEY We just wanna watch the news with this smart, informed funnyman, (he’s also made the wonderful observation that if one can’t take a joke, that’s a “little self-indulgent”), 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4; 7:30 & 10 p.m. Oct. 5 & 6; 7 p.m. Oct. 7, The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, comedyzone.com, $35-$75.

BRUH MAN This comedian, actor and writer is best known for his role on Martin, he’s done lots of funny work. He’s here 8 p.m. Oct. 4 & 5; 7:30 & 10 p.m. Oct. 6, The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, jacksonvillecomedy.com, $23-$150.

ANDRE HOLLOWAY, VIC CLEVENGER Wordsmith and comic Holloway has performed worldwide; now he wants to make First Coast folks think. He’s on 8:30 p.m. Oct. 6, Jackie Knight’s Comedy Club, 828 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, thegypsycomedyclub.com, $12.

CALLS & WORKSHOPS

ABET AUDITION All Beaches Experimental Theatre auditions 2-4 p.m. Oct. 6, for its Christmas comedy staged Nov. 30-

FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK The sixth annual Oktoberfest is 5-10 p.m. Oct. 3, with Dan Witucki & the Heimatland Musikanten Band, Wunderbar Band, Double Down at The Landing, Drake Bell at 1904 Music Hall, Soulo Tri at Volstead, contests, tapping of the keg, carnival zone, art exhibits, info booths. 13+ hotspots open after 9 p.m.; 36+ participating venues, spanning 15 blocks in Downtown Jacksonville; downtownjacksonville.org, jacksonvilleartwalk.com.

ARTISAN MARKET 90+ local artisans offer handmade items, classes and workshops, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun., Coconut Barrel, 3175 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine, 484-8729, coconutbarrel.com.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local/regional art, produce, live music–MJBaker, The WillowWacks, Linzy Lauren Oct. 6–10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 6, under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE FARMERS MARKET Live music, baked goods, art, local produce, 8:30 a.m. every Sat., 1340 A1A S., 209-0367.

FERNANDINA BEACH MARKETPLACE Farmers, growers, vendors, local goods, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat., North Seventh Street, Historic District, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com.

JACKSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET Open daily dawn to dusk; art gallery, food, crafts, etc., 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com.

MUSEUMS

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine. Jiha Moon’s works, Double Welcome: Most Everyone is Mad Here, exhibit. Sound and drawing coalesce in Christine Sun Kim’s works; she discusses her career, 5-7 p.m. Oct. 9, Lewis Auditorium, flagler.edu.

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. The Lost Bird Project, through Oct. 21. Fields of Color: The Art of Japanese Printmaking, through Nov. 25.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. Gideon Mendel: Drowning World exhibits. The Atrium Project is Claire Ashley’s Close Encounters: Adam’s Madam. A World of Their Own, a collaboration with Art with a Heart in Healthcare, through Dec. 2. Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking opens 5 p.m. Oct. 5.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, 396-6674, themosh.org. Hall of Heroes is open.

Mission: Jax Genius, 12 local makers encourage curiosity, interactivity and feedback.

GALLERIES

ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, ju.edu. Artist Christopher Nitsche explores Passage/Memory/Transition through archetypal ship/vessel forms, opens 5-7 p.m. Oct. 4.

THE ART CENTER COOPERATIVE At The Landing, Downtown, tac.org. Contrasts displays through Oct. 6 in The Annex.

Annelies Dykgraaf is October’s featured artist.

BOLD BEAN SAN MARCO 1905 Hendricks Ave., 853-6545.

Artist Brook Ramsey exhibits large figurative oil paintings.

BREW 5 POINTS 1024 Park St., 374-5789. Michelle Daily presents new works through October.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Mandarin, floridamininggallery.com. The exhibit OSSACHITE MOCAMA, works by Marcus Kenney, Jim Draper, Ambler Hutchinson, Ashley Woodson Bailey, Chip Southworth, Jamied Ferrin, Alex Meiser, Ke Francis, Dustin Harewood, Thony Aiuppy, Hiromi Moneyhun, Jason John, Blair Hakimiam, Eduardo Sarmiento, are on display.

MOON RIVER PIZZA 1176 Edgewood Ave., Murray Hill, keithdoles.com. Keith Doles’ new works, Soft Opening: Self Titled, exhibit.

MAIN LIBRARY MAKERSPACE 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, jaxpubliclibrary.org/jax-makerspace. A Tale of My City, through Oct. 21.

RAIN DOGS 1045 Park St., 5 Points, 379-4969. Honeyed Branches, works of Kevin Arthur, Justin Brosten, Ana Kamiar and Carolyn Jernigan, through November.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 1 Independent Dr., Downtown. Eloy Castroverde displays new works in Wildlife in Focus.

SPACE 42 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, spacefortytwo.com.

Artist and Community Foundation Individual Artist Grant awardee Elena Øhlander’s show, Hatenai Yume (Endless Dream) through Oct. 18.

THE YELLOW HOUSE 577 King St., Riverside, 419-9180, yellowhouseart.org. Suffrage, socially impactful design and illustration by world-renowned political cartoonist Ed Hall, dozens of female and gender non-conforming designers from Jacksonville, and a selection from the national traveling exhibit Power to the Polls, opens 6 p.m. Oct. 9.

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ARTISTS & WORLD WAR I: BEHIND THE LINES The second installment in the lecture series about the Great War’s impact on 20th-century artists and art, 1:30 p.m. Oct. 4, Cummer Museum, cummermuseum.org.

A TASTE OF THE PHILIPPINES The food-centric celebration features local Filipino-American fare, 5:30-9 p.m. Oct. 4, MOSH, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, themosh.org, $45.

EDITH LEDERER The United Nations’ chief correspondent speaks, 7 p.m. Oct. 4, Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium, flagler.edu.

HOORAY FOR HOOTERS Celebrate Hooters’ 35th Anniversary, with a DJ, drink & food specials, giveaways, 7-10 p.m. Oct. 4, Jax Landing courtyard & inside Hooters, Ste. 103, 356-5400, hooters.com.

LEGALLY SPEAKING LECTURE SERIES Attorney Megan Wall discusses “Spouse in a Nursing Home? Do You Have to Go Broke?” at 10 a.m. Oct. 5, River House, 179 Marine St., St. Augustine, 209-3655, free, stjohnscoa.com.

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE The Cummer lecture series continues, 6 p.m. Oct. 5, Beaches Museum Chapel, 505 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, members free, $5 donation nonmembers, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org.

INTO ORBIT with ANDY HOWELL Scientist Howell leads a group studying supernovae and dark energy at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. He shares his research, and consulting work for movies, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5, Space 42, 2670 Phyllis St., Riverside, eventbrite.com, $125.

THE MAD HATTER’S FALL FESTIVAL & VENDORS’ MARKET More than 30 vendors of vintage and handmade items; food, beverages, music, Wonderland characters, photo ops and “good infectious energy,” 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 6, Riverside Park, 753 Park St., eventbrite.com, $12.61.

OKTOBERFEST ON MAIN STREET Beer flows like wine and we all wear lederhosen and dirndls; this event takes festing to the streets of Springfield, 3 p.m. Oct. 6, Main Street.

CARDBOARD CHALLENGE DAY OF PLAY Here’s your chance to transform cardboard into unique, fun, and creative designs, noon-2 p.m. Oct. 6, Jax Makerspace, Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, free.

TWO SPOONS OF BITTER Sonja Monger reads from and signs copies of her new book, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 6, San Marco Bookstore, 1971 San Marco Blvd., 396-7597.

HISTORY REVEALED The story of Jacksonville’s racial past and the Confederate statues that commemorate it, 1-3 p.m. Oct. 6, Hemming Park, 135 W. Monroe St., Downtown, facebook.com/events.

TSI OKTOBERFEST/BIERFEST The ninth annual fest is an Urban Core tradition, “the most authentic Oktoberfest party in town.” Huge selection of Bavarian beers, authentic fare and drinking games, noon-mid., Oct. 6, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield.

MOM HUGS Get out and get or give some love, Mom Hugs for whoever needs them, 2 p.m. Oct. 6, 5 Points, Riverside.

BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL The inaugural fest features Backwater Bluegrass, Brett Bass & Melted Plectrum and The Grascals, a beer garden, bounce houses, hayrides, petting zoo, squaredancing, 3-7 p.m. Oct. 6, Orange Park Mall, 1910 Wells Rd., 269-2422, free; Southern Rhythm Cloggers perform.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS v. NEW YORK JETS More and more football, huzzah! Go, Jags! 1 p.m. Oct. 7, TIAA Bank Field, Northbank, ticketmaster.com, $44 and up.

RIVER CITY PRIDE Break out the rainbow gear and grab a camera for the 40th anniversary of River City Pride, 11 a.m.8 p.m. Oct. 7, Riverside Artists Square, 715 Riverside Ave. THE FLYING ACE Norman Studios screens this classic made in 1926–a black-and-white silent film with an all AfricanAmerican cast, 1 p.m. Oct. 7; a directors’ Q&A follows, Main Library, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown.

RIVER HOUSE BOOK CLUB This month’s book, Julia SpencerFleming’s In the Bleak Midwinter, is discussed 3 p.m. Oct. 9, 179 Marine St., St. Augustine, 209-3655, free, stjohnscoa.com.

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relic is a judgment demanded of the viewer. hether one is landlocked or raised on the Nitsche has collected timbers from the water, the image of a ship evokes myriad aftermaths of Hurricanes Mathew and Irma; ideas. For artist Christopher Nitsche, the flea markets are stops on his search; Jacksonville vessels are used to explore “memory, passages, Humane Society’s Thrift Store is a favorite. He waking dreams and transitional states.” Nitsche’s goes “steel digging” in the metal salvage yards of new exhibit at Jacksonville University, fittingly Asheville, where his daughter attends school. titled Passage/Memory/Transition, includes 2D “Based on experience, and the step-byand sculptural work, and the large-scale, sitestep path I’ve chosen in creating my art, the specific installation Liminal Ship. first criteria is, ‘What is the object’s potential “The title itself is all-encompassing,” says meaning, and can I get a lot of it?’,” he explains.

Nitsche. “I’m using all three galleries. The first “My studio is filled with dozens of containers, gallery is going to have some pedestal and wall sculptures, some steel, some mixed-media, as carefully labeled with accrued toys and objects. well as concept drawings for helping plan out Depending on where my mind is, and the the installation itself. The installation will be in amount of desired pieces, a sculpture is born.” the second and third galleries. It’s site-specific to While on a much smaller scale than his Christopher Nitsche’s the space, to pass through the connecting wall installations, Nitsche notes that his sculptures PASSAGE/MEMORY/TRANSITION between the second and third gallery spaces.” still share parallel, similar concepts. “The Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Oct. 4, Jacksonville A former civil engineer design drafter, mixed-media, found-object sculptures have University’s Alexander Brest Gallery, ju.edu/cfa Nitsche used 3D Rhino to measure the gallery meaning in the choice of materials. These works and design the ship’s layout. “When I was a civil are like dense-packed cargo holds, where toys engineer, I had that experience of taking a site, and household items play off each other in “For those who feel like sailing is the only thing surveying it and getting a feel … to come up ironic and satirical associations.” they want to do? I can really understand that.” with an idea of a good work to go in ‘there.’ Each As part of what he calls his “continuum” Nitsche’s nautical experience and resulting installation is specific to its locale. For some Flora and Fauna series, the piece Like Cats and consciousness are aesthetic. “I find the form works, I like to say site-responsive.”

Dogs is indicative of a more humorous merger beautiful. From the bow view, it’s a majestic Nitsche estimates that from bow point to of found objects, universal signifiers and the angular presence. I try to mimic some of these bow point, Liminal will measure between 35 omnipresent ship form. “That piece and series qualities in my installations and sculptures.” and 38 feet. Over the course of the summer, are dense-packed wall pieces, toy-like things, He concedes working sailing into his art is he did prefabrication of the framework which that have irony and levels of satire.” conceptual. “The presence of boats and ships will become the installation. He also gathered Like Cats and Dogs is a compressed grouping is attached to almost every culture. It is in lumber, which was then repurposed. “The two of toys in various poses, smashed into a crowded navigation and travel, but also as ceremonial halves will be distinctively different; since it’s mob of recognizable brands (Garfield, Hello crafts, such as rowing the dead to the next dealing with aspects of associated memory but Kitty, Scooby Doo) and lesser-known items. The spiritual plane. So the ship is a carrier of cargo, also a passage or a transition.” effect is innocent and menacing; colors, limbs passage, soul and memories.”

For the installation, artist and JU associate and smiles are seen amid this clot of fun items Nitsche first used ship-as-metaphor some 20 professor Jim Benedict and JU visual art crammed in a claustrophobic knot, molded years ago. “It began when my wife and I lived in students will assist Nitsche. “It’s a teaching within a ship-shaped form. the mountains in western New Mexico after I got experience as well,” says Nitsche, who’s spent “For that piece, I was thinking about my MFA from the University of New Mexico. the past decade-plus as a Savannah College the current political travails. There’s always I wanted a focus to my art, and ships, with my of Art & Design professor. “And I love when I something immediate that fires up the creation understanding of the form, seemed a perfect fit. have students involved to see what it’s like to of that work. Irony, satire and wordplay—I can I started building forms on our land, with native conceptualize this thing and to realize it.” invoke some thoughts and feelings that are natural materials. Living far from water let me personal or draw universal. Any of these objects explore the ship form as a metaphorical vehicle Nitsche has had great success in this speak beyond ‘what they are.’ They transcend without literal associations to the sea.” realization of his work. Since the early ’80s, his themselves; that’s where I think there’s a parallel works have been in 50-plus group shows and Using what he calls “urban detritus” to build with the installations.”

25-plus solo shows, from Colorado and Los gives the works form. “Household throwaways The exhibit includes 2D pieces of graphite, Angeles to Japan and Serbia. A multi-awardare the indigenous material of urban society,” he acrylic and colored pencil, and welded works, and-grant recipient, his works ae showcased explains. “I have a profound interest in making which reveal a kind of morphed, freer take on in dozens of visual arts and mainstream media use of repurposed objects.” the ideas of memory and transition. “Those are outlets—elicitng a wide range of appeal.

At Savannah’s Ships of the Sea Maritime distinctive and this is where it really gets into “You know, of all people, children seem to Museum, the 2018 outdoor installation Away is flow, movement and passage. Some of these look naturally ‘get my work,’” he laughs. a junkyard of plastic bottles, buckets, cans and serpentine and like rivers and the form is really He says his art is “eclectic,” with myriad wiring, from a river. These literal 21st-century processes—mixed-media sculptures and castaways are suspended in a web hanging deconstructed—but they’re all ships to me.” drawings, found objects, welded steel and sitewithin a framework of lumber, which in turn This flowing and unrolling of personal and specific installations. rests within an cluster of trees. The overall effect universal timelines can be hard to articulate.

The symbol of the ship is a journey both is ghost-like, ruminative and environmental: Nitsche’s skills as a visual communicator, using allegorical and personal for Nitsche. Raised in a Whether the ship is “dead,” in motion, or a mere and arranging materials into forms and pieces, family of sailors in Northern deftly trigger the audience’s Illinois, Nitsche cites a personal recollections and “generational connection” to experiences. the water. His grandfather After decades of exploring was a sailor, his dad was a these concepts, Nitsche’s master sailor; his brother is journey of singular insight and a master sailor. engaging work continues. It’s “We lived right off Lake a voyage which he hopes the Michigan and had a small audience will join. boat, a Sunfish. It’s a tough “I ask a lot of the viewer lake to sail sometimes. I to spend some time with the didn’t have a need to be on pieces and ask, ‘Why are these the water, but the movement things here?’ Then they can of sailing is magical.” draw their own conclusions from that. From childhood The sensorial sailing to adulthood, there could experience steers most of be these things where any his work. “When you’re one viewer could draw their sailing, the passage is own meaning from this. It’s a patience. You’re at one with contemplative recollection that wind, water and weather.

I work with.”

Everything is connected; you really have to be in tune Daniel A. Brown with all of that,” he explains. mail@folioweekly.com The Way the Ox Bows (Welded found steel, lacquer finish, 32”x45”x3”; 2017)

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Christopher Nitsche fuses found objects to sail on the threshold of memory, transition and ‘EXTANT HISTORY’

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The Pride of Lubbock, American blues-rock singer-songwriter DELBERT McCLINTON takes the stage 8 p.m. Oct. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, pvconcerthall.com, $53-$73.

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VANS & BANDS BENEFIT 2 p.m. Oct. 6, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside, $5.

DANNY GOKEY, TAUREN WELLS, RILEY CLEMMONS 7 p.m.

Oct. 6, Times-Union Center (T-U Center), 300 Water St., Downtown, timesunioncenter.com, $17-$72.

CECE TENEAL, SOUL KOMOTION 6 p.m. Oct. 6, ProKitchen.

TSI OCTOBERFEST Noon-mid., Oct. 6, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield.

RANDOM TANDEM, BDW BAND 6 p.m. Oct. 6, Boondocks.

4U: A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION OF PRINCE: QUESTLOVE, MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON, BRENT FISCHER 8 p.m.

Oct. 6, The Florida Theatre (FlaThtr), 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, floridatheatre.com, $45-$75.

COREY KILGANNON, PAMELA ELAINE 8 p.m. Oct. 6, BlueJay, $20.

SHOVEL to the MOON, SOMEWHAT SUITABLE, BROTHERS, SIDECREEK, The BRIDGE STREET VIBE, The LAST SONS 7 p.m. Oct. 6, JackRabbs, $8.

WU-TANG CLAN (RZA, GZA, METHOD MAN, RAEKWON, GHOSTFACE KILLAH, U-GOD, INSPECTAH DECK, MASTA KILLA, CAPPADONNA) 7 p.m. Oct. 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre (StAugAmp), 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, $55-$89.

ADA VOX, BIMBO JONES Oct. 7, Jax Pride, Riverside.

(HED)PE 7 p.m. Oct. 7, 1904MH, $15-$18.

REVENGE SEASON, BLOODBATHER, EXIT STRATEGY 6 p.m.

Oct. 8, Nighthawks.

GHOST KEY, WAR of AGES, CAPSIZE 7 p.m. Oct. 8, Murray Hill Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave. S., 388-7807, murrayhilltheatre.com, $15-$20.

THEO MOON 6 p.m. Oct. 8, ProKitchen.

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AUTHORITY ZERO, RUNAWAY KID, INTHEWHALE, FLAG on FIRE 7 p.m. Oct. 9, JackRabbs, $15.

COLTON TRIO 6 p.m. Oct. 9, ProKitchen.

PAUL WANE 7 p.m. Oct. 10, Boondocks MIKE YUNG, JACKIE STRANGER, DYLAN GERARD 7 p.m. Oct. 10, JackRabbs, $15-$50.

TODD SNIDER, ROREY CARROLL Oct. 10, PVCHall The BLIND SPOTS, BORROMAKAT, SWINGER Oct. 10, RainDogs AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 5:30 p.m. Oct. 10, ProKitchen.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

BENISE FUEGO Oct. 11, FlaThtr PETER BRADLEY ADAMS Oct. 11, Café11 COWFORD STRING TRIO, DENTION Oct. 11, ProKitchen SPAYED KOOLIE Oct. 11, JackRabbs FISH OUT of WATER Oct. 11, Rags Suwannee Roots Revival: KELLER WILLIAMS’ PETTYGRASS, The HILLBENDERS, DONNA the BUFFALO, JIM LAUDERDALE, LONELY HEARTSTRING BAND, The LEE BOYS, The SAUCE BOSS, BELLE & the BAND Oct. 11-14, SwanneeMusic RANKY TANKY Oct. 12, Ritz Theatre AMY HENDRICKSON, The FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL Oct. 12, ProKitchen WALTER PARKS Oct. 12, BlueJay CIARAN SONTAG, CHRIS UNDERAL, CHELSEY CONNELLY Oct. 12, Boondocks ROOTS of REBELLION, LITTLE STRANGER Oct. 12, JackRabbs GENE WATSON, LARRY MANGUM Oct. 13, PVCHall JIVE KATS, ROOTS of REBELLION Oct. 13, ProKitchen FILMORE, WADE B Oct. 13, 1904MH ERIC COLLETTE, STEVE CREWS Oct. 13, Boondocks MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Oct. 13, FlaThtr 50 Intimate Nights: MAXWELL Oct. 13, T-U Ctr ALL GIRL COLLECTIVE HALLOWEEN PARTY Oct. 13, Nighthawks PANDORA & HER BOX Oct. 13, JackRabbs IRATION, COMMON KINGS, KATASTRO Oct. 13, StAugAmp WILLIE GREEN’s 83rd Birthday Blues Bash Oct. 13, Cafe11 Manny Manuel, Caribbean Groove Oct. 13, Jax Landing ISRAEL & NEW BREED Oct. 13, Murray Hill Theatre Second Sunday at Stetson’s: LARRY MANGUM, AL POINDEXTER, PAUL GARFINKEL Oct. 14, Beluthahatchee Park The VEER UNION, ONCE AROUND Oct. 14, Nighthawks WEEN Oct. 14, StAugAmp STEEP CANYON RANGERS Oct. 14, FlaThtr GLASS HOUSES, SINK the SHIP, DROWNING ABOVE WATER, INDIVISION, A WOLF AMONGST SHEEP Oct. 15, JackRabbs FULL of HELL, OUTER HEAVEN, YASHIRA Oct. 15, Nighthawks MUNDY Oct. 16, Culhane’s Irish Pub ANDERSON EAST, SAVANNAH CONLEY Oct. 16, Mavericks WINEHOUSED: Benefit Celebrating Amy Winehouse Oct. 16, ProKitchen LILLIE MAE Oct. 17, JackRabbs SAWYER FREDERICKS, VIOLET BELL Oct. 17, Cafe11 PSYCHOTIC REACTION Oct. 17, Shantytown The STRUTS, WHITE REAPER, SPIRIT ANIMAL Oct. 17, Mavericks

The FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, KIM WILSON Oct. 18, PVCHall LITTLE MIKE & the TORNADOES Oct. 18, Rags TREVOR BYSTROM, The SPACE HEATERS Oct. 18, ProKitchen SUN DRIED VIBES, The RIES BROTHERS, OOGEE WAWA Oct. 18, Cafe11 KNOCKED LOOSE, YOUNG GHOSTS Oct. 18, Nighthawks HALLOW POINT Oct. 18, JackRabbs JOHN PAPA GROS Oct. 18, 1904MH BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Oct. 19, StAugAmp KAT HALL ACOUSTIC, CHILLULA Oct. 19, ProKitchen TANKHEAD, RATCHET ROACH Oct. 19, Nighthawks BOB LOG III, SECRET CIGS Oct. 19, JackRabbs MEAN MARY & FRANK JAMES Oct. 19, Mudville RITMO Y SABOR Oct. 19, Jax Landing COLT FORD Oct. 19, PVCHall SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY Oct. 19, SwanneeMusic MATT HIRES, J.D. EICHER, DAN RODRIGUEZ Oct. 20, JackRabbs SALT & PINE, LUV U Oct. 20, ProKitchen BRETT ELDRIDGE, ABBY ANDERSON Oct. 20, Dailys DEATH CAB for CUTIE, CHARLY BLISS Oct. 20, StAugAmp THRIFTWORKS, BIT DEFF Oct. 20, 1904MH NOSELF, OTHERWORLD, BLEEDING IN STEREO, RUFFIANS Oct. 20, Jax Landing The BREEDERS, MELKBELLY Oct. 20, PVCHall DOYLE, AS WE DIE, WORLD ABOMINATION Oct. 21, Nighthawks ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD FAIR Oct. 21, StAugAmp SAM PACETTI Oct. 22, ProKitchen GRIFFIN HOUSE Oct. 23, Café11 KEVIN DRUMM, CREEP CITY Oct. 24, Sun-Ray Cinema NF PERCEPTION TOUR, NIGHTLY Oct. 24, StAugAmp The DUDE RANCH (Blink 182 cover) Oct. 24, Nighthawks WSTR, PVMNTS, HOLD CLOSE Oct. 25, 1904MH The SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY Oct. 25, T-U Ctr THUNDERPUSSY, DEMONS Oct. 26, JackRabbs MC CHRIS, DUAL CORE, LEX the LEXICON Oct. 26, Nighthawks Suwannee Hulaween: The STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, ODESZA JAMIOQUAI, JANELLE MONÁE, LETTUCE, TRAMPLED by TURTLES, STEPHEN MARLEY, DR. DOG, MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, MAVIS STAPLES, TURKUAZ, GALACTIC, YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, BUSTLE in YOUR HEDGEROW, LARRY KEEL & FRIENDS, ROOSEVELT COLLIER BAND, The FRITZ, COME BACK ALICE, HOLEY MISS MOLEY, MELODY TRICKS BAND, HONEY HOUNDS Oct. 26-28, SwanneeMusic ALICE in CHAINS Oct. 26, StAugAmp MAX WEINBERG’S JUKEBOX Oct. 26, PVCHall J CREW BAND Oct. 26 & 27, FlyIguana The BLEU CATS, BE EASY DUO Oct. 26, ProKitchen DWEEZIL ZAPPA Oct. 27, PVCHall BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM Oct. 27, Seachasers CHASE ATLANTIC Oct. 27, JackRabbs The RAISIN CAKE ORCHESTRA, RAMONA BAND Oct. 27, ProKitchen MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD, DUSTIN THOMAS, VICTORIA CANAL Oct. 27, StAugAmp CURSIVE, MEAT WAVE, CAMPDOGZZ Oct. 28, JackRabbs DECENT CRIMINAL, WESTERN SETTING Oct. 29, JackRabbs

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Hardcore band GHOST KEY plays with War of Ages and Capsize, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8, Murray Hill Theatre, murrayhilltheatre.com, $15-$20.

GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. Wed. Michael Smith Thur. Milton Clapp Fri. LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Hello Celia Oct. 5. Solar Tide 6 p.m., 5 O’Clock Shadow Oct. 6. Different Folk every Fri. MEZZA, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger 6 p.m.

Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer 6 p.m. Thur.

Mezza House Band 6 p.m. Mon. Trevor Tanner 6 p.m. Tue. MOJO Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Eric Lindell 9 p.m. Oct. 4 POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637 Kalani Rose 7 p.m. every Thur.

RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Neil Dixon Oct. 3. Mark Dennison Oct. 4. 7th Street Band Oct. 5.

Party Cartel Oct. 6. Fish Out of Water Oct. 11 SAFE HARBOR, 2510 Second Ave. N., 479-3474 Ace Winn 5 p.m. Oct. 5 SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444 Steal the Stage contests start Oct. 5. Battle of the Bands Oct. 6 SOUTHERN GROUNDS Courtyard, 200 First St., NB, 249-2922 Billy Bowers 6 p.m. Oct. 3 SURFER the Bar, 200 First St. N., 372-9756 Matt Henderson Oct. 3. Thelem, Perkulator, Serious Jorge 9 p.m.

Oct. 4. South City Live Oct. 6. Colin Paterson Oct. 9 WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973 Vox Oct. 4. Boogie Freaks Oct. 5. Metro Band Oct. 6. Ryan Campbell Oct. 7. Cortnie & the Claw Oct. 9

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N., 345-5760 Drake Bell, Kira Kosarin 8 p.m. Oct. 3. Sadsongs Oct. 4. Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio, JP4, Ben Strok & the Full Electric 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Arch Enemy, Goatwhore, Uncured Oct. 6. (HED)PE Oct. 7 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon Thur.

DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Chuck Nash 8 p.m. Oct. 6 JAX Landing, 353-1188 Wunderbar Band, Double Down 5 p.m. Oct. 3. Hard 2 Handle 7 p.m. Oct. 5. Blues Bishop 7 p.m. Oct. 6. Highway Jones 5 p.m. Oct. 7. Spanky Oct. 11 MYTH, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 G-Rex Oct. 5. Sanctuary Oct. 6. Magic Mike Show Oct. 10 VOLSTEAD, 115 W. Adams, 414-3171 Soulo Trio Oct. 3.

Raisin Cake Orchestra Oct. 5. DJ Paten Locke Oct. 6.

Blackjack Oct. 8

FLEMING ISLAND

BOONDOCKS, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove, 406-9497 Steve Crews 6 p.m. Oct. 3. Redfish Rich Oct. 4. Random Tandem, BDW Band Oct. 6. Paul Wane Oct. 10 WHITEY’S, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music weekends

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 3 Llamas 9 p.m.

Oct. 3. Lift 9 p.m. Oct. 5. Second Shot 9 p.m. Oct. 6 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic, 220-6766 Sidewalk 65 9 p.m. Oct. 5

MANDARIN

ENZA’S, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Oct. 3, 7 & 9 IGGY’S, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, 209-5209 Milltown Road Oct. 3. Hank Norsworthy Oct. 4. Last Stand Oct. 5. Love Monkey Oct. 6. Hell or High Water Oct. 7

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

CHEERS, 1138 Park Ave., 269-4855 DJ Capone 9:30 p.m.

Oct. 3. Jason Evans Band 9:30 p.m. Oct. 5. Lift Oct. 6.

Honey Hounds Oct. 7 DALTON’S Sports Grill, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Callie Leigh 7 p.m. Oct. 4. Van Go 8 p.m. Oct. 5 The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael every Tue.-Sat. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 DJ Covert Oct. 4. DJ Keith every Tue.

PONTE VEDRA

FIONN MacCOOL’S, 145 Hilden Rd., Nocatee, 217-7021 Chuck Nash Oct. 6 MEDURE, 818 A1A, 543-3797 Color of Soul Oct. 5. Will Hurley Oct. 6 & 12 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Oct. 5 TAPS, 2220 C.R. 210, 819-1554 Stu Weaver 8 p.m. Oct. 3.

Chilly Rhino 9:30 p.m. Oct. 5

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Ghost Key, War of Ages, Capsize 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Vans & Bands Benefit Oct. 6. Revenge Season, Bloodbather, Exit Strategy, 187 6 p.m. Oct. 8 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 The Blind Spots, Borromakat, Swinger, Time 9 p.m. Oct. 10 RIVER & POST, 1000 Riverside Ave., 575-2366 Brenna Erickson Oct. 4 RIVERSIDE Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 MJBaker, The WillowWacks, Linzy Lauren Oct. 6

ST. AUGUSTINE

ARNOLD’S, 3912 U.S. 1, 824-8738 Jason Evans Band 9 p.m. Oct. 6 PROHIBITION Kitchen, 119 St. George St., 209-5704 The House Cats, South City Live 6 p.m. Oct. 5. Cece Teneal, Soul Komotion Oct. 6. Theo Moon Oct. 8. American Cancer Society Oct. 10 SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 Dancing with Ghosts 9 p.m. Oct. 3 TRADEWINDS, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Blistur Oct. 5&6

SAN MARCO

GRAPE & GRAIN Exchange, 2000 San Marco, 396-4455 Al Maniscalco Quartet Oct. 5 JACK RABBITS, 15280 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 ASG, Telekinetic Yeti 8 p.m. Oct. 4. Hoodie Allen Oct. 5. Shovel to the Moon, Somewhat Suitable, Brothers, Sidecreek, The Bridge Street Vibe, The Last Sons Oct. 6. Authority Zero, Runaway Kid, Inthewhale, Flag on Fire Oct. 9. Mike Yung, Jackie Stranger Oct. 10 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Jeff Bradley 7 p.m. Oct. 4. River City Rhythm Kings 7 p.m. Oct. 8

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Cortnie Frasier 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Ryan Campbell Oct. 6 VETERANS UNITED Craft Brewery, 8999 Western Way, 253-3326 Jesse Montoya 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Don’t Call Me Shirley 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Fireball 8 p.m. Oct. 6. Cliff Dorsey 8 p.m. Oct. 10

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

COPPER TOP Bar, 12405 N. Main St., Ste. 7, 551-4088 Jynxx 8 p.m. Oct. 5 CROOKED ROOSTER Brewery, 148 S. Sixth St., Macclenny, 653-2337 Beau Cats 6 p.m. Oct. 6 MAIN & SIX Brewing, 1636 N. Main, 374-4750 Songbook open mic 7 p.m. Oct. 5 PALMS Fish Camp, 6359 Heckscher Dr., 240-1672 Cassidy Lee Oct. 3. Taylor Shami Oct. 4. Bush Doctors Oct. 5. Mike Ward Oct. 7 SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth, 798-8222 TSI Oktoberfest noon Oct. 6. Forsaken Profits Oct. 7

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC WILLOWWACKS Oct. 29, ProKitchen LIL DICKY, MUSTARD, OLIVER TREE Oct. 29, StAugAmp PALE WAVES, The CANDESCENTS Oct. 30, JackRabbs ASLYN & the NAYSAYERS Oct. 30, ProKitchen The FAZE BAND Oct. 31, Rags TRAE PIERCE & the T-STONES Oct. 31, ProKitchen CUSTARD PIE Nov. 1, Nighthawks RUMOURS of FLEETWOOD MAC Nov. 1, FlaThtr NEWSONG, POINT of GRACE, AVALON Nov. 1, Trinity Baptist ASSUMING WE SURVIVE, RIOT CHILD, DOSE Nov. 1, JackRabbs SAN HOLO, BAYNK Nov. 2, Mavericks MOON HOOCH, LESPECIAL Nov. 2, JackRabbs BRETT DENNEN, NICK MULVEY Nov. 2, PVCHall 5 O’CLOCK SHADOW Nov. 2 & 3, FlyIguana TOTO Nov. 3, FlaThtr DAVID BALL, PELLICER CREEK BAND Nov. 3, StAugAmp Big Bad Blues Tour: BILLY F GIBBONS, MATT SORUM, AUSTIN HANKS, ELWOOD FRANCIS Nov. 3, PVCHall BUMPIN’ UGLIES, TROPIDELIC Nov. 3, JackRabbs SOMO Nov. 3, 1904MH BLUE OCTOBER, KITTEN Nov. 4, Mavericks BAD BAD HATS, PARTY NAILS Nov. 5, JackRabbs JASON BONHAM’S Led Zeppelin Evening Nov. 7, FlaThtr WANYAMA Nov. 7, JackRabbs AMY RAY & her Band, DANIELLE HOWLE BAND Nov. 8, PVCHall RIVERHAWK MUSIC FESTIVAL Nov. 8-11, Brooksville JAKOB’S FERRY STRAGGLERS Nov. 8, Mudville RBRM: RONNIE DEVOE, BOBBY BROWN, RICKY BELL, MICHAEL BLIVINS Nov. 9, VetsMemArena AQUEOUS, The HEAVYPETS Nov. 9, JackRabbs JASON CRABB Nov. 9, Murray Hill Theatre SISTER HAZEL Nov. 9, PVCHall BOOGIE FREAKS Nov. 9 & 10, Rags New Queen of the Blues: SHEMEKIA COPELAND Nov. 10, PVCHall MOLLY HATCHET 40th Anniversary Concert Benefit St. Michael’s Soldiers Nov. 10, Thrasher-Horne Center PROF, MAC IRV, DWYNELL ROLAND, WILLIE WONKA Nov. 10, JackRabbs VINCE GILL Nov. 11, StAugAmp OTTMAR LIEBERT & LUNA NEGRA Nov. 11, PVCHall JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL Nov. 11, Café11 ZAHIRA & RISING BUFFALO TRIBE Nov. 13, Café11 BIG GIGANTIC, FLAMINGOSIS Nov. 14, Mavericks JYNX & RVNT Nov. 14, Nighthawks MAGIC CITY HIPPIES, BAY LEDGES Nov. 15, JackRabbs KATHLEEN MADIGAN Nov. 15, FlaThtr Independent Grind Tour: TECH N9NE, DIZZY WRIGHT, FUTURISTIC, DENVER HALL Nov. 16, Mavericks MICHAEL GRAVES Nov. 16, Nighthawks MIKE ZITO LIVE Nov. 17, Mojo Kitchen PJ MORTON, GRACE WEBER Nov. 17, JackRabbs The PAUL LUNDGREN BAND Nov. 17, Rags NEW POLITICS, The SCORE, BIKINI THRILL Nov. 19, JackRabbs STEPHEN STILLS, JUDY COLLINS Nov. 19, FlaThtr MAYDAY PARADE, THIS WILD LIFE, WILLIAM RYAN KEY, OH WEATHERLY Nov. 20, Mavericks MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS by CHIP DAVIS Nov. 20, T-UCtr BENJI BROWN Nov. 23, FlaThtr CLOUD 9 Nov. 23 & 24, Rags MARTINA McBRIDE Nov. 24, FlaThtr ATMOSPHERE, deM ATLAS, The LIONESS, DJ KEEZY Nov. 25, PVCHall OSHUN, GEEXELLA Nov. 27, JackRabbs MARC BROUSSARD & his Band, KRISTOPHER JAMES Nov. 29, PVCHall DAVE KOZ, MINDI ABAIR, JONATHAN BUTLER, KEIKO MATSUI Nov. 29, FlaThtr PERPETUAL GROOVE Nov. 29, JackRabbs OLD DOMINION, MICHAEL RAY, HIGH VALLEY Nov. 30, StAugAmp YUNG PINCH Nov. 30, JackRabbs GHOST: PALE DEATH TOUR Dec. 1, FlaThtr JJ GREY, BAY STREET BAND, MILLAJOHN’S BLUE SOUL Dec. 1, Congaree & Penn Farm The Big Ticket: WEEZER, FOSTER the PEOPLE, AJR, GRANDSON, MEG MYERS Dec. 1, Dailys The FRITZ Dec. 1, 1904MH MOE. Dec. 2, PVCHall EVERY TIME I DIE, TURNSTILE, ANGEL DUST VEIN Dec. 5, 1904MH KUNG FU, SIDE HUSTLE Dec. 6, JackRabbs LAUREN DAIGLE Dec. 6, T-U Ctr LEIGH NASH Dec. 6, Cafe11 BRONCHO, YIP DECEIVER Dec. 7, JackRabbs MANDY HARVEY Dec. 8, RitzTheatre SETH WALKER Dec. 8, BlueJay BALLYHOO, PROPAGANJAH Dec. 8, JackRabbs IRIS DEMENT, PIETA BROWN Dec. 8, PVCHall HOME FREE Dec. 9, FlaThtr PETER WHITE, RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, PVCHall MICHAEL W. SMITH Dec. 11, FlaThtr TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 13, VetsMemArena KENNY G Dec. 13, FlaThtr BREAKING THROUGH, BLEEDING in STEREO, SUNSHINE & BULLETS, COPPERBONES, MINDSLIP, LOWRCASE G, MARION CRANE, DARK SUMMER, NO SELF, BURDEN AFFINITY, BROKEN SILENCE, FALLEN SONS Dec. 15, Mavericks FOR KING & COUNTRY: Little Drummer Boy Christmas Tour 26 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 3-9, 2018

Dec. 16, VetsMemArena STEVEN WILSON Dec. 16, PVCHall Sweetheart of the Rodeo 50th Anniversary: ROGER McGUINN, CHRIS HILLMAN, MARTY STUART & his FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Dec. 17, PVCHall ASLEEP at the WHEEL Dec. 18, PVCHall CHRISTMAS with ROCKAPELLA Dec. 19, FlaThtr The REVEREND HORTON HEAT, JUNIOR BROWN, The BLASTERS, BIG SANDY Dec. 21, FlaThtr SOULSHINE, SWAT TEAM Dec. 21 & 22, FlyIguana VICTOR WAINWRIGHT & the TRAIN Dec. 28, Cafe11 DONNA the BUFFALO, WESTERN CENTURIES Dec. 29, PVCHall BRETT BASS & MELTED PLECTRUM Dec. 30, Seachasers EVAN MICHAEL & the WELL WISHERS Jan. 11 & 12, FlyIguana BLUE SUEDE (Elvis’ 84th Birthday): MIKE ALBERT, SCOT BRUCE, BIG E BAND Jan. 12, FlaThtr MARCIA BALL & her Band Jan. 12, PVCHall PAVLO Jan. 12, Thrasher-Horne FRANKIE VALLI & the FOUR SEASONS Jan. 13, FlaThtr Here We Go Again: The CHER SHOW Jan. 23, VetsMemArena EL TEN ELEVEN, JOAN of ARC Jan. 23, JackRabbs ARLO GUTHRIE Alice’s Restaurant Tour Jan. 23, FlaThtr LUCINDA WILLIAMS, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Jan. 25, FlaThtr OLD 97s, SHOOTER JENNINGS Jan. 26, PVCHall JEANNIE ROBERTSON Jan. 26, FlaThtr PINK MARTINI Jan. 28, FlaThtr FINN MAGILL & DAVID CURLEY Jan. 29, Mudville JOYCE MANOR, JEFF ROSENSTOCK, REMEMBER SPORTS Jan. 31, 1904MH UNDER the STREETLAMP Feb. 2, PVCHall GAELIC STORM Feb. 5, PVCHall The MAGPIE SALUTE Feb. 7, PVCHall MARTIN SEXTON, CHRIS TAPPER Feb. 7, JackRabbs INDIGO GIRLS Feb. 9, PVCHall MICHAEL BOLTON Feb. 10, FlaThtr ALAN DOYLE & GREAT BIG SEA Feb. 10, PVCHall KEIKO MATSUI Feb. 14, PVCHall MORE. Feb. 14, Nighthawks TOM RUSH, MATT NAKOA Feb. 15, PVCHall DAVE MASON, STEVE CROPPER Feb. 17, PVCHall AGENT ORANGE Feb. 18, Nighthawks LOS LOBOS Feb. 19, PVCHall An Evening with DAWES: Passwords Tour Feb. 19, StAugAmp Backyard Stage KASEY CHAMBERS & the FIRESIDE DISCIPLES, CARLY BURRUSS Feb. 21, PVCHall TOBYMAC, JEREMY CAMP, RYAN STEVENSON, WE ARE MESSENGERS, AARON CORE Feb. 21, VetsMemArena PAM TILLIS, TERRI CLARK, SUZY BOGGUSS March 1, FlaThtr PINK March 5, VetsMemArena CHRIS BOTTI March 8, FlaThtr David Bowie Alumni Tour: MIKE GARSON, EARL SLICK, GERRY LEONARD, CARMINE ROJAS, BERNARD FOWLER, COREY GLOVER, LEE JOHN March 15, PVCHall ELTON JOHN March 15, VetsMemArena GET the LED OUT Led Zeppelin Tribute March 15, FlaThtr ROGER McGUINN March 16, PVCHall JUKEBOX HERO the MUSICAL March 17, FlaThtr JOAN OSBORNE Sings Songs of Bob Dylan March 21, PVCHall LITTLE RIVER BAND, PABLO CRUISE March 22, FlaThtr JERSEY BOYS March 25, T-U Ctr SHAWN COLVIN March 29, PVCHall BONEY JAMES April 5, FlaThtr Queen Tribute: GARY MULLEN & the WORKS April 25, FlaThtr The TEMPTATIONS, The FOUR TOPS April 28, FlaThtr MERCYME, CROWDER, MICAH TYLER May 3, VetsMemArena The Cry Pretty Tour 360: CARRIE UNDERWOOD, MADDIE & TAE, RUNAWAY JUNE Oct. 20, 2019, VetsMemArena

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA GREEN TURTLE, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Live music six nights a week. Vinyl Nite every Tue. SJ BREWING CO., 463646 S.R. 200, Ste. 13, Yulee, 849-1654 Shawn Layne 7 p.m. Oct. 6 SLIDERS, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 Pili Pili Oct. 3.

Tad Jennings Oct. 4. JCnMike Oct. 7. 2 Dudes from Texas Oct. 8. Mark O’Quinn Oct. 9

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free every Tue. & Thur.

Indie dance every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance every Fri.

THE BEACHES

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

ATLANTIC BEACH Brewing Co., 725 Atlantic Blvd., 372-4116 Ciaran Sontag 7 p.m. Oct. 13 BLUE JAY Listening Room, 412 N. Second St., 834-1315 Claire Vandiver Oct. 3. Jo Smith 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Corey Kilgannon, Pamela Elaine 8 p.m. Oct. 6 COOP 303, 303 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 372-4507 Ryan Crary Oct. 5 CULHANE’S Irish Pub, 967 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-9595 Michael Funge 6:30 p.m. every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 Beach City 10 p.m. Oct. 5 & 6

DINING DIRECTORY BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 240 Third St., Neptune Beach, 853-6773, alspizza.com. F Al Mansur re-opened good ol’ Al’s, in a new spot. Dine inside or out. $$ BW L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM SUBS, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. F ’17 BOJ winner. Home of the original baked sub. Locals love Angie’s hot or cold subs for 30+ years. Good news! A real, live chef is at Grom!

Chef David ramped up the menu at least three levels: new breakfast items, brunch, specials. Ed says, “Dude is legit.”

Still the word: Peruvian. New sub: Suthern Comfert–slowsmoked brisket, chicken, mac & cheese, collards, black-eyed peas on sub roll. Big salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom Sun. brunch. $ BW K TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201, 374-5735. ’17 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. BREEZY Coffee Shop Wine Bar, 235 Eighth Ave. S., 241-2211, breezycoffeeshopcafe.com. It’s a beachy coffee & wine shop by day; wine bar at night. Fresh pastries, sandwiches.

Grab-n-Go salads, hummus. $ BW K TO B L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F BOJ winner/fave. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. ’17 BOJ winner. Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. F Classic Old World Roman fare, big Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su HAWKERS ASIAN Street Fare, 241 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 425-1025. ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F ’17 BOJ winner/ fave. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO Diner, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F ’17 BOJ winner/ fave. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit & Blues Bar, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636. ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE AVONDALE. M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers.com. ’17 BOJ winner. Burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine indoors or out. $$ BW L D Daily

roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, lattes, pastries, smoothies, bagels, chicken and tuna salad, sandwiches. $ B L M-F URBAN GRIND Express, 50 W. Laura St., 516-7799. F ’17 BOJ fave. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiacbarandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F. $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Pkwy., 541-0009. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE RIVERSIDE. La NOPALERA, 1571 C.R. 220, Ste. 100, 215-2223. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. MOJO Smokehouse, 1810 Town Ctr. Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636.

F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE AVONDALE. WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Real fish camp. Gator tail, catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar.

Boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991, alspizza.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. It’s the first Al’s in NEFla–yeah, we didn’t know that, either–celebrating 30 years of awesome gourmet pizza, baked dishes. All day HH M-Th. $ FB K TO L D Daily LA NOPALERA Mexican Restaurant, 14333 Beach Blvd., 992-1666, lanopalerarest.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave.

The popular spots have tamales, fajitas, pork tacos. Some LaNops have a full bar. $$ FB K TO L D Daily LARRY’S, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F ’17 BOJ fave. SEE ORANGE PARK. TAZIKI’S Mediterranean Café, 14035 Beach Blvd., Ste. B, 503-1950. SEE MANDARIN.

MANDARIN + NW ST. JOHNS

AL’S Pizza, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 513-4548.

Pancakes, sandwiches, burgers and wings. $ K TO B L Daily

BIG SHOTS!

AMY GRINER

Copper Top Bar & Restaurant 12405 N. Main St., Ste. 7 • Downtown Your Birthplace: Jacksonville Favorite Bar: Pete’s Bar Favorite Cocktail: Dirty martini Go-To Ingredients: Lemon juice Hangover Cure: Greasy food & a nap Will Not Cross My Lips: Nothing Celeb Sighting at Your Restaurant: Not yet!

When You Say “The Usual”: Tito’s vodka & water NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 N. Third St., 458-1390. ’17 BOJ fave. SEE MANDARIN. RAGTIME TAVERN Seafood & Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 34 years and counting, the iconic seafood place serves blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SUSHI ONE TWO THREE, 311 N. Third St., 372-9718, sushionetwothree.com. Brand-spankin’-new right in the middle of all the action in Jax Beach, this place offers a twist on how we eat sushi: All You Can Eat. And small plate sushi, all made to order. Rooftop parking; kid-friendly–rugrats younger than eight eat free. $$ FB K TO L, D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 950 Marsh Landing Pkwy., 853-5973. F ’17 BOJ fave. SEE BAYMEADOWS.

DOWNTOWN

BELLWETHER, 100 N. Laura, 802-7745, bellwetherjax.com.

Southern classics. Chef/owner Jon Insetta and Chef Kerri Rogers focus on flavors. Seasonal menu. Rotating local craft beers, regional spirits, cold brew coffee. $$ FB TO L M-F CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Serving Italian fare, 40+ years: veal, seafood, pizza.

Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa ELEMENT Bistro & Craft Bar, 333 E. Bay St., 438-5173. In Myth Nightclub. Locally sourced, organic fare, fresh herbs, spices. HH $$ FB D, Tu-Su OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F Scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, as seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa SPLIFF’S Gastropub, 15 N. Ocean St., 844-5000, spliffsgastropub.com. ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Music venue has munchie apps, mac & cheese dishes, pockets, gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. HH M-F. $ BW L D M-Sa SUPER FOOD & BREW, 11 E. Forsyth St., 723-1180, superfoodandbrew.com. Gastropub serves a variety: fresh, healthy sandwiches to full entrée plates. Drink specials. $$ BW TO L, D M-F URBAN GRIND Coffee Company, 45 W. Bay St., Ste. 102, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. F ’17 BOJ fave. Locally

GIGI’S Restaurant, 3130 Hartley Rd., 694-4300, gigis buffet.com. In Ramada Inn, Gigi’s serves a prime rib and crab leg buffet F & Sa, blue-jean brunch Su, daily breakfast buffet; lunch & dinner buffets. $$$ FB B R L D Daily JAX Diner, 5065 St. Augustine Rd., 739-7070, jaxdiner.com.

Chef Roderick “Pete” Smith, local culinary expert, uses locally sourced ingredients from area farmers, vendors in American & Southern dishes. Seasonal brunch. $ K TO B L M-F, D F La NOPALERA, 11700 San Jose Blvd., 288-0175. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Dinner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200, mojobbq.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE AVONDALE. MOON DOG Pie House, 115 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 105, 287-3633, moondogpiehouse.com. Wings, apps, subs, calzones–and specialty pizza pies. $$ BW TO K L, D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. BOJ fave. Organic soup, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural beer/wine. $ BW TO B L D Daily TAZIKI’S Mediterranean Café, 11700 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 25, 503-2461, tazikiscafe.com. Health-focused menu includes hand-crafted gyros, feasts, deli, desserts. $$ BW K TO L, D Daily

ORANGE PARK

BOONDOCKS Grill & Bar, 2808 Henley Rd., Green Cove Springs, 406-9497, boondocksrocks.com. Apps, burgers, wings, seafood, steak, weekend specials, craft cocktails. HH $$ FB TO K D M-F; L, D Sa & Su The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com.

Southern fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa La NOPALERA, 1930 Kingsley Ave., 276-2776. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., OCTOBER 3-9, 2018 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27

FOLIO DINING

It’s the original Indian restaurant on Baymeadows Road, setting the standard for all that followed. INDIA’S RESTAURANT serves authentic fare made with the freshest ingredients. photo by Devon Sarian

AMELIA ISLAND + FERNANDINA BEACH

BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. On the water at Centre Street’s end. Southern hospitality, upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com.

F Family-owned café in historic building. Worldly fare, made-from-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh veggies, seafood. Dine in or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub brews; imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrab trap.com. F For nearly 40 years, family-owned-andoperated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L Sa-M; D Nightly LARRY’S, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Authentic Northern-style pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassauhealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa The POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. ’17 BOJ winner. In awardwinning Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining; in or out.

Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F ’17 BOJ winner. 2nd-story outdoor bar. T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Oceanfront.

Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, seafood.

Open-air upstairs balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310, traysburgerstation.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Familyowned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa

DINING DIRECTORY KEY AVERAGE ENTRÉE COST $ $ < $10 20-$35 $$$ $ $ $$ $$$$ > $35 10- 20 ABBREVIATIONS & SPECIAL NOTES BW = Beer/Wine

L = Lunch

FB = Full Bar

D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted Free Folio Weekly Bite Club Event F = Folio Weekly Distribution Spot

K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch

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ARLINGTON + REGENCY

LARRY’S, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE ORANGE PARK.

AVONDALE + ORTEGA

EL JEFE, 947 Edgewood Ave. S., 619-0938, eljefejax.com.

Tex-Mex à la Chefs Scott Schwartz and José Solome, plus craft margaraitas, combo meals. $$ FB TO K L, D Daily FOOD ADDICTZ Grill, 1044 Edgewood Ave. S., 240-1987. F Family-and-veteran-owned place offers home cooking. Faves: barbecued pulled pork, blackened chicken, Caesar wrap, Portobello mushroom burger. $ K TO B L D Tu-Su La NOPALERA, 4530 St. Johns Ave., 388-8828. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. MOJO No. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., Ste. 1, 381-6670, mojobbq.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave.

Pulled pork, Carolina-style barbecue. Delta fried catfish. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F BOJ winner/fave. 40+ years.

Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa Restaurant ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurantorsay.com. ’17 BOJ winner/fave. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysaras.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa SOUTH KITCHEN & Spirits, 3638 Park St., 475-2362, south.kitchen. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Southern classics: crispy catfish with smoked gouda grits, family-style fried chicken, burgers, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free options. $$ FB K TO L D Daily

BAYMEADOWS

ATHENIAN OWL, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Stes. 21-23, 503-3008, athenianowljaxfl.com. Yiorgos and Marilena Triantafillopoulos respect Greek cuisine and their patrons.

Creative fare. Vegetarian dishes. $$ K TO L, D M-F, D Sa AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. INDIA’S, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO Diner, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. ’17 BOJ fave. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI Grille, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. F ’17 BOJ fave. Since 1989.

Family-owned place has an extensive menu of traditional Thai, vegetarian, new-Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups.

Low-sodium & gluten-free. $$$ BW TO L D Tu-Sa The WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. Gluten-free pizzas, desserts. HH specials. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. F ’17 BOJ fave. Popular gastropub; craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, signature plates, tacos and whiskey. HH M-F. $$ FB B Sa & Su; L F; D Nightly

DINING DIRECTORY BITE-SIZED

It’s Greek cuisine at the new ATHENIAN OWL on Baymeadows Road, serving authentic dishes made with ingredients that are good for you. photo by Devon Sarian

BUTTER ME UP Southside artisan bakery hits it OUT OF THE PARK

Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F ’17 BOJ fave. Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO Diner, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouse online.net. F ’17 BOJ fave. Serving sandwiches, wings, burgers, quesadillas for more than 35 years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily SPRING PARK Coffee, 328 Ferris St., Green Cove Springs, 531-9391, springparkcoffee.com. F Fresh-roasted Brass Tacks coffee, handcrafted hot & cold drinks, lattes, cappuccino, macchiato, pastries, breakfast. $ B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave.

SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F ’17 BOJ fave.

SEE ORANGE PARK. M SHACK Nocatee, 641 Crosswater Pkwy., 395-3575. F ’17 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. METRO Diner, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE SAN MARCO.

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS + WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. ’17 BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S Pizza, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. BIG OAK BBQ & Catering, 1948 Henley Rd., Middleburg, 214-3041. 1440 Dunn Ave., 757-2225, bigoakbbqfl.com.

Family-owned-and-operated. Smoked chicken, pulled pork, ribs, sides, stumps. $$ K TO L D M-Sa BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep 5points.com. ’17 BOJ winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 869 Stockton St., 855-1181, boldbeancoffee.com. ’17 BOJ winner. Small-batch, artisanal approach to sourcing and roasting single-origin, direct-trade coffees. Signature blends, hand-crafted syrups, espressos, craft beers. $ BW TO B L Daily CRANE RAMEN, 1029 Park St., 253-3282. Ramen done right; vegetarian, vegan items, kimchi, gyoza. Dine in or out. HH. $$ FB K L, D Tu-Su CUMMER Café, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. ’17 BOJ winner.

Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espressobased drinks, sandwiches, desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su EUROPEAN Street Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. ’17 BOJ winner. 130+ imported beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Dine outside at some E-Sts. $ BW K L D Daily FOO DOG CURRY TRADERS, 869 Stockton St., 551-0327, foodogjax.com. Southeast Asian, Indian inspired fare, all gluten-free, from scratch. Vegan & omnivore. $$ TO L, D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F ’17 BOJ winner. Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. ’17 BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily

JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055.

Made-to-order sandwiches, wraps. $ TO B L M-Sa LARRY’S, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F ’17 BOJ fave. SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE SAN MARCO. MOON RIVER Pizza, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. SEE BEACHES. SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. BOJ winner. Fresh vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUN-RAY Cinema, 1028 Park St., 359-0047, sunray cinema.com. ’17 BOJ winner. First-run, indie/art films.

Beer, local drafts, wine, pizza–Godbold, Black Lagoon Supreme–hot dogs, sandwiches, popcorn, nachos, brownies. $$ BW Daily SUSHI Café, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejax.com. F Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll.

Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Patio. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S Pizza, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F ’17 BOJ winner/ fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. The CORAZON Cinema & Cafe, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. F Sandwiches, combos, pizza. Iindie and first-run movies. $$ Daily DESSERT FIRST Bistro, 121 Yacht Club Dr., 417-0468, dessertfirstbistro.com. It’s all made from scratch: breakfast, lunch, desserts. Plus coffees, espressos, craft beers, wine, hot teas. $ BW K TO B, L Tu-Su The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients.

Vegetarian, gluten-free options. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB Company, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsycab.com. F 34+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO Diner, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264, mojobbq.com. F ’17 BOJ winner. SEE AVONDALE. OCEAN AVENUE Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., 293-9600, a1abar.com. F Lively spot has wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily PROHIBITION KITCHEN, 119 St. George St., 209-5704, prohibitionkitchenstaugustine.com. The gastropub offers small plates, craft burgers, sandwiches, live local oysters, mains, desserts and handspun milkshakes. $$$ L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A, 217-3256. F SEE BEACHES. SARBEZ, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632, planetsarbez.com.

Local music venue has gourmet grilled cheese: Sarbez melt: smoked mozzarella, turkey, bacon, signature sauce, local sourdough. Local craft beers. $ BW L, D Daily WOODPECKER’S Backyard BBQ, 4930 S.R. 13, 531-5670, woodpeckersbbq.weebly.com. F Smoked fresh daily.

Brisket, ribs, pork, sausage, turkey: in sandwiches, plates by the pound. 8 sauces, 10 sides. $$ TO L D Tu-Su

SAN MARCO + SOUTHBANK

The BEARDED PIG Southern BBQ & Beer Garden, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. F ’17 BOJ fave. Barbecue joint Southern style: brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily

BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wines. Wood-fired oven-baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood.

Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside.

HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily BOLD BEAN Coffee Roasters, 1905 Hendricks Ave. ’17 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. EUROPEAN Street Café, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 398-9500.

F ’17 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION Sushi, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. Upscale; fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, katsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily HAVANA-JAX Café/CUBA LIBRE Bar, 2578 Atlantic Blvd., 399-0609, havanajax.com. F ’17 BOJ winner. Bite Club certified. Cuban sandwiches, black beans & rice, plantains, steaks, seafood, roast pork. Spanish wine, drink specials, mojitos, Cuba libres. Nonstop HH. $ FB K L D Daily La NOPALERA, 1434 Hendricks Ave., 399-1768. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. METRO Diner, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner.com. F ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Original upscale diner in a 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. Some Metros serve dinner. $$ B R L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco.com. ’17 BOJ winner/fave. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), awardwinning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily

SOUTHSIDE + TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. ’17 BOJ winner. Staging productions for 50+ years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s theme menus.

Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su EL TAINO, 4347 University Blvd., 374-1150. A focus on Latin American, Puerto Rican and Caribbean cusine. $$ BW K TO EUROPEAN Street Café, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. F ’17 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. La NOPALERA, 8206 Philips Hwy., 732-9433. 8818 Atlantic, 720-0106. F BOJ winner/fave. SEE INTRACOASTAL. LARRY’S, 3611 St. Johns Bluff S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F ’17 BOJ fave.

SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-612-6596. F Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture.

Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. F ’17 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.

SPRINGFIELD + NORTHSIDE

ANDY’S Grill, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. F ’17 BOJ fave. In Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches. $ B L D M-Sa COPPER TOP Bar & Restaurant, 12405 N. Main, Ste. 7, 551-4088. Brand-new spot has American fare: pizza, wings, specials. Local, regional craft beers. $ BW TO L, D Daily LARRY’S, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. F ’17 BOJ fave. SEE ORANGE PARK. TIKI ISLAND Tap House, 614 Pecan Park Rd., 403-0776.

Casual spot serves hot dogs, burgers, gator tail, gator jerky.

Gator pond! $ BW TO D, F; L, D Sa & Su. UPTOWN Kitchen & Bar, 1303 Main St. N., 355-0734, uptownmarketjax.com. F Bite Club certified. Fresh fare, innovative menus, farm-to-table selections, daily specials. $$ BW TO B L Daily

SOUTHSIDE, I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. YOU’RE DOING the most when it comes to small spots that rock my world, so thank you. Artisan bakery Jax Bread Co., a newcomer to the sandwich and pastry scene, may be my new favorite–I hope they stick around.

The selection rocks at this bakery-meets-delisandwich shop. Grab a coffee and a sweet treat, like carrot apple or Banna bread ($2.99), or get something to stick to your ribs and fortify you for the rest of the day.

The shop is an in-house situation. Owner and baker Nana Hammond makes the goodies from scratch daily. JBC makes its own bread, marinades and croissants. That’s right. It’s the real deal.

Dig in, y’all. Sandwiches can be on African sweet breads, ciabatta or wheat. My first choice, Jerk Chicken Sandwich ($8.99–also available with pork), was a win. The marinated sliced chicken breast is dressed in a kinda mild jerk seasoning made

by Nana. The chicken is layered on ciabatta with double-stacked tomato, spinach, red onion and a healthy dollop of mayo. Be careful your fingers don’t get in the way.

For these final (ha!) really hot days, a cooling sandwich is in order; Coronation Chicken Salad Sandwich ($8.99) is just what the doctor ordered. Not your typical picnic chicken salad, the hint of curry and raisins adds a nice sweetness.

There are breakfast sandwiches (on bread or croissant) all day and a variety of veg options, like Market Sandwich with avocado, red onion and more ($8.99).

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8380 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 5, Southside, 240-0977, jaxbread.com There’s only one way to make a croissant better: add chocolate. The Pain au Chocolat ($4.99) was a little warm, as if it had been pulled from the oven and allowed to cool just enough to be served.

Croissants aren’t easy to make, but JBC’s croissant dough is a work of art, crispy and buttery on the outside, flaky and soft inside. Same goes for the Nutella blackberry Danish. The laminated dough is a force of magical, baking science.

Nana sells bread by the loaf, too. Tall baguettes ($3.99) peek over a wicker basket; wide, flat loaves of focaccia ($5.99) beckon appealingly; crusty round ciabatta ($4.99), traditionally shaped loaves of African sweet bread (think white bread, but no added high-fructose corn sugar or preservatives) are ready to go home with you ($4.99). Keep that in mind as the holiday season looms. A fresh loaf of bread can make a big difference at a dinner party or as part of a hostess gift.

Situated in the little shopping center where Baymeadows meets Philips Highway, Jax Bread Co. is the ideal local spot for a quick sandwich or an afternoon pick-me-up.

Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com

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BEER NIRVANA

EVERY YEAR AT THE END OF of September or the start of October, the Brewers Association (BA) holds the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver. Called the world’s largest craft beer fest, this year’s blowout had 800 breweries serving 4,000 different beers to more than 62,000 guests. The three-day, four-session festival isn’t just a beer lovers’ wonderland; it’s a prestigious competition. More than 2,400 breweries from across the land sent 8,495 samples to vie for a bronze, silver or gold GABF medal.

The fest brings brewers and beer-lovers from all over for a week of tasting, fellowship and partying. From the Colorado Convention Center’s balcony, I clearly saw that GABF is a powerhouse event for downtown Denver.

The streets were full of revelers in T-shirts with names/logos of favorite breweries. Folks wore necklaces strung with pretzels, jerky and even pizza. Restaurants were full before and after a session and bars and taprooms were overflowing. Volunteers from all over our great land moved among attendees as celebrity brewers manned booths, chatting with fellow brewers and media.

The GABF had a humble beginning.

The first one was in 1982 at Boulder’s Harvest Hotel, with only 22 brewers and about 800 guests. It was Charlie Papazian’s idea; he wrote The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, well-regarded by home brewers; it’s practically their bible.

That idea grew exponentially within the industry, really taking off when it moved to Denver in 1984. By 1991, the festival was at Denver Merchandise Mart, with 150 breweries and 7,000-plus attendees. Later, it all relocated to Currigan Hall; now it’s finally landed at the Colorado Convention Center.

This year saw three large themed areas, the usual tasting booths, a bigger Meet the Brewer area, Buffalo Wild Wings Sports Bar and Jameson Caskmates Barrel-Aged Beer Garden.

At Meet the Brewer, 165 brewers from places like The Boston Beer Company, Rogue Ales and Left Hand Brewing answered questions and mingled. It was quite popular.

Jameson Caskmates spot hosted 17 small, independent breweries with beer aged in Jameson whiskey barrels. Florida’s Cigar City Brewing presented Beoir Le Caife, a brown ale brewed with lactose and aged Jameson Barrel-rested coffees. The process gave it subtle whiskey notes, so it had an Irish coffeeish feel. The taste? Strong coffee with cream and a bit of sugar. A small, beloved New York brewery, Captain Lawrence Brewing Company, presented an imperial red ale, wowing tasters with a deep malty, whiskeyforward flavor, smooth and drinkable.

Buffalo Wild Wings Sports Bar treated folks to beers made just for GABF. The biggest draw was a panel of three visionary brewery owners–Ken Grossman (Sierra Nevada Brewing Company), Kim Jordan (New Belgium Brewing) and Sam Calagione (Dogfish Head).

Outside the festival, several breweries had events at local taprooms, bars and restaurants. One coveted invitation: the annual Boston Beer Company (aka Sam Adams ) brunch, where Brewers Association CEO Bob Pease spoke of the need for drinkers to be able to distinguish true craft beer from mass-produced beer, brewed by

multinational conglomerates, aping the taste and quality of craft beer. He told of the association’s new ad campaign running on TV and radio, espousing the joys of craft beer, using the hashtag #seektheseal, a nod to the BA’s recent adoption of a seal craft brewers can put on canned or bottled brews, on their social media, websites and advertising materials. The seal identifies the brand as one belonging to a craft brewer outside the dominion of big beer. Sam Adam’s owner, founder and front man Jim Koch expounded on Pease’s point.

“They’re all good,” he said, “but there is better. Craft beer is the antidote to [the beer equivalent of] fast food. There’s slow beer and craft beer. We make slow beer. We need to be very clear and differentiate ourselves from the industrial brewers.”

How does the Great American Beer Festival make the distinction? It recently banned major breweries from the festival, and held a competition recognizing the artisanal, the craft nature of small breweries.

Beers were judged in 102 categories, including the first-time category of hazy or juicy IPA–a style characterized by a nearopaque appearance and somewhat mellowed bitterness, popularized several years ago by New England brewers. Of the 306 medals awarded, seven went to Florida breweries.

Alas, none were given to Main & Six Brewing Company, a local Downtown brewery which submitted three brews for judging.

“It’s the hardest competition,” said Main & Six owner Dennis Espinosa. “We will try again next year.”

Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing Company won two medals; for its pale ale Guayabera, and its brown porter Maduro. Other Sunshine State breweries scoring medals include Gainesville’s First Magnitude, which was recognized for Drift, an English-style mild ale, and Tampa’s Copperpoint Brewing Company, which won an award for Coco for Coxness, a chocolate beer named for brewmaster/owner Matt Cox. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the festival is the wide range of volunteers and attendees. Some volunteers travel great distances for the event, even using a week of vacation to be part of the festivities.

“I’ve been volunteering for 27 years,” said one such gleeful soul. “I just love beer and the camaraderie that comes with it.”

People from the region were definitely in the majority, but folks from Florida, Washington and every state in between came to the timeless affair. Similarly, attendees ranged from young to very old and every age and stage of life betwixt. There was even a couple from Denver who brought their marriage license and signed it in the New Belgium booth.

This year’s Great American Beer Festival may be but a fond memory now, but rest assured that plans for 2019 are already in the works. For many beer lovers who attended, GABF 2018 was the trip of a lifetime. For craft brewers, it was a celebration of their beers and confirmation of their hard work and effort. And, for the breweries that won medals, it was a validation of their desire to be the best beer makers they can be.

Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com

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I, SQUID I SPENT LAST SATURDAY MORNING THE SAME WAY I spend most Saturday mornings: I shopped at Fernandina Beach Market Place, the local farmers market. Sure, you can call me old and predictable if you like but, hey, it’s my job. As many of y’all know, I lead a class through our farmers market every Saturday.

As we stroll through the booths and stalls, I frequently pause the group to point out purveyors who, in turn, offer samples and praise the virtues of their products. And believe you me, this little farmers market has amazingly delicious items to sample and purchase, many of which are unique to Northeast Florida. No purveyor is more rare in a farmers market setting, however, than local shrimpers. How cool is this? Only in Fernandina can you see a shrimp boat selling just-out-of-the-net fresh catch at a farmers’ market! I believe it’s among the best spots to get shrimp in the whole region.

On Saturday morning, the Chessers haul coolers full of fresh shrimp from boat to market. They usually sell out by 11 a.m., so most locals order ahead just to be on the safe side. I always stop to chat with Debbie and Eddie (BTW, not a fan of Eddie’s Steelers hat) and show off the giant, head-on, incredibly fresh shellfish to my astonished students. Would you believe most people have never seen whole, headon, fresh shrimp? Yep, we’re really spoiled here—not only do we have the Jags, but the world’s best shrimp!

Last Saturday, they saw something unexpected: squid. As I was showing off a couple of shrimp to my tour, I saw a fisherman filling a bag with fresh squid for a customer. I had to ask about that squid.

Seems they apparently brought some squid with them by mistake and this gentleman was buying them up.

The customer was a Sysco rep and upon seeing my interest, and my chef ’s coat, he graciously offered me a pound of the gorgeous cephalopods to mess with, or maybe Chef-Up a bit. What a great guy!

When it comes to squid or calamari, most people have had them only as a fried appetizer. I’ve certainly served and eaten tons of these and, honestly, that’s my

favorite way to enjoy the little delicacies of the deep. They’re wonderful when stuffed with chorizo and braised as the Spanish do, or stuffed with vegetables, pinenuts and raisins, and grilled Sicilian-style, or maybe just fried, with a cold beer on the side, American-style. Here’s a soba noodle salad with peanut dressing that served as a little bed for my version of spicy semolina-coated calamari. A few hot cherry peppers on top are a sit-up-and-take-notice finishing touch.

CHEF BILL’S SOBA NOODLE SALAD

Ingredients • 1 lb. soba noodles • 1 jalapeno, fine julienne • 1 cup carrots, fine julienne • 1 cup daikon, regular julienne • 1 cup napa, regular julienne • 3/4 cup shiitake mushrooms, • regular julienne Directions 1. Cook, drain, oil and cool noodles.

2. Mix vegetables with soba noodles; •• dress lightly with peanut dressing.

Peanut Dressing Ingredients • 2 Tbsp. peanut butter • 1-1/2 limes, zested and juiced • 3 Tbsp. rice wine vinegar • 2 Tbsp. honey • 1 Tbsp. garlic, paste • 1-1/2 Tbsp. ginger, grated • 1 Tbsp. fish sauce • 1/2 tsp. red curry paste • 1 tsp. sesame oil • 2 tsp. vegetable oil • 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped Peanut Dressing Directions 1. Sweat garlic, ginger and curry paste •• in the oils.

2. Stir in the rest of the ingredients •• except the cilantro.

3. Remove from heat, blend with •• emulsion blender, cool.

4. Add cilantro, adjust seasoning •• and consistency.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill Thompson cheffedup@folioweekly.com

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The first week of October is National Walk Your Dog Week, an important reminder to canine guardians that exercise is vital for a healthy pup.

Many owners make the mistake of thinking that a romp in the yard with playmates is sufficient exercise. But recess doesn’t boost cardio as much as a walk, and backyard time is usually consumed with sniffing and sunbathing–guilty. Walking not only gets your pooch’s blood flowing, heart pumping and calories burning, it can help get the digestive system moving, great for dogs that have been experiencing, ahem, digestive backup.

Giving your dog a chance to see the wider world provides him with a mental health boost, too. Covering fresh ground on a walk lets your dog investigate new and interesting sights, smells and sounds.

It takes just 30 minutes a day of walking to improve heart health and curb behavioral problems. So grab your leash and get ready to move your paws with these helpful hacks.

FOLLOW HIS NOSE Let your dog lead

the way. He might take you to a scurry of squirrels, and mark every bush down the lane, but letting him choose gives him a chance to show you what he finds interesting.

STOP AND SNIFF When dogs use their

noses, their brains are working at a mad pace analyzing different odors. Allowing your canine to have a sniff fest will leave him extra-tired and less likely to redesign your living room.

REV IT UP Make your walk more fun by stepping up your pace from time to time.

Short bursts of speed let dogs stretch muscles and burn excess energy, especially after eating too many treats.

WALK SOMEWHERE NEW Dogs get bored with the same old routine, so mix up the route once in a while. Try walking in a different direction, or visit a local park or trail. Your dog will be exposed to new sights and smells, different dogs and different people.

OBEY LEASH LAWS It takes only one distraction for things to go sideways. Leash laws aren’t in place just to keep dogs from being nuisances—they’re created to keep dogs safe.

PRACTICE OBEDIENCE Doing basic

commands in new areas is an easy way to reinforce obedience. Start with simple concepts, like ‘sit’ and ‘stay,’ and soon your dog will obey no matter what’s going on around him.

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The exercise is good for you and Tramp, and since you can do it almost anywhere, possibilities are endless. It’s not where you walk, it’s who you walk with that matters.

Davi mail@folioweekly.com Davi the dachshund knows that his leash is always in good hands.

PET TIP: SO LONG, SUCKERS! SPOTTING A BLOODSUCKER DRAINING LIFE FROM YOUR BELOVED POOCH OR PUSSY IS A MAJOR BUMMER. (OK, “life” might be an exaggeration. But it is totally gross.)

When extracting a tick, Dummies.com recommends using tweezers to gently pull it out, taking 20-30 seconds to avoid leaving a bit of its head behind, which can cause an infection. Kill the tick in alcohol (rubbing, not drinking), carefully dab a bit of the same on your good boy or girl where it bit, then wash your hands and (optional, but recommended) take a shot of the drinking kind.

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Dress your best friend in an awesome costume, make sure they’re not embarrassed, and go!

STAY WORKSHOP • Learn steps and how to apply them to teach your dogs to Stay, either in a Sit or Down, 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 at Petco, 430 CBL Dr., St. Augustine, 824-8520, petco.com. A WAIT & LEAVE IT workshop is 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4; it’s a basic introduction on the foundation behaviors “Wait” and “Leave It.” A SIT & DOWN workshop is 4:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10. A LEASH MANNERS workshop is 4-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11.

KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Adoption hours and days are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 6 and 7 and every Sat. & Sun., 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org.

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BARKS & BREWS • Barked Goods hosts a sniff-fest, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6 at Graffiti Junktion, 265 Fifth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 372-9985. Pet-centric organizations and businesses are on hand, including Unleash Jacksonville, Pet Wants Jax Beach, Pawsitive Effects K9 Physical Therapy, Comprehensive Canine Training and Fur Sisters Furever Urs Rescue.

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PET FAIR, BLESSING OF THE PETS • St. Philip Neri Animal Ministry holds its annual event 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 at Fletcher Park, 1652 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco. Adoptables showcase, Best in Show, food, disc dog demos, Laundromutt charity dog wash, silent auction are featured. Proceeds benefit the ministry. 565-1075, nerichurch.org.

AYLA’S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE • Thrift shop is open, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun., 142 King St., St. Augustine, 484-8792, aylasacres. org. Proceeds benefit the Rescue’s missions.

CLAY HUMANE • The nonprofit animal clinic is open 5 p.m.-midnight on Fri., Sat. and Sun. for urgent veterinary services at 2230 Filmore St., Orange Park, 276-7729. Services includes sudden lameness, ear infections, severe skin disease, poisoning, heat stroke and many more. Patients are seen on a walk-in basis, in order of urgency. The exam fee is $75; additional procedures and their costs are available on clayhumane.org.

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NEWS OF THE WEIRD EYE OF THE BEHOLDER In Florida, the

Martin County Sheriff ’s Office has gotten many calls about a man in Stuart who does chores around the outside of his house in the nude. “I came out Sunday night to put the trash out, and I look over and he’s bent over, winding up his hose, and I’m, like, ‘That’s my view of the neighborhood’,” huffed Melissa Ny to WPBF TV on Sept. 19. Other neighbors are less huffy. “Literally, they are the nicest people you’ll ever meet; they’d give you their clothes if they had them on to give them,” Aimee Canterbury told WPTV. Sheriff ’s Office staff says there’s nothing they can do as long as he’s on his own property and not touching himself inappropriately. The nudist declined to be interviewed, saying he and his family are private people.

WELL, DAD, YOU’RE A LOT WORSE Laurence

Mitchell, 53, gets this week’s Most Helpful Dad award for graciously driving his 15-yearold son and the son’s girlfriend, also 15, to a Port St. Lucie park on Sept. 6 so they could “do their thang,” as Mitchell described it.

The Smoking Gun reported that when Port St. Lucie police officer Clayton Baldwin approached Mitchell’s car around 11:30 p.m., after the park had closed, Mitchell told him the kids “aren’t out there stealing, they’re just having sex. They could be out there doing worse.” When the teenagers returned from a nearby soccer field, Mitchell’s son told the cop they were “just smokin’ and f***in’. ” Mitchell was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor.

WWJD? PROBABLY NOT SHOPLIFT While shopping at a Peoria, Illinois, Walmart on Sept.

20, an unnamed 30-year-old woman filled her cart, adding a few items to her backpack: leggings, pencils, a quart of oil and a “Jesus Calling” Bible. She paid for only the items in her cart and started out the door. A Peoria Journal Star story continues: A loss prevention officer stopped her, Peoria cops were called, and the woman explained she was hoping the Bible could help her spiritually: “[She] told me it sounds strange, but she was trying to be more Christian,” an officer reported. She was charged with misdemeanor theft.

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ONE BRASSY TREE-HUGGER After trying over and over on Sept. 12 to pull over a Toyota Prius on the road with expired tags on I-5 near Marysville, Washington, a Washington State Patrol officer caught up at an intersection. He verbally instructed an unnamed 42-year-old woman driver to pull over, reported the Everett Daily Herald.

“I will not. I drive a Prius,” was her reply.

The officer asked her to exit the vehicle, she refused, so he forced her out. “I will own your bank account,” she told him. “I will own your house.” When he asked her name, she said, “None of your business.” She was arrested for failing to obey instructions, failing to identify herself and obstruction.

DAMNED IF YA DO … Tammie Hedges of Goldsboro, North Carolina, founded the nonprofit Crazy’s Claws N Paws in 2013 to help low-income families with vet bills and pet supplies, so it was natural for her to take in 27 animals displaced by Hurricane Florence in September. Hedges treated many of them, found in the streets or surrendered by fleeing residents, with antibiotics and painkillers for fleas, cuts and other ailments.

For that, The Washington Post reported, she was arrested on Sept. 21 for practicing veterinary medicine without a license, after an official from Wayne County Animal Services visited the animals in a warehouse.

Kathie Davidson, a Claws N Paws volunteer, said: “If she hadn’t done what she did, then they’ll be charging her with animal neglect and cruelty. What was she supposed to do?”

Hedges was released on bond. The charges were later dropped.

DAD BAIT & SWITCH Ironman triathlete Jaroslav Bobrowski, 30, of Landshut, Bavaria, was banned Sept. 14 from Running Sushi, an all-you-can-eat restaurant, for eating too much sushi. The Local Germany reported Bobrowski, an ex-bodybuilder, ate almost 100 plates of sushi, the restaurant went into a panic and the owner and chef told him he was banished “because I’m eating too much.”

“He eats for five people,” the owner griped.

“That’s not normal.” weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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Folio Weekly helps you connect with that dreamboat you saw in the produce aisle or the hot hunk by the lifeguard stand. Go to folioweekly.com/i-saw-u.html, fill out the FREE form correctly (40 words or fewer, dammit) by 5 p.m. THURSDAY for the next Wednesday’s FW. And who knows? Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

Hi, Kids! Saturday, Oct. 6 is MAD HATTER DAY! And Tuesday, Oct. 9 is THIO (Two-Holidays-in-One): CURIOUS EVENTS DAY and MOLDY CHEESE DAY! Here at FW Headquarters, a curious event occurs most every day (OK, hour). Moldy cheese? … nothankyew.

And who rocked the whole MAD HATTER thing back in ’85?

THOMAS EARL PETTY, that’s who. In that great video “Don’t Come Around Here No More.” Find real love with FW ISUs! We heard there was a kerfuffle about Tommy & THBs cutting the Alice (played

by Louise ‘Wish’ Foley) cake and chowing down on the confection. Whatevs.

Go to folioweekly.com/i-saw-u.html** and do these easy steps:

One:

Write a five-word headline so the person recalls the moment you met, like: “ISU watching classic music videos.”

Two: Describe the person, like, “You: Cradling a Southern Accents album, crying.

Three: Describe yourself, like, “Me: Trying on various plum-colored velvety top hats and drinking copious amounts of hot tea.”

Four: Describe the moment, like, “You said I looked a little sketchy. I agreed and added that you looked a little easy. You agreed and smiled.”

Five: We married on Disney World’s Mad Tea Party ride; kinda awkward but whatevs.

Send a 40-WORD message; no names, emails, websites. Find love with our ISUs at folioweekly.com/i-saw-u.html! **(or email mdryden@folioweekly.com and we’ll work it out together) I WONDER U Saturday thrift-store shopping. U said u liked my shirt and showed me your ankle tattoo. Very symbolic meeting. Wish we’d talked a little more. Let’s trade bootlegs. Acknowledge me.

When: Sept. 22. Where: Betty Griffin Center Thrift Shoppe, St. Augustine. #1711-1003 HARVARD AVE. UBER RIDER You: Tall, attractive student advisor. Me: Drove you from friend’s house. Thanks for $10 tip. I liked our conversations along the way; key things in common. Talk again?

If you feel the same, please respond. When: Sept.

8. Where: Riverside. #1710-0919 GOLDEN CORRAL SAN JOSE BLVD. You: Dining alone, booth behind us, blonde hair/beard, gorgeous blue eyes, blue shirt, jeans, white van.

Me: With mom, son; brunette, Jags shirt, black shorts, black car. Let’s meet. Single? Coffee?

When: Aug. 18. Where: Golden Corral. #1709-0829 PETITE BRUNETTE ON BICYCLE You: Bicycling.

Me: Driving. I stopped, asked you for directions.

You seemed shy but friendly. Coffee at Bold Bean?

When: Aug. 7. Where: Avondale. #1708-0822 SOUTHERN GROUNDS BLEND You: Pretty lady, khaki shorts, print top, recommended dark roast coffee. Me: Blue shirt, jean shorts. Single?

Would’ve liked to chat, but with yoga friends.

Namaste! When: July 29. Where: San Marco Southern Grounds. #1707-0808 HAWAIIAN SHIRT, GIN & TONIC Outside bar. You said my drink looked good. Me: “Only drink worth bootlegging.” You: Sharp, white slacks, heels, blue blouse; late friends. Wish they’d stood you up; we would’ve had fun. Try again? When: July 18.

Where: PV Pussers. #1706-0725 SUN-RAY FRONT LINE You: Cool couple. Man, patterned button-up. Woman, hip glasses, platform shoes. Us: Tall brunette, floral dress.

Man, average height, white button-up. In chaotic Hearts Beat Loud crowd. Bonded over Sun-Ray’s beauty. Dig your vibe; meet again? When: July 8.

Where: Sun-Ray Cinema. #1705-0711 FIREHOUSE “O” You: Silver shorts, black hat, orange nails. Me: Camo hat, brown T-shirt.

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Wanted to talk; you left. Thought of you rest of day. Make it every day? When: 12:30 p.m. June 21. Where: 5 Points Firehouse Subs. #1704-0627 BLACK 4-DOOR CADILLAC You watched me putting a shot back into the back of my car. You stopped and had your flashers on and I was too shy to stop. I wish I had. When: June 13. Where: Home Depot Lane Ave. #1703-0620

ISU

SANDY TOES & A ROSE Connex Made You: Mocked my princess-wedding dreams, then strode over sand, rose in hand. Young men admired your moxie. Me: Sure you’re a romantic. Hard to surf the pier’s 1-2’ without longboard. Hang yours in my garage? When: May 21. Where: Jax Beach Pier. #1702-0620 EASTER SUNDAY: THIS IS SILLY You: Serving, tall, tattoos, beautiful eyes; sweeping close by on purpose? Me: Dirty blonde, striped dress, dark lipstick, lunch, parents. Eyes met.

Should’ve left my number. Can I sit in your section next time? When: April 1. Where: Black Sheep. #1701-0606 ROYAL AUSSIE AIR FORCE Dreamboat RAAF sharing vegan chia pudding with pal. Your flight suit hunkiness make me speechless. We shared a table; I blushed a lot, too shy to say hi; I am now! Meet for pudding? When: May 23. Where: Southern Roots Filling Station. #1700-0530 HOT SILVER WATCH You: Got soda, sat by me; medium height, black manbun, red dress shirt, sexy watch. Me: Tall man, short brown hair, mid20s, gray shirt. Didn’t say hello; too shy. Show me more silver! When: May 22. Where: Lee’s Sandwich Shoppe, Baymeadows. #1699-0530

ISU

Connex Made BLUE-EYED GEMINI BOY Favorite Blue-Eyed Gem, you were leaving; left me behind. I think about you all the time.

We read these ads and laughed. Miss you; hope you’re smiling. Love, Your Florida Gem. When: Aug. 8, 2017. Where: Downtown under Blue Bridge. #1698-0516

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

SIMONE de BEAUVOIR, NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON, EZRA POUND & C.S. LEWIS ARIES (March 21-April 19): Electra is an action-packed story by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. It has epic characters taking drastic action in response to extreme events. In contrast, Marcel Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time, draws from the sensitive author’s experiences growing up, coming of age and falling in love, all while seeking meaning and beauty. Virginia Woolfe compared the two works: “In six pages of Proust we can find more complicated and varied emotions than in the whole of the Electra.” In accordance with astrological omens, you may specialize in the Proustian mode instead of Sophoclean. Your feelings in the next five weeks may be more interesting and educational than they’ve been in a long time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Maryland researchers created a new building material with a strength-to-weight ratio eight times more than steel. It’s an effective insulator, and in some forms can be bent and folded. Best of all, it’s biodegradable and cost-effective.It’s nanowood, derived from lightweight, fast-growing trees like balsa. Make it your main metaphor for the foreseeable future. You’re primed to locate or create your version of a flexible, durable, robust building block.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The U.S. Secretary of Defense paid an official visit to Indonesia early this year. The government arranged for him to observe soldiers demonstrating how tough and well-trained they were. Some troops shimmied through broken glass, demolished bricks with their heads, walked through fire and bit heads off snakes. Don’t try stunts like that in the next few weeks. It’ll be a good time show skills and make strong impressions. It’s wise to impress important people with your creativity and resourcefulness, but don’t try too hard.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I confess i have a fuzzy self-image. With odd regularity, i don’t know what or who i am. i think i’m so nice and polite, i need to toughen up. Other times, i feel my views are so outrageous and controversial, i should tone it down. Which is true? Often, i even neglect to capitalize the word “i.”

You’ve probably experienced some of this fuzziness, but now you’re in a favorable phase to cultivate a more definitive self-image. Cancerians have a natural talent of inspiring folks to love us. This ability comes in handy as we make an enduring upgrade from i to I. Our allies’ support and feedback fuels our inner efforts to clarify our identity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I am a little afraid of love, it makes me rather stupid,” wrote author Simone de Beauvoir in a letter to her lover, Nelson Algren. In the next 12 months, love is likely to have the opposite effect on you. According to my astrological omen-analysis, it’ll make you smarter and more perceptive. To the degree that you expand a capacity for love, you become more resilient. As you get the chance to express love with utmost skill and artistry, you awaken dormant potentials and boost personal power.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your theme in the weeks ahead is the art of attending to details. Wait! “The art.” That means attending to details with panache, not meticulous fussing. For inspiration, think of St. Francis Xavier’s advice: “Be great in little things.” Take it a step further with words author Richard Shivers: “Be great in little things, and you will be given opportunity to

do big things.” Novelist Tom Robbins has one more nuance: “When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson observes: “When you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they’re sitting behind a tree or under a rock. [But] the most successful people recognize that they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.” I think Tyson’s simple wisdom is just what you need. You’re primed for a breakthrough in the ability to create your fate.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Japanese entrepreneur Hiroki Terai has created a business: crying therapy. His clients watch short videos specially formulated to make them weep. A professional helper is there to gently wipe tears away and provide comforting words. “Tears have relaxing and healing effects,” says an Okinawan musician, one of the helpers. Terai adds, “It has been said that one drop of tear has the effect of relieving stress for a week.” I wish there were a service like this near you. The next two weeks are a great time to relieve pent-up worry, sadness and anxiety through cathartic rituals like crying.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fling out friendly feelers! Sling out interesting invitations! Figure out how to get noticed for all the right reasons! Make yourself so interesting, no one can resist your proposals! Use your spunky riddle-solving powers to ease your tribe’s anxieties.

Plunk down in pivotal places where vitality is rising!

Send out telepathic beams saying: “I’m ready for sweet adventure and invigorating transformation!”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth,” writes poet Doeianne Laux. “I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working. Now I remember only the flavor.” I hope these words help you avoid Laux’s mistake. I’m quite sure crucial insights and revelations will come your way, so do whatever’s necessary to capture them, to study them at length.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a young man, Aquarian poet Louis Dudek struck up a correspondence with renowned poet Ezra Pound, who was 32 years older.

Dudek “admired him immensely,” and “loved him for the joy and the luminosity” of his poetry, but resented him “for being so magnificent.” With a mix of mischief and adulation, Dudek wrote a poem to his hero, with these lines: “For Christ’s sake, you didn’t invent sunlight. There was sun dazzle before you. But you talk as if you made light or discovered it.” I hope his frisky tone inspires you to try something similar with your idols. It’s healthy to be lighthearted about anything or anyone you take too seriously.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his book Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis wrote, “Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.” In that spirit, seek dark holy places that evoke wonder and reverence, even awe. Maybe you’ll be inspired to bring new beauty to your life. You’ll be purged of trivial concerns and be receptive to a fresh promise from your future self.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

M.D. M.J.

PASSING THE TORCH

THE RECURRENT THEME OF SUMMER 2018 WAS of transition, in almost every conceivable form.

Lots of talented people are moving into the next phases of their careers. One of them is Christian Bax, the embattled former founding majordomo of medical marijuana in the state of Florida. He stepped down in August; his deputy Courtney Coppola will serve as interim director, and a permanent appointment will be made by either Andrew Gillum or Ron DeSantis.

As director of the Office of Medical Marijuana Use, Bax was tasked with implementing the intentionally vague and ambiguous mandates of Amendment 2, and he fared well under untenable conditions. His office was accused of sandbagging the bureaucracy and slowing the rate of new cards being issued, but they still registered more than 150,000 people under his watch, helping generate nearly $20 million in 2017 alone, and probably that much already this year. (Christmas is coming.)

Bax bequeaths a legacy of explosive job growth, millions in economic stimulus guaranteed up and down the state for years to come, and a significant expansion of civil liberties for Floridians. Medical marijuana is still a daisy-fresh gimmick whose commercial value is being defined, but his successor will inherit a pretty strong infrastructure with a growing cadre of patients and many vendors lining up to service them. But who will that person be? It’s an appointed position, so the governor has free reign to think outside the box.

There are no obvious front-runners so far, but I can immediately think of three people who would be perfect for the job (other than me):

1.) John Morgan’s singular role in this issue makes him the obvious first choice. He possesses institutional knowledge of the issue that even government can’t access, and he would certainly know how to maximize the taxpayers’ investment, which is due to increase tenfold. He’d never take the gig, and the resulting pay cut, but a Gillum victory means he might be asked, anyway.

2.) Roger Stone, who’s pushed for full legalization while manifesting right-wing shenanigans that give progressives the night sweats, would be the perfect candidate for DeSantis, who presumably will continue in the style of Rick Scott. But if Trump flips on the issue, and/or DeSantis gets a libertarian itch, Stone would be someone the hippies and hipsters could do business with–oodles.

3.) Danielle Bregoli is 15 years old, and is therefore disqualified from contention, and that’s probably best for all those involved.

“Cash me ousside” went viral, and she parlayed living meme status into a multimillion-dollar gimmick and several rap songs that are legitimately awesome. More so than perhaps anyone else alive, “Bhad Bhabie” IS Florida Woman in the eyes of the world right now, and optics are important. I mean, the girl drives a truck tricked out and custom-made to look like a Gucci flip-flop; checkmate.

Shelton Hull mail@folioweekly.com _________________________________ Got any questions about medical marijuana? Let us answer them for you. Send your inquiries to mail@folioweekly.com.

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ATTACKING THE

GOP FIREWALL

IN TALLAHASSEE It’s time for Democrats to hit them on all fronts ELECTION DAY 2018 IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER and the eyes of many across America will be looking to Florida as a bellwether for the 2020 presidential election. There are good reasons for this. Florida has some compelling races that promise to be everything Americans claim to hate about their politics: Expensive, deeply partisan and nasty!

Some of the big Election Day lead-up questions are: Can three-term Democratic Senator Bill Nelson hold onto his seat against term-limited Republican Governor Rick Scott? Will Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum be able to defeat Donald Trump’s “Bing Bing” candidate, nowformer Congressman Ron DeSantis, to become Florida’s first African-American governor? Will the outcome of competitive congressional races, such as Congressional District 6, between Nancy Soderberg and Michael Waltz, factor large in whether the GOP is able to maintain control of Congress?

And, in Northeast Florida, who will win the looming slugfest in House District 15, between Democrat Tracye Polson and Republican Wyman Duggan? Few, if any, state house races across the nation will see as much money and resources allocated as this one.

Yet even if the Blue Wave were to become a tsunami, it’s no mystery that Republicans will still control the Florida House of Representatives. Why? Republicans hold a whopping 7541 advantage in the Florida House. In a state that Barack Obama won twice, the GOP has built an impenetrable firewall over two decades of unabashedly partisan gerrymandering–so partisan that Floridians overwhelmingly passed the Fair District Amendments in 2010. Even after the Florida Constitution was amended to ensure competitive elections, it’s taken several legal challenges, most recently from Common Cause and The League of Women Voters of Florida, to force the GOP to acquiesce to the will of the people. If the Democrats ever hope to break through this firewall and wrestle control of the legislature away from the GOP, the Florida Democratic Party needs to win in districts considered solidly Republican.

A good example is in Jacksonville, and it’s not District 15. It’s District 16, the contest between incumbent Republican Jason Fischer and Democrat Ken Organes.

The District 16 race has the feel of a classic election upset. Organes, a retiree

who worked at CSX for 32 years, was an active community volunteer until he became frustrated by the current political discourse.

Energized through his involvement in the Duval County Democratic Party, Organes decided to run for office. On the stump, no one will confuse Organes’ oratory with that of Andrew Gillum’s. He has made school funding and school safety his top legislative priorities. Yet his sincerity connects with those he meets and his ideas are at the heart of Democratic values: Education, opportunity and equality. Organes has raised $41,000, mostly from nearly 200 small-dollar donations contributed by regular people who live in his district.

Fischer, a one-term state representative, has been running for public office since his mid-20s. In fact, in 2012, Fischer became the youngest person ever elected to the Duval School Board. In GOP circles, he’s thought to have a bright future; he’s Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry’s protégé. His affiliation with Curry helped him collect nearly $200,000

by Labor Day, all from major Florida GOP donors and corporate PACs. In a largely Republican district with a conservative voting record, Fischer would appear to be on track to pursue higher office in the near future with an agenda that mirrors the national Republican agenda: Lower taxes, create jobs, gut Obamacare … and repeat.

So can Organes beat Fischer? The common wisdom would say no. Fischer has a 5-to-1 cash-on-hand advantage and the ability to raise far more if things get sticky.

Fischer has an A rating from the Florida Chamber of Commerce and NRA. District 16 is largely white and performs strongly Republican, despite a healthy amount of No Party Affiliation voters. In fact, Organes would need to get nearly three-quarters of the NPA votes in the district to balance the Republican registration advantage. So what is the case for Organes? There are a couple of reasons for genuine Democratic optimism.

First, at the ripe old age of 34, Fischer is already a career politician with a record.

This includes supporting the privatization of Florida’s beaches, propping up Jacksonville’s KIPP Charter Schools with millions of taxpayer dollars, voting against debating an assault weapons ban, while students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gasped in the House Gallery, and voting against increasing the minimum age to

purchase semi-automatic assault weapons to 21. While Fischer wears his NRA “A” rating as a badge of honor, Organes will make that badge the proverbial scarlet letter for someone beholden to the gun manufacturers’ lobby. Fischer’s voting record gives Organes the opportunity to reintroduce Fischer to his own constituents and create a clear contrast.

Second, this election is being held with the backdrop of a truth-averse sitting President of the United States in the throes of a Nixonian-like meltdown. What will be Donald Trump’s fate by Nov. 6? Republicans who have attached themselves to Trump like remora on a great white will suffer from his demise. The greater the attachment, the worse the trickle-down effect.

In the past, Fischer has had trouble with alternative facts. In his race for Duval County School Board, his campaign website claimed for months he was a Navy engineer when, in fact, he was a civilian contractor who never served in the military. This was well-covered

by The Florida Times-Union, yet Fischer still won his race in an upset. Regardless of such missteps and the Trump dumpster fire, Fischer will overwhelmingly win the majority of Republican votes. But how much of that vote will stay home? One can assume the smaller Democratic voting base will be greatly energized. But energized how?

District 16 residents have not had a chance to vote for a Democratic candidate since the 2007 Special Election.

The race in District 15 is certainly worthy of the statewide and national attention it will receive in the fall. Tracye Polson is a dynamic candidate who connects with voters. Wyman Duggan performed well in a contested primary. He’s popular in the local GOP establishment and, though he’s temporarily short on funds, he’ll get major support from the same sources backing Fischer, namely the Lenny Curry machine.

Firewalls must be attacked to be breached.

If the balance of power in Tallahassee is going to change, Democrats must aggressively fight for every seat to capitalize on a Republican party in pandemonium. This means not only competing in races like House District 16, but investing in them and winning them.

Dr. Daniel S. Cronrath mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Cronrath is a political science professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville.

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