10/05/16 The Alchemy of Art

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DUSTIN HAREWOOD mixes up the media to create resonant works uniting creative energies STORY BY DANIEL A. BROWN

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BEATING BACK THE [47] FLAMES OF RECESSION

BY NICK MCGREGOR Iconic English protest PUNK BILLY BRAGG talks debates, Stetson Kennedy and the beauty of trains

BY CLAIRE GOFORTH St. Augustine Distillery launches a BOURBON for the ages

BY J. SCOTT GAILLARD The U.S. economy may be sliding into ANOTHER RECESSION — but it’s not too late to avoid it

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Locals have not one but two festivals to check out this Saturday, Oct. 8, that celebrate the killer cultural flavor of Northeast Florida. The eighth annual Filipino Pride Day includes arts and crafts exhibits, entertainment and cultural performances, Filipino cuisine, vendors and health and vision screenings, and is held 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Riverside Arts Market, fpdjax.com. The Hola Jacksonville festival features live music by 14 celebrated Latin music acts, as well as traditonal folk dances and tasty fare, and is held 5 p.m.-midnight, Jacksonville Landing, Downtown, jacksonvillelanding.com.

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The fourth annual DOCtoberFest features four heralded documentaries, including Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (pictured) which chronicles the short-yetresonant career of the Memphis power-pop pioneers, Author: The JT Leroy Story, a bizarre tell of writing and persona, The First Monday in May, a paean to the fashion world, and The Lovers and the Despot, the story of a Korean director and actress who fell in love in 1950s post-war Korea. Friday, Oct. 7-Sunday, Oct. 9, Amelia Musical Playhouse, Fernandina Beach, $7 per screening; $25 for festival pass, ameliamusicalplayhouse.com.

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Nationally acclaimed artist Pedigo is a Folio Weekly favorite, and for good reason.

The St. Augustine-based painter creates dream-like reveries of everyday still lifes, blurring the line between what is real and what is perceived. An associate professor at Flagler College, Pedigo has been a longstanding, respected presence on the local arts scene. In her latest two-person show, Pedigo is joined by artist Barbara J. Cornett, who makes humorous assemblages using found objects. The opening reception is 5-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 at Plum Gallery, St. Augustine; the exhibit displays through February, plumartgallery.com.

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Putt up for the bucks! This week, Web.com presents its annual Web.com Tour Championship, featuring golfers teeing up for a $1,000,000 purse. No pressure there, Swingy McGhee! Thursday, Oct. 6-Sunday, Oct. 9, Atlantic Beach Country Club; tickets start at $15; score them at webtourchampionship.com/tickets-parking.

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JULIA SCOTTI Comedian Scotti was voted one of the top five Transgender Comedians in the country by The Advocate – a well-deserved accolade. Scotti takes her story of coming out as transgender and imbues it with wit and heart, appealing to folks regardless of gender. In fact, Scotti raised the roof on America’s Got Talent, proving the fact that this country might not be as ass-backwards as some might think! 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6 and 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8, The Comedy Zone, Mandarin, 292-4242, $15-$18, comedyzone.com.

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FROM THE EDITOR

It sounds like GOOD ENERGY policy. It’s not.

BACK THE EFF

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THERE IS A WOLF IN GREEN CLOTHING ON THE ballot for Nov. 8.

If you’re not an expert in renewable energy and fluent in the doublespeak of legislation, Amendment 1 comes across like the kind of warm, fuzzy, no-brainer that deserves a ‘yes’ vote without a moment’s hesitation.

Don’t be fooled. It’s bad policy designed to line the already-overflowing pockets of Big Energy, which inexplicably expects us to believe that the Koch brothers, Florida Power & Light, ExxonMobil, Gulf Power Company and Duke Energy, which have all donated sums ranging from a couple hundred grand to $5.5 million to back the amendment, have suddenly reversed course and poured money into energy policy that actually helps consumers and the environment.

If you believe that, Folio Weekly has a bridge to Neverland to sell you.

Titled “Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice,” Amendment 1’s summary reads thusly: This amendment establishes a right under Florida’s constitution for consumers to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electricity for their own use. State and local governments shall retain their abilities to protect consumer rights and public health, safety and welfare, and to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do. [Emphasis added]

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Amendment 1 is so garbled and misleading that it barely survived the Florida Supreme Court’s review of its wording. Dissenting, Justice Barbara Pariente pointed out that not only is the amendment “[m]asquerading as a pro-solar energy initiative” and “affirmatively misleading,” it was originally crafted in an effort to quash another amendment backed by actual grassroots organization Floridians for Solar Choice, which would have allowed you to sell a limited amount of power to your neighbors. Due to a dispute with the company FSC hired to collect signatures, that amendment didn’t make it on the ballot.

And yet Amendment 1 persists with the word ‘choice’ hanging desperately — and inaccurately — from its tail like a chad of yester-election.

Here’s what Amendment 1 actually does: It pointlessly establishes a right that Floridians currently have to buy and lease solar panels for private use.

It then gives your local government even more power to regulate your use of solar

power. Clearly a no-good, very bad idea.

Just think: Today they’ll draft sympathy postcards for the Pulse Orlando shooting that somehow omit any mention of ‘gay’ or ‘LGBT,’ tomorrow they’ll tackle renewable energy policy! Riiiggghhhtt.

And for the coup de grâce, Amendment 1 gives utilities the right, even, potentially, the obligation, to decimate net metering, the policy by which utilities reimburse individuals who provide energy to the grid from their solar energy systems.

It’s a big, fat, eff u! to citizens who invest in solar power. As in, ‘You thought you were going to get reimbursed fairly for the power you provided to your utility company that it sold to your friends and neighbors?’ EFF U! [If you think changes to net metering are no big deal, recall the sunny days of winter when JEA pissed off half the county by trying to slash the rate it paid under net metering, only reversing course after citizens, advocates and a certain alt weekly came at them full tilt with an eff u! of our own. (“Sticking It to Solar,” Feb. 16, “What’s the Cost of Solar?” March 9)] The amendment makes much ado about some people subsidizing, that is, paying for, the upkeep of the electric grid while those freewheeling solar freaks suck and blow, suck and blow energy at will without paying a red cent for upkeep of the grid. Never mind the fact that a paltry 8,500 of Florida’s consumers were using solar power to generate electricity as of 2014. And never mind the fact that a slim percentage of those 8,500 actually produce enough electricity for their own households, let alone their neighbors’. And never mind the fact that we’re killing the damn planet with our reliance on fossil fuels or that numerous reputable studies have shown that net metering customers are not subsidized by the rest of us. ’Cause clearly all that matters is that Big Energy gets to preserve its right to bigger and bigger paydays by pushing through a bullshit amendment that just might kill the fledgling solar energy market in the Sunshine State.

Armed with more than $21 million of Big Energy cashola and a crib sheet of buzzwords designed to appeal to voters to the left, right and center, Consumers for Smart Solar (deceptive name much?) is pushing Amendment 1 hard in a campaign it calls ‘Yes for 1 for the Sun’ and denying that it will cripple the solar energy industry in the state or give local governments powers they are not equipped to wield.

Don’t be fooled. Vote ‘no’ on Amendment 1.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com Twitter/ClaireNJax

THE MAIL EDITORIAL STRIKES A NERVE ON FACEBOOK

RE.: “Privileges, Scourges and Good v. Evil,” by Claire Goforth, Sept. 28 YUCK. IT SEEMS THAT YOUR EDITOR MEANS well, but the suggestion here is essentially that we “do away” with talking about white privilege because it offends and upsets white people: “Love it or hate it, the majority of Americans are white, and we’re not going to change as a nation without the participation and cooperation of the majority.” As long as white Americans continue to switch the subject when the discussion turns to the benefits and comforts we enjoy on a daily basis due to systemic racism, nothing’s going to change. What an irresponsible and dangerous attitude.

Orin Anne Strasser I SEE YOUR POINT, BUT I THINK GOFORTH’S goal is for people to stop only talking about white privilege and instead engage in dialogue about what that means, and perhaps take action. I think you both have the same goal.

Lindsay Layendecker SURE, BUT THERE’S SOMETHING VERY ICKY about a white person attempting to regulate the conversation on white privilege, especially with this type of sloppy reasoning: “the more the conversation about racial inequality turns toward white privilege, the less the recipients of said privilege are willing to listen.” Of course many white people don’t want to hear that we benefit from institutional racism, but it’s a truth that we 100 percent have to confront. Bottom line: If people of color who are suffering want to talk about white privilege, her No. 1 job as a white person is to LISTEN, not quibble.

Orin Anne Strasser YOU ARE A WHITE PERSON, THOUGH. YOU DON’T see the irony here? You’re bitching about white people “regulating” what “white privilege” while

being a white person doing all those things. You sound like a racist.

Carl Davison SHE’S NOT SAYING THAT WE SHOULD IGNORE those things. She’s saying that defining those things as “white privilege” is not only a misnomer (those things are rights all people should have) but it also detracts from the proper perspective. It’s not wrong for white people to have those “privileges.” What is wrong is for us to be ignorant that a disparity exists. What’s wrong is for other races to suffer because of that disparity. It switches the focus to white people … again!!! Instead of focusing on the violation of minority rights. Those are rights, not privileges.

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RE.: “New Season, Same Old Sorry Jags,” by Mark Judson, Sept. 21 JAGS FANS MATTER! David J. Gross via email

RICK SCOTT: ENVIRONMENTAL ABOMINATION

RE.: “Riverkeeper Refuses to Float Away,” by Mark Judson, Sept. 21 NOTABLY, GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT VACATED two seats on the commission — local governments and environmental community — more than a year ago. A letter sent from the St. Johns Riverkeeper and approximately 50 other state organizations called for Scott to fill the seats before the vote, according to Rinaman. Instead, the seats were left empty and the vote was moved up several months.

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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO SCOTT WILSON Originally FWM considered brickbatting Jacksonville City Councilmember Wilson for proposing to de-appropriate $2.1 million (or half the budget) for Jax Journey, a program geared toward helping troubled kids get back on track. Then we learned that Wilson merely wanted to temporarily suspend further funding until the program provided promised crime data for the 10 ZIP codes targeted. Seems Wilson just wants to make sure Jax spends its money where it’s most needed, rather than defaulting to stereotypes about neighborhoods. Too bad his motion failed.

BRICKBATS TO TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH Following the publication of Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray’s Unholy Trinity, Tim Gilmore’s book about TBC’s pedophile founder, numerous reports emerged that representatives from the church were demanding parishioners remove online comments about the book and church members and employees who mentioned it were being called into the admin office for a talking-to.

Let’s put this in terms y’all might understand: “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses them and renounces finds mercy.” – Proverbs 28:13 BOUQUETS TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY FUND FOR NEFL In another fine show of putting their money where our hearts are, the fund recently ratified $115K in grants for 2016, which will benefit JASMYN, ElderSource, UNF LGBT Resource Center and the Nonprofit Center for Northeast Florida.

The fund, a giving circle of The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, pools members’ resources to benefit the local LGBT community.

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FOLIO VOICES : FIGHTIN’ WORDS

FULLWOOD TAKES A FALL And JACKSONVILLE SUFFERS the consequences, as ever

WHEN HOUSE DISTRICT 13 STATE REP. REGGIE Fullwood pled guilty to two of the 14 federal counts against him last week, it was a tragic scene.

In the courtroom, Fullwood was a man alone; his wife, whom you would have expected to be there in support, was absent.

An irony, given that part of the reason Fullwood took $60K from his campaign account for personal expenses — liquor, jewelry, incidentals — was to defray the lack of pay that one gets in the state legislature.

He didn’t say that in court, of course. But it’s the truth.

With eight years on Jacksonville’s City Council and six in Tallahassee, Fullwood had been in public office for more than half of his public life.

The scene that most reporters saw was Fullwood, a shining star of Jacksonville’s political scene since 1999, left alone when he needed support the most.

There was no entourage.

There were no sign holders holding up “Reggie Delivers” placards.

In the end, he couldn’t afford them.

In the end, he was having a hard time paying a traffic ticket for running a red light.

The Duval County Democratic Party? It wasn’t there, but it had its reasons: Former NBA player Jason Collins was in town for a voter registration drive.

If Collins wanted to know how politics in this city really work, he should have been at the courthouse.

There was plenty of room — the pew-like benches were occupied by only a smattering of media types.

As the Jaguars know, no one comes to cheer you on when you lose.

And when you lose, you get screwed: Those closest to Fullwood in his time of greatest need were reaching out to the press, rather than turning their phones off and helping their friend.

Facing the very real possibility of prison time after sentencing happens on Jan. 9, Fullwood will need friends then, too.

Who will be there?

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WHEN FULLWOOD WAS INDICTED IN APRIL, there was a lot of media interest.

Ten counts of wire fraud and four counts of failure to file tax returns will do that.

However, as spring turned to summer, it almost seemed there was reason for optimism in the Fullwood case.

The feds had claimed that Fullwood had defrauded the Florida Division of Elections by taking campaign contributions and spending them on himself.

The judge in Fullwood’s case, Marcia Morales Howard, said that wasn’t the case, as the state agency had no property interest to be defrauded.

Fullwood scored what seemed to be an important victory, and then he doubled down.

In August, the Jacksonville Democrat filed a motion to dismiss, saying that those who contributed “got what they paid for” — i.e., they got Fullwood in office.

Fullwood was optimistic.

His optimism grew after he won the Aug. 30 primary, against “friend” and former deputy supervisor of elections Tracie Davis.

He didn’t really consider what the feds were doing in the time between the fi ling of his motion to dismiss and the next hearing in his case, in the middle of September.

As it turned out, they were putting the nails in the coffin of his political career.

The FBI interviewed five former contributors, and they all told the same story: Namely, when they gave Fullwood money, it was intended to be used for a political campaign, not diverted for a slush fund.

The feds shredded Fullwood’s motion to dismiss like confetti for a parade of the burlesque and the grotesque — adding Fullwood to a procession of faded politicians, like Don Gaffney and Willye Dennis last century, who betrayed the public trust by putting their hands in the till, thus ending their political careers.

From there, a status conference on Sept. 29 became the setting for a plea deal, putting a wrap on the career of a Jacksonville Democrat who was actually important in the House.

He will be replaced by a rookie, and at press time it’s not known who that rookie will be.

Options include Tracie Davis, who lost in the primary to Fullwood by four points, and who is backed heavily by State Sen. Audrey Gibson.

At this writing, it’s hard to completely count out Duval County Public Schools Board member Paula Wright; the case for her is that, unlike Davis, she has meaningful legislative experience.

The online edition of this column will offer clarity on this issue.

Would that all the issues associated with this case offered such clarity.

REGGIE FULLWOOD WAS A GREAT POLITICIAN. He knew the issues. He had the relationships.

He had enough community buy-in to win a competitive primary with no real fundraising behind him and a federal case looming over his head like an oversized cartoon anvil.

Now Fullwood is done.

And it will be HD 13’s loss, as whoever replaces him is going to be lost in Tallahassee for the first two years.

It sucks for the Duval Delegation, too: in the House, Fullwood’s exit ensures that we have a bunch of rookies and Jay Fant, even as the most conservative House Speaker imaginable takes over.

In other words, we’re not getting much state money anytime soon.

Fullwood lost. But more important, we did.

A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski

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LONDON CALLING

THE JAGUARS FLEW ACROSS THE POND FOR their annual game in London on Sunday. Perhaps just as difficult a journey, fans stumbled out of bed and made their way to the bars at 9:30 a.m. for kick-off.

The crowd at Intuition Ale Works was light, but the mimosas and beermosas were flowing.

Most in attendance were strong supporters in the Bold City Brigade, who have stood by the Jags through darker days (cough, cough, Gabbert).

Going into the game against the Colts, fans were at a low point; calling for the firing of head coach Gus Bradley, questioning quarterback Blake Bortles and claiming the rebuild of the last four years had failed.

The Jaguars left London with a win and found themselves in second place in the AFC South.

The game was by no means a great showing against a lousy team, but a win’s a win in the NFL. Fans hoping for a better start than 1-3 going into the bye-week still found plenty to criticize and some were even disappointed with a win, as it delays the potential release of Bradley.

So, with a 30-27 divisional win, is it fair to bash the Jags? Yes and no.

Screams followed by swift gulps of beer will tell you penalties are still a huge problem.

Sunday, the Jags committed 11 penalties for 145 yards, nearly 100 yards lost to those penalties in the first half. Giving up a field-and-a-half’s worth of penalties is no way to win games.

The Jags weren’t the only ones committing penalties, but the refs seemed to be under that impression. Bortles was hit in the helmet after a slide on several occasions and receiver Allen Robinson was tackled before a catch attempt, none of which drew flags. The Bold City Brigade took note that CBS failed to show the replay on the Robinson hit that should’ve been a pass interference call.

Beyond penalties, nearly blowing a late lead on back-to-back Colts touchdowns in the fourth and a garbage third down conversion rate, the Jags ... dare I say it? ... weren’t terrible.

They found a way to break for some big runs, sacked Colts quarterback Andrew Luck six times, forced an early interception and didn’t turn the ball over a single time.

Possibly due to the early morning — when many were reeling from a Seminole defeat and I was still in Clemson victory mode — the bar was more calm than most games. Perhaps it was because we were watching the Jags play as teams should (kind of) play. They took the lead first and never looked back, gave up zero turnovers, consistently ran the ball and balanced play calls, made long field goals and brought home a win.

There was little reason to scream at the TV, a lack of an emotional roller coaster, no anguish of losing leads and an absence of anger from missed scoring opportunities.

Do the Jags have a lot to work on? Sadly, yes, but let’s take every win we can get.

Mark Judson mail@folioweekly.com Twitter/MarkfromJax OCTOBER 5 - 11, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 11

FOLIO COMMUNITY : NEWS St. Augustine Distillery launches a BOURBON FOR THE AGES

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THOUGH THE FLOORS AND DÉCOR ARE sparkling Old-World-made-new, the building has a timeless presence that draws from the era when calling something artisanal and locally sourced wasn’t about marketing, it was just a fact, back when everything was handcrafted, and ice was a prized commodity shipped down from the far north to be cut into blocks and sold in bulk from this very spot on Riberia Street in St. Augustine’s Lincolnville neighborhood.

Maybe it’s the sweet nose, the floral notes dancing across caramel and dark fruit of smooth, spicy, malted bourbon goodness that tastes like home — two fingers on the rocks, just like granddaddy would’ve done — but it feels like a friendly spirit from ages past haunts this place.

Or maybe it’s the buzz.

Kicking back in their shared office, with glasses, a bowl of ice and a bottle of their soon-to-be-released bourbon gracing the space on the table between us, St. Augustine Distillery partners and co-managers Philip McDaniel and Mike Diaz take savoring sips — guests aren’t likely to drink alone here — as they spin a yarn about their shared history, core values and the philosophy that goes into every bottle they produce, which currently includes vodka, rum, gin and — their newest baby — bourbon. Cut from the same, welloiled cloth that has a touch of Sam Elliot sheen, both believe wholeheartedly in the principles that set the exceptional apart from the pedestrian, those of quality over quantity, craft before speed. And now, five years after they started down this path, all that dedication, time, sweat and energy is paying off: They’ve become the first to craft and distill bourbon in Florida since Prohibition — and they’ve done it without sacrificing their principles.

The proof is in the glass; St. Augustine Distillery bourbon is everything they dreamed it could be.

“You’ll never see us release anything we wouldn’t be proud to serve in our house,” Diaz said.

It all starts with corn, malted barley and wheat. St. Augustine Distillery relies on local farms to the greatest extent possible; much of the corn that’s used is grown in the tri-county area. “We’ve demonstrated that you can make world-class spirits out of local agriculture,” McDaniel said.

Equal parts environmentalists and businessmen, they run zero percent waste on the bourbon, recycling cooling water instead of dumping it into the sewer, like more than 98 percent of all other distilleries do; and, rather than tossing the mash, McDaniel and Diaz allow local farmers to come collect the high-protein spent grains to feed to their cows, who’ve developed such a taste for the (non-alcoholic, don’t worry, PETA) stuff that they recognize the truck and follow it. Not only is this sustainability at its best, it’s also less expensive: They’re not paying to dump all that grain and water.

Creating small-batch bourbon that can stand up next to some of the biggest and most coveted names in the biz is more complicated than recycling and using local produce, however. So the entrepreneurs brought in the big gun: Dave Pickerell. Pickerell spent 14 years as master distiller for Maker’s Mark, and his name is synonymous with fine bourbons — prolly ’cause he trots the globe consulting distilleries about how they make them.

“He knows whiskey,” Diaz said.

Figuring out how to craft top-notch bourbon in the tropical heat of Florida was something of a challenge, they explain, in part because the requirements are so strict — for example, barrels must be brand-new, never used; anything aged less than four years in the barrel must be stamped to that effect on the label — and in part because today’s bourbon is typically made in colder climates, where the spirit spends far fewer months of the year being ‘active.’ That’s how the pros refer to the time period when the concoction gets imbued with flavor and color from the wood of the barrel. But McDaniel and Diaz were also on a bit of a time crunch, desiring to come to market with an extremely

high-quality product without waiting the better part of a decade.

So to speed up the process, they initially aged the bourbon in half-sized barrels. Phil explained that they soon found the Floridian climate kept it active year-round (only when temperatures dip below 40°F does bourbon become inactive), which, had they let the wide-awake bourbon remain in 25-gallon barrels, would have led to what he described as an “oak bomb, where it’s all vanilla and coconut.” Sounds like a good rum, perhaps, but not a fine, small-batch bourbon.

They transferred it to 53-gallon barrels after the first summer.

And now, many, many moons, experiments and unexpected micro-crises after they dreamed of becoming the first small-batch distillers in the modern era of the Ancient City, their bourbon is ready to go out into the world.

A few weeks after our initial interview, the long-awaited day arrives. The bourbon release party saw a crew of a few hundred traipse through the distillery, delighting in nibbles from the onsite Ice Plant Bar and sipping, swilling and even shooting a bourbon years in the making. Two days earlier, when they’d started selling it, a crowd five times the expected size showed up; the line wrapped through the distillery and out the door. To accommodate the crowd, regular tours through the distillery (which, with 150,000-160,000 visitors annually, is the single most-visited craft distillery in the nation) had to be cancelled and drinks provided to keep people as cool and comfortable as possible while they waited in the summer swelter. It was a smashing success.

And now it’s time to get smashed — or, if one prefers to be proper, to slowly savor the flavor of a bourbon of which dreams are made.

“We make a spirit we’re proud to put up against anybody’s,” Diaz said.

Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ You can purchase St. Augustine Distillery bourbon, rum, gin and vodka at various retail, restaurant and bar locations around Northeast Florida.

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Dustin Harewood mixes up the media to create resonant works UNITING CREATIVE ENERGIES

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t is a marriage of the syncretic and the mystic, a fruitful and longstanding union where the radical meets the reverent. The artwork of Dustin Harewood is a visual mashup that tethers together everything from the nautical realm, pan-ethnic heritage, and signifiers forged in the subconscious to resolute activism and an innovative use of textures and tonalities. Coral-like structures anchor washes of aquamarines and earth tones. A blue Oni (a Japanese folk demon) leers across a flurry of circular motifs floating across a sky-like background. A checkered grid and newsprint explode from an impossible galaxy of stars and a miasma of bloody red flecks.

Harewood, with his fusion of the metaphysical, human and animistic, is, if nothing else, a child of the universe — or at least a well-traveled global citizen with bulletproof bona fides. His life’s arc has taken him from Brooklyn to Barbados, Japan to Jacksonville, and back again. An artist and educator, Harewood has assuredly ascended up the ladder of local art. Yet he seems immune, if not oblivious, to any kind of hosannas.

Now Harewood is readying for his forthcoming exhibit How To Now. The three-person show, which includes new paintings by Mark Creegan and JoAnne Cellar, opens on Friday, Oct. 7.

Thirty paintings are expected to be displayed as the flagship show in a new space on San Marco’s Southbank, whose name is simply its street address: 1057 Kings Avenue.

Every artist is, arguably, at a crossroads. Whether

they stand in place, make that shaky deal with some kind of devil, or use that very same nexus as a launch pad for greater creative growth is purely on them. Harewood is a mover and traveler, staying in motion in the studio and in his personal life. And local savvy art lovers’ anticipation of seeing his latest work is met directly by Harewood’s own expectation of surpassing what hangs on yesterday’s — and today’s — gallery walls.

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ustin Harewood and his two children greet me at the door. His son, Hinata, aged six, and three-year-old daughter, Mei, are felonylevel cute, intrigued by this person here to interrogate their dad.

Now in the living room, the television fills with the blaring evening news. Harewood quickly steps over and clicks it off. “Man, I haven’t watched the news in years,” he says with a laugh, pulling down the ever-present cap that holds his long dreadlocks.

Soon attention is drawn to the impromptu floorshow as Mei, and then Hinata, appear again by my side to again scrutinize the hillbilly journalist.

“How was your Friday, Mei? How was work?” I ask, breaking the ice.

“Fine … don’t step on my foot,” Mei responds.

“I won’t.”

“Can I show you how to fight?”

A piece from Harewood’s ongoing Floating Heads series, which addresses the idea of “commodities and why are we really here?” photo courtesy Dustin Harewood

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“I’m a pacifist, but you can show me.

Where did you learn this?”

“I didn’t learn it anywhere! I just know it.”

“Well, I’m staying outta the way of that tornado.”

Plastic nunchakus are revealed in Hinata’s hands as he, eyes intent, uses tiny hands and feet to issue expert blows to invisible adversaries in the air. The 38-year-old Harewood explains that the two younger Harewoods are studying the Brazilian martial arts discipline of Capoeira, which merges acrobatics and dance. Encouraged by the presence of a houseguest, Hinata and Mei are wired for sound as their battle stances degrade into wobbly cartwheels and funky dance moves. “I got them into Bruce Lee movies,” explains Harewood. “That’s where all of this comes from.”

The Harewoods live in Cedar Hills, a kind of DMZ neighborhood between the tony grounds of Ortega and full-tilt “Westside” honky-tonk. “You know, this is a calm area and you then take a left at the strip club … ” Harewood laughs. “Florida’s weird.”

The home’s décor is a comfortable blend of contemporary style, visual art, which adorns seemingly every wall, and an absolute family vibe. A Harewood illustration of true reggae mystic Lee “Scratch” Perry seems to stare over at a Mark George neo-pop piece.

In the hallway, a piece by Maya Hayuk, which Harewood purchased in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, creates a kind of visual transition to the opposing rooms. Meanwhile, on the living room floor, a Hinata-and-Meimade crash pad of couch cushions is splayed out. The family moved here last December; Harewood explains that it was a step up from their 1,000-square-foot home in Murray Hill.

Within 10 minutes of my arrival, Harewood is interviewing me. “What makes for a good, epic interview? What are the ingredients?”

Legal stimulants, an open heart, humor and the avoidance of any home court advantage, I say. In that last regard, Harewood has the edge.

When the interview subject and interviewer are both out of their elements, disarmed

“I kind of want this off the record and on the record: I want to be considered an artist first, who teaches,” says Harewood, who has taught art at FSCJ Kent Campus since 2004. in a neutral environment, gross or subtle maneuverings or reinforcements are rarely in play. But the reality is that Harewood is a friend, so neutrality might have blown out the window when I rolled up the driveway at dusk.

Now it’s just us in the living room, and the conversation shifts to How To Now. “With the title we’re not declaring what painting is supposed to be,” says Harewood, who created the exhibit’s theme. “However, it is about being aware of the context of where we lie in the history of painting. And how does that affect the choices we make when we make the things we make?”

Abruptly, the kids are back. Harewood asks them to be quieter as we’re now deep in interview mode. “You should go meditate like Bruce Lee. That’s a main tenet of martial arts,” I suggest. Hinata and Mei issue blank stares and do a high-stepping skip out of the room.

Harewood explains that How To Now is a continuation of his work recently featured at Bold Bean Coffee Roasters in Jacksonville Beach, as well as his submission to LIFT: Contemporary Expressions of the AfricanAmerican Experience, the acclaimed group exhibit currently on display at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. LIFT features 10 local artists, from the established to the emerging, creating ruminative works on the African-American identity, heritage, present and a hopeful future.

Harewood’s work runs the gamut from the radical to the reverent. And, at times, blurs the line between. His piece at the Cummer, Out of the Gloomy Past, bears this out, featuring a triptych-like composition of three large-scale paintings on the wall.

Before each painting, roughly six feet away, is a floating 2D head encased in a rounded glass, with different, corresponding organic material peppered along the base. The three disembodied portraits are Peter Tosh, Kendrick Lamar and Nina Simone.

“Peter Tosh is combined with brown sugar from the West Indies. In Barbados, that was our main export. Kendrick Lamar is cotton. And Nina Simone is tobacco; she’s from North Carolina. It’s commodities and why are we really here?” Harewood believes

that his current foray into abstractions are an aesthetic continuation of the work he did for now-former Cummer museum director Hope McMath and longtime curator Holly Keris with LIFT. “That show has given me so much exposure,” says Harewood.

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inner is served. We’re all seated in the dining room, both the kids swinging their legs under their chairs. His wife Yuki has whipped up a simple yet impressive meal of fried fish, sautéed peppers and rice. Mei explains that before one eats, they should say, “Itadakimasu,” roughly the Japanese equivalent of saying grace or “Bon appétit.”

Talk lessens as we dig in. Mei eyes me and smiles between gulps of milk; Hinata reveals himself to be a kind of quiet observer, more concerned with navigating his fork through rice and fish and listening.

“I like milk and cartwheels,” announces Mei. “Daddy, can I show him ballet now?”

She answers her own question, leaving the table, lifting her hands high as she pirouettes, closing with a bow to her seated audience.

Then she zips back to her seat.

“I feel so funny because this is what all artists are like,” laughs Harewood, watching Mei dance across the carpet. “’Look at me!

Look at me!’ And then waiting around …

‘How was that?’”

Harewood and Yuki met in 2005 when she worked at Reddi-Arts. “I used to send my students there to pick up supplies and I always talked on the phone,” he adds, with a laugh, “Initially we met as friends. I don’t really remember at what point we ‘crossed over’.”

“Dustin and I also have a different memory of how we met,” laughs Yuki.

Originally from Amoroi, a small prefecture in northern Japan, Yuki laughs as she calls herself “a country girl,” albeit a country girl who is well-versed in the world of visual arts.

Every other year, the family alternates between vacationing with relatives in either Barbados or Japan. “When we’re in Japan, I go out with the family and Dustin stays at the house and watches TV,” Yuki deadpans.

“And when we go to Barbados, I go out with the family and Dustin stays at the house and watches TV.” Yet whether home or abroad, the couple agrees that, in Harewood’s words, they’re “super introverts.”

“You’re the second guest we’ve had over.”

The plates on the table now emptied, Yuki and the kids get up and head for other rooms.

Mei hustles toward the wooden, sliding living room door, before smiling over her shoulder.

“I’m so excited to have eaten with you.”

The chatter and laughter of the family dinner has ended and Harewood looks over with an almost preoccupied expression.

“Now I’m realizing that the art is reflecting my current circumstances. You know? You see those kids? One summer we’re in Barbados, and it’s deep into Crop Over Festival,” says Harewood, of a harvest festival that originated from the slaves on the island in the 17th century. “And this past summer we’re in Japan.

Life has gotten quite surreal. Because my kids find it very normal to be going back and forth to those places and then living here. And I find that a lot of my work has become this hybrid of me being Caribbean, West Indian and black American.”

Harewood is not only proud of, but energized by, his multi-hued genealogy, his children’s similar heritage, and the family’s collective and ongoing journey through experienced and applied multiculturalism.

This whole world of different homelands, ethnicities, experiences and possibilities has only honed his sense of identity.

“I just say I’m black. It actually gets tiring when people ask,” he says, lifting his open hands upward for emphasis. “Especially when I really just consider myself an artist.”

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ustin Harewood was born on July 6, 1978 in New York City, specifically in Brooklyn. “I almost don’t want to say it,” he grins, lowering his voice to a whisper. “It’s like the most pretentious thing to say because all of the artists are congregating

there. I’m more east New York, near Canarsie, in Starrett City. It was a lot of Polish and Jewish people — Pennsylvania Avenue.”

Harewood and his younger sister Danielle were raised in a solidly upper-middle-class home with their mother Cheryl, then a stay-at-home-mom and their father Phil, an accountant. Harewood grew up in an absolute diverse NYC experience, living on a “good block,” with projects right on the edge of that same block. His first creative influences came from Garbage Pail Kids trading cards and comic books. When he was in the second grade, his teacher made a suggestion to his parents — they should send their young son to private Saturday morning art classes at the Brooklyn Museum. “When

I started taking those classes, that’s when art really became something different for me.”

Harewood eventually joined the museum as a junior member.

During the ’80s, the NYC art scene was on fire, the flames fanned by street-level iconoclasts like Keith Haring and JeanMichel Basquiat. The Lower East Side art and music scene spread its influence through the five boroughs and beyond the city’s confines. Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe continued to force open the respective doors of illustration and photography, while tackling ideas of gender, race and even mortality, due in no small part to the plague-like outbreak of AIDS.

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“My sister and I had this game, where every time we’d drive in the car and see graffiti in the city, we’d shout it out. And whoever saw the most won the game,” he laughs. “And I imagine that my parents up in the front seat must have lost their minds.”

The ’80s in NYC also saw the dawn of what Harewood calls the “crack generation.” “My dad’s car radio was constantly getting ripped off. Man, it was rough.”

At the age of 11, Harewood and his family moved to Christchurch, Barbados. “When I was leaving elementary school, the middle school was going to be a little rough, so they thought it was the perfect time to go back to Barbados.”

While there, Harewood was educated through the British school system, trading A’s and B’s for GCE academics and O levels. “The situation is that I grew up in New York City. I left as a kid and then went to Barbados, but that was more of a British experience.”

That experience included wearing epaulets, khaki shorts, knee-high socks, and learning the proper way to polish one’s shoes. “It was 1986, the second time of the ‘Miracle Mets’ at the World Series, and then suddenly I turn around and I’m playing cricket.” Because his family had strongly suggested that he become a doctor, Harewood studied art and science.

“That’s the truth in all of this, the illusion of chaos,” says Harewood. “But in reality it all falls in line with precision.”

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“I feel so funny because this is what all artists are like,” laughs Harewood, watching his daughter dance across the carpet. “‘LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!’ And then waiting around … ‘HOW WAS THAT?’” When Dustin was 16, Harewood’s dad figured out a loophole to expedite his son’s passage into college. Because Harewood was an American living in Barbados, he could forgo taking the British-structured O levels, and simply take the SAT. “So I started college early.

Not because I was brilliant or anything. Just because my dad realized that I could do that.”

Harewood attended North Carolina Central University, a historically AfricanAmerican school. “It’s in the shadow of Duke and Chapel Hill,” he laughs. “I gotta give them a shout-out.” He graduated with a BA in graphic design and then earned an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In 2004, Harewood began teaching at FSCJ Kent Campus. “I kind of want this off the record and on the record: I want to be considered an artist first, who teaches,” says Harewood. “I don’t want to be the teacher who makes art. Because that’s wack to me.”

In conversation, Harewood surely comes across as more of a dream-driven visual artist than an educational facilitator. Yet he lights up when speaking about teaching and his students, past and present.

“I’m pretty sure it was Deepak Chopra who said that ‘the surest way to achieve your dreams is to assist other people in achieving theirs,’” Harewood says. Harewood teaches advanced drawing, painting, 2D design and introduction to computer imaging. It seems that if he has a teaching ethos for all of the above, it’s that we’re all teaching and learning at some points in our life, sometimes at the same time.

And his students are teaching him about the anxieties of being a burgeoning artist in the early 21st century. “With social media they’re so concerned that they’ll forever be defined by one picture that they post on Facebook of their work,” he says. “Can you believe that? At first I laughed, but that really worries them.” At times he’ll put them in check. “Jacksonville is larger than Barbados. So imagine being surrounded by water and needing a visa to leave,” he says.

“Sometimes my students complain about how hard everything is and I ask them, ‘How many schools are in Jacksonville?’ Barbados has one university, so you gotta be on it to get in there.

Lemme tell you, man, I love America. I love this country.”

After teaching for a dozen years, Harewood remains fired up about what he

does. “I appreciate the opportunity. And I am grateful to have contributed to the culture of Jacksonville over the years.”

It was at Kent Campus that Harewood met Mark Creegan. Known for a truly mercurial approach to visual art, Creegan is renowned for creating works by toggling, and discarding, fresh media at a breakneck speed, using everything from dried paint drippings to graph paper. “Yeah, Mark and I have a deep, deep bond,” says Harewood.

The pair has curated captivating shows at the school’s gallery space, successfully counterbalancing disparate artists like Madeleine Peck Wagner and Kurt Polkey.

Their recent show featuring Russell Maycumber and Micoel Fuentes continues this tradition. “When you take the energies and following of one artist, and mash them together with another artist,” says Harewood, “you create an even bigger impact.”

The next incoming impact on the local arts scene will be felt at the upcoming How To Now exhibit. While Creegan and Harewood are longtime established artists and educators, Cellar is a lesser-known quotient on the arts scene. Harewood hopes that

this show will in part draw more attention toward Cellar. “She paints with just a pallet knife, and does figurative abstractions, and they’re so beautiful,” says Harewood. “I feel almost protective of her since I think she’s an incredible artist who needs to be presented in the right way.” And while Creegan needs no introduction to the gallery scene, Harewood is decidedly his vocal champion. “Mark is way too humble,” Harewood laughs. “When I started the idea for this show, I told him, ‘You will be in this show, too.’ And I think he’s way above most artists here.”

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deas, views and beliefs ricochet back and forth over the course of our conversation. Formal questions from writer to artist are forgotten altogether, yet the conversation continually returns to art.

“This is the time of the big takeover,” says Harewood of the current local arts scene. “I feel like the Jacksonville arts scene is on its ‘come up’ and I feel like people need to stop comparing it to New York and LA, Chicago and Atlanta.

People put too much pressure on it. ‘Oh, it sucks here.’ Why? Because we’re our own city. Does it need to be the center of the arts world to be considered successful? I don’t think so.”

Harewood cites the return of curators/ arts agitators Aaron Lee Garvey and Stevie Garvey and their Long Road Projects as one thing that has fanned the flames of the arts community. Along with his upcoming show, Harewood is involved with the new, semianonymous, five-person street art collective Bless Your Heart Crew, which is currently working on a warehouse commissioned by Birdie’s owner/arts supporter Christy Frazier.

Harewood also cites Shaun Thurston as an artist with whom he feels a particular kinship.

“You know sometimes people think Shaun is distant or aloof, but he’s really not at all,” says Harewood of the much-respected, local graffiti artist/muralist. “He’s just the kind of guy who won’t talk when he doesn’t want to talk! He’s all about the work.”

As is Harewood. A good portion of his artwork is executed through a couple of ongoing series. “I have one with these floating heads, or dead reefs, and there are these abstract paintings. And I find myself jumping back and forth throughout them. And I enjoy revisiting these three motifs a lot.”

More motifs penetrate Harewood’s work even in the form of a luminous mushroom reappropriated from the classic ’80s video game, Mario Brothers. In Harewood’s view, none of these mergers is accidental. “We tend to separate everything. But are they really

Though Harewood works in mixed media, he demurs when pressed about specific materials. “Because that’s part of the whole alchemy of it.” separate?” he asks. “You and I were part of the first video game generation, so Mario Brothers was in there. It’s at my core. And those stories. It’s about mythology, and that was the first time you were able to participate in the mythos. Those Mario references were me being honest with myself and putting down all of the MFA bullshit about being a ‘serious artist.’ There’s this pressure to carry on the lineage but the reality is: Pop Art destroys Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism destroys Pop, etc. I remember coming out of school feeling all of that pressure,” he says. “And there comes a point where you realize that no one really cares.”

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he initial question of the interview — how do you describe your art? - was derailed by the kids’ spontaneous martial arts expo hours earlier. Now pressed, Harewood becomes playfully deflective.

“That’s the hardest thing to do,” he laughs.

“How would you describe it?” Though hardly being coy, he also doesn’t try to pull a Jedi mind trick by speaking in “artist statement” talk. He does allow that he wants to be a part of the greater dialogue. “Otherwise, you’re just doing what Jerry Saltz calls ‘zombie art’.”

Describing anyone’s visual art, let alone your own, can be truly difficult. “I don’t want to imprint an idea on the viewer,” says Harewood. “But there’s also a certain idea that I’m trying to convey.” That’s part and parcel of what Ram Dass calls “the dance,” of moving with, and kicking through, the illusion of individual subjectivity. Harewood dips into this spiritual-colored stream as he attempts to verbalize what ultimately doesn’t need verbalization. Art stands on its own, needless of aimed perceptions. “Let’s go to a whole other space,” he says. “Is it all random? Is this life really a dream and are we creating our reality as we go? You got me?”

The reality that Harewood manifests in his work ripples across the currents of contemporary art. Earlier pieces like Re-Blog and Neither Here Nor There, which seem grounded in the two-dimensional, physically rise out toward the viewer in a wave-like arc from the surface. “It’s the opposite of the whole Renaissance idea of creating a world where you’re supposed to break the plane

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“The thing I love about art is that every year I feel like I’m ‘leveling up,’” says Harewood. “And it’s unlike athletics where you’ve got that one window. I feel so blessed to the fact that at this moment I feel like I’m making the best stuff that I’ve ever made in my life.”

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In much of Harewood’s works, there is a recurring use of dotted circles and diamond shapes. They create texture, movement and even cohesion in the paintings. Harewood cites prints from the Edo period (1615-1868) as highly influential on his paintings, and Japanese culture in general as an aesthetic source for his work. “Japanese imagery just seduces you. Like Van Gogh, that’s what happened to him, with all of these woodblock prints. I think it seduces almost every artist. And I fell victim because a lot of my patterns, with those diamonds and circles, were inspired by kimono patterns. I see it as tribalism and it almost makes me feel disconnected from my African roots, coming through this interesting filter.”

Calculation, through painting the aforementioned patterns as well as his fineline, meticulous detail work, are offset with happenstance. Harewood also works in layers, what he calls “veils,” to invite, or even push, the viewer deeper into his work. “That’s the truth in all of this, the illusion of chaos. But in reality it all falls in line with precision.”

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“This is the time of THE BIG TAKEOVER,” says Harewood of the current local arts scene. “I feel like the Jacksonville arts scene is on its ‘come up’ and I feel like people need to STOP COMPARING IT to New York and LA, Chicago and Atlanta. People put too much pressure on it.” materials. “I work in acrylics because it has to dry faster. It also allows me to create collage and work with spray paint and be open to mixed media.” Harewood offers that now he makes as many trips to the hardware store as he does to the art store. “But I can’t reveal any more,” he laughs. “Because that’s part of the whole alchemy of it.”

In lieu of turning lead into gold, Harewood transmutes common materials into uncommon art. And like arcane mystics, Harewood is now experiencing the true goal: the interior transformation.

“The thing I love about art is that every year I feel like I’m ‘leveling up,’” says Harewood. “And it’s unlike athletics where you’ve got that one window. I feel so blessed to the fact that at this moment I feel like I’m making the best stuff that I’ve ever made in my life. And I’m so glad that I’m within a genre that allows that. And why do artists ‘level up’? Because the experiences, to gain knowledge, all of that informs the work. And

the work becomes more and more refined.

And more powerful.”

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hree hours later, we’re standing in the driveway, the neighborhood quiet in the moonlight. With a late summer breeze blowing through, we both seem exhausted from what is surely one of the cleanest, safest highs: a long conversation about art and the very things — identity, family, discipline, goals and vision — that make art even possible.

Our talk had morphed through everything from his story, my story, favorite artists, local artists, Warhol’s example of the inherent power of staying the course and doing the work, to our mutual issue of self-deprecation, God as intuition and conscience, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure impressions, the classic reggae film Rockers, Vedanta, and Aleister Crowley in the

form of following your creative “will.” All tied together with good, loud laughter.

Suddenly pensive, Harewood looks away to the sky, starts to speak, and then pauses.

“I consider myself a private person and a lot of people that I know don’t even know these things,” he says softly. “A lot of my friends say that I’m really good about not speaking about myself. I know it sounds crazy, or even conceited, but you know how all artists want to present themselves. I want to be enigmatic but I really am a family man. It’s also who I am.”

“Well, let’s just say you’re a family man who makes enigmatic art,” I offer.

“You know what?” Harewood raises his head and smiles. “That will work.”

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n an entertainment world flush with liberal tendencies, no one has stood up and shouted quite like Billy Bragg.

Since the early ’80s, he’s been a passionate advocate for a host of far-left causes: socialism, anti-racism, the Occupy movement, reform of Britain’s parliamentary system, and support for LGBTQ rights.

While some of Bragg’s beliefs have been adopted by the mainstream, the so-called Bard of Barking has never tempered his confrontational, Clash-inspired message.

The beautiful Mermaid Avenue sessions Bragg completed with Wilco around Y2K, in which unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics were set to original music, did introduce Bragg, and surely Guthrie himself, to a wider American audience.

And now Bragg is touring the States with fellow-folkie Joe Henry, singing songs from their recent collaborative album, Shine a Light, which was inspired by a 2,800-mile railroad journey from Chicago to LA. But Billy Bragg manages to focus equally on the past, the present and the future, chatting at length with Folio Weekly about the state of our presidential campaign, the cancer of cynicism and the power of song. Here it is, edited only for clarity. And as you’ll know, when you attend Magnolia Fest on Oct. 15, Mr. Bragg is one eloquent dude.

Folio Weekly: You were in Washington, D.C., the night of our first presidential debate.

What did you think?

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Billy Bragg: I think Hillary did herself a lot of favors. She looked presidential, and it was easy for her to get Donald riled. If that’s how he deals with a presidential debate, the worry is, how will he deal with diplomacy? I can’t tell you how all that talk about NATO will go down in my country, though. NATO is the cornerstone of American hegemony. If you want to have an empire, you have to pay for it. You can’t make the parts of the empire pay for it. The way Trump talks about stiffing providers — the people who’ve done work for him — he’s treating us like that.

You were a vocal opponent of the Brexit vote in your country. What lessons can the U.S. learn from that experience?

The key takeaway is that none of us believed it would happen. We didn’t think the British people would be so foolish to put so much of our security and international reputation in jeopardy, just out of anger or as a means of lashing out at Westminster. But they did, so I can only implore my American friends to not be complacent in November.

You and Joe Henry are touring behind Shine a Light. What drove you to pursue the railroad-inspired project?

A number of reasons: First, the railroad plays a very important role in the roots of our common culture. But the effect it had in the USA was phenomenal — possibly greater than any other technology in human existence. Before the railroads came, it wasn’t possible to travel faster than a horse could go or a boat could sail. It wasn’t practical to build a city anywhere but on the coast or on the river. In my country, you can’t just get on a train and escape jurisdiction by crossing the state line like you can in America.

So Britain does not

20th Annual Magnolia Fest Celebrating The Stetson Kennedy Centennial: BILLY BRAGG, JJ GREY & MOFRO, THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, KELLER WILLIAMS, many more Noon, Oct. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre, $83-$164.50, staugamphitheatre.com

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Iconic English PROTEST PUNK Billy Bragg talks debates, Stetson Kennedy and the beauty of trains

BARKS ON have a great tradition of railroad songs — the closest equivalent are sea shanties. But in some ways, the railroad as a means of transport has been forgotten in the USA, which is odd because it still plays a key part in the economy. You put more freight on rail — 43 percent — than the rest of the industrialized world. Without railroads, your economy would be in serious trouble.

Distribution networks would break down. So getting on the railroad and recording these songs put a focus back on what it’s like to travel on trains in America.

You’re performing here in St. Augustine as part of the 2016 Magnolia Fest, which celebrates Stetson Kennedy’s 100th centennial. What does Stetson Kennedy’s legacy mean to you?

Stetson made a huge contribution in the campaign against racism, which was the issue that politicized England in the 1980s. When I got involved, it was made clear to me that this wasn’t something my generation discovered.

By standing up against discrimination of all kinds, particularly in his work against the Klan in the South, Stetson contributed to an important, long-standing tradition. His connection with Woody Guthrie obviously brought me into his orbit as well. So I’m pleased to celebrate his 100th birthday. I had the privilege of meeting Stetson when I played the Harvest of Hope Festival in 2007, so it’ll be nice to come back and work with people still trying to promote his ideas.

You’ve been an activist for 35 years. Do you still feel as motivated as you did when you were a young man?

If you’re going to be a progressive, you have to be a glass-half-full person. If you believe the glass is always half-empty, it’s difficult to connect with the rest of humanity. And doing that seems to me to be a central tenet of any progressive idea. The enemy of everyone who wants to make the world a better place

is not capitalism or conservatism — it’s cynicism. And by cynicism, I don’t mean doubt or skepticism; doubt is healthy. Never trust anyone who has no doubts. Donald Trump has no doubts. Skepticism can be constructive. A cynic to me is someone who’s given up completely — and they’d like you to give up as well because it makes them feel better. I don’t have time for those people in my life. I do everything I can to keep my cynicism in check, tough as it is sometimes.

In today’s world, that takes serious intestinal fortitude.

It comes from Woody, actually. He never wrote a cynical song in his life. He hated songs that put people down. You learn from him that when you sing a song, you’re taking a stand. You’re expressing your principles in front of an audience. Think about how powerful it is for a football player to kneel during the national anthem. A very simple gesture, but when you see the amount of discussion that’s provoked, you realize that taking a stand still resonates with people.

Music has the ability to do that much more strongly than a mere tweet or an argument on 4Chan or something like that.

Do you see a lot of younger musicians fulfilling that activist role?

They are out there. But music no longer has the vanguard role it had in the 20th century.

We didn’t think of it in these terms at the time, but music was our sole social medium.

It was the way by which we talked to one another and decided what style of clothes we wore. Cars, politics, love … everything went through that medium. Now, music is no longer the place where everyone gathers.

So it’s harder for young, up-and-coming political songwriters to make headway. I still think people want music to have something to say. And I don’t think it has to be capital-P “political.” This is going to be the first generation since World War II to grow up poorer than their parents, so I’m looking for young artists to tell us about the pressure they’re under. I want to hear about how angry they are.

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS We celebrate director Paul Verhoeven’s MERCURIAL TALENTS

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h boy,” I distinctly remember telling a fellow film freak back in the mid-’80s, “This should be something else!” The occasion was the announcement that Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven was going to be directing a science-fiction film called Robocop.

I was right for once. Its blend of technical wizardry, intelligence and graphic realistic violence set Robocop apart from others of its kind. And Verhoeven was just getting started over here in the U.S. I was fortunate enough to have already seen the six prior films he’d made in the Netherlands, most of which were startling enough, with the same qualities he’d brought to Robocop, plus the addition of far more explicit sex than a typical R-rated American film. From his first Dutch film, Diary of a Hooker 1971 (renamed Business Is Business for American release), to ’83’s hallucinatory The 4th Man, Verhoeven always pushed the envelope.

Besides being unnerving, the films were also fresh, sometimes funny, always exciting. They held an enormous range of subject matter and setting — from period pieces about prostitution (Hooker and Katie Tippel to the WWII occupation/partisan drama Soldier of Orange to the alienated youth scene in contemporary Netherlands (Spetters). Verhoeven asserted himself as one of the most exciting talents in contemporary European film.

His first film in English, Flesh + Blood (1985) was a Spanish/Dutch collaboration that’s still one of the most unsettling, violent films about the Middle Ages you’ll ever see, highlighting another of Verhoeven’s recurring themes — religion.

Then came three Hollywood homeruns — Robocop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct — before the disastrous Showgirls (’95), possibly the worst major film ever made by a major director. Though he rebounded with Starship Troopers (’97), the disappointing Hollow Man (2000) three years on seemed to end Verhoeven’s popularity and, even more important, his Tinseltown marketability.

Before that, the filmmaker (now nicknamed the Mad Dutchman) had made a film every two or three years at the most. It wasn’t until 2006, though, that he showed he still had the Right Stuff with the WWII spy drama Black Book, filmed in his native Netherlands and about as good as any of his work.

Then another absence of six years, prompting Verhoeven fans like me to wonder if the 75-year-old former wunderkind was through. Just released on home video here, Tricked (2012) proves Verhoeven is far from done. In fact, as the title suggests, he’s up to old tricks.

With a running time of 91 minutes, the video release of Tricked is deliberately misleading; the actual “film” (roughly 50 minutes) is preceded by a 40-minute “Making

of…” featurette on how the actual movie came about. Starting with four pages of Kim van Kooten’s script, the idea was to elicit succeeding submissions from the public that would then be gleaned and selected for “plot” development.

The featurette shows a charming Verhoeven at work, prepping the opening scene while he discusses his career and explains his approach to storytelling and camera work. Interspersed with his comments are interviews with the cast, detailing their excitement about working with the “legend.”

It might almost play like a vanity project were the concept of the new film not so innovative and Verhoeven himself so delightful.

The actual 50-minute feature is well worth the wait. Hard to define generically, the story combines sex, intrigue, drama and comedy in a complicated tale of “tricks” of all kinds.

At his 50th birthday party, the philandering Remco (Peter Blok) and his wife Nadja (Sallie Harmsen) are surprised by the uninvited presence of a very pregnant Ineke (Ricky Koole). Remco’s son Tobias is surprised by Merel (Gaite Jansen) while his coke-sniffing sister Lieke (Carolien Spoor) gets blindsided just about every which way by everyone else.

There are sub-plots galore, involving business takeovers, clandestine romances, the Internet and pregnancies. And only in a Verhoeven movie would events turn on a bloody tampon in a toilet.

Marvelously acted, tightly scripted and deftly directed, Tricked might be considered a bauble in terms of length and theme, but it’s an all-Verhoeven gem. Think of it as a finger exercise for his new feature-length thriller, Elle with Isabelle Hupert, due to open here soon after rave reviews abroad.

I, for one, can’t wait.

Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com

NOW SHOWING SUN-RAY CINEMA The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Touring Years, The Magnificent Seven and Author: The JT Leroy Story are currently screening, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Harry & the Snowman starts Oct. 7. The Greasy Strangler runs Oct. 7. Eyes Wide Shut runs Oct. 8. The Girl on the Train starts Oct. 7. The Creature from the Black Lagoon runs Oct. 11. Seed: The Untold Story runs Oct. 12.

CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Aferim! and Weiner-Dog are running at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Hitchcock’s The Birds runs for Throwback Thursday noon Oct. 6. Indignation starts Oct. 7. The Little Shop of Horrors screens Oct. 7, 8 and 9. The House on Haunted Hill runs 8 p.m. Oct. 9.

IMAX THEATER Deepwater Horizon, Robots 3D, America Wild: National Parks Adventure, A Beautiful Planet and Secret Ocean screen at World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. Harry Potter Marathon runs Oct. 13-20.

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FOLIO A+E : ARTS

Punk rock workaholic Henry Rollins probably WON’T SLOW DOWN until he dies

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enry Rollins is one of those American icons whose multitudes are impossible to contain in 750 words. He was one of four vocalists for genre-defining hardcore punks Black Flag, but his reign of sonic and sociopolitical terror, from 1981 to 1986, is universally regarded as the band’s heyday.

He fronted the Rollins Band for another 15 years, but since then, the now-56-year-old has hosted radio shows, movie review roundtables on IFC, documentaries for National Geographic, and the educational history series 10 Things You Don’t Know About. He’s written more than 10 books, contributed hundreds of regular columns to LA Weekly, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post, and even won a Grammy for the audiobook reading of his self-flagellating tour diary Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag.

Rollins’ acting career has also flourished, an inevitability that anyone who saw Henry incinerate stages in the ’80s and ’90s with his all-consuming magnetism could’ve predicted.

He had bit roles in popular movies like Johnny Mnemonic, Heat and Lost Highway, before things really took off thanks to a recurring role on TV biker/drama hit Sons of Anarchy.

His biggest moment is one of his most recent, though — a starring role in 2015 indie horror flick He Never Died. Director Jason Krawczyk purportedly wrote the character — blunt introvert condemned to eternal life while struggling to control his taste for human flesh — specifically with Rollins in mind.

And surprise, surprise — the script spoke directly to Rollins’ solitary, obsessive personality. “I don’t go to bars,” he told The Daily Beast last December. “I go to a party and I’m nervous. I can’t wait to leave. I’m not good around people. I’m the guy who’ll just sit all weekend and write or listen to music, alone … cursing the darkness. I’m not looking to go on dates. I’ve never been that guy. I’m quite the solitary type.”

See Rollins live at one of the spoken word appearances in which he now specializes, however, and you’ll encounter a voluble yet lovable crank. (If you can’t make it, listen to any of his 400 podcasts for a similarly impassioned effect). Fascinated by human psychology, passionate about political activism, and obsessed with maintaining a constant state of deliberate action, Rollins covers all the bases: politics, art, humor, humanism, cynicism and violence — including his own propensity for it. His first appearance on National Geographic Explorer, in fact, was in a documentary called “Born to Rage” about the so-called warrior gene.

“I’ve seen human violence,” he told The Daily Beast. “I’ve been in violent episodes. I’ve seen humans human out … At times, it’s made me very world-weary and somewhat cynical, as is our lot as Homo sapiens on the planet. I fight

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8 p.m. Oct. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $33-$43 pvconcerthall.com

cynicism with everything in me, [though]. But sometimes, you know, when I’m on the 101 and I can’t move I’m like, ‘You all should die.’”

That push-pull between violence and peaceful protest may represent the biggest paradox of Rollins’ life. He was notorious for fighting anyone who dared cross him at Black Flag concerts. In 1991, his best friend Joe Cole was shot in the face while he and Rollins walked up to their Venice Beach home. And Henry has spoken at length about how the violence he was surrounded by as he grew up in Washington, D.C., in the late ’60s and ’70s, when forced integration via busing, urban unrest and rising crime set the tone for the rest of his life. “I grew up in an environment of really hardcore racism,” he told The Daily

Beast. “[My mother] was a Democrat and a leftie, and I took after her. [But] my father was racist … I watched D.C. catch on fire.

I remember riots. You could look out of your window and see smoke, smell mace in the air … ” Rollins even says he learned the definition of “assassination” the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed — when young Henry was all of seven years old.

Rollins’ early experience may have extinguished the progressive flame in any weaker human being. But 50 years on, the man still maintains a laser focus on making the biggest difference possible in this fractured, fucked-up world. Though he declined an interview request with Folio Weekly this time around (totally cool, by the way — we know how busy he is), we’ve talked to him before. And hearing Rollins speak might just be the most motivating way to spend 15 minutes (in the case of our interview) or three hours (in the case of many of his spoken-word performances). In which case, we’ll leave you with this from his most recent column for LA Weekly: “Since an upgrade will not occur on a national level via presidential pen stroke or SCOTUS decision, you have to take it upon yourself to be an infinitely fantastic person every single day. There will be times when it will be a bitch to be so awesome, but you’ll handle it. This century will be about incredible individuals. Bold acts of kindness and a genuine desire to at least try to see things from someone else’s perspective are but two of the mandatory requirements for betterment moving forward … Equality, tolerance and decency are not inherently American or human traits. They are values you choose to adopt and use or not. So, be amazing all the time.”

Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com

ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE

HENRY ROLLINS Ex-Black Flag frontman’s spoken word, 8 p.m. Oct. 9, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 2090399, $33-$43, pvconcerthall.com.

SUPER SCIENTIFIC CIRCUS For grades K-6; Mr. Fish, Trent the Mime, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 11, Thrasher-Horne Center, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $12, thcenter.org.

HANK & MY HONKY TONK HEROES Alhambra Theatre’s Alhambra After Dark stages Hank & My Honky Tonk Heroes, with Jason Petty; Oct. 12-16. 12000 Beach Blvd., $64 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.

FIRST COAST CLASSIC DANCESPORT CHAMPIONSHIP The 26th annual Championship; professional and amateur couples compete for $100,000 prizes, 8 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Oct. 6; 7 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Oct. 7; 6 a.m.-9:45 p.m. Oct. 8, World Golf Village Renaissance, 500 S. Legacy Trail, St. Augustine, 338-9219, tickets start $25, firstcoastclassic.com.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL – OVO Innovative acrobat troupe performs, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5-8; 4 p.m. Oct. 8, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., 630-3900, $25-$150, ticketmaster.com.

ON GOLDEN POND Don Maley and Christina Johns star, 8 p.m. Oct. 6-8; 2 p.m. Oct. 9, Amelia Community Theatre’s Studio 209, 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina, 261-6749, $22; $10 students; through Oct. 15, ameliacommunitytheatre.org.

INTO THE WOODS Players by the Sea stages Sondheim’s comedy, 8 p.m. Oct. 6-8, St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 106 Sixth St. N., Jax Beach, 249-0289, $25, playersbythesea.org.

OKLAHOMA! Limelight Theatre stages the musical, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 6-8; 2 p.m. Oct. 7, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $15-$26; through Oct. 23, limelight-theatre.org.

SISTER ACT Alhambra Theatre & Dining stages the musical comedy through Oct. 9. 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, $38$57, alhambrajax.com.

CLASSICAL & JAZZ

AMELIA ISLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble directed by Dennis Marks, The Dynamic Les DeMerle Little Big Band with Bonnie Eisele, Trio Caliente, saxophonist Houston Person, Bria Skonberg, jam sessions and a jazz brunch, Oct. 5-9, at Fernandina venues. ameliaislandjazzfestival.com.

JU PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE – NOSFERATU Jacksonville University percussion professor Tony Steve and the JU Percussion Ensemble play a live soundtrack to Nosferatu, 6 & 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5, MOCAJax, 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu.

BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH SYMPHONY Jacksonville Symphony performs Beethoven, Dvorak, Stravinsky, 11 a.m. Oct. 7, T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 300 Water St., 354-5547, $20-$42, jaxsymphony.org.

UF BRAZILIAN MUSIC TRIO 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7, Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE CHAMBER SINGERS The singers and St. Augustine Youth Chorus – 60+ total singers – perform 6 p.m.

Oct. 7, Cathedral Basilica, 38 Cathedral St., 825-2806.

JAX SYMPHONY: COMMUNITY CONCERT 8 p.m. Oct. 8, T-U Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, jaxsymphony.org.

BRASS BONANZA Beaches Residents Actively Supporting Symphony fundraiser. Dinner, cash bar, music director Courtney Lewis, Jacksonville Symphony, 6 p.m. Oct. 9, Sawgrass Country Club, 10034 Golf Club Dr., Ponte Vedra, $100; $80 members, jaxsymphony.com.

U.S. MARINE BAND 3 p.m. Oct. 9, University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/ music/calendar.aspx.

LIFT EV’RY VOICE & SING Florida A&M University, Edward Waters College and Bethune-Cookman University choirs, 5 p.m. Oct. 9, Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $25, ritzjacksonville.com.

SYMPHONIC SALUTATIONS – AN EVENING WITH COURTNEY LEWIS Friends of Ponte Vedra Library present symphony conductor Lewis, discussing his vision for the new season, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 11, 101 Library Blvd. A meet-and-greet follows.

Free admission; 827-6950, sjcpls.org.

JAZZ COMBO CONCERT Students of University of North Florida’s stellar jazz program play 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12, UNF’s Recital Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.

COMEDY

FRED’S FUNNIEST COMEDIANS Patrick Carson, Ozrick Cooley, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5; Donna Williams, Sid Davis, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12; Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com.

JULIA SCOTTI The comic, voted a Top 5 Transgendered Comedian in America, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6; 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Oct. 7 & 8, Comedy Zone, 292-4242, $15-$18, comedyzone.com.

K-DUBB The comic, of Comic View, 8:30 p.m. Oct. 6, The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., 646-4277, $7-$15, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

MIKE GAFNEY The comic, of Last Comic Standing, 8 p.m. Oct. 7; 8 & 10:30 p.m. Oct. 8, Comedy Club of Jacksonville, $10$25, jacksonvillecomedy.com.

JEFF BRADLEY Variety comic, improv troupe Awkward Silence Jax and singer-songwriter Mike Lagasse, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com.

ART WALKS & MARKETS

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK St. Augustine Art Galleries tour, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7, 15+ galleries, 829-0065.

RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local/regional art, yoga, Filipino Pride Day 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Oct. 8, Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free entry, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.

OKTOBERFEST FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK Fourth annual Oktoberfest at First Wednesday Art Walk, 5-10 p.m.

Oct. 5; keg-tapping, German oom-pah polka bands, kids zone, carnival zone, contests, biergartens; 20+ hotspots open after 9 p.m.; 60+ total venues, over 15 blocks Downtown. VIP tickets at downtownjacksonville.org. iloveartwalk.com.

MUSEUMS

CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside, 3566857, cummermuseum.org. Folk Couture: Fashion & Folk Art, Oct. 7-Jan. 1. Lift: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, of locals Thony Aiuppy, Glendia Cooper, Ingrid Damiani, Overstreet Ducasse, Dustin Harewood, Marsha Hatcher, Hiromi Moneyhun, Princess Rashid, Chip Southworth, Roosevelt Watson III, through Feb. 12.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf.edu. RetroSpective: Analog Photography in a Digital World, through Jan. 8. Sustain: Clay to Table, through Oct. 30. Project Atrium: Ethan Murrow, through Oct. 30.

GALLERIES

1057 KINGS AVENUE San Marco’s Southbank. Opening reception for How To Now, Dustin Harewood, JoAnne Cellar and Mark Creegan’s abstracts, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 7; through Oct. 14.

THE ART CENTER GALLERY Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. Beth Haizlip is featured artist.

Lift Every Voice through Oct. 10.

BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. Landscape and still life paintings by Rebecca Shaffer, Karen F. Rose and Jessie Cook are on display Oct. 7-Nov. 1.

CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum.

Singer-songwriter Robin Rütenberg plays 7 p.m. Oct. 7.

Auditory-themed exhibit Sound, through Nov. 22.

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Arboreal, works by Linda Richichi and Seth Satterfield, and Freedom, works by Ali Miruku, through Oct. 14.

DEERWOOD CENTER CAMPUS FSCJ, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., 997-2500, fscj.edu. Don Martin: Leaves of Grass, inspired

by Whitman’s poem, through Dec. 1.

DOWNTOWN CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ, 101 W. State St., 633-8100, fscj.edu. Faces of Engagement, through Oct. 14.

FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Earth, Sea & Sky, new paintings by Joyce Gabiou, through Oct. 25.

FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com. Jason John: Crossing the Threshold is on display.

HUBLEY GALLERY 804 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 4299769. Mary Hubley’s Toescape exhibit opens 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7.

KENT CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., 6462300, fscj.edu. Micoel Fuentes and Russell Maycumber’s mixed media drawings, sculpture, installation art, through Oct. 20.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/jax.html. The Wright Brothers, through Dec. 30. Vinnie Ream Exhibit, works in art, poetry, prose and music, displays through Oct. 30.

LUFRANO INTERCULTURAL GALLERY University of North Florida, 1 UNF Dr., 620-2475, unf.edu/gallery. The UNF Wood Fire Ceramics Invitational through Oct. 14.

MONROE GALLERIES 40 W. Monroe St., 881-0209, monroe galleries.com. Works by Barbie Bray-Workman, Jami Childers, Dana Fawn, Leilani Leo, Dustin Bradley display.

MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, monyarowegallery.com. Tropic Apparition, new works by painter Amy Lincoln, through Dec. 18.

NASSAU COUNTY LIBRARY 25 N. Fourth St., Fernandina, 277-7365, nassaureads.com. The Art of the Japanese Print, through Dec. 30.

PLUM GALLERY 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. Opening reception for works by painter Sara Pedigo and assemblage artist Barbara J. Cornett is 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7. The exhibit displays through February.

SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 150, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. Oktoberfest, celebrating ZPARTY for Pam Zambetti, 5-9 p.m. Oct. 5.

SPACECAMP CO./M.C. PRESSURE 201 W. King St., St. Augustine. Opening reception for What The What?!?!?, by Deborah Adams, Alex Barnes, Matthew Dolby, Van Eggers, Sarah Flora, Makeda Joseph, Andrea Lukic, Kevin Mahoney, Russell Maycumber, Matt Meinhardt, Loren Myhre, Erick Wayne Patterson, Heather Pellecer, Joseph Provenza, Douglas Stearns, music by The Dewars, free beer, 7-10 p.m. Oct. 7.

ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 8242310, staaa.org. 15th annual Tactile Art Show, Oct. 7-30.

EVENTS

GUIDED KAYAK TRIPS SJC Parks & Recreation kayaks on Tolomato River to Fort Mose Historic State Park, 10 a.m. Oct. 6; 11 a.m. Oct. 7; noon Oct. 8. Launch: Usina Boat Ramp, 603 Euclid Ave., St. Augustine; RSVP, contact 209-0335, sjcfl.us.

WEB.COM TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP $1,000,000 purse, Oct. 6-9, Atlantic Beach Country Club, 1600 Selva Marina Dr., 372-2222; tickets start $15; webtourchampionship.com.

CANDY TALK Susan Benjamin, candy historian, author of Sweet as Sin: The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure, discusses Halloween candy and offers samples, 6 p.m. Oct. 7, Amelia Island Museum of History, 233 S. Third St., 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org.

POETRY READING AT FLAGLER Flagler College opens its Writers-in-Residence program with poet Dan Albergotti, 7 p.m. Oct. 6, Flagler Room, Ponce Hall, 74 King St., St. Augustine, 826-8582, flagler.edu.

FLORIDA BLACK EXPO 15th annual job fair, seminars, Greek Village, health & wellness village, celebrities, drumline, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Oct. 8, Prime Osborn Center, $15-$20, blackexposouth.com.

ST. AUGUSTINE SATSANG Meditation in Eknath Easwaran style, 5 p.m. Oct. 11, Anastasia Island Library, 124 Seagrove Main St., 209-3730, jcpls.org.

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HEAVY LIES THE CROWN

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New Orleans metal legends Crowbar move INTO THE FUTURE by returning to their past

ow does a metal band that’s defined as being swampy, Southern sludge mixed with forceful Sabbath-style blues for nearly 30 years reinvent itself ? In the case of New Orleans natives Crowbar, by reaching back to the past and reconnecting with the crushing, slow-and-low sonic attack they perfected in the ’90s, when nü-metal and rap-rock blasphemed metal’s truly heavy roots.

For their 11th full-length The Serpent Only regular visit, I said, ‘What’d you think?’”

Lies, Crowbar founder Kirk Windstein not Windstein laughs. “He said it was great — only revisited his own band’s early material, he his description was ‘classic rock on steroids.’ called upon that of influential, confrontational That’s perfect. I’m not a fan of all these subwork by Trouble, Saint Vitus, Melvins and genres. It’s metal, or it’s punk, or it’s hardcore, Type O Negative. And if titanic lead single or it’s sludge, or it’s doom. Whatever you “Plasmic & Pure” is any indication, this new want to call it, it’s heavy.” material mashes up melancholy and bruteEven better, it’s long lasting. Crowbar first force riffs as well as anything that’s come coalesced in the late ’80s, when thrash was before it. Even better, founding Crowbar at its pinnacle. But instead of cultivating a bassist Todd Strange is back in the fold, and reputation as hell-raising terrors, whether at nearly every review of the band’s shows since home or on the road, Windstein and company he rejoined have been glowing. have persevered by sticking to their stylistic The only downside? Windstein tells Folio guns — and by following the holy trinity of Weekly that Crowbar won’t be performing tour survival: tons of water, tons of vitamins anything off The Serpent Only Lies ahead of and tons of rest. “I sleep three times more on its Oct. 28 release date. “The main reason is tour than I do at home,” Windstein laughs, because everybody videotapes everything “because my body needs it.” with their cellphones. It could end up on How does a band of unassuming YouTube or Facebook with metalheads from The Big really crappy audio, and I Easy endure through 30 don’t want that to be the fans’ years of recording and CROWBAR WITH AXIOM, COUGHIN, IMMUNE first experience performance? By deciding 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Nighthawks, of new material.” to buck the metal trends Riverside, $12, facebook.

If you’re familiar with these they were faced with in the com/nighthawksjax Louisiana legends, though, beginning and do something you probably won’t mind. to separate themselves from Windstein says that Crowbar’s the pack. Windstein cites previous 10 albums yield plenty of live-show Mötorhead as career inspirations; in press fodder, including go-to fan favorites like for The Serpent Only Lies, he said, “Slow “High Rate Extinction” and “All I Had I Gave.” and steady wins the race. If you continue to Tommy Buckley’s drums are slow-paced but put out killer records, continue to kick ass chest-rattling in their impact, while second onstage every night, and continue to treat guitarist Matthew Brunson provides an adept your fans with respect, that’s the stuff canvas for Windstein’s solos. people will remember.”

It’s the frontman’s tortured vocals and “We’ve always strived to be original,” fierce look that most firmly root Crowbar in Windstein continues. “We survived every type of metal — screamo, black metal, death the metal landscape. But after 10 minutes on metal, rap-metal, nü-metal ... You name it, the phone with Windstein, his congeniality we outlasted it. I love the fact that we don’t shines through. When asked to slot Crowbar somewhere on the insanely sub-atomized fit into any genre. We’ve always stayed on an metal spectrum, he declined, describing even keel, building our following slowly and the band as “Black Sabbath on steroids.” keeping our fans happy by doing what we’ve He then launched into an enigmatic story always done. We’re proud not to sound like about his wife (who runs merch) excitedly anyone else.” bringing Kirk’s doctor up to watch Crowbar’s Nick McGregor most recent hometown show. “At my next mail@folioweekly.com

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Aussie rockers The GOOCH PALMS (pictured) perform with The COSMIC GROOVE and MENTAL BOY Oct. 12 at Shanghai Nobby’s, St.

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK

SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Oct. 5, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247.

DOPAPOD, PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG 7 p.m. Oct. 5, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $20-$25.

LO KEY, SUNZ OF SAMM, BDT, AUTOMATIK FIT, LIGGET THE DEMON, ORIAS 7 p.m. Oct. 5, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $10.

Music by the Sea: GO GET GONE 7 p.m. Oct. 5, St. Augustine Beach Pier, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., thecivicassociation.org.

Bring something to sit on.

BIRDS IN A ROW, FRAMEWORKS, YASHIRA, CAVE MOTH, ARMS 8 p.m. Oct. 5, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside.

Adult BYOB Cruise: JIM BARCARO, DAN VOLL 5:30 p.m. Oct. 6 & 7, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina, 261-9972, ameliarivercruises.com.

GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS 8 p.m. Oct. 6, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $39-$49.

TOWN MOUNTAIN, MERE WOODARD 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of.

EDWIN McCAIN, DANNY BURNS 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $31.50-$45.50.

CROWBAR, AXIOM, COUGHIN, IMMUNE 8 p.m. Oct. 6, Nighthawks, $12.

DAVID WILCOX 8:30 p.m. Oct. 6, The Original Café Eleven, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311, $25 advance; $30 day of.

“3” THE BAND 9 p.m. Oct. 6, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680.

SET IT OFF, PATENT PENDING, PALM TREES & POWER LINES 7 p.m. Oct. 7, Jack Rabbits, $15 advance; $20 day of.

Fourth Annual FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE! Music Festival 7 p.m. Oct. 7, Hemming Park, 117 W. Duval St., Downtown, 255-7900.

INSANE CLOWN POSSE 7 p.m. Oct. 7, Limes Live, 11265 S. Lane Ave., Westside, 444-2709, $20.

DENZEL CURRY, YOSHI THOMPKINS 8 p.m. Oct. 7, 1904 Music Hall, $18.

DJ LAMARS, PRIMITIVE HARDDRIVE, SILENT SERMON, LOWERCASE G 8 p.m. Oct. 7, Rain Dogs.

BILLY BUCHANAN (Prince Tribute) 8 p.m. Oct. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $27.

ARTISTREE, TWAN 8 p.m. Oct. 7, Nighthawks.

INSEL (ROBIN RÜTENBERG) 7 p.m. Oct. 7, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530.

DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY 9:30 p.m. Oct. 7, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208.

Riverside Arts Market: Morning yoga, FILIPINO PRIDE FEST DAY 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Oct. 8, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449.

Hola Jacksonville: GISELLE TAVERA, RICKY LUIS, PAPO KPUCCINO, ALEJANDRA, KENNY EL ASTRONAUTA, RAQUEL, GABZ & PICO, JAYRO, FRANKMENTO DE TIERRA CALIENTE, DANZAS PERU JAX, MEXICO EN EL OIEL, VIVA PANAMA 5 p.m.-mid. Oct. 8, Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 353-1188.

THE MAIN SQUEEZE 8 p.m. Oct. 8, 1904 Music Hall, $12 advance; $15 day of.

GREAT SHAPES, DIGITAL SKYLINE, WET KNEEZ, TONE REVIVAL 8 p.m. Oct. 8, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of.

1964 THE TRIBUTE (Beatles tribute) 8 p.m. Oct. 8, The Florida Theatre, $25-$45.

ONRY OZZBORN, ROB SONIC, DJ ZONE ELLA, UPGRADE, RAFAEL VIGILANTICS, MR. AL PETE, DARYL, TWAN 8 p.m.

Oct. 8, Rain Dogs, $12.

International Blues Challenge: SAM LONG, MAMA BLUE, T. MARTIN & THE TROUBLEMAKERS, TRAFFIC, LIGHTNING SAM LONG, KIM RETEGUIZ & SEAN PFAFFMAN, KATO & JIFFY KEET, HAT & MATCHING SUITCASE, ANDY TOOMEY, ALLIE & THE KATS 3 p.m. Oct. 9, Mojo Kitchen, 1500 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 247-6636, donations accepted.

THE VIBRATORS 6 p.m. Oct. 9, 1904 Music Hall, $10-$20.

KORN, BREAKING BENJAMIN 6 p.m. Oct. 12, Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $17-$374.

THROUGH THE ROOTS, CLOUD 9 VIBES, JOSH HEINRICHS 8 p.m. Oct. 12, 1904 Music Hall, $8-$10.

THE GOOCH PALMS, THE COSMIC GROOVE, MENTAL BOY 8 p.m. Oct. 12, Shanghai Nobby’s, 10 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 547-2188.

UPCOMING CONCERTS

HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, CONVICTIONS, IN HER OWN WORDS Oct. 13, Limes Live MILK SPOT, THE MOLD, DIGDOG Oct. 13, Nighthawks THE CURRYS Oct. 13, Mudville Music Room DONNA THE BUFFALO, PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND, BLUEGROUND UNDERGRASS Oct. 13-16, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park THE RAGING NATHANS, WONK UNIT Oct. 13, Nobby’s NEEDTOBREATHE, MAT KEARNY, PARACHUTE, WELSHLY ARMS Oct. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre ASTRONAUTALIS, CESCHI & FACTOR CHANDELIER, TRANSIT Oct. 13, Jack Rabbits Jacksonville Music Fest: MAZE, FRANKIE BEVERLY, JAHEIM, JOE Oct. 14, Veterans Memorial Arena KIM RETEGUIZ & THE BLACK CAT BONES, JP LATIN ALL STARS Oct. 14, Mojo Kitchen LARRY MANGUM’S SONGWRITERS’ CIRCLE Oct. 14, Mudville Music Room RUE SNIDER Oct. 14, Nighthawks Beaches Oktoberfest: BLUES TRAVELER, COLLIE BUDDZ, THE MOVEMENT Oct. 14-16, SeaWalk Pavilion, Jax Beach WellRED Comedy Tour: TRAE CROWDER, COREY RYAN FORRESTER, DREW MORGAN Oct. 14, P. Vedra Concert Hall Live Original Tour: SADIE ROBERTSON Oct. 14, Florida Theatre 20th annual Magnolia Fest: JJ GREY & MOFRO, KELLER WILLIAMS, THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, ZACH DEPUTY, BILLY BRAGG, SARAH LEE GUTHRIE, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Oct. 15, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JOHN MAYALL Oct. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BEACH SLANG, BLEACHED, HUNNY Oct. 15, Jack Rabbits THE CRYPTICS, MOCK TOXINS, KID YOU NOT, CHUCK MENTAL Oct. 15, Planet Sarbez Jax Drum N Bass 11th Anniversary: DJ CHEF ROCC, ILL TERROR, THE CRYPTICS Oct. 15, Rain Dogs SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre KIM RICHEY Oct. 16, Café Eleven THE SHABOOMS Oct. 16, Nighthawks STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN, MAC POWELL, BRANDON

HEATH Oct. 16, Times-Union Center TONEVENDOR RECORD FAIR Oct. 16, St. Augustine Amphitheatre PHISH Oct. 16, Veterans Memorial Arena EDEN, XX Oct. 17, Jack Rabbits THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS Oct. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE LAST TEN SECONDS OF LIFE, TRAITERS, SPITE, LANDFILL Oct. 18, Nighthawks TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Oct. 18, St. Augustine Amphitheatre KEB’ MO’ BAND Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre J E DOUBLE F, DJ J MIX Oct. 19, Nighthawks JOSH RITTER Oct. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Oct. 20, Mavericks Live MARTIN LAWRENCE Oct. 21, Times-Union Center CONRAD OBERG BAND Oct. 21, Mudville Music Room ARTISTREE Oct. 21, Nighthawks DJ 3 CLOPS I, LA-A, DARKHORSE SALOON, EARNEST ST. MAFIA Oct. 21, Rain Dogs NEW MASTERSOUNDS, TURKUAZ Oct. 21, Mavericks Live FFN PUNK, FLAG ON FIRE, SWILL, GROSS EVOLUTION Oct. 22, Nighthawks DJ CHEF ROCC, GLITTERBOMB! Oct. 22, Rain Dogs RUSTED ROOT, DEVON ALLMAN BAND Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TOMBOI Oct. 22, TEDX Jacksonville, The Florida Theatre MDC, WARLORD, SADLY MISTAKEN Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits KEISHA & THE CREEPERS Oct. 23, Mavericks Live FROSTFANG, UNEARTHLY CHILD Oct. 24, Shantytown Pub MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Oct. 25, The Florida Theatre HATEBREED Oct. 25, Mavericks Live THE AUDACITY, ELECTRIC WATER, GOV CLUB, THE STEVEN MARSHEK GROUP, DJ J MIX Oct. 26, Nighthawks Pre-Fest Invasion: I CAME FROM EARTH, $2 CHEECH, KID YOU NOT, POTATO ROCKET, DAN WEBB & THE SPIDERS, IRISH HANDCUFFS, AERIAL SALAD, THE CAULFIELD CULT, BLACK DRUM, MENTAL BOY, NOSTRADOGMUS/GREG HUGHES, NO FUN, NATO COLES & THE BLUE DIAMOND BAND, THE SCUTCHES, THE RAGING NATHANS, WONK UNIT, FAULTS, SLEEPTALKER, LA PECHE, ROBES, TWELVE HOUR TURN, DREDGER Oct. 26 & 27, Planet Sarbez, Nobby’s LINDSEY STIRLING Oct. 27, The Florida Theatre SECRET STUFF, HODERA Oct. 27, The Gator Pit ERNIE EVANS Oct. 27, Mudville Music Room DJ ZANE 3 Oct. 27, Nighthawks JON LANGSTON Oct. 27, Mavericks Live THE AVETT BROTHERS Oct. 28, Veterans Memorial Arena JUST THE TIPS Oct. 28, Nighthawks ANTHONY HAMILTON, LALAH HATHAWAY, ERIC BENET Oct. 28, Times-Union Center DJ SHOTGUN, 12 HOUR TURN Oct. 28, Rain Dogs MIKE SHACKELFORD, STEVE SHANHOLTZER Oct. 28, Mudville Music Room ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Oct. 29, The Florida Theatre BONNIE RAITT, THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Oct. 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GOLDEN PELICANS, TENEMENT, DFMK, THE MOLD Oct. 29, Shanghai Nobby’s MEAN JEANS, MELTED, DAGGER BEACH, DEEP THOUGHTS Oct. 29, Nighthawks DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, DIE CHOKING, SHADOW

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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC HUNTER, LA-A, TOILER Oct. 29, Rain Dogs TODD SNIDER, ROREY CARROLL Oct. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ELI YOUNG BAND Oct. 30, Mavericks Live Post Fest Invasion: THE UNLOVABLES, MIKEY ERG, EMILYN BRODSKY, CHUCK MENTAL, LUCIFER SAM, I CAME FROM EARTH Nov. 2-3, Shanghai Nobby’s CASTING CROWNS, MATT MAHER, HANNAH KERR Nov. 3, Veterans Memorial Arena SURFER BLOOD Nov. 3, Café Eleven WHETHERMAN Nov. 3, Mudville Music Room LORD ALMIGHTY, MO’YNOQ, QUEEF HUFFER, SATURNINE Nov. 3, Shantytown Pub MAC SABBATH, COUGHIN Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits NF, FLEURIE Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LO CASH Nov. 3, Mavericks Live GHOST, POPESTAR Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre RADOSLAV LORKOVIK, ANDREW HARDIN Nov. 4, Mudville Music Room BLAIR CRIMMINS & THE HOOKERS Nov. 5, Café Eleven ZZ TOP Nov. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, CASSIDY LEE, IVAN PULLEY Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DOOMSTRESS, LA-A Nov. 9, Shantytown Pub TOOTS & THE MAYTALS Nov. 9, Mavericks Live RUSHMOREFL, KID YOU NOT Nov. 9, Shanghai Nobby’s EVANESCENCE, SICK PUPPIES Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BLEAK, MINDFIELD, CONSEQUENCE Nov. 11, Rain Dogs ODD SQUAD LIVE! Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Nov. 12, Mavericks Live CHRIS YOUNG, DUSTIN LYNCH, CASSADEE POPE Nov. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Lincolnville Porch Fest: CHELSEA SADDLER, TELEPATHIC LINES, RIVERNECKS, THE WOBBLY TOMS, GHOST TROPIC, AMY HENDRICKSON, SAND FLEAS, ROBBIE DAMMIT & THE BROKEN STRINGS, NESTA, RAMONA QUIMBY, KYLE WAGONER, EARLY DISCLAIMERS, LONESOME BERT & THE SKINNY LIZARDS, KENSLEY STEWART, THE WILLOWWACKS, ASLYN & THE NAYSAYERS Nov. 12, St. Augustine TRACY MORGAN Nov. 12, Thrasher-Horne Center

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Alt-hip-hop maestro ONRY OZZBORN (pictured) performs with ROB SONIC, DJ ZONE ELLA, UPGRADE, RAFAEL VIGILANTICS, MR. AL PETE, DARYL, and TWAN. Oct. 8 at Rain Dogs, Riverside.

LEE GREENWOOD Nov. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WAR Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MITSKI Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits THIEVERY CORPORATION, TAUK Nov. 15, Mavericks Live ERIC JOHNSON Nov. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ETANA Nov. 16, Mavericks Live DAVISSON BROTHERS BAND Nov. 17, Café Eleven GALACTIC, THE HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Nov. 18, Times-Union Center SAVION GLOVER Nov. 18, The Florida Theatre YELLOWCARD Nov. 18, Mavericks Live WVRM Fest 4: YOUNG AND IN THE WAY, CULTURE KILLER, SHROUD EATER, HEXXUS, SPACE CADAVER, 25 more Nov. 18 & 19, 1904 Music Hall Swamp Radio: KATHERINE ARCHER, DUFFY BISHOP, UN-

NAMED TRIO Nov. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WONDER YEARS, REAL FRIENDS Nov. 19, Mavericks Live NELLIE McCAY Nov. 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ENTER THE HAGGIS Nov. 20, Café Eleven MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Nov. 21, Times-Union Center DAVID CROSBY & FRIENDS Nov. 21, P.Vedra Concert Hall STEVE VAI Nov. 23, The Florida Theatre AARON TILL Nov. 26, Mudville Music Room KENNY G Nov. 28, The Florida Theatre QUEENSRYCHE, ARMORED SAINT Nov. 29, Mavericks Live DREAM THEATER Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre PERPETUAL GROOVE Nov. 30, Mavericks Live CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Dec. 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOYZ TO MEN Dec. 1, Thrasher-Horne Center PATRICK BARTLEY Dec. 1, Ritz Theatre DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS, VALERIE SIMPSON, KENNY LATIMORE, JONATHAN BUTLER Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre Winter Formal: THE 1975, PHANTOGRAM, SILVERSUN PICKUPS, GLASS ANIMALS, COIN Dec. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre THE STANLEY CLARKE BAND Dec. 2, P.Vedra Concert Hall SARA EVANS Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre SAM PACETTI Dec. 2, Mudville Music Room ROCK ’N’ ROLL HOLIDAY SHOW Dec. 3, The Florida Theatre TRAVIS TRITT Dec. 4, The Florida Theatre NIYKEE HEATON Dec. 4, Mavericks Live TAYLOR HICKS Dec. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 8, Mudville Music Room CHRIS LANE Dec. 10, Mavericks Live A Peter White Christmas: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, The Florida Theatre The OAK RIDGE BOYS Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 15, Vets Memorial Arena GRIFFIN HOUSE Dec. 18, Café Eleven JACKIE EVANCHO Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre DONNA THE BUFFALO, BUTCH TRUCKS & THE FREIGHT TRAIN BAND Dec. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MICHAEL BOLTON Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre WIMPY RUTHERFORD & THE CRYPTICS Jan. 13, Nobby’s LOS LOBOS Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PINK MARTINI Jan. 17, The Florida Theatre JEANNE ROBERTSON Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre ELVIS LIVES Jan. 24, Times-Union Center GLADYS KNIGHT Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 27, The Florida Theatre KENNY ROGERS, LINDA DAVIS Jan. 28, Thrasher-Horne Center THE BEACH BOYS Jan. 28, The Florida Theatre VOCALOSITY Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre CHRISTIE DASHIELL Feb. 2, Ritz Theatre ARLO GUTHRIE Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre PAT METHENY, ANTONIO SANCHEZ, LINDA OH, GWILYM SIMCOCK Feb. 3, The Florida Theatre SARA WATKINS Feb. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOSTON POPS ESPLANDE ORCHESTRA Feb. 4, T-U Center GAELIC STORM Feb. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TAJ MAHAL Feb. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE BABES Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall UNDER THE STREETLAMP Feb. 12, P.Vedra Concert Hall ANDY McKEE Feb. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THREE DOG NIGHT, AMERICA Feb. 16, The Florida Theatre THE PIANO GUYS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre TOBYMAC, MATT MAHER, MANDISA, MAC POWELL, CAPITAL KINGS, RYAN STEVENSON, HOLLYN Feb. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Feb. 19, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOE BONAMASSA Feb. 22, The Florida Theatre MINDI ABAIR Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre MANHATTAN TRANSFER, TAKE 6 Feb. 23, Florida Theatre

LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Alt-fave, singer-songwriter EDWIN McCAIN (pictured) performs with DANNY BURNS. Oct. 6 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall.

ELIZABETH COOK, DALE WATSON Feb. 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall OLD 97’s, BOTTLE ROCKETS Feb. 25, P. Vedra Concert Hall DENNIS DeYOUNG, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre AGENT ORANGE, GUTTERMOUTH, THE QUEERS, THE ATOM AGE Feb. 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party TAJ EXPRESS Feb. 28, T-U Center MARC COHN March 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THE WEIGHT, members of The Band March 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SPYRO GYRA March 5, Florida Theatre KODO March 11, Florida Theatre CLINT BLACK March 12, Florida Theatre THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, The Florida Theatre GET THE LED OUT March 17, Florida Theatre PILOBOLUS SHADOWLAND March 21, The Florida Theatre JIM BRICKMAN March 31, Florida Theatre RICK THOMAS April 1, P. V. C. Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra April 7, The Florida Theatre BUDDY GUY, THE RIDES (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Barry Goldberg) April 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHRIS BOTTI April 18, Florida Theatre MJ LIVE! April 20-23, T-Union Center TOWER OF POWER April 22, Florida Theatre ERIC CHURCH May 5, Veterans Memorial Arena

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

Thompkins 8 p.m. Oct. 7. The Main Squeeze, Groove Orient 8 p.m. Oct. 8. The Vibrators 6 p.m. Oct. 9. Through The Roots, Cloud 9 Vibes, Josh Heinrichs 8 p.m. Oct. 12 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Oct. 7 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon every Thur. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Oct. 5. Ace Winn 8 p.m. Oct. 8 JACKSONVILLE Landing, 353-1188 Hola Jacksonville: Giselle Tavera, Ricky Luis, Papo Kpuccino, Alejandra, Kenny El Astronauta, Raquel, Gabz & Pico, Jayro, Frankmento De Tierra Caliente, Danzas Peru Jax, Mexico En El Oiel, Viva Panama 5 p.m.-mid. Oct. 8. Scholars Word Oct. 9 MARK’S Downtown, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 YG & Kamaiyah 6 p.m. Oct. 7. Magic Mike Male Revue Oct. 8. DJ Silver Oct. 14. Joe Buck, DJ Justin every Thur.-Sat. MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc, Some Dude 9 p.m. Glitz Wed. Q45, live music Wed. EDM every Thur. Eric Rush every Fri. DJ IBay Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay Sun.

THE BEACHES

FLEMING ISLAND

LIVE MUSIC CLUBS

AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA

ALLEY CAT Beer House, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5. John Springer Oct. 6 & 8. Tom Edwards Oct. 7. Gitlo Lee Blues every Fri. LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Oct. 5. Savannah Bassett 1 p.m.

Oct. 7. Davis Turner Oct. 8. Mark O’Quinn Oct. 11 SURF Restaurant, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg Oct. 5. Reggie Catfish Lee Oct. 6. Bush Doctors Oct. 11. Black Jack Band every Fri.

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)

BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Billy Bowers 5:30 p.m. Oct. 14. Live music most weekends BLUE WATER Island Grill, 205 First St. N., 249-0083 Ras AJ, Mystic Dino Oct. 9 BRASS ANCHOR Pub, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff Oct. 5 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Oct. 6. Live music on weekends GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Murray Goff Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. every Sun. LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Tyler Denning Band 10 p.m. Oct. 8. Dirty Pete Wed. Split Tone Thur. Chillula Fri. Be Easy 10 p.m. Mon. Krakajaxx Tue. Live music 10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 MZG Oct. 6. Lyons 9 p.m. Oct. 7. Live music most weekends MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 International Blues Challenge: Sam Long, Mama Blue, T. Martin & The Troublemakers, Traffic, Lightning Sam Long, Kim Reteguiz & Sean Pfaffman, Kato & Jiffy Keet, Hat & Matching Suitcase, Andy Toomey, Allie & The Kats 3 p.m. Oct. 9 RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Live music every Wed.-Sun. ZETA BREWING, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Anton LaPlume Band 9 p.m. Oct. 8

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.

CAPTAIN STAN’S Smokehouse, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Acoustic music 6:30 p.m. every Sat.

DOWNTOWN

1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N. Dopapod, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong 7 p.m. Oct. 5. Denzel Curry, Yoshi

MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Live music most weekends WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music Thur.-Sun.

INTRACOASTAL

CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 MT Arms Duo Oct. 5. Olympus Oct. 7. Big Engine Oct. 8 GERMAN SCHNITZEL HAUS, 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 221-9700 Oompah Band Oct. 8, 15 & 22 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Boogie Freaks 10 p.m. Oct. 7

MANDARIN

ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Oct. 5 & 9

ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG

DEE’S Music Bar, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 Go Get Gone 10 p.m. Oct. 8. DJ Daddy-O every Tue. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 DJ Big Mike Oct. 8. Live music every weekend SHARK Club, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline Oct. 5

PONTE VEDRA

PUSSER’S GRILLE, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music every weekend TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Oct. 5. Gary Starling Jazz Band Oct. 6. Tier 2 Oct. 7. Complicated Animals Oct. 8. White Hot Chammpagne Oct. 12

RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE

BRIXX, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928 Live music every Thur. & Fri. HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Live music every Fri.

LIMES LIVE, 11265 S. Lane Ave., 444-2709 Insane Clown Posse, Razorz Edge, Cane Hill 7 p.m. Oct. 7. Secrets 7 p.m.

Oct. 8 MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Red’s End of Silence 10th anniversary tour: Disciple, Spoken, Random Hero 7 p.m. Oct. 8 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. Birds in a Row, Frameworks, Yashira, Cave Moth, Arms 8 p.m. Oct. 5.

Crowbar, Axiom, Coughin, Immune 8 p.m. Oct. 6. Artistree, Twan 8 p.m. Oct. 7 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 DJ Lamars, Primitive Harddrive, Silent Sermon, Lowercase G 8 p.m.

Oct. 7. Onry Ozzborn, Rob Sonic, DJ Zone Ella, Upgrade, Rafael Vigilantics, Mr. Al Pete, Daryl, Twan 8 p.m. Oct. 8 RIVERSIDE Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Filipino Pride Fest Day 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Oct. 8 UNITY PLAZA, 220 Riverside Ave. Live music most every weekend

ST. AUGUSTINE

CAFE ELEVEN, 501 A1A Beach Blvd., St. Augustine Beach, 460-9311 David Wilcox 8:30 p.m. Oct. 6 CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Gary Douglas Campbell, The Committee Oct. 7. Deron Baker, The Committee Oct. 8. Vinny Jacobs Oct. 9 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 The Daygos Oct. 7 & 8. Fre Gordon open mic Oct. 9. DJ Rob St. John every Wed. NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 The Gooch Palms, The Cosmic Groove, Mental Boy 8 p.m. Oct. 12 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Blistur 9 p.m. Oct. 7 & 8. Live music every Fri. & Sat.

SAN MARCO

JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Lo Key, Sunz of Samm, BDT, Automatik Fit, Ligget the Demon, Orias 7 p.m.

Oct. 5. Town Mountain, Mere Woodard 8 p.m. Oct. 6. Set It Off, Patent Pending, Palm Trees & Power Lines 7 p.m. Oct. 7. Great Shapes, Digital Skyline, Wet Kneez, Tone Revival 8 p.m. Oct. 8 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Jeff Bradley, Mike Lagasse 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7. The Currys Oct. 13

SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS

GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Charlie Walker Oct. 6. Ryan Crary Oct. 7 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Don’t Call Me Shirley 9:30 p.m. Oct. 7. Melissa Smith open mic every Thur. Blues jam every Sun. Country jam every Wed.

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

THE BIRDHOUSE, 1827 N. Pearl St., 634-7523 Frameworks, Birds in a Row Oct. 5 THE HEADLAMP, 818 Clay St. Live music every Fri. & Sat. SANDOLLAR, 9716 Heckscher Dr., 251-2449 Live music every Fri.-Sun.

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FOLIO DINING Whether you dine in or take it home to prepare yourself, Sid & Linda's Seafood Market & Restaurant in the Regency area offers the freshest seafood available. photo by Dennis Ho

AMELIA ISLAND FERNANDINA BEACH

29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaur ant.com. Historic downtown bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner. com. Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $ K TO B R L Da ily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, madefrom-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine inside or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub next door has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chez lezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap .com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F Renovated 1887 shotgun house. Faves: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese, crêpes. Vegan items.

Inside or porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily La MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545. New Puerto Rican place. Chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Northernstyle pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones, salads. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s menu of global fare uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su The PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepec anrollbakery.com. F By historic district. Sweet/savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads; from scratch. $ K TO B L W-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabeth pointelodge.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining, open to public. Dine in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

2nd-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily To list your restaurant, call your account manager or Sam Taylor, 860-2465 • staylor@folioweekly.com

DINING DIRECTORY KEY

AVERAGE ENTRÉE • COST •

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

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SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Oceanfront.

Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood.

Open-air 2nd floor, balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa

ARLINGTON, REGENCY

DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19, 745-9300. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

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

SID & LINDA’S Seafood Market & Restaurant, 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 109, 503-8276. Pick a whole fresh fish, have it cleaned, filleted, cooked to order. Dine in, take out. Housemade sauces. $$ K TO L D Daily

AVONDALE, ORTEGA

CHOMP CHOMP, 4162 Herschel St., 329-1679. Just relocated.

Chef-inspired: The Philadelphia Experiment (sweet pork over arugula), panko-crusted chicken, burgers, Waldorf salad, bahn mi, Southern fried chicken, The Come Up (portabella mushroom, green tomato salsa, almonds). Curry Chomp chips, pasta salad.

HH. $ BW L D Mon.-Sat. The FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh fare, homemade desserts.

Breakfast all day; signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20+ years.

American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 40+ years.

Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa Restaurant ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysara s.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa

BAYMEADOWS

AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S Giant Subs, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK.

METRO Diner, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/ bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. New Mexican place has casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option. Top-shelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub. Craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, street fare tacos, signature plates, whiskey. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly

BEACHES

(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)

AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, als pizza.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NY-style gourmet pizzas,

DINING DIRECTORY

Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub, 50+ beers, burgers, fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30+ years, iconic seafood

seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine.

Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND Coffee Company, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866395-3954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels, cream cheeses. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN Grind Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiac barandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa

FLEMING ISLAND

DICK’S Wings, 1803 East-West Parkway, 375-2559. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

TAPS Bar & Grill, 1605 C.R. 220, Ste. 145, 278-9421, tapspub lichouse.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 50+ premium domestic, import tap beers. Burgers, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly

INTRACOASTAL WEST

AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 32, 223-0115. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

GERMAN SCHNITZEL HAUS, 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 221-9700, germanjax.com. Authentic German/fusion fare: schnitzels, plus bratwurst, stroganoff, käsesspätzle. 13 German beers in bottles, on tap. Bar bites, cocktails. Outdoor BierGarten. HH Tu-Thur. $$ FB L & D Tu-Su LARRY’S, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE O.PARK. SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 559-5301. SEE BEACHES.

MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS

AKEL’s Deli, 12926 Granbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F

GRILL ME!

Tequilas Mexican Restaurant 10915 Baymeadows Rd.

BORN IN: Guadalajara, Mexico YEARS IN THE BIZ: 10 FAVE RESTAURANT (besides mine): Bonefish FAVE CUISINE STYLE: Seafood FAVE INGREDIENTS: Garlic, lime, pepper IDEAL MEAL: Ceviche, shrimp tacos WON'T CROSS MY LIPS: Curry INSIDER'S TIP: Treat customers like family.

CELEBS (@ my place): Zlatan Ibrahimovic TASTE TREAT: Carnitas

DOWNTOWN

AKEL’S Delicatessen, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYC-style deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan, 353-9717, thecan dyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40+ years: veal,

CIAO BUON CIBO

Find good FOOD, WINE and FRIENDS at Taverna San Marco TAVERNA SAN MARCO SERVED A BEAUTIFUL family-style feast for our September Bite Club, each course more delectable than the last. We were set up in the private dining area, which seated the 30 guests in perfect comfort.

The three-course meal gave our Bite Club members a chance to feel like we were dining at an elegant spot in Italy. Our attentive servers poured a divine red wine that complemented the red sauce as we started with meatballs ($10), an Italian staple Chef Sam Efron made with a combination of beef, pork and veal. Our second starter was the housemade burrata ($16), with prosciutto, cherry tomatoes and hearty slices of peasant bread. The creaminess of the burrata, saltiness of the prosciutto, and the sweetness of the tomatoes combined to make a bite that could have been better only if a good-looking Italian fed it to you by hand.

Happy Hour at Taverna San Marco is bellissimo, featuring draft beers ($5) along with snacks like parmesan truffle fries ($5) and marinated olives ($4). The happy hour menu has cocktails, like the Southside/Westside ($7) and Moscow Mule ($7), with housemade ginger syrup.

BITE-SIZED

SEE DOWNTOWN.

LUIS G. RODRIGUEZ

place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. Specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444, seachasers.com.

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

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

BITE-SIZED

photo by Dennis Ho

baked dishes. 28+ years. All day HH M-Thu. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. Subs made with fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea.

Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BEACH Diner, 501 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-6500. SEE AMELIA. BEACH HUT Café, 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. 28+ years.

Full breakfast menu served all day (darn good grits); hot plate specials Mon.-Fri. $ K TO B R L Daily CRUISERS Grill, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, awardwinning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F SEE RIVERSIDE. FAMOUS TOASTERY, 311 N. Third St., 372-0712, famous toastery.com. New place has breakfast and lunch: corned beef hash, gluten-free pancakes, bacon, omelets, eggs, toast. Wraps, Bloody Marys, mimosas, peach Bellini. $$ FB K TO B L Daily The FISH COMPANY Restaurant, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, AB, 246-0123, thefishcojax.com. Bite Club. Casual. Oyster raw bar, fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, crab, lobster. Homestyle desserts. Patio; all-day HH Sun. $$ FB K TO L D Daily FLAMING SEAFOOD & SHAO KAO BBQ, 1289 Penman Rd., 853-6398. New place (is it Chinese? Barbecue? Seafood?) serves meats and vegetables, spiced, skewered on bamboo sticks – like Chinese street food. $ BW TO L D Daily FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman cuisine, large Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen.

Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcup hashhouse.com. New place offers locally sourced fare, locally roasted coffees, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian dishes – no GMOs or hormones. $ K TO B R L Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO Diner, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2016 Best of Jax

AL’s Pizza, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

BEACH Diner, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 683-0079. SEE AMELIA. CRUISERS, 5613 San Jose Blvd., 737-2874. 2016 Best of Jax

Winner. SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S Wings, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134. 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458, enzas.net. Family-owned place serves Italian cuisine, veal, seafood, specials. $$$ FB K TO D Tu-Su FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477.

Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural organic beer/ wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE FLEMING ISLAND.

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

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

ORANGE PARK

DICK’S Wings & Grill, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NASCAR-

TAVERNA SAN MARCO

1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005 taverna.restaurant Taverna San Marco was one of the first spots in the city to feature Neapolitan-style pizza, and the staff’s pizza-tossing skills are still as sharp as the pizza slicer. Our dinner featured two pizzas: soppressata, with a fried egg cracked right in the middle ($17), and a truffle oil mushroom pizza ($16). I love mushrooms on almost everything, so it was easy to inhale a slice or two, but the fried egg pizza is where the Madonna shines her light. Think shakshuka, a Middle Eastern dish with cracked eggs in a spicy tomato sauce … and then put that on a pizza. Try it once, and you’ll be back for more.

The perfectly symmetrical housemade ravioli ($16/$24) was served with a chunky ratatouille with Swiss chard and toasted hazelnuts. Anyone who’s made pasta will be instantaneously jealous of the pasta’s circular perfection. The roasted Brussels sprouts, a seasonal offering, made this lover of wee cabbages quite happy. Chef Efron said preparing the sprouts is something of a family tradition, as he and his father started making them together while he was in college, and the tradition stuck. The Brussels were plated on a thick, creamy spread of butternut squash purée with walnuts.

With the three combined, this dish was a delicious welcome to autumn.

For dessert, Taverna San Marco offered a fine selection of treats created by Pastry Chef Christina Longo. The board included chocolate pave with flake salt, vanilla panna cotta, chocolate caramel tartlets, pumpkin whoopie pies, and mint ice cream sandwiches. It’s hard, as a sweets lover, to pick and choose among such delights, but the mint ice cream sandwich is a revelation. It all comes down to fresh mint which is as crisp and cool as the Trevi Fountain.

Expect true hospitality and authentic Italian fare at Taverna San Marco.

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DINING DIRECTORY Beer turns that frown UPSIDEDOWN

PINT-SIZED

In addition to some of the friendliest service around, Avondale's Pinegrove Market & Deli offers great sandwiches prepared fresh and high quality deli meats for your kitchen. photo by Dennis Ho

SOCIAL

LUBRICATION

I HAVE LONG MAINTAINED THAT BEER IS the ultimate social beverage. Indeed, beer is commonly considered to be the catalyst of the beginnings of civilization itself. A 1998 study by the Social Issues Research Centre cites several renowned researchers and concludes, “[T]he attractions of mild inebriation provided the true motive for developments which, coincidentally, led to a selective advantage among beer drinking groups and their immediate descendants.” In other words, ancient Mesopotamians opted to band together and cultivate grains for the sole purpose of producing beer. The beer they produced was consumed in social settings, often as tribute to their gods.

Throughout history, there are examples of how beer has brought people together. Even Shakespeare commented on it, writing that alehouses were “ … where people of disparate status mixed … brought men, high born and low, into relation, fostering a propinquity that might secure, adjust or threaten hierarchies.”

Flowery writing says alehouses were gathering places for men of all means, to do all manner of things.

Writer Eric Burns (The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol) says that even our forefathers understood the social engineering opportunities afforded by beer. Three years after a discouraging defeat for a seat in the Virginia General Assembly in 1755, George Washington ran again. This time, he had barrels of beer and other alcoholic beverages placed near polling sites with supporters encouraging voters to imbibe before voting. Washington won.

In recent years, University of Basel professor Matthias Liechti and colleagues concluded that little research had been done on how beer affected social tendencies and emotions. They studied the effect of beer on 60 subjects – 30 men and 30 women – to see how beer affected emotional empathy and the ability to identify happy faces. The results overwhelmingly showed that subjects who drank alcoholic beer were able to choose images of people with happy faces better than those given nonalcoholic beer. They were also much more likely to want to join those happy people in a social group.

Liechti concluded, “These effects of alcohol on social cognition likely enhance sociability.”

So, if we weren’t already convinced beer is a social lubricant, this study seems to put speculation to rest. Beer indeed factors into fostering the desire for social interaction.

Practice some of your social skills at these beer-centric locations around Northeast Florida:

PINT-SIZED

SILVER COW, 1506 KING ST., RIVERSIDE • Cozy and comfortable, The Cow, as it’s known, is perfect for socializing with a small group of friends. The extensive tap and bottle selection of craft and import beers is even more reason to get chatty.

HOPTINGER, 333 FIRST ST. N., JAX BEACH • On weekend evenings, this German-beer-hall-themed watering hole is packed with happy drinkers looking to socialize. Expect crowds, lots of cold German and craft beers and plenty of lively comingling.

EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 PARK ST., RIVERSIDE; 1704 SAN MARCO BLVD.; 5500 BEACH BLVD., SOUTHSIDE; 992 BEACH BLVD., JAX BEACH • The daily happy hour scene at any E-Street is the apex of social interaction. On a nice day, there are plenty of interesting beer-lovers laughing and enjoying the outdoor patio. Two-forone 22-ounce beers help the conversations flow.

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themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus halfpound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com.

Southern style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO Diner, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouse online.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers and quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily The URBAN BEAN Coffeehouse Café, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned-&operated. Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, salads, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily

PONTE VEDRA BEACH

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. 2016 Best of Jax 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 HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnob withus.com. Unity Plaza. Global inspiration, local intention – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO R L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com.

Authentic Italian cuisine, like wood-fired pizzas, pasta made daily onsite, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, breakfast. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617.

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

Riverview café. Soups, signature salad dressings. $ TO B L M-F METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2016 Best

SEE BEACHES.

MOON RIVER Pizza, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F

AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

BEACH Diner, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S Subs, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE O.PARK. METRO Diner, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

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

RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS, WESTSIDE

13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch onsite. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S Pizza, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Daily specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BREW Five Points, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfivepoints. com. F Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine. Rotating drafts, 75+ can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa BRIXX Wood Fired Pizza, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. New place offers pizzas, pastas, soups.

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

Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based beverages, homemade soups, sandwiches, gourmet desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su DERBY on PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343, derbyonpark.net.

New American cuisine, upscale retro in historic building. Oak Street Toast, shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger.

Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50

of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.

2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.

M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. SEE BEACHES. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2016 Best of Jax Winner.

Local-centric bar food: boiled peanuts, hummus, chili, cheese plate, pork sliders, nachos, herbivore items. $ D Nightly SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Healthy, fresh, light vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUSHI Café, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushi cafejax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoors or patio dining. $$ BW L D Daily

ST. AUGUSTINE

AL’S Pizza, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

CRUISERS Grill, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. 2016 Best of Jax

Winner. SEE BEACHES.

DICK’S Wings & Grill, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients sourced from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB Company, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsy cab.com. F Local mainstay 33+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken.

Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily MBQUE, 604 Anastasia Blvd., 484-7472. New Southern-style, fresh-casual. Handspun milkshakes, super kale salad. Housemade rubs, sauces. Platters, ribs, brisket, sweet/spicy pulled/ chopped pork, chicken, sausage. $$ BW K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

O’LOUGHLIN Pub, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. New familyowned-and-operated. Authentic fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256. SEE BCHES. METRO Diner, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Serving dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO.

SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cubanstyle, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB

SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK

BEACH Diner, 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. SEE AMELIA. The BEARDED PIG Southern BBQ & Beer Garden, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Barbecue joint offers Southern style BBQ, like brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com.

F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally.

250+ wine list. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 1704 San Marco, 398-9500. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsush ijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE DOWNTOWN.

KITCHEN on San Marco, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO Diner, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups.

This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily PIZZA PALACE Restaurant & Pizzeria, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned-&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Dine outside. HH. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco. com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza.

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

SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN

ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running, 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su The CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins-style low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.

EUROPEAN Street Café, 5500 Beach, 398-1717. SEE RIVERSIDE. GREEK Street Café, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, salads, nachos. Award-winning wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-6126596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. SEE BEACHES. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.com.

Italy, Spain, Mediterranean flavor. Small plates, tapas, charcuterie: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese, lobster ravioli. 240-bottle/ wines, 75/glass; craft spirits. $$ FB R, Su; D Nightly TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, taverna yamas.com. F Bite Club. Charbroiled kabobs, seafood, desserts.

Greek wines, daily HH. Bellydancing. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668

DINING DIRECTORY

Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls; fruit, veggies, 100% natural chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, cheese, dressing, salsa, frozen yogurt. $$ K TO L D Daily

SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE

ANDY’S Grill, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches, snacks, beverages. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. BARZ Liquors & Fish Camp, 9560 Heckscher Dr., 251-3330.

Authentic fish camp, biker-friendly, American-owned. Package store. $ FB L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., 619-9828. 450077 S.R. 200, 879-0993. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA Mexican Restaurant, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Authentic fresh fajitas, burritos, specials, enchiladas, more. HH; sangria. BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE O. PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843.

F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.

CHEFFED-UP

What came first — the chicken or the SHOELEATHER?

GET

ROASTED CHEFFED-UP NOW THAT TASTES LIKE CHICKEN. You know why? Because it is chicken. Yes, chicken, the most popular protein in America. For some reason, it’s also the least controversial protein (except to you gray-skinned, malnourished vegans).

And why is that? Because it’s inexpensive, readily available, easy to prepare (even for shoemakers) has a very mild flavor, and is quite versatile.

For cooking purposes, you should think of chicken as three different products: 1. A whole chicken, 2. Breasts and 3. Legs and thighs. Oh, I almost forgot the wings; they’re practically another food group altogether.

Because of chicken’s almost nonexistent favor, it’s really the perfect product to Chef Up. For today’s lesson, let’s concentrate on the whole chicken. Always buy the most expensive one you can find. You know all the trendy catch phrases that cause foodies and “health conscious” hipsters to swoon?

These are raised humanely with no added hormones, antibiotics, etc. These birds are actually worth the extra jack if you are going to leave them whole and roast them.

To me, few things in life really live up to expectations. A properly roasted chicken is one of them. When I say “properly roasted chicken,” I’m not referring to those disgusting, vomit-inducing, stringy, salty things labeled “rotisserie chicken” at the grocery store. I’m talking about taking a few extra minutes to execute a proper roast.

Your first objective is to wash the bird, especially inside the cavity, to remove any residual blood. (Yes, boys and girls, they were once alive.) Dry the chicken with a paper towel.

Now the fun part begins. Cut off the wing tips and save these for the bed. Next we’ll begin to add flavor. Start by making a compound butter with the recipe below.

Take your fingers and gently separate the skin from the breast meat, and slip a couple of tablespoons of butter in this little pocket.

You should be able to do this on both sides of the chicken as well as the front and the back. Your chicken should look a little swelled up with all that delicious butter between its skin and flesh.

The next step is to thoroughly and generously season the outside of the bird as well as the skin. Now take the used lemons, a few sprigs of rosemary and thyme and shove them into the cavity.

If you want the bird to cook evenly, you must truss it. If you don’t know how, just tie the legs together. At this point, your oven should be set at 425°F. Place the beautifully seasoned and trussed bird on a bed of mirepoix (roughly chopped vegetables, typically celery, carrots and onion) and roast away. After 20 minutes, turn the oven down to 375°F and continue for about 50 minutes. If you do it correctly, it will be one of the best meals of your life.

CHEF BILL’S MAÎTRE D’HÔTEL BUTTER

Ingredients • 4 oz. unsalted butter, softened • 2 tbsp. parsley, chopped • 1 tsp. lemon juice • 1 tsp. lemon zest • 1 tsp. sel gris (grey salt) • 1/2 tsp. black pepper Directions 1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.

2. Use immediately or roll in a tube in 2. plastic wrap and chill.

Until we cook again,

Chef Bill cheffedup@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Contact Chef Bill Thompson, owner of Amelia Island Culinary Academy in Historic Fernandina Beach, at cheffedup@folioweekly. com with your recipes or questions, to find inspiration and get you Cheffed Up! OCTOBER 5 - 11, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 41

PETS LOOKIN’ FOR LOVE FOLIO

W E E K LY

FOLIO LIVING

PET

LOVERS’

GUIDE

DEAR DAVI

CAFÉ CON

CANINE

Find a match BREWED IN HEAVEN at a dog café Dear Davi, What is a dog café? Is it a place for dogs to hang out and have a latte?

Indira the Italian Greyhound Indira, Dogs don’t need coffee — we’re already amped on life! But for humans who need a jolt, dog cafés offer a combo that’s sure to attract lovers of caffeine and canines alike.

This concept puts a spin on the way people connect with homeless dogs and enriches their lives until they find a forever home.

I stopped by Jacksonville Dog Café to meet the founder, Carolyn Snowden, and fetch the story on her pet project.

How is Jacksonville Dog Café different from a coffee shop?

Our café is different because we provide the coffee AND the dogs. Humans come to the café to enjoy a coffee while mingling with some of the most lovable and eligible dogs from local shelters and rescue organizations.

Do you serve food or treats?

We do not serve food, but our coffee and tea are locally owned and roasted

by Martin Coffee Company. It’s free to visitors and fantastic.

Can humans bring their own dogs?

Unfortunately, no. Our events are strictly for adoptable dogs from local organizations.

What is your mission?

Our team hopes to revolutionize dog adoption by reinventing the way people connect with rescues who need homes.

How can humans — and dogs — benefit from your café?

It’s a win-win for both dogs and humans. For dogs, the café offers opportunities to socialize and interact with all types of people. For humans, the café offers opportunities to meet canine candidates who are ready for a home,

or a chance to spend quality time with dogs without the commitment of adoption.

Are you connected with local pet organizations?

Yes. We are currently teamed with Kamp Kritter, The Old Dog House, D.A.R.E (Dachshund Adoption Rescue & Education), and Heroes & Hounds, but reserve one spot per event when space allows for other rescues.

How can someone adopt a dog?

Every organization has a different process.

There are applications, fees and home visits before rescue dogs are adopted. We want to make sure it’s a good fit for all involved, especially the dogs.

Tell us about the events you host.

Our tagline — Visit. Play. Adopt — says it all. We keep our events small because smaller events allow for more intimate interaction, and it’s more peaceful for both the dogs and the visitors. Our events are scheduled every other month, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the weekend.

What do people need to do to visit?

Folks are welcome to just show up, but we do encourage people to visit our website and reserve a spot for our events. Go to jaxdogcafe.com.

Where is the café?

We are at 4228 St. Johns Avenue. Our café shares space with a grooming salon in Avondale.

For more information about Jacksonville Dog Café, visit the website at jaxdogcafe. com or email 904dogcafe@gmail.com.

Happy visiting, playing and adopting!.

Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund can’t adopt pets of his own, but he would if he could!

PET TIP: BIG DOG IN A TINY HOUSE IT’S NATURAL TO WANT A DOG THAT SAYS ‘BAD ASS,’ a big, hulking, hairy beast that puts the fear of Cujo into man, woman and child. But if you live in an 800-square-foot-studio apartment, face it: you’re better off with a teacup Yorkie. Larger dogs need larger spaces; yardless cubes just won’t do. So if your place could be sold with realtor-speak like “condo alternative,” “starter home,” or “great for singles,” unless you’ve got oodles of time to take Beowulf to the free-range dog park so he can stretch those Dogue de Bordeaux muscles, stick to smaller breeds. Bonus: Burglars are also scared off by yappy li’l ankle-biters.

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PET EVENTS FREE SPAY & NEUTER ARLINGTON PETS • The Jacksonville Humane Society offers free spay and neuter and veterinary services for pets in Arlington’s ZIP codes 32211 and 32277. To see if you qualify, call 904493-4611. The offer is sponsored by JHS and PetSmart Charities. JHS is at 8464 Beach Blvd., Southside.

Appointments are available 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. MondayFriday, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday; jaxhumane.org.

10TH ANNUAL PARS FORE PAWS • Play a round of golf for the animals, shotgun start 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10 at Eagle Landing Golf Club, 3989 Eagle Landing Parkway, Orange Park. Registration of $100 for one includes 18 holes of golf with cart, bag service, complimentary driving range balls, lunch, dinner and prizes. Drawings for prizes, 50/50 raffle and a putting contest are featured. Proceeds benefit programs of Clay Humane Society; clayhumane.org.

ADOPTABLES

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HERMIONE

WIZARD • ’Allo there! I am the real-life Hermione Granger! I love to just relax and read my books.

I’m a very smart cat who loves to have fun, too.

Come see me and I might just show you some tricks! You’ll fall in love with the pure magic of my feline aura. Come see me at Jacksonville Humane Society — it’s open seven days a week! More information about adoptables is at jaxhumane.org.

HOWL-O-WEEN PET PARADE • Dress up your pet (and you, if you wish) in a costume and get in the inaugural pet parade, 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 at Mission Nombre de Dios St. Augustine, 27 Ocean Ave., free, mypetcamp.com. All friendly dogs (or other pets) may walk. Prizes for costumes.

KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Planned adoption days through December are held 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 8 and 9, Oct. 22 and 23, Nov. 5 and 6, Nov. 19 and 20, Dec. 3 and 4 and

ADOPTABLES

CHARLES

KING OF THE HOUSE • I’ve started to think that a king is not complete without his Queen.

I’d love to treat my new Queen like royalty.

We’d play outside — we could even have tea parties together. So, if you’re looking for your king, look no further. King Charles is right here, ready to be taken to my furrever home. Won’t you come see me in all my regal glory at the Jacksonville Humane Society at 8464 Beach Blvd. on the Southside?

Dec. 17 and 18, at Katz 4 Keeps, 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org. Katz 4 Keeps is looking for adults (18 or older) to become members of the Clean & Feed Program. For more information, contact Peggy Hatfield, program coordinator, at peggyhatfield63@comcast.net.

VACCINATION CLINICS • VetCo offers lower-cost vaccinations at area PetCo stores. Scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 16: 2-3 p.m., 11111 San Jose Blvd., 260-3225; 4:30-5:30 p.m., 1514 C.R. 220, Fleming Island, 278-1980. vetcoclinics.com. _______________________________________ To list a pet event, send the event name, time, date, location (complete street address and city), admission price, contact number/website to print, to mdryden@folioweekly.com – at least two weeks before the event. _______________________________________ OCTOBER 5 - 11, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 43

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): At a party, a guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. “You seem to have had an easy life,” he jabbed. “I bet you haven’t suffered enough to be a truly passionate person.” I didn’t engage him, but mused, “Not enough suffering? What about the time I got shot? My divorce? My five-year-long illness? The manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter crash?” After that first reaction, my thoughts turned to adventures that have stoked my passion without causing pain, like the birth of my daughter, getting remarried to the woman I divorced, and performing my music for audiences. I bring this up because I think you, too, will have experiences that refine and deepen your passion through pleasure rather than hardship.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s the Frank & Focused Feedback Phase — prime time to solicit insight about how you’re doing.

Some suggestions to get started: 1. Ask a person who loves and respects you to speak compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. 2.

Consult a trustworthy advisor who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing.

3. Have an imaginary conversation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage Old You to be honest about how New You could summon more excellence in pursuing essential goals. 4. Say this to your favorite tree, animal or meadow: “Show me what I need to do to feel more joy.”

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the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge. Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along, using his nose to push a peanut all the way up. Avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks. Just climb the mountain.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” He wasn’t referring to what’s for dinner or what style of new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, qualities you look for in your best allies, feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day. The good news? The next 10 months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. It all starts now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitioners of the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular self-massage.

Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart and other organs. He says these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to attend to measures like these. Be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts, compliments and praise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many readers say I’m exceptionally creative. Over the years, they’ve sent emails praising me for my original approach to problem-solving and artmaking. I suspect I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it. Tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use primal brilliance? What areas of your life need ingenuity?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God, tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. You’re likely to emerge triumphant! That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender.

More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have potential to draw on crafty power, unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you need to be an unambiguous winner.

A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you like to resolve? What test would you like to ace?

At what game would you most like to be victorious?

Now’s the time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Love wants more of you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring beautiful truths, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that’ll take your entire life to solve. Crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher, deeper level?

Would you know how to work with extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore answers. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Are you grunting and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past?

Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver toward the rewards of the future? I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first. It’ll also ensure your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say you’re a community of various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and conflict. For example, the needy part of you that craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part that seeks power. That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings so all your selves can gather and negotiate. Now’s one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among inner voices and mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pike’s Peak is a 14,115-foot Colorado mountain. It’s not easy to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you may experience altitude sickness.

Wicked thunderstorms are a regular summer occurrence. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, adventurer Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you believe you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and genetic makeup? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: That you’re a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you’re capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might’ve been unimaginable when you were younger? The weeks ahead will be a good time to play around with this. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of your nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster, and then turn the loot over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also conceivable you’ll recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.

Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com

NEWS OF THE WEIRD FOUL-FEATHERED FRIENDS

In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noting a recent uptick in cases of “live-poultry-associated salmonella,” repeated its earlier alert that people should not be kissing chickens, ducks or turkeys. CDC noted the recent popularity of urban egg farming, but reminded “hipster” farmers and faddish pet patrons that cuddling the animals, or bringing the little darlings into the home (even those that seem clean and friendly), can spread dangerous bacteria for which humans are unprepared.

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about the scene and concluded the man he was attending to was likely the man who had broken into his car. The paramedic continued to assist him, and police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that they’d arrest the man as soon as he got out of the hospital.

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Wesley Autrey, 42, was arrested by Scranton, Pennsylvania, detectives in September in a drug bust, with five bags of heroin and four of cocaine (along with $3,083 cash), and charged with dealing. Autrey (street name: “Newphew”) wet his pants during the arrest, which police said he did under the mistaken impression that heroin dissolves when exposed to urine.

A recent working paper by two Louisiana State University economists revealed that the state’s juvenile court judges dole out harsher sentences on weeks following a loss by the LSU football team (among those judges who matriculated at LSU). The differences in sentences were particularly stark in those seasons that LSU’s team was nationally ranked.

All sentences from 1996-2012 were examined, for first-time juvenile offenders, except for murder and aggravated-rape cases.

Hippie grandmother Shawnee Chasser, 65, who has lived in a tree since 1992, is under siege by county officials in Miami who plan to tear down her tree house by December unless she brings her property up to code. It’s a full-featured, well-appointed tree house and she owns the land underneath, but prefers the “heaven” of her high perch, especially when it rains.

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Raylon Parker, doing his duty in August on a grand jury in Halifax County, North Carolina, listened to a prosecutor lay out a case, and to Parker’s apparent surprise, the case was against Raylon Parker (for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill). Still, he voted on the indictment, which passed (though, due to grand jury secrecy, we don’t know which way he voted).

One possibility: He voted to indict, assuming a judge would toss it out, tainting the prosecutor’s case. However, Parker’s judge said the indictment — signifying “probable cause” — was still valid and she wouldn’t ask how Parker had voted.

Though India’s sacred Ganges River remains polluted, it retains holy credibility for Hindus, who consume and bathe in it regularly for salvation. Since reaching the Ganges can be difficult for India’s poor, the country’s postal service (with 155,000 offices) began to offer home delivery of the Ganges, in bottles, for about 22 to 37 cents. Water bottled in the small town of Gangotri, near the origin of the river, is likely cleaner; the other bottler, in Rishikesh, which is holier but farther down the river, likely presents worshippers a stronger test of faith.

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Emma Marsh of Kuraby, Australia, shelled out $500 in September for her goldfish’s emergency medical care to remove the pebble stuck in poor Conquer’s throat.

Brisbane’s Courier-Mail noted the $500 could’ve bought 40 replacements — $500 is about what an actual bar of gold of Conquer’s weight would cost.

Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net

On Aug. 4, a St. Louis Fire Department paramedic discovered his car, in the station’s parking lot, had been broken into and some items were missing. Minutes after he filed a police report, the station received an emergency call about a pedestrian hit by a car, and the paramedic and crew rushed to the scene. As he was helping the victim, the paramedic noticed his own gym bag and belongings were strewn

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To start: Write a ive-word headline so they’ll recognize you, or them, or the place.

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Next: Describe the encounter, like, “ISU with your posse at Dos Gatos.”

No names, email addresses, websites, etc. And for chrissake keep it at forty (40) words or fewer. Don’t they teach basic counting in kindergarten? Did all y’all miss that lesson because you were out trolling for strange?

BRUNETTE BEAUTY WALKING TO BEACH Tall brunette walking her most white with mixed colored medium-sized dog. Snake-design comfortable pants, gorgeous body. Me: Waking up, starting day. You were first thing I saw from inside my house. Let’s walk together! When: Sept. 30.

Where: Davis St., Neptune Beach. #1628-1005 MY BUD LIGHT/MARLBORO MAN You: Handsome man working the grill, drinking Bud Light and cooking some good-looking meat on Saturday. Me: Drinking Captain and Coke and fighting the desire to take advantage of you. Hoping you “grill” again soon! When: Aug. 27. Where: Downtown. #1627-0928 NEED HELP MOVING? First time ISU, you were moving from your apartment; we caught eyes. Met again, exchanged names. I wanted your number but it’s been so long since someone made me speechless. Come by sometime? You: Pretty. Me: Intrigued. When: Sept.

14. Where: Off JTB. #1626-0921 FIRST WATCH EARTHQUAKE You: Stunningly beautiful lady, long brown hair, shorts, athletic top, waiting for second party on Sunday morning. Me: Tall, dark, handsome guy, kinda cop-looking. Tried to buy your breakfast; you hadn’t ordered. Really wanted to say hello. When: Aug. 28. Where: First Watch Beach Boulevard. #1625-0907 DANCING TO THE BONES You are L. from Ponte Vedra. I’m R, leading band at Conch House on Friday, Aug. 12. We said quick hello as you left. Really want to connect with you.

Hopefully cosmos will agree. When: Aug. 12. Where: Conch House, St. Augustine. #1624-0817 FLOWERS IN MY HAND Very surprised to see you. Positive memories flooded back, so let’s have lunch and catch up. S. When: July 6. Where: Publix Pharmacy. #1623-0810 DO YOU SEEK UNIQUE? You: Beautiful brunette, Walmart sugar aisle, beautiful arm ink work; said you got it in Riverside.

Me: Dark chocolate gentleman, captivated by smile, breathless looking into beautiful eyes. Too shy to get number. Meet for lunch? When: July 16. Where: Walmart Avenues. #1622-0720 HANDSOME, KIND GENTLEMAN ISU Saturday 1 a.m. You: Extremely handsome, cool hat, T-shirt, jeans; forgot wallet; complimented my white dress.

Me: Long blond hair, green eyes, too shy to ask name or if unattached. Love to meet formally! When: July 17. Where: Walmart San Jose. #1621-0720 WE ARE READY FOR U You: Handsome man following, watching me, saying hi, calling, hanging up before u speak. Me: Want to hear your heart. My dog and condo await. Don’t be afraid. Everything will be OK. We love you. When: 2012. Where: Neighborhood. #1620-0720 AVONDALE ANGEL Me: Down on my luck, no place to go. You: Beautiful person who kept me from sleeping on the street. Thank you for your generosity for someone you didn’t even know!

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

Where: Avondale shops. #1619-0706 COOPER’S HAWK NICE SMILE WAITER You weren’t our waiter last Thursday 6/16; served us before. Name starts with G. Cute, dark blond hair, warm personality. Me: Brunette, curly hair, navy blue dress. You noticed us in booth. A drink, conversation? Contact. When: June 16. Where: Cooper’s Hawk Winery Town Center. #1618-0622 CORGI GIRL Your smile’s radiant. How you synchronize those long legs in immense contrast with your pups is marvelous. I’m grateful, mostly handsome, longing to please. Love to join you and poochie for evening stroll along the river. XOXO. When: June 10. Where: Riverside. #1617-0622 COMEDY ZONE Goldberg lookalike, Comedy Zone May 27, admiring each other while waiting with friends. Me: Hot brunette in black tank top and jeans.

When: May 27. Where: Comedy Zone. #1608-0525 TRADE PORSCHE FOR BEACH CRUISER? Drawn to your physique, adored biceps as you chilled with friend! You complimented my Porsche. Offered trade for your cruiser. Didn’t ask for number. WOD together on next bring-a-friend day?! When: 4 p.m. June 5. Where: Zeta Brewing bicycle stand. #1616-0622 VYSTAR LOAN OFFICER You: Beautiful blue-eyed, curly blond hair, rockin’ all black outfit, accent colored shirt. Me: Trying to get a loan. Made conversation to keep process going. Second Wednesday in June. Didn’t get loan; might’ve found so much more! When: June 8. Where: Vystar. #1615-0622 YOU’RE IN MY THOUGHTS There’s still not a day I don’t think of you. Since the first time ISU while sitting in that car, I can’t shake thoughts of you.

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

Where: Neighborhood. #1614-0622 JOIN YOUR SWIM TEAM Me: Attractive in two-piece bathing suit. You: Swimming; American flag tat on arm, making me hot as you chilled in the pool.

Really want to skinny dip with you. ;) When: June 3.

Where: Greentree Place Apts. Pool. #1613-0622 FRIDAY BIKE-TO-WORK DAY You: Blue jeans, black tank top, red Motobecane bicycle, great smile.

Didn’t get a chance to get your name. Me: Doing the bike thing. Are you up for a ride? When: May 20.

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BEATING BACK THE

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OF RECESSION The U.S. economy may be sliding into another recession — but IT’S NOT TOO LATE to avoid it EVERY MONTH, THE NUMBER OF JOBS ADDED to the economy gets a lot of publicity.

Recently, the economy has added about 200,000 jobs a month, which, combined with headline unemployment of 5 percent, sounds and feels good.

But there is a story these numbers do not tell, and a darker reality that is less publicized.

According to various estimates, there are between two and seven million Americans who are not working and have stopped looking for employment. According to the American Enterprise Institute, just counting men, there are seven million — ages 25 to 54 — in this category.

These folks live in deep and dire poverty.

Many are homeless and lack access to a computer or transportation, both of which they need to apply for jobs, training or housing. These men are not included in the official unemployment numbers.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are seven million officially unemployed and nearly six million people who are working part-time but want to work full-time.

Altogether, the actual total of unemployed and underemployed is around 20 million.

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Economist John Maynard Keynes recognized that business investment was the most unstable element in modern economies and likely to cause the most severe unemployment. Keynes suggested increased government spending could balance declining business investment to restore normal levels of unemployment.

During the Great Depression, business investment evaporated, unemployment was greater than 35 percent and the total size of the economy was diminished.

To combat the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal, which increased federal government spending dramatically between 1933 and 1937. This action, along with looser monetary policy, brought the economy back to life as business investment returned. By 1937, the economy was larger than before the Great Depression. Unemployment fell from 35 percent to 20 percent and the size of the economy nearly doubled.

But the New Deal was an experiment and Roosevelt decided to go in a different direction in late 1937. Bank lending was curtailed by tighter monetary policy and federal government spending was markedly reduced. This reversed the recovery, as business investment fell, unemployment climbed higher and the economy shrank.

Some have labeled this a double-dip recession.

Do the actions of the New Deal have practical lessons for the present?

GREAT RECESSION

During the Great Recession of ’08-’09, business investment declined substantially, seven million people lost their jobs and the size of the economy contracted.

To resuscitate the economy, President Barack Obama initiated the federal stimulus, which increased federal government spending, and the Federal Reserve Board lowered interest rates. By the second half of 2009, business investment returned, layoffs were declining and GDP was growing.

GOVERNMENT SPENDING DECLINES

Since 2011, the U.S. Congress has decided to reverse the Obama stimulus by restricting federal government spending. In the last six months, business investment has retreated to Great Recession levels and economic growth has slowed to a crawl.

Investment bank Morgan Stanley says policymakers may be repeating the same Great Depression-style mistakes that led to the double-dip recession in 1937. It warns “policy decisions today contributed to the slowdown in recent quarters.” The report clarifies that it’s critical to “ensure aggregate demand is supported by boosting public demand.”

According to the investment bank, the U.S. economy is about to experience its fifth consecutive year of below-average growth.

It suggests increased public spending “particularly now when [interest] rates are still low, could lead to a virtuous cycle, where the corporate sector takes up investment, thus sustaining job creation and income growth.”

A recent headline in the Wall Street Journal read, “It Has Never Been Cheaper for Cities and States to Borrow Money.” Yet

states and cities have reduced borrowing for construction projects by two-thirds. Also, federal construction grants to states and cities have been cut nearly in half.

In California, borrowing is almost 40 percent lower than it was in 2009 and construction spending for the next five years has been cut by an additional 28 percent. Florida has refused to fund its main construction program for public schools and universities for the last five years.

INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS

The McKinsey Global Institute, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers have recommended increasing infrastructure spending by $1 to $2 trillion over the next decade. This investment is needed to meet transportation, water, energy and telecommunications requirements. It is also needed to boost business investment and employment.

S&P Global Ratings analyst John Sugden and Secretary Summers have written that delaying repairs could drive up construction costs in the long run.

Borrowing costs have never been lower, materials costs are down and the expanding hole at the bottom of the wage ladder has rarely been more pronounced.

POLITICS

Both presidential candidates have voiced support for increased infrastructure spending.

Secretary Hillary Clinton’s plan calls for a combination of borrowing and spending to increase public construction spending by $500 billion over the next decade. This falls well short of what ASCE, McKinsey and Summers recommend.

Donald Trump has pledged to spend twice as much as Clinton, but has provided few details. As his tax plans are projected to shrink federal revenue, it’s difficult to view his spending pledges seriously. He has discussed the use of debt financing but has also set aggressive targets to reach a balanced budget.

CONCLUSION

History, economics, infrastructure needs and crippling unemployment demand significantly increased spending to rebuild America. How long will these economic needs be thwarted by the politics of fiscal minimalism?

J. Scott Gaillard mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Gaillard is a legal assistant and former Congressional staffer.

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