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COVER STORY
STRUCK DOWN IN HER PRIME
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The unsolved murder of transgender activist Terrianne Summers BY CLAIRE GOFORTH
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BY AG GANCARSKI POPE FRANCIS embodies contradictions
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Our Picks LE FEMMES ROCHE
Reasons to leave the house this week
HERITAGE AND FUN OCTOBER GULLAH FESTIVAL
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID FEST
This celebration of the longtime cultural traditions of African-American people living on the Sea Islands along the Southeastern Atlantic coast features low country cooking demonstrations, food competition, live entertainment, a Mistress of Ceremony, a DJ, arts and crafts, and more fun activities. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 10, The Ritz Theatre & Museum, Downtown, ritzjacksonville.com.
This Women’s Festival features an impressive line-up of local female artists including Ghost Tropic, Lauren Gilliam, Beaver Trap, Ramona Quimby, Amy Hendrickson Band, Ema & The Old Kings, Amy Vickery, Chelsea Saddler (pictured), Katherine Archer, The Afterwhile, Elizabeth Roth Band, Wendy Kissinger, Laurel Norris, and Kenny & the Jets. Proceeds benefit Girls Rock Camp Jacksonville. 6 p.m. Oct. 11, Planet Sarbez, St. Augustine, $5, facebook.com/theplanetsarbez.
PRETTY ON THE INSIDE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Since their early ’90s lo-fi days, Claremont, California’s The Mountain Goats have been in the vanguard of the indie folk music scene, releasing more than a dozen celebrated and quirky albums. The brainchild of main man/goat John Darnielle, the band’s music touches on everything from the personal to the mythological – sometimes cryptic, other times confessional. Their latest (excellent) release, Beat the Champ, is a concept album about wrestling. 7 p.m. Oct. 9 with openers Blank Range, Colonial Quarter, $20, staugamphitheatre.com.
“Who you callin’ ugly? Oh … me? Very well, then.” Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature film from Walt Disney, the musical Beauty and the Beast, it’s the story of a hirsute brute-of-aprince, the beautiful young maiden he’s imprisoned in his castle, and his hopes of winning her love. Also, did we mention talking, singing and dancing household objects?! 8 p.m. Oct. 9; 2 and 4 p.m. Oct. 10; 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oct. 11, TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, Downtown, $33.50-$93.50, artistseriesjax.org.
RADICAL SOUNDS ANI DiFRANCO
One part agitprop spokesperson, one part DIY music stylist, for more than 25 years Ani DiFranco has kept audiences and critics guessing, with an ever-changing style that’s touched on punk, folk, hip hop, and jazz. A longtime activist for the LGBTQ community, DiFranco has been equally committed to social causes including women’s rights, Hurricane Katrina relief, and the anti-war movement. Her most recent release, Allergic to Water, is the 18th on her Righteous Babe label. 8 p.m. Oct. 9 with Ana Egge, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $49-$59, pvconcerthall.com.
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FROM THE EDITOR
BUILDING BRAND AWARENESS IN A SOCIETY WHERE THE PURSUIT OF CAPITAL is engrained in us practically before the soft spots on our craniums harden, slogans are unavoidable. Many brands coin a catchy mantra even before they develop a product — in the biz we call this the Margaritaville Model. And some slogans seem to be developed in a vacuum, completely oblivious to the merits of the product they portend to be corroborating — anyone familiar with the post-meal-remorse induced by any item selected and ingested from the McDonald’s dollar-menu likely wonders who’s actually “lovin’ it.” Similarly, when prompted by a sign saying “Eat Fresh,” a Subway customer may wonder, “Where?” The fact that slogans tend, generally, to be inauthentic, makes them easily mockable. Even the lifestyle brand Patagonia, which is often lauded for its conscious business practices, can be embarrassingly unself-aware. Just look at the T-shirts inscribed with adolescent scribble reading, “Live Simply,” which at $35 carry the price tag of a luxury item. Part of the problem is that we are just so damn cynical — blame Folio Weekly, or Millennials if you must, but you can’t deny we have good reason to pillory even the weightiest claims of authenticity. From WMDs to bubbles in housing and tech to government surveillance, we’ve been sold snake oil over and over again. So, if we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane (someone should put that on a T-shirt). And, politically, The Donald’s “Make America Great Again” hats are already a hot item among those who embrace irony most emphatically — see: Brooklyn Hipsters. Locally, Lenny Curry’s “One City, One Jacksonville” — a slogan that was repeated in earnest, with eyes closed and hands held, at the mayor’s inauguration ceremony just a few months ago — was destined to be a target for skepticism. A student writing in the Florida Times-Union who was there that day noted the lack of female voices on the stage (for which she was unceremoniously dismissed and insulted by commenters online). And a Folio Weekly contributor also at the ceremony described how the repetition of this slogan of harmony and diversity, promoted from a stage full of “heterosexual, Christian males,” seemed devoid of any semblance of self-awareness, given the city’s diversity in religion, sexual orientation, and gender. So, not a great start for the mayor’s slogan. Since then, though, the mayor has given the boot to 299 staffers from the previous administration and vanquished two prominent Democrats, as well as the wife of a political rival from positions of influence. How’s that slogan holding up? During the campaign, when pressed on complicated issues, Curry’s default position was often that, as mayor, he’d open up dialogue to all interested parties. On any issue, Curry, as 8 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 7-13, 2015
he wrote in the T-U in April, said he’d “convene public meetings on anything that is dividing our people.” This would seem to be in line with Curry’s inaugural slogan. However, the most recent attempt to ouster Lisa King — a popular Democrat serving on the City Planning Commission — and another, Joey McKinnon, who was in only his fourth month of service (both of whom might hold opposing viewpoints) — made a future of closed eyes and handholding unlikely, if not impossible. Just tune in for the public comments session at the Oct. 13 City Council meeting to hear how “one city, one Jacksonville” is faring in the wake of what many are calling a purge. A Facebook event unambiguously called “Speak for Lisa King and Joey McKinnon at City Council Meeting” already has nearly 50 confirmed attendees. The mayor’s feud with JEA board members isn’t helping. After Curry declined requests by two board members for the meetings to be held in the sunshine, both resigned while admonishing the mayor for creating a partisan atmosphere. It may be time for a new slogan. And a few have emerged. The most popular of which, Ron Littlepage’s suggested rebrand of Lenny “The Terminator” Curry, however, may be unfair to the much more popular, much less partisan former Republican governor of California. ONE MORE REBRAND Here’s another slogan we might want to rethink: Jacksonville is the largest city in the United States whose city government is without a comprehensive Human Rights Ordinance for the protection of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals. This is unfortunate because, as our cover story this week illustrates, many from the LGBT community do not feel like their rights are being protected by their local government. Through interviews with friends and members of the LGBT community, Folio Weekly contributor Claire Goforth recounts the 2001 murder of transgender activist Terrianne Summers. The story makes it clear that 14 years after Summers’ murder, most of the issues surrounding the equitable treatment and acceptance of transgenders in Jacksonville remain unresolved. Word on the street is some form of an HRO will be presented to the Jacksonville City Council in the near future. If the ordinance fails to include protections for some of the city’s most vulnerable citizens, it will be interesting to see how it’s branded. How about: One city, one step forward, two steps back? Matthew B. Shaw mshaw@folioweekly.com
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RE: FOLIO WEEKLY’S BEST LOCAL WEIRDO CATEGORY IN OUR BEST OF JAX READERS’ POLL (NOTE: READERS’ POLL)
Dear Editor, One thing you should know about Folio Weekly is that every year in its “Best of” farce, there is a scabrous comment or two about U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown. Yet, on the most important vote in Congress in decades — the 2002 vote to invade Iraq — she was among the 20 percent who voted “No.” Contrast this to the other members of the Florida delegation who voted “Yea,” including Rep. Ander Crenshaw and Sen. Bill Nelson. The invasion and occupation of
Iraq has cost more than a trillion dollars (with more spending to come), thousands of deaths, and tens of thousands of casualties — and that’s just on our side. Gratuitously trashing Brown while ignoring Crenshaw’s and Nelson’s bloody blunder is a tradition that you might want to re-think. Michael Hoffmann Via email
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BRICKBATS & BOUQUETS BRICKBATS TO DAVID MING PON The Florida ophthalmologist was convicted of 20 counts of healthcare fraud, essentially ripping off Medicare for more than $7 million, according to The Florida Times-Union. BRICKBATS TO MAYOR LENNY CURRY After two JEA board members asked that the meetings scheduled with the mayor’s team be conducted in the sunshine, the mayor refused the request and instead insisted on the resignation of JEA board member Lisa Weatherby — a local investment banker, longtime community servant, and … ahem … Alvin Brown supporter. BOUQUETS TO THE STEAM CULTURAL PASSPORT PROGRAM With additional funding from CSX, the St. Johns Riverkeeper and the Duval County School Board have partnered to provide on-the-water learning opportunities for approximately 4,500 low-income Duval County students during the 2015-’16 school year through the STEAM cultural passport program. BOUQUETS TO JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARIES As a result of a $1 million budget increase (some of which was proposed by former Mayor Brown and axed by City Council in 2014), the libraries have increased operational hours by 10 percent in locations where residents depend on the libraries’ resources the most.
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JAGCITY
ANOTHER LOST SEASON? How the Jags GAVE AWAY a must-win ggame
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irst, the positives: A different Jags offense surfaced in Indianapolis, at least in the early going, and in it were a lot of concepts that had the wow factor against vanilla defenses in the preseason. Use of tight ends on highpercentage routes, a crisp command of play action, and going deep when it was there. As much Allen Hurns as you could want. That was the Blake Bortles folks expected. And on Sunday, they saw it. At least in the beginning. More positives: The defense, which had difficulty solving Andrew Luck in previous years, had an easier time with Colts QB Matt Hasselbeck through the first 60 minutes. The 40-year-old obligingly played game manager, as if waiting for Jacksonville to beat itself. Usually a safe bet. And, alas, on Sunday it was again. That said, more positives! The tipped balls went the Jags’ way. And the Colts couldn’t figure out how to jump those routes most teams figure out against Bortles in the second half. The Jags did everything but close the game out. Which is, you know, what you draft a quarterback No. 3 to do. And what you give a head coach three years to figure out how to do. The Jags offense frittered away possession after possession in the second half, yet miraculously had the ball again at the end of regulation, and a shot at a 53-yarder for new kicker Jason Myers. He missed. Twice. The first one was voided by a Colts timeout. Not to worry – the Jags had the first possession in overtime. They got the ball, again, inside the Colts’ 35. The crowd’s murmurs of discontent: music to any Jags’ fans ears. Then, another Myers try. Wide to the left. Then, Hasselbeck drove the ball down Jaguar throats, setting up a field goal for Adam Vinatieri. And with that, another totally depressing loss to the Colts, almost five years to the day from when Josh Scobee beat them with a 59-yard field goal that made him, for longer than anyone could believe, the toast of the town. Myers could have had that moment. Blake Bortles, Gus Bradley, the 904 could have had a moment, too. Instead, a less-exhilarating, morefamiliar motif. 1-3. This was a chance to knock the Colts back and take a 2-2 mark out of the first quarter of the season. The Jags blew it. Ahead loom two winnable games: Tampa and Houston. A 2-2 mark going into those matchups could’ve set the Jags up as a serious contender in an AFC South in serious decline. A more reliable kicker might have been enough. But the issues go deeper than a rookie kicker way out of his depth in clutch moments. They also involve a quarterback who doesn’t go for the kill shot the way a franchise guy should. And a coaching staff that lacks the ability to create necessary mismatches. They play not to lose. They coach not to lose. They don’t get where they are. Jacksonville isn’t a “we’re just happy to be in the NFL” town any longer. The local football team doesn’t seem to get it. Meanwhile, Shad Khan, who demands business-case driven results from bakeries in Murray Hill, sits silently as his team continues to woefully underperform. More positives? The franchise value keeps appreciating. And the Jags can’t be relegated to the CFL. Yet. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski
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NEWS
A KOGI WARNING
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WHEN WE, AS HUMANS, DRILL FOR OIL IN THE ocean, mine for coal in the mountains, dump our chlorinated waste, or diesel gas, in the river, the Kogi feel it in the heart of the world. The Kogi feel a great deal, and they want us to pay attention to what the Earth’s heartbeat is telling us. Next week, the ancient indigenous peoples of the high mountains of Columbia are bringing their message to Northeast Florida by way of two documentaries, thanks to two St. Augustine-based organizations and the initiatives of a BBC filmmaker. The Environmental Youth Council, a St. Augustine organization that’s focused on “[bridging] the gap between those concerned and those in action” on environmental issues, is hosting the double feature screening at The Corazon Cinema & Café in downtown St. Augustine on Wednesday, Oct. 14. “Since the beginning, Bill Hamilton and the Environmental Youth Council have been hugely supportive of our work and a constant source of inspiration,” says The Black Line Initiative Felipe Viveros, a project coordinator who is speaking at the screening. “The vital work that the EYC is doing in Florida, protecting the rivers St. Johns and Matanzas, and the Atlantic Ocean, are an example of what the Kogi want to see happening worldwide.” When Hamilton, a St. Augustine business owner and sponsor of EYC, saw the 1990 BBC film From the Heart of the World – The Elder Brothers’ Warning, he was inspired to get involved. Then, he met Fernando Arango, a St. Augustine resident from Columbia who had lived with the Kogi for several years in the ’60s. The two men decided to start a foundation to buy land around the lands the Kogi claim, to help create a buffer zone in the face of encroaching Columbian development. The Sunrise Rotary Club of St. Augustine, along with some private donors, funded the Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra in Columbia, which is working with Columbians and the Kogi to create a school and a primitive, Kogi-inspired agricultural community in the 62 acres the foundation has purchased so far. That foundation, along with EYC and The Black Line Initiative, a London-based project started by Alan Ereira, BBC filmmaker and director of both films, are all working to help convey the Kogi message to St. Augustine and to the world at large. The Kogi peoples are among the last surviving cultures from the time of the Inca and Aztec in Central America, living just as
they did thousands of years ago, insulated from modern society in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Sierra Nevada mountain range, at 18,700 feet, is the highest coastal range in the world. Because of its unique structure in Northern Columbia, on a separate tectonic plate than the nearby Andes mountains, it’s in effect a miniature version of the whole planet, with all the world’s climates represented, according to The Black Line Initiative’s website. The Kogi believe humanity is here to be the caretakers of the Earth, helping to foster its growth and vitality. They are the elder brothers, living in the heart of the world, and through responsible farming and stewardship of the mountain jungle they live in, and through positive meditation, and with the ancient knowledge that was shared by many now-extinct indigenous communities of the world, they keep the world in balance. The rest of the world is the younger brother, and the Kogi are not happy with how we younger brothers are treating the Earth. After grave-robbers, amateur archeologists and coal miners began encroaching on their land in the 1960s and ’70s, they agreed to make a film with Ereira in 1990 to send a message to the younger brothers that they are destroying the homelands, and must stop. Twenty years later, the Kogi realized their first message had gone unheeded, and again with Ereira, they made the documentary Aluna, this time ensuring that they would have more control of the storytelling. The Kogi mamas, spiritual leaders of the tribe, know how crucial the world environmental crisis is, and are reaching out more and more through Arango’s foundation and The Black Line Initiative to the younger brothers, pleading with us to focus our energy on restoring the Earth. Open to all mankind, the buffer zone created near the Sierra Nevada will help them communicate with anyone willing to listen without endangering their sacred way of life in the mountains. The EYC, the first independent organization the Kogi have agreed to work with in the United States, has donated $1,500 through fundraising to help pay for the Kogi to visit sacred sites and meditate on environmental issues facing Northeast Florida and the world. The local Environmental Youth Council has hosted marches for climate and ocean justice, fought against testing for offshore
oil drilling, fought against unsustainable development in sensitive environmental areas in St. Johns County, worked with the Matanzas Riverkeeper to keep that river clean, and is involved in a lawsuit against the state of Florida and Georgia Pacific for the paper plant’s pollution of the St. Johns River. The Kogi mamas will meditate on these issues on behalf of EYC to help solve them. Working with the Kogi fits perfectly with EYC’s mission of taking action on the biggest environmental issues of our day, Hamilton says. To the Kogi, it’s all one issue, as we are all intimately connected with the Earth, and each other, he explains. This film screening, the first of these documentaries to be released in the U.S., will
give viewers a chance to hear directly from the Kogi, and learn exactly what the tribe hopes we can do to help to restore the Earth, Hamilton says. “The Kogi message is both current and ancient, and has in it a message of hope and a dose of ancient wisdom that has dazzled both the general public and the scientific community,” The Black Line Initiative’s Felipe Viveros says. Greg Parlier mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ From the Heart of the World — The Elder Brothers’ Warning 6 p.m., Aluna 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, Corazon Cinema, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine. Felipe Viveros discusses his related project, The Black Line Initiative. $10 suggested donation; corazoncinemaandcafe.com.
FIGHTIN’ WORDS
A CATHOLIC EDUCATION NEVER ENDS POPE FRANCIS embodies contradictions AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED BY THE VOWEL at the end of my name: I was raised Catholic. First Communion in third grade, confirmation in eighth; a slog through parochial high school thereafter. A typical story in which one is indoctrinated in the Catholic Church. And the Catholic Church educational model was made for kids like me. Kids not necessarily raised or expected to be part of the power elite, but who needed to learn an approximation of the skill sets that kids at other private schools got. A bit more “critical thinking,” courtesy of religion classes and civics classes in which teachers, in an era well before the grey specter of Common Core normalization reared its ugly head, encouraged debate and discussion. Those were the good teachers. There were some embarrassments as well. Well, high school ended, and the yearbooks and uniforms mysteriously disappeared. The devout Catholics in my family, the ones who actually cared that there was a Polish pope, passed away. I knew that my dad was dying when he got really into watching the Eternal Word Television Network in the months before his death. He was looking for something; maybe peace, maybe a familiar discourse. Presumably, he found it. In the years since, I haven’t stepped into a Catholic Church more than a handful of times, and all of those were out of a sense of social obligation. The routines were imprinted on my brain nonetheless. The liturgies, the signs of peace, and the collection basket. Every time I have gone into a Catholic Church, good seats were always available. For the last decade or so, I’ve privately believed that the Catholic Church, as it relates to the immigrant waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has been a victim of ceaseless attrition. The novelty of John Paul II wore off before Y2K. Benedict, meanwhile, never quite shook his service in WWII on the losing German side, and his religious conservatism galvanized the hardcores, but didn’t do much for outreach.
And then, of course, the predatory priests and their predilections for the young and vulnerable. The church may go bankrupt paying off the victims, but the damage to institutional credibility can never be so neatly restored. Just when it seemed all was lost, a new wind from Buenos Aires blew into the cathedral. A South American pope, a hemisphere removed from Old Europe, with a perpetual mug of Yerba Mate — as popular in Argentina as Purple Drank is here. A voice of tolerance. The kind of pope you could talk to your atheist friends about and not get derided … at least not instantly. Pope Francis’ American trip was the culmination of that marketing push. For a few days, the pope was everywhere. Writing in a McDonald’s in Arlington on the Friday he was here, I sat with a roomful of faces of meth as the Pope addressed the United Nations Assembly on the in-house TVs. Seemed normal enough. I enjoyed all of his TV appearances; my favorite soundbite was Francis namedropping (in front of Congress) Dorothy Day, the Catholic socialist activist of the 20th century who never quite made it into my high school religion classes. All of that was great. And I was thinking, briefly, about un-lapsing my Catholicism. Then, to remind me why I lapsed in the first place, the news that the Pope spent about 15 minutes with Kim Davis, the Hazzard County clerk who chose to go to Boss Hogg’s jail rather than to authorize gay weddings. Reportedly, Pope Francis told her to “stay strong.” Now, whether you believe that or the persistent counternarrative that the Vatican has pushed in the past week is a matter of perspective. However, to this observer it looks like the Vatican is trying to play both sides. That’s entirely his prerogative. There are some who benefit from the narrative that standing in the way of legal gay marriages, whether by refusing to issue licenses as Davis did, or by shutting down wedding ceremonies like our own Ronnie Fussell did at the first of the year, puts them closer to God. And for a Pope who is a politician above all else, making the deliberate decision to allocate time for Davis should be interpreted as a sop to social conservatives, both in the church and in the protestant churches, who somehow see the derelict clerk as a role model or maybe this year’s Joe the Plumber. A Catholic education taught me many things, including critical inquiry that one might not get in the “God Said It. I Believe It. That Settles It” style churches. However, that same critical inquiry led me, and tens of millions of other Americans, away from the church. Papal pandering to the Kim Davises of the world reminds me why I left. AG Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com twitter/AGGancarski
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The unsolved murder of transgender activist TERRIANNE SUMMERS
On Dec. 12, 2001, a single bullet took the life of local transgender activist Terrianne Summers, just as she was entering what were likely to be some of the happiest years of her life. After a long job search, the year before she died, Summers was hired by the U.S. Department of Labor (the federal government has long prohibited discrimination based on conduct which has no bearing on job performance). She was overqualified for the IT job, but it was a paycheck. She’d taken on a public role protesting Winn-Dixie’s firing of one of their truck drivers who cross-dressed in his spare time and was actively involved with the local LGBT community and causes, including JASMYN (Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network). She also had a vibrant social life. Weeks before her murder, she’d taken part in the Transgender Day of Remembrance, held annually on Nov. 20, memorializing those killed as a result of transphobia. “She was a happy chick,” says friend and local attorney Carrington Mead. Much of her Navy pension was going to her estranged wife — checks she left outside her home every Monday, so they didn’t have to see each other face-to-face — so the long struggle to find a steady job had taken its toll. Summers was living with a roommate in a crime-ridden neighborhood on Day Avenue in Murray Hill. The police file about her murder says that, at the time, a group of juveniles was terrorizing the area. Not the type to back down, Summers repeatedly called the cops on the teens, who were suspected in a string of burglaries, assaults, vandalism and selling drugs in the park near her home. Mead says Summers would pace behind the chain-link fence in her yard with her gun, a .357 pistol, strapped to a hip, yelling at the youths, trying to run them off. Summers’ roommate is quoted in the police file as saying, “ … the victim told [her] in the past that if anyone was going to rob [her], they would have to kill [her], because [she] was not going to be ‘pushed over.’” The police file also says that sometime before her death, Summers received an anonymous letter asking her to meet “them” in the park. She declined. The day of Dec. 12, 2001, began like any other. Summers rose, dressed impeccably, with an attention to detail that was probably second nature for someone of her intelligence, education and military background, and went to work.
That afternoon she called to check on her roommate, who was recuperating from a medical procedure that required her to be in a wheelchair. Arriving home around eight o’clock that late autumn evening, Summers got the mail, as she routinely did before heading inside. According to the police file, neighbors reported hearing shots fired at approximately 8 p.m. Another neighbor down the street said that at approximately 9:15 p.m., a group of three or four juveniles rode past on bicycles and said that there was a woman dead down the street. That woman turned out to be Terrianne Summers. She appeared to have fallen right where she was shot, still clutching her keys in her hand, mail scattered around her body. The fforce knocked one of her shoes off; the contents of her purse, including a can of mace, spilled on the ground p aaround her. Sadly, in many ways, Summers’ life and death were, and are, typical for transgenders. w Born in 1950, Summers came of age in a time when the idea of identifying as a gender other than w one’s biological sex was not only relatively unknown, o but could lead to arrest. After all, this was a time when b homosexuality (which should not be confused with h being transgender) was deemed a mental illness by the b American Psychiatric Association. (The APA removed A homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in 1974; h iit wasn’t until 2013 that it removed gender identity disorder from its list of mental disorders.) d Like many closeted transgender women, in her yyouth Summers embraced masculine roles. She jjoined the Navy and became an engineer, eventually rrising as a Mustang, or enlisted person, to the rank of Commander. She also wed and had two sons. From the outside, hers was a typical, nuclear American family; she was a regular family man. In reality, Summers was probably just hiding from her truth. It is a common experience. Benjamin Charlick, a third-year student at Florida Coastal School of Law, says that it took many years before he accepted his transgender status. Throughout his 20s, Charlick, now 32, would at times play with gender identity and express himself as male. Then circumstances or friends would change and he’d “put it back in
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the box,” bury himself in work, sports and an active social life in New York City, where he then lived. “Until you break yourself out of the binary, all you know is the binary. I was thinking in terms of very black-and-white binary,” he says. Similarly, over time, the male mask that Summers wore began to wear thin. “What happens is, for a lot of people who do that, they’ll continue to see an increase in depression, an increase in anxiety, an increase in suicidal thoughts and ideations because they’re not being true to self,” says local mental health counselor Kristie Overstreet, who has worked with LGBTs for nearly a decade and actively pursues equal rights for the community. “… They’re feeling like they’re sacrificing part of themselves, which they are.” Summers came out to her family in the late ’90s. By then she was retired from the military, her sons were approaching adulthood; she may have felt that it was a now-or-never situation. Waiting until later in life to come out is common for transgender women in particular. It may be difficult to understand how a person of advanced age would “suddenly” become transgender, but Overstreet says that individuals who transition later in life have typically been deeply conflicted about their gender identity for much of their lives, perhaps LEFT: Terianne Summers’ cold-case file identifies her as male, her biological gender. She posed for her drivers license photo as a female, her gender identity. BELOW: “I feared for my life. I always had my straight friends go with me,” says Synthia Roy of the first times she would go out in public wearing clothing that would be considered feminine.
even since before they had a name for their feelings. Charlick spoke of a woman in his childhood neighborhood who told the rest of the parents, “to be wary and not let their kids play with me because I was a boy trapped in a girl’s body and I was an ungodly creature.” This was long before Charlick himself became aware that he does not identify as female. Like Summers, many succumb to the pressure of family, society and other cultural expectations until they just can’t bear to pretend anymore. “I think that’s why we see a lot of people wait until later in life to come out because they feel they’ve done those roles … [they may feel like], ‘I don’t want to be on my deathbed and regret that I’ve not lived who I am,’” says Overstreet, who is cisgender (a person who identifies as their biological gender) and makes it clear that she does not speak for the community, but as a mental health professional who has many years of experience working with it. Like many transgenders, Summers’ family did not support her transition and she became estranged from her wife and sons. Nevertheless, she continued transitioning, eventually legally changing her name and presenting as a woman for her driver’s license photograph. Mead says that Summers’ estranged wife did not allow the LGBT community to attend the funeral and believes that she was buried under her male name. Cam, who asked me to keep his last name confidential, says his family tries to accept him but that they have asked him to avoid some family friends. “People in the family are still struggling about getting everything right and seeing
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STRUCK DOWN IN HER PRIME <<<< FR << FROM FRO OM PPREVIOUS OM REVIVIVIOU RE OUSS OU me the way I want to be seen,” he says. Transitioning is frequently more difficult for transgender females, and typically carries far more stigma. Speaking in his individual capacity and not as a representative of the university, Jake Moore, LGBT Resource Center program coordinator at the University of North Florida, theorized that it’s because society expects women to work so much harder on their physical appearance, which also has the effect of making it more difficult for female transgenders to “pass” or to avoid being identified as trans. Several sources also suggested that people may subconsciously feel that biological males who transition to female are giving up male privilege, while biological females who transition to male are trading up to a higher societal status.
TRANSPHOBIA AND VIOLENCE
Regardless of biological gender prior to transition, every single transgender person Folio Weekly interviewed for this article spoke of fears of transphobia-based discrimination and hate-motivated violence. Local tattoo artist Synthia Roy, a transgender woman, says her three best friends in Maine beat her up when she came out. “I remember as a guy going out in femme [dress] to straight clubs, I feared for my life, I always had my straight guy friends with me,” Roy says. Roy says she’s developed a phobia of straight cisgender men, particularly when they’re drinking alcohol, and actively avoids going alone to places like “small redneck bar[s]” where such men congregate. Friends, she says, have been beaten up when a cisgender man found out they were trans; one friend in another state was gang-raped when a man found out she was trans. “They’re having hate against her because she’s a ‘fag,’ so what are they going to do? Rape her — that doesn’t make sense,” she says. Hate-motivated violence against the transgender community is on the rise. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that hate-motivated violence against transgenders rose 13 percent from 2013 to 2014. In August, Time Magazine reported that this year, a historic high of 15 transgenders had been murdered in the U.S., the majority of those were transgender females of color. “Violence has been happening to this community for a long time but people weren’t paying attention,” Moore says. Moore pointed out that even those who feel safe in jobs, homes and communities still experience fear in certain places, such as public restrooms. Cisgenders may illogically fear that they will be assaulted by a transgender person in the bathroom; in reality, it is far more likely a transgender person will be assaulted. In fact, some transgenders actively seek establishments, such as Starbucks, that have single-stall bathrooms to minimize the risk. “I’ve felt fear going into a restroom. I used to hold my bladder as long as I could to avoid going to the restroom,” says Moore.
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
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“I think that’s why we see a lot of people wait until later in life to come out because they feel they’ve done those roles … [they may feel like], ‘I don’t want to be on my deathbed and regret that I’ve not lived who I am.’” — KRISTIE OVERSTREET, MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR initially, Summers went on job interviews dressed as a man to increase her likelihood of getting hired. She’d get hired and start working, but eventually someone would find out she was trans and she’d be fired. When Summers began living as a woman full-time, Mead says, her job search was hindered even more. “She couldn’t get hired in the engineering jobs because all they saw was a man in a dress,” says Mead. Overstreet noted that transgenders’ inability to find work and support themselves can exacerbate their underlying mental health problems, such as depression, dysphoria-based distress and anxiety. Summers could not have been fired for being transgender if Jacksonville City Council had passed a Human Rights Ordinance that prohibited housing, public accommodation and employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. HRO legislation failed to pass City Council in 2012; many believe it failed because it included protections for gender identity and expression. “If I go off campus, even just to Town Center for lunch, and I use the men’s restroom, I can technically, because of the HRO being the way it is, be asked to leave. I don’t think that anything like an arrest would happen but that would technically be legally plausible as well, because I still have an ‘F’ on my license,” says Moore. Jacksonville is the largest metropolitan area in the nation that does not provide such protections. The city also has the largest percentage of LGBTs of any major city in Florida. According to a 2015 Gallup poll, 4.3 percent of Jacksonville’s population identifies as LGBT, which means that there are 36,231 LGBTs in the city, roughly equivalent to the size of one city council district. Mayor Lenny Curry has stated that he intends to draft HRO legislation and local LGBT leadership has agreed to let the mayor take the lead on the issue. The mayor’s office did not provide a timeline or any guidance to the mayor’s stance in response to a request by Folio Weekly, but some sources believe that the mayor’s HRO will not include protection for gender identity and expression. If the mayor eliminates those protections in his HRO, Councilmember Tommy Hazouri intends to propose inclusive legislation. “I vehemently support an inclusive human rights ordinance in Jacksonville to bar discrimination in any form. It is my intention to sponsor a bill and lead on this issue to ensure we move forward as a city,” Hazouri stated in a written statement. Every single source for this story spoke of concerns that some of the cisgender lesbian, gay and bisexual community may be willing to leave out protection for transgenders in spite of the reality that they are the most vulnerable members of the community. “Right now, any trans person, myself included, I could be kicked out of my house. I could lose my job. I mean, when you really think about, there are fundamental things that people are striving for in society … make a living, work hard, chase the American dream to the best of your abilities,” says Charlick, a Florida native who intends to move to Baltimore after law school because “the Northeast is safer for me than the South.”
Roy had long been fluid about gender expression, but when she began her transition in earnest, she was fired from the tattoo parlor where she had worked for 17 years. Her boss claimed he’d replaced her out of necessity while she was recuperating from a brain bleed caused by
abruptly quitting drinking alcohol, which led to a coma and total memory loss (her memory later returned). However, former coworkers later said that her boss had never been comfortable with her transition
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“Until you break yourself out of the binary, you only see the binary,” Benjamin Charlick (below) says of his struggle with gender identity.
Said, “HE,” Said, “SHE” ETIQUETTE GUIDE: Passing, Privacy and PGPs (Preferred Gender Pronouns)
Cisgenders are frequently confused on how to be polite and engage in conversation with transgenders. It’s actually rather simple — be respectful — but here are some helpful tips Folio Weekly gathered from interviews with a half-dozen transgenders who live in Northeast Florida. STOP LAUGHING AT THEM How many times does a sitcom have to include the worn-out comic gimmick of dressing cisgender male leads as women before we stop laughing? How many jokes about sexuality and gender identity does it take before we realize that it’s hurtful and inappropriate? Another person’s sexuality and gender expression are not punchlines. DON’T STARE, POINT OR MOCK anyone whose gender is ambiguous or who expresses their gender identity inconsistently. Within the community, feelings about trying to “pass,” or blend with one’s identified gender, are mixed; common consensus seems to be that it is entirely up to the individual, but no one should be pressured to try to pass and no one should be discriminated against or mocked because their gender is ambiguous. Nor are such an accepted subject of casual conversation. NEVER CASUALLY ASK a transgender person if they’re “pre-op or post-op” or in any way assume that their use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), surgeries, laser hair removal, breast binding, etc. are any of your business. If they feel comfortable enough to tell you without your asking, as did many of the sources for this story, bear in mind that these are private, intimate matters that are not to be discussed with others. Would you ask a colleague or a casual friend about the size of their genitals? It’s also important to note that a person’s status as transgender does not in any way indicate their sexual preferences. Just like cisgenders, trans people have all sorts of preferences. It’s probably better not to ask them (unless you’re asking them out on a date); if they want to tell you, they will. Transgender women and drag queens are not the same thing. A transgender woman identifies as female: a drag queen (aka transvestite aka cross-dresser) is a male who wears women’s clothing, typically either for pleasure or for performance. PRONOUNS, PRONOUNS, PRONOUNS Another divisive issue many have difficulty with, but it’s quite simple: If you’re not sure which pronouns to use, ask politely. He/him, she/her, they/them (used for those who don’t choose to identify as one or the other) are the most common preferred gender pronouns, or PGPs. Respect it. If you slip accidentally, correct yourself, apologize and move on.
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FAR LEFT: Roy says she was fired from the tattoo parlor where she worked for 17 years after she began her transition; LEFT: Roy’s tattoo celebrating her transition.
STRUCK DOWN IN HER PRIME <<<<<< FR FROM OM PPREVIOUS REVIVIVIOU RE OUSS OU and used her absence as an excuse to get rid of her. Cam spoke of going on interview after interview during his transition. “Lots of people liked my work but after, once it came to me coming in and seeing people face-to-face, I never heard from them again,” he says. He says he never had problems with clients when he worked for them remotely, as a freelancer. After Cam began “passing,” he was hired. The 2013 report, “A Broken Bargain for Transgender Workers,” by Movement
Advancement Project, Human Rights Campaign, Center for American Progress and National Center for Transgender Equality, found that 14 percent of transgender workers were unemployed, twice the rate of the rest of the population. The report found that 44 percent of transgender workers were underemployed.
THE MURDER INVESTIGATION
In the hours, weeks and then months following Summers’ death, the Jacksonville Sheriff ’s Office tracked leads, interviewed witnesses and suspects and scoured the neighborhood for evidence. The day after the murder, one man claimed to have witnessed it. But detectives were unable to find him after their initial interview. The case file from Summers’ murder reveals a pattern of prejudice by the very
neighbors she was trying to protect by running off the troublemaking juveniles. It’s filled with disparaging references to her as “sissy boy,” “that fairy,” and “faggot.” Mead believes that Summers’ murder may not have technically fit the definition of a hate crime, but that her trans status enabled her killer and any potential witnesses “to dehumanize her” and, thus, contributed to her death. Detectives seem to have narrowed the suspect pool down to a group of several juveniles, likely the ones Summers had frequently confronted. Several people police interviewed — and some of the juveniles themselves — implicated different individuals in the crime. Two of the juveniles told detectives that a group of four of them found Summers lying dead in her driveway at approximately 8 p.m., the precise time that neighbors reported hearing
Pressing Concerns within Transgender Community THERE ARE MANY SERIOUS ISSUES facing the transgender community. Violence, unemployment and discrimination are rampant; access to medical care is a concern. Some local medical professionals will not treat transgenders who come presenting themselves as other than their biological sex; although technically illegal, others refuse to treat transgenders. A growing minority are open, understanding and inclusive. The many social, psychological and economic difficulties transgenders face often lead to substance abuse, as well as suicidal thoughts and ideations. “I was a raging alcoholic and a drunk for years,” says Synthia Roy. “… I started drinking because I didn’t like my body and I couldn’t be female and I wasn’t female so I said, ‘Fuck it,’ and I partied.” Roy says she can’t count how many suicide attempts she’s made; some were attempts on her life, other times she hurt herself to release tension. She has not made any attempts since transitioning. In 2011, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, conducted by the National Gay & Lesbian 16 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 7-13, 2015
Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality, found that 41 percent of transgenders surveyed reported suicide attempts, as compared with 4.6 percent of the general population. Sadly, transgender youths, like all LGBTs, are some of the most vulnerable and victimized members of the community. Bradley Landon works with JASMYN (Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network), a local nonprofit that serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth population. Several sources said transgender youth fear police; the community has long had a volatile relationship with law enforcement. Police harassment of transgenders and other LGBTs sparked the modern LGBT rights movement in the middle of the 20th century. A 2012 study by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that transgenders were 3.32 times more likely to experience police violence than non-transgenders. Landon says, “70 percent of all trans people in K-12 have faced harassment, 12 percent have been sexually violated, 35 percent have
faced physical assault, so 50 percent of them have dropped out. From that 50 percent, 48 percent are homeless.” The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that of the nation’s 1.6 million homeless youth, between 20 and 40 percent, or 320,000 to 640,000 people, are transgender. Kicked out by their families, unable to find work and faced with the harsh reality that nearly all the city’s homeless shelters do not provide accommodations for transgenders (Sulzbacher Center is a lone exception), on the streets many will turn to prostitution and substance abuse, both of which elevate the risk of contracting HIV. According to the Centers for Disease Control, transgender communities have the greatest risk of contracting HIV. In 2011, the CDC reported that “a meta-analysis of 29 published studies found that 27.7 percent of transgender women tested positive for HIV.” HIV is particularly prevalent among transgender women of color. According to the CDC, “Higher percentages of newly identified HIV-positive test results
shots fired. In the years since Summers’ death, all of the juveniles have accumulated extensive criminal records. Mead, who performed her own investigation into the crime, says that police felt confident that they’d identified the killer. But, unable to find the one witness after the initial interview, and without a murder weapon or any other concrete evidence, after many months police had little choice but to drop the case. No one has ever been charged with the crime. Through the course of investigating this story, FW tracked down the witness, who is being held in the Duval County Jail on an unrelated charged. There is a chance, albeit slight, he will be able to identify the person who murdered Terrianne Summers. All these years later, justice could finally be served. Claire Goforth mail@folioweekly.com
were found among black/AfricanAmerican transgender women (56.3 percent) than among white (16.7 percent) or Latino (16.1 percent) transgender women.” Based on CDC and U.S. Census data, 0.37 percent of the general population is HIV positive. Therefore, the rate of HIV infection for transgender women is nearly 75 times greater than that of the general population. Transgenders are among the most vulnerable members of our community. Yet locally, few resources are available to those in this group, who are simultaneously ostracized, mocked and discriminated against. Many believe local attitudes toward transgenders and the lack of resources are indicative of a culture of apathy and bigotry. “JASMYN does great work — there’s just not enough resources for all of the needs of the transgender youth and all the LGBT community,” says Cam. Jake Moore echoes his sentiments, “I think what Jacksonville is missing right now is a general LGBT center for all … there’s nothing for adult people who are trans.” As numerous, pressing and arguably depressing the many, many issues are that face the transgender
population in both the nation and the city, every single transgender FW interviewed for this article looked with hope toward a brighter future. Many spoke glowingly of the strength of the community. Several pointed out that transgender women were central to sparking the LGBT rights movement. In 1959, transgender women pelted police with coffee cups and donuts when they attempted to arrest patrons of the trans-friendly café Cooper Do-Nut in Los Angeles; novelist John Rechy was among those arrested and later included the event in his 1963 novel City of Night. (The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, which are largely credited with triggering the movement, were also incited by transgender women, specifically transgender women of color, not a white gay man as portrayed in the recently released movie Stonewall.) Since then, they’ve been waiting for the rest of the world to catch up. But no matter how this next chapter of Jacksonville and national history plays out, just like Terrianne Summers, they are not going to give in or back down. “Transgenders are some of the most resilient people I know,” says Landon.
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A&E // FILM Ridley Scott launches into a career high mark with his latest SCI-FI MASTERPIECE
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EPIC INVASION
HAMMER FILMS, TODAY IDENTIFIED ALMOST exclusively with seminal horror and genre movies of the ’50s and ’60s (like the Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee series of Dracula and Frankenstein flicks), was initially a minor British production company that first hit the big international scene in 1955 with a rare entry into science fiction. The Quatermass Xperiment, derived from a BBC mini-series, became the studio’s biggest success and the first to attract a distributor in America, where it was renamed The Creeping Unknown. Recently released on Blu-ray under its original title, The Quatermass Xperiment prompted a sequel two years later, then another in 1967 before bringing the series to an end with the death of its titular hero in The Quatermass Conclusion (1979), but not before he once again saves the world from doom and destruction. Shot in black-and-white and directed by Val Guest, the first two Quatermass films represent high marks in ’50s sci-fi films – the decade was obsessed with space aliens, nuclear catastrophe, and giant bugs of any and all varieties. Both Quatermass films had intelligent scripts, solid acting, crisp direction, and imaginative effects (synthesized to maximum effect with James Bernard’s music). The result in each case was a successful combination of horror and sci-fi far better than the era’s standard tropes. Based on a popular six-part BBC serial written by Nigel Kneale, The Quatermass Xperiment was
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Adding more for him to deal with, such as Davis) discovers that Mark is still alive. actual Martians/aliens, would’ve felt forced NASA suits up Mitch (Sean Bean), Vincent and made it a different movie. Kudos to (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Annie (Kristen Wiig) and the filmmakers for not feeling obligated to Teddy (Jeff Daniels) to try to figure out how present non-stop action throughout — it’s to get Mark back home safely as the whole because we’re engaged intellectually as well as world watches. viscerally that the narrative truly shines. Like Sandra Bullock in Gravity, Damon is Gravity, Interstellar, and now The Martian alone on screen for most of The — that makes three top-notch Martian, which means if the movies about exploration in audience doesn’t invest in his THE MARTIAN the vast reaches of outer space struggle, the entire film falls apart. **** released in the last three years, all This is a rare and gutsy risk for Rated PG-13 of which are visually spectacular. an actor, and Damon is superb. Perhaps more important, Mark documents his actions with each film showcases the ability of women the cameras inside his “hab,” which lets us to not only exist but also thrive in what in on his thoughts and feelings, all of which is traditionally a man’s world (Chastain’s demonstrate how engaging, smart, frustrated, character plays a prominent role here). Let’s and funny he is (you’ll be surprised by how hope this trend continues. much the film makes you laugh). The rest of The struggles of Prometheus (2012) aside, the considerable ensemble is solid as well, but there is no director we’d rather have working make no mistake: The movie does not work if in science fiction than Ridley Scott. The man Damon is not at the top of his game. who gave us Alien (1979) and Blade Runner What’s nice about the script, written by (1982) knows the genre well and, when in Drew Goddard and based on the best-selling top form, is capable of creating true classics. 2011 novel of the same name by Andrew Whether The Martian joins the echelon of Weir, is that it doesn’t feel the need to create “classic” status remains to be seen, but it’s an adversity for the sake of adversity. Meaning: exceptional piece of filmmaking. Things are hard enough for Mark while he’s Dan Hudak alone and figuring out how to survive, and mail@folioweekly.com we’re fascinated by his ability to survive. adapted for the big screen by director/co-writer Guest with an economical running time of 82 minutes. When an experimental rocket carrying three men crash-lands back near London, Professor Quatermass (head of the rocket division) is astonished to find only one man alive and the other crewmembers missing, though their spacesuits remain intact. The lone survivor (Richard Wordsworth, in a memorable wordless performance) is definitely not himself, having somehow been infected by an alien life form, which, in a series of gradual transformations, is turning the man into a self-replicating gelatinous creature capable of taking over the world. Unless, that is, the intrepid Quatermass can find some means of stopping it. Starring American actor Brian Donlevy (then on the downhill side of his career) as Quatermass, Xperiment (cleverly spelled to take advantage of the X-rating in England, thus attracting an adult audience) is suspenseful, exciting, and (for the time) very creepy. Donlevy might seem an odd choice at first, but the presence of an American “star” was deemed necessary for appeal to an American audience. Kneale hated the American in the role, but the actor is actually quite effective, making Quatermass an indomitable bulldog of sorts – with a brain. Hammer Films followed up The Quatermass Xperiment with another terrific effort, X the
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Unknown, for which they wanted to include the fictional Quatermass but Kneale objected. In X, scientists (led by the handsome American actor Dean Jagger) fight a radioactive glob from beneath the Earth’s surface. Two years later, Steve McQueen fought similar goo (this time from outer space) in The Blob. Donlevy returned in 1956 as the rocket scientist in Quatermass II (aka Enemy from Space in the U.S.), again battling aliens who launched a diabolical invasion from space, somewhat in the vein of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Guest directed and co-wrote again, this time assisted by Nigel Kneale himself, adapting his own TV miniseries for the silver screen. On a somewhat grander scale than Xperiment, the Quatermass team again elicits above-average chills and thrills. Next week, we’ll look at the best of the bunch (1967’s Quatermass and the Pit) as well as the concluding entry in the series some 12 years on. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
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FILM LISTINGS
corazoncinemaandcafe.com. Double Indemnity, noon Oct. 8; The Exorcist, noon and 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9. On a Quest starts Oct. 9. Gulf Crossing runs 5 p.m. Oct. 10.
FILM RATINGS
LATITUDE 360 MOVIES Vacation and Inside Out run at the CineGrille, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555.
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PICTURES IN THE PARK Florida Blue presents free movies every Friday in October. The LEGO Movie starts at dusk, around 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in Hemming Park, 135 W. Monroe St., Downtown, 556-7275, hemmingpark.org.
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DOCTOBERFEST & SHNIT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Third annual DoctoberFest offers feature-length documentaries (The Wolfpack, Iris, Best of Enemies, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine and Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon) Oct. 9-11. Shnit Film Fest offers eight international short films nominated for the global Shnit Fest, Oct. 8, 11 and 18; at Fernandina Little Theatre, 1014 Beech St., $7.50 each screening, 277-2202, ameliaflt.org. SUN-RAY CINEMA Black Mass, The Martian and Goodnight Mommy screen at 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Attack on Titan Pt 1 runs Oct. 7. Writers Workshop is Oct. 10. THE CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Wild Canaries and In Bruges screen at 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736,
IMAX THEATER Kids’ Halloween movies, The Walk, Galapagos 3D and Humpback Whales screen at World Golf Village Hall of Fame IMAX Theater, St. Johns, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com.
NOW SHOWING
BLACK MASS ***@ Rated R Johnny Depp hits a career high as real-life, brutal Boston Mafioso James “Whitey” Bulger, an Irishman who rose from petty street thug to No. 2 on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, in this well-played crime drama. Based on Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill’s book Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal, it’s the story of how the FBI allowed Jimmy to commit drug trafficking, racketeering and murder in exchange for information about Boston’s vast criminal underground. Depp has the Beantown accent, walk and mannerisms, but what we remember when we leave the
movie are his eyes – steely blue beads of demonism. Costars Joel Edgerton, Kevin Bacon, Adam Scott, David Harbour, Rory Cochrane, W. Early Brown and Jesse Plemons. Dakota Johnson is Whitey’s squeeze Lindsey. — Dan Hudak CAPTIVE Rated PG-13 The powerful, real-life crime drama costars Kate Mara, the excellent David Oyelowo and Mimi Rogers, who’s known mostly for the fact that she was once briefly married to Tom I’m-a-serious-actor Cruise. DIGGING FOR FIRE Rated R Writer-director Joe Swanberg’s movie is the story of a husband and wife (Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt) housesitting in L.A. When they find a piece of bone and a gun, they argue what do about it. Costars Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Mike Birbiglia, and Sam “Don’t Call Me Gar” Elliot. EVEREST ***@ Rated PG-13 Amateur climbers follow experienced guides in this effective action/adventure pic based on a true story that takes too long to get going but when it does, oh, boy. In the first 45 minutes of the two-hour movie, we get to know the climbers. Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) is an experienced guide who puts safety first; he’d better – his wife Jan (Keira Knightley) is pregnant back home in New Zealand. Beck (Josh Brolin), Doug (John Hawkes) and Jon (Michael Kelly) are travellers in this May 1996 expedition, while Helen (Emily Watson) and Guy (Sam Worthington) keep
an eye on them from afar. There’s clutter on the slope, as groups navigate the same access points to reach the top, making ropes and paths unsafe. Rob’s group joins old friend/ nemesis Scott (Jake Gyllenhaal) – safety in numbers – but even the best-laid plans can go awry. — D.H. GRANDMA ***@ Rated R Lily Tomlin shines in writer-director Paul Weitz’s film. After her life partner dies, Elle (Tomlin) gets a visit from her teenage granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner,) who needs fast cash. THE GREEN INFERNO Rated R “Larry Flynt of Gore Porn,” Eli Roth is back with a film about young do-gooders in the Amazon jungle to help indigenous tribes be self-sufficient. Their plane crashes; they wake up in bamboo cages, dinner’s almost ready, and … spoiler alert … it’s them! HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 Rated PG In this sequel, Dracula (voice of Adam Sandler) tries to emphasize the half-monster side of grandson Dennis (Asher Blinkoff) to keep up the fear factor in the hospitality business. Costars voices of Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Fran Drescher, Molly Shannon, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Dana Carvey, Mel Brooks, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James … just about anyone who was on SNL in the ’90s and beyond. THE INTERN Rated PG-13 Robert De Niro is a great dramatic actor, with an intensity that can be terrifying (Travis Bickle). Here, though, he’s retiree Ben, an easy-breezy amusing guy, who’s also paternal, kind, calm … the dad you never had. Jules (Anne Hathaway) has started up an online fashion site that’s on the fast track. Ben is bored with retirement, so he signs up to intern at Jules’ company. He’s the voice of wisdom and experience in an otherwise chaotic, millennial-driven company, and all that that implies. Costars Rene Russo, Anders Holm and Andrew Rannells. THE MARTIAN **** Rated PG-13 Reviewed in this issue. MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS Rated PG-13 The sci-fi action thriller costars Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Patricia Clarkson and Barry Pepper, who were both in The Green Mile, are in this futuristic goodversus-evil film directed by Wes Bell. PAN Rated PG The versatile Hugh Jackman is back, this time as the dread pirate Blackbeard. Garrett Hedlund is Hook, Levi Miller is the stubborn manchild Peter, Rooney Mara is Tiger Lily and Adeel Akhtar is Sam Smiegel, aka Smee. PAWN SACRIFICE Rated PG-13 Chess is a game of patient, intelligent study, without the trappings – and dangers – of more violent sports. Usually. In the ’60s, though, chess was an instrument of pre-détente maneuverings for superpowers daring each other to drop the bomb. American Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) was a genius at the game, but his genius came at a price. Liev Schreiber plays chess master Boris Spassky, the Soviet Fischer challenged to a game. Costars Peter Sarsgaard and Lily Rabe. SICARIO Rated R Not a campaign film for Donald Trump, this crime drama is about Kate (Emily Blunt), an FBI agent in a government task force fighting drug wars on the borders. Costars Benecio Del Toro, Josh Brolin and Victor Garber. SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE Rated R Jake (Jason Sudeikis) is a nice guy who’s also quite the rake. Lainey (Alison Brie) is a not-so-nice gal who cheats on whoever she’s with. So they begin a platonic relationship. Uh-huh. Wonder how this ends? Costars Adam Brody, Amanda Peet, Adam Scott. STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON ***@ Rated R Rap group N.W.A. went from success to strife to heartbreak. “Our art is a reflection of our reality,” Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson) says; gangs, drugs, cops, and danger are inspiration. — D.H. THE WALK **** Rated PG Reviewed in this issue. WAR ROOM Rated PG The heartwarming (eventually) drama about a family in crisis costars Priscilla T. Shirer, T.C. Stallings and Karen Abercrombie.
Dr. Nicholas De Villiers, UNF associate professor of English and film, presents Surrealist Cinema: Illusion in Film, screening Luis Buñuel’s 1929 Un Chien Andalou and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) (pictured) at Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Oct. 8, Downtown. 20 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 7-13, 2015
A&E // FILM JOSEPH GORDONLEVITT struts his stuff in this true-life daredevil of a tale
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walks the walk, nor the little details — birds n the climactic moments of The Walk, I flying below him — that make it such a heartexperienced something that’s never pounding moment. Director Robert Zemeckis happened to me at a movie: My palms were (Forrest Gump), working from the real Petit’s sweating. I was squirming in my seat. Anxious. book To Reach the Clouds, gradually builds Uncomfortable. My eyes were glued to the to the walk itself with ample adversity in the magnificent visuals, even though I wanted to planning and getting up to the roof, all of which look away. Instincts told me to scream “stop!” adds to the overall tension. And once the walk at the screen, as if the protagonist could hear does commence, it puts the viewer right next to me beg him to stop walking on a high wire Petit on that (really) high wire. You consciously strung between the World Trade Center know you’re sitting in a theater, but darn if you towers. Mind you, all this happened even don’t grab tight to your seat once or twice. though I already knew how the movie ended! Oh, my goodness, what a phenomenal Stunning and tense as the film is over the experience this is. final 45 minutes, it stumbles a few times while “It’s impossible, but I’ll do it,” says Philippe getting there. Petit’s penchant for showmanship Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, mastering a and risk is well-established, but his accomplice’s French accent) about walking a high wire motivations are rarely fleshed out to the point between the twin towers of the where you can imagine reasonable World Trade Center Towers in people enabling this stunt. And the summer of 1974, four years then there’s Petit’s narration, which THE WALK after the first tenants moved into allows him to tell the tale but ***@ the brand-new buildings. You seems superfluous: Dramatically, Rated PG have to be a bit of a crazy person it would’ve been more effective for to even conceive of this, right? the story to play out chronologically Let alone actually plan it out and execute it. — imagine how much more our palms would Consider the logistics involved: Each tower sweat if Petit weren’t narrating in hindsight is 110 stories high, roughly 1,360 feet above from the torch atop the Statue of Liberty (note the ground. There’s 140 feet between the the symbolism … the Statue of Liberty was a towers. Putting aside the audacity/gumption/ gift to us from the French). One reason for the stupidity/insanity needed to walk on a thin narration may be because the actual Philippe high wire between them, the sheer mechanics Petit very articulately tells the story in Man of setting up the wire are mind-boggling. On Wire, a 2008 documentary about this event that won an Oscar. But we have to believe Petit has help. His girlfriend Annie audience members will go into “The Walk” (Charlotte Le Bon) enables his crazy dream — new to the story, and therefore revealing or “coup,” as he calls it — more than anyone. the ending before it’s necessary does a Papa Rudy (not Petit’s real father), played by narrative disservice. Ben Kingsley, teaches him how to wire-walk, while accomplices Jean-Louis (Clément This may seem obvious but, as strongly Sibony), Jeff (César Domboy), Barry (Steve as I’m eager to recommend the film, I’m Valentine), Jean-Pierre (James Badge Dale), saying it should not be watched by those Albert (Ben Schwartz) and David (Benedict with acrophobia (fear of heights). Everyone Samuel) assist in various ways. else should see this ASAP on as big a screen The visual effects work (supervised by as possible, preferably IMAX 3D. And be Kevin Baillie), coupled with Dariusz Wolski’s prepared for your heart to not stop racing (The Martian) creative cinematography, is until 15 minutes after it’s over. breathtaking. But it’s not just the aerial shots Dan Hudak above, below and to the side of Petit as he mail@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 7-13, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 21
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USE YOUR ILLUSION
The latest exhibit at MOCA challenges our PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY Chul Hyun Ahn, Railroad Nostalgia, plywood, LED lights, railroad tracks and ties, hardware, and mirrors, 93x120x40, 2012.
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n Daniel Rozin’s installation, Penguins Mirror, 450 motorized stuffed blackand-white birds turn side-to-side in the presence of an audience. In Kathleen Vance’s Rogue Stream, a miniature replica of the St. Johns River courses through the gallery. These are just a few of the works of art you will see in MOCA Jacksonville’s new exhibition, Smoke and Mirrors: Sculpture and the Imaginary, which examines perception versus reality. Located on the third floor galleries, Smoke and Mirrors features six national and international artists, including Chul Hyun Ahn, James Clar, Patrick Jacobs and Ken Matsubara. Folio Weekly caught up with Jaime DeSimone, MOCA’s assistant curator of exhibitions, to learn a bit more about the museum’s latest exhibition, which runs through Jan. 24, 2016.
determine the illusionistic methods employed in each sculpture. Rozin has been interested in the concept of mirrors and reflected surface for more than 15 years. As a result, his work has evolved to explore different materials that re-envision and restructure what the mirror can be.
Talk about one of the pieces and its relationship with sculpture, viewer and environment. Japanese sculptor Ken Matsubara’s Round Chair series is a perfect example of this relationship. When you enter the gallery, you see five stools with glasses of water placed on top of them. Their seemingly simple presence is met with both intrigue and puzzlement. Why are stools installed throughout the gallery? What am I to make of them? May I walk around them? Yes, you can. In fact, Matsubara and I discussed how Folio Weekly: How were the six artists chosen these works require visitors to explore them for Smoke and Mirrors? in three-dimensional form. We compared the layout to navigating around trees in a Jaime DeSimone: Jenny Hager [co-curator and forest as if you were hiking. Sometimes you University of North Florida associate professor stop and stare, other times you may pass by. of sculpture] was influential in advising on the All that said, you should project and in particular walk throughout the who to consider for artists SMOKE AND MIRRORS: SCULPTURE gallery and stop to look and artworks. As a sculptor AND THE IMAGINARY inside each glass, where herself, Hager provided an through Jan. 24, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Matsubara’s illusionistic “in-the-field” perspective Downtown, mocajacksonville.org. technique comes to life. that allowed us to craft Peering inside a glass of a comprehensive list of water, you are transported to another time artists to consider for exhibition. To that end, as images of antique photographs, broken the exhibition explores the role of illusion mirrors, and shattered plates rise and fall in in art, particularly sculpture and illusion the water. For the artist, the series explores via various techniques that really push the “what is recollected has already been and is definition of what sculpture can be. Using our thus repeated backwards, whereas genuine strong concept as a guide, we then researched repetition is recollected forwards.” Through artists to glean what works would be available the act of images appearing and disappearing for loan. The curatorial department, in in the glasses of water, Matsubara conjures up conversation with Hager, then embarked on a memories that elicit personal reflection. long process of accessing each potential artist and their work. How did you feel the first time you saw the Daniel Rozin’s Penguins Mirror has received a entire exhibit installed completely in its space? lot of attention via social media and from the Installations can be stressful. There are a press. What makes the piece interesting? lot of moving parts, particularly with large sculptures. Daniel Rozin and Chul Hyun Ahn If you haven’t already done so, I suggest came to the museum to install their pieces you watch the video of this piece and its with the assistance of our preparatory staff. popularity will become evident [vimeo. As you can imagine, this is an extra-special com/129674054]. All of the works in the time, where we get to converse with the exhibit are participatory in some way, and artists about their work in general. It’s also a by that I don’t always mean the sculptures very nervous time for me because I want the to react to bodies in motion, but the objects artists to be pleased with the presentation really require an active looker. I’ve found great and exhibition in general. My emotions range pleasure watching visitors engage and try to 22 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 7-13, 2015
James Clar, Rain Under Lamppost, projector, mini PC, 39-3/8x118-1/8, 2014. from excitement to anxiousness to a little tense. It’s the rush to then hurry up and wait — secure the artists’ approval and then wait for the general public to see the work. It can all be very nerve-racking. Kara Pound mail@folioweekly.com
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ARTS + EVENTS PERFORMANCE
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST The animated Walt Disney favorite, about a hirsute brute and a beautiful young maiden imprisoned in his castle, is staged 8 p.m. Oct. 9; 2 and 4 p.m. Oct. 10; 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $33.50-$93.50, artistseriesjax.org. TREPIDATION NATION Douglas Anderson School of the Arts mounts a stage production of the play, which explores shared fears through a series of short monologues and dialogues, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7, 8, and 9 at 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, 346-5620, duvalschools.org/anderson. WAIT UNTIL DARK Amelia Community Theatre stages this drama, about a blind woman who must outwit an intruder in her Greenwich Village apartment, at 8 p.m. Oct. 8, 9, and 10 at 207/209 Cedar St., Fernandina Beach, 261-6749, $20; $10 student; through Oct. 24, ameliacommunitytheatre.org. RING OF FIRE The life and music of Johnny Cash are celebrated in Limelight Theatre’s stage production, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8, 9, and 10 and 2 p.m. Oct. 11 at Raintree Restaurant, 11 Old Mission Ave., St. Augustine, 825-1164, $26; through Oct. 18, limelight-theatre.org. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents a stage adaptation based on the 1980 fi lm about an office manager, a jilted wife, and a sexually harassed secretary who pay back a sexist boss, through Oct. 18; 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $38-$75 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com.
CLASSICAL, CHOIR & JAZZ
JUMP & SWING JAZZ CONCERT The Dynamic Les DeMerle Little Big Band with Bonnie Eisele performs the concert and dance Jump Jive and Wail/Swing Night, 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at Sandy Bottoms Beach Bar & Grill, 2910 Atlantic Ave., Fernandina Beach, $35, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. PIANO RECITAL Pianist Scott Watkins performs works by Bartok, Debussy, and Howard Hanson, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu. TRIO CALIENTE The Latin jazz band performs 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Sandy Bottoms Beach Bar, $35, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. LARRY CORYELL Legendary jazz guitarist Coryell, who’s played with artists ranging from Miles Davis and Carla Bley to Jimi Hendrix, is on at 7 and 9 p.m. Oct. 9 at Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, 39 Beach Lagoon Rd., Fernandina Beach, $20-$65 each show, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. SIMPLY THREE The classical combo – violinist Glen McDaniel, cellist Zack Clark, bassist Nicholas Villalobos – performs 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak St., Riverside, 355-7584, fridaymusicale.com. THE CONCERT UPBEAT PINK The 11th annual concert, A Musical Tribute to Breast Cancer Survivorship: The Wild West Through TV & Movies, is staged 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. HOLST’S THE PLANETS Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra kicks off the season with Holst’s intergalactic opus The Planets, and works by Haydn and Adams, 8 p.m. Oct. 9 and 10 and 3 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts’ Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-5547, $TBD, jaxsymphony.org. KEVIN MAHOGANY Acclaimed jazz vocalist Mahogany performs 7 and 9 p.m. Oct. 10 at Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, Fernandina, $20-$65 each show, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS The jazz-African fusion ensemble, led by legendary pianist-composer Weston, performs 8 p.m. Oct. 10 at The Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 807-2010, $35-$40, ritzjacksonville.com. DIXIE TO SWING JAZZ BRUNCH Amelia Island Jazz Festival presents a music-friendly brunch, with live jazz, a jazz festival menu, and complimentary champagne, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1-2:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at David’s Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., Fernandina Beach, $60, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com. FACULTY PIANO RECITAL Pianist Dr. Gary Smart is featured at 3 p.m. Oct. 11 at University of North Florida’s Recital Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. CLASSICAL DUO AT MAIN LIBRARY Cellist Boyan Bonev and pianist Mimi Noda perform 3 p.m. Oct. 11 at Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium, 303 N. Laura St., Downtown, 630-2353, jplmusic. blogspot.com. FCWE & DASoTA STUDENTS PERFORM The First Coast Wind Ensemble and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Symphony perform at 3 p.m. Oct. 12 at D.A. School Auditorium, 2445 San Diego Rd., San Marco, fcwe.org. CLASSICAL AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH Pianist Lucy Chen performs at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at P.V. Beach Branch Library, 101 Library Blvd., 827-6950, sjcpls.org. CELLO & PIANO RECITAL Cellist Andrew Smith and pianist Alfredo Oyaguez perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 at UNF’s Recital Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx.
COMEDY
JOHN CAPARULO Comedian Caparulo, who’s been on Chelsea Lately and The Next Generation of Blue Collar, appears 8 p.m. Oct. 8; 8 and 10 p.m. Oct. 9 and 10 at The Comedy Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $20-$25, comedyzone.com. LAVELL CRAWFORD Big Daddy, crowd-pleasing comic Crawford, a BET fave (in the current flick American Ultra), performs 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $35-$45, floridatheatre.com. JAMES YON Funnyman Yon, host of Viral Breakdown, is on 7:30 and 10 p.m. Oct. 9 and 10 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555, $15, latitude360.com.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
FIRST WEDNESDAY ART WALK 5-9 p.m. Oct. 7, with an Oktoberfest theme, with Mayor Lenny Curry tapping the keg, German oom-pah bands, Kinderfest Zone, Carnival Zone, and a food truck village, plus more than 13 live music venues and hotspots open after 9 p.m. and 50 total participating venues,
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The exhibit Out of Place, featuring works by Larissa Bates (pictured, Seminas Watch Wrestlers While Lederhosen Boys Stir Cauldron, gouache and gold leaf on paper, 10˝x7˝, 2012) Natasha Bowdoin, Vera Iliatova, Giordanne Salley, and Dasha Shiskin is on display at Monya Rowe Gallery through Dec. 20, in St. Augustine. spanning 15 blocks in Downtown Jacksonville. iloveartwalk.com. COMMUNITY FARMERS & ARTS MARKET Baked goods, preserves, crafts, art, handcrafted jewelry, 4-7 p.m. every Wed., 4300 St. Johns Ave., Riverside, 607-9935. DOWNTOWN FRIDAY MARKET Arts & crafts, local produce, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 9, Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., 353-1188. RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local and regional art, food artists and a farmers’ row, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. every Sat. – yoga day is 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 10 – under Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com.
MUSEUMS
AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina Beach, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. It Came from the Attic: Local War Memorabilia Collections, through November. Open daily; $7 adults, $4 students/active military. BEACHES MUSEUM & HISTORY PARK 381 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 241-5657, beachesmuseum.org. Waiting on the Train is displayed. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, 20th-century ceramic pieces inspired by flora and fauna of the Gulf South, is on display Oct. 9-Jan. 2. Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River, through Oct. 18. British Watercolors through Nov. 29. Public garden tours 11 a.m. every Tue. and Thur. Free admission 4-9 p.m. every Tue., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every first Sat. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992. Drew Edward Hunter’s Spectrum II, through October. Baseball: Origins and Early History, through December. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., Downtown, 366-6911, mocajacksonville.com. Dr. Nicholas De Villiers, UNF associate professor of English and film, presents Surrealist Cinema: Illusion in Film, screening Luis Buñuel’s 1929 film Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 8. Avery Lawrence: Live in Jacksonville, through Nov. 22. Smoke and Mirrors: Sculpture & The Imaginary, illusion-inspired 3D and installation works by sculptors Chul Hyun Ahn, James Clar, Patrick Jacobs, Ken Matsubara, Daniel Rozin, and Kathleen Vance, through Jan. 24. Unmasked: Art with a Heart in Healthcare, through Dec. 6. Project Atrium: Joelle Dietrick, through Oct. 25. RITZ THEATRE & MUSEUM 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 8072010, ritzjacksonville.com. American Beach: A Moment in Time, photos by Stephan Leimberg and Marsha Phelts, through Oct. 11.
GALLERIES
ADELE GRAGE CULTURAL CENTER 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 247-5828, coab.us. The Promise to Kate Foundation hosts a silent auction and an art exhibit, with works of varying mediums by local and worldwide artists including Randy Rhodes, James O’Brien, Jennifer Graham, Annelies Dykgraaf, Ivan Shaping Stars, Professor Hinson, Lucie Sterbova, Jayda Willis, Liz Bryant, and Karen Wheeler, through October. A reception is 6-9 p.m. Oct. 15; promisetokate.org. ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY Jacksonville University, 2800 N. University Blvd., Arlington, 256-7371, ju.edu. An opening reception for Erin Colleen Johnson: Tell Me All About It, Jefferson Rall: No Hope To New Hope, and Margi Weir: Recent Works is 5-7 p.m. Oct. 8. The exhibits display through Nov. 4. AMIRO ART & FOUND 9C Aviles St., St. Augustine, 824-8460, amiroartandfound.com. Nicolette Matt and Shelia Lewis are the featured artists for October. ARCHWAY GALLERY & FRAMING 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-2222, archwaygalleryandframing.com. Lisa Jill Allison displays new works through mid-October. THE ART CENTER COOPERATIVE 31 W. Adams St., Downtown, 355-1757, tacjacksonville.org. The Buzz Show, through Oct. 15. Linoleum print workshops, 1-3 p.m. Oct. 10 and 25; $40 each. BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. Jan Miller’s gourd sculptures and Laura O’Neal’s paintings, through Nov. 3. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crisp-ellert-art-museum. Edgar Endress: Finding Baroque (terre florida), through Nov. 28. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928. Symphony of Color – Paintings by Anthony Whiting, through Oct. 20. FSCJ KENT CAMPUS GALLERY 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., Westside, 646-2300, fscj.edu. Figuration, works by Nina Avis, Dimelza Broche, Cody Rose, and Franklin Ratliff, through Oct. 20. FSCJ NORTH CAMPUS GALLERY 4501 Capper Rd., 6323310, fscj.edu. Express Your Selfie, works by patient artists of Wolfson Children’s Hospital, is on display through Oct. 29. FSCJ SOUTH CAMPUS GALLERY Wilson Center for the Arts, 11901 Beach Blvd., 646-2023, fscj.edu. Visual Arts & Digital Media Faculty Exhibit, by Liz Bryant, Byron Caplan, Mark Creegan, Julia Dearriba-Montgomery, Dustin Harewood, Dr. Mary Joan Hinson, Dr. Troy Johnson, Patrick Miko, Ali Mitchell, Michael Nuetzel, Mark Sablow, and Liz Murphy Thomas, through Oct. 16. HASKELL GALLERY JIA, 2400 Yankee Clipper Dr., 741-3546, jiaarts.org. Face Forward, self-portraits by Adrian Pickett, Bill Yates, Chip Southworth, Christie Holechek, Daniel Wynn, David Engdahl, Doug Eng, Dustin Harewood, Enzo Torcoletti, Franklin Ratliff, Hiromi Moneyhun, Jason John, Jim Benedict, Jim Draper, John Bunker, Kevin Arthur, Larry Wilson, Laurie Hitzig, Louise Freshman Brown, Mary St. Germain, Mindy Hawkins, Overstreet Ducasse, Paul Ladnier, Robin Shepherd, Sara Pedigo, Shaun Thurston, Steve Williams, Susan Ober, Thony Aiuppy, Tony Wood, through Dec. 28. HAWTHORN SALON 1011 Park St., Riverside, 619-3092, hawthornsalon.com. Danger Tape presents the Lily Kuonen
exhibit Playntings [Un]Covered through Nov. 21. HUBLEY GALLERY 804 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 4299769, hubleygallery.com. 3D art by Valerie Pothier-Forrester and new paintings by Natalia Andreeva, through October. J. JOHNSON GALLERY 177 Fourth Ave. N., Jax Beach, 435-3200, jjohnsongallery.com. Bloom, nature-inspired works by Joan Bankemper, Carolyn Brady, Nathalia Edenmont, Mira Lehr, Joseph Raffael, and Robert Zakanitch, is on display through Nov. 5. LUFRANO INTERCULTURAL GALLERY 1 UNF Drive, Student Union, Southside, 620-2475, unf.edu/gallery. Lida, Paintings by Franklin Matthews is on display through Dec. 11. MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, 217-0637, monyarowegallery.com. Out of Place, by Larissa Bates, Natasha Bowdoin, Vera Iliatova, Giordanne Salley, and Dasha Shiskin, through Dec. 20. PLUM GALLERY 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. Works by Sara Pedigo, James Quine, Mary Williamson, and Mary Lou Gibson, through October. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, 471-9980. Kenneth M. Barrett Jr.’s photographs, through Oct. 22. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY 201 N. Hogan St., Ste. 100, Downtown, 553-6361, southlightgallery.com. Opening reception for Emerging Artists and UNF Student Exhibition is 6-9 p.m. Oct. 7. Renee Faure, Princess Rashid and Overstreet Ducasse are featured. SPACE:EIGHT 228 W. King St., St. Augustine, 829-2838, spaceeight.com. Extended Playbook, a collaborative exhibit of works of Atlanta artists George Long, Jessica Caldas, Mario Schambon, William Downs, Adrian Barzaga, Mike Stasny, and Erin Michelle Vaiskauckas, displays through Dec. 3. UNF GALLERY OF ART University of North Florida’s Founders Hall, 620-2534, unf.edu/gallery. Northeast Florida Sculptors Competitive Exhibition, through Oct. 16.
EVENTS
THE MAD ATLAS OF VIRGINIA KING BOOK LAUNCH Folio Weekly columnist Tim Gilmore debuts his book, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, a nonfiction novel about eccentric local author King, who wrote an 8,000-plus page book about Jacksonville, at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Old St. Andrew’s Church, 317 A. Philip Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 665-0064, jaxpsychogeo.com. NATIVE AMERICAN CELEBRATION Intercultural Center for PEACE hosts a Native American Celebration, with regalia, artifacts, music, dance, performance, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 8 at Student Union Osprey Plaza, Bldg. 58, 620-1242, unf.edu. CUBA DISCUSSION Authors Luis Lorente and Charo Guerra and moderator Jorge Febles, UNF Spanish professor, discuss “Writing in Cuba Today: A Conversation with Two Contemporary Cuban Authors,” 12:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at UNF Student Union, Rm. 2704, 620-1242, unf.edu. ATLANTA HAWKS VS. NEW ORLEANS PELICANS NBA action hits Duval when the Atlanta Hawks take on the New Orleans Pelicans, 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at Veterans Memorial Arena, 300 Randolph Blvd., Downtown, 630-3900, $14-$174, ticketmaster.com. OCTOBER GULLAH FESTIVAL Celebrating African-Americans on the Sea Islands on the Atlantic coast, with low country cooking demos, food contests, live entertainment, a Mistress of Ceremony, DJ, and arts & crafts, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 10 at Ritz Theatre & Museum, Downtown, 807-2010, ritzjacksonville.com. ATLANTIC BEACH OKTOBERFEST Family event, with a fish fry, live music, a bounce house, kids’ games and crafts, exhibits, and health fairs, noon Oct. 10 at Donner Park & Gail Baker Community Center, 2072 Dutton Island Dr., 247-5851, coab.us. ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD FAIR A music lover’s extravaganza, with 25 vendors selling more than 30,000 music-related items including new and used vinyl records, CDs, memorabilia, and turntables, is 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 11 at St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A S., 209-0367, staugamphitheatre.com. ONE JAX INSTITUTE GUN CONTROL PANEL DISCUSSION UNF President John Delaney leads “Gun Control: A Loaded Topic,” 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Lazzara Hall, 620-2878, unf.edu. AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS/ALATEEN When you don’t know where to turn because someone drinks too much. Al-Anon/ Alateen help families and friends of alcoholics. Daily meetings in Northeast Florida. Call 904-350-0600 or go to jaxafg.org. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Think you have a drug problem? NA could help. Daily meetings; serenitycoastna.org, firstcoastna.org. NICOTINE ANONYMOUS Support group for those wanting to quit, 5:30 p.m. every Mon. at Trout River Club, 9745 Lem Turner Rd., Northside, nicotine-anonymous.org. DEPRESSION/BIPOLAR SUPPORT Local chapter of nonprofit Depression Bipolar Support Alliance meets 6-7:30 p.m. every Tue. at Baptist Hospital Pavilion, fifth floor, 800 Prudential Dr., Southbank, dbsalliance.org.
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FRETTING Jazz guitar icon LARRY CORYELL continues to enjoy a decades-long musical quest
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t’s been said that if you can play jazz, you can play any music. Valid or not in a convoluted sense, I find that those who play jazz often have no interest in playing any other music, as music of lesser harmonic values diminishes, as it were, in the eyes (and ears) of a jazz player. I’m reminded of an interview some years ago with guitar great Bucky Pizzarelli, when he spoke of the torture of playing anonymous doo-wop sessions back went on to unheard-of (for jazz) popularity in the marketplace. A pre-Miles-and-Mahavishnu in the day. Pimply odes built on four chords put John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Billy Cobham money in his pocket but backhanded his muse. and Miroslav Vitous (a founder of Weather Guitar legend (and that term is most apt Report) came together for the project that here) Larry Coryell speaks mildly as well on the subject. “Even the best rock ’n’ roll seems turned jazz (and the guitar) on its ear. It’s never harmonically primitive,” Coryell tells Folio faded from sight, though it is a distant back Weekly. “At least in terms of my training.” page to the leader. “The record was producer However, the now-72-year-old jazz titan Danny Weiss’ idea,” says Coryell today. “I has taken his skills, chops — whatever you contributed suggestions for musicians.” want to call it — the other way in directions I can chalk up this nonchalance to the light years beyond his contemporaries, often string of projects that have kept him busy pulling them along up to the rarefied realms. since. From crossovers and meetings of the Countless musicians have looked on and minds with Jack Bruce and Friends and found inspiration in Coryell’s five decades Mitch Mitchell to numerous “serious” outings of constant exploration, coupled with a solid with Michael Mantler’s Jazz Composer’s and learned reverence for tradition. And Orchestra and stunning multiple guitar trios, unlike many jazzers, he kept an open ear to to quartets where Larry Coryell more than meets his accompanists halfway. He has even other noted non-jazz guitarists (a receptivity that remains to this day). When asked who stepped into Indian music with bansuri flute outside his element he finds giant Ronu Majumdar worthwhile, up came names of the group Bombay Amelia Island Jazz Fest presents that define the instrument’s Jazz. Coryell was wide LARRY CORYELL open on the approach to many voices: “Hendrix, 7 and 9 p.m. Oct. 9 Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort, Indian music. “I found Segovia, Paco de Lucía, Fernandina Beach, $20-$65 each the bending of the notes and Chet Atkins.” (Serious show, ameliaislandjazzfestival.com on the sitar, for instance, listeners might find a thread to be much like the string in there.) bending of a blues player’s.” Raised in rural Washington state (deep So what interests him today? “Newer, in Yakima Valley), the young Coryell honed younger players, like Robert Glasper,” says his chops memorizing riffs of guitarists Tal Coryell. Like Coryell, pianist-arranger Glasper Farlow and Wes Montgomery to exactitudes. moves in different directions, from heady big In September 1965, he made the move to New band to working with self-proclaimed genius York City and immediately made his mark with major names like Sonny Stitt and Chico Kanye West. “What sustains me is my desire to improve,” offers Coryell, “to do new things and Hamilton. Then came the future in the form of play new things.” The Gary Burton Quartet and the language of fusion was born. His time with vibraphonist It’s the first trait of career jazz musicians to never sit still. Unlike commercial music (“I Burton coincided with the rise of the previously wouldn’t know how to do it,” Coryell admits) marginalized rock instrumentalist; Coryell’s where one combination or trademark hit song own rise paralleled that of the Claptons, the Becks and the Jimis. He made the most of it by defines an artist in the public’s mind, jazz easing from the confines of the traditional jazz musicians are free to redefine as they choose. Come to think of it, it’s much like all of sideman to something else altogether. In the that aforementioned harmonic complexity process, Coryell helped raise the bar for others rendering the solo space a wide open canvas as well as himself. every time. Simply put, one cannot point to a Then came his solo release, Spaces, in 1969 single phase of Larry Coryell’s career call it a and the new jazz thing, later called “fusion” defining moment. There have been dozens. was birthed. A monumental LP, Spaces featured Arvid Smith Coryell as leader with names, at the time, mail@folioweekly.com known mainly to hardcore aficionados who
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CHAZ BUNDICK leaves categorization in the dust with his genre-busting band Toro Y Moi
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expressed a desire to do music as a hobby and ive Chaz Bundick credit. Even though he art as a job. “Working on the label is a nice almost singlehandedly brought chillwave way to take a break,” he says. “And art is still to the mainstream forefront in 2009, the my biggest passion, whether it’s drawing or South Carolina native has worked as hard as photography. Right now, I’m just trying to be possible since then to distance himself from behind the scenes for a second and get my such a constricting categorization. There was thoughts together.” 2013’s Anything in Return, a tour de force of neon-lit dance tunes that drowned out the During our conversation, the scrambled, sun-fried bedroom psychedelia of preternaturally quiet and reserved Bundick his previous two albums, Causers of This and kept many of those thoughts quiet. As Underneath the Pines. expected, he did cop to being restless in his Then, after telling the world in 2014 that musical interests — Taylor Swift, Tyler, The he was burned out and exhausted on the spin Creator, classic country, jazz duo The Mattson cycle of indie stardom, he threw everyone 2, which he’s currently recording for Company a major curveball with the one-two punch — and self-deprecating to a fault: “It’s easy to of Michael — a full Euro-house embrace succumb to an overly inflated ego,” he says in released under the pseudonym Les Sins — response to a question about his perceived level and What For?, which ditched Toro Y Moi’s of success. “You can end up as some caricature kaleidoscopic electro vibe in of yourself if you’re not careful. favor of an earthy blend of power It’s really important to keep TORO Y MOI with pop and indie rock. Last month, perspective about everything; ASTRONAUTS Bundick surprised us again I’m happy as long as I focus on 8 p.m. Oct. 8, Freebird Live, by dropping the free mixtape making music and not ‘fame’ or Jax Beach, $20, jaxlive.com Samantha, which spotlighted lack thereof.” his beat-driven expertise and Bundick did open up about featured collaborations from hot young MCs his appreciation for Sunshine State crowds, Kool A.D. and Rome Fortune. citing his first tour through the state with EAR But, as Bundick tells Folio Weekly, such PWR in 2009. “When I started touring, I tried diversification is simply a way of life. “I’ve to play Florida a lot because I feel like they always tried to change things up just for my don’t get as many shows as other states,” he own interest, or to not get bored with playing says. “But I totally understood that because, guitar, programming, or sampling. I like to growing up, bands would skip South Carolina do what isn’t popular at the time; even before all the time. So when we do tour in Florida Toro really took off, I was going back and now — especially cities like Jacksonville and forth between electronic stuff and folkie guitar Orlando that have a totally different vibe than stuff. I have hundreds of recordings sitting Miami — it’s nice, because we know people at around — everything from weird electronica the show are really waiting for some music.” to Elliott Smith-type stuff.” (Sadly, even And how about his relocation to the San though Underneath the Pines was a collection Francisco Bay Area, where he moved several of early demos, Bundick says he doesn’t plan years ago so his girlfriend could pursue a on re-recording or releasing any other archival PhD degree in environmental engineering? material right now). Chaz Bundick lets out a barely inaudible So cut the man some slack if he admits to sound that I interpret to be half-chuckle needing a creative break for the time being. and half-sigh. “There’s no water out here, so But surprise, surprise — he’s only doing so that’s kind of a downside,” he says. “But it is in order to concentrate on touring with his nice. It’s a different vibe — a different state of mind.” Does he miss the heat and humidity current five-piece iteration of Toro Y Moi and of his native South Carolina, though? Or was running his label, Company Records. Working he happy to leave the conservative, oftenon Company’s visual aesthetic — everything homogenous South (Bundick’s mother is from website design to vinyl covers to T-shirts Filipino and his father is African-American)? and prints — has also allowed Bundick to Another slight laugh, another quiet breath. reconnect with his artistic inclinations. Toro “Things are a little more liberal out west, in a Y Moi only got big because a few bedroom nice kind of understood way. I really enjoy it.” recordings that he made — after getting laid off from a graphic design job — were picked Nick McGregor up by prominent bloggers. For years he’s mail@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 7-13, 2015 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 27
Brooklyn rockers BOYTOY (pictured) perform with VANESSA SILBERMAN, SNAKEHOLE, and MEMPHIBIANS at Burro Bar Oct. 14, Downtown.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Oct. 7 at Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, Downtown, 374-1247. Music by the Sea: STR8-UP 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at St. Augustine Beach Pier & Pavilion, 350 A1A Beach Blvd., free, 347-8007, thecivicassociation.org. STEPHEN CHOPEK, GOV CLUB, DIGDOG, ALL THE OCEANS 6 p.m. Oct. 7 at Burro Bar, 100 E. Adams St, Downtown. DENNY BLUE 6 p.m. Oct. 7 & 14 at Paula’s Beachside Grill, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463. RYAN CRARY 6 p.m. Oct. 7 & 14 at Pusser’s Bar & Grille, 816 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, 280-7766. MUSHROOMHEAD, MORTIIS, SEPTEMBER MOURNING, UNSAID FATE, SYLENT VYLENTZ 7 p.m. Oct. 7 at Freebird Live, 200 N. First St., Jax Beach, 246-2473, $20 advance; $25 day of. KEVIN GREENSPON, NOTEL, BURNING FLOWERS 9:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at Sun-Ray Cinema, 1028 Park St., Riverside, 359-0049, $5. BARRETT JOCKERS 6 p.m. Oct. 8, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. CANNIBAL CORPSE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, SOREPTION 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at Underbelly, 113 E. Bay St., Downtown, 353-6067, $22 advance; $25 day of. BIG SEAN, ASHER ROTH 7 p.m. Oct. 8, University of North Florida’s Coxwell Amphitheater, behind Bldg. 58W, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, $15; free for UNF students with valid Osprey 1 card, 620-1000, unf.edu/ospreyproductions/tickets.aspx. LARRY MANGUM, AL POINDEXTER, LUKE PEACOCK 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., San Marco, 352-7008, $10. The BAND BE EASY 8 p.m. Oct. 8 at Latitude 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., Southside, 365-5555. TORO Y MOI, ASTRONAUTS 8 p.m. Oct. 8, Freebird Live, $20. SALAD BOYS, MOTHER SUPERIOR, DAGGER BEACH 9 p.m. Oct. 8 at rain dogs., 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969. The MOUNTAIN GOATS, BLANK RANGE 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at Colonial Quarter, 33 St. George St., St. Augustine, $20, 342-2857. CHRIS HENRY & HARDCORE GRASS 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, Mudville Music Room, $10. SANGRE, WORLD GONE, SEARCHING SERENITY, PRIMITIVE HARD DRIVE, COUGHIN 8 p.m. Oct. 9, Burro Bar, $7. CODY NIX 8 p.m. Oct. 9, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. FAILURE, HUM, TORCHE 8 p.m. Oct. 9, Freebird Live, $30 advance; $35 day of. ANI DiFRANCO, ANA EGGE 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $49-$59. THE MAIN SQUEEZE, CAPTAIN GREEN 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $12 advance; $15 day of. VACANT RESIDENT 8 p.m. Oct. 9, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $8 advance; $10 day of. THE KATZ DOWNSTAIRS 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9, Latitude 360. SPANKY THE BAND 9:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. CHROME HEART 10 p.m. Oct. 9 & 10 at The Roadhouse, 231 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, 264-0611. CHUCK NASH BAND 10 p.m. Oct. 9 & 10 at Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. JOE MORELAND BAND 7 p.m. Oct. 10, Pusser’s Bar & Grille. OVER THE EFFECT, FAZE WAVE, BLCK T 8 p.m. Oct. 10, Burro Bar. ON GUARD, WINTER WAVE, A CALL FOR KYLIE, GLAZED 8 p.m. Oct. 10, 1904 Music Hall, $10 advance; $12 day of.
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BONZ (Stuck Mojo), EVERYBODY PANIC, DAMN THY NAME, A NEW DECREE 8 p.m. Oct. 10, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. THE RIDE 8:30 p.m. Oct. 9, Latitude 360. ELLEN BUKSTEL 2 p.m. Oct. 11 at Beluthahatchee Park, 1523 S.R. 13, Fruit Cove, 206-8304, suggested donation $10; reservations required. That’s What She Said – A Women’s Festival: GHOST TROPIC, LAUREN GILLIAM, BEAVER TRAP, RAMONA QUIMBY, AMY HENDRICKSON BAND, EMA & the OLD KINGS, AMY VICKERY, CHELSEA SADDLER, KATHERINE ARCHER, The AFTERWHILE, ELIZABETH ROTH BAND, WENDY KISSINGER, LAUREL NORRIS, KENNY & the JETS 6 p.m. Oct. 11 at Planet Sarbez, 115 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 342-0632, $5; proceeds benefit Girls Rock Camp Jacksonville. INSANE CLOWN POSSE, P.O.D., YOUNG WICKED, DOPE, D.O.D. 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at Crazy Horse Complex, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 246-2650, $25-$50. CONSIDER THE SOURCE, TROPIC OF CANCER, LAVA 8 p.m. Oct. 11, 1904 Music Hall, $8. The VIBRATORS, CONCRETE CRIMINALS, The WASTEDIST 8 p.m. Oct. 11, Jack Rabbits, $10. UV-TV 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222. LIMBS, NEVERENDER, SEARCHING SERENITY, LOCK JAW 8 p.m. Oct. 12, 1904 Music Hall, $8 advance; $10 day of. NEW FOUND GLORY, YELLOWCARD, TIGERS JAW 6 p.m. Oct. 13 at Mavericks Live at The Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $26. NOAH GUNDERSEN, FIELD REPORT 7 p.m. Oct. 14, Colonial Quarter, $15. THE WINERY DOGS 8 p.m. Oct. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $27 advance; $30 day of. BOYTOY, VANESSA SILBERMAN, SNAKEHOLE, MEMPHIBIANS 8 p.m. Oct. 14, Burro Bar, $6.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Magnolia Fest: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, AVETT BROTHERS, DEL McCOURY BAND, STEEP CANYON RANGERS, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE, The LEE BOYS, IVEY WEST BAND, BAND of HEATHENS, PARKER URBAN BAND, The CONGRESS, The CORBITT BROTHERS, The MOTET, NIKKI TALLEY, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND, BONNIE BLUE, MOJO GURUS, APPLEBUTTER EXPRESS, GRITS & SOUL, BERRY OAKLEY’S SKYLAB, CEDELL DAVIS, HABANERO HONEYS, COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS, QUARTERMOON, The LONDON SOULS, ROOSEVELT COLLIER & the TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS, BACK FROM the BRINK, THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES, FLAGSHIP ROMANCE, WHETHERMAN, JACKSONVEGAS, JERRY JOSEPH & the JACKMORONS, SLOPPY JOE, QUEBEC SISTERS, REBIRTH BRASS BAND, JEFF AUSTIN BAND, JIM LAUDERDALE, NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS, DONNA the BUFFALO, BIG COSMO, KELLER WILLIAMS’ GRATEFUL GOSPEL, LAKE STREET DRIVE Oct. 15-18, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park STRAY from the PATH, COMEBACK KID, BEING as an OCEAN, MAJOR LEAGUE, DEEZ NUTS Oct. 15, Underbelly BEN PRESTAGE Oct. 15, Mudville Music Room CHRIS TOMLIN, REND COLLECTIVE Oct. 16, Vets Mem Arena BO BURNHAM Oct. 16, The Florida Theatre
SUZANNE VEGA Oct. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CIVIL YOUTH, UNIVERSAL GREEN, NORTHE Oct. 16, Burro Bar The SENSES, The PHILTERS Oct. 16, Jack Rabbits TREVOR HALL, WILL EVANS, CHRISTINA HOLMES Oct. 16, Freebird Live DEF LEPPARD, FOREIGNER, NIGHT RANGER Oct. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena THE GLORIOUS REBELLION Oct. 17, Burro Bar DEBORAH HENSON-CONANT Oct. 17, P.Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE BIG TOWN, DRAKE WHITE & the BIG FIRE Oct. 17, St. Augustine Amphitheatre MATT POND PA Oct. 17, 1904 Music Hall RICKOLUS & THE BUZZ BIN, PSYCHIC DRIVER, KINGS & POETS, CONNOR HICKEY Oct. 17, Jack Rabbits JOHN CLEESE & ERIC IDLE: Together Again at Last … for the Very Last Time Oct. 18, The Florida Theatre XAEMORA, SATURNINE, NEVER BAPTIZED Oct. 19, Across the Street JEREMY PORTER & THE TUCOS, FIREWATER TENT REVIVAL Oct. 21, Burro Bar The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND Oct. 22, The Florida Theatre JASON ALDEAN, COLE SWINDELL, TYLER FARR, DEE JAY SILVER Oct. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena Gnar Stars: FREE WEED, UNKLE FUNKLE, COLLEEN GREEN Oct. 22, Shanghai Nobby’s TAB BENOIT Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MARCIA BALL & her BAND, AMY SPEACE Oct. 23, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SWORDZ, KING SIMBA, DJ DOUBLE & 20/20, SLABDABA THE ROCCSTARR, DJ CHEF ROCC Oct. 23, rain dogs. BUDDY GUY, SHEMEKIA COPELAND Oct. 23, Florida Theatre KATT WILLIAMS Oct. 24, Veterans Memorial Arena CAVERN, SHADOW HUNTER, ALMITRA, CREEP CITY, ENCOUNTERS Oct. 24, Burro Bar THE TOASTERS, GENERAL TSO’S FURY, ELLAMENO BEAT Oct. 25, Jack Rabbits BARB WIRE DOLLS Oct. 25, Burro Bar BIG FREEDIA, HIBOU, BOYFRIEND Oct. 26, Jack Rabbits MARK KNOPFLER Oct. 27, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CROCODILES Oct. 27, Burro Bar JONATHAN RICHMAN Oct. 27, Jack Rabbits DESAPARECIDOS Oct. 27, Underbelly CROCODILES, DARK TUNNELS, MEMPHIBIANS Oct. 27, Burro Bar KEPI GHOULI, MEAN JEANS, LIFEFORMS (as Nirvana) Oct. 29, rain dogs TWO COW GARAGE, The MUTTS Oct. 29, Jack Rabbits STUBBILY MUG, KID DEAD, STRIFE, CRY HAVOC, LETHAL SKRIPTUREZ, GEEXELLA Oct. 29, The Birdhouse THE WINTER PASSING, HAVE HOLD, TEEN DEATH Oct. 29, Burro Bar THE BAND PERRY, COREY SMITH, SISTER HAZEL, JON LANGSTON Oct. 30, Metropolitan Park CHARLIE & THE FOXTROTS Oct. 30, Burro Bar Suwannee Hulaween: STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, PRETTY LIGHTS, PRIMUS, CHANCE the RAPPER Oct. 30-Nov. 1, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park LEE BAINES III & the GLORY FIRES, PUJOL, ELECTRIC WATER Oct. 31, Burro Bar SOUL ASYLUM, MEAT PUPPETS Oct. 31, Freebird Live
The UNDERACHIEVERS, POUYA, KIRK KNIGHT, BODEGA BAMZ Nov. 1, Underbelly BOZ SCAGGS Nov. 4, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts LEFTOVER SALMON Nov. 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall AMERICA’S GOT TALENT LIVE Nov. 6, The Florida Theatre MARY J. BLIGE Nov. 6, Veterans Memorial Arena PRONG, APPALACHIAN DEATH TRAP Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits The BROTHERS COMATOSE Nov. 7, Jack Rabbits ALL HANDS on DECK Nov. 8, The Florida Theatre REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, BRYCE ALASTAIR BAND Nov. 8, Jack Rabbits BEACH CREEPS, NOTEL, THE MOLD Nov. 9, Burro Bar SLOW MAGIC Nov. 11, The Original Café Eleven TEXAS in JULY, REFLECTIONS, TO THE WIND, INVENT, ANIMATE Nov. 11, Underbelly KNUCKLE PUCK, SEAWAY, SORORITY NOISE, HEAD NORTH Nov. 11, 1904 Music Hall ADRIAN LEGG, DAVID LINDLEY Nov. 12, P.Vedra Concert Hall CHASE BRYANT Nov. 12, Mavericks Live at the Landing BLENDED BREW Nov. 12, Jack Rabbits AMERICA Nov. 13, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts Piuspalooza: TELEPATHIC LINES, ALLIGATOR, QUEEN BEEF, The RESONANTS, BROWN PALACE, SCAVUZZOS Nov. 13, Shanghai Nobby’s JAKE SHIMABUKURO Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall GABRIEL IGLESIAS Nov. 13, The Florida Theatre KRISTIN CHENOWITH Nov. 14, T-U Center STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 17, The Florida Theatre The DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND, NEW BREED BRASS BAND Nov. 21, Ritz Theatre & Museum SWAMP RADIO EARLY THANKS Nov. 21, St. Aug. Amphitheatre THE SWORD Nov. 21, Freebird Live This is Not a Test Tour: TOBYMAC, BRITT NICOLE, COLTON DIXON, HOLLYN Nov. 22, Veterans Memorial Arena SO.ILLAQUISTS of SOUND, BLUEPRINT, DUMBTRON, E-TURN, GRAMMAR TREE, GRAYSKUL Nov. 27, 1904 Music Hall SCOTT BRADLEE’S Postmodern Jukebox Nov. 28, Florida Theatre RONNIE MILSAP Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre CRAIG FERGUSON Nov. 30, The Florida Theatre DAVE KOZ CHRISTMAS TOUR Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre MAC MILLER, EARTHGANG, MICHAEL CHRISTMAS, REMEMBER MUSIC Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre LUCERO Dec. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BRIAN WILSON with AL JARDINE Dec. 5, Florida Theatre NICHOLAS PAYTON Dec. 5, Ritz Theatre & Museum The Big Ticket: TWENTY ONE PILOTS, OF MONSTERS and MEN, WALK the MOON, The NEIGHBOURHOOD, GLASS ANIMALS, ANDREW McMAHON, MUTEMATH, X AMBASSADORS, PVRIS, ROBERT DeLONG, SAINT MOTEL, COLEMAN HELL, BORNS, BOOTS on BOOTS Dec. 6, Metropolitan Park KANSAS Dec. 6, The Florida Theatre LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, MELISSA FERRICK Dec. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 11, Veterans Mem Arena KEVIN GRIFFIN Dec. 12, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BRIAN REGAN Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre RISING APPALACHIA Dec. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOWZER’S Rock ’N’ Roll Holiday Party: The TOKENS, FREDDY BOOM BOOM CANNON Dec. 17, The Florida Theatre MATISYAHU Dec. 18 & 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MICHAEL McDONALD Dec. 19, Thrasher-Horne Center The TEN TENORS Dec. 22, The Florida Theatre CHRIS DUARTE Dec. 22, Mudville Music Room DONNA the BUFFALO Dec. 30, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOJA Jan. 1, The Florida Theatre JOHN SEBASTIAN Jan. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall STEVE FORBERT TRIO Jan. 9, Mudville Music Room THE OLATE DOGS Jan. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall YO YO MA Jan. 14, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CHRISTIAN McBRIDE Jan. 16, Ritz Theatre & Museum The TEMPTATIONS, The FOUR TOPS Jan. 21, Florida Theatre JESCO WHITE, SNAKE BLOOD REMEDY, GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE Jan. 23, Jack Rabbits ANA POPOVIC Jan. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SHAWN COLVIN Jan. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOHNNY MATHIS Jan. 31, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Jan. 31, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall 2CELLOS Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre YANNI Feb. 3, T-U Center for the Performing Arts Southern Soul Assembly: JJ GREY, ANDERS OSBORNE, MARC BROUSSARD, LUTHER DICKINSON Feb. 4, Florida Theatre ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Greatest Hits Tour, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Feb. 10, The Florida Theatre ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS, ANAIS MITCHELL Feb. 13, The Florida Theatre The JAMES HUNTER SIX Feb. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SUN RA ARKESTRA Feb. 20, Ritz Theatre & Museum ADAM TRENT Feb. 21, The Florida Theatre GARY CLARK JR. Feb. 21, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall An Evening with VINCE GILL & LYLE LOVETT Feb. 25, Florida Theatre IL VOLO March 3, The Florida Theatre BLACK VIOLIN March 3, Ritz Theatre & Museum ROGER McGUINN March 4, P. Vedra Concert Hall HERB ALPERT & LANI HALL March 4, Florida Theatre JASON ISBELL, SHOVELS & ROPE March 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre JANET JACKSON March 8, Veterans Memorial Arena FRANK SINATRA JR. March 9, The Florida Theatre GET the LED OUT March 17, The Florida Theatre JOHNNY CLEGG & HIS BAND March 18, P.Vedra Concert Hall
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
JOE SATRIANI March 19, The Florida Theatre THE FAB FOUR: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE March 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall CECILE McLORIN SALVANT March 31, Ritz Theatre CELTIC NIGHTS April 6, Florida Theatre NAJEE April 9, Ritz Theatre & Museum LET IT BE: A Celebration of the Music of The Beatles April 10, The Florida Theatre THE BRONX WANDERERS April 16, Florida Theatre ELLIS PAUL May 13, The Original Café Eleven
Hip hop artist BIG SEAN (pictured) performs with ASHER ROTH at University of North Florida Oct. 8 on the Southside.
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA
GREEN TURTLE TAVERN, 14 S. Third St., 321-2324 Buck Smith Thur. Yancy Clegg Sun. Vinyl Record Nite every Tue.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH CAFÉ, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance at 9 p.m. every Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns, 388-0200 Radio Love Oct. 8. Carl & the Black Lungs Oct. 0. Live music every weekend
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
CULHANE’S, 967 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-9595 Bad Habits 8 p.m. Oct. 9. DJ Hal every Sat. Irish music every Sun. FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 RedBeard Oct. 8. Chuck Nash Band 10 p.m. Oct. 9 & 10. Ryan Crary Oct. 11 FREEBIRD LIVE, 200 N. First St., 246-2473 Mushroomhead, Mortiis, September Mourning, Unsaid Fate, Sylent Vylentz 7 p.m. Oct. 7. Toro Y Moi, Astronauts Oct. 8. Failure, Hum, Torche Oct. 9. Trevor Hall, Will Evans, Christina Holmes Oct. 16 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 320 First St. N., 372-0815 Conch Fritters Oct. 10. Live music Fri. & Sat. Dan Evans, Spade McQuade Sun. Back From the Brink Mon. LYNCH’S IRISH PUB, 514 N. First St., 249-5181 Dalton Stanley Band 10 p.m. Oct. 9 & 10 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 Dan Hunting Oct. 7. Jammin Salmon Oct. 8. Ouija Bros. Oct. 9 MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573
Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford & Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. MOJO KITCHEN, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636 Conrad Oberg Oct. 10 NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300 Joe Moorhead Oct. 9. Live music most weekends RAGTIME TAVERN, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Neil
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LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC Experimental musician KEVIN GREENSPON (pictured) performs with NOTEL and BURNING FLOWERS at Sun-Ray Cinema on Oct. 7 in 5 Points.
PREVATT’S SPORTS BAR, 2620 Blanding Blvd., 282-1564 Corbitt Bros. Band Oct. 10. Live music every Sat. DJ Tammy Wed. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 Bandon therun Oct. 7. Chrome Heart 10 p.m. Oct. 9 & 10. Live music 10 p.m. Wed. DJ Big Mike 10 p.m. Thur.
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grill, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Ryan Crary Oct. 7. Barrett Jockers Oct. 8. Cody Nix Oct. 9. Joe Moreland Band Oct. 10 TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Monica Dasilva & Chad Alger Oct. 7. Gary Starling Oct. 8. Robbie Lit Oct. 9. Ryan Crary & Johnny Flood Oct. 10
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
ACROSS THE STREET, 948 Edgewood Ave. S., 683-4182 ESE Oct. 9. Live music most weekends MURRAY HILL THEATRE, 932 Edgewood S., 388-7807 Terra Terra Terra, Helios Hand, New Divide, Sea of Surrender Oct. 10 RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 Salad Boys, Mother Superior, Dagger Beach Oct. 8 RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 Blue Veronica Oct. 10
ST. AUGUSTINE
Dixon Oct. 8. Hoffman’s Voodoo Oct. 8. Sidewalk 65 Oct. 9 & 10 WIPEOUTS GRILL, 1589 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 247-4508 Live music 7 p.m. Oct. 8, 9 p.m. Oct. 10 WORLD OF BEER, 311 N. Third St., 372-9698 DiCarlo Thompson 10 p.m. Oct. 9. Live music every Fri. & Sat.
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC HALL, 19 Ocean St. N. The Main Squeeze, Captain Green Oct. 9. On Guard, Winter Wave, A Call for Kylie, Glazed Oct. 10. Consider the Source, Tropic of Cancer, Lava 8 p.m. Oct. 11. Limbs, Neverender, Searching Serenity, Lock Jaw Oct. 12 BURRO BAR, 100 E. Adams St. Stephen Chopek, Gov Club, Digdog, All The Oceans 6 p.m. Oct. 7. Sangre, World Gone, Searching Serenity, Primitive Hard Drive, Coughin Oct. 9. Over The Effect, Faze Wave, Blck T Oct. 10. Boytoy, Vanessa Silberman, Snakehole, Memphibians Oct. 14 DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 BlackJack every Wed. DJ Brandon every Thur. DJs spin dance music every Fri. DJ NickFresh Sat. DJ Randall 9 p.m. Mon. DJ Hollywood Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Oct. 7 & 14. Jig to a Milestone 8 p.m. Oct. 9. Jimmy Solari 8 p.m.-mid. Oct. 10 JACKSONVILLE LANDING, 353-1188 One Step Ahead of the Law Brass Band 5 p.m., Austin Park 6:30 p.m. Oct. 7. Spanky the Band 6 p.m. Oct. 8. Brenda & Vanya 4 p.m., BayStreet 8 p.m. Oct. 9. Holliday Band 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Oct. 10. DJ Kevin 2-5 p.m., George Aspinall 4-9 p.m. Oct. 11 MARK’S DOWNTOWN, 315 E. Bay, 355-5099 DJ Roy Luis Wed. DJ Vinn every Thur. DJ Dr. Doom 10 p.m. every Fri. DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat.
DOLPHIN DANCE I MUST ADMIT, WHEN THE ORGANIZERS OF Jacksonville University’s Dolphinium Records contacted me last year about their new releases, of which there were only a handful, I was suspect. As well-intentioned as they may have been, the label founders surely met with reams of red tape trying to establish a viable recording and distribution label. Having once taught at a reputable Northeast Florida university, I am familiar with what it takes to get anything done at those bureaucratic behemoths. Most of the time, they’re worried more about cutting costs and raising funding for golf courses and swimming pools than they are about supporting the arts, much less a freaking record label. But Dolphinium just sent me their fall release, it’s pretty flipping great. The first Dolphinium release that I’d consider a true collaborative effort between students (alumni) and faculty, Blue Muse: Live captures in a tradjazz setting, some fantastic performances by an ensemble featuring pianist Jonah Pierre, guitarist Jarrett Carter, percussionist Tony Steve, bassists Cody Wheaton and Ernie Ealum, drummer Evan Peterson, and creator-saxophonist Sarah Lee. The talent here is immense, and captured in a wellproduced package with an ear to authenticity. Though the opening track, an original piece by Pierre, is a delightful swing number, the real opener for me is track two, an original by guitarist Carter. Harking (intentionally or otherwise) to Frank Zappa’s “Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra,” the gorgeous “Bachionda” features Carter on nylon-string guitar, playing in unison with 30 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 7-13, 2015
MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 GlowRage, Stoag, Sean Taylors Oct. 9. New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Tigers Jaw Oct. 13. Joe Buck, DJ Justin Thur.-Sat. UNDERBELLY, 113 E. Bay St., 699-8186 Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation, Soreption Oct. 8. Stray From the Path, Comeback Kid, Being As an Ocean, Major League, Deez Nuts Oct. 15
FLEMING ISLAND
WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Live music Fri. & Sat. DJ Throwback 8 p.m. Thur. Deck music Fri., Sat. & Sun.
INTRACOASTAL WEST
CLIFF’S BAR & GRILL, 3033 Monument Rd., 645-5162 Bill Ricci Oct. 9. Live music most weekends CRAZY HORSE COMPLEX, 11000 Beach Blvd., 246-2650 Insane Clown Posse, P.O.D., Young Wicked, Dope, D.O.D. Oct. 11 JERRY’S SPORTS GRILLE, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Don’t Call Me Shirley 9 p.m. Oct. 9
MANDARIN, JULINGTON
DAVE’S MUSIC BAR & GRILL, 9965 San Jose, 575-4935 Evicted Oct. 10 HARMONIOUS MONKS, 10550 Old St. Augustine, 880-3040 ILL Doots Oct. 13. Open jam 7 p.m. every Mon.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
CLUB RETRO, 1241 Blanding Blvd., 579-4731 ’70s & ’80s dance 8 p.m. every Fri. & Sat. DJ Capone every Wed. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael Tue.-Sat.
the sax and vibes for the lilting written lines, then soloing gracefully during the mid-section. This is a big piece, with lots of parts, but the effect is one of wandering through the music as one would meander through a field of technicolor poppies, looking and listening, taking it all in, not focused on any singular thing. It’s a full musical experience. Bravo. There’s more like that here. Lee’s “Smile” uses what sounds like a melodica to push her original piece in new directions, Pierre’s “They Say” goes a little modern funk (with Steve’s vibes keeping it grounded in jazz), and Steve’s arrangement of “Icarus” is blithe and airy, with the production bringing in a room sound that lends to the live feel. It should be noted that among the topflight musicians here, the standout is drummer Peterson. Like the best drummers, he slips easily from swing and bop to funk and pseudo-Latin. Even his brush work during the album-closer, a ballad waltz called “Blessed Assurance,” is praiseworthy. It’s not my favorite piece on the record (little too sappy for my taste), but Peterson holds my interest with soft fanning of his brushes and wellplaced hi-hat splashes. Kudos also to Lee for helming this project. Though she probably enjoys a buffer from the bureaucratic nightmare that goes along with trying to fund any college project – one hopes Dolphinium has private backers outside the university or, at the very least, an administrator on their side – Lee has done good work. Getting any group of musicians together with a common goal is a tough sell. But these people are true players, and their commitment to making it work shows here. It’s pro-level stuff.
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Oh No Oct. 9 & 10. Vinny Jacobs Oct. 11 PAULA’S GRILL, 6896 A1A S., Crescent Beach, 471-3463 Denny Blue open mic jam 6-9 p.m. Oct. 7 & 14 PLANET! SARBEZ!, 115 Anastasia Blvd., 342-0632 That’s What She Said – A Women’s Festival: Ghost Tropic, Lauren Gilliam, Beaver Trap, Ramona Quimby, Amy Hendrickson Band, Ema & The Old Kings, Amy Vickery, Chelsea Saddler, Katherine Archer, The Afterwhile, Elizabeth Roth Band, Wendy Kissinger, Laurel Norris, Kenny & The Jets Oct. 11 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Those Guys Oct. 9 & 10. Live music 9 p.m. every Fri. & Sat.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Vacant Resident Oct. 9. Bonz, A.M.M. Oct. 10. The Vibrators, Concrete Animals, The Wastedist Oct. 11. The Senses, The Philters Oct. 16 MUDVILLE MUSIC ROOM, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 Larry Mangum, Al Poindexter, Luke Peacock Oct. 8. Chris Henry, Hardcore Grass Oct. 9. Ben Prestage 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS, ARLINGTON
LATITUDE 360, 10370 Philips Hwy., 365-5555 Be Easy Oct. 8. The Ride Oct. 9. Katz Downstairs Oct. 9. Rusted Diamond Oct. 11 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Charlie Walker Oct. 8. DiCarlo Thompson Oct. 9. Milltown Road Oct. 10 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, 634-7208 Spanky Oct. 9. Melissa Smith Thur. Mojo Roux Blues Sun. Kassyli jam Wed. WORLD OF BEER, 9700 Deer Lake Ct., Ste. 1, 551-5929 Anton LaPlume 8 p.m. Oct. 8
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
SHANTYTOWN, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 UV-TV 8 p.m. Oct. 12. Live music most weekends
THE KNIFE
THE KNIFE
If you haven’t checked out Dolphinium Records, you should (ju.edu/dolphinium/Pages/default.aspx). The website is staid in the ways a college website should be (it’s a college, dammit!), but the release roster is diverse and impressive. Buy something – put your dollars behind an organization doing good things for students, faculty and alumni in an arena that’s far from receiving support from institutes of higher learning. Sabotage from the inside, as it were. John E. Citrone theknife@folioweekly.com Blue Muse: Live CD release party, 8:30-mid., Friday, Oct. 9 at The Parlour (behind Grape & Grain), 2000 San Marco Blvd., 396-4455, bluemusejazz.com.
Mark Currie, Tim Lawther, and Chef Charles Kamback (L to R) at Beech Street Bar & Grille in Amelia Island present a savory bread pudding with fresh Mayport shrimp. Photo by Dennis Ho
DINING DIRECTORY AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29south restaurant.com. F In historic downtown, Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tue.-Sat.; D Mon.-Sat.; R Sun. BARBERITOS, 1519 Sadler Rd., 277-2505. 463867 S.R. 200, Ste. 5, Yulee, 321-2240, barberitos.com. F Southwestern fare made-to-order fresh; burritos, tacos, quesadillas, salsa. $$ BW K TO L D Daily BRETT’S WATERWAY CAFÉ, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F Southern hospitality, upscale waterfront spot; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB K L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F Family-owned spot in historic building. Veggie burgers, seafood, made-from-scratch desserts. Dine in or on oakshaded patio. Karibrew Pub next door. $$ FB K TO R, Sun.; L D Daily CHEZ LEZAN BAKERY CO., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chezlezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily DAVID’S RESTAURANT & LOUNGE, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, ameliaislanddavids.com. Fine dining in historic district. Fresh seafood, prime aged meats, rack of lamb. $$$$ FB D Wed.-Mon. DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 491-3469. 450077 S.R. 200, Callahan, 879-0993. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
ELIZABETH POINTE LODGE, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabethpointelodge.com. F Award-winning B&B. Seaside dining, inside or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily. Homestyle soups, sandwiches, desserts. $$$ BW B L D Daily JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianescafe.com. F In renovated 1887 shotgun house. Jambalaya, French toast, mac-n-cheese, vegan/ vegetarian items. Dine in or on porch. $$ FB K B L D Daily LULU’S at Thompson House, 11 S. 7th St., 432-8394, lulusamelia.com. F Po’boys, salads, local seafood, local shrimp. Reservations. $$$ BW K TO R Sun.; L D Tue.-Sat. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moon riverpizza.net. F 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic Northernstyle pizzas, 20-plus toppings, by the pie or the slice. $ BW TO L D Mon.-Sat. THE MUSTARD SEED CAFÉ, 833 TJ Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juice, herbal tea. $$ TO B L Mon.-Sat. THE PECAN ROLL BAKERY, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepecanrollbakery.com. F The bakery, near historic district, has sweet and savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads, all made from scratch. $ K TO B L Wed.-Sun. PI INFINITE COMBINATIONS, 19 S. Third St., 432-8535, pi32034.wix.com/piinfinite. All bar service at New York-style pizza joint. Specialty pizzas, by pie or slice, topped with sliced truffle mushrooms, whole little neck clams, eggs or shrimp. Dine in or in courtyard, with fountain. $$ BW TO L D Wed.-Sun. PLAE, 80 Amelia Village Cir., 277-2132, plaefl.net. Bite
Club. Bistro-style venue serves whole fried fish, duck breast. Outside. $$$ FB L Tue.-Sat.; D Nightly SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesa ltypelicanamelia.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Second-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. and Al offer local seafood, Mayport shrimp, fish tacos, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily SLIDERS SEASIDE GRILL, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F Oceanfront; handmade crab cakes, fresh seafood, fried pickles. Outdoor dining, open-air second floor, balcony. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S BURGER STATION, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F 2015 BOJ winner. In an old gas station; blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L Mon.-Sat.
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 9119 Merrill Rd., 745-9300. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
THE STEAKHOUSE @ Gold Club, 320 Gen. Doolittle Dr., 6455500, jacksonvillegoldclub.com. Lunch and dinner specials, free happy hour buffets Thur. & Fri. $$$ FB L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
FLORIDA CREAMERY, 3566 St. Johns Ave., 619-5386. Premium ice cream, waffle cones, milkshakes, sundaes and Nathan’s grilled hot dogs, served in a Florida-centric décor. Low-fat and sugar-free choices. $ K TO L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned and operated for 20-plus years, the American pub serves 1/2-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO NO. 4 Urban BBQ & Whiskey Bar, 3572 St. Johns Ave., 381-6670. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. 40-plus years. Burgers, Cuban sandwiches, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher cuts USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. $ BW TO B L D Mon.-Sat. RESTAURANT ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. 2015 BOJ winner. French/Southern bistro; locally grown organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. Snail of Approval. $$$ FB K R, Sun.; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simply
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DINING DIRECTORY KEY
Average Entrée Cost $ = Less than $8 $$ = $8-$14 $$$ = $15-$22 $$$$ = $23 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club tasting. fwbiteclub.com. 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
saras.net. F Down-home fare, from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Mon.-Sat., B Sat.
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S PIZZA, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 6200777, indiajax.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. A variety of curries, vegetable dishes, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L Mon.-Sat.; D Nightly LARRY’S Giant Subs, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., 737-7740. 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. SEE MANDARIN. PATTAYA THAI GRILLE, 9551 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 1, 646-9506, ptgrille.com. Family-owned Thai place serves traditional fare, vegetarian, new Thai; curries, seafood, noodles, soups. Low-sodium, gluten-free, too. $$$ BW TO L D Tue.-Sun. TEQUILA’S Mexican Restaurant, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. F New place has authentic Mexican fare, made daily with fresh ingredients. Vegetarian dishes; daily drink specials. Nonstop happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily THE WELL WATERING HOLE, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, wines by the glass or bottle, champagne cocktails. Meatloaf sandwiches, pulled Peruvian chicken, homestyle vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO D Tue.-Sat. WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows, Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. New gastropub has craft beers, burgers, handhelds, tacos, whiskey. $$ FB L D Sat. & Sun.; D Daily.
BEACHES
(Locations are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, alspizza.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. New York-style, gourmet pizzas, baked dishes. All-day happy hour Mon.-Thur. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S SUBS, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S GROM, 204 Third Ave. S., 246-7823. F 2015 BOJ winner. Subs made with fresh ingredients for more than 25 years. One word: Peruvian. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. $ BW TO L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 2400 S. Third St., Ste. 201. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. ESPETO BRAZILIAN STEAKHOUSE, 1396 Beach Blvd., 388-4884, espetosteakhouse.com. Just relocated, serving beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage; full menu, bar fare, craft cocktails, Brazilian beers. $$ FB D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 F 2015 BOJ winner. Latin American, Southwest tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana sandwiches. 100-plus tequilas. $ FB L D Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
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DINING DIRECTORY
LILLIE’S Coffee Bar, 200 First St., Neptune Beach, 2492922, lilliescoffeebar.com. F Locally roasted coffee, eggs, bagels, flatbreads, sandwiches, desserts. Dine inside or on patio, courtyard. $$ BW TO B L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop happy hour. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO DINER, 1534 Third St. N., 853-6817. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., Neptune Beach, 2495573, mezzarestaurantandbar.com. F Near-the-ocean spot, 20-plus years. Casual bistro fare: gourmet wood-fired pizzas, nightly specials. Dine inside, on patio. $$$ FB K D Mon.-Sat. MOJO KITCHEN BBQ Pit, 1500 Beach Blvd., 247-6636, mojobbq.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Pulled pork, beef, chicken, Carolina-style barbecue, Delta fried catfish, sides. $$ FB K TO L D Daily NIPPERS BEACH GRILLE, 2309 Beach Blvd., 247-3300, nippersbeachgrille.com. The chef-driven Southern coastal cuisine has local fare and dishes with a Caribbean flavor, served in an island atmosphere on the ICW. Dine inside or on Tiki deck. $$ FB K L D Wed.-Sun.; D Mon. & Tue. POE’S TAVERN, 363 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7637. Gastropub, 50-plus beers, gourmet hamburgers, ground in-house, hand-cut French fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F For 30-plus years, iconic seafood place has served blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily happy hour. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlifefoodshack.com. Specialty items: signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp, in modern open-air space. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St.,
MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. MOJO SMOKEHOUSE, 1810 Town Center Blvd., Ste. 8, 264-0636. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. WHITEY’S FISH CAMP, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteys fishcamp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S PIZZA, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., 223-0115. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE ORANGE PARK. TIME OUT SPORTS GRILL, 13799 Beach Blvd., Ste. 5, 223-6999, timeoutsportsgrill.com. F Locally-ownedand-operated. Hand-tossed pizzas, wings, wraps. Daily drink specials, HDTVs, pool tables. Late-nite menu. $$ FB L Tue.-Sun.; D Nightly
MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’S DELI, 12926 Gran Bay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN.
AL’S PIZZA, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ATHENS CAFÉ, 6271 St. Augustine Rd., Ste. 7, 733-1199. F Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), baby shoes (stuffed eggplant). Greek beers. $$ BW L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. DICK’S Wings & Grill, 10391 Old St. Augustine Rd., 880-7087. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. FIRST COAST DELI & GRILL, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Traditional diner fare: oversized pancakes and bacon, sandwiches, salads and burgers. $ K TO B L Daily LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 11365 San Jose Blvd., 674-2945. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2015
GRILL ME!
JEREMIAH HYDE
Surfing Sombrero, 222 N. First St., Jax Beach BIRTHPLACE: Cincinnati, Ohio
YEARS IN THE BIZ: 22
FAVORITE RESTAURANT (other than mine): Dick’s Last Resort, Chicago BEST CUISINE STYLE: Filipino cuisine GO-TO INGREDIENTS: Curry and red peppers IDEAL MEAL: Anything with friends and family. WON’T CROSS MY LIPS: Rocky Mountain oysters INSIDER’S SECRET: Our steaks are marinated for 72 hours in a marinade made of 17 different ingredients. CELEBRITY SIGHTING HERE: We are new – waiting for a celebrity! CULINARY TREAT: Fried cheesecake
Neptune Beach, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. $$ FB K L Sat. & Sun.; D Nightly SNEAKERS SPORTS GRILLE, 111 Beach Blvd., 482-1000, sneakerssportsgrille.com. 2015 BOJ winner. 20-plus tap beers, TVs, sporty waitstaff. Happy hour Mon.-Fri. $ FB K L D Daily SURFING SOMBRERO, 222 First St. N., 834-9377. New oceanfront place serves authentic fare – like paella. Drink specials. Dine in or outside. $$ FB L D Daily SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. New craft sandwich shop boasts Yankee-style steaks and hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S DELICATESSEN, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324, akelsdeli.com. F New York-style deli offers freshly made subs (3 Wise Guys, Champ), burgers, gyros, breakfast bowls, ranchero wrap, vegetarian dishes. $ K TO B L Mon.-Fri. THE CANDY APPLE CAFÉ & COCKTAILS, 400 N. Hogan St., 353-9717, thecandyapplecafe.com. Sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L, Mon.; L D Tue.-Sun. CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282. F Chef Sam Hamidi has been serving genuine Italian fare for 35-plus years: veal, seafood, gourmet pizza. The homemade salad dressing is a specialty. $ BW K L Mon.-Fri.; D Mon.-Sat. OLIO MARKET, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L Mon.-Fri. SWEET PETE’S, 400 N. Hogan St., 376-7161. F All-natural sweet shop has candy made of all natural flavors, no artificial anything. Several kinds of honey. $ TO Daily ZODIAC BAR & GRILL, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezod iacbarandgrill.com. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. Happy hour Wed.-Sat. $ FB L Mon.-Fri.
FLEMING ISLAND
GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE.
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BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods MArket & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F Organic soups, sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie and coffee bar. All-natural, organic beers, wines. Indoor, outdoor dining. $ BW TO K B L D Daily THE RED ELEPHANT PIZZA & GRILL, 10131 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 12, 683-3773, redelephantpizza.com. Casual, familyfriendly eatery. Pizzas, sandwiches, grill specials, burgers, pasta, plus gluten-free-friendly items. $ FB K L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 1803 East West Parkway, Fleming Island, 375-2559. 2015 BOJ winner. This NASCAR-themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings. The menu also features half-pound burgers, ribs and salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern-style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tue.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 1330 Blanding Blvd., 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding, Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over Northeast Florida, Larry’s piles ’em high and serves ’em fast; 33+ years. Hot and cold subs, soups, salads. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. A new Larry’s opens soon in Fernandina. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO DINER, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. SNACSHACK, 179 College Dr., Ste. 19, 682-7622, snacshack.menu. F The new bakery and café offers bagels, muffins, breads, cookies, brownies and snack treats. $$ K BW TO B, L & D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
AL’S PIZZA, 635 A1A N., 543-1494. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134, dicks
DINING DIRECTORY
wingsandgrill.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. LARRY’S SUBS, 830 A1A N., 273-3993. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
RIVERSIDE, 5 POINTS, WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies. com. 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic Mediterranean peasant cuisine updated for American tastes; tapas, blackened octopus, risotto of the day, coconut mango curry chicken. $$ BW L D Tue.-Sat. AKEL’S Deli, 245 Riverside Ave., 791-3336. F SEE DOWNTOWN. AL’S PIZZA, 1620 Margaret St., 388-8384. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. BLACK SHEEP RESTAURANT, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points.com. New American with a Southern twist; locally sourced ingredients. Rooftop bar. $$$ FB R Sat. & Sun.; L D Daily BOLD BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS, 869 Stockton St., Stes. 1 & 2, 855-1181. F 2015 BOJ winner. Small-batch, artisanal coffee roasting. Organic, fair trade. $ BW TO B L Daily BREW FIVE POINTS, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfive points.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Local craft beer, espresso, coffee and wine bar. Rotating drafts, 75+ canned craft beers; sodas, tea. Rotating seasonal menu of waffles, pastries, toasts, desserts to pair with specialty coffees, craft beers. $$ BW K B L Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Daily. DERBY ON PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343. New American cuisine, upscale retro atmosphere in historic landmark
building. Shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Wknd brunch. B, L D Tue.-Sun. EDGEWOOD BAKERY, 1012 S. Edgewood Ave., Murray Hill, 389-8054, edgewoodbakery.com. For 68+ years, full-service bakery has served fresh from-scratch pastries, petit fours, pies, custom cakes. Espresso/pastry café has sandwiches, smoothies, soups. $$ K TO B L Tue.-Sat. EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 2015 BOJ winner. 130-plus imported beers, 20 on tap. NYC-style Reuben, sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS NATURAL MARKET, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Juice bar; certified organic fruits, vegetables. 300-plus craft/import beers, 50 wines, produce, humanely raised meats, deli, raw items, vegan, vitamins, herbs. Wraps, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FARE, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls. $ BW TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S DELI & GRILLE, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; sandwiches, classic salads, homefries. One word: Reuben. $ TO B L Daily KNEAD BAKESHOP, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617 Locally-owned, family-run shop; made-from-scratch pastries, artisan breads, pies, sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tue.-Sun. LARRY’S Subs, 1509 Margaret St., 674-2794. 7895 Normandy Blvd., 781-7600. 8102 Blanding Blvd., 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. METRO DINER, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-Q, 4838 Highway Ave.,
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YES MAN
Johnny Mendez keeps it simple at this SOUTHSIDE GEM corn tortilla, and vegetarians can load up on cheese WHEN DINING OUT ON MEXICAN CUISINE, and beans. the perks are many. It’s hard to beat unlimited chips and salsa, 2-for-1 margaritas, and dishes On a personal note, I spent much of my college guaranteed to be covered in cheese. Mexican food, life in Sí Señor’s purple booths, since the restaurant however, isn’t always Mexican food. It could be Texaccepts Ozzie Bucks – the standard payment Mex, or any one of a number of variations a native method for a poor UNF student. My favorite meal of Mexico would not recognize. is No. 1 on the menu: Mexican Tacos ($5.99). No. Sí Señor’s authentic Mexican recipes come 1 includes two tacos, but I usually add a third, plus from Guanajuato, or, more accurately, straight rice and beans for an additional $2.99. Study fuel, from the kitchen of Johnny Mendez’s mother. If OK. For the meat filling, I prefer the al pastor, which you’re eating at this Jacksonville gem tucked is spun on a spit, like the way Lebanese chefs away on St. Johns Bluff, you’re experiencing the cook shawarma. Mendez says Mexico only recently meals of Mendez’s childhood. adopted this cooking style, and that few restaurants cook al pastor this way. Mendez, who moved here at age 5, graduated The Mexican Tacos are topped with cilantro and with a degree in mechanical engineering. Unable onions and wrapped in a double to afford residency in a dorm layer of corn tortillas. It’s a while seeking said degree, SÍ SEÑOR simple taco, and that’ simplicity he lived in an apartment off 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., is what makes it so amazing. campus, where he soon realized Ste. 103, Southside, 564-2444, The meat is incredibly flavorful he’d starve if he didn’t learn sisenorfreshmex.com and goes well with any of Sí how to cook. Enter Mendez’s Señor’s six salsas. Add a dollop mother, who visited him on of guacamole, and the result is creamy, spicy, and weekends and taught him how to make the meals borderline heavenly. he’d always enjoyed. Mendez has stuck with those I was never a fan of horchata until I tried it at Sí recipes ever since, without a single modification. Señor. The restaurant’s rice milk is made from scratch, “If my ancestors didn’t change it, why should I?” unlike many powdered horchatas. The drink is sweet, he asks. with hints of vanilla and cinnamon. I recommend Mendez describes Sí Señor as a hybrid between ordering a large horchata to balance the spiciness of a sit-down and a fast-order restaurant. Customers the food. I also recommend ordering horchata whether stroll inside, check out the menu above the counter, your food is spicy or not, because it’s delicious. and order within a few feet from the entrance. This Johnny Mendez knows he doesn’t have to guarantees that by the time diners are seated, their reinvent the wheel in order to put big smiles on the food is already in the works. well-fed faces of his customers – all he’s gotta do And the menu is straightforward. at his restaurant is just keep doing what his mother “I want to keep things simple,” says Mendez, taught him all those years ago – cook and serve gesturing toward the less-than-20-item menu. The excelente traditional Mexican fare. list might seem short, but Mendez believes every Rebecca Gibson customer is born with inalienable customization mail@folioweekly.com rights. “If you want something off the menu and if I have the product, why not?” Mendez asks. Follow all of Rebecca’s dining adventures and more at This means gluten-free eaters can exchange the somewhereinthecityjax.com. chimichanga’s flour tortilla for Sí Señor’s premium
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DINING DIRECTORY At Edgewood Bakery in Murray Hill, delicious treats abound, served with the sweetest smiles around.
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DEAR DAVI
THROWIN’ BACK SOME BREWDOGS
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HEY, EVERYBODY! IT’S DAVI. Looking for somewhere to toss back a brew with your furry friend? I’ve tapped a few local breweries who leave the doggy door open for business.
389-5551, monroessmokehousebbq.com. Wings, pulled pork, brisket, turkey, chicken, ribs. Sides: beans, baked beans, mac-n-cheese, collards. $$ K TO L Mon.-Sat.; D Fri. MOON RIVER PIZZA, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND. MOSSFIRE GRILL, 1537 Margaret St., 355-4434, mossfire .com. F Southwestern fish tacos, enchiladas. Happy hour Mon.-Sat. upstairs lounge, all day Sun. $$ FB K L D Daily O’BROTHERS IRISH PUB, 1521 Margaret St., 854-9300, obrothersirishpub.com. F Traditional shepherd’s pie with Stilton crust, Guinness mac-n-cheese, fish-n-chips. Patio dining. $$ FB K TO L D Daily PATTAYA Thai Grille, 1526 King, 503-4060. SEE BAYMEADOWS. rain dogs, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2015 BOJ winner. Bar food. $ D SOUTHERN ROOTS FILLING STATION, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Healthy, light vegan fare made fresh daily with local, organic ingredients. Specials, served on bread, local greens or rice, change daily. Coffees, teas. $ Tue.-Sun. SUSHI CAFÉ, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushicafejacksonville.com. F Monster Roll, Jimmy Smith Roll; faves Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoor or patio. $$ BW L D Daily
ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S PIZZA, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. CARMELO’S Marketplace & Pizzeria, 146 King St., 494-6658, carmelosmarketplace.com. New York-style brick-oven-baked pizza, freshly baked sub rolls, Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, stromboli and garlic herb wings. Outdoor seating, Wi-Fi. $$ BW TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE FLORIDIAN, 39 Cordova St., 829-0655, thefloridian staug.com. 2015 BOJ winner. Updated Southern fare of fresh ingredients. Vegetarian, gluten-free. Fried green tomato bruschetta, grits with shrimp, fish or tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D Wed.-Mon. GYPSY CAB COMPANY, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 8248244, gypsycab.com. F Local mainstay 25+ years. Varied menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. Sun. brunch. $$ FB R Sun.; L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES.
METRO DINER, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE SAN MARCO. MOJO OLD CITY BBQ, 5 Cordova St., 342-5264. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. ONE TWENTY THREE BURGER HOUSE, 123 King St., 687-2790. New spot from owners of Carmelo’s down the street. Premium burgers, made with beef sourced from renowned NYC butcher Schweid & Sons. Wood-fired pizzas, ice cream bar with Old World milkshakes. Outdoor dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE FOOD SHACK, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256, saltlifefoodshack.com. SEE BEACHES.
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BASIL THAI & SUSHI, 1004 Hendricks Ave., 674-0190, basilthaijax.com. F Authentic Thai dishes include Pad Thai, a variety of curries, tempuras, vegetarian dishes, seafood, stir-fry and daily specials. $$ FB L D Mon.-Sat. BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox. com. F Mediterranean/French inspired cuisine; steak frites, oak-fired pizza, new raw bar of seasonal selections. $$$ FB TO L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. EUROPEAN STREET Café, 1704 San Marco Blvd., 3989500. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. $ BW K L D Daily FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsushijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves a variety of fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu. $$ K L D Daily
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THE GROTTO WINE & TAPAS BAR, 2012 San Marco Blvd., 398-0726. F Artisanal cheese plates, empanadas, bruschetta, cheesecake. 60-plus wines by the glass. $$$ BW Tue.-Sun. HAMBURGER MARY’S Bar & Grille, 3333 Beach Blvd., Ste. 1, 551-2048, hamburgermarys.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. Wings, sammies, nachos, entrées, specialty drinks, burgers. $$ K TO FB L D Daily KITCHEN ON SAN MARCO, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. 2015 BOJ winner. New gastropub. Local and national craft beers, specialty cocktails, seasonal menu of fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Sunday brunch. $$ FB L D Daily MEZZE BAR & GRILL, 2016 Hendricks Ave., 683-0693, mezzejax.com. Classic cocktails, fresh basil martinis, 35 draft beers, local/craft brews, Mediterranean cuisine. Hookah patio. Happy hour. $$ FB D Daily METRO DINER, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metro diner.com. F 2015 BOJ winner. The original upscale diner. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. $$ B R L Daily MOJO BAR-B-QUE, 1607 University Blvd. W., 732-7200. F 2015 BOJ winner. SEE BEACHES. PIZZA PALACE, 1959 San Marco Ave., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, lasagna. Outside dining. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Ave., 398-3005, taverna sanmarco.com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; local produce, meats. Craft beers, craft cocktails. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN
ALHAMBRA THEATRE & DINING, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running dinner theater; Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tue.-Sun. BARBERITOS, 4320 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., Ste. 106, 807-9060. F SEE AMELIA ISLAND. DANCIN DRAGON, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888. BOGO lunches, Asian fusion menu. $$ FB K L D Daily DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. THE DIM SUM ROOM, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138D, 363-9888, thedimsumroom.com. Shrimp dumplings, beef tripe, sesame ball. Traditional Hong Kong noodles, barbecue. $ FB K L D Daily EUROPEAN STREET CAFÉ, 5500 Beach Blvd., 398-1717. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE RIVERSIDE. LARRY’S SUBS, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 6416499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE
GREEN ROOM BREWING 228 N. Third St., Jax Beach, 201-9283, greenroombrewery.com Wagging through the door, I was greeted by Max, the alpha dog of Green Room Brewing, and his dad, Mark, the owner. He told me well-mannered dogs are allowed and invited me to explore the grounds. Leashed and ready, I looped under high-top tables, sniffed around comfy couches, and even jumped atop a platform that’s a stage for homegrown talent to perform, according to Mark. After lapping a drink from a dog bowl, I followed Mark to the back, where he gave a spiel about the brewing process, but I was too distracted by patrons hitting a ball back-and-forth to pay much attention – Must. Have. That. Ball! AARDWOLF BREWING COMPANY 1461 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 301-0755, aardwolfbrewing.com After checking the scene at this hip San Marco tap house, I bellied up to the bar for a treat. My top dog, Cory, poured a pint of water in a bowl as told me the building is actually an old icehouse built in 1927. How cool is that? Cory and co-owner Preben Olsen serve up all kinds from European lagers to American craft beers – Belgian Pale Ale is the most popular. BOLD CITY BREWERY 2670 Rosselle St., Ste. 7, Riverside, 379-6551, boldcitybrewery.com I’d heard that Bold City Brewery accepts leashed, well-behaved canine friends of all breeds and sizes, so I decided to give it a shot. As soon as I
arrived, I could tell that the open space was begging for my attention. The taproom is for humans, so I sniffed around the bar and stared at the pictures posted beneath the counter. Taproom manager Kazzie offered me a bowl of water and told me each poster represents a different brew. “On tap, we serve favorites, like Killer Whale Cream Ale and Mad Manatee, but our best seller is Duke’s Cold Nose Brown Ale named after Duke, the owner’s late boxer,” Kazzie explained. A beer named after a dog? Wow! Maybe if I’m really good, I can have a beer named for me one day! Davi Growlers! VETERANS UNITED CRAFT BREWERY 8999 Western Way, Ste. 104, Southside, 253-3326, vubrew.com I’d heard this place – rumored to be clean as a hound’s tooth – was jumping sideways with dog-friendly activities. Ron, the brewmaster, took me on a tour and told me about his handcrafted beers. “We offer a variety of delicious ales, which are available on tap,” he explained. “Scout Dog is one of our most popular beers and is named in honor of military service dogs.” I’ll drink to that! Yappy Hour is from 3-10 p.m Davi mail@folioweekly.com _____________________________________ Davi is a brown dachshund with an appetite for adventure. He’s currently the “Out and About Scout” for Unleash Jacksonville Magazine and contributes a weekly column to Folio Weekly. He loves sweet potato treats, playing at the park with friends, and exploring the unknown.
BEASTS OF BURDEN: PET TIP OF THE WEEK BACK IN THE SADDLE Cooler weather likely means more opportunities for outdoor activity for you and your pooch. However, if your dog has had a lazy summer, like you, he or she may not be in fightin’ shape. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) recommends easing into those walks around the neighborhood, beginning with some shorter jaunts to avoid overworking your furry companion.
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MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA BAKERS, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE
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MONROE’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR B-Q, 10771 Beach Blvd., 996-7900, monroessmokehousebbq.com. SEE RIVERSIDE. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.com. 2015 BOJ winner. European-style dining influenced by Italy, Spain and the Mediterranean. Small plates, entrée-size portions, selections from charcuterie menu. $$$ BW TO R D Daily TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, tavernayamas.com. F Bite Club. Char-broiled kabobs, seafood, wines, desserts. Belly dancing. $$ FB K L D Daily
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
DICK’S WINGS & GRILL, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., Ste. 101, 619-9828. 2015 BOJ winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, daily specials. Happy hour; sangria. $ BW K TO L D Mon.-Sat. LARRY’S GIANT SUBS, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE ORANGE PARK.
MEGA PET ADOPTION First Coast No More Homeless Pets, Jacksonville Animal Care & Protective Services and Jacksonville Humane Society offer more than 1,000 pets – cats and dogs – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 9, 10 and 11 at Jacksonville Fairgrounds, 510 Fairgrounds Place, Downtown. All pets are spayed/ neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and have a city license. 520-7900, fcnmhp.org, petco.com. YAPPY HOUR HOWL-O-WEEN BASH The seventh annual bash is held 2-5 p.m. Oct. 11, with dog costume contest, pet expo, contests, prizes, drink specials and live music by DJ Kevin 2-5 p.m., George Aspinall 4-9 p.m., at The Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, jacksonvillelanding.com. DOGTOBERFEST First Coast No More Homeless Pets holds its annual Dogtoberfest during Beaches Oktoberfest, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 16, noon-10 p.m. Oct. 17 and noon-6 p.m. Oct. 18 at SeaWalk
Pavilion, First Street North, Jax Beach. Activities include a costume contest, live music, Chug ’N’ Run 5K, food trucks, craft beers, and oodles of poodles (and of course all kinds of dogs and cats) available for adoption. fcnmhp.org. ANIMAL RESCUE/ADOPTION There are groups organized for the rescue and eventual adoption of all kinds of animals – collies and shelties, corgis, westies, greyhounds, bassets, dachshunds, German Shepherds, Golden retrievers, cats, birds, poodles, akitas, big dogs, small dogs and toy breeds, rabbits, huskies, mastiffs, old dogs, the much-maligned pit bulls, shih tzus, reptiles – the folks involved in these groups are rabid … oops, not rabid rabid … very enthusiastic about the wellbeing of their particular breed or genus of animal, and most all animals in general. One website that’s a starting point is jaxanimals.com. Others to go to include jaxhumanesociety. org, nassauhumanesociety.com, starsofamelia.org, clayhumane.org, petrescue.org, sjcfl.us/animalcontrol/ petcenter.aspx and staugustinehumanesociety.org.
GUEST EDITORIAL
CLASS WARFARE, FLORIDA STYLE
FLORIDA GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT, AND THE state’s economic development arm, Enterprise Florida, recently teamed up to promote Florida’s business climate to Kentucky businesses. In a radio ad, they asked Kentuckians if they were tired of unions and high taxes, and touted Florida as a place that has neither “as a rightto-work state, with no income tax.” While Scott and his corporate functionaries tout these as state assets, they are actually liabilities for the majority of Floridians. Starting with the so-called “right-towork” law: It is a less than transparent, but highly effective, vehicle for weakening the ability of workers to organize, collectively bargain, and negotiate with their employers over work conditions. It prohibits mandatory union membership and the collection of union dues from workers represented by a union that collectively bargains on their behalf and is responsible for the wages, fringe benefits, and working conditions enjoyed by all employees. Under this law, workers are able to enjoy the benefits derived from a union workplace without joining the union and paying union dues. To appreciate the implications of such a law, consider an equivalent type of organization — the homeowners association. The right-to-work law would be equivalent to allowing residents who move into a neighborhood the freedom to opt out of paying annual homeowner association fees. While all residents would benefit from the amenities and community upkeep that enhances their property values, they would be free to choose not to pay the annual levy. This would obviously undermine the viability of neighborhood associations and their ability to finance the costs of maintaining common community space. And please don’t be confused by the manipulative name of the law or the rhetoric. It is a piece of anti-worker legislation couched in an Orwellian double-speak misnomer. It is not a “right-to-a-job” law, it is not a “rightto-a-living wage” law, and it is not a “rightto-be-treated-with-dignity-at-the-workplace” law. The supporters of the “right-to-work” law would oppose every one of those pieces of legislation because they would interfere with the right of employers to fire you, pay you a minimum wage, and treat you any way they desire. The right-to-work law is championed, largely by corporate interests, for the very simple reason that it makes unionization of workers much more difficult. This is confirmed by the lower rates of unionization in right-towork states and, accordingly, the lower wages and poorer working conditions for all workers. While right-to-work laws may be attractive to businesses looking to pay low wages and
avoid negotiating with workers over the conditions of their employment, the law does not translate into a better quality of life for the state’s residents. A recent study by Politico, ranking the states on quality of life measures associated with education, crime, employment, and income, found that the bottom five states all had “right-to-work” laws, while four of the top five had no such law. Attracting non- or anti-union businesses that pay low wages also imposes an additional cost on a state’s taxpayers. To take the most widely reported example, the stridently anti-union employer Walmart pays wages that are so low, fulltime workers must rely on government assistance to make ends meet. It’s estimated that Walmart’s low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid, and subsidized housing. In Florida, the total cost of assisting Walmart’s workers was $429 million. The total budgetary cost for all low-wage work in Florida was more than $1 billion. In essence, Florida taxpayers are subsidizing the low wage compensation and, in turn, the high profits of many corporations. In spite of “right-to-work” laws, workers have struggled to organize workplaces and, consequently, employers have resorted to other strategies. The class war is fought on many fronts. There was a time when employers would simply hire company goons to rough up workers who were trying to organize a union. Today, there’s a more sophisticated method, involving the use of law firms specializing in tactics and strategies to assist employers in the effort to keep the workplace union-free. This evolution in tactics has been nicely described as “from brassknuckles to briefcases,” but the intent is the same — to prevent workers from establishing an organization to represent their interests. The most notorious national union-avoidance law firm is Jackson Lewis (with offices in four Florida cities, including Jacksonville, and 49 additional locations nationwide) who describes its service not as union-busting, but “preventive labor relations.” It offers regular workshops for managers and owners intent on keeping the workplace union-free. Anti-union corporations, like Walmart and Target, engage in a less than subtle indoctrination of newly hired workers during orientation sessions, on the evils of organized labor. If employees are involved in union discussions, they’re often harassed and eventually terminated. In the building and construction sector, a key source of employment in the state of Florida, an organization claiming to represent the industry (though a recent study indicates their membership amounts to only 1 percent of
For workers, Florida’s BUSINESS CLIMATE is hardly appealing U.S. construction businesses), the Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC), was formed for and continues to be dedicated to the defeat of any union organization within their work force. They have consistently lobbied against any legislation that would enhance the ability of workers to organize and collectively bargain with employers in the building and construction industry, and beyond. It’s hard to understand the unrelenting hostility to organized labor. It apparently isn’t enough that the percent of workers in a union has fallen to its lowest level in 97 years at 11 percent; it’s not enough that income inequality has swelled to record levels; it’s not enough that the concentration of wealth has reached Third World proportions; it’s not enough that average worker compensation has stagnated since the 1980s; and it’s not enough that all of these were contributing factors in the recent and lingering 2007 financial capitalist crisis. The corporate plutocracy wants more. Labor unions, the one remaining organizational vehicle that has historically advanced the cause of worker rights, higher wages and benefits, and progressive political mobilization, must be snuffed out altogether. Or, as one right-wing corporate strategist put it: “We want to take labor out at the knees.” The late, great economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that one of the good things about American capitalism was the fact that there existed “countervailing power” to prevent the corporate elite from political and economic domination of the society. This countervailing power can exist only if workers have the ability to organize and assert their interests. Right-towork laws are designed to make that less likely. The other factor advertised by Gov. Scott and Enterprise Florida as bait to lure businesses to the state is the absence of a state income tax. While this might sound good to most citizens, and certainly to the rich, what it inevitably means is that tax revenue, which must come from other sources, is collected through regressive (versus progressive) forms of taxation (e.g., sales taxes, fees). Thus those least able to pay — low and middleincome workers — carry a larger tax burden as a percentage of their income than do the wealthiest. More specifically, in 2015, according to Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy’s Tax Inequality Index, Florida has the second-most regressive state and local tax system in the country. In states with regressive tax structures, incomes are less equal after state and local taxes than before. Neither a “right-to-work” law, nor the absence of an income tax, has served workers in state. Currently Florida has the seventhhighest concentration of low-income workers, at 22 percent (Oxfam America) and the ninthhighest percentage of low-income working families, at 38 percent (The Working Poor Families Project). Rather than spending time poaching jobs from other states on the basis of union-bashing and regressive taxation, Rick Scott might consider proposing policies that would actually improve working conditions and compensation for those workers who currently reside in the state, and are struggling to make ends meet. David Jaffee Professor of Sociology, University of North Florida mail@folioweekly.com
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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY
PETRIFIED WOOD, NEW UNDERWEAR, TURTLES & SUNFLOWERS ARIES (March 21-April 19): If I warned you not to trust anyone, I hope you’d reject my simplistic fear-mongering. If I suggested you trust everyone unconditionally, I hope you’d dismiss my delusional naiveté. It’s important to acknowledge the smart approach is far more diffi cult than those two extremes. Evaluate each person and situation on a case-by-case basis. There may be unpredictable folks who are trustworthy some of the time, but not always. Can you be affably openhearted and slyly discerning? It’s very important to do so in the next 16 days. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I meditated on your astrological aspects, I had a feeling to go to a gem fair I’d heard about. There, I was dazzled to see a vast spread of minerals, fossils, gemstones and beads. Two stones caught my attention, as if they’d reached out telepathically: chrysoprase, a green gemstone, and petrified wood, a mineralized fossil streaked with earth tones. An explanatory note by the chrysoprase said that if kept close, it “helps make conscious what has been unconscious.” Ownership of the petrified wood was described as conferring “the power to remove obstacles.” I knew these were the exact oracles you needed. I bought both stones, and put them on an altar dedicated to your success in the weeks ahead. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): George R.R. Martin has written a series of fantasy novels collectively called A Song of Ice and Fire. They’ve sold 60 million copies and been adapted for the TV series Game of Thrones. Martin says pet turtles he had as a kid inspired his master work. They lived in a toy castle in his bedroom, and he pretended they were knights and kings and other royal characters. “I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom,” he’s shared. The next seven months are a perfect time to make a comparable leap. What’s your version of Martin’s turtles? What valuable asset can you make it? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Urban Dictionary editors have a unique definition of the word “outside.” They say it’s a vast, uncomfortable place that surrounds your home. It has no ceiling, walls or carpets, and has annoying insects and random loud noises. There’s a big yellow ball in the sky always moving around and inconveniently changing the temperature. Worse, the “outside” has strange people constantly doing deranged and confusing things. Does this match your current sense of what “outside” means? If so, that’s OK. For now, enjoy the hell out of being inside. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all go through phases when we’re tempted to believe in the factuality of every hostile, judgmental, and random thought our monkey mind generates. Not predicting this is such a time for you, but be extra skeptical of your monkey mind’s fabrications. Right now it’s very important to think as coolly and objectively as possible. Don’t be duped by anyone’s crazy talk, including your own. Be extra vigilant in the quest for raw truth. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know about the ancient Greek general Pyrrhus? At the Battle of Asculum in 279 BCE, his army technically defeated Roman forces, but the casualties were so many he ultimately lost the war. You can and must avoid a similar scenario. Fighting for your cause is good only if it doesn’t wreak turmoil and bewilderment. To avoid a total loss, engineer a result where both sides win. Be a cagey compromiser. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I could give you a birthday present, it’d be a map to your future treasure. Do you know which 36 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 7-13, 2015
one I mean? Think about it as you fall asleep the next eight nights. Can’t give you instructions to find it. The cosmic powers tell me you’ve not yet earned that right. The second-best gift I can offer? Clues about how to earn it. Clue No. 1: Meditate the differences between what your ego wants and what your soul needs. No. 2: Ask yourself, “What’s the most unripe part of me?”, then plan to ripen it. No. 3: Invite your deep mind to give insight you haven’t been brave enough to work with until now. $4. Take one medium-sized bold action daily. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Galway Kinnell’s poem “Middle of the Way” is about his solo trek through the deep snow on Oregon’s Mount Gauldy. As he wanders in the wilderness, he remembers an important truth about himself: “I love the day, the sun … But I know [that] half my life belongs to the wild darkness.” According to my astrological omenreading, it’s a good time to refresh awe and reverence for the wild darkness – and recall half your life belongs to it. It’ll bring another experience Kinnell describes: “an inexplicable sense of joy, as if some happy news had been transmitted to me directly, by-passing the brain.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The last time I walked into a McDonald’s and ordered a meal was 1984. Nothing the fast food chain serves appeals to my taste or morality. I do admire its adaptability, though. In cow-loving India, McDonald’s serves only vegetarian fare – deep-fried cheese and potato patties. In Israel, kosher McFalafels are available. Mexicans order McMuffins with refried beans and pico de gallo. At a Singapore McDonald’s, order McRice burgers. This is your approach right now. Adjust your offerings for your audience. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ve been flirting with your “alone at the top” reveries. One night you may dream of riding on a Ferris wheel that malfunctions, with you stranded at the highest point. What’s going on? I suspect in one sense, you’re zesty and farseeing. Your competence and confidence are waxing. At the same time, you may be out of touch with what’s going on at ground level. Your connection to depths isn’t as intimate as that with heights. Moral of the story? Get in closer contact with your roots, be more attentive to your support system, buy new shoes and underwear. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s been several years since I planted a garden. My workload is too intense to devote enough time to that particular pleasure. So eight weeks ago, I was surprised when a single renegade sunflower began blooming in the dirt by my porch. How did the seed get there? The wind? A passing bird that dropped a potential meal? The gorgeous interloper eventually grew to four feet tall with a boisterous yellow flower head. Every day, I muttered a prayer of thanks for its guerrilla blessing. A comparable phenomenon comes to you in the days ahead. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The next few days are a good time to dig up what’s been buried. You can, if you choose, discover hidden agendas, expose deceptions, see beneath masks, and dissolve delusions. I must ask: Is that really something you want? It’d be fun and sexy to liberate so much trapped emotion and suppressed energy, but it could stir up a mind-bending ruckus that sends you on a healing quest. Go for the gusto, but I’ll understand if you play it safe. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
OK, no more Ms. Nice Copy Editor. The word limit is FORTY (40).
Many of you send ISUs with waaaay more than that, and we cut ’em down. If they lose vital info for you to connect with the target, so be it. It’s your own damn fault. Who’d hook up with a dork who can’t even count? TALL, DARK, HANDSOME, PATRIOTS FAN Jags/Pats game. You: Pats shirt, jeans; with friends by bus watching game. Me: Short wavy auburn hair, Jags tank, cut-off shorts. Locked eyes as I went to sit. Heart skipped a beat at your handsomeness. Drinks on me, celebrate your win? :) When: Sept. 27. Where: Mellow Mushroom Jax Beach. #1563-0930 BOWL ME OVER Me: In the mood to be pinned. You: Lakers jersey. Bowling but said you’d rather play video games. Said you’re about to take a trip into Asia. Can we bowl balls together in Asia? When: Sept. 25. Where: Jax Lanes. #1564-0930 HUNGER GAMES Hungry and got hungrier when you entered. Told me you were going east to eat genuine Asian. Wanted to talk more but you had to go because your cousin, Jimmy, owed you a quarter. Let’s eat out together? When: Sept. 14. Where: China Wok. #1562-0923 NICE SMILE You: Brown hair, thin bearded guy, nice smile, bright eyes, blue “Good” sneaker T-shirt, with friends. Me: Short, thin brunette, blue/white tank, table across yours. Caught your eye, smiled. Like to know you better. Grab a drink? When: Sept. 11. Where: World of Beer Southside. #1561-0916 ECLIPSE RIVERSIDE 9/11 Super-cute brunette, ’80s night, black romper, white sandals. With group. Me: Solo; noticed matching outfi t friend telling you to ask me to dance. Wanted to approach. Group left. Second chance? I’d dance the night away with you. When: Sept. 11. Where: Eclipse Riverside. #1560-0916 FIRE BUG I saw you, late night on a Friday. You were on fire, so hot. Couldn’t tell if it was your flaming personality or that fl aming staff. Night dives, long chats, but why you didn’t you ever text me? When: Sept. 4. Where: Beach. #1559-0916 YOU WALKED IN TATTOO SHOWIN’ ISU: Black leggings, open shirt, chest tat, soft voice, boots, hopeful eyes, smooth skin. You said black don’t crack. Love to have good time with you; you said futile; keep trying. Sorry about bad night. When: Sept. 4. Where: Parental Home Road. #1558-0916 BLUE ORBS You: Jean shorts, blonde hair, biggest blue eyes I’ve ever seen. I swear they glowed; when I fi rst saw you, lights in the place went dim. Can’t remember shirt color; just passing through, mesmerized by your eyes. When: Sept. 2. Where: Bold Bean Riverside. #1557-0909 YOU LEFT ME … SPEECHLESS The Prince Party. Your purple face stopped my heart. Wanna see your moves, your lights, every night. Let’s meet again: you, me and Prince. We can be silent together. When: Aug. 28. Where: 1904 Music Hall. #1556-0909 60-YEAR-OLD HIPPIE CHICK You still believe in those 60s values, modern technology, bikinis, no money worries, meditation, humanism, being groovy. Me: Bearded, beyond cool beach bum. Us. Why wait? Let’s fall in love, live at beach. Anything’s possible. When: Aug. 20. Where: Mickler’s Landing. #1555-0909 NATURE’S OWN BY MY OWN! You: Tall, handsome Nature’s Own truck driver delivering bread to Burger King; most beautiful guy I’ve ever seen! Me: Ordering drive-thru breakfast. You smiled at me, our eyes met.
Let’s meet 6:15p Sept. 5 @ BK. When: Aug. 29. Where: BK, Blanding/Kingsley. #1554-0902 EVERY SUPERWOMAN NEEDS A SUPERMAN You: Tall, dark, collared shirt buttoned to top, shorts, Jordans, drink, surrounded by ratchets. Me: Average height, slim, slacks, blouse, hair in bun, lured by lightskin man (insider); chose one another instead. 1 year, counting. Love you! When: April 30, 2014. Where: Jim’s Place. #1553-0902 TALL, DRUNK AND HANDSOME You: Hanging out in a sleeveless Budweiser shirt. I like your shitty leg tattoos. Me: Overgrown Mohawk and too many hooker shots. Bake me some bread and get pretty with me. When: June. Where: Your lap, Birdies. #1552-0902 I FOUND YOUR RENTAL CAR CARD ISU sitting with your family; you’re so good-looking I needed to keep something to remember you by. I took your rental car company frequent renter card. I’ll probably add lots of miles to account. When: Aug. 12. Where: Mellow Mushroom. #1551-0902 CAN’T STAND THE HEAT! You made me turkey/cheese sandwich; could listen to Philly accent all night! You loved my dimple; looked as I walked away. Committed to show you how hot a kitchen can get with spicy Latina! When: Aug. 12. Where: Hospital cafeteria. #1549-0902 BLIND DATE MOVIE ROMANCE Approaching slowly; tall, dark, handsome chocolate man! Me: Hello, nice to meet you. You: You, too. What’ll we see? Me: No idea; should be interesting! 10 years later, still together! ILY, baby! Your wife. When: 2005. Where: AMC Regency. #1548-0826 SUNNY & DARK You: The most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen. Me: Yearning for you. When you walked by, it took my breath away and the thought still does. Next lifetime! When: Every day. Where: Riverside. #1547-0826 PEAR-SHAPED MAINTENANCE MAN, EQUIPMENT BELT ISU pushing a cart of light bulbs. Me: Big-boned Russian at hallway end. Your slight limp as you walk is sexy; halfcocked smiled made my knees weaken. Please come over and light up my night! When: Aug. 5. Where: Hospital hallway. #1546-0819 BRILLIANT, AMAZING BLOND WITH DOGGY You: Simply, you’re brilliant, attractive petite blond, glasses, Jackie O personality. Walking small dog. Me: International guy Brit/ South African; falling in love. You’re the mint in my Julep. Attracted by your laugh, personality, Ms. Scarlett. When: Aug. 7. Where: Downtown Jax. #1545-0819 @ KELSEA BALLERINI CONCERT You: Petite, doe-eyed, STUNNING honey blonde. 5’3”, fashionably dressed. Me: Mature, 5’7”, bronze/beige Tommy Bahama shirt. Eyes locked nearly entire concert, four feet away. Pretty red truck, begs you slide in. Forever love songs to write. When: July 11. Where: Jax Beach. #1544-0812 BLONDE AT GARAGE You: Bleached blonde hair, served my friends and me at Garage. Me: Cute brunette, too drunk to ask for your number. Flirted all night; can’t stop thinking of your smile. Hope I see it again soon. ;). When: July 22. Where: The Garage, Riverside. #1543-0812 FIRE AND ICE You: Smokin’ redhead, Moet Ice white shirt. Me: Sweaty, self-loather yearning for another obligatory laugh. Sweat disguises tears of desire. Your comforting movement made my soul blossom, erasing fears. Let’s be Adam and Eve in your enchanted garden. When: Aug. 3. Where: Riverside Liquors. #1542-0812
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1 Pot money 5 Granola bit 8 Harold & ___ Go to White Castle 13 Transaction of interest 14 “___ oughta...” 15 “Fur ___” (Beethoven piece) 16 Credit card figure 17 “___ silly question... “ 18 Arrest 19 Person using a certain wrench? (Ted/Ted) 22 Celebratory poem 23 “Before” to poets of old 24 Linger in the tub 25 Ballooned 26 +, on a battery 28 King Kong actress Fay 30 Baudolino author Umberto 32 Beer menu option 33 Dispatches 35 All-out 39 With 41-Across, what happens when a train worker puts in overtime? (Bill/Bill) 41 See 39-Across 43 First name in perfumery 44 Anxious feeling 46 Movie studio locale 47 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Lee 49 “Believe ___ Not” 50 Baton Rouge campus, briefly 51 Artificial grass 54 In ___ (harmonized) 56 “What can Brown do for you?” sloganeer 58 Kill Bill actress Thurman 59 Castle entrances reserved only for horsemen? (Ted/Bill) 63 Flower’s friend 65 Blazing Saddles actress Madeline
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(Fellow Travelers) 21 ___ out an existence 25 Subculture known for wearing black 26 Subject of a Magritte painting (or is it?) 27 Bloom County 2015 character 29 Stephen of The Crying Game 31 Dance 34 Be flexible, in a way 36 Does some face recognition? 37 Love, deified 38 Q followers 40 Piece of lettuce 42 Lance of the bench 45 1978 Cronyn/Tandy play, with The 48 Press Your Luck network 51 Edible root 52 Taste whose name means “savoriness” in Japanese 53 First Blood mercenary 55 “Uh-oh!” 57 Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev 59 Part of DINK 60 Big bang beginner 61 Fuzzy red monster 62 Recites 64 Venture capital?
Solution to Up with People! (9/30/15)
York University Center for Justice study released in September warned that, unless major upgrades are made quickly, 43 states will conduct 2016 elections on electronic voting machines at least 10 years old and woefully suspect. Those states use machines no longer made or poorly supported, and those in 14 states are more than 15 years old. There are apprehensions over antiquated security (risking miscounts, potential for hacking), but also fear of election-day breakdowns causing long lines at the polls, depressing turnout and dampening confidence in the overall fairness of the process. The NYU center estimated the costs of upgrading at greater than $1 billion.
THAT’S THE PITS In a “manifesto” to
celebrate “personal choice and expression” in the standard of beauty “in a society that already places too many harmful standards on women,” according to a July New York Times report, some now are dyeing their armpit hair. At the Free Your Pits website, and events like “pit-ins” in Seattle and Pensacola, envelopepushing women offer justifications ranging from political resistance to, according to one, “want[ing] to freak out [her] in-laws.” Popular colors: turquoise, hot pink, purple, neon yellow.
BUT, PA, IT’S A WHOLE OTHER STATE
In August, actress Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie), 51, announced she’ll run for Congress from Michigan’s 8th Congressional District — even though she’s on the hook to the IRS and California for back taxes totaling $470,000. Gilbert, a former Screen Actors Guild president and AFL-CIO Executive Council member, promised she and her actor-husband would pay off her tax bill by the year 2024.
MEN ARE SIMPLE Five years after NOTW
reported it, Japan’s Love Plus virtual-girlfriend app is even more popular, serving a growing segment of the country’s lonely males — those beyond peak marital years and resigned to artificial “relationships.” Love Plus models (Rinko, Manaka and Nene) are chosen mostly
(and surprisingly) not for physical attributes, but for flirting and companionship. One user described his “girlfriend” (in a September Time magazine item) as “someone to say good morning to in the morning and … goodnight to at night.” Said a Swedish observer, “You wouldn’t see [this phenomenon] in Europe or America.” One problem: Men can get stuck in a “love loop” waiting for the next app update — with, they hope, more “features.”
RESEARCH MAKES ME HURL Scientists
at North Carolina State and Wake Forest universities developed a machine that vomits, realistically, enabling the study of “aerosolization” of dangerous norovirus. “Vomiting Larry” can replicate the process of retching, including the pressure at which particles are expelled (which, along with volume and “other vomit metrics,” can teach the extent of the virus’ threat in large populations). The researchers use a harmless stand-in “bacteriophage” for the studies because norovirus is highly infectious even in the laboratory.
NOT A TYPO, OFFICER – JUST ANOTHER DUMBASS Authorities in Winter Haven,
Florida, arrested James Garfield, 28, with the typical faux-police set-up — Ford Crown Victoria with police lights, uniform with goldstar badge, video camera, Taser, and business cards that said “law enforcement.” Explained Garfield lamely, the “law enforcement” was just a “printing mistake.”
NOT A COP In nearby Frostproof, Florida,
Thomas Hook, 48, was also arrested in September, his 14th law-enforcementimpersonator arrest since 1992. His paraphernalia: the Crown Vic with a prisoner cage, scanner, spotlight, “private investigator” and “fugitive recovery” badges, and a bogus card identifying him as a retired Marine Corps major. Hook’s one other connection to law enforcement: He is a registered sex offender. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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