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FROM THE EDITOR
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The ONLY THING worse than sexual assault is how we treat survivors EVERY WOMAN HAS AT LEAST ONE STORY. Most of us have scads of them. They’re about the boys who touched us intimately without invitation in the hallways of our schools, the bosses and coworkers and professors and coaches and acquaintances who routinely made unwelcome comments about our breasts, our hips, our asses, our genitals, our mouths or, if we didn’t take it with a smile, our periods. These past weeks have been particularly trying for women. First we endured the tape in which a presidential candidate bragged about repeatedly committing sexual assault, then we, unsurprised, read the accounts of women who came forward and said, yes, he assaulted me and, no, I did not like it or want it to happen. Then, still unsurprised, we watched the man and his minions go after his alleged victims. Witnessing the women who were brave enough to tell the world that they were sexually assaulted by Donald Trump get publicly raked over the coals has been a harrowing reminder that just as awful as the crimes that are committed against us in plain sight every single day is the way that we are treated for reporting them. Attacking sexual assault survivors is a vile blood sport with a rabid fan base. We can attempt to prove our honesty with statistics: RAINN reports that someone is sexually assaulted in the U.S. every two minutes — or that one in six women will be the victim of attempted or completed rape in her lifetime — or that out of a thousand rapes, only six rapists will be incarcerated. But these facts in black-and-white seem not to weigh in our favor when we report being on the receiving end of unwanted sexual contact. The truth is that we all have had at least one handsy man in our lives, a man who appropriates our flesh for his pleasure and entertainment regardless of our feelings on the matter. Women tell each other the dirty truth about these men in the secret dialogue our gender shares. Sometimes we even laugh about it. Unwanted touching isn’t a joke, but these men, who “merely” touch and grab and fondle, are harmless compared to the rapists and molesters who puncture our histories like wounds that never fully heal. And sometimes it’s easier to laugh because the alternative is too raw.
And it’s easier to keep the secret among our sex because too often we are branded liars for reporting it. We can tell you about the stranger who put his hand between our legs on public transit. We can plea for mercy, compassion and change. We can open our scars and show you the horrible beneath mended flesh. But what good does that do if you refuse to believe us? Once we share our rape story with you, we’ll never get it back, and our fathers and boyfriends and children and grocers will all know the sordid details of the worst thing that ever happened to us. And we are all achingly aware that if we share our assault, one of our ugliest memories, it may become a weapon against us. That’s why ‘Do you want to hear my rape story?’ is a line many sexual assault survivors will go to our graves without ever uttering aloud. That’s why sexual assault is one of the most underreported of all crimes. Instead, we paint a smile on our faces, put IT behind us and Move On With Our Lives. But the memories lurk and the scars only mask the damage. Then we hear another woman get eviscerated for accusing a man of unwanted sexual conduct. And we remember that time we were … We know all the angles, that it’s not our fault, we didn’t ask for this to happen, he’s the wrongdoer, not us, we’re innocent, innocent, innocent. But we’re not innocent, not in our hearts. That innocence has been spoiled by a man who took what was never offered. If rape culture isn’t real, as some insist, then why do we keep getting raped? In a world where even seemingly good men doubt statistics about sexual assault, where people turn on a woman the moment she accuses a man of assault, where the best argument many can come up with for electing a sexual predator is that his opponent is married to one but, nevertheless, we shouldn’t believe his accusers who are just disgusting liars, we’re left to wonder if it’s some anomaly or the result of high-risk behavior on the part of all the women in our lives because we don’t even know a single woman who hasn’t been sexually harassed or assaulted by a man. But what do I know; I’m just a woman and a survivor. So I must be lying. Claire Goforth claire@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 19-25, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 5
GETTING THE CHILLS HORROR FILMS @ SUN-RAY CINEMA Before slasher-and-gore flicks, before the current veritable glut of zombie flicks, even
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Hardcore punk legends MDC formed in 1981 in the same potent punk scene of Austin, Texas that spawned fellow badasses The Dicks and Big Boys. Led by founding frontman Dave Dictor, MDC (whose initials have stood for everything from Millions of Dead Cops to Multi-Death Corporation) has given us three-plus decades of pioneering agitpunk ethos, with aggro masterpieces touching on LGBTQ and animal rights, pro-racial equality, and anti-capitalist screeds. Long may they thrash! 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 with Wartorn and Powerball, Jack Rabbits, San Marco, $10 advance; $15 day of, jaxlive.com.
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Warm up that 20-sided die! Wasabicon is a pop culture, fantasy, sci-fi and gaming convention, featuring vendors, artists, all-day tabletop and video gaming, Cosplay, and appearances by Sean Schemmel (voice of “Goku” in Dragonball Z), Tara Sands (voice of “Bulbasaur” in Pokémon), comic book artist Larry Watts (Army of Darkness), and many more multigenre-filled delights. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, Lexington Hotel & Conference Center Riverwalk, Southbank, $40 weekend pass; $25 Saturday; $20 Sunday; free for kids three and under, wasabicon.com.
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“They did the ‘Monster (Sour) Mash’!” Corpses & Cocktails at MOSH is an adult camp-in featuring a cocktail hour offering ghoulish libations, a horrifyingly good buffet, Jacksonville’s Chief Medical Examiner Valerie Rao, who shares her experiences of literally dealing with the dead, a “Practice Safe Hex” show, candy/alcohol pairings and telescope viewings on the rooftop, palm reading and tarot cards, Ouija board action, and a screening of Night of the Living Dead, in the planetarium. 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-8 a.m. Oct. 23, Museum of Science & History, Southbank, $125; MOSH members get 20 percent off; ages 21 and up, themosh.org.
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The TEDxJacksonville 2016 conference features 12 speakers – Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway (pictured), Rick Baker, Gary Chartrand, Dr. Gay Culverhouse, Cornelia Dinca, Dane Grey, Jeanine Hoff, Sheena Koshy, Donna Orender, Dr. Mark Tumeo, Dr. JeffriAnne Wilder and Amber Yang – sharing their experiences on the theme of challenge and pushing boundaries, along with performances by The Chris Thomas Band, Odd?Rodd and Tomboi, as well as breakfast, lunch, refreshments and an Afterglow Street Party. 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, The Florida Theatre, Downtown, $85, floridatheatre.com.
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The media is SLEEPING on Congressional races this year THE POLITICAL DOWNFALL OF CORRINE BROWN was an interesting narrative earlier this year. The Democrat from Congressional District 5 got a lot of coverage. The Florida Times-Union began probing the One Door For Education “charity” for which the Congresswoman fundraised, and whether the money that charity raised had actually gone toward educational purposes, or was instead being spent on Brown and her chief of staff Ronnie Simmons. She was indicted in July; media from throughout the state covered the event, which was held in a courtroom so packed, even the preachers who came to support Rep. Brown couldn’t get in. From there, the primary campaign got hot coverage also … this, despite the fact that one of Brown’s opponents was from Tallahassee and the other one, from Jacksonville, was one of those candidates who campaigned for a year and never figured out that the key was fundraising. A TV debate in August showed Brown saying that the federal charges against her were about as grounded as accusing the moderator of being a pedophile. She then doubled down on this gruesome grotesquerie when being asked questions by the media after the debate. Brown lost her primary. By the time Aug. 30 arrived, everyone on her side seemed to know it. Only the most indebted hangerson showed up to her victory party, which featured the most funereal version of the Electric Slide imaginable. And since Aug. 30, what coverage has there been of the race between Democrat Al Lawson and Republican nominee Glo Smith in CD 5? Precious little of it, other than what I have devoted to it. In part, that’s because neither of those two candidates has shown any particular willingness to engage Jacksonville media. Lawson, a Tallahassee guy, simply hasn’t bothered engaging the media, beyond a time in August when Trump’s Florida chair, Susie Wiles, introduced the Democrat (and colleague at lobbying firm Ballard Partners) to members of the local press. Smith, who has run for Corrine’s seat before, likewise has been resistant to do interviews with the press. The result is problematic: two candidates are running for a high-profile seat in Congress, one that (if Lawson wins) becomes a Tallahassee-first seat, one where Jacksonville is an adjunct to the concerns of the state capital. And their views, their abilities to do the job, their engagement in national affairs — none of this is being vetted by the press. When compared to the luridness of the federal charges against Brown, the quotidian nature of actually doing the job in D.C. (as Brown 8 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 19-25, 2016
did effectively for almost a quarter-century) doesn’t matter to most of the media. Last week, I was the only member of the press covering what looks to be the only debate (at San Jose Country Club) between Smith and Lawson. You won’t see the debate on TV because no broadcast outlets showed up, not even a random cameraman. And you won’t read about it in the print press: They all had other places to be. That’s a shame. Not because they missed anything good. But because both Smith and Lawson have egregious gaps in knowledge that, because the mainstream media didn’t show, no one will know about. For example, when the conversation turned to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, free trade, and dredging of the port, Lawson expressed his support for dredging. After all, we have to compete with other ports … such as in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lawson said, adding that the port needs to be dredged, despite the “little bit of a problem” the St. Johns Riverkeeper may have with it. And then the conversation turned to military spending. Smith wants to cut the Department of Education to fund more of it, as we face existential threats, including a potential “terror attack.” “China, Iran, Japan … they’re equipping their people,” Smith said, adding that “our equipment we know is not up to standard.” Japan hasn’t posed much of a threat since WWII, suggesting that before the Republican phases out the Department of Education, she may want to see if they have a history book from the last quarter-century or so to lend her. The debate, which I covered in full for Florida Politics, continued in this uninspiring vein, with candidates exposing basic ignorance on issues ranging from the proposed wall on the Mexican border to the national debt. If there were any difference between the two, it would be that Lawson (who actually has legislative experience) had a bit more substantive grasp of the issues than Smith, who is most comfortable with the kind of red meat talking points that sound great in addresses to GOP groups but don’t really resonate with actual voters. Lawson’s going to take this one, of course. And Jacksonville Democrats will start planning which of the deep bench of veteran Dem pols will take him on in the 2018 primary. But when it comes to knowledge of the issues, when it comes to having a representative with the actual ability to navigate D.C., to bring appropriations back home, we are screwed compared to the Corrine era. A.G. Gancarski mail@folioweekly.com Twitter/AGGancarski
THE MAIL TAKE WHAT YOU GET AND REFUSE TO LIKE IT
RE.: “Privileges, Scourges and Good v. Evil,” by Claire Goforth, Sept. 28 THE POINT MADE RECENTLY ABOUT “WHITE Privilege” was a damn good shot. So cowed has society become, particularly the underclass, that we consider it a privilege to survive a routine traffic stop. Other examples include happily paying $1,200 a month to live in substandard housing, considering ourselves lucky to find work that pays eight dollars an hour, and agreeing with the notion if we want a better job, the only way to get one is to borrow upwards of $100,000. These are the realities we choose to live with because many of us will have something better to do on a Tuesday evening about a month from now than spend five minutes in a voting booth. Wow. Eric M. Mongar Sr. via email
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ENOUGH! OUR KIDS ARE HAVING TO LIVE Trump’s filth! Our kids do not need to live with this vulgar Trump another day after Nov 8. Hillary is the absolute best to Move America Forward! Hillary 2016! Sonja Fitch via email
WORLD WAR III = JOBS, JOBS, JOBS RE.: “Beating Back the Flames of Recession,” by J. Scott Gaillard, Oct. 5 THERE HAVE BEEN MANY FREE MARKET challenges to the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, most notably by Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard. What they have recognized, as opposed to Keynes, is the primacy of one simple matter in all of economics: the law of supply and demand. Try as they might, Keynes and all his acolytes cannot repeal it. They can frustrate it, but it remains.
As far as the decaying infrastructure that our politicians bewail, it wouldn’t be decaying and much of it wouldn’t even exist if it had been developed and maintained by private enterprise. Instead, most of it was constructed through seized lands which saw hundreds of thousands of families displaced from their homes, sometime ancestral homes, and neighborhoods sliced into two by highways, especially the Interstate System. The Interstate System is an interesting study in and of itself. It began under President Dwight D. Eisenhower after he’d overseen the invasion of Germany and admired the Autobahn, which Adolf Hitler advocated, in imitation of the various public works projects that Franklin D. Roosevelt had developed. In fact, Hitler sent a letter of admiration to FDR over his Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration programs. Gaillard states that by 1937, the economy had nearly doubled, but much of that was due to FDR’s unprecedented, immoral and larcenous devaluation of the dollar by increasing the price of gold from $20 an ounce to $35. In and of itself, that markedly devalued the lifetime savings of most Americans. And, yes, it’s true that unemployment had decreased from 35 percent to 20 percent, but much of that was through those public projects of dubious economic value that are, at least, partially responsible for today’s infrastructure problems. Further, by 1937, even FDR’s biggest supporters conceded that the New Deal had failed. But FDR had one remaining ace up his sleeve. Keynesian economics was dominant throughout the developed world and, in a way, it did get us out of the Depression through an ultimate public works project and economic stimulus. It was called World War II and FDR cleverly maneuvered us into it. Does Mr. Gaillard want a repeat of that? Roderick T. Beaman via email
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BRICKBATS + BOUQUETS BOUQUETS TO CASA MARINA HOTEL After Hurricane Matthew had its way with NE Florida on Oct. 7, businesses remained closed and dozens of weekend events were cancelled or rescheduled – including many weddings. But one happy couple didn’t suffer the same expensive fate, because oceanfront Casa Marina in Jax Beach rallied like a boss, its team working nonstop from the moment it was safe to do so to clean up, repair and get the place shipshape for a wedding the very next day. Hurricane, shmurricane. BRICKBATS TO JIM LOVE While most of us have been hyperfocused on the presidential election – often to our detriment – some early-to-bed, early-to-rise wet blankets have rattled their dentures at Jacksonville City Councilman Love enough to convince him to propose sweeping changes to the zoning code that governs Riverside/Avondale. Putting the ‘strict’ in restrictive, Ordinance 2016580 would ban new restaurants that seat more than 60 in certain (read: rich) areas, require new restaurants to close at 8 p.m. in those areas and generally puts out the “NOT WELCOME” sign to new businesses in the neighborhood.
BOUQUETS TO BILLIE WEST & ZACHARY BOMBARD On Oct. 8, West and her son Bombard spotted a bald eagle wedged in the grille of an oncoming car. Thinking very, very fast, they managed to flag the car down and called authorities, who safely cut the bird out of the grille. Then West and Bombard transported the eagle, dubbed “Matthew,” to Bird Emergency Aid and Kare Sanctuary, where it made a speedy, full recovery. For their efforts, both the duo and Clay County Fire Rescue Stations 18 and 22 received Compassionate Action Awards from PETA. DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DESERVES A BOUQUET? HOW ABOUT A BRICKBAT? Send submissions to mail@folioweekly.com; 50 word maximum, concerning a person, place, or topic of local interest. OCTOBER 19-25, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 9
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THE JAGS LOST ALMOST EVERY STATISTICAL category against the Chicago Bears, but won the only battle that matters — the scoreboard. The win, which was in no way pretty, left a sour taste in the mouths of some fans. The Jags mustered together just enough in the final quarter, but their off-season hopes of starting quick and getting early leads have not been realized. With the ball at the one, quarterback Blake Bortles attempted a fade pass to the corner of the end zone. In true Bortles fashion on this maneuver, it fell incomplete. That drive finished with an interception in the end zone and a round of drinks ordered by Jags fans everywhere. A team that turned out one of the best draft classes in recent memory felt like the same old Jaguars. A win’s a win, though, right? The Jags had to have done something right to bring home a victory. Despite spending only 35 minutes on the field, the defense seemed to be the only working part of the machine. “Glad our defense made the flight [to Chicago], ’cause the offense sure as hell didn’t,” said fan Chris Whiteley. Forget finding the end zone — the offense couldn’t even get a first down most of the game. They started the second half with three straight three-and-outs. Until a late third-quarter touchdown, one couldn’t help but think, We’re going to get shut out by the Bears. They didn’t. But if they had been, they would’ve deserved it. So what do the Jags need to do to look like an organized team going forward? Seemingly, they need to do everything they were supposedly focused on during the off-season. They need to score quicker and more often (the Browns have scored more than the Jags … the Browns), commit fewer penalties, turn the ball over less often, force more opponent turnovers and convert third downs. I could’ve chugged a beer every third down conversion Sunday and been stone-cold sober. Even worse, where does this leave the Jags as far as head coach Gus Bradley is concerned? After the game, several fans huddled around to discuss how the win delays Bradley’s dismissal — and wished for a loss. I couldn’t disagree more. A mid-season coach change is rarely a successful move and hoping your team loses is ridiculous. Shahid Khan is a very successful businessman and I’m confident he’s kept Bradley as long as he has because he understands constant turnover isn’t the key to success. I’m equally confident he knows when to cut his losses and move on, and I doubt a few sloppy wins will save Bradley from that if the season continues to play out the way it has so far. The team is only a game-and-a-half out of first in the division and the (current division-leading) Texans have their own weaknesses. I’m not sold on the Jags bringing home a division title, but I’ll take any win over a loss. Was it pretty? Not really. Can they keep winning like that? Probably not. But the one certainty? The Jaguars will return to EverBank chasing their first three-game win streak since 2013. Come out to Taps Bar & Grill in Fleming Island this week and we can drink beers at every turnover and missed scoring opportunity. Mark Judson mail@folioweekly.com @MarkfromJax Facebook/FolioWeeklyJagCity 10 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 19-25, 2016
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ff a rural strip of State Road 206 in southern St. Johns County, a narrow path winds and twists amid feral greenery of lush vines and disorderly palm fronds before depositing its traverser onto a clear-cut plot. In the middle of this clearing, lifted several feet off the ground and ornamented with a neat row of solar panels, stands a 320-square-foot, Crayola-green shipping container. Naturalist and boat captain Adam Morley lives here with his wife Janine and their toddler son Elon. In one of the fastestgrowing counties in America — and just south of St. Augustine’s increasingly dense downtown district — the Morleys have endeavored to design a simple life for themselves on a bucolic 15-acre plot in the rural, aquatic-based community of Crescent Beach. “Because of the lifestyle that we’ve chosen, I don’t feel burdened and weighed down by typical daily life struggles,” Morley says at their home in late September. “I don’t have to work nine-to-five, or two jobs, in order to afford a mortgage and utility bill on a huge house. By reducing our footprint and living expenses, we free up a lot of time. To me, that’s true freedom. That’s where a lot of my enthusiasm and optimism comes from.” Perhaps it’s his years of living and working along this stretch of Northeast Florida, which is surrounded on all sides by water — the Matanzas River, Atlantic Ocean, and various creeks and tributaries — but 31-year-old Morley has a calm, earnest way of speaking that is refreshingly devoid of the cynicism and derisiveness that often litters the conversations (especially political ones) of his generation. Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols recently studied how living near the water affects moods and mindsets of humans. In his 2016 book Blue Mind, Nichols wrote that “a mildly meditative state characterized by calm, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment,” can be “triggered when we’re in or near water.” Though he has not always been politically engaged, in 2015 Morley watched closely as a shuffling of the state legislature — set in motion when Republican John Thrasher resigned his senate seat to become president of Florida State University — left an empty seat in the Florida House for a representative from District 24 — a district that encompasses Flagler County, parts of northwest Volusia County, and the portion of southeast St. Johns County where the Morleys reside. When a special election was set for April 2015, Thrasher’s Republican cohort moved quickly, pooling resources to support corporate attorney Paul M. Renner, who months earlier had lost a closely contested primary in Jacksonville’s State House District 15 to Jay Fant. Renner, after relocating to Palm Coast, was the favorite to win the Republican primary and, absent a Democratic challenger, had a clear path to the State House. “It was a political power play,” Morley says, shaking his head. “And I’m against that. Regardless of what party it’s for.” Morley decided to throw his hat in the ring. While Renner used his Republican Party connections to amass a six-figure campaign war chest, Morley spent less than $12,000 on his bid. With little time and a huge funding disadvantage, Morley was trounced, earning
just over 5,000 votes to Renner’s nearly 11,000. (That may seem like shockingly low turnout for a district with more than 100,000 registered voters, but special elections tend to draw far fewer voters.) “If you look at my cost per vote, I think I certainly outperformed my opponent,” Morley says, smiling. District 24 — where the number of registered Republicans outnumbers Democrats nearly two-to-one — is like many house districts across Florida. That is to say: It is not too competitive. In fact, in 2014, the nonpartisan election resource Ballotpedia rated only 13 of the 120 seats in
the Florida House “highly competitive.” In many races, after winning their primaries, candidates from either party (but more often Republicans) run unopposed in the general election. Republicans currently hold 89 of the 120 seats in the Florida House of Representatives. Representation for the state in the U.S. House of Representatives has traditionally seemed just as predetermined, with gerrymandered maps all but ensuring that 17 Republicans and 10 Democrats represent their corresponding districts year after year. The 2016 election may upset the status quo. Politics as we know it has been
turned upside-down. Dissatisfaction with establishment political candidates is widespread. The nation looked on (some with delight, some abject horror) as, during the presidential primary season, one “authentic” candidate caused his political party to come unmoored, while another “authentic” candidate may have mortally wounded his. And though voters turned out for the 2016 presidential primaries in historic numbers, perhaps the best evidence of the current state of national malaise may have been that, in the wake of one of the most unpredictable presidential primary seasons in the nation’s
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history, Americans were left with a choice between two very unpopular major party candidates for whom only 9 percent of the voting public cast ballots. With even perennially faultless election predictor Nate Silver scratching his head, no one knows what to expect when America (and swing-state Floridians) head to the polls in November. Locally, similar dissatisfaction loomed large in the minds of the some 6,500 Northeast Florida voters who, leading up to the August primaries, switched parties, mostly to oust establishment Republican incumbent candidates for Public Defender and State Attorney. “I don’t think people realize how important local elections are to the issues that really matter to them,” says the Democratic candidate for Duval County Clerk of Courts, Paula Bartlett. Bartlett’s opponent, Ronnie Fussell, won his primary despite drawing the ire of civil rights activists (and satirical news show hosts) when he put an end to courthouse marriage ceremonies in the Duval County Courthouse. Fussell’s motivations were widely seen as his way of subverting Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, though Fussell himself has repeatedly denied that’s the case. Bartlett, meanwhile, says that the “marriage issue” is “just the tip of the iceberg as far as problems at the courthouse are concerned.” Despite a significant financial disadvantage, Bartlett’s campaign has been slowly gaining momentum. With more registered Democrats than Republicans in Duval County, many insiders think Bartlett has a significant chance. “If same-sex marriage — civil rights — are important to you,” she says, “here is an election where you can make an immediate impact. “That’s not to say national elections are not important. But, locally, you can really make a 14 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 19-25, 2016
Though he is running as a Democrat, Adam Morley’s campaign website reveals a platform that is an idiosyncratic mix of liberal and progressive economic policies and libertarian social values. difference this time around.” Though Fussell won his primary handily, his underfunded Republican opponent Mike Riley included the restoration of courthouse marriages in his platform, proving that the issue is one that resonates with members of both parties. “I think in November you are going to see people voting for the candidates more than whatever party they might represent,” Bartlett says. Aside from the race for Clerk of Courts, several other local races featuring establishment-supported frontrunners are tightening. A new congressional district map created in 2015 after the Florida Supreme Court invalidated the maps used to elect lawmakers to Congress in 2012 and 2014 has the potential to shift the partisan makeup of the Congressional delegation. And with turnout expected to be especially high in November, underdog candidates are hoping discontent will lead to votes against the status quo.
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he authenticity of myself and my candidacy I think resonates with a lot of people,” Morley says shortly after inviting me inside his tiny home for a (granted, short) tour. When I arrive, Morley is standing on his front porch. The porch’s light-colored wood is sun-beat and handsomely knotted from decades of exposure to the relentless Florida sun before the Morleys reclaimed it from a house in Port Orange. His shoulder-length hair pulled back in a ponytail, Morley is dressed in jeans, tennis shoes, and a green T-shirt with the slogan “renewable energy, I’m a big fan” surrounding a pictogram of a wind turbine. Though late September, the mid-afternoon heat pushed us inside the container, where Morley pulls two folding chairs from the wall and we courteously sit sideways, with
legs pointing in diametrically opposed directions to assure adequate personal space and avoid brushing knees. With the tow-headed Elon cooing and smashing toys together and Janine looking on lovingly from the pallet bed on the living room’s floor, Morley reveals what made him decide to run for State House again. “I think I just realized that if I wanted to pursue my passions, I’d need to run at some point,” he says. “A lot of the issues I want to address, you can’t handle at the city or county level. I thought I should go to the level of government where the roadblocks are being actively put up, and be a voice to try to take them down.” Environmental issues are clearly foremost in Morley’s mind when he talks about roadblocks. He says that he and many people he knows have been unhappy with what they view as a noticeable and documented drop in the enforcement of environmental regulations, something he blames explicitly on the policies of Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled State House. Though he is running as a Democrat, Morley’s campaign website reveals a platform that is an idiosyncratic mix of liberal and progressive economic policies and libertarian social values. He advocates tax breaks for locally owned businesses, but says such incentives should be used sparingly to lure in large corporations. And, though he says he has never smoked it himself, he has made the legalization of marijuana a key issue of his campaign. When I mention how unusual his potabstinence sounds, given that he is a 31-yearold adult with long hair, he laughs and points out that he’s been subject to drug-testing since he first began operating boats for a living at age 17. Morley’s not a seasoned politician. But, like many of the other political newbies I talked to over the last few weeks, Morley thinks he has a chance to capitalize on what seems to be an increased willingness among voters to engage atypical candidates. “I have friends who identify as Libertarians, who say they are going to vote for me because, although I may not do
everything they want me to do, I walk the walk,” Morley says. “They know I’m not just giving lip-service to issues that will get me elected.” Neil Armingeon says Morley was one of the first people to stop by and introduce himself when Armingeon took over as Matanzas Riverkeeper three years ago. Shortly thereafter, Armingeon and Morley worked together to create the “Litter Gitter” — a boat captained by Morley, committed to cleaning up the Matanzas River. “It takes a really dedicated person to get involved in environmental cleanup,” Armingeon says. “You’ll go out there, spend hours cleaning up, and then come back a few days later and it’s like, ‘Did we even make a dent?’” As the head of a nonprofit, Armingeon can’t make an endorsement, but says that any time a candidate makes environmental issues a big part of their platform, “it’s good for the river.” “Adam is a really practical environmentalist,” Armingeon says. “He’s going to make those issues part of the discussion and make sure people pay attention to the river, at least leading up to the election.” Meanwhile, Morley’s opponent is running a more traditional, party-aligned campaign that includes a platform of fairly boilerplate conservative priorities. Renner’s website reveals his platform as one that advocates lower taxes and regulations, limited government, and opposes abortion, while neglecting to offer any policy proposals specific to his district — though the websites mentions “Northeast Florida” several times. Rep. Renner’s re-election website also chastises “progressives who tell us that government is the only thing that we all belong to,” a public school curriculum that takes the “cynical view of leftist “I don’t think people realize how important local elections are to the issues that really matter to them,” says Paula Bartlett, the Democratic candidate for Duval County Clerk of Courts.
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academics,” and focuses “on identity politics and anti-American themes that change America’s legacy to one of class conflict and recurring injustices.” That’s not to say that Renner, whose campaign materials tout his military service, business experience and Christian faith, doesn’t firmly believe in criticisms of the federal government, or the policies he’s putting forward, but, as Morley contends, just because District 24 tends to vote Republican doesn’t mean its residents’ interests can be painted with such a broad brush. Renner’s campaign staff did not respond to interview requests. Though platforms like Renner’s have proved fairly sturdy with the district’s mostly rural, mostly white population over the years, in 2012, Republican Travis Hutson (who replaced Thrasher in the State Senate) barely managed a victory over Democratic challenger Milissa Holland (currently running for mayor of Palm Coast). Of Renner’s performance thus far, Morley says his opponent “has been trying not to make waves,” citing wide speculation that Renner is being groomed for a speaker position. Morley does say he was unhappy with Renner’s vote in favor of HB-191, which allows the state to authorize and
regulate fracking. Morley points out that, like many counties and municipalities in this part of Florida, St. Johns and Flagler counties previously passed strongly worded ordinances opposing fracking. However, when HB-191 came up in February, Renner voted in favor of it, telling The St. Augustine Record that the bill would allow the state Department of Environmental Protection to study the effects of the controversial method for extracting natural gas and oil from shale rock. (Renner’s colleague to the north, Cyndi Stevenson, Dist. 17, who was previously quite vocal in her opposition to fracking, also voted in favor of the bill). “We don’t want fracking here,” Morley says. “That’s something that Democrats, Republicans and Independents have agreed on in this district.” Although Renner remains the overwhelming favorite to win the district, Morley is not ready to concede a single vote. “There is a big appeal to the atypical politician this election season,” Morley says. “Really, the challenge is to make sure people know that they actually have a choice in this election.”
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ehind a large antique desk in the office of the home he shares with his partner, Dave Bruderly is buried in piles of newspaper clippings, some organized into paperclipped stacks, some placed in boxes with
“If I hadn’t decided to run, tens of thousands of voters – Democrats and Independents – would not have had a voice in this race,” says David Bruderly, Democratic candidate for Congressional District 4. “That’s not democracy.”
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labels like “St. Johns River” and “Downtown development.” He tells me about his trip to Tallahassee in late June to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission and the subsequent ordeal of opening a federal campaign account with Bank of America. He says he was roughly 15 minutes from missing the June 24 deadline to enter the race for U.S. Congressional District 4. “If I hadn’t decided to run, tens of thousands of voters — Democrats and Independents — would not have had a voice in this race,” Bruderly says. “That’s not democracy.” Bruderly will face former Duval County Sheriff John Rutherford in the November election. From the day he announced his candidacy in April, with the backing of the several prominent GOP donors and Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, Rutherford was more or less the presumptive nominee. Though redrawn, the new District 4 — which includes Baker, Nassau and portions of Duval County — maintains the Republican advantage that it has carried since even before Ander Crenshaw took the seat in 2001. After Crenshaw decided not to seek re-election in 2016, several prominent local Republicans jumped in the race, including Lake Ray and Hans Tanzler III. Rutherford raised nearly a half-million dollars for his primary race, overwhelming opponents on his way to acquiring nearly double the number of votes cast for the runner-up. For our interview, Bruderly sports a fadedblue campaign T-shirt that reads “Elect Dave Bruderly: New Energy for Congress, District 4.” Having replaced a “6” some weeks ago, the
noticeably catawampus “4” is evidence that this is not Bruderly’s first rodeo. He previously ran for a Congressional seat in Gainesville (District 6) in 2002. He lost that election, ran again in ’04 and again in ’06. He lost those elections, too. While Bruderly says his opposition to the Iraq war piqued his interest in running for political office in the early 2000s, it was the lack of Democratic representation that finally pushed him off the fence this time around. An environmental engineer with degrees from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and Columbia University, Bruderly built a successful environmental engineering consulting business before semi-retiring a few years ago. The walls of his office are lined floor to ceiling with bookshelves that hold an eclectic mix of titles — much of it historical texts — from volumes of military history to thick, weighty conservative historical biographies of former U.S. presidents to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. “Zinn is a great political hero of mine,” he says. “I also like Teddy Roosevelt, but if I had to pick a modern politician who I have a lot of respect for, it would be Bernie Sanders.” At various points during our conversation, Bruderly swivels around in his chair to grab papers, newspaper articles or other reference materials from the cabinet behind his desk, which is plastered with a “Bernie 2016” magnet. With statements like, “Our middle class is suffering from decades of shortsighted policies written by and benefiting multinational corporations and their well-paid armies of lobbyists,”
Bruderly’s campaign website captures some of the world-weary verbiage that the Sanders campaign used to light a fire under thousands of disaffected voters during the senator’s presidential run. Furthermore, together with his bushy eyebrows, white hair, somewhat disheveled presence, and the agitated way in which he talks at length about foreign and domestic affairs, Bruderly’s appearance vaguely resembles the senator from Vermont. Bruderly seems particularly agitated as he pulls from his many file folders an article from The Florida Times-Union carrying the headline “Rutherford Ready to Seal the Deal.” The T-U article notes how Bruderly’s Republican opponent “didn’t have much time to transition to a more regional and national mindset before entering the race.” In Bruderly’s estimation, this perfectly illustrates the need for a choice in the District 4 election. “The article basically says that now that he’s won the nomination of his party, [Rutherford’s consultants] have to teach Rutherford how to be a Congressman,” Bruderly says in obvious exasperation. “I think the public underestimates how important these Congressional seats are. You can’t just walk in there on day one, having no knowledge of geopolitical affairs, and expect to make informed decisions.” “Dave understands policy inside and out,” says Meredith O’Malley Johnson, a political consultant who recently joined the Bruderly campaign. “His military service, small-business experience and his knowledge of environmental policy make him a strong choice to represent this district.” Before stepping down to serve as a political consultant, Johnson founded Jax Young Voters Coalition, a nonpartisan group aimed at increasing voter turnout in the city. Though she understands that Bruderly’s opponent is a heavy favorite, Johnson believes that the unrest caused by the current presidential campaigns could make downballot races more unpredictable. “The unknowns in this election surpass anything I’ve seen since I’ve been engaged in politics,” she says. “Will soft Republicans be moved to vote for more Democrats? Will women who are disgusted by Donald Trump lean away from the Republican Party? Will people just stay home?” “Dave’s got a real opportunity to capture the votes of those who may be wavering,” Johnson says. Bruderly is critical of his opponent’s record as sheriff as well, questioning why Rutherford’s popularity went down over his years as top cop and noting that Jacksonville remained among the nation’s leaders in per capita murders during his time in office. Rutherford’s campaign did not respond to interview requests. I ask Bruderly if he’d like to debate Rutherford. “They tell us he won’t debate me,” he says. “It’s the Rose Garden strategy. [Rutherford’s] got name recognition and he’s got demographics. So he doesn’t have to do anything to win this election.”
tenant association. Griffin is optimistic that District 13 voters will look past his party affiliation, and instead focus on his reputation as a successful businessperson and positive presence in the community when they cast their ballots in November. “It wasn’t until I announced [my candidacy] that people in my community realized what party I was representing,” Griffin says over the phone. “I think we tend to overplay party. At the end the day, we are all the same in terms of our dreams, our hopes, our aspirations for the community. If we can ever get past labeling people because of their party affiliation, I think we could get
more people involved in the political process.” Encompassing the neighborhoods of San Marco, Arlington, Downtown and the Northside, District 13 is home to some of the region’s most impoverished communities. While the district also includes three universities, Title I schools and subsidized housing dot the landscape, and economic opportunity is scattered. The district’s residents tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Griffin is quite familiar with the disparity that defines the district. Wayman Academy of the Arts is located across the street from the troubled Eureka Garden Apartments complex,
where Griffin helped residents organize a tenants association to address issues of crime and substandard living conditions. While Griffin says he is supportive of social programs, like welfare, that are more often championed by liberals, he maintains that it was the Republican Party’s support of school choice that moved him to switch parties some years ago. “I’m very supportive of smart social programs,” he says. “Take Eureka Gardens, for example. My contention is, as we clean up the mold and the physical conditions, we still haven’t addressed the issue until we help ensure that the residents there no longer
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have to rely on government. We have to have social programs that eventually help a person become independent. In my opinion, we have not been as smart or as effective in those social programs as we can be, moving forward.” Griffin used his business background — he was a licensed CPA and he earned an MBA from the University of North Florida — to build his ministry and its successful nonprofit ventures. He says that between Wayman Academy of the Arts, Wayman Temple and his community development corporation, he employs more than 100 people and proudly asserts that all of his employees are paid more than minimum wage. Despite Griffin’s success and his good standing in his community, he faces an uphill battle to convince voters in his district to vote for a Republican. Only 7,000 people voted in the District 13 Republican primary, compared to 14,000 in the Democratic primary. “Those voters who voted on the Democratic side were not able to vote for me!” Griffin counters with a laugh. “I’m no stranger to the African-American Democrats in that district. My work is well known.” Griffin remained an underdog even as his opponent, incumbent Reggie Fullwood, was mired in a wire fraud scandal. Unwilling to pile on his then-opponent, Griffin says he was “hoping and praying” 18 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 19-25, 2016
candidate for Florida House District 13, says. I think we tend to overplay party. At the end the day we are all the same in terms of our dreams, our hopes, our aspirations for the community.
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for Fullwood. “As a pastor and community leader, my role is to lift people when they are down. I honestly believe that even without [Fullwood’s] legal issues, I am the best candidate,” he says. Minutes after I spoke to Griffin, several news outlets reported that Fullwood had pled guilty to federal wire fraud and failing to file a tax return, two of the 14 charges against him, and filed paperwork to withdraw from the District 13 race. Days later, the Duval Democratic Executive Committee announced that Tracie Davis, a city compliance officer who came in second to Fullwood in the Democratic primary, would be the party’s new nominee, and Fullwood’s name will remain on the ballot. Though she lost the primary, Davis received more votes than Griffin did in his respective primary win. According to the Duval DEC, those who wish to vote for Davis will be instructed to
cast a ballot for Fullwood, from signs posted at polling locations. It seems more than likely, however, that voters will simply look at the letter next to each candidate’s name and vote accordingly.
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ack in Crescent Beach, the sun has moved behind us and a late afternoon sea breeze is blowing, making its way from the Atlantic Ocean and across Morley’s beloved Matanzas River before arriving at his family’s compound. In the weeks until the election on Tuesday, Nov. 8, Morley has filled his schedule with meetings with various Democratic clubs, entrepreneurial groups, and membership
groups, like the Lions Club of Ormond Beach, and canvassing events. He also plans to use the occasional swing dance class (which he teaches, weekly, with his wife) to pitch his platform to fellow dancers. “I’m a product of this district,” Morley says. “I have conservative influences and liberal ones. I don’t have Democratic or Republican values, I have District 24 values because I grew up here.” As Morley prepares for the home stretch to election day, he’s got roughly $12,000 in campaign funds, a part-time campaign manager, and less than a month to get his message out there. “I will represent this district,” he says. “Whether it’s this election or the one after that, or the one after that. I’ll keep running until I win.” Matthew B. Shaw mail@folioweekly.com
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xperimental music offers a rare, if not paradoxical, experience of being able to repel and attract listeners; sometimes in the same passage of time. Pioneering 20th-century composers like John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Meredith Monk explored moments of chance, improvisation and merging acoustic instruments with nascent electronics. In the latter half of the century, artists such as Diamanda Galas, Nurse with Wound, Merzbow and others emerged, ramping up the experiment with even greater investigations, aggression and textural ecstasy. Experimental music is confrontational and invitational, demanding a response from the listener. Whether repulsed or enchanted, the listener is invariably somehow changed. Olivia Block is an artist working in the current aeon of audio mavericks. The availability of affordable technology and encouraging precedence offers Block and her peers the power of aesthetic groundwork and a wellspring of onceimpossible sounds. Block’s 1999 composition, Pure Gaze, is a sonic rumination driven by percussive rattles, meditative, white-noise washes and keyboard drones. In 10 minutes, Block deftly splits the difference between the real and the unreal, issuing sounds, timbres, and tonalities both familiar and inscrutable. The piece is indicative of Block’s potency as a current-day sonic polymath. In concert, the literal atmosphere, as far as the sonic capabilities of the space, influence Block’s approach. Sound is her palette and she shows no signs of running out of aural colors. Since 1995, Block has performed her compositions as a soloist, collaborator, and with large ensembles more than 70 times throughout the U.S. and Europe. Block has been featured on more than 15 solo and collaborative releases, and covered by notable media outlets like The Wire, NPR and The Chicago Reader. In addition, she’s created film soundtracks, and is an in-demand sound-installation artist, including her multispeaker piece, Heave To, as featured at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. As part of the programming for the current Sound exhibit, the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum presents Olivia Block in performance at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at Flagler College’s Ponce de Leon Hall Rotunda. Block was kind enough to answer a
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few questions via email; what follows are highlights of that Q&A exchange. FW: How would you describe your sound art to the uninitiated? Olivia Block: I use sounds that are not necessarily thought of as “musical” in artful ways or within the context of art. I am informed by traditions related to cinema, anthropology, architecture, sound related technologies and music, among other things. What are you performing at your Flagler College appearance? I will be presenting a multichannel piece titled Dissolution for four speakers. The piece is meant to be very immersive, and listened to in a dark space, as if you are in a cinema theater with no visuals, only sound.
Is there a ratio between composition and improvisation, or do you explore something similar to Butch Morris’ “Conduction” methodology, where you’re guiding the improv or sounds through a structure? In my surround-speaker work, the structure I am guided by is the actual structure of the room or space I am in. I usually use recorded sounds and electronic sounds, and then change them according to the way the room affects the sounds. I might process sounds differently, add sounds, or use actual objects from the location to create additional textures. I like to bring out aspects of architecture. If the room is very resonant, with walls and floors made of hard surfaces, I might play with that aspect, for instance. When I perform inside piano concerts, my approach to improvisation is still informed by the sound of the room, because I use the resonance and tones of the wood inside the piano to generate sound. Experimental music/sound art can seem intimidating, yet it really falls in line with an inclusive and DIY vibe, especially in regard to community and collaborations. What do you think are some of the greatest misconceptions about experimental music and sound art? I think the experimental music landscape is changing. Until recently, the people who took a great interest in sound art or experimental music were mostly the artists in the community. Now there are theorists and academics writing about it. There are museums programming sound art shows. In many ways, the new attention is a good thing, because there is a rich tradition of
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Sound artist Olivia Block tunes into the FREQUENCIES of her surrounding environment experimental music with much to offer culturally, philosophically and artistically. However, there is something lost in the formalizing and typology of this music. I have always felt a sense of warmth and positivity from within the experimental music community. No one ever made money doing it until recently (and still, we don’t make much!). Some of that warmth and familial sense has been lost in this new landscape. It’s always a cost/benefit analysis, I suppose. It seems like with all sound, there’s a certain level of both the subtle and the gross. You hear a black metal song and at first listen, it comes across as a brutal roar; after repeated, mindful listenings you can hear, and feel, the subtleties in vibration and texture. Does this kind of meditative awareness and consciousness inform any of your work? Absolutely. One thing I love about this genre is that it encourages people to listen in different ways, or to become more aware of how they listen in the world. My interest now is in the difference between listening to a recording of an event or place, and listening to the actual recorded event or place. So the mindfulness I have now is in the creation of this new false space that is represented in the recording of something I am aware that I create the false space in the act of listening to the recording.
creation of the music, if that makes sense. I think “experimental music” at this point includes many subcategories, each with its own idiom, which then begs the question, is this music experimental in terms of process? Or is experimental music a genre or style of music? I think I am influenced by both of the examples. Pauline Oliveros has been a teacher and someone I look up to personally. I do practice several types of listening strategies, which is very much in line with Pauline’s work. But in terms of the sound of my music, I’m not sure where I fall in the continuum. Plus my techniques and motivations change a lot. As soon as I have finished one project, I want to scrap all of those techniques and try something totally different. Sometimes I write for orchestra, and sometimes I make loud noises with bricks! Daniel A. Brown dbrown@folioweekly.com
With sound art or experimental music, at the surface level, there’s a seemingly wide gulf between the drones of composeraccordionist Pauline Oliveros and then Sonic Youth annihilating their guitars to splinters with screwdrivers. Yet they’re still based on principles of experimentation and even liberation. Where do you think your place is in the greater spectrum of experimental music? I think there is a similarity in the two examples you gave, in terms of motivation and spirit behind the process, more than in the actual techniques that go into the
CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM presents
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7 p.m. Oct. 26, Flagler College’s Ponce de Leon Hall Rotunda, St. Augustine, flagler.edu/newsevents/crisp-ellert-art-museum
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FOLIO A+E : MAGIC LANTERNS The passing of pioneering GORE AUTEUR Herschell Gordon Lewis leaves a gaping wound in cinema
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opularly known as “The Godfather of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis died late last month at the age of 87. Though he wrote and directed nearly 40 films over his career (some of which he also photographed as well as scored), his reputation and legacy (such as they are) rest primarily on a smattering of splatter flicks made in the ’60s and ’70s. He may not have been an artist, but he was a real original, whose admirers have included such luminaries of Quentin Tarantino and John Waters. Graduating from Northwestern with a journalism degree, Lewis taught at Mississippi State University before being lured into radio; soon, he was bitten bad by the movie bug. With producer David F. Friedman, Lewis dipped his lens into the exploitation pool with a handful of softcore nudie pictures of the ilk not being screened on neighborhood and city screens, due to the strictures of the Motion Picture Code. Then came 1963’s Blood Feast, the first of three features dubbed The Blood Trilogy, which secured Lewis’ place in contemporary notoriety and film history. It took only nine days to film it in Miami, it cost only $24,000 — but Blood Feast realized a profit in the low millions over the next decade. With a ludicrous script, ridiculous effects and absolutely execrable acting, the film is about an Egyptian caterer who butchers girls in various gruesome ways, to harvest body parts for a feast to honor the goddess Ishtar. Audiences had never seen anything like it — limbs hacked off, a woman’s tongue ripped out and more gore — all in vivid color. Already a marketing wizard, a direction he moved toward later with even greater success than filmmaking, Lewis distributed airline vomit bags to audiences with the inscription “You May Need This When You See Blood Feast.” Lots of folks eagerly took the bait, particularly at drive-ins. In Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, author Jason Zinoman quotes Lewis regarding the premiere of Blood Feast in Peoria, Illinois: “Our audience was 90 percent men. If a woman showed up, she was dragged there. Anyone under 35 howled with pleasure. Anyone older than 35 simply howled.” The following year, Two Thousand Maniacs was released; Lewis’ personal favorite of his films (and mine, too). We aren’t alone, either. 10,000 Maniacs (Alt-rock band) derived its name from Lewis’ opus. Again filmed in Florida, this time in 14 days with an estimated budget of $65,000, Two Thousand Maniacs features the two “stars” of Blood Feast (William Kerwin and Playmate Connie Mason) as two of six Yankee travelers lured to Pleasant Valley to help celebrate the small burg’s centennial. The festivities include the torture and dismemberment of the Northerners by vengeful “maniacs” who are actually spirits of the dead who were butchered by Yankee soldiers during the War of Northern Aggression. The plot might claim some pedigree, supposedly inspired by the magical musical Brigadoon, but the acting is only minimally
better than in Blood Feast. Still, it’s a supernatural spin and occasional humor (intentional at times) are fun. The film includes a nifty theme song written by Lewis and performed by the Pleasant Valley Boys, a bluegrass trio. Like Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs was remade decades later with more professionalism and less success. A nice footnote to the original was the real-life marriage of Kerwin and Mason. The third film of Blood Trilogy is also the weakest. Filmed near Sarasota in 1965, Color Me Blood Red is an obvious rip-off of Roger Corman’s equally low-budget, but much superior black-and-white thriller A Bucket of Blood (’59). It’s about a demented painter who discovers human blood makes the best paint. Though the film’s star (Gordon Oas-Heim) may have been the best professional Lewis had yet worked with, the supporting cast is typically awful. The dialogue is dreadful, and the film’s requisite gore a bit dull compared to its predecessors. Temporarily abandoning blood and guts for other exploitation gambits, Lewis returned to the genre in the early ’70s with The Wizard of Gore and The Gore Gore Girls, which had a cameo by comic Henny Youngman. Even more outrageous than Blood Trilogy, these two films confirmed Herschell Gordon Lewis as the Splatter Master of his time. Seen today, The Blood Trilogy is like a time capsule of another era, highlighted not so much by the preposterous gore as by the memorabilia of the ’60s — the cars, clothes, hairdos, and the slang. Bad as they are, the movies are still eminently watchable, especially if you turn off the dialogue and listen instead to Lewis’ and Friedman’s hilarious commentary. Pat McLeod mail@folioweekly.com
NOW SHOWING SUN-RAY CINEMA The Girl on the Train, American Honey and Nuts! are currently running, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Callin’ Out the Candidates with Barry Crimmins runs Oct. 19. Frankenstein screens Oct. 20 and 23. The Mummy screens Oct. 22. Little Sister and Miss Hokusai start Oct. 21. Dying to Know shows Oct. 24. The Invisible Man is on Oct. 25 and 29. I Drink Your Blood Uncensored and Uncut and Dracula are screened – or is that SCREAMED? – on Oct. 27. CORAZON CINEMA & CAFÉ Psycho runs for Throwback Thursday at noon Oct. 20. The Green Series continues with Future Energy, 6 p.m. Oct. 20. Carnival of Souls screens 7:15 p.m. Oct. 20. Scary Sunday series continues with Night of the Living Dead, 8 p.m. Oct. 23. The inaugural Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival is held Oct. 21, 22 and 23, screening award-winning fi lms; $10 per film; VIP $100. The Little Shop of Horrors starts Oct. 26; Indignation starts Oct. 28. 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 6795736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com. IMAX THEATER Harry Potter Marathon runs through Oct. 20. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back starts Oct. 20. Deepwater Horizon, Robots 3D, America Wild: National Parks Adventure, A Beautiful Planet and Secret Ocean screen at World Golf Village IMAX Theater, St. Augustine, 940-4133, worldgolfimax.com. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them starts Nov. 17.
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FALL FESTIVAL San Jose Academy and Preparatory High School hold this festival, with themed booths, crafts, activities, games, costume contests, snacks, candy and prizes, 5-8 p.m. Oct. 28 at San Jose Schools, 4072 Sunbeam Rd., Mandarin, 425-1725,
CORPSES & COCKTAILS MOSH’s inaugural adult camp-in includes a cocktail hour, buffet, a Practice Safe Hex show, candy/alcohol pairings, rooftop telescoping, palm reading, tarot cards, Ouija boards, and Night of the Living Dead, in the planetarium, 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 until 8 a.m. Oct. 23, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, $125; MOSH members 20% discount, ages 21 and older, themosh.org. Jacksonville’s Chief Medical Examiner Valerie Rao shares her experiences of dealing with the dead.
THE SCREAM PARK With more than “25,000 square feet of terror,” this Halloween destination features haunted houses – The Xperiment, Scarecrow’s Revenge, Penny Manor, The Rot – as well as escape room, carnival rides, games, hayride, music, kids zone, nightly shows, food and more. 6-10 p.m. Oct. 27, 6 p.m.midnight Oct. 28 and 29 and 6-11 p.m. Oct. 30 at Clay County Fairgrounds, 2493 S.R. 16, Green Cove Springs, prices vary per attraction; info@ thescreampark.com.
TRAIL OF TERROR Claiming “a resurrection 10 years in the making,” this Halloween destination bills itself as “fun for the whole family.” Huh. With food trucks, zombie paintball range, tarot card readings, face-painting and a full bar, it’s open 7-11 p.m. Oct. 28 and 29 and 7-10 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31 at Paintball Adventures, 11850 Camden Rd., Northside, $13-$25, 4741114, jaxterror.com.
SUN-RAY CINEMA The Mummy screens on Oct. 22, Frankenstein screens Oct. 20 and 23, I Drink Your Blood Uncensored and Uncut, starring Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong and Rhonda Fultz (1970), not suitable for kids or the faint of heart, screens Oct. 27 and Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi (1931) runs Oct. 30, 1028 Park St., 5 Points, 359-0049, sunraycinema.com. Check the website for times and prices.
HALLOWEEN FANTASY FETISH BALL The Infernal Doll Factory Savage Burlesque presents its inaugural fetish burlesque theater with Inferno Inc. and legendary Gothic Industrial DJ Alex Pagan, costume contests, full liquor bar, free parking and prizes; 18 to play, 21 to drink; 9 p.m. Oct. 21 at Morocco Shrine Auditorium, 3800 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Southside, $10-$15. 20 24 || FOLIOWEEKLY.com FOLIOWEEKLY.com || OCTOBER OCTOBER19-25, 19-25,2016 2016
CONNER’S A-MAIZE-ING ACRES Moonlight wagon rides and a Fall Maze are featured, Saturdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. through Nov. 11. “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” screens Oct. 29. Field of Screams (not recommended for kids under 10), 7-10 p.m. Oct. 22, 28 and 29; $15. 19856 C.R. 121, Hilliard, 879-5453.
SMASHING PUMPKINS CLASSES AT SWEET PETE’S Make a three-dimensional chocolate jack-o-lantern; choose from Sweet Pete’s signature candies to fi ll the lanterns. Children under 15 must be accompanied by a paid adult. Times vary; through Oct. 29, $18, 1922 N. Pearl St., Downtown, 376-7161.
WAREHOUSE 31 UNLEASHED These scary haunted houses – The Asylum and The Factory – are open 7:30 p.m.-mid. Oct. 21, 22, 28 and 29; 7:3011 p.m. Oct. 20, 23, 27 and 30, 225 W. Davis Industrial Dr., St. Augustine; $15
for one house, $25 for both, $5 hayride; warehouse31unleashed.com.
ADVENTURE LANDING HAUNT NIGHTS Apocalypse 3D Clown Takeover High-tech zombie simulations, with “murderous” clowns, freaks and carnival chaos. Pinehurst Asylum Rooms are open. Containment The outbreak begins ... enter if you dare. Descent Explore an old tomb, see demons, ghosts, evil creatures. 7 p.m.10 p.m., 11 p.m. or mid., Oct. 20-22, 27-31. Through Oct. 31; $12.99 and up; combo haunt $25.99; 1944 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 246-4386, hauntnights.com.
CATTY SHACK RANCH HAUNTED FOREST Crafts, games, candy, Haunted Forest experience, big cats. 5-9 p.m. Oct. 21 and 28; 3-9 p.m. Oct. 22 and 29. 1860 Starratt Rd., Northside, 757-3603; $10 adults; $5 kids 3-11; free kids 2 and younger; cattyshack.org.
JACKSONVILLE ZOO SPOOKTACULAR The family-friendly Enchanted Land has pirates and princesses. Three scarezones: Witch’s Lair, Land of the Zombie and Dragon’s Cave. Charlie Brown & the Great Pumpkin Patch, Wizard of Oz in Range of the Jaguar, The Lands of Far Far Away, Peter Pan’s Neverland, DJs
spin kid-friendly Halloween music, candy stations, jack o’lanterns, animal exhibits (giraffes, bobcats, alligators, jaguars). The Great Lawn has bounce houses and inflatable slide. 6:30-10 p.m. Oct. 21-23, 27-31. Admission prices vary. 370 Zoo Parkway, Northside, 757-4463, jacksonvillezoo.org.
ZOMBIE FRIGHT NIGHTS Mandarin Road Festival offers Ground Zero of the Zombie Apocalypse, on three acres for zombie containment. Zombie Apocalypse Transport Ride, Terror Escape Route, onsite DJ and light show, zombie photo booth, horror films, rock wall, food trucks. $25/person includes entry to Zombie Fright Night and entry to all onsite attractions. 8 p.m.-mid. Oct. 22, 14159 Mandarin Rd., 424-1500, mandarinroadfestival.com.
BEACHES TOWN CENTER HALLOWEEN PARADE The annual parade is held 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. Oct. 22, where Atlantic Boulevard meets the ocean. Crafts, games, refreshments, a costume contest and prizes are featured. Kids trick-or-treat in participating shops and restaurants in Beaches Town Center during and after the parade.
ST. MARYS RAILROAD HALLOWEEN EXPRESS The authentic steam locomotive rides
the rails to Ghost Town. Costumes encouraged. 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Oct. 22 and 29, 1000 Osborne St., St. Marys; $20 adults; $17 ages 3-12; free for kids 2 and under, tickets must be purchased in advance at stmarysrailroad. com or call 912-200-5235.
ANIMAL RESCUE BARK IN THE DARK Ana’s Angels Animal Rescue holds this fundraiser and runway walk, with homemade baked cupcakes, cookies and goodies. Costumes for pets and humans encouraged. Admission $10 per family; cash only at the door. Proceeds benefit the animal rescue working to save animals with special needs; 7 p.m. Oct. 22, PetCo, 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 254-5715.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD The classic horror film screens 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at Corazon Café & Cinema, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.
PUMPKIN GUTS The annual pumpkin carving event, for kids 11-18, is 6 p.m. Oct. 25, Southeast Branch Library, 6670 U.S. 1 S., St. Augustine; registration strictly enforced for this free program. Call 827-6900 or e-mail aphillips@sjcfl .us to reserve your pumpkin.
ANGIE’S SUBS ANNUAL PUMPKIN CARVING PARTY The annual Pumpkin Carving Contest & Party, with pumpkin-carving and eating contests, prizes, beverages and specials, is 6-9 p.m. Oct. 26, Angie’s Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., Jax Beach, 249-7827, B.Y.O.P. (Bring Yer Own Pumpkin) and carving utensils.
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON The classic horror film screens at 3 and 7:15 p.m. Oct. 26-30, Corazon Café & Cinema, 36 Granada St., 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.
CREATURES OF THE NIGHT Kids can trick or treat on the walkways and meet costumed animal-keepers with creepy creatures and candy, 5:30-7 p.m., Oct. 28, 29 and 30, St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, 999 Anastasia Blvd., 824-3337; members $9 adults, $7 ages 2-11; nonmembers $10, ages 2-11 $8, alligatorfarm.com.
HAUNTED MASQUERADE ART SHOW The semi-formal masquerade featuring local artists is held 7-10 p.m. Oct. 29 at Corazon Café & Cinema, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine, 679-5736, corazoncinemaandcafe.com.
THE AMERICAN WAKE TOUR Live music, grave entertainment, Oct. 30, 1904 Music Hall, 19. N. Ocean St., Downtown, americanmurdertour.com.
HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST Ancient City Tours holds its 11th annual contest and merchant trick-or-treating on St. George Street, 2-5 p.m. Oct. 30, 6 Cordova St., St. Augustine, 827-0807, ancientcitytours.net.
SCARY LITERARY POETRY READING Ancient City Poets holds an open mic reading, 3-4:30 p.m. Oct. 30, Corazon Cinema & Café, 36 Granada St., St. Augustine. Costumes encouraged.
LOCALS HALLOWEEN NIGHT This party, with a costume contest – $500 prize – plus no cover charge and DJ 007 spins, is 9 p.m. Oct. 31 at Locals Cocktail Lounge, 869 Sadler Rd., Ste. 102, Fernandina Beach, 775-5943.
GHOST TRAIN ADVENTURE Embark on a paranormal train tour, with an EMF Ghost Meter, starting at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum, 19 San Marco Ave., St. Augustine, 824-1606, ghostrainadventure.com.
DAY OF THE DEAD TEQUILA FEST
includes tequila samples, sugar skullpainting, live music and $2 tacos, 5-7 p.m. Nov. 1, BlackFinn Ameripub, 4840 Big Island Dr., Ste. 5, St. Johns Town Center, 345-3466, $10 advance, $15 at the door, blackfinnameripub.com.
HALLOWEEN CANDY BUY BACKS Several dentists’ offices will buy back your candy in the spirit of good dental health. Krantz Dental Care, 12058 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 102, Mandarin and 1695 Wells Rd., Orange Park, 269-7004. Kids First Dentistry pays a dollar a pound, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 2-13, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., Ste. 111, Jacksonville, 423-1377, kids1dentistry.com.
NE FL GHOST & PARANORMAL MEETUP GROUP This local organization provides “support and assistance for those experiencing a paranormal encounter. Private, confidential investigations are offered to those requesting assistance with a paranormal encounter. If you believe you are haunted, you live in a haunted house or you are being visited in your sleep,” join in the research and ghosting events. The next local gathering is Nov. 6 in Green Cove Springs, a hotbed of paranormal activity. meetup.com/Northeast-Florida-Ghostand-Paranormal-Meetup-Group.
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FOLIO A+E : LET THERE BE LIT Fluid narrative knits subtle connections with THREADS of water, underprivilege and the city
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ou might say the central character in Jim Alabiso’s narrative All the Angels Come is the water. Not the St. Johns River, nor the Atlantic Ocean, nor Pottsburg Creek. The water itself. There’s William: “Ankle deep in the surf. That’s his place.” There’s Jay, who constantly speaks of watermelon, the “food of the gods,” but the most earthly (and watery) fruit. There’s Ricardo “the Rock,” longing for his love Veronica, who disappeared at Cerro de la Popa, from whose cliffs “you can see the water from both sides.” You could also argue the central character is Jacksonville, but if so, the backbone of the city is its waterways. Or maybe the central character is the connection among all the characters, but if so, water works as that connection’s central metaphor. The centrality of water in Alabiso’s writing is not surprising because swimming saved his life. As I sit across from him at Vagabond Coffee in Murray Hill, it’s hard to believe he was overweight, smoked heavily, and had “a lesion in [his] prostate as wide as [his] prostate.” He was laid up in bed for a year, depressed. Then Jay came to him, brought All the Angels Come with her, and changed everything. A friend had been advising him on prostate nutrition — don’t eat charred meat, do drink green tea, eat lycopene-rich red fruits and vegetables like watermelon and tomato. Alabiso responded cynically. His depression had made him fatalistic. “I told her, ‘You know what? I don’t think eating a bowl of spaghetti is going to fix all my problems.’ A couple weeks later, she and I are at Bold Bean on Stockton Street, and we’re getting ready to go. I walk out the corner door and this strange woman across the street looks at me and yells, ‘Watermelon!’” he says. The stranger wasn’t done. “She wanted to make sure I got the message.” So she pointed directly at him, repeatedly forcefully, “Watermelon,” then trundled away into Riverside with her shopping cart. She wasn’t Jay just then, but she came back to Alabiso in his storytelling. After changing his diet and starting All the Angels Come, Alabiso went in for a biopsy that came back negative. His father had died from prostate cancer. After Jay resuscitated him, Alabiso kept thinking about different characters he’d met across the city. They all said something to him about who he was, but also about each other. The connections were surprising. When he began to exercise, he did so in water. It defied gravity, kept him afloat. Now he attains a certain peace, a particular “zone” in water that he doesn’t find elsewhere. He sees water as “the great connector” and human lives
as waves that rise from and fall back to a great sea of humanity. Soon enough, he wrote of the connections, but kept the real people who’d inspired him private by fictionalizing them as characters. As #OscarsSoWhite caught fire, Alabiso decided All the Angels Come should be an Avengersstyle story, about people born without privilege who look nothing like him and the subtle connections linking all of us. The impetus was totally opposite to Trump’s “Make America [White] Again” bombast. So details that seem random or insignificant early on re-emerge in the stories of other characters. William tucks a walkie-talkie into his coat as he stands in the ocean shallows, while later in the novel, his voice comes through the radio to the lesbian police lieutenant Sharon Holmquist. Form follows function as well. All the Angels Come is not only a novel. It’s as protean in form as its central character. For one thing, each chapter appears as a story in Alabiso’s serialization at jimalabiso.com. He experiments with a method most exploited by Victorian novelists like Dickens, George Sand, and Wilkie Collins, which re-emerged in a new form in NPR’s Serial podcasts. With the help of Jax stage maven Barbara Colaciello, the story was presented on stage recently at Players by the Sea. Perfectly fitting the flow of form, Chip Southworth’s bridge motifs appeared in the background, while Bold City Contemporary Ensemble accompanied the acting with improvisational and ambient jazz. Alabiso is careful not to call the dramatization a play, referring to it instead as “a gestured performance.” Alabiso was a student of Colaciello’s in her Improv to the Rescue classes, which she’s recently moved to CoRK Arts District. Studying improvisation, he says, beaming, “makes me really, really scared.” It’s central to Alabiso’s way of seeing the world that any project on which he embarks is collaborative. Even his swimming projects are artistic collaborations. Alabiso appeared on the cover of Folio Weekly in 2011 after swimming across the St. Johns River. He’s also swum across Monterey Bay and Lake Tahoe and 12 miles from County Dock in Mandarin to the Fuller Warren Bridge in Downtown. Because of his nonprofit Jumping Fish, which is dedicated to “advocacy of our waterways through athletics,” he frequently meets with as many as 65 people at the ocean to swim. “Just because you create something,” Alabiso says, “doesn’t mean you own it. You give it to the world and see what beauty becomes of it.” Tim Gilmore mail@folioweekly.com
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Idaho-raised, Boston-based singer-songwriter Josh Ritter on not being able to turn off the WORD FAUCET
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’d like to make a bold prediction, dear Folio Weekly readers. Know how Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature last week? Well, Josh Ritter will be the next American singer-songwriter to pull off a similar feat. Yes, it might take 30 or 40 years. But over the last 15 years, Ritter has churned out eight full-lengths of eccentric, aphoristic, narratively astute folk rock. He’s written a historical novel infused with Biblical overtones. He’s been celebrated as one of America’s best living songwriters and showered with praise by none other than renowned wordsmith and workaholic Stephen King. And Ritter’s not slowing down: He’s got another record nearly in the bag and another novel in nebulous stages — and earlier this summer, he copped a career-defining co-writing credit on Grateful Dead OG Bob Weir’s recent superb solo record. Unlike Dylan, of course, Ritter loves to talk about his work. About the necessity of letting old material evolve. About the incessant stream of words floating about in his head. About family, fears and the fecundity of smalltown songwriting inspiration. About the responsibility shouldered by artists operating in the folk tradition (as Ritter has done ever since he custom-built his own American History Through Narrative Folk Music major at Oberlin College). It’s enough to inspire anyone fascinated with words to just keep sitting down and writing ’em, expectations and anxieties and preconceived notions be damned. “I’ve been doing this for 20 years,” Ritter recently told Folio Weekly, “so finding new ground requires a lot of work, a lot of trepidation and no small amount of banging my head against the wall. So when I get there, I’m still really excited.” Folio Weekly: Your current tour balances support dates for Jason Isbell with headlining shows, like the one on Oct. 20 at Ponte Vedra
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LIFE Concert Hall. Why the double-dipping? Josh Ritter: It’s an opportunity to go out in front of a crowd every night. To keep on rocking. I don’t like days off. I like to play every night. I have an amazing band, and playing with Jason is such an honor that I really want to blow the doors off [when we open for him]. Is it refreshing to go on the road and not have to focus on a new record? It is. A couple of years ago, I decided that if I wasn’t playing new songs, I was doing myself a disservice. So whenever I have something new that I’m excited about, I want to work it into a set. But I’m also a huge believer in not leaving your old stuff behind — you bring it along, let it develop. I’ve never tried to disassociate myself from my older music. I love playing it. So we never do anything at the expense of playing the songs that people come to see. I really believe in that. If you go to a restaurant and you have something amazing, you want to tell your friends and take them back to have that thing. You owe your audience that.
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8 p.m. Oct. 20 Ponte Vedra Concert Hall $33.50-$38.50 pvconcerthall.com
Your last two albums, The Beast in Its Tracks and Sermon on the Rocks, featured clear, cohesive themes. Does the new material you’re working on have that same sort of unified thrust? It’s funny how themes come out of the record only at the end. When I’m writing, I’m going so fast and so hard that there’s no time to see
anything emerge. But when you have 20 to 30 songs and you’re trying to decide what’s going to go on the record, suddenly things pop out at you that you can’t believe you didn’t see before. On the last record, I wrote so much about religion and small towns, and I was striving for a point of view that had more to do with women. I have a daughter, so I hope she takes lessons like that with her into life: Stand up for yourself and be a girl who takes no shit from anybody. Your daughter and partner have traveled with you on the road, right? They have, for the last three-and-a-half-years. But we’re starting to run into complex things with school schedules. They’re still heading out with me for about a week on this tour, though. And my daughter just graduated from a crib to a full-fledged bunk on the bus, so she’s definitely part of the touring party. Which is the best. When you travel with anybody who’s never been on the road, you see everything in a new way. And she’s a tiny kid, so the whole world is new to her anyway. She’s been all over, and I don’t know what effect that’s had on her. But she’s an adaptable kid who stands up for herself. So much of your music is rooted in the specific small towns and landscapes Through which you traveled. Does America’s heartland still offer an endless well of information for you? Well, we’re living in a surreal time. The small town is a microcosm of a larger place, where people are feeling left behind and making desperate choices. I’ve always been in touch with small towns and rural places, but the qualities within them have changed. So I look at them in a different way. It’s not better or worse, but I see things a little differently than I used to when I cast my roving eye around. Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com
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ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Alhambra Theatre & Dining presents the raucous musical about a young woman who never misses her target; Oct. 19-Nov. 20. Dinner 6 p.m.; brunch noon; themed menu by Executive Chef DeJuan Roy; Alhambra Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., Southside, $35-$62 plus tax, 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. STREET SCENE The UNF Opera Ensemble & Orchestra presents Kurt Weil’s opera, which follows parallel romance stories in post-WWII Manhattan, 8 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22, University of North Florida’s Lazzara Performance Hall, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2878, $15, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. 13 WAYS TO DIE Producers of Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue present a deadly tale of unfortunate events and meetings with the Grim Reaper, burlesque style! 8 p.m. Oct. 20, The Hourglass Pub & Coffee House, 345 E. Bay St., Downtown, 469-1719, $10, brownpapertickets.com. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW The third annual production of the campy musical, about a sassy mad scientist, is staged 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20-22 and 27-29, Amelia Musical Playhouse, 1955 Island Walkway, Fernandina, 277-3455; audience participation is encouraged; not for those younger than 16; ameliamusicalplayhouse.com. MACBETH Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, celebrating 25 years of community theater, stages Shakespeare’s revered drama, about the price of political ambition, 8 p.m. Oct. 21, 22, 28 and 29 and Nov. 4 and 5; 2 p.m. Oct. 30 and Nov. 6, Adele Grage Cultural Center, 716 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-7177, abettheatre.com. ONE NIGHT IN MEMPHIS The concert tribute to Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee “The Killer” Lewis, is staged 8 p.m. Oct. 22, Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts, 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, $13-$43, thcenter.org. CELTIC THUNDER LEGACY The popular phenoms, with Michael O’Dwyer, Ryan Kelly, Emmett O’Hanlon, Neil Byrne and guest artist Damian McGinty, stomp on stage one night only, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts’ Moran Theater, 300 Water St., Downtown, 442-2929, $43.50-84.50, artistseriesjax.org. JUNIE B. JONES KidzfActory stages the kid-geared musical 2 p.m. Oct. 22, Limelight Theatre, $15; $10/12 and under; limelight-theatre.org.
CLASSICAL & JAZZ
RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS CONCERTS The Players play a lunchtime concert curated with inspiration from the LIFT exhibit, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 19, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857; pre-ordered box lunch, $15 + tax; cummermuseum.org. The RCP then perform the season-opening concert, Coexist, 7 p.m. Oct. 20, Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church , 4001 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 396-7745, free; registration required, ritzchamberplayers.org. ST. AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY BAND The 70-member group plays themes from James Bond films, and pieces by John Williams and Ralph Vaughn Williams, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, Pacetti Bay Middle School, 245 Meadowlark Lane, facebook.com/ st.augustinecommunityband. DAVE STEINMEYER Celebrated jazz trombonist Steinmeyer performs with UNF Jazz Ensemble 1 and Douglas Anderson School of the Arts students, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, University of North Florida’s Robinson Theater, 620-2878, $8-$15, unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.aspx. THE JOHN THOMAS GROUP Jazz pianist Thomas and band perform, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $10, raylewispresents.com. BACHTOBERFEST The Jacksonville Symphony presents a concert celebrating all things “Bach”-like, 8 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22; 3 p.m. Oct. 23, Times-Union Center’s Jacoby Symphony Hall, 354-5547, $22-$62, jaxsymphony.org. WIND PIPES The First Coast Wind Symphony and organist Tim Tuller perform, 5 p.m. Oct. 23, St. John’s Cathedral, 256 E. Church St., Downtown, fcwinds.org. THE MUSIC OF HOWARD HANSON The JU Orchestra plays composer Hanson’s works, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25, Jacksonville University’s Terry Concert Hall, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7386, arts.ju.edu.
COMEDY
FRED’S FUNNIEST COMEDIANS Roger Staton, David Emanuel, others, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19; Spence, Tommy Torres, others, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26, The Comedy
Zone, 3130 Hartley Rd., Mandarin, 292-4242, $10, comedyzone.com. JOHN WITHERSPOON Comedian Witherspoon, known for starring turns in the Friday films, is on 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20; 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22, The Comedy Zone, $22.50-$27.50, comedyzone.com. BARBARA CARLYLE Comedian seen on Comic View is on 8:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, 11000 Beach Blvd., Southside, 646-4277, $7-$15, jacksonvillecomedy.com. JJ WILLIAMSON Comedian Williamson (Johnson Family Vacation) appears 8 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22, The Comedy Club of Jacksonville, $15-$30. MARTIN LAWRENCE Funnyman Lawrence, of the Big Momma’s House oeuvre, appears 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Times-Union Center’s Moran Theater, 633-6110, $43.50-$84.50, ticketmaster.com.
CALLS & WORKSHOPS
PLAYERS BY THE SEA SEEKS ACTORS Players by the Sea holds an open casting call for seven roles for its upcoming production of Eurydice, 1 p.m. Oct. 23; details at playersbythesea.org. APEX THEATRE STUDIO ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS Apex Theatre Studio holds a puppeteering workshop led by Morgan Kelly, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Oct. 22; Makenzie Vaughn leads a Halloween makeup workshop, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 29; both at 5150 Palm Valley Rd., Ponte Vedra; Alexis Black teaches a stage combat course, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 11; all classes $35; limited to 12 students/class. Proceeds benefit the studio’s Grab The Mic fundraiser for stage production sound equipment at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall. Details/register at apextheatrejax.com. NEW TOWN URBAN FARM Urban Geoponics and New Town are developing a large community garden at Pearce and West Third streets, in the New Town/Edward Waters area, Northside. It will provide fresh produce and a hands-on, open-air center of learning for the community and area students. Urban Farm meets 10 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sun. Details, call Diallo-Sekou at 706-284-9808.
ART WALKS & MARKETS
RIVERSIDE ARTS MARKET Local, regional art, music — Dogfest Walk ’n’ Roll: A Nice Pair, Ciaran Sontag & the Safari Band, UNF Jazz Ensemble III 10:30 a.m. Oct. 22 — under the Fuller Warren Bridge, 715 Riverside Ave., free admission, 389-2449, riversideartsmarket.com. FERNANDINA BEACH MARKET PLACE Fresh produce, local art, live music, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. every Sat., North Seventh Street, Fernandina, 557-8229, fernandinabeachmarketplace.com. JAXSON’S NIGHT MARKET Street food vendors, craft beer, local farmers, and artisans and crafters, 5:30-9 p.m. every third Thur., Hemming Park, Downtown, facebook.com/jaxsonsnightmarket. NORTH BEACHES ART WALK Galleries of Atlantic and Neptune beaches open 5-9 p.m. every third Thur., 753-9594, nbaw.org. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT Self-guided tour of galleries, antique stores and shops open 5-9 p.m. and every last Sat., St. Augustine’s San Marco District, 824-3152.
MUSEUMS
AMELIA ISLAND MUSEUM OF HISTORY 233 S. Third St., Fernandina, 261-7378, ameliamuseum.org. Photographers Steve Leimberg, Dawna Moore and Scott Moore discuss their new book, A Day on Amelia Island, 6 p.m. Oct. 21. CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART & GARDENS 29 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummermuseum.org. Talks & Tea, with artists from the LIFT exhibit discussing their contributions to the show, along with tea and sweet treats, is held 1:30 p.m. Oct. 20; $6 for non-members. Folk Couture: Fashion & Folk Art, works by 13 artists inspired by Folk Art Museum, through Jan. 1. Lift: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, works of local artists Thony Aiuppy, Glendia Cooper, Ingrid Damiani, Overstreet Ducasse, Dustin Harewood, Marsha Hatcher, Hiromi Moneyhun, Princess Rashid, Chip Southworth, Roosevelt Watson III, through Feb. 12. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART JACKSONVILLE 333 N. Laura St., 366-6911, mocajacksonville.unf. edu. Art and Ideas, with a talk by photographer Joni Sternbach, is held 7 p.m. Oct. 20. Retro-Spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World, contemporary photographers exploring 19th-century photographic processes, through Jan. 8. Sustain: Clay to Table, pairing handcrafted ceramic tableware by North American OCTOBER 19-25, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 31
ARTS + EVENTS artists with sustainable, community-based food production, through Oct. 30. Project Atrium: Ethan Murrow through Oct. 30.
GALLERIES
1057 KINGS AVENUE San Marco’s Southbank. How To Now, new abstract paintings by Dustin Harewood, JoAnne Cellar and Mark Creegan, displays through Oct. 21. THE ART CENTER GALLERY Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 139, 233-9252, tacjacksonville.org. The Little Rembrandts Show, artwork by kids in grades K-8, is on display Oct. 21-Dec. 2. Ron Piscopo is October’s featured artist. BUTTERFIELD GARAGE ART GALLERY 137 King St., St. Augustine, 825-4577, butterfieldgarage.com. Landscape and still lifes by Rebecca Shaffer, Karen F. Rose, Jessie Cook display through Nov. 1. CRISP-ELLERT ART MUSEUM 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine, 826-8530, flagler.edu/news-events/crispellert-art-museum. Auditory-themed exhibit Sound,
through Nov. 22. Experimental sound artist Olivia Block performs 7 p.m. Oct. 26. THE CULTURAL CENTER AT PONTE VEDRA BEACH 50 Executive Way, 280-0614, ccpvb.org. Splashes of a Colorful Life, abstract works by Dottie Dorion, and Shadows, turned wood works by Ed Malesky, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 21; exhibit displays through Nov. 11. DEERWOOD CENTER CAMPUS FSCJ, 9911 Old Baymeadows Rd., 997-2500, fscj.edu. Don Martin: Leaves of Grass, inspired by Whitman’s poem, through Dec. 1. FIRST STREET GALLERY 216-B First St., Neptune Beach, 241-6928, firststreetgalleryart.com. Earth Sea & Sky, new paintings by Joyce Gabiou, through Oct. 25. FLORIDA MINING GALLERY 5300 Shad Rd., Southside, 535-7252, floridamininggallery.com. Jason John: Crossing the Threshold of Self displays. HUBLEY GALLERY 804 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 429-9769. Mary Hubley’s Toescape displays. KENT CAMPUS GALLERY FSCJ, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd., 646-2300, fscj.edu. An exhibit of abstract painting by Virginia Cantore and furniture by Peter Blunt displays through Nov. 14. Long Road Projects resident artist Gamaliel Rodriguez discusses his
studio practice, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 19. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 101 W. First St., Springfield, 356-2992, rain.org/~karpeles/ jax.html. The Wright Brothers, through Dec. 30. Vinnie Ream Exhibit, works in art, poetry, prose and music, through Oct. 30. MONROE GALLERIES 40 W. Monroe St., Downtown, 881-0209, monroegalleries.com. Works by Barbie BrayWorkman, Jami Childers, Dana Fawn, Leilani Leo and Dustin Bradley are on display. MONYA ROWE GALLERY 4 Rohde Ave., St. Augustine, monyarowegallery.com. Tropic Apparition, new works by painter Amy Lincoln, are on display through Dec. 18. NASSAU COUNTY LIBRARY 25 N. Fourth St., Fernandina, 277-7365, nassaureads.com. The Art of the Japanese Print, from the Christine and Paul Meehan Collection, is on display through Dec. 30. PLUM GALLERY 10 Aviles St., St. Augustine, 825-0069, plumartgallery.com. New works by painter Sara Pedigo and assemblage artist Barbara J. Cornett display through February. ROTUNDA GALLERY St. Johns County Admin. Bldg., St. Augustine, 471-9980. United Way St. Johns County Photographic Exhibit, through Oct. 20. SOUTHLIGHT GALLERY Bank of America Tower, 50 N.
Laura St., Ste. 150, 438-4358, southlightgallery.com. The cooperative gallery has original works by more than 20 area artists, in various media. STELLERS GALLERY 240 A1A N., Ste. 13, Ponte Vedra, 273-6065, stellersgallery.com. An exhibit of recent works by Jim Draper, Henry Von Genk III and Thomas Hager, is currently on display. ST. AUGUSTINE ART ASSOCIATION 22 Marine St., 824-2310, staaa.org. The 15th annual Tactile Art Showt displays through Oct. 30. THRASHER-HORNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 283 College Dr., Orange Park, 276-6750, thcenter.org. New works by David Ouellette and Jennifer Tallerico are on display through Dec. 14. UNF NORTH GALLERY OF ART Founders Hall, Bldg. 2, Room 1001, 1 UNF Dr., Southside, 620-2534, unf.edu/ gallery. The Pre[Serve] Juried Exhibition is on display Oct. 24-Nov. 18.
EVENTS
JACKSONVILLE ARMADA VS. MIAMI FC Local football faves Jacksonville Armada take on Miami FC, 7 p.m. Oct. 19, Community First Park, Baseball Grounds, Downtown, $15-$60, 633-6100, ticketmaster.com. SOUTHERN WOMEN’S SHOW The annual show, featuring jewelry and handbags, makeup tips, gourmet treats, runway fashion shows, cooking classes, speakers and celeb guest Keegan Allen Pretty Little Liars, is held 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 20 and 22; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Oct. 21; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 23, Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St., Downtown, 630-4000, $10; $6 ages 6-12 per day, southernshows.com/wja/tickets. SENIORITAS TENNIS TOURNAMENT The 17th annual tourney kicks off with a party, auction and cash bar, 6 p.m. Oct. 19. Play gets underway 8 a.m. Oct. 21 and 22; semi-final and final matches start 8 a.m. Oct. 23 at Sawgrass Country Club, 10034 Golf Club Dr., Ponte Vedra Beach, 273-3700, $90/player; $180/ team; proceeds benefit breast cancer research, education, equipment and patient programs; ritafoundation.org /senioritas. TEDXJACKSONVILLE The TEDxJacksonville 2016 conference features 12 speakers — Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway, Rick Baker, Gary Chartrand, Dr. Gay Culverhouse, Cornelia Dinca, Dane Grey, Jeanine Hoff, Sheena Koshy, Donna Orender, Dr. Mark Tumeo, Dr. JeffriAnne Wilder, Amber Yang — sharing experiences on the theme of challenge and pushing boundaries. Live music by The Chris Thomas Band, Odd?Rodd and Tomboi. Breakfast, lunch, refreshments, and an Afterglow Street Party are featured. 9:30 a.m. Oct. 22, The Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $85, floridatheatre.com. WASABICON The pop-culture, fantasy, sci-fi and gaming convention features artists, all-day tabletop and video gaming, Cosplay, appearances by Sean Schemmel (“Goku,” Dragonball Z), Tara Sands (“Bulbasaur,” Pokémon), comic book artist Larry Watts (Army of Darkness); 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Oct. 22; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 23; Lexington Hotel & Conference Center Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Dr., Southbank, $40/weekend pass; $25/Oct. 22; $20/Oct. 23, free for kids three and under, wasabicon.com. HOGWILD HOGWASH Local writers read from their works, Mac Truque’s paintings are displayed, and a buffet of wild hog barbecue, fish fry, veggie fare are featured, 2-8 p.m. Oct. 22, FolkFood, 219 N. Hogan St., Downtown, $15/plate buffet-style dining; beer and wine priced separately, 379-7705. CORPSES & COCKTAILS The adult camp-in features a cocktail hour, buffet, a “Practice Safe Hex” show, candy/alcohol pairings and telescope viewings on the rooftop, palm reading and tarot cards, Ouija board action, and a screening of Night of the Living Dead, in the planetarium, 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-8 a.m. Oct. 23, Museum of Science & History, 1025 Museum Cir., Southbank, $125; MOSH members 20% discount, ages 21 and older, themosh.org. Jacksonville’s Chief Medical Examiner Valerie Rao shares her experiences of literally dealing with the dead. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS VS. OAKLAND RAIDERS The hometown Black & Teal take on the Black & Silver, 1 p.m. Oct. 23, EverBank Field, Downtown, 633-6100, $44-$341, ticketmaster.com. RANDY WAYNE WHITE New York Times bestselling author White discusses and signs copies of his new mystery, Seduced, 7 p.m. Oct. 23, The BookMark, 220 First St., Neptune Beach, 241-9026. ST. AUGUSTINE SATSANG The St. Augustine Satsang, which meditates in the style of Eknath Easwaran, meets 5 p.m. Oct. 25, Anastasia Island Branch Library, 124 Seagrove Main St., 209-3730, jcpls.org. _____________________________________________
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HOT
FOLIO A+E : MUSIC
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Reinvigorated jazz REVIVALISTS Squirrel Nut Zippers return 20 years after their seminal album Hot
H
ot” is one of those words that can enthusiastically describe nearly anything. Men, women, food, sex, celebrity, art … Linguists cite Chaucer’s use of “hot” in 1385 to describe an aroused man; the Oxford English Dictionary claims the word was first used to describe human passions as early as 971. But nobody did more to turn hot into the (ahem) hottest slang word of the 20th century than jazz musicians in the 1910s and ’20s, for whom “hot” was both a term of entreaty for the opposite sex and a way to accurately summarize the singular experience of watching horn players, singers and dancers perform with passion, vigor and a whole lotta sweat. Prior to the popularization of vinyl records, such live entertainment was considered the pinnacle of human experience. Which is why, when Squirrel Nut Zippers, led by Mississippi native Jimbo Mathus, brought gypsy jazz, vaudeville, cabaret, jump blues, ragtime, calypso and Dixieland back into the mainstream in the mid-’90s, they decided to name their seminal 1996 album Hot. Yes, it was lumped in with that decade’s swing revival, but Squirrel Nut Zippers were not just rockabilly dudes from SoCal dressing up in zoot suits. Instead, they plumbed the depths of classic pre-war American art forms, addressing founding member Stacy Guess’ tragic heroin addiction in “Put a Lid on It” and diving into the deep in “Hell,” which became their biggest hit. The Zippers’ flame burned bright but fast, though, and after they performed at the Atlanta Olympics and Bill Clinton’s second inaugural ball in 1996, they started falling apart. By 2001, they’d dissolved, mired in a court battle over unpaid royalties. Now, 20 years after the Zippers’ peak, Mathus and founding drummer Chris Phillips gathered expert New Orleans-based musicians to take Hot back on the road and revive this dark, satirical, self-deprecating shot of musical joy for the 21st century. Folio Weekly: What made you and Chris get the Zippers back together, Jimbo?
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Jimbo Mathus: All the years since Hot allowed me to go back to this material and really do it justice. I’ve been able to pick from the best young players in New Orleans who come from jazz, burlesque and vaudeville backgrounds. And all of them have been out hustling doing 200 to 300 gigs a year, so I’m getting 100 percent from nine people who are all bandleaders and writers themselves. We’ve tightened up our horn charts and stage antics, all to put on an incredible show and bring fresh life, a high level of talent, and real dedication to what we’re doing. It’s such a breath of fresh air. Talk about the effort that went into Hot and turning Squirrel Nut Zippers into a mainstream force to be reckoned with. Hot was a high-watermark, but it took a ton of research, work and elbow grease to make it happen. So to finally have it live up to the potential of what we did in those wild days — when we had more creativity and energy than skill — is amazing. To hear these songs taking off again and how much that means to people means the world to me. But I’m also looking at this as something I want to take into the future. It’s not so much a reunion as a re-launch, a revival and a reimagining. I don’t want to change up the old formula — hot jazz, calypso, cabaret and vaudeville are
SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS
7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 The Ritz Theatre & Museum $30-$35, ritzjacksonville.com
all still timeless components — but we can also move forward with new stuff. And I’m still a songwriter, so there’s a lot more where that came from. How did these timeless forms change your artistic direction as a young man? My goal when I was in my 20s was to figure out everything I could about American art. So whether you were looking at theater, art
HOT
or music, you started tracking down the roots. I started out playing country and blues in Mississippi, but in Chapel Hill, N.C., where the Zippers came together, we had museums, libraries and a thriving music scene. We could explore the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Tin Pan Alley retrospectives and jazz standards, but instead of just referencing the charts, we came at it with a punk rock DIY formula. So it had darker undertones and commentaries about race and popular culture. The twist we added to it was unique. It must feel good to be rebooting the Zippers at a time that isn’t dominated by a bunch of hokey “swing revival” bands. In the ’90s, our songwriting approach and sense of entertainment separated us from the pack. But that took a whole lot of heavy lifting. This bedrock of American culture is still sitting there — it just needs to be poked and prodded from time to time to keep it from being a museum piece and make it vital again. That’s what we did and that’s what we’ll continue to do, with songs that are clever and contain elements of both black humor and pure joy. The jazz era dawned because people needed something to be optimistic about in the face of such bad forces. Sounds a lot like 2016. I can’t think of a better time to re-invigorate that concept — there are certainly evil things out there today. In the old days, we didn’t watch TV shows to applaud housewives behaving badly. Old-timey entertainment was about providing an escape, a fantasy, a circus, a vaudeville show, a dance band. The Zippers can offer that levity and gaiety through parody and satire. We sing about “The suits picking up the bill” and “the fat cats that keep getting fatter,” but it’s about laughing at those things, which is a great way to go about dealing with them. Another way is to register voters or protest issues that you feel strongly about. I for one think it takes a well-balanced approach to deal with reality. [Laughs.] Nick McGregor mail@folioweekly.com
Grammy Awardwinning singersongwriter MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER performs Oct. 25 at The Florida Theatre, Downtown.
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC CONCERTS THIS WEEK
SPADE McQUADE 6 p.m. Oct. 19, Fionn MacCool’s Irish Pub, Jacksonville Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1247. INNA VISION 7 p.m. Oct. 19, Jack Rabbits, 1528 Hendricks Ave., San Marco, 398-7496, $10 advance; $15 day of. J E DOUBLE F, DJ J MIX 8 p.m. Oct. 19, Nighthawks, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd., Riverside. A MATTER OF HONOR, CIVIL YOUTH, ASKMEIFICARE, FAZE WAVE 7 p.m. Oct. 20, Jack Rabbits, $8 advance; $10 day of. The STEEL WHEELS 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Mudville Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., St. Nicholas, 352-7008, $15. The MANTRAS, The MARTIN LAPLUME BAND, BLACKWATER GREASE 8 p.m. Oct. 20, 1904 Music Hall, 19 Ocean St., Downtown, $10-$12. CHASE BRYANT 8 p.m. Oct. 20, Mavericks Live, Jacksonville Landing, 2 Independent Dr., Downtown, 356-1110, $15-$20. JOSH RITTER, MARK ERELLI 8 p.m. Oct. 20, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A N., 209-0399, $33.50$38.50. (SEE OUR STORY ON PAGE XX.) “3” the BAND 9 p.m. Oct. 20, Flying Iguana, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680. Adult BYOB Cruise: JIM BARCARO, LARRY LeMIER, DAN VOLL Off Dock 8; 5:30 p.m. Oct. 21 & 22, 1 N. Front St., Fernandina, 261-9972, ameliarivercruises.com. CONRAD OBERG BAND 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21, Mudville Music Room, $10. ARTISTREE 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Nighthawks. NEW MASTERSOUNDS, TURKUAZ 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Mavericks Live, $15. DJ 3 CLOPS I, LA-A, DARKHORSE SALOON, EARNEST ST. MAFIA 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Rain Dogs, 1045 Park St., Riverside, 379-4969. GRINGO STARR, SH-BOOMS, LE ORCHID 8 p.m. Oct. 21, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $13 day of. SMOKE STACK, BLISTUR 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21, Whiskey Jax, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Southside, 634-7208. INNER DEMONS, BLOOD BATH & BEYOND, AXIOM, BORN in JUNE, SILENT SERMON 10 p.m. Oct. 21, 1904 Music Hall, $8-$10. REGGAE SWAT TEAM 10 p.m. Oct. 21 & 22, Flying Iguana. Riverside Arts Market: Dogfest Walk ’n’ Roll: A NICE PAIR, CIARAN SONTAG & the SAFARI BAND, UNF JAZZ ENSEMBLE III 10:30 a.m. Oct. 22, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449. FOLK IS PEOPLE CD RELEASE 8 p.m. Oct. 22, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $15 day of. DJ CHEF ROCC, GLITTERBOMB! 8 p.m. Oct. 22, Rain Dogs. RUSTED ROOT, DEVON ALLMAN BAND 8 p.m. Oct. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, $32 advance; $36 day of. FFN PUNK, FLAG on FIRE, SWILL, GROSS EVOLUTION 8 p.m. Oct. 22, Nighthawks. Second Sunday at Stetson’s: BOB PATTERSON, BRAD LAURETTI, EMMET CARLISLE 2 p.m. Oct. 23, Beluthahatchee Park, 1523 S.R. 13., Fruit Cove, 206-8304, $10. KEISHA & the CREEPERS 7 p.m. Oct. 23, Mavericks Live, $25; $125 VIP.
MDC, WARTORN, POWERBALL 8 p.m. Oct. 23, Jack Rabbits, $10 advance; $15 day of. FROSTFANG, UNEARTHLY CHILD 8 p.m. Oct. 24, Shantytown Pub, 22 W. Sixth St., Springfield, 798-8222. HATEBREED, DEVILDRIVER, DEVIL YOU KNOW 7 p.m. Oct. 25, Mavericks Live, $20. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER 8 p.m. Oct. 25, Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., Downtown, 355-2787, $29-$59. CRYPTIC WISDOM, The PALMER SQUARES, MATTHEW CARTER, BLUFF GAWD, DENVER HALL, GPO 7 p.m. Oct. 26, Jack Rabbits, $12 advance; $15 day of. SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26, Ritz Theatre & Museum, 829 N. Davis St., Downtown, 632-5555, $30-$35. The AUDACITY, ELECTRIC WATER, GOV CLUB, The STEVEN MARSHEK GROUP, DJ J MIX 8 p.m. Oct. 26, Nighthawks.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
LINDSEY STIRLING Oct. 27, The Florida Theatre SECRET STUFF, HODERA Oct. 27, The Gator Pit ERNIE EVANS Oct. 27, Mudville Music Room DJ ZANE 3 Oct. 27, Nighthawks JON LANGSTON Oct. 27, Mavericks Live The AVETT BROTHERS Oct. 28, Veterans Memorial Arena JUST the TIPS Oct. 28, Nighthawks The MINNEAPOLIS SOUND, BILLY BUCHANAN (Prince Tribute) Oct. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANTHONY HAMILTON, LALAH HATHAWAY, ERIC BENET Oct. 28, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts DJ SHOTGUN, 12 HOUR TURN Oct. 28, Rain Dogs MIKE SHACKELFORD, STEVE SHANHOLTZER Oct. 28, Mudville Music Room ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Oct. 29, Florida Theatre BONNIE RAITT, The CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Oct. 29, St. Augustine Amphitheatre GOLDEN PELICANS, TENEMENT, DFMK, The MOLD Oct. 29, Shanghai Nobby’s MEAN JEANS, MELTED, DAGGER BEACH, DEEP THOUGHTS Oct. 29, Nighthawks DEPARTMENT of CORRECTION, DIE CHOKING, SHADOW HUNTER, LA-A, TOILER Oct. 29, Rain Dogs TODD SNIDER, ROREY CARROLL Oct. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ELI YOUNG BAND Oct. 30, Mavericks Live CASTING CROWNS, MATT MAHER, HANNAH KERR Nov. 3, Veterans Memorial Arena SURFER BLOOD Nov. 3, Café Eleven WHETHERMAN Nov. 3, Mudville Music Room LORD ALMIGHTY, MO’YNOQ, QUEEF HUFFER, SATURNINE Nov. 3, Shantytown Pub MAC SABBATH, COUGHIN Nov. 3, Jack Rabbits NF, FLEURIE Nov. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LO CASH Nov. 3, Mavericks Live GHOST, POPESTAR Nov. 4, The Florida Theatre INSEL (ROBIN RÜTENBERG) Nov. 4, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum RAMONA QUIMBY, JIM JOHNSTON’S TRIO of BOOM, JON BAILEY Nov. 4, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party
RADOSLAV LORKOVIK, ANDREW HARDIN Nov. 4, Mudville Music Room BLAIR CRIMMINS & the HOOKERS Nov. 5, Café Eleven ZZ TOP Nov. 5, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS, CASSIDY LEE, IVAN PULLEY Nov. 6, Jack Rabbits DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE Nov. 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre DOOMSTRESS, LA-A Nov. 9, Shantytown Pub TOOTS & the MAYTALS Nov. 9, Mavericks Live RUSHMOREFL, KID YOU NOT Nov. 9, Shanghai Nobby’s EVANESCENCE, SICK PUPPIES Nov. 10, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The DOOBIE BROTHERS, The FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Nov. 11, St. Augustine Amphitheatre BLEAK, MINDFIELD, CONSEQUENCE Nov. 11, Rain Dogs ODD SQUAD LIVE! Nov. 12, The Florida Theatre ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Nov. 12, Mavericks Live CHRIS YOUNG, DUSTIN LYNCH, CASSADEE POPE Nov. 12, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Lincolnville Porch Fest: CHELSEA SADDLER, TELEPATHIC LINES, RIVERNECKS, The WOBBLY TOMS, GHOST TROPIC, AMY HENDRICKSON, SAND FLEAS, ROBBIE DAMMIT & the BROKEN STRINGS, NESTA, RAMONA QUIMBY, KYLE WAGONER, EARLY DISCLAIMERS, LONESOME BERT & the SKINNY LIZARDS, KENSLEY STEWART, The WILLOWWACKS, ASLYN & the NAYSAYERS Nov. 12, St. Augustine TRACY MORGAN Nov. 12, Thrasher-Horne Center LEE GREENWOOD Nov. 13, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WAR Nov. 13, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MITSKI Nov. 13, Jack Rabbits THIEVERY CORPORATION, TAUK Nov. 15, Mavericks Live ERIC JOHNSON Nov. 16, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ETANA Nov. 16, Mavericks Live DAVISSON BROTHERS BAND Nov. 17, Café Eleven GALACTIC, The HIP ABDUCTION Nov. 17, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Nov. 18, Times-Union Center SAVION GLOVER Nov. 18, The Florida Theatre YELLOWCARD, DRYJACKET Nov. 18, Mavericks Live WVRM Fest 4: YOUNG AND IN THE WAY, CULTURE KILLER, SHROUD EATER, HEXXUS, SPACE CADAVER, 25 more Nov. 18 & 19, 1904 Music Hall Swamp Radio: KATHERINE ARCHER, DUFFY BISHOP, UN-NAMED TRIO Nov. 19, St. Augustine Amphitheatre WONDER YEARS, REAL FRIENDS Nov. 19, Mavericks Live NELLIE McCAY Nov. 19, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ENTER the HAGGIS Nov. 20, Café Eleven MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Nov. 21, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts DAVID CROSBY & FRIENDS Nov. 21, STEVE VAI Nov. 23, The Florida Theatre FANTASIA, GUORDAN BANKS, LA’PORSHA RENAE Nov. 25, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts AARON TILL Nov. 26, Mudville Music Room OWEL, The SOIL & The SUN Nov. 27, 1904 Music Hall KENNY G Nov. 28, The Florida Theatre QUEENSRYCHE, ARMORED SAINT Nov. 29, Mavericks Live DREAM THEATER Nov. 29, The Florida Theatre OCTOBER 19-25, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 35
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC PERPETUAL GROOVE Nov. 30, Mavericks Live CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Dec. 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOYZ TO MEN Dec. 1, Thrasher-Horne Center PATRICK BARTLEY Dec. 1, Ritz Theatre DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS, VALERIE SIMPSON, KENNY LATIMORE, JONATHAN BUTLER Dec. 1, The Florida Theatre Winter Formal: The 1975, PHANTOGRAM, SILVERSUN PICKUPS, GLASS ANIMALS, COIN Dec. 2, St. Augustine Amphitheatre The STANLEY CLARKE BAND Dec. 2, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SARA EVANS Dec. 2, The Florida Theatre SAM PACETTI Dec. 2, Mudville Music Room TONY JOE WHITE, MERE WOODARD Dec. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ROCK ’N’ ROLL HOLIDAY SHOW Dec. 3, Florida Theatre TRAVIS TRITT Dec. 4, The Florida Theatre NIYKEE HEATON Dec. 4, Mavericks Live TAYLOR HICKS Dec. 7, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PIERCE PETTIS Dec. 8, Mudville Music Room CHRIS LANE Dec. 10, Mavericks Live A Peter White Christmas: RICK BRAUN, EUGE GROOVE Dec. 11, The Florida Theatre The OAK RIDGE BOYS Dec. 13, The Florida Theatre TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Dec. 15, Veterans Memorial Arena GRIFFIN HOUSE Dec. 18, Café Eleven JACKIE EVANCHO Dec. 21, The Florida Theatre DONNA the BUFFALO, BUTCH TRUCKS & the FREIGHT TRAIN BAND Dec. 29, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall MICHAEL BOLTON Jan. 11, The Florida Theatre WIMPY RUTHERFORD & the CRYPTICS Jan. 13, Shanghai Nobby’s HENRY ROLLINS Jan. 14, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LOS LOBOS Jan. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall PINK MARTINI Jan. 17, The Florida Theatre JEANNE ROBERTSON Jan. 21, The Florida Theatre ELVIS LIVES Jan. 24, Times-Union Center GLADYS KNIGHT Jan. 25, The Florida Theatre KATHLEEN MADIGAN Jan. 27, The Florida Theatre LEON RUSSELL Jan. 28, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
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Northeast Florida blues badass CONRAD OBERG performs with his band Oct. 21 at Mudville Music Room, St. Nicholas.
KENNY ROGERS, LINDA DAVIS Jan. 28, ThrasherHorne Center for the Performing Arts The BEACH BOYS Jan. 28, The Florida Theatre VOCALOSITY Feb. 1, The Florida Theatre CHRISTIE DASHIELL Feb. 2, Ritz Theatre ARLO GUTHRIE Feb. 2, The Florida Theatre TOM RUSH Feb. 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
PAT METHENY, ANTONIO SANCHEZ, LINDA OH, GWILYM SIMCOCK Feb. 3, The Florida Theatre SARA WATKINS Feb. 4, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall BOSTON POPS ESPLANDE ORCHESTRA Feb. 4, TimesUnion Center for the Performing Arts GAELIC STORM Feb. 8, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall TAJ MAHAL Feb. 10, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The BABES Feb. 11, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall UNDER the STREETLAMP Feb. 12, PV Concert Hall ANDY McKEE Feb. 15, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall THREE DOG NIGHT, AMERICA Feb. 16, Florida Theatre The PAUL THORN BAND Feb. 17, PV Concert Hall The PIANO GUYS Feb. 17, The Florida Theatre TOBYMAC, MATT MAHER, MANDISA, MAC POWELL, CAPITAL KINGS, RYAN STEVENSON, HOLLYN Feb. 17, Veterans Memorial Arena TRAE CROWDER, COREY RYAN FORESTER, DREW MORGAN Feb. 18, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & the ASBURY JUKES Feb. 19, The Florida Theatre COLIN HAY Feb. 22, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall JOE BONAMASSA Feb. 22, The Florida Theatre MINDI ABAIR Feb. 23, Ritz Theatre MANHATTAN TRANSFER, TAKE 6 Feb. 23, Florida Theatre ELIZABETH COOK, DALE WATSON Feb. 24, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall OLD 97’s, BOTTLE ROCKETS Feb. 25, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall DENNIS DeYOUNG, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra Feb. 26, The Florida Theatre AGENT ORANGE, GUTTERMOUTH, The QUEERS, The ATOM AGE Feb. 26, St. Augustine Amphitheatre Backyard Party TAJ EXPRESS Feb. 28, Times-Union Center MARC COHN March 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall The WEIGHT, members of The Band March 3, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall SPYRO GYRA March 5, The Florida Theatre KODO March 11, The Florida Theatre CLINT BLACK March 12, Florida Theatre The CHARLIE DANIELS BAND March 16, Florida Theatre GET the LED OUT March 17, The Florida Theatre PILOBOLUS SHADOWLAND March 21, Florida Theatre 1964: The TRIBUTE March 25, St. Augustine Amphitheatre AIR SUPPLY March 26, The Florida Theatre JIM BRICKMAN March 31, The Florida Theatre RICK THOMAS April 1, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall ANA POPOVIC April 5, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall LITTLE RIVER BAND, Jacksonville Rock Symphony Orchestra April 7, The Florida Theatre ANDRAE MURCHINSON April 8, Ritz Theatre BUDDY GUY, The RIDES (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Barry Goldberg) April 9, St. Augustine Amphitheatre CHRIS BOTTI April 18, The Florida Theatre MJ LIVE! April 20-23, Times-Union Center TOWER of POWER April 22, The Florida Theatre ERIC CHURCH May 5, Veterans Memorial Arena BASTILLE May 7, St. Augustine Amphitheatre TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL Sept. 16, 2017, Veterans Memorial Arena
LIVE + LOCAL MUSIC
Connecticut metalcore hombres HATEBREED (pictured) perform with DEVILDRIVER and DEVIL YOU KNOW Oct. 25 at Mavericks Live, Downtown. DELFEAYO MARSALIS Sept. 29, 2017, Riverside Fine Arts Series
LIVE MUSIC CLUBS
AMELIA ISLAND, FERNANDINA
ALLEY CAT Beer House, 316 Centre St., 491-1001 Dan Voll 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19. Gitlo Lee Blues every Fri. LA MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646 Miguel Paley 5:30-9 p.m. every Fri.-Sun. Javier Parez every Sun. SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652 King Eddie & Pili Pili 6 p.m. Oct. 19. Tad Jennings Oct. 20. Dan Voll, Milltown Road Oct. 21. JC & Mike, Davis Turner Oct. 22. Brian Ernst Oct. 23. Dan Voll Oct. 24. Mark O’Quinn Oct. 25 SURF Restaurant, 3199 S. Fletcher Ave., 261-5711 Yancy Clegg Oct. 19. Reggie Katfish Lee Oct. 20. DJ Wild Dave 7 p.m. Fri.
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CASBAH Café, 3628 St. Johns Ave., 981-9966 Goliath Flores every Wed. Live jazz every Sun. Live music 9 p.m. every Mon. ECLIPSE, 4219 St. Johns Ave. KJ Free 9 p.m. every Tue. & Thur. Indie dance 9 p.m. every Wed. ’80s & ’90s dance Fri. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200 Live music every Thur.-Sat.
THE BEACHES
(All venues in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted)
BLUE TYPHOON, 2309 Beach Blvd., 379-3789 Live music most weekends BLUE WATER ISLAND GRILL, 205 First St. N., 249-0083 Anton LaPLume, Love Chunk Oct. 19 BRASS ANCHOR Pub, 2292 Mayport Rd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0301 Joe Oliff Oct. 19 FLYING IGUANA, 207 Atlantic Blvd., Neptune Beach, 853-5680 3 the Band 9 p.m. Oct. 20. Reggae SWAT Team 10 p.m. Oct. 21 & 22. Live music on weekends GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925 Groov 7:30 p.m. every Wed. Murray Goff Fri. Under the Bus every Sat. Gene Nordan 6 p.m. every Sun. LYNCH’S Irish Pub, 514 First St. N., 249-5181 Live music 10 p.m. Oct. 19. Split Tone Thur. Chillula Fri. Be Easy Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1018 Third St. N., 241-5600 El Dub 9 p.m. Oct. 20. Lyons 10 p.m. Oct. 21. Live music weekends MEZZA Restaurant & Bar, 110 First St., NB, 249-5573 Gypsies Ginger every Wed. Mike Shackelford, Steve Shanholtzer every Thur. Mezza Shuffle every Mon. Trevor Tanner every Tue. RAGTIME Tavern, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Oct. 19. Live music every Wed.-Sun. SLIDERS SEAFOOD GRILLE, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881 Billy Bowers 7 p.m. Oct. 22 ZETA BREWING, 131 First Ave. N., 372-0727 Live music every Thur.-Sat.
CAMDEN COUNTY, GA.
CAPTAIN STAN’S Smokehouse, 700 Bedell Dr., Woodbine, 912-729-9552 Acoustic music 6:30 p.m. every Sat.
DOWNTOWN
1904 MUSIC Hall, 19 Ocean St. N. The Mantras, The Anton LaPlume Band, Blackwater Grease 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Inner Demons, Blood Bath & Beyond, Axiom, Born In June, Silent Sermon 10 p.m. Oct. 21. Bear Hands, Savoir Adore Oct. 23. Oceana Oct. 26 DE REAL TING, 128 W. Adams St., 633-9738 De Lions of Jah 7 p.m. Oct. 21
DOS GATOS, 123 E. Forsyth St., 354-0666 DJ Brandon every Thur. DJ NickFresh every Sat. DJ Randall every Mon. DJ Hollywood every Tue. FIONN MacCOOL’S, Jax Landing, 374-1247 Spade McQuade 6 p.m. Oct. 19. DJ Winn 8 p.m. Oct. 22. Live music every Fri. & Sat. JACKSONVILLE Landing, 353-1188 Giselle Tavera, Alejandra, Ricky Luis, Papo Kpuccino, Raquel y Su Nuevo Impacto, Kennyel el Austronauta, Gabz & Pico, Frakmento de Tierra Caliente, Jeyro Oct. 22. Conch Fritters 5 p.m. Oct. 23 MARK’S Downtown, 315 E. Bay St., 355-5099 DJ Shotgun 10 p.m. every Sat. MAVERICKS LIVE, Jax Landing, 356-1110 Chase Bryant 8 p.m. Oct. 20. New Mastersounds, Turkuaz 8 p.m. Oct. 21. Keisha & The Creepers 7 p.m. Oct. 23. Hatebreed, Devildriver, Devil You Know 7 p.m. Oct. 25 MYTH Nightclub, 333 E. Bay St., 707-0474 DJs Lady Miaou, Booty Boo, Cry Havoc 9 p.m. Glitz Wed. Q45, music Wed. EDM Thur. Eric Rush Fri. DJ IBay Sat. Bangarang & Crunchay Sun.
FLEMING ISLAND
MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999 Kurt Lanham 9:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Bongo Boys 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Wes Cobb 9:30 p.m. Oct. 22. Live music weekends WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198 Lisa & the Mad Hatters 9 p.m. Oct. 21. A1A Band 9 p.m. Oct. 22. Live music every Thur.-Sun.
INTRACOASTAL
CLIFF’S Bar & Grill, 3033 Monument Rd., Ste. 2, 645-5162 Band on the Run 8 p.m. Oct. 19. Blistur Oct. 21 & 22. Open mic every Tue. GERMAN SCHNITZEL HAUS, 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 221-9700 Oompah Band Oct. 22 JERRY’S, 13170 Atlantic Blvd., 220-6766 Mr. Natural 10 p.m. Oct. 21
MANDARIN
ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458 Brian Iannucci Oct. 19 & 23 IGGY’S Seafood Shack, 104 Bartram Oaks Walk, Ste. 101, 209-5209 DJ Greg every Wed.
ORANGE PARK, MIDDLEBURG
DEE’S Music Bar, 2141 Loch Rane Blvd., Ste. 140, 375-2240 DJ Daddy-O every Tue. THE HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959 John Michael on the piano every Tue.-Sat. THE ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611 DJ Big Mike Oct. 20. The Anton LaPLume Band 10 p.m. Oct. 26. Live music every weekend SHARK Club, 714 Park Ave., 215-1557 Digital Skyline Oct. 19
PONTE VEDRA
PUSSER’S Grille, 816 A1A, 280-7766 Live music weekends TABLE 1, 330 A1A, 280-5515 Deron Baker Oct. 19 & 26. Gary Starling Jazz Band Oct. 20. Tier 2 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Robbie Litt Oct. 22 TAPS BAR & GRILL, 2220 C.R. 210, St. Johns, 819-1554 Paul Lundgren Band 9 p.m. Oct. 21
RIVERSIDE, WESTSIDE
BRIXX, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928 Live music every Thur. & Fri. HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 10, 513-4272 Live music every Fri. MURRAY HILL Theatre, 932 Edgewood Ave., 388-7807 Jonathan Hoyle, DAVII, David Borges, MGL, The Birdsongs
8 p.m. Oct. 22 NIGHTHAWKS, 2952 Roosevelt Blvd. J E Double F, DJ J Mix 8 p.m. Oct. 19. Artistree 8 p.m. Oct. 21. FFN Punk, Flag On Fire, Swill, Gross Evolution 8 p.m. Oct. 22. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969 DJ 3 Clops I, LA-A, Darkhorse Saloon, Earnest St. Mafia 8 p.m. Oct. 21. DJ Chef Rocc, Glitterbomb! 8 p.m. Oct. 22 RIVERSIDE Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave., 389-2449 A Nice Pair, Ciaran Sontag & The Safari Band, UNF Jazz Ensemble III 10:30 a.m. Oct. 22 UNITY PLAZA, 220 Riverside Ave. Live music most every weekend
ST. AUGUSTINE
CELLAR UPSTAIRS, 157 King St., 826-1594 Tony Scozzaro, Ancient City Keepers Oct. 21. Gary Douglas Campbell, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg Oct. 22. Vinny Jacobs Oct. 23 MARDI GRAS, 123 San Marco Ave., 823-8806 Swamp Rock Stew Oct. 21. Bad Sod Oct. 22. Fre Gordon open mic Oct. 23. DJ Rob St. John every Wed. SHANGAHI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188 JE Double F 8 p.m. Oct. 20 TRADEWINDS LOUNGE, 124 Charlotte St., 829-9336 Spanky 9 p.m. Oct. 21 & 22. Live music every night
SAN MARCO
JACK RABBITS, 1528 Hendricks Ave., 398-7496 Inna Vision 7 p.m. Oct. 19. A Matter of Honor, Civil Youth, Askmeificare, Faze Wave 7 p.m. Oct. 20. Gringo Starr, Sh-Booms, Le Orchid 8 p.m. Oct. 21. Folk Is People CD Release 8 p.m. Oct. 22. MDC, Wartorn, Powerball 8 p.m. Oct. 23. Cryptic Wisdom, The Palmer Squares, Matthew Carter, Bluff Gawd, Denver Hall, GPO 7 p.m. Oct. 26 MUDVILLE Music Room, 3104 Atlantic Blvd., 352-7008 John Thomas Group, Larry Mangum 7 p.m. Oct. 19. The Steel Wheels 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20. Conrad Oberg Band Oct. 21 TAVERNAS YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426 Conch Fritters 4 p.m. Oct. 22
SOUTHSIDE, BAYMEADOWS
BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 380-3091 Paul Lundgren Band 9 p.m. Oct. 22 GREEK STREET CAFÉ, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 503-0620 Tavernalive 6 p.m. every Mon. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955 Charlie Walker Oct. 20. Paul Ivey Oct. 21 WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., 634-7208 Smokestack, Blistur 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21. Melissa Smith open mic every Thur. Blues jam every Sun. Country jam every Wed. WILD WING CAFE, 4555 Southside Blvd., 619-3670 South of Savannah Band Oct. 21. Lunar Coast 10 p.m. Oct. 22
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
BOSTON’S, 13070 City Station Dr., 751-7499 Shayne Rammler 9 p.m. Oct. 20 MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843 Shayne Rammler 9 p.m. Oct. 21 SHANTYTOWN PUB, 22 W. Sixth St., 798-8222 Russ T Nutz 10 p.m. Oct. 20. Frostfang, Unearthly Child 8 p.m. Oct. 24
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FOLIO DINING
With locations Downtown and in San Marco, Indochine delights with delicious Thai fare. photo by Dennis Ho
AMELIA ISLAND FERNANDINA BEACH
29 SOUTH EATS, 29 S. Third St., 277-7919, 29southrestaur ant.com. Historic downtown bistro’s Chef Scotty Schwartz serves traditional regional cuisine with a modern twist. $$ L Tu-Sa; D M.-Sa; R Sa BEACH DINER, 2006 S. Eighth St., 310-3750, beachdiner. com. Innovative breakfast: Eggs on the Bayou, fish-n-grits; French toast, riders, omelets. Lunch fare: salads, burgers, sandwiches, shrimp & crabmeat salad. $ K TO B R L Da ily BRETT’S Waterway Café, 1 S. Front St., 261-2660. F On the water at Centre Street’s end, it’s Southern hospitality in an upscale atmosphere; daily specials, fresh local seafood, aged beef. $$$ FB L D Daily CAFÉ KARIBO, 27 N. Third St., 277-5269, cafekaribo.com. F In historic building, family-owned café has worldly fare, madefrom-scratch dressings, sauces, desserts, sourcing fresh greens, veggies, seafood. Dine inside or al fresco under oak-shaded patio. Microbrew Karibrew Pub next door has beer brewed onsite, imports. $$ FB K TO R, Su; L Daily, D Tu-Su in season CHEZ LEZAN Bakery Co., 1014 Atlantic Ave., 491-4663, chez lezanbakery.com. Fresh European-style breads, pastries: croissants, muffins, cakes, pies. $ TO B R L Daily The CRAB TRAP, 31 N. Second St., 261-4749, ameliacrabtrap .com. F Nearly 40 years, family-owned-and-operated. Fresh local seafood, steaks, specials. HH. $$ FB L D Daily DAVID’S Restaurant & Lounge, 802 Ash St., 310-6049, amelia islanddavids.com. Steaks, fresh seafood, rack of lamb and ribeye, Chilean sea bass, in an upscale atmosphere. Chef Wesley Cox has a new lounge menu. $$$$ FB D Nightly DICK’S Wings & Grill, 474313 E. S.R. 200, 310-6945. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
JACK & DIANE’S, 708 Centre St., 321-1444, jackanddianes cafe.com. F Renovated 1887 shotgun house. Faves: jambalaya, French toast, pancakes, mac & cheese, crêpes. Vegan items. Inside or porch overlooking historic area. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily La MANCHA, 2709 Sadler Rd., 261-4646. Spanish, Portuguese fare, Brazilian flair. Tapas, seafood, steaks, sangria. Drink specials. AYCE paella Sun. $$$ FB K TO D Nightly LARRY’S Subs, 474272 S.R. 200, 844-2225. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LECHONERA EL COQUÍ, 232 N. Second St., 432-7545. New Puerto Rican place. Chulleta kan kan (pork chops), Tripletta churosco sandwich, more. $ FB TO L D Tu-Su MOON RIVER Pizza, 925 S. 14th St., 321-3400, moonriver pizza.net. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Northernstyle pizzas, 20+ toppings, pie/slice. Calzones, salads. $ BW TO L D M-Sa The MUSTARD SEED Café, 833 Courson Rd., 277-3141, nassaushealthfoods.net. Casual organic eatery, juice bar, in Nassau Health Foods. All-natural organic items, smoothies, juices, herbal teas, coffees, daily specials. $$ K TO B L M-Sa The PATIO PLACE, 416 Ash St., 410-3717, patioplacebistro. com. Bistro/wine bar/crêperie’s menu of global fare uses crêpes: starters, entrées, shareables, desserts. $$ BW TO B L D Tu-Su The PECAN ROLL Bakery, 122 S. Eighth St., 491-9815, thepec anrollbakery.com. F By historic district. Sweet/savory pastries, cookies, cakes, bagels, breads; from scratch. $ K TO B L W-Su POINTE Restaurant, 98 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-4851, elizabeth pointelodge.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. In award-winning inn Elizabeth Pointe Lodge. Seaside dining, open to public. Dine in or out. Hot buffet breakfast daily, full lunch menu. Homestyle soups, specialty sandwiches, salads, desserts. $$$ BW K B L D Daily The SALTY PELICAN Bar & Grill, 12 N. Front St., 277-3811, thesaltypelicanamelia.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 2nd-story outdoor bar. Owners T.J. & Al offer local seafood, fish tacos, Mayport shrimp, po’boys, cheese oysters. $$ FB K L D Daily To list your restaurant, call your account manager or Sam Taylor, 860-2465 • staylor@folioweekly.com
DINING DIRECTORY KEY
AVERAGE ENTRÉE • COST •
$ = Less than $10 $$ = $10- $20 $$$ = $20- $35 $$$$ = $35 & up BW = Beer/Wine FB = Full Bar K = Kids’ Menu TO = Take Out B = Breakfast R = Brunch L = Lunch D = Dinner Bite Club = Hosted free FW Bite Club event. fwbiteclub.com 2015 Best of Jax winner F = FW distribution spot
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SLIDERS Seaside Grill, 1998 S. Fletcher Ave., 277-6652, slidersseaside.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Oceanfront. Award-winning handmade crabcakes, fried pickles, fresh seafood. Open-air 2nd floor, balcony, playground. $$ FB K L D Daily T-RAY’S Burger Station, 202 S. Eighth St., 261-6310. F Family-owned-and-operated 18+ years. Blue plate specials, burgers, biscuits & gravy, shrimp. $ BW TO B L M-Sa
ARLINGTON, REGENCY
DICK’S Wings, 9119 Merrill Rd., Ste. 19, 745-9300. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
LARRY’S Subs, 1301 Monument Rd., Ste. 5, 724-5802. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
SID & LINDA’S Seafood Market & Restaurant, 12220 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 109, 503-8276. Pick a whole fresh fish, have it cleaned, filleted, cooked to order. Dine in, take out. Housemade sauces. $$ K TO L D Daily
AVONDALE, ORTEGA
CHOMP CHOMP, 4162 Herschel St., 329-1679. Just relocated. Chef-inspired: The Philadelphia Experiment (sweet pork over arugula), panko-crusted chicken, burgers, Waldorf salad, bahn mi, Southern fried chicken, The Come Up (portabella mushroom, green tomato salsa, almonds). Curry Chomp chips, pasta salad. HH. $ BW L D Mon.-Sat. The FOX Restaurant, 3580 St. Johns Ave., 387-2669. Owners Ian and Mary Chase offer fresh fare, homemade desserts. Breakfast all day; signature items: burgers, meatloaf, fried green tomatoes. $$ BW K L D Daily HARPOON LOUIE’S, 4070 Herschel St., Ste. 8, 389-5631, harpoonlouies.net. F Locally owned & operated 20+ years. American pub. 1/2-lb. burgers, fish sandwiches, pasta. Local beers, HH. $$ FB K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 3611 St. Johns Ave., 388-0200. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
PINEGROVE Market & Deli, 1511 PineGrove Ave., 389-8655, pinegrovemarket.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 40+ years. Burgers, Cubans, subs, wraps. Onsite butcher, USDA choice prime aged beef. Craft beers. Fri. & Sat. fish fry. $ BW TO B L D M-Sa Restaurant ORSAY, 3630 Park St., 381-0909, restaurant orsay.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. French/Southern bistro; local organic ingredients. Steak frites, mussels, pork chops. $$$ FB R, Su; D Nightly SIMPLY SARA’S, 2902 Corinthian Ave., 387-1000, simplysara s.net. F Down-home fare from scratch: eggplant fries, pimento cheese, baked chicken, fruit cobblers, chicken & dumplings, desserts. BYOB. $$ K TO L D Tu-Sa, B Sa
BAYMEADOWS
AL’S Pizza, 8060 Philips Hwy., Ste. 105, 731-4300. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
INDIA’S Restaurant, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 8, 620-0777, indiajax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic cuisine, lunch buffet. Curries, vegetables, lamb, chicken, shrimp, fish tandoori. $$ BW L M-Sa; D Nightly LARRY’S Giant Subs, 8616 Baymeadows Rd., 739-2498. F SEE ORANGE PARK.
METRO Diner, 9802 Baymeadows Rd., 425-9142. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.
NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 11030 Baymeadows Rd., 260-2791. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. The WELL Watering Hole, 3928 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 9, 737-7740, thewellwateringhole.com. Local craft beers, glass/ bottle wines. Meatloaf sandwich, pulled Peruvian chicken, vegan black bean burgers. $$ BW K TO L M-F; D Tu-Sa TEQUILAS, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 101, 363-1365, tequilasjacksonville.com. New Mexican place has casa-style dishes made with fresh, spicy hot ingredients. Vegetarian option. Top-shelf tequilas, drink specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily WHISKEY JAX, 10915 Baymeadows Rd., Ste. 135, 634-7208, whiskeyjax.com. Gastropub. Craft beers, gourmet burgers, handhelds, street fare tacos, signature plates, whiskey. HH. $$ FB L D F-Su; D Nightly
BEACHES
(Venues are in Jax Beach unless otherwise noted.)
AL’S PIZZA, 303 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, 249-0002, als pizza.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NY-style gourmet pizzas,
DINING DIRECTORY baked dishes. 28+ years. All day HH M-Thu. $ FB K TO L D Daily ANGIE’S Subs, 1436 Beach Blvd., 246-2519. ANGIE’S Grom Subs, 204 Third Ave. S., 241-3663. Subs made with fresh ingredients, 25+ years. Huge salads, blue-ribbon iced tea. Grom has Sun. brunch, no alcohol. $ K BW TO L D Daily BEACH Diner, 501 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 249-6500. SEE AMELIA. BEACH HUT Café, 1281 Third St. S., 249-3516. 28+ years. Full breakfast menu served all day (darn good grits); hot plate specials Mon.-Fri. $ K TO B R L Daily CRUISERS Grill, 319 23rd Ave. S., 270-0356, cruisersgrill. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Locally owned & operated 20+ years. Half-pound burgers, fish sandwiches, big salads, awardwinning cheddar fries, sangria. $ BW K TO L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 992 Beach Blvd., 249-3001, europeanstreet.com. F SEE RIVERSIDE. FAMOUS TOASTERY, 311 N. Third St., 372-0712, famous toastery.com. New place has breakfast and lunch: corned beef hash, gluten-free pancakes, bacon, omelets, eggs, toast. Wraps, Bloody Marys, mimosas, peach Bellini. $$ FB K TO B L Daily The FISH COMPANY Restaurant, 725 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 12, AB, 246-0123, thefishcojax.com. Bite Club. Casual. Oyster raw bar, fresh local seafood, Mayport shrimp, crab, lobster. Homestyle desserts. Patio; all-day HH Sun. $$ FB K TO L D Daily FLAMING SEAFOOD & SHAO KAO BBQ, 1289 Penman Rd., 853-6398. New place (is it Chinese? Barbecue? Seafood?) serves meats and vegetables, spiced, skewered on bamboo sticks – like Chinese street food. $ BW TO L D Daily FLYING IGUANA Taqueria & Tequila Bar, 207 Atlantic Blvd., NB, 853-5680, flyingiguana.com. F Latin American: tacos, seafood, carnitas, Cubana fare. 100+ tequilas. $ FB TO L D Daily GUSTO, 1266 Beach Blvd., 372-9925, gustojax.com. Classic Old World Roman cuisine, large Italian menu: homestyle pasta, beef, chicken, fish delicacies; open pizza-tossing kitchen. Reservations encouraged. $$ FB TO L R D Tu-Su The HASH HOUSE, 610 Third St. S., 422-0644, thelovingcup hashhouse.com. New place offers locally sourced fare, locally roasted coffees, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian dishes – no GMOs or hormones. $ K TO B R L Daily LARRY’S Subs, 657 Third St. N., 247-9620. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM Pizza Bakers, 1018 Third St. N., Ste. 2, 241-5600, mellowmushroom.com. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Hoagies, gourmet pizzas: Mighty Meaty, vegetarian, Kosmic Karma. 35 tap beers. Nonstop HH. $ FB K TO L D Daily METRO Diner, 1534 3rd St. N., 853-6817. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.
M SHACK, 299 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-2599, mshackburgers. com. David and Matthew Medure flip burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes. Dine in or out. $$ BW L D Daily NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 1585 Third St. N., 458-1390. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE MANDARIN. POE’S Tavern, 363 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7637, poestavern. com. Gastropub, 50+ beers, burgers, fries, fish tacos, Edgar’s Drunken Chili, daily fish sandwich special. $$ FB K L D Daily RAGTIME Tavern & Seafood Grill, 207 Atlantic Blvd., AB, 241-7877, ragtimetavern.com. F 30+ years, iconic seafood
GRILL ME!
seafood, pizza. Homemade salad dressing. $ BW K L M-F; D M-Sa FIONN MacCOOL’S Irish Pub & Restaurant, Jax Landing, Ste. 176, 374-1547, fionnmacs.com. Casual dining, uptown Irish atmosphere; fish & chips, Guinness lamb stew, black-and-tan brownies. $$ FB K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 21 E. Adams St., Ste. 200, 598-5303, indochine jax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Thai, Southeast Asian cuisine. Signature dishes: chicken Satay, soft shell crab; mango, sticky rice dessert. $$ FB TO L D M-F; D Tu-Sa OLIO Market, 301 E. Bay St., 356-7100, oliomarket.com. F From-scratch soups, sandwiches. Duck grilled cheese, seen on Best Sandwich in America. $$ BW TO B R L M-F; D F & Sa URBAN GRIND Coffee Company, 45 W. Bay, Ste. 102, 866395-3954, 516-7799, urbangrind.coffee. Locally roasted whole bean brewed coffees, espressos, pastries, smoothies, bagels, cream cheeses. Chicken/tuna salad, sandwiches. WiFi. $ B L M-F. URBAN Grind Express, 50 W. Laura, 516-7799. SEE ABOVE. ZODIAC Bar & Grill, 120 W. Adams St., 354-8283, thezodiac barandgrill.com. 16+ years. Mediterranean cuisine, American fare, paninis, vegetarian dishes. Daily lunch buffet. Espressos, hookahs. HH M-F $ FB L M-F; D W-Sa
FLEMING ISLAND
DICK’S Wings, 1803 East-West Parkway, 375-2559. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 1915 East-West Parkway, 541-0009. F SEE RIVERSIDE. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 1800 Town Ctr. Blvd., 541-1999. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
TAPS Bar & Grill, 1605 C.R. 220, Ste. 145, 278-9421, tapspub lichouse.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. 50+ premium domestic, import tap beers. Burgers, sandwiches, entrées. $$ FB K L D Daily WHITEY’S Fish Camp, 2032 C.R. 220, 269-4198, whiteysfish camp.com. F Real fish camp. Gator tail, freshwater catfish, daily specials, on Swimming Pen Creek. Tiki bar. Come by boat, bike or car. $ FB K TO L Tu-Su; D Nightly
INTRACOASTAL WEST
AL’S Pizza, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 31, 223-0991. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 32, 223-0115. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
GERMAN SCHNITZEL HAUS, 13475 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 40, 221-9700, germanjax.com. Authentic German/fusion fare: schnitzels, plus bratwurst, stroganoff, käsesspätzle. 13 German beers in bottles, on tap. Bar bites, cocktails. Outdoor BierGarten. HH Tu-Thur. $$ FB L & D Tu-Su LARRY’S, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., Ste. 14, 642-6980. F SEE O.PARK. SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 14286 Beach Blvd., Ste. 29, 559-5301. SEE BEACHES.
MANDARIN, NW ST. JOHNS
AKEL’s Deli, 12926 Granbay Pkwy. W., 880-2008. F SEE DOWNTOWN.
JAMEY EVONIUK
Candy Apple Café & Cocktails 400 N. Hogan St., Downtown BORN IN: San Diego, California YEARS IN THE BIZ: 25 FAVE CUISINE STYLE: French/Asian FAVE INGREDIENTS: Ginger, mustard, mushrooms IDEAL MEAL: Either grilled ribeye steak or whole snapper with green curry WILL NOT CROSS MY LIPS: Shortcuts INSIDER'S TIP: Less is more TASTE TREAT: Foie gras and sauternes
place. Blackened snapper, sesame tuna, Ragtime shrimp. Daily HH, brunch Sun. $$ FB L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 1018 Third St. N., 372-4456, saltlife foodshack.com. Specialty items, signature tuna poke bowl, fresh sushi, Ensenada tacos, local fried shrimp. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SEACHASERS, 831 First St. N., 372-0444, seachasers.com. New place; four areas: First Street Bar, Music Room, Beach Bar, Dining Room. Daily HH. In or on patio. $$ FB L D Daily SLIDERS Seafood Grille & Oyster Bar, 218 First St., NB, 246-0881, slidersseafoodgrille.com. Beach-casual spot. Faves: Fresh fish tacos, gumbo. Key lime pie, ice cream sandwiches. Brunch Sun. $$ FB K L Sa/Su; D Nightly SURFWICHES Sandwich Shop, 1537 Penman Rd., 241-6996, surfwiches.com. Craft sandwich shop. Yankee-style steak sandwiches, hoagies, all made to order. $ BW TO K L D Daily THIS CHICK’S KITCHEN, 353 Sixth Ave. S., 778-5404, thischickskitchen.com. Farm-to-table restaurant serving healthful, locally sourced clean meals. Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian options. $$ TO L D W-Sa V PIZZA, 528 First St. N., 853-6633, vpizza.com. Traditional Neapolitana artisan pizza from Naples – Italy, not Florida, made with fresh ingredients. $$ FB TO L D Daily
DOWNTOWN
AKEL’S Delicatessen, 21 W. Church St., 665-7324. 50 N. Laura St., Ste. 125, 446-3119, akelsdeli.com. F NYC-style deli. Fresh subs, sandwiches, burgers, gyros, wraps, vegetarian, breakfast, signature dressings. $ K TO B L M-F CANDY APPLE Café & Cocktails, 400 N. Hogan, 353-9717, thecan dyapplecafeandcocktails.com. Chef-driven Southern/French cuisine, sandwiches, entrées, salads. $$ FB K L Daily; D Tu-Sa CASA DORA, 108 E. Forsyth St., 356-8282, casadoraitalian. com. F Chef Sam Hamidi serves Italian fare, 40+ years: veal,
AL’s Pizza, 11190 San Jose Blvd., 260-4115. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
BEACH Diner, 11362 San Jose Blvd., 683-0079. SEE AMELIA. CRUISERS, 5613 San Jose Blvd., 737-2874. 2016 Best of Jax
Winner. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings, 100 Marketside Ave., 829-8134. 965 S.R. 16, 825-4540. 1610 University Blvd. W., 448-2110. 10391 Old St. Augustine, 880-7087. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. ENZA’S Italian Restaurant, 10601 San Jose Blvd., Ste. 109, 268-4458, enzas.net. Family-owned place serves Italian cuisine, veal, seafood, specials. $$$ FB K TO D Tu-Su FIRST COAST Deli & Grill, 6082 St. Augustine Rd., 733-7477. Pancakes, bacon, sandwiches, burgers, wings. $ K TO B L Daily JAX DINER, 5065 St. Augustine Rd.,739-7070. New spot serves local produce, meats, breads, seafood. $ TO B L Daily METRO Diner, 12807 San Jose Blvd., 638-6185. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. NATIVE SUN Natural Foods Market & Deli, 10000 San Jose Blvd., 260-6950, nativesunjax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Organic soups, baked items, sandwiches, prepared foods. Juice, smoothie, coffee bar. All-natural organic beer/ wine. $ BW TO K B L D Daily TAPS Bar & Grill, 2220 C.R. 210 W., Ste. 314, 819-1554. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE FLEMING ISLAND.
V PIZZA, 12601 San Jose Blvd., 647-9424. SEE SAN MARCO. WHOLE FOODS Market, 10601 San Jose, Ste. 22, 288-1100, wholefoodsmarket.com. Prepared-food department, 80+ items, full-service/self-service bars: hot, salad, soup, dessert. Pizza, sushi, sandwich stations. Grapes, Hops & Grinds bar serves wines, beers (craft/tap), coffees. $$ BW K TO B L D Daily
ORANGE PARK
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 6055 Youngerman Cir., 778-1101, dickswingsandgrill.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. NASCAR-
BITE SIZ BITE-SIZED ZED
Riverside loses a pub but gains a CULINARY PARADISE
WON’T YOU BE MY
NEIGHBOR?
I DON’T LIKE TO SEE A NEIGHBORHOOD SPOT close, but when something as good as FIVE POINTS TAVERN replaces it, it’s OK. Glowing reviews and photos from diners and the restaurant are on Instagram, but nothing prepared us for the great experience awaiting at the Margaret Street treasure. The Five Points Tavern is a vision in black and white. Everything has a new coat of paint and the interior sparkles, but doesn’t outshine the menu, which strikes a nice balance between comfort food and more sophisticated items. In fact, we had a hard time deciding because everything just sounded so darn good. It’s divided into several categories, like small plates (shareable appetizer size), sandwiches, salads, pasta and grains, and large plates (regular entrées). To start, we tried two small plates, the crab cake ($12) and calamari ($11). The sautéed calamari, in a bowl brimming with a juicy tomato sauce of garlic, shallots, chunks of tomatoes and olives, was accompanied by a small dish of dippable bread. If you carb lovers need more, just ask for an extra order ($1). Crab cakes can be hit or miss, but unlike some breadcrumb-filled hockey pucks others occasionally try to pass off as a crab cake, Five Points Tavern’s is not too bready and it’s clear there’s a full portion of jumbo lump crab. You can also get a crab cake sandwich ($16) or order it as a large plate ($23). Of large plates, we ordered duck confit ($21) with sweet potato, which tasted like an early Thanksgiving dinner. The salty, tender duck, falling off the bone, was plated with a beautiful, deeppurple port wine huckleberry reduction with so
BITE-SIZED
FIVE POINTS TAVERN
1521 Margaret St., 549-5063, fivepointstavern.com many notes, it was like a symphony. My favorite note was braised fennel, which mellowed out the usual sharp, clean taste of licorice, imbuing an almost caramelized sweetness to the duck confit. From the pasta and grains section, we were compelled to order the tagliatelle with lamb ragu ($21). Not many places in Northeast Florida serve the wider tagliatelle noodle, so I was excited to get my fork into this rare dish. Experiencing these noodles (even though they weren’t made in-house) made me feel like I was tucking into the ultimate comfort food, and the sauce in the dish even more so. The rich, slightly creamy, red sauce was robust with lamb, parmigiana, rosemary and truffle flavors. Each bite made me want to curl up in a sweater with a glass of wine, next to a crackling fire, and wait out our long, arduous winters. Oh, not so arduous? Still works. We were talked into having dessert – not really a tough sell because who wouldn’t want to end a meal as divine as this one with a salted chocolate mousse ($7)!? The mousse is served in a brandyesque glass, finished with a butterscotch drizzle. The salt perfectly balanced the chocolate – it was a fitting end to a delectable dinner. One last tip: Five Points Tavern was fairly crowded the night we went there, so I’d recommend making reservations! Brentley Stead biteclub@folioweekly.com OCTOBER 19-25, 2016 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | 39
DINING DIRECTORY PINT-SIZED
A Folio Weekly exclusive with HIGH HEEL BREWING founder and brewmaster
ONE CRAFTY CHICK LONG AGO, WOMEN BREWED MOST OF THE beer; it’s a relatively recent development for men to dominate the craft. Taking a long view of history, it’s not surprising that over the past few years, women have been steadily occupying a larger space in the male-dominated brewing scene. From brewers to CEOs, women are making a comeback in crafting beer. On Oct. 8 in Denver, Kristi McGuire, founder and brewmaster of High Heel Brewing, made her mark on the industry by earning a coveted gold medal at the world’s largest craft beer festival and competition: The Great American Beer Festival. High Heel brews beers specifically targeted to female craft beer consumers. About her brewery, McGuire says, “We want to bring new styles and exciting beers to the market that craft beer enthusiasts will love. We also want to [bring] people to the table who haven’t been overtly invited before.” The company was founded in 2016 and, though based in St. Louis, brews beers at Lakeland’s Brew Hub. Brew Hub was founded in 2012 in St. Louis by a team led by Timothy Schoen, a former vicepresident at Anheuser-Busch. The company provides brewing, packaging, distribution and sales services to craft brewers. Other clients are Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing and Asheville’s Green Man Brewery. Along McGuire’s years-long travels to creating an award-winning brew, she made many stops and worked with talented people. “I started my brewing career as an intern at Anheuser-Busch in Houston in 1993,” McGuire said in an exclusive interview with Folio Weekly. “And shortly after graduating from college, I was lucky enough to land a job as a brewer at the Alaskan Brewing Company in 1995. The 1990s was a period of amazing growth in what we called ‘micro-breweries’ at the time, because craft beer wasn’t a term.” McGuire drew inspiration from other craftbrewing women, like Marcy Larson, co-founder of Alaskan Brewing Company, and the aptly named Jane Killebrew, director of brewing, quality and innovation at Anheuser-Busch InBev. “Despite [the fact] that brewing is maledominated,” McGuire said, “I’ve always worked with amazing women throughout my career and have been inspired by men and women during my career.” Her gold-medal beer is Slingback, a hybrid ale with a mix that includes pear juice, natural passion fruit juices, Hallertauer hops and subtle spicing from chamomile and elderflower. “With Slingback, we created an entirely new style of beer, hitting that sweet spot between ale and cider,” said McGuire. “The recognition of winning gold from brewing professionals in a blind taste competition with 106 entries is extraordinary for us,” she added. “We’re over the moon and plan to use this as a springboard to develop and bring more exciting, innovative brews to the craft beer market.” High Heel also produces an IPA, Too Hop’d to Handle, and is even testing a gluten-free beer. “Personally, I’m a hands-on, boots-on brewer,” McGuire said. “I have expertise in brewing and fermentation that ensures quality, and I still have a lot of tricks up my sleeve to share with craft beer connoisseurs.” ______________________________________
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Slingback and Too Hop’d to Handle can be found at retail locations throughout Florida and at Brew Hub in Lakeland. Marc Wisdom marc@folioweekly.com 40 | FOLIOWEEKLY.com | OCTOBER 19-25, 2016
Hand-crafted Italian is the name of the game at San Marco's Taverna, located right on the Square. photo by Dennis Ho
themed restaurant serves 365 varieties of wings, plus halfpound burgers, ribs, salads. $ FB K TO L D Daily The HILLTOP, 2030 Wells Rd., 272-5959, hilltop-club.com. Southern style fine dining. New Orleans shrimp, certified Black Angus prime rib, she-crab soup, desserts. Extensive bourbon selection. $$$ FB D Tu-Sa LARRY’S Giant Subs, 1330 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 165, 276-7370. 1545 C.R. 220, 278-2827. 700 Blanding Blvd., Ste. 15, 272-3553. 5733 Roosevelt Blvd., 446-9500. 1401 S. Orange Ave., Green Cove, 284-7789, larryssubs.com. F All over the area, Larry’s piles ’em high, serves ’em fast; 36+ years. Hot & cold subs, soups. Some Larry’s serve breakfast. $ K TO B L D Daily METRO Diner, 2034 Kingsley Ave., 375-8548. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO. The ROADHOUSE, 231 Blanding Blvd., 264-0611, roadhouse online.net. Sandwiches, wings, burgers and quesadillas for 35+ years. 75+ imported beers. $ FB L D Daily The URBAN BEAN Coffeehouse Café, 2023 Park Ave., 541-4938, theurbanbeancoffeehouse.com. Locally-owned-&operated. Coffee, espresso, smoothies, teas. Omelets, bagels, paninis, flatbread, hummus, salads, desserts. $$ K TO B L D Daily
PONTE VEDRA BEACH
organic wines, produce, meats, vitamins, herbs, wraps, sides, sandwiches. $ BW TO B L D Daily HAWKERS ASIAN Street Fare, 1001 Park St., 508-0342, hawkerstreetfare.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic dishes from mobile stalls: BBQ pork char sui, beef haw fun, Hawkers baos, chow faan, grilled Hawker skewers. $ BW TO L D Daily HOBNOB, 220 Riverside Ave., Ste. 110, 513-4272, hobnob withus.com. Unity Plaza. Global inspiration, local intention – ahi poke tuna, jumbo lump crab tacos. $$ FB TO R L D Daily IL DESCO, 2665 Park St., 290-6711, ildescojax.com. Authentic Italian cuisine, like wood-fired pizzas, pasta made daily onsite, baked Italian dishes, raw bar, spaghetti tacos. Daily HH. $$-$$$ FB K TO L D Daily JOHNNY’S Deli & Grille, 474 Riverside Ave., 356-8055. F Casual spot; made-to-order sandwiches, wraps, breakfast. $ TO B L M-Sa KNEAD Bakeshop, 1173 Edgewood Ave. S., 634-7617. Locally owned, family-run shop specializing in made-fromscratch creations – classic pastries, artisan breads, savory pies, specialty sandwiches, soups. $ TO B L Tu-Su LARRY’S Subs, 1509 Margaret, 674-2794. 7895 Normandy, 781-7600. 8102 Blanding, 779-1933. F SEE ORANGE PARK. LITTLE JOE’S Café, 245 Riverside Ave., Ste. 195, 791-3336. Riverview café. Soups, signature salad dressings. $ TO B L M-F METRO Diner, 4495 Roosevelt Blvd., 999-4600. F 2016 Best
SEE BEACHES.
MOON RIVER Pizza, 1176 Edgewood Ave. S., 389-4442. F
AL’S Pizza, 635 A1A, 543-1494. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. BEACH Diner, 880 A1A N., Ste. 2, 273-6545. SEE AMELIA. LARRY’S Subs, 830 A1A N., Ste. 6, 273-3993. F SEE O.PARK. METRO Diner, 340 Front St., Ste. 700, 513-8422. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.
TRASCA & CO. Eatery, 155 Tourside Dr., Ste. 1500, 395-3989, trascaandco.com. New eatery specializes in handcrafted Italian-inspired sandwiches, craft beers – many local choices – and craft coffees. $$ BW TO L R D Daily
RIVERSIDE, 5 PTS, WESTSIDE
13 GYPSIES, 887 Stockton St., 389-0330, 13gypsies.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Authentic Mediterranean cuisine: chorizo, tapas, blackened cod, pork skewers, coconut mango curry chicken. Breads from scratch onsite. $$ BW L D Tu-Sa, R Sa AL’S Pizza, 1620 Margaret St., Ste. 201, 388-8384. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
BLACK SHEEP, 1534 Oak St., 355-3793, blacksheep5points. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. New American, Southern; local source ingredients. Daily specials, rooftop bar. HH. $$$ FB R Sa & Su; L M-F; D Nightly BREW Five Points, 1024 Park St., 714-3402, brewfivepoints. com. F Local craft beers, espresso, coffees, wine. Rotating drafts, 75+ can craft beers, tea. Waffles, toasts, desserts, coffees. $$ BW K B L Daily; late nite Tu-Sa BRIXX Wood Fired Pizza, 220 Riverside Ave., 300-3928, brixxpizza.com. New place offers pizzas, pastas, soups. Gluten-free options. Daily specials, buy-one-get-one pizzas 10 p.m.-close. $$ FB K TO L D Daily CORNER TACO, 818 Post St., 240-0412, cornertaco.com. Made-from-scratch “Mexclectic street food,” tacos, nachos, gluten-free, vegetarian options. $ BW L D Tu-Su CUMMER CAFÉ, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 829 Riverside Ave., 356-6857, cummer.org. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Light lunch, quick bites, locally roasted coffee, espresso-based beverages, homemade soups, sandwiches, gourmet desserts, daily specials. Dine in or in gardens. $ BW K L D Tu; L W-Su DERBY on PARK, 1068 Park St., 379-3343, derbyonpark.net. New American cuisine, upscale retro in historic building. Oak Street Toast, shrimp & grits, lobster bites, 10-oz. gourmet burger. Dine inside or out. $$ FB TO Brunch Sa/Su; B, L D Tu-Su EUROPEAN STREET Café, 2753 Park St., 384-9999. 130+ import beers, 20 on tap. Sandwiches. Outside dining at some EStreets. $ BW K L D Daily GRASSROOTS Natural Market, 2007 Park St., 384-4474, thegrassrootsmarket.com. F Juice bar uses certified organic fruits, veggies. Artisanal cheeses, 300 craft, import beers, 50
of Jax Winner. SEE SAN MARCO.
2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE AMELIA ISLAND.
M SHACK, 1012 Margaret St., 423-1283. SEE BEACHES. RAIN DOGS, 1045 Park St., 379-4969. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Local-centric bar food: boiled peanuts, hummus, chili, cheese plate, pork sliders, nachos, herbivore items. $ D Nightly SOUTHERN ROOTS Filling Station, 1275 King St., 513-4726, southernrootsjax.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Healthy, fresh, light vegan fare; local, organic ingredients. Specials, on bread, local greens/rice, change daily. Sandwiches, coffees, teas. $ Tu-Su SUSHI Café, 2025 Riverside Ave., Ste. 204, 384-2888, sushi cafejax.com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Monster, Rock-n-Roll, Dynamite Roll. Hibachi, tempura, katsu, teriyaki. Indoors or patio dining. $$ BW L D Daily
ST. AUGUSTINE
AL’S Pizza, 1 St. George St., 824-4383. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
CRUISERS Grill, 3 St. George St., 824-6993. 2016 Best of Jax
Winner. SEE BEACHES.
DICK’S Wings & Grill, 4010 U.S. 1 S., 547-2669. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
The FLORIDIAN, 72 Spanish St., 829-0655, thefloridianstaug. com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Updated Southern fare; fresh, local ingredients sourced from area farms. Vegetarian, gluten-free option. Signature fried green tomato bruschetta, blackened fish cornbread stack; grits w/shrimp/fish/tofu. $$$ BW K TO L D W-M GYPSY CAB Company, 828 Anastasia Blvd., 824-8244, gypsy cab.com. F Local mainstay 33+ years. Varied urban cuisine menu changes twice daily. Signature dish: Gypsy chicken. Seafood, tofu, duck, veal. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily MARDI GRAS Sports Bar, 123 San Marco Ave., 347-3288, mardibar.com. Wings, nachos, shrimp, chicken, Phillys, sliders, soft pretzels. $$ FB TO L D Daily MBQUE, 604 Anastasia Blvd., 484-7472. New Southern-style, fresh-casual. Handspun milkshakes, super kale salad. Housemade rubs, sauces. Platters, ribs, brisket, sweet/spicy pulled/ chopped pork, chicken, sausage. $$ BW K TO L D Daily MELLOW MUSHROOM, 410 Anastasia Blvd., 826-4040. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
O’LOUGHLIN Pub, 6975 A1A S., 429-9715. New familyowned-and-operated. Authentic fish & chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage, bangers & mash, duck wings. $$ FB K TO L D Daily SALT LIFE Food Shack, 321 A1A Beach Blvd., 217-3256. SEE BCHES. METRO Diner, 1000 S. Ponce de Leon Blvd., 758-3323. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Serving dinner nightly. SEE SAN MARCO.
SHANGHAI NOBBY’S, 10 Anastasia Blvd., 547-2188. Cubanstyle, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. $$ FB
SAN MARCO, SOUTHBANK
BEACH Diner, 1965 San Marco Blvd., 399-1306. SEE AMELIA. The BEARDED PIG Southern BBQ & Beer Garden, 1224 Kings Ave., 619-2247, thebeardedpigbbq.com. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Barbecue joint offers Southern style BBQ, like brisket, pork, chicken, sausage, beef; veggie platters. $$ BW K TO Daily BISTRO AIX, 1440 San Marco Blvd., 398-1949, bistrox.com. F Mediterranean/French inspired menu changes seasonally. 250+ wine list. Wood-fired oven baked, grilled specialties: pizza, pasta, risotto, steaks, seafood. Hand-crafted cocktails, specialty drinks. Dine outside. HH M-F. $$$ FB L D Daily EUROPEAN Street Café, 1704 San Marco, 398-9500. SEE RIVERSIDE. FUSION SUSHI, 1550 University Blvd. W., 636-8688, fusionsush ijax.com. F Upscale sushi spot serves fresh sushi, sashimi, hibachi, teriyaki, kiatsu, seafood. $$ K L D Daily INDOCHINE, 1974 San Marco Blvd., 503-7013. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE DOWNTOWN.
KITCHEN on San Marco, 1402 San Marco Blvd., 396-2344, kitchenonsanmarco.com. Gastropub serves local, national craft beers, specialty cocktails. Seasonal menu, with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. $$ FB R Su; L D Daily METRO Diner, 3302 Hendricks Ave., 398-3701, metrodiner. com. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. Original upscale diner in a historic 1930s-era building. Meatloaf, chicken pot pie, soups. This one serves dinner nightly. $$ B R L D Daily PIZZA PALACE Restaurant & Pizzeria, 1959 San Marco Blvd., 399-8815, pizzapalacejax.com. F Family-owned-&-operated; spinach pizza, chicken spinach calzones, ravioli, lasagna, parmigiana. Dine outside. HH. $$ BW K TO L D Daily TAVERNA, 1986 San Marco Blvd., 398-3005, tavernasanmarco. com. Chef Sam Efron’s authentic Italian; tapas, wood-fired pizza. Seasonal local produce, meats. Craft beer (some local), handcrafted cocktails, award-winning wine. $$$ FB K TO R L D Daily V PIZZA, 1406 Hendricks Ave., 527-1511, vpizza.com. True Neapolitana pizzas with the freshest ingredients – a rare class of artisan pizza from Naples. $$ FB to L D Daily
SOUTHSIDE, TINSELTOWN
ALHAMBRA Theatre & Dining, 12000 Beach Blvd., 641-1212, alhambrajax.com. USA’s longest-running, 50 years. Executive Chef DeJuan Roy’s themed menus. Reservations. $$ FB D Tu-Su The CHATTY CRAB, 9041 Southside Blvd., Ste. 138C, 888-0639, chattycrab.com. Chef Dana Pollard’s raw oysters, Nawlins-style low country boil, po’ boys, 50¢ wing specials. $$ FB K TO L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 10750 Atlantic Blvd., 619-0954. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK.
EUROPEAN Street Café, 5500 Beach, 398-1717. SEE RIVERSIDE. GREEK Street Café, 3546 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., Ste. 106, 503-0620, greekstreetcafe.com. Fresh, authentic, modern; Greek owners. Gyros, spanakopita, dolmades, falafel, salads, nachos. Award-winning wines. $$ BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 3611 St. Johns Bluff Rd. S., 641-6499. 4479 Deerwood Lake Pkwy., 425-4060. F SEE ORANGE PARK. MARIANAS GRINDS, 11380 Beach Blvd., Ste. 10, 206-6126596. Pacific Islander fare, chamorro culture. Soups, stews, fitada, beef oxtail, katden pika; empanadas, lumpia, chicken relaguen, BBQ-style ribs, chicken. $$ TO B L D Tu-Su MELLOW MUSHROOM, 9734 Deer Lake Ct., 997-1955. F Bite Club. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
M SHACK, 10281 Midtown Pkwy., 642-5000. SEE BEACHES. OVINTE, 10208 Buckhead Branch Dr., 900-7730, ovinte.com. Italy, Spain, Mediterranean flavor. Small plates, tapas, charcuterie: ceviche fresco, pappardelle bolognese, lobster ravioli. 240-bottle/ wines, 75/glass; craft spirits. $$ FB R, Su; D Nightly TAVERNA YAMAS, 9753 Deer Lake Ct., 854-0426, taverna yamas.com. F Bite Club. Charbroiled kabobs, seafood, desserts. Greek wines, daily HH. Bellydancing. $$ FB K TO L D Daily TOSSGREEN, 4375 Southside Blvd., Ste. 12, 619-4356. 4668
DINING DIRECTORY
Town Crossing Dr., Ste. 105, 686-0234. Custom salads, burritos, burrito bowls; fruit, veggies, 100% natural chicken, sirloin, shrimp, tofu, cheese, dressing, salsa, frozen yogurt. $$ K TO L D Daily
SPRINGFIELD, NORTHSIDE
ANDY’S Grill, 1810 W. Beaver St., 354-2821, jaxfarmersmarket.com. Jax Farmers Market. Local, regional, international produce. Breakfast, sandwiches, snacks, beverages. $ B L D Mon.-Sat. BARZ Liquors & Fish Camp, 9560 Heckscher Dr., 251-3330.
SAUCY AND FOWL
Authentic fish camp, biker-friendly, American-owned. Package store. $ FB L D Daily DICK’S Wings, 12400 Yellow Bluff Rd., 619-9828. 450077 S.R. 200, 879-0993. 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE ORANGE PARK. HOLA Mexican Restaurant, 1001 N. Main St., 356-3100, holamexicanrestaurant.com. F Authentic fresh fajitas, burritos, specials, enchiladas, more. HH; sangria. BW K TO L D M-Sa LARRY’S Subs, 12001 Lem Turner Rd., 764-9999. SEE O. PARK. MELLOW MUSHROOM, 15170 Max Leggett Pkwy., 757-8843. F 2016 Best of Jax Winner. SEE BEACHES.
CHEFFED-UP
Fancy up those BORING breasts AS I EXPLAINED A FEW WEEKS AGO, chicken should really be thought of as three different products: the whole bird, breasts, and legs and thighs — wings as a separate product altogether. Today’s little lesson is about the breasts (quit snickering like little degenerates). As most of you may know, the breast, or white meat, is the leanest part of the animal. In fact, if you remove the bones and skin, the breast is 99 percent fat-free. This is both a gift and a punishment for obvious reasons: Lower fat equals fewer flame-ups on the grill and, sadly, fat is flavor! Now that sounds like a Cheffed Up challenge: GIVE FLAVOR TO THE FLAVORLESS! Boneless, skinless breasts are wildly popular amongst you beautiful, timechallenged omnivores. The advantages of using these parts are quite apparent: They are extremely low-fat, make for quick prep, are versatile and cook quickly. The first cookbook I purchased, way back in the day, was on cooking chicken. This was before I attended culinary school, when I didn’t know squat. You could say I was just like you neophytes: ignorant, hungry and willing to learn. The most important lesson was learning which cooking techniques to employ. Because these parts don’t have bones or skin to protect them from the heat, they can turn out very dry, rubbery and flavorless. If treated correctly, they can actually be delicate and delicious. Think of them as vehicles of flavor — kind of like chameleons that can be transformed into myriad flavor profiles. Although other ethnic cuisines don’t commonly use boneless, skinless breasts, we chefs can adapt those flavor profiles to a more modern, healthful version. The best cooking techniques to employ with these delicate morsels are sauté, stir-fry, grill, or pan-fry. Notice all methods are executed on high heat for very short cooking times. When you sauté or stir-fry, the object is to slice the meat very thin, cook quickly, and remove from heat when just barely cooked. This will allow you to return the chicken to a
pan with delicious, flavor-packed, mouthwatering sauce. Voilà! You have transformed flavorless little chicken breasts into the savory dish of your dreams. Grilling is another outstanding technique perfect for allowing these feeble little pieces of protein to reach their full flavor potential. Once again, this technique utilizes high heat and a very short cooking time. But beware: Grilling is a minefield filled with potential disasters — mostly drying, overcooking and charring the chicken. One scrumptious solution is a marinade or brine. Marinades and brines provide three vital benefits: a giant flavor punch, moisture retention and tenderizing. Now that your chicken is ready to meet the heat, try this Thai satay marinade. You’ll like it — just don’t burn it beyond recognition like last time!
CHEFFED-UP
CHEF BILL’S CHICKEN SATAY MARINADE Ingredients • 2 Tbs. lemongrass, minced • 1 Tbs. garlic, paste • 2 Tbs. canola oil • 2 Tbs. fish sauce • 2 Tbs. brown sugar • 1 lime, juiced • 1 Tbs. tamari sauce • 2 Tsp. turmeric • 1 Tsp. ground coriander • 2 serrano chilis • 1/2 can coconut milk Directions: 1. Combine all ingredients in a food 1. processer or blender. Blend until smooth. Until we cook again,
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PETS LOOKIN’ FOR LOVE FOLIO
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DEAR DAVI
DAVI FOR
PRESIDENT Who has four legs, a tail and is ready to serve his country? THIS DOG. >>>
Dear Davi, I’m on the fence about my vote this presidential election. Who do you think is ready for the challenge? Marty the Maine Coon Marty, If you want a candidate who’s always on the ball — or chasing it — and someone who’s reliable and plays well with others, then put my name on the ballot. I am ready to run this race. Forget about the political phooey going on and read my spiel — it says it all: I am affiliated with the party that serves the most TREATS — what’s a party without treats? Having a full belly and a happy home will always be my top priorities for every dog in our great nation. Our country was founded on the promise of equality. I will live up to this idea and treat everyone equally, even the mailman who keeps coming back. All people, like all butts, are created equal and worth sniffing. Like a boss, I will forge friendships and establish allies with creatures of every walk of life, including cats. Our feline friends are necessary for human companionship and keeping the rodent population in check. I always look for the best in everyone and would never judge fellow dogs based on the color of their fur, or the collars they wear, or the streets they walk, or the beds they share. Don’t be fooled by my size. I was bred to hunt badgers — and tackle BIG government! The only thing about government that should be BIG is the cabinet — filled with snacks. Bark softly and carry a big stick is my motto. As pack leader, I am prepared to protect and defend our nation — no matter what. Your safety is my doo-ty. I will stand tall with my tail raised, ready to take on any challenge and bring calm to the storm — thunder jackets for everyone!
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I believe in bi-paw-tisanship and refuse to let political and personal clashes — or a feisty squirrel — interfere with getting the job done. Let’s find common ground and dig a hole to bury our differences. A dog’s loyalty is second to none. Count on me to always be by your side. Other candidates might profess their loyalty to win support, but do they excitedly greet you at the door – every day — with a wagging tail and friendly woof? I’m a straight-shooter who will work for the people — the tail won’t be wagging THIS dog. Putting others before myself is an important quality of being a good dog and a good leader. Whether you’re a French bulldog or a German shepherd, I will build diplomacy and bring together dogs of all nationalities. I live in the moment and will encourage others to do the same. Enjoy the simple things: Lie in the sunshine, roll on a stinky spot — it’s all good. I never hold back and don’t mind getting my paws dirty for the good of our country — and the world. Every dog deserves his day — and mine is Election Day! See you at the polls! Davi mail@folioweekly.com ____________________________________ Davi the dachshund doesn’t have any political experience — yet. This is not a paid advertisement for a political candidate. GETTING A PET IS, BASICALLY, SETTING yourself up for a tragedy in a decade or so. That’s not the case with certain creatures, however, such as the Russian tortoise — li’l vegetarian buggers with big but gentle personalities that can live more than 40 years in captivity according to Reptiles Magazine. The magazine says these adorable hardbacks are best kept in warm climates, where they thrive in outdoor enclosures with shaded, grassy areas, so they can burrow into the ground or chill in an underground container. Just don’t release Yertle and The Flash into the wild and we’re all good!
PET EVENTS DOGFEST WALK ’N’ ROLL • Canine Companions, the nonprofit that provides assistance dogs, holds this fundraiser – with photo booths, doggie crafts and games, kids games, opportunity baskets and live music – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at Riverside Arts Market, 715 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, cci.org. ANIMAL RESCUE BARK IN THE DARK • Ana’s Angels Animal Rescue holds a fundraiser and runway walk, with homemade cupcakes, cookies, goodies. Costumes for pets and people encouraged. Admission $10 per family; cash only at the door. Proceeds benefit the animal rescue working to save animals with special needs; 7 p.m. Oct. 22, PetCo, 11111 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 254-5715.
ADOPTABLES
WINNIE
POOH BEAR • One of my favorite quotes is by the great Winnie the Pooh, for whom I’m named, who says “Some people care too much, I think it’s called love.” I’m just looking for someone to love and love me! I like long walks on the beach and cuddling up to watch your favorite shows. Come see me and you’ll instantly see all the love I have to give! The Jacksonville Humane Society is open seven days a week.
HALLOWEEN BARK-TACULAR • DogTown USA hosts this event, with a dog costume contest, treats, pet photos, and onsite adoptions, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 29 at 11740 San Jose Blvd., Mandarin, 337-9480, dogtownresorts.com. HOWL-O-WEEN PET PARADE • Dress up your pet (and yourself, if you wish) in a costume and get in the inaugural pet parade, 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29
ADOPTABLES
MOMS MABLEY
COMEDIAN • I know my name might sound a little different, but that’s what makes me unique! I love being silly and playing with my toys. I’m looking for someone who will laugh at my corny jokes and love me unconditionally! I’m currently at Jacksonville Humane Society, 8464 Beach Blvd., on the Southside. Come meet me! For more information about living legends who’ll love you forever, visit jaxhumane.org.
at Mission Nombre de Dios St. Augustine, 27 Ocean Ave., free, mypetcamp.com. Friendly dogs (or other pets) may walk. Costume prizes will be awarded. KATZ 4 KEEPS ADOPTION DAYS • Planned adoption days through December are held 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Oct. 22 and 23, Nov. 5 and 6, Nov. 19 and 20, Dec. 3 and 4 and Dec. 17 and 18, at Katz 4 Keeps, 935B A1A N., Ponte Vedra, 834-3223, katz4keeps.org. Katz 4 Keeps is looking for adults (18 or older) to become members of the Clean & Feed Program. For more information, contact Peggy Hatfield, program coordinator, at peggyhatfi eld63@comcast.net.
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FOLIO WEEKLY CROSSWORD
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 1980s, two performance artists had a project, A Year Tied Together at the Waist. For 12 months, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh were never more than eight feet away from each other, bound by a rope. Hsieh said he tried this experiment because he felt comfortable doing solo work, but wanted to upgrade his abilities as a collaborator. Montano testified the piece “dislodged a deep hiddenness” in her, sharpening her intuition and giving her a “heightened passion for living and relating.” If you engage in a comparable effort to deepen intimacy skills, the weeks ahead are favorable for it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the next few weeks, would you like to be referred to as “voracious”? Or do you like “ravenous” better? Based on astrological omens, I feel you’ll be extra eager to consume vast quantities of most everything: food, information, beauty, sensory stimulation, novelty, pleasure and who knows what else. Remember: Your hunger could be a torment or a gift — it may depend on your determination to enjoy what you devour. Don’t get so enchanted by the hypnotic power of your longing that you neglect to exult in gratification when it’s satisfied.
ACROSS 1 Lakeland-born actor Skipper 4 Cardinal’s cap letters 7 WJCT network 10 Mr. Buchwald 13 The Avenues clothing store 14 Palette choice 15 Poet’s “before” 16 Presser session 17 Cold weather wing work 19 A disgruntled employee may be in one 20 Big coffee holder 21 Wheel of Fortune buy 22 Respiratory disorder 24 bird 27 Lily family member 28 It’s on an agenda 31 Chicken 32 Doing Dishes heat 33 This group sang “Kiss You All Over” 34 Kind of penguin 36 Key letters 38 Smoke, informally 39 Tax type 40 Rocky the Bull’s coll. 42 Cash cache 45 Kind of meal
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Fun fall activity Macrame, say Earthy color Spring bulb Coffee containers Split Coquette When workers usurp the boss 61 Mother 62 “Hey, ewe!” 64 Tube travelers 65 Denounce 69 Unison Industries dept. 70 I-95 hazard 71 Iguana, maybe 72 Gary U.S. Bonds genre 73 Be indebted 74 Colorado tribe 75 Grate expectations 76 Multiplex letters
DOWN 1 The third degree 2 Born This Way channel 3 “I didn’t need to know that,” in casual patois 4 Polished 5 Hot 6 Pants part 7 Non-grata one 8 Savage 9 Adam’s son 10 Living in water
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11 A much-needed break 12 Beachgoer’s goal, often 18 Has a cow 22 ATP tennis term 23 Be socialable 24 Squeeze out 25 Sight-see? 26 Janet Adkins’ pos. 27 Inflation cause 29 Giants’ No. 10 30 Ryan or Tilly 32 Brew variety 33 DIY online mecca 35 Florida DOC worry 37 Beach bash 41 Ally 42 Orange Park Community Theatre part 43 Half of hex-
44 Not natural 46 Like most UNF freshmen 47 Suns stats 48 Roth plan 49 Walt Disney Co. stock symbol 50 Chemical suffix 52 ACC team 54 Coral reef 57 Swivel 58 Amendment on federalism 60 Bean curd 61 Bucks’ partners 62 Sis’ sib 63 Root beer brand 65 KPMG pro 66 History unit 67 Bit of candycoated chocolate 68 WTLV programmer
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When the wind blows at 10 miles an hour, a windmill generates eight times more power than when the breeze is five miles an hour. Judging from astrological omens, there is a similar principle at work in your life in the next few weeks. A modest increase in effort and intensity will make a huge difference in your results. Are you willing to push a bit beyond your comfort level to harvest a wave of abundance? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810) was a distinguished admiral in the British navy, leading those under his command to many wartime victories. He was also a good-natured man who was seen as generous and kind. Between battles, he hiked through the English countryside carrying acorns, which he planted here and there so the “Navy would never want for oaks to build the fighting ships upon which the country’s safety depended.” (Quoted in Dudley Pope’s Life in Nelson’s Navy) Make him your role model for the weeks ahead. May he inspire you to be an effective warrior and a tender soul who takes practical actions to plan for the future. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The 18th-century musician Giuseppe Tartini has been called “the godfather of modern violin playing.” He was an innovative composer who specialized in poignant, poetic melodies. One of his most famous works is Sonata in G Minor, also known as the Devil’s Trill. Tartini said it was inspired by a dream in which he made a pact with the Devil to give him new material. The Infernal One picked up a violin and played the amazing music, which Tartini transcribed when he awoke. Your lesson: He didn’t really sell his soul to the Devil. Just dreaming about engaging in this rebellious, taboo act had the alchemical effect of unleashing creative energy. Try it! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):The planets have aligned in a curious pattern. I think it means you have cosmic permission to indulge in more self-interest and self-seeking than usual. So it’s not taboo for you to unabashedly say, “What exactly is in it for me?” or “Prove your love, my dear” or “Gimmeee gimmeee gimmee what I want.” If someone makes a big promise, don’t be shy about saying, “Will you put that in writing?” If you get a sudden urge to snag the biggest piece of the pie, do it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the course of her long career, Libran actress Helen Hayes won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony. Years before all that glory poured down, she met playwright Charles MacArthur at a party in a posh Manhattan salon. The shy Hayes was sitting in a dark corner. MacArthur glided over to her and slipped a few salted peanuts into her hand. “I wish they were emeralds,” he told her. It was love at first sight. A few years after they married, MacArthur bought Hayes an emerald necklace. I foresee a metaphorically comparable event in your near future: Peanuts, as a promise of emeralds. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Welcome to your cycle’s Painkiller Phase. Time to relieve your twinges, dissolve troubles and banish torments. You can’t sweep away the whole mess in one quick heroic purge, but you can lessen it by at least 33 percent or more. To start, make this declaration five times a day for the next three days: “I am grateful for all the fascinating revelations and indispensable lessons my pain has taught me.” For three days after that, affirm this five times a day: “I’ve learned all I can from pain, and therefore no longer need its reminders. Goodbye, pain.” For three days after that, say this, even if you don’t sincerely mean them: “I forgive everyone of everything.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For the foreseeable future, you possess these powers: to make sensible that which has been unintelligible … to find amusement in tedious situations … to create fertile meaning where there was sterile chaos. Congratulations! You’re a first-class transformer. You’ll also have the ability to distract folks from unimportant concerns … deepen any quest that’s been too superficial or careless to succeed … and ask good questions to render bad questions irrelevant. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the last 11 months, did you ever withhold love on purpose? Were there times when you “punished” those you cared for by being cold and aloof? Do you recall a few times when you could’ve been more generous or compassionate, but chose not to be? If you answered yes to any of those, the next three weeks will be a great time to atone. You’re in an astrological cycle phase to reap maximum benefit from correcting stingy mistakes. Make gleeful efforts to express most charitable impulses. Be a tower of bountiful power. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1415, a small English army defeated massive French forces at the Battle of Agincourt in northern France. Essential to England’s victory were its 7,000 longbowmen, who shot big arrows with bows six feet long. So fast and skilled were these warriors, they usually had three arrows flying through the air at once. That’s the kind of high-powered proficiency to summon during your upcoming campaign. If you need more training to reach that effectiveness level, get it now. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Imagine your life as a novel. The most recent chapter, which you’ll soon be drawing to a close, might be called “The Redemption of Loneliness.” Other apt titles: “Intimacy with the Holy Darkness,” “The Superpower of Surrender” or “The End Is Secretly the Beginning.” Soon you start a new chapter, which I’ve tentatively named “Escape from Escapism,” “Liberation from False Concepts of Freedom” or “Where the Wild Things Are.” This next phase’s expansive adventures have been made possible by the sweet-and-sour enigmas of the last month. Rob Brezsny freewillastrology@freewillastrology.com
NEWS OF THE WEIRD DON’T DO AS I DO
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is bureaucratically at the epicenter of the state’s drought crisis, but in September KCBS-TV aired video of the department using sprinklers to water the artificial lawn at a substation in South Los Angeles. A DWP spokesperson said such watering is routine at substations to “clean” the plastic.
IT’S A WEIRD WORLD AFTER ALL
Large kidney stones typically mean eye-watering pain and sudden urinary blockage until the stone “passes” (often requiring expensive sound-wave treatment to break up a large stone). Michigan State University urologist David Wartinger told The Atlantic in September he’d recently happened upon a pain-free — even exciting! — way to pass stones before they become problems: the centripetal force from a roller coaster ride. In a 200-trip experiment preparing for a validating “human” trial, he successfully passed stones in his hand-held, silicone model kidney (using his own urine) about two-thirds of the time when sitting in a rear seat at Disney World’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
WANT CUFFS WITH THAT?
A woman was arrested on Sept. 7 at Italian Pizza Kitchen restaurant in Washington, D.C. She was chatting up a police officer she didn’t know, then playfully took a French fry from his plate. He asked her to stop, but she took another, and when the exasperated officer issued an ultimatum, she took yet another. The arrest report for second-degree theft, cited by WUSA-TV, included “property stolen” as “three” “French fried potato[es].”
THAT’D BE OUR SECOND CHOICE
In a dozen YouTube videos recently released, Syria’s Tourism Ministry praised the country’s sandy, fun-filled beaches as ideal vacation spots and its many World Heritage Sites as renowned tourist exhibits — attempting to distract world travelers from the country’s daily bloodshed (and the wartime destruction of those priceless historical sites). Before civil war broke out in 2011, Syria was a fashionable, $8 billion-a-year destination and the now-devastated city of Aleppo was known worldwide for its cuisine.
SERIOUSLY?
Orly Taitz, an Orange County, California, dentist and lawyer, is America’s most prominent “birther” (as of 2012), having filed dozens of lawsuits, appeals and other legal petitions expressing her certainty that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States of America. In her latest legal foray, a California judge tossed out her lawsuit against Occidental College (to force release of Obama’s college transcripts and other papers). The loss brings birthers’ legal record (hers and others’) to 0-for258, according to WhatsYourEvidence.com and LoweringTheBar.net. Taitz was described by one critic as “almost charmingly insane.”
HOW ’BOUT A BIG SHOE?
The most recent immigrant family living high on the hog in the United Kingdom is Arnold Mballe Sube and his wife, Jeanne, both 33, who drew about $130,000 in government benefits last year, but are still feuding with Luton Borough Council near London over its inability to find free housing for them and their eight children. They turned down four- and five-bedroom homes, were housed temporarily in a Hilton, and said they’d only be satisfied with a six-bedroom place. Mr. Sube, from Cameroon, emigrated to France at 18, then came to England in 2012 to study nursing at the University of Bedfordshire.
WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?
With about 30 states having adopted some form of “stand your ground” defense to assault (or murder) charges, five membership organizations, charging up to $40 a month, have signed up a half-million gun owners concerned that law enforcement treat them fairly should they someday be forced to shoot — providing instructions and a “hot line” to coach members on what to tell police, plus liability insurance and help getting a lawyer. Critics say such organizations are also useful to those who might be prone to shooting people and want advice on how best to get away with it. The U.S. Concealed Carry organization’s wallet-sized card, to give to police, asks that the shooter under suspicion be given the same consideration as the officers might give to their own colleagues under suspicion. Chuck Shepherd weirdnews@earthlink.net
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FIRST WATCH EARTHQUAKE You: Stunningly beautiful lady, long brown hair, shorts, athletic top, waiting for second party on Sunday morning. Me: Tall, dark, handsome guy, kinda cop-looking. Tried to buy your breakfast; you hadn’t ordered. Really wanted to say hello. When: Aug. 28. Where: First Watch Beach Boulevard. #1625-0907 DANCING TO THE BONES You are L. from Ponte Vedra. I’m R, leading band at Conch House on Friday, Aug. 12. We said quick hello as you left. Really want to connect with you. Hopefully cosmos will agree. When: Aug. 12. Where: Conch House, St. Augustine. #1624-0817 FLOWERS IN MY HAND Very surprised to see you. Positive memories flooded back, so let’s have lunch and catch up. S. When: July 6. Where: Publix Pharmacy. #1623-0810 DO YOU SEEK UNIQUE? You: Beautiful brunette, Walmart sugar aisle, beautiful arm ink work; said you got it in Riverside. Me: Dark chocolate gentleman, captivated by smile, breathless looking into beautiful eyes. Too shy to get number. Meet for lunch? When: July 16. Where: Walmart Avenues. #1622-0720 HANDSOME, KIND GENTLEMAN ISU Saturday 1 a.m. You: Extremely handsome, cool hat, T-shirt, jeans; forgot wallet; complimented my white dress. Me: Long blond hair, green eyes, too shy to ask name or if unattached. Love to meet formally! When: July 17. Where: Walmart San Jose. #1621-0720 WE ARE READY FOR U You: Handsome man following, watching me, saying hi, calling, hanging up before u speak. Me: Want to hear your heart. My dog and condo await. Don’t be afraid. Everything will be OK. We love you. When: 2012. Where: Neighborhood. #1620-0720
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Folio Weekly contributor turns an EVACUATION into a VACATION NOAM CHOMSKY, HOMSKY THE AMERICAN LINGUIST LINGUIST, philosopher and former MIT professor, told me on a drive around Atlanta, where I spent two-and-a-half days on the run from Hurricane Matthew, that he doesn’t think Donald Trump is a fascist but he would be a dangerous leader. To be fair, Chomsky shared his thoughts on the Republican presidential candidate with lots of people, not just me. He spoke Oct. 9 on a radio broadcast. I had a lot of time to listen to radio programming last week because I spent almost 20 hours in the car trying to escape the storm and then return to Fernandina Beach. During the lengthy stop-and-go drive (first to Savannah and, later, to Atlanta), I also had time for a good look around. Based on the large number of Trump campaign signs spotted along hundreds of miles of roadway, I don’t think Chomsky’s views on Trump are particularly popular in Georgia. From Thursday to Sunday, I don’t recall seeing a single sign for Hillary Clinton. Over the weekend, I added tourist to my status as an evacuee and saw a saucer-shaped spaceship, complete with a green passenger over the door at the Junkman’s Daughter, an alternative shop in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood, where incense, ponchos, wigs, signs, skulls and apparel alternatively covered with marijuana leaves and phrases not suitable for polite reading, were on sale, along with scary and sexy Halloween costumes. Trump wigs (definitely scary) were priced at $26. On Yelp, reviewer Daniel B. described the shopping experience this way: “If you like to wear spikes, this is the place to shop.” The Junkman’s Daughter is the perfect setup for margaritas and El Bandido Mex Mex Grill, a fiercely orange building where Rossy, one of the managers, mixed a perfect cocktail that did not disappoint. The chicken, steak and shrimp fajita was nicely sauced with a side of mole and I wondered why more people weren’t dining alongside me. Perhaps it was the lack of football. One of three TVs over the bar offered continuous coverage of Trump’s lewd comments about sexually assaulting women, made years ago when he was on Access Hollywood. A soccer game and a tennis match played on the other
two screens. screens For 75 minutes, minutes there was no mention of Hurricane Matthew. That changed at the hotel, Staybridge Suites in Buckhead, where I booked the last room. Guests were largely hurricane evacuees from Florida, South Carolina and Georgia, and we talked in the lobby, elevator and at the breakfast buffet about the horrendous traffic delays and news from home about flooding and storm damage. On city roadways, the Georgia Department of Transportation advised evacuees to check with local officials before returning home. That was good advice. I had planned to take I-75 south to I-16 east in Georgia, despite a 10-hour drive Thursday along this route from Savannah to Atlanta, but on Sunday GDOT officials said the 165-mile route from Macon to Savannah remained closed to traffic due to storm debris. As I wasn’t going anywhere in a hurry, I visited Centennial Olympic Park and the Atlanta BeltLine, a former rail line that has been paved into a walking and cycling trail. There is a skate park, public art and several restaurants along the way. The Krog Street Tunnel also welcomes taggers, who have covered the concrete walls and columns. Angel, 18, a roofer from Los Angeles with a can of green spray paint in his hands, told me that he tags on weekends. While I toured Atlanta, the dogs rode out the storm at Pet Paradise at the Jacksonville International Airport. The kennel lost power for a “short while,” said workers, and fans were going in the lobby late Sunday when I picked up Ricky and Bella. Barricades and sandbags were piled in the parking lot. At the house, there were large tree branches and leaves in the yard, but the roof was intact and nothing inside was wet. Even the sausages in the refrigerator seemed OK (don’t worry, I threw them away). While running from Hurricane Matthew was a test of patience, like most people in Nassau County, I sidestepped disaster. For now, Noam Chomsky would agree. Mary Maguire mail@folioweekly.com
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Maguire is an Amelia Island-based journalist and Folio Weekly contributor.
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